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At Bwog, we know that not all Columbia students are the same. And we know that most people's classroom experiences are not the same. What we wanted to find out was just how different they can be. So, in a form of cruel experimentation, we sent an English major to an engineering lecture, and an engineer to an English class. This is what happened.
An engineering student attends a lecture on James Joyce's Ulysses…
Full disclosure: I have an unfair advantage because I read the first four pages of Ulysses two summers ago. Someone was shaving or something…
Anyway, when I walked into the classroom, I was pleasantly surprised that it was brightly lit. And didn't smell like armpit. There was a shockingly large number of people over the age of 60. I'm not entirely sure why they feel that returning to school in pursuit of an English degree is the best use of their waning time or money, but hey. Oddly, most of the students are female. So this is where they've been hiding.
I was midway through counting the number of people wearing scarves (~18) when the class began. As the professor began discussing the assigned chapter, which she referred to as Circe even though it's 15 (apparently English majors really don't like numbers), things got real. The prof quite persistently made references to The Odyssey. The word "unknowability" was used. A potato was discussed. Potatoes are Irish, so I guess that makes sense. There was talk of mirrors and the theme of "sight," which past experience tells me is a theme in every written work ever.
The Circe/15 chapter is notable because it is in the form of a play (a play within a novel—madness!) and because it is more than slightly sexual. The professor began putting slides of naked women up on the projector, presumably because English majors are sexy. This discussion of sexual deviance and fetishes went on for some time, and the word "sex" was likely uttered more times than it has been in Mudd throughout the building's existence.
Because sex is not abstract enough for a humanities lecture, the professor then posed two questions: "What does it mean to finish something?" and "Do details matter?" After elaborating on the questions, she launched into a discussion of time (but not before uttering the phrase "individualized psychic phenomena," which I won't even try to unpack). During the discussion of Time, it was questioned whether we can apply actual chronological sense to things that have occurred in the past (or is it all just the same, taking space inside our heads?) and if anything exists other than the present. This didn't seem to jive with my limited knowledge of general relativity, but I wasn't about to ask questions.
These mini discussions were bending my empirical mind in strange ways, and what was weirder was the fact that the class seemed to be enjoyable, both to me (I'll admit) and to the regular attendees. After it ended, I reflected that I couldn't remember the last time I found a lecture genuinely enjoyable. I chuckled, and then walked out the door. I had a problem set to do.
An English major walks into an operating systems class…..
The rooms of Mudd don't have adequate lighting. This upsets me. As we take our awkward side seats (most suitable for surreptitiously texting), I am reliably informed by the SEAS contingent of Bwog that this class has something to do with memory. I know memory! Memory is important in Ulysses! It's a theme!
It smells a little funky in here. Might be the lack of proper air circulation and lighting. I am one of maybe 3 girls in here. The professor's wearing a microphone?! This doesn't happen in English lectures; the professor's voice just naturally rises in enthusiasm for parallax! WOW: not one but TWO projector screens. Oh god what if he sees my look of bewilderment and knows I'm not supposed to be here?
First incomprehensible phrase uttered. What's a multilevel paging scheme? At least they're talking about pages. This is so familiar. I read pages too.
Hold on.
Oh. Not the same kind of page.
After a few moments of careful deliberation, I am reasonably confident that we're talking about web pages. I'm starting to see that engineering works by taking normal, everyday words like flag and bit and doing terrible things to their original meaning. Hehe, "dirty bit." The pgd seems really important, as does the pte. BUT WHAT DO THEY STAND FOR?
25 minutes in and still don't really know what a page is. Also: what da fuq is segmentation.
Programs! Codes! Now we get into the nitty gritty. Here goes…… What? I didn't even understand that enough to write it down phonetically. And now the professor's so excited he's actually showing facial expressions! With enough scary words floating around, I turn my attention to people watching. Everyone's more polite about their lack of attention than in humanities lectures. The funky smell is kind of gross now. Oh, SEAS contingent is taking notes, this must be important. Virtual AND physical addresses? RAM?? Wait I know what RAM is from that time my computer was threatening to shut down on me. So we're talking about computers! Aha.
The sum total of my knowledge so far: we are talking about computers, which maybe (?) have pages that I don't think are like pages in a book. Their size is important. RAM. Memory is also important. You use charts to learn things about pages. Linux. There's a victim now! So much personification. Is the victim dirty? I'm confused. Lots of sudden diligent note-taking. Apparently you want different kinds of storage. This seems to relate to money. Ahhhh, money. Jobs. A sense of contentment.
OKAY COME ON NOW HE'S JUST DRAWING SCRIBBLES. THIS IS BULLSHIT, HE JUST SCRIBBLED A FREAKING PENTACLE. I think he just admitted these scribbles aren't supposed to make sense. AND NOW THERE'S TIME TRAVEL. HOLY SHIT. ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TIME TRAVEL FINALLY??? Awww, we're not.
I can feel the restlessness climbing as it gets closer to 11:25. The sun is starting to shine into the room. Even the sleepers have woken; all classes are really the same during the last three minutes. This has sufficiently gone all over my head. I couldn't even be terrified because I didn't understand enough to be terrified. So all in all, a positive learning experience. Except for the fucking pages. I still don't know what they are.
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Day 12 – Hank
Day 11 – Hank.
Holga. Goleta, Ca
Lucy and Hank
Lookin good with my gal. Love you Becca. Such a fun wedding.
Room with a view. In Athens for the evening.
Bar Mut did not disappoint!
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Model of a proposed new palace for Richmond 1735
Pearwood | 51.5 x 236.0 x 135.0 cm (whole object) | RCIN 79398
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A pearwood model for a Palladian style summer palace. A 3-storey building with a central portico on the first floor and a double staircase. In 1735 King George II and Queen Caroline contemplated building a summer palace, possibly at Richmond, and the architect was to be William Kent. This initiative was most likely to have come from The Queen; the model is the sole evidence of the location and date, known from a reference in the London Daily Post and General Advertiser of 15 September 1735. The surveyor, Richard Arundell, had visited Kew to show The Queen a model, created by Mr. Marsden of Vine Street, Westminster, of 'a Hunting Seat for His Majesty to be built either at Richmond or Bushy Park'. John Marsden was paid £120 for the model. William Kent is identified as the designer in a reference in the Board of Works minutes for 1 October 1771 in which the 'Model of a Palace (design'd by the late Mr. Kent) proposed to be bult at Richmond' was ordered to be sent to Hampton Court. A modern plaque on the model has the following description: 'This model was made for George II c.1735 to illustrate a design by William Kent for a country palace to replace the lodge in the Old Deer Park, Richmond. It is one of the many designs to be made for new royal palaces at Kew, none of which were executed ... Kent's design reflects the style he used in houses, such as Holkham & Chiswick. This model was almost certainly intended to have had a central dome'. Bibliographic references: Colvin, William, Royal Buildings. The RIBA Drawings Series. London: Country Life Books, 1968. Beard, Geoffrey W., William Kent's Royal Patrons. Country Life Annual, 1970: 22-24, fig.7. Colvin, H.M. et al., eds: History of the King's Works. Vol 5, 1660-1782. London HMSO, 1976: 220-221. Wilson, Michael I., William Kent: Architect, Designer, Painter, Gardener, 1685-1748. London and Boston: Routledge & Keegan Paul, 1984 Harris, John, The Architect and the British Country House 1620-1920. Washington DC: AIA Press, 1985. Balmori, Diana. 'Architecture, Landscape, and the Intermediate Structure: Eighteenth-Century Experiments in Meditation', Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 50 (March 1991): 51. Connors, Joseph. Turin and Montreal : Triumph of the Baroque'. Burlington Magazine (April 2000): 265-267. Groom, Ann and Lee Prosser, Kew Palace: The Official Illustrated History. London: Merrell, 2006, 33, 34, fig.34. Weber, S. (ed.) et al, William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain (exh cat.), New Haven and London, 2013, no. 98, fig. 11. 24, pp. 286 & 626.
