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Shimon Attie's artistic practice includes creating site-specific installations in public places, accompanying art photographs, immersive multiple channel hd video installations for museums and galleries, and new media works.
For two decades, Attie has made art that allows us to reflect on the relationship between place, memory and identity. In many of his projects, he engages local communities in finding new ways of representing their history, memory, and potential futures, and explores how contemporary media may be used to re-imagine new relationships between space, time, place and identity. He is particularly concerned with issues of loss, communal trauma and the potential for regeneration.
In earlier works, Attie has used contemporary media to re-animate architectural and public sites with images of their lost histories, and how histories of marginalized and forgotten communities may be visually introduced into the physical landscape of the present. These works ranged from on-location slide projections in Berlin's former Jewish quarter, to underwater light boxes in Copenhagen's Borsgraven Canal, to sophisticated laser projections illuminating the immigrant experience on tenement buildings on New York's Lower East Side, Attie has described these works, in part, as "a kind of peeling back of the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath."
In more recent years, Attie has created a number of multiple-channel immersive HD video installations. These have included a commission by the BBC and the Arts Council of Wales to create a 5-channel video installation on the occasion of the 40 year anniversary since the Aberfan disaster, when the village became 'famous' after having lost nearly all of its children in a manmade avalanche that buried Aberan's only elementary school. Attie also created Racing Clocks Run Slow: Archaeology of a Racetrack, a piece inspired by the former Bridgehampton Auto Racetrack in Bridgehampton, Long Island. He has also recently completed a commission from San Francisco's de Young Museum to create a new work of art. The result was a 3-channel video installation, Sightings: The Ecology of an Art Museum, which deals with the heightened moment of mutual encounter between art viewer and art object. And in 2011, Attie created MetroPAL.IS., an 8-channel video installation in-the-round for the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum that involves members of the Israeli and Palestinian communities living in New York City. Following its exhibition at the Aldrich Museum, MetroPAL.IS. then traveled to the Wexner Center for the Arts.
Attie's work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world, including at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and The Miami Art Museum, among many others. A mid-career retrospective was organized by Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art.
Four books have been been published on Shimon Attie's work: The Attraction of Onlookers: Aberfan – An Anatomy of a Welsh Village; The Writing on the Wall: Projections in Berlin's Jewish Quarter; Sites Unseen: Shimon Attie's European Projectsj; and The History of Another. In addition, several films have been made on Attie's work, that have aired on PBS, the BBC, and ARD.
Mr. Attie has received 10 yearlong visual artist fellowships, including from the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Academy in Rome (The Rome Prize), The National Endowment for the Arts, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and Kunstfonds (Germany's NEA equivalent).
Shimon Attie received his MFA degree in 1991. Since that time, Attie has received more than 20 commissions to create new works of art in more than ten countries around the world.
In 2013, Attie was awarded the Lee Krasner Lifetime Achievement Award in Art.
Shimon Attie was born in Los Angeles, California in 1957.


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Research Handbook of Comparative Employment Relations
Edited by Michael Barry and Adrian Wilkinson
Chapter 18: Regulating Global Capital through Public and Private Codes: An Analysis of International Labour Standards and Corporate Voluntary Initiatives
Tony Royle
Tony Royle INTRODUCTION An increasingly important influence on the way in which employment relations are played out in different countries is the impact of global capital and the activities of multinational corporations (MNCs). No national economy is completely insulated from global capital flows and this has become increasingly the case since the deregulation of the stock market and opening up of the global economy since the late 1980s. However, this is not a new phenomenon; as early as the eighteenth century it was recognized that countries with higher labour standards may be at a disadvantage to those countries with lower standards and this could put pressure on states to lower their labour standards accordingly (Hepple, 2005). Existing variations in national labour standards reflect different stages of development, differing industrial relations systems and welfare systems, which are subject to varying historical trajectories and different structural, political, economic and cultural factors. Part of the solution to this problem would be to try to achieve the same minimum levels of pay and conditions of work for all workers across the globe through a set of internationally recognized and effectively enforced international labour standards. However, this proposition is extremely difficult in practice; developing countries' main competitive advantage in attracting foreign investment may be based on having relatively low standards and nation states are often averse to giving up any sovereignty to international institutions and, especially in the sphere of employment, which is usually strongly embedded within national societal arrangements (Ferner and Hyman, 1998). Nevertheless,...
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A Message from the 2nd Vice President – 01-2018
Categories: Grant Oetting, News
Greetings, I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. On November 3, I traveled to the Lake of the Ozarks to attend the MU Fire and Rescue Training Institute's, Missouri Emergency Services Instructor Conference. This conference is for instructors that do emergency services training for our fellow firefighters and EMS workers in the state. Kevin and his staff put on a great conference and great training for the instructors. The training included several train the trainers including basic firefighter skills, live burn training, and water supply for rural and urban departments to name a few. Great speakers and also naming the Instructor of the Year for the institute. Kevin and Gail did a great job with this as always. Keep up the great work, and thank you for what you do!
November 21, was a special day for our former FFAM Secretary and Treasurer Dale Arnold. Dale retired from the fire service after a 40 year career. Dale started his career with the Carrollton Fire Department and served for nine years before moving on to Central Jackson Fire Protection District where he served thirty-one years moving thru the ranks and retiring as a captain. Dale served nine years as a assistant director to one of our founders of the FFAM Joe Jackson, and eventually served as Secretary/Treasurer for our organization from 1989-2011. Dale also served on the memorial committee for several years. I attended Dale's retirement ceremony in Blue Springs, lots of good things were said including words from our State Fire Marshal Tim Bean, who also presented Dale with an award, thanking him for his service. Dale enjoy retirement and spoil those grand-daughters of yours, I think you have earned it.
On Christmas Eve we had a close call in our state. An engine with the St. Clair Fire Protection District was struck by a semi. The crew was responding to a motor vehicle accident. As they were exiting the cab, the engine was struck. Fortunately no injuries to the crew. Remember to slow down and move over when you see emergency workers working on our highways. Glad to see that none of our brothers and sisters of the St. Clair Fire Protection District were injured.
On Christmas Day, I saw a news story on KSDK Channel 5 out of St. Louis, doing a story on the Eureka Fire Protection District and how the spend the holidays while on shift. The story tells how headquarters cooks for all their stations, how they invite their families in so crew members can enjoy the Christmas holiday with their kids and family. They even forgot a thermometer when they were deep frying a turkey, and used their TIC to see how hot their oil was, cleaver thinking for sure. Firefighter Alex Hawkins did a great job being the spokesman for the group. Chief Brown you should be proud of your personnel, they were professional on screen and thank you for taking care of our brothers and sisters in Eureka.
