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Judging by this latest video from Seattle sound stalwarts Soundgarden (for new top choon 'Black Rain') it seems the Downtuned staff aren't the only ones wasting time watching Metalocalypse all day. Featuring something of a return to their 'Badmotorfinger' sound and heavier Sabbathy roots, this isn't bad at all, but it remains to be seen if the reformed band can compete in the modern market – whaddaya think?
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This is a music blog. So reviewing comedy is a bit weird. We wouldn't usually do this, but both Brian and Andrew's comedy is very much based in the world of music, specifically metal, so we'll make an exception.
But just this once.
Andrew O'Neil is a heavy metal fan and cross dresser. He is quick to point out that he is not a goth, but I do not believe him, as his cross dressing involves a pair of those black and white stripy tights that can only be worn by goths. I hear you need a special license issued by Robert Smith to even buy them. He's a goth. But we won't hold that against him.
His comedy seems to draw on alt type culture observations, bizzare flights of fancy and puns so bad/good the front page of the Sun would be embarrassed. He may be a little too clever for his own good, a few jokes despite their merits fly rirectly overe the heads of many of the audience. His delivery is also a little unsure, he doesn't seem to have the confidence to back up his humor. But hey, this is a guy I've only just heard of, so I'm fairly sure he's finding his own way of doing things. He certainly has the material, and a nicely targeted audience, so he's pretty much on his way – just needs a bit more oomph.
Brian on the other hand is a man made of good natured oomph. It's hand not look at him without smiling, he looks like a muppet – albiet one that smokes a shitload of pot and listens to Entombed. And he knows this. He's wonderfully self depricating – describing himself as 'farts wearing a man costume'
His comedy fuses really, REALLY low brow humour ("Fart and Dick Jokes" is his new CD after all) with wordplay and observations. He may be telling a story about wanking, actually most of his stories are about wanking, but it never feels like gross-out humour or shock for the sake of it.
He really nails a sort of slacker mindset. People who are clever, but lazy and they know it. (Clearly he's not lazy, but hey, y'know what I mean.) Finding the humour in the ridiculousness that is modern life for a functioning nerd.
Plus the man is so damn likeable that even when you've heard the joke before, or it doesn't quite work, hey, we'll let it slide, because goddamn, you're just so nice!
If my roommate did this, I would probably kill them. I hope he gets his albums back.
And no-one turns into something…inhuman.
Cider. Bands. Party.1 Comments
Cider usually means festivals in the Westcountry, teenagers on park benches and tramps on street corners. Not the best in new music. New music usually means self consciously cheap and crappy beers.
Not so any more. Kopparberg, purveys of a whole variety of tasty ciders, have got in on the game . Kopparberg Klash is the latest hunt for the nation's best new band (among other creative type things). usually these involve a bunch of watered down pub rock bands and cookie cutter versions of whatever is currently in the top ten.
Lucky for us that Vice magazine is involved to make sure a well needed injection of skinny jeans, asymmetrical haircuts and keyboards that sound like NES games.
The final (because who really wants to sit through the local also rans) is THIS WEDNESDAY, so if you're about the Shoreditch area (where else?) get on down to The Old Blue Last to check out Plus Ultra, Dead Wolf Club and Filthy Boy along with MC Charlie Partridge of the East End comedy duo Robin & Partridge, DJs and a whole load of cider.
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She's not due for another two weeks, but today while playing with our two boys, she mentioned that she'd been having a lot of Braxton-Hicks contractions. I had remembered reading that if you have more than four in an hour, you should probably call your doc, or start timing them, as they may not be warm-ups at all, but The Real Deal. She and her husband decided to go home, get some things in order, then come back to spend the night with us. That way, if she DID have to go to the hospital, her 19-month-old son could just spend the night here with us.
When they came back, she'd been having brief contractions regularly, about every 10 minutes. They hadn't been lasting long, but they'd been coming almost like clockwork. As I watched her over the next hour, her contractions went from slightly uncomfortable to I-don't-want-to-talk-while-this-is-happening. And they were coming more quickly.
As I watched her breathe through each contraction, every rough thing about my own labor two years ago came rushing back to me. I remembered the pain, the tightness, the breathtaking sharpness of it. I remembered the way my body instinctively lifted up around the pain to tense against it, and how hard it was to fight to stay loose, to let the muscles work the way they should. I remembered the totally awful way every organ in my lower body was involved in the orchestra of misery, the way my bladder and intestines and colon suddenly acted like eighth-grade girls who hadn't been invited to the party, and started trying to steal the spotlight with their attention-grabbing antics, namely making me pee every 15 minutes and have terrible (and productive) diarrhetic cramps even more often. (NO ONE prepared me for that, by the way. Hollywood could do us all a favor and show us what labor is really like, in all those sitcoms and romantic comedies.) I remembered being in so much pain that I would throw up several times an hour, for the six hours I lasted before I asked for pain relief. I remembered not wanting to be touched, and simultaneously wanting desperately for someone to put their hands on me to take the pain away, and keep me anchored, because I felt like I would literally wash away with the surges of it.
And I got a little bit, just a teensy bit, jealous.
I know. DUMB. Can't help it.
Here's the thing. My own labor with boy ended in a surgical birth, one made necessary by the fact that I developed a fever that might have endangered our baby. For that reason alone, I don't regret a thing about the C-section. However, in the months leading up to that day, I'd done a LOT of reading, research and preparation to avoid having to resort to one. I'd read books on surgical birth, the rising rates of sections in the U.S., the fact that some may be unnecessary. I'd learned about the potential health effects of pain relief in labor on the unborn baby. And I'd decided that I'd do everything in my power to have our child naturally -- without unnecessary medical intervention. I got fired up about "taking back the birth experience." I walked. I breathed. I studied and practiced relaxation techniques. I interviewed candidates, selected and hired a doula to help us through labor. I got pregnancy massages intended to ease my body's transition into labor and delivery. I listened to soothing and empowering messages about my innate ability to deliver a healthy child.
And in the end, it didn't even matter. The circumstances surrounding the labor I had made all that preparation almost insignificant. I was sick with a cold when my water broke three weeks early, and that illness translated into the fever that made it necessary to operate to have our baby, despite twelve hours of light labor, six hours of augmented labor (read: Pitocin) with no pain meds, and a final six hours of augmented labor with a merciful and welcome epidural. I did everything I could to avoid it, and when it was clear it was inevitable, I accepted it and I don't have a single regret.
It's just that now, the doctor I know and trust has a policy -- once a C-section, always a C-section. He used to perform VBACs (or vaginal births after Caesarean), but not any more. So I already know that though I'm due May 17, my child will eventually have a scheduled delivery date sometime the week before that day. So it's entirely possible that I will feel nothing but the usual run-of-the-mill late pregnancy discomfort, go into the hospital for an appointment one day, and an hour later, be handed a baby.
