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Boilers, furnaces, heat pumps, air exchangers, air handlers, thermostats, infrared heaters, and fireplaces are just a few of the different ways that you can heat or cool your home or other building. All of these different heating and cooling methods can add up to confuse and overwhelm you. Finding the right heating and/or cooling method for you, your home, and your other spaces can make a big difference in being comfortable all year around. Whether you choose an alternative heating or cooling system or you go with one of the more common systems, you will find that it can be a big decision that takes quite a bit of thought and research.
Know the Areas the You will Cool
You will first want to consider the area that you are heating or cooling. If it is the garage or an outbuilding, you will have to go a much different way than if you are heating or cooling a home or business. For one thing, a home or business will use ductwork, while a smaller area may mean that you want to choose a ductless system. This will help you to determine which direction that you want to go in to make sure that you get the proper system for you and your needs.
What Type of System is Right for Your Home
Next you will want to consider the method of heating or cooling that you want to install. There are several alternative energy heating and cooling systems that you can choose from, including a solar heating and cooling system, geothermal heating and cooling system, heat pumps, or a hybrid system. You can save money and be more environmentally friendly with one of these systems. There are energy efficient systems that are electric as well. Think about your budget and your choices to be sure that you make the right choice for your needs. There are different options that you can add to your home as well. From air cleaners to in floor heating systems and more, you will find that there are lots of ways to help to make your home healthier and more comfortable. Ultraviolet air cleaners, HEPA filters, and other types of filters can help to remove the contaminants and allergens from the air in your home to help indoor air quality. In floor heating systems can keep your floors toasty warm even during the winter and help you to keep your feet warm even when you are getting out of the shower. Indoor air quality and comfort can be aided in many different ways with the different options. Learning more about the different options that are available as far as heating and air conditioning systems and other options will enable you to find the system that is right for you. If you are not sure what type of system is right for your home, make sure to contact us. This way we can help to keep your home cool and comfortable in the summer, as well as warm in the winter.


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On Losing my Hair and Growing it Back
Even though I had gone through my first round of chemo, had dropped 20 pounds in a week and ended up back in the hospital for a hydration transfusion because my sodium levels had dropped drastically, it was still hard for me to believe I had cancer. Sure, I was a little skinnier and super pale, but anyone who saw me passing by wouldn't know about the war raging in my body and the six inch tumor I named Ricardo growing in my leg. I still looked like a regular 15 year old girl, granted a little bit of a rebel one, because of the bright red hair.
I died my hair fire engine red the day after I was diagnosed. My "last hurrah" before it all came out, although it was hard to believe that would actually happen. Two weeks later, the tell tale signs of shedding had begun and before I knew it, I found myself sitting at my hairdresser's booth, a huge bald spot at the top of my head and getting ready for the rest of it to come off. It was only then, with a shiny bald head, did I realize I really had cancer. I really was sick. And, I really needed to prepare to fight for my life.
Fast forward nine years later, post chemo, and I've got a head of hair again! While I'm so grateful to have my hair back, chemo certainly did a number on it. My eyelashes grew in at funny angles, my eyebrows came in patchy and my hair grew back three shades darker, thinner and more brittle. It seems to dry out faster and I have constant snarls and split ends; way more then my pre-chemo hair. Granted, it probably didn't help that I started dying it a few months after it started coming back in, but I finally had hair to play with again, so I couldn't help myself. It also has problems getting past a specific length; once it hits below my shoulders, it just seems to stop growing.
I have tried a slew of products to try and keep my hair strong and healthy, some with success, others with none. I was really excited when Pura'dor offered to send me their Premium Organic Argan Oil Based Hair Loss Prevention shampoo, conditioner and their
Pure and Organic Argan Oil. I've seen them on Amazon before (they are number one rated there) and love their respect for nature and animals; plus anything that might help me regain some thickness in my hair is something for me to try!
The shampoo is sulfate free, so it doesn't soap up like traditional drugstore shampoo. That threw me off a little at first; I felt like I had to use a ton to clean my hair thoroughly. However, the shampoo has 12 DHT Blockers (DHT is the hormone that causes hair loss) so it helps grow thicker hair and reduce shedding! The conditioner is lavender vanilla scented and smells so heavenly and adds shine and volume. After getting used to the lack of bubbles and using the pair for a while, I can honestly say that I have seen a difference in thickness in my hair. I definitely notice a difference in the overall shine and health of it, as well. It's not immediately noticeable yet, but it's there and that brings me hope! I'm sure with more time, there will be more results!
The Pure Organic Argan Oil is great for skin and I've been using it on my face for the last weeks after having a major break out. I rubbed some in over the trouble areas and literally, the next day, my skin was almost back to normal. I couldn't believe it. Chemo caused a lot of damage to my immune system and my ability to heal at a normal rate, so it usually take twice as long as normal for my skin to heal from break outs. Basically, I am convinced that this Argan Oil is a miracle worker!
If you are looking for an organic solution to skin health and/or hair growth, I highly recommend Pura'dor! They ship anywhere in the continental U.S. for free!
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Thailand flag animations plus flag clipart and PNG flag images with transparent backgrounds.
Country Name:
Conventional long form: Kingdom of Thailand
Conventional short form: Thailand
Local long form: Ratcha Anachak Thai
Local short form: Prathet Thai
Former name: Siam
Government: Constitutional Monarchy
Capital: Bangkok
Independence: traditional founding date 1238
National Anthem: "Phleng Chat Thai"
Thailand Flag Description:
The Thai flag has five horizontal bands of red on the top, white, blue (double width) in the middle, white, and red on the bottom.
The red color symbolizes the nation and the blood of life, white represents religion and the purity of Buddhism and blue stands for the monarchy.
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Electronic commerce or Ecommerce is basically a type of industry where you can purchase or sale any product online by using different electronic or online barriers including internet and other computer equipments. Ecommerce also endorses many other online promotional forums such as mobile commerce, electronic fund transfer, internet and online marketing, online transaction, supply chain management and many more. It is the foundation of online marketing and business. Ecommerce website development is becoming the largest retail source of shopping in the world. Now people do most of their shopping on these ecommerce websites rather than in the shopping malls.
What is an Ecommerce Website?
You have often heard the word ecommerce, but you never go into the in-depth analysis about the ecommerce website what is it and how it works. E-commerce website is just like a virtual shop window or online window shop. You can buy everything from the site like gifts, books, toys, perfumes, clothes, bags, accessories, grocery etc. Its a platform, which brings everything on your fingertips. From shopping to billing, you don't need to spend hours in the supermarket or shopping malls to shop your desired products. After the advent of mobile devices, the online business has just become the matter of some clicks. You can promote or market your products beyond the geographical limits using an ecommerce platform. In fact, it's such a great invention of modern technology.
Well, if you want to find out how to create an ecommerce website, here are some basic things to consider:
Designing an e-Commerce Website
Designing ecommerce website is not as easy. It should be designed in a very refined and highly professional style and must contain organized and detailed information about the service or product you offer. So, the visitors can easily get an idea of all the things in just a glimpse.
Clear Product Details
Just imagine yourself as a visitor, if you have searched an online store to buy something and you haven't found proper information about your desired product, you must be frustrated. Users expect the same thing on the online shopping websites. So, the information should be precise, complete and appealing in order to win visitors over. It should not be lengthy or in the form of paragraphs. Customers will not be interested in reading long essays before purchasing any product. Moreover, the customers should be guided properly how to buy the product and how to pay the bill. So that they can easily carry out their shopping without any frustration.
Adding Shopping Cart
One of the most important components of an Ecommerce website is shopping cart software. Shopping cart acts as an online store's catalog and ordering process platform. Shopping cart should include all the vital information required by the customer. Such as, change the quantity of products, discounts, shipping and payment settings etc. Remember, a well designed shopping and payment software can make online shopping just a piece of cake for the buyers.
Conclusion: The purpose of this exercise is not to achieve the best results but the following steps may help you get a hold on these issues. However, you can continue to find out other aspects of your ecommerce business to keep improving.


