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Scott Rigsby meets us in the lobby of the Sheraton in downtown Boston. He's not hard to spot, a few inches north of six feet, pink from the sun, and walking on two prosthetic legs. It's a day after the 2012 running of the Boston Marathon, which Scott finished in spite of the out-of-season 85 degree heat and some issues with his legs not fitting correctly.
When Scott was eighteen, he was thrown from the back of a truck and dragged over three hundred feet. The resultant injuries required more than twenty surgeries, leaving him physically and emotionally battered.
In January of 2006, admittedly at the lowest point of his life, Scott found himself at the magazine rack of a bookstore, where he read about the Hawaiian Ironman, one of the most grueling and well-known triathlons on the planet. As fate would have it, the next magazine he picked up featured the story of a US veteran who was missing a leg but competing in triathlons regardless.
Despite never having run on his legs, not having enough money for a bike, and not knowing how to swim, Scott determined to enter and finish the 2007 Hawaiian Ironman World Championships. Twenty months later, he became the first double amputee to ever finish the prestigious race, and his story was highlighted on NBC's coverage of the event. Since then, he's finished another Hawaiian Ironman, written a book, and dedicated his life to sharing what he calls his "Unthinkable" story.
Living in Atlanta, Georgia, Scott was familiar with CrossFit, having seen affiliates pop up around town over the past few years. But it wasn't until the airing of the 2011 CrossFit Games on ESPN that he began to take real notice.
Jon Gilson: Scott, I'm really interested in your take on CrossFit, as essentially a pair of virgin eyes. You saw it for the first time on ESPN?
Scott Rigsby: Yeah, it was on ESPN. Watching that program kind of took me back to that kind of journey when I was sitting there [watching the 2005 Ironman]. I was thinking about when I thought about the Ironman. I was like, "Has a double amputee ever done an Ironman before?" Well, at that time, no double amputee in the world had done even an Olympic distant triathlon. It goes Sprint, Olympic, Half Ironman, and Ironman. So, I thought, "Well, why don't I do it?"
Then I was watching the CrossFit Games, I thought, "We have so many of our soldiers that are coming back injured." I've been to Walter Reed and many of the military bases around the country. I've seen them doing exercises and seen them doing the rehab, and some of them are kind of CrossFit exercises. I just thought, "Why isn't there an [adaptive] category in these Games?"
So, the way I see the kind of synergy between those two sports is that if there was a category in the Games for physically challenged athletes, then that would only grow the movement. That would only grow the sport because people are--sometimes they can't relate to the guy who won, or maybe even the top ten people. They can't relate to them because they're like, "Wow, that guy could could eat like a trucker and he could still have washboard abs." They can't relate to those body types, but they can relate to people that kind of look like our general population and that got the bug. Maybe they had some kind of accident or whatever, and they're doing it. They're like, "Wow, okay, I don't have an excuse to sit here on the couch anymore and just be a couch potato. I can't use the excuse that I can't be fit anymore, because there's a guy that has two prosthetic legs, and he's carrying sixty pounds of water a hundred yards. Now he's doing pull-ups."
Jon: So, it's the exposure to the scalability and inclusivity of CrossFit that's the true value in highlighting adaptive athletes at the Games?
Scott: The reality is that, I was in--Delta has a magazine, and so these people all over the world got a chance to read about my story before I actually did my Hawaiian in 2007. If you asked a person, if you said, "Hey, do you know who Christy Wellington is? Do you know Chris McCormick?"--that year, nobody would have known, because they can't relate to somebody that can run an eight hour triathlon or Ironman. They can't relate to that, but they can relate to somebody that has had twenty-six surgeries, had all these kinds of challenges and has two prosthetic legs, and they're like, "Okay, I can't tell somebody that I can't do an Ironman, because he just did it."
And it's the same for your sport. People can't--they look sometimes at people, and at CrossFit, and are like, "Oh, that's too hardcore. I can't do that." Well, they can, but you have to get people in your sport that have physical challenges that can show the person sitting on the couch that they actually can do it.
Jon: The interesting gap is not that adaptive athletes aren't doing CrossFit--they are--but it's taking them from that training phase to the competition phase. You've bridged that gap, helping to bring adaptive to the largest stage of triathlon. What challenges did you face in bridging that gap?
Scott: I just had to show people what was possible. For me, the toughest thing was I had to be a pioneer. I was a pioneer because I didn't have somebody ahead of me going, "Okay, this didn't work." My pain has been a lot of people's gain. I got with a great prosthetist that made great equipment, but along the way, stuff didn't work, stuff broke. Seven month before I did the Ironman I ran a marathon where I was dumping cups of blood out of my legs every four miles. I finished the marathon in five hours, forty-five minutes, pouring blood out of my legs. Well, we go, "Okay, that's not going to work." So, I was fortunate enough to have good people around me. I had a doctor who was famous in hyperbaric medicine. He put me in his hyperbaric chamber--a million dollar chamber--and he healed me up in a matter of four or five days, where it would have taken weeks.
I surrounded myself with good people to be able to be that kind of pioneer, so that my pain could be other's gain. Since I finished Ironman 2007, a triple amputee has--through my prosthetist--a triple amputee has actually finished the Hawaiian Ironman triathlon. An arm amputee has finished two Ironmen. So my prosthetist has helped three multiple amputees get through an Ironman competition.
Well, that just happened because people saw me on the NBC coverage in 2007.
The way I bridge that gap is just giving--I created a platform through the media to share this story with them.
Photo credit: Kevin Koresky
Jon: Were there ever moments of doubt, days you wanted to quit?
Scott: I don't know if there ever was--I had gotten to a point where I didn't have anywhere to look but up. So, when you're at the bottom of the barrel and there's only one way to look up, then you've only got one shot.
There was just something inside of me. There's this old movie called City Slickers, and these guys go out to this kind of dude ranch, and they meet this old, crusty cowboy. They're trying to figure out life--they have wives and kids, and they've got these lives that are kind of stuck, and they're trying to figure out, "What is it in life--why am I here?" Kind of a bigger purpose type of deal. The cowboy points his fingers at them and kind of says, "Find that one thing, and just do it."
Well, I found that one thing. I knew that when I read that article, when I saw the soldier in the next magazine. I knew that this was the one thing I needed to do. For whatever reason, I needed to do the Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon, be the only guy in the world that finished it with two prosthetic legs.
Jon: We were talking coming up the elevator about the marathon you ran yesterday. You were telling us how you lost a bunch of weight training for the race, and you found your legs didn't fit you as well as you'd like. How instrumental is the role of the prosthetic and the prosthetist in making sport happen for the adaptive population?
Scott: It's critical. If anybody tells you that they have the best prosthesis in the world, well, they're not telling you the truth, because there's really no such thing as the best prosthesis. Like, there's not the best doctor in the world, but there's a group of innovative people that kind of think outside the box, and I just happen to have one in Atlanta. I know for a fact that he's the only prosthetist in the world that has helped three multiple amputees through an Ironman competition. So, he's got something going right.
The role of prosthetists is to work with the amputee and just try and figure out--have these kind of backup plans, like, "Okay, if this happens, then…" And so that's what I did yesterday. I made it through the race. I took an hour and a half longer than I normally would, but I made it through the race. The goal was to finish, and through that I learned, "Okay, next time, what we need to do is we've got to plan more time ahead that if there is a significant amount of body fat loss, then we need to have back up sockets made. We need to have backup equipment."
So, the interesting thing about prosthetics is you can't have a Plan A. You've always got to have a Plan B--and that's not even enough. You've got to have a Plan C.
The cool thing about integrating that, integrating not only prosthetics, but the physically challenged into the CrossFit Games, is that you would see what kind of effort it takes for people to have to adapt. You think that just because you have--well, this is going to be our adaptive category. You don't even have a clue what adaptation is until you actually get there. I mean, you could create a category--there's six categories in triathlon for physical challenges. You could not reinvent the wheel and take those categories and place them into the CrossFit Games and, still, the second year would be drastically different than the first because everybody's trying to figure out, "Well, you know, what are we going to do?"
View the Again Faster Adaptive Team take on the classic CrossFit workout "Cindy."
Jon: One of the biggest struggles I had in writing Push, Pull, Lift, Press was thinking about how we could go about making sure that the divisions we choose, the divisions within an adaptive CrossFit event, were equitable, or at least equitable to a degree, while at the same time making sure we don't have fifteen or twenty divisions in an effort to make things fair.
Scott: You don't make it fair, because life's not fair. So, what you do is--like, they have six physically challenged divisions in triathlon. Well, I compete in a division that I know I'll never win because I compete against people who--maybe they have cerebral palsy, but they just must have learned it that day from a doctor because they are so fast. I mean, I don't mind busting their chops…so, it's like, I don't care. It's not about whether you win or not. It's not whether you win that division or not because nobody cares. The general public doesn't care whether you won a medal for that division. All they care is that you completed it.
And, to back up, all they care about is that you competed. They don't care about where you finish. The Boston Marathon, nobody cares whether I finished in six hours or three hours. They could care less. Nobody cares if I finish the Ironman in 16:59, when there's a seventeen hour cutoff, or twelve hours. They could care less. The general public wants to know that what I've started is finished, and that I gave everything. The only way I was going to leave the Ironman was on a stretcher in an ambulance, that's it.
You guys could stick me in the CrossFit Games with the regular crowd. I don't care, because I'm not competing against them. I'm competing against me. I've already won if I get there because they don't know the challenges I've had to overcome to actually get there and to have to adapt these exercises. My competition is me, and my audience is the guy who is sitting on the couch, the couch potato, the person sitting in the hospital wanting to take their life, the person who's sitting in rehab. That's my audience.
So, I'm not looking to create a category to be able to go win it. I'm looking for an avenue to be able to share a story, to share many stories and be able to grow a sport.
Photo courtesy of Scott Rigsby.
Jon: Adaptive CrossFit competition is still very young, obviously, but there is a groundswell of interest and support for it. One of the things we've been talking to the people at the forefront of that groundswell is about the need to simply try it--let's have the competition and let's see what shakes out. Where does theory versus practice play out in adaptive sport, in adaptive competition?
Scott: Well, you already have the Warrior Games that are in Colorado every year. All those folks have some kind of injury. They're in there and competing. So, it's not like you don't have the population. You actually have more physically challenged athletes to access than you do in triathlon. Triathlon, there's maybe a hundred at best, maybe--I'll back it up. Maybe there's sixty to eighty people that might participate in triathlon, in a paratriathlon, with some kind of physical challenge.
The challenge will be to be able to figure out what exercises would be in this kind of preliminary competition.
Jon: That's kind of the largest hurdle for us, in that the theory behind CrossFit is you prepare for the unknown and the unknowable, and that means that at every joint--shoulder joint, hip joint--you have to be able to push or pull, you have to be able to flex or extend. One of my concerns is the prosthetics that are needed. How is it that we accommodate someone who might have to be pulling on a barbell one moment, using their hip as an extension lever, and somebody who might be pushing on a barbell or a dumbbell or sandbag the next?
Scott: The beauty of CrossFit is that a lot of like--say you've got push-up, pull-up whatever, you're not going to take your leg off. I can do a one-armed push-up. I can't do many of them, but I can do a one-arm push-up. So, I don't have to do anything with my legs. Box jumps, they have prosthetic legs out there that you could do a box jump. You just figure out what kind of height is going to tax your body, where it really is taxed, where the average Joe on the street maybe couldn't do it.
The prosthetics are there. I mean, you can do CrossFit with regular walking legs. You don't need special equipment.
Then, you just pick – what you do when you actually have a competition, maybe a preliminary competition or whatever, you go, "Okay, you've got these ten exercises, or these fifteen exercises that you have to prepare for, but we're going to pick, let's say ten of them. We're going to pick eight of them. You're going to have do them."
Then, that way, you do have that kind of unknown, but they still know, "Okay, I need to be prepared."
Jon: You limit the movement selection to something more manageable, or at least trainable.
Scott: They have all the equipment in those – say fifteen exercises total. You pick eight. Well, they have all the equipment for those fifteen, but they know they're only go to have to do eight. So, then that way you have the element of, "Okay, I don't really know what's going to come at me."
Jon: It terms of combination or duration.
Scott: Yeah, but I've got all the equipment to be able to do it.
Jon: What's your next challenge?
Scott: My next challenge is, I want to do the Xterra World Championships.
Jon: That's an adventure race?
Scott: It's an off-road triathlon. It's two weeks after the Hawaiian Ironman. It's a one and a half mile swim, an eighteen mile mountain bike race on lava, and you have a trail run on lava. Last year in the Ironman, on the bike, [the pavement] was 135 degrees. It's probably going to be at least that on the mountain bike course and the running course. So, it's one of the toughest off-road triathlons in the world. It's broadcast on worldwide television, and no double amputee has ever finished it on two prosthetic legs. So, I'm going to go and do it. And then my focus is really going to kind of switch to try and change the CrossFit scene.
Jon: How do you envision that happening? How do you imagine helping change the CrossFit scene?
Scott: I think I'd like to be in the 2013 CrossFit Games. When I sat down and had this vision, I said, "I'm going to be in the 2007 Ironman World Championships." I just knew that, and I gave myself a long enough time to prepare for it. I'm going to start figuring out--I want to get with somebody that has enough sense about [CrossFit] to have--I can't do it by myself. I'm smart enough to realize that.
But the CrossFit Games is not an end. It's simply a means to a larger end, to tell a story and to create stories. That's what I see. I see that this is just another avenue to being able to create a story.
The beauty in adaptive CrossFit is that all the pieces are there. You've just got to coordinate them together. One of the things that the Paralympics did to try to get triathlon is they had what they called--in London, they'll have kind of a preview. They'll kind of just do a dress rehearsal. It's not an official sport. So, you're not going to get a medal or anything like that, but they'll have like a dress rehearsal for the ones in Rio [in 2016], and it's actually a Paralympic event. They're going to have kind of a run-through and see how things work.
Before you put something on TV, you want to have a grassroots movement. You want to go ahead and work out all the bugs first. You want to have state competitions. You want to have regional competitions. You want to have national competitions before you're going to have a world competition. I mean, the Ironman started [in 1978] with fifteen military soldiers that had a pissing match and they wanted to see who was the best swimmer, biker or runner. So, they said, "Let's do this swim. Let's do this bike. Let's do this run, and let's see who's going to be finished first. Whoever finishes first, well, they'll be called the Ironman."
Well, thirty plus years later, that race is broadcast to millions of people around the world and it has anywhere from 1,800 to 2,000 athletes in it, and it started with just 15. When it got on the map was in 1982, when an article was written about it in Sports Illustrated, and that really put it out there to the general public to go, "Wow, there is this crazy endurance race." Something inside of them said, "I've got to do this." It was kind of a measuring stick for themselves, and that's kind of what people are looking for, that measuring stick. What's the next measuring stick?
Jon Gilson is the founder of Again Faster and former member of CrossFit's Level I Seminar staff. You can read the article that inspired this coversation here.


