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wordpress | …running through Target purchasing anything and everything I can find to bring back on the plane with me to the PRC.
Tagged American Expat, Asia, China, Hawaii, Shanghai, Trailing Spouse, USA!
From the suburbs to Shanghai, join the journey as a newly married 30 something makes her way through building a new life as an expat wife in China. See the success, frustration, failure and shenanigans that are sure to arise. | 2019-04-20T00:23:31Z | https://worldwifetraveler.wordpress.com/2013/04/ | Sports | Shopping | 0.984613 |
baylor | Statement of Responsibility words by Jack Brooks ; music by Harry Warren.
Other named persons Martin, Dean, 1917-1995; Lewis, Jerry, 1926-; Reed, Donna, 1921-1986; Paramount Pictures Corporation.
Note Caption title; Illustrated list title page in green, gray, white, and black; photograph of Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Donna Reed; list of 6 songs from the motion picture; "As sung in 'The caddy' starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, a Paramount release."; "Special picture release"--List title page; "From the Paramount picture 'The caddy' starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis with Donna Reed"--List title page; Excerpts from 3 George Shearing piano solo arrangements published by Famous Music Corporation on page 2; advertisement for Famous collection for the ukulele / Wendell Hall on unnumbered page; Staff notation; Chord symbols; Ukulele chord diagrams.
Subject - Library of Congress Songs with orchestra - Vocal scores with piano.; Songs with orchestra - Vocal scores with ukulele.; Popular music - United States - 1951-1960.; Motion picture music - Excerpts - Vocal scores with piano.; Motion picture music - Excerpts - Vocal scores with ukulele.; Love songs.; Martin, Dean, - 1917-1995 - Portraits.; Lewis, Jerry, - 1926 - -Portraits.; Reed, Donna, - 1921-1986 - Portraits. | 2019-04-22T00:26:46Z | http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cdm/ref/collection/fa-spnc/id/157614/ | Sports | Arts | 0.89203 |
statesman | Mac Haik is located at 5255 I H 35 South, Georgetown, TX 78626 where we feature an extensive inventory of new and used vehicles for you to come see, test drive and compare side by side. In addition, we also feature a finance department where we will work with you to make sure you find the absolute best payment plan to fit your budget. And as always, if you ever have any questions or concerns, feel free to give us a call anytime at 844-762-7334. | 2019-04-19T04:46:53Z | https://mylocal.statesman.com/georgetown-tx/auto/auto-dealers/mac-haik-dodge-chrysler-jeep-ram-georgetown-512-309-7596 | Sports | Business | 0.885105 |
yahoo | SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 31, 2019 -- GSI Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: GSIT), a leading provider of memory solutions for the networking, telecommunications and military markets, and.
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 21, 2019 -- GSI Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: GSIT), a leading provider of memory solutions for the networking, telecommunications, and military markets,.
GSI Technology, Inc. (GSIT), a leading provider of memory solutions for the networking, telecommunications, and military markets, and developer of the Associative Processing Unit (APU), a highly parallel in-place computing solution, reported that it will meet with investors today at the Needham Growth Conference at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel in New York City. In conjunction with this event, the Company is announcing its preliminary financial results for the third quarter fiscal year 2019 and providing an update on the APU. “Our preliminary third quarter results are stronger than anticipated due to design wins for our high-end SRAM line, and increased sales to our largest networking and telecommunications customer,” stated Lee-Lean Shu, GSI Technology Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 07, 2019 -- GSI Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: GSIT), a leading provider of memory solutions for networking, telecommunications and military, and developer.
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LONDON, UK / ACCESSWIRE / July 31, 2018 / If you want access to our free earnings report on Texas Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ: TXN), all you need to do is sign up now by clicking the following link www.active-investors.com/registration-sg/?symbol=TXN. The Company reported its second quarter fiscal 2018 operating and financial results on July 24, 2018. Additionally, the Company provided its guidance for the upcoming quarter.
LONDON, UK / ACCESSWIRE / May 14, 2018 / If you want access to our free earnings report on Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD) ("AMD"), all you need to do is sign up now by clicking the following link www.active-investors.com/registration-sg/?symbol=AMD. Advanced Micro Devices reported its first quarter fiscal 2018 operating and financial results on April 25, 2018. Active-Investors.com is currently working on the research report for GSI Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: GSIT), which also belongs to the Technology sector as the Company Advanced Micro Devices. | 2019-04-18T21:02:11Z | https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GSIT?p=GSIT | Sports | Business | 0.270029 |
chicagotribune | Corey Feldman reveals his alleged abuser's name on "Dr. Oz."
Corey Feldman went on "The Dr. Oz Show" on Thursday to name one of the men he alleges abused him when he was a child actor. Later in the day, he found himself defending a man with a similar name after people on social media started going after the wrong guy.
Feldman accused Cloyd Jon Grissom, a man with a criminal record that, according to "The Dr. Oz Show," includes convictions in California on child molestation charges.
After the show aired, the actor-turned-musician tweeted, "THE MAN WHO MOLESTED ME ISNT SPELLED JOHN, ITS SPELLED JON! JON C, PLEASE STOP HARRASSING THE WRONG MAN!"
Google searches of "John Grissom" on Thursday and Friday were showing, in a box on the upper right, two film credits that belonged to Cloyd Jon Grissom along with a link to a YouTube video of John Grissom of North Carolina. The latter Grissom, whom the search labeled as an actor, wound up getting nasty messages via social media.
"This message is to all my friends," John Grissom wrote Thursday on Facebook. "I want you all to know Google got my picture up with my name and underneath of that they got actor. I told them I'm no actor and these people are getting on here saying I molested this actor name corey feldman.
"I told these people I don't know him but they refuse to believe me," he added. "They are calling me a actor. I want you all to know this. I reported this to Google and Youtube. This is false I don't know him."
He later posted an image of Feldman's tweet clarifying the situation.
On television, talking about Cloyd Jon Grissom, Feldman said, "This guy, on his Myspace page and his Facebook page, has pictures of me and Corey Haim. He still taunts it and flaunts it." "Dr. Oz" showed a Myspace page that appeared to belong to the man he accused.
Grissom is listed on IMDB as having been in the 1988 movie "License to Drive" (as C. Jon Grissom) and 1989's "Dream a Little Dream" (as John Grissom) with Feldman and Haim, who died in 2010.
On the show, Feldman and Dr. Mehmet Oz contacted the Los Angeles Police Department via phone to ask whether a report could be taken on an alleged offense from 20 to 25 years ago. A detective explained that a report would be taken and interviews would be done, then a decision would be made on whether to move forward with the case. The show said it would turn off its cameras so Feldman could make a report.
The LAPD told the Hollywood Reporter on Thursday that while it had been made aware of the incident, no report had been taken.
Feldman has been trying to raise $10 million to make a feature film about what he experienced and what he observed when he was a young actor, and last week said he would name names once he had legal and physical protection via funding for that project. Between Monday and Friday, about $30,000 more had been pledged via Indiegogo toward the project, bringing the total to around $193,000. | 2019-04-24T12:10:03Z | https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-corey-feldman-names-alleged-abuser-20171103-story.html | Sports | News | 0.273626 |
pga | Tom Lehman is having one heck of a season for a guy who feels his swing has been out of whack.
Tom Lehman would have preferred a dramatic winning shot. Instead, he stuck with what had been working all weekend and waited for the other guy to miss.
Mark Calcavecchia gave away nearly all of his big lead in the Regions Tradition, setting up a tight final round at Shoal Creek.
Mark Calcavecchia well remembers the last time he opened a weekend contending for a major championship. This time, he's hoping for a better ending.
Tom Lehman enjoyed a rather ho-hum day on the course. He finished the first round of the Regions Tradition at Shoal Creek on Thursday with five birdies, no bogeys and a one-stroke lead over Nick Price, Mark Calcavecchia, Wayne Levi and Chien-Soon Lu.
Fred Couples is a couple of decades older since finishing second in the last major tournament at Shoal Creek, and he has the aching back to prove it.
The putt to extend the playoff looked like a tap-in to Kenny Perry. Maybe 14 inches. His opponents saw it as somewhat longer. Closer to 3 feet, they said. Bottom line: Perry missed.
Warm, dry weather made for prime scoring conditions at the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf on Saturday and teams did their best to take advantage in the better-ball event.
One team started fast, the other finished strong. The results were the same: tied for the lead after the first round at the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf.
John Cook won the Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am on Sunday for his second Champions Tour victory of the year, rebounding from a double bogey on the final hole of regulation with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff against Jay Don Blake.
John Cook shot a 6-under 65 take take a one-stroke lead at the Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am on Saturday. Cook sits at 11 under, one ahead of Russ Cochran. The first-day leader shot a 3-under 68. Jay Don Blake is third, three strokes back.
Russ Cochran isn't hitting his driver well. You would just never know it by his first-round score at the Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am.
Jim Thorpe paid for not paying. The 62-year-old golfer recently completed a one-year prison term for failure to pay $1.6 million in taxes between 2002 and 2004 and spent 10 months in an Alabama prison camp before transferring to a halfway house and home detention.
Tom Lehman made things look easy while taking the lead at the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic. Holding on for the victory proved a little more difficult. Lehman won his second Champions Tour title of the season Sunday, closing with a 3-under 69 at Fallen Oak.
Tom Lehman broke a course record with a 8-under 64 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead over Jeff Sluman after the second round of the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic at Fallen Oak.
Jeff Sluman tied a course record with a 6-under-par 66 on Friday to take a one-shot lead over Tom Lehman in the Champions Tour’s Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic at Fallen Oak.
Former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice will serve as honorary chairperson for the Champions Tour's Regions Tradition at Shoal Creek near her hometown. The Birmingham native, who was announced as chairperson on Tuesday, is a Shoal Creek member. | 2019-04-19T20:20:21Z | https://www.pga.com/topic/news/champions-tour?page=27&coi=508&npp=468&pp=0&mid=9&ep=5&du=www.pga.com%2Ftopic%2Fnews%2Fchampions-tour%3D90E6FA542AE2E5A73ED59DF493ECADA1 | Sports | Sports | 0.889314 |
mit | What is a "life" when it's written down? How does memory inform the present? Why are autobiographies and memoirs so popular? This course will address these questions among others, considering the relationship between biography, autobiography, and memoir and between personal and social themes. We will examine classic authors such as Mary Rowlandson, Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and Mark Twain; then more recent examples like Tobias Wolff, Art Spiegelman, Sherman Alexie, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Edwidge Danticat, and Alison Bechdel.
Wyn Kelley. 21L.512 American Authors: Autobiography and Memoir. Fall 2013. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA. | 2019-04-24T10:06:01Z | https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/21l-512-american-authors-autobiography-and-memoir-fall-2013/ | Sports | Arts | 0.97224 |
noaa | Catalog of the Oceanographic Equipment in the Collection of the Oceanographic Museum at Monaco. 6. "Thermometers" by Christian Carpine. Bulletin of the Institute of Oceanography. Volume 76, 1997, No. 1442. | 2019-04-21T14:24:37Z | https://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/ship4280.htm | Sports | Science | 0.920098 |
cnbc | Southwest Airlines on Thursday posted lower first-quarter earnings as a weak U.S. economy and record fuel costs took their toll on the leading U.S. discount carrier.
Quarterly net profit for Southwest was $34 million, or 5 cents per share, down from $93 million, or 12 cents per share, in the same period last year.
Excluding one-time items, profit was $43 million, or 6 cents a share, compared to $33 million, or 4 cents a share in the year-ago period.
Analysts on average had expected a profit of 1 cent a share, according to Reuters Estimates.
First quarter revenue rose 15 percent to $2.53 billion.
U.S. airlines are suffering under record fuel prices and a weakening domestic economy.
Although Southwest has a history of successfully hedging against higher fuel costs, it said on Thursday it is concerned about soaring energy costs.
Lines and Northwest Airlines and could spur a wave of further consolidation amid fears of falling travel demand. | 2019-04-24T02:19:21Z | https://www.cnbc.com/id/24178974 | Sports | Business | 0.856224 |
cornell | data associated with several papers, but particularly with Cutting, delong, & brunick (2018). "temporal fractals in movies and mind." Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 3(8), 1-21. Some of these data were also used in cutting (2016), "narrative theory and the dynamics of popular movies." Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23(6), 1317-1343, and Cutting, Brunick, & Candan (2012). "Perceiving event dynamics and parsing Hollywood films." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38(6), 1476-1490.
instructions: the first column in each file is the first frame of each shot, the second is its duration. Each file also often contains other information which you can ask me about if interested.
instructions: the third column has the shot motion (zero-order motion from the correlation of luminance values of pixels in next-adjacent frames), the fourth column has the mean of median luminance values in each frame across each shot, and the fifth column has the clutter calculations (from a Laplacian or Gaussian filter analysis). Files typically contain many other columns. Again, ask me if you want more information.
instructions: column five has the scale of the beginning of each shot. Column three has the segmentation results from three viewers of each movie.
Three digit code: [1--] or [0--] for presence or absence of a location change, [-1-] or [-0-] for presence or absence of a character change, and [--1] or [--0] for presence or absence of a time change. Thus the seven types of narrative shifts are: ,,,,,, and . is a nonshift within a scene. | 2019-04-25T11:52:05Z | http://people.psych.cornell.edu/~jec7/data2.htm | Sports | Recreation | 0.101752 |
npr | Kansas Votes More Money For Public Schools To Avert Shutdown : The Two-Way Legislators, pressured by the state Supreme Court, passed a $38 million package for the state's underfunded schools. Justices had threatened to close all public schools in Kansas after this month.
Kansas lawmakers, trying to head off a court shutdown of the state's public schools, have increased aid to poor districts by $38 million.
Four school districts sued the state in 2010 for more funding, and the state Supreme Court threatened to close the schools as of the end of June until state officials found a way to address inequities on the quality of education offered to children of different economic classes.
" 'In my view, maintaining the integrity of our state constitution and providing equitable educational opportunities for our children are too important for this court to be constrained by any concern that the legislature will be offended that we told it how to do its job. After all, this court has its own job to do, as well.' "
The additional aid comes from other state programs, according to the Associated Press.
"The action came after Kansas lawmakers pivoted Friday and dumped their earlier school finance plan in favor of another proposal that won't cut [.5 percent] from every school district in the state.
"The plan boosts aid to poor school districts by $38 million, just as a previous plan from Republican leaders did. It redistributes some funds from wealthier districts to meet a Kansas Supreme Court mandate to make the education funding system fairer to poor districts."
The governor is expected to sign the measure. | 2019-04-20T13:17:31Z | https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/24/483465889/kansas-votes-more-money-for-public-schools-to-avert-shutdown | Sports | Kids | 0.459068 |
brandeis | Now that everyone in the class is over the age of 80, some of us have changed our living arrangements. I have lived happily at a continuing-care community in Topeka, Kan., for the past eight years with old and new friends. Also living in some form of senior housing in the Boston area are Marilyn Weintraub Bentov; Arlyne Stone Brunswick; Eileen Dorfman Kessler, P’76, G’09; and Shayna Patkin Gochberg. Several other class members are exploring similar options. Some people find they are able to stay put. Lou Yaskin reports that he and his wife are fortunate that their sons live nearby and, since they no longer drive, that the stores and the library are within walking distance. Alan Greenwald and Paul Levenson, P’78, P’82, are still practicing law. Penny Peirez Abrams writes, “Despite promises that my fourth book, ‘A La Familia,’ would be my last (and is still unfinished), I’ve been trapped into a small fantasy tale about my fairy garden. Julie Koss recently added to it and has resculpted it, so we now have a collection of gnomes, fairies and frogs living in unison just outside the floor-to-ceiling living room window. I am working on this tale, titled ‘Eretz Pninah,’ whilst Julie makes a sign for it. It is only for those who can enjoy a happy fantasy, which I use to escape this lunatic world.” Marvin March, P’93, P’94, and Rita Sacks-March ’64, P’93, P’94, frightened me with a mysterious “stop and desist” message about their availability from May to July 2013. The mystery was solved, however: They went east for the birth of a grandson and then to Europe (Brussels and Antwerp, canal trip in France, Paris, and then several places in Spain). Marvin writes, “This was a big trip for us — and we hope to do some more traveling soon.” These recent trips and future ones should satisfy his childhood desire to join the Merchant Marine and see the world. How are all of you doing with your bucket list? Max Perlitsh reports that, as of June 30, 2013, the Class of 1952 Endowed Scholarship had received $931,600 in gifts and pledges. Our $1 million goal is in reach. Remember that building the scholarship will allow talented and deserving students to benefit from a Brandeis education. To make your gift, contact Lisa Fleischman, director of annual and special gifts, in the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, at 781-736-4062 or [email protected]. | 2019-04-19T00:46:55Z | http://www.brandeis.edu/magazine/2014/winter/class-notes/1952.html | Sports | News | 0.351726 |
pbs | President Donald Trump says his top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, has suffered a heart attack. Trump tweeted just minutes before his historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that Kudlow is being treated at Walter Reed Medical Center.
A look at some of Trump's recent statements and how they stack up with the facts. | 2019-04-21T23:37:06Z | https://www.pbs.org/newshour/tag/donald-trump-tweets | Sports | Health | 0.766147 |
wordpress | Brent Dill (who goes by the handle Ialdabaoth, and in some cases frustrateddemiurge) abused and sexually assaulted two people I know, Persephone and T. You may find their stories, as well as the story of T’s partner Jonathan, here.
I have been friends with T for many years and can vouch for her reliability and the consistency of her story. Many details of both Persephone and T’s stories have been confirmed by people who were present. Documentation, including text message conversations and “slave contracts”, has been shown to trustworthy people.
There is at least one other Brent Dill, who lives in Texas, likes basketball, and tweets here. If you are a different Brent Dill who has not abused anyone, I would be happy to include a description or your photo so that you are not mistaken for the abusive Brent Dill. If you are uncertain whether your Brent Dill is the correct Brent Dill, please contact me.
I thought for a long time about whether I should post this. I am hesitant to link someone’s legal name and photo to their online accounts; I am aware this may cause him to lose jobs, which in our society may mean hunger or homelessness. However, the rationalist community is not the first community where Brent has abused people. He has shown no sign that he will refrain from abusing in the future. I think that informing future victims is more important, at this point, than protecting Brent’s reputation and employability.
Further, Brent Dill’s Google results already include a discussion of his abusiveness. Unfortunately, the discussion is of a sort that, I’m afraid, Brent could easily twist to support his own narrative of persecution. I hope that a factual description of his actions is harder for him to spin as an attack. I also worry about splash damage onto innocent Brent Dills, which I tried to minimize by including a photo of the non-innocent Brent Dill and a description of the innocent Brent Dill I know about. The other discussion also (through no fault of its own) includes no contact person for people who are concerned about Brent’s presence in their community.
If Brent Dill is part of your community, or if you or a friend are dating or considering dating him, please email me at [email protected]. I can provide corroboration for T and Persephone’s stories that is not available publicly and talk with you about next steps. If you know about a publicly available story of Brent abusing someone or other reliable information about his abusiveness, please post it in the comments here, email me, or email Mittens Cautious, so that future people can make informed decisions. | 2019-04-18T18:37:11Z | https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/tag/brent-cw/ | Sports | Reference | 0.130741 |
mcgill | Boberg, Charles. 2010. The English Language in Canada: Status, History and Comparative Analysis. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
Boberg, Charles. 2009. "The Emergence of a new phoneme: Foreign (a) in Canadian English". Language Variation and Change 21/3: 355-380.
Boberg, Charles. 2008. “Regional phonetic differentiation in Standard Canadian English.” Journal of English Linguistics 36/2: 129-154.
Labov, William, Sharon Ash, and Charles Boberg. 2006. Atlas of North American English: Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change. Berlin: Mouton/de Gruyter.
Boberg, Charles. 2005. "The North American Regional Vocabulary Survey: Renewing the study of lexical variation in North American English." American Speech 80/1: 22-60. | 2019-04-22T12:17:09Z | https://www.mcgill.ca/linguistics/people-0/faculty/boberg | Sports | Reference | 0.519191 |
indiatimes | NEW DELHI: The three-day Indo-Africa ICT Expo, which was held in Kenya recently, saw Indian IT and telecom companies sealing 10 agreements and garnering business of over Rs 40 crore with African organisations.
Some 100 firms took part in the event on September 1-3.
"I strongly believe that India has vast experience in setting up of ICT infrastructure and the experience can be leveraged by the government as well as the private sector in African nations. To explore synergies on the ground, I have with me about 100 ICT companies from India participating in this event," Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha said in a statement.
The event was supported by the respective governments and attended by over 2,500 visitors and over 300 delegates.
"The event had more than 400 business to business meetings between Indian and African countries. It saw a very large number of business enquiries. There were already more than 10 MoUs and more than Rs 40 crore worth of business. In addition, there is demand for setting up of training centre and technology transfer," the statement said.
Business leaders from India, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, the UK, Israel, South Sudan, Rwanda, Mauritius and Commonwealth Telecom Organization participated in the event.
Sinha extended an invite to the large business delegations from the participating countries for an event to be organised by TEPC in India so that contacts developed in Nairobi get translated into concrete business.
Telecommunication Equipment & Services Export promotion Council (TEPC), India, organises BuyerSeller Business meets in New Delhi where potential buyers from across the globe are invited to meet telecom equipment and service suppliers of India to develop long-term business relations.
The event for 2016 has been planned from October 3-5 in New Delhi and Bengaluru, respectively. | 2019-04-19T18:59:54Z | https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/indo-africa-ict-expo-sees-indian-it-telcos-sign-10-mous/54161455 | Sports | Business | 0.959074 |
uproxx | It’s been 15 months since Kim Kardashian broke the Internet (and Pam from Archer fixed it), and the world still hasn’t recovered. It’s Mad Max out there — the nefarious Egg Council is running Twitter, Facebook was overtaken by racist uncles sharing poorly Photoshopped political memes, and MySpace is a barren wasteland. Okay, so nothing’s changed since November 2014, when Kardashian wore nothing at all (“nothing at all…”) for Paper. If anything, the Internet’s gotten even better, because now we have Full Holes in our lives.
Earlier today, Kardashian shared a selfie on her Instagram with the caption, “When you’re like I have nothing to wear LOL.” That is so what I’m like when I have nothing to wear. Anyway, considering Kardashian gave birth to Saint only 13 weeks ago, can you blame her for wanting to show off her body? | 2019-04-25T20:13:54Z | https://uproxx.com/viral/kim-kardashian-nude-selfie-break-the-internet/ | Sports | Society | 0.38026 |
rit | Accessing the training site requires you to use either Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari web browser. All other browsers are currently not supported.
– Accessing the website will require two things.
Visit the following web site to test your Java installation.
– How do I make this work once I verified my Java plug-in works? | 2019-04-21T04:59:03Z | https://inside.cad.rit.edu/facilties/safety-training-how-to-access-the-website/ | Sports | Computers | 0.804934 |
wikidot | Life in the Harry Potter novels is divided into two worlds. The first world is one very similar to our own; a world where lawns are orderly, theoretical education is valued, and societal norms come before all else. The setting of this world is in modern day England beginning in the year of 1980 and ending in the summer of 1997. Rowling, a native of Britain herself, provides her characters in this world with all the modern conveyances of the day. Indeed, the setting of this first, English world is filled with computers, televisions, escalators, parking meters, and a myriad of other technological solutions to modern day problems. This world full of technology and modernity is also populated by non-wizarding citizens, more commonly known as Muggles.
The second world in the Harry Potter novels exists in parallel with the first, but is largely unknown and undetected by the Muggle population. This second world is filled with wizards. In contrast with the Muggle world, the wizarding world has very few examples of modern technologies. In the wizarding world, rooms are heated and lit by fires and candles, messages are delivered by owls, carriages are pulled by horses. For the most part, the wizarding world lacks all examples of Muggle technology. In the wizarding world televisions, cell phones, computers and movies do not exist. The only methods of advanced technology present are those for various methods of transportation; wizards travel through fireplaces by Floo-Powder, disappear and reappear instantly through Apparition, and travel through space by holding onto bewitched magical objects called Portkeys.
The worlds of Harry Potter are incredibly interesting to examine from an ethnographic standpoint as they are parallel in time and location, but entirely separate in technology and society. Indeed it is because of these technological deviations that the intrinsic makeups of both the Muggle and wizarding populations differ. Technology, and its lack thereof, influences the members of both societies to the point that it changes the values and the characteristics of their worlds.
According to author David E. Nye, this process of societal change and value differentiation comes about through the process of standardization. Nye states that “For more than 100 years, sociologists argued that industrial technologies were homogenizing people, place, and products. As the assembly line produced identical goods, it seemed to erase difference. Workers became interchangeable, and consumers with identical houses and cars seemed interchangeable as well. As technical systems became more complex and interlinked, the argument ran, people became dependent on the machine and had to adjust to its demands. Technology shaped the personality and dominated mental habits” (Nye 68). In short, the wizarding world and the Muggle world were shaped by divergent evolution based on the process of standardization. While a homogenized society is ideal in the Muggle world, the exact opposite is valued in the wizard world. It is through these technological differences of the basis of society that change the values and characteristics of each world.
As stated previously, the Muggle world is one very similar to our own. Children attend compulsory education until the age of 18 and then proceed individually on to university educations or secondary schools. The school systems are theoretical in nature and base their standards on the socially acceptable education practices of their day. Children are taught to analyze, calculate and process facts in figures in the areas of science, math, English and history. “In the Muggle world-our world, people are constantly digging into the soil to understand the world around us. Many of us Muggles do not take these matters on faith, assuming that the mechanisms that make our world work are knowable…This is part of what science classes try to impart to students-the underpinnings of how to discover the mechanisms underlying our world” (Rosenberg 6). Along with a basic understanding of education and knowledge, hard work and monetary gain are both equally valued. Material objects bring prestige and disorder is looked down upon. While our view of Muggle individuals is sadly limited in the novels, one family who exhibits aspects of all these traits is Harry’s adopted family, the Dursleys.
Petunia and Vernon Dursley live in a perfectly respectable suburban neighborhood a few hours outside of London. Petunia and Vernon have a son named Dudley and Petunia’s vocation is primary caregiver to him. Vernon works for a firm named Grunnings, a drill manufacturing company. Their house is large and modern and filled with all the technological comforts of the day. The Dursley household is packed with televisions, computers, refrigerators, dishwashers, Playstations etc. Petunia’s favorite past-times are obsessively cleaning and spying on her neighbors. In the life of the Dursley’s, societal standing is paramount in their daily lives. The neatness of the lawn, the look of the agapanthus bushes, the size of the car, all these things play a major role in the happiness of the Dursley family. As a whole, Vernon and Petunia are obsessed with how their neighbors view them. Having Harry in their house throws a wrench into the works of their prefect suburban lives and as such he is subjugated to abuse and cruelty at their hands.
The Dursleys are fierce advocates of technology and of all the societal prestige afforded to them with each new purchase. They are also firm believers in the normality of their world and the base fact that everything should act as it was meant to. They do not tolerate jokes or flippant remarks about phenomena or happenstance. “The Dursley’s worst nightmare is the kind of unexplained phenomena and violated expectations likely to elicit questions and investigations” (Engel 24). The Dursleys and their regimented, materialistic society lack both imagination and creativity in their attempt to fit in and excel in comparison with their neighbors. As quoted by David Nye in his book, “Technology Matters” Alexis de Tocqueville states that “the [Englishman] want to be like his neighbor…The [Englishman] only feels spiritually safe in what has been standardized” (Nye 68). While wanting to be like them, the Dursley family is not particularly friendly with their neighbors; Vernon constantly complains about Mr.-Next-Door having his sprinklers on at three in the morning and Petunia spies on her neighbors and criticizes the way they raise their children. In the lives of the Dursleys, there is a distinct lack of community among their neighbors and friends. This is because technology in the Muggle world provides for a large level of isolation in its society.
With the invention of telephones, electronic mail, pagers and cell phones, members of the Muggle world rarely have to have face-to-face interaction with others. Muggles do not have to leave their houses to purchase food or clothing as shopping online or through catalogs is popular and common. When needing to go out into the world to make a purchase for immediate use, the sheer amount of stores and shops in the Muggle world practically guarantees that social interaction between shoppers is fairly non-existent. The gross number of cars, trains, buses and planes available to the members of the non-magic community allows for a widespread living area allowing little to no sense of community. Members of the Muggle world do not have to live near their places of employment, nor do they have to work with their neighbors or schoolmates. Technology in the Muggle world provides isolation and separation of its members. There is a distinct lack of community or unity of its people.
As stated above, the wizarding world is far behind the Muggle world in terms of modern technology. In contrast with the Muggle world the wizarding world has no telephones, no televisions, no computers, no electronics of any sort. Communication is slow and outdated. The wizarding word communicates mainly by owl post; letters written on parchment with quills and ink which are then tied to an owl’s feet and then delivered. Houses are warmed by fires, rooms are lit by candles. Education is incredibly limited, both in location and in variety.
