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I am glad to announce that some of my new paintings are shown at BLOOOM Art Fair with Urban Art Now from 24 to 27th of October, in Köln (Germany)
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In store we have the rabbit, kitten and squirrel. The design is slightly different on each side of the cup, giving the mugs playful character.
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Jennifer Nettles Judging First Season of 'American Supergroup'
Jennifer Nettles will be representing country music on a brand-new TV music competition. The Sugarland singer and solo artist has taken one of four judges roles on American Supergroup, a new show in search of the next big band.
According to an official press release, American Supergroup will showcase the "creation and evolution of the best new band in the country." Joining Nettles on a panel of expert judges for the show are Aloe Blacc, known for R&B hits such as "I Need a Dollar;" pop-rock singer Elle King, who recently collaborated with Dierks Bentley on "Different for Girls;" and the iconic lead singer of Chicago, Jason Scheff. iHeartRadio personality Dave Styles will host the show.
Known for songs such as "That Girl" and, more recently, "Hey Heartbreak," Nettles has seen success as both a solo artist and as one-half of the country-pop duo Sugarland; she also fronted two Atlanta-based bands, Soul Miner's Daughter and the Jennifer Nettles Band, before making it big. Earlier this year, Nettles released her second solo studio album, Playing With Fire, and she's got a new Christmas album set for release on Oct. 28.
Set to air on MTV Live, MTV Classic and Pop, American Supergroup will take 25 finalists to create five groups of five members each; each group will include a guitarist, drummer, bass player, keyboardist and vocalist. Bands can adopt any musical genre that fits them and will receive expert guidance from Nettles and her fellow judges. Viewers will interact with and vote for the bands via social media throughout the season.
American Supergroup is currently filming at Skyways Studios in Nashville. The show premieres Tuesday (Oct. 11) on Pop at 8PM ET; on MTV Live on Thursday (Oct. 13) at 8PM ET; and on MTV Classic on Friday (Oct. 14) at 7PM ET. The season will feature weekly one-hour episodes during the next eight weeks, with the 90-minute finale airing on Dec. 6.


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Lindsey from Recreated asked me about my favorite piece of furniture for her Pieces of You Series.
Isn't her header cool? Lindsey blogs about furniture and her reupholstering that she does, decor, fashion, and just beautiful things that inspire her. She is a lot of fun and I always look forward to reading about her adventures.
Stop on over to say hi to Lindsey and see what my favorite piece of furniture is!
Also, for those of you with a Mid Century crush...check out this light fixture Lindsey scored recently...
Photo courtesy of Recreated
A big thank you to Lindsey for inviting me over - thanks Lindsey!!
I'll see you on Monday - have a great weekend!


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On February 24, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) describing specific actions that federal agencies must take to comply with their obligation to engage in affirmative action in employment for individuals with disabilities. The NPRM is available in the Public Inspection portion of the Federal Register, and will be officially published February 24, 2016. Members of the public have 60 days from that date, April 25, 2016, to submit comments. A Q & A developed by the EEOC on this proposed rulemaking appears below.
Questions and Answers about EEOC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Affirmative Action for People with Disabilities in the Federal Government
On February 24, 2016, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC" or "Commission") issued a notice of proposed rulemaking ("NPRM") on the federal government's obligation to engage in affirmative action in employment for people with disabilities, imposed by Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 ("Section 501"). The following questions and answers provide further detail on the NPRM, and on what will happen now that it has been issued.
1. What is the purpose of the NPRM?
The NPRM is a notice alerting the public that EEOC plans to change the Section 501 regulations requiring federal agencies to engage in affirmative action in employment for individuals with disabilities. Anyone who wishes to comment has 60 days to do so (until April 25, 2016).
2. Which employers would be affected by the proposed rule?
Agencies of the federal government would be affected. The rule explains what federal agencies must do to comply with Section 501.
3. Would the proposed rule apply to private businesses?
No. Private businesses are not subject to Section 501. Private businesses with 15 or more employees are subject to Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), but the ADA neither requires nor prohibits affirmative action for people with disabilities. Private businesses that are federal contractors are also subject to Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
4. Why is EEOC proposing this rule now?
Guidance on what a federal agency must do to comply with Section 501's affirmative action requirement currently appears in a variety of Executive Orders, Management Directives, and sub-regulatory documents. Although federal agencies have improved their efforts to hire and retain individuals with disabilities, they remain underrepresented in the federal workforce. The proposed rule would clarify, in a single rule, what federal agencies must do to engage in affirmative action as required under Section 501. In 2013, the Department of Labor issued a similar rule implementing affirmative action requirements placed on federal contractors under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
5. What is EEOC's authority for issuing the proposed rule?
Congress gave EEOC the authority to issue regulations implementing Section 501. Section 501 also explicitly requires the Commission to evaluate federal agencies' Affirmative Action Plans for people with disabilities to ensure that they provide "sufficient assurances, procedures and commitments to provide adequate hiring, placement, and advancement opportunities for individuals with disabilities." The rule specifies what must be included in an agency's Affirmative Action Plan for it to receive approval by the Commission.
6. Does the proposed rule affect federal agencies' non-discrimination obligations under Section 501?
No. Under existing regulations, Section 501 imposes the same prohibitions against disability-based employment discrimination on federal agencies that the ADA imposes on private businesses with 15 or more employees. The proposed rule would not change the standards for determining whether a federal agency has violated those prohibitions.
7. Who would be affected by the rule?
The proposed rule would require federal agencies to take actions that affect the employment of two groups of people: individuals with disabilities, and individuals with targeted/severe disabilities.
8. What is a "disability"?
Under the proposed rule, a "disability" is defined as an impairment (either physical or mental) that "substantially limits" one or more major life activities. This is the same definition that applies under the ADA, but is not the same definition used, for example, to determine eligibility for Social Security Disability Insurance or Workers' Compensation benefits. Since the ADA Amendments Act became effective in 2009, the ADA definition of "disability" has been construed broadly, to include many kinds of impairments.
9. What is a targeted/severe disability?
Targeted/severe disabilities are listed on Standard Form 256 ("SF-256"), which is published by the Office of Personnel Management ("OPM"). According to the SF-256, targeted/severe disabilities include total deafness in ears, blindness, missing extremities, partial or complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism. People with targeted/severe disabilities have been the subject of special emphasis in federal employment because they continue to face significant barriers to employment, in large part due to common myths, fears, and stereotypes.
10. What sorts of goals are proposed by the rule?
The proposed rule states that federal agencies must adopt the goal of having 12% of their workforce consist of people with disabilities, and 2% of their workforce consist of people with targeted/severe disabilities. These goals would apply at both higher and lower levels of federal employment.
11. Isn't affirmative action illegal?
Affirmative action for people with disabilities is not illegal. An employer is allowed to hire someone because he or she has a disability, and a rejected applicant cannot sue an employer for discrimination based on the fact that he or she does not have a disability.
12. Where do the 12% and 2% figures come from?
Data show that the federal government as a whole has achieved a 12% representation rate for individuals with disabilities, but they are disproportionately represented at lower levels of employment. Establishing goals of 12% at both higher and lower levels of employment is intended to rectify this imbalance.
For some time, the Commission has encouraged federal agencies with 1,000 or more employees to set a goal of a 2% representation rate for individuals with targeted/severe disabilities. However, these individuals continue to be underrepresented in some agencies, especially at higher levels of employment.
13. Would adopting the proposed goals mean that someone with a disability must be chosen over someone who does not have a disability for a federal job?
No. The rule would set overall goals for the agency. It would not dictate outcomes in particular cases.
14. What would happen if an agency failed to meet the 12% and 2% goals?
Under the rule, if an agency failed to meet the proposed goals it would be required to take steps that are designed to increase the hiring and retention of people with disabilities and/or people with targeted disabilities. Exactly which changes would be required would depend on the particular circumstances.
15. Wouldn't agencies have to ask job applicants whether they have disabilities in order to meet the goals? Isn't that illegal?
Federal agencies, as well as private employers, are already allowed to invite job applicants to self-identify as individuals with disabilities if the information is only used for affirmative action. Agencies are also allowed to ask job applicants about possible disabilities for purely statistical purposes, if a disability is obvious and it is reasonable to believe that an accommodation would be necessary on the job, and during post-offer fitness-for-duty examinations (if the same questions are asked of everyone in the same job category).
The Job Application Process
16. How would the proposed rule affect the job application process?
The proposed rule would require federal agencies to engage in increased efforts to recruit individuals with disabilities into the federal workforce. It would also require agencies to have sufficient staff to process requests for reasonable accommodations related to the application process and applications for appointment under hiring authorities that take disability into account, such as the Schedule A hiring authority for people with intellectual disabilities, severe physical disabilities, and psychiatric disabilities.
Reasonable Accommodation
17. What are reasonable accommodations, and what does the proposed rule say about them?
A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done that allows an individual with a disability to apply for a job, do a job, or enjoy equal access to the benefits and privileges of employment. Federal employers and employees covered by Title I of the ADA are required to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities who need them, absent undue hardship, as a matter of nondiscrimination.
The proposed rule would require agencies to have written reasonable accommodation procedures that cover certain specific topics. Written procedures have been required since 2000, when President Bill Clinton issued Executive Order 13164. The rule would also require agencies to provide employees who are authorized to grant or deny requests for reasonable accommodation with information about any available funding and other resources.
18. Would the proposed rule alter an agency's responsibility to provide reasonable accommodations?
No, agencies would continue to provide reasonable accommodations according to existing Section 501 standards; the specific requirements addressed by the proposed rule would not change those standards.
19. How would the proposed rule improve accessibility to federal websites and buildings?
The proposed rule would require federal agencies to inform all employees how to file accessibility complaints under Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Architectural Barriers Act. It would also require them to assist job applicants and employees to file a complaint with another agency, if investigation shows that the other agency is responsible.
20. Why does the proposed rule require agencies to help job applicants and employees file with other agencies?
Someone who applies for a job at a certain agency may encounter inaccessible systems or facilities controlled by other agencies during the application process. Similarly, an agency's employees may encounter inaccessible systems and facilities controlled by other agencies during the course of their work. A federal agency is better equipped than job applicants or employees to identify the agency that is responsible for an alleged accessibility violation.
21. Does the proposed rule strengthen accessibility standards?
No. EEOC does not have Congressional authority to establish new accessibility standards, or to enforce existing standards under Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act or the Architectural Barriers Act.
Personal Assistance Services
22. What are personal assistance services, and what does the proposed rule say about them?
Personal assistance services are services that help an individual perform basic human functions such as eating and using the restroom. The proposed rule says that federal agencies must provide personal assistance services to employees who need them because of a disability, unless doing so would impose undue hardship on the agency.
23. Why does the proposed rule include this requirement?
Some individuals with disabilities cannot work because personal assistance services are unavailable in the workplace. Providing these services would allow these individuals to enjoy the opportunity and independence offered by paid employment. It would also save taxpayer dollars by reducing the amount of funds spent on public disability benefits.
24. If the rule is adopted, would the EEOC hold agencies that fail to engage in affirmative action for people with disabilities accountable?
Yes. Under Section 501, agencies are required to submit an Affirmative Action Plan for individuals with disabilities to the EEOC on an annual basis. EEOC is required to approve an agency's Plan only if it "provides sufficient assurances, procedures and commitments to provide adequate hiring, placement, and advancement opportunities for individuals with disabilities." This rule provides the elements EEOC will consider in assessing an agency's affirmative action efforts.
25. Would members of the public be able to see a federal agency's Affirmative Action Plan?
Yes, the rule would require all information submitted to EEOC during the approval process to be made public.
26. Will members of the public be able to challenge Affirmative Action Plans that they believe are inadequate?
No. Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act vests the responsibility to approve and disapprove Plans with EEOC, not members of the public.
Next Steps
27. What happens next?
EEOC will evaluate the public comments it receives during the comment period, and make revisions to the proposed rule in response to those comments. The Commission will then vote on a final rule. After the Commission approves it, the final rule will be sent to the Office of Management and Budget ("OMB") pursuant to Executive Order 12866. As part of this process, the final rule will be coordinated with other federal agencies before it is published in the Federal Register.