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Live-in caring is a rewarding job but it isn't right for everyone. Here we look at 5 questions to ask yourself when considering this profession.
In the UK we have an ageing population and it is estimated that by the end of 2045 a quarter of the population will be aged 65 or older. As a consequence of this, there are more and more people in need of care, which means there is growing room for employment within the care industry with positions like live-in care jobs. If you know you are interested in care, there are many different job types to choose from, but the first thing you need to know fully is that care is definitely the career for you. It takes someone special to provide care to others, and live-in care demands certain qualities that are rare.
If you think live-in care might be the best carer job for you, ask yourself these five key questions:
Are You Comfortable Providing 1-to-1 Care?
For some people, focusing care on just one person would be a dream come true. For others however, the variety of caring for lots of different people is what they enjoy the most. In a live-in care situation you have the rewarding opportunity to care for one person 24/7 for an extended period of time. However, if you prefer the social aspect of a nursing home and like providing care for lots of different people day to day, then live-in care may not be the job for you.
Are You Happy Providing Various Services?
UK live-in care jobs take a lot more than simply helping a person with tasks. Lots of carers will be required to help their client maintain independence which means potentially helping them with hobbies, meetups with friends and even weekends away or holidays. On a day to day basis you may also be cooking and cleaning, shopping and driving, as well as helping your client get to appointments. If you want a job where you're required to provide less varied services, then live-in care might not be the right choice for you.
Are You Happy Providing 24/7 Services In Exchange For Great Pay?
You do get great pay with live-in care. It is usually one of the highest paid roles within the care sector and because you spend a lot of your time at work, and will likely have meals and other certain day to day expenses covered, you'll have saved money every month as well. However, this high rate of pay is well deserved because the job takes a lot of energy and dedication. Although the pay in this type of care is wonderful, you cannot do the job without really wanting to do a good job because it can be very hard.
Are You Physically Fit?
In most live-in care jobs in the UK you have to have a certain level of physical fitness and with live-in care it is no different. In fact, you're working round the clock so you have to also have the stamina and 'get and go' to keep going. In some cases you may be your client's 'legs' or 'arms', you're there to do everything they need to do whilst also getting them around and helping them with personal tasks like cleaning, which can be labour intensive.
Do You Really Care?
The caring profession required a person is naturally caring, but live-in care requires that extra something special. When you live with a person you will be bonding with them and forming a special client to carer relationship. You'll need to work professionally in an extremely personal setting, and with near constant physical and emotional demands. You simply cannot 'fake' caring in this job, you have to genuinely care about your client and helping them have the best possible quality of life.
If you are interested in a live-in care job in the UK and you answered yes to these five questions, you have an extremely rewarding career ahead of you. Live-in care is an incredible profession and if you have the special something it takes to be a great live-in carer, you'll enjoy many different rewards including great pay, the ability to provide extensive care, the ability to develop a special client to carer relationship and of course the enjoyable day to day variety of activities and tasks that come with the job.


text: >Columbia River Crossing Posted on April 1, 2008 by Noah Brimhall >A couple of meetings ago I promised to post THIS flyer on the Columbia River Crossing project. You can also see more information on their web site HERE. UPDATE: Thank you Carolyn Sharp for the updated link! Share this:EmailPrintTweetLike this:Like Loading... Related


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- Steve Meretzky
Steve Meretzky
Steve Meretzky, 2008
Born May 1, 1957
Yonkers, New York
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SB) Occupation Game designer
Steven Eric Meretzky (born May 1, 1957)[1] is an American computer game developer, with dozens of titles to his credit. He has been involved in almost every aspect of game development, from design to production to quality assurance and box design. He is best known for creating some of the famous Infocom games in the early 1980s, including collaborating with celebrated author Douglas Adams on the interactive fiction version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, one of the few games to be certified "platinum" by the Software Publishing Association. Later, he created the Spellcasting trilogy, the flagship adventure series of Legend Entertainment.
His keen wit, prose and coding skill made him one of only two interactive fiction writers (along with Dave Lebling) admitted to the Science Fiction Writers of America,[2] and in September 1999, PC Gamer magazine named Meretzky as one of their twenty-five "Game Gods"; those who have made an indelible mark on the history of computer gaming.
Meretzky was raised in Yonkers, New York. His father was trained as an accountant, but spent a career of 25 years selling automotive hardware. Meretzky's mother was a bookkeeper. He graduated from Yonkers High School in 1975. He went on to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in construction management in 1979.[1][3] After working in the construction industry for two years, in 1981 Meretzky decided pursue a career as a game tester for Infocom.[1] In 1983, he became a full-time writer (an "Implementor"), scripting Planetfall and creating the famous cult figure robot sidekick "Floyd".[1]
In 1984, he had his most famous collaboration, with Douglas Adams on the computer game version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which became one of the bestselling games of the era. Another popular game was Leather Goddesses of Phobos, whose risque writing pushed the boundaries of the art. In an interview, Meretzky said that he originally just wrote the name on a project board as a joke, but was later asked to actually develop a game to go along with the title.
In A Mind Forever Voyaging, Meretzky attempted to address social issues, but Infocom's success was declining, and the 1988 Zork Zero was one of his last titles there.
In 1994, Meretzky co-founded Boffo Games, where he was Vice President of Creation, and developed such titles as the story puzzle game Hodj 'n' Podj and the detective comedy The Space Bar until the company closed its doors in 1997.
Around the year 2000, Meretzky joined WorldWinner as a game advisor and Principal Game Designer. Meretzky is also a charter member of the Computer Game Developers Association, and a frequent speaker at industry conferences such as GDC.
Meretzky appears as himself antagonizing rapper MC Frontalot in the music video for "It Is Pitch Dark."[4] (released on Secrets from the Future). The song references several of Meretzky's text adventure games, and the video is directed by documentarian Jason Scott Sadofsky, whose film GET LAMP is about the genre.[5]
Several years later, Meretzky joined Blue Fang Games to work on the popular Zoo Tycoon franchise.
He is currently employed as a vice president at social media game developer Playdom.[6]
Meretzky has been credited on games developed by: Infocom, Legend Entertainment Company, Activision Inc., Boffo Games Inc., MicroProse, GameFX, Floodgate Entertainment, and Tom Snyder Productions.
Lead designer
In the following titles, Meretzky was sole or lead designer / creative director.
- Planetfall (1983)
- Sorcerer (1984)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984)
- A Mind Forever Voyaging (1985)
- Leather Goddesses of Phobos (1986)
- Stationfall (1987), Infocom
- Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz (1988)
- Lane Mastodon vs. the Blubbermen (1988)
- Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2: Gas Pump Girls Meet the Pulsating Inconvenience from Planet X! (1992), (under the "Infocom" label)
Legend Entertainment
- Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers Get All The Girls (1990)
- Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance (1991)
- Spellcasting 301: Spring Break (1992)
- Superhero League of Hoboken (1994)
Boffo Games
- Hodj 'n' Podj (1995), Virgin Interactive Entertainment
- The Space Bar (1997), Rocket Science Games, SegaSoft
- Word Cubes (2001)
- SwapIt! (2003)
- Skillgammon (2004)
- Haunted Mine (2004)
- Paint Buckets (2005)
- ...more than 25 more...
Other titles
For these titles, Meretzky had a lesser role, such as in an advisory capacity:
- Frederik Pohl's Gateway (1992), Legend Entertainment Company
- Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender (1992), MicroProse
- Eric the Unready (1993), Legend Entertainment Company
- Sinistar Unleashed (1999), THQ Inc.
- Cubis 2 (2004), FreshGames LLC.
- Steve Meretzky's Spellcasting 301: Spring Break: The Official Hint Book from Legend Entertainment Company, 1993, Compute, ISBN 0-87455-286-9 (as S. Eric Meretzky)
- Zork: The Forces of Krill (A What-Do-I-Do-Now Book, Zork #1), 1983, Tor Books, ISBN 0-8125-7975-5
- Zork: The Malifestro Quest (A What-Do-I-Do-Now Book, Zork #2), 1983, Tor Books, ISBN 0-8125-7980-1
- Zork: The Cavern of Doom (A What-Do-I-Do-Now Book, Zork #3), 1983, Tor Books, ISBN 0-8125-7985-2
- Zork: Conquest at Quendor (A What-Do-I-Do-Now Book, Zork #4), 1984, Tor Books, ISBN 0-8125-5989-4
- "Humor in Game Design", 1997, Proceedings of Computer Game Developers Conference
- "Interview: Steve Meretzky", Richard Rouse III, "Game Design: Theory & Practice", 2000
- "Building Character: An Analysis of Character Creation", 2001, Gamasutra
- "Interactive Storytelling", Free Audio File, iTunes U, MIT, Comparative media Studies, Media Industries & Systems, Spring 2006, Week 6: Interactive Storytelling
- ^ a b c d Infocom Authors - Steve Meretzky Infocom. Retrieved July 11, 2011.
- ^ "Floyd Here Now!" A Study of Planetfall's Most Enduring Character Kirk Shimano, STS 145 Case History, March 16 2004
- ^ Steve Meretzky: "Linearity is Fairly Overrated" Talking Writing. Retrieved July 11, 2011.
- ^ YouTube - MC Frontalot - It Is Pitch Dark
- ^ GET LAMP accessed 2008-10-10
- ^ Inman, Thomas. "GDC Europe: Playdom's Meretzky On Making Social Games More Viral". Gamasutra. http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=24919.
External linksCategories:
- 1957 births
- Living people
- American video game designers
- Infocom
- Interactive fiction writers
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- People from Yonkers, New York
- Puzzle designers
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Meet TRIPCard.
Backed by the trustworthiness of MasterCard® and accepted at more than 190,000 locations, the AssetWorks TRIPCard integrated fuel purchase card offers fleet organizations a whole new way of managing fuel and maintenance-related purchases for employees on the go. The TRIPCard features data integration directly into FleetFocus within hours of the transaction posting. This provides increased benefits, such as improved accountability and enhanced authorization controls, with the flexibility and portability of a credit card.
How TRIPCard works:
In this short demo, you'll learn how TRIPCard integrated fuel purchase card benefits a fleet organization.
- Fuel purchases accepted at nearly 190,000 sites and maintenance purchases are authorized at 490,000 locations across North America
- Fuel purchase card captures Level III data at virtually every accepting location
- Cards can be customized with enhanced controls like daily, dollar and location limits and limits of transaction number per user
- Card data is integrated into the FuelFocus system in near real-time and billings can be set to your organization's fiscal periods
- Complimentary liability protection against unauthorized employee charges
- Improved accountability for purchases made off-site with access to purchases and rejected purchases in near real-time
- Greater convenience for employees on the go
- Improved data accuracy and analytics through near real-time updates
- Increased insights into your organization's fuel and maintenance related spending
- Frees up valuable time normally spent on manual data integration
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High temperature semiconductor specialist, CISSOID has introduced a new high temperature 80 V small-signal N-channel MOSFET transistor in its Planet family of high temperature transistors and switches.
Mercury is a high temperature device with guaranteed operating temperature range from -55 to +225 degrees C. With its temperature robustness, its input capacitance of only 32 pF and its gate leakage limited to 5.6 uA at 225 degrees C, the 80 V transistor is ideally suited for high temperature sensor interfaces such as piezoelectric sensor or to implement a guard amplifier.
The logic-level MOSFET sinks up to 230 mA at 225 degrees C and can also be used to switch medium or high resistances, e.g. to convert a 3.3 V/5 V logic signal to a high-voltage open-drain output with turn on/off times lower than 5 ns.
Finally, with the gate tied to the source, Mercury can be used as an 80 V small current diode for high reliability at high temperature.
Availability and Pricing
Mercury, referenced as CHT-SNMOS80 is now available in TO-39 Metal Can package for sampling and evaluation. Pricing starts at 129 up to 200 units.