Young wizards are educated beginning at eleven years old at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Before their entrance into Hogwarts, young witches and wizards are educated at home. Subjects in wizarding education vary greatly from their Muggle counterparts. Instead of the traditional R’s (reading, writing, arithmetic) wizard children are educated in subjects such as transfiguration, potions, and defense against the dark arts. “For example, the closest students come to mathematics is the class of Arithmency, an unpopular elective, regarded as challenging and unnecessary. Those born into the Muggle world, such as Harry and Hermione, learn the basics in Muggle school. Even if Hogwarts did offer classes in reading and mathematics, it is hard to imagine that they would be favorites. How could calculus class compete with Care of Magical Creatures of Transfigurations?” (Kalish 60). Almost all of the classes taught at Hogwarts are empirical and practical, not theoretical like in the Muggle world. “Though we do not have a complete syllabi for the courses at Hogwarts, we get a pretty good sense of what the curriculum is like. The classes are very hands-on and applied. The students learn how to do things: feed hippogriffs, transplant mandrakes, levitate cups and brew all sorts of potions” (Kalish 61). It is with this hands-on knowledge that wizarding children are taught to think differently, to be more open and creative in their thought processes. The possibilities truly are endless when you can transform a rat into a water goblet or a tortoise into a teapot. It is through the technology of education and teaching methods that teach wizard children to be creative and imaginative with the world around them.
Another aspect of the lack of technology in the wizarding world is the small number of buildings, businesses and schools in the magical world. With one school of magic in England, almost every child with magical ability comes to study at Hogwarts. Parents are free to educate their children elsewhere, but the choice to do so is not popular. In this manner, almost all of the wizarding families are connected as children form friendships, intermingle, date and eventually marry members of their classes at Hogwarts. This aspect of how technology plays a role in the wizarding world is arguably the most restrictive. With only a small pool of applicants available, inter-personal relationships in the wizarding world are very limited. In the Muggle world, the number of individuals one could choose for a romantic partner is unlimited. In the wizarding world, the people who you must form lasting relationships with are decided by your age and neighborhood or workplace. Wizards marry wizards, some with more emphasis than others on blood status, but eventually, everyone becomes related by blood or by marriage. While wizards are interconnected in their love lives and in their personal affairs, wizards are also very connected in their shopping and day to day activities.
There are a small number of buildings associated with the British wizarding world. There is Hogwarts and the surrounding village of Hogsmeade and there is Diagon Ally. It is here in Diagon Ally that almost all of the witches and wizards of this community come to shop and perform business. There is one known bank in the wizarding world, Gringotts.
Gringotts is interesting in that it is more of a vault than a bank. Without any technologies or electronic banking, all monetary transactions in the wizarding world take place with coins for currency. Coins are held in money bags and dispensed by goblins that retrieve the gold in carts from personal vaults deep underground. A customer would need his own personal key to open a vault and how much gold a person may take out is limited to how much one can carry at one time. There are no credit cards, check or debit cards. Nothing can be bought using our concept of credit or on a credit account. The coins, Galleons, Sickles and Knuts, are heavy and jangle. As this is the only option for banking, all of the members of the magical community store their gold and other valuables here. Technology is virtually unknown in this aspect of wizarding life.
The same is true for other purchases as well. Everyone buys their schoolbooks at Flourish and Blotts and everyone buys their wizard’s robes at Madam Malkins. Without the technology to build massive amounts of buildings and large communities, the entire wizarding population is forced to shop in the same places and to buy the same things. It is through this lack of technology and lack of diversity in shops that forces the wizarding community to become very close knit.
Indeed, it is through these building technologies that makes the wizarding society such an insular one. Almost every student at Hogwarts has a relative who works at the Ministry of Magic. With wizarding communities being separate from their Muggle counterparts, houses are closer together and neighbors are friendly with each other. When wizards are forced to shop together, work together, live together and learn together, the community tends to become very isolated but in a much more pleasant way than in the Muggle community.
Technology is obviously very different in the wizarding world in comparison with the present day Muggle world. After taking a closer view at the technologies present or absent in the Muggle and wizarding societies, we can see how large a role technology plays not only in the development of each culture, but in their day to day interactions with their fellow members of the society as well. In accordance with Nye’s view of standardization, each society is affected and evolves separately. So many aspects of modern life such as banking, commerce, and communication are influenced by technology. The difficulty of functioning without having these specific technologies is highlighted by contrasting a society like our own to one in which technology is not present. The contrasts between this fictional world and are own are dramatic in comparison. It is through this comparison that we are able to see how much we take technology for granted in our own Muggle world and how the wizarding world is so different without it. As Nye would say, technology matters.
Engel, Susan. "Harry's Curiosity." The Psychology of Harry Potter: an Unauthorized Examination of the Boy Who Lived. Dallas, TX: BenBella, 2007. 19-32. Print.
Kalish, Charles. "Hogwarts Academy." The Psychology of Harry Potter: an Unauthorized Examination of the Boy Who Lived. Dallas, TX: BenBella, 2007. 59-71. Print.
Nye, David E. Technology Matters: Questions to Live with. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2006. Print.
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wordpress | I find the above quotation very insightful as it ties in with divine messages channeled by very intuitive people over the years. They explain that although all humans possess a soul which separated from Source/Creator/God to experience physicality, each individuated aspect is not less than the totality of Source. The analogy that is commonly used is – “we’re like a hologram”. If one zooms in on any part/section of a hologram, it still contains the same design/patterning/content.
Initially I didn’t quite believe the explanation but when I started to communicate with Archangel Michael, and posed relevant questions, I began to see similarities with the answers I received. In my energy healing practice, I assist my clients by balancing their chakras (energy portals) as well as their meridians (energy lines). Archangel Michael explained to me that Mother Earth is no different than humans as it has a consciousness and isn’t just a physical planet. In addition, there are planetary chakras as well as meridians that span across the globe!
The late American psychic Edgar Cayce channeled that the solar system itself is also akin to a larger aspect of us humans, in the sense that each planet is associated with a certain human chakra! Thus, astrology is not a fictional study with no credibility. The movement of the planets affects our psyche on a daily basis.
From the smallest to the largest, we seem to be able to discover a consistency in design. Even scientists of today use terms like ‘holographic universe’, ‘quantum entanglement’ and ‘coherence’ to describe our relationship with the outer world. I believe therein lies the notion that “We Are One” …. in a very literal sense.
Our preferences shape our choices.
Our choices lead to certain action.
Our action prompts others to react in a certain way.
Out of that comes the experience of life.
Then the greatest sin we can ever commit..
Is taking away people’s free will to decide.
Be Inspired.! …. When we are inspired, we inspire others too. To BE inspired is to be IN SPIRIT… to be who we originally are. And when we are in touch with the Spirit within, we bring forth our passion which goes beyond the limitations of 3D thinking. It is then we do things out of pure excitement and not what society has imposed upon us. In doing so, we become the unlimited creator that we are. | 2019-04-18T10:19:33Z | https://passionfortruths.wordpress.com/2018/04/ | Sports | Society | 0.206386 |
weebly | Fourth & Goal - Home!
Oh MLB fanatics whats better than some Spring Training?
RJ Garcea, talks to you about "The title team that never was"
Who wins super bowl XLVII?
With the NFL ending which sport will you focus on now?
As most men do Richard Masta reflects back on the year that was the NFL.
Chase Wernecke loves baseball, he is so gitty about baseballs "March Madness"
Steven Michelson gives you his take on the entire Lance Armstrong disaster!
Trevor Slapsy is lik a kid in a candy shop now that the NHL is back, here are his predictions for the shortened season!
RJ Garcea knows it will be tough to convince you but he believes Wilson is the rightful owner of the ROY honors!
Chase Wernecke wants to show you that Miguel Cabrera should be you number 1!
Anthony Labor JR can actually sleep now, because the NHL is back!!!
Richard Masta knows everyone loves sports on tv, but he explains why it is so much better on the radio!
With RJ Garcea's first piece he shows you WHY college ball is better than the NBA!
With Red Sox nation on the fence about Mike Napoli, Richard masta jumps right into the situation!
Anthony Labor wants, NO NEEDS the NHL back in his life!
Nick Carter evaluates the Boston Celtics up and down season so far!
Many believe RGIII is the rightful owner of the ROY honors, Ross Fessenden will solidify that!
Chase Wernecke maybe a fan of the Bengals but he also realizes they are doing something special this year!
"Can the Blue Jays win the AL east?" Richard Masta gives you all the juicy details why!?!
We all know you have your awards so far, David Jack has his in his piece " First Quarter of The Season Awards." | 2019-04-24T19:48:48Z | http://fourthandgoal.weebly.com/ | Sports | Sports | 0.922992 |
wordpress | That’s the rallying cry of the chorus to La Marseillaise, but these days in Australia it’s not quite as simple as that.
Of course, you can join the Australian armed forces, if they accept you. There doesn’t even seem to be much of a problem if you serve in the armed forces of some other nation state of which you are also a citizen (most commonly for Australians, I expect, Israel, though there are probably also dual nationals serving in the British armed forces) or even one where you are not (such as, say, the French Foreign Legion). What becomes more problematic is if you get involved in something more irregular, such as not fighting for a government, or fighting against a government.
Australia enacted its own legislation against getting involved in that sort of thing back in 1978. The legislation included a prohibition on recruiting for foreign government armed forces in Australia. That Act has now been repealed and its provisions, augmented as part of the “Foreign Fighters” suite of legislation, folded into part 5.5 of the Commonwealth Criminal Code .
Currently it’s all about those Australians who have rushed off to Syria and Iraq to fight for (and in at least two cases, against) “ISIS”/ISIL. This is prescribed as a “terrorist organisation” by the Australian Government, which makes it an offence to fight for it or to support it. In addition, there are offences for even travelling to the area where the fighting is going on unless you can prove (the onus is on you) that your sole reason was some valid, non-fighting reason set out in the legislation. Returned fighters can also be subjected to control orders. David Hicks was subjected to these on his return to Australia following his release from prison.
Orwellianly, the headline to the announcement was “New measures to strengthen Australian citizenship” – because apparently citizenship is strengthened by making it easier to take away by administrative fiat. Dutton later made clear that any judicial review proposed would go to the process, not the merits, of any deprivation. More bizarrely, it bore the legend: “E&OE.” For those not in the know, this stands for “Errors and omissions excepted” and is commonly encountered as a kind of arse-covering catch-all on solicitor’s bills, surveyors’ reports, and the like. When did this sort of thing creep into ministerial announcements?
(1) is at least literally true.
There was no such thing as Australian citizenship until 1949.
Citizenship in Australia is a creature of statute. Historically and I think at international law it is probably still more accurate to speak of nationality rather than citizenship. At federation, Australians were either aliens or British subjects. Other than naturalisation, this was a matter of common law until in the UK it was codified by legislation in 1915 (I suspect motivated by issues arising from WWI) which was largely adopted or mirrored by the Australian Nationality Act 1920.
Both the previous UK and Australian legislation provided for revocation of a grant of naturalization where somebody had aided the enemy in time of war (and for other reasons such as conviction of a crime or fraud in obtaining the grant).
Secondly, where does this idea of “deserving” to be an Australian citizen come into things?
Thirdly, things are really getting murky when we start saying that a terrorist necessarily betrays Australia. What exactly is a terrorist? Who decides? Different countries make different decisions; one man’s [sic] terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, after all, and not all terrorists are engaged in terror against Australia.
Fourthly, if betraying our country is the issue, aren’t such people traitors? The normal recourse of a nation state against traitors is to catch them and punish them, judicially, even if that involves the occasional over-reach, as most people now agree occurred in the case of William Joyce (aka Lord Haw-Haw).
(3) is the most insidious.
Is citizenship really a privilege? Surely not in the sense that it is some kind of optional extra benefit that can be withdrawn. It is a status which in turn is a springboard to all sorts of rights – most importantly not to be turned away if returning here and to be allowed to stay here.
It is true that governments have always maintained that being given a passport is almost an optional extra (for example, back in the 70s, Ananda Marga members were refused passports) but that is an assertion which can only survive politically by being sparingly asserted even if the cancellation of passports has become more commonplace in recent years.
Back in the cold-war years we used to hear of Eastern-bloc countries depriving dissidents (and, actually I now discover, Jewish emigrants) of their citizenship and refusing them passports and thought: how could a state treat its people so oppressively, so scandalously a.t odds with its high [ha!] ideals. Oh how the times have changed!
It’s not as if the “me, too” Labor Party is covering itself in glory on this issue any more than our beloved government.
This is an incomplete post which has been sitting here in draft for a while. Plenty more have written more cogently at length on this topic. So I’ll stop here and leave it to, for example, Sangeetha Pillai.
On Saturday night to the SSO’s Tristan und Isolde, conducted by David Robertson.
I have always found this a difficult opera to approach.
First is to do with the story: there are a few such works, such as King Lear and Otello (the play more than the opera), which you know from the start are not going to end up well, which I have to drag myself to with an anticipatory heavy heart. Tristan is one of those.
But I do have a beef with the concept.
The problem is: what to do about an opera in concert, especially (but not so especially, because large orchestral forces apparently now mandate a concert performance or none at all for Wagner) by a composer who proclaimed the Gesamtkunstwerk?
David Robertson has had three goes in Sydney now. First was The Flying Dutchman, with the digital images projected on a sail behind the stage. Second was Elektra, with some dancers on the stage and a certain degree of dramatization by the singers. This is the third, which has reverted to the projected images on a sail-like screen masking the organ which looks rather as though it has been recycled from the Dutchman.
Such images can contribute a lot, and together with lighting and other atmospherics can lift things way above the rather academic sterility of a concert performance with everybody dutifully following the text in their programs.
In the first act I was distracted somewhat by the whirring of the fans of the computer operating them, mere centimetres from my ears in the seat behind. This cast a bit of a shadow over my experience of the first act. I just couldn’t hear soft pizzicato bass sounds and the opening of the prelude was masked by the local white noise. Fortunately, I was able to move away. That’s a beef with management for selling me the ticket without warning and pretty personal to me and them. Now I’ve got it off my chest we can move on.
My real beef was the use of models to depict Tristan and Isolde. You can get an idea from the picture at the head of this post, pinched from Peter McCallum’s review in the SMH. The picture captures the moment when, dejectedly, the dead Tristan/Lance Ryan left the stage (which is why the image of Tristan is obscured). I found them almost jejune – like the use of similar models rather than singers in Opera Australia’s posters in recent years – and also quite distracting. I had to look away.
Perhaps some of my discomfort was because I’m not really accepting the dramatic premiss as I mentioned at the start. Arguably there should be a focus on Tristan and Isolde since the whole point of the drama is that they are focused so very much on each other. Part of the problem for me was that their beauty seemed (inevitably; it always is) too much of the here and now. From time to time when there was a reference to greetings from Isolde, she would say something that looked very much like “Hi.” OK, it could have been “Heil dir, Sonne” (OK, wrong Wagner) but it didn’t look like it. The style, for me, didn’t fit.
These images also detracted from the work of the singers, once again placed by Robertson at the rear of the orchestra. A conductor is necessarily an egotist and it may be argued that the orchestra is the true hero of Tristan [and Isolde], but to reduce the singers to tiny figures beneath superhuman projections really rubbed that in. If the problem of a concert performance is that the singers can no longer act, a solution which seems to deny almost any possibility of singerly acting is to me the wrong way to go.
Owing to an injury to my knee, I’m less mobile than usual just now. D has been driving me in to concerts in the city.
If you book in advance on the internet it is $4.50 cheaper, by the way.
The car park was full of families with strollers going to Vivid, and though I was early, I had to go right to the bottom (it really is a “Tiefgarage”) and up again a bit before I found a spot.
As I came out of the lift from the car park I met an orchestra member with whom I have a speaking acquaintance – struck up only recently at a piano recital when he recognised me from our days outside concert halls as members of the smokers’ club. That he struck up a conversation at the recital I put down to my being on crutches: this is a bit like having a dog or possibly (I wouldn’t know) a child when it comes to provoking conversation.
“You might want to leave at interval,” he said.
It wasn’t clear at first whether that was intended as a reflection of his taste or what he thought mine might be – maybe a bit of both.
As to the order of the halves, I agree with him. I would have rather left the concert with the exaltation of the symphonic finale resonating within me than the popularism of the Smetana, well-played though that undoubtedly was.
On the other hand I liked the Mackey more than my orchestral acquaintance seemed to. To be fair, he did make the point to me that it was a piece with a program. With that program in mind (Mackey’s mother’s “good death” – lucky her) I found it quite rewarding. There were some muted strings towards the end for which I am always a sucker.
Maybe I am becoming more receptive to such stuff than I once was, on account of my present infirmity, my age and the age of my parents’ generation.
Anthony Marwood was the violinist. David Robertson conducted.
Robertson is in town for a sustained period. I expect that’s been lined up to allow time to prepare Tristan und Isolde, scheduled for 20 and 22 June.
Vivid now over and its crowds dispersed, and D out of the country, I got myself to the courtesy bus which waits at one end of Circular Quay station to transport less mobile attendees to the Opera House now that no public buses run there. It is a good service though the steps up to the bus must be a bit tricky for some of the clientele.
We parted at the SOH as they were off to the preconcert talk in the northern foyer. This was too many steps for me. I had a snack at the Bistro Mozart to accompany some non-steroidal anti-inflammatories.
My Australia-Ensemble-going companion, P, complains that not enough Haydn is done these days. In context, I suppose she has Haydn’s string quartets most in mind (nobody grieves very much over the neglect of his baryton trios), but on the strength of the SSO’s performance on this occasion I’m inclined to the same view about the symphonies.
The problem is that Haydn wrote so many symphonies: even if the SSO did two a year it would take more than 50 years to get through the lot. That is a bit of a straw-mannish way of putting things. It is not necessary to play every symphony, but there is a lot of good stuff there.
It just makes you realise how much recordings and radio have crowded the repertoire. There is these days so much (well-known) music which, from simple numbers of other contenders rather than any particular esoteric or extravagant musical forces, we can only rarely hear live.
The Berlioz is another example of a work very well known in recordings and often broadcast, but not so often heard live here. The issue here is probably that big-Berlioz crowds out little or medium Berlioz. It was great to hear it.
I would like to hear from the SSO more non-Symph-Fant Berlioz, and not just overtures. What about The Death of Cleopatra?
Having mugged up on the text furiously before the concert began, I glanced from time at it in the program booklet. I feel it is a waste of a live performance to keep your head buried in the text to slavishly follow it.
Afterwards, my neighbour, a European student visiting Australia, asked me surprisedly “Could you follow the words?” I gathered she didn’t have a very high opinion of Katarina Karnéus’s French. I’m not sure or even convinced KK’s French was totally Gallic, but she projected the gist (which was all that I was after and which I told my neighbour was all I could or sought to follow anyway) very well and over a very wide vocal range – it seemed at one point to go right down to an E below the stave.
The Schubert 4 was another rarity on the Sydney concert stage. Predictably, I enjoyed the second movement the most. Predictably because it is a slow movement (could there also have been some muted strings?) and also because my subsequent research reveals that it is most people’s favourite.
That’s all very well for him to say. Ph must be at least 10 and more like 15 years older than I.
We also discussed the upcoming Tristan. Ph said that Co said to him: “Go to see it twice. We’ll never hear it again in Sydney.” So he is going to both performances, as is Co.
I hope time is on my side for that one, because I have only booked to go once.
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berkeley | It is hard to imagine the world we live in will become radically different over the next 25 to 75 years. All narratives about technology aside (automated vehicles, anti-aging organ transplants, etc.), the planet we rely on to support the way we live is itself going to be different and those changes are already taking place. This isn’t based on a projection alone — it is a conclusion that can be drawn from current data. We now have almost twice as much carbon dioxide in our atmosphere than we have had for more than 400,000 years. No matter what we do about carbon levels over the coming decades, the consequences are unstoppable and that includes rising sea levels which are expected to increase exponentially.
In recent years, CED has increased its emphasis on interdisciplinary studios. These types of studios benefit students in multiple ways, exposing them to perspectives and issues outside their main discipline, helping develop collaboration skills, and often, most importantly, allowing them a glimpse into the real-world experience beyond the doors of Wurster Hall.
This fall marks the inauguration of CED’s new Masters in Real Estate Development + Design (MRED+D), an 11-month interdisciplinary degree program incorporating finance and cutting-edge design to prepare real estate development professionals to build sustainable, equitable, and prosperous cities.
On August 12, 2018 the much-anticipated Transbay Transit Center opened to the public. Walking through the lower floors, it is clear that the project is far from complete. Planned commuter train and high-speed rail service is at least a decade away, and the 100,000 square feet of retail space won’t see its first store opening until next year. But ride one of the elevators up to the 5th-floor roof and the landscape that greets you will take your breath away.
From finance to design, the choices we make about what, where, and how to build our physical environment influence urban sustainability, equity, and resilience — today and for years to come. Our rapidly urbanizing world faces major challenges, ranging from climate change to social inequality. We need real estate professionals who have a deep knowledge of how development can bring positive benefits to society and the environment, and who understand the power of design to make cities efficient, livable, distinctive, and valued. | 2019-04-25T06:14:15Z | https://frameworks.ced.berkeley.edu/ | Sports | Business | 0.4558 |
uakron | One of the simplest, yet vital resources on our planet is at the center of Dr. Shing-Chung “Josh” Wong’s latest research, which aims at helping populations in dry, arid parts of California, Africa and China.
The professor of mechanical engineering is leading a research team to develop a lightweight, battery-powered freshwater harvester that could take as much as 10 gallons per hour from the air, even in arid locations. The nanofiber-based method could help address modern water shortages due to climate change, industrial pollution, droughts and groundwater depletion. This will also aid residents in South America who live atop mountain ranges higher than rain clouds.
Wong and the team members are presenting their results today, Aug. 21, at the National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Boston.
A mobile freshwater harvester as envisioned by Dr. Josh Wong.
He thought it might be more prudent to develop a water harvester that could take advantage of the abundant water particles in the atmosphere.
Unlike existing methods, Wong’s harvester could work in arid desert environments because of the membrane’s high surface-area-to-volume ratio. It also would have a minimal energy requirement.
The appearance of the portable water harvester depends on the end-use applications. An envisioned design for it looks much like a backpack.
“We could confidently say that, with recent advances in lithium-ion batteries, we could eventually develop a smaller, backpack-sized device,” Wong said.
What’s more, Wong’s nanofiber design simultaneously grabs water and filters it, thus the water would be free of pollutants and immediately drinkable.
Wong, who has two issued patents to his credit, with more pending, co-founded Akron Ascent Innovations in 2012 and led in its platform technology of electrospun dry adhesives. His professional honors include a National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award, received in 2008. Apart from water-harvesting research, Wong is a well-recognized expert in mechanical behavior, fracture mechanics and failure analyses of light-weight polymer composites and soft materials. | 2019-04-24T18:37:11Z | https://www.uakron.edu/engineering/me/me-news-detail.dot?newsId=c1f0c8d5-a992-468b-bb91-7ba9e3ea4597&pageTitle=Recent%20Headlines&crumbTitle=Engineering%20professor%20to%20present%20freshwater%20research%20at%20ACS%20national%20meeting | Sports | Science | 0.921931 |
usu | "Pitch loop control of a VTOL UAV using fractional order controller" by Jinlu Han, Long Di et al.
Pitch loop control is the fundamental tuning step for vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and has significant impact on the flight. In this paper, a fractional order strategy is designed to control the pitch loop of a VTOL UAV. First, an auto-regressive with exogenous input (ARX) model is acquired and converted to a first-order plus time delay (FOPTD) model. Next, based on the FOPTD model, a fractional order [proportional integral] (FO[PI]) controller is designed. Then, an integer order PI controller based on the modified Ziegler-Nichols (MZNs) tuning rule and a general integer order proportional integral derivative (PID) controller are also designed for comparison following three design specifications. Simulation results have shown that the proposed fractional order controller outperforms both the MZNs PI controller and the integer order PID controller in terms of robustness and disturbance rejection. At last, ARX model based system identification of AggieAir VTOL platform is achieved with experimental flight data.
Han, Jinlu; Di, Long; Coopmans, Calvin; and Chen, YangQuan, "Pitch loop control of a VTOL UAV using fractional order controller" (2014). Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications. Paper 189. | 2019-04-21T22:54:54Z | https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/ece_facpub/189/ | Sports | Computers | 0.503712 |
castleton | Students taking this course will do the work of a "public sociologist." This could include working for a non-profit agency, interning at the Statehouse, or performing research for social service agencies. This course will demonstrate to students the real world applications of doing sociology. | 2019-04-23T16:22:43Z | http://catalog.castleton.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=18&coid=12692 | Sports | Reference | 0.263001 |
livejournal | This is a semi-daily online diary chronicling the adventures of a sickly, neurotic and dirty-minded artist/writer/transvestite living in Los Angeles. I'm in a long-time relationship with a wonderful girl who prefers to be known simply as K. I'm into arty comix, weird bands, trashy sci-fi TV and movies, fine art, literature, cult and indie films, and a whole bunch of exotic fetishes. And no, I'm not a nazi. If you want to contact me, you can do so at my name at yahoo dot com. | 2019-04-19T04:21:26Z | https://ursulahitler.livejournal.com/profile | Sports | Arts | 0.812165 |
washingtonpost | Ideal for those moments of downtime — waiting in line, say, or for the phone to ring — 94 Seconds is a quick-fire quiz game that’s good for tickling your gray matter without running the risk of getting bogged down in a game. Players use their minute and a half (and change) to fill in the blanks when given a first letter and a category. You’re rewarded based on how original you are — for example, guessing “chameleon” instead of “cat” when asked for animals that start with “C” will get you a far better score. You can use a couple of quick cheats to get ahead in a round, but the best feeling is beating the clock with your own original answers. For iOS and Android devices. | 2019-04-26T07:13:53Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/techbit-94-seconds/2013/03/16/db6ed808-8c23-11e2-b63f-f53fb9f2fcb4_story.html | Sports | Recreation | 0.528095 |
cam | My area of research is text understanding. In particular, I develop models of discourse structure and argumentation in scientific text, and comprehension models for text summarisation. I am also interested in how "folk logic" connects to linguistic expressions, which is particularly of interest for argument mining.
The logical structure of a text is an important dimension of its meaning, and several applications could profit from its analysis -- for instance text summarization, scientific search engines, improved bibliometrics, detection of "hot ideas" in a scientific field, and tools for better academic writing. I have proposed a discourse analysis called Argumentative Zoning or AZ, which is based on the recognition of the following phenomena: sentiment expressed towards cited work, ownership of ideas, and speech acts which express rhetorical statements typical for scientific argumentation. Co-reference between entities mentioned in text, and coherence of text pieces also plays an important role in my model. I am also interested in cognitive experiments to prove the use of this type of robust processing in a real user environment, particularly in task-based evaluations.
My first degree in Computer Science is from the University of Stuttgart, more specifically from the Center for Computational Linguistics (IMS). At the IMS, I was involved in designing the STTS tagset for German corpora, and also was a member of the EAGLES corpus and lexicon standardisation group. I also spent some time at XRCE Xerox in Grenoble, working on the extraction of nominalizations and collocations.
I received my PhD in Cognitive Science from the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh in 2000. My PhD thesis (on Argumentative Zoning) is available here. During my PhD, I was also a member of the HCRC Language Technology Group.
During a Postdoc at Columbia University (2000-2001), I worked on the Digital Libraries Project PERSIVAL whose aim it is to provide patient-specific access to large collections of scientific articles, amongst others. In a subpart of the project, we reranked the output of searches in the field of cardiology to those articles which are of relevance to one particular patient the cardiologist is currently considering. I also worked on the TIDES project on multilingual summarization at Columbia.
I joined the NLIP group at the University of Cambridge in 2001 as a lecturer, and have been Professor in Information and Language since 2017. Most of my funded research involves text understanding or text mining, summarisation and search from scientific articles or from language learner texts.
My publications are online here.
Machine Learning and Real-World Data (MLRD) - a hands-on course in machine learning and experimentation in Java (with Paula Buttery).
Natural Language Processing - a 12 lecture introduction course to computational linguistics and NLP (with Paula Buttery).
L114 Lexical Semantics - a 16 hour lecture course on the Advanced Computer Science Mphil course (since 2010/11).
R216 Discourse Processing - a 16 hour seminar on the Advanced Computer Science Mphil course (since 2014/15).
%Natural % Language Processing - an 8 lecture course on the %Computer Science Tripos (Part II).
Here is a list of my project suggestions for 2014/2015. Some project suggestions from previous years: 2012/3 and 2013/4. | 2019-04-23T02:25:13Z | https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sht25/ | Sports | Science | 0.944932 |
sfgate | Simple bookcases create a practical home library.
Book lovers like nothing better than perusing the shelves of a library or bookstore. Avid readers are often hesitant to part with books they love, preferring to keep them on hand for reference or rereading. If your own collection of literary classics and bestsellers has grown unwieldy, a home library keeps your books in order and provides a quiet place for reading. Creating a room dedicated to the pursuit of reading requires little more than bookcases and books.
Making a home library that's beautiful and functional requires a plan. Begin by emptying the room's existing furnishings and sketching a floor plan that includes the room's dimensions as well as any windows, doors and heating units that will affect the arrangement of your bookcases. If you have several tall bookcases, plan to install them along an open wall in the room. You can arrange bookcases in multiple sizes to simulate the look of built-in cabinetry. On your floor plan, position a tall bookcase on either side of a window with lower bookcases beneath. For a traditional library feel, design a layout that features full walls of bookcases, allowing space for a reading table or seating area.
Professionally installed floor-to-ceiling bookcases create an elegant home library. But if your budget won't indulge such a splurge, inexpensive bookcases create a similar effect. Assess the bookcases you already have in your home and determine which pieces are suitable for your library -- camouflage any variations in size and color later with paint and molding. If necessary, purchase additional bookcases at a discount or home-improvement store. Following your floor plan, position the bookcases in the room. Cut lengths of decorative molding to frame the bookcase fronts and nail them in place so the top edges of the moldings align. To complete the custom look, paint all of the bookcases and any moldings the same color.