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The aim is to promote South Carolina at the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Charlotte on September 3 - 6, 2012 as not only a tourist destination but also a place for business. According to News Talk Radio WHIO, the SC tourism promoters will have performers and give away free peaches during the convention. As part of the efforts, WHIO reports that,
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The Real God
Father Bob's homily last Sunday…
Pentecost B
These statistics might be a repeat if you heard me on Ascension Thursday, but I am having a hard time shaking them off. The numbers from the Pew Research Forum's "America Changing Religious Landscape" are out and they are troubling for the home team. After many decades of Catholics making up 25% of the US population, we are down to 20%. For years we could be comforted by the fact that for every person that left the Church, someone else was converting. Now for every convert, there are 6.5 people leaving the Church. And do you know what would make up the second largest denomination in the Unites States? That's right, former Catholics.
And what is fascinating is where they are going. By and large they have not become evangelical or joined another faith. Hey have become "nones." Not "nuns", that would be awesome, but none of the…
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The Most Holy Trinity, cycle B
Thoughts from Exploring the Sunday Readings, June 2005:
Understanding the Trinity by some feat of mathematics may be out of the question, but it is within our grasp to apprehend the Holy Presence through the power of the indwelling Spirit. To know God, start by making yourself known to God [opening yourself to God in prayer]. The Creator of the universe may seem too awesome for us. The Holy Spirit, as intimate as our next breath, may yet seem too mystical. But Jesus is the one in whom this God is completely present, and still we have been invited to call him friend. He is the one who knows us as one of us: He knew birthdays, hard work, good company, simple meals, and great feasts. He knew irritation, weariness, friendship, family, rejection, and suffering. Jesus is the one who can lead us through all that life has to offer us: there is no place we can go that he has not been.
1st Reading: Deuteronomy 4:32-34, 39-40
From Celebration, June 11, 2006:
Deuteronomy means 'a second law' – it is written as if Moses is giving a farewell address to his people before they cross the Jordan river and enter Canaan. It is comprised of both early and late material, some perhaps as early as the 10th century B.C. and some as late as the 7th century B.C. It speaks of a God who not only created all things, but who wishes to also be involved with and care for all that he has brought forth.
How does this reading speak to you about our God? Do you feel this greatness of God in your life? Is it fixed in your heart?
2nd Reading: Romans 8: 14-17
Paul here is using Roman law and customs to explain how God wishes to relate to us. According to Roman law, the father's power over the family was absolute. A son never came of age; he was always under the control of his father. To adopt a son was a major undertaking. It followed a long and exact ritual. But once done, the adopted person belongs forever to the new father. Here are some of the consequences of these legal adoptions:
- The adoptee gave up all rights in his former family and gained all rights and dignity of a legitimate child in his new family.
- The adoptee became the legal heir of his new father and even if others are born afterwards, his rights could not be affected.
- The old life of the adoptee was wiped out and all debts were cancelled.
- The adoptee was regarded as a new person and a true son/daughter.
(Celebration, June 11, 2006)
What do you find most important in this reading? How does it feel to know you are a child of God (Family!) and able to ENTER INTO this trinity?
The Gospel: Matthew 28: 16-20
Matthew's gospel began with the story of Jesus' birth saying "and they shall name him Emmanuel, which means God is with us." (1:23). Now with this ending passage, Matthew has Jesus again assuring the disciples who are sent out to all the world (no longer just to fellow Jews) saying: "And behold, I am with you always . . ."
What strikes you most about this gospel? Isn't it interesting that the moment the disciples doubted, that's when Jesus sent them off with work to do? None of us are completely prepared, but we are sent anyway. Just as we are.
Love One Another – Really?
Father Bob's Last Sunday Homily…
7th Sunday of Easter B
"Beloved, if God so loved us, we also must love one another." Those words from the first letter of John are backed up in John's Gospel when Jesus says, "Love one another as I have loved you." So as long as God has loved us, it is our responsibility to love everyone. I think that sounds great in theory, but in practice it seems… let's just say it seems a little problematic.
Loving one another is quite an expectation to put on us. To love without discrimination, without quantifying and without exception seems a dangerous road. I want to say to Jesus, "sure I would like to love everyone, but have you ever met_______?"
There are plenty of reasons both universal and personal not to love everyone. For me, first off, loving everyone sounds exhausting. I mean I love the people I love, but…
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A God who still Attracts
Father Bob's Ascension Homily…
Feast of the Ascension B
Perhaps because the Met have lost four in a row, I will share some bad news about the good news. The Pew Research Forum released their report "America's Changing Religious Landscape and the numbers are not pretty. After years of making up 25% of the American Population Catholics now make up only 20%. We have usually had roughly the same amount of people coming into the Church as leaving the Church. Now for every convert, there are 6.5 who leave. And do you know what at 13% would be the second biggest denomination in the country? Former Catholics.
Last night I taught a class on Pope Francis and his desire for a missionary church. There can be no longer be any doubt that now is the time for that. Now is the time to tell better the story we know so well, the story that…
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Approaching Pentecost, by Kris Rooney
Thomas Merton described in Conjecture of a Guilty Bystander his epiphany on March 18, 1958: In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers … There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.
We are all walking around shining like the sun. Just look at the sun today. Feel the warmth on the back of your neck. When you close your eyes to it, you can still see the brightness under your eyelids. It penetrates through the skin. There is a strength in that sunlight. It can even lift our mood. What is it like to walk around, shining like that? Yet Merton says we are. I am convinced very few people truly know they are walking stars.
As a matter of fact, we are quite literally, stardust. If the universe began with a big bang in space, we were originally made from the dust of stars. Thinking about the human race made in this cosmic way, it connects all of us. Merton felt that connection sitting on a bench in Louisville, KY. He felt a great love for the uniqueness in each person he saw. There was an instantaneous desire to share it. Once you catch that deep feeling of love, it cannot be contained.