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"Seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause." Isaiah 1:17
Many of you know my heart for justice ministry. For me, doing justice is a matter of obedience to the very nature of who God is and how we (as image bearers) as well as the Church (as God's redeemed people) are to reflect Him. We are to show and tell the world what God is like - His character and redeeming love - in word and deed. We do this for the good of a broken world and for the glory of our Great God.
One way this Christmas you can do something is by shopping for a cause. Let me introduce you to a wonderful organization called Freeset by sharing the story of Rani...
Trafficked into this red light area, Rani felt that she had totally lost her identity and lived with a great sense of both shame and fear. She recalls with some emotion that one day while standing in line waiting for customers, two people from Freeset stopped to talk to her, "Kerry asked me my name. He asked me if I was given a better choice, would I take it or not? I said 'yes'... I joined Freeset immediately and after 3 months I became a permanent staff member."
Rani needed to move out of the area in which she was living for safety reasons but had no money at the time. Freeset arranged new accommodation on her behalf. Now she says, "I am doing very well at Freeset. I have been able to become a part of regular society since I joined Freeset. Before, I never had the courage or confidence to talk to any 'regular' people in society. Since working at Freeset I have developed the confidence within me so I can now boldly interact with anyone."
While life still isn't easy for her, Rani is adamant, "I never look back to the life I had before. I am a free person now."
[Shop Freeset Bags here]
Freeset is located in Calcutta, India, helping to free women from human trafficking by providing them employment with dignity through sewing bags. Every woman is provided medical insurance, retirement, daycare for their children, classes to learn how to read and write, and three times the wage they would receive "in line." Join us every day December 1-12 in Freeset's Freedom Tour of 12 Days of Freedom with Freeset and become a part of the freedom story. Watch our video, shop our bags, change lives.