With your bookcases in place and painted, your home library is ready to house your book collection. To make the most of the new space, sort the books and choose an arrangement that works best for you and your family. Depending on the size of your collection, you can shelve books alphabetically -- by title or author -- or according to subject matter. Alternatively, assign each family member his own section of bookcases. Young children appreciate having their books on shelves they can reach easily. Use bookends to keep the shelves neat and avoid overcrowding the books; you'll need extra shelf space as your library grows.
Bookcases protect your books and make them easily accessible, but your home library can provide more than book storage. If space permits, include soft, comfortable chairs for curling up with a novel or reading a bedtime story. To make a table for reading or study, place two low bookcases several feet apart with their backs facing. Top the bookcases with a piece of finished wood or laminate to create a work surface. Your favorite public library can supply inspiration for completing the look of your home library. Table lamps provide light and ambiance; literature-themed prints and decorative objects add visual interest to the tops of bookcases.
Berlew, Kathleen. "How to Make a Home Library From Bookcases." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/make-home-library-bookcases-82370.html. Accessed 26 April 2019. | 2019-04-26T09:52:15Z | https://homeguides.sfgate.com/make-home-library-bookcases-82370.html | Sports | Reference | 0.13034 |
google | 1998-12-08 Assigned to ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC. reassignment ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC. ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: Baxter, Chester O., BISHOP, GREGORY D., FLAKER, RICHARD W.
An ultrasonic surgical clamp coagulator apparatus is configured to effect cutting, coagulation, and clamping of tissue by cooperation of a clamping mechanism of the apparatus with an associated ultrasonic end-effector. Selective, indexed rotational positioning of the clamping mechanism and end-effector is achieved by the provision of a detent mechanism incorporated into the clamp drive mechanism of the apparatus. The arrangement permits an elongated portion of the apparatus to be selectively rotatably positioned with respect to an apparatus housing, with an associated ultrasonic drive unit operatively coupled to a waveguide of the apparatus for rotation together with the clamping mechanism. The detent mechanism desirably resists relative rotation of the apparatus unless a predetermined torque is applied thereto, thus facilitating efficient and convenient use during surgical procedures.
The present invention relates generally to ultrasonic surgical devices, and more particularly to an ultrasonic surgical clamp coagulator apparatus for coagulating and/or cutting tissue, including a detent mechanism for indexing rotational positioning of an ultrasonic end-effector and associated clamp arm with respect to a housing of the assembly.
Ultrasonic surgical instruments have been developed that include a clamp mechanism to press tissue against the end-effector of the instrument in order to couple ultrasonic energy to the tissue of a patient. Such an arrangement (sometimes referred to as an ultrasonic transactor) is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,322,055, hereby incorporated by reference. However, typical constructions have included a clamp mechanism mounted in a fixed orientation relative to the handle or hand piece of the instrument. As such, a surgeon has typically been required to physically rotate the entire instrument in order to change the rotational orientation of the clamping mechanism. This can detract from convenient use of the instrument.
The present invention is directed to an improved ultrasonic surgical clamp coagulator apparatus which permits selective rotational positioning of the clamp mechanism and associated end-effector with respect to a housing of the apparatus, with such rotational movement desirably being indexed to facilitate precise rotational positioning during use.
An ultrasonic surgical clamp coagulator apparatus embodying the principles of the present invention is configured to permit selective cutting, coagulation, and clamping of tissue during surgical procedures. In order to promote convenient and efficient use of the apparatus, the clamping mechanism of the apparatus can be selectively rotationally positioned with respect to the housing of the construction, thus permitting a surgeon to selectively position the clamping mechanism as may be required without effecting rotational manipulation of the housing. Efficient and convenient use is promoted by the provision of a detent mechanism which functions to provide indexed rotational positioning of the clamping mechanism with respect to the housing. An ultrasonic drive unit is preferably operatively coupled to an ultrasonic waveguide of the apparatus, with the drive unit and waveguide being rotatable as a unit with the clamping mechanism relative to the apparatus housing.
In accordance with the illustrated embodiment, the present ultrasonic surgical clamp apparatus includes a housing which preferably includes a handgrip portion. The apparatus further includes an elongated portion (which may be configured for endoscopic use), including an outer tubular sheath having a proximal end rotatably joined to the housing, and a distal end positionable at the region at which tissue cutting, coagulation, and/or clamping is to be effected. In the preferred embodiment, a rotation knob is mounted on the outer tubular sheath for effecting indexed rotation of the outer sheath with respect to the apparatus housing.
An inner, tubular actuating member is reciprocably positioned within the outer tubular sheath, and is operatively connected with the outer sheath for rotation therewith with respect to the apparatus housing. Reciprocation of the actuating member effects the desired operation of a clamping mechanism of the apparatus provided at the distal end of the outer sheath.
An ultrasonic waveguide is positioned within and extends the length of the outer tubular sheath and inner tubular actuating member. The ultrasonic waveguide includes an end-effector at the distal end thereof, with the end-effector extending distally of the distal end of the outer tubular sheath. The end-effector, sometimes referred to as a "blade", is ultrasonically driven by the transducer of an associated ultrasonic drive unit so that longitudinal ultrasonic vibration of the end-effector effects the desired tissue cutting and coagulation. The waveguide is preferably joined for rotation together with the outer sheath and inner actuating member, with the drive unit also preferably coupled for rotation therewith.
The present apparatus includes a clamping mechanism for clamping tissue against the ultrasonic end-effector. The clamping mechanism includes a clamp arm pivotally mounted on the distal end of the outer tubular sheath for pivotal movement with respect to the end-effector. Tissue is clamped between the clamp arm and the end-effector, thereby ultrasonically coupling the tissue with the end-effector (when energized) or permitting grasping and clamping of tissue when ultrasonic energy is not being transmitted through the waveguide to the end-effector. The clamp arm is operatively connected to the reciprocable actuating member of the apparatus so that reciprocable movement of the actuating member pivotally moves the clamp arm with respect to the end-effector.
Selective operation of the apparatus clamping mechanism is provided by an operating lever pivotally connected on the apparatus housing. In the preferred embodiment, the operating lever, and associated handgrip portion of the housing are provided with a scissors-like configuration, thus permitting convenient movement of the operating lever by a user's thumb.
The operating lever is interconnected with the reciprocable actuating member by a clamp drive mechanism so that pivotal movement of the operating lever reciprocably moves the actuating member for pivotally moving the clamp arm of the apparatus. The drive mechanism also functions to permit rotation of the actuating member, as well as the outer sheath and inner waveguide, relative to the apparatus housing and operating lever.
Notably, the drive mechanism includes a detent mechanism for indexing the rotational movement of the actuating member and tubular sheath (and preferably the waveguide and associated drive unit) with respect to the apparatus housing. In a presently preferred embodiment, such rotation is indexed at 30° intervals, thus permitting the clamping mechanism of the apparatus to be selectively rotationally positioned with respect to the apparatus housing at any of a plurality of relative angular dispositions. In accordance with the illustrated embodiment, the drive mechanism interconnecting the operating lever and actuating member includes a drive yoke operatively connected to the operating lever, and a drive collar mounted on the actuating member for conjoint rotation. The drive yoke engages the drive collar so that pivotal movement of the operating lever and drive yoke act to reciprocate the drive collar and actuating member.
In the preferred embodiment, the drive collar includes a pair of spaced apart drive flanges, with the drive yoke including at least one yoke arm positioned between the drive flanges for engagement therewith. The drive yoke preferably comprises a pair of yoke arms diametrically engageable with the drive collar for transmitting the pivotal movement of the yoke to the drive collar for reciprocation of the actuating member, and operation of the clamping mechanism.
In order to provide the desired indexed rotational movement of the clamping mechanism, the drive yoke includes at least one detent, with the drive collar defining a detent-receiving surface engaged by the detent and cooperating therewith to provide indexed rotation of the drive collar with respect to the drive yoke, and accordingly, indexed rotation of the tubular outer sheath and inner actuating member with respect to the apparatus housing. The detent-receiving surface of the drive collar preferably defines a plurality of circumferentially spaced teeth defining radial depressions therebetween for receiving the detents of the drive yoke. The drive yoke is provided with at least one, and preferably a pair of yoke arms each having a detent thereon, with the yoke arms acting to bias the detents into the depressions defined by the teeth of the drive collar. In a presently preferred embodiment, the detents are biased into the depressions by the yoke arms with sufficient force to resist relative rotational torque less than about 5 to 20 inch-ounces.
FIG. 8 is a perspective view of a clamp mechanism drive collar of the present clamp coagulator apparatus.
The present invention is particularly directed to an improved ultrasonic surgical clamp coagulator apparatus which is configured for effecting tissue cutting, coagulation, and/or clamping during surgical procedures. The present apparatus can readily be configured for use in both open surgical procedures, as well as laparoscopic or endoscopic procedures. Versatile use is facilitated by selective use of ultrasonic energy. When ultrasonic components of the apparatus are inactive, tissue can be readily gripped and manipulated, as desired, without tissue cutting or damage. When the ultrasonic components are activated, the apparatus permits tissue to be gripped for coupling with the ultrasonic energy to effect tissue coagulation, with application of increased pressure efficiently effecting tissue cutting and coagulation. If desired, ultrasonic energy can be applied to tissue without use of the clamping mechanism of the apparatus by appropriate manipulation of the ultrasonic "blade" or end-effector of the device.
As will become apparent from the following description, the present clamp coagulator apparatus is particularly configured for disposable use by virtue of its straightforward construction. As such, it is contemplated that the apparatus be used in association with an ultrasonic drive unit of a surgical system, whereby ultrasonic energy from the drive unit provides the desired ultrasonic actuation of the present clamp coagulator apparatus. It will be appreciated that a clamp coagulator apparatus embodying the principles of the present invention can be configured for non-disposable use, and non-detachably integrated with an associated ultrasonic drive unit. However, detachable connection of the present clamp coagulator apparatus with an associated ultrasonic drive unit is presently preferred for single-patient use of the apparatus.
With reference first to FIGS. 1 and 3, therein is illustrated a presently preferred embodiment of a surgical system, generally designated 10, which includes an ultrasonic clamp coagulator apparatus embodying the principles of the present invention. Preferred details of the ultrasonic generator and associated ultrasonic drive unit of the surgical system 10 will first be described, with subsequent detailed description of the ultrasonic surgical clamp coagulator apparatus, including a clamp mechanism configured for indexed rotation, embodying the principles of the present invention.
The surgical system 10 includes an ultrasonic generator 30 and an associated ultrasonic surgical instrument. The surgical instrument includes an ultrasonic drive unit, designated 50, and an ultrasonic clamp coagulator apparatus 120 embodying the principles of the present invention. As will be further described, an ultrasonic transducer of the drive unit 50, and an ultrasonic waveguide of the clamp coagulator 120, together provide an acoustic assembly of the present surgical system, with the acoustic assembly providing ultrasonic energy for surgical procedures when powered by generator 30. It will be noted that in some applications, the ultrasonic drive unit 50 is referred to as a "hand piece assembly" because the surgical instrument of the surgical system is configured such that a surgeon grasps and manipulates the ultrasonic drive unit 50 during various procedures and operations. The clamp coagulator apparatus 120 embodying the principles of the present invention preferably includes a scissors-like grip arrangement which facilitates positioning and manipulation of the instrument apart from manipulation of the ultrasonic drive unit 50.
The generator 30 of the surgical system sends an electrical signal through a cable 32 at a selected excursion, frequency, and phase determined by a control system of the generator 30. As will be further described, the signal causes one or more piezoelectric elements of the acoustic assembly of the surgical instrument to expand and contract, thereby converting the electrical energy into mechanical motion. The mechanical motion results in longitudinal waves of ultrasonic energy that propagate through the acoustic assembly in an acoustic standing wave to vibrate the acoustic assembly at a selected frequency and excursion. An end-effector at the distal end of the waveguide of the acoustic assembly is placed in contact with tissue of the patient to transfer the ultrasonic energy to the tissue. As further described below, a surgical tool, such as, a jaw or clamping mechanism, is preferably utilized to press the tissue against the end-effector.
The transfer of the ultrasonic energy to the tissue causes other effects including mechanical tearing, cutting, cavitation, cell disruption, and emulsification. The amount of cutting as well as the degree of coagulation obtained varies with the excursion of the end-effector, the frequency of vibration, the amount of pressure applied by the user, the sharpness of the end-effector, and the coupling between the end-effector and the tissue.
As illustrated in FIG. 1, the generator 30 includes a control system integral with the generator 30, a power switch 34, and a triggering mechanism 36. The power switch 34 controls the electrical power to the generator 30, and when activated by the triggering mechanism 36, the generator 30 provides energy to drive the acoustic assembly of the surgical system 10 at a predetermined frequency and to drive the end-effector at a predetermined excursion level. The generator 30 drives or excites the acoustic assembly at any suitable resonant frequency of the acoustic assembly.
When the generator 30 is activated via the triggering mechanism 36, electrical energy is continuously applied by the generator 30 to a transducer stack or assembly 40 of the acoustic assembly. A phase-locked loop in the control system of the generator 30 monitors feedback from the acoustic assembly. The phase lock loop adjusts the frequency of the electrical energy sent by the generator 30 to match the resonant frequency of the selected longitudinal mode of vibration of the acoustic assembly including the tissue load. In addition, a second feedback loop in the control system maintains the electrical current supplied to the acoustic assembly at a preselected constant level in order to achieve substantially constant excursion at the end-effector of the acoustic assembly.
The electrical signal supplied to the acoustic assembly will cause the distal end of the waveguide, i.e., the end-effector, to vibrate longitudinally in the range of, for example, approximately 20 kHz to 250 kHz, and preferably in the range of about 54 kHz to 56 kHz, and most preferably at about 55.5 kHz. The excursion of the vibrations at the end-effector can be controlled by, for example, controlling the amplitude of the electrical signal applied to the transducer assembly 40 of the acoustic assembly by the generator 30.
As noted above, the triggering mechanism 36 of the generator 30 allows a user to activate the generator 30 so that electrical energy may be continuously supplied to the acoustic assembly. The triggering mechanism 36 preferably comprises a foot activating switch that is detachably coupled or attached to the generator 30 by a cable or cord. Alternatively, the triggering mechanism can be configured as a hand switch incorporated in the ultrasonic drive unit 50 to allow the generator 30 to be activated by a user.
The generator 30 also has a power line 38 for insertion in an electro-surgical unit or conventional electrical outlet. It is contemplated that the generator 30 can also be powered by a direct current (DC) source, such as a battery. The generator 30 can comprise any suitable generator, such as Model No. GENOI, available from Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.
Referring to FIGS. 1 and 3, the ultrasonic drive unit 50 of the surgical instrument includes a multi-piece housing 52 adapted to isolate the operator from the vibrations of the acoustic assembly. The drive unit housing 52 can be shaped to be held by a user in a conventional manner, but it is contemplated that the present clamp coagulator 120 principally be grasped and manipulated by a scissors-like arrangement provided by a housing of the apparatus, as will be described. While the multi-piece housing 52 is illustrated, the housing 52 may comprise a single or unitary component.
The housing 52 of the ultrasonic drive unit 50 is preferably constructed from a durable plastic, such as Ultem®. It is also contemplated that the housing 52 may alternatively be made from a variety of materials including other plastics i.e. liquid crystal polymer (LCP), nylon, or polycarbonate!. A suitable ultrasonic drive unit 50 is Model No. HP050, available from Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.
The acoustic assembly of the surgical instrument generally includes a first acoustic portion and a second acoustic portion. The first acoustic portion is preferably carried by the ultrasonic drive unit 50, and the second acoustic portion (in the form of a waveguide and end-effector, as will be described) is carried by the ultrasonic clamp coagulator apparatus. The distal end of the first acoustic portion is operatively coupled to the proximal end of the second acoustic portion preferably by a threaded connection.
As shown in FIG. 3, the first acoustic portion includes the transducer stack or assembly 40 and a mounting device 84, and the second acoustic portion includes a transmission component or working member, referred to herein as a waveguide having an end-effector.
The components of the acoustic assembly are preferably acoustically tuned such that the length of each component is an integral number of one-half wavelengths (nλ/2), where the wavelength λ is the wavelength of a preselected or operating longitudinal vibration frequency f0 of the acoustic assembly, and n is any non-negative integer. It is also contemplated that the acoustic assembly may incorporate any suitable arrangement of acoustic elements.
As shown in FIG. 3, the transducer assembly 40 of the acoustic assembly, which is also known as a "Langevin stack", generally includes a transduction portion 90, a first resonator 92, and a second resonator 94. The transducer assembly is preferably an integral number of one-half system wavelengths (nλ/2) in length. It is to be understood that the present invention may be alternatively configured to include a transducer assembly comprising a magnetostrictive, electromagnetic or electrostatic transducer.
The distal end of the first resonator 92 is connected to the proximal end of transduction section 90, and the proximal end of the second resonator 94 is connected to the distal end of transduction portion 90. The first and second resonators 92 and 94 are preferably fabricated from titanium, aluminum, steel, or any other suitable material, and most preferably, the first resonator 92 is fabricated from 303 stainless steel and the second resonator 94 is fabricated from 7075-T651 Aluminum. The first and second resonators 92 and 94 have a length determined by a number of variables, including the length of the transduction section 90, the speed of sound of material used in the resonators 92 and 94, and the desired fundamental frequency f0 of the transducer assembly 40. The second resonator 94 can be tapered inwardly from its proximal end to its distal end to function as a velocity transformer and amplify the ultrasonic vibration excursion.
The transduction portion 90 of the transducer assembly 40 preferably comprises a piezoelectric section of alternating positive electrodes 96 and negative electrodes 98, with piezoelectric elements 100 alternating between the electrodes 96 and 98. The piezoelectric elements 100 can be fabricated from any suitable material, such as, for example, lead zirconate-titanate, lead metaniobate, lead titanate, or other piezoelectric material. Each of the positive electrodes 96, negative electrodes 98, and piezoelectric elements 100 have a bore extending through the center. The positive and negative electrodes 96 and 98 are electrically coupled to wires 102 and 104, respectfully. The wires 102 and 104 transmit the electrical signal from the generator 30 to electrodes 96 and 98.
As illustrated in FIG. 3, the piezoelectric elements 100 are held in compression between the first and second resonators 92 and 94 by a bolt 106. The bolt 106 preferably has a head, a shank, and a threaded distal end. The bolt 106 is inserted from the proximal end of the first resonator 92 through the bores of the first resonator 92, the electrodes 96 and 98, and piezoelectric elements 100. The threaded distal end of the bolt 106 is screwed into a threaded bore in the proximal end of second resonator 94. The bolt can be fabricated from steel, titanium, aluminum, or other suitable material and is preferably fabricated from Ti-6Al-4V Titanium, and most preferably from 4037 low alloy steel.
The piezoelectric elements 100 are energized in response to the electrical signal supplied from the generator 30 to produce an acoustic standing wave in the acoustic assembly. The electrical signal causes an electro-magnetic field across the piezoelectric elements 100, causing the piezoelectric elements 100 to expand and contract in a continuous manner along the axis of the voltage gradient, producing high frequency longitudinal waves of ultrasonic energy. The ultrasonic energy is transmitted through the acoustic assembly to the end-effector.
The mounting device 84 of the acoustic assembly has a proximal end, a distal end, and preferably has a length substantially equal to an integral number of one-half system wavelengths. The proximal end of the mounting device 84 is preferably axially aligned and coupled to the distal end of the second resonator 94 by an internal threaded connection near an anti-node. (For purposes of this disclosure, the term "near" is defined as "exactly at" or "in close proximity to".) It is also contemplated that the mounting device 84 may be attached to the second resonator 94 by any suitable means, and the second resonator 94 and mounting device 84 may be formed as a single or unitary component.
The mounting device 84 is preferably configured to amplify the ultrasonic vibration excursion that is transmitted through the acoustic assembly to the distal end of the end-effector. In one preferred embodiment, the mounting device 84 comprises a solid, tapered horn. As ultrasonic energy is transmitted through the mounting device 84, the velocity of the acoustic wave transmitted through the mounting device 84 is amplified. It is contemplated that the mounting device 84 be configured as any suitable shape, such as, for example, a stepped horn, a conical horn, an exponential horn, a unitary gain horn, or the like.
As shown in FIG. 3, the mounting device 84 is preferably acoustically coupled to the second acoustic portion of the ultrasonic clamp coagulator apparatus 120. The distal end of the mounting device 84 is preferably coupled to the proximal end of the second acoustic portion by an internal threaded connection near an anti-node, but alternative coupling arrangements can be employed.
Referring now to FIG. 4, an exploded view of the ultrasonic clamp coagulator apparatus 120 of the surgical system 10 in accordance with a preferred embodiment is illustrated. The proximal end of the ultrasonic clamp coagulator apparatus 120 preferably receives and is fitted to the distal end of the ultrasonic drive unit 50 by insertion of the drive unit into the housing of the apparatus, as shown in FIG. 3. The ultrasonic clamp coagulator apparatus 120 is preferably attached to and removed from the ultrasonic drive unit 50 as a unit. The ultrasonic clamp coagulator 120 may be disposed of after a single use.
The ultrasonic clamp coagulator apparatus 120 preferably includes a handle assembly or a housing 130, preferably comprising mating housing portions 131, 132, and an elongated or endoscopic portion 150. When the present apparatus is configured for endoscopic use, the construction can be 5 dimensioned such that portion 150 has an outside diameter of about 5.5 mm. The elongated portion 150 of the ultrasonic clamp coagulator apparatus 120 extends orthogonally from the apparatus housing 130. The elongated portion 150 can be selectively rotated with respect to the housing 130 as further described below. The elongated portion 150 preferably includes an outer tubular member or sheath 160, an inner tubular actuating member 170, and the second acoustic portion of the acoustic system in the form of a waveguide 180 having an end-effector 180'. As will be described, the outer sheath 160, the actuating member 170, and the waveguide 180 are preferably joined together for indexed rotation as a unit (together with ultrasonic drive unit 50) relative to housing 130.
As illustrated in FIG. 4, the proximal end of the waveguide 180 of the second acoustic portion is preferably detachably coupled to the mounting device 84 of the ultrasonic drive unit 50 near an anti-node as described above. The waveguide 180 preferably has a length substantially equal to an integer number of one-half system wavelengths (nλ/2). The waveguide 180 is preferably fabricated from a solid core shaft constructed out of material which propagates ultrasonic energy efficiently, such as titanium alloy (i.e., Ti-6Al-4V) or an aluminum alloy. It is contemplated that the waveguide 180 can alternatively be fabricated from any other suitable material.
The waveguide is preferably substantially semi-flexible. It will be recognized that the waveguide can alternatively be substantially rigid or may comprise a flexible wire. The waveguide may be configured to amplify the mechanical vibrations transmitted through the waveguide to the end-effector as is well known in the art. The waveguide may further have features to control the gain of the longitudinal vibration along the waveguide and features to tune the waveguide to the resonant frequency of the system.
It will be recognized that the waveguide 180 may have any suitable cross-sectional dimension. For example, the waveguide may have a substantially uniform cross-section or the waveguide may be tapered at various sections or may be tapered along its entire length.
As shown in FIG. 4, the waveguide 180 generally has a first section 182, a second section 184, and a third section 186. The first section 182 of the waveguide extends distally from the proximal end of the waveguide, and has a substantially continuous cross-section dimension.
The first section 182 preferably includes at least one radial hole or aperture 188 extending diametrically therethrough, substantially perpendicular to the axis of the waveguide 180. The aperture 188 is preferably positioned at a node, but may be otherwise positioned. It will be recognized that the aperture 188 may have any suitable depth and may be any suitable shape. The aperture is configured to receive a connector pin member which connects the waveguide 180, the tubular actuating member 170, and the tubular outer sheath 160 together for conjoint, indexed rotation relative to apparatus housing 130.
The second section 184 of the waveguide 180 extends distally from the first section 182. The second section 184 preferably also has a substantially continuous cross-section. The diameter of the second section 184 is smaller than the diameter of the first section 182 and larger than the diameter of the third section 186. As ultrasonic energy passes from the first section 182 of the waveguide 180 into the second section 184, the narrowing of the second section 184 will result in an increased amplitude of the ultrasonic energy passing therethrough.
The third section 186 extends distally from the distal end of the second section 184. The third section 186 also has a substantially continuous cross-section. The third section 186 may also include small diameter changes along its length. As ultrasonic energy passes from the second section 184 of the waveguide 180 into the third section 186, the narrowing of the third section 186 will result in an increased amplitude of the ultrasonic energy passing therethrough.
The third section 186 may have a plurality of grooves or notches (not shown) formed in its outer circumference. The grooves may be located at nodes of the waveguide 180 to act as alignment indicators for the installation of a damping sheath (not shown) and stabilizing silicone rings or compliant supports during manufacturing. A seal is preferably provided at the distal-most node, nearest the end-effector 180', to abate passage of tissue, blood, and other material in the region between the waveguide and actuating member 170.
The end-effector 180' of the waveguide 180 is preferably integral therewith and formed as a single unit. The end-effector may alternately be connected by a threaded connection, or by a welded joint. The distal end of the end-effector is disposed near an anti-node in order to tune the acoustic assembly to a preferred resonant frequency f0 when the acoustic assembly is not loaded by tissue. When the transducer assembly is energized, the distal end of the end-effector is configured to move longitudinally in the range of, for example, approximately 10-500 microns peak-to-peak, and preferably in the range of about 10 to about 100 microns at a predetermined vibrational frequency f0.
In accordance with the illustrated embodiment, the end-effector 180', sometimes referred to as a blade, is preferably cylindrical for cooperation with the associated clamping mechanism of the present clamp coagulator apparatus.
The end-effector may receive suitable surface treatment, as is known in the art.
With particular reference to FIG. 2, therein is illustrated the clamping mechanism of the present clamp coagulator 120, which is configured for cooperative action with the end-effector 180' of the waveguide 180. The clamping mechanism includes a pivotally movable clamp arm 190, which is pivotally connected at the distal end thereof to the distal end of outer tubular sheath 160. A clamp pad 192, preferably formed from Teflon or other suitable low-friction material, is mounted on the surface of the clamp arm for cooperation with the end-effector 180', with pivotal movement of the clamp arm positioning the clamp pad in substantially parallel relationship to, and in contact with, the end-effector 180'. By this construction, tissue to be clamped is grasped between the pad 192 and the end effector 180'. As illustrated, the pad 192 is preferably provided with a sawtooth-like configuration to enhance the gripping of tissue in cooperation with the end-effector 180'.
Pivotal movement of the clamp arm with respect to the end-effector is effected by the provision of at least one, and preferably a pair of lever portions 193 of the clamp arm 190 at the proximal end thereof. The lever portions are positioned on respective opposite sides of the waveguide 180 and end-effector 180', and are in operative engagement with a drive portion 194 of the reciprocable actuating member 170. Reciprocable movement of the actuating member, relative to the outer tubular sheath 160 and the waveguide 180, thereby effects pivotal movement of the clamp arm relative to the end-effector. The lever portions 193 can be respectively positioned in a pair of openings defined by the drive portion 194, or otherwise suitably mechanically coupled therewith, whereby reciprocable movement of the actuating member acts through the drive portion 194 and lever portions 193 to pivot the clamp arm.
With particular reference to FIGS. 3, 5, and 6, reciprocable movement of the actuating member 170 is effected by the provision of a drive collar, generally designated 200, mounted on the proximal end of the actuating member for conjoint rotation. To this end, the drive collar includes a pair of diametrically opposed axially extending arms 202 each having a drive lug 204, with the drive lugs being biased by the arms 202 into engagement with suitable openings 206 defined by the proximal portion of tubular actuating member 170.
Rotation of the drive collar 200 together with the actuating member 170 is further effected by the provision of a pair of keys 208 (see FIG. 8) diametrically engageable with suitable openings 210 defined by the proximal end of the actuating member 170. A circumferential groove 211 on the actuating member 170 receives on O-ring 211' (FIG. 4) for engagement with the inside surface of outer sheath 160.
Rotation of the actuating member 170 together with tubular outer sheath 160 and inner waveguide 180 is provided by a connector pin 212 extending through these components of the apparatus. As illustrated in FIG. 4, the tubular actuating member 170 defines an elongated slot 214 through which the connector pin 212 extends to accommodate reciprocable movement of the actuating member relative to the outer tubular sheath and inner waveguide.
A rotation knob 216 mounted on the outer tubular sheath facilitates rotational positioning of the elongated portion 150 with respect to the housing 130 of the clamp coagulator apparatus. Connector pin 212 preferably joins knob 216 together with sheath 160, member 170, and waveguide 180 for rotation as a unit relative to housing 130. In a current embodiment, hub portion 216' of the rotation knob acts to rotatably mount the outer sheath 160, the actuating member 170, and the waveguide 180 (as a unit with knob 216), on the housing 130.
In accordance with the present invention, the drive collar 200 provides a portion of the clamp drive mechanism of the apparatus which effects pivotal movement of the clamp arm 190 by reciprocation of actuating member 170. The clamp drive mechanism further includes a drive yoke 220 which is operatively connected with an operating lever 222 of the apparatus, with the operating lever thus interconnected with the reciprocable actuating member 170 via drive yoke 220 and drive collar 200. The operating lever 222 is pivotally connected to the housing 130 of the apparatus (by a pivot mount 223) for cooperation in a scissors-like fashion with a handgrip portion 224 of the housing. Movement of lever 222 toward handgrip portion 224 translates actuating member 170 proximally, thereby pivoting clamp arm 190 toward end-effector 180'.