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The non-MLA-interviewing listings keep trickling in, one by one–as the Wiki continues to "move," hearts continue to sink, stomachs continue to turn, and the walls continue to close in, we get stuff like this:
West Chester University (PA), Assistant Professor of German. They had a search for an assistant professor last year that one of my friends interviewed for, but it's impossible to tell whether they hired anyone, because everyone on their website is referred to as a professor "of languages," which sort of belongs in the "German and Russian" category of "Well, all those fern'ers basically talk the same: FERN." I am guessing their search was cancelled, which is always a terrible sign, but if it wasn't, then for some reason a regional university in the "WTF" part of Pennsylvania is hiring two years in a row, so, great?
The funniest/saddest thing about this listing is that the application is due 12/19–which happens to be the day when even the pokiest MLA-interviewing search committees make their long-lists before Christmas, and thus the Wiki its pronouncements. So I guess you have to hand it to them for being totally cool with acting as a contingency plan to a bunch of people who at this point will know they got few or no MLA interviews. Although, given how pathetic the market is, most job seekers this year will have few or no MLA interviews, so I imagine this very shitty job ("The successful candidate will create and teach traditional, alternative-format and distance education courses") will have 200 applicants.
Since this department has Professors of Languages, I'm going to give this ad the Rebecca Schuman Seal of Disapproval (see post below for photo) but a generic Grade of "GRADE" to reflect the ludicrous generic titles of the faculty.
UPDATE! Here's a bonus listing, with hat tip to my Twomie Douglas:
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Professor of Liberal Arts (Open Rank)
"The college seeks a candidate who is closely attentive to the artistry in a work of literature-its imagery, nuance, tone, ambiguity, and language-rather than to the work as a text for political or ideological polemic." Because no art students or artists should EVER think of literature as a form of artistic protest against hegemonic structures that oppress and hurt people! You can teach Invisible Man, but if you make so much as one comment about the paint scene having anything to do with something that isn't paint, you are FIRED, COMMUNIST. Just in case you don't know how to read (because, as a literature professor, you probably don't, unless it's Pravda), here's more: "Requirements: Publications in peer-reviewed journals of literature and/or jargon-free publications treating literature not as raw material for "decorative" analysis but rather as the expression of the human spirit." As long as that expression does not involve having an opinion about anything, of course. GRADE: decorative, polemical middle finger.
No further "movement" on the Wiki this week-i, so I guess your misery spirals are on "pause" for the time being.
It's going to be very weird/therapeutic to relive the horrors of the worst part of Job Market Season (Dec./Jan) from outside instead of inside. One way that you can help me do this right is to join in the process–please continue to submit, in comments or via email, your horror stories and Bad Search Committee behavior, as well as your feelings about what it's like to have yet another Wiki Season approach, and how it feels to see all those "requests" to come in while none (or few) come in for you. I believe that the more we are honest about this, the more we will realize our experiences are/were normal.


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Banana-Coconut Packets
Coconut cream, sticky rice, and bananas are tucked inside banana leaves and steamed together for a pudding-like dessert. The recipe for this dish comes from Asian Dumplings by Andrea Nguyen (Ten Speed Press, 2009).
Yield: makes 12 PACKETS
- 12 fresh or frozen banana leaves
- 2 1⁄4 cups coconut cream
- 3⁄4 cup sugar
- Kosher salt, to taste
- 1 1⁄2 cups short-grain sticky rice, soaked for 6 hours, drained, and rinsed
- 3 firm-ripe bananas, quartered lengthwise
- Cut each leaf into a roughly 12″x 14″ rectangle, then cut scraps into 12 thin ribbons for tying; set aside. Combine coconut cream, sugar, 1⁄4 cup water, and salt in a 12″ nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Cook, stirring, until it begins to bubble, about 2 minutes. Add rice; cook, stirring often, until most of the liquid is absorbed, about 7 minutes. Remove from heat; let rice absorb liquid, about 20 minutes. Divide rice into 12 equal portions.
- Working with 1 banana leaf at a time, arrange leaf with a short edge parallel to you, smooth side up. Put a portion of rice in center; top with a banana quarter; press gently. Shape rice into a rectangle. Fold leaf ends over rice to make a packet. Tie with a ribbon. Repeat to make 12 packets in all.
- Pour water into a wide-bottomed pot to a depth of 1″. Set a colander inside pot. Working in 2 batches, steam packets until firm, about 15 minutes.


