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20 September 2000 Italian scientists have revealed that adult neural stem cells have been found to be unexpectedly pliable and have been successfully converted into muscle tissue. Undeveloped brain stem cells naturally occurring in adult mice were re-programmed to behave like muscle cells by being placed in close proximity to mature muscle cells. The same result was then achieved using neuronal stem cells taken from an adult human volunteer. The research, published yesterday in the Nature Neuroscience journal, was undertaken by a group of scientists from the National Neurological Institute and the Institute for Stem Cell Research, based in Milan. Dr Vescovi, co-director of the Institute for Stem Cell Research, commented that the research had not yet demonstrated that adult stem cells had the same potential as embryonic stem cells, but added that he hoped adult stem cells could be converted into any tissue. He said: "As a scientist I am wary of generalisations. I hope, though, that this is the case. The implications for therapy of human diseases would be astounding." [AFP, 19 September, from Yahoo! news; BBC News Online&The Daily Telegraph, 20 September] A newspaper has reported that the National Health Service in England is making use of Cardinal Thomas Winning's Pro-Life Initiative, based in Glasgow, Scotland. One family planning clinic in England has referred 20 women to the Cardinal's scheme, which offers help to women who face financial hardship if they choose not to have an abortion. Sr Roseann Reddy, co-ordinator of the scheme, pointed out that the English clinic had a budget for contraception and could easily arrange abortions, but did not have the means to support women who wanted to keep their babies. She said: "The clinic staff are quite embarrassed and quite mortified about it, and they are trying to change things. They say it is deplorable that they have to go to the Church for help for these girls. But if they don't, they know they are sending them out with nothing." [Scottish Sunday Times, 17 September] The family of unborn twins killed by the terrorist bomb which exploded in Omagh, Northern Ireland, on 15 August 1998 will formally ask a coroner next week to count the twins among the victims. The family, who also lost a grandmother, mother and older child in the blast, issued a statement which read: "We refer to the weekly, if not daily, reference to the families of the 29 victims of the bombing, when in fact 31 lives were lost." Averil Monaghan was 34 weeks pregnant when she was killed almost immediately by the bomb, but her unborn twins may have lived for a few minutes longer. [Irish Independent, 20 September] A booklet published by the Catholic archdiocese of Dublin in Ireland which promotes the full inclusion of disabled people in the life of the Church includes forewords written by President Mary McAleese and Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. In launching the booklet, Archbishop Desmond Connell of Dublin said: "Through this publication, we are reminded that our defence of life and rejection of the culture of death demand that we acknowledge the dignity and the positive contribution of our brothers and sisters with a disability that can lead to a rejection of the gift of human life through abortion or euthanasia." [Zenit news agency, 14 September] It has been reported that doctors in Iran are refusing to comply with a fatwa (written decision on a point of law) issued by the country's religious leadership which approves the abortion of unborn children with thalassemia, a genetic blood disorder, up to the tenth week of pregnancy. The statement issued by Ayatollah Ali Khamanei, Iran's supreme religious leader, read: "If there exists a definite diagnosis in the embryonic stage, to deliver or raise such a child amounts to sin. It is advisable to abort the foetus before it is given a soul." The religious decree has not received the backing of parliament and so doctors in state hospitals are refusing to carry out the abortions, which remain illegal in most cases under Iranian law. [Reuters, 18 September; from OnHealth]


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Comparing Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"
with Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games
Context: This feature article explores the themes of community endorsed violence in Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games and Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery. The two stories have remarkably similar (and disquieting) scenes where the local community gathers together to send one (or, in the case of the former story, two) members to their ensured and brutal deaths.
War and other forms of violence and brutality seem to be firmly rooted in the culture of the world, as if it were wired into every man's DNA. Violence has long been a popular topic in literature, but it has rarely been examined and analyzed the way it is in today's society, which is just as obsessed with violence as it ever was. The themes of violence, war, and brutality have become even more prevalent in today's media, such as through the news, film, television, and literature. Violence can sometimes be linked to human behavior, situations, culture, and even tradition in the media. Two beloved authors have explored this last topic especially in their most famous works of literature: Shirley Jackson in her classic short story about tradition gone horribly askew in The Lottery, and Suzanne Collins in the bestselling series that started with The Hunger Games, a popular piece of dystopian literature for young adults. Both stories explore particularly heinous acts of violence due to traditions in two very different communities. The violence that comes with each community's annual traditions is brutal and shocking, stealing the innocence of the children involved and taking the lives of one unlucky person each year, yet the reasons for these traditions, the community's reactions to it, and the actions of each story's heroines are not the same.