It seems like most people are very hard on themselves. They want to do better. They see who they want to be and it is so far from who they are now. Our culture doesn't help. More is the goal. Always strive beyond. We are never enough. It is impossible to shine when our heads are down.
This is not what God wants. God doesn't want our perfection. God wants us to be the most of who we are. That is how we shine. What is more beautiful than a person being exactly who they are called to be? It is breath-taking. It is strong. It is brilliant. And it is fire-producing. It exudes the love God wants us to have for ourselves and for one another.
This Pentecost, dare to be the most you. God sent God's Spirit to help. And you will shine like the sun.
7th Sunday of Easter, Cycle B
1st Reading: Acts 1: 15-17, 20a, 20c-26
The line in Acts that comes just before this passage states: "All these devoted themselves with one accord to prayer, together with some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers."So what goes on in this upper room is not just a 'male thing.' It is a gathering of those who have known and loved Jesus in life and now through death and into the resurrection. It is a community that has grown out of this lived experience of Jesus. (Preaching Resources, 5/28/06) How might our church be like them and "be a witness to his resurrection"?
It is also important to remember that the number twelve was symbolic of Israel, the twelve tribes of Israel, representing the fullness of the 'people of God.' So these Twelve had been appointed by Jesus to be a sign of this 'eschatological community.' That is why it was important to select another one to replace Judas who had died. These twelve must also be witnesses to the original saving history of both the earthly Jesus and his resurrection. They become this bridge between the earthly Jesus and the mission of the Church as a whole. The circle of the Twelve and the circle of the apostles (those sent out) sort of overlap. For all disciples are apostles – called to be sent out by Jesus to bring the Good News to the needy – and sometimes hostile – world. (R. Fuller, "Scripture In Depth," http://liturgy/slu.edu )
It feels good to be picked out, chosen. Imagine what Matthias may have experienced when he heard the lot fell to him. But we aren't always picked. Poor Barsabbas. What do you think became of him? Can you think of times when you were like Matthias and Barsabbas? How did it affect your life after?
2nd Reading – 1 John 4: 11-16 and the Gospel – John 17: 11b-19
Let's look at these readings together for they come out of the same author and community. What do you find important here?
God's love for us and others compel us to also love one another. This is possible as God abides in those who love. God's Spirit empowers them — lives in them. This is one of the main themes of the Johannine tradition. It is constantly being repeated. But let not its repetition deaden our ears and hearts to its truth. This mutual indwelling of this God of love is the essence of the saving event we call the Good News of Jesus Christ. (R. Fuller, "Scripture In Depth," http://liturgy/slu.edu)
Too often don't we prefer to 'earn' our gifts and grace? Too often don't we mistrust the ways of love? Freud said that this notion of loving another as we love ourselves is nonsensical and absurd. Anyone who does this will put "himself at a disadvantage." Often we ourselves fear that if we really love in this way we might become a doormat – or worse. Just take a look at Jesus. "God so loved the world" to give us Jesus – yet the world did and does reject the Word-made-flesh. It happened in the Rome of the Caesars, in the Florence of the Medicis, in the Communism of Russia, in the oppression of military El Salvador – and in our secular culture today. But despite the rejection and threat we as Christians have been entrusted with this Good and Dangerous Word of Love. We are sent into this 'hostile' world just as Christ was sent. We share in the same Spirit. (J Kavanaugh, S.J. "The Word Encountered," http://liturgy/slu.edu )
We see Spirit as work through its fruits: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Take time to consider where you see these fruits in your life. Take comfort in knowing Spirit is gifted to us so that God, and God's love, remains with us.
We are consecrated with God's truth. What does that mean to you? How does this relate to Mass? It is not only the bread and wine that are consecrated at the table. We are all made holy through the grace of God. We stand in truth, open to that consecration, knowing that we are being strengthened and nourished…so we can be sent forth into the world.
From Karl Rahner:
"Only the one who can be still and pray; only the one who is patient and does not drown out the frightening silence in which God dwells, and which comes to us, with the racket of everyday life . . . only that one can hear with ease and discretely appreciate something of the eternal life that is already inwardly given to us as the indwelling of God in us."
Deacon Tom's Homily 6th Sunday of Easter, Cycle B
Friends, today we celebrate Mothers Day. When we think of our mothers, we usually think of and remember their love, their many sacrifices, and then how they loved us, no matter what. How fitting that the theme of our second reading and of our Gospel is all about Jesus' command to love. Today's gospel goes straight to the heart of every thing, but you know, it especially goes directly to the heart of Christian life. It speaks to us about the commandment, the only commandment, the commandment of love. Love of God and love of one another. But, could love truly be a command, a law, or an order? Can anyone force us or order us to love? Certainly not! In truth, love is something that comes from within the person, not from an order received from someone else.
In the service, orders are given and executed and the same or similar can happen at work. But no one can order how or what we should feel for those around us. That is something different.
Jesus knows that this is something different. Jesus knows because he has experienced the love of God.
Moreover, Jesus has experienced that God is love.
Jesus' presence in our world is the concrete sign of that love of God for each one of us, and that love is what gives us life. The love of God created this world and keeps it in existence despite the many abuses we commit against it and against one another. Jesus speaks about the commandment of love because he knows that God loved us first and because we are creatures of love. Love, as the second reading tells us, does not spring from ourselves, but from God.
God is the origin of love, God is the origin of that vital spring that none of us can live without.
There is no way to place barriers to that love that comes from God either. There are no Jews or pagans for God. That is why the Holy Spirit is poured out on all in the reading of the Acts of the Apostles today. God goes beyond norms and traditions. His love is stronger than any human law. God gives himself to each and every one of us.
Today's readings do speak to us today about the great commandment of love. But in reality they invite us to look at the love with which God loves us and cares for us. For, it is out of that experience that our own love will spring forth, it is out of that experience that we get our capacity to love and to give life to those around us.
This could be compared with trying to convince someone that not attending Mass on Sundays is a sin.
It is far better to invite that person to come to our community, to help that person enjoy the celebration of the Mass with the wonderful music and our friendly community, and our great encounter with Jesus.
If that happens, he or she is likely to come back. However, if we threaten them with sin and damnation, they are likely to never come back.
Something similar happens with love. No one will love under the threat of a fine or punishment. But they are likely to love if they have felt loved and have been respected by those around them. My friends, today is the time for us to make those who live with us, those who work with us, those who worship with us, those whose lives we touch in any way, know about the great love that God has for them. Today is the time for each of us to share the love God gives us with each other. Once we have shared that gift of love, then we can say we have experienced love.