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fiber ∞-bundle, principal ∞-bundle, associated ∞-bundle,
group cohomology, nonabelian group cohomology, Lie group cohomology
Hochschild cohomology, cyclic cohomology?
cohomology with constant coefficients / with a local system of coefficients
differential cohomology
étale morphism (submersion, immersion)
generally in differential cohesion
in topology
This page collects links related to the textbook
Introduction to Étale Cohomology
on étale cohomology.
direct image, inverse image (here: on presheaves)
strictly local ring?
Last revised on November 24, 2013 at 12:16:08. See the history of this page for a list of all contributions to it.


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Having had the chance to meet both Tyler & Lauren at Jesse & Katie's wedding exactly one year ago, we knew two things about their Silverthorne Pavilion Wedding. There would be tears… and plenty of dance floor action. Both held true. The dance floor was filled with so much energy that we found ourselves not being able to stop laughing while shooting this group. Some of these frames will definitely go down as some of our craziest reception photos of all time.
It was such a pleasure being able to work with this amazing group of friends and family once again. Enjoy a few of our favorites from their beautiful mountain wedding.


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The Swedish Hospital Bereavement Support Groups
Grief Support Groups
Seattle Washington
425-640-4404View Website
The Swedish Hospital network offers bereavement support groups for any community member grieving the death of a loved one. Groups include: the Journey of Grief general loss six-week support group, the Survivor of Suicide eight-week support group, the Traumatic Loss eight-week support group, and the Early Days of Grief monthly drop-in group for those who recently experienced loss. All programs are free; some require registration.


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It's time again for my favourite meme. Based on the concept of six degrees of separation, Emma Chapman and Annabel Smith have created #6DEGREES, where bloggers share links between books in six moves. Check out the rules if you want to play along.
This month the chain starts with the 2014 Booker winner, Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North. I haven't read it (yet) but it sits alongside a bunch of other books on a list that I compiled of the books that appear most frequently on all of the Best Books of 2014 lists. Another book on that list that I plan to read is Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi.
Based purely on the title, my next link is to The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey.
Fortunately the rules of this meme are of the relaxed variety because my next link, to Julie and Julia by Julie Powell is tenuous indeed (hint: Child).
I'm partial to stories about chefs, kitchens and cooking, which leads me to Nigel Slater's Toast, a biography of a childhood remembered through food.
An undoubtedly less happy memoir is Alice Sebold's Lucky – I'm sure I would have read The Lovely Bones through different eyes if I'd read Lucky first.
And while we're on the topic of tenuous links, my final selection is Laurinda by Alice Pung (both have authors named Alice and yellow covers).
There is a common thread running through my selections this month – I'm yet to read any of them!


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New health records have fewer fraud safeguards
The federal government is rewarding doctors and hospitals for moving to electronic health records — and will soon punish them if they don't — even though these records currently make it easier for health care providers to defraud government-paid health programs, fraud experts say.
The Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general charged in December that the basic auditing safeguards that also help to prevent fraud for electronic health records (EHRs) weren't in place in many hospitals, or they were being used, but vulnerable to corruption.
Yet the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services still don't require health care providers to keep their audit systems on. Reed Gelzer, a former primary care doctor who is now an EHR consultant to the federal government and private groups, says that means the health records that are maintained electronically can be easily falsified.
"There have been billions spent on these systems and incentives paid to providers, but there is no private or government agency that provides oversight," said Dan Bowerman, a Philadelphia chiropractor who has assisted in many state and federal fraud investigations.
Preventing EHR fraud is a "top priority" for CMS, spokesman Aaron Albright said in an e-mail response.
"We are working to create strong standards for validating electronic health records to ensure that we allow beneficiaries to receive the care they need and at the same time protect taxpayers from fraud, waste and abuse," he said.
A 2009 federal law requires that certified EHRs have to be used in a "meaningful manner." This includes e-prescribing, sharing health information and allowing providers to submit clinical quality measures, such as patient care outcomes.
Electronic records can be enormously beneficial in medicine because they allow doctors and pharmacists to coordinate patients' care, which reduces medical errors and avoids duplication of procedures. HHS has spent more than $22.5 billion in financial incentives for doctors and hospitals to use EHRs, and those that don't will soon have their Medicare payments reduced.
The problems occur when the records aren't audited for reliability or checked for cloned records, said Bowerman, a former medical director at a major insurer. Questionable electronic documentation systems allow providers to add notes to existing records or create new records where none existed before. Some health care providers who are the subject of insurance company audits or criminal investigations have created such records, Bowerman said.
The push for EHRs comes as funding for federal fraud fighting programs, which earn more than $8 for every $1 spent — remains a fraction of health care expenditures.


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Eugene Eben Finch Sr. age 79 of Cedar Springs passed away Saturday, June 3, 2017 at Spectrum Health – Butterworth Campus. He was born August 13, 1937 in Grand Rapids, Michigan the son of Eben and Bessie (Fairbrother) Finch. Eugene proudly served in the Marine Corps from 1954 to 1957. He also enjoyed driving around on his tractor working his land. He is survived by his children and grandchildren, Eugene (Lori) Finch Jr. (Anthony, Chelsea, and Dylan), Terry (Angela) Finch (Alexander and Andrew), Debbie (Troy) Ensminger (Kyle and Nicole), Rodney S. Finch; great-grandchildren Ryland, Mya, and Bryson; sister, Eileen (Val) Bennett. Eugene was preceded in death by his parents and sisters, Patricia Finch and Joyce Hegwood. The family met with friends on Wednesday at the Bliss-Witters & Pike Funeral Home, Cedar Springs where the service will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. Pastor Larry Young, officiating. Interment Solon Township Cemetery with the Kent County Veterans Honor Guard. Memorial contributions may be made to the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation.
Arrangements by Bliss-Witters & Pike Funeral Home, Cedar Springs