Which is mine.
Holy smokes.
No last few hours of preparation, no transition to the idea of being a mother of TWO children through the test of labor, no story to tell about how or when my water broke, no gateway to the new phase of parenthood through the traditional and meaningful trial of suffering.
It's not that I want the pain -- it's just that I want the fullness of the experience. I want the few hours or so of wondering whether I'm truly in labor. I want the moment when we realize that it's The Real Deal. I want the nervous excitement of getting the previously-packed bag into the car and going off to the hospital, maybe in the middle of the night. I want the extra few hours of having to wait to meet a baby I am so ready to love and embrace and hold and nurture and cherish. The prize is so amazing, how could I want to rush the process? EVEN THAT stage, the breathing and moaning and suffering, is one you never get back again. And as I'm realizing now that my son is TWO YEARS OLD, those little phases are fluid -- tiny moments of quicksilver that slip away no matter how tightly you try to grasp at them.
It's been about seven hours since my girlfriend first had her light contractions here at our house. She's at the hospital now with her husband, and her toddler is sleeping upstairs. Through text messages, they're keeping me in the loop about how she's doing, and I know that her water broke in the room where she was admitted, and she's at 5 centimeters now, and she's getting an epidural. And as I reflect on all of that, I'm able to yank my head out of my ass where it's been firmly lodged, and focus on the fact that two of my dearest friends are having a BABY in the next few hours. That little bitty taste of jealousy? Gone in the knowledge of the power of what's happening in their lives -- the arrival of an already-beloved child.
In the end, no matter what day it happens, and in what way, my husband and son and I will get the same thing. So I'll shut up now, and do what I should have been doing this whole time -- sit back, take a deep breath, and open my heart up to God in gratitude for His generosity and His love. I'll ask for His protection over this coming child -- my girlfriend's tonight, mine in a few more months -- and for His forgiveness for my own short-sightedness.


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This has to be the weirdest internet mash up ever. The L-word (a popular lesbian soap opera) and lol cats have been combined. I imagine there are very few people in the world who would get this. For me, I watch l word and love it, so I recognize half the joke. But I don't see the humor in lol cats. I know a lot of people like lol cats, but will have no idea what l word is. So I dedicate this post to ultimate in the obscure. lol-word.


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Wedged sneakers will also spice up your gorgeous look for school and also a chain necklace with a lion head. You'll be very comfortable enough to study and be able to focus, especially if you have a hard subject for the day and Im dressed down the most on the days I have Accounting, as I get confused in that class sometimes. I know I also gotta be smart with the way I dress and be sure Im still comfortable. That is very important for school, while I don't want people to think that I belong to a fashion parade. You can still be a style icon and have the hottest clothes in school that way with your style expression. One way, you can stand out and look edgy would be to use some semi-permanent crazy colored hair dye from Hot Topic and dye your hair in Ombre style or just highlight your hair. Ill get one pack of pink hair dye when I go back to the States.
Both from Hot Topic: Semi Permanent hair dye.
These two tribal print backpacks are from www.ebay.com.
This one right here is a denim studded bag from TOPSHOP. They also have the best bags Ive ever seen.
This new striped denim jacket is a Forever 21 export overrun from Greenhills that was only PHP 450. I shall say, its a very decent price for a printed denim jacket.
I got this DIY studded tribal print backpack at a night market in Siem Reap, Cambodia for only USD$ 10.
That is such a great deal for a backpack. Over there has such cheap and good shopping with really good service. Visit the famous Angkor Wat in the day and other sites, then you can go shopping at night in the markets! It was really fun!
I am wearing my cat ear beanie from TerraNova in Glorietta that was only PHP 245. This beanie won't make you look like your trying too hard and will still be casual cute.
Walk the hallways in a cool outfit!,
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Monday, April 6, 2009
Big Trouble In Little China: Then and Now
When I was 6 years old, I went to see a movie with my family: Big Trouble in Little China. This was a big deal for me on multiple levels - first, because my family hardly ever went to see movies in the theatre; and second, because this proved to be my newest favorite movie EVER!!!
And it kind of still is.
As a 6 year-old (and later years, when I kept watching over and over to the point of obsession*), the movie offered me all the exciting action I could ask for. There were cool martial arts stunts, explosions, guns, magic and an exciting adventure. There were monsters and gods. And there were a TON of Chinese main characters! Badguys, sure, but also the goodguys - and ALL of them were total badasses. Lightning (pictured above - one of the "Three Storms," who were god-like villains) was probably the coolest character ever created, and he didn't even speak English!**
Of course, Kurt Russell was the focal protagonist, but he was one of only three white people in the entire film. And - better yet - he was totally out of his element and needed massive help and support (or, really, leadership) from the Chinese guys all around him. Equally focal to the story was his best friend, Wang, who was all kinds of awesome. As a kid, when I was playing with my best friend (a white kid), he would be "Jack" (Kurt Russell's character), and I would be "Wang" - and I definitely thought I had gotten the better end of that exchange.***
I watched that movie so much that I can almost recite the whole thing word-for-word, even now. And I've found myself wondering - why that movie? There have been so many martial-arts-type movies since my childhood - why was that one so special to me?
And so I now turn my adult eye and mind to the film, and I think I get it. Because, considering it came out in 1986, that movie was revolutionary in its depiction of minorities. The Chinese people weren't the weirdos and extras in the movie. Instead, Jack - the muscle-bound white "hero" - is the stranger. He constantly "talks the talk" while being exposed for his cluelessness. He's totally out of his element, and it's the Chinese characters who have to bring him along for the day to be saved. Some of the plot-line is drawn from ancient Chinese mythology, and it is treated with relative respect. Again, Jack's questioning of the "myths" is depicted to show him as the unbelieving barbarian - while the Chinese folks who know their truth go about taking care of business.
Even better - the one strong white character in the movie? A woman (played by Kim Cattrall of Sex in the City fame). She's familiar with Chinatown and its subculture. She's strong. She mocks Jack's ridiculous attempts to hit on her. Granted, she ends up getting captured and "saved," but she takes a leading role in her own rescue (while Jack botches it up numerous times).
And then let's go to the one interracial romance - between a Chinese guy and a white woman. And the guy is hardly exotified in this one.
Shall we continue? Outside of the one Chinese guy who ends up with the white woman, every single other Chinese guy in the movie is a complete and total badass - and the dork even gets his badass moment. There are no dorky Chinese nerds running around. All the stereotypes depicted in so many movies before and since - absent.
And - yeah, yeah, yeah - there's a lot of martial arts, but still . . . "Forbidden Kingdom" is a mockery. "Big Trouble in Little China" says - those Chinese dudes can more than hold their own.