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Hello and welcome to the beginner's guide to Tekkit!
Throughout this page you shall notice that your knowlege of tekkit will have significantly increased and will allow you to further enjoy your tekkit experience.
If there are any aspects mentioned that you feel are not fully-explained, click on a link that describes the item more thoroughly.
Happy learning!
First Steps (Regular Minecraft)Edit
If you wish to skip the regular Minecraft steps then scroll down to "First Steps (Tekkit)."
You've probably heard this millions of times but there's no better place to start than the start so...
When you spawn, collect some wood. Once you've knocked your first tree down make some basic tools (Pickaxe, shovel, axe and sword.) Then just mine a small starway into the ground and when you reach stone, collect some cobblestone, (17 would be enough.) Once you've collected that amount, return to the surface and upgrade your tools. After you have built your stone tools you should be left with eight cobblestone. With that eight cobblestone, surround the crafting squares in your crafting table leaving a gap in the middle. This will create your furnace. By this time, night will probably be nearing and dangerous mobs will start to spawn in your area. Keep your sword in your hotbar to defend yourself but do not go on a rampage and attack enemies who haven't spotted you. Do, however get your axe and chop down the nearest few trees, the more wood obtained the better, fifteen should be enough for your first night though. Once you have collected the required amount of wood head back to your "base" and build a 4x4x3 House made from wooden planks. Do not turn all of your wood into planks though, as the next step requires a couple of wood logs to be completed. Now with any leftover wood-based products (try to avoid using wood logs) put all but three of your logs in the top slot of the furnace and place your wood-based fuel in the bottom slot. This process is called smelting and takes a couple of seconds to perform. Once you have filled the required slots in the furnace the smelting process will begin and the faded out bar between the input and output slots will start to fill with a much brighter bar. When the white bar has filled the faded bar, one of the items in the top slot will have disappeared and reappeared in the output slot on the right of the window as the product of the item you put into the furnace, in this case charcoal. Depending on the efficiency of the fuel you put into the furnace, an item may have disappeared from the bottom slot as well.
Here is a short list of basic fuel efficiencies;
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Now use all of your charcoal to craft some torches (one charcoal on top of a stick.) Now light up your house and the surrounding area to prevent any dangerous mob spawns. If you have the torches close enough to eachover across your land it will make a dangerous mob spawn impossible. Do not think your now perfectly safe, this only prevents mobs from spawning in your land and although mobs try to avoid highly lit conditions, this doesn't create the impossiblity of an enemy mob venturing into your land after spawning outside of your lit perimeter.
First Steps (Tekkit)Edit
After finishing the steps in the "Regular Minecraft" section, you are then free to begin in Tekkit. First thing's first is to go mining! Just before you go, remember to set a waypoint so you don't lose your newly-built house. If you don't know how, press the apostrophe key and it will open Rei's minimap. Setting and editing waypoints isn't the only thing you can do with Zei's minimap, but we'll leave it at that for now. Once you've set your waypoint your free to go mining. Whether you simply prefer to start a fresh mine or go cave mining, you need to obtain a considerable amount of ores and gems to begin in tekkit.
Here is a table of the suggested amount material you'll need;
The Items listed with N/A do not necessarily mean you do not need them, it just means they aren't needed just yet. Definately do, however, mine any of those items because when it comes to crafting your energy condenser, those items will create a lot of diamonds! Something I have to quickly explain to you is the basics of EMC. EMC is a value that every item has, well not every item, but every vanilla item and some tekkit items. Diamond having an EMC value of 8192 and cobblestone having a value of 1, it would take 8192 cobblestone to generate one diamond. One Uranium however possesses an EMC of 49192 and will generate 6 diamonds!