The unnamed village in The Lottery gathers every citizen in the town square and by the luck of the draw pick one chosen individual to be publically stoned to death. The country of Panem, featured in The Hunger Games, hosts an event each year called the Hunger Games, where twenty-four children and teenagers fight to bring honor and glory to their district. Before analyzing the violent traditions each community takes part in, one must examine the communities themselves. Both of these communities feature miners and can be thought of as poorer areas of their country. The characters in both pieces of literature feel real and are identifiable, even behind the veneer of the wholesome small-town attitude the village in The Lottery holds, or the strange appearance of the grotesque people that populate Panem. Underneath these important, yet shallow, similarities, lies a few very fundamental differences. The village in The Lottery is meant to feel like a typical, contemporary, all-American community filled with characters everyone can recognize, which is done to make the ending scene featuring the stoning of an innocent woman all the more shocking. The Hunger Games takes a very different approach. The novel begins in District 12, the poorest district in all of the country of Panem, a place where starvation is rather common. Panem is thought to be the country of America many years in the future; hence the reason this novel is typically placed under the sub-genre of dystopian literature. District 12 is a place many readers would not typically recognize nor identify with. Setting the book many years into the future makes the moral of the story come across as a warning of what could happen, as opposed to showing the reader what might as well be happening to them now, which is the purpose behind The Lottery.
Each community holds tradition very dearly to their hearts and minds, with these annual rituals occurring for well over a good part of the century. The love of tradition is most evident in Jackson's The Lottery, plainly stated through the line: "but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represent by the black box" that symbolizes the lottery itself (Jackson 1). Even though no one knows for sure why the villages mentioned in The Lottery hold a public stoning each year, just it has always been done for as long as they can remember, the act is still done each year without fail. While The Annual Hunger Games have been held for nearly a hundred years, about as long as the Lottery has been held, but the purpose of the games is well known. After the country of Panem's government, called The Capitol, squashed a nation-wide rebellion, each district that participated in the rebellion "must provide one girl and boy, called tributes, to participate" in the Hunger Games (Collins 18). "Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins" (Collins 18). Katniss realizes that by holding the Hunger Games, the annual slaughter of children and teens, each year is "the Capitol's way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy" (Collins 18), believing that the Capitol is sending a message loud and clear: " 'Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there's nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you'" (Collins 19). While several people in both communities disagree with these brutal, sadistic traditions, no one raises their voice to speak out against it, except for the heroines.
The Lottery and The Hunger Games feature similar enough characters and center on two outspoken heroines who refuse to stay silent about the injustices their community faces. Tessie from The Lottery and The Hunger Game's iconic heroine Katniss share another similarity: they are both, in one way or another, outsiders. Tessie arrives to the annual Lottery late, showing how she does not fully care for the rules, even at a subconscious level. She runs her mouth enough that her husband tells her to "shut up" because she is embarrassing him by not conforming, despite the fact that she has spoken up as a way of saving his life from the possibility of public execution (Jackson 4). Instead of accepting her fate quietly, Tessie fights back and screams for mercy at the prospect of her approaching death. Katniss is also a rebel, though instead of simply speaking out against injustice, which she knows could get her and her family killed, she chooses other, subtle ways to rebel against her community. She crosses over her district's boundaries and learns how to hunt, an act which is unthinkable for most citizens of District 12, but her ability to hunt by using a bow and arrow ends up saving Katniss's life when she enters the Hunger Games. When her younger sister, Primrose, is chosen to be a tribute, Katniss steps up and volunteers to enter the games in her sister's place, something few people in her district have ever done. Even though she believes by saving her sister's life, she has just sacrificed her own, Katniss is able to survive the brutal Hunger Games and come out as the year's victor. Despite her forward nature, Tessie is stoned to death, while Katniss survives, eventually becoming a symbol of rebellion, whereas Tessie is merely a victim of a tradition that has gone very wrong.
The arcatypal heroine fighting injustice is not the only type of character both stories share. Jackson's grumbly Old Man Werner is similar to the cruel President Snow that rules Panem. Both of these characters are elderly men in their respective communities who are directly affected by change and do their best to reinforce tradition. President Snow is the most powerful leader in the country, while Old Man Werner is simply just another citizen of the village. Werner is like many people from an older generation who complains about the changes in society and how things are not "the way they used to be" (Jackson 5), though his words are heard by many and repeated throughout the story, he as a person is harmless while tradition is the real villain of the story. The polar opposite of this is President Snow: Snow is the true villain, he continues with the tradition of the Hunger Games and never challenges it, knowing full well the cost of the games. He is extremely powerful and no one dares to fully challenge him until Katniss unwittingly sparks a rebellion against him.
Then there are the characters of Mr. Summers, who runs the lottery, and Effie Trinket, a woman who overseas the choosing of tributes for the Hunger Games. Both appear to go along with each society's violent traditions, full of smiles and laughter. Mr. Summers goes along with the village's practices without question, he runs the show, never caring about anyone but himself it seems. At first glance Effie appears to be the same way, merely a puppet of the government, coming across as shallow and uncaring, but her façade of compliance seems to crack as the series progresses, making Effie's alliance to the government anything but solid.