Well, winter is upon us, many of us have experienced extreme temperatures and even some snow already. Here are some tips from FEMA to keep in mind during the winter months.
Before Snowstorms and Extreme Cold
- Make a family communication plan. Your family may not be together when disaster strikes, so it is important to know how you will contact one another, how you will get back together and what you will do in case of an emergency.
- Make an emergency kit for at least three days of self-sufficiency.
- Keep space heater safety in mind: Use electric space heaters with automatic shut-off switches and non-glowing elements. Remember to keep all heat sources at least three feet away from furniture and drapes.
- Prepare your home:
- Make sure your home is well insulated and that you have weather stripping around your doors and window sills to keep the warm air inside.
- Make sure you have a working carbon monoxide detector.
- Keep fire extinguishers on hand, and make sure everyone in your house knows how to use them. House fires pose an additional risk, as more people turn to alternate heating sources without taking the necessary safety precautions.
- Learn how to shut off water valves (in case a pipe bursts).
- Insulate your home by installing storm windows or covering windows with plastic from the inside to keep cold air out.
- Hire a contractor to check the structural ability of the roof to sustain unusually heavy weight from the accumulation of snow – or water, if drains on flat roofs do not work.
- If you have a wood burning fireplace, consider storing wood to keep you warm if winter weather knocks out your heat. Also, make sure you have your chimney cleaned and inspected every year.
- Have at least one of the following heat sources in case the power goes out:
- Extra blankets, sleeping bags and warm winter coats
- Fireplace or wood-burning stove with plenty of dry firewood, or a gas log fireplace
- Prepare your vehicle:
- Fully winterize your vehicle: Have a mechanic check antifreeze, brakes, heater and defroster, tires, and windshield wipers to ensure they are in good shape. Keep your gas tank at least half full.
- Keep an extra emergency kit in your car. In addition to the basic essentials, consider adding a portable cell phone charger, ice scraper, extra blanket, sand for traction and jumper cables.
- Rock salt or more environmentally safe products to melt ice on walkways. Visit the EPA for a complete list of recommended products.
- Sand to improve traction.
- Make sure you have a cell phone with an emergency charging option (car, solar, hand crank, etc.) in case of a power failure.
- People who depend on electricity to operate medical equipment should have alternate arrangements in place in case power is out for an extended period of time.
- Plan to check on elderly/disabled relatives and neighbors.
- Plan to bring pets inside.
- Know where the manual release lever of your electric garage door opener is located and how to operate it in case you lose power.
- Fill a gallon container with water and place them in the freezer to help keep food cold.
- A NOAA Weather Radio broadcasts alerts and warnings directly from the NWS for all hazards. You may also sign up in advance to receive notifications from your local emergency services.
During Snowstorms and Extreme Cold
- Stay indoors during the storm.
- Drive only if it is absolutely necessary. If you must drive: travel in the day; don't travel alone; keep others informed of your schedule and your route; stay on main roads and avoid back road shortcuts.
- Walk carefully on snowy, icy, walkways.
- Avoid overexertion when shoveling snow. Overexertion can bring on a heart attack—a major cause of death in the winter. Use caution, take breaks, push the snow instead of lifting it when possible, and lift lighter loads.
- Keep dry. Change wet clothing frequently to prevent a loss of body heat. Wet clothing loses all of its insulating value and transmits heat rapidly.
- If you must go outside, wear several layers of loose-fitting, lightweight, warm clothing rather than one layer of heavy clothing. The outer garments should be tightly woven and water repellent.
- Wear mittens, which are warmer than gloves.
- Wear a hat and cover your mouth with a scarf to reduce heat loss.
Cold Related Illness
- Frostbite is a serious condition that's caused by exposure to extremely cold temperatures.
- A white or grayish-yellow skin area
- Skin that feels unusually firm or waxy
- Numbness
- If you detect symptoms of frostbite, seek medical care.
- Hypothermia, or abnormally low body temperature, is a dangerous condition that can occur when a person is exposed to extremely cold temperatures. Hypothermia is caused by prolonged exposures to very cold temperatures. When exposed to cold temperatures, your body begins to lose heat faster than it's produced. Lengthy exposures will eventually use up your body's stored energy, which leads to lower body temperature.
- Warnings signs of hypothermia:
- Adults: shivering, exhaustion, confusion, fumbling hands, memory loss, slurred speech drowsiness
- Infants: bright red, cold skin, very low energy
- If you notice any of these signs, take the person's temperature. If it is below 95° F, the situation is an emergency—get medical attention immediately.
Carbon Monoxide
Caution: Each year, an average of 430 Americans die from unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning, and there are more than 20,000 visits to the emergency room with more than 4,000 hospitalizations. Carbon monoxide-related deaths are highest during colder months. These deaths are likely due to increased use of gas-powered furnaces and alternative heating, cooking, and power sources used inappropriately indoors during power outages.
- Never use a generator, grill, camp stove or other gasoline, propane, natural gas or charcoal burning devices inside a home, garage, basement, crawlspace or any partially enclosed area. Locate unit away from doors, windows and vents that could allow carbon monoxide to come indoors. Keep these devices at least 20 feet from doors, windows, and vents.
- The primary hazards to avoid when using alternate sources for electricity, heating or cooking are carbon monoxide poisoning, electric shock and fire.
- Install carbon monoxide alarms in central locations on every level of your home and outside sleeping areas to provide early warning of accumulating carbon monoxide.
- If the carbon monoxide alarm sounds, move quickly to a fresh air location outdoors or by an open window or door.
- Call for help from the fresh air location and remain there until emergency personnel arrive to assist you.
Stay or Go?
- If stuck on the road to avoid exposure and/or when rescue is likely
- If a safe location is neither nearby or visible
- If you do not have appropriate clothing to go outside
- If you do not have the ability to call for help
- If the distance to call for help is accessible.
- If you have visibility and outside conditions are safe.
- If you have appropriate clothing.
- Once the storm has passed, if you are not already home, follow instructions from your local transportation department and emergency management agency to determine if it is safe to drive and, if so, which route will be safest for you to get home. Drive with extra caution.