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Published in the Fall 2010 issue of SSA Magazine
Abstract:Over the summer, eight SSA students attended an almost month-long study program in Mumbai, India called "Poverty, Marginalization, and Challenges to Community Practice in India." The students took classes and learned alongside Tata Institute of Social Sciences students and participated in two days of field work every week. In this article, the students provide accounts of their field work in Mumbai, talking about things such as different types of slums, market experiences and learning about how cultural differences have an impact on both social work and public policy.
SSA students learn about poverty and community in the classroom and in the field in Mumbai
Original PDF with photos available here.
As the monsoon season began to wind down, a small contingent of SSA students arrived in India this august. For more than three weeks they studied in the classroom and in the field in Mumbai, the largest city in India and an intense urban setting of vibrant streets and startling poverty.
The program, "Poverty, Marginalization, and Challenges to Community Practice in India" introduced the eight master's students to how social welfare is organized in India, the nature of its urban poverty, key issues confronting vulnerable populations, and the intent, organization and implementation of local models of community practice. Organized by Associate Professor Robert Chaskin, the program included reciprocal peer learning with master's students at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) and field work at a number of community agencies and organizations.
"I think it went remarkably well," says Chaskin, who accompanied the students for the program. "The goal was to throw into relief and begin to question what we think we know about poverty and the responses to poverty at the community level. What is different, what is relevant to our work in the U.S., what are the possibilities and limitations and challenges to our assumptions that working in these other contexts suggests?"
The students participated in two full days in the field each week, observing several different local NGOs at work, and engaged in classes, seminars, reading assignments and reflective writing, all in a comparative framework of community organizing and development practice in India and the United States. Chaskin points out that even the pedagogy was different: At TISS, students spend much more time in the classroom, where coursework can routinely run from 9–6. However, the biggest eye opener was experiencing first-hand the deep deprivation that exists in pockets of the city, especially in the poorest slums. "We did readings and orientation before going, but you don't really begin to understand until you experience it," he says.
The program was a milestone for SSA's growing international program, providing the first opportunity for SSA students to study overseas. "It really exceeded our expectations, and it certainly served as a very concrete example of the development of our programming," says Cristina Gros, the manager for international programming and continuing education at SSA.
Gros says that the program also was a great learning experience for her and the partners who made it possible, helping to pave the way for ongoing opportunities. Chaskin is planning to replicate the program for next summer, and he hopes similar courses, perhaps with different academic focuses, can also be developed. "The intent is to continue to build experiences such as this as part of a broader set of opportunities at SSA that are focused on social work internationally," he says.
The following pages are filled with thoughts and descriptions of the experience from the SSA students who participated, excerpted from their daily field journals, e-mails and blog posts during their time in Mumbai.
Meeting in the Market
Katie and I were paired with three TISS students to explore the informal and formal components of the Chembur Market, and the ways in which we witness and understand the manifestation of poverty and inequality. Katie, Avad, Saumya, Ujjwaal and myself split into two auto rickshaws and headed to the market. Jumping out, we were immediately surrounded by children asking for money. There is a similar hand gesture that most children display when they are asking for resources—they gather the tips of their fingers, as if holding a small wad of rice between them, dragging them from their imaginary plates drawn in the air toward their lips, looking up at you with round, deep brown eyes.
We weaved in and out of traffic, the students grabbing our hands telling us the optimal moment to make a dash and how to carry ourselves. In the market, we talked to an "auntie" (a word commonly referring to a woman in informal conversation) who was selling onions. She sat on the ground with a knife, separating the white bulbs from the green stalks. She was in her sixties, widowed, telling us that she had been doing this work since she was 10 years old. She likes it, she told us, and it makes her happy, because it is through this work that she is able to provide for her family.
- Kirsten Dickins
Life in a New Building
Today was the first day of field placement. I am placed at an agency called the slum rehabilitation society. Basically, the agency works with the governments to place people who are forced out of slums (due to land use for infrastructure projects, etc.) into permanent housing and organizes the people in housing projects. Today, we went to the field site with our student hosts, Ashish and Pradeep. The goal is to organize women in one of the projects to develop groups devoted to gaining some type of livelihood, such as embroidery, sewing or running a canteen serving food.
We first were welcomed into the home of Sumitra, the president of the women's group at one of the buildings. The flat was essentially in two rooms, a small kitchen in the back and a main living room with beds that double as sitting spaces. The dimensions may be around 200 square feet. Sumitra had set up her space beautifully, with brightly colored sheets on the beds, decorative art such as a small glass chandelier, and plants in the kitchen. The space was comfortable, orderly and immaculately clean.
When asked about her feelings about her flat, she choked up. She was so happy to have moved in, she said. In the slum housing where she lived, there were 16 toilets for 2,000 people and now she has her own toilet. In her flat she has running water for 15-30 minutes a day. She told us she was used to fighting to get water with hundreds of others in the short time period the taps were on. She laughed when she talked about the fights that she witnessed at the water taps and the toilet lines. It amazes me that so many people struggling for survival have such a good sense of humor, but I guess, how else do you survive? Other women and children came to the flat to talk with us, and we discussed families and marriage and laughed with each other.
- Katie Gambach
Living without Resources
Today we visited a different part of the settlement—Rafi Nagar, which is located much closer (or directly on top) of the garbage dump, as new migrants act mostly as scavengers within the dump. Made out of wooden sticks and tarps, the housing seemed less sturdy and it had a sense of illegitimate establishment, as if at any moment there may be a family moving in or out. It is becoming more and more apparent that the migrant pull to Mumbai for work is a large contributing factor to the unyielding growth of this community at the macro-level.
Other environmental factors added to the feeling of worsened quality of life: even worse sanitary conditions, the location directly on top of the dump, and the general feeling that these "homes" were dropped and could be removed just as easily, contributed to the unsettling feeling and overall difficulty of the day. aside from my own, perhaps selfish, concerns with my own health, I had a hard time grasping that these conditions (no running water, no public toilet, high levels of pollution, use of rain water for bathing and washing) were the reality of so many individuals. I struggled to understand how one might attempt to survive in these dismal conditions, and the idea of basic home needs came back to mind. Without access to proper nutrition, running water, and health security, then education and awareness may be difficult points to stick within the community.
- Allison Yura
The Dilemma of the Poorest Slums
Visiting Rafi Nagar helps me understand a bit better the policy dilemma lawmakers in India must face. On one hand, the migration from rural areas is not going to stop while people cannot make a living there. On the other, the government will condone the migration and possibly make it worse if they create the necessary infrastructure to support the influx of people. In a harm reduction world, it seems like the most humanitarian policy would be to try to accept the migration and provide services and sanitation as quickly as possible, but I also understand that may not be politically feasible.
Though 60 percent of the population of Mumbai lives in slums, only a small portion of that are undeveloped slums like Rafi Nagar, and the people who live here are not a population that I perceive to be easily mobilized. The load they carry just to survive seems to preclude that. From my experience here, I get the sense that people who live in the developed slums are not too keen on the arrival of the new migrants, even though they themselves may have been migrants at one point (though, according to the TISS students, this could be as much as 20 years ago). With more people comes more pressure on resources, and this area is already resource poor to begin with.
It's amazing how your concept of poverty can change in a very short time. Before I'd been to Rafi Nagar, the recognized parts of Shivaji Nagar seemed poor and run-down, but now that I've seen the unrecognized slums, I am able to see the resources that are clearly available to the people who live here: water, electricity, drainage, social services, community, commerce, etc. these are thriving communities, despite their poverty.
- Elizabeth Siegel
Children with Special Needs
One of the day cares at Apnalaya [an organization that provides education, health services and a variety of other social supports, primarily in the slums of Govandi] is for developmentally disabled children. It provides a safe environment, education, and health care to help them gain either employment or to help them matriculate into a school specifically for developmentally disabled children.
Children often start coming to the day care after the developmental disability clearly manifests in physical appearance, when the child fails out of school, or when the family is unable to care for the child and they cannot be left alone (this would be something like a behavioral or emotional disorder where unlike the other slum children, who can be taken care of by siblings or who can play communally, the developmental disability prevents these options). There are often no means or resources to identify developmental disabilities at birth or during early onset.
- Amanda Wilson
Social Work and Empowerment
I have been struck from the very beginning of our time at TISS by the overwhelming foundation of self-empowerment that exists in notions of "social work." rather than playing the role of the trained expert coming in to "help" these communities, they are seen much more as facilitators of local, community- centered, self-empowered autonomous choice; giving people a space to have their voice heard and listening to what they are expressing as their needs. That's clearly not to say this happens all the time in India, but it's something I have found far too often missing in notions of "social work" I've encountered in the states, and I find this gravely problematic.
- Roanna Cooper
Wives, Mothers and Infant Mortality
In the afternoon, we were exposed to a program that is researching the high prevalence of infant mortality in the slums. Along with Kirsten, I joined a TISS student and community worker in visiting two different homes of women who had lost infants recently. Both women were suspected to be victims of domestic abuse, and at the second home we visited there was a second wife living on the other side of the wall/tarp. Both women would like to stop having children, and in one case the husband agreed. Both women seemed exhausted, and unable to provide their living children with the love and attention they need.
After the second home visit, the TISS student explained to us some of the issues in the infant mortality rate. She linked the lack of education and awareness as a large contributing factor; many of the families, she found, did not know how to treat a sick child and were generally unaware of the importance of hygiene. Additionally, she felt that the emphasis on the man's happiness and satisfaction led to an uneven distribution of the family's food resources in favor of the father and other older males. She hoped that the findings of her research would reach the organization and call for further education of mothers.
- Allison Yura
The Human Touch
I often think about how the culture in the United states, particularly in settings such as schools, hospitals, and various other social service organizations are becoming increasingly "touch-phobic"—we seem to fear what human touch might suggest, and moreover, the repercussions that we may incur from provoking these interpretations. Legal and social ramifications are constantly at stake.
I don't see that being the case here in India, but rather the opposite. People are inclined to touch, to rub your shoulder, to put their arm around your back, to stroke your hand. The comfort I feel expressed through human touch is astounding, and I wonder how expressing affection and care through these means may aid in the strengthened development of micro level community ties.
- Kirsten Dickins


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UPDATE: Wonderful piece in the Guardian by Paul Rees, to be found here.
My father preferred Gareth: that had to do
with pluck and mud and moral fibre.
Not that he dismissed the king - the Methodist
in him simply warmed to a humbler talent.
But I was entranced. Barry John was beauty
triumphant, the world as it ought to be
and, I was young enough to think, as it was.
I suppose this could be regarded as a kind of lament both for my happy childhood and the Golden Era of Welsh rugby, but of course it is actually inspired by the New Hope. It may be that England scratch a win on Saturday, as they have against Scotland and Italy, but the joy that Welsh rugby has brought recently cannot be gainsaid, and although there will never be another Barry John, there are Lydiates and Halfpennys and Priestlands, for which many thanks to whomsoever orders these things.