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January 08, 2015
More than 16 million kids in the United States are at risk for hunger each day. Fortunately, you can help. Visit Feeding America to find your local food bank. And, help Dr. Phil raise enough money for 10 million meals. Donate today!
Dr. Phil reviews a few of Cheryl's blog posts about her son. Is there cause for concern?
Amy and Alanna share their concern for how Cheryl physically controls her son.
Dr. Freda Lewis-Hall, Chief Medical Officer of Pfizer, discusses IBD, a serious but often misunderstood condition.


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The two-year pediatric dentistry residency program, started after graduation from dental school, immerses dentists in scientific study and clinical experience. The trainee learns advanced diagnostic and surgical procedures, along with child psychology and clinical management, oral pathology, child-related pharmacology, radiology, child development, management of oral/facial trauma, care for patients with special needs, conscious sedation and general anesthesia.
The list below links to general information, program profiles and fellowship opportunities (if available) for each residency program. Please let us know if any information is incorrect or missing.
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University of California, San Francisco
Postdoctoral Program in Pediatric Dentistry
Division of Pediatric DentistryDepartment of Growth and DevelopmentUniversity of California-San FranciscoSchool of Dentistry C 734San Francisco, California 94143-0640Phone: (415) 476-2738Web: http://dentistry.ucsf.edu/admissions/admiss_program3-pedio.html
This is a 36-month program beginning July 1 of each year. Four new positions are offered each year.
Combined university- and hospital-based certificate program with option for a Master of Science or Doctor of Philosopy in Oral Biology
The application deadline is October 1 of the year preceding matriculation. Correspondence regarding application and admissions procedures should be addressed to: Office of Admissions, University of California San Francisco, School of Dentistry, 513 Parnassus Ave., S-619, San Francisco, CA 94143-0430.
The program has academic, research and clinical components. There is an emphasis on basic sciences, research and clinical experience in all aspects of dental care for children. Didactic work, research and clinical training are pursued on the campuses of UCSF and Children's Hospital Medical Center in Oakland. In order to have the necessary time for creative study and original investigation, the student will begin research very early in the program. This program meets the advanced education eligibility requirements of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry.
Instruction in all areas of pediatric dentistry is provided through lectures, seminars and clinical experience in clinic and hospital operating rooms. A special emphasis is placed on the basic sciences and the relationship of pediatric dentistry to all other areas of dentistry and medicine. All postgraduate professional students will complete a core curriculum, which includes courses in: biostatistics, biomaterials, developmental biology, oral pathology, behavioral sciences, pharmacology, genetics and medical ethics. Clinical rotations include: anesthesia, emergency, orthodontics and pediatrics. The presence of the divisions of Orthodontics and Craniofacial Anomalies within the department leads to strong ties and education in these areas. Student teaching is an integral part of the clinical program. Students are required to complete either a research project under the supervision of a faculty member or a properly documented clinical research project resulting in a manuscript ready for submission to a refereed journal.
First-year stipend is $45,659. Second-year stipend is $47,211. Third-year stipend is $49,095. First-year tuition is $19,591 in-state and $34,627 out-of-state. Second-year tuition is $18,842 in-state and $33,878 out-of-state. Third-year tuition is $18,752 in-state and $33,350 out-of-state.
• UCSF Graduate Pediatric Dentistry Clinic• UCSF Ambulatory Surgery Center • UCSF Children's Hospital• Children's Hospital at Oakland
• D.D.S., D.M.D. or equivalent • Official dental and preprofessional education transcripts• Three letters of recommendation • Official National Board Dental Examination results, Part 1 and Part 2 • Biographical statement • Curriculum vitae• TOEFL scores for applicants whose first language is not English (foreign graduates are admitted under very limited circumstances) • Participation with PASS• UCSF supplemental application, available at http://dentistry.ucsf.edu/admissions/admiss_program3-pedio.html• Application fee ($60)
• Taught by faculty in all three divisions in the Department of Growth and Development and in other departments within the schools of dentistry and medicine • Full range of learning opportunities, including a hospital environment found at the UCSF Children's Hospital and Oakland Children's Hospital • Academically-based environment and resources available at the UCSF Parnassus Campus
Pamela K. Den Besten, D.D.S., M.S., Professor/Chair/Graduate Program Director, Pediatric Dentistry* Mahmoud Ashrafi, D.M.D, M.S., Clinical Professor, Pediatric Dentistry (part-time)* Martin S. Bogetz, M.D., Clinical Professor, Anesthesia /Stomatology/Growth and Development, Medical Director, UCSF Surgery Center (part-time)Raymond L. Braham, B.D.S., L.D.S.R.C.S., M.Sc.D., Clinical Professor Emeritus, Pediatric Dentistry (part-time)James Chen, D.D.S., M.S., Ph.D., Assistant Clinical Professor, Orthodontics (part-time)Ignatius Gerodias, D.D.S., Assistant Clinical Professor, Pediatric DentistryJuei Kao, D.M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor, Pediatric Dentistry (part-time)Neil Katsura, D.D.S., Associate Clinical Professor, Pediatric Dentistry (part-time)Thuan Q Le, D.D.S, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Pediatric DentistryThomas Lenhart, D.D.S., Assistant Clinical Professor, Dental Anesthesiologist, Pediatric Dentistry (part-time)Brent P. Lin, D.M.D., Associate Clinical Professor, Pediatric DentistryHengshing Lin, B.D.S., M.S.D., Assistant Clinical Professor, Pediatric Dentistry (part-time)Weyland Lum, D.D.S., Clinical Professor, Pediatric Dentistry (part-time)* Dorothy T. Pang, B.D.S., L.D.S.R.C.S., D.D.S., M.S., Clinical Professor, Pediatric Dentistry (part-time)Carolyn Coppe Peacock, D.D.S., M.S., Assistant Clinical Professor, Pediatric Dentistry (part-time)Edward A. Rothman, D.D.S., Associate Clinical Professor, Pediatric Dentistry, Director of Dentistry, Children's Hospital Medical Center (part-time)* Shawn Taheri, D.D.S., M.S., Assistant Clinical Professor, Pediatric Dentistry (part-time)Ye Ming Wu, D.D.S., M.S., Assocoate Clinical Professor, Pediatric Dentistry (part-time)Ling Zhan, D.D.S., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Pediatric Dentistry