After Snowstorms and Extreme Cold
- If your home loses power or heat for more than a few hours or if you do not have adequate supplies to stay warm in your home overnight, you may want to go to a designated public shelter if you can get there safely. Text SHELTER + your ZIP code to 43362 (4FEMA) to find the nearest shelter in your area (e.g., SHELTER20472)
- Bring any personal items that you would need to spend the night (such as toiletries, medicines). Take precautions when traveling to the shelter. Dress warmly in layers, wear boots, mittens, and a hat.
- Continue to protect yourself from frostbite and hypothermia by wearing warm, loose-fitting, lightweight clothing in several layers. Stay indoors, if possible.
Winter Weather Watches and Warnings
- Familiarize yourself with these terms to help identify an extreme winter weather alerts:
- Freezing Rain – Rain that freezes when it hits the ground, creating a coating of ice on roads, walkways, trees and power lines.
- Sleet – Rain that turns to ice pellets before reaching the ground. Sleet also causes moisture on roads to freeze and become slippery.
- Wind Chill- Windchill is the temperature it "feels like" when you are outside. The NWS provides a Windchill Chart to show the difference between air temperature and the perceived temperature and the amount of time until frostbite occurs. .
- Winter Weather Advisory – Winter weather conditions are expected to cause significant inconveniences and may be hazardous. When caution is used, these situations should not be life threatening. The NWS issues a winter weather advisory when conditions are expected to cause significant inconveniences that may be hazardous. If caution is used, these situations should not be life-threatening.
- Winter Storm Watch – A winter storm is possible in your area. Tune in to NOAA Weather Radio, commercial radio, or television for more information. The NWS issues a winter storm watch when severe winter conditions, such as heavy snow and/or ice, may affect your area but the location and timing are still uncertain. A winter storm watch is issued 12 to 36 hours in advance of a potential severe storm. Tune in to NOAA Weather Radio, local radio, TV, or other news sources for more information. Monitor alerts, check your emergency supplies, and gather any items you may need if you lose power.
- Winter Storm Warning – A winter storm is occurring or will soon occur in your area.
- Blizzard Warning – Sustained winds or frequent gusts to 35 miles per hour or greater and considerable amounts of falling or blowing snow (reducing visibility to less than a quarter mile) are expected to prevail for a period of three hours or longer.
- Frost/Freeze Warning – Below freezing temperatures are expected.
Hope these tips help you and your organization.
Before we know it Winter Fire School will be upon us. Kevin, Gail and the MU FRTI staff have been working hard to again give us great training and also provide a great equipment exposition. The dates for Winter Fire School are February 2-4, in Columbia. If you have not registered for classes or do not have a hotel reservation yet, I would highly recommend it.
The dates for the FFAM Convention is May 4-6. The convention will be held in St. Joseph at the Stoney Creek Inn. They can be reached at 816-901-9600. Make sure to mention the FFAM Convention when registering.
If I can be of any assistance to you or your agency, or you would like for me to attend your next event, feel free to contact me at email@example.com or call me at 660-229-4525.


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Get excited as Su Qian SID Import and Export Co; Ltd creates a series of events this year. The company is working on their latest greenhouse films to offer their value customers. Get excited as Su Qian SID Import and Export Co; Ltd creates a series of events this year. The company is working on their latest greenhouse films to offer their value customers. Make the most of your money this 2017 with their advanced PVC film and other valuable products that they sell.
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Had it been built, its spiral steel frame would have stood taller than the Eiffel Tower, at that time the world's tallest manmade structure, by some 91m (299 ft). And its record as the world's tallest building would have gone unsurpassed for over half a century, until the construction of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, which opened for business in 1973.
The Monument to the Third International, otherwise known as Tatlin's Tower, was designed in 1919 by Russian artist and architect Vladimir Tatlin, following the October Revolution of 1917. It was a revolutionary design.
Tatlin and an assistant stand before a model of his unrealised Monument to the Third International (Credit: Alamy)
The steel frame would contain three glass units: a cube, a cylinder and a cone. These would rotate once a year, once a month and once a day respectively, and house a conference hall, a legislative chamber and an information and propaganda centre for the Third Communist International (also known as the Comintern – the organisation that advocated world communism). It would stand at just over 396 m (1,306 ft). But for reasons of cost (Russia was bankrupt and in the middle of a civil war) and practicality (was its realisation even structurally possible, and where, after all, would they get all that steel?) this staggeringly audacious symbol of modernity was never built. We encounter it today through photographs of the original model, long destroyed, and through reconstructions.
The artist's mission was to create work for the benefit of the people and for making a new society
Tatlin was a radical avant-garde artist before the Bolsheviks seized power: rather more modest in scale were his pre-Revolution wood and metal constructions, which he called 'counter-reliefs', and which overturned traditional notions of sculpture. But Tatlin would soon become the chief proponent of a revolutionary art whose purpose was to support the utopian ideal of the Soviet state. A new kind of art, which forcefully rejected the past, for a new world that would look only to the future. It came to be known as Constructivism, and as an avant-garde force it co-existed alongside the Suprematism of Kazimir Malevich (whose astonishing Black Square of 1915 presented an end-point in painting) and his protégé El Lissitzky.
El Lissitzky's Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge symbolises the Red Army penetrating the defences of the anti-communist and imperialist forces (Credit: Alamy)
The brilliant geometric abstraction of Suprematism transformed easel painting into the most radical expression of pure form and colour, but it was Lissitzky who put it most dynamically at the service of the state. His 1919 lithograph Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, can hardly be more politically charged. The red wedge penetrates the white circle, which symbolises the Red Army penetrating the defences of the anti-communist and imperialist forces of the White Army. This early work cleverly plays with negative and positive space and anticipates a group of architectonic paintings, drawings and sketches that Lissitzky called 'Prouns' (an acronym for 'project for the affirmation of the new' in Russian) which lifted the flatness of Suprematism into the three-dimensional visual plane. It was, incidentally, this work that inspired the name of Red Wedge, a 1980s British group of Labour Party-supporting musician-activists, headed by Billy Bragg.
Children of the revolution
When we think of the art and design of the first decade of the Soviet Union, we usually think only of these groundbreaking figures, designers and artists who also included Lyubov Popova, a painter who soon called for the abandonment of 'bourgeois' easel painting, declaring that the artist's mission was to create work for the benefit of the people and for making a new society. And we think too of perhaps the greatest photographer, graphic designer and typographer of the era, Alexander Rodchenko. Rodchenko's 1924 advertising image for a Soviet publisher, in which the model Lilya Brik gives the siren call 'Books!', with one hand cupped to her mouth and with the word written in bold Cyrillic type, is probably the single best known image in Soviet art history.