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Rucola is an intimate Northern Italian restaurant on a historic corner in Boerum Hill Brooklyn.
We offer breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week.
Hours of Operation
8:00 AM - 11:30 AM Breakfast
11:30 AM - 4 PM Lunch
5:30 PM - 12 AM Dinner
9:00 AM - 4 PM Brunch
5:30 PM - 12 AM Dinner
718 576 3209
Main Address (Map)
190 Dean St (corner of Bond St), Brooklyn, NY, 11217
We accept reservations for parties of 5 and larger, host private events, and will gladly make arrangements for smaller parties with special circumstances. If you are a smaller party hoping to join us today, do call to put your name on our waitlist prior to your arrival.
We kindly request that all parties of 10 and up provide a credit card to hold the reservation. There is a $25 per person no-show fee for all parties that do not cancel by 4pm the day of the reservation. We thank you for your understanding.
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This is to inform you that our company has recently changed the business name from Concierge Doctor to AlternativeMed™. The change came into effect on [October 30, 2017]. Please note that there has been no change in management and in the range of product/services we offer. Nevertheless, our name change shall not impact our ongoing […]Continue reading
Maine doctors ditch insurance, offer monthly subscriptions for primary care
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In the World of Instant Communication, Some Doctors Add Skype to the Mix
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Prior to Concierge Medicine, My Access to Health Care Was Inferior to that of My Cat
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Retail clinic numbers to hit 3,000 by 2015 Zack Budryk Retail health clinics are a new healthcare delivery trend quickly picking up steam across the country, the Washington Post reports. Walk-in retail clinics only date back about 14 years, according to the article, but after slow growth, management consulting firm Accenture predicts retail clinic numbers […]Continue reading
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Deceptive communications threaten patient treatment
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Concierge Medicine, Changing The Course Of Health Care.
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An American Telemedicine Association official recently predicted that telehealth provisions included in a controversial bill to repeal and replace Medicare's sustainable growth rate formula eventually would be added to other legislation if the measure fails to pass the Senate, Clinical Innovation & Technology reports (Pedulli, Clinical Innovation & Technology, 3/19). Background on Bill Last month, members of the […]Continue reading
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Activated platelets bound to malaria parasite–infected red blood cells were once thought to contribute to pathogenesis, but recently the platelets have been found to have a protective effect. McMorran et al. (p. 1348; see the Perspective by Engwerda and Good) extended this discovery to show that platelet activation releases intracellular granules containing a chemokine, PF4, which is internalized by Plasmodium falciparum–infected red cells. Subsequently, mature parasites within the cells die. The Duffy blood-group factor on red blood cells is known to act as a nonspecific receptor for chemokines, such as PF4, as well as a receptor for cell invasion by other species of malaria parasite. When the Duffy antigen was blocked by antibody treatment, platelets and PF4 were less able to kill the P. falciparum parasites within.
Exotic Pulsations
The launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in 2008 enabled the detection of large numbers of pulsars. Millisecond pulsars, neutron stars with millisecond periods, are much more difficult to find in gamma-ray data. In a computational tour de force, Pletsch et al. (p. 1314, published online 25 October) detected gamma-ray pulsations from a formerly unidentified gamma-ray source in the Fermi Large Area Telescope Second Source Catalog. The pulsating neutron star orbits a companion star more rapidly than any other such neutron star known, and the system may belong to an exotic class of binary systems where the neutron star is systematically destroying its companion.
Atomic Layers from Solution
Growth of flat thin films is often plagued by the formation of mounds and pyramids. To avoid this problem, atomic-layer deposition (ALD) can be used whereby alternating self-termination reactions stop the layer growth. Electrochemical approaches to ALD use surface alloys to slow film growth, but often lead to film contamination. Yihua Liu et al. (p. 1327; see the Perspective by Switzer) show that for platinum films, controlling surface potential can lead to adsorbed hydrogen on the surface, which can terminate film growth at one layer, leaving platinum species in solution available for further reduction. Rapid changes in applied potential can oxidize the hydrogen, which allows efficient contamination-free growth of an additional atomic layer.
Robust Reduction
A major challenge in the design of artificial photosynthesis catalysts has been their instability under the reaction conditions—a problem that plants and other autotrophs address by perpetually reproducing their biochemical machinery. Han et al. (p. 1321, published online 8 November) now demonstrate a system for photoreductive hydrogen generation in water that manifests undiminished activity for weeks at a time. Semiconductor nanoparticles for light absorption were combined with a soluble nickel complex for the catalytic chemistry. The system currently requires a sacrificial electron donor, but its robustness shows promise for future pairing with an integrated oxidation catalyst.
CF3 from Fluoroform
Fluoroform (CF3H) is a by-product from the manufacture of fluorocarbon-based materials used, for example, in nonstick coatings and refrigerants. Fluoroform's potency as a greenhouse gas is a growing concern as supplies continue to accumulate. In this context, Prakash et al. (p. 1324; see the Perspective by Haufe) show that fluoroform can be used to transfer CF3 to silicon, sulfur, and carbon centers in the development of CF3-bearing pharmaceutical and agrochemical structures.
Planetary Interiors Under Pressure
The interiors of Earth and other rocky planets generally consist of a few common minerals. Depending largely on the size of the planet, the distribution and relative abundance of these minerals varies; for example, MgO is abundant in the mantles of Earth and large Earth-like planets, but is present in Jupiter's core. The properties of MgO also vary with planetary size as a function of temperature and pressure. McWilliams et al. (p. 1330, published online 22 November) performed laser-shock experiments at pressures over three times higher than Earth's inner core. MgO underwent two phase transformations, first to a solid with a modified crystal structure, and then to a conductive liquid. In terrestrial planets greater than eight Earth masses, MgO in the mantle could generate a magnetic field–generating dynamo such as those that typically found in planetary cores.
Architecture of a CRAC
The calcium release–activated calcium (CRAC) channel generates intracellular calcium signals in response to depletion of calcium from the endoplasmic reticulum. Hou et al. (p. 1308, published online 22 November) report a high-resolution crystal structure of Orai, the CRAC channel pore from Drosophila melanogaster. Six Orai subunits surround a central pore that extends into the cytosol. The pore is in a closed conformation that is stabilized by anions binding to a basic region near the intracellular side. A ring of glutamates on the extracellular side form a selectivity filter. The channel architecture allows calcium permeation while regulating the flow to prevent overloading the cell with calcium.
Plasmid Partitioning
Bacterial plasmids need to be able to partition faithfully into daughter cells. Combining structural data and advanced microscopy, Gayathri et al. (p. 1334, published online 25 October; see the cover) describe how actin-like ParM filaments form a bipolar spindle for the faithful segregation of low-copy-number plasmids to the two cell poles of Escherichia coli, despite being polar, with two distinct ends. ParM filaments are elongated by a small adaptor protein ParR that physically links the filament end(s) to a centromere-like region on the plasmid. Antiparallel filament bundling and sliding appear to produce a bipolar spindle made of filaments that elongate unidirectionally so that all the plasmids are segregated together in one large bundle.
Mind the Gap
Near-field microscopy has benefited from subwavelength near-field plasmonic probes that make use of the field-concentrating properties of gaps. These probes achieve maximum enhancement only in the tip-substrate gap mode, which can yield large near-field signals, but only for a metallic substrate and for very small tip-substrate gap distances. Bao et al. (p. 1317) designed a probe that unites broadband field enhancement and confinement with bidirectional coupling between far-field and near-field electromagnetic energy. Their tips primarily rely on the internal gap modes of the tip itself, thereby enabling it to image nonmetallic samples.
Dissecting Wnt Signaling
The Wnt signaling pathway plays a key role in regulating a broad range of functions from development to cancer. But a precise understanding of how Wnt proteins act through their receptors (Frizzled proteins) has been elusive. By paring the system down to its core reactions and performing kinetic analysis in cultured cells, Hernández et al. (p. 1337, published online 8 November) were able to deduce the mechanism of Wnt action without invoking any previous assumptions. Such quantitative analysis of mass balance may offer a way to identify essential control points in other complicated signaling systems, and thus help define targets for therapeutic intervention.
The Good Side of Inflammation
The zebrafish brain is much more adept than the human brain at recovering after traumatic injury. Kyritsis et al. (p. 1353, published online 8 November; see the Perspective by Stella) investigated the cellular events that support regeneration in the zebrafish brain. Although inflammation is part of the response in both settings, the zebrafish brain goes on to initiate proliferation of replacement neurons. By inciting inflammation without neuronal damage, radial glial cells could be pushed into neurogenesis.
Androgen-Driven Sequestration
Male and female mice differ in the neuronal patterns that serve the mammary glands. Yin Liu et al. (p. 1357) now describe how gonadal hormones drive development of distinct male and female sensory innervations. Although both male and female mammary glands develop their sensory innervation similarly in early embryogenesis, once the androgens take effect, the developmental trajectories diverge. By birth, the rich network of sensory neurons present in the female is absent in the male. Androgens cause a switch from expression of the full-length neurotrophin receptor TrkB to its truncated form, TrkB.T1, both of which are expressed on the neurons. In males, truncated TrkB.T1 sequesters brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) from further activity, whereas in females, full-length TrkB binds BDNF and supports neuronal development.
From Man to Mouse
Genome-wide association studies of humans have identified single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that increase an individual's risk of developing common diseases like cancer. Most of these SNPs have only a modest effect on risk, and many map to noncoding regions of the genome. Sur et al. (p. 1360, published online 1 November; see the Perspective by Lewis and Tomlinson) used a mouse model to study the functional impact of a particular SNP that resides 300 kilobases upstream of the MYC oncogene on human chromosome 8q24 and has been linked to cancer risk in humans. When a sequence encompassing this SNP was deleted in mice that were predisposed to develop intestinal tumors, the mice displayed fewer tumors than control mice. This SNP may thus play a causal role in human cancer, presumably through altered regulation of MYC.
Seeing the Light
Rhodopsins respond to a range of electromagnetic radiation—allowing visual perception over a broad wavelength range in animals and facilitating light-driven ion transport and phototaxis in microorganisms. All rhodopsins contain an embedded retinal chromophore in which absorbance is tuned by the protein environment. To gain insight into how the protein tunes absorbance, Wang et al. (p. 1340; see the Perspective by Sakmar) turned to a smaller soluble protein, cellular retinol binding protein II. They engineered the protein to fully encapsulate and covalently bind all-trans-retinal as a Schiff base. From this starting point, they used rational mutagenesis to vary the absorption maximum over a range of more than 200 nanometers by altering the electrostatic environment of the protein-binding pocket.
Sewing Up DNA Repair
All cells have a battery of DNA-repair pathways to help ensure genome maintenance and stability, including stress-induced DNA break repair in Escherichia coli. Similar pathways—which can be mutagenic—are known in yeast and human cells and have the potential to accelerate evolution. Sixteen proteins are known to be required for the pathway in E. coli. Al Mamun et al. (p. 1344) analyzed the E. coli pathway to determine the full complement of protein contributions to the pathway. Ninety-three genes were found to be required for stress-induced DNA break repair. One-third of the proteins identified in the network were involved in electron transfer, functioning in oxidative phosphorylation, and acting through the σs stress response pathway, which thus represents a critical hub in the network.
Awakening a Life Cycle
Sleeping sickness continues to afflict populations in sub-Saharan Africa, but for the past 100 years, research on the Trypanosoma brucei protozoan parasite has been hampered by an inaccessibility of the insect vector stages to modern research tools. Kolev et al. (p. 1352) have identified an RNA-binding protein (RBP6) as a master regulator that drives the entire developmental program of the trypanosome through all its life-cycle stages. The ability to perform this transformation in vitro will allow study of the many biochemical and morphological changes as parasites change from dividing noninfectious forms to infectious nondividing antigenically variable forms.
Swapping Recombination Proteins
Crossing over is a means by which organisms create genetic diversity through the mixing of gene complexes. The primary meiotic crossover pathway in budding yeast, mice, nematodes, and plants requires the Msh4–Msh5 heterodimer, which promotes crossovers by blocking anticrossover activities of the Bloom syndrome helicase. However, some fly species, including members of the genus Drosophila, have lost Msh4–Msh5. Kohl et al. (p. 1363) now show that Drosophila have evolved a minichromosome maintenance (MCM)–like protein, dubbed mei-MCM, that performs the same function as Msh4–Msh5. Furthermore, these genes appear to have evolved under positive selection, possibly as a result of their repurposing to this novel function.