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In October 2010, BOMBARDIER PRIMOVE joined the Flanders' DRIVE project in Lommel in which a consortium of industrial companies and R&D specialists came together to research the potential of inductive charging for electric road vehicles. A public road in Lommel, Belgium, and a Van Hool bus have been equipped with PRIMOVE technology.
The project demonstrates high power transfer in both dynamic and stationary use, as well as the intermodal charging compatibility of the system. The project also demonstrates the system's operational efficiency in a real urban environment, on different road surfaces and under all weather conditions.
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Here is the all new BMW 520i sedan which is launched in India for Rs 54 lakh only. BMW 520i is the petrol variant of the 5 Series with stylish looks and appealing performance. The 520i powered by 2-litre turbo-charged 4-cylinder engine for best class performance.
The engine is highly efficient and makes 84PS of power at 5,000rpm and 270Nm of torque from 1,250–4,500Nm on ride. Engine of the 520i sedan mated to a special 8-speed automatic gearbox for smooth transmission. The vehicle is sold as a CBU and comes as the mid-spec Luxury Line trim.
The 520i, according to company claim features a perfect 50:50 weight distribution. This can reach top speed of 233kmph and a 0-100kmph in time of 7.9 seconds. Alpine White, Black Sapphire and Imperial Blue Brilliant Effect are the available color options for BMW 520i.
The 520i from BMW supports different driving modes and facilities like like Eco Pro mode, brake-energy regeneration, 10-inch colour display unit integrated with the iDrive system. Mercedes-Benz E 200, the Audi A6 35 TFSI and the petrol Jaguar XF. are the main rivals for this car.


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Little Snowpatch Spire, West Face, Bugaboos. On July 29 and 30, Steve Sheriff, Jon Turk and I climbed the west face of Little Snowpatch Spire, southwest of the Howser Spires. We climbed three pitches up the center of the face, then angled rightward for several more to a point near the right side andfinally ascended a ramp/dihedral system back to the center of the face near the top. We bivouacked at darkness three or four pitches below the top. The next morning, we climbed over the top and descended the 1961 route to the glacier. The Buckingham-Geiser-Garneau note is still in the summit cairn. No other names have been added since their first ascent of the peak. The rock is excellent Bugaboo granite, solid except for a few pitches with loose debris in the lower third of the route. (17 pitches; V, 5.10, A2.)
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Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson isn't giving up hope just yet, but he certainly knows it won't be easy for his team to come back in their series with the Penguins.
Alfredsson made news following Game 4 on Wednesday night when he replied with "probably not" after being asked whether or not he thought the Senators could come back and win after being down 3-1 with a 7-3 Game 4 loss. Alfredsson did say, however, that he wasn't ready to give up on the team. He reiterated that Thursday, just a few hours after making the postgame comments.
"There's no denying we're in tough," Alfredsson said, according to NHL.com's Arpon Basu via Twitter. "Was it taken out of context? Probably, but that's fine. I can handle that."
The Senators will play Game 5 in Pittsburgh on Friday night where they will try to stave off elimination.
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I have another blog post almost ready to go....and then life happened.
No rambling excuses, just life, and the upshot is we are moving house. Yes, there we are planning in our heads how we move on in retirement, and we up and put in an offer on a new home.....
So there has been a mass cleanup and we wait to finalise sales and settlement.
As result of life, I have been a little unsettled, so one morning I arose early and asked my husband if he would like to take a stroll down to the beach so I could take some photos.....he said "yes!"
My husband is not always a patient man and he doesnt usually like to dawdle when I want to take photos......but on this occasion he did.
The light was just perfect, a dull and still winters morning. This was what greeted us when we parked the car by the Mordialloc Creek.
An obliging local allowed me to get his best side.
And this is what my husband doesnt always understand, the need to take random photos.....I just find these things fascinating, little details and splashes of colour and texture.
The colours just draw my eye, and I look to weathered and battered objects as to me they show so much character.
Boats and ropes.
This is me being arty like.....a stray orange piece of twine hanging off the pier.
The water was so green that day, hard to describe.
So having walked to the end of the pier and back we went for a delicious pastry and coffee......and I felt a little more settled....for now.
Soon I will not have these scenes at my doorstep, as we swap the sea for the river.....
Sunday, 18 June 2017
Life as we know it...
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gorgeous photos! my DH too doesn't get the random photos I take..he hates it when I bring out my big camera and start being a "tourist"....he finds it embarrassing!ReplyDelete
"weathered and battered objects ... show so much character." Kind of like us, huh?ReplyDelete
What a lovely husband!! I love random water and string photos!! and weathered things, and shadows, and stripes ( loving those lines in that last photo) . Changing the sea for a river will be a change, at least theres water. Of course I'll be looking forward to random river inspired photos.ReplyDelete
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Happy Wednesday Folks!
I first found out about chanterelles several years ago when a friend brought a few of these mushrooms as a side dish for our meal. My friend is not a mycologist so I was not at all confident about her mushroom identification skills. I ate a couple but was preoccupied thinking about all the warnings my Dad used to give me about foraging mushrooms. I did not appreciate them at all! Eventually, I did my own research, ate some of these tasty morsels from reputable sources (i.e. restaurants), went mushroom hunting with friends, and now I eagerly look for chanterelles each summer. Chanterelles are not easy to find and can be quite expensive but this year's weather has been excellent for mushrooms and we have been able to find plenty in the woods around St. John's. Over the weekend the 3 of us went for a hike and picked about 3.5 kg of chanterelles in a few hours. As soon as we got home we made a superb omelet followed by a few hours of cleaning and preserving the fungi – glad I had a little helper. The apricot aroma that chanterelles emanate was deliciously laced with the butter used to lightly fry them and the house smelled fantastic! In the evening a buttery risotto with chanterelles and beet greens from the Rabittown Community Garden was in our plates. Samuel happily ate his whole portion and he is not even that much into mushrooms. I think having him taking part of the picking and cleaning might have made a difference.
The rest of the week was packed with more sunny family times. First the Regatta, the oldest organized sporting event in North America and the only civic holiday that is dependent on the weather! If it is excessively windy or rainy the holiday is postponed until the weather is suitable for the races. There was no postponing this year and last Wednesday was spent the day lounging on the Quidi Vidi lawns while stuffing our bellies with Indian food. Over the weekend we went to the Folk Fest and a similar lounging/curry-eating afternoon ensued.
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Sawyer Library recently added another database to our collection of online resources from the CQ (Congressional Quarterly) Press. CQ Congress Collection is, as the name indicates, a group of descriptive and statistical materials supporting research related to the United States Congress.
CQ Press describes it in this way: "CQ Press Congress Collection presents a powerful research and reference tool that provides an analytical survey of the history and development; powers; personalities; current developments; and legislation considered and passed by the United States Congress. A wealth of data with nonbiased commentary is organized under four sections: Public Policy Legislation presents legislative information and analysis under 23 broad topics — such as agriculture, civil rights, national security, and transportation — and hundreds of subtopics. Members of Congress includes biographical, political, and electoral data about every member of Congress since the 79th Congress (additional Congresses will be added periodically). Floor Votes organizes, by Congress and topic, the preferred data for scholarly research. The Legislative Branch provides encyclopedic information, statistical data, legislative analysis, and Supreme Court case summaries relating to the structure and powers of Congress — including committee information — and its relationships with other branches of government and the media."
Although the interface is less than friendly, and linking between sections of the database can be painfully slow, this is indeed "a powerful research and reference tool" for political science research.
It is easy to get a basic profile of a member of Congress, like Barney Frank.
Then we can click various links, like the one for "Key Votes," and see his voting record.
Each of the vote titles is itself a link to further information on that piece of legislation.
You can even compare how members of Congress are rated by various special interest groups. Comparing Senator Ted Kennedy to Senator Mitch McConnell certainly allows for a vivid contrast. The ACU (American Conservative Union)--not to be confused with the ACLU, which has a much different viewpoint!--gives Senator McConnell a 92 rating, while the senior senator from Massachusetts receives an emphatic goose egg.
We hope that those researching public policy and the legislative branch will find this a valuable resource. And don't forget our other useful CQ products, including CQ Researcher (great for Pro-Con analysis of hot button social issues) and CQ Press Political Reference Suite (which includes a wide assortment of online reference materials, from the Political Handbook of the World, to the excellent primary documents resource, the Historic Documents Series).
There's a lot of useful material here, even if it isn't always easy to find. Once you DO find it, you can export data as needed, or create a profile so that you can save your favorite documents and searches for further use.
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We raised anchor this morning at 3:45 and we out of the Lake a worth inlet by 4:15am. We decided to leave well before first light to ensure a daylight arrival into West End, Grand Bahama. The forcast was for light winds out of the south switching to west in the afternoon then north in the evening. Everything we read said not to get caught in the Gulf Stream in a Northerly, even if it's light. We knew we would have plenty of time and a safe passage as long as we made it there by mid afternoon.
Once out into the ocean the seas were very calm. It was still pitch black out with no moon but a very comfortable ride. The Gulf Stream was supposed to be about 4 miles offshore so we headed south right out of the inlet. The wisdom behind this is supposed to keep your boat from getting swept north and then having to motor back south. The strategy seemed to work well because we barely even noticed the current. In fact, if I hadn't have known about the Gulf Stream I might have not noticed anything strange at all. I am sure that if you choose to cross at the wrong time then your experience would be totally different.
The passage was uneventful and pretty boring honestly. We caught one fish, a Bonita I think, and Matt seared it on the stove 5 minutes after we hooked him. It was delicious. After that however, we didn't see a thing. Flying fish now and then but nothing else.
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Are we happy now? I think not. Get out your crystal ball and predict where our country is going to be in the next four years.
Maybe California should start secession proceedings.
My mom used to say that if you can't say something nice about someone don't say anything at all.
That is going to be hard, but I will try.
So on the subject of religion, politics and modern American voters-Here it is "No comment".