The spring 226 fits within a spring slot 228 defined by the drive yoke 220, which in turn is positioned between a pair of spring retainer flanges 230 of the operating lever 222. The drive yoke 220 is pivotally movable with respect to the spring flanges 230 (about pivot mount 223 of housing 130) in opposition to the compression coil spring, which bears against the surfaces of the spring slots defined by each of the spring flanges 230. In this manner, the force which can be applied to the actuating member 170, by pivotal movement of operating lever 222 acting through drive yoke 220 and drive collar 200, is limited by the force with which spring 226 bears against the spring flanges 230. Application of excessive force results in pivotal displacement of drive yoke 220 relative to the spring flanges 230 of the operating lever 222 in opposition to spring 226. In a presently preferred embodiment, spring 226 is selected to limit clamping force at clamp arm 190 to approximately 2 pounds. Stop portions of housing 130 limit the travel of operating lever 222 to prevent excessive compression of spring 226.
In accordance with the present invention, indexed rotational positioning of the elongated portion 150 of the present clamp coagulator apparatus 120 is provided by the provision of a detent mechanism incorporated into the clamp drive mechanism of the apparatus. Specifically, the drive collar 200 includes a pair of axially spaced apart drive flanges 232. A detent-receiving surface is provided between the drive flanges 232, and defines a plurality of circumferentially spaced teeth 234 which define detent-receiving depressions generally about the periphery of the drive collar 200. In a presently preferred embodiment, twelve (12) of the teeth 234 are provided, thereby providing indexed positioning of the elongated portion 150 of the apparatus at 30° intervals relative to the housing 130 of the apparatus.
Indexed rotational movement is further achieved by the provision of at least one, and preferably a pair, of diametrically opposed detents 236 respectively provided on cantilevered yoke arms 238 of drive yoke 220. By this arrangement, the yoke arms 238 are positioned between the drive flanges 232 for engagement with the confronting surfaces thereof, and bias the detents 236 into engagement with the drive collar 200. Indexed relative rotation is thus achieved, with the detents 236 of the yoke arms cooperating with the drive flanges 238 for effecting reciprocation of the actuating member 170. In a presently preferred embodiment, the drive yoke 220 is formed from suitable polymeric material, with the biasing force created by the yoke arms acting on the detents thereof cooperating with the radial depressions defined by the drive collar to resist relative rotational torque less than about 1 to 2 inch-pounds. As such, the elongated portion 150 of the clamp coagulator apparatus is maintained in any of its selected indexed rotational positions, relative to housing 130, unless a torque is applied (such as by rotation knob 216) exceeding this predetermined torque level. A snap-like indexing action is thus provided.
Rotation of the elongated proportion 150 of the present clamp coagulator apparatus 120 is preferably effected together with relative rotational movement of ultrasonic drive unit 50 with respect to apparatus housing 130. In order to join the elongated portion 150 to the ultrasonic drive unit 50 in ultrasonic-transmitting relationship, the proximal portion of the outer tubular sheath 160 is preferably provided with a pair of wrench flats 240 (see FIG. 4). The wrench flats allow torque to be applied by a suitable torque wrench or the like to thereby permit the waveguide 180 to be joined to the ultrasonic drive unit 50. The ultrasonic drive unit, as well as the elongated portion 150, are thus rotatable, as a unit, by suitable manipulation of rotation knob 216, relative to housing 130 of the apparatus. The interior of housing 130 is dimensioned to accommodate such relative rotation of the drive unit 50.
Thus, the present surgical clamp coagulator apparatus is configured for highly efficient and versatile use, with the construction being sufficiently straight-forward and economical in configuration to permit single-patient use.
Components of the apparatus can be fabricated from materials suited for surgical applications. By virtue of the detent mechanism provided by cooperation of drive collar 200 and drive yoke 220, selective angular positioning of the elongated portion 150 of the apparatus, and the associated ultrasonic drive unit 50, is readily effected with respect to the housing 130 of the apparatus. The scissors-like action provided by pivotal operating lever 222 and cooperating handgrip portion 224 facilitates convenient and efficient manipulation and positioning of the apparatus, and operation of the clamping mechanism at the distal portion of the apparatus whereby tissue is efficiently urged against the end-effector 180'. The detent mechanism resists rotation of the ultrasonic drive unit, and associated cable assembly, with respect to the housing 130 with the resistence to rotation readily and conveniently overcome by application of sufficient torque via rotation knob 216.
From the foregoing, it will be observed that numerous modifications and variations can be effected without departing from the true spirit and scope of the novel concept of the present invention. It is to be understood that no limitation with respect to the specific embodiment illustrated herein is intended or should be inferred. The disclosure is intended to cover, by the appended claims, all such modifications as fall within the scope of the claims.
wherein said interconnecting means comprises a drive collar joined to said actuating member for conjoint rotation said drive collar having a detent-receiving surface defining a plurality of circumferentially spaced teeth defining depressions, and a drive yoke joined to said operating lever and having at least one detent, said depressions being adapted to receive said at least one detent for indexing the rotational movement of said actuating member and tubular outer sheath with respect to said housing.
said drive collar includes a pair of spaced apart drive flanges, said drive yoke being positioned between said drive flanges for engagement therewith.
said drive collar comprises a pair of yoke arms diametrically engageable with said drive collar, each said yoke arm having one said detent thereon.
a rotation knob mounted on said outer sheath for effecting indexed rotation of said outer sheath and said actuating member.
wherein said detent-receiving surface defines a plurality of circumferentially spaced teeth therebetween for receiving said detents.
said detents are biased into said depressions by said yoke arms to resist relative rotational torque less than about 5 to 20 inch-ounces.
wherein said drive collar includes a pair of diametrically opposed, axially extending arms each having a drive lug, said drive lugs being biases into engagement with said arms for reciprocably moving said actuating member relative to said tubular outer sheath.
said drive collar further includes a pair of keys diametrically engageable with said tubular actuating member.
said rotation knob includes a hub portion for rotatably mounting said outer sheath, said actuating member, and said waveguide, as a unit with said rotation knob, on said housing.
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le | So, we have all been there, on the receiving end of unreasonable behaviour from another person; be it lover, relative, friend, customer etc… When I deliver a Coping with Stress session, for PhD researchers, I focus on the fact that we always have ultimate control over our own feelings and responses to the behaviour of others. Essentially, this is the principle that one person can only upset another, if the latter allows it to happen.
As a PhD student, your relationship with your supervisors is key to the management of both your research project and your daily existence. Similarly, when in employment, relationships with colleagues are key to both long term job happiness and daily happiness. If we consider that we spend a significant amount of our week with work colleagues these relationships are of some significance in our lives.
Psychologists talk about the “Theory of Behavioural Consistency”, or in plain English the idea that our past behaviour is the best predictor of our future behaviour. Whilst it is so easy to focus on the behaviour of others, aggression, passive-aggression, irrationality, unreliability; these are all things we cannot control. We can control our own responses to the behaviour of others. We can control our own behaviour at all times.
• Do I listen actively to others?
• If I am in a conversation with someone am I: a) really listening to what they are saying? b) thinking what I might say next to make myself appear clever? c) thinking about what I am having for dinner?
• Do I have the confidence to ask a colleague or my supervisor about how my behaviour impacts them. | 2019-04-23T01:53:55Z | https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2016/07/08/its-not-me-its-you/ | Sports | Business | 0.970263 |
umich | Associated with American pop art and represented in major museums around the world, Grooms has worked in numerous media. As a showman rivaling Barnum & Bailey, he is best known for his large-scale sculptural installations, notably Ruckus Manhattan and the City of Chicago. In the early 1980s, he began translating the character of those humorous works into the realm of printmaking by creating three-dimensional lithographs.
Grooms derived Traffic! from his city installations. Even on a smaller scale, it retains all the sprawling, rambunctious energies of the more monumental pieces. Grooms' urban world is a funky, terrestrial paradise in which city dwellers, buildings, even lampposts, sway together in good-natured harmony. | 2019-04-24T21:53:37Z | https://www.bus.umich.edu/rossart/collection/Artwork.aspx?artwork_ord=99 | Sports | Arts | 0.934709 |
msj | Apply for admission to Mount St. Joseph University using a printable PDF application.
At the Mount, we have separate online applications for different groups of future students. Please use the links above to apply online.
Will soon graduate from high school or have graduated within the last four years.
Have attended another college or university.
We encourage you to apply online using the link above; if you require a paper application please print out the Traditional Student Application.
Graduated from high school at least four years before applying.
We encourage you to apply online using the link above; if you require a paper application please print out the Adult Application.
Graduate students and those seeking post-graduate certificates are those who have earned a bachelor's degree and wish to pursue a post-graduate certificate or graduate degree.
We encourage you to apply online using the link above; if you require a paper application please print out the Graduate Application. | 2019-04-26T11:41:45Z | https://www.msj.edu/admission/how-to-apply/print-application/ | Sports | Reference | 0.298823 |
ucc | As an academic in a generalist discipline my research has necessarily been somewhat diverse in the topics I have addressed. However, underpinning all of my research has been a desire to contribute to the understanding of how the quality of clinical care delivered by general practitioners to their patients can be improved. Within this rather broad theme I have had a particular interest and focus on issues pertaining to how general practitioners use medicines and how the application of pharmacotherapy in general practice can be improved. Medicines are used in a short term fashion to treat self limiting illness and the commonest type of medicines used in this way are antimicrobials. Thus, I have undertaken several research projects on antibiotoic use in general practice and one of the two large projects on which I am the principal investigator is in this area. Medicines are also used on a continuing basis in the management of long term or chronic illness but as part and parcel of a broad range of interventions aimed at maintaining the health of patients with such illnesses. Thus, the other large project on which I am the principal investigator is concerned with the organisation of care for patients with diabetes mellitus and, in particular the potential contribution of a national register of patients with diabetes in improving the quality of diabetes care. Diabetes, though, is just one chronic illness, albeit a good exemplar, for how chronic diseases in general might be managed in primary care. Within the broader theme of research to improve the quality of general practice care I have supported work of other colleagues within the department and within the Medical School on diabetes care, educational initiatives with general practitioners, comparative health systems research, and research on doctor-patient communication. I have also been involved as a collaborator with colleagues in other institutions on projects relating to the quality of general practitioner care and medicines use/ prescribing ¿ particularly the Irish College of General Practioners and NUI,G.
(2006) Saunders' Pocket Essentials of General Practice.
(2001) The experience of teenage pregnancy in the South East of Ireland.
(1998) Prescribing in Primary Care.
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(1992) Teamwork: projecting your practice image [B4768].
(2016) Clinical and Economic Systematic Literature Review to Support the Development of an Integrated Care Programme for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management for the Irish Health System.
(2015) Clinical and Economic Systematic Literature Review to Support the Development of an Integrated Care Programme for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management for the Irish Health System.
(2000) The South East Teenage Pregnancy Study: A qualitative analysis of the experience of teenage pregnancy in the South East of Ireland.
(2014) An Observational Study of the Trends in Antibiotic Consumption in Ireland (2008-2012).
(2010) Diagnostic labelling in antimicrobial use in primary care in Ireland.
(2009) A study of headache in general practice to identify diagnosed and undiagnosed migraine, and headache incorrectly labeled as migraine.
(2006) Patient's perspectives on the use of antidepressants.
(2000) Taking another look at the acute sore throat.
(2009) Print formats for BMJ research Different strokes may be needed for different folks.
(2005) An investigation of teenagers sexual knowledge, attitudes, experiences and behaviours int he MWHB region of the country.
(2001) Willingness to Pay for Smoking Cessation Advice.
(2014) To cognitively err is human.
(2002) Consultations do not have to be longer.
(2016) An Evidence Review on Current Models of Registered Nursing and Midwifery Practice in the Community to Inform Policy Development. Department of Health.
(2006) Pocket Essentials of General Practice.
(2004) An Investigation of Teenagers Sexual Knowledge, Attitudes, Experiences and Behaviour in the Mid Western Health Board Region.
(2013) The Effect of Copayments for Prescriptions on Adherence to Prescription Medicines in Publicly Insured Populations; A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
(2013) GPs' perspectives on the management of patients with multimorbidity: systematic review and synthesis of qualitative research.
(2013) Does contact with a podiatrist prevent the occurrence of a lower extremity amputation in people with diabetes? A systematic review and meta-analysis. | 2019-04-24T07:04:39Z | http://publish.ucc.ie/researchprofiles/C013/cbradley | Sports | Health | 0.761578 |
lonelyplanet | With its weathered storefronts, narrow streets and bustling harbor, Hawaii’s most historic town looks like a port-of-call for Captain Ahab. Is this the 21st century, or an 1850s whaling village? In truth, it offers a mix of both.
Coverage includes: History, Sights, Beaches, activities, Tours, Festivals & Events, Eating, Drinking & Nightlife, Entertainment, Shopping. | 2019-04-22T02:55:19Z | https://shop.lonelyplanet.com/products/maui-lahaina-4 | Sports | Recreation | 0.573587 |
berkeley | Ted Underwood teaches in the School of Information Sciences and the English Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He was trained as a Romanticist and now applies machine learning to large digital collections. His most recent book, Distant Horizons: Digital Evidence and Literary Change (Univ of Chicago, Spring 2019) addresses new perspectives opened up by large digital libraries.
Laura McGrath is the Associate Director of the Stanford University Literary Lab and a postdoctoral fellow in English. Her primary interests lie in computational approaches to post45 American fiction. She is at work on a manuscript, a literary history of the agent, entitled Middlemen: Making Literature in the Age of Multimedia Conglomerates. She is also working on a second, trade book called Comps: The Big Data Behind the Book Business.
The DH Working Group began in 2011 as a place to facilitate interdisciplinary conversations around topics in the Digital Humanities (broadly defined). We welcome participants from all disciplinary backgrounds, beginners and experts in digital skills, students, faculty, and staff.
Seminar: What Can Machine Learning Teach Us About Literature?
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Stacy Reardon is the Literatures and Digital Humanities Librarian at UC Berkeley as well as a doctoral candidate in Ethnic American literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is a member of the Scholarly Communication Expertise Group at UC Berkeley, serves on the editorial board for C&RL News, and reads for the New England Review literary magazine. Stacy has been a librarian at Middlebury College in Vermont and has several years of experience in instructional technology. | 2019-04-22T16:36:39Z | http://digitalhumanities.berkeley.edu/departmentschool/digital-humanities-berkeley | Sports | News | 0.631669 |
ohsaa | COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio High School Athletic Association filed a Complaint for Writ of Prohibition in the Ohio Supreme Court Thursday and asked the Ohio Supreme Court to stay enforcement of the temporary restraining order (TRO) issued by Judge Robert P. Ruehlman against the OHSAA and to stay all further proceedings on this matter in Hamilton County until the Ohio Supreme Court has considered the merits of OHSAA’s Complaint for Writ of Prohibition.
The filing contends that Judge Ruehlman did not have the jurisdiction or authority to issue a TRO prohibiting the OHSAA from implementing the adopted bylaws of the voluntary members of this unincorporated private association. Judge Ruehlman’s TRO prevents the OHSAA from implementing a component of the Competitive Balance formula as it applies specifically to Roger Bacon High School and the other members of the Greater Catholic League Coed Division, but the ruling impacts schools throughout Ohio.
Membership in the OHSAA is voluntary and the member schools vote annually for any changes they wish to adopt to their Constitution and Bylaws.
Judge Ruehlman has scheduled an August 28 preliminary injunction hearing in the case in Hamilton County. Officially, the filing Thursday in the Ohio Supreme Court is a Complaint for Writ of Prohibition and Motion for Emergency Stay and Expedited Alternative Writ, which asks a higher court to stop a lower court from proceeding with a case that does not fall under the lower court’s jurisdiction.
Judge Ruehlman issued the TRO August 15 prohibiting the OHSAA from using the Tier 1 factor, which relates to feeder schools, specifically as it applies to Roger Bacon and the GCL Coed Division. However, since OHSAA bylaws apply equally to all member schools, both public and non-public, the ruling has statewide implications.
The lawsuit has no effect on regular season schedules, which are now underway. However, if the OHSAA is not successful in its appeal, it could require the divisional assignments to be recalculated mid-season for those sports that are affected by Competitive Balance. | 2019-04-22T14:40:41Z | https://www.ohsaa.org/news-media/ArtMID/909/ArticleID/362/OHSAA-Files-Complaint-and-Emergency-Motion-with-Ohio-Supreme-Court | Sports | Sports | 0.906454 |
wordpress | When running a business, congruency and consistency are vital, but often forgotten.
People talk about authenticity, and that’s all well and good. But it’s not enough to be you; you have to be you all the time. If not, there’s a disconnect.
If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, if you’ve read anything I’ve ever written, you know that I really like (love) my dog. You know that my body’s got a lot of real estate covered in tattoos; my hair’s been nearly every shade of the rainbow.
And you also know I’m passionate about writing: my own, as well as the writing of others.
I want to help as many people as possible become truly great writers.
Because I’m sick of reading writing that’s just mediocre. (And because it’s the #1 thing you can do to move ahead in your careers. More of that below.) The difference between a good writer and a great writer is dramatic, and even a great writer isn’t great all the time. Every piece I write is a battle.
That’s all to say you know who I am.
And you’re smart, so if we’re emailing or DMing, you have certain expectations engrained in you about our interactions and if I don’t meet them, you’re going to pick up on it quickly.
Example: one of my business coaching clients, Amanda Edell, gets the majority of her leads through Instagram. On her IG stories, she’s silly and casual.
She posts videos of herself dancing, lip-synching to 90s hip-hop, and sipping the occasional cocktail. However—when people applied for coaching, she would reply with super professional emails. They didn’t just sound stiff, they sounded like someone else wrote them.
Like many people, Amanda was working under a false premise.
You display your professionalism and credibility through your knowledge and its application, and more importantly, the results your clients receive from those things; not responding to emails like you work for a big box gym and you’re worried about staying in line.
Always remember: people don’t buy coaching, they buy coaches.
You want to be on brand, and you’re the brand.
Back to Amanda, it’s easy to see why this was hurting conversions. Her prospects would go from watching her sing along to “Put It In My Mouth” on her IG story, one minute, then fill out a coaching app and get a corporate sounding email from her the next.
We dug in and rewrote all her templated responses, as well as broke down how to engage more conversationally.
I checked in a week later, and she’d signed up six new clients in 48 hours.
Everything should sound and feel and read like you. Just you.
Learn to write well, like really, really well, and it’ll be a force multiplier in your lives and careers. This is one of the reasons I focus so so heavily on writing in my mastermind group, The Wellspring Society.
I teach a score of other things, from marketing to networking, but I believe writing is the core of it all.
If you’re interested in improving your business through writing and storytelling, or learning more about the Mastermind in general, check it out here, and let me know if you have any questions.
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nesn | The Boston Bruins dropped Sunday's matinee game against the Pittsburgh Penguins by a 2-1 score that throws even more doubt into Boston's playoff picture.
The B's jumped off to a good start, as Blake Wheeler netted the first goal of the game with 16:22 left in the second period. A tremendous performance by goalie Tim Thomas was upset in the final minutes of the period as Pascal Dupuis slapped a wrap-around goal past the netminder.
To kick off the third period, Evgeni Malkin got off a soft shot that just snuck by a shielded Thomas. The Penguins held on to advance to 40-22-4, picking up ground on the Washington Capitals.
Marc Savard took a nasty hit with 5:37 remaining in the third period. The Bruin took a slap shot from the high slot then took an elbow to the head from Matt Cooke, immediately crumpling to the ice. There was a scrum between opposing players at the far boards, but Savard lay on his stomach, motionless. A backboard was brought on the ice and Savard was hoisted away.
Given that Savard is one of Boston's top lamplighters, this could be a devastating blow to the Bruins' postseason chances. Of course, more important at this moment is the health of Savard, so keep your computer screen here at NESN.com for the latest on the injury.
The Bruins fall to 29-24-11 and now have to wait for Philadelphia and Montreal to finish their games tonight before they know their current playoff situation. If both win, the Bruins will slip to the eighth seed behind the Canadiens while the Flyers will solidify their hold on the sixth spot.
soft shot get by him to provide the winning margin.
previous two games — Thomas is heating up just in time.
Grinder: Left wing Chris Kunitz paced all Penguins in shots on goal with six, doing what he could to try to extend the lead. Unfortunately for the former Anaheim Duck, none of his shots went in. Kunitz is a month removed from returning from surgery to repair a torn abdominal muscle. As one of Pittsburgh's top playmakers, his return has been very welcome to the Penguins.
Weak Link: Maybe GM Peter Chiarelli is right that the price was too high at the trading deadline to acquire a goalscorer.
It doesn't make the game any less frustrating, as the Bruins attempted a scant 21 shots on goal and were limited to just three in the first period. Pittsburgh gave Boston as many chances as it could, racking up a total of 10 minutes in penalties, but nothing helped. In this game, there was no weak link in the chain — it was the whole chain.
Key Moment: While not impacting the score or the momentum of the game, things were decidedly muted following the Savard injury, and it's what people will remember from the game. The injury was painful to watch, and while Cooke may not have meant any harm — much like Michael Ryder probably didn't intend to harm anyone with his hit on Saturday — you have to wonder if the NHL will crack down on Cooke at the tail end of a week dominated by several devastating hits.
Up Next: Facing Pittsburgh was no cakewalk, but the Bruins aren't done with perhaps their most grueling stretch of the entire year. The club is heading to Toronto for a 7 p.m. affair with the Maple Leafs on Tuesday, March 9, the third game of a seven-game road trip. No Bruins fan nor player needs reminding that Phil Kessel now wears blue and white. He is second on the Leafs in points behind Tomas Kaberle.
Tuukka Rask is expected to dress for the game, but it's entirely possible he takes a seat on the bench if the Bruins choose to ride the hot hand — the very concept that got Rask into the net in the first place. | 2019-04-20T16:48:21Z | https://nesn.com/2010/03/hardfought-battle-between-bruins-and-penguins-ends-in-21-pittsburgh-victory/ | Sports | Sports | 0.824228 |
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washingtonpost | Maryland has agreed to provide local school systems more time for students to get required vaccinations after school superintendents raised concerns about children missing school because they could not meet the deadline.
The state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is offering a 45-day extension to allow students to get the required vaccinations. According to state rules, students must provide proof of their immunizations by the 20th day of school.
Local districts have been working with parents to adhere to the state’s regulations, but state officials said school superintendents asked in recent weeks that the state provide some flexibility.
“We know that all of our local systems are trying to balance keeping kids in class, which is important, with health concerns,” said Bill Reinhard, a state Department of Education spokesman.
School districts must apply by Friday to receive an extension, and a number of districts plan to file for extra time, including Anne Arundel and Prince George’s counties.
Prince George’s, which faced a Tuesday deadline to get its students vaccinated, made a final push on Saturday, sponsoring free immunization clinics where more than 500 students received the necessary shots.
Max Pugh, a spokesman for the school system, said the district’s new deadline would be Oct. 31.
Districts are eligible for the extension if they have more than 250 students who do not have proof that they have received their immunizations. The districts also must submit an outreach plan that outlines how they plan to identify students who don’t have the required immunizations and establish programs with groups that provide access to the vaccinations.
Students will be allowed to attend school during the extension and students in school districts that are seeking waivers also can go to school, said Laura Herrera, the state’s deputy secretary for public health services.
Students must be vaccinated for measles, mumps, whooping cough and other communicable diseases. Montgomery County health officials have recently had to deal with a whooping cough outbreak, with 16 cases surfacing among students between the ages of 9 and 18.
Starting this school year, Maryland public schools required students entering kindergarten to show they had received two chicken pox vaccinations, and students beginning the seventh grade had to have received the Tdap (tetanus-diphtheria-attenuated pertussis) and meningococcal vaccinations. | 2019-04-25T12:20:46Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/maryland-offers-45-day-extension-for-student-immunizations/2014/09/15/4dc6d00a-3d11-11e4-b0ea-8141703bbf6f_story.html | Sports | Health | 0.577807 |
wikipedia | ^ Platt, Stephen R. Provincial Patriots: The Hunanese and Modern China. Harvard University Press. 2007.
^ 袁家骅. 汉语方言槪要. 1983: 333. ISBN 9787801264749.
^ Distefanoy, Joe. A Song of Spice and Fire: The Real Deal With Hunan Cuisine.
^ Shi-Zheng Chen. TDR (1988-) Vol. 39, No. 1. The Tradition, Reformation, and Innovation of Huaguxi: Hunan Flower Drum Opera. The MIT Press. 1995: 129–149. | 2019-04-20T07:42:53Z | https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B9%96%E6%B9%98%E4%BA%BA | Sports | Arts | 0.707699 |
wordpress | Alexander Gladney is currently serving as the Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at Capital Health, which prides itself on being an industry leader in progressive, high quality healthcare services for all. Alexander Gladney himself specializes in corporate, real estate, contract, and voting rights law, and he is licensed to practice law in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Alexander credits his career success to his broad legal background. His experience is based on a unique combination of contractual, information technology, transactional, and litigation legal expertise which he gathered through the years by practicing law across a wide variety of different contexts.
In September 2008, Alexander Gladney joined the Capital Health team in the office of General Counsel. With two locations in Trenton and Hopewell, Capital Health offers complete state of the art care from trauma response to mental health screening to a pediatric emergency center to excellent outpatient facilities. They place great emphasis on investing in high quality physicians, nurses, and staff. Capital Health also prioritizes innovative new programs and approaches and strives for full integration of advanced technology into their treatment offerings.
At Capital Health, it was not long before Alexander was recognized for his outstanding work, and he was quickly promoted to associate general counsel. In this new position, Alexander drafted protocols, policies, and contracts, and he was tasked with handling complex real estate transaction and high-profile complex litigation cases. Alexander Gladney also acted as an advisor for management, human resources, and physicians on all legal issues as they arose, including public & private contracts, state and federal compliance, conflicts-of-interest, and financial disclosure concerns.
After several years with the Capital Health team, Alexander Gladney was excited to assume his current role as Chief Legal Officer and Vice President of Risk Management. In this role, Alexander manages a variety of responsibilities spread across several departments which he oversees. He plays an integral role in both the restructuring and realigning of strategic planning, operations, marketing, finance, and regulatory affairs.
A graduate of Georgetown University, Alexander Gladney holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics and Fine Arts. Following his undergraduate education, Alexander attended Temple University School of Law, earning his Juris Doctorate with a focus on Corporate Law.
The Temple University James E Beasly School of Law is a prestigious institution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is currently ranked as the 50th best law school in the nation, and 2nd in Trial Advocacy training. Alexander Gladney is proud to hold a Temple degree, and puts it to use each and every day across his successful career.
In addition to all of his professional endeavors, Alexander is also a passionate and committed philanthropist who values helping the community, as well as organizations whose mission it is to also assist the community – whether that be inside or outside of the United States. His commitment does not stop at one organization or one issue. Instead, he supports a variety of diverse causes. However, due to his professional background, he is particularly passionate about causes, nonprofits, and charities that work to benefit those involved within the healthcare industry. | 2019-04-20T04:18:07Z | https://alexandergladney.wordpress.com/ | Sports | Business | 0.445952 |
chicagotribune | Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan (D., Chicago) proposed Monday that Navy Pier be sold to the state and turned into a state park as part of Gov. James Thompson`s $2.3 billion ''Build Illinois'' program.
''This proposal will provide the state an opportunity to enhance one of its greatest natural treasures, the Lake Michigan shoreline,'' Madigan said at a press conference in the State of Illinois Center. He refused to estimate how much the project would cost the state, but in response to a question, he said the pier has been appraised at about $40 million.
Robert Mier, city commissioner of economic development, said the administration ''never seriously considered selling the pier but would be willing to look at Speaker Madigan`s proposal.
Stone said the proposal is similar one he made a year and a half ago that the pier be turned over to the federal government for a national park.
Of Madigan`s plan, John Kramer, general manager of the Chicago World`s Fair 1992 Authority, said: ''In a broad sense, the proposal is helpful to the fair since it furthers the proposition that lakefront property can be used for recreational purposes without necessarily being harmful to the lake ecology.'' The pier has been proposed as a satellite fair site, open to recreational activity but not part of the fair itself.
''A vital part of retaining and attracting business and jobs to this state is the quality of recreational facilities available to the general public,'' Madigan said.
legislation to direct the state to negotiate with Chicago to buy Navy Pier. The legislation also would direct the state to redevelop the facility as a state park.
Madigan rejected proposals to use some the pier space for commercial ventures. He said plenty of commercial space is provided on Michigan Avenue and on the Near North Side.
''For a number of years I have watched the efforts to attract private developers to convert Navy Pier into a shopping, hotel and recreational complex without any real success,'' Madigan said. | 2019-04-22T02:29:11Z | https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-05-21-8502010300-story.html | Sports | Recreation | 0.739842 |
manchester | The University has announced a major investment in the research infrastructure for digital humanities and digital cultural heritage, with a new image viewer for The University of Manchester Library’s Special Collections, to be developed and built in collaboration with experts from Cambridge University Library’s Digital Library team.
The image viewer partnership has been led by Dr Guyda Armstrong, Faculty Lead for Digital Humanities, in close collaboration with colleagues from The University of Manchester Library, the John Rylands Research Institute, IT Services, and academics from the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures working with the collections.
The new image viewer will allow enhanced viewing and manipulation of ultra-high quality images, with a parallel display of text, audio, and even video content. With its functionality permitting the presentation of extensive research content alongside the images, the new viewer will allow University of Manchester academics to curate digital editions of important items from the collections, contextualizing them and bringing their research on the collections to a wider audience.