In Rodchenko's famous design from 1924, the model Lilya Brik gives the siren call 'knigi', the Russian word for 'books' (Credit: Alamy)
Yet many styles and movements coexisted in those first few post-Revolutionary years. But you wouldn't necessarily know this since curators in the west have long been interested only in the radical aesthetics of the Russian avant-garde, while happily underplaying the politics that underpinned it – shying away from its narratives, in other words – in order to highlight the work's purely formal aspects. This is, to be fair, also the fate of religious or spiritual works of art (esoteric spiritual beliefs, for instance, run through the story of modernism). We appear content to render these works all painterly surface and form and to largely ignore the things that no longer speak directly to us.
In this centenary year of the October Revolution, an exhibition at London's Royal Academy, Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932, seeks to act as a corrective. In this vast, sprawling and sobering exhibition we're confronted by artists, many little-known outside Russia, who worked in a range of styles to promote the newly fledged Soviet state. Here the traditional overwhelms the new, the figurative trounces the abstract. And very early on we see a nascent Socialist Realism, an idealised figurative style in which the worker achieves heroic status as he or she helps build a socialist utopia, alongside 19th-Century-style realist portraits of Lenin and Stalin. Lenin, who died in 1924, was avowedly conservative in artistic matters, and had begun to feel sure that avant-gardism would alienate the proletariat.
Flame snuffed out
So here, for example, is a large model of a bronze sculpture, which, like Tatlin's Tower, was never realised as a finished work. It is a faintly Cubo-Futurist homage to Yakov Sverdlov, featuring the late Bolshevik official who died of the flu pandemic in 1918 (some historians now believe it was under Sverdlov's direct orders that the exiled Romanovs were murdered). Though it pays a kind of lip-service to modernism, all the romanticised elements of Socialist Realism are already in place: Sverdlov holds aloft a torch, a cloak swirls about his heavy-set limbs, his hair is swept back and his head thrust forward, as if he is pushing against the ferocious winds of resistance with determined courage.
Vera Mukhina's Flame of the Revolution was never finally realised, but the designs remain and a scaled-down version can be found in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (Credit: Alamy)
Mukhina later became the premier female Socialist Realist sculptor under Stalin, winning numerous medals and awards and making the triumphal Worker and Kolkhoz Woman for the 1937 Paris World Fair, where it faced down the Nazi Pavilion's equally monumental imperial eagle. A hammer and sickle held aloft by the pair replaces the torch. By then Mukhina's has left behind all vestiges of the avant-garde.
By the mid-20s, the Soviet state was already looking back over its triumphs in an effort at national mythmaking
By the mid-20s, with Lenin gone, the Soviet state was already looking back over its revolutionary triumphs in an effort at national mythmaking. Among much that was crassly formulaic, Alexander Deineka was actually among the most surprisingly gifted of the Socialist Realists. Despite its very obvious propaganda value, there is something almost strange and lyrical about his best known work, The Defence of Petrograd, from 1928, which looks back to the civil war and to October 1919, when the White Army had reached the city. Frieze-like, we see exhausted soldiers trudging across an upper-level platform, while below, striding confidently in the other direction, are the sturdy workers, the heroes of the Revolution, who've been newly armed and are ready to die for the state.
But the spirit of radical experimentation that had ignited earlier abstract artists was coming to a halt. By the early 1930s Stalin had begun his deadly clampdown on the avant-garde, forcing Rodchenko and Malevich among many others, to renounce their 'formalist' ways. In this poisonous atmosphere, artists, writers and filmmakers had their work heavily censored, their output micromanaged from above. If they were to avoid the gulag there was no choice but to comply. With Socialist Realism now the only officially sanctioned art, the tremendously dynamic avant-garde spirit that had guided these groundbreaking artists was sadly short-lived.
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New Delhi, Jul 25: Power equipment maker BHEL on Wednesday posted about 93 per cent jump in standalone net profit to Rs 1.55 billion in the first quarter of the current financial year on higher revenues.
Its net profit was Rs 808.2 million in the April-June quarter of last financial year, 2017-18, the company said in BSE filing.
BHEL's total income in the first quarter of 2018-19 rose to Rs 61.1 billion, as against Rs 59.80 billion a year ago.
It recorded a turnover of Rs 57.9 billion, as against Rs 53.55 billion, an increase of over 8 per cent.
"Concerted efforts resulted in the order book to increase by two-and-a-half times to Rs 43.71 billion, compared to Rs 17.44 billion in the corresponding quarter last year," BHEL Chairman and Managing Director Atul Sobti said.
He said this has been made possible through prudent strategies of accelerated execution, cost control and resource optimization measures.
The next wave of growth is being engineered with a focus on enhancing the order book in diversified as well as conventional areas, coupled with efforts to further enhance the executable order book, he added.
"Prudent strategies of garnering a higher market share in a shrunken and highly competitive business environment have also paid rich dividends and BHEL has a total order book of around Rs 1.17 trillion, at the end of the first quarter of the current financial year," he said.
BHEL's revenue from the power segment during the quarter under review increased to Rs 46.36 billion, from 43.35 billion a year ago.
The other industry segment revenue was Rs 11.53 billion in the quarter compared to Rs 12.71 billion year ago.


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Impact of mismatch Guest OS type
December 15, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments
Hi, I have moved this blog to the new site frankdenneman.nl.
The new home for this article is: http://frankdenneman.nl/2009/12/impact-of-mismatch-guest-os-type/
Apologies for the inconvenience!
Categories: VMware GOS, Guest OS Type, MMU, PowerCLI
December 15, 2009 at 3:07 pm
A small edit to the one-liner: where { $_.Guest.GuestFullname -ne $_.Summary.Config.GuestFullName }
Now it will only display the VMs with a Guest OS mismatch.
December 23, 2009 at 8:35 pm
I think the column headings "SelectedOS" and "InstalledOS" in the output are reversed?
January 16, 2010 at 12:47 pm


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They say good things come in threes – and that's definitely been the case in our latest batch of computer testing, as we found a trio of Best Buy Windows 10 laptops.
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An all-in-one PC we tested fared even worse. Its ugly display and sluggish processor meant that it was so bad that we were compelled to 'award' it a Which? Don't Buy label.