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As I mentioned before when we moved here we decided not to get cable for various reasons but we did decide to keep our Netflix account open. Because to remove movies from my life would be tantamount to taking a pee on the constitution right in front of Thomas Jefferson. Yes, I love them THAT much. But not just any movies. I am quite picky about my selection which is one of the reasons I love Nexflix. I can find the most obscure and amazing low budget, independent film and pair it with a documentary about kids competing in a spelling bee, have some pizza and beer (ah, those were the days, beer....MMMMMM) and call it a night of magic. Meanwhile, my Husband sits by suffering through most of my selection lamenting how everything I pick out is SOOOOO DEPRESSING and EVERYONE'S ALWAYS ON DRUGS, UGHHHHHHHH. He would rather be sodomized with pruning shears than sit through another of my marathon indie sessions.
Normally I humor him and put one of his picks in the queue every three films or so. It's just that as much as he hates my selections, I hate his even more. Granted, there are the rare exceptions that I'll enjoy, Band of Brothers comes to mind. But otherwise I normally fall asleep to the sound of some big name star narrowly escaping an explosion of some grand scale in a stolen sports car with some hot damsel in distress hanging on for dear life. Not my idea of titillating, but only fair right?
I've been away on business trips on and off for the better part of this month and so I have not been here to lord over the Netflix queue slipping Jeremy's selections discreetly to the bottom of the list. I opened our account up this morning to see what we had coming and chocked on my own laughter because I realized that while I had been away he must have been having one hell of a time compiling his dream list of whatever the opposite of a "chick flick" is. I will hand it to him though, about five down on the queue, there appear to be some selections that perhaps were chosen with me in mind. Aww, who loves me?
Here is a sampling of his selection:
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (and he says MY movies involve people on drugs!)
Two Days in The Valley (I actually think I might like that one)
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
WAY too many episodes of Battlestar Galactica (I TOLD you he was Dwight Schrute)
Walmart: The High Cost of a Low Price (He DOES love me!)
And the list goes on.
Nevertheless, it's good to be home. I can put this planet of domestic bliss back on it's proper axis and get it back into orbit. That all starts with the kitchen sink, and the pile of yuckiness that has been accumulating since my absence.


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The Indians relied on their full-court press that resulted in easy baskets, and won handily, 83-47 over Sun Valley Poly in Tuesday night's Burroughs Magnolia Park Optimist Club Tournament.
"Our pressure was good — it led to easy baskets," said Indians Coach Vicky Oganyan, whose team is off to a quick 4-1 start to the season. "I wasn't very happy with our half-court defense and that's something we have to talk about."


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Wolverhampton pupils back sacked 'pellet gun' teacher
A campaign to reinstate a teacher, who was sacked after he accidentally shot a pupil with a pellet gun during a science lesson, has been launched.
Richard West was dismissed from St Peter's Collegiate School in Wolverhampton last week after a disciplinary hearing.
Present and former pupils - including the boy who was shot - have called for Mr West to be given his job back.
The school confirmed the dismissal but declined to comment further.
'Inspirational' teacher
More than 1,400 people have signed an online petition and a Facebook group called Bring Back Westy 2014 has attracted about 2,000 members.
It is believed the incident occurred during a classroom demonstration last November when a pellet ricocheted off a table.
The pellet hit a student in the leg but he was uninjured.
Speaking to 5 Live's Victoria Derbyshire, former pupil Chris Jones said Mr West was an "inspirational" teacher who didn't deserve to lose his job.
"He always made physics fun which sometimes can be a very difficult task," he said.
Mr West was suspended from the school while it carried out a joint investigation with Wolverhampton City Council.
A school spokeswoman said: "A disciplinary hearing took place last week at which the panel reached its verdict and a teacher was dismissed.
"As we are still in the appeal phase of the process, it would be inappropriate to comment any further."


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May 29, 2009
Placemats, part 2
1.I gathered a bunch of pages from some magazines.
2. Then fold the page in half, about 3 times.
3. you'll need about 20 folded strips of paper and they don't have to be exactly the same width.
4.I used a long piece of tape to hold the edges of paper together. It makes sewing them together easier.
5. Once you've sewn along both edges of the place mat, carefully remove the tape, and continue sewing down the length of the placemat.
Hopefully the photos will help explain the process a little better! If you have any questions feel free to ask!
8 comments:
- mandiegirl said...
I LOVE this idea! Thanks so much for sharing!!! :)
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- Amber Zimmerman said...
Thanks for the pics! Love this idea. =) I would've never thought it would be so easy.
- 29.5.09
- NicNacManiac said...
Fantastic idea, these are as colorful as the rest of all of your enchanting creations!!!! Great tutorial...you rock :)
- 29.5.09
- Sandrine Deleuze said...
thank you thank you thank you ! now I understand !! yes yes yes ! it's soo great ! thank you ;-)
- 29.5.09
- lisa garay said...
i think this is the most wonderfullest idea ever... i can't wait to try, and i'm so happy you started blogging again ;)
- 29.5.09
- Shannon Wyman said...
What a great idea, thanks so much! I've been talking about your blog on my own blog lately.. how I love the ideas etc. And today I gave you a blog inspiration award.. check it out..
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- Monica said...
I absolutely love this idea. I posted about it on my blog... was it really that easy?? Great work.
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Shapes and textures
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This is much faster than drawing vectors in Illustrator and fill the shapes afterwards in Photoshop the same way. Thanks for sharing!BeantwoordenVerwijderen
hele interessante manier van werken Wouter! Dankjewel voor het delen inderdaad!BeantwoordenVerwijderen
I tried coloring a sketch with your tutorial and i posted my result here, http://tarkstuff.blogspot.com/2011/04/coloring-deer.htmlBeantwoordenVerwijderen
thank you very very much, you have been always a great inspiration! =D
Thanks so much for this tutorial, it's been extremely helpful! :)BeantwoordenVerwijderen
Yay I've finally found the best way to create shape and texture. Thanks heaps for sharing your tips!BeantwoordenVerwijderen
I just tried the tutorial and could follow it perfectly up to point 8 where you use a textured brush.BeantwoordenVerwijderen
After that I can't figure out what layer you paint into. Do you paint directly into layer 2? If so I'm nit getting the right result, as shown in point 9. I'm obviously missing something. Please help, as this looks like a great technique. Many thanks. (I'd happily email you some screen grabs if it helps too)
If I try to paint directly into Layer 2, it will only let me colour in greyscale. Should I have only my layer2 mask selected in the channels section? Or do I need the RGB channels switched on also? Appologies for not getting this right, it seems everyone else is :)BeantwoordenVerwijderen


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Home > Selected images sorted into galleries, by broad category
Most photos are available to license for stock use. Many are also available at a wide range of sizes as fine art prints. Please ask if you'd like more information.
All images ©2015 Keith Cooper, Northlight Images Tel. Leicester (0116) 291 9092
From Halford Street across Gallowtree Gate to Leiester Market
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text: Gallery of Landscape Photography of Arid Places, including deserts, Savannah, semi-arid zones, the Australian "Outback", and Australia's "Red Centre". Australia is one of the driest continents on Earth and thus Australia can yield quite captivating images of starkness and isolation. However it can often be difficult to find a truly beautiful or magnificent scene, which is where Michael excels. He has also traveled to Africa and found some truly beautiful desert scenes there. Most of Michael's landscape work is panoramic landscape photography, but he also occasionally captures images in the "classic" format when the scene is suitable.Click on "HIDE MENU" below to show the images in a full screen gallery (to go back to this page, then click "SHOW MENU"), or click on each image to show it in larger size. Click on "PRINT INFORMATION" to find out more information about the print.