And, of course, I'm not trying to make this out to be the perfect movie - it's still a ridiculous action-adventure at the end of the day. The few Chinese women in the movie aren't exactly shining beacons of strength. But - for when it was made - it's kind of amazing. Hell - even compared to present-day movies, it still holds its own.
A movie about a ridiculous, macho white trucker. But a ridiculous, macho white trucker who just so happens to like to hang out in Chinatown after making his deliveries, playing fan-tan (a Chinese gambling game) with his Chinese buddies, and whose best friend happens to be a Chinese guy. In fact, they are such good friends that - without a thought - this macho white trucker gets himself involved in a deadly adventure to help his friend get back his girl.
You think that concept didn't grab a hold of me? You think - even as a 6 year-old - I didn't notice how his Chinese friend imparts wisdom and fights like a badass while trying to keep the confused white guy from getting himself killed? You think I didn't soak in all the various cool Chinese heroes (and even cooler villains) filling the screen at all times, even if I was too young to really digest it all on a conscious level?
Because there were no other movies like it. Not before. Arguably - not after. A big, crazy American action-adventure movie where the Asian guys completely stole the show and were meant to. And this was a movie starring Kurt Russell and directed by John Carpenter! A movie that just sunk its claws into my 6 year-old heart and never let go - even 23 years later.
Of course, it bombed in the theaters. Kurt Russell even noted going into it that it was going to struggle, "This is a difficult picture to sell because . . . It's a mixture of the real history of Chinatown in San Francisco blended with Chinese legend and lore . . . There are only a handful of non-Asian actors in the cast".****
But it has lived on. Even prevailed to become a huge cult classic. Kind of like a minority who doesn't let him/herself be silenced - if you stand up for yourself long enough, somebody's going to take notice.
So I suggest that all of you go check out the film. See if you can combine the joy of your six-year-old self with that of your conscious adult mind and rejoice that a movie with all this goodness was made two decades ago. And then ask yourself why so few like it have been made since . . .
* I remember watching the entire film all scrambled on tv when the pay-per-view channels were somewhat discernible at random times throughout a showing.
** He was the only Storm with no speaking lines, and - judging from Thunder's thick accent - it had to be because he didn't speak English at all . . .
*** When I was alone, I was "Lightning."
**** This particular quote ripped from Wikipedia (I swear I do real research on my own time . . .)
2 comments:
- uglyblackjohn said...
People laugh that I put Kung Fu Hustle on my list of movie Favs.
BIg Trouble was hella' funny with a lot af action.
It's still a cult favorite.
I never noticed the social aspect of the movie (we had abunch of Asian friends growing up) so it wasn't anything odd.
We had life to balance the media image of minorities.
- April 7, 2009 at 8:46 PM
- T.Tan said...
I'd never heard of this movie before tonight, and I'm really glad you could illuminate some of the social themes it deals with. I'm definitely gonna pick this one up!
- May 15, 2010 at 11:27 PM
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Ben Arfa has not trained with the first team during this pre-season, and his days seem to be numbered at Newcastle.
Alan Pardew – fell out with Ben Arfa
In the open training session today at St. James' Park, which should have just started at 9:00 am Newcastle time – he will not be participating at all.
And because of that Ben Arfa had arranged to meet with fans at a Newcastle city center bookstore tonight, but that has been called off, and we're pretty sure he was told to cancel that appointment by the club and probably be Alan Pardew himself.
Fans have already decided who is to blame for this altercation with one of the most skilled players at the club, but Newcastle now have to manage the situation – we are not taking any sides in this article.
It's got to be handled well in the next three weeks, otherwise it could all blow up, and have a negative impact at the beginning of what is a crucial season for Newcastle United.
We want Newcastle to do well this season, and real success would be finishing in the top six, and we still think that's possible – although there's a lot of hope in that statement. 😀
It certainly didn't help with the news last night that assistant manager John Carver, first team coach Steve Stone and goalkeeping coach Andy Woodman were informed on Saturday that a new system would be implemented and they now will not get any free family tickets.
That's been quickly picked up by the press, and it's another opportunity to hit Newcastle and Mike Ashley, although that decision could have been made by Lee Charnley.
If we just think about the coming season, the club has done well to get in nine good players this summer already, and the situation with Ben Arfa and to a lesser extent Jonas Gutierrez – who is not even in Newcastle at the moment – must be contained until September rolls around.
Otherwise the whole thing could blow up about how Ben Arfa has been fed to the wolves, and how Jonas has been badly treated, when it's not even clear what he did wrong last season.
It's just five days to go before our first game against Manchester City next Sunday afternoon – and Pardew and others get big money to handle (big) problems.
The very last thing we want to see is more negative headline in the press – we've had enough of that already this year.
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The press blows these things out of proportion.
Benny is in the reserves. He hasn't kicked off, refused to play/train or caused disharmony enough to alienate him from the club entirely.
Also quite right that the coaches don't get free tickets. We all know what happens. They give them to their mates or mates of mates and probably turn over a small profit. They have likely abused the system and generosity rather than Ashley being a cock. I hate Ashley as much as the next fan but if you jump on this to add to you're arsenal of Ashley hates then you are just clutching at straws and trying to find any way to bash him.
A message from the Back Page:
It is with great regret that we must announce that the planned appearance of Hatem Ben Arfa at The Back Page shop later today has been cancelled.
Since accepting the invitation last week, it has become increasingly clear that Hatem will be excluded from the training day event at St.James' Park today.
In light of the increasing media circus that news has prompted, both the Back Page and Hatem agree that staging the event would be counter-productive and cancellation is the most logical course of action.
Hatem sends his apologies and is saddened that he's unable to meet supporters at this time.
The shop remains open as usual today and we look forward to seeing many fans after they've visited SJP.
hmm tricky one this as if someone said to me if you dont play me in the team i'll go to the fans and tell them your bullying me i'd take that as a threat and they would be straight out of the team for being a baby and causing trouble for everyone.
if he wasnt such a good player on that odd day he does decide to play we wouldnt care (like jonas who nobody bats an eyelid at) i say let him go abroad free if needs be to stop trying to effect our players inc our new signings in a negative way.
This is a good move from Ben Arfa, it shows he does care and is willing to take some steps to put things right, whether he will do enough and whether the fat head Pardew will accept him back is another matter.
I am still of the belief that just because you have skill and flair shouldn't mean you don't defend, a lot of South American sides show that you can defend and attack as a team.
But that's our problem, the manager seems to struggle with the team playing as a whole in attack and defence so how much of this is Ben arfa's fault I'm not sure about. I think he can do more defensively as well as more offensively but I don't think he is as big a problem as the manager makes out by any stretch.
To me this is a win win for HBA. It proves to me that the club who have tried to portray him as a trouble maker have somewhat backfired. They started a PR battle and have lost, good on the lad though….maybe he's not the petulant bad boy the club have tried to make out that he is…to the doubters looks like HBA has disappointed yous by agreeing to cancel this, surely if he's as bad as yous seem to think he is then he'd just tell them to stuff it go to the press directly and tell all!!