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Asus Transformer Book Flip TP200 – £250
Lenovo IdeaPad 300S – £230
Lenovo IdeaPad 300 – £450
Lenovo IdeaPad 500S – £600
Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 260 – £889
Lenovo G70 – £400
Toshiba Satellite P70 – £900
Toshiba Satellite P50 – £1,100
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Acer Aspire Z1-602 – £330
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It was Canada Day this past weekend. This may get a little patriotic. Sorry.
Design Canada
A documentary on Canadian design that Jon was able to catch an early screening of
1972 team Canada hockey jersey
Looking back on the design of the Team Canada hockey jersey, created for the 1972 Summit Series, by John Lloyd
Heather Cooper
Designer of the Roots logo, alongside other iconic Canadian logos & illustrations
A forthcoming documentary exploring the life & work of the legendary, German designer, Dieter Rams
Jon Klassen
Canadian author & illustrator who helped fund Design Canada, his book I Want My Hat Back is a favourite in the Edwards' household
Julie Kraulis
Another Canadian children's book author & illustrator who has recently made a splash on the watch scene with her incredible, large scale pencil drawings of iconic timepieces


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David Kelley's work is dedicated to helping people gain confidence in their creative abilities. He employs a project based methodology called Design Thinking within both the Product Design Program and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.
Design Thinking is based on building empathy for user needs, developing solutions with iterative prototyping, and inspiring ideas for the future through storytelling.
The Product Design program emphasizes the blending of engineering innovation, human values, and manufacturing concerns into a single curriculum. Kelley teaches engineering design methodology, the techniques of quick prototyping to prove feasibility, and design through understanding of user needs.
Academic Appointments
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Honors & Awards
Chrysler Design Award, Chrysler (2000)
National Design Award, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum (2001)
Sir Misha Black Medal, Royal College of Art (2005)
Edison Award, Edison Electric Institute (2009)
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
Member, National Academy of Engineering (2000 - Present)
Professional Education
MS, Stanford University, Product Design (1978)
BS, Carnegie-Mellon University, Electrical Engineering (1973)
Additional Info
2019-20 Courses
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ME 316A (Aut)
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ME 35SI (Win)
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ME 115A (Aut)
Independent Studies (10)
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ME 391 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
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ME 191 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
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ME 392 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
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2018-19 Courses
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ME 312 (Spr)
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ME 115A (Aut)
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ME 200 (Spr)
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ME 316A (Aut)
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ME 316B (Win)
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ME 316C (Spr)
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Reclaim Your Creative Confidence
2012; 90 (12): 115-?
Most people are born creative. But over time, a lot of us learn to stifle those impulses. We become warier of judgment, more cautious more analytical. The world seems to divide into "creatives" and "noncreatives," and too many people resign themselves to the latter category. And yet we know that creativity is essential to success in any discipline or industry. The good news, according to authors Tom Kelley and David Kelley of IDEO, is that we all can rediscover our creative confidence. The trick is to overcome the four big fears that hold most of us back: fear of the messy unknown, fear of judgment, fear of the first step, and fear of losing control. The authors use an approach based on the work of psychologist Albert Bandura in helping patients get over their snake phobias: You break challenges down into small steps and then build confidence by succeeding on one after another. Creativity is something you practice, say the authors, not just a talent you are born with.
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Going Below the Surface E-Newsletter: March 2019
March 20, 2019
This month, we dig deeper on two things we never seem to have enough of: time and high-quality data. We know that some of these conversations might spark some fierce debates, but we welcome dialogue on health care spending. It's important to have difficult conversations so that we can find common ground on solutions. Drop us a line or tweet using #GoingBelowTheSurface.
When we talk about health care resources, it's usually in terms of money or expenditures. But there's another important resource that we haven't addressed in this space before, and that's time. For patients facing terminal diagnoses, time is a precious resource. Two studies (see here and here) and an editorial in JAMA Oncology explore why physicians should discuss important time-related topics with patients sooner, without causing harm, and with potential benefit. The studies found that in the field of oncology, these conversations significantly decreased the rates of anxiety and depression symptoms experienced among patients. These discussions may also have a positive impact on a patient's care and the trajectory of the illness.
Why It Matters: Patients want to have these difficult conversations with their physicians and can benefit from them. The studies found that while these discussions were useful, physicians still have work to do in making sure that treatment plans mesh with patient goals and peacefulness.
What we spend on health care is important, but how we spend our time matters, too.
All research data have limitations, and failing to pay heed to those limitations can not only mislead or confuse, but – even worse – send policymakers chasing the wrong solution. A case in point: the January Health Affairs paper by Inmaculada Hernandez et al. that attempted to assess what drives the cost of pharmaceuticals, but used only list prices.
In a response in Health Affairs this month, NPC Chief Science Officer Robert W. Dubois, MD, PhD, takes a closer look at the potentially far-reaching conclusions drawn from the study's narrow analysis.
Dubois' takeaway message: "Researchers must be careful not to extend their analysis or the implications they draw from it beyond the limits of their data."
Why it Matters: Today's environment requires thoughtful consideration into the way that we evaluate and communicate research. Going beyond the questions that we ask in our analyses of data runs the risk of misinforming the conversation around drug prices – and, more broadly, health spending. More importantly, it's also a time when we must engage in sometimes difficult dialogues around research methods and outcomes. In response to Dr. Dubois' rebuttal, original author Hernandez shared her thoughts on the limitations and critiques of her analyses. Disagreements in research will always exist, but so do solutions, and that's what Going Below The Surface is all about.
It was hard to choose just a handful of articles this month, as there were a number that took a deeper dive on the drivers of health care spending in the commercial sectors and public programs like Medicare, whether we should consider "rationing" a dirty word, and how we value curative therapies. If the articles below can't quench your thirst on this topic, then we recommend checking out Health Affairs' Considering Health Spending series, featuring provocative dialogues on health spending. (Note: the series is supported by NPC and Anthem, Inc.)
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Is it safe to say that Abandoned is a musical continuation of Letters Home?
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A lot people were expecting the new album to be about the mother of the fictional family that you write about, but you threw us a curveball with the preacher character. Was that something you decided to do early on?
DEREK ARCHAMBAULT: We started talking about doing a record about this character probably in 2009. It started as just an idea for an EP, born out of a late-night conversation while on tour, but it eventually developed into an LP, and the twists and turns that I put in the story are things I've been sitting on since we started talking about doing the record in the first place.
In some ways Defeater is too hardcore for the emo kids, and not hardcore enough for the tough-guy hardcore scene. You've always balanced your sound.