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Photo ID Law Significant Setback To Voting Rights
To The Editor:
In March 2012 a new voter photo ID law was passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature that requires all voters have a government issued photo ID in order to vote in the general election this fall.
When I went to my township to vote on primary day April 24, 2012, I asked for information about this new law, and I was given a green information sheet but when I read it, I found that it left out some of the most important information that people will need to know in order apply for this ID.
The green sheet said that in order to apply for this ID, voters will simply need to complete an affirmation letter, but when I checked into this matter further, I found that filling out this form is only the first step in a long, involved and frustrating process.
Anyone with a valid driver's license, passport or other government issued photo ID already has all the ID they will need to vote in this fall's election. Everyone else (including anyone without a driver's license, passport or other form of government-issued photo ID) will need to obtain a valid photo ID issued by PennDOT prior to the election. For the information of your readers who will need to apply for this ID, here are the steps you will have to go through:
Obtain the affirmation letter from your county government office or the PennDOT Web site.
Once you have signed the letter, take it to a PennDOT license and examination service center. Residents of Fulton County may not use the photo ID center in McConnellsburg for this purpose – it is not set up to issue this kind of ID. Voters will instead have to travel to Chambersburg or to another full-service license and examination center for this purpose.
You will need four proofs of identification. You must have your Social Security card and at least one of the following: a birth certificate with a raised sealed; a certificate of U.S. citizenship; a certificate of naturalization; or a valid U.S. passport plus two proofs of residency, such as lease agreements, current utility bills, mortgage documents, W-2 form or tax records.
Students at least 18 years of age must bring proof of residency, including room assignment paperwork, and one bill with their dorm address on it. Other individuals who may not have any bills, leases, mortgage documents or utility bills in their name may bring the person with whom they are living along with that person's driver's license or other proof of residence.
If you are not currently driving but had a driver's license issued to you prior to 1990, you can use PennDOT's record of that license to obtain your new voter photo ID.
Obtaining your voter photo ID is free of charge.
I personally feel that it is outrageous that people who have voted all their lives now have to go through this cumbersome process in order to vote. When I checked the record about why this bill was brought into law, I found that it was supposed to protect against all forms of voter fraud in the state, but when I checked into the record, I found that there has been no proof of voter fraud found in the state of Pennsylvania, so I wonder whether this bill is really necessary or whether it is simply designed to deny certain people the right to vote. This law will disenfranchise thousands of voters in Pennsylvania. Throughout the United States, it is estimated that 21 million citizens who vote do not have a government-issued photo ID.
I would ask our representatives in the state Legislature to take whatever action they can to repeal this bill prior to the fall election because this law is in fact the most significant setback to voting rights in this country in more than a century.
If the law remains in effect, I would hope that our state representatives will put information about how citizens must comply with this law in the mailings that they send out to their constituents.
I also feel that our representatives need to provide transportation to and from the licensing centers so that our Fulton County seniors and handicapped will have a way to get to Chambersburg to obtain their voter ID.
The Pennsylvania Department of State suggests that voters call 1-877-868-3772 or visit www.VotesPA.com for further information. Or check the PennDOT Web site at www.DMV.State.PA.US and click on "Voter ID Law" or call them at 1-800-932-460.
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Liberty of the Seas
Sail Date: February 24, 2014
What can I say from the moment we got on board and settled in our wonderful cabin on deck 2 (cabin 2262) great view of the sea at close level and watching the stars at night. Food was great at my time and lovely cake on my birthday! Labadee was fantastic with plenty to do or just chill! New port at Falmouth Jamaica was great even a bar with a pool and entertainment! Overall would recommend and go on this cruise again only problem was with the bathroom had a couple of blockages and didn't get a final apology from customer service which would have been nice!


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For the top card I used some new Inkylicious stamps which I was given for my Birthday - thanks Sal, Pan Pastels of course to create the hills and sky, a masked sun and sponged sunrays and a litter bit of glitter on the tree, it's one of those images that just yells out for some sparkle.
Next up my Penny Black and More piece which appears to have more sunrays.........am I addicted I wonder ? The tree is Fantasy Tree and I have always thought of it as a Christmas one but stamped in brown and Autumnal colours lends itself quite well to other seasons. The sentiment is also Penny Black.


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The civilizing process is not flawless, and we may disagree on the ways it has manifested itself.
I disagree with Nick here, the 1st foul looked innocuous, the second barely worth a booking.
Much as Dean hoped otherwise, he couldn't disagree with Fred.
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We.ll just say he doesn.t disagree with me.
Balashev respectfully ventured to disagree with the French Emperor.
It was a capital offence in the eyes of the State to disagree with the teachings of the Church, and these, it must be remembered, included a recognition of the papal supremacy.
Both the Saxon Chronicle and the Historia Brittonum record three subsequent battles, though the two authorities disagree as to their issue.
While I remained eager to discuss the conversation, I couldn't disagree with Howie's logic.
Previously, ministers had tried to spare the queen all disagree able and fatiguing details.
I don't disagree and God knows I have no more idea what's causing these vision but they're ruling his life right now.


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On 22nd December 2014, Chief Executive of the Higher Education Authority, Tom Boland, released a report that breaks new ground in terms of measuring the full economic, social and cultural value of the Irish University. This DCU pilot study will feed into national debates on the importance of engagement. It will also inform the way the Higher Education Authority creates metrics to evaluate the performance of Ireland's higher education institutions.
Dr. Josephine A. Boland's research interests relate to higher education policy and practice, as evidenced by her doctoral thesis 'Embedding a civic engagement dimension within the higher education curriculum; a study of policy, process and practice in Ireland'. She is a part of a team of colleagues, students and community partners in NUIGalway developing a service learning project – 'Learning to Teach for Social Justice' – within the context of initial teacher education.
This presentation was given by Ursula Kelly, Viewforth Consulting, at the Campus Engage Away Day, September 2013.
This brief report provides a snapshot of the situation in Ireland in November 2011. It does not claim to be definitive. Although the term 'impact measurement' is used throughout, it should be noted that this includes the full continuum of measurement; from outcomes, to impacts, and to social value in its widest sense.
Reseach methods
The Higher Education Community Engagement Model is a UK model to evaluate civic engagement, created in 2003 by several Russell Group universities, in collaboration with the Corporate Citizenship Company. It is based on the London Benchmarking Model which is used by many large companies to measure their contributions to the community, but has been adapted for use by any Higher Education Institution. The model was piloted in 2004, underwent a large scale evaluation and was opened up for use by any HEI in 2006.
This report presents the results of a socio-economic impact assessment of Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) undertaken by BiGGAR Economics in
Autumn 2012. The study considered the annual economic impact of DkIT, based on the year for which the latest data was available1.
The study found that DkIT delivered a substantial annual economic return for the Irish economy, in return for the state funding received. In 2010/11, DkIT received
This report sets out an initial performance evaluation framework for irish higher education. This is being developed in the context of the implementation of the national strategy for higher education to 2030 with its emphasis on fostering the coherence, and maximising the performance, of the higher education system—as a system.
The Europe 2020 strategy highlights the key role of innovation in contributing to smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Regions are important sites for innovation because of the opportunities they provide for interaction be- tween businesses, public authorities and civil societies.
This survey was co-ordinated by Campus Engage, a network for the promotion and support of civic engagement activities in higher education institutions (HEIs) in Ireland. Campus Engage is a project funded under HEA SIF1 and has as its overall objective the widening of the scope of civic engagement activity in Irish higher education so as to 'ensure that Ireland plays a leading role in the promotion of active citizenship in Europe through the development of social and civic "competencies" as a key element of the student experience.' (Civic Engagement, Student Volunteering and Active Citizenship, SIF1 Proposal, 2006) Included within the remit of the project was the conducting of a survey of civic engagement activities in higher education in Ireland.
This is the first time that a survey of this nature has been carried out in Ireland, representing an initial attempt to map the range of civic engagement activities across Irish higher education. It has happened at a time when civic engagement in higher education is in its early stages of development and it has provided individual higher education institutions (HEIs) with an opportunity to document and review the nature of their civic engagement activities. The survey was conducted in the spring of 2010 and relies on information presented at the closing date for submission (May 2010). This 'snapshot' of the current situation is useful in itself, but it also gives a baseline from which to set targets for future development and implementation of civic engagement activities in Irish higher education.
The current Carnagie classification for Community Engagement is an elective classification, meaning that it is based on voluntary participation by institutions. The elective classification involves data collection and documentation of important aspects of institutional mission, identity and commitments, and requires substantial effort invested by participating institutions. It is an institutional classification; it is not for systems of multiple campuses or for part of an individual campus.