The new image viewer supports the IIIF image standard, which permits interoperability with other institutions’ image collections, while the metadata uses TEI XML, the gold standard of digital humanities object description.
The University of Manchester research image viewer is the first formal external partnership of Cambridge University Library, and represents an important strategic collaboration for both institutions. While The University of Manchester Library and Cambridge University Library have already collaborated on a number of large shared image collections projects for a number of years, the creation of the new image viewer will allow us to deepen the relationship and embark on further joint special collections and digital humanities projects.
The image viewer project is supported by the Creative Manchester initiative, and the University’s Research Lifecycle Project, which is a five-year programme of investments to support the University in meeting its goal of being one of the top 25 research universities in the world, through a series of strategic investments in IT and associated change.
Tuan Pham, Programme Director – Digital Transformation for Cambridge University Library said: “Since 2010, the Cambridge University Library’s Digital Library platform has been a core part of our mission to provide access to world heritage collections, to collaborate with partners to share the benefits and maximise reach and impact, to engage people and inspire thirst for knowledge and understanding. We have shared many of our wonderful collections at Cambridge to everyone, to thousands world-wide.
Now we are very proud and excited to partner with the University of Manchester, to be part of this transformative investment, bringing to light the special collections at Manchester for everyone to study, research and enjoy. | 2019-04-18T15:10:15Z | https://www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/news/display/?id=21308 | Sports | Arts | 0.654664 |
wordpress | In my years of reading anime reviews, I have seen many writers try and define what makes a ‘good character’, usually citing a certain element of characterization that they find most important in doing so. Leaving aside the obvious fact that character interpretation is subjective, I want to try and distinguish the different elements that can be used to make a show’s characters interesting. In this post I’ll be discussing the conventional elements of character ‘depth‘ and ‘development,’ as well as the element of ‘chemistry,’ which is less commonly mentioned in anime reviews.
The paragon of depth, development, and chemistry.
Many people who have shown disdain for movies made in the past decade or so have made the complaint that there are less memorable characters and especially less memorable villains in modern movies. While I’ve never been a particularly big fan of old movies, I will agree with the sentiment that there were better characters in the past, and it’s not just that they’ve been around long enough to acquire a greater status.
The problem lies with one of the biggest problems that I have with movies that were made in the past decade, which is one that I thankfully predict that we will be moving away from as we enter the next decade. The trend is that people started demanding a misguided ‘realism’ from their movies. To many people, ‘realism’ just seems to mean being excessively dark and edgy, which has lead to a flood of movies that are in no way realistic, but pretend that they are. The problem is that this has lead to movie characters excessively needing ‘humanizing’ qualities. Nowadays, characters have to have some kind of fault or weakness it seems, and I see this as a problem.
The bottom line is, you can only develop a character so much in the span of a movie. Some movies are more successful with it, but if you are making a blockbuster action flick, you’ve got no business trying to make a realistic character. The point is to make one who is unforgettable. In general, I think one way to put it is, it’s not about how many one-liners your character spits (as no doubt modern characters still spit them) but it’s about how badass the last thing the character did before saying the line was.
What I want to see is characters who are beyond reason, beyond weakness, and totally larger than life. I want the villain to be so unstoppably badass that if the hero actually takes them down, it’s only because the hero was even more unstoppably badass. You don’t even have to be making an action film for this to be possible. Quentin Tarantino has consistently made all of his films by filling them with way-larger-than-life characters. Take the recent Inglourious Basterds, wherein face-offs between The Jew Hunter and Aldo the Apache are so big and tense that when the former talks about having the entire war in his hands, you don’t even start to doubt him.
What stirred me to talk about this (and how it ties into anime) is that Ryougo Narita, creator of Baccano! and Durarara!!, is a veritable god of creating memorable characters. He fills his stories with people so otherworldly and amazing that you don’t even feel like normal life stands a chance against them. The clashes between Rail Tracer and Ladd Russo in Baccano! had an enormity about them that was incredible because you felt like this was a true clash of titans. Durarara! has already shown that it will have similar situations, as was felt in the second episode’s meeting between Orihara Izaya and the Dullahan rider. The show uses it’s insane cast and overpowering atmosphere to create a unique and interesting world for things to play out in.
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So long as tales have been told, there have been countless stories of the upper-class. It only makes sense that authors across all time have been affixed on aristocrats; for one thing, putting characters on pedestals provides personality – when you feel that the character in question is above you in some way, they gain an air of mystique and beauty due to a lack of understanding on your part for the world of the well-off. | 2019-04-20T20:26:33Z | https://myswordisunbelievablydull.wordpress.com/tag/characters/ | Sports | Reference | 0.465593 |
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freep | Former Troy City Manager Brian Kischnick gets a prison term for soliciting bribes from contractors doing work for the city.
In one of metro Detroit's most closely watched bribery cases, the former city manager of Troy — whose five-year reign of self-dealing and intimidation was compared by prosecutors to the behavior of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick — received a prison term Thursday of 30 months.
With two dozen city residents and employees watching, including three members of the Troy City Council, Brian Kischnick received a more lenient sentence than the 55 months that prosecutors wanted. But it's considerably stiffer than mere probation, as Kischnick's lawyer requested.
Kischnick had been one of Michigan’s best-paid city officials, earning a salary combined with benefits of more than $200,000 a year. He was fired by the City Council in March 2018, although not for financial wrongs. His dismissal came shortly after his arrest in Clawson, where he was seen shoving to the ground his drinking companion, a woman who reported to him at Troy City Hall as his special assistant. The two were in a romantic relationship, sources have said.
In determining the sentence, U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds said she was following the standard sentencing guideline of 30 to 37 months for the charge of bribery, to which Kischnick pleaded guilty last fall.
"It does not seem to me that a sentence of probation sends the proper message" in a case involving public corruption, Edmunds said.
"Public corruption is so destructive. It undermines so much of what we all work for," Edmunds said.
Still, she acknowledged that Kischnick had shown admirable dedication to overcoming alcohol and drug use, after Kischnick told the court he'd been offered a job helping a counseling group find new locations.
Prosecutors initially requested a sentence of 55 months, saying they’d unraveled a chain of cash bribes, a free $3,500 driveway at his former home, as well as thousands in restaurant meals with costly wines, and the use for more than three years of a furnished luxury apartment, whose total value exceeded $50,000.
But Kischnick’s defense attorney, Anjali Prasad, cited a total of less than $10,000 for Kischnick’s bribes and other improper gains and recounted for 20 minutes his devotion to Alcoholics Anonymous and counseling. And she persuaded the judge that the free use of the apartment was, without testimony from the apartment owners, unproven as an abuse of his position.
"We don't have any live witnesses" to demonstrate that Kischnick provided or threatened anything to obtain the free rent and furniture at the Somerset Apartments complex in Troy, Edmunds said.
Kischnick also was ordered to undergo two years of supervised release following his prison term. His punishment compares with Kilpatrick’s 28-year prison sentence for significantly more serious crimes.
Kischnick's was hired in 2012 as the city manager, giving him the power of a CEO at Troy City Hall, in a city that — like most of Detroit's suburbs — has a part-time mayor.
Troy Councilman Ethan Baker said he was surprised that Kischnick received such a light sentence. But Baker said he was glad to see that "there will be some justice served" for residents and city employees.
"Our City Hall staff have suffered a lot" under Kischnick's reign, Baker said.
Sitting with Baker in the front row of the courtroom was Councilwoman Edna Abrahim. The city's forensic audit, aimed at having outside experts scrutinize every step of Kischnick's tenure, should be done in a month or two, Abrahim said.
"That may enlighten us as to other financial mismanagement" Kischnick may have committed, she said.
Prasad told the court that her client had been a diligent civil servant but alcoholism and mental illness led to his downfall. Kischnick, when he addressed the judge, said there was a history of alcoholism in his family.
"I now spend a minimum of 40 hours a week in therapy," he said.
According to investigators, as spelled out in a 51-page sentencing memo sent to the judge last week, the key evidence against Kischnick were FBI recordings of his conversations with executives of Troy’s primary paving contractor. Whenever he wanted money or favors from city vendors, "his mantra was, 'Let it rain,' " Assistant U.S. Attorney Dawn Ison told the court.
“DiLisio Contracting became a victim of then City Manager Brian Kischnick’s exploitation of his position for his own personal gain.
“During the course of the FBI’s investigation into Kischnick’s corruption, DiLisio Contracting cooperated with the government, which included giving things of value to Kischnick — at the direction and with the approval of the FBI and the Department of Justice.
“DiLisio Contracting proudly helped the citizens of Troy by doing its part to insure the integrity of City government, and to bring a corrupt official to justice by following federal law enforcement’s instructions. | 2019-04-23T02:18:25Z | https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2019/01/24/troy-city-manager-bribery-prison-sentence/2641925002/ | Sports | Home | 0.271542 |
monash | Sensory neurons encode information about stimuli in the timing, and rate, of action potentials. Neurons in different areas of the brain are sensitive to different stimulus properties. For example, in primary visual cortex (V1), neuronal responses are strongly affected by the orientation of a stimulus. For a single neuron, different orientations evoke different rates of spiking; and different neurons have different “preferred” orientations. The video on the right shows recordings made in the 1960s from the laboratory of David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel, who first demonstrated orientation selectivity in V1, and won a Nobel prize for related work on the visual system. You can hear the amplified ‘spiking’ activity of a single cortical neuron, and see the visual stimulus that has evoked that activity. As you watch the video, think about the properties of the stimulus that evokes the weakest and strongest neuronal responses.
In the middle temporal area (MT), neuronal responses are strongly affected by orientation, but also by the direction and speed of moving objects. While each direction evokes a different average spiking rate, the responses to repetitions of the same stimulus are surprisingly variable. A further complication is that responses scale with contrast – larger responses are seen at higher contrasts.
This means that given the spiking responses of just one neuron, it is impossible to determine what stimulus was presented. For example, a spiking rate of 30 spikes in a second might be evoked by a fast, high contrast stimulus moving upwards, or a slow, low contrast stimulus moving to the right. The brain therefore relies on populations of neurons to reliably encode stimulus features.
In this simulation, you will quantify how the responses of a typical neuron in MT depend on motion direction, contrast, and some other unrevealed factors. This can be used to assess how much information a neuron conveys about the stimulus, and the reliability of that information. We can then infer how populations of neurons work together to accurately encode a diverse range of stimuli.
This will generate a neuron with unique tuning properties. If you return to this page, enter the same name and you will be able to "record" from the same neuron.
In the Experiment tab below, the left panel represents the visual stimulus that the neuron is responding to, in this case a moving grating. You can control the direction and contrast of this grating; when you press “Start”, the grating on the stimulus screen will move in the direction you selected for one second.
The oscilloscope on the top right shows the amplified voltage trace recorded extracellularly from an electrode close to the cell body of the neuron. Each of the near-vertical lines represents an action potential. If you zoomed in on one of these action potentials, what would it look like? What is the difference between an intracellular and an extracellular recording?
If your speakers are on, you will also be able to hear the neuron’s activity. Below the oscilloscope is a graph that automatically plots the number of spikes fired by the neuron on each trial. The data for each contrast will be coloured differently, according to the legend on the right. By clicking on a contrast legend, you can hide/show the data that you have collected for that contrast.
To download the data for further analysis, use the Download data tab.
Now that you've understood the procedure for mapping the tuning curve of a direction sensitive neuron, choose the type of data you want to download, the details of the experimental paradigm (such as which directions and contrasts you will be showing), and how many repetitions you want to perform for each parameter combination. Then download the data to your computer for further analysis. | 2019-04-25T18:36:13Z | https://ilearn.med.monash.edu.au/physiology/Neurophysiology/visualNeuroscience.html | Sports | Science | 0.837265 |
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ipbhost | Activity here has been slow and i know some are on vacation but i would think many are glued to their seats watching the Olympics. My family certainly is. It simply is amazing to watch committed and dedicated highly focused athletes give it their all and continue to break new records.
I am watching. It looks like six packs are the norm. | 2019-04-19T22:33:53Z | http://tcpc.ipbhost.com/topic/3010-any-olympic-watchers/?tab=comments | Sports | Sports | 0.711141 |
time | Much of the stimulus money spent thus far has been sent directly to state governments to help them balance their budgets. Unlike the federal government, most states can't spend into a deficit. Without federal government support, many would have had to cut jobs and government services. The hope was that giving money to the states would result in keeping teachers, firefighters and police officers on the payrolls, and not government waste.
The evidence is that the state support has boosted employment. About half of the jobs that the government counts as created by the stimulus were state- or local-government-funded positions. Economists from both sides of the political spectrum see this as a win. "State budgets are very pro-cyclical," says Reinhart of the American Enterprise Institute. "To the extent the government was able to stop contraction in local government spending, we were better off." | 2019-04-20T22:13:41Z | http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1964765_1964764_1964760,00.html | Sports | Business | 0.524232 |
wordpress | The Jayhawks are the original alternative country band and quite possibly the template for all that have come after: Uncle Tupelo & Wilco, Honeydogs, R.E.M, Golden Smog, Au Pair, Band of Horses, et al. Emerging from the Twin Cities (Minneapolis & Minnesota) music scene during the mid-1980s they’ve put out a bunch of influential several studio albums and have stopped and started several times over the years, notably a hiatus between 2004-9. Most recently the group reformed (2014) to play some shows reunited but after the tour, founding member Mark Olson left because of a strained relationship with another founding member Gary Louris. Despite this, late last year they announced they were recording a new album, produced by REM’s Peter Buck, as a follow up to their last reunification effort Mockingbird TimeI (2011).
Sadly, Olson doesn’t return this time but long term fans shouldn’t be dismayed. For disc no.9 everything is as it should be. There’s a quality mix of modest, gentle and approachable music here, save for the very Wilco like Ace, where Louris ambushes us with a cacophonic guitar squall over an exceptionally funky 80’s groove loop. Lost the Summer is their best jump back to the 70’s (Why this didn’t make the soundtrack of TV series Vinyl is a total mystery). Whilst not specifically a nostalgic effort, there are some references to the early albums here and there, especially their self-titled debut (1986) and Blue Earth (1989), mixed with just a faint whiff of digital progress. You can hear that all clearly on the drum machine percussion of Pretty Roses in Your Hair and the adult grunge on Comeback Kids (just a hint of sarcasm there, too). With Buck on the controls, the REM influence had to seep in somewhere. The instantly familiar dark groove of Lies in Black and White is a total giveaway. Who beget who is unclear. But who cares anyway? With a band that’s travelled the parallel paths of indie and commercialism through umpteen genre changes and revivals you’d expect at least a few concessions and that comes on The Devil Is In Her Eyes, which could have been lifted straight out of Neil Young’s Heart of Gold session, right down to the harmonica squeals.
Ok, so this is not a ground breaking record, but it is a good one. If you want to splash out on a vinyl pressing, I’d recommend it. It has just enough of that mid-80’s aura about it. The kind of stuff Fables of the New Construction, The River and even Runnin’ on Empty had. And as we all know Buck’s a vinyl nut, so the sound has a warm, valve-amp quality to it. It belongs in a collection where it can be inhaled slowly with a couple of brews and a Sunday paper. Not quite ‘Dad rock’ but close enough. | 2019-04-19T04:26:48Z | https://timgruar.wordpress.com/2016/06/21/the-jayhawks-paging-mr-proust/ | Sports | Kids | 0.876515 |
wordpress | There is no way out for Real Madrid. No excuses. No blame games. No scapegoat. Real Madrid has to win the El Clasico, no matter what ,Jose Mourinho, their boss is fully aware of the difficult situation they are in. Barcelona has not lost a single game in the La Liga this season. Real Madrid has lost two, drawn one and won three, which places them sixth on the standings table. Barcelona are sitting comfortably at the top. A loss here for Real Madrid would more or less end the title race. A team like Barcelona is not going to drop many points in the season.
There is a difference of 8 points between the two dominant sides of the La Liga, Real Madrid and Barcelona. Real Madrid’s victory here would bring the gap closer by 5 points, which looks better than a 11 point gap, which would result if Barcelona wins. Mourinho, a strong tactician needs to chalk out some important strategy for the match – capable of out settling Barcelona, who have been in terrific form. Their confidence level is only moving upward.
One fails to understand Real Madrid’s performance in the initial phase of the season, where they have lost against Getafe and Sevilla. Real Madrid are a far better team than either of the two teams. But, that is not what the standings suggest. How can a team comprising of players such as Benzema, Ronaldo, Pepe, Casillas, Higuain, Ozeil not be in the top of the table or at least, second or third. These players may have been a bit unlucky as well, but they need to come up with a brilliant team performance to outdo the Barca men. As usual, Ronaldo holds the key for Real Madrid. The result of the game may depend to a great extent on Ronaldo’s performance – for Madrid fans.
Barcelona has looked very impressive this season and they seem to be a very determined outfit to win the title, which they lost to Real Madrid last season, which they hate to do. Their style of play has looked great in the matches so far and Messi as always have stood out. Hence, If Real Madrid wants to take three points from the fixtures, they should make sure that Messi has a quiet game, which other teams in the past have not been able to do so.
Real Madrid need to come out all guns blazing as soon as the first minute whistle is blown. They cannot afford Barcelona to play their tiki-tika style of football, else they have a game to make Real Madrid dance all around the ground with no serious result. As it has been seen with Real Madrid, they look ominous when they have the ball and they play an counter attacking brand of football. They are lethal with Ronaldo dribbling the ball upfront and players like Benzema eager to score an assist from Ronaldo.
The match is for sure going to be a classic as the name El Clasico suggests. When these two teams meet, there is no shortage of quality in the game. The game even looks more beautiful with these two teams playing a box to box game.
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nait | BEIJING, CHINA – The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) and BYD Company Ltd. (BYD) signed a letter of intent today in China, as part of the Government of Alberta’s Asia-Pacific trade mission.
A central focus of the trade mission is to grow Alberta’s capacity for clean technology and renewable energy. BYD, a world leader in battery technologies and zero-emission, Heavy Duty Electric Vehicles (HDEVs), is making inroads in Alberta. The City of St. Albert purchased Canada’s first long-range battery electric transit buses in February, 2016. Other agreements are pending. Last fall, the Government of Alberta signed a framework agreement with BYD to promote the facilitation of collaborative research and development and commercialization activities.
The official signing of the letter of intent for SAIT, NAIT and BYD paves the way to create a world class certified training course for servicing HDEVs, including coach buses, garbage trucks, airport service vehicles, courier vans and industrial-sized trucks. The programs would be taught by certified instructors at NAIT and SAIT campuses or via remote delivery or onsite training. The terms of the agreement also underscore the importance of translating the program into different languages to be used globally. A milestone outlined in the non-binding terms establishes a clear timeline for next steps, including a formalized agreement within six months and an anticipated start to training programs to follow in one year’s time.
The Alberta Government-led mission includes today’s meetings in Beijing, as well as visits to Guangzhou, China and Tokyo, Japan.
"We are very excited about working with these two world class institutes on what will be the first ever training program specifically designed for Heavy Duty Electric Vehicles. BYD has delivered over 15,000 HDEVs worldwide in less than a five-year period, including buses, trucks and courier vans. One of our vehicles is responsible for removing 1 to 1.5 tonnes of CO2 per week. BYD builds and delivers the solution. Zero is today."
“NAIT is very pleased to collaborate with SAIT and to sign an agreement with BYD that allows us to do the groundwork required to support innovations like Heavy Duty Electric Vehicles in Alberta. NAIT has a well-developed history of successfully delivering customized training here at home and abroad. Innovations like this are essential to Alberta and essential to the industries we support. Our provincial government’s collaboration with global companies like BYD supports the diversification of Alberta’s economy, high tech skill development and increase our province’s ability to compete worldwide.
BYD Company Ltd. is one of China’s largest companies and has successfully expanded globally. Specializing in battery technologies, their green mission to “solve the whole problem” has made them industry pioneers and leaders in several high-tech sectors. As the world’s largest manufacturer of rechargeable batteries, their mission to create safer and more environmentally friendly battery technologies has led to the development of the BYD Iron Phosphate (or "Fe") Battery. BYD and all of their shareholders, including American Investor Warren Buffett, see these environmentally and economically forward products as the way of the future. | 2019-04-21T06:46:41Z | http://www.nait.ca/44779_102125.htm | Sports | Business | 0.702213 |
udel | University of Delaware Cooperative Extension educator Maria Pippidis was part of a team that has been presented the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute for Food and Agriculture’s (NIFA) Jeanne M. Priester Award for outstanding contributions to the Cooperative Extension System and the public in the area of health and wellness. The team, made up of Cooperative Extension personnel from UD and the University of Maryland, was given the award at the National Health Outreach Conference and recognized for its work spreading the word about the Smart Choice Health Insurance program, which helps consumers make informed choices concerning health care insurance needs. Pippidis, New Castle County director and Extension educator for family and consumer sciences, said she was pleasantly surprised to hear that the team had received the award. “I didn’t know that an award nomination had gone in and so I’m very pleased for our Health Insurance Literacy team,” said Pippidis. Since 2013, the team has developed and pilot tested curriculum, amended the curriculum as needed and offered trainings to other extension educators in 32 states across the country on how to use the Smart Choice Health Insurance program in their states. “When we trained and certified educators from across the country to use the curriculum, they were also collecting the evaluation data and turning it in. This really helped to show that the curriculum was effective. The Priester Award recognized these individuals as well,” said Pippidis. With the help of those educators across the country, Pippidis said they were able to get enough information from 1,600 participants to do a statistical analysis on the effectiveness of the program. An evaluation specialist in Maryland used the data to analyze the numbers and showed that the program was having an impact on participants. “We can honestly say that almost every participant who participated in the program increased their knowledge, skills and confidence in making a health insurance decision or choice and increased their confidence around understanding health insurance terms,” said Pippidis. Pippidis said the team encounters people who enter the program knowing they are confused and then also encounter individuals who think they are informed about insurance literacy only to find out their understanding of certain insurance terms is different than the reality. “The term co-insurance is a good example. I don’t know how many people told me that they thought this term meant both themselves and their spouse were covered by the insurance plan as opposed to it relating to a cost term describing a percentage of the allowable amount that they’re responsible for. It’s a huge difference in understanding,” said Pippidis. Other difficulties encountered include things like the differences between the types of plans and how to calculate costs. “What we’re trying to teach is consumer decision-making and what are the best processes and strategies to do that. In addition, we are providing resources, ideas for next steps to find out more about the market place, or questions you can ask your employer about your options,” said Pippidis. The curriculum has been delivered both in person and through the use of distance technology. Additional programs are also being developed for the program. “The first program was called Smart Choice and this focused on how to make a choice around health insurance programs and health insurance options. What we’re working on now is Smart Use – how do you use your insurance effectively?” said Pippidis. Pippidis said that throughout the whole project, the leadership at both UD, with Michelle Rodgers, associate dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and director of UD Cooperative Extension, and at Maryland, with Bonnie Braun and Teresa McCoy and their administrative team, has been outstanding. The leadership has supplied financial and personnel resources so that the team can function well and the curriculum can have a foundation in research and literature, and they have helped to promote the importance of Extension in addressing health and health insurance literacy nationwide through the Extension system. “We know if people don’t have insurance or can’t afford insurance, then they’re not going to access care. Potentially, their physical and mental well-being will diminish, which means that they won’t be able to work or go to school, which in turn means that they won’t be able to earn which means they won’t be able to get insurance,” Pippidis said. “There’s this circular connection between health and financial wellbeing that is really important to address. Our goal is to help people afford insurance by picking the right insurance and using it wisely so they can go to work and go to school.” Other team members from the Maryland include Lynn Little and Bonnie Braun, co-leaders, University of Maryland, Extension; Mia Russell, Extension educator; Virginia Brown, Extension educator; Patsy Ezell, assistant director for family consumer sciences; and Teresa McCoy, assistant director for assessment and evaluation, University of Maryland Extension. Article by Adam Thomas This article can also be viewed on UDaily. | 2019-04-23T22:49:14Z | https://canr.udel.edu/blog/uds-pippidis-recognized-for-work-on-smart-choice-health-insurance-program/ | Sports | Health | 0.96891 |
wordpress | It’s becoming increasingly clear to me that an individual’s enjoyment of Christian identity and mission (that is, of being Christ’s body missionally present in the earth) is not possible apart from communal existence. And by communal existence I mean a community whose individuals are defined by community, not a community whose ‘community’ is just the sum of its individual parts. Forgive me for being less than clear. I’m still settling in.
I also have a growing conviction that evangelical faith inherently militates against the formation of Christian identity because evangelicals define faith and identity so individualistically. The ‘Church’ for evangelicals seems to be more of a ‘group of individuals’ whose faith and salvation are self-contained from beginning to end within each of the individuals that comprise the group. ‘Faith’ and ‘salvation’ turn out to be only contingently related to being the ‘Church’ as a place where I express, not where I am impressed, and this may be why evangelicals as a rule don’t think there are any authorities outside the individual on matters of faith and interpretation, which in turn partly explains why we evangelicals reinvent the Church every generation or so. We are in some ways the ultimate identity crisis.
Can evangelicals transcend this dysfunction inherent to their ecclesiology? I believe so. But it takes time and work because the more an evangelical turns to history for an understanding of a truly communal formation of faith, identity and mission, the more at odds he’s likely to find himself with present evangelical expressions of it.
Why should the Trinity be essential to Christianity?
(1) God cannot give us in salvation that which he doesn’t possess.
(2) What is not adopted is not healed.
(3) The salvation of humanity is finally achieved through participation in God’s being and life (2Pet 1.4).
Working backwards from (3), human salvation isn’t the achieving of a legal status before God. It is in the end nothing less than the perfection of our natures, our actually becoming, in relationship to God, all that he intended us to be. God saves us not by a wave of the divine wand and simply declaring it to be so. We are finally saved/perfected in union with God, in relationship to him whose own existence and life achieve and ground the abiding perfection of our natures. One friend recently insisted that God is free to forgive us apart from incarnation and the Cross. Quite true, though entirely beside the point. Final salvation is so much more than forgiveness.
On to (2). By what means is created human being to participate in the life which saves, that is, in the life of uncreated divine being, and so find its final fulfillment? The two must be united. God must adopt or take up human being into his own life. So incarnation becomes essential to the redemption and healing of humanity (contrary to those who suppose that our final and fullest perfection in God is conceivable apart from incarnation). If our salvation is participation in divine being, and if our participation in divine being requires incarnation, then incarnation is the ground and means of our salvation. Incarnation saves, and it saves because our created nature which requires relationship to and union with the uncreated God is taken up by him personally and irrevocably.
Which brings us to (1). Is God essentially, within himself, that life and love sufficient to save and fulfill us? If our final salvation requires participation in the life of God, then the question is — Is God’s life sufficient to save? Is God’s way of existing/living what we require to exist/live in the fullest sense possible? And this is where Unitarianism is exposed as non-Christian and void of saving efficacy, because a Unitarian God cannot be (in and of Godself, essentially) a loving and personal being. How can a solitary, unrelated Unitarian God whose existence and essential experience by definition are void of the personal address and response definitive of love and personal being (“I/Thou”) be that which bestows fully relational and loving existence upon us? A Unitarian God stands alongside created individuals as needing that which bestows fully personalized, loving existence. The Fathers saw this, which is why their understanding of salvation as fully realized loving/personal existence, the kind of existence and life which are essentially God’s, available to us through Christ, eventually and naturally (and rightly) led to a trinitarian understanding of God.
If God—the One true God—isn’t a God who is love, who is essentially a fully realized personal and loving being apart from all created being—then God is not in himself that which saves us and if God is not that which saves us, we are lost.
I won’t address here the Trinitarian texts. I’ll agree that they nowhere explicitly describe a full-blown version of the doctrine. It’s also the case that these same texts nowhere describe a full-blown Unitarianism either, though the Unitarian argument proceeds, arguably, on the basis that since there’s no full-blown doctrine of the Trinity explicit in the texts, Unitarianism must be true. After all, Christianity was born out of Judaism and early believers were all Jewish monotheists, right? What other options are there? But it isn’t that simple.
The earliest believers were Jewish and monotheist, yes, but their experience and worship of the risen Christ demanded a rethink of God, and that’s where we find them in the NT texts, in the middle of that rethink. Some aspects of this rethink are clear to them. Others are not as developed. But there’s enough implicit in the texts, and enough explicit in their experience and worship of the risen Christ, to see that later generations were right to draw the conclusions they did regarding the belief that God is internally self-related or Triune. Not rethinking God and just maintaining the established monotheism wasn’t going to work because it simply couldn’t accommodate their experience of salvation through and worship of Christ. Trinitarianism is where that ‘rethink’ was headed, and it short-sheets our theology to insist that simply because there’s no explicit Trinitarian doctrine in the text, the doctrine is either false or, if not false, not essential to anything.
The early believers were simply not finished unpacking what kind of ‘One God’ God must be if (as their monotheism rightly told them) God alone is worthy of worship and if (as their experience of Christ rightly told them) Jesus was deserving of that unique worship.
But if one is a believer in the Protestant doctrine of sola scriptura, interpreted as meaning every confessing Christian has the responsibility to determine and interpret Scripture independent of the tradition-embodied-community (never mind where Scripture actually explicitly expounds such a doctrine), then in the end nothing about traditional beliefs and nothing said by other Christians in any format is ultimately prescriptive for Christian identity and there are no categorically defining beliefs which are irreducibly communal in nature. If “I” read the Bible this or that way, I get to call it “Christianity.” I define the Faith for me. You get to define it for yourself, and so forth. I’m told by believers in sola scriptura that this does not permit a ‘free for all’. But all we have is their word for it, though I can think of no authority upon which a ‘free for all’ would be defeated.