Each story has a typically innocent and pure young girl involved in the events of the plot. Nancy and Primrose are both twelve years old and are examples of femininity compared to the more outspoken heroines, garrulous Tessie and the rebellious, nearly masculine, Katniss. In the reaping (the act of choosing tributes) and lottery scenes, both of these girls are depicted as wearing skirts, while most of the other characters' attires are not mentioned, along with their ages. The fact that they are both twelve years old show that they are caught between their childhood and the conformity that the adults in their communities exemplify. Nancy is a footnote in The Lottery, being mentioned briefly as Tessie's daughter. The reader does not see or hear of her reaction to the death of her own mother. Primrose, however, is a much more important character in The Hunger Games because she is Katniss's little sister, the sister she loves so much she practically sacrifices her own life to save Prim's. Prim cries as Katniss is taken away to what might be her death. Primrose is caring and loving, while possessing the gentle feminine attributes her sister Katniss lacks. Prim represents innocence, an innocence that is chipped away throughout the series.
Innocence plays a part in both of these works of literature. In both stories, children are innocent victims of vicious traditions such as murder, yet they are also complicit in the murder of others. Little Davey, Tessie's youngest son, is given a few pebbles to throw at his own mother once she's been chosen for the ritualistic stoning the community takes part in each year. Similarly, children from the ages of twelve to eighteen are pitted against each other to survive in the Hunger Games. Even at the young age of twelve, these tributes must quickly learn to kill to survive unless they wish to be brutally murdered themselves.
The village in The Lottery murders one of their own by ganging up on the chosen person as a group and stoning the said person together as a vicious example of mob mentality. The tributes in Panem's Hunger Games must learn to survive typically by themselves. Sure some alliances are formed amongst the tributes, but they all know that sooner or later they will have to kill each other until only one survives. In the slaughterhouse known as the Arena, each tribute is deprived of their dignity and honor, stripped to the most basic of instincts: survival. There is no mob mentality here, only the will to survive to see another day. This makes each tribute's plight from children with morals to vicious killers all the more tragic. The absence of peer pressure and passion makes their actions barbaric and animalistic by comparison. The participants have not only had their innocence stolen from them, they have seen it torn from them by choice and necessity because the Arena is no place for the innocent.
Suzanne Collins has stated that The Hunger Games was based off of the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, Roman Gladiator games, and today's violence obsessed media. Shirley Jackson would later state in the School Library Journal that The Lottery was written "to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives."
Despite these long running bloody traditions, the loss of innocent lives, both stories hold out hope for the future, a future without these unmerciful killings. Despite the popularity of the annual lottery that takes innocent Tessie's life, one citizen of Jackson's nameless village mentions that several villages nearby have decided to give up holding the lottery, while Collin's Panem is last seen in The Hunger Games beginning to plan a revolt on the Capitol, and believing they will defeat the country's tyrannical government because this time they have a symbol of hope and justice for their rebellion: Katniss. Both works of literature were written as a reflection of past and present societies that are filled with violence while being a glance into a future that might exist if people do not take a stand against violent rituals similar to the lottery and the hunger games that take the lives of innocent people all for the sake of tradition and conformity.
Works Cited
Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. Scholastic Corporation, 2008.
Jackson, Shirley. "The Lottery." The New Yorker, 1948.
Margolis, Rick. A Killer Story: An Interview with Suzanne Collins, Author of 'The Hunger Games' | Under Cover. School Library Journal, 2008.


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An animal hospital has opened in Dubai. Not that an animal hospital is necessarily anything new, but one especially for camels is a first of its kind though. As Dubai is keen on preserving its heritage now that the country, and the whole of the United Arab Emirates is undergoing modernization, a hospital for its trusted 'ship of the desert' as the camels are known in the Arab world, was indeed a likely outcome.
With a cost of $11 million, it is of a similar built as is offered to the royal racehorses, but this time structured with a smaller track, and with adapted beds fitted for camels. Next to an operating theater and an x-ray room with MRI, and CAT scan facilities are to be installed shortly.
The director of the newly opened hospital, Mr Al Bulooshi stated: "There are a lot of equine hospitals because horses have existed for centuries as have their races but for camels, no."

A hospital in Dubai is now fully equipped to treat camels from all over the world. See more from @ReutersTV pic.twitter.com/uIUenSIPYW
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"We are very interested in preserving our heritage. And we found that we must care for camels, not only by breeding and raising them but also by being able to medically treat them."
Camels are a part of Arab culture and their tradition. Ever since the beginning when people lived in the Arab peninsula, camels have had a significant place in their history and heritage.
Furthermore, camel racing is something that keeps up growing over the traditional Arab culture. Arab tribes in the region conduct races among themselves on occasions like weddings.
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Nintendo Fun Club Episode 14 - What's the Point of Lives Anyway?
In news this round we talk about Iwata acknowledging that Mother fans in the west have been having a rough decade, Sega's alleged willingness to publish digital titles on Wii U, and more!
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So i went out and watched paranormal activity for some strange reason, and i freaked myself out pretty bad. i swear i was closing my eyes for more than half the time, no joke. lmao. headed over to topshop to buy my creepers but no fucking way they were sold out. i was sooooooooo sdkjhsdjvn pissed okay i was looking forward to buying them. sobs. but i compensated with a pair of major cool snake earrings and i finally bought infared which everyone seemed to be going crazy about and i'm not too sure about the colour but oh well, we'll have to see. And i bought a pair of cheaper creepers in that same colour online so thank goodness for that.