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I met a Swiss dude last night who I thought was mad at first because he seemed very strange. After speaking to him for a while though I realized that he was just brilliant. He was a genius. The Swiss man's name was Gabriel and he is a mathematician and a Particle Physicist. Once we got talking I quickly established that he was a very smart and interesting person.
Uber interesting in fact.
He was very shy and it took a while for him to engage with me but I persisted. I generally do. Once we got talking about his job he opened right up. I asked Gabriel lots of questions and he gave me lots of answers. I wrote some of what he told me down. I scrawled notes on both sides of a serviette. The serviette got damp from beer and wine and melting ice as we were in a social setting.
I am trying to read some of my blurred notes now and it is not easy for the ink has run and smeared. Gabriel and I were both drinking iced water so we were sober but we were surrounded by loud and rowdy drunks.
We didn't mind.
The word serviette is French. It's English translation means 'napkin' or 'towel'. Interestingly the word 'napkin' also has French origins - although to me it sounds a bit Scottish. It is a derivation of the French word "naperon' which is some form of apron thing. The French are obviously big on the use of such items and serviettes are very useful. They keep crumbs off us and can also be used to write notes on. Don't get them wet though if you write on them as the ink runs and blurs and it is then difficult to read.
I suspect that Gabriel has Asperger Syndrome. Many very smart people do - well some at least. The syndrome is actually a type of autism that was unremarkably named by an Austrian pediatrician called Hans Asperger. Hans suffered from a vanity complex and he named the syndrome in 1944. This was at the tail end of the Second World War. I have not established if Asperger had any Nazi connections or whether he was involved in any of the horrific experiments conducted by Josef Mengele - the infamous and absolutely evil Doctor of Auschwitz.
I could find no literature to support this.
The Second World War was often referred to as 'the war to end all wars'. More than sixty million people were killed in the conflict and it did not end all wars either. Far from it. War rages still across the planet.
It is an abomination.
Modern day medical and psychological practitioners argue that persons with Asperger do not 'suffer' from the condition. Some have difficulties coping with social interactions but they are also often blessed with incredible cognitive abilities. I found Gabriel to be a little socially awkward but he was most definitely brilliant. He was remarkable in fact and he is working in a fascinating field.
When I asked Gabriel what exactly it is that a Particle Physicist does he told me that there are a number of different fields of endeavour. He told me that his main area of interest and expertise was in the study of Dark Matter. Gabriel spends much of his time in the Swiss city of Cern where he works with more than 7,000 other scientists on the Large Hadron Collider. He refers to this as an acronym - it is the LHC.
Gabriel informed me that the LHC is the largest machine ever built by man. I told him that I already knew this because I have read about it before. The LHC is an enormous twenty seven kilometer tunnel of super conducting magnets and it is constructed more than one hundred meters underground. Gabriel told me that if you didn't know that it was there you wouldn't notice it. Apparently cows graze in fields directly above it. These are Swiss cows with bells around their necks.
He told me that the machine cost more than $9 billion to construct. When I asked him if that was in US dollars he confirmed that it was. The machine was turned on in September 2008 but it took more than eight years to build. I am not sure what the value of the US dollar was back then but it is atrocious now. America has a grossly dysfunctional economy with a very weak currency at the moment.
Gabriel informed me that the LHC was turned on in September 2008. He told me this several times so I have also repeated it. Perhaps I am also Asperger's? Ten days after it was turned on it blew up. A minor fault in an electrical circuit triggered a huge discharge of liquid helium that destroyed a large part of the machinery. Gabriel told me that he was there when it happened and it occurred on his birthday. He told me that his party was ruined.
The machine was repaired at a cost of more than another one billion dollars and has been running beautifully ever since. The machine smashes particles called protons into each other at near speeds of light and then scientists analyze the results.
I asked Gabriel to try and dumb down his explanations of the machine and his work for me. I told him that I was not very bright. He told me that he would try and I think that he did try - however a lot of what he said still went over my head.
Gabriel informed me that many people think that the world and the universe is made up of particles and matter but it actually is not. He told me that everything is made up of fields and they hold everything together. The LHC is actually a study of fields and waves and Particles are just a part of this. Gabriel told me about protons and neutrons and electrons and he explained quarks and quantum mechanics. He endeavored to explain what Chaos Theory was all about but I found it incredibly difficult to follow his train of thought and explanations even though I was riveted.
I made a lot of notes on the paper serviette.
I told Gabriel that I had heard that the illusive Higgs boson particle had recently been discovered and identified at the LHC and he confirmed that it had. He got a little excited when he told me this and he became a bit animated. Gabriel told me that this happened in July last year and another boson had also since been discovered. When I asked what exactly a boson was he told me that it was a sub-atomic particle that didn't spin like other particles did. When I asked him if the Higgs boson particle was in fact the "God Particle" he scoffed. He told me that there was no place for religion in science but he was confident that further experiments and investigations of these discoveries might make for an understanding how everything and everyone came to be - and what holds it all together.
Gabriel informed me that the LHC is now closed for further upgrades to increase it's already massive energy inputs. He said that it will not open again for another couple of years and Gabriel hopes to then continue his studies on Dark Matter.
Dark Matter is mysterious energy that absorbs all light and is something that is impossible to see or feel. It is nothingness that has a powerful force but has the ability to consume everything. Black holes are made of Dark Matter. Gabriel told me quite a lot about his Dark Matter studies and he talked about space time continuums and things like time travel and anti-matter and parallel universes. I listened intently and with great interest but I had ran out of space on my serviette to take any more adequate notes.
I had run out of continuum as well.
I asked Gabriel whether Dark Matter really did matter and he looked quite puzzled so my poor attempt at humor was wasted. The Swiss are not known for their wit and neither are Asperger people so I told him to carry on.
At another point in our conversation I asked Gabriel whether the LHC was being used to conduct any type of weapons development and he told me that he didn't think that it was. He told me without asking that I shouldn't fear extremist Muslims using the LHC to make any super weapons. I told him that I would be more worried about the Americans using it this way. I told Gabriel that the Americans have a long history of war mongering and developing and deploying weapons of mass destruction and he nodded his head in agreement.
Then I went home with my damp serviette crammed with my scrawl of amazing facts and data stuffed in my pocket.
I was very tired and my head is still spinning with interesting and new information.