6th Sunday of Easter, cycle B
Acts 10:25 – 26, 34-35, 44-48
In Acts 10 the author as a third person reported recounts that happened in Peter's speech to Cornelius (a pious Roman centurion), the Jewish people and the Gentiles. The big questions were: Were Christians bound by the Jewish rules? Should the Gentiles be received without first becoming Jews (i.e. being circumcised)? This was never resolved in Jesus' lifetime. It makes one consider how many try to resolve issues today in the church using Jesus' words and deeds. If Jesus did not solve the most fundamental question of the Christian mission, we may well doubt that his recorded words solve most of our subsequent debated problems in the church (Brown, R., A Once-and-Coming Spirit at Pentecost, pgs. 61-62).
God shows no partiality. The root of all the readings this week (and always with the Word!) is love. How often do we feel completely affirmed to the core of our being? Do we ever get to a point where we have arrived in feeling absolutely loved and accepted for who we are? Are we worthy? We have a deep desire to be loved. Carl Jung said, "What we're about as humans is a constant and consistent movement toward wholeness." We are wired to be connected with something that is other and beyond. As St. Augustine said, "My soul is restless until it rest in you, O God." This love that is God is offered to all, with no partiality.
1 John 4:7-10
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I like to think, and I pray God's fingerprints are on me and the prints I leave behind are just as noticeably God's prints. For me, leaving behind a trail of God's fingerprints is not easy, but God's prints are readily identifiable. It is God who intrudes and rifles my heart. It is God who sets things right. God dwells among us. God dwells in me. God's fingerprints are everywhere. Just like fingerprints on a window can only be seen in the light, I also have to stand where the light can shine through me. God's love-ly fingerprints are smeared and permanently stuck to me. How do you leave your love-ly fingerprints?
John 15:9-17
We do not earn God's love, and we do not initiate love and goodness ourselves. Everything comes from God…freely given; we can accept or reject. (At Home with the Word, p. 87) Can you think of times when you have accepted or rejected God's love in your life? The love in the Trinity is the love that God wants to have with us. It completes the circle. Jesus came to be one with us…completely human. To the point that he calls us His friends. He chooses us. How does that make you feel? This love for one another brings life…IN ABUNDANCE! But what Jesus is telling us isn't just a warm, fuzzy feeling…it is a commandment: love one another. Can all of us do that, all the time? "The relationality of the three bonded in the one Love spills over into a relationality with the world, thereby making it possible for human persons to enter into this communion in the one Love, " (M. Downey, Altogether Gift, p. 60). We are meant to be intertwined with God in God' Trinity. How do we do that?
No wolves – only shepherds
Father Bob's homily for the Youth Mass last week…
4th Sunday of Easter B (Youth Mass)
On the Fourth Sunday of Easter every year, Jesus describes the qualities of a good shepherd, and if you are a pastor, it always sounds like an annual job review. Right there is the job description. "A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep." There is a scenario you must answer – "What would you do if the wolf came to threaten your sheep?" It is a good and challenging standard to be judged by.
But I am far from thinking I am the only one who shepherds around here. Into each of our lives shepherding comes – moments of leadership and care. Moms and Dads are shepherds of their families, captains are shepherds of our teams, and we all feel responsibility for the flock of our friends. Are we good shepherds? Do we lay down our lives for our…
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In the last post I showed you how much my former co-workers loved me. I t was beautiful and touching and I was so overwhelmed that I couldn't let a moment pass without expressing to them how much I loved them as well.
I just used the ammo they gave me, all those packing peanuts 🙂
I made sure that I didn't let one stray peanut out, so when they walked into the office they saw a nice, normal and neat office.
This cubicle belonged to someone who I KNOW without a doubt enjoyed pranking me, so I made his extra special by hitting every drawer, file, cup, shoe or container I could find.
I am sure this cubicle owner as irritated cause she is incredibly neat. Which is fine, all of her stuff is still where she left it. Now it is just covered in a protective layer of peanuts.
The next two pictures are of the desk of the VP. I worked as her assistant for years and knew she loved these pranks from her former place of employment.
I am touched she loved me enough to put this much work into torturing me and I wanted to reciprocate that feeling to her.
A Filing cabinet with extra room? How convenient, I have something to fill it with!
This is another desk of someone who is super organized, the peanuts were a lovely and appreciated surprise for her I am sure.
She had sooo many drawers….
Just so many
My favorite part was the response to this was a declaration of upping the ante on pranks. Mutually assured destruction, thats what all good friendships are built upon.


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Immortal Love: Letter From The Past Collector's Edition
December 11, 2015
4 Friends Games
Widescreen Support
Interactive Jump-Map
Voice Overs
3 Difficulties + Custom Mode
Exclusive Bonus Chapter
Integrated Strategy Guide
Wallpapers & Screensavers
Concept Art
Soundtracks & Cutscenes
Achievement & Collectibles
Replayable HOs & Puzzles
Jacques Perrault woke up in a cell, where he has been imprisoned for two months for his crime of attempting to kidnap Angelica, the future countess – a crime he can't remember commingling. It turns out that Jacques has lost all of his memories due to the deadly D'Morten's curse and that he and Angelica share an immortal love for each other. Turn back time and restore your memories, can you prevent Angelica from marrying D'Morten?
Immortal Love: Letter From The Past tells more than just another love story gone wrong. In a way, Immortal Love reminds us of the Dana Knightstone games, but of a much darker version of them. As the game progresses, you will get the chance to learn more about the backstory, one so captivating that you just want to finish the game in one go.
Furthermore, Immortal Love: Letter From The Past featured stellar production. The graphics are gorgeous, even though some scenes rely a little too heavily on the pink/purple color scheme. We wouldn't say that this is the best artwork we have seen from 4 Friends Games, but it is beautiful nonetheless. The game also has some impressive lip-syncing as well as voice-overs, and the background music fits the game perfectly.
The gameplay is probably where Immortal Love: Letter From The Past falls flat at. We did not find the adventure part of the game to be anything special; it is easy and mundane, but not to the point of boring. The hidden object scenes are neat and fun, some come with fascinating concept that help drive the storyline forward. As for the puzzles, which are mostly not very challenging, they are well-integrated into the story and can be quite entertaining.
A slightly weak gameplay does not mean that Immortal Love: Letter From The Past is not an incredibly well-made game – because it is, and it's certainly worth the Collector's Edition price tag. The main game took us roughly four hours to completer, and the excellent bonus chapter took us another hour. The bonus section of the game comes with wallpapers, screensavers, soundtracks, concept art, cutscenes, replayable mini-games, replayable hidden object scenes, a strategy guide, achievements and collectibles.


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Follow the leader
I asked Sy for a few words about the people who sat at the FLIGHT console, and we spoke about three famous flight directors as examples: Chris Kraft, Gene Kranz, and Glynn Lunney. Kraft, who held the title of flight director through the end of Project Gemini, defined the mold—smart, decisive, and sometimes abrasive. Sy describes Chris Kraft as being extremely intelligent; his most notable characteristic was an incredibly insightful ability to prioritize and sort through huge stacks of information and pick out the most important things, then act on them.