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Feel like the only one who hasn't chosen a presidential candidate for 2008? Well, you're not alone. Gallup has a new poll that shows only 15% of registered voters saying they made up their minds about who they will support and only 22% have a "good idea" who they will support.
If you're a tired of hearing about how great Clinton, Obama and Giuliani are, you are not alone. The rest of the country is taking their time. So should you. Get to know the candidates and look at their record. Some may be surprised to learn that one of the candidates got into some trouble for helping to get the Pentagon Papers out, that one of the candidates is a former ambassador to the UN, or that one of the candidates lost a lot of weight and has become a big advocate of preventative health care (hey, it's a Republican so, yeah, that's news).
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Texas Tech Basketball Coach Billy Gillispie on Indefinite Sick Leave
Texas Tech's head basketball coach is now on indefinite sick leave.
The announcement regarding Billy Gillispie comes during a school investigation of the possible mistreatment of players during practices.
Red Raider basketball player Jordan Tolbert, a sophomore, commented to ESPN.com that he doesn't want to play for Gillispie any longer.
Some former players have stepped up in support of Gillispie, as Allen Corbin points out in his post for Sportsradio 1340 The Fan.
Texas Tech Athletics Director Kirby Hocutt is reportedly scheduled to meet with Gillispie in the near future to discuss the allegations.
As always, we'll bring you more on this story as it develops.


text: I am into buying a MBA 2012/13 and i would mainly use it for web-dev (front-end) so yeah i would use Photoshop CS6 ,Sublime Tex3 and MAMP. I don't play games nor do i watch movies and such often.So yeah can it accomplish those tasks (it goes more for the i5 model then i7 because , the base model costs in my country around 2100$ ). Thanks!


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Here's another question that caused some debate among the students in one of my lessons. What answer would you choose, and why?
Question statement (true, false or not given?):
Bus drivers do not give change so you must have the correct money for a ticket.
What the passage says:
Buy your bus ticket from the bus driver, with the correct money if possible.
(From Cambridge IELTS 11 (General), test 3, question 10)


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A Cup of Tea: Learning to Embrace Our Shadow
"It is one thing to recognize and acknowledge the presence of our darker emotions, it is quite another thing to let them take up permanent residence."-- Author unknown
So, My dark side says to my light side, "Hey gorgeous, wanna make out"? And, before my light side knew what hit her, she was embracing my dark side, which led to kissing, which led to… well, you know. Now she has little dark sides all over the place, and is barefoot and in the kitchen most of the time.
Suffice it to say, she is not very happy. She does like being in her bare feet, however, but the kitchen… well, not so much. In fact, she is unhappy to the point of extreme frustration and anger (which just so happen to be the names of her oldest two little dark sides).
She has decided, though she believes she is probably addicted to my dark side and that it won't be easy efforting to not give in to that exceedingly slimy trickster, that she needs to start resisting those dark fiery passions and re-assert herself.
Why, she remembers how she used to bring happiness and love and laughter and light to me and how brilliant she was able to shine through me. And, she also recalls that her light was so bright, those around me were able to see it and bask in it. She was very attractive… back in the day.
Now she feels ugly and alone and she has all these little dark sides constantly making her pitch a fit and get all red-faced and mean. She has let her light become very dim.
How did it get to this she wonders. She does recall offering my dark side a cup of tea. The dark side can be so alluring, so mysterious, so… dark. The thought of it made her shiver. She remembers the cup turned into a pot and then she got all mixed up, didn't think she had a choice. Who was she to rebuff my dark side? So much power and excitement and energy. It had literally dug a deep groove into her, and she had actually forgotten how to be… light.
She had decided that the next time my dark side came home, she would be loving, and even an embrace would not be out of line, but clearly a pot of tea was out of order. She had been practicing choosing to be her truest, deepest, purest Self of Light, and it showed. Her brilliance was beyond the beyond.
She actually did not see my dark side for quite some time, but one day while she wasn't paying attention, my dark side tried to come home again. Since she had been practicing being her true Self, she was ready.
She shown so brilliantly as she said "hello" that my dark side not only left immediately, but also sent for her things. She was afraid of my light side.
On occasion she does try to come back. My light side is so gracious. She always invites her in for just a single cup of tea, but my dark side cannot remain dark in the brilliance of my light side and, so, she always declines.
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Taken (and released) from a small unnamed small tributary to the Skwetna River in Alaska. Little guy just had exquisite coloration.
My brother and I packrafted and fished a tributary of the Skwentna and caught some beautiful dolly varden as well. Most were not this plump though - what month was this fish caught?