First time i actually wore this lip colour out. ide. i was so afraid i was going to screw it up or something. im such a beginner at make up what is wrong with me. well, you'll never know until you try i guess, anyway. pictures of my loots <3
So i also headed out with my friends over the weekend for some fail blading and cycling. so much for that because by the time we reached there everything was closed and we just sat at the playground and acted like people with deprived childhoods. AND, worst thing that happened, was my havaianas broke okay. like legit i am not even able to fix it back and i had to walk around for the rest of the night with tape sticking the strap down to the slipper with it coming off practically every 5 minutes. sigh. wasn't in the mood for pictures at all.
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I am not one for doing movie reviews and in fact it was a bit of a toss up whether I went to see this at all. Money is so tight it comes down to entertainment or eating. But I wanted to see Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes. I had seen the original movie back in 1968 (the year I started work in zoos) and was really keen to see how they would work this in, the latest, but a prequel. Added expense was that Dao wanted to go as well. Ex-girlfriend/Adopted daughter I am never quite sure of our relationship. I managed to purchase a couple of Patoo and some sticky rice quite cheaply so going to the movie was go. But to the cheapest seats.
I did not really expect it but the Rise Of Planet Of The Apes turned out not only to be an interesting and exciting movie but an emotional journey as well. Everyone will see it differently but for me it was painful in parts. One of my sons 'Tanner' was a chimpanzee. He joined me and my family when he was just two days old. He slept alongside my wife and I in the same way as my human children had done. He lived as and was a member of my family. I have had gorillas and other primates in the house over the years (as well as numerous other species) and know the need to avoid personal attachment. They have to go back after all.
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Knowing these species well I was able to enjoy and appreciate how much care and attention had been put into this excellent movie to make it as realistic as possible. I give them nine out of ten. At the same time, knowing the species well it is possible to criticise some of the things they got wrong. But really, why be picky? It is just a movie, it is fiction. The apes here are the heroes and I think that most people are going to side with them. Dao loved it and was on the edge of her seat a lot of the time. "Clever ling" was her verdict. They were too.
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Hamburg, Germany-based Nordex AG has signed a contract with BP Alternative Energy North America for the delivery of 60 N90/2.5 MW turbines. The contract for delivery and installation of the systems includes five years of service.
'We are pleased that BP has included our turbine to further accelerate the growth of their U.S. wind portfolio,' says Carsten Pedersen, chief operating officer of sales and marketing at Nordex.
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Posted: Nov 08 2017 at 9:07am
Whister'sMom, VietVet, SpiderJohn, Vivian Moon, Etc. -
Wondering out loud.................
When Ami Vitori does assume her office as City Councilwoman, might she be required to occasionally abstain
from voting on new city staff recommendations for "downtown" re-developer financial subsdies/other forms of
Ms. Vitori, given her academic and entrepreneurial history, will, hopefully, prove to be a taxpayer's advocate for
improved, cost-effective plus highest/best use community development priorities, policies, programs and plans.
City Council is deserving of a fresh infusion of engaged, creative, citizen-friendly and pro-growth thinking.
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I voted for Vitori. Willing to try a new face behind council's desk.....any new face. If, down the road, Vitori doesn't abstain from downtown funding voting, I would think she is dealing with a possible conflict of interest situation. My one hope is that she doesn't immediately jump on the current inner circle bandwagon and start playing the game that council people eventually all play when placed under the old backroom pressure administered by Larry Mulligan and company. Scott-Jones started off asking questions and slowly tailed off to nary a sound shortly thereafter. Hope Vitori is a question asker and delver into more information rather than a rubber stamper. If not, we have gained nothing as to changing the council members. This applies to all new faces elected.
VERY SAD to see Joe Mulligan sit behind the council desk. A waste the first time around offering nothing of substance and I would imagine nothing will change this time around either. A classic case of the MMF voting block effecting yet another election with their high turnout. Same old recycled faces winning in most cases. Once again an MMF sponsored candidate won because there were not enough votes to counteract the inner circle voting influence in town. They have a great system simply due to the apathy from the rest of the potential voters who are too lazy to register, vote against them and overcome their influence.
Probably the same can be said for Cathi Mulligan's election to the school board. Hard the watch the "Mulligan Dynasty" instilled into the city. Might be a household name in Middletown but that doesn't mean the name is good for the city as to progression to the future. I see the Mulligans as helping lead the city in the wrong direction on a consistent basis. In some cases, the vote had to be a simple case of name recognition rather than actual consideration of the quality of the person and what they have accomplished. JMO
I'm so proud of my hometown and what it has become. Recall 'em all. Let's start over.
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Vet - I'd like to think people stand on their own regardless of family relationship. I would hate for someone to judge me based on the actions of my mother, father or brother.
I agree with you that Joe's past performance on City Council wasn't stellar, and that he really didn't contribute that much to Council. Remember, he didn't run again because he wanted to seek a higher level state position, which he lost. Now he wants back on....what's the real motive? To stay relevant?