Glynn Lunney, who served as a flight director during Gemini and Apollo, was a protege of Kraft and if anything was even sharper. In his autobiography Flight, Kraft refers to Lunney as a "sponge" for information. Sy recalls that Lunney had an uncanny ability to absorb and understand technical information almost instantly and without apparent effort.
Gene Kranz, certainly the most famous Apollo-era flight director (in no small part thanks to Ed Harris's portrayal in Apollo 13), had been Chris Kraft's assistant flight director since Mercury. He was "Mr. Cool," according to Sy. While he might not have had Kraft or Lunney's almost unsettling technical intuition, he more than made up for it through sheer force of will. "Lunney and Kraft would do things by inspiration; Kranz would do things by perspiration," Sy said. "No less smart, just with those German genes. He was prepared for anything." Kranz was relentless in his preparation for missions, devouring manuals and procedures. "He didn't wait to learn it" on the spot, like Kraft or Lunney, Sy recalled. "He knew it all ahead of time."
The mood
In the movies, a spacecraft launch is often accompanied by bombastic music and the seat-juddering bass of rockets thundering, with shots of flight controllers frantically mashing buttons intercut with shaky-cam special effects of the launch vehicle clawing its way skyward. I asked Sy about what a person actually experienced while sitting at a console during launch, and it turns out that reality, again, is a very different place from fiction.
When the launch countdown clock hit zero on an Apollo mission, the quiet MOCR remained quiet. "We're looking up at the group display, the 10'-by-20'," at the front of the control room, Sy said, "because the FDO [Flight Dynamics Officer] has put up the launch parameters to see that we are tracking the predicted trajectory. It's quiet. We're watching our data and making sure that we don't miss anything in that time-compressed nine minutes"—the amount of time it took the Saturn V to reach orbit.
There was also a lot of writing going on. Many pictures exist of controllers scribbling in binders, and each controller kept a console log of the important events which happened during his shift, especially the flight director. The FLIGHT's logbook was the most detailed of all—it was his responsibility to notate every single mission event of any significance, and the controller logbooks were part of the legal and historical record for the mission. The primitiveness of the computers made such manual recording a vital adjunct to the raw computer records kept on reel-to-reel tape. "I have a picture of Kranz, talking to some guys," said Sy, "and his console log is open on the console." The logbooks were three-ring binders. "And the page was curled over almost 360 degrees—he pressed that hard with his ball-point pen. He was very intense!"
When lightning strikes
Two incidents in particular serve as capsule examples of the role of the flight controller during crisis and specifically the EECOM position sat by Sy Liebergot. The first is the dual lightning strike suffered by Apollo 12 during launch, and the second is the much-dramatized oxygen tank explosion on Apollo 13.
The Apollo 12 incident is more easily described. Apollo 12 was slated to be the first precision Moon landing, improving on Neil Armstrong's off-target touchdown on Apollo 11. The launch was a wet one, taking place during a rain storm. The mission rules in place suggested that launching during a storm should be avoided, "But what happened was that Rocco Petrone, who was the launch director down at the Cape, and Gerry Griffin, who was the flight director here, had never done a launch before, and they went!" Sy laughed. "So, we made lightning!"
A bit over 36 seconds after liftoff, as the Saturn V powered skyward, the rocket triggered a burst of lightning which conducted all the way down to the launch tower via the rocket's exhaust plume. Barely 20 seconds later, a second lightning strike again hit the vehicle. The Apollo 12 crew wasn't aware that they had been hit by lightning, but they were aware that suddenly, a huge number of failures began lighting up their spacecraft's warning panels.
"OK, we just lost the platform, gang. I don't know what happened here; we had everything in the world drop out," radioed Navy Captain and mission commander Pete Conrad, just 62 seconds after the launch. "I got three fuel cell lights, an AC bus light, a fuel cell disconnect, AC bus overload 1 and 2, Main Bus A and B out." The fuel cells in the Service Module supplied electrical power to the Command Module's computers, but had been knocked offline by the lightning. The strike also affected the electrical circuitry (the busses) which connected the spacecraft's systems to their power supplies. The Command Module suddenly found itself on battery power. "We always launched with the entry batteries online, just in case, because we could recharge them later in-flight," Sy explained, referring to the Command Module's reentry batteries. They were intended to supply power for the few hours during the final phase of the mission, after the Command Module separated from the Service Module and went through atmospheric reentry and splashdown. The batteries being available to supply power in case of just such a fuel cell failure gave the crew and the ground controllers time to assess the situation.
On the ground, things were equally bad. Sy had been the prelaunch EECOM for the mission, responsible for the electrical components of the Apollo spacecraft, and though he had gone off-shift shortly before the launch, he had stuck around to watch. The EECOM desk was manned by John Aaron, famously known as NASA's "steely eyed missile man" for his cool performance under pressure ("He was the super-EECOM," Sy commented). When the launch vehicle was hit, all of the ground telemetry feeds displayed on the controllers' consoles went scrambled. The responsibility to determine what happened fell squarely on EECOM's shoulders.
"John just sat there," said Sy, as we leaned against the back of the EECOM desk. "He never said a word. Never even asked his back room anything. He just stared at the data." The reentry batteries still registered as functional in his telemetry feeds, but everything else was garbled or missing. The pattern of failures, though, seemed familiar. "He remembered seeing that [pattern] during a pad test, and it was obviously an instrumentation problem. When the lightning hit, it kicked the three fuel cell powerplants offline." The spacecraft's reverse-current sensor had disconnected the fuel cells to save them from being damaged by the lightning's surge of current. "It appeared that the power supply for the Signal Conditioning Equipment... was gone."
The Signal Conditioning Equipment (SCE) is a vital piece of hardware, because it takes all of the various raw signals from the spacecraft's instruments and converts them to the correct format for transmission to the ground so that they can be understood by the computers in the RTCC. With the SCE not functioning, the spacecraft was effectively transmitting gibberish.
"But we had an auxiliary power supply," for the SCE, explained Sy, and John Aaron knew that activating it should bring the SCE back online. That ought to restore the telemetry feeds and let them figure out what else had happened. "John asked for the [SCE] switch to be put... to the 'aux' position."
Twenty-four seconds after Conrad's last status report, the transcripts show Gerald Carr, the CAPCOM, radioing back to the spacecraft: "Apollo 12, Houston. Try SCE to auxiliary. Over."
Conrad's response is immediate: "Try FCE to Auxiliary? What the hell is that?"
Conrad had no idea what control CAPCOM was asking for, even repeating it back incorrectly. Sy shook his head as he recounted, "Most of the crews admitted they didn't know crap about the comm systems—they were too complicated!" In spite of the system's overall complexity, the seemingly endless amount of simulations done before the mission had given Aaron a deep familiarity with the electrical pathways of the spacecraft, and enabled him to make a split-second call that saved the mission. The crew sorted out where the switch was and toggled it, and within a few moments the telemetry data began to show up clearly again. "Gerry [Griffin] was back there ready to throw the 'Abort Request' switch... If John had said, 'We gotta abort,' they would have aborted."
