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As our kids, grandkids, and friends know, Betty doesn't swear. But now every morning when she wakes up and looks out our bedroom window, she exclaims: "Those are some big frickken cactus!" LOL.
In the Tucson area of southern Arizona, the cactus is ubiquitous. Front yards, boulevards, license plates and whole mountains are covered in this unique plant. On the one hand it is readily identifiable by its covering in sharp spikes, but we have found that there are so many variations in our campground alone, that we had to stop by a downtown 4th Avenue bookstore after dinner last night to pick up a primer on the perfectly prickly plant.
So here are some of the variations in Gilbert Ray Campground, our current Reddoch Retreat Centre, as identified in Cacti, other Succulents, and Unusual Xerophytes of Southern Arizona:
(Disclaimer: OK, so I just opened the book and there are 96 pages of cacti, many looking very similar to the variations on the previous pages. Apparently there are 850 species of cactus. My bad if I don't get the names right. Just don't use this blog post on your next biology test. LOL)
The saguaro (cereus giganteus), or as Betty calls it "a big frickken cactus!" is
just outside our bedroom window, towering over us at about 20 feet. They can grow up to 50', according to my handy book.
This is Betty in our backyard, surrounded by some of her prickly friends. They are obviously nothing like our good friends back in Manitoba. LOL
The palmer agave is a great plant to photograph, as the sun and shadows can make a dramatic rendering.
I think this is the pineapple cactus, but it's bigger than any pineapple I've ever seen!
This is a closeup of something spikey, although I don't think that's the technical name.
The pancake prickly pear is a common plant, but I wouldn't eat it with any amount of maple syrup!
This may be the ocotillo, or coach whip. Ouch!
This furry tree is also known as the jumping cholla
Flowers are just starting to appear on the tops of cacti.
The cacti add to some dramatic views from our campsite at sunset.
OK, that's enough of our botany lesson for today. If you forget any of the official names, feel free to use Betty's appropriate term: "That's a big frickken cactus!" LOL


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Archives for February 2011
Bad Breath in Your Pet
My pet has bad breath. He's obviously not painful or he wouldn't eat.
Answer: True, some dogs and especially some cats will stop eating when the periodontal disease becomes bad enough. However, when it's that bad we almost always have to extract some diseased teeth. Pets have such a strong instinct to survive and appetite is usually the last to go. They might be swallowing their food whole or only chewing on one side. Some show no signs at all (survival of the fittest).
Bad breath is a sign of infection. A healthy mouth does not have a bad odor. How many 1 and 2 year old labs do you know with stinky breath? Most importantly this infection can harm 3 very important organs. The liver, heart and kidneys can all take a big hit from chronic periodontal disease. Take a look in your pet's mouth – Odor? Red gums? Tartar accumulation? These indicate that treatment is indicated.
Older Pets and Dental Anesthesia
My dog is 13 years old. I'm afraid of the anesthesia.
Our Doctor answers: Years ago I'm sure you heard horror stories of senior dogs going under anesthesia and not waking up. If I were in your shoes, I'd still be haunted by those stories too. But times have changed and so has veterinary medicine. In the past, veterinarians did not have the option of inhalant anesthesia and the unpredictable injectable agents were used. Inhalant isofluorane is now a standard of care in almost every veterinary hospital. Unique to our hospital is our pre-anesthetic blood panels and our extensive anesthetic monitoring.
Prior to each procedure we evaluate the internal health of our patients with a pre-anesthetic panel tailored to the individual. This has caught many underlying conditions that owners were not even aware existed. During each procedure we have a thoroughly trained anesthetic technician whose sole responsibility is monitoring temperature, ECG, blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate and depth of anesthesia. This ensures that any problems which occur are caught early and can be properly addressed. This level of monitoring is another example of why our hospital exceeds the standards of care for our patients. Remember, age is not a disease.
Why the Cost of a Dental Cleaning?
Question: It does not cost this much to get my teeth cleaned. What's the difference?
Our answer: The list of differences is long. But here are the highlights. First of all, consider the amount of tartar and periodontal disease present in your mouth versus that of your pet. There is very likely an enormous difference. We visit the dentist every 6 month for routine preventative health and cleanings. Our pets very rarely get this service. Their teeth are cleaned when there is already evidence of tartar and/or periodontal disease. Therefore, they automatically get full mouth radiographs at each visit and the simple act of scaling, polishing and charting each tooth takes a significant amount of more time.
Another big difference – the anesthesia. Now you already know this is one of my personal soap-boxes and after reading the information about sedation dentistry, I'm sure it's one of yours too!
Question about Sedation Dentistry
Question:I've heard of other places offering "sedation dentistry." Why can't this be performed?
Our answer: Ahh, don't get me going on this one :o). I'm always so excited when owners ask about this because I love to talk about it! In my opinion (and in the opinion of the American Veterinary Dental Society), this process could be considered malpractice. The reasons are vast but a few of my favorites include:
~ The high risk of aspiration. Think of all the suctioning that occurs during your dental cleaning. Your pet MUST have a protected airway to prevent debris and fluid from traveling into the lungs.
~ Subgingival cleaning is next to impossible to achieve without full anesthesia. This is the scaling and polishing that occurs underneath the gumline where a significant amount of tartar and bacteria can develop.
~ The safety of our staff. A non-anesthetized patient can be roused easily.
~ The thoroughness of the treatment. It is impossible to perform thorough charting, radiographs, scaling and polishing without full anesthesia.
If you're having your pet's teeth cleaned it is obviously because you want what is best for them. Sedation dentistry is no where near the best. Whew! Can you believe that is my shortened version!?!?
(Check out this great article for a more thorough explanation. Beware there are some slightly graphic pictures at the end.)
Questions about Brushing Teeth & Food
So, it's time to set the record straight. We polled our staff and came up with the questions we answer most frequently about dental disease and dental cleanings. We're hoping that these are the questions you have and that you'll be inspired to provide the best oral care for your pet you that you are able.
Question: My groomer brushes Ludwig's teeth at each six week visit and he only eats dry kibble. That's enough, right?
Answer: Unfortunately not. I wish it were enough because I bet we could all commit to this amount of effort! In order for brushing the teeth to be effective it must be performed daily (or at least every other day). As for diet, there are very few diets that are effective in preventing tartar accumulation. Consider this: canned food and dry kibble have high amounts of carbohydrates, which are composed of sugars, which readily attach to teeth forming plaque, tartar and dental disease.
Dry kibble doesn't sound so good anymore does it?
Question: So what am I supposed to feed for dental health?
1. A diet with no starches – Instinct's Raw diet is the only raw diet AAFCO approved and is as natural as you can get OR
2. A diet that increases chewing time and tooth penetration to help clean teeth – Purina Dental Health.
Our First Trivia Winner!
This contest is now closed.
We're one week into February, and our dental trivia contest is in full swing! Go to and see the list of questions. Answer one question – or all of them. And you don't have to be the first one to enter; every correct answer counts! For each correct response, you'll be entered into a drawing for a treat bag full of dental goodies for your pet.
Read more about the dental trivia contest here!
Cody's Big Dental Day
Cody's destiny with a dental started when he was in for a physical exam and vaccines. As part of a routine physical exam, the veterinarian checked his teeth. Cody's teeth weren't in horrible shape for a 7 year old Labrador who loves to chew on sticks and carry tennis balls around the back yard. There was tartar accumulating on the crown of his premolars. A few of the points were worn down, but not substantially enough to affect the nerves.
Then we saw it…a huge cavity like lesion on the back cusp of his lower molar. Now dogs (and cats for that matter) do not often get cavities like people do. His lesion likely developed because he'd broken the cusp and that left a space for food and debris (hair and tennis ball fuzz) to pack into. There was a horrible odor coming from that tooth. After removing a blob of food and fuzz, the remaining crown was black and there was a blister-like lesion at the level of the roots on the jawbone. Cody needed a "dental" and a tooth extraction. After pulling his pre-anesthetic lab work and starting on antibiotics, he was sent home until his scheduled dental appointment.
When Cody woke up on the morning of his appointment, he was a little disappointed because he'd not received his midnight snack and there was no breakfast in the bowl either. But the car ride at least distracted him from his grumbling stomach. He arrived at the hospital and was all checked in.
First on the "to do" list was a pre-anesthetic exam. Even though he'd just recently had one, we listened to his heart and lungs, checked his gums and rechecked the teeth in case anything had changed since his last visit. Cody's exam was unchanged.
Since all was normal on his lab work, the technical staff worked on placing his IV catheter while his veterinarian worked on his individualized anesthesia and pain plan. All the safest protocols were followed- a tube in his airway to protect his lungs from water going down his windpipe and delivering 100% oxygen to his lungs, IV fluids to support his circulatory system, anesthesia monitoring to track his oxygen levels, heart rate and rhythm, blood pressure, temperature and respirations.
Once Cody was under anesthesia, the technicians took digital radiographs (x-rays) of his teeth. We were able to see that the blister like lesion was actually a tooth root abscess. The break on the cusp of the affected molar had allowed bacteria to enter the pulp cavity. The bacteria traveled down to where the nutrient rich blood and less dense alveolar bone meet the root. There the infection started eating away at the bone. Lucky for Cody, all of the other radiographs were normal.
The technician started cleaning away the hard calcified tartar and plaque that had accumulated in 7 years of not brushing. Then she polished the teeth to make sure all of the microscopic etchings the scaler made on the teeth were removed. Scaling teeth, then failing to polish them, leaves a matrix of scratches on the tooth surface, giving bacteria and sugars an easy foothold on the tooth at the next opportunity (i.e. lunch). Next, the circumference of each tooth was probed to see if there were any pockets that might be harboring plaque and bacteria. Again Cody was lucky that no other teeth had been compromised.
Now it was time to deal with diseased tooth. Two incisions were made on the gum line at both ends of the tooth. The gum was pushed back to expose the supporting bone (jaw). You could see the hole through the jaw that was where the tooth was abscessed. The overlying bone was removed with a high power drill. This particular molar only had 2 roots. The tooth was sectioned into both roots. If the tooth wasn't sectioned prior to trying to loosen it from the periodontal ligament, it would have been easy to fracture his jaw. After sectioning and breaking down the ligament, the tooth roots were easily removed from the socket. The socket was flushed and a bone-building polymer was placed in the socket. Failure to do so would have left a weak spot on Cody's jaw making it possible to fracture. Then the gum line was sutured closed. Cody received more pain medications, and then was woken up from his anesthesia. Fifteen minutes later he was standing up and wagging his tail, hoping for something to eat.Cody went home to finish his antibiotics and pain medications. If this is all the work Cody's teeth receive, he'll likely need another cleaning in a few years. If he's able to have his teeth brushed 3-4 times per week or use a plaque barrier weekly, he may not need his teeth cleaned again for many more years.
Home care really can make all the difference in keeping teeth clean and healthy and if not avoiding, at least spreading out times between "dentals".
—Dr. King
February Dental Health Month FUN!
February is dental health month, and we've got a mouthful of great specials and surprises for you.
Throughout the month we'll be giving away FIVE goody bags of dental treats that will make your pet grin. The bag will include CET chews, CET toothpaste and a toothbrush, Oravet and 3 toothbrushing coupons (typically used during grooms or boarding). (BTW, CET stands for Clean Every Tooth!)
First off, anyone who schedules their pet's dental cleaning during the month of February will be entered into a drawing for one of the treat bags. ALSO, for the month of February, when you have your pet's dental cleaning, you'll receive a coupon for a special price on the next one – dogs for $200 and cats for $125*.
Then…each week we're going to have a trivia contest. We'll post our dental questions on our Facebook page, and then draw a winner from all the correct responses. And HOW will you know the answers? From surfing around our website, of course! We'll be posting questions all through the month, and we'll draw one winner each week.
You can answer as many questions as you like, which will increase your chances of winning, but you can only win the trivia contest one time.
Finally, watch your email, this website and the Facebook page for some fun facts and stories about your pet's dental health. This week we'll be sharing an absolutely delightful story called "Cody's Big Dental Day", written by Dr. King. See if you don't agree with us that she should turn the story into a book!
So get on the phone and call us to schedule that dental cleaning. And then, watch for question #1. You never know when it will pop up!
*Coupon must be used within 6 months of issued date.