However, Cathi has a lot of educational background as a former professor and principal. She hasn't held elected office. I am willing to give her the benefit of the doubt and hope her background adds value to the educational system for MCSD.
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You had to vote for two people and Joe Mulligan obviously benefited from the big vote for Ami Vitori. It was laughable looking at how close he was to her in the votes. She actually had a movement going on in her vote. He didn't.
I don't have a problem with Cathi Mulligan since she was part of Fenwick for so long. That might be a nice influence on the public schools. A little strange for someone who put all of her kids through private school to then serve on a public school board, but her experience may be worthwhile.
Not to change the subject, but it's too bad we don't have people in charge with a better sense of architectural style. The new look of MHS is ugly. There are so many ways to add on to a school and not make it look deformed. The new Jr. High on its own is fine, but driving down Breiel, the high school just looks ridiculous.
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I will stand by my comments concerning the Mulligans. Larry has shown for years that he has his own agenda and it may not be in the best interest of Middletown. Historically, he has been the frontrunner for poor decisions, self righteous indignation and in carrying on the inner sanctum MMF theme, an organization he is a member of. Larry is in it for Larry and his buddies and to hell with the majority of Middletonians. He could care less about the masses. Pompous attitude for a public servant wouldn't you say? His thinking and direction is certainly a catalyst for what ails the city.
We all know about Joe. He is a political ladder climber and has failed to go any higher as you have pointed out. Now, he has knocked on the door of the voters, again and, incredibly, they have put the man back on council. Why???
Question for the Joe Mulligan supporters......
Knowing his lack of performance on council before and having the luxury of seeing his lack of contributions on a prior stint on council, why on earth would you give him another chance to once again, contribute nothing a second time? That defies logic and in effect, wastes your vote if your intention is to provide help for this city. Then again, if you are buddies and "just like old Joe", and would give Joe your vote no matter how pathetic he is, then I can start to understand why you are allowing yourself to be played a fool on election day.
So Larry and Joe stand on their own and it is not a flattering picture IMO. And I am judging both based on THEIR actions, not other family members. Larry and Joe need to go away. Their thinking is a cancer for the city. Their city money handling is a sure path to bankruptcy, their decision-making is atrocious and their constant rubber stamping to appease the city manager's agenda reveals a non-willingness in standing up for the people who elected them. Most on council are just like they are. Sadly, the MMF voting block only seats these types of people and the general populous suffers as a result because they fail to deliver on what the majority of the people want for their city. The other culprit is the voter apathy that, if corrected, could stop this nonsense if the people cared enough to register and show up at the polls while voting out all incumbents. It is good that Bronston was not elected but it is bad that Joe Mulligan came aboard. All we got was one bad one replacing another bad one. No change there.
As for Cathie Mulligan.....I will give her her just dues. A fine educator over the years at MUM. I had her for freshmen calculus the first year MUM opened. I remember her being to the point, hardnosed and unrelenting in presenting her curriculum back in 1966-67. She stopped for no one in that class regardless of the difficulty of the material. I agree her expertise will be a good addition to the school board if she is listened to by the other board members. She is the only Mulligan of the three that doesn't have negative baggage IMO.......yet.
I'm so proud of my hometown and what it has become. Recall 'em all. Let's start over.
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Well speaking of MMF backing certain candidates, has anyone heard anything about the president of MMF being Vitori's business partner? I'm just wondering how many of our council members want what's best for Middletown, or just want to be able to say that they are on council? I agree that Vitori shouldn't be allowed to vote on anything pertaining to downtown. But 80 percent of everything they're doing right now is about downtown so she'd be a wasted space on council.
Isn't it against the law for her business partner to be allowed to give her a loan through MMF if he's in charge? And how is she gonna pay this loan back if she's having all of these financial problems?
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Credit to the young lady for her recent generosity. A very kind and telling gesture. Her Starbucks video was very well done. I have high hopes for her term on Council, as we need realistic young leaders in both business and local govt. If the lady needs to abstain on certain issues, I assume that she will do so.
I honestly don't get the blowback on both Mr.Bohanon and Ms.Vitori....
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This month's challenge at ODBD is a super easy one - anything with ODBD stamps! And there are so much to choose from so I hope you can play along.
I haven't done no-line watercoloring in a while and I thought the new Tulip stamp would be perfect for this technique. And I love the result!
I first sponged a background using distress inks - Seedless Preserves, Picked Raspberry, and Squeezed Lemonade. The Circle Scalloped Rectangles was a great background die - gave interest and let the colors peep through. I then stamped the tulip on watercolor paper using Zig Clean Color Brushes and then went back and painted additional color on them. I also brushed the tulip with a clear glitter Wink of Stella brush which moved the colors a little bit more than I intended but it still came out well. The tulip was then cut with the coordinating Tulip die cut - I'm not a fan of fussy cutting! :)
I then added a script Thanks die cut using the same distress inks only more saturated.