Once the telemetry was back, it became clear the fuel cells had gone offline; the controllers were able to direct the crew to put them back online, one by one, and then to recalibrate the Command Module's guidance platform and prepare for their trip to the Moon. Without Aaron's near-instant recall of an obscure panel switch, the mission would have been aborted before it really even started, with potentially profound implications for the rest of the Apollo program schedule.
(The incident is dramatized with an apparent high degree of accuracy in HBO's 1998 miniseries, From the Earth to the Moon.)


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AUSTIN, TX--Today the Texas Senate passed Senate Joint Resolution 10 and Senate Bill 241 by state Sen. Eddie Lucio, Jr., D-Brownsville, that will allow Texas to maximize federal transportation dollars in the form of GARVEE bonds.
GARVEES, or Grant Anticipation Revenue Vehicle Bonds, are based on revenues received or to be received from the federal government that are available for the payment of bonds and bond-related costs. These revenues can be deposited in the state's highway fund.
SJR 10, the Constitutional Amendment that will go before the voters this November, authorizes the Texas Transportation Commission (TxDOT) to issue GARVEE Bonds and to use these bonds as a finance option for highway construction.
"Thanks to the leadership of Gov. Rick Perry, State Comptroller Carole Keeton Rylander and Texas Transportation Commission Chairman Johnny Johnson, we were able to craft this legislation to address the needs of the entire state of Texas," remarked Sen. Lucio. "I am glad that our transportation officials endorsed this measure as a good optional financing tool for Texas."
Sen. Lucio included an amendment to SJR 10 to ensure that highways and farm-to-market roads will not be reduced in proportion to the federal highway program as a result of the use of GARVEE bonds. He explained that "the amendment requires the TxDOT Commission to certify--before any GARVEE bond issuance--that overall priority given to state programs is proportional to that given federal programs."
SB 241 is the "enabling" legislation for the Constitutional amendment that was introduced as a Committee Substitute with all language for geographic priorities removed. This bill also limits the maximum debt service level to 5 percent of the federal highway obligation funds anticipated to be received by the state. Last session, Sen. Lucio passed a similar measure in the Senate with a debt service limit of 15 percent.
Comptroller Rylander, a supporter of GARVEEs, earlier testified in the Senate Committee on Business and Commerce that "Texas is not plowing unchartered territory. Other states have used GARVEE financing as a component of their road construction."
New Mexico was one of the first states to construct State Highway Route 44 using GARVEEs. This was a highly successful project that combined $100 million in GARVEE bonds and straight bonds to fund the $295 million project. Currently, 13 states use this type of funding.
The Comptroller's testimony also revealed that roads have a direct effect on the productivity of the state's economy. She said, "One study indicated every dollar spent on road construction yields 29 cents in increased productivity. That means more jobs and more revenue to [your] local communities, increased investment in our state and increased confidence in our economy."
"Texans need and deserve good roads, and GARVEEs is a great vehicle to accomplish this," said Sen. Lucio. "I feel confident that the people of this state will recognize the value of such a funding program for our state."
Co-authors of the bill are state Senators Steve Ogden, R-Bryan and Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo.
The bill must now go to the House for consideration.
Note: Staff member handling this legislation is Mr. Daniel Esparza, legislative director.


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States "thought they were getting more doses and they planned for more doses and opened up to 65 and up, thinking they were getting more."
By Kenny Stancil, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 1-15-2021
Earlier this week, the White House said the federal government would soon release coronavirus vaccine doses stored for second shots, but governors expecting increased shipments discovered Friday that no national stockpile exists, and now they are demanding that President Donald Trump's administration be held accountable for deceiving the American public.
"Governors were told repeatedly by [the Department of Health and Human Services] there was a strategic reserve of vaccines, and this week, the American people were told it'd be released to increase supply of vaccine," tweeted Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) on Friday. "It appears now that no reserve exists. The Trump admin. must answer immediately for this deception." Continue reading


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Healthy People in Healthy Communities is the premier conference on Lifestyle Medicine and the Built Environment. In 2017, we will focus on Blue Zone Area Science and Health for public health Practice in the 21st century.
To meet the needs of health care and public health professionals, HPHC is accredited for up to 11 Continuing Professional Education hours for a wide range of disciplines. Learn more!
On March 2-3, 2017, the 44th Annual Healthy People in Healthy Communities Conference will host the First International Symposium on Blue Zone Area Science & Health. In the midst of celebrating the School of Public Health's 50th anniversary, the 2017 Conference as an opportunity to honor our past and embrace the future of public health. For the first time, research teams from the five demographically and epidemiologically confirmed blue zone regions will converge under the same roof to share their findings, and draw present day application for modern communities. With this Symposium we want to underline the university's legacy of promoting health, longevity and wholeness, while creating a platform for exploring the role of blue zone areas as a paradigm for public health practice. We'll strive to better understand the drivers of health and vitality for effective, multi-disciplinary public health action aimed at improving conditions that make us healthy.
Session 1: Blue Zone Area Science: The-State-of-the-Art
What are the latest research and findings on blue zone areas in Sardinia, Ikaria, Okinawa, Nicoya, and Loma Linda? Technical issues: definitions, demographics, geographic vs. population-based zones, additional blue zone areas, etc. For the first time in the same room, researchers studying each of the five demographically and epidemiologically confirmed blue zone areas will present their most recent information.
Session 2: Deciphering the Blue Zone Areas
This session will be devoted to uncovering the complex web of interconnected biological (genetic and epigenetic factors), behavioral (lifestyle), environmental and societal factors common throughout each blue zone area that lead to longevity and healthy ageing. Integrative studies are beginning to emerge which examine the dynamic interplay of these factors across the course of life; now we want to know what commonalities and unique characteristics have been identified and how their essence can be extrapolated to cultivate practical solutions. With the determinants manifesting differently in each place, how do we translate the findings into practice? A better understanding of blue zone areas as exemplars of exceptional health and wellbeing can benefit both clinical practice and public health action aimed at addressing adverse conditions in vulnerable communities.
Session 3: Public Health 3.0 - Blue Zone Areas as a Paradigm Shift for Public Health Practice
The implications of blue zone area research for public health practice will be discussed within the futuristic context of what public health fore thinkers are referring to as "Public Health 3.0" or a "public health of consequence" that engages in action to improve conditions that make us healthy. Can we gain insight from the blue zone areas to help us deal with present issues? Can current systems can be modeled according to these demographic outliers? The concept of blue zone areas creates value to inform us about what public health should be striving towards in the 21st century.