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Researchers at The University of Auckland have proposed a new method for finding Earth-like planets and they anticipate that the number will be in the order of 100 billion.
The strategy uses a technique called gravitational microlensing, currently used by a Japan-New Zealand collaboration called MOA (Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics) at New Zealand's Mt John Observatory. Their work will appear in the Oxford University Press journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Lead author Dr Phil Yock from the University of Auckland's Department of Physics explains that the work will require a combination of data from microlensing and the NASA Kepler space telescope.
"Kepler finds Earth-sized planets that are quite close to parent stars, and it estimates that there are 17 billion such planets in the Milky Way. These planets are generally hotter than Earth, although some could be of a similar temperature (and therefore habitable) if they're orbiting a cool star called a red dwarf."
"Our proposal is to measure the number of Earth-mass planets orbiting stars at distances typically twice the Sun-Earth distance. Our planets will therefore be cooler than the Earth. By interpolating between the Kepler and MOA results, we should get a good estimate of the number of Earth-like, habitable planets in the Galaxy. We anticipate a number in the order of 100 billion."
"Of course, it will be a long way from measuring this number to actually finding inhabited planets, but it will be a step along the way."
Astronomers anticipate 100 billion Earth like planets
Researchers at The University of Auckland have proposed a new method for finding Earth-like planets and they anticipate that the number will be in the order of 100 billion.


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This debut has been acclaimed as the "First Great Instagram Novel", and what it does is both new and strange – and deeply familiar. From the infancy of the industrial revolution, novels have thrived on technological change, dramatising the aesthetics of machines as well as the changes (usually deformations) they make to the human soul. The pantheon of post-industrial writing is Humphrey Jennings's Pandaemonium: The Coming of the Machine 1660-1886, and if there were to be a sequel for our digital age, Sympathy would earn a place in it for its exquisite, sustained observation of our use of smartphones. When the narrator, Alice Hare, takes possession of her loved one's device, she says: "It felt kind of like holding her brain, and I held it like that, my palm flat, my right index finger light and quick, as if the phone were jellied or slimy."
Full of these casually creepy, very 21st-century observations, Sympathy is an astute, quirky, slow-burning satire on emerging codes of behaviour, intergenerational differences, globalisation, the tech industry and the vortex of the dark web. Alice tumbles through an online rabbit hole of absurdities and dream-like connections that ultimately leads into a nightmarish mise en abyme and an illegal, orgiastic rave – rather a long way from Lewis Carroll.
The novel's structure spirals like a sick rose. With each chapter we step not forwards but sideways, oblique petals of information giving way until we reach the cankered heart of the story. It is a warning against the illusory intimacy offered on social media: a "love story that is mostly made up, from memories that are mostly false, between people who were mainly not there".
Alice is an intelligent but amoral 23-year-old graduate, unmoored on an extended holiday in New York, where, as she says, "you can go completely mental and no one gives a shit". (Her vernacular is either curtly casual or laboured with poetic similes, resulting in a tone that feels a little lurching.) Her fan-girl passion for a Japanese writer, teacher and artful Instagram self-fashioner called Mizuko Himura propels the plot, and there is many a Highsmithian frisson as Alice insinuates herself, like a social media Ripley: "As with all her favourite things, I already knew what and where they were, so I mentioned it [a bookshop] before she did."
Their first "date" prompts Alice to feel "bliss expanding from my chest and sliding down the rest of my body, collecting in my shoes like warm pools of butter" – this during a lecture about the Holocaust, in which she is completely uninterested except as a vehicle for getting closer to the object of her infatuation.
Her powers of observation, extended by obsessive digital habits, have leached her powers of sympathy. A child of the age of algorithms, she notices everything but knows the value and significance of nothing. Facts and random impressions are scattered through the novel like so much debris, and the Japanese tsunami of 2011 is a leitmotif of disorder. This makes for a book that is baggier than it needs to be, even though an otiose expedition to the Hamptons pays off for its descriptions of the obligatory whiteness of everything, from white eggplants to white linen cases on the fire hydrants. (As the daughter of design guru Deyan Sudjic and former Condé Nast Traveller editor Sarah Miller, the author is well placed to know.)
Are we, as Pandaemonium foretold, becoming internally digitised, losing our perspective, our heart? The age-old fear that we are turning into machines is refreshed here for our time: Alice is a flâneuse who sees herself "gliding" around New York "like a robot on the ocean floor, from point to point on the city grid". Calculation replaces real emotion. Her walks are undertaken mainly so she can post the pictures she takes. She has a boyfriend whom she tolerates: "He provided a lot of material and a lot of likes for Instagram." The anomie of the narrator infects every character, every situation – an impressive feat of authorial commitment.
Rarely do novels so ostentatiously of the moment succeed so well at gesturing to the universal. This book is packed with the "now": site-specific promenade theatre, grubby dating apps, ancestry-testing kits, puns on Pinterest and Pinteresque. Alice when she is bored and waiting even physically resembles a download symbol, "buffering" on the pavement as she swings round a scaffolding pole. And yet the tone on occasion rises to sagacity as when, for example, Alice consoles herself that her looks have drawn her love-object closer: "It can sometimes be good to be plain-looking, because it is a temptation to those who pride themselves on having a good eye."
Samuel Butler predicted in Erewhon, published in 1872, that we might become "machine-tickling aphids" – parasites upon machines. This novel convincingly updates and extends the idea that what we think we are using may, in fact, be using us. Shudder – and then post about it. The abyss beckons.
Sympathy is published by One. To order a copy for £11.24 (RRP £14.99) go to bookshop.theguardian.com or call 0330 333 6846. Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. Phone orders min p&p of £1.99.
Hermione Eyre's Viper Wine is published by Vintage.