Pardew ain't a manager & never will be until he can "manage" players like HBA….. & that is not going to happen.
Is he the most unpopular manager Newcastle have ever had ?
I've seen them all since the 50's & he gets my vote for the most arrogant/useless/spineless jumped up excuse for a manager/coach that I have ever seen at the Town.
Pardew Out !!!
It's safe to say players like him should be asked to press high up the pitch rather than tracking back and occupying a place on the wing….to sit in and defend. On the continent they prefer the pressing style as following players and occupying positions just leads to disaster.
Having said that though surely the fact he hardly featured in the 2nd half of the season except from the bench is an indicator that he wasn't the actual issue and it was the bullshit tactics.
Only Ruud 'sexy football' Guillit can hold a candle to Pardew as far as unpopularity.
BUT he is the boss's man and he's doing ok, as long as Mike is holding the keys and wallet we'll get no one better as other managers will either be worse tactically or will want to spend and spend or even worse – both.


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These two rarely heard quartets offer a glimpse into the personal crises of their respective composers. Sibelius, struggling with his alcoholism and cancer scare, inscribed the words "Voce intimae" in a friend's copy of this score. Janacek composed this quartet, originally entitled "Love Letters", while mired in a lengthy and one-sided obsession with a married woman 38 years his junior to whom he wrote hundreds of love letters.
Erin Burkholder, violin
Jeremy Gabbert, violin
Peter Blake, viola
Kathleen de Caen, cello
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Towards an Autonomic Auto-scaling Prediction System for Cloud Resource Provisioning
This paper investigates the accuracy of predictive auto-scaling systems in the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) layer of cloud computing. The hypothesis in this research is that prediction accuracy of auto-scaling systems can be increased by choosing an appropriate time-series prediction algorithm based on the performance pattern over time. To prove this hypothesis, an experiment has been conducted to compare the accuracy of time-series prediction algorithms for different performance patterns. In the experiment, workload was considered as the performance metric, and Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Neural Networks (NN) were utilized as time-series prediction techniques. In addition, we used Amazon EC2 as the experimental infrastructure and TPC-W as the benchmark to generate different workload patterns. The results of the experiment show that prediction accuracy of SVM and NN depends on the incoming workload pattern of the system under study. Specifically, the results show that SVM has better prediction accuracy in the environments with periodic and growing workload patterns, while NN outperforms SVM in forecasting unpredicted workload pattern. Based on these experimental results, this paper proposes an architecture for a self-adaptive prediction suite using an autonomic system approach. This suite can choose the most suitable prediction technique based on the performance pattern, which leads to more accurate prediction results.
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Nikravesh, A.Y. (Ali Yadavar), Ajila, S, & Lung, C.H. (2015). Towards an Autonomic Auto-scaling Prediction System for Cloud Resource Provisioning. Presented at the 10th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems, SEAMS 2015. doi:10.1109/SEAMS.2015.22


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In case you haven't noticed, McDonald's has been struggling lately, with U.S. sales down 4.6 percent in November and global sales down 2.2 percent. That month also marked their fourteenth consecutive one without growth.
In response, their CEO, Don Thompson, admitted that the fast food giant has not done enough to keep pace with changing consumer preferences.
"We haven't been changing at the same rate as our customers' eating-out expectations," said Thompson, acknowledging that the burger joint can't rely on its old model forever. To begin to combat the decline in sales, McDonald's is attempting a mix of customer service changes and a feel-good ad campaign about "lovin," based on their long-standing slogan, "I'm Lovin' It."
Some of their tactics can be applied to all sorts of restaurants. Here are three lessons that other restaurants can learn from the McDonald's plight and from its attempt to turn it around:
1. Simplify Your Offerings
One focus of McDonald's recovery efforts has been on simplifying their menus, which have over time grown bloated and overwhelming for patrons. Their goal with simplification is to speed up service and win back customers.
Today's McDonald's menu features 121 items—a 75 percent increase from a decade ago. The fast food chain plans to remove eight items from the menu and reduce the selection of extra value meals from 16 to 11. The hope is that this will help workers learn the menu quicker and also allow them to get food to their customers faster and with fewer errors.
Another challenge McDonald's has faced is that customers are very drawn to the Dollar Menu, so it has been difficult to do away with those items, even as the difference in price between them and "premium" items has changed dramatically.
Overall, the aim to simplify their menus is a recognition of consumer preferences for a streamlined experience that doesn't slow down their busy lives.
Restaurants of all types can take a cue from McDonald's focus on simplicity. Rather than offering a huge menu full of many types of options, it may make more sense to do your research and select a curated list of items that you are certain your patrons will like.
Additionally, simplifying the base menu can allow for more room to offer seasonal specialities, limited-time offers and unique regional dishes alongside your staple items.
2. Offer Customization
While it may seem contradictory on the surface, in addition to simplicity, McDonald's is adding a renewed focus on customization. They are now testing out a program called "Create Your Taste," which uses technology to offer patrons the ability to personalize their sandwiches in-store.
Starting this year, customers at 2,000 U.S. McDonald's locations will be able to use a kiosk to select the type of bread, meat and toppings they'd like, offering more choices than has previously been doable at scale for the fast food chain.
The touchscreen interface will give walk-in diners options that include premium ingredients like guacamole, brioche buns and thick-sliced bacon as well. After McDonald's ranked last out of 20 restaurants in Consumer Reports' burger index last year, the company decided to renew its focus on producing higher-quality food that patrons are excited to consume.
Further demonstrating their focus on the customer experience, these customized sandwiches will be served open-faced in a wire basket and hand-delivered by employees to the table, a big change from the quick and impersonal counter service model McDonald's has long relied on.
Restaurants like Chipotle have changed consumer expectations around taste, freshness and customization, which has forced industry stalwarts like McDonald's to reconsider their approach.
To apply this to your restaurant, consider offering a few menu items that are easily customizable, such as pizza, burgers or pasta dishes. This type of service can go a long way toward making your customers feel valued and, if done right, it doesn't need to be a huge cost sink for your business.
3. Focus on Fresh and Healthy
Finally, McDonald's is shifting its menu to address consumers' desire for fresher and healthier food in general. The company is adding more healthy menu items, including in Happy Meals.
McDonald's has been losing ground for a while to companies like Chipotle and Panera that offer healthier and fresher menu options than the fast-food chain historically has. They've largely ignored those qualities in favor of convenience and comfort, but patrons' tastes are changing.
Although McDonald's is able to say now that many of their menu items have less fat and calories than their leading competitors, this hasn't been enough to convince savvy customers that their food is healthy. While Chipotle burritos contain more calories than a Big Mac, the company has succeeded in presenting their food as healthy, fresh and tasty, which gives them a significant leg up.