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Collection Information
Size: 19.5 linear feet
Summary: The Alexander Archipenko papers measure 19.5 linear feet and date from 1904 to 1986, with the bulk of materials dating from 1930 to 1964. The sculptor's personal and professional life is documented by correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, printed matter, photographs, and motion picture film documenting his art, exhibitions, travel, teaching activities, and the Archipenko Art School. Archipenko wrote and lectured extensively about his philosophies of art and the relationship between art and nature. The papers include drafts, notes, and final manuscripts of published and unpublished writings, and notes, outlines, transcripts, and audio recordings of some of his lectures.
Correspondence concerns both personal and professional matters. Among Archipenko's personal correspondents are relatives and friends in the Ukraine, wife Angelica during her extended stays in Mexico and California, and other women. Professional correspondence is with dealers, curators, scholars, collectors, colleges and universities concerning exhibitions, sales and commissions, loans, and teaching and lecture engagements.
Archipenko wrote and lectured extensively about his philosophy of art, art in nature, and theories concerning creativity and the universe. His papers include manuscripts, drafts, notes and supporting materials for his book published in 1960, "Archipenko: Fifty Creative Years, 1908-1958." Similar documentation of unpublished writings, as well as notes, outlines, and some transcripts of lectures and talks are also in the series, as well as a motion picture film of an interview with Archipenko.
Records concerning the Archipenko Art School are sparse, with only one photograph of students in Berlin, 1921. Surviving records include printed matter, a cashbook, student roster, and scrapbook containing photographs, printed matter, and typescript copy of a statement by Archipenko, "How I Teach." Most of this material focuses on the New York and Woodstock schools, with only a few items concerning Chicago. In addition, files regarding Archipenko's teaching activities at schools other than his own include course descriptions, student rosters, grades, printed matter, and motion picture film.
Financial records consist of banking records, paid bills, and miscellaneous items. Paid bills include invoices and receipts for art supplies, shipping, and storage. Among the miscellaneous items are price lists, royalties paid by the Museum of Modern Art for "Woman Combing Her Hair", and sales records.
Nine scrapbooks contain clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, lecture notices, advertisements and brochures of the Archipenko Art School, and a small number of photographs. Printed matter consists primarily of clippings about Archipenko and exhibition catalogs with related announcements and invitations. Miscellaneous items include books about Archipenko, catalogs of museum collections containing works by Archipenko, reproductions, and a motion picture film related to an exhibition in Darmstadt. Of special interest is a brochure about the Multiplex Advertising Machine that bears a similarity to the Archipentura, an "apparatus for displaying Changeable Pictures" Archipenko invented circa 1924 and patented in 1927.
Photographs are of people, Archipenko's travels and miscellaneous places, exhibitions, works of art, events, and miscellaneous subjects. Five photograph albums mainly document travels. Slides and transparencies include black and white lantern slides probably used to illustrate lectures.
Biographical papers include a wide variety of records concerning Archipenko and his first wife, Angelica Archipenko (a.k.a. Gela Forster), and second wife, Frances Gray Archipenko, including ephemera, funeral guest registers, real estate records, and floor plans of their house in Woodstock, New York; legal documents including residency permits issued during Archipenko's years in France; passports and wills: articles by and about Angelica Archipenko and a color reproduction of her portrait by Leo Katz; Angelica's reminiscences of Walter Spies; and excerpts from her diaries.


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Last week, a Game of Thrones theory about Bran Stark moonlighting as The Night King in his free-time went viral. This week, the Reddit gods have delivered even more proof that they are 100 percent (kinda-sorta-maybe) the same person. But first, here's the TL;DR version of the theory:
Bran traveled back in time and "warged" into the Night King, in order to stop the Children of the Forest from creating White Walkers. This backfired, Bran got trapped in the body, and has been living that Night King life ever since. (Again, full very compelling theory right over this way.)
But if you still need convincing, the Game of Thrones costume designers came through by subtly designing Bran's outfit to be almost *identical* to that of the Night King in cut and style, as the below GIF geniusly points out.
THEY ARE THE SAME PERSON. CASE CLOSED. And in the words of Reddit user YoshiSparkle:
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Awks. You tell someone all your secrets and then you both go your separate ways... In other words, it's like Brian O'Driscoll and Paul Kimmage have been dating for a couple of years. Kimmage certainly seems to think so, anyway.
Some small background deets first. Paul Kimmage is a sports journo with the Sunday Independent, and he's been penning the rugby player's biography for two years. With just months before its proposed release, Kimmage and O'Driscoll have split up.
Speaking with the Independent, Kimmage said: "We've had our disagreements and that's where we are now... I am enduring a lot of pain - it is similar to the break-up of a loving relationship, which is what I had with Brian. A break-up is sad and it's never easy and it's never fun. I've a deep hole in myself now, which is going to take a while to fill." May we recommend a bucket of Midnight Cookies and Cream. Has helped fill our holes many a time.
The article adds: "He also revealed he had just finished a draft of 20,000 words of the autobiography and had planned to present it to O'Driscoll this week."
In response to Kimmage's resignation from Penguin Ireland, O'Driscoll said: "I have enjoyed working with Paul over the last few years and it is unfortunate that we cannot complete this project together." He's keeping his cards rather more close to his chest.
Before we all start getting exciting by the prospect of Amy Huberman taking over the project, it has been revealed that the task will be taken up by Kimmage's former Sunday Times colleague, Alan English. That's got to smart a little.
in short, we're still wondering why Brian O'Driscoll and his biographer parted ways...