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5 comments:
- The Old Maid said...
Sweet bunch of faewees! The first boy from the top is my fav! They all are great!
Will send a prayer for your son tonight. :)
- June 24, 2015 at 2:33 PM
- Ilona said...
Wow, Christel, what a beautiful faewees :)! It would be hard to chose the most delicate and beautiful faewee, because they all are amazing work. I love the expressions on their adorable faces and their poses. Their wings are awesome and delicate, they give them a beautiful, tender finishing touch, awesome work!!
I'm sorry to hear about the issues with your son, he will be in my prayers tonight.
Take care for yourself, dear friend.
Warm hug, Ilona
- June 24, 2015 at 2:45 PM
- Angelsdoor * Penny said...
My dear friend,
You Fae Wees are without a doubt the sweetest dolls.. Simply magical! They all have such personalty. Love their sweet faces..
I know with your support and love your son will find his way.. I will keep him in my prayers, Christel. And you too!
Love and blessings,
P.s. If you have a moment, please wander over to Nowhere.
Would love to have you visit.
- June 24, 2015 at 7:23 PM
- Christel said...
Dear Ewa, Ilona, and Penny, thank you all so much for your prayers, we need them right now! I'm so happy each of you stopped in, it's always wonderful to hear from you. xoxo Christel
- June 24, 2015 at 8:33 PM
- A Magical Whimsy said...
These FaeWees are so precious, Christel.
I will be saying prayers for your son. I went through some gut wrenching times with one of our sons, ten years ago. I stood by for him through thick and thin. I knew God was watching over him, even when he was homeless. They have to go through it themselves, but we can stand by them in their needs. Never give up! My son is now happily married, to a beautiful gal and they have one dear, sweet baby daughter.
love and hugs,
Teresa in California
- July 5, 2015 at 11:47 PM


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On the evening of Feb. 24, 1986, LAPD homicide detectives found Sherri Rae Rasmussen's badly beaten body on the living room floor of her Van Nuys town house with wounds from three .38-caliber bullets to her chest.
Weeks later, Stephanie Lazarus, a young Los Angeles police officer, called the Santa Monica Police Department to report that someone had broken into her car on 2nd Street, blocks from the pier. A gym bag had been stolen, she said. In it were clothes, some cassettes, a few dollars and her personal .38-caliber snub-nosed revolver, according to several LAPD and Santa Monica police sources familiar with the investigation.
The slaying and the lost gun remained unconnected for more than 20 years until February, when LAPD detectives reopened the investigation into Rasmussen's killing and turned their attention on Lazarus, herself a respected LAPD detective.
Now, with Lazarus in custody, investigators believe the missing gun is the weapon used to kill the 29-year-old nurse. Lazarus, they believe, threw the weapon away -- possibly tossing it into the Pacific -- and made up the story of the break-in to cover her tracks, sources said.


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When I put my money down on my PlayStation 4, I heard from everyone under the sun how I made the wrong choice because "everyone knows PlayStation controllers suck." This really caught me off-guard because I never really had an issue with the PS3 controllers, let alone any problems with the console until the end.
Well, I guess yesterday was the day to discover these people may have been right. It seems the left analog control on my PlayStation DualShock controller (hereby known as the DS4) had determined the moving right was not in the cards for me and that I would rather head 90 degrees in the backward direction. And as clicking down said control was generally accepted as the means to engage the run mechanism, I was going to have to be satisfied with walking wherever my characters wanted to go.
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When Jane McGonigal tripped over, hit her head and became severely concussed, she didn't feel as though she would ever recover. She struggled to read, write and focus, and faced months of dizziness and depression.
So, in a series of YouTube videos weeks after her accident in 2009, McGonigal devised her own salvation and shared it with the world.
Originally a "concussion recovery game" based on the completion of small challenges to boost her optimism, it developed into a free online game called SuperBetter, which has already helped more than 250,000 people recover from problems such as anxiety, chronic pain and traumatic brain injuries. Clinical trials suggest the game could be more effective than drugs in alleviating some symptoms of depression.
McGonigal sees games as a way to solve real-world problems as serious as poverty, obesity and climate change. Oprah Winfrey has named her one of the "20 most inspiring women in the world" and Harvard Business Review recognised her theory of gamifying business among its "top 20 breakthrough ideas".
The games designer and author worked on 2007's augmented-reality project World Without Oil, which saw more than 1,800 players document their lives online through an imagined global oil shortage. The slogan was: "Play it – before you live it."
For the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she helped create The Lost Ring with AKQA for McDonald's. A mystery unfolded over six months, during which players had to track down real, physical artefacts in 27 cities to discover a fictional banned ancient Olympic sport, which was "revived" to coincide with the Games.
McGonigal defines a game as "an unnecessary challenge that you volunteer for" – a scenario that is inherently bizarre. "When you're playing golf, the aim is to get a ball in a small hole," she reasons. "If it weren't a game, you would just walk up and put it in the hole – but, instead, you decide to stand really far away from the hole and use a stick to aim the ball. It's absurd."
It's signing up to these rules out of choice that makes people become the best possible versions of themselves when they play games: more motivated, more resilient and more prone to altruism.
McGonigal's next crisis to tackle is the way we work. "Work is a game so badly designed that you have to pay people to play it. Most workers are traumatised," she says, citing research from Gallup that found seven in ten US workers are not engaged with their workplaces. "Employees are spending half of their lives feeling like they're doing something that doesn't matter. The drain on the economy and on innovation and creativity is a huge obstacle."
This led her to PHD. A year ago, the media shop launched Source, a planning tool that turns work into a game and is part-inspired by McGonigal's past projects. Players earn "pings" for good ideas and helping others, and are ranked on a leaderboard at offices around the world.
It's easy to dismiss the gamification trend as a gimmick, but PHD's is a sincere effort that has led to a culture shift: 1,700 of the 3,000 PHD staff are registered players and 690 are active users. Those who are talented in different areas are recognised and promoted: a creatively-minded strategist was recently offered a job in another office because he was a high-ranking "innovator" on Source.
This impressed McGonigal: "Most people who are trying gamification are doing it at a very superficial level, where they have a limited notion of how to motivate and reward. When I make a game, I like the players to feel like they have lightning bolts coming out of their fingertips. They feel empowered to do something they couldn't have done without the game."
Crucially, she points out, Source is focused on collaboration rather than competition: "The worst thing you could do is turn 99 per cent of your employees into losers."
Work is a game so badly designed that you have to pay people to play it. Most workers are traumatised
She is working with PHD to build new features into the game, including collective "quests". Source will soon measure five strengths in employees, such as collaboration, creativity and courage. But how do you assess someone's courage?
"We've designed a Batman button," she smiles. "Everyone can send out a signal to call in their own individual Batman, who is someone more senior who can take a look at their work and help. It takes courage to use the bat symbol."
McGonigal lives her own philosophy: she is infectiously positive while being fiercely engaged with her theories. She prefers games to reading the news "because news stresses you out and there's too much snarky comment".
Many people think she is competitive, but she defines her approach as goal-oriented: "If I have a clear goal, nothing will stop me from getting it. If I'm running a race, I have a clear goal for myself, but I'm not competing with anyone else."
Her dream is to see a games designer nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. She forecasts this to take place in less than ten years, and you sense that, as with her other goals, she won't rest until it happens.


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#class has ended culminating with "Rant Night" artist said their peace, Ed graciously stood in as proxy for dealers. We heard from collectors, curators, critics, bloggers, artists, children and even dogs had their say, and the only thing I think everyone agreed upon is the sound of the live feed sucked.
There have been four sessions of "Shut Up Already...I'll Look at Your Art!" and the images posted, but if you haven't seen your image "Don't Panic" there are around 65 images left and Ed has agreed to do one more session to complete "Shut Up Already...I'll Look at Your Art!", but this week he will be busy uninstalling #class, reclaiming his white walls from the chalk boards, and I suspect trying to get chalk dust out of all the nooks and crannies of the gallery. Then he has to install the next exhibition "Decalogue : Films You Can Count on Two Hands" which opens March 27th, so some time after that the fifth and final session will take place I will keep you notified.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Next Session
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- Patricia Sahertian said...
we are waiting! but not panicking.
- April 13, 2010 at 12:54 PM
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May 25, 2016
Mini Wednesday
6 comments:
- Gene Black said...
Good move on changing the fence fabric.
Did you freehand cut the witch, cats and trees?
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- allthingzsewn said...
Wagons Hoooo almost looks like a painting. Placement of shade is perfect. High Noon would be a good name too.
I feel the heat.
I agree with the second fence too. This is going to be really cute. What size is this going to be?
- 25.5.16
- Angie in SoCal said...
You are amazing and your stash must be amazing too to always have just the right fabrics for your minis. Love to see them.
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- Gari in AL said...
Love Wagons Hoooo. My great grandfather was part of the Oklahoma land rush and drove a covered wagon to the land he homesteaded. And his great great grandson lives there now and runs the cattle ranch. Your mini made me think of all of them.
- 27.5.16
Wow is that wagon ever terrific! I love that! The Halloween scene is terrific in a completely different way. You are just so talented!
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- Scrapatches said...
Your wagon block is amazing. Looks like a painting ... :) Pat
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