If this is your view, it’s going to be difficult to be open to the idea that the authoritative text of Scripture isn’t the text-as-blank-slate and then interpreted-solely-by-each-individual sort of text. My sense is that while there’s something unique and authoritative about Scripture, the authoritative text is the text-interpreted-in/through-the-community of those who offer to Christ the worship God alone deserves, the same worship that produced the very texts in question.
Being recently asked why I would ever insist that Trinitarianism is essential to Christian faith and experience, I thought I’d like to try to describe why belief in the Trinity is not only important but is, in the end, non-negotiable.
Let me begin by saying that I don’t mean (and don’t believe any of the Fathers meant) to say that unless a person comprehends the Trinity and intentionally confesses a studied doctrine she cannot in any measure experience Christ’s salvation. One mistake some make when thinking through this is to suppose that only beliefs which are absolutely necessary to the initial experience of “getting saved” (I don’t much care for that phrase any more) should be allowed to define essential Christian belief. That is, whatever one needs to believe to enlist, to sign up, to “get in” with God in the Christian sense is all one should ever need to believe. And since—so the thinking goes—one doesn’t need to understand a doctrine of the Trinity in order to begin a life with God, belief in a Trinity isn’t necessary to Christian faith and experience.
There are a couple of problems here. The first is to think that “getting saved” (to go with that language) defines a kind of end to Christian experience, a point of “arrival” if not a “crossing” of a finish line. You’re “in”—pause—and whatever it took to get you in is all that the Church should ever consider “essential” to the articulation of its experience, identity and destiny. One reasons that since one can begin life with God through, say, trusting Christ without any conception of the Trinity, it follows that one can mature into the fullest experience and expression of human existence as God intended it without the Trinity. But does that follow? Why must successfully ending a journey, or achieving one’s telos, not require of one any more than beginning it required? Secondly, such reasoning is so individualistic (typical of Protestants and Evangelicals) that it fails to appreciate the role that shared belief and community play in defining what the Christian faith essentially is for those who wish to identify with and belong to it. The problem is that for many today, community doesn’t have a role in defining Christian faith and experience.
Sadly, these mistakes are built into Protestantism which only a sincere intention will help Evangelicals consciously avoid. Might a person begin a life with God with no comprehension of the Trinity? I certainly hope so. Might a person step into faith believing that Christian faith and experience are all about her “individual” journey? Let’s hope so, since this is pretty much where all us Protestants and Evangelicals get our start (and where a frightfully increasing number of us have parked ourselves permanently). But since one can launch out into faith in such circumstances, should the faith and beliefs that define the Church as Christ’s Body and which express its identity and destiny grounded in the identity of God not exceed those circumstances? I think not. Stay tuned. | 2019-04-26T09:52:02Z | https://anopenorthodoxy.wordpress.com/2013/11/ | Sports | Reference | 0.284966 |
virginia | At CASTL we believe effective teaching and learning are the foundation for opportunity, success, and well-being.
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yahoo | Barcelona fans were delighted that he left and at Tottenham Hotspur they called him lazy, but Brazil's Paulinho is on a punishing run of matches that has earned him the nickname "Iron Man" in China.
The international midfielder re-signed for Guangzhou Evergrande from Barcelona last month after Brazil's World Cup ended and was pressed immediately into action because, unlike in Europe, the Chinese season was midway through.
Combining games for Barcelona, Brazil and now Guangzhou, the 30-year-old best known in China as "Violent Bird" -- a nod to how his name is pronounced in Chinese and his style of play -- has racked up 69 games in the past year and had no off-season.
After arriving back in China to a hero's welcome at the airport, Paulinho made light of the number of games he has played since August last year.
"I am actually in a very good physical condition and I believe that the coaching staff knows how to use me (sensibly)," he said.
He has gone on to play every minute of the six games that Fabio Cannavaro's Guangzhou have had in the past month, scoring five times and earning another nickname in Chinese media: "Iron Man."
Along with another new signing, his fellow Brazilian Talisca, who is on loan from Benfica, they have almost single-handedly helped rescue Guangzhou's season -- and kept Cannavaro in his job.
After bringing up a century of games for Guangzhou, one sports commentator wrote online: "Violent Bird -- 526 days, 100 matches -- can still fly."
Paulinho's gruelling schedule is a reflection of the problem that Chinese football faces in a World Cup year. | 2019-04-20T04:51:21Z | https://sg.news.yahoo.com/world-cup-hangover-iron-man-paulinho-ploughs-china-064349214--spt.html | Sports | Sports | 0.839637 |
wordpress | Digestion | Humming Guts Fitness – Exercise Your Insides.
Exercising the function of swallowing helps to keep the body from confusing it with breathing and singing. A healthy swallow also helps to tone the pharyngeal space in the back of the throat, which aids with singing and speech. The great thing about swallowing exercises is that they can be completed almost anywhere at anytime, and they are relatively quiet. You might get funny looks if you do them in public, but your insides will thank you.
Below are some digestion-specific exercises that I have found helpful. I’ve had great relief with diaphragm pulling, in particular. I also notice an improvement in my breathing after pulling.
These are great exercises for everyone, not just those suffering from incontinence, diarrhea, or constipation.
When digestion gets really rough, I turn to a few supplements for relief. Consult a physician before adding any supplements to your diet.
Probiotic – 10 strains, 20 billion live cultures. For daily digestive maintenance.
Iberogast – I swear by this stuff. Website says is good for IBS and overall indigestion.
Ginger – I take 500mg at night to soothe “silent” reflux. Sometimes I take 500mg in the morning as well. | 2019-04-26T11:37:35Z | https://humminggutsfitness.wordpress.com/digestion/ | Sports | Health | 0.963023 |
sfu | How Can You Stand Out in the Job Market with a Digital Resume?
As technology is slowly transforming the job market, the application process is slowly changing with it. Digital resumes are increasingly becoming more important, but wait…what is a digital resume?
What WIL you blog about?
Blogging: is it for you?
With all the current technology, such as blogs, websites, emails and social networking software, staying in touch with friends and family has never been easier. How do you determine which technology is right for your needs? What is the difference between a blog and a website? Read on to find out more.
Your resume and cover letter impressed them… Your interview dazzled them… and you’re confident that your references will sing your praises. But, what else could factor into an employer’s assessment of you as a potential employee? | 2019-04-21T16:37:56Z | http://www.sfu.ca/olc/taxonomy/term/13 | Sports | Business | 0.420086 |
nyack | Gabriel Vasquez tripled, RBI; Herman Alvarado scored.
Cristopher Cabral reached first on an error by ss; Albert Munoz scored, unearned.
Herman Alvarado reached first on an error by 3b.
Gabriel Vasquez doubled; Herman Alvarado advanced to third.
Anthony Torreullas singled, RBI; Gabriel Vasquez advanced to third; Herman Alvarado scored, unearned.
Carlos Pino reached on a fielder's choice, advanced to second on an error by 2b, RBI; Anthony Torreullas out at second ss to 2b; Gabriel Vasquez scored.
Jonathan Santiago reached first on an error by 3b; Luke Kelly advanced to second; Carlos Pino advanced to third.
Brelin Dixon to p for Mike Hidalgo.
Albert Munoz walked; Khalid Legette advanced to second.
Albert Munoz stole second, advanced to third; Khalid Legette stole third, scored on an error by c, unearned.
Jason Holguin flied out to cf, sacrifice fly, RBI; Albert Munoz scored, unearned.
Anthony Lantigua stole second; Harry Montero scored on an error by p, unearned.
Anthony Lantigua advanced to third.
Kendon Strachan reached on a fielder's choice, RBI; Anthony Lantigua scored, unearned.
Jason Holguin reached first on an error by 3b.
Cristopher Cabral singled; Jason Holguin advanced to third.
Jeremiah Alonzo to 1b for Ben Bills.
Jeremiah Alonzo advanced to second on a passed ball.
Jeremiah Alonzo advanced to third on a wild pitch.
Gabriel Vasquez flied out to rf, sacrifice fly, RBI; Jeremiah Alonzo scored.
Carlos Pino doubled, RBI; Herman Alvarado scored, unearned.
Anthony Lantigua singled; Harry Montero advanced to second.
Denzel Faniel to lf for Kendon Strachan.
Denzel Faniel reached first on an error by 3b, SAC; Anthony Lantigua advanced to second; Harry Montero advanced to third.
Khalid Legette singled, 2 RBI; Denzel Faniel advanced to second; Anthony Lantigua scored; Harry Montero scored.
Albert Munoz singled; Khalid Legette advanced to second; Denzel Faniel advanced to third.
Kevin Rodriguez to cf for Azmir Garcia.
Kevin Rodriguez walked, RBI; Albert Munoz advanced to second; Khalid Legette advanced to third; Denzel Faniel scored, unearned.
Austin Fischer to p for Hakim Williams.
Jason Holguin reached on a fielder's choice; Kevin Rodriguez advanced to second; Albert Munoz advanced to third; Khalid Legette out at home ss to c.
Cristopher Cabral flied out to lf, sacrifice fly, RBI; Albert Munoz scored.
Juan Reina singled; Jason Holguin advanced to second; Kevin Rodriguez advanced to third.
Anthony Maldonado to p for Yordani Nicasio.
Chris Colotti to dh for Jonathan Santiago. | 2019-04-21T10:17:31Z | http://athletics.nyack.edu/sports/bsb/2017-18/boxscores/20180224_gd84.xml | Sports | Sports | 0.332161 |
ca | The City of Lemon Grove’s fiscal year runs from July 1st through June 30th each year. A Consolidated Budget is produced annually, just prior to the start of the fiscal year, and a revision may be produced mid year. The Consolidated Budget consists of the City’s general and subsidiary funds, the Lemon Grove Roadway Lighting District, the Lemon Grove Sanitation District, and the Lemon Grove Community Development Agency.
Earlier financial documents may be found in the Document Center under Finance.
The City of Lemon Grove has produced a Master Fee Schedule to make it easier to understand the cost of many of the services provided.
The City accepts cash, checks, money orders, Discover, MasterCard, and Visa debit and credit cards. | 2019-04-23T05:54:38Z | https://www.lemongrove.ca.gov/city-hall/finance/budget-financial-documents | Sports | Business | 0.945025 |
livejournal | Yes, yes, I know it’s Saturday, but yesterday I was too wrung out to make a poll. The bloke and I had about enough energy to watch Extra Slice and HIGNFY and then we crashed.
So! The final! Once again, I shall put all behind cuts.
But now, to predict the winner.
Poll #2086406 GBBO: The winner?
Well, I am, for one. However, I’m finding it more difficult to predict a winner than I did three weeks ago. I feel that Rahul cruised his way through up until the point where he actually had to learn something. I’m not convinced he’s taken that on board sufficiently well to guarantee winning any more. Ruby and Kim-Joy, OTOH, are still evolving and developing. They’re hitting the limits of their ability to deal with stress, but not counting on natural talent to obscure their weaknesses (unlike Rahul, who is still pretty messy). I’m by no means as certain of my choice this time. Roll on, next Tuesday!
Oh dear, Pencil, how? The poll got exactly two responses and one of them was from me.
It's just you and me then...so I say Ruby. Care to state your decision?
I had picked Ruby as well, and I'm disappointed. I thought the final showstopper idea was pretty awful this year, I have to say. Can we go back to beautiful cakes next time, please?
I’m disappointed. I liked Rahul right up until the episode where Manon went home. It should have been him, by fairness—all three of his bakes were worse than hers, and typically that knocks a person out. I feel they let him skate through on his work from previous weeks, and that’s just not fair.
I rooted for Kim-Joy at the end.
On the other hand, I didn’t get to taste any of it, so maybe his flavors really were that much better, who knows. | 2019-04-21T03:20:16Z | https://nanila.livejournal.com/1233351.html | Sports | News | 0.34196 |
otago | dc.description.abstract Many of the architects that contributed to the British Modern Movement during the late 1920s and up to the start of the Second World War were of European origin. Less well described in the surveys of the period is the involvement of New Zealand-born architects. Amyas Connell (1901-1980) and Basil Ward (1902-1976) were successful in student competitions and studied at the British School in Rome before setting up in practice in London. They were joined by Englishman Colin Lucas (1906-1984) in 1934. Connell’s career in Britain began in 1928 with High and Over, a country house for the archeologist Bernard Ashmole (1894-1988). It is widely regarded as the first fully modernist building by a British architect. The first part of the study focuses on the links between New Zealand and British architectural culture at the end of the First World War, through which New Zealanders first achieved a presence in the profession. These contacts include Connell’s first partner, Stewart Lloyd Thomson (1902-1990) who has been omitted from the narrative on Connell’s early career. The following section investigates how British modern architecture between the wars became open to New Zealand architects who achieved a prominence within it that has not been duplicated before or since. This section explores the dynamics of New Zealand involvement in a highly visible area of the arts against the background of simultaneously belonging and not belonging to British society. The third section focuses on the critical reception for High and Over as it became the focus for a long lasting debate on the nature of modernist architecture in Britain. Connell’s intention was to fuse aspects of Roman and neo-classical planning with the construction methods and aesthetics of European modernism. The house was a part of a larger project that included a garden and related structures including a lodge, water tower and transformer building; and a group of speculative houses. The significance of High and Over to British architecture has been acknowledged but the wider scheme of which it is part has not been fully surveyed. Partial analysis of the project and lingering critical uncertainty about its meaning have left many gaps in the scholarship around High and Over. The concluding chapters survey the critical response ii to High and Over across the past eighty years and offers an alternative to the functionalist and formalist analysis that has been applied in the past. The design history narrative is informed by social history with a focus on backgrounds of architect and client, as well as the structures and systems of the architectural profession in both countries. The research avoids a substantial retelling of the emergence of Modernism in Britain except where it directly concerns Connell. The conclusion asserts Connell’s major achievement in designing and overseeing an early example of Modernist architecture that was conceived at the same time as key buildings including Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye and Mies Van Der Rohe’s German Pavilion at the Barcelona Exhibition. It offers a new interpretation of Connell’s intentions and the meanings generated by the project that counter the established critical evaluation of compromise and indecision. | 2019-04-25T07:55:30Z | https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/handle/10523/1781?show=full | Sports | Arts | 0.38246 |
tripod | In a large stockpot or turkey fryer, heat oil to 400 degrees F. Be sure to leave room for the turkey, or the oil will spill over.
The easiest way I've found to determine the amount of oil you need is to place the turkey into the fryer and fill with water until the turkey is just covered. Remove turkey and allow to drain, pat dry with paper towels as well. Make note of the level of water in the fryer. Discard water and dry throughly. Fill frying vessel with oil to the level as noted above. This should help in preventing hot oil spill overs.
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Mary Risley, the director of Tante Marie's Cooking School, says, "I come from a family of Connecticut Yankees, and when I was growing up, I spent every Thanksgiving at my grandparents' eighteenth-century home, which was right across from a turkey farm. I�m not quite sure how, but something in that experience inspired this recipe. (Maybe the ingredients reflect what a turkey would like to eat, if asked.)"
For this turkey stuffing recipe you should melt 1/2 cup butter in heavy large pot over medium-high heat. Add onions and garlic and saut� until tender, about 4 minutes. Add chicken broth. Bring to boil. Add wild rice. Reduce heat to medium-low. Cover and simmer 30 minutes. Mix in brown rice; cover and simmer until rice is just tender and most liquid is absorbed, about 30 minutes longer. Stir cranberries, parsley and thyme into rice. Cover and cook until liquid is absorbed, about 5 minutes longer. Mix in hazelnuts and green onions. Season generously with salt and pepper.
Turkey Stuffing Recipe - To bake stuffing in turkey: Loosely fill main cavity with stuffing. Butter ceramic baking dish. Spoon remaining stuffing into prepared dish. Cover with buttered foil, buttered side down. Bake stuffing in dish alongside turkey until heated through, about 30 minutes.
Turkey Stuffing Recipe - To bake all of stuffing in baking dish: Preheat oven to 350�F. Butter 15x10x2-inch glass or ceramic baking dish. Transfer stuffing to prepared dish. Cover dish with buttered foil, buttered side down; bake stuffing until heated through, about 40 minutes.
This turkey stuffing recipe makes 12 to 16 servings.
Savory Herb and Sausage Turkey Stuffing Recipe with Tangy Granny Smith Apples Prep/Cook: 30 min. Bake: 45 min. Makes: 10 cups 11 tbsp. butter 2 medium Granny Smith apples, coarsely chopped 3/4 lb. sweet Italian pork sausage, casing removed 1 large onion, finely chopped 2 stalks celery, chopped 4 cups Swanson� Chicken Broth (Regular, Natural Goodness� or Certified Organic) 1 bag (16 oz.) Pepperidge Farm� Herb Seasoned Stuffing 2 cups Pepperidge Farm� Seasoned Croutons 1/2 cup chopped fresh sage leaves 1 egg, beaten 1. Coat 3-qt. casserole with 1 tbsp. butter and set aside. 2. Cook and stir apples in 12" nonstick skillet over medium-high heat for about 5 min. or until browned. Pour apples into large bowl and set aside. 3. Heat 2 tbsp. butter in skillet over medium-high heat. Add sausage, onion and celery. Cook until well browned, stirring frequently to break up meat. Add broth and remaining butter. Heat to a boil. 4. Add stuffing, croutons, sage and egg to apples. Pour broth mixture over apple mixture and stir lightly to coat. Season to taste. 5. Spoon stuffing into prepared dish and cover. 6. Bake at 350�F. for 45 min. or until hot.
Each year at Thanksgiving, my family discusses what we will make for Thanksgiving dinner. Some of us are traditionalists, who shudder at the thought of anything but turkey with all the trimmings. Others are more adventurous -- especially me, since I did not grow up in the United States and I am not beholden to memories of Thanksgiving Past. I am always ready to try something new, and I believe (much to the fury of the traditionalists) that Thanksgiving is a great time to experiment with the menu.
And so it came to pass, last year, that I won the fight about the Thanksgiving menu, and, with the reluctant approval of the traditional family members, was given a free rein in the kitchen. And that's how the "turducken" Thanksgiving began.
What's a "turducken" you say? It was quite a task but well worth the trouble. I started the Wednesday before Thanksgiving by purchasing a 12 pound organic turkey, a 6 pound duck and a 3 pound fresh chicken. I carefully boned each one leaving their structure intact. You must cut carefully, especially the turkey, if it is to look natural.
I made a stuffing from the giblets of all three, adding some sage, thyme, dried apricots, and Grand Marnier. I had a little Grand Marnier too... (not recommended if you're under 21!). The first thing you do is lay the turkey out, skin-side down, open. You then put down an even layer of the stuffing, careful to not go too close to the edges. Next, you lay open the duck skin-side down right on top of the layer of stuffing. It is smaller so you can put a good layer of stuffing on it. Simply repeat the process with the chicken.
Now, the tricky part... You carefully wrap the turkey back up into its original shape, tying the drumsticks, breast, and rear together. You cover it and bake it slow and low until the innermost temperature is 165F. Be sure to baste often and remove fat as well. The duck is quite fatty. Leave it covered until the last half hour or so. You can remove the foil and it will turn a nice golden brown. Let it rest for a half hour before carving. You may want to rest a little bit yourself, also.
Neil Street penned this article on behalf of his friends at The Cantering Caterer, a catering company in Westport, CT., who first suggested the Turducken idea. When he is not cooking, Neil Street is co-publisher of Small Business Online, an internet marketing resource.
There are many methods used to cook a moist and tasty Roasted Turkey. Most methods rely on basting. The turkey can be basted every 30 minutes with a basting bulb, or covered with cheesecloth soaked in butter. Other methods include brining the turkey (soaking in a salt water solution for 8-10 hours), or injecting a basting solution into the meat. Whatever method you prefer, proper roasting is key to tender moist meat. Completely thaw the turkey. Start early and thaw the turkey in the refrigerator or in a place where the air temperature is no higher than 40 degrees. A 20-pound turkey takes about two or three days to thaw completely. Be sure the turkey is thawed completely, until no ice appears in the inner cavity and the meat is soft. Be careful: If the inner cavity is still frozen or even partially frozen when you put the turkey in the oven, the outside of the bird will be done before the inside, and the inside temperature will not be hot enough to destroy disease-causing bacteria, or if it is the outside meat will be dried out before the center is done.
Remove the neck and giblets from the cavities. If this is your first time cooking the turkey, be sure that both cavities are emptied. Reserve the neck and giblets for use in preparing the giblet gravy, if desired.
Prepare the stuffing. If you are preparing the stuffing early, mix only the dry ingredients. It is recommended that you cook the stuffing separately, but if you do stuff the turkey, do not stuff it until you are ready to roast it. Stuff the cavity loosely. Do not pack it. If you choose to cook the stuffing separately, you can place a quartered onion and some celery leave and other desired herbs in the cavity for flavor.
Prepare a basting sauce. I prefer to baste with melted butter to which I add fresh or dried herbs. You can also baste with a mixture of wine and butter. Baste the turkey with your sauce and place a loose tent of aluminum foil over the turkey to prevent the skin from burning before the turkey is cooked. This tent will be removed during the last 45 minutes or so of cooking. If you are using cheesecloth, soak the cheesecloth with the basting sauce and place over the breast and drape onto the thighs. When using cheesecloth, you do not need the foil tent. Baste the turkey every 30 minutes during roasting.
Roast your turkey at 325 degrees for the recommended time for the weight of your turkey. These times are approximate and should be confirmed with a meat thermometer. Be sure to check the thermometer about 3/4th of the way through the time indicated so as not to overcook. Dry meat will result if the turkey is overcooked. The following table gives approximate times for roasting turkey at 325 degrees F.
18-22 lbs 3 1/2 - 4 hrs 4 1/2 - 5 hrs.
The turkey must be roasted all at once. You cannot partially cook it ahead for later finishing. This method has been shown to increase the chances of food borne illnesses.
For safety and doneness the internal temperature must reach 180 degrees F in the thigh and 170 in the center of the breast. If the turkey is stuffed, the stuffing should reach 165 degrees F in the cavity. This temperature is essential to prevent food borne disease, and should be measured with a meat thermometer. The pop-up thermometer that comes in many turkeys serves as a good approximate of doneness, but should not be relied on as the ultimate authority. When placing the meat thermometer in the thigh or breast, it is important not to touch the bone. The bone conducts heat and will be hotter than the meat. Do not allow the cooked meat to come into contact with anything that has touched the raw turkey.
During the last 30 - 45 minutes of cooking, remove the foil tent to encourage browning. If you desire to use a glaze, spread it over the turkey now with a pastry brush.
After dinner, separate the stuffing from the turkey and refrigerate leftovers immediately. Within a few hours bacterial will begin to grow causing disease if the meat is not quickly cooled. Large chunks of meat will cool slowly, and therefore should be refrigerated immediately to begin the cooling process. Meat, stuffing, and gravy can also be cooled, then frozen for future use.
Luke warm leftovers allow bacterial growth. Food eaten cold will not have the opportunity for further growth, however when heating leftover, they should be heated to at least 165 to kill bacteria.
It�s no secret that tea is good for you. It provides antioxidants [which prevent damage to cell tissues], has less caffeine than coffee, and calms the soul. What easier way to reap its benefits than by adding some to your cuisine, especially during the hectic holidays?
Incorporating tea into your cooking is easy, and you don�t have to know a lot to start experimenting. The quickest way to get started is to grab a few teabags and throw them in the water when steaming vegetables, according to Ying Chang Compestine, author of *Cooking With Green Tea* (Avery/Penguin Putnam, 2000). �Infusing vegetables this way adds a delicate flavor to the food. The ones I like to use are Celestial Seasonings Blueberry Tea, or Lemon Ginger Green Tea,� she says.
�It�s also very easy to use tea as a spice when stir frying,� says Ying. When using tea in this way, you add the dry tea leaves to the heated oil as you would any other spice or seasoning. �I have all kinds of tea next to my spice rack. For chicken or fish I use green or white tea. It just depends on what I�m cooking,� she adds.
To prepare rice this way, start by making the tea. Donna recommends using loose tea leaves for this recipe. Put a teaspoon or two of leaves per cup of water in a teapot or other vessel. Heat the water to almost boiling and pour over the leaves. Steep about three minutes. Remove the spent leaves and set aside to use again later. Bring the brewed tea to a boil and add the rice. Turn down to a simmer and look forward to the delicate aroma that will soon fill your kitchen.
Teas flavored with jasmine, rose, lemon or fruit are used to make cookies, pudding, ice cream, cake, smoothies and shakes. Try Ying's quick green tea ice cream: Stir 1/2 teaspoon of matcha [Japanese powdered green tea] into 1 cup of softened vanilla ice cream and refreeze it. How easy is that?
Ying Chang Compestine is spokesperson for Celestial Seasonings. More information about her and her books is available at www.yingc.com. Donna Fellman and Bodhidharma Tea Company can be reached at 303-402-9576. Lenny Martinelli�s cooking classes and other tea events are listed at www.boulderteahouse.com.
Freelance writer and Tea Promoter Terry Calamito publishes the free weekly ezine "Start Sipping." If you�re a tea lover or just want to find out about tea�s health benefits and maybe slow down a little to have a cup, subscribe for free at http://www.switchtotea.com.
A wonderful recipe for coming home Celebrations, this is definitely a sit down family dinner, one that invites conversation at the dinner table. The aroma's that bring back so many memories fill the house!
Heat oil in large skillet over medium high heat. Coat the beef with flour and cook in the oil about 5 minutes on each side to lightly brown, then place the carrots, mushrooms and onions in a 5 to 6 quart slow cooker. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and place the beef on top of the vegetables. Mix 12 ounces of water with gravy mix and pour over beef. Cover and cook on low heat 8 to ten hours or until beef and vegetables are done and tender. Add salt and pepper to taste. Serve with mashed potatoes, this roast gives you the perfect gravy to top the potatoes, and a variety of vegetables, salad and rolls with real butter.
This is one way to make a simple honey glazed ham, it's delicious!
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Score top of ham with sharp knife, in a criss-cross pattern. Cuts should be about a � inch deep. Place ham on a rack in a shallow baking pan, and cook for about 20 minutes per pound. Mix sugar and honey into a paste and brush on the top and sides of ham during the last hour of baking, repeating every 20 minutes. The ham is already pre-cooked, but baking it like this will make it really good!
This sauce has all the flavors from the famous Waldorf apple salad. Serve with a mixed greens salad and glazed carrots.
Place ham on rack in shallow roasting pan. Bake in a 350 degree F. oven for about 1-1 1/2 hours or until meat thermometer registers 140 degrees F.
In a small saucepan combine apple juice and cinnamon; bring to boiling. Reduce heat and simmer 15 minutes. Remove cinnamon. In a skillet cook celery in butter until tender but not brown. Stir in apple juice, chopped apple, walnuts, raisins and brown sugar; cook over medium heat for 3-5 minutes. Combine cornstarch and water; stir into the apple mixture. Cook and stir about 2 minutes or until thickened and bubbly. Serve with ham. | 2019-04-19T06:17:10Z | http://huskerdoony.tripod.com/christmas/survival1.html | Sports | Reference | 0.24225 |
wordpress | By the time I’ve thought of a word or idea they’ve all cut in, and my thought is, well, lost.
It’s a really slow process of, what, decline? deterioration? brain rot? …and I’ve written about this before.
I was with two very good friends and four whom I had not met before.
The usual rules of conversation are that you listen then speak, and in my case slowly, searching for the right phrase. The people I usually mix with know me now, but they also are kind and perceptive and give me a bit of extra time when I need it. And in normal situations I rarely do need it.
But these were just jumping in before others had finished, not listening, just shouting on about what they wanted us to know.
And I just switched off, closed down, wilted. Because I knew I didn’t have a cat’s chance of keeping up.
It’s like when you’re the only one not drinking booze at a party. Those jokes and quips are funny to them but dull to you. You see through them.
Well I’ll be walking the dog, sitting in a quiet room, listening, watching Netflix, or something else this year, cos I’m not sure I can do it all this time.
You’ll be excited, and noisy, and joyful, and boozy. You’ll be the players.
Spectators in a sold out Barcelona football stadium Camp Nou during the match between FC Barcelona and FC Sevilla.
We’ll be in the spectator seats, watching. Trying to be cheerful, smiling when someone looks our way, saying yes, that’s lovely, a few times, and thinking it never used to be like this did it?
And we’ll know that’s gone for ever, and we’ll try to make the best of it, wondering what next year will be like.
Spare a thought. Just be kind and sensitive and give us time and space.
Thanks for sharing this George I’ll reblog it soon.
My final post before Christmas: George telling it as it is.
Thanks Annie. Hugs to you too. | 2019-04-25T16:46:10Z | https://georgerook51.wordpress.com/2016/12/21/spare-a-thought-for-us-this-christmas/ | Sports | Sports | 0.928612 |
columbia | Join us for the next Columbia Community Dinner at the award-winning Nosh Pit Detroit, owned by Columbia alum Karen Kahn Schultz (BC '98).
We'll start the evening with drinks and hear Karen's story at 6:30 pm, and begin our dinner at 7 pm. The cost for alumni is $5 ($10 for those who don't RSVP and show up at the door).
Also, we will provide non-alcoholic beverages but encourage folks to BYOB to share with others!