I hope you can play along. And if you'd like more inspiration, please check out by my talented Challenge Team sisters Chris, Julie, and Robin. Remember that you have until April 2 to link to the ODBD blog.


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Beginner's Guide to Effective Strength Training at the BRIC
You probably already get a ton of cardio by walking around campus from class to class, but what about strength training? If you are a beginner when it comes to working out, here is a guide to kick-start your path to improving your strength and increasing your muscle mass! This article will cover important things to remember, specific equipment you can use at the Bronco Recreation and Intramural Complex (BRIC, Bldg. 42), and an overview of more hands-on training you can receive from Campus Recreation.
Things to Remember:
1. Sometimes less is more.
When it comes to exercise, you must have adequate rest and sleep. When you practice strength training, you create micro-tears in your muscles which need to recover in order for them to grow. Adequate rest ensures that you do not injure yourself and enough sleep ensures that your muscles recover and grow. The National Sleep Foundation recommends that adults ages 18-64 sleep between seven to nine hours.
2. Strength training requires consistency.
Don't be discouraged if you do not see results right away. According to Allyson Caudell, fitness coordinator at ASI Campus Rec, "People generally need four to six weeks of consistent strength training to improve their physical strength."
Regarding frequency per week, the American College of Sports Medicine recommends that "a strength training program should be performed a minimum of two non-consecutive days each week." Consistent exercise pays off!
3. Nutrition and hydration are important.
To gain muscle mass, you generally need to eat more calories than you normally would. Small meals throughout the day are typically better than three large meals a day when it comes to maintaining your metabolism and insulin levels. Post-exercise nutrition consisting of protein and carbohydrates are especially important for recovery and growth. Also, make sure to drink enough water throughout the day to fight fatigue and replenish any fluids you sweat out.
4. Maintain muscle balance.
You may have heard the workout phrase, "Don't skip leg day." This refers to the importance of maintaining muscle balance. As you begin exercising, consider the functionality and full range of your muscles by training opposing muscle groups. For example, you should work out both your biceps and triceps, your chest and back, your upper and lower body. Don't focus solely on one of the opposing groups!
General Routine
Fortunately, when you pay your Cal Poly Pomona (CPP) registration, you become a BRIC member and have access to the LEED Gold certified recreation center filled with excellent equipment you can use to achieve your fitness goals. Keeping the previous tips in mind, here is an excellent full-body workout—created by Caudell—that you can use several times a week to start improving your overall strength.
You should complete this routine two to three times a week and perform two to three sets per machine, with the last set to failure. If you are just starting out, complete four to six repetitions up until the last set. If you are a little more experienced, complete up to eight repetitions up until the last set.
1. Leg Press
2. Leg Extension
3. Chest Press
4. Overhead Press
5. Pull Down
6. Seated Leg Curl
7. Arm Curl
8. Tricep Extension
If you feel pain, faint or dizzy, make sure to stop immediately! Achieving your fitness goals is great but not at the expense of injury.
BRIC Programs
If you liked the previous routine and want more hands-on and personalized training, consider some of Campus Rec's fitness programs:
1. Find Your Fit
Learn the basics of exercise and fitness goals for free as a BRIC member! Sessions are offered Monday through Thursday, 3:10- 3:50 p.m. Learn more here.
2. Fitness Assessment
Use this service to get an idea of where you are regarding fitness. According to the Campus Rec website, "The fitness assessment evaluates body mass index, cardiovascular fitness, strength and flexibility." The assessment is $15 by itself and free with a package of three or more personal training sessions. Learn more here.
3. Personal Training
Experience highly individualized and hands-on training based on your fitness goals! Each workout session is 55 minutes long, and you can also train with a friend. See pricing and learn more about the program here.
4. Learn to Lift
Learn how to lift with proper form and technique from an award-winning personal trainer in a small group setting. Sessions are $5 for BRIC members. Learn more here.
Follow Campus Rec on Instagram for Trainer Tip Tuesday to get tips on effective workouts and have your fitness questions answered through a live Q&A with personal trainers!
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I'm sitting on the balcony of my hotel room, listening to the jam session going on downstairs. This evening was a good one.
The first show we caught was Jesse Palter and the Alter Ego featuring Sam Barsh. Sam Barsh, who is currently going totally wild on the stage downstairs, started the show with a soft piano solo. It's moments like these, with the hushed music and the warm Eilat evening breeze, that are so typical of the festival that I've developed a Pavlovian response to jazz music, and whenever it gets intimate like this, I can feel that warm breeze, even if it's February and I'm in New England.
Out come Ben Williams, bass (we saw him last year with Stefon [ed. thank you, Dr. Jazz] Harris and Blackout) and Gene Coye, drums, and then out comes Jesse Palter. Last year I discussed the matter of my issues with female vocalists. Not a problem here. Palter has a pleasant stage presence and does not steal the limelight from her collaborators.
Several songs in, she presents a song she wrote herself, which was inspired by watching Toddlers and Tiaras while on the treadmill.