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In an average week in Soddo I stay within a one mile radius. Paul hardly leaves the hospital, that's about a 200 yard radius. What about you? In an average week, how big is your circle?
Now, most days even though I only walk around Soddo town, the world in my head is much bigger. I skype with family, call and text to the states, read blogs from around the world and can even shop online. Many people here in Soddo have never been to Addis Ababa, let alone another country. Maybe they have seen glimpses of other parts of the world on a TV or in a newspaper, or stories from friends or family that have traveled, but for the most part they don't have much of a context to put the stories into. I will always be an oddity to a lot of people here, I don't belong or fit into their circle and maybe I never will. Sure, the people at the hospital and those that I know fit me into their circle, but not others. And I will always be a farengi (foreigner) and never a habesha (Ethiopian). Unless I can speak Amharic perfectly and find a habesha suit, (similar to Tyra Banks "fat suit"), I will never be thought of as habesha (Ohh, how I dream of a habesha suit!) The other day while I was translating for Paul as someone spoke a mile a minute in slurred Amharic, Paul called me a farengesha…with hopes of one day speaking and knowing the culture enough to become a habeshange…but never will I be habesha. But I am thankful for all of the habeshas within my circle. I am thankful that they let me live in their country and thankful that they let me know their families, their houses and their traditions.
Maybe your world has a 50 mile radius, but is filled with people and events that are all pretty much the same. How do we expand our world? Get to know others that aren't in our normal "cirlce"? Help some that have less? Serve, instead of only taking? Try out new traditions? Experience other cultures?
A few weeks ago, Nathan and I were reading about creation in Genesis. We talked about how in the beginning, the world was empty and dark and then God created the heavens and the earth. Without telling him what to draw, he drew this…
He drew the world. It had lots of water and little islands. Then he drew dotted lines for the airplanes to come and go, so that he could travel to America and so that ZsoZso and Granpa could come here to Ethipoia. I am amazed at how big his world is and yet, how normal it seems to him. When we were in America, on the 4th of July, we were outside watching fire works and Nathan asked if Etagainu could see the fire works too. I just love what their little minds think of!
After going back to the states this last time, I was reminded of how diverse America really is. And yet, I am ashamed at how small my circle was when I lived there. It took moving to a foreign place and feeling like a complete out-of-place foreigner, to open up my eyes to it. I want to make the effort and be intentional about keeping my kids world big and God even bigger. And may God be magnified as we find ourselves in the midst of the diversity within His whole creation.


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GRAND LAKE STREAM, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage was mostly casual and off-the-record as he chatted with the finance industry elite gathered at Leen's Lodge on Friday. But he did make brief remarks about First Wind's efforts to build 27 wind turbines in Carroll Plantation and Kossuth Township.
A cohort of local guides and lodge owners gathered to present the governor with a commemorative oar to celebrate LePage's support in their fight to prevent the wind-power company from building the windmills in view of Grand Lake Stream.
The turbines "would have a negative impact on the outdoor tourism, which is the lifeblood of this region," said Kevin Gurrall, director of the Partnership for the Preservation of the Downeast Lakes Watershed, a local group organized to fight First Wind.
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Mother Winter: A Memoir
Sophia Shalmiyev (Author)
Description"Lyrical and emotionally gutting." --O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE
"Intellectually satisfying [and] artistically profound." --KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED REVIEW)
"Mesmeric."--THE PARIS REVIEW
"Vividly awesome and truly great." --EILEEN MYLES
"Gorgeous, gutting, unforgettable." --LENI ZUMAS
"Brilliant." --MICHELLE TEA An arresting memoir equal parts refugee-coming-of-age story, feminist manifesto, and meditation on motherhood, displacement, gender politics, and art that follows award-winning writer Sophia Shalmiyev's flight from the Soviet Union, where she was forced to abandon her estranged mother, and her subsequent quest to find her. Russian sentences begin backward, Sophia Shalmiyev tells us on the first page of her striking lyrical memoir. To understand the end of her story, we must go back to the beginning. Born to a Russian mother and an Azerbaijani father, Shalmiyev was raised in the stark oppressiveness of 1980s Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), where anti-Semitism and an imbalance of power were omnipresent in her home. At just eleven years old, Shalmiyev's father stole her away to America, forever abandoning her estranged alcoholic mother, Elena. Motherless on a tumultuous voyage to the states, terrified in a strange new land, Shalmiyev depicts in urgent, poetic vignettes her emotional journeys through an uncharted world as an immigrant, artist, and, eventually, as a mother of two. As an adult, Shalmiyev voyages back to Russia to search endlessly for the mother she never knew--in her pursuit, we witness an arresting, impassioned meditation on art-making, gender politics, displacement, and most potently, motherhood.
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February 12, 2019
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About the Author
Sophia Shalmiyev emigrated from Leningrad to NYC in 1990. An MFA graduate of Portland State University, she was the nonfiction editor for the Portland Review and is a recipient of the Laurels Scholarship and numerous Kellogg's Fellowship awards. She has a second master's degree in creative arts therapy from the School of Visual Arts, previously counseling survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking. Her work has appeared in Vela Magazine, Entropy, Electric Lit, the Seattle Review of Books, Ravishly, and the Literary Review, among others; all with a feminist lens. She lives in Portland with her two children. Mother Winter is her first book.
PRAISE for MOTHER WINTER by SOPHIA SHALMIYEV "A rich tapestry of autobiography and meditations on feminism, motherhood, art, and culture, this book is as intellectually satisfying as it is artistically profound. A sharply intelligent, lyrically provocative memoir."--Kirkus Reviews (STARRED REVIEW) "The lyrical prose of Sophia Shalmiyev's memoir, Mother Winter, splits open like layer after layer of an ornate matryoshka. With a mesmeric voice and scathing vulnerability, Shalmiyev peels her past down to its hollow core: the vacancy left by her absent mother. Across time and geography, Shalmiyev stitches together the diffuse pieces of her fractured narrative in order to find out what it truly is that makes someone the right 'type' of woman, the right 'type' of mother--especially as she becomes a mother herself."--The Paris Review "Mother Winter is lyrical (an over-used adjective but apt here) and gutsy, delicate and meaty at once. [Shalmiyev] weaves together memoir and meditations on language, her own motherhood, and the writers and artists that she worshiped as her 'feminist mothers' in place of the real thing."--Lithub "Artist and writer Shalmiyev's many-faceted memoir is an exploration of heartache and the ways life moves on even after irretrievable changes. Interestingly enough, Shalmiyev's description of poet Mary Ruefle's work as 'poignant and casual' also captures the spirit of her own remarkable demonstration of public introspection.This is an elegy for lost mothers and lost homes and a consideration of the complexity of national and religious identities and gender roles. A feminist framework underpins a narrative peppered with references to Western art and literature from ancient to modern times and extended by many thoughtful detours. The author's own apparently dueling instincts as a mother and writer are examined with unflinching forthrightness."--Booklist "This debut is the memoir of a young woman's life shaped by unrelenting existential terror. The story is told in fragmentary vignettes beginning with Shalmiyev's fraught emigration as a young child from St. Petersburg, Russia to the United States, leaving behind the mother who had abandoned her. It closes with her resolve to find her estranged mother again."--The Millions (Most Anticipated February 2019) "Mother Winter takes extraordinary risks. [Its] most distinct pleasure is Shalmiyev's authority as a writer, on a language level and in her capacity for assemblage."--Book and Film Globe The prose of Mother Winter is rendered with perceptive, enduring grace. Shalmiyev weaves an interlocking bricolage of abandonment, transnational identity, feminism as salvation, and the many mothers who shape our psyches..."--The Stranger "In Mother Winter, Sophia Shalmiyev follows the crumbs back to her native Russia in search of the mother she lost to addiction and geography. It's a lyrical memoir and feminist appraisal of the events that brought her to motherhood in Portland."--Portland Monthly "The flickering alcoholic parent creates a writer by their absence. The kid colors the void, packs it with stuff, a life, and a love. And thus she lives. Mother Winter, Sophia Shalmiyev's catastrophically bright, wavering motion of a memoir, forged through sticky clouds of pain, is vividly awesome and truly great."--EILEEN MYLES, author of Evolution "When she leaves her native Russia at age 11, Sophia Shalmiyev is forced to abandon a mother she may never see again. Mother Winter is the wrenching story of her exile and grief, but it's also a chronicle of awakening--to art, sex, feminism, and the rich complexities of becoming a mother herself. Like a punk rock Marguerite Duras, Shalmiyev has reinvented the language of longing. I love this gorgeous, gutting, unforgettable book."--LENI ZUMAS, author of Red Clocks "Shalmiyev stubbornly, brilliantly pursues loss in this psycho-geography of immigration, grief displacement, and damage. A mother herself, Shalmiyev's narrator channels the ghosts of Dorothy Richardson, Anais Nin, Frances Farmer and the sad, bad stories of Aileen Wuornas and Amy Fisher, who could never be the right kind of girls. Like the great modernist writers, Shalmiyev writes from, not about, trauma but at a pitch that's witty, dry, sad, and laconic. I love America, her narrator declares. It's broken, like me."--CHRIS KRAUS, author of I Love Dick "The coldness of Russia, of the occult; the heat of punk rock, of motherhood. 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I recently gave a presentation on Twitter techniques (and Twitter in the Philippines in general) at the recent SEMCON 2009 conference at the Intercon in Makati.
The presentation was entitled "Hardcore Twitter" and I've posted the deck on Slideshare. Of course it's also embedded in this blog post, thanks to Slideshare's WordPress.com friendly tags.
The basic idea behind the presentation is to illustrate that social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have become so pervasive that if you're considering any form of online communication strategy nowadays, you will have to include them. The old idea of developing a website and letting the campaign end there is simply not enough, no matter how SEO-optimized the site is. In order to maximize the reach of your digital strategy, you'll need to craft a Facebook/Twitter strategy as well, and integrate these into the overall plan.
And if you want anything to go viral, the optimum point of infection is within these social networks themselves. Because of the way Facebook and Twitter are set up, viral memes usually start on these before infecting the rest of the web.
So I've covered some of the techniques you could use in the Twitterverse to do site promotion. The presentation explains all of this pretty well, so I suggest you go through that.
Part 2. Slideshare cometh. The second part of this story has to do with the reception the presentation got after the physical conference was concluded and I uploaded a PDF of the Keynote presentation to Slideshare.net. This was actually my first ever upload to the web service.
As is my usual practice with blog posts, immediately after I uploaded the file, I did the usual short message blast on my Twitter and Facebook accounts to publicize this, and then walked away and forgot about it.
I was unprepared for what happened in just a few short hours. In no time, the presentation appeared on Sldeshare's front page flagged on the "Hot on Twitter" (possibly due to a number of retweets) and then the "Hot on Facebook" sections.
By the end of the evening, "HardCore Twitter" had cranked up enough page views to be selected as Slideshare's "Presentation of the Day". It actually lingered at the top of the heap for a couple of days before sliding down to fourth position. Even as a I write this, "Harcdore Twitter" is still listed on the "top presentations" list, and after 5 days online it has generated (as I write this) 1,252 views.
I'm still wondering how it happened. Perhaps the provocative title was key (maybe the implication of kinky sex in a presentation sells just as well as in a streetcorner) or anything with the hot keyword "Twitter" in it gets immediate attention nowadays. In a very small scale, the presentation itself became as viral as the case studies it tried to explain.
At the end of the day, a lot more people ended up seeing my presentation online than they did on the day it was originally presented.
There's a lesson to be learned somewhere in this case. I'm not sure what it is, but I'm definitely going to be using Slideshare a lot more now.