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Facts and Feelings in the Classroom, 1973 (Louis J. Rubin)
A Sourcebook of Pragmatic Activities for Language Theory, 1984 (Elizabeth B. Johnston)
Counseling with Deaf People, 1971 (Alan E. Sussman)
Severely Handicapped Deaf Adults (pamphlet)
Needs of Emotionally Disturbed Hearing Impaired Children, 1975 (Doris Naiman)
Reading on Deafness, 1973 (Douglas Watson)
Encouraging Language Development (pamphlet)
Mainstreaming, 1979, (Milo E. Bishop)
Education of the Hearing Impaired Child, 1985 (Frank Powell)
Science for Deaf Children, 1968, (Allan Leitman)
Sentences and Other Systems, 1978 (Peter Blackwell)
The Teacher as Learning Facilitator, 1979 (J.M. Smith)
Improving Voice and Articulation, 1975 (Hilda B. Fisher)
Introduction to Audiology, 1981 (Fredrick Martin)
Psychology of Deafness, 1964 (Helmer R. Mydlebust)
Speech and Hearing Science, 1981 (Willard R. Zemlin)
Human Vocal Anatomy, 1977 (David Ross Dickson)
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Psychiatry and the Deaf Child, 1969 (J.H. Kahn)
Speech and Deafness, 1975, (Donald R. Calvert)
Amplification for the Hearing Impaired, 1980 (Michael C. Pollack)
Language Development and Intervention with the Hearing Impaired, 1978 (Richard R. Kretschmer)
Speech and the Hearing Impaired Child, 1976, (Daniel Ling)
Auditory Disorders in School Children, 1981 (Ross Roeser)
Speech of the Hearing Impaired, 1983 (Erving Hocheerg)
Deafness and Communication: Assessment in Training, 1982 (Donald G. Sims)
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Principles of Interpreting (pamphlet)
Interpreting: An Introduction, 1986 (Nancy Frishberg) (3 copies available)
Sign Language Interpreters and Interpreting, 1992 (Dennis Cokely)
Sign Language Interpreting: A Basic Resource Book, 1981 (Sharon Neumann Solow) (2 copies available)
Interpreting Sign Language, 1989 (Laura Greene)
Sign the Speech: Introduction to Theatrical Interpreting, 1996 (Julie Genron)
Facilitating Manual Communication for Interpreters, Students and Teachers, 1978, (Leo Dicker)
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Sign Me Alice: A Play in Sign Language, 1974 (Gilbert Eastman)
The Mentors Companion, 2007 (Patty Gordon)
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A Dictionary of Idioms For The Deaf, 1975
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Conversational Sign Language 2, 1972
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ASL: A Look At History, Structure And Community, 1978 (2 pamphlets available)
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ASL Interpreting and Deaf Culture
Deaf Culture
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Petrol Problems on Tarmac
Do you have unsightly oil patches on your drive? Those who have a passion for tinkering with cars, motorbikes or other machines will understand how annoying it can be to deal with petrol spills. With concrete, you can mop it up, which is why petrol stations have concrete and not tarmac surfaces. So, how to deal with a petrol-stained driveway?
The reason why petrol causes a problem on tarmac is that the sticky part of tarmac that glues it together is bitumen which is an oil by-product. Petrol can dissolve the bitumen and break down the surface of your driveway. This is the same for other oil by-product too, such as paraffin, light oil and diesel.
If you are present when the spill occurs, it's best to mop it up as soon as it happens with an absorbent cloth. Warm water mixed with detergent and a brush is the next thing to try but don't put too much pressure on the tarmac or it could loosen. The detergent and water should help to break down the petrol, so you can then rinse with plenty of water.
If you are not aware of the leak or spill, the only real solution to getting rid of the stain and possible damage is to remove the top surface where the patch is and re-patch it with fresh tarmac. This won't be seamless however, so any fresh patch will always be visible.
If you leave the petrol, it will continue to break down the tarmac, loosening the aggregate layer. Whenever the pressure of a vehicle passes over it, it will push more aggregate out, leaving an ugly hole. Better to get it fixed sooner rather than later. For Tarmac contractors Yorkshire, visit https://www.wrsroadsurfacing.co.uk/
A good patching method is to cut down into the surface with a power saw to around 5cm deep. Mark around the stain leaving a 10cm gap on each side. This is to ensure all the petrol from under the surface is included as well as that which is visible on top.
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Once the patch reaches the same level as the rest of the drive, more tarmac jointing compound is needed around the join. This is what makes the patch visible but is a necessary part of the job to prevent water from getting in and breaking the seal between the patch and the rest of the drive.