As Fortune put it, "natural, unprocessed, and sustainable" are, "qualities that matter more to today's consumers than 'low fat' and 'low calorie.'" McDonald's is starting to recognize this difference.
And McDonald's is banking on their move to shorter ingredient labels, fewer preservatives and healthier options to bring in two key demographics: families with young children and millennials.
Any restaurant can learn from the shift in consumer preferences and perspective that has motivated McDonald's to change their menu. While it's a good idea to include calorie and nutrient counts on your menus to help consumers make better decisions, it's important to understand that consumers are wising up to the information beyond the numbers.
Where it makes sense, you should focus on and highlight foods that are organic, natural, sustainable and minimally processed. Along with price, this is what matters to consumers today.
McDonald's may be struggling right now, but the fast food chain has built a very successful business over the last 75 years. The company is run by smart people who are now looking closely at consumer and industry trends to better understand what it is that quick-service patrons want from their restaurants of choice. A focus on simplicity, customization, freshness and healthiness can be beneficial to restaurants of all stripes when it comes to attracting and maintaining customers in today's complex business climate.


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Hello guys! Intro, Nurul Shakirah. Still studying. TiJB student as well. Im shorty girl :P Haha. Okay, many of you wondering right what am I going to do for my blogy. Nothing much for sure la, because I dont love writing actually. Haha. As for you all to know, my all published post is what just I want to share. That all. I'm not a copycat ok! Thanks for the reading. Enjoy your life with smile. See ya!
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Ya Allah. Tenangkanlah hati hambamu yang lemah ini. Sesungguhnya hati ini masih dalam resah dan gelisah. Jauhkanlah ia daripada perkara perkara buruk. Amin :)
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The following are the obligations of Replicators/Duplicators of optical and magnetic media. THIS LIST IS NOT EXHAUSTIVE and may be amended, revised, or superseded at any time. Replicators/Duplicators are strongly advised to seek legal counseling to know all your obligations under the law and avoid the inconvenience of litigation:
1. Importation and Exportation
a. To obtain import clearances from the Board prior to the importation of all machines and materials to be used or capable of being used in the production of discs;
b. To obtain export clearances from the Board prior to the exportation of all finished products, machines, and materials to be exported to other countries;
c. To allow portside inspection of any shipments imported or exported;
2. Day-to-Day Management of the Plant
a. To comply with all record-keeping obligations stated below;
b. To designate a Compliance Officer whose job shall be to see to the compliance of the plant with the law and directives of the OMB;
c. To disclose all details of and have registered all machines and molds;
d. To keep and maintain all licensed machines, stampers, and records at the licensed address;
e. To obtain and apply for a SID code for each replicating machine or mold, including spare molds (mould code), and mastering machine (laser beam recorder code), unless one has already been assigned by the IFPI or Philips, and, in case of the latter, to disclose all SID codes assigned to the Replicator;
f. To use the SID codes (mould code and laser beam recorder codes) on all finished products and stampers manufactured or to be found at the premises;
g. To keep all stampers and screens/films/plates within the licensed facility;
h. To allow inspection teams to test machinery and obtain a minimum of three (3) samples from each manufacturing line for each visit;
i. To give access, without any delay whatsoever, to OMB officers conducting an inspection or search warrant operation to all areas of the facility, and to all other areas or premises controlled by the Replicator where any molds, stampers, screens, production records, and authorizations are stored, including access to computers being used in the office and production areas;
j. To immediately surrender any and all machines and other equipment, raw materials, records and computers to the custody of the Board in the event of a prima facie finding of a violation of the law or rules;
k. To obtain the necessary permits regarding the transfer, storage, or other disposition of machines and molds;
l. To sell, export or destroy machines for which the license is disapproved or expires, is not renewed or is terminated for cause, provided the machines are not otherwise forfeited or confiscated in favor of the government, and to fully disclose to the Board all details of any such disposition, subject to other obligations stated herein.
3. Record-Keeping
a. To keep, maintain and make available on demand detailed production records of all discs manufactured, destroyed and disposed of, including titles, quantity of discs produced , and complete and accurate records of all transactions with clients, and record of purchase and consumption of raw materials;
b. Beginning October 1, 2005, to submit a monthly production report in a form to be prescribed by the Board;
c. To keep detailed records of all transactions of clients, including copies of Commercial Replication Licenses, Commercial Permits, job orders, authorizations, receipts, and other documents relating to the transactions of clients;
d. To keep, maintain and make available on demand detailed records of all purchases, importation, of raw materials and the suppliers thereof;
e. To keep a running inventory of the raw materials as against the production of discs;
f. To keep records for a minimum period of five (5) years;
g. To keep all records at the licensed address;
h. To make all records available, without delay, upon demand by the OMB;
4. Authorization to Replicate
a. To replicate on those titles with valid and subsisting Commercial Replication Permits or Commercial Permits issued by the Board;
b. In the case of foreign clients, to obtain a replication/commercial permit for each job order/request prior to production, submitting such documents as may be required to satisfy the requirement of authority;
c. To refrain from replicating any copyrighted material without the necessary permits or licenses from the OMB;
d. In the case of plants licensed to produce pre-recorded materials, to refrain from producing recordable discs, and in the case of plants licensed to produce recordable discs, to refrain from producing pre-recording materials.
5. Compliance with Labor, Immigration and other Laws
a. To comply with all laws regarding employee rights and benefits;
b. To comply with immigration laws with respect to the employment of aliens;
c. To refrain from producing pornographic materials;
d. To comply with local and national tax laws and to present tax clearances and/or certification under oath;
e. To observe and comply with all other laws of the Republic of the Philippines.
6. Effectivity – This Circular shall take effect immediately.
Quezon City, October 24, 2005.
HON. EDUARDO B. MANZANO (Sgd.)
Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerOFFICE OF THE CHAIRMAN & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER


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Fifth Harmony is giving us one more reason to want to be best friends with them.
Earlier this week, the group – Normani Kordei, Ally Brooke, Lauren Jauregui, and Dinah Jane – posted a super cute video wishing fans a happy Thanksgiving.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Fifth Harmony
Now, they're giving fans a behind-the-scenes look at what REALLY happened before they got the final shot.
Watch below and try not to smile!
ICYMI, watch Fifth Harmony's performance when they returned to the Dancing with the Stars ballroom for the season 25 finale.
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Community Group Connect – Celebrate this week!
Continue the celebration
This week at community group we are encouraging you to continue the celebrations together. Get out of the four walls you meet in, get the grill out and enjoy God's creation together, sabbaths and celebrations are extremely Biblical. Talk about all that God has done in your life during this study! Share stories and share life!


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Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. You lived first, and you are older than all need, older than all prayer. All things belong to you — the two-leggeds, the four-leggeds, the wings of the air and all green things that live. You have set the powers of the four quarters to cross each other. The good road and the road of difficulties you have made to cross; and where they cross, the place is holy. Day in and day out, forever, you are the life of things.