MAAS: I would totally agree. Jake and I share a lot of musical tastes; we like a lot of the same types of hardcore bands, but we also like a ton of indie rock and more melodic stuff, so that definitely shines through, particularly on the new record where we took it further into dark, eerie, post-rockdom sometimes. The rest of the guys probably like hardcore more than Jake and I do, but when we started the band we set out that we didn't want to be a "hardcore" band. We have an acoustic song right in the middle of the first record we ever did. It's nice because we can just write whatever we want, and I find that to be really exciting because I don't have to ever say, "Now it should go into a two-step." We don't have to do that.
JAKE WOODRUFF: The dark subject matter of this record gave us more of a chance than the last records to explore this noisier, eerier side of Defeater, and we all had a lot of fun doing that.
I get the sense that you guys are perfectionists when you are recording?
MAAS: Perfection is a subjective term when it comes to recording or anything else. There's mechanical perfection, which is perfectly on time, but that doesn't really make a perfect artistic product. I know I have a vision in mind for what I want the record to sound like, and these guys would probably confirm that I torture myself trying to get it there. But sometimes that means that guitars can sound loose; they should sound exciting. There are couple of songs on Abandoned where I just picked up the guitar and played the songs from beginning to end, and that's just the guitar track. And with Joey [Longobardi], a lot of the drums went in one or two takes. At this point in the band, we are pretty aware of what we want the final product to feel and be like, so it's easier to steer your ship there if you already know where you're going.
What are some of the artists that you were inspired by over the years, and especially when you went in to record this album?
ARCHAMBAULT: We all pull from such different things that there can't just be a list of bands. And it's not just music that influences these records; there's literature, films… there's bits of my actual family history here. As for bands that we all find common ground with, it's a pretty long list and definitely not anything that we ever sit down and say, "Oh, we want to sound like this band." The things that happen most naturally are the things that end up on the records. And the musical influence that's gotten us into bands in the first place is still on these records. Growing up in the mid-to-late '90s in the New England punk scene, there were a million bands that brought us here. And I don't think we're the first band to tow that line, like you said, too hardcore for the emo kids, and vice versa. Especially in New England when we were growing up and going to hardcore shows, we had bands like Converge and Bane and so many bands that were doing what we do now, and they set a template for us.
How do you feel that you've progressed on this new album?
WOODRUFF: With every record, each person gets better at knowing their role in the band and knowing the strengths of the other people. So we just get to go further in the direction of whatever our particular job is in the band, while also being able to suggest things for the other dudes to do, and that comes across as a more cohesive, and in this case, a noisier, angrier record.
ARCHAMBAULT: With this one, especially with all of us being involved from the start, the last two records just feel more like a band. And because we don't get together and practice all of the time, we hardly get to see each other outside of touring because we all live all over the place now, but these last two records we've taken the opportunity to bounce ideas and suggestions off each other. And we let our strengths—and weaknesses—take over and shine.
WOODRUFF: There were more than a few times recording Abandoned that either me or Jay wouldn't know what to do for the next part, but we'd have an idea for what the other person could play. There was one part where Jay said, "Just go in there with a reverb pedal and start messing around," and I totally didn't hear it at all until I started playing along to the song.
What does it mean to be in this band, and how does it affect your lives?
ARCHAMBAULT: Not to sound ridiculous, but, this band is our life at this point. When we are playing live, or when we are writing or recording, we're just five friends having a lot of fun doing it, but at the same time it's incredibly cathartic and we get to be in places like Moscow, Russia, where we are right now, and living out our childhood dreams. This band is exactly what I think all of us wanted to do, right when we were picking up instruments for the first time, and we're able to create the music that we actually really want to create, and we're able to tour the world with our friends. We've met so many amazing people and we get to play our hearts out every night and connect with the same kinds of kids that we were at their age. This is our life.
How did writing Abandoned change you?
ARCHAMBAULT: I don't think it's really changed anything for me.
WOODRUFF: This was just a chance to top what we did last time for Letters Home.
MAAS: Yeah, I think everyone in the band would probably agree that we always try to outdo ourselves, in one way or another. Like, not saying that we're fucking cool guys or anything, but, yeah, make it different, make it that much more… Defeater.
ARCHAMBAULT: Don't print that. [Laughs.] S
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pretty straightforward cutting boards. the first developed an almost 3d look because of the grains in the poplar and maple wood
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#1 posted 04-17-2018 03:54 PM
Very nice looking work!
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#2 posted 04-18-2018 10:22 AM
sometimes simple can be quite wonderful. Your first board struck me as quite appealing and colorful. Yet it is only 2 woods. This board comes off as complex, yet it is not. I like it.
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Super Bowl Sunday, a most glorious day of the year. Football, friends, and copious amounts of food highlight the annual American "holiday".
And, of course, the biggest brands in the world look to take advantage of all those watching eyes with powerful advertising that leave a memorable impact on viewers.
America's wireless carriers ran multiple commercials during the 5 hour event and, boy, were they ever memorable. As always, the focus was on how awful the other carriers are, as opposed to what makes their own service great.
While Sprint decided to play it safer with not-so-subtle digs at its competition, T-Mobile went all-in on the weird.
❤ you @Kristenschaaled but if you want the pain of overages, @Verizon can provide lots of it. #TMobileONE =no pain! #TheSafeWordisUnlimited pic.twitter.com/7MiwtbnuCN— T-Mobile📱 (@TMobile) February 5, 2017
Yah, you definitely saw that. That was T-Mobile comparing Verizon's overage fees to BDSM.
And they weren't done there. T-Mobile and comedian Kristen Schaal were intent on making this the theme of the night.
Overages from @Verizon are like little scoldings on my bill. @TMobile are you gonna get tough with me? #TheSafeWordisUnlimited— Kristen Schaal (@kristenschaaled) February 6, 2017
Hoo boy.
After two direct attacks, Verizon felt the need to defend themselves from the onslaught.
Yes @Tmobile, we're into BDSM. Bigger coverage map, Devastating Speed, and Massive capacity.— Verizon (@verizon) February 6, 2017
While everyone else was thinking this would be a great place to end this forever, T-Mobile trucked right on with an even longer ad.
Think you've had too much? Are you close to being finished… with limits? You won't get punished with #TMobileONE #TheSafeWordisUnlimited pic.twitter.com/k1KhRawIML— T-Mobile📱 (@TMobile) February 6, 2017
You got it out of your system now guys? I think we can simply call this a draw an-
Unfortunately no one will hear your safe word if you're on @Tmobile. 🤐— Verizon (@verizon) February 6, 2017
Alllllrighty then.