This got me thinking that it's kinda cool that jazz is staying enough of a living genre that the subject matter is constantly evolving from the old standards to cover present pop culture and society. As I was pointing this out, Tal said that he doesn't think this show is quite jazz music. I was still calculating my ranty response, when Williams and Coye stepped off the stage and left Palter and Barsh to do this:
So ha, this is jazz, alive and kicking. We've come a long way from Strange Fruit, baby.
I went to bed after writing the above, not before listening to Palter jamming downstairs, and man, she really is a good singer. A good musician. Long story short, I'm not quite sure a studio album of theirs is in the cards for me, but their live performance is excellent and enjoyable. And I didn't even mention anything about Barsh's eccentricities, because he is a rather colorful character, but I hope the clip I made delivers a bit of that.
Tal and I were rather curious about the next show. Grégoire Maret heads his quartet with a harmonica. I haven't seen many shows in which the harmonica is the main attraction, and not just a little something thrown in on occasion. On stage with him, James Genus on bass, Federioco Pena on piano, and Clarence Penn on drums.
This show has very little talk, and lots of introspection. Every solo is like a delicate conch shell, full of detail, but delivered smoothly, something you want to hold carefully so you can enjoy its beauty without breaking it. The harmony shared by the players is almost erotic, to me, something you want to reach out and touch. And Maret surprises me with his virtuosity. The harmonica solos are passionate and complex but still, oh so delicate.
There's a silent and peaceful undercurrent to the music on stage, and just as I am thinking about how fragile it must be, Genus goes into a bass solo, starting so hushed I feel it might have been meant for my ears alone. And then some fuckwit from the audience starts snapping a beat, and tries to sweep the rest of the audience into doing so. Genus stops playing and just says one word. "Stop". I would have perhaps dwelled on the shame I felt for even being in the presence of such idiocy, but once the audience falls silent, Genus resumes playing, and carries me back into the haunting echos of his plucks.
I'm thinking I need an album of theirs, to explore further, alone.
The next show was another last-minute change, Asaf Avidan, playing with cellist Karni Postel rather than with his usual band, the Mojos. Not much to say about this one. It wasn't jazz. I would have perhaps enjoyed it much much more in a different setting, but it was crowded and hot, and I learned the hard way that secondhand smoke triggers vertigo. We left before the end because I was feeling awful, but did enjoy what we saw.
The next show, and last of the night, was the Gilad Abro Trio. The previous night we had seen Gilad Abro in no less than three shows, as well as Nitay Hershkowitz on piano and Amir Bresler on drums (both had performed with Daniel Zamir).
I was saying something about Abro being very rightfully the hardest working bassist in Israel. He is wonderful. He makes love to his bass. Looking at him, the similarity drawn between the double bass and a woman's body is very evident. Another think he makes very evident is why the word for what you do with your musical instrument is "play".
Bresler is a young thing, but as Tal had already put it on the first night, well on the way to becoming a "thinking drummer". As he plays, and not just bangs the drums, you can feel he not only seeks out the rhythm, but puts endless volume and language into the intervals between every beat. Exploring not only the beat but also the sound.
Hershkowitz's piano has that kind of effortless beauty to in, like the notes are just being tossed around without much method to the madness, and yet they still form a melody.
Giving a surprisingly bashful introduction to the band, Abro says they're not *his* trio and it's true, each one of them holds his ground, has his own voice and presence. The space conrained by the trio is constantly morphing, reshaping itself, taking on new colors and sizes. They are the beauty of live music. The life.
As I was looking for them on Youtube, I found this lovely interpretation of Radiohead's "Scatterbrain". I hope to see a lot more of them.
I think that might be just it. To me, there is no room in jazz music for ego. No one person on stage can count more than the others. If any one player serves as no more than a backdrop for another, you're doing it wrong. This is the one common thread I can see that binds the performances I enjoy the most. This beautiful blend of individuality and unison. I believe it is called harmony. I want to have it present everywhere in life.


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Every now and then I get shooting pain in my shoulder where ball joint is, ii recently was getting it in my fore arms, but seemed moved up, I go to the gym duno if that's why? Damaged muscle spasms or nerve damage it's in both shoulders but last night ii woke up in pain in middle night really bad deaded shoulder, every time tried to move it horrible shooting and stabbing pain which was making it real difficult to move to try and rest it or move it into a more comfortable position, but advice please
I would strongly recommend going to see your primary care doctor about this issue as soon as you can. It is hard to give a clear diagnosis from the information provided in your question, but it certainly sounds like the symptoms are severe and persistent, and therefore require medical evaluation. Since you have been going to the gym, overuse or strain of the muscles is certainly a possibility. Strained or pulled muscles often have an aching feeling and they may be sore when you touch them. On the other hand, the fact that you are describing the pain as sometimes shooting and radiating down the shoulders into the forearms suggests that this might be nerve pain. Nerve pain is often caused by arthritis or a slipped disc in the neck region of the spinal cord. Other symptoms might include weakness in the hands, or numbness and tingling in the skin of the arms. Your doctor will be able to perform an examination and help you figure out what is going on. If this is just muscle pain, they can give you some recommendations on how long you should rest before returning to the gym and on what pain medications to take. If this is nerve pain, they may want to order some additional radiology studies of the spine.