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I Give you...the Mongol Hoarde
Pretty much everyone has seen the new Adventure Pack, Fallen Dynasty, but since I can't find anything to yammer about at the present time, I'm going to subject you all to a long, drawn-out, review of the new content that all reads just like this one incredible run-on sentence. Just kidding. Read in!
Visually, this AP is stunning. It's quite literally some of the most beautiful artwork in the game. I wandered around the starting village in awe. The detail is exquisite. The ambiance is fantastic. There are RICE PADDIES. * swoon * There's even an NPC who bears a striking resemblance to Mulan. How hot is that?
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He runs the Monsanto GMO company of South America. He is obviously in on the attack against humans using their food against them. Its all part of the depopulation plan using "SOFT KILL" techniques which are a crime against humanity when they do not know they are under attack and cannot fight back since they do not have defensive weapons against such aggressive weapons being used to kill off the population.
I am sorry this has reached to South America and they will learn as we now know, that to let a multi millionaire corrupt Zionist run and own so much in your country and building enormous wealth from it, is dangerous to the national security of that country.
When you read below about his involvement with the GMO bogus seeds and toxic food that he is promoting and selling, you will see that this is more than just business. This is planned genocide of the South American people, just like they are doing to the North American people.
It definitely is time for people to wake up to the khazar zionists and their role in all of this under the guise of the Rothschild bankers and Israel, as a serious matter deserving of a lot more attention than they are presently getting. I just discovered a bogus disinfo site posing as a patriot site. Its called Liberty 247 and its all bogus.
I posted a comment on it and they gutted it, and then I did it again and they pulled that one too, so they won't let me stay up on it, so I decided to check out the owner/ manager and guess what ? He is an ex employee of the Huffington Post, which means he is well versed in disinformation sites.
Huffington post was one of those that used to ban me, them an alternet news, so that is how we started our own blog to avoid that anymore. So now if you can't get on our site, then you know the PTB are unhappy with it and so it must be truth that we have stumbled on and its making them mad.... Now this Liberty 247 is a propoganda site to try and create hate and anger between Muslims and Christians in order to start WW III that we are designated to lose.
Eduardo Sergio Elsztain (born January 26, 1960) is a prominent Argentine businessman, his country's largest landowner and real-estate developer. According to one Israeli news source, he is considered the wealthiest Jew in South America.
Elsztain is ACTIVE IN JEWISH PHILANTROPHIC CAUSES as the prime Argentine supporter of and fundraiser for the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and for Taglit-Birthright Israel, and as the PRESIDENT OF CHABAD ARGENTINA.
He and his companies are also one of the largest producers of Genetically Modified Soyabeans
He is also President of Hillel Argentina and Taglit Birthright Argentina. Close to leading American Jewish executive Edgar Bronfman, he was named Treasurer of the WJC in 2005, and then served as chairman of its Governing Board (the group's second-highest post) from 2009 to 2013.In May 2013, he was elected a vice-president of the World Jewish Congress and became chairman of the new WJC Business Advisory Council.
Elszatin is the Chairman of the Boards of
(i) IRAS Argentina´s largest real estate company, operating a diversified portfolio of shopping centres, office buildings, luxury hotels and residential properties in Argentina and United States;
(ii) Cresud a leading agri-business company, with presence in Argentina and Bolivia, involved in activities such as crop production, beef cattle raising and milk production;
(iii) BrasilAgro Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas, Cresud's arm in Brazil and Paraguay;
(iv) Banco Hipotecario one of Argentina's largest commercial banks, engaged in the personal banking and corporate banking sectors.(Elszatin is the largest private shareholder ,the remaing stake being with the Argentinian Govt)
(v)Austral Gold a precious metals mining company based in Australia but operating mainly in S America He has 68 percent stake and Chairmanship of Austral Gold
(vi) (Co-Chairman)IDB Development , a leading conglomerate in Israel which directly and indirectly owns Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings , Shufersal , Cellcom , Properties & Building Corp. , ADAMA Agricultural Solutions, Elron Electronic Industries among others;
Eduardo Sergio Elsztain was born in Buenos Aires in 1960. His grandfather, Isaac Elsztain, had left Russia in 1917, after the Russian Revolution, and settled in Argentina, where he purchased various properties. He founded Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (IRSA) in 1943 as an independent realty firm.
The company's management change, from Elsztain's grandfather to him, took place in the first half of the 1980s, right after Elsztain returned to Buenos Aires from a volunteer year in Israel . Eduardo, who was born on January 28, 1960, was just 21 in 1981 when his uncle, who managed IRSA, died, and his grandfather asked him to revive the company that had become a financial corpse
He first borrowed money from a money laundering fellow Argentinian Jewish crook named Marcelo Mindlin who has been charged with moneylaundering and other economic crimes
After that he went on to bigger things with an even bigger Jewish crook George Soros alias György Schwartz In an interview with the Jerusalem Post he describes the "life changing "meeting with Soros in New York "I somehow managed to land a meeting with George Soros, a very rich man. We talked for an hour or so, and then he asked me how much money I thought I could handle. I told him I could manage $10 million, and he said 'Okay, no problem!'"
La Nacion noted in 2005 that while Elsztain, at that time, enjoyed a considerable "degree of recognition and influence…internationally," he keeps a "low profile" in Argentina. Elsztain has had close ties to the governments of Argentinian presidents Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, and has been in longstanding business partnerships with figures such as Marcos Mindlin who have been charged with money-laundering and other offenses. Elsztain himself has been depicted as a corrupt "Kirchnerista" and a member of the "Argentinian Jewish mafia."
Elsztain has been described as being "close to Kirchnerism" When Nestor Kirchner died in 2010, Elsztain and other leaders of the World Jewish Congress and Latin American Jewish Congress sent their condolences to Kirchner's widow, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
Elsztain said that the late Nestor Kirchner "always had an open ear for concerns among the Jewish community, not just in Argentina, but across the continent," and that he had "often interceded, for the benefit of our communities, with fellow statesmen in other countries."
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OVER the years "Saturday Night Fever" has meant a lot of different things to a lot of different people. But the Chilean director Pablo Larraín is probably the first to have been inspired to use that 1970s disco drama as a device to dissect the abusive dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, as he does in his new film, "Tony Manero."
Tony Manero, of course, is the name of the character John Travolta played in "Saturday Night Fever." "Tony Manero" the movie, which opened in New York on Friday, is about a week in the life of Raúl Peralta, a dancer in a run-down cabaret who embarks on a relentless quest to win a Travolta look-alike contest broadcast by a Chilean television show at the height of the "Saturday Night Fever" craze.
"Saturday Night Fever" was released in Chile in 1978, which happened to coincide with one of the bleakest, most repressive periods of Pinochet's 17-year rule. He had seized power on Sept. 11, 1973, in a bloody, United States-backed coup that overthrew the Socialist president, Salvador Allende, and imposed policies that crushed political dissent while encouraging an every-man-for-himself scramble for economic gain.
That history encouraged Alfredo Castro, the actor who plays Peralta, to endow his character with an aura of menace and barely contained aggression, meant to register as a metaphor for the amorality and viciousness of the Pinochet regime.
Raúl Peralta is "a social outsider, perfectly capable of appropriating the opportunity to kill with impunity," Mr. Castro said. "He lacks moral judgment, and his logic is demented, archaic, that of: 'If the state is killing hundreds, why can't I?' "Continue reading the main story
Released in Chile in 2008, "Tony Manero" was first shown in the United States at the New York Film Festival last fall. The festival's program director, Richard Peña, said the film appealed to him because of its ability to convey "the feeling, the texture and tactile sense of life during that time" and its complicated and nuanced view of American pop culture.
" 'Saturday Night Fever' becomes a strange double-edged sword," Mr. Peña said. "On the one hand it is free and easy and democratic and represents freedom and masculine flamboyance. But it also comes from America, which is seen as being at the root of the problem, behind the overthrow of Allende and the installation of Pinochet."
In addition Mr. Castro's character looks a lot like Al Pacino, as critics were quick to note after "Tony Manero" was shown at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Mr. Castro and Mr. Larraín said they were amused by the comments that similarity has provoked, which they believe underline and amplify their theme of cultural domination. "The interesting thing is that here you have a Chilean actor who tries to look like John Travolta and ends up being said to look like Al Pacino," Mr. Larraín said. "He's never Alfredo Castro. He's always somebody else, and what he does in the film is exactly that too."
Mr. Castro added: "It's like I've been erased, and there is something symbolic about that."
The genesis of "Tony Manero" can be traced to a book of photographs Mr. Larraín, 32, stumbled across in a museum gift shop in Spain a couple of years ago. One image especially fascinated him: that of a gaunt, tattooed man sitting in a chair and staring blankly out a window, a cigarette in one hand and a revolver in the other.
Back home in Santiago, Mr. Larraín showed the picture to Mr. Castro, who quickly agreed to join Mr. Larraín in elaborating a story for the man. "We saw a dancer who was also a killer and began to create from that premise," Mr. Larraín recalled. "Later in the process we came to see that we had the possibility to insert this human being and his desire into the political context of a particular period in Chile, and that made us rethink the story."
Though "Tony Manero" also contains elements of a psychological study, a thriller and a musical, its political subtext has drawn the most attention. After the showing in Cannes, a critic for the Le Monde called Raúl Peralta "a small-scale replica of Pinochet" and argued that "if the term weren't so pejorative, I'd say that 'Tony Manero' was a great anti-imperialist film."
On the surface Mr. Larraín would seem an unlikely candidate for that kind of undertaking. His father, Hernán Larraín, is a former president of the Chilean Senate who is also president of the country's main right-wing party, which enthusiastically supported the Pinochet dictatorship.
On his mother's side Pablo Larraín is part of the Matte family, perhaps Chile's wealthiest. The Mattes, whose fortune comes largely from their pulp and paper businesses, have been accused by human rights, indigenous and environmental groups of improperly benefiting, during and after the Pinochet era, from the expulsion of Mapuche Indians from traditional forest lands.
Asked how his father felt about his movie, Mr. Larraín said he wasn't sure his father had seen it.
"You'd have to ask him, but I think he'd like it a lot, because, like any father, he wants his children to do well," he said. "Although I don't share his political ideas, we have a terrific relationship." Hernán Larraín did not respond to requests for comment.
Reaction to "Tony Manero" in Chile has been mixed and often intense. Some on the right are furious at what they regard as a betrayal by someone they thought was one of their own, but even some anti-Pinochet commentators have complained that the film projects an overly negative image of the country.
"I wanted to provoke an explosive reaction," said Mr. Larraín, who began his career as a director of television commercials. "This is not a spot, a commercial for Chile. I make the films I want to make, and this one is about a time that, to the extent that people recall it at all, is like a bad dream, a blurred memory that can't be remembered as fact but only as emotion."Continue reading the main story