Blue Zone Expo
Nearly 1,000 health care professionals are expected to participate in the 2017 Healthy People in Healthy Communities Expo! Happening during the lunch hour, participants will explore fascinating exhibits, art installations, music and regional heritage specific to each of the blue zone areas These hands on activities offer abundant opportunities to learn the fundamentals of how to build Healthy Communities by design!
Author Meet & Greet Book Signings! Located at the Conference Book Store, HPHC speakers will be available to sign their books! Some books are complimentary while supplies last, and others are significantly reduced for conference attendees!
Networking Reception
Get to know your fellow conference attendees through a fun and interactive reception from 5:00-6:30 PM March 2nd on the Drayson Center Poolside Lawn. Entertainment line up to be announced. It'll be an event worth attending!


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Do you have an abundance of clothes? Do you need to organise the overflow of garments in your wardrobe? Having a clear out of your outfits once in a while is good for the soul and even better for keeping on top of chaos. Perhaps you've seen a few signs for nearby car boot sales and fancy giving it a go one weekend to clear some space and make some cash? How exactly do you go about selling clothes at car boot sales?
Turn Up Early
Once you know what car boot you're going to sell at, make sure you get there early. Getting there early means you'll likely bag yourself a decent space. There's no point in turning up late, paying your sellers fee of £5 or so and then finding yourself stuck on the edge of a field away from the best of the action. Even if this means an early start, you'll get there in plenty of time and have longer to set up your stall before the troops of bargain hunters storm the field.
Fold Out Tables
You'll need at least one fold out table to put your items for sale on. Display them nicely and attractively so they look appealing. No one wants to rummage through mountains of fabric, it's time consuming and it doesn't look good for potential buyers. It also makes things confusing when you're trying to keep track of how much things cost. A fold out table is imperative when attending a car boot sale to sell things.
Clothes Rail
If you're selling clothes at a car boot sale, you might want to invest in a clothes rail. Hanging things up makes it so much easier for people to look through things. It's not only easier for the buyers, it's easier for you to display items, keep them hanging up and crease free. You can also individually price tag the items by sticking a ticket on the hangers. Looking through clothes rails is what we do in shops so bringing this to a car boot sale makes it more familiar. Buyers are probably more likely to part with cash when they see something on a hanger instead of bundled up on a rug on the floor.
Hang On Your Vehicle
If you can park your car sideways to your stall you might be able to hang any extra pieces that wont fit on your rail on the gutter rails of your van. If you're using a car you could open the doors and place hangers over the doors instead. This could be a good idea for stand out items which will likely make a higher price. If you're unable to park sideways, you could leave the boot open and tie a bungee cord around it to hang things from. Displaying your items is so important when selling clothes at car boot sales.
Bargain Box
Crate your own bargain box, with a big sign which will likely attract potential customers. For £1 or £2 an item people are happy to rummage through a box and discover items they might not look at otherwise. At those prices, they might find a couple of garments and buy both because you're advertising them as bargains. A bargain box in front of your table is a great addition to your set up.
Take A Mirror
Think about when you're shopping for clothes. You tend to try something on and then look in a mirror to see how it looks. This is the same, whenever you're buying clothes so taking a mirror along is a good idea. Prop it up against the end of your table at an angle where people can see them whole selves. If people can see what they're buying looking good on themselves, they're more likely to buy it.
Know Your Prices
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Is Apple ending the Itunes store?
Recent reports are circulating that Apple will terminate the iTunes store by early 2019. Digital Music News reports that the media player turned streaming service has been planning the service's termination since as early as 2016.
Apple introduced Apple Music back in 2015 in order to compete with streaming giants such as Spotify. Despite rapid advances in digital infrastructure and user engagement, Apple Music remains trailing Spotify in paying subscribers by nearly 30 million.
If reports of the companies phasing out of the iTunes store are indeed correct, the aforementioned timeline leaves Apple with two more holiday seasons to sell music, after which they will begin to phase out of the iTunes store altogether.
Apple is putting the final touches on an official deal to acquire Shazam, the music recognition app, per reports of their merger that recently arose. It will be interesting to see how the tech giant incorporates Shazam into their fold, especially if their plan to phase out their own music streaming-related services comes to fruition.
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While getting in character for his role in the much anticipated 2018 release of Marvel's Black Panther, Michael B. Jordan scored a lead in HBO's Fahrenheit 451.
The film is an adaptation of Ray Bradbury's 1953 sci-fi book of the same name, which centers on a future where media is an opiate, history is outlawed and "firemen" burn books," Deadline reports. Jordan stars alongside Michael Shannon as Montag, a young fireman who abandons his world, battles his mentor and struggles to find his way back to humanity.
In addition to being cast as a lead, the Creed star is also adding another production credit to his resume and will serve as an executive producer on the film via his Outlier Productions company. Jordan launched the company in 2016 and inked a multiyear first-look film and TV production deal with Skydance Media.
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Produced by Eminent Authors Pictures, Inc.; Released 7/24/20 by Goldwyn Pictures Corp.; Director: Wallace Worsley; Screenplay: Charles Kenyon and Philip Lonergan, from a novel by Gouverneur Morris; Cinematography: Don Short; Film Editor: Frank E. Hull; 7 reels (6730'); Print Source: George Eastman House, Warner Brothers Classics
CAST: Lon Chaney (Blizzard), Ethel Grey Terry (Rose), Kenneth Harlan (Dr. Wilmont), Claire Adams (Barbara Ferris), Charles Clary (Dr. Ferris), Edouard Trebaol (Bubbles), James Mason (Frisco Pete), Milton Ross (Lichtenstein), Wilson Hummel (A Crook), J. Montgomery Carlyle
SYNOPSIS: Young Dr. Ferris has just handled his first serious case...a traffic accident in which he had to amputate a boys legs above the knees in order to save his life. A second doctor arrives and examines the boy, noticing that he has a contusion at the base of the skull. In shock, he declares that the amputation was unnecessary. The young boy hears and tells his parents, but the older doctor lies for Ferris and says the boy is delirious. Twenty-seven years pass, and San Francisco is a beautiful town with one blemish--the Barbary coast. Frisco Pete, a drug addict, has just stabbed Barbary Nell and is chased by the police when he encounters Blizzard, the legless leader of the underworld who hides the man. Blizzard is a demon who rules the underworld with an iron grip. Rose, an operative of the police is told to penetrate his fortress, where dozens of women are mysteriously working making hats. Rose gets a job as one of the women in the hat factory, and Blizzard takes a liking to her as she is musically inclined and works the pedals on the piano while he plays. Barbara Ferris, the daughter of the now eminent Dr. Ferris is a sculptor, and although Dr. Wilmont has proposed marriage many times, she says she must try one more work..."Satan After the Fall." Advertising for a model "who looks like Satan," Blizzard sees his chance for revenge, and with his grim face, he is easily hired by Barbara.