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The largest sharks stretched sixteen to twenty feet long. One moment, these behaved like gentle and curious giants, nosing up close to inspect the men with black, unblinking eyes. The next moment they attacked, their steel-trap jaws snuffing out a man's life before he could draw a breath to scream.
Umenhoffer had developed a technique for dealing with the sharks. He would wait until one of them cruised just alongside, then he would kick it, hard, in the flanks, and the startled shark would dart away. He had administered at least ten such blows, and it worked every time.
Late Wednesday, Umenhoffer heard a voice from the main body of the Haynes group. "Hey! Does anybody over there know how to pray?" He looked over and saw a sailor waving his arms and hollering. He repeated the question: "Is there anybody over there who knows how to pray?"
Umenhoffer traded looks with the man next to him. Those who knew it had been praying the Lord's Prayer for three days. It had gotten so that Umenhoffer was pretty sure that any man who was an atheist when the ocean closed over Indianapolis wasn't one now.
—Adapted from INDIANAPOLIS: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man by Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic. Available from Simon & Schuster July 10, 2018. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.


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Hang a wet sheet over an open window, rub ice on your pulse points… plus seven other hacks to help you survive a heatwave
As the country bakes in the sweltering summer sun, here's some handy tips to keep you sane
THE sun has finally come out to play - but with the glorious weather comes rocketing temperatures.
While most of us lap up the sunshine at the weekend (beer garden, anyone?) dealing with super-scorchio heat during the working week can be a nightmare.
However, you can enjoy the summer without losing your cool by following these simple life hacks.
1. Push your cool buttons
Pouring some cold water or holding an ice cube on your pulse points can help you chill out. Pulse points are spots on the body where your skin is thinner and closer to blood vessels. They are found on the wrists, ankles, tops of your feet and your temples.
2. Window of opportunity
Hang a wet sheet over an open window - the breeze will turn cool from the sheet's moisture. You can also spray your curtains with cold water for a similar effect.
3. Stock up on salads
Avoid the oven when trying to keep yourself and your home cool. Tuck into salads, fruit, ice lollies and - surprisingly - spicy food when trying to beat the heat. Spicy meals makes you sweat more, allowing your body to cool itself down.
4. Rice on ice
Swap a cold flannel for a sock filled with rice. Place the sock in the freezer to make a compress that stays cool but won't melt all over you.
5. Water way to beat the heat
It's important to stay hydrated all year round but even more so when the temperatures soar. Water is free and easily accessible. Down at the recommended two litres a day to stay cool.
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6. Spray away
Fill a cheap spray bottle with water and pop into your handbag. This cool mist is perfect for dousing yourself with on sweaty commutes.
7. Time to unplug
Gadgets and other small electronic appliances give off heat, even when turned off. You can not only reduce total heat in the house by keeping plugs out of sockets at night but you can also improve the quality of your sleep.
8. Cotton on
Save your silky satin, silk or polyester sheets for colder days. Good quality 100 % cotton sheets are the best things to cover yourself with, as they will allow the air to circulate. Pure cotton is also the least irritating fabric for your skin and it will absorb sweat easier than nylon or polyester.
9. Keep it dark
Daylight will affect the quality of your sleep so make your room is as dark as possible or wear a sleep mask. This will help with melatonin production, as darkness will calm you down. A dark room will also be a lot cooler than a light one.


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Thursday, 6th December 2018, marks the UK's National Tunnelling Day. As in previous years, the Dr. Sauer & Partners teams across the various projects we are working on are celebrating the day.
In recognition of the many successful UK tunnelling projects planned, currently underway, as well as those that have been completed and are in full operation, we would like to acknowledge all our fellow Tunnel Engineers and those involved in the industry Happy National Tunnelling Day! #TunnelDayUK


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Teens yanked 9-year-old girl off ATV, hit her when she held on, Texas police say
The Texarkana Texas Police Department is searching for two men they say injured a nine-year-old during an ATV robbery last month.
According to police, 18-year-old Jaquavion Williams and 19-year-old Daquavious Akkard are wanted for aggravated robbery after they yanked the child off the four-wheeler she was riding and stole it in late April.
Police said the child tried to hang on to the handlebars to keep the men from taking the four-wheeler, but began hitting her hands as they drove off. The child ended up falling off the ATV, skinning both of her knees in the process. No other injuries were reported.
NO ARRESTS MADE: 19-year-old victim ID'd in deadly west Houston shooting
"Seriously... Who does that to a little kid?" the TTPD said in a Facebook post.
Neither the four-wheeler nor the men have been recovered at this time.
Texarkana police said Williams and Akkard have "reservations for both of them in the Bi-State Jail."
If you have any information regarding the whereabouts of Jaquavion Williams or Daquavious Akkard, you're asked to call Crime Stoppers at 903-793-STOP(7867).