WHEN: Wed. June 13, 2018, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
RSVP: Please make sure to RSVP by filling out the number of tickets and paying through this site. | 2019-04-18T22:45:17Z | https://michigan.alumni.columbia.edu/columbia_community_dinner_hamtramck | Sports | Reference | 0.23349 |
vitalfootball | MK Dons – Captain Transfer-Listed!
Keith Andrews, the MK Dons’ club captain, has been transfer-listed by the club. The club have explained the recent speculation is harming their preparations for the new season, and feel it would be in the best interests of everybody if a deal could be done.
Andrews has been at the centre of increasing talk over his future for weeks, with Vital Dons’ understanding that a deal has been done between Blackburn Rovers and the club.
However, in a statement released moments before the Dons’ first pre-season friendly kick-off against Reading on the official website, the club have claimed that no bids for the midfielder have been recieved.
Watford manager Adrian Boothyroyd is also understood to have joined the chase for the central midfielder.
“Milton Keynes Dons FC can today confirm that Club captain Keith Andrews has been made available for transfer.
In order to prevent the intense speculation of recent weeks jeopardising the start of our season, we feel it both in the Club’s and the Keith’s interests to settle this unhelpful situation.
Keith is a player we value extremely highly and remain committed to retaining, but we maintain our policy of not standing in the way of an individual’s professional development.
Andrews has not been named in the squad of eighteen playing Reading this afternoon.
At least we know what’s going on now. Kind of. Hate to see the contradictions being made by the club though. RDM saying that KA has had offers not just from Blackburn, and then this statement saying no offers have been made.
I’d like to see him at Watford. He’s a good player.
Just not good enough for the Premiership! | 2019-04-23T04:01:10Z | https://mkd.vitalfootball.co.uk/mk-dons-captain-transfer-listed/ | Sports | Sports | 0.770884 |
oregonstate | Come join the Women of Color Caucus (WoCC) for a Galentine’s event to celebrate self-love! The purpose of this event is to share a communal space to relax and pamper yourself with folxs that identify as women of color, allies and community members. There will be pizza, sweets and treats, and arts and crafts. Take a break from studying and meet other WoCC members! | 2019-04-20T06:48:18Z | https://events.oregonstate.edu/event/celebrate_self-love_-_women_of_color_caucus | Sports | Recreation | 0.807537 |
deadspin | Up three with 11.8 seconds left in the game, the Northern Kentucky Norse ran a creative inbounds play try and get away from Wright State’s attempts at fouling. The home players lined up in what can only be described as a four-receiver set, trips right. The player to the left of the inbounder/quarterback ran a comeback route while two of the three receivers on the right ran in routes to set up a formation on the court to quickly get the ball away in a relatively safe location. The confusion that this play caused ended up running about nine seconds off the clock before the Raiders could get a foul in.
Northern Kentucky would wind up beating Wright State, 68-64.
On top of the fact that this play was used to seal the win in a rivalry game, one of the greatest things about this clip was the color commentator saying that the Norse kept it “short and simple” with their inbounds pass—which I guess is technically correct. The only thing that would have made this better is if we got to hear the pre-snap calls and reads from the player in the quarterback role. Let’s get some “Omaha’s” in there next time. | 2019-04-18T17:13:06Z | https://deadspin.com/northern-kentucky-runs-football-inspired-inbounds-set-t-1831703687 | Sports | Sports | 0.505563 |
berkeley | Plant Body: often in 4s to 8s, attached; 2--4 mm, thin +- throughout, elliptic to narrowly oblong, uniformly transparent green; base often asymmetric; tip symmetric; surfaces smooth; vein up to 3/4 distance from root attachment to tip of plant body, generally exceeding region of visible air spaces between cells. Seed: cross-lined between ribs.
Ecology: Freshwater; Elevation: < 1500 m. Bioregional Distribution: NCo, NCoR, SN, CW, SCo, SnBr, PR; Distribution Outside California: to eastern United States, South America. Flowering Time: Spring--fall Note: Variable. Apparently uncommon in California, especially in mountains. Forms tangled masses under other pls.
Citation for this treatment: Wayne P. Armstrong 2012, Lemna valdiviana, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=30468, accessed on April 19, 2019.
NCo, NCoR, SN, CW, SCo, SnBr, PR; Markers link to CCH specimen records. Yellow markers indicate records that may provide evidence for eFlora range revision or may have georeferencing or identification issues. Purple markers indicate specimens collected from a garden, greenhouse, or other non-wild location. | 2019-04-19T21:11:48Z | http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=30468 | Sports | Reference | 0.608958 |
mit | The City Car is a stackable electric two-passenger city vehicle. The one-way sharable user model is designed to be used in dense urban areas. Vehicle Stacks will be placed throughout the city to create an urban transportation network that takes advantage of existing infrastructure such as subway and bus lines. | 2019-04-18T19:10:28Z | https://www.media.mit.edu/videos/labcast-8-city-car/ | Sports | Reference | 0.304107 |
wordpress | It’s Coming!! Bring your Mopar and make sure to register as a Sask Mopar Club Member.
Check out the links page for some new links to people who can help your project along. | 2019-04-26T15:51:06Z | https://saskmoparclub.wordpress.com/2014/07/ | Sports | News | 0.807132 |
suntimes | Jeannie Sullivan is supported by her family in a return to competitive running. Husband Todd, Phoebe, 2, and Dashiell, 4, are on her right while Natalie, 8, and Rory, 6, are on her left.
Jeannie Sullivan knows juggling as well as running.
Sullivan, a mother of four from Clarendon Hills, should be among the top finishers from the Chicago area Sunday at the 41st Chicago Marathon. More than 40,000 runners are expected with 1.7 million spectators anticipated.
At the University of Michigan, Sullivan ran varsity track (indoor and out) and cross country.
“I was XC captain my senior year but I would not call myself a standout – I was just middle of the pack, happy to be part of the team and traveling!” Sullivan emailed. “That’s what’s fun about my running career post-kids: I come to it from a totally different perspective from in college and in my 20’s.
That 5K PR (17:46) came at a tuneup Sept. 23 in the Chicago Half Marathon/5K, where she was the top woman in the 5K. At the Madison Mini-Marathon on August 18, Sullivan ran a 1:25.52, second in her age group (35-39), but short of the PR (1:25:26) she set May 5 at the OneAmerica 500 Festival Mini Marathon in Indiana.
Sullivan has goals for Sunday.
“Since this is really my first competitive marathon since having children, my goal is to nab a big PR (current PR is from Boston ’08, 2:59:03) to cut down the overall time I need to cut for the [Olympic Trails qualifying time], which is the ultimate goal for 2019,” she emailed.
She and husband Todd have four children: Natalie, 8, Rory, 6, Dashiell, 4 and Phoebe, 2.
So how does she juggle the training?
“I could certainly not be competing at this level without the support of my husband – I am a full-time mom but we have a part-time nanny four mornings a week (more if he’s traveling) to help me get a grasp on my sanity and keep my training on-schedule,” she explained. “At the height of my marathon training we would get a babysitter so that he could bike along with my longest runs to keep me company and manage my fluids. Such a huge help!
Jeannie Sullivan running in the Madison Mini-Marathon. | 2019-04-21T02:16:19Z | https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/family-time-jeannie-sullivan-aims-chicago-marathon-goals/ | Sports | Sports | 0.433303 |
sgh | Jesteś w: Start / News / Projects / Calling All Financial Services Interns!
Calling All Financial Services Interns!
eFinancialCareers is looking for students about to embark upon an internship in financial services to write a regular column about their experiences this summer.
Whether you're going in to banking, accounting or insurance, we're interested in hearing from you. We would pay 100 pounds per article and the piece could be posted anonymously.
If interested, please [email protected] with a little bit about yourself and a writing sample until the 30th of June! | 2019-04-21T20:07:23Z | https://kariera.sgh.waw.pl/news/wydarzenia/calling-all-financial-services-interns | Sports | News | 0.560498 |
letsgowings | I am sure it's my failure to communicate that is the reason I seem to be talking to myself, mostly. That's OK, I am usually correct.
Are you thinking this game might be boring and uninspiring (again)? Are we not entertained?
Oh man, I'd already forgotten the dads thing is still a thing.
I do love the Hawks' anthem singer.... he's a classic! And why does their pipe organ sound SO much better than ours?
It's funny. Before the game I was all "Eh, I'll be fine with a loss." But all the Chicago hate has come rushing back and now I want this win more than I've wanted a win in a long time.
Too much mans on the slipfloor. PK.
What does a Abdelkader have to do to be demoted to a lower line?
DeBrincat is from Michigan. I never get tired of hearing about all the really good Michigan-born players on all the teams that aren't based in Michigan.
Chicago scores. I blame Joe Abdelkader.
Someone might want to let the forwards know that the other team has scouted us and knows we're going to try to force the low-percentage pass nine times out of ten.
Resign Kronwall? That's a joke. He looks horrendous.
End of 2nd. Wings trail 0-2.
Either one would have me on Cloud Nine, for sure.
This clip speaks to me on a deep and cathartic level. | 2019-04-24T16:10:16Z | http://www.letsgowings.com/forums/topic/83759-210-maelstrom-gdt-red-wings-blackhawks-300-pm-et/?page=2 | Sports | Sports | 0.772734 |
elpasotimes | Those better off benefit from the current system, as they are the ones who typically can afford rooftop systems.
Is it “discriminatory” to trim the subsidies bestowed upon a given class of power consumers by everyone else? Would those customers be transformed into second-class citizens?
That is the gist of the recent criticisms of the proposal by El Paso Electric to impose a “demand charge” on customers with rooftop solar systems.
Well, no and no. El Paso power consumers with rooftop solar systems benefit massively from a subsidy called “net metering.” Power consumers who install solar panels receive a credit on their bills for the power that they produce but do not consume; they pay only for their “net” electricity consumption.
The excess electricity is sold to other consumers, and the credit paid to rooftop customers is far higher than the cost of alternative electricity sources, usually from utilities or from the spot power market.
Consumers without rooftop panels have to pay for the excessively expensive electricity. That means necessarily that overall power prices are forced above the level that would prevail in the absence of the net metering system.
There is also the problem of ensuring reliability, a hugely valuable attribute of power systems. No one likes blackouts. Electricity bills include the cost of reliability in the form of “capacity” charges for the physical system, before fuel expenses and other such generation costs.
People who install solar systems benefit from the reliability provided by the grid – they consume conventional power at night and at other times that the sun fails to shine – but because they pay only for their “net” power consumption, they get a partial free ride on the cost of the generation equipment and other capital that yield the reliability upon which they depend.
Except the free ride is not free: Other consumers have to pay for it. The proposed demand charge is nothing more than a tool with which to allocate the costs of the system more fairly.
Without that more equitable allocation of capital costs, the higher costs and prices mean that investment in maintenance and new generating capital will fall, and with it reliability and the economic benefits of inexpensive power.
Note that it is those better off who benefit from the current system, as they are the ones who typically can afford rooftop systems. A recent study of net metering in California found that the median income of households installing such systems is $91,210, while the comparable figure for all households in the relevant geographic areas is $67,821, a difference of over a third.
Some part of the subsidies is likely to benefit the producers or installers of the solar systems, but it is obvious that the net metering system for rooftop solar systems forces those with relatively lower incomes to subsidize those with incomes relatively higher. Who is being discriminated against?
The net metering subsidy is only one of several large forms of government favoritism that rooftop systems enjoy. An example is the federal investment tax credit of 30 percent of the cost of a rooftop panel installation; because it is based on the cost of the system rather than the amount of power produced, it encourages installations but not the actual production of electricity.
With the exception of financial help for those less fortunate, a sound principle is that those who consume power and depend on system reliability should pay the attendant costs. Hiding those costs and shifting them onto others is deeply corrosive in terms of the resource productivity that yields higher living standards for all.
Benjamin Zycher is the John G. Searle scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. | 2019-04-20T10:45:01Z | https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/05/16/subsidize-rooftop-solar-customers-column/101758174/ | Sports | Science | 0.281947 |
utah | Our research program focuses on the behavior of small molecules within biological systems. With clues from nature, we aim to develop compounds as specific modulators of cell signaling events and as tools for a community.
Initially, our synthetic achievements will support the exploration of post-translational protein-arginine modifications and its consequences. The recent implication of these events in a number of disease states (multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, glaucoma and tumorogenesis) encourages the preparation of biological tools and therapeutic leads.
Insight into the mechanism of action of natural products will inspire the development of new synthetic methodology and fragment based small molecule collections. In part, these advances will access natural product families which exhibit a wide range of biological activities. The efficient construction of these skeletons will allow us to investigate the evolutionary conservation of their biosynthesis by their contribution to the national screening infrastructure.
We are also developing antibiotic collections for the inhibition of prokaryotic protein synthesis. Molecules with purported rRNA binding interactions that are uncharacterized or non-overlapping with known sites of resistance will be targeted to advance our understanding of RNA’s binding topology.
Ki-hyeok Kwon, Catherine M. Serrano, Michael Koch, Louis R. Barrows and Ryan E. Looper "Synthesis of bicyclic guanidines via cascade hydroamination /Michael additions of mono-N-acylpropargylguanidines" Organic Letters 2014, in press.
Jing Fan, Xin Teng, Ling Liu, Katherine R. Mattaini, Ryan E. Looper, Matthew G. Vander Heiden and Joshua D. Rabinowitz "Human phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase produces the oncometabolite D-2-hydroxyglutarate" ACS Chemical Biology 2014, in press.
Kaitlin J. Basham, Christopher J. Leonard, Collin Kieffer, Dawne N. Shelton, Maria E. McDowell, Vasudev R. Bhonde, Ryan E. Looper, and Bryan E. Welm "Dioxin Exposure Blocks Lactation Through a Driect Effect on Mammary Epithelial Cells Mediated by the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Repressor" Toxicol. Sci. 2014, in press.
Kaitlin J. Basham, Vasudev R. Bhonde, Collin Keiffer, James B. C. Mack†, Matthew Hess†, Bryan E. Welm and Ryan E. Looper* “ Bis-aryloxadiazoles as effective activators of the aromatic hydrocarbon receptor” Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett.2014, 24, 2473-2476. DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2014.04.013.
Kihyeok Kwon, Travis J. Haussener and Ryan E. Looper* "Preparation of mono-Cbz protected guanidines (Potassium carbobenzyloxycyanamide, carbobezyloxycyanamide potassium salt)" 2014, Organic Synthesis (in revision).
Keith M. Gligorich, Rachel M. Vaden, Dawne N. Shelton, Guoying Wang, Cindy B. Matsen, Ryan E. Looper, Matthew S. Sigman, and Bryan E. Welm “Development of a Screen To Identify Selective Small Molecules Active Against Patient-Derived Metastatic and Chemoresistant Breast Cancer Cells” Breast Cancer Research, 201315(4), R58. PMID: 23879992. PMC4028696.
Miao Yang, Shannon Odelberg, Dean Li and Ryan E. Looper* “Cationic-Rh(II) complexes for the synthesis of dihydropyrimidines from propargylureas”2013, Tetrahedron, 69, 5744-5750. DOI:10.1016/j.tet.2013.04.071.
Kaitlin J. Basham, Collin Keiffer, Dawne N. Shelton, Chris J. Leonard, Vasudev R. Bhonde, Hariprasad Vankayalapati, Brett Milash, David J. Bearss , Ryan E. Looper and Bryan E. Welm “Chemical genetic screen reveals a role for desmosomal adhesion in mammary branching morphogenesis.” J. Biol. Chem. 2013, 288(4), 2261-2270.
T. J. Haussener and R, E. Looper “An epoxide opening cascade to access the pactamycin core” Org. Lett.2012, in press.
V. R. Bhonde and R. E. Looper “Carbamic acid, N-[[[(1,1 dimethylethoxy)carbonyl] amino](methylthio)methylene]-,1,1-dimethylethyl ester” Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (eROS), 2012, in press.
R. E. Looper and R. M. Williams “Efficient Asymmetric Synthesis of N-tert-Butoxycarbonyl-alpha-Aminoacids using 4-tert-Butoxycarbonyl-5,6-Diphenylmorpholin-2-one: (R)-(N-tert-Butoxycarbonyl)allylglycine” Org. Syn. 2012, 89, 394-403.
P. Koivunen, S. Lee, C. G. Duncan, G. Lopez, S. Ramkissoon, J. Losman, P. Joensuu, U. Bergmann, S. Gross, R. Looper, K. Ligon, R. Verhaak, H. Yan, and W. G. Kaelin, Jr. “Transformation by the (R) Enantiomer of 2-Hydroxyglutarate Linked to EglN Activation.” Nature2012, 483, 484-488.
V. R. Bhonde and R. E. Looper “A stereocontrolled synthesis of (+)-saxitoxin” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 20172-20174.
C. M. Serrano and R. E. Looper “Rapid assembly of cytimidine through tandem Cu-catalyzed N-aryl amidation reactions” Org. Lett.2011, 13, 5000-5003.
R. E. Looper, T. J. Haussener and J. B. C. Mack “Chlorotrimethylsilane activation of acylcyanamides for the synthesis of mono-N-acylguanidines” J. Org. Chem.2011, 76, 6967-6971.
M. J. Gainer, N. R. Bennett, Y. Takahashi and R. E. Looper “Regioselective Rh(II)-catalyzed hydroaminations of propargylguanidines” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2011, 50, 684-687.
R. L. Giles, R. A. Nkansah and R. E. Looper “Synthesis of 2-thio and 2-oxoimidazoles via cascade addition-cycloisomerization reactions of propargylcyanamides” J. Org. Chem.2010, 75, 261-264.
M. R. Kaadige, R. E. Looper, Ka. Sadhaasivam and D. E. Ayer “Glutamine-dependent anapleurosis dictates glucose uptake and cell growth by regulating MondoA transcriptional activity" Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 2009, 106, 14878-14883.
R. L. Giles, J. D. Sullivan, A. M. Steiner and R. E. Looper “Addition-hydroamination reactions of propargyl cyanamides: Rapid access to highly substituted 2-aminoimidazoles " Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2009, 48, 3116-3120.
J. D. Sullivan, R. L. Giles and R. E. Looper “2-aminoimidazoles from Leucetta sponges: synthesis and biology of an important pharmacophore" Curr. Bioactive Cmpds. 2009, 5, 39-78.
R. E. Looper, D. Pizzirani, S.L. Schreiber “Macrocycloadditions leading to conformationally restricted small molecules” Org. Lett.2006, 8, 2063-2066.
R. E. Looper, M. T. C. Runnegar, R. M. Williams“Syntheses of the cylindrospermopsin alkaloids and their toxicological evaluation”Tetrahedron2006, 62, 4549–4562.
R. E. Looper, M. T.C. Runnegar, R. M. Williams“Synthesis of the putative structure of 7-deoxycylindrospermopsin: C7-oxygenation is not required for the inhibition of protein synthesis” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2005, 44, 3879-3881.
R. E. Looper and R. M. Williams “Construction of cylindrospermopsin’s A ring via an intramolecular oxazinone-N-oxide dipolar cycloaddition” Tetrahedron Lett.2001, 42, 769-771.
J. R. Vyvyan, C. Loitz, R. E. Looper, C. S. Mattingly, E. A. Peterson, S. T. Staben “Synthesis of aromatic bisabolene natural products via palladium-catalyzed cross couplings of organozinc reagents” J. Org. Chem. 2004, 69, 2461-2468. | 2019-04-24T22:43:52Z | https://chem.utah.edu/directory/looper/index.php | Sports | Science | 0.950195 |
wikipedia | Edith Morley in her College gowns, c.1893.
Edith Julia Morley, MBE (1875–1964) was a literary scholar and activist. She was the main twentieth century editor of the works of Henry Crabb Robinson. She was Professor of English Language at University College, Reading, now the University of Reading, from 1908 to 1940, making her the first woman to be appointed to a chair at a British university-level institution. She was a proud Socialist and member of the Fabian society, active in various suffrage campaigns, and received an OBE for her efforts coordinating Reading's refugee programme during the Second World War.
Edith Julia Morley was born at 25 Craven Hill Gardens, Bayswater, central London, in 1875. The house belonged to her grandmother, and the family rented it from her. Morley was the fourth of six children to her mother Leah Reyser (1840-1926) and her father Alexander Morley (d. 1915), a surgeon-dentist. She describes her oldest brother as 'an invalid'. There were twenty-five years between the eldest and the youngest children.
She recalled in her memoir that she had not liked being a girl, being impatient of the restrictions placed on her activities by Victorian notions of decorum, such as wearing gloves and a veil to preserve her complexion.
The family home had nine bedrooms, and on Morley's 'coming-out dance' comfortably accommodated 250 people. The family had a telephone installed in 1903 or 1904, which Morley notes was earlier than most of their friends.
From the age of five Morley was sent to a local kindergarten which was run by a natural history enthusiast, nicknamed 'Brownie' by the family. She spent 'long and happy hours' at the Natural History Museum, London, recalling a memorable experience of being asked to tea by the Director and helping him and his assistant identify shells. She wrote that she 'was fully convinced that they needed my assistance', and was pleased that her brother hadn't been similarly invited. She described it as a 'delightful and wonderful experience and one which filled me with self-importance'.
Morley received a good education. Her father wanted her to be educated at home by a governess, but she insisted on being sent to school. She was sent to Boarding School for three years and was then educated at Doreck College, Kensington, for four years. At the age of 14, she was sent to Hanover to learn German and to be 'turned into a 'young lady' and acquire some of the feminine accomplishments I refused to have anything to do with at home'. Her teaching was entirely in German, and she learned German, French, English Literature, universal history and history of art. She was not instructed in Latin, mathematics, or science, noting that absence would also have been reflected in private schools in England.
In 1892, she took a course at Kings College London Ladies Department, where her abilities were noticed and it was suggested that she transfer to the Oxford Honour School of English and English Literature, alongside Caroline F. E. Spurgeon. Although she was placed in the first class following examination in 1899, women were not allowed to matriculate from Oxford at the time and she was awarded an 'equivalent' degree rather than a standard Oxford degree. Along with the few other women at Oxford University in that period, she was kept rather isolated, with limited access to the university's resources. She was later awarded an Associateship of King's College. In 1926 she was granted an Oxford honorary MA degree.
Morley began teaching at King's College in 1899, taking a class in Gothic and Germanic philology.
The difficulties Morley experienced getting an education helped to shape her political views towards Fabianism and she joined the Fabian Society around 1908 and became a member of the Fabian Executive Committee in 1914. She was also a champion of women's rights, arguing that marriage and motherhood were used to hold women back from professional careers. In her 1914 book Women Workers in Seven Professions, she describes how women academics tend to be found in restricted markets like women's colleges, creating a situation of artificial scarcity under which women are forced to compete against each other (rather than against both men and women) for the few available resources.
Morley was an active although not an exhibitionist suffragist. She refused to pay her taxes in protest at having no vote and had her goods seized by the authorities. She also refused to take part in the 1911 census for the same reason and she spent the night of the census walking up and down Aldeburg High Street with Elizabeth Garrett Anderson.
In 1912, Morley was appointed Professor of English Language at University College in Reading, thereby becoming the first woman appointed to a chair at an English university-level institution. She held this post until 1940, by which time the erstwhile University College had become the University of Reading. Her speciality was English literature, and for many years she regularly published a lengthy roundup of recent scholarship in her field under the heading "The Eighteenth Century" in the bibliographical review entitled The Year's Work in English Studies. She is known for her comprehensive 1935 biography of the writer and traveller Henry Crabb Robinson and as the primary 20th century editor of Robinson's writings.
In 1950, she was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), an honour awarded for her work setting up the Reading Refugee Committee and assisting Belgian Jewish refugees in World War II. For this work, she was included among the hundred or so women in Sybil Oldfield's book Doers of the Word: A Biographical Dictionary of British Women Humanitarians Active Between 1900–1950.
The University of Reading holds a collection of her papers, including correspondence (1914–1939), lecture notebooks (1893–1914), photographs, and a memoir entitled Looking Before and After, which was published posthumously in 2016. In 2014, the university held her up as a role model during its celebration of International Women's Day. An annual lecture was established in her honour. The University of Reading's Humanities and Social Sciences Building was renamed the Edith Morley Building in 2017.
Ludovic, Margarita. Another Time, Another Place (2012). This memoir includes vignettes of Edith Morley, whom the author met as a young refugee in Great Britain during World War II.
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^ a b 1875-1964, Morley, Edith J. (Edith Julia) (2016). Before and after : reminiscences of a working life. Morris, Barbara, 1944-. Reading [England]. ISBN 9781909747166. OCLC 945894224.
^ a b c Edith Morley Papers, University of Reading Special Collections.
^ Fitzgerald, Tanya. Outsiders Or Equals?: Women Professors at the University of New Zealand, 1911–1961. Peter Lang, 2009.
^ Cohen, Susan. "Crossing borders: academic refugee women, education and the British Federation of University Women during the Nazi era." History of education 39.2 (2010): 175–182.
^ Jones, Helen. "National, Community and Personal Priorities: British women's responses to refugees from the Nazis, from the mid-1930s to early 1940s." Women's History Review 21.1 (2012): 121–151.
^ Oldfield, Sybil (November – December 2001). "Compiling the first dictionary of british women humanitarians – Why? what? who? how?". Women's Studies International Forum. 24 (5): 737–743. doi:10.1016/S0277-5395(01)00203-5.
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snowjapan | Niseko Village Ski Resort is located in Niseko town in the western region of Hokkaido. It is one of the four connected ski resorts that share a joint lift ticket and make up 'Niseko United' (the others being Niseko Mountain Resort Grand Hirafu, Niseko Annupuri Kokusai and Niseko HANAZONO Resort).
Niseko Village used to be known as Niseko Higashiyama.
A new course and two new lifts were introduced for the 2016-2017 season. The 1.2km beginners ‘Ageimo’ course effectively connects the base Green Leaf hotel with the Shopping & Dining Area of the resort. A 816m Village Express lift runs alongside that course, and both gondola cabins and 6-person chairs share that lift. The 250m long Upper Village Gondola lift - running two gondola cabins together with each holding up to 8 people – also now runs from by the hotel to near the top of the Village Express gondola. These developments improved access around the base areas of the Niseko Village resort area.
There is a 'Niseko Kids Area' (near the Niseko Gondola) and two 'Beginner Areas' - one by the Upper Village Gondola and the other near the Hilton Niseko Village.
A number of activities are available including snowmobiling, first tracks cat skiing, cross-country, guided snowshoe tours, snow rafting, horseback riding and reindeer sledding.
Niseko Village is open from 8:30am until 4:30pm in the daytime.
Nighta is from 4:30pm until 8:00pm.
Individual lift tickets that are valid at just Niseko Village are also available.
The base of Niseko Village Ski Resort base is about 14.5km from the central area of Kutchan town.
There is parking for about 1650 vehicles close to the base of Niseko Village. Parking is free every day of the season. | 2019-04-19T18:20:31Z | https://snowjapan.com/japan-ski-resorts/hokkaido/niseko/niseko-village-ski-resort | Sports | Recreation | 0.437291 |
wordpress | Ashdown is a beautiful forest in any season and offers stunning views whatever the weather. It is also known as the hundred-acre wood and the setting for the Winnie the Pooh stories. Author A.A. Milne lived on the forest and people come here to visit where Christopher Robin and his friends lived and played.
One of the most popular landmarks of the Forest is the bridge where Christopher Robin and Pooh invented the game Poohsticks. In the book ‘The House at Pooh Corner’ illustrator E.H. Shepherd captures the bridge perfectly.
When we first moved here, the path to the bridge was very muddy and ventured very close to people’s properties but recently the path has been rerouted and the car park extended making it much more accessible for tourists.
From the carpark, it is now only a ten minute (adult paced) walk to the bridge. Visitors are encouraged to bring their own sticks with them and not damage the local trees. However, there are plenty of twigs underfoot so by the time you arrive you can have an idyllic game of Poohsticks.
We took our own children to the bridge regularly when they were young but the walk is a little short now their legs are longer, so what a thrill it was to take my favourite toddler Isla to the forest and teach her Poohsticks.
It was a trip I had been planning a while because I had put it on my list of 101 challenges to do in 1001 days (and so had ‘Life as Mrs D’) so it was a little disappointing that the weather was not on our side, however this didn’t deter us and we had a lovely walk to the bridge despite the drizzle.
Naturally, it didn’t take Isla long to learn the ropes and soon we were all merrily throwing sticks off the bridge and watching them float underneath. The water was luckily fairly fast flowing as the stream had been cleared of sticks recently probably due to the two ‘Winnie the Pooh’ films that have been filmed on location in the last couple of years bringing a new wave of tourists.
We had a delightful half an hour and I was so glad that Isla enjoyed it, just look at that smile! We shall certainly be bringing her back to the hundred-acre wood. | 2019-04-24T18:46:24Z | https://sammioneill.wordpress.com/2019/02/02/play-pooh-sticks-with-isla-101in1001-8/ | Sports | Kids | 0.561143 |
wordpress | Maxi Jazz is an English mc/rapper/vocalist/music maker and dj with Jamaican roots, probably most prominently known as the the lead vocalist/mc for the worldwide superforce ‘Faithless’. Maxi Jazz with ‘Faithless’ have sold over 15million records worldwide and played live sets to 1000’s of adoring fan’s pretty much all over the world! Maxi has worked alongside numerous musical artists such as: Dido, LSK, Pauline Taylor, Estelle, Robert Smith, Robbie Williams, Tiesto, and many more.
He has created the friendly ‘demons’ a quality eclectic mix of reggae, hiphop, soul, funk, and even rock. We also got the opportunity to interview Maxi about his music, interests and even his love for racing fast cars.