Therefore, I am sending a voice, Great Spirit, my Grandfather, forgetting nothing you have made, the stars of the universe and the grasses of the earth.
Therefore, I am sending a voice, Great Spirit, my Grandfather, forgetting nothing you have made, the stars of the universe and the grasses of the earth.
I think that it is a relatively good approximation to truth — which is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations — that mathematical ideas originate in empirics. But, once they are conceived, the subject begins to live a peculiar life of its own and is … governed by almost entirely aesthetical motivations. In other words, at a great distance from its empirical source, or after much "abstract" inbreeding, a mathematical subject is in danger of degeneration. Whenever this stage is reached the only remedy seems to me to be the rejuvenating return to the source: the reinjection of more or less directly empirical ideas.
Nations are represented by their poets and their writers in the open competition for the Nobel Prize. Consequently the award of the Prize by the Academy glorifies not only the author but the people whose son he is, and it bears witness that that nation has a share in the universal achievement, that its efforts are fruitful, and that it has the right to live for the profit of mankind. If this honour is premous to all, it is infinitely more so to Poland. It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph. Like Galileo, one is forced to think when before the eyes of the world homage has been rendered to the importance of Poland's achievement and her genius.
The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
I wonder will death be much lonelier than life. Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You can live close against other people yet your lives never touch. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even coming and going.


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I'm behind on getting the secondary characters' page set up with photos and bios so you'll just have to meet them here until I get caught up. Today, I managed to snag Romulus Jones, the alpha of the Jones werewolf pack and he's… *blinkblink* I'm not quite sure what your relationship with Caleb is, Mr. Jones.
Mister? Just call me Rom, darlin'. Everyone in the Jones pack is related by blood or marriage. I s'pose you could say the pup an' me are cousins, of a sorts.
You decided to send him to live with Mathias and basically grow up as Sade's pet, since she didn't realize he was a werewolf. Can you tell us why?
Sure. Caleb was an orphan. Granny Bea had her hands full watchin' all the young'uns even with their folks to ride herd on 'em. When Mathias asked fer a favor, who was I t'say no? Never hurts to have a master vampire who owes you a favor.
But why Caleb?
Cuz I figured Caleb would be a smart one. Most wolf packs are sorta…insular. We don't cotton much to folks outside our society. That's gonna cause us shit one o'these days so Caleb was sorta…what'd'ya call it?
A pilot program?
Yeah. Like that. He fits right in now. With humans. Other magicks. It's a good thing.
You appeared early on in Sade's life, Rom. Can you tell the readers what was going on?
*spit* Damn fae. They kept snatchin' 'er and takin' 'er to Vegas. Under the rules of the last treaty, Mathias couldn't go chargin' in t'get 'er back. But I could. I could sniff 'em out. An' then, if I couldn't steal 'er back, Mathias sent Roman. Ain't nobody in their right mind argues with a gargoyle Sentinel.
Yeah, Roman can seem a bit…intimidating. I'll throw the floor open to our readers now. Any of you have questions for Rom? You will answer them, right?
Well sure, li'l lady. I've got nothin' else goin' on t'day. Y'all ask away.
Anybody have questions?
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Several LHS marching band members take the knee during national anthem at football game
Several members of the Lawrence High School marching band took a cue from professional sports and took a knee while performing the national anthem at Friday night's football game.
At least seven band members and one cheerleader knelt in the minutes leading up to kickoff at the Lawrence High football stadium, where the Chesty Lions faced off against Olathe South.
Rollin Love, an LHS senior who participated in the protest, said he knelt in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback whose original protest over racial inequality in 2016 has since inspired countless others across professional, college and youth sports.
"Rarely are they ever indicted — and even less than that are they ever convicted," Love said, referring to accounts of police officers shooting unarmed black men.
Love, who was crowned as LHS homecoming royalty (the school adopted gender-neutral homecoming titles earlier this fall) at last week's football game, was joined by fellow clarinet player J'Den Nichols.
Nichols, like Love, was protesting Friday against police brutality, she said.
"I just think it's unfair how people of color are treated by the police, and how our country ignores it," said Nichols, a senior. "On the marching band, we kind of represent the school, and we need to take a stand on this issue."
She said the band members had planned their protest well in advance of Friday night's game. Their band director, Mike Jones, wasn't involved or even aware of the protest beforehand, Nichols said.
The kneeling began a few moments into "The Star-Spangled Banner," and was so subtle — only a handful of students knelt among the formation of 140-some band members — that several LHS fans told a Journal-World reporter that they hadn't even noticed the display.
But Betsy Hart, who attended the game with her husband, didn't mince words when expressing her opinion.
"I hate it," she said. "I think it's disrespectful to the country, to the flag."
Hart, an Ohio resident passing through the Lawrence area, said she attended the game to watch her granddaughter perform with the LHS Little Lions cheerleading clinic. She said her father had served in World War II, and she described kneeling protests as a generational difference between older and younger Americans.
"I hate that they don't stand," Hart said. "And I don't know that they should be allowed to play."
Amy Sanchez disagreed. Like Hart, she also belongs to a military family, but she doesn't take issue with students kneeling during the national anthem.
"My husband was in the Marine Corps, and he said he fought for freedom of speech for all Americans," said Sanchez, who said she attended Friday's game to watch her daughter perform in the LHS marching band.
Sanchez said she wasn't sure if her daughter had participated in the protest, but wouldn't have been surprised if she had. The Lawrence mother keeps a pocket-sized copy of the U.S. Constitution in her car, "so we talk about it a lot," she said of discussing the First Amendment with her kids.
In the wave of recent NFL protests, several media reports have surfaced of high school athletes facing punishment after taking the knee. While Lawrence school board policy does not specifically mention the national anthem, there are policies in place that "address practice and expectations that staff uphold students' rights to free speech," district spokeswoman Julie Boyle told the Journal-World earlier this week, before Friday's protest.
"The district's goal is to create a secure learning environment that enables students to fully engage in the educational process free from political or religious partiality," Boyle said in an email. "Students have the right to express their political/religious views in an open, honest and responsible manner, and in such a manner that reflects an attitude of tolerance and respect for others whose beliefs may differ."
Love and Nichols, the two band members who spoke to the Journal-World on Friday, said they would continue taking a knee at games throughout football season.
"I know it won't change the nation, but it might bring awareness to the situation," Nichols said. "It's not much, but it's something."
Because the LHS football team typically does not enter the field until after the national anthem, players' actions during the song are not visible to the public.


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"Istanbul was the last stop of Spice Road," explains Somer Sivrioglu, owner and executive chef of Efendy restaurant in Sydney. The spice trade was hugely popular from the Middle Ages into modern times, and Istanbul's position as the last stop on the route meant what commodities they didn't collect, the citizens grew themselves.