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Research Triangle Park, NC—F. Ivy Carroll, a Distinguished Fellow for medicinal chemistry at RTI International's Center for Drug Discovery, has received the annual Achievement Award from the University of West Georgia College of Science & Mathematics, presented by the UWG Alumni Association and Board of Directors.
Carroll has had a long and distinguished career at RTI. He helped develop a diagnostic agent for Parkinson's disease, as well as various compounds for the treatment of for cocaine and nicotine addictions and central nervous system disorders.
In addition, he has published more than 521 peer-reviewed publications, 34 book chapters and 51 patents; has over 20 current patent applications; and was inducted in 2007 into the American Chemical Society Medicinal Chemistry Hall of Fame. Carroll also received the 2010 North Carolina Award in Science and the 2012 Alfred Burger Award in Medicinal Chemistry from the American Chemical Society.
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I had an insightful question from a two-doc couple recently that I thought would benefit the readership at large. This couple will be finishing their residencies in 1-2 years. They have $200K total in student loans and currently rent. They would like to buy a house shortly after finishing residency and are in the process of saving up a down payment. They're trying to decide whether to put 20% down on the house or take out a physician loan and put that money toward student loans.
My initial response was pretty standard financial advice- put down the 20% and get the cheaper mortgage, then work on the loans and retirement contributions after that. But the more I thought about it, the more I didn't think that was necessarily correct.
There's no doubt that a standard 20% down mortgage is a better deal than a physician loan. There is more competition among lenders and less risk to the lender so you get lower fees and points, and a lower rate. I saved up 20% for both of the houses I've owned as an attending, and I'm glad I did. But the scenario changes a bit when there is other high interest debt available to be paid off (which I didn't have, thanks to the military).
There's always the alternative to just rent and pay down high interest consumer or student loans, but some docs don't want to defer gratification any longer, and especially with mortgage to rent ratios looking pretty favorable in some parts of the country, I can understand why people would prefer to buy sooner rather than later. Plus, the sooner you start paying a mortgage, the sooner it's paid off.
So how do you weigh these factors? Here's how I'd look at it:
1) You can currently get a conventional 20% down 30 year fixed mortgage for 3.625% without points or significant fees. That goes down to 2.875% for a 15 year fixed mortgage. I'm told by lenders that a typical physician loan costs about 1% more, so say 4.625%, and there would also be a few thousand dollars in fees.
2) Mortgage interest may be deductible. Assuming a 38% marginal tax rate and fully deductible mortgage interest (reasonable assumptions for a two physician couple), that 30 year after-tax rate drops to 2.25% for a conventional and as low as 2.87% for the physician loan.
3) Student loan interest is pretty much non-deductible for a two physician couple. Federal graduate loans are at 6.8%. Private loans are now 7.9%. And forget about consolidating them at a lower rate.
4) Paying another 0.62% for your mortgage (plus a few thousand) in order to get rid of 7-8% loans seems pretty wise. Your mileage may vary depending on your individual circumstances, but I think most docs are probably going to be better off minimizing the down payments and paying down the student loans. Now that's totally different from my med school class, which refinanced their student loans at 1-2% back in 2003, but it's probably the reality for today's grads.
5) You can always refinance that mortgage later after the student loans are paid off, preferably into a 15 year fixed mortgage. But for a doc, mortgage debt is much preferably to student loan debt. Unlike mortgage debt, student loan interest isn't deductible at physician income levels, and the debt isn't discharged in bankruptcy (although it is in death). So swapping student loan debt for mortgage debt is probably a wise arbitrage given today's interest rate environment.
Now, while mortgage debt is probably preferable to student loan debt, no debt is usually better than having debt, even at low interest rates. Even if you're able to earn more investing than you're paying in debt, there's something wonderful about living debt free, especially since eliminating that fixed expense sucking up your cash flow gives you freedom to make lifestyle changes, like working part time or taking a lower paying job. But if you have to have debt, and you're choosing between 7% non-deductible debt and 4% deductible debt, that's a pretty easy decision.