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Note: I am not saying, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." Please feel free to disagree with anything I say and to post accordingly. Please feel free to take me to task if I am rude. But, do not be a child about it and do not treat me like a child.
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I walked to the grocery store today with Levi in the stroller because we just needed a few things - such as milk. While I was walking down one of the aisles an elderly black woman started mumbling to me as old people often will. She pointed to some graham crackers and said, "I better not get those since they're not on sale." I nodded, a little confused. She looked at me and said, "those nabisco crackers go on sale sometimes, I can get some them, I'd better not buy them now. We have to watch out for ourselves, don't we?" I nodded sympathetically, even though I am lucky enough not to have to 'watch out for myself' in that way. She than said, "prices have been getting so high lately, we have to watch out." I said, "yes" or some such thing and nodded some more. She started to walk away and mumbled, "It's getting hard just to make it." That comment broke my heart. I started crying right there in the grocery aisle. No one stopped, this is DC after all. But, to look at that hunched over old woman, to know how much she must of gone through already in her life, and to know that she is now just barely getting by is heartbreaking. If I assume that she is 86 (probably pretty close, she may have been older), then she was born in 1920. That means that Brown vs the Board of Education was not decided until she was 34. The civil rights act was not passed until she was 44, and the voting rights act was not passed until she was 45. It is hard to imagine what she's seen and put up with in her life. How is it fair that she can't even buy graham crackers in her old age. I wanted to help her so badly, but didn't want to belittle or embarrass her. I followed her a little, hoping to see an opportunity to slip her some cash or pay for her groceries without embarrassing her. I was in line behind her and she dropped something. I said, "I'll get it," and she forcefully said, "no, I can do it." Then she slowly bent down and picked it up. She wasn't the type to want help, so I really didn't know what to do. In the end, I did nothing to help her. She bought two cuts of meat and two bags of frozen vegetables and walked slowly with her one bag out to wait for the bus that goes to Anacostia. I don't know how far she rode that bus, but it's quite likely that she has no grocery store anywhere near her home. I really really wish that I could do something for her, other than cry and pray and know that there are many many like her.


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The NCIS team analyzes what secrets could be in the hands of a terrorist targeting the Navy when a high-tech bug is found inside a probationary agent's tooth. Meanwhile, the festivities for Jimmy Palmer's upcoming wedding continue with the bachelor party. Pictured left to right: Cote de Pablo, Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette and Brian Dietzen. Photo: Jaimie Trueblood/CBS ©2012 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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The Thesis InForm Symposium invites students who have excelled in their thesis to present their ideas to a broader audience.
This stimulating day takes place on Thursday 22 June, in Lecture Theatre B at LCC.
Hosted by Ferdinand Lu, Graphic and Media Design student
10am Welcome from Dr Nicky Ryan, Dean of Design School
10.05am Introduction by Dr Ian Horton, Programme Director, CTS
10.10am Keynote by Dr Peter Hall: 'Generative Design Criticism'
10.40am – 11.30am SESSION 1: Identities, Pleasure and Danger
Viviana Conti (Illustration and Visual Media)
According to Tumblr: Are queer readings in the BBC Sherlock fandom fetishising homosexuality, or expressing the need for fairer representation in the media?
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The New Top Model: RuPaul's Drag Race serving you transformative realness
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Ukraine crisis: Uneasy standoff in Kramatorsk
People in the town of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine are very nervous. Many have not slept for several nights.
When Ukrainian armoured personnel carriers (APCs) appeared in the town on Wednesday, people quickly surrounded them. Some accused soldiers of "acting against their own people."
"Why did you come to our land?" a man from the crowd asked. "Why are you driving over our fields? We are peaceful people! And we just want our demands to be respected!"
Soldiers were sitting on the APCs with automatic guns, in full combat gear.
"I know they can shoot at us, but we are miners, we see death every day," the man said. "So we are not afraid. We will stand here until victory. We want a referendum to be held. We should decide our future for ourselves."
Some people suggested helping the soldiers, who looked quite tired. Their faces were covered with dirt and dust. Some people, especially old women, were suggesting they bring food.
Meanwhile, a few kilometres away from Kramatorsk, there was a real standoff between soldiers and local people.
Around 10 vehicles were moving in the direction of Kramatorsk but they were blocked by angry locals who called the soldiers "traitors."
"We are just obeying orders, let us go!" the commander shouted. "We didn't come here to fight. We are just moving around. I will never shoot at my own people!"
"What if the order comes?" asked a woman in the crowd.
"I obey my orders but if the order to shoot comes, I won't do it. It would be illegal and unjust."
A few minutes later the soldiers did shoot - but in the air. They managed to get through this line of protesters, but the standoffs will continue.