While he is posing, Rose searches his house, finding a secret passage through the fireplace that leads to both an arsenal, and a fully equipped operating room. On his return, Blizzard finds a hairpin in his papers, and while playing piano, compares it to one of Rose's, finding them a perfect match. He plans to kill the girl, but hesitates because of her beautiful "pedalling." Rose's note to a fellow agent is intercepted by Frisco Pete who gives it to Blizzard. Dr. Ferris has learned of Blizzard's visits to Barbara, and he arrives at the apartment, begging him to leave his daughter alone. Blizzard confers with O'Hagan, his lieutenant, and discloses his plan: In three months, O'Hagan's men, armed and identified by Blizzard's hats, will create disturbances that will draw the police and fire department out to the suburbs. They will then rob the entire city of San Francisco. O'Hagan, thinking Blizzard mad, leaves, whereupon Blizzard orders Rose from the closet where she is hiding. He tells her that her note was intercepted so she has done him no harm. She is glad, for she realizes that she is in love with Blizzard. Blizzard makes phone calls to Drs. Ferris and Wilmont to lure them to his house. Wilmont is captured on his arrival; Dr. Ferris is ordered to cut off Wilmont's legs and sew them onto his stumps. Rose can bear no more and flees to bring the police. When they arrive, Ferris has operated...not on Blizzard's legs, but to remove the contusion from his head that has caused his criminal actions. Having been cured, and given up his life of crime, Blizzard's old gang fears he will turn them in. One evening, after his marriage to Rose, Frisco Pete steals into the house and shoots Blizzard while he plays piano. He dies saying that he must pay the penalty for his crimes.
"It is needless to say that the picture is Chaney more than any one else...The continuity is not always smooth, the action not always sustained. Episodes are often too racy to suit the intelligence of the picture patron. But there is no denying that the feature is interesting." --- Variety
"Here is a picture that is about as cheerful as a hanging---and as interesting. You can't, being an average human and normal as to your emotional reactions, really like THE PENALTY, any more than you could enjoy a hanging. But for all its gruesome detail you are quite certain to be interested in it...It is a remarkably good performance this actor (Chaney) gives." ---Photoplay
"One of the striking things about the picture is the remarkable characterization given by Lon Chaney, who has the leading character...Rarely has the screen seen a better piece of acting." - --Moving Picture World
NOTES: Despite the contemporary reviews, which obviously did not know what to make of this bizarre Tod Browningesque gangster story, THE PENALTY today is considered by many critics to be one of Chaney's finest performance and certainly one of his best films. This was the first teaming of director Worsley and Chaney, who would go on to make a total of five features together over the next three years. Aside from his small but important role in THE MIRACLE MAN, this was the first time he played a truly gruesome role, a trait he would be identified with for most of his remaining career. This was also the first of four films Chaney would make for Samuel Goldwyn before beginning his long tenure at MGM.
Several sources list Milton Ross incorrectly as O'Hagan. Although produced by Eminent Authors Pictures, Inc. and released by Goldwyn Pictures Corp., the film was copyrighted by Gouverneur Morris, the author of the original novel.
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Three professors at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have won $1.6 million in grants that will be used to recruit and educate the next generation of librarians and faculty members, to improve library technology and to shore up the technological expertise of regional library leaders.
Associate Professor and Assistant Director Suzie Allard and Assistant Professors Bharat Mehra and Vandana Singh — all faculty in the School of Information Sciences (SIS), which is part of the College of Communication and Information — received the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The awards will be paid over the next four years.
UT is in elite company because only one other university in the nation — the University of Maryland — garnered as many IMLS awards this year, SIS Director Edwin Cortez said. He credits this, in part, to the tremendous support provided by the college's Center for Information and Communication Studies, headed by SIS Professor Carol Tenopir.
"The quality, creativity, and capacity of our faculty to address real-world needs are remarkable," Cortez said. "I am more than pleased to work with an exceptional faculty who continuously measure the pulse of information needs of various communities and then find solutions to address gaps in information literacy, education and technology."
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"ScienceLinks2 PhD: Linking Education and Science to Develop the Next Generation of Educators for Science Librarians and Data, Information and Communication" will build curriculum, provide mentoring and support the research agendas of six doctoral students who will become educators of the next generation of science data and information specialists.
ScienceLinks2 builds on two previous science information initiatives at the school: the IMLS-sponsored Science Links, a master's-focused program successfully completed in 2008, and NSF's DataONE, a major international initiative which includes faculty and researchers in the UT Libraries and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Allard is the principal investigator for ScienceLinks2. Other College of Communication and Information faculty involved in the project include Associate Dean Sally McMillan; Ben Bates, professor of journalism and electronic media; Karen Hilyard, assistant professor of advertising and public relations; Lorraine Normore, SIS assistant professor; Vandana Singh, SIS assistant professor; Lu Tang, assistant professor of computer science; and Peiling Wang, SIS professor. Thura Mack, an SIS alumna, will be the library coordinator for the project.
– Improving rural librarians' technology literacy, awarded $567,660
"Rural Library Professionals as Change Agents in the 21st Century: Integrating Information Technology Competencies in Southern and Central Appalachian Region" will help tackle lagging information technology literacy in Tennessee's rural southern and central Appalachians.
Mehra will work with Assistant Professors Singh and Kimberly Black to recruit and mentor 16 IMLS-funded technology support librarians as they earn their master's degrees. In addition, SIS faculty will work with three regional library systems — Clinch-Powell Regional Library, Sevier County Public Library System and the Watauga Regional Library — to offer students coursework tailored for a specialization in Information Technology and Rural Librarianship. Upon graduation, students will be prepared to assume leadership roles in their libraries and the region.
– Improve library technology, awarded $321,178
"Technical Support for Integrated Library Systems' Comparison of Open Source and Proprietary Software" will compare the amount of technical support librarians need to operate various computer systems used to acquire, manage and circulate library materials. This research project seeks to better inform librarians about the maintenance and management costs associated with these tools.
Singh is the principal investigator on this project.
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The team found that after VSG, mice exhibited increased concentrations of bile acids and had improved fasting glycaemia, glucose tolerance and glucose-stimulated insulin secretion. VSG increased hydrophilic bile acid, the most beneficial type. But the benefits of VSG were lost in the TGR5 knockout mice.
These results suggest that TGR5 has an important contribution in regulating glucose, and may be involved in the shift, after VSG, into beneficial bile acid production.
"In the United States, bariatric surgeries are primarily allowed for obesity treatment, generally requiring a BMI [body mass index] over 40 or a BMI over 35 with significant obesity-related co-morbidities, though some clinicians argue for expanding the use of these surgeries for treatment of diabetes," Bethany Cummings, assistant professor of biomedical sciences at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine and the study's lead author, said in a press release. "Our goal is to study these surgeries in order to identify novel therapeutic targets, because surgery is not without risks and a drug is much easier to widely distribute among patients."
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