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Receiving rent is fundamental to maintaining your rental income and keeping your investment successful. Follow these tips to help prevent issues with rent.
Before signing the tenancy agreement, we always inform tenants of our expectations, and make sure they have a clear understanding of the agreement being entered – we recommend you do the same.
If rent arrears do occur, early intervention is necessary. We conduct checks on rents received every weekday morning before 8:30am, allowing us to identify arrears within hours of expected payment. To achieve efficient rent management ensure you do the following:
Contact the tenants as soon as you notice rent is overdue. Most tenants will want to organise a way to pay back the rent owed. Remember the tenant may have been unaware of the arrears, or recently had some personal changes and are already working hard to get that rent paid to you. Issue a 14 Day Letter demanding rent to be paid as per the Residential Tenancies Act.
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Proactively preventing problems with rent requires you to be actively involved in the rent process, keeping constant track of all rents received, and be prepared to act immediately if rent arrears occur. Due to our close management, we get very few rent arear issues. If you're interested in learning about our team's process for preventing rent arrears, and our other management processes feel free to contact your closest Quinovic branch.
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Analysing terrain data
The exposure grade does not take into account objective hazards (stone fall, seracs, etc) but only the consequences of the skier falling.
Low Exposure (E1): Exposure is limited to that of the slope itself. Getting hurt is still likely if the slope is steep and/or the snow is hard.
Medium Exposure (E2): As well as the slope itself, there are some obstacles (such as rock outcrops) which could aggravate injury.
High Exposure (E3): In case of a fall, death is highly likely.
Extreme Exposure (E4): In case of a fall, the skier faces certain death.
An open glade that offers a long, consistent run to Elizabeth Lake and an easy return to a groomed run.
Elizabeth Lake (Run) lies directly above Elizabeth Lake.
Not as steep as its neighbors, Elizabeth Lake offers a relatively easy route into Avalanche Basin.
The shallowest angles can be found to the skier's right, along the tree line.
The lines further to the left, with the narrowest opening steepen up quickly at the top.
The upper section of this run is mostly open with a nice fall line.
A few larger trees part way down force you right or left.
Navigate around these and back into the opening above the lake.
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Winter 2020 Anime: Official Info, Airdates & Trailers
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For a school that is supposed to be the symbol of hope, the road it chose to go down to is certainly more akin to despair. We still have a few episodes before Junko Enoshima realizes her plan, but still, the first phase was so horrifying and wonderful it made for a thrilling episode.
Japanese Title: 希望ヶ峰学園史上最大最悪の事件
Ryota shows Junko the anime he's been working on, telling her all about the way brainwashing techniques can influence the viewers' minds. He believes that in the right hands these techniques can save the world. The problem is that the hands that'll probably get a hold of this anime want to bring despair on the whole planet. Junko is overwhelmed by the anime's power and wants to use it to pass her own subliminal messages.
Intermission 1: Komaeda is stranded on an island where he is bathing naked under a waterfall.
The Ultimate Imposter is concerned about Ryota's disappearance and sends Tsumiki-chan to investigate his room. There she is captured by Mukuro and brought to Ryota. Tsumiki's bondage still was probably the best fan-service bit of this episode, along with the sexy Junko scenes.
The rest of the episode was probably the best scenes in the whole series until now, with Junko going forward with her first killing game and using the massacre and Kamukura to turn the whole Reserve Course against the school.
Junko Smashing Mitarai's Anime Collection: Ryota is a true otaku. He believes that:
"Anime is an important part of our culture"
After Junko watches Ryota's anime, she is so overwhelmed by its emotional power that she believes no anime could ever come close. For that reason she smashes all of Mitarai's collection to smithereens while an on-screen message reads: This is solely her opinion. It seems like a reference to entertainment critics who are quick to judge and dismiss certain works based on their personal preferences and prejudices.
Teruteru's Sexual Simile: There are many ways to make a successful sexual simile, but Teruteru's food metaphor was one of the best comedic scenes of this episode. Tsumiki's doughnut and Mitarai's banana may not meet soon, except if you count the stomach of Fuuinsareshi Tanaka's bear.
Junko's First Killing Game: This was by far the best scene in the series. The whole premise of the games is based on these killing games, and seeing Junko on her first one was amazing. From the Battle Royale references to Munuko singing Tsubada wo Kudasai (you can learn about both in the themes & trivia section) there was something poetic veiling above all the killing.
"Friends don't kill friends."
Subliminal Messages: When Ryota explains to Junko how his anime works, Junko throws the term 'subliminal messages'. The use of subliminal messages in advertising has been a controversial subject for decades, Just Google it and you'll find hundreds of pages with examples of subliminal messages in advertising. These subliminal messages are hidden words or images that are not consciously perceived but may influence the viewer's attitude or behavior. If you want a very simple example (which in fact is not so much a subliminal message as more of an example how external stimuli are affecting our decisions) imagine you are in a restaurant and you want to order a wine. As it happens, the owner recently bought a basement's worth of Italian wine and he wants to start selling it. All of a sudden the restaurant starts playing Italian songs. I bet my carbonara that when the waiter comes, you are going to get yourself one of those Italian wines.
Villain POV: No villain believes he is a villain. The antagonist is just the protagonist of his own story, and if you ever had the chance to sit down with a good, honest villain and asked him what he thinks about his actions, I'm sure he would light a cigarette and bitch about how no one understands him. He just wanted to save the world, like Junko Enoshima. Despair is good.
Tsubasa wo Kudasai: The song that Mukuro is given to sing by Junko, Tsubasa wo Kudasai (翼をください , Please Give Me Wings) is a popular Japanese folk song written by Michio Yamagami (山上路夫) and composed by Kunihiko Murai (村井邦彦). You have to listen to it performed by Tokunaga Hideaki. Pure awesomeness.
Battle Royale: The killing scene was probably a tribute to 2000's Battle Royale film. The similarities are uncanny: When the students in the film are told to kill each other or else they all die, they are inside a classroom. The weapons come inside bags. The first student to protest is killed. A couple commits suicide as an act of defiance. Battle Royale is one of my favorite movies and I was thrilled to see so many similarities.
Jason – Freddy Chainsaw: The chainsaw used in the student council killing game has two names engraved on it: Jason and Freddy. They are probably referring to Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th and Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street. Both are huge horror franchises and the two protagonists are two of the most recognizable horror icons of all time.
I know it happens in nearly every episode, but I must note once again the great use of the trademark pink blood as well as the subtle inclusion of sounds from the videogame. It really feels like I am playing a Danganronpa game. I did miss Junko and her craziness. I don't know if there is something wrong with me, but I would have gladly followed her into despair, if only for that awesome outfit and sexy pigtails.
This episode is a testament to the brilliance of the Danganronpa writers and especially of the wit of Spike Chunsoft, The student council killing scene is officially one of my favorite moments of SUMMER 2016, and maybe one of my all-time best killing scenes in anime. What do you think? Am I overreacting? Maybe, a little bit. Do you have a favorite killing scene? Let me know in the comments below.
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12th Annual Bear Valley Telemark Festival
The 12th Annual Bear Valley Telemark Festival is set to take place from 8 to 10 February 2008 in the small alpine ski town of Bear Valley in the Central Sierra Nevada, California. Skiers with all levels of ability are invited to join this popular three-day snow skiing event which has its focus on fun! The program includes technical clinics, demonstrations, backcountry snow skiing, banquets and live music.
The all-day telemark workshops begin on the Friday of the festival, with a few warm-up runs followed by splitting into groups with different instructors. After lunch the groups will switch instructors for the afternoon session. Friday evening is spent unwinding from a busy day, while socializing with other participants in front of a log fire. Dinner at the Burrito Bar is followed by a slide show.
Saturday is jam-packed with action including two 90-minute telemark ski clinics, costume contest and an all-terrain tele-race. Ski and boot demos include all the latest snow skiing gear from well respected suppliers. At 4:00 pm on Saturday, intermediate skiers and above can join the festival instructors at Bear Top for a guided ski run back down to the Bear Valley Village. Saturday's evening banquet includes excellent food, free beer and wine, an awe-inspiring slide show, live music and dancing.
On Sunday the program for the 12th Annual Bear Valley Telemark Festival gives participants the option of spending the day in the beautiful backcountry areas with professional ski guides, or they can take the opportunity to sharpen their skiing skills in two-hour group telemark clinics.
The organizers of the Bear Valley Telemark Festival have made a commitment for the event to have minimum impact on the environment. This is something they take very seriously and therefore make sure that they stick to eco-friendly materials as far as possible. The t-shirt for the event is made from organic cotton, event name tags are re-used each year, disposable drinking cups are made from materials that can be composted, meals are served on washable plates with silver cutlery, napkins are cloth, beer and wine are sourced from sustainable oriented suppliers and food waste is composted.
The first Bear Valley Telemark Festival which took place in 1997 had fourteen participants. Working from a rented house in Bear Valley the three instructors took on the tasks of teaching, cooking, cleaning and entertaining. The event was such a success that the group decided to do the same the following year and the year after that and so on. Currently the Bear Valley Telemark Festival is enjoyed by nearly 300 skiers over the three days, during which time friendships are renewed and having fun is priority.


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Daily Scan for 05.15.09 – Ferrara Helms Jekyll, Terminator Scribe Denies Paradox
• The writer of Terminator Salvation dismisses any possibility of time paradox in the new movie.
• After recent reports that Keanu Reeves will play Dr. Jekyll in an upcoming remake, Variety states that Abel Ferrara too will direct a version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, with Forest Whitaker and 50 Cent to star.
• Why did Batman Begins work while Wolverine, erm, did not? Start with the screenplay, and work your way down.
• My favorite French pulp serial killer with miraculous morphing powers, Fantomas, is coming to the silver screen.
• The premise behind ABC's new psychic mind-freak show Fast Forward is a bit confusing to some. I suspect after they watch this 30-second promo that tries to explain everything, it will be even more so.
• The chances of seeing a reprint of Alan Moore's Miracleman are looking more and more remote.
• What would the original Star Trek look like with J.J. Abrams-style lens flares?
• Salon informs us why Star Trek still matters, as if we didn't already know.Read More