Please check http://www.ejectos.com/radio-eject/ for RadioEject™ interviews, exclusive mixes and downloads.
Addverse representing in his new video with Imranimal and Dj Illas, rocking his fresh ‘Eject’s Cereal’ tee!
Big Track!! Video directed by Paul Cockcroft. | 2019-04-20T07:08:38Z | https://ejectosblog.wordpress.com/2012/06/ | Sports | Arts | 0.663979 |
leightonfunrunners | Leighton Fun Runners > Latest News > This is the week that…..started and ended with food!
PANCAKES! Yes it was the annual pancake run on Tuesday where we had our usual groups running and all passing by Captain Dan’s house for pancakes! No naked chef this year. Perhaps he’ll make a return next year… Kevin took on the Fartlek group on Wednesday to burn off the pancake calories from the day before. Andrew led another big crowd of Improvers on Thursday and Peter and the boys, plus Rachel, had a glorious morning run in the woods on Friday.
The weekend was again full of parkruns, events and racing, so hold on tight….
parkrun day saw LFRs at Heaton, Milton Keynes, Arrow Valley, Cannon Hill, Killerton, Winchester, Eastville (the second of the compass tour from Debbie, Carrie and Jon), Houghton Hall, Buckingham, Ellenbrook Fields, Great Denham, Wendover Woods, Dunstable Downs and Celia continuing her parkrun tour at the Tauranga parkrun in New Zealand!
At home in Rushmere, LFR Julie was the first lady home and we had some fantastic PBs from Paul and Amanda. Great running!
The LFR multisporters were sporting again with Jen, Ali, Paul and Verity at the Berkhamsted Spring Classic ride in Aldbury – a lovely, but windy cycle ride around the Chilterns followed (of course) by cake! And a new LFR sport….Mark was wearing the LFR colours on the ski slopes. Interesting ski equipment, Mark.
Clare and Kirsty ran the Enigma 5K Dragon Race on Saturday. Kirsty followed this on Sunday with a 5K PB out on her solo run!
Nolan, Laura and Kelly were at London’s Big Half with Laura and Kelly running their first ever half marathon! (I don’t know how many Nolan has run…tell us, Nolan!) Kelly and Laura joined the club last year after completing the Winter Couch to 5K and just a year later they have completed their first half marathon! Great work, ladies!
Also running her first ever half marathon this weekend was Katie at the Harpenden Half who was also running her first official race in an LFR vest! Gale force winds and mud throughout, but it’s done! Well done, Katie!
Sally ran through lots of mud at the Hunny Bell Cross Country. Rob took on the muddy hills at the Wendover Woods Half Marathon. And in preparation for the breakfast run, Stephanie finally got herself muddy on a run along the canal (if you haven’t already heard, Stephanie doesn’t care for mud).
The big event of the weekend was of course our first fundraising event of the year…LFR’s annual Breakfast Run! We had six groups running from three stations along the canal or cross country. Cold and windy in places, warm and muddy in others! All went really well and everyone returned to the clubhouse for their scrummy breakfast. Everyone had a brilliant time and for the first time most groups actually met on the canal and some even joined up to run back together. Wonderful! A huge thank you to the clubhouse breakfast team: Max, Jason, Jane, Chris, Jess and Fiona and huge thanks to the run leaders Gavin, Dave, Annis, Michelle, James and Captain Dan. Also a massive thank you to our train man, Graham, for arranging the train tickets with LNW.
And fundraising? We raised about £300 in donations which will be added to the pot to for our charity donation next year. Thank you everyone who ran, donated, ate and had fun! | 2019-04-19T00:41:59Z | http://www.leightonfunrunners.org.uk/this-is-the-week-that-started-and-ended-with-food/ | Sports | Sports | 0.566182 |
wikipedia | Kazakhstan was first at the Olympic Games as an independent nation in 1994. They have been in every Games since. Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Kazakh athletes were part of the Soviet Union at the Olympics, and were also part of the Unified Team in 1992.
Kazakh athletes have won a total of 52 medals at the Summer Olympic Games, and another six at the Winter Olympic Games.
The National Olympic Committee for Kazakhstan was formed in 1990 and recognized in 1993.
"National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2011-08-08.
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wordpress | We live in Illinois. Grandma and Grandpa live in California. So, we make consistent trips to see them each summer. It’s a long drive on I-80, but a pretty drive as we see our beautiful country.
Along the way, we pass through Reno, Nevada. The skyline of the city is dotted with towering hotels and casinos. Their shear size is amazing; their glory is spectacular. But where did they come from? How have they come to be so nice?
The lure of gambling is that sometimes you win. But the glitz and glamour of the casinos should teach you that most will lose. And over time, if you gamble a lot, you will certainly lose. It’s how the gambling industry works.
Thus, the lesson of the nice casino buildings is this: “Enter this place and you will lose!” My counsel for you is to stay away, unless, of course, you want to lose your money and donate to the casino building fund.
I recently counseled with an individual who was going through a very difficult time in her life. A portion of my counsel to her was to look at the ways that her trial has brought good things into her life. As we brainstormed together, we wrote them all up on a list. I encouraged her to keep this list with her and go over it often, remembering the ways in which God has shown His mercy to her.
I know that many children who grow up attending church will end up leaving the church at some point in their lives. I have heard that one of the major ways to help prevent this is to get the children involved in serving the church in some way. I also believe that it’s important that they feel the joy of serving and the happiness in making an impact.
This week, our church has hosted a Vacation Bible School. In order to pull this off, we have needed the help of many of the youth of our church. Some have enjoyed it so much that I have been told, “I wish that we could do Vacation Bible School twice a year!” I trust that the LORD will use this to help ingrain in them a heart to serve Christ and His church when they grow older.
It’s a constant reminder to me of what should drive me in this life. It’s not this life. It’s the life to come. | 2019-04-19T01:28:31Z | https://enjoyinghisgrace.wordpress.com/category/christian-living/ | Sports | Kids | 0.812217 |
bowlingdigital | Senior Team USA swept the gold medals in trios in the 6th PABCON Senior Championships while Canada’s Jack Guay and Lauraine Fast claimed gold in mixed doubles in the 4th PABCON Super Senior Championships at Let’s Bowl in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Wednesday.
After sweeping the gold medals in doubles Tuesday, doubles champions Steve Badovinac and Warren Eales teamed with Lennie Boresch to win the third gold medal of this Championships in senior men’s trios (featured photo shows the podium) with 4135 total and an average of 229.72 as a team.
Boresch averaged 235.50 over six games for the field-best 1413 series, Badovinac added 1398 and Eales had 1324 to beat Canada for first place by 65 pins. Singles champion Joe Ciach joined forces with Ray Vervynck and John Chapman to earn silver with 4070.
Manuel Garcia, Salvador Suarez and Alejandro Sanchez of Mexico were further 74 pins back in third place to take the bronze medal with 3996.
On the senior women’s side (pictured right), doubles champion Lucy Sandelin and silver medalists Tish Johnson and Sharon Powers averaged 211.78 as a team to win the fourth gold medal in this Championships for the United States with 3812 total.
Powers led the way with 1347, Johnson had 1318 and Sandelin contributed 1147. The Americans out averaged their nearest competitor by more than 10 pins.
Veronica Berumen, Margarita Ramos and Teresa Piccini finished in second place to earn the silver medal with 3631. Colombia’s Gloria Arango, Martha Trujillo and Sandra Silva were further 185 pins back in third place to take the bronze medal with 3456.
The super senior bowlers (age 60 and older) competed in mixed doubles (pictured left) as maximum two men and two women per country were allowed in this Championships.
Senior women’s doubles champion Lauraine Fast teamed with singles and doubles silver medalists Jack Guay to win the fourth gold medal for Canada and the second in the super senior division with 2405 total and an average of 200.42 as a duo. Guay had the second-highest individual series of 1258 and Fast added 1147.
Men’s super senior singles and doubles gold medalists Alfonso Rodriguez and Gloria Carrera took the silver medal with distant 2247, despite the field-best 1303 series by Rodriguez.
Fernando Morales and Ruth Vasquez finished third with 2217 to earn the bronze medal, the first medal for Colombia in the super senior division at this Championships.
The Championships will continue Thursday with the men’s and women’s team event in the senior division and the mixed team event in the super senior division. The team events will also decide the medals in all-events and the top 16 men and women in the senior division and the top 8 men and women in the super senior division, who will advance to masters match play, which will conclude the Championship on Friday, August 24. | 2019-04-19T20:20:27Z | https://www.bowlingdigital.com/usa-sweeps-trios-gold-canada-wins-gold-in-mixed-doubles-in-calgary/ | Sports | Sports | 0.746826 |
wordpress | 2 pounds 2 ounces, a photo by slyxc on Flickr.
Lately, I’ve been neglecting my blog for a pretty good reason: this girl. Ruthie (named for Old Testament consistency with her older brother Job, and as a nod to my favorite currently sitting sliding Supreme Court justice) came home with us on September 3. We think she is around six weeks old, and can only guess that she is some kind of tiny Belgian Malinois or German Shepherd mix. She’s been taking her meds for a giardia infection like a champ, and has already gained 10 ounces since this picture was taken. | 2019-04-18T16:36:35Z | https://sylviachi.wordpress.com/category/personal/ | Sports | Health | 0.591375 |
smh | Rugby Australia took a $700,000 hit to recast the Sydney Sevens as a world-leading example of gender equality in sport.
Just as star sevens player Charlotte Caslick was demanding organisers go one step further in combining the men's and women's legs of the world series in Sydney, Rugby Australia was coming to grips with the cost of changing the date of the event this year.
The tournament attracted 54,875 people across the Australia Day long weekend, down more than 20 per cent on last year's crowd of 75,000. At an average cost of $35 a ticket, that means a $700,000 shortfall in gate revenue for Rugby Australia.
It is a disappointing result for the game's governing body, which requested a date swap with the New Zealand leg in order to stage the first fully integrated men's and women's competition on the Sevens World Series circuit.
The swap brought forward the event by a week, putting it on a collision course with a rare Australia Day long weekend and a Foo Fighters concert that drew 50,000 people to ANZ Stadium.
There were also critics within the organisation. Caslick, the highest profile member of the champion women's team, railed against what she interpreted as a deliberate attempt to confine the women to the morning session at Allianz Stadium while giving the men the plum evening time slots.
"It was alright, can't say I loved it," she said, referring to the time slots.
"I think we can still improve; I'd love to see the men and women combined more. It's pretty s--t when you run out at nine o'clock in the morning and no-one's turned up yet.
"I'd love to see Sydney and the rest of the tournaments create more of a unanimous tournament."
Rugby Australia chief executive Raelene Castle said she could see where Caslick was coming from.
"There's some merit in them, absolutely, but we need to understand that the women's game has come a long way in five years and even as recently as 12 months ago we had the girls playing on the outside oval and only moving into the main stadium for their finals," Castle said.
"We've made a big step forward in having a fully integrated tournament and we're now one of only two tournaments in the world where the men and women are combined. That poses some really big challenges."
The news was not all bad for the code. On top of the women's history-making 213-0 performance across the competition and the men's drought-breaking upset win over South Africa's Blitzboks, Fox Sports reported a 13 per cent rise in television ratings across the weekend.
The women's final drew 62,000 viewers on Sunday afternoon while the men drew 70,000 - a solid result given it was competing with the Australian Open final and the ODI cricket.
Rugby Australia and World Rugby faced a backlash last year after making the women's teams play on a training field across the road from the main stadium. It is the same arrangement used in Dubai, but was seen as poor treatment for the Australian women in particular, who were fresh from a historic gold medal triumph at the Rio Olympics.
Rugby Australia requested the men's and women's competitions be fully integrated but to do this Australia and New Zealand had to swap their events to satisfy player welfare guidelines on rest periods between tournaments.
On Sunday World Rugby boss Brett Gosper threw his support behind integrated tournaments and said the international governing body would help out financially to make it a viable commercial proposition for unions.
"We know it's not easy to do in every country, we're going through the tender process now for the next World Series, we'll incentivise countries who can combine the women's event with a men's event," Gosper said.
"We're bullish about it, know we can't get all 10 [World Series] destinations to that but we'll push to increase that number each cycle.
"There's a commercial push, not just a moral desire to get the women out there, a commercial belief that it's good for business." | 2019-04-22T15:15:44Z | https://www.smh.com.au/sport/rugby-union/the-700k-hit-rugby-australia-took-to-change-the-sydney-sevens-date-20180129-h0pyzt.html | Sports | Sports | 0.891493 |
moonfruit | Illnesses or disabilities may include physical or learning disabilities, mental health problems, drug or alcohol misuse.
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We offer a range of services to Carers, including information and advice, emotional support, a short break service, helping you to have your voice heard, information on benefits or grants which may be available or other money matters and personal development and wellbeing supports.
Glasgow North East Carers Centre is part of Glasgow City Carers Partnership, which was launched on 2nd December 2011 and established a universal offer of advice and information to all carers within Glasgow City.
· Partnership with unpaid carers who are acknowledged and supported as ‘Key Partners’ in the delivery of Health and Social Care. | 2019-04-20T09:35:05Z | http://gnecarerscentre.moonfruit.com/ | Sports | Health | 0.960954 |
indiatimes | The Notes carry a coupon of 4.75 per cent per annum payable semi-annually.
New Delhi: State-owned Indian Oil Corp (IOC) Tuesday said it will raise $900 million through an overseas bonds issue to meet its working capital requirements.
In a regulatory filing, IOC said it has launched an international bonds issue of $900 million, carrying a coupon of 4.75 per cent.
The Notes are expected to be settled by January 16, 2019.
"The Notes carry a coupon of 4.75 per cent per annum payable semi-annually. The Notes will mature in 2024 and all the principal and interest payments will be made in US Dollars," it said.
IOC said the proceeds of the issue will be used to fund working capital requirements for the normal course of business.
The bonds will be listed on the Singapore Exchange.
Bookrunners for the issue are Citigroup, DBS Bank, SBICAP Securities, Standard Chartered Bank and Westpac Banking.
IOC is buying back shares and is paying an interim dividend for the fiscal 2018-19, aggregating to Rs 11,000 crore.
The board of IOC last month approved buyback of up to 29.76 crore equity shares, or 3.06 per cent of share capital, at Rs 149 per share aggregating to Rs 4,435 crore. It also approved payment of Rs 6,556 crore as interim dividend to shareholders.
Fitch Ratings had last month stated that Rs 4,435 crore share buyback and Rs 6.75 per share interim dividend, together with funding requirements for IOC's capex plans to upgrade refineries for new emission standards and expansion of refining and petrochemical capacity, will drive up the company's leverage.
Its expected capex of Rs 23,000 crore in FY2018-19 and Rs 27,500 crore in FY2019-20 to result in continued negative free cash flow.
The government is pushing cash-rich PSUs to pay higher dividends and buy back shares using their reserves so as to help meet its budget deficit.
The government, which holds a 54.06 per cent stake in IOC, is expected to participate in the share buyback.
Besides IOC, at least half a dozen other central PSUs have disclosed share buyback programmes. Prominent among these include ONGC, NHPC, Coal India, Oil India Ltd, BHEL, NALCO, NLC, Cochin Shipyard and KIOCL that could fetch the government a little over Rs 6,000 crore.
At the Rs 149 per share, the government is likely to get about Rs 2,400 crore by tendering some of its shares in IOC in the buyback.
Besides, out of the total dividend payout of Rs 6,556 crore, the government is expected to get Rs 3,544 crore plus the dividend distribution tax.
The Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM), which has been set a target to raise Rs 80,000 crore for the government through stake sale in central public sector enterprises, had prodded all cash-rich PSUs to go for share buybacks.
PSUs having a net worth of at least Rs 2,000 crore and a cash balance of more than Rs 1,000 crore have to mandatorily go in for share buyback.
Of the Rs 80,000 crore disinvestment target, the government has so far raised just over Rs 15,000 crore through minority stake sale in PSUs. | 2019-04-22T13:00:35Z | https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/ioc-to-raise-900-million-via-bonds/articleshow/67543820.cms | Sports | Business | 0.328801 |
mta | Mount Allison’s Master of Science program offers the opportunity to pursue a Master’s degree in a small, intimate environment.
The University has an active research community, driven by faculty with wide-ranging and varied research interests.
Students work directly with their faculty supervisor on research. The program’s focus is on laboratory and field experience, which provides graduate students with an abundance of hands-on opportunities.
Mount Allison graduate students are highly sought after by employers as well as doctoral programs because of the high level research and training they accomplish during their studies.
March 16, 2018, 8:00 a.m. | 2019-04-26T04:06:02Z | https://www.mta.ca/gradstudies/ | Sports | Science | 0.957368 |
yahoo | 1. Martin Truex Jr. (LW: 2): We feel even more strongly about what we said Saturday night: Let’s just fast-forward to Homestead. While what Truex, Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick are doing to the Cup Series may seem boring, it’s also intriguing as hell. How are these three teams so far ahead of everyone else? Yeah, Clint Bowyer has won two races, but he feels much closer to the second tier of drivers in the Cup Series than he does to the first tier.
2. Kyle Busch (LW: 1): Another week, another top-five finish for Busch. He’s finished in the top five in 13 of 19 races so far in 2018. He already has more top-five finishes than he did in 2015, when he came back from gruesome leg injuries at Daytona to win five races in 25 races and win the championship.
Busch is on pace to not only have the most top-five finishes of his career but also the most wins. It’s far from a guarantee that he’ll eclipse his career-best marks, but it’s very safe to say that 2018 has the potential to be the best season of Busch’s career.
3. Kevin Harvick (LW: 3): Another week, another top-five finish for Harvick. He’s finished in the top five in 14 of 19 races so far in 2018. He already has as many top-five finishes than he did in 2014 when he won five races over the season and won the championship.
Harvick is on pace to not only have the most top-five finishes of his career but also the most wins. It’s closer to a guarantee here that hell eclipse his career-best marks, and it’s once again a testament to how strong Truex and Busch have been that a potential career-best season from Kevin Harvick isn’t a runaway.
4. Clint Bowyer (LW: 4): Here’s a reason why we think Bowyer is closer to that second-tier — which is still really good! — than the first tier. He was 12th Saturday night at Kentucky while the big three ran far ahead of him.
Bowyer has finished in the top five just six times and has just 10 top-10 finishes. That’s fewer top 10s than the big three has top fives.
5. Erik Jones (LW: 5): Jones got a massive boost with his Daytona win but it’s important to point out that he’s in the midst of the best stretch of his Cup Series career. He finished seventh on Saturday night, his fourth-straight top-10 of the season. Jones is not going to be considered a fluke participant in the playoffs.
6. Brad Keselowski (LW: 9): Keselowski has entrenched himself as the best of the winless crowd in 2018. He finished third on Saturday night, a disappointment because it broke his even-year streak at Kentucky Speedway. Keselowski had won the races at the track in 2012, 2014 and 2016. Stupid Truex out here ruining patterns.
7. Ryan Blaney (LW: NR): Blaney was second to Truex at Kentucky. He’s probably been the fastest of all the winless drivers — it’s a tossup between Blaney and Kyle Larson — but every good run seems to come with some associated calamity. There was no calamity on Saturday night, but is that much of a solace when Truex is so far ahead of everyone else?
8. Kurt Busch (LW: 10): Busch was sixth on Saturday night. It’s getting monotonous in this group to talk about the consistent runs that are far behind the wins that the three drivers at the top of the rankings are racking up but this is where we are in NASCAR.
9. Kyle Larson (LW: 6): Larson had some serious speed in his car but a trackbar issue screwed up his run. The in-car trackbar adjuster was apparently falling down on its own meaning Larson’s car was being “adjusted” as he drove. The team attempted to fix the issue and Larson bounced back to finish ninth after starting last because he missed driver intros.
10. Joey Logano (LW: 7): Logano finished 10th, giving Team Penske three cars in the top 10. Thanks to his wreck at Daytona he lost his lead in the laps completed department to Clint Bowyer and Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
11. Aric Almirola (LW: 12): Almirola was eighth and remains the fourth-best team on the four-car Stewart-Haas Racing. Unlike in previous years where the fourth-best driver at SHR was outside the top 20 in the standings, Almirola is in 11th and just 12 points out of the top 10.
12. Chase Elliott (LW: 11): Elliott led the Hendrick brigade once again at Kentucky. He was 13th. Despite Chevy cars taking up half the Cup Series grid just five Chevys finished in the top 20 on Saturday night.
The Lucky Dog: Paul Menard made up some serious ground for the final playoff spot on Alex Bowman and Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
The DNF: Bowman lost so many points to Menard because he had a brake issue that sent his car into the wall. | 2019-04-18T10:52:00Z | https://ca.news.yahoo.com/nascar-power-rankings-truex-goes-back-top-144644365.html | Sports | Sports | 0.7197 |
wordpress | Today a half-marathon went right past my front door, so I went out to cheer them on. We’re about 3/4 of the way round, just before a big hill towards the end. It was hot, hot, hot, and I was very glad I wasn’t involved in it (though a teensy-weensy bit of me did think maybe, one day – if it wasn’t so hot…) Even a 5k would have been really tough. I had to keep moving into the shade just standing watching.
Categories: garden, running | Tags: garden, hosepipe, rose, running, sun | Permalink. | 2019-04-20T17:01:48Z | https://greenlegs7.wordpress.com/tag/sun/ | Sports | Sports | 0.680367 |
wordpress | Diversity Training with Drewpreme: The Advice Column | we have internets!
Um, is it appropriate to have Suri Cruise’s haircut at 26? Is that desirable?
I work somewhere where there are women. Lots of them. And since I never get time off, I find myself dating them. I’m pretty sure this is not good. Help!
I’m the least racist person I know, but some things about the general “clientèle/ambiance” of Harlem still make me mad. Boom boxes at 3 in the morning, chicken wings stuck to the bottom of my shoe, drug busts by the park, lack of organic shopping, etc. How do I better embrace these things instead of letting them get me down?
Drew: Welcome to New York. The city that never sleeps. Look man, people are going to hang out and enjoy their lives. Which involves intoxicants, music, and eats, and soaking it all up in the greatest urban environment in the world. These are the things that makes New York great and helps retain its character, as developers and gentrifiers try to strip that away condo by condo. You need to embrace these things while you’re here. The general rule of thumb is that you let people enjoy themselves and you enjoy yourself – the city is big enough for everybody. I mean I’ll flip the script on you. Think about all those local Athenians that tolerated all the drunken fragganackle that you UGA kids raised. I’m sure they mumbled like a mollifok under their collective breaths about the rabble-rousers, but for the most part, let you all be.
Same rules apply here, its just part of your life in the big city. Gotta appreciate that Harlem is probably one of the last vestiges of generational occupation left in the borough of Manhattan. I mean you can always head back to the Upper East Side, or a super quiet cul-de-sac in a nondescript suburban subdivision. Organic shopping – whats that? They sell Spicy Sweet Chili Doritos there?
Hi. What are the fashion rules concerning when and where I can don a Fedora?
Drew: Fedoras are classic, and can be pretty much worn anywhere. Plus, I think the more you wear it, you turn down the volume on the “HEY I’M FASHION FORWARD WITH MY FEDORA!” and just work it in to your everyday swag, as a de rigueur accessory. Sometimes people put the accessory over the person wearing it, where it should be there person making the accessory. I’ve been meaning to buy one for the last few years but never got around to it. When I say fedora, I don’t mean those H&M or Urban Outfitters joints, but those classic wool felt hats that were standard fare for American males up through the 1950s. If you want a great movie of fedoras, I recommend “Hoodlum” about legendary Harlem gangster Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson, starring Laurence Fishburne in the title role, Andy Garcia (as Charles “Lucky” Luciano), Tim Roth (as Dutch Schultz), and the forever fine Vanessa Williams.
What does a guy mean when he says he likes you but doesn’t want to put a label on things?
Drew: He means that you should just enjoy the ride of the dude you’re with. Hang out in the passenger seat, listen to the tunes, be a great road trip companion and co-pilot and you can potentially drive cross-country if not farther. However if you start questioning where he’s going and giving unsolicited directions then you might get put out at the next convenient stop. (Yes, the driving allegory is spot on and if you think about how pissed off men get when women keep asking “Do you know where you’re going to?” it’s the exact same thing). Let Diana Ross handle that question. We’ll get to where WE need to be. Just have faith.
I’ve been considering dating black women but fear they all act like the flavor of love girls. Is this a correct assumption?
Drew: Well, coming from a predominantly black family I’ve been blessed to see the range of black womanhood. Unfortunately, this is not the image conveyed in regular TV programming. So, without getting into a whole diatribe about imagery in the media, I just want to say that basing your opinion on sisters is like me using the cast of “Rock of Love” as my watermark for all white chicks. I mean, to even consider “Flavor of Love” chicks as some sort of representation of anything is foolhardy. Seriously? These hookers are competing over the affections of Flavor Flav? Sad. The only think sadder is that for most, the legacy of Public Enemy – one of the greatest musical groups ever, will be derailed by this guys tomfoolery.
Should I sleep with a guy on the first date?
Drew: Yes. As Andre “3000” Benjamin said on the classic album “The Love Below” – “She probably thinks I think she’s a freak, but it’s just that she knows what she wants.” Men like women who know what they want and are honest enough to say or do it – sans regret.
EGAD – do I have to answer this? Um… NO.
The first date thing is debatable. You can go either way with it.
As for #2. I think this one of those inherent flaws of communication betwixt the genders. If everything is going great, he said he likes you, spends his time with you, does all the things you want, with out him “Officially Saying It”, is that a bad thing? Or do you need to spook the whole situation because of your need of verbal validation? (Which never speaks as loud as action).
Better yet how about the poor sap of a guy who actually does tell the girl he wants to make it official and “She’s just not that into you?”, or he brings up it “way too early” and the girl and the rest of the coven cackle about how he loused it up with “being weird”. Its a two way street. The fact of the matter is that you need to base it off your life and your gut instinct, and not some bitter mothereffers who made a multi-million dollar payday off people’s suffering with their faux understanding via a best selling book and movie.
You can get that for free with a hotel room Bible and downloading “The Passion” off the internets.
Love the Mel Gibson ref.
This is why I only hold hands and cuddle.
Does the German know that?
know what’s the haps. and whether or not he’s racking up other babes when he’s not with you.
I say six months… Because we can be equally checking out your overall scene as well ladies.
This is why abstinence is ALWAYS the best policy.
Yeah man… How did these all wind up as relationship questions?
Unfortunately all my friends are single….hmmmm….
p.s. i only have eyes for you baby jesus.
Sorry to bombard your comment section but I couldn’t find your email addresses anywhere. I wanted to send you both a thank you for posting my Gallery Girls link in your “Other Things in the web we like.” I really appreciate it. Also, cool blog, I’m looking forward to reading more.
We are big fans, Mary! | 2019-04-25T04:43:22Z | https://wehaveinternets.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/diversity-training-with-drewpreme-the-advice-column/ | Sports | Shopping | 0.149659 |
ualberta | SSHRC Connection grant awarded in 2016: "Memory Economies" will be a two-day symposium, hosted by the University of Alberta's Departments of English & Film Studies and Women's & Gender Studies on September 4-5, 2015. It is designed to contribute new concepts and theorizations to the multidisciplinary field of memory studies as well as build an international network for future collaboration. The symposium is premised on a question: what is the relationship between memory and economy?
© Tomski, Terri. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2020. | 2019-04-21T06:51:05Z | https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/1181b35a-cd9d-471a-a0c1-97f1863b7225 | Sports | Arts | 0.973742 |
helsinki | What is Independent Component Analysis ?
Independent component analysis (ICA) is a statistical and computational technique for revealing hidden factors that underlie sets of random variables, measurements, or signals.
ICA defines a generative model for the observed multivariate data, which is typically given as a large database of samples. In the model, the data variables are assumed to be linear mixtures of some unknown latent variables, and the mixing system is also unknown. The latent variables are assumed nongaussian and mutually independent, and they are called the independent components of the observed data. These independent components, also called sources or factors, can be found by ICA.
ICA is superficially related to principal component analysis and factor analysis. ICA is a much more powerful technique, however, capable of finding the underlying factors or sources when these classic methods fail completely.
The data analyzed by ICA could originate from many different kinds of application fields, including digital images, document databases, economic indicators and psychometric measurements. In many cases, the measurements are given as a set of parallel signals or time series; the term blind source separation is used to characterize this problem. Typical examples are mixtures of simultaneous speech signals that have been picked up by several microphones, brain waves recorded by multiple sensors, interfering radio signals arriving at a mobile phone, or parallel time series obtained from some industrial process. | 2019-04-18T22:26:34Z | https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ahyvarin/whatisica.shtml | Sports | Science | 0.141261 |
nsw | The cutting, felling, removal, damage (including pruning) and destruction of native vegetation on Lord Howe Island requires prior approval from the Lord Howe Island Board in accordance with Clause 59(1) of the Lord Howe Regulation 2014. This excludes the harvesting of crops grown for human consumption or fodder, or the maintenance of an established garden, lawn or nature strip. The removal of exotic species does not require approval (providing the removal does not result in damage to native vegetation).
Approval to remove or prune native vegetation will be considered upon submission of a written request to the Lord Howe Island Board. A Board Officer will arrange a site inspection and undertake an assessment. Trees are assessed according to the risk of harm they pose to life or property. Vegetation removal may also be approved where it is impacting solar access of solar systems or food production gardens and to enable maintenance of approved infrastructure. | 2019-04-23T17:57:48Z | https://www.lhib.nsw.gov.au/environment/protection-environment/removal-or-destruction-flora | Sports | Business | 0.212226 |