Given it was one of the most commonly traded spices, the variety of dishes using cinnamon as a main ingredient is not suprising. "If you think about it, cinnamon as a spice, is actually quite spicy," Sivrioglu says. This explains why the spice is used in more than just sweets and desserts. It is actually one of the main ingredients in some staple savoury dishes, such as dolma stuffing and savoury puddings. "It's a funny spice – you can put it with all different types of ingredients and it will still complement them."
As we begin to discuss in more detail the flavours that form the base of his cuisine, Sivrioglu recalls his first encounter with the unique pistachio nut of Turkey – another commonly used and traded ingredient. As a young boy he traveled to Gaziantep, one of the oldest regions of Turkey, to taste his first baklava. As he was handed the sticky slice, the chefs revealed that this special treat was made with what they called "bird shit" pistachios. It took a little time for young Sivrioglu to understand that this was just a cheeky reference, a joke at the expense of the tiny nuts.
The under-average size of the nuts is due to the Turks' method of harvesting, picking the nuts before they've matured and had time to develop a natural saltiness. The nuts are picked at a point in their growth when they have a rich flavour, making them perfect complements to some of Turkey's most famous desserts, including its traditional baklava, the recipe and trade of which has survived many hundreds of years. However, leave the green nuts on the tree longer, and they begin to develop their signature earthy saltiness, better for savoury dishes.
Separately, many of Turkey's basic ingredients have their own characteristics, but mix them all together and you can make a variety of fantastic dishes. The cuisine is all about balance; salty and sweet, soft and crunchy, fresh and rich and mixing ingredients in a way that creates these delicate balances.
Historically, the mixing of pistachios and cinnamon with honey came from the oldest and still most common dessert in the region, A?ure. The sweet is made of 41 dried ingredients, held together with sticky honey and dried fruits such as dates and apricots. According to legend, the recipe originated when Noah, upon arriving on dry land for the first time, was without any fresh resources, so used these dry and preserved ingredients to make a special sweet to sustain himself.
Although Sivrioglu says many of the region's famous recipes, such as asure, were crafted as a result of scarcity and the necessity to balance the ingredients at hand, the reality today is that, usually, resources are abundant. "If it doesn't grow in your country, then it will arrive as a commodity," he explains. "But historically, excellence comes from scarcity.
"There were times when the area had access to these few ingredients they could get from the ground, so they had to discover new ways to approach them."
For Turks, agriculture is the bread and butter of their culture. Hundreds of years have been spent surviving off the land. This culture is still ingrained in what Sivrioglu does every day at his restaurant in Sydney, shying away from stereotypes, focusing rather on the blessing of abundance.
Naturally, his influences come from home, but the basics he has learned, added to the free flow of cultural influences, creates room for experimentation. "I try to stay away from classifying the cuisine to each country; Persia, Turkey, Greece," Sivrioglu says. "It's food of the land, of the peninsula. And different people approach it differently."
This piece was produced in partnership with CONNOISSEUR Empire Collection, which includes the 'King Cyrus of Persia' ice cream with pistachio, cinnamon, honey and date.


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1908 – AT&T gained control over the Western Union and was able to share lines when needed and made it possible to order telegrams by telephone.
1913 – The two companies separated to prevent the government from invoking antitrust laws. The Western Union prospered and served the U.S. armed forces during both WWI and WWII.
1914 – The teletypewriter was invented and allowed the incoming electric signal to be decoded automatically and typed onto a strip of ticker tape (and eventually directly to a blank form) for delivery. A person wanting send a telegram would call a telegraph office and dictate their message to an operator. The cost of this service would be charged to the caller's phone bill.
Or, a customer could go to a telegraph office and write their message on a form that would further be rendered into Morse code. Business customers would be supplied with pads of blank forms which messenger boys would carry to the telegraph office throughout the day.
1917 – Beyond financial purposes, some codes were created for confidentiality reasons such as the Zimmermann telegram between political figures.
1920's – Telegram rates depended on the distance the message had to travel, the speed with which it needed to be delivered, and the word length of the message. For instance, a ten-word telegram sent within a city only cost 20 cents as opposed to one sent from Chicago to New York City would cost 60 cents. Most people preferred to keep their messages as brief and concise as possible to keep down on the cost.
The first line of telegrams, or the "check", included highly abbreviated information of where the telegram had come from, what class of service it was, how many words it contained, etc. The name and address of the recipient followed. The telegram was folded and placed into a window envelope showing the name and address of the recipient.
P.S. If you happened to miss last week's history on the telegram, you can catch up with Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3!
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Last week, I decided to do something different for my solo bass show at Adventure Brewing Company South. I invited special guests Bruce Middle (guitar) and Bart Balderson (drums) to join me on the gig as a trio.
We covered my solo bass arrangement of Eleanor Rigby, which someone described as "the Eleanor Rigby superjam"….running through a range of musical genres as the jam evolved. Many thanks to Chris Welborn, our sound guy for the evening, for catching the jam on video.


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This bright red wooden toy fire engine comes complete with 4 peg fire-service people.
See the firemen ride inside the truck or climb the ladder
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ORANGE, Calif - The Chapman University track and field teams are ready to hit the ground running this season with new head coach DeAndra'e Woods leading the charge. Coming from a coaching position at Concordia University, Coach Woods looks to take the team to new heights as the team has grown in roster size during the offseason.
The men's team now bolsters 21 student-athletes on the roster including 12 new members – 10 of whom are freshman. While the women's team has 17 student-athletes, including 10 freshman. The Panthers hope to use their new roster to improve their standing in the SCIAC.
Coming off of a season where the Panthers lost their team's leading scorer, Mitchell Bouldin, and long-time coach, Anna Wlodarczyk, the team looks to start fresh as they head into their season opener this Saturday at Soka University.
Along with several newcomers, the team's returning members hope to lead their team. For the men's team senior Kyle Brown looks to lead the 4x400 team throughout the season. The team's leading scorer for the throwing team, junior Cedric Cole, looks to improve on his marks from last season.
Sophomore Lauren Miller, who broke the school shot put record as a freshman, is back to better her marks in the throws. Another school record holder returns to the squad in 2018 as junior Josie Chan returns after breaking the triple jump a year ago.
The Panthers finished eighth in both the men's and women's standings last year but have their sights set on taking a step upward with the 2018 season getting underway.
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I saw Anna. 11yr old. Female. Green big eyes…
Hair loss ( due to Chemo ). But feeling well and walking to the machine. Eyes ??
5400cGy/30 prescribed
She had presented with expanding left neck mass with cranial nerves palsie —> 7, 10 , 12
Then I saw Dardan.
15yr old. Male. Feeling well. ECOG 0.
Orbital Rhabdomyosarcoma.