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Effectiveness of oral cholera vaccine in preventing cholera among fishermen in Lake Chilwa, Malawi: A case-control study
Francesco Grandesso | Watipaso Kasambara | Anne-Laure Page | Amanda K. Debes | Maurice M'bang'ombe | Adriana Palomares | Pauline Lechevalier | Lorenzo Pezzoli | Ian Alley | Leon Salumu | Kelias Msyamboza | David Sack | Sandra Cohuet | Francisco Javier Luquero
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In response to a cholera outbreak among mobile, difficult-to-reach fishermen on Lake Chilwa, Malawi in 2016, a novel vaccine distribution strategy exploited the proven vaccine thermostability. Fishermen, while taking the first vaccine dose under supervision, received the second dose in a sealed bag, and were told to drink it two weeks later. This study assessed short-term vaccine protection of this strategy.
Patients with diarrhoea admitted to health facilities around lake were interviewed and a stool sample collected for PCR testing. Vaccine effectiveness was assessed in a case-control test-negative design by comparing cases (PCR-positive for V. cholerae O1) and controls (patients with diarrhoea but PCR-negative) and with the screening method that compared the proportions of vaccinated among cholera cases versus the general fishermen population.
Of 145 study participants, 120 were fishermen living on the lake. Vaccine effectiveness at three-months was 90.0% [95% CI: 38.8; 98.4] among fishermen and 83.3% [95% CI: 20.8; 96.5] among all participants in the case-control test-negative design, and 97.5% [95% CI: 90.9; 99.3] with the screening method.
This strategy was effective in providing short-term protection in fishermen against cholera. Further research is needed to determine the adding value of the second dose and to identify the optimal vaccination strategies for different contexts.
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Oral cholera vaccination strategy: Self-administration of the second dose in urban Dhaka, Bangladesh
Ashraful Islam Khan | Muhammad Shariful Islam | Md Taufiqul Islam | Azimuddin Ahmed | Mohiul Islam Chowdhury | Fahima Chowdhury | Md Ashraf Uddin Siddik | John D. Clemens | Firdausi Qadri
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Cholera remains a major public health problem in many developing countries including Bangladesh. The oral cholera vaccine (OCV) is now considered a key component of the public health response to cholera. Although maintaining cold chain and organizing human resource are the major challenges of vaccine delivery to the community. Here we applied an innovative approach to second dose OCV delivery to minimize financial and logistic burdens. The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility and compliance of second dose self-administration when the second dose was provided in a plastic bag to first dose vaccine recipients as OCV is stable for up to 42 days at ambient temperatures. We aimed to deploy vaccines (N = 112,000) left over from other studies to 56,000 people aged ≥ one year living in Mirpur, Dhaka to see the feasibility of self-administration strategy. During vaccination, the first OCV dose (OCV1) was given from fixed sites and the second dose (OCV2) was provided in a plastic zip-lock bag for the participant to take the vaccine two weeks later at home. Participants were instructed to keep the vaccine away from light and in a dry cool place. Empty vials were collected following the end date of the scheduled second vaccination. Of the targeted population, 41,694 (74%) received the first OCV dose whereas an estimated 38,852 (93% of those receiving the first dose) received the second dose which represents a 7% drop out rate from OCV1 to OCV2. However the average two dose coverage was 69%. A survey of a subsample 2990 (from 8551) randomly selected households revealed that almost all respondents (98.75%) appreciated this new self-administration strategy and considered the strategy to be more practical and convenient than the usual method. This simplified, self-administered delivery strategy provides an ideal alternative for second-dose OCV delivery in hard-to-reach populations and resource-poor settings.
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Innovative vaccine delivery strategies in response to a cholera outbreak in the challenging context of Lake Chilwa. A rapid qualitative assessment
Leonard W. Heyerdahl | Bagrey Ngwira | Rachel Demolis | Gabriel Nyirenda | Maurice Mwesawina | Florentina Rafael | Philippe Cavailler | Jean Bernard Le Gargasson | Martin A. Mengel | Bradford D. Gessner | Elise Guillermet
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A reactive campaign using two doses of Shanchol Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) was implemented in 2016 in the Lake Chilwa Region (Malawi) targeting fish dependent communities. Three strategies for the second vaccine dose delivery (including delivery by a community leader and self-administration) were used to facilitate vaccine access. This assessment collected vaccine perceptions and opinions about the OCV campaign of 313 study participants including: fishermen, fish traders, farmers, community leaders, and one health and one NGO officer. Socio-demographic surveys were conducted, In Depth Interviews and Focus Group Discussions were conducted before and during the campaign. Some fishermen perceived the traditional delivery strategy as reliable but less practical. Delivery by traditional leaders was acceptable for some participants while others worried about traditional leaders not being trained to deliver vaccines or beneficiaries taking doses on their own. A slight majority of beneficiaries considered the self-administration strategy practical while some beneficiaries worried about storing vials outside of the cold chain or losing vials. During the campaign, a majority of participants preferred receiving oral vaccines instead of injections given ease of intake and lack of pain. OCV was perceived as efficacious and safe. However, a lack of information on how sero-protection may be delayed and the degree of sero-protection led to loss of trust in vaccine potency among some participants who witnessed cholera cases among vaccinated individuals. OCV campaign implementation requires accompanying communication on protective levels, less than 100% vaccine efficacy, delays in onset of sero-protection, and out of cold chain storage.
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Hi, I have now a patch for removing the dictionaries module. I still have to do some testing to make sure that it works with the latest changes and on platforms other than Windows. (I would provide a patch but have no desire to split it down into about 160 1MB-sized parts) So now would be the time to raise objections to this and provide alternative solutions. There is of course still the issue of how to provide replacements. But maybe we should discuss that on a different thread. (this one is growing a bit confusing) Regards, Andre On 25.11.2011 09:00, Gianluca Turconi wrote: > Il 24/11/2011 17.39, Ariel Constenla-Haile ha scritto: >> Dictionaries are developed by individuals/entities outside OOo, >> they were never developed inside the OOo source tree. I'm not sure >> what was the procedure (sure Gianluca can comment), but it seems like >> these dictionaries were updated on request, not developed by OOo. > > Surely, the community developed the dictionaries and there were specific > *external* projects that worked on several dictionaries. > > I.e. the Italian thesaurus was created thanks to a large and long > collaboration with an Italian school, as a students' project. > >> And on the other side: >> * some dictionaries are incomplete (like the Spanish case) >> * there may be cases where there are more dictionaries out there for the >> same language. Why should AOO favor one? The user should be the one >> who chooses which dictionary to install > > My main worry is to provide to the users, at *download time*, *all* > tools they may need for a functional Office Suite, without forcing them > to browse one or more external websites for important add-ons like the > linguistic tools. > >> For the official binary release AOO can ship category B libraries in >> binary form, so for a release AOO can (and should) be compiled with >> --enable-hunspell and --enable-hyphen until someone finds a replacement. >> An official binary release without the three linguistic components is >> a NO-GO (IMO). > > a big +1 from me. > >> A binary official release without dictionaries may be annoying for the >> end users, but there are alternatives (like (miss-)using the first start >> wizard to invite the user to download dictionary-extensions for his/her >> language, etc.). > > I suppose Andre Fischer started this thread just to find a consensus > about a single alternative among those we were previously discussing. ;-) > > So far, there are 3 proposal: > > a) Download the extension (assuming that the right locale can be > detected) automatically from the extension repository during installation; > > b) As last step of the installation, pop up a web page that, among other > things, tells the user that there is a dictionary extension that can be > installed and what its license is; > > c) let the user know that there is one (or multiple) linguistic tools > pack extension for his/her native language when the main AOO binary is > downloaded. > > Dennis Hamilton raised some security concerns about a) and b) solution, > I suppose. > > Regards, > > Gianluca
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About those newer bars: East Sixth makes a convenient shorthand for a lot of the big arguments about Austin's history and identity that you may have noticed. Its connection to the black and Hispanic communities of Austin give it a very different history and present than the more genteel West Sixth or riotous Dirty Sixth, but while bars on West Sixth sink seamlessly into the neighborhood, and nothing short of an atomic blast could erase the character of Dirty Sixth, it's inarguable that many of the joints popping up on East Sixth bear little resemblance to what old-timers remember. While some people complain about skyrocketing rents and the accompanying demographic transformation, others enjoy the lower crime and nicer amenities, like fancy cocktail bars. Sure, it's not like the locals don't appreciate a good Manhattan, but if it's at the expense of a $1 Lone Star, different people have different reactions. Are these changes a good thing or a bad thing? Can one drink on East Sixth in good conscience? Well....
I've spent a good portion of this blog arguing in favor of change. My family moved to Austin when I was a year old, and nothing annoys me more than the "hey man, the city's full, and newcomers like you have ruined the paradise that it used to be" mentality that you hear all too frequently. Austin's best resource is its people, and to desire stasis is to desire decline. So, if you accept that pro-immigration logic about the city as a whole, which I think you should, how does that apply to an area which has historically been starved of the very kinds of investment and construction now transmuting it? East Austin is richer and more diverse than it's ever been, as you can see by the mix of bars, yet it's impossible to ignore the steady metamorphosis happening outside of the bars. Yes, East Austin is now the most racially integrated part of the city, but somehow the blacks and Hispanics who are getting priced out aren't moving to Travis Heights or (back to) Clarksville, they're moving to Kyle or Pflugerville. From a purely economic standpoint it's no different than anyone getting priced out of a successful city, and yet it would be naive to pretend like Austin's peerless growth has benefited everyone equally. I love drinking on East Sixth, and it's not like not drinking there would help anyone, but it's worth a pondering what used to be on the spot where you're now drinking a $15 craft cocktail.
And now for some statistics!
Top 5 Bars
Using a completely subjective formula that takes into account the quality of the drink, the ambiance of the bar, the friendliness of the bartender, and my own level of intoxication, here are my top five bars:
Booze Brothers participating
Total: 33
- Aaron: 28
- Travis: 9
- Rome: 9
- Hannah: 9
- Vince: 8
- James: 5
- Davis: 5
- Anthony: 5
- Alexis: 5
- Chris M: 4
- Jeff: 4
- Lisa: 4
- Michael: 4
- Kayleigh: 4
- Karen: 3
- Brent: 3
- Misty: 3
- Nick H: 3
- Ryan: 2
- Wolf: 2
- Jackie: 2
- Will: 2
- Chris X: 2
- Jessica: 2
- Amanda: 2
- Kason: 2
- Cody: 2
- Jackie C: 2
- Kelly: 2
- Haley: 2
- Philip: 2
- Tristan: 1
- Kyle H: 1
Establishments visited
Total: 28
- Bars: 23
- Restaurants: 3
- Breweries: 3
- Coffeeshops: 1
- Barbershops: 1
Drinks consumed
Total: 28*
- Cocktails: 16
- Shots: 1
- Beers: 9
- Other: 2
- Wines: 0
* Obviously I drank WAY more than that.
Money spent
Total: $224.50*
* That doesn't include taxes, tip, or the food or extra drinks I bought.