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Why Are Barns Red
Answering the Question: Why are Barns Red?
Picturesque and quaint, old homesteads dot landscapes across the country; one repeated similarity that is noted when driving through the countryside often raises the curious question of "why are barns red?" While there is no proof as to the reason, there is a pretty good explanation for the phenomenon that actually may have gotten its start around the year 10000 B.C.
History of red paint
During the Upper Paleolithic period which occurred between 40,000 and 10,000 B.C., the Magdalenian's of Europe created endless portrayals of life through cave paintings. These life inscriptions are thought to be the oldest in history and the beginning of art. Many of these caves are not open for public viewing to preserve the delicate carvings on the walls, ceilings and floors. The art began as simple finger markings in soft clay on the floors of caves; it then evolved into more intricate markings made with flints and picks, with the addition of painting later. Colors were derived from the most base of ingredients that nature could provide; iron oxide, water and oil. This paint was mixed together by hand, often in makeshift containers such as shells and skulls. The art left behind by this creative people has given great insight into the past of lifestyles and life forms and provided a basis to build upon for the future in art and paint.
Later, proof that Native Americans used this knowledge according to their needs. Clay provided the iron oxide, which was mixed with the whites of eggs to concoct a stain that was spread upon a variety of surfaces to color them. Sometimes, the blood of slaughtered livestock was added to give the stain a deeper, richer coloration. When the stain was used on outdoor objects, it was discovered that the coloring was neither stable nor durable.
Bringing the red to barns
Barns were essential buildings for early settlers as shelter to their livestock. Milk cows, teams of oxen and riding horses were housed in the barns, as well as rudimentary farming equipment and hay. They were considered to be necessary and not for show, so they were often quite plainly erected and allowed to weather. The weatherization required that the planks be replaced often; a strain on both labor and materials. To prevent the weatherization, these early farmers leaned upon the expertise of their forefathers by combining iron oxide, skimmed milk and oil derived from linseed to produce a stain that, when applied to wood, formed a durable and long lasting protective coating. The practice of painting the barn with this red stain grew to be tradition, mainly because of its low cost and high availability.
Many people wonder, since cost was obviously an issue, why these farmers didn't simply use whitewash to cover the barns, as it was commonly used on plank wood houses and buildings. Whitewash is a mixture of lime and chalk; both substances were readily available in the Midwestern and Northeastern United States and frequently used to provide white coloration to homes and buildings. However clean looking whitewash may have been, it did not possess the strength that red pigmentation had and lacked durability. It was also easily transferable when rubbed against; a negative factor given the amount of activity that occurred around the barn. Therefore, the tradition of whitewashed homes and fences with red barns was born.
Driving through the countryside where stately white homes flanked by bright red barns are lined up along farm roads often brings up the curious question of "why are barns red?" While there is no documented proof that our earliest of forefathers began the trend when they first dabbled in red paint, it is entirely plausible that this knowledge was passed down through the generations to result in the tradition of red barns we know today.


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Collibra recently briefed the Hub Designs MDM Think Tank.
Stan Christiaens, COO at Collibra sat down with the Hub Designs MDM Think Tank in early March to give us a briefing on Collibra's Data Governance Software.
Collibra focuses on the data governance aspects of MDM. It addresses the elements of governance in the vision presented below – organization, people/processes, documentation and operationalization.
The product provides a rich, configurable workflow system for routing a data record throughout the organization (and possibly beyond) to the point in which it becomes a master record and is stored in a relational database.
At this point, Collibra integrates with IBM InfoSphere and Informatica Metadata Manager for operational distribution. The API can be leveraged for other integrations.
Collibra also provides a fully functional metadata management repository for the attributes under management. This includes some really useful features around the stewardship function, which allows a Collibra implementation to be flexible to the organization's needs. As Stan said, "you need to understand the company before imposing organizational change."
With a multi-layered and as-complex-as-necessary hierarchy of stewardship which Collibra calls a "communities hierarchy," available stewards can be easily found for governance participation, data questions or the other data enrichment functions that stewards provide to their data.
Other cool features include profile pictures associated with the names in the dictionary and the ability to access the dictionary from anywhere. Within an application like Word or Excel, you can hit a hotkey and see the full dictionary representation of the element. This includes the source system, fact types, derived fact types, rules, roles, taxonomies, definition and record status. Data Governance, according to Stan, is "making people do the right thing." The more you think about this simple definition, the more accurate it seems to become. And Collibra is creating information sharing at the business level, circumventing much of the semantic gap between IT and business areas.
Although there is much to data governance beyond the toolset, tools like Collibra can certainly facilitate getting a data governance program off the ground. Data governance tools like Collibra are on the periphery of a required toolset in organizations employing MDM. It's like purchasing a faster utility for a DBMS. The base DBMS utility has the functionality, but does it have enough for your need? It will be interesting to watch this niche market to see how it evolves in the MDM ecosytem.