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Published May 1st 1997 by HarperCollins Children's Books
Pages: 128
After Bertie rescues an orphaned lion cub from the African veld, they are inseparable until Bertie is sent to boarding school far away in England and the lion is sold to a circus. Bertie swears that one day they will see another again, but it is the butterfly lion that ensures that their friendship will never be forgotten.
All my life I'll think of you,
I promise I will.
I won't ever forget you.
- Michael Morpurgo
Actual rating: 4.5
I started this book wondering why we had to read another book for school for nine and up. I didn't want to read a silly children's book. I wanted to read a real classic. After going back to what I was thinking before I started The Butterfly Lion, I now realise how dumb and judgmental I was. A book of which I didn't think I'd enjoy at all, is now one of my favourite children's stories.
The plot is simple and very easy to follow. You have to get used to the change of the points of view, but that's about it. Speaking of, can I say how much I loved how the story was put together? It all starts with a young boy listening to an old lady telling him a story of love and friendship, and in the end it's so much more than that. The change of the points of view are there for a reason, and I just love how it all connected.
Since The Butterfly Lion is a short book which I read on a sunny afternoon, I had no trouble with the pace. It went nice along with the story. It didn't have a big role after all, because the plot was just so lovely you can't put it down. You want to know everything there is to know, and you're trying to put certain pieces together. In the end, those pieces created an excellent novel. However, when I'm talking about the very end of this book, I have to say that I'm really sad about this. Not because the ending was sad with the memorial of the White Prince, but because it left me confused. I don't know what to make out of the end. Was the lady a ghost, or has the protagonist imagined everything? If so, I think none of the two would make actual sense. I would have preferred it a lot more if it ended with the old lady having finished her story. Those last scentences she said were warm and gave me a happy feeling. I could say the ending ruined the entire book, yet I won't because before this I enjoyed it so much and I absolutely loved it.
With a perfect twist I'd have never seen coming, wonderful illustrations and a heartwarming plot, The Butterfly Lion is a book I'll remember.


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My new favorite app...
Sounds like a no brainer, right? But the beauty of this app is that you can upload pics right from your iPhone and pick a CVS near you to have them printed out and you just show up and pay!
I did it last night and picked them up today. So fast and easy.
Go to your App Store and search for CVS. It's free! There are a ton of other fun things this app does, but so far I was focusing on the photos. It keeps prescriptions on file for you as well.
That was my good news, my bad news is that I dropped my phone in water yesterday. I seriously don't think I should be allowed anything expensive as an accessory. Some time today, I am running out to the Genius Bar to see if I can remedy the situation but it isn't looking good.
Wish me luck!


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Date: 01/26/2007
Writer: Justin Bannister, 575-646-5981, firstname.lastname@example.com
New Mexico is the fifth largest state in the country, but official rain gauges are few and far between, especially in more rural parts of the state. A lack of rainfall data makes measuring storms and warning others of their intensity a difficult task. That's where the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS) comes in.
"It's a volunteer network of people who measure precipitation in their backyards," said Deborah Bathke, assistant New Mexico state climatologist and assistant professor in New Mexico State University's Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences. She heads up CoCoRaHS in New Mexico along with Leeann DeMouche from NMSU's Department of Extension Plant Sciences.
The program began in 1998, a year after a major storm dropped more than 12 inches of rain over a small portion of Ft. Collins, Colo. Other parts of the city received less than two inches of rain. Five people died in flash flooding. The storm caused millions of dollars in damage.
"Precipitation is highly variable," said Bathke. "Even in a city the size of Las Cruces, it can be raining in one part of a city, but not the next. This network lets us quantify those differences in precipitation."
The National Weather Service can use information from CoCoRaHS observers while tracking major storms and forecasting their paths and rain fall potential.
"The weather service can get a better idea of what happened after a major storm event by looking at what was collected in different areas," said Bathke. She said that's what happened in El Paso and Doña Ana counties following a series of major storms and floods in the summer of 2006.
Volunteers are asked to record rainfall and other measurements and post them online daily at 7 a.m. - the same time official weather results are gathered.
Bathke said the volunteer stations also give forecasters and researchers better information on hail. "Right now, there's very little qualitative data for hail," she said.
Observers are given both a "hail pad" and a "hail card" to measure size and consistency of hail in storms. Once a storm is finished, the foam and foil hail pad can be sent to a laboratory for precise measuring.
Sixteen states are now part of CoCoRaHS. New Mexico was the fifth to adopt the program in spring 2005 and currently 524 observers are registered in the state.
New observers can register and take an online weather observer training course at http://www.cocorahs.org/. CoCoRaHS will provide all the necessary equipment for volunteers to get started.
CoCoRaHS in New Mexico is supported by the NMSU College of Agriculture and Home Economics Water Task Force and the Rio Grande Basin Initiative.
© 2013 New Mexico State University Board of Regents
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Brother VAlentine trying to make the best of his 4 day hospital stay.
Dinner at the Log Cabin Restaurant
Brother Gillespie trying his hand at giant fork lift operation!!
Our Honorary Work Crew member- AJ
AJ's counsel to his 28 new brothers
Bitter Sweet Morning
Farewell 2017 Work Crew.
Until we meet again stay true to the faith and to your testimony.
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Sunday, February 19, 2017
Blue Dusk
______Unless I am intently focused on the completion of some task, there's a gear spinning in my head reminding me of something else I could be doing at that moment. Part of this inability to be completely at ease at all times is anxiety, part of it is likely from existing in a world where you fault yourself if you're not constantly in motion, whether that be mentally or physically. It is retracing thoughts you've already had to make sure you've thought them correctly. It is making unnecessary lists and crossing things off your unnecessary list. It is a constant hum, an anxious white noise machine that spits sounds of buzzing electronics and the heightened voices of news casters arguing over one another.
______I call these things--these happenings of overthinking, of worrying, of not knowing how to chill the heck out during downtime--The Screamings™.
______I suppose The Screamings™ begin about halfway through my morning workout, the moment I wake and become something more than a tired shell of a human stumbling through her typical morning routine. You know, that moment the tea or coffee kicks in and you realize it's a new day with new checkpoints to reach.
______The Screamings™ can pertain to anything: thought-screaming scenarios that I weave in my brain, thought-screaming encounters with friends or dogs I dream of petting, thought-screaming ideas of future projects to work on in the studio, or even thought-screaming all the things I need to buy at the grocery store and their exact location within the store. If these thought-screams could be illustrated, they would be words tangled in swirling lines that swept across the page like a smudgy charcoal tornado; the paper would be cheap newsprint that'd rip a few times but could be pieced back together.
______Though my brain screams, I wouldn't be myself with it. Were I not constantly busy or thinking of things to do and make, I'd probably not be me. Better busy than stagnant...
Bralette: Alter'd State (similar)
Top: (similar)
Skirt: Urban Outfitters
Jelly shoes: Juju (similar)
Antler ring: c/o BornPretty
Braclets: c/o BornPretty
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2 comments:
- The Dragonfruit said...
Ah yes, the Screamings...it sounds quite violent but is actually quite accurate, huh? Aha I tend to muffle mine, but it ends up making me more stressed out later.
Love the bright shoes with this soft outfit Ali! Also, hope you're doing well :D I've been a terrible blogger lately but I'm trying to make the rounds to all my fave blogs :)
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- February 26, 2017 at 1:46 AM
- Carine said...
Hello, nice sandals. Do you like those made of rubber/jelly?
- June 12, 2017 at 10:47 AM
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Let me share a little theory I have about the power that we give emotions, particularly negative emotions, and why I think that might be.
This is inspired by the work of Brené Brown and she talks about leaning into the discomfort of a situation, and that inspired me into working with this theory of how we deal differently with what we determine to be positive emotions and negative emotions.
Types of Emotions
For the purposes of this demonstration, positive emotions are things like happiness or excitement or joy; and negative emotions would be shame or sadness or fear.
The Positive Emotion Curve
If we have a situation that triggers a positive emotion then this how the emotion happens. Let's say it's happiness.
So we have a starting point, so something triggers that happiness. We start to get happy, and that feeling grows. It doesn't start off instantaneous. It actually grows. We get signals to our body that tells us to start acting as if we are happy and that feeling grows and grows and grows.
But it doesn't grow exponentially, at some point it stops because otherwise we would explode with happiness.
So at some point this curve starts to even out and then it will dissipate because we don't stay happy all the time.
We don't get one trigger and stay in that emotion all the time.
That's generally the bell curve of a positive emotion.
What happens with Negative Emotions?
Where I think we start to run into trouble with negative emotions because we are taught from a very early age, from people who have the best of intentions, to avoid negative emotions.
If you think about when we were children, when we fell down and hurt ourselves, or if something happened to make us sad or afraid, then our well-meaning parents and caregivers told us to do something else, to distract ourselves, to cheer up because they don't want to see us in pain. I don't want to see my children in pain.
But what happens over time is that we never get to experience negative emotions so we become a bit afraid of them.
The Negative Emotion Avoidance
And this is where my theory is. Something happens that is going to trigger a negative emotion, we have the trigger, the process begins, and we notice that we have that negative emotion, but because we have all the conditioning from childhood that says avoid avoid avoid we distract ourselves and we do something else.
So we never have the experience of the fact that negative emotions also follow this curve.
Yes, they build and yes, it's uncomfortable but they also will dissipate.
So we are so afraid of them that we run away, we never actually end up experiencing them.
Lean Into Negative Emotions, experience the Curve
And when you do experience the negative emotion curve, it's incredibly empowering to know that you can survive.
You can survive leaning into the discomfort of negative emotions.
So try it, the next time that you are feeling sad, stick with it, lean into the discomfort of it and have the experience that you will survive and the next time that you experience negative emotions it won't be so bad.
Let me know how you get on….