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|Pasifika Museum History. That was done in 1940, by Miguel Covarrubias who, after publishing his book on Bali in 1937, illuminated the pageant of the Pacific exhibition in San Francisco by creating six mural decoration and contributing to exhaustive ethnographic study of the region for the event.
This exhibition remind us of every important statement by the renowned art professor Adrian Vickers in his book Bali : A Paradise Created: "Asia and Pacific Meet in Bali " So , now 11 years after its opening and continual improvements , over 600 object together with 200 sculpture created by 200 artist of 25 nationalities are on display .
We hope to provide Bali residents, Indonesian visitors and overseas tourist a brief introduction to some of the Asia Pacific's unique variety of cultural artifacts that now meets in Nusa Dua Bali . Museum Pasifika Nusa Dua - Bali
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Parents, students and teachers, please come by the Lost & Found to pickup your missing belongings.
Next week, June 24-26, all items from both the main & FDK locations, will be laid out on tables outside of the gym. All items not picked up by end of day Wednesday will be sent for donation.


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"I am one of the supervisors, that's all you need to know!"
— Nikolai to Carlos Oliveira, about to kill him.
Nikolai Zinoviev (ニコライ・ジノビェフ Nikorai Jinobyefu , Russian: Николай Зиновьев), codenamed "Silver Wolf", is a Soviet Army veteran who served in Umbrella's paramilitary as a Sergeant in the UBCS as well as a Monitor. He and the USS commando, HUNK were considered to be "rivals",[3] and he was a close friend of Col. Sergei Vladimir,[4] of whom he may have served with in the Soviet Army.
Born in Moscow in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Zinoviev was likely conscripted into the Soviet Army in 1981, and its known to have served in one of its special forces brigades.[5] Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Zinoviev was retired and, along with many other former Soviet soldiers, was recruited by Umbrella.
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Little is known of Zinoviev's career in the mid-1990s, though he was well-trusted by Col. Vladimir and knew of Umbrella's need for him in their Tyrant Project.[4] Zinoviev served Umbrella and Col. Vladimir in two ways. Officially he was a Sergeant within the Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service, an anti-B.O.W. force. Unofficially, he was part of Col. Vladimir's internal affairs bureau and spied on the UBCS.
On 15 September 1998, the UBCS was put on alert by Umbrella HQ due to events in Raccoon City. When a t-Virus outbreak was confirmed, they were deployed, and arrived on the night of 26 September. The UBCS' orders were to kill the zombies and evacuate civilians.[6] However, as a Monitor Sgt. Zinoviev was given additional orders to record their fight to confirm the viability of bioweaponry and use of zombies in military operations;[7] destroy the Raccoon General Hospital, which was known to be the site of t-Vaccine research; and observe and record the Nemesis-T Type's actions.[8] With each collection of information, Sgt. Zinoviev was expected to receive a monetary reward,[9] with bonuses for additional operations.
During the operation itself, Cpt. Mikhail Victor's Delta Platoon suffered heavy casualties, leaving the two and Cpl. Carlos Oliveira after two days.[10] To guarantee a means of escape, Sgt. Nikolai took command of the platoon and created a plan to repair a trolley and use it as a means of getting to the extraction helicopter at the St. Michael's Clock Tower.[11] On the night of 28 September, the three met former S.T.A.R.S. officer Jill Valentine, who's Delta Force experience would provide much needed help. Though he recognised Valentine as one of Umbrella's targets for assassination, he also knew Nemesis-T Type had orders to kill her on sight. Concerned the creature would mistake him for one of Jill's allies and kill him as a secondary target,[12] Sgt. Zinoviev abandoned the group soon after, allowing them to believe him dead and move on.
On 1 October, he reached Raccoon General Hospital, where he set up C-4 charges to destroy the entire building. There he met fellow Monitor Tyrell Patrick and attacked him, intent on gaining his own combat data. Later that morning, Sgt. Zinoviev aided in "Operation: Emperor's Mushroom", a UBCS mission at Raccoon University to capture the experimental Thanatos, or otherwise retrieve a blood sample for study.[13] Zinoviev was able to extract a sample remotely, but it became enraged and killed the mercenaries. To obtain a bonus in its place, he assassinated Thanatos' creator, the traitorous Dr. Greg Mueller and destroyed the building with C-4 charges.
With his mission in the city complete, Sgt. Zinoviev visited a cabin in Raccoon Park which was used as an Umbrella communications room. There he received word that Umbrella could no longer delay American action in the city and that it would shortly be destroyed in a bombing. While leaving, he met Valentine again, who had repeatedly escaped the Nemesis-T Type. Though willing to kill her and get the bonus, he was stopped when a Grave Digger began burrowing beneath them and escaped. Sgt. Zinoviev fled to Incineration Disposal Plant P-12A, where he obtained a helicopter and escaped the city just before the bombing. His report was received by Umbrella's B.O.W. research teams and commented on.[14]
Further notes
The BradyGames strategy guide for Resident Evil CODE:Veronica features a report written by Nikolai to Umbrella, though it is non-canon and written by Dan Birlew. The report, dated 13 October 1998, details information gathered there during his mission, including included information regarding the Mansion Incident; the Special Tactics And Rescue Service's investigation of the Arklay Laboratory, and the subsequent destruction of the mansion facade. He correctly speculates on Albert Wesker faking his death to betray Umbrella. He informs Umbrella of the surviving S.T.A.R.S. members and his encounter with Jill, warning them that they are a grave threat to the corporation and should be eliminated.[6]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Resident Evil Archives. BradyGames. p. 138.
- ↑ Mark James Hill (@hillmarkjames) - Instagram
- ↑ (in Japanese) biohazard 0 KAITAISHINSHO. Enterbrain. p. 237.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (2007), file: "Letter from Sergei to Nicholai".
- ↑ バイオハザード3~Last Escape~/CHARACTERS (Japanese). Capcom. Retrieved on 2012-12-01.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Resident Evil CODE:Veronica official strategy guide
- ↑ Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (1999), file: "Supervisor's Report".
- ↑ Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (1999), file: "Written Order To The Supervisors".
- ↑ Nicholai tells Jill this in the Park cabin
- ↑ Carlos tells Jill that it is just the three of them left when they meet in the tram
- ↑ Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (1999), cutscene: "Together for the Escape".
- ↑ Famitsu interview with Yasuhisa Kawamura.
- ↑ Resident Evil Outbreak (2003), file: "Orders".
- ↑ Resident Evil Survivor (2000), file: "Report on destroyed Raccoon City".


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At INTERSECT BY LEXUS, A Fresh Point of View On Sustainable Fashion
"I always attempt to learn from the old, while searching for the new, not unlike being on a discovery mission."
The complexity of sustainability and why it should be a given is a topic often at the forefront of Oana Stanescu's mind. As the designer behind the CFDA's Circular Capsule Collection (C3) exhibit, currently installed at INTERSECT BY LEXUS, Stanescu knows the value of pushing for a future where meaningful design and environmentalism intersect.
"The experience itself is the actual very intersection of the various dimensions: functional, material, sensorial, cultural," she says. "None of these points work in isolation, and the richer the intersection, the more meaningful the experience."
In official terms, C3 represents "a culmination of the 2017-2018 CFDA + LEXUS FASHION* INITIATIVE, a program designed to inspire commitment to transformative leadership, sustainable innovation and positive change in the fashion industry," but in person, it's so much more. From five of the program's finalists we see five garments on display (and on sale), opening up a dialogue around socially responsible, sustainable innovation within the fashion industry. Accompanying the clothing is a video to explain the project and introduce viewers to the five designers: STUDIO 189, CIENNE, WHIT, M.Patmos, and St. Roche. Perhaps most compelling, all five garments have been sewn with Stella McCartney's millennium nature yard, which is the first cradle-to-cradle certified Gold level wool yarn ever produced.
"The garments themselves, the very subject I was creating a space for, are based on the same premise like my approach: a practical yet powerful design that enables a unique experience," Stanescu says. "My process is never linear and it does feel like a wild ride more often than not: at the beginning you have a vague idea of where you want to go, but really you don't quite know where you will end."
C3 is on view until December 14 at INTERSECT BY LEXUS, so there's still time to see for yourself (and try on an item or two, if you feel so inclined). In the meantime, watch the exhibit video above and get more info on the event here.
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