Started to have increasing redness in left eye. Left upper lid edema. Slightly limited adduction @ left side.
Large hyperemic mass; firm; elevated; non-mobile; non-tender; disrupting medial canthal architecture of the plica towards the crancule and extended over the limbus!
Tumor appeared quite vascular!
Fundal Exam —> Infranasal orbital mass displacing scleral, choroid, retina ==> Proptosis
18-20mm @ US
Biopsy —> Embryonal Rhbadomyosarcoma
EBRT via IMRT : 4500cGy/25 in two phases : 3780/21 + 720/4
Because of chance of increased peri-orbital edema from RT Prednisone 60mg/day was started.
Started with severe proptosis. After 10fr double vision gone and no proptosis —> Had to have repeat CT-Sim
In after care clinic I saw another survivor from Rhabdomyosarcoma Parotid Left… Doing well.
** Be careful .
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I am still not sure how I got here. Here! I mean the point I am standing right now…
I am not very old but not very young any more… I have learned a lot. I have seen a lot. And if one thing I have learned in this world is that everything / every emotion / every status / every object is meant to end at some point and you barely have control on it…
I am not an English speaking person! I am not anglophone. I am however studying in an English institute in North America. I am not sure if I can develop this website in the way I'd like. But I will try. It makes studying a bit more fun…
At the moment I am not really hoping anyone come across this website as it's TOO immature… But if by any chance you come, I welcome you and I hope you find what you are searching for, if not here somewhere else soon :)


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Use apathy in a sentence
- She was much worn with the vigil she had kept, and received me with an apathy to frighten me. [9]
- But the apathy was dispelled now, and she shrank from giving Jethro pain by mentioning the fact. [9]
- He opened out the pages with a slowness that seemed almost apathy, while the man opposite clinched his hands on the table spasmodically. [11]
- There was a strange apathy in his senses, an emotional stillness, as it were, the atrophy of all the passionate elements of his nature. [11]
- An apathy had settled upon his nerves. [11]
- Yet despite the pain of finality there was on him something of the apathy of despair. [11]
- Envy not the old man the tranquillity of his existence, nor yet blame him if it sometimes looks like apathy. [6]
- The dumb desolation lifted a little, and a look of under standing seemed to pierce her tragic apathy. [11]
- She had sunk into a dreary apathy and would not be roused. [5]
- He seemed sunk in apathy and to crave nothing but peace. [10]
- An hour ago he had been drifting on a sea of apathy, and had had his fill of life. [11]
- No space of deaf apathy followed. [14]
- And as if by a lightning stroke she sprang from her dull apathy into exquisite torture. [13]
- Many a human being has realised the apathy, the partial paralysis of the will, succeeding a great struggle, which has exhausted the vital forces. [11]
- A strange apathy began to settle on me. [11]
- Shiel half turned away, not sullen, not morose, but with a strange apathy settled on him. [11]
- He listened with apathy. [5]
- It pierced the apathy of the dying. [11]
- Her words had a strange solemnity, a tragic apathy. [11]
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Managing Change in Challenging Times
This short programme aims to provide registered nurses & midwives with evidenced informed knowledge to critically develop nurses' theoretical and practical understanding of how change management in healthcare can result in the achievement of change projects, goals and vision. The content will focus on change management models, identifying the HSE change model in particular.
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|6 hours
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|Registered nurses and midwives
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Ms Catherine Clune Mulvaney, Operations & Education Manager, Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Programme aims
- To provide registered nurses and midwives with up-to-date, evidenced based knowledge to critically develop nurses' theoretical and practical understanding of how to lead and manage change successfully.
- To support registered nurses and midwives in enhancing their confidence, skills and competences, with regard to the successful leading and managing of change.
Learning outcomesAt the end of this CPD programme, participants will be able to:
- Critically discuss the factors influencing change and undertake a SWOT analysis.
- Critically analyse the different models of change.
- Critically discuss why reasons why change projects succeed and fail.
- Critically discuss the HSE change model and its applicability in practice.
- Critically discuss the emotional responses to change processes.


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Shed Winter Weight
Nutrition Tip of the Week:
Want to lose weight? Figure out why you have no energy? Determine the best foods to fuel your workout?
The answer is simple…..WRITE IT DOWN. Let's say that again- Write it THE HECK down!
Researchers suggest that the most effective way to reach your nutritional goals is by keeping a food journal. By recording everything you eat and drink, from your full breakfast buffet to that one sip of Gatorade, you gain a better understanding of what can trigger unhealthy patterns, lack of energy or motivation, and food intolerances. Food journaling also forces you to be honest with yourself, so you take responsibility for your diet, and determine where changes need to be made. When food journaling, consider the following:
Be honest – record everything you eat AND drink!
Be accurate – measure or approximate portions, read labels
Be complete – include details such as how the food was prepared, and the addition of any toppings or condiments
Be consistent – always carry your food diary with you or use a diet-tracking app on your smart phone (My Fitness Pal is great example!)
Record everything you eat for 3 consecutive days, then take a look back and consider the choices you made. What patterns do you see? Where could changes me made? What substitutions could you use? What could you eliminate? What could you add? Chose one change to make then set a goal for the following 3 days. It's an easy step to take in creating a healthy lifestyle.
No, not like the Skittles commercial, I mean a rainbow of fruits and vegetables . Try to eat one from each color group a day for optimum energy!
Green- indicates antioxidants and may help promote healthy vision and reduce cancer risks.
Orange and deep Yellow - contain nutrients that promote healthy vision and immunity.
Purple and Blue -may have antioxidant and anti-aging benefits and may help with memory
Red -may help maintain a healthy heart, vision, immunity and may reduce cancer risks.
White, Tan, Brown-with nutrients that may promote heart health and muscle maintenance.
Emily here, I am a HUGE salty snack whore. Finding things to substitute my weakness is hard. But this fits in my "if it's 5 ingredients or less, I'll give it a whirl"
I will be adding a bit of spice and sprinkle parm on mine... But that's just me :-)
Here is Caitlin's quick and easy snack recipe of the week. She rocks!
Salty, crunchy snack foods are a weakness for most people. Instead of eating chips or popcorn or crackers, which quickly add up in unwanted pounds, make a batch of these delicious, crunchy kale chips. Kale chips are high in fiber and make a delicious crunchy snack.
Servings: 5
1 bunch kale, washed, thoroughly dried, and torn, stems discarded
1 Tablespoon olive oil
dash of salt and pepper
Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
In a large bowl mix the kale pieces with all of the ingredients.
Spread evenly on foil-lined baking sheets.
Bake for 12 minutes, watching closely that they do not burn. Remove from oven when crispy.
Nutritional Analysis: 51 calories, 3g fat, 68mg sodium, 5g carbohydrate, 1g fiber, 2g protein
Emily Witzel
Fitness Trainer
February 2016