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On Tuesday, Samsung officially launched their new Galaxy Note 7, which is equipped with a built-in iris scanner that allows you to complete mobile payments using your eyes. On sale later this month, the Note 7's infrared iris scanner can also read your eyes to unlock your phone in lieu of a passcode or fingerprint.
With a curved, waterproof metal and glass body, the Note 7 has the same high-end, premium design as the popular 5.5 inch Samsung Galaxy 7 Edge, including the always-on display and "edge" panel of apps. However, the new phone's biggest selling feature is it's highly buzzed-about iris scanner.
The added infrared camera scans your eyes using infrared light emitted from the LED on the front of the phone. To activate the Note 7's iris scanner, you must first program the feature in security settings. The infrared sensor on the front of the phone will then scan your eyes, and then the collected data will then be saved and encrypted on the phone. After programing is complete, users can unlock the phone, a specific app, or confirm payments simply by looking into the infrared sensor.
The handset's iris scanner will work similarly to other current smartphones' fingerprint sensors when it comes to making mobile payments. After a purchase is made using the phone (via Samsung Pay), users can choose to authenticate the charge with either the fingerprint sensor or the iris scanner. Eventually, users will also be able to use the Note's iris scanner to make in-app purchases with Samsung Pass, which allows third-party developers and banking institutions to take advantage of the company's eye scanning technology.
The Note 7's new iris scanning technology may encourage more users to start using Samsung Pay, the Korean company's equivalent to Apple Pay and Android Pay. Unlike Google and Apple's mobile payments platforms, Samsung Pay doesn't rely on Near Field Communication (NFC) chips to make payments so you can use the technology at more in-store locations.
In efforts to "unify its product portfolio" and "minimize confusion," Samsung skipped over the sequential Note 6, opting for the Note 7 name which numerically lines up with the popular Galaxy S7 line.
The Note 7 will be available from all four major mobile carriers starting August 19.


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Syria says Israel has effectively declared war after its planes bombed targets in Damascus, the second airstrikes in as many days. Egypt has condemned the Israeli airstrikes on Syria, with the Arab League also demanding action from the UN Security Council. For more on this RT speaks with MWC News frequent contributors and Asia Times Online correspondent Pepe Escobar.
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I've gotten through the template part of the project which involves foam board, duct tape, and the tape measure. I hope the rest is as easy because I am really excited about this. Here are a few photos:
You'll notice I had to hack off a piece of the board after I had already taped. I placed the board up against the window and decided I didn't need that much width for placement on the wall.
You'll also notice that I didn't do anything fancy with my template. I did a good ol'
easy straight, clean line look.
Another view of my completed template - and what do you think of my daughter's pink truck in the background? Love it!
If all goes well in Corniceland, I hope to be back tomorrow with Part 2 and a finished product.
Oh and PS - I've never used a staple gun before - wish me luck!


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Last week I received my Freeduino board from http://www.bhasha.co.cc/ . I took almost a week after placing the order to get my hands on the board.
I am really impressed with the small size of the board . I had also ordered the component kit and I got started within hours. Within a couple of days of work I could create this:
I was able to figure out a good way of making my board my favourite melody. The describes how to compose ,test and fine tune a melody on your PC with a C# program , before uploading it to Arduino/Freeduino.


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The worst thing God ever showed me in prayer....
This morning while praying for them, God laid something powerful on my heart. He let me imagine a horrific scenario regarding my kids... horrific... my worst nightmare, actually. He had me imagine losing them to human trafficking. I know... sickening.... but bear with me.
In this scenario my kids went behind our backs, abandoned our rules, used social media exactly how we said NOT to, they snuck out, and were taken. They were sold. They were held prisoner to the worst kind of torture imaginable. They were used, abused, exploited. In this scenario my husband and I found our daughters but they wouldn't leave that life. They wouldn't come with us. (My gosh I can barely type these words it's causing me so much anxiety and heartache.)
I began to cry in my prayers this morning - sob actually - and I tried to think of something else. But this thought was too consuming and wouldn't leave me. It was just awful.
"Lord take this away from me," I cried. "Why would you let me think of this evil?!"
"Because you asked to know how I feel." He said.
It was true. Earlier I had casually wondered what the Lord thinks or feels when He looks at the world today. I didn't really expect an answer like this, though. I didn't expect him to actually let me feel it. (Though I know it was only a small fraction of what he actually does feel.)
My goodness it was eye opening to think about. God has tried ever so hard to teach us, to warn us, to keep us safe. But so many of his children - whom He loves with an unfathomable love - have gone away, behind his back, abandoned his teaching, ignored his warnings. And they've lost their faith.
They became powerless against the devil. They caved to the ways of the world and were thus sold to it. They were yoked to the evil one that keeps them a prisoner to the passions of the flesh.
They now live in the torture of anxiety and fear, and in bondage to sin. The devil now uses and abuses them with daily assaults. He keeps them hopeless, in despair, devoid of peace, joy or love. Their whole existence and self worth is now wrapped up in what they look like, what they have, or what they can do for someone else. They see themselves only through the perverted mirror of others' perception.
It becomes too much to bear and they begin to resent the Father who they think did not save them. They forget that they abandoned him. And if they would just listen carefully they would hear that He is knocking and calling just outside the door of their free will....a door that only opens from inside.. inside the heart.
If only they would answer the door and see that it is Him... and return home with Him... not just to his boundaries, but to His provision, His warmth, His love, His peace.
Oh my friends, He is knocking, calling. With deep love and terrible, TERRIBLE anxiety He is seeking you, pursuing you. He is prepared to fight for you, to rescue you, to save you.
Return home, friend. Just open the door. He has prepared a place in his kingdom just for you... where you will not want for anything, where peace flows like a river, where anxieties melt away in the warmth of His light.
I'm fasting and praying today for my children - as well as Gods children who are lost. Please consider joining me. God will not be out done in generosity. I know that if I give him these efforts for his children, He will give me his efforts for mine.
Let me know if you're in. And share it with someone who you think would like to join us. I think I'm going to do this every week.
Peace to all...