This would continue on throughout the evening. I'll spare you the rest.
So, is there anything we can actually learn from this?
Boundaries have blurred, and may not even exist anymore
A topic like BDSM has been, at the very least, an extremely private one. For others, it's very much still considered taboo. Most brands would never dream of touching such a polarizing topic. It's hardly something you would bring up in front of a global audience of tens of millions to sell wireless services.
And yet, here we are.
Since the rise of social media, brands have been constantly searching for ways to appear more human. They've been taking sides in politics, getting involved in social issues, and making silly jokes at every opportunity.
And as the world becomes more open about a wide variety of topics, including sexuality, it was only a matter of time before brands ventured deeper into this fray as well. Making polarizing stances seems to be the new norm.
But is this what consumers really want?
There's no denying these ads made a huge impact. The tweets went viral, and many publishers wrote about the exchange the following day. Many in a negative light, however.
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But the reaction on social media varied widely. Some found it funny, others were confused, and still others were simply disgusted.
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Young Thug Drops 'Carter 6' Album Cover
Sooooo let's not ignore how Young Thug wants to be Lil Wayne so bad. So bad in fact, that he has released the cover art for his upcoming album Carter 6. To make matters worse, or better depending on how you see it, he's naked on the cover. Cool. Album is set to drop April 17th. We can't even right now, but to each his own. Good luck ThuggerThug.


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The impact of race within the American criminal justice system has seen long-term debate and has been studied by numerous social scientists. This dissertation examines the criminal justice system by analyzing data created by the Tennessee courts to determine whether race impacts the administration of Tennessee's death penalty. This dissertation examines whether race impacts the overall administration of Tennessee's death penalty, a Tennessee prosecutor's decision to seek death, and a Tennessee jury's decision to impose death. The impact of race at each stage is analyzed by logistic regression to isolate the defendant's race, the victim's race, and the racial interaction between them. Prior empirical research shows black defendants whose victims are white are more likely to receive death than white defendants whose victims are white. Prior research shows defendants whose victims are white, regardless of the race of the defendant, are more likely to receive death than when victims are black.
The regression analyses reveal after controlling for heinousness of crime and the defendant's dangerousness that race is not a predictive factor in whether defendants are sentenced to death in the overall application of the death penalty. The findings show that white victim murders, irrespective of the defendant's race, have slight predictive power in whether prosecutors seek the death penalty, but white victim cases have the least predictive power of all variables that impact prosecutorial decisions. Murders involving black defendants and white victims, irrespective of their racial relationship, decrease the likelihood a jury will return a death sentence. When testing the racial interaction of defendants and victims, the only relationship that is a significant predictor in the Tennessee death penalty are murders with white defendants and white victims. Based on qualitative data from interviews with Knox County criminal court judges, this can be explained by heinousness of crime.
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Wagers, Kristin Amber, "The Tennessee Death Penalty: Prosecutors, Juries and the Impact of Race. " PhD diss., University of Tennessee, 2010.


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Okay, there's a lot of things that are considered odd about the now defunct alternative hip hop group. Their music videos, their sense of humor, their leader Tyler – the list can go on and on. But, we're not here to talk about that today.
Today we're just going to acknowledge and celebrate the enrichment OFWGKTA brought to all of our lives. The Grammy winning, sexually liberated genius of Frank Ocean. The musical enchantment of The Internet and the creative mastermind that is Tyler. Let's not forget about the hilarity of "Loiter Squad" and . You may have been in love with Odd Future all of this time and not even known it.
Check out some of the great moments from the Odd Future gang below:
Tyler, The Creator feat. Frank Ocean – "She"
The stalkerish video seems somewhat romantic with the silky vocals from Frank and the playful (I hope) lyrics from Tyler. The video is kind of dark, but has a good storyline, so make this one of the first tracks you check out if you're new to the Odd Future gang.
Frank Ocean – "Pyramids"
The standout track from Franks' debut album, Pyramids is 9 minutes long and not one second is disappointing. The lyrics and stellar production is the epitome of the quality and what fans have come to expect from Odd Future members.
The Internet – "Dontcha"
The Internet is smooth funk reborn. Syd the Kids silky voice adds to the already mellow sounds from the band and takes you on an out of this world experience. The Internet may be slightly different than what OFWGKTA fans may be used to, but they are game changers nonetheless. Enjoy their music with a glass of wine (or whatever your poison) and a special person in your life.
Earl Sweatshirt – "Whoa"
Earl is straight hip hop. Clever lyrics, honest emotion and self-produced beats. Earl may be what the game has been missing –authenticity. "Whoa" is a good track to start with to get yourself acquainted with the man himself.
Odd Future has spawned avant garde musicians who take their own roads and give a damn about what other artists are doing. If you have been wondering where all of the creativity has gone from music today, it may be time for you check out the Wolf Gang.


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As I was reading my new favorite newspaper, The National Enquirer, I was amazed to learn of former Vice President, Oscar winner and Nobel Laureate, Al Gore's sex scandal. Yeah, those words do not seem to go together, but there you have it. Sex scandal. I have to get out of this town. Power makes strange bedfellows.
My Mother Told Me.My mother like most everyone else was shocked that the Gore's were separating. She was convinced that there was a sex scandal. I like an idiot believed the joint Gore statement. Let that be a lesson to everyone. Mother is always right.
Sometime in 2006, a licensed masseuse was hired to give "Mr. Stone" a massage in room 903 of the Hotel Lucia. Well, "Mr. Stone" turned out to be former Vice President Al Gore. I suppose famous people use fake names to protect their privacy when traveling. Sound, right?
The timeline is a little off. The alleged incident occurred at 11 PM on October 24, 2006. Initially the alleged victim refused to file a report. Then early 2009, she agreed to a taped interview. Before I go on, I would like to give a shout out to the Smoking Gun. Whenever you find stories like these, The Smoking Gun almost always has the original documents. From the Portland Police Bureau, there is a 67-page transcript of the interview dated January 8, 2009. Now, I assume sometime this year, the alleged victim tried to sell her story to The National Enquirer for $1M. The fact that the victim shared various documents with The National Enquirer is the only reason why the Portland Police Bureau is confirming the report. The police department as is the case across the country does not discuss sex crime investigations but made an exception in this case "because of the high-profile nature of this case and the fact that the woman involved provided reports to a media outlet."
You Must Read the Transcript.I carefully read the transcript and must say that I found the alleged victim's prepared statement believable. She is 54 and has 12 years of experience as a masseuse. It is clear to me that she is a stickler for the rules and seems to really care about building her business. That is not an easy feat, especially in this economy.
There were some warning signs. Apparently wanting to have your adductor muscle (inside thigh) massaged is a warning sign. It may give a guy an involuntary erection. I wonder what it does for women. I must try it tonight. Having the abdominal area can also be a red flag. It is very easy to go too low. According to the masseuse while Al Gore's abdominal muscles were being massaged he asked her to go lower …lower …lower! Then came the moaning. Asking for a little clarity, Al Gore allegedly grabbed her hand and planted it on his "public crest region". In all my years of phone sex calls, I have never heard of such an area. Then it gets a little weird …an embrace, chocolates, alcohol.
I don't know about the rest of it. I am 5'4'' and 115 pounds soak and wet. If a guy is acting inappropriately, don't care who the guy is, I am the hell out of there. You can always get new business but your sense of self and feeling safe is very hard to recoup once lost.
Oh, one last thing, she kept her pants – unlaundered. There may be Al Gore juices on them.


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I had my pelvic ultrasound this morning (which got rescheduled because we had icy weather). The CRNP tried to call me this afternoon, but I was at my breast ultrasound. By the time I got home the office was closed. The tech confirmed the big fibroid (not surprising) and a thickened uterine lining (also not surprising considering my history). She did confirm that no impingement on my kidneys or anything, so that was good. The question is, what does the CRNP want to do next. No clue.
I went out to the Boob Mapping this afternoon. Once again, I had to sit around and wait for my appointment. At least it was only 20 minutes this time, in comparison to almost 45 minutes last time. The tech had me change into the gown and she took me into the ultrasound room. When she was setting me up, I asked her if she had a roadmap for where she wanted to go and she said YEP. But that was pretty much all the small talk I got. And because of the location of the machine and how I was lying on the gurney, I couldn't see a damn thing on the screen. She concentrated on a couple of places on each side of each breast, goop going everywhere. Then she handed me a small towel, told me I could "clean up" and said, "You can lay there or sit there or whatever. Be back!" and she left the room.
If you are reading this and you are a radiology tech…take the extra minute to explain WTF is going on. I had no idea where she went or why, or how long she'd be gone. I was left sitting in this tiny, stifling, darkened room. Alone. With a blank machine and only my imagination. I finally realized on my own that they must have been having a doctor review the ultrasound. But I had no idea how long that was supposed to take. Why were they taking so long? Why was no one telling me what was happening? Was a doctor going to talk to me? If a doctor came into the room with the tech was that good or bad? Seriously, one extra minute of the tech's time would have given me 10 minutes of less stress if I had understood what was happening. I tried to do deep breathing but the room was so small and so stuffy that I couldn't do it.
Finally, the door opened and the tech came in with another person, who introduced himself as a doctor. Was that good or bad that he came in? Routine? Bad news? WHAT?! I felt like my heart was going to jump out of my throat and I wanted to scream. If the tech had told me this was routine, I might have heard everything that was said, you know?
Luckily, the doctor explained that one side of one breast was denser than the other breast, which was the reason for the ultrasound on that side. They found nothing concerning. The reason for the ultrasound on the other side was that the mammo picked up something and they wanted to see it better. He said between the mammo and the ultrasound, they feel strongly that it is a cyst (fluid-filled, he said — I said I seemed prone to cysts, since I have a long history of sebaceous cysts…he seemed uninterested). Benign. Nothing to worry about. Everything looks clear, he said. He asked my age, asked if this was my first mammo, and then told me they'd see me in a year. Nothing to follow-up on before then. He smiled and told me to have a good evening. I thanked him and tried not to be to profuse about it. The tech directed me back to the dressing room and told me to have a good day. I rushed to get dressed and went out to find Hub. I told him all seemed clear.
Then when we got home I had the voice mail from the CRNP at the gyno. Since it was from 3pm, I knew it wasn't about my breast ultrasound because I hadn't even been called back at that point. She only told me to call back, no other clue.
In the meantime, last night, I slept NOT AT ALL. I had a small panic attack, mostly because I felt like my heart was going too fast and was too loud. I couldn't lie down. I couldn't rest. I tried really hard to meditate with deep breathing, which I feel like I was actually able to do. But as soon as I stopped breathing and tried to lie down to go to sleep, my heart started pounding again. I started worrying that I was having an arrhythmia, because I felt like my heart wouldn't slow down. So I had to be up at 6:30 this morning to get ready for my first test, and by 5am I was still awake. I dozed off for about an hour, then was awake. At 6:30 the doctor's office called to reschedule my first test because of the icy roads. I dozed again from about 7-8am, then I was awake. It was a sucky night and I feel exhausted. I hope to make tonight a better night.
Tomorrow it's my brother's colonoscopy and my father's acupuncture appointment.


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Whispers, for jadzialove
Title: Whispers
Author: klynie1
Giftee: jadzialove
Word Count: About 22,500 words
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Harry Potter/Severus Snape
Warnings: * DH spoilers; rimming; light spanking with a tiny bit of bondage; implied voyeurism involving nearly the entire wizarding world; happy ending*
Disclaimer: Harry Potter, Severus Snape and all associated characters from the Harry Potter universe are the property of J.K. Rowling and those to whom she has licensed her creations, including without limitation Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books, Raincoat Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No copyright infringement is intended. The author is making no profit from this story.
A note to Jadzialove: I hope that you like this, sweetie. There's a bond (well, kind of) and Harry obsessing about finding Snape (in a way) and Snape successfully doing something unexpected for a living (er, sort of). I can promise lots of extra-smutty NC-17 wanking, rimming, light bondage, a smidgeon of light spanking, a snarky top!Snape, an equally snarky first-time!Harry and a distinct lack of mpreg, crying, dying and breeding. Oh, and a happy ending. Pretty much happy, anyway, except for Seamus Finnigan, and he may actually deserve what he gets (at least in Harry's opinion), so that's not so bad, is it?
A/N Much love and many thanks to E, who inspired the Float-o-Magic as well as made sure that this story was reasonably coherent, and to my other amazing beta, B -- both brilliant writers at whose dainty toes I humbly worship. All remaining mistakes are mine. And finally, thank you chiralove and faynia for putting together such a fantastic fest!
Summary: Auror Harry Potter infiltrates "Whispers" – a Slytherin-owned gay wizarding sex club – to uncover a Galleon laundering scheme.
( Whispers )