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Today over at Los Angeles Review of Books our Poetic Olympians, Sarah Blake and Stephen Burt are telling us all about fencing and women's basketball.
By Sarah Blake
Picture the fencers. Picture them, without their gear, covered in bruises. All the weapons leave bruises, from thrusts, flicks, and the sabre's slash. They leave welts as well.
When I fenced in high school, we were proud of the marks. Mostly, it didn't hurt to get them. Or hurt isn't the right word because it feels good to hit someone, to be hit, in a bit of flesh that gives to the point.
I don't mean to sound masochistic or sadistic, but the pleasure exists. And I was never interested in fencing for the grace or technique of it. I was competitive, physical, and enjoyed the fight.
Even now, some ten years later, I remember how it feels to land the point of my foil in someone's side, to turn my hand, to push so the blade bends out to the side, to understand the belly anew, as a soft target.
Some parts of the body are protected. Women wear a chest plate, made of plastic, and shaped like breasts, as if women wear perky Victoria's Secret bras while they fence, instead of sports bras that flatten them. Even in the Olympics you can see these rounded cups through the lame and jacket.
As a poet, sometimes I feel this way, that I've geared up like a poet, but that my lines about motherhood, about sex, my method of engagement, my very words have flagged me as a woman poet, and then I'm standing there with plastic breasts that are the same size and shape as every other woman poet.
But if our breasts matter at all, our breasts are different.
Only one person, that I know of, has died from fencing. Vladimir Viktorovich Smirnov. He was the gold medalist in men's Individual Foil at the 1980 Summer Olympics. In 1981, he won the World Championships. In 1982, he returned to the World Championships and fenced with Matthias Behr.
During the bout, Behr lunged, landed his point on Smirnov's chest, the blade bent, as it should, but then snapped, and Behr's forward motion continued, driving the broken blade through Smirnov's mask and into his brain. While death was not immediate, death did come.
Safety precautions changed. So changed the metals of the weapons, the mesh of the masks. But I know, maybe all fencers know, it could happen again. The full force of the body, the power of forward momentum, the frequency of broken blades, the mesh still only mesh, and our fragile faces.
Poetry is dangerous. It can be. We don't typically use the word danger. We use words like risks and stakes. The risks of the poet and the stakes of the poem. But danger is implicit, sometimes explicit.
I've always valued the danger in poetry. I might value it above all else in poetry. Be it a weakness or a strength, it is a symptom of my fighting heart which led me to fencing in the first place.
When I fenced, I always felt the connection to sword fighting, to duels. The fights to the death or just to first blood. A mere scratched arm. Honor and disgrace doled out at once.
Sometimes the Olympics, with its rules and lights and wired bodies, hides this connection to fencing's history.
On July 30th, 2012, the rules required a young woman sit on the piste for about an hour while she waited for the results of an appeal. She cried much of the time.
Articles said she "broke down in tears," "was reduced to tears," "was in a flood of tears." Some mock her and some defend her.
To me, she sat as if at the foot of the world and hid nothing from it. And while challenges of judges are common in most sports, it was still brave of her, to compel the deliberations, to sit and continue sitting.
But for a time, her seated, weeping body, lit up on the piste, ruined my romance with fencing.
This year, I'm watching most of the games with my 14-month-old son. I'm happy to report that fencing had him transfixed, at least for one bout.
The first time I watched Olympic fencing was when my coach played VHS tapes of men's Individual Foil. I thought they had special foils, different from my own, because theirs whipped about wildly as if they were not made of metal. But it is just the strength of the men's arms. I was in awe.
I read today, "the tip of a fencing blade is widely considered the second fastest moving object in sport, behind a marksman's bullet." Awe is still the right word. And perhaps awe is what my son experienced as he watched that bout from my lap, quiet and still.
I pretended to fence my son with my finger. "Chh, chh, chh," I said as I moved my finger between 4 and 6. Then I poked him.
I asked him, "Are you going to be a really great fencer one day?"
And he answered, "Uh-huh"—a word, a perfect sound, that he's only been making for a few days.
It will not be hard to encourage him. Peter Pan's dagger against Captain Hook's sword. The Princess Bride. When he's older, The Three Musketeers and Cyrano de Bergerac.
It will be harder, I worry, to foster a love of poetry in him. But another part of me thinks he will find poetry as I have found it: threatening, urgent, and utterly magnetic.
Stephen Burt on Women's Basketball
It wasn't supposed to be hard. American women's basketball team has won gold at every Olympics since Atlanta in 1996, where U.S. success—anticipated and then realized—helped to launch the WNBA. The W, in turn—though teams come and go— remains the world's best showcase for professional women's basketball: this year's U.S. team had nothing but WNBA all-stars, including the three best scorers in the league, its strongest pure low-post player, and its two best point guards. The volatile, exuberant Diana Taurasi can score from anywhere on the court, and dominate almost anybody one on one, as long as she doesn't foul out; Seimone Augustus has cultivated what might be the purest, most beautiful jump shot in the history of the women's game, with Maya Moore's two- and three-point arc close behind. Sylvia Fowles, whose musculature reminds me of several comic-book superheroes, can hold a position like nobody else, and elevate like a military helicopter. As for the point guards, the players (often shorter than all the others) who bring the ball up the court and often control the flow of the game: Sue Bird has a legion of imitators for good reason, and Lindsay Whalen seems to have jet thrusters in her sneakers, the ability to pass through solid objects (e.g. defenders), and eyes in the back of her head.
Other national teams have one or two or three internationally recognizable stars; the U.S. team is as deep as it has ever been, and deeper than all its competitors—so deep that coach Geno Auriemma can send all his starters off the court, replace them with bench players (as in hockey ) and suffer for nothing, except perhaps at center. Where, on the men's side, some players turn their country down, fearing injury or conserving their strength for the pro season, on the women's side almost every player asked to represent the U.S. does; one exception this year, center Brittney Griner of Baylor University (you may have heard that she dunks), will likely say yes when she's finished with college play. (Another WNBA star, the sharpshooting guard Becky Hammon, wanted to play in the Olympics—or perhaps to build up her savings—so badly that when Team USA turned her down, she accepted, for pay, Russian citizenship, and now plays on the Russian national team.)
For all that talent Team USA brought to the UK, observers saw problems, structural ones, beforehand. WNBA salaries are respectable (comparable to assistant professors) but not stratospheric, so most elite players take wintertime jobs with better-paid teams overseas: that means they play year-round, and wear out their bodies and spirits, on average, faster than their male counterparts, who take the NBA off-season off, and faster than Europeans who take non-Olympic summers off. Year-round play also means that between their overseas teams in the winter and the W during the summer, American Olympians don't practice together so often as other national teams. That perennial problem might have been assuaged, this year, because so many of the Americans played together, in college, for the same coach: six of eleven represented UConn under Geno Auriemma, the wisecracking perfectionist whose teams have won six of the last twelve NCAA crowns.
And yet, in the first Olympic game, the cracks showed. Team Croatia, not expected to make it out of the preliminary round, pulled ahead several times during the first three quarters. It was a low-scoring match, frustrating to watch, for those three quarters, unless you supported particular Croatians: 6'6" Marisa Vrsaljko, for example, who appears not to have played for teams outside Croatia, kept outworking the Americans to hit open outside shots. Jelena Ivezic connected on trey after trey, and 6'9" center Luca Ivankovic used her big body to keep the U.S. from the lane. Team USA looked surprised, underwhelmed by their own lack of coordination,and unable to play as a team.
But that was the first 30 minutes; it's a 40-minute game. Whalen came through, with assists and with fast twisting layups. So did Angel McCoughtry, who has brought into the pros her collegiate habit of trying to score all the points herself: she didn't have to do it here, though she looked ready. U.S. perimeter defense picked up, Croatia wilted, and the Americans rolled, 81-56. Announcers like to talk about veterans, and most of the U.S. players have gold medals from 2004 or 2008, but the keys to the runaway win Saturday were the players—Whalen, McCoughtry, Candace Parker—never invited to the Olympics before.
Was this game a tuneup, a demonstration of nerves, a way to get going, even if it took a while to bring the team up to speed? Or did USA vs. Croatia show other teams, with more talent, how to beat the USA? Likely more of the former, but maybe a bit of the latter. Team USA in 2008 had moments when no outside shots were falling, and veteran center Lisa Leslie—nicknamed "My Pretty Pony" by WNBA fans for her hair ribbons and her self-centered demeanor—saved the day with her repertoire of low-post moves, making it hard for most fans to keep hating her. Leslie has now retired, and other nations have big women who match or exceed what Team USA supplies, as big as the 6'6" Fowles and more skilled than Ivankovic: Australia's 6'8" Liz Cambage, for example. The Australian national team, called the Opals, had no trouble in their first match against Great Britain; Opals forward Lauren Jackson, who also leads the WNBA's Seattle Storm, can take over a game inside or outside, and has a legitimate claim to be the best women's basketball player in the world.
Other elite teams, though, had bigger scares. Most experts pick the Opals to finish second, as they did in Beijing, and in Athens, and in Sydney; the same experts mostly expected the Russians in third. But that team nearly lost to Canada Saturday; led by Kim Smith and Shanna Thorburn (who played together at the University of Utah), the Maple Leaf squad had more fun, played better together, and led till the last few minutes, when Hammon scored eight in a row. The favored Czechs lost to the Chinese, and the Brazilians—who have a great Olympic history, but are missing their best guard—lost badly to France. Everything so far points to yet one more championship in which the U.S. sees—and struggles to beat, but finally beats-- Australia.
As you watch the rest of the prelim games, keep your eye on Australia's Jackson and Cambage, and also on Opals point guard Kristi Harrower, who is tiny (for this level of play) and plays smart—she was one of my favorites to watch, a few years ago, when she was in the WNBA. If you watch Russia, ask whether they can play together, and whether they're asking Hammon to do too much. As for Team USA, ask where they keep, or lose, focus; whether and how they can out-rebound other top teams; whether Taurasi (whose WNBA play has suffered from strings of minor injuries) looks healthy and happy; and whether the players from UConn (Bird, Cash, Taurasi, Jones, Moore, and Charles) can extend their chemistry to the folks who have not played for Geno before.
Women's basketball, even more than men's hoops, is a team game; excellent individuals can beat bad teams, but when the best teams face each other, it's essential to make the right pass; to work together on defense; to know where your teammates are. That's why it's sometimes annoying to watch McCoughtry, and why her team, the Atlanta Dream, lost to my Minnesota Lynx in the WNBA championships last year; the Lynx, led by Whalen, could see the floor together, respect one another, and hear their coach. So can the UConn teams, year after year; if Geno can get the same cooperation from Team USA— which seems likely—their depth, and their guard skills, should carry the day, though you might still worry about the low post.
Some Olympic sports have little historical connection to the writing of poetry, so that the poets who cover them for this journal—hi, Lynn!—have something close to clear ground. That's not the case for basketball, which has an intimidating tradition of verse second only to all those poems about baseball; Yusef Komunyakaa comes immediately to mind, and there's a decent anthology (edited by Todd Davis) of poets, men and women, on James Naismith's game. Don Johnson (not the cheeseball actor, but the Appalachian poet) wrote a terrific book about poets on sports: Johnson's The Sporting Muse argued that poems about basketball see both hoops and lyric as ways to stop time, defy gravity, violate physical law, as players (streetball or pro) rise up to do the impossible. What do these Olympic women—and the women's side more generally—add to such accounts of poems and hoops?
We might say they put poetry back on the ground: they remind us that the kind of effort that makes poems memorable, and makes elite games winnable, involves something that by its nature has to be shared. For poets it's language, a set of expectations, a history of forms, a context of usage; for women's hoops it's the basketball itself, as well as the game plan, on offense and defense, and boards. People who watch the men but not the women like to talk about dunks, individual shows of strength; the woman best known for dunking, Brittney Griner, is the best U.S. player not in London, and women's hoops—with or without Griner, even at its highest levels—generally takes place on the ground. The women's game, more than the men's, is a game about teamwork, shared defense, picks and thread-the-needle assists; it's about making the right number of passes, moving the ball inside, and perhaps back out. (The best men's teams can do that too—think of the San Antonio Spurs—but the women must do it, all the time.) Whalen can arc her body spectacularly in midair on the way to the hoop, but she belongs at the Olympic level (she belonged there in 2008 too, by the way) because she can see the whole court and make the right pass. Moore and Seimone Augustus can send the ball like a guided missile right into the net, but they also know where to catch, how to set a screen, and how to let their teammates set them up. (Moore, with her guard skills, can set all her teammates up too.) Augustus made the transition from college to pro excellence by learning to rebound, to play consistent defense, and to contribute even when her shots did not fall. To watch women's hoops in general is to think about collaboration, and to think about how collaboration inflects even individual achievements, like those embodied in lyric verse: to put together a piece of language so that it might stick around for 200 years, you have to have a sense of what the words you use could mean for other people, of how the language you use, that means so much to you, might sound in somebody else's head.
And the women bring basketball, and the aspirations it represents, back down to the ground in other ways: to watch them is to remember the practical constraints of their lives, even as the game they play tries to defy gravity and time. The women's lives, unlike the men's, are obviously affected by their salaries, and by the opportunities they seek, or forgo, to earn money for playing year-round. They're also affected by pregnancy and motherhood; just one of this year's Team USA players has kids (Candace Parker, who gave birth in 2009), but plenty of other elite players have to figure out child care just like those of us in other professions. The starting center for the Lynx, Taj McWilliams-Franklin, had two children as a teenager, raising one of them as a single mom; Taj and her husband Reggie, who recently left the Army, also have a nine-year-old daughter. Taj turns 42 this year. You won't see her in London, but you might see her as a commentator by the time of the Olympics in Brazil; you might even see her daughters by her side.
Want more on women's hoops, U.S. or otherwise, at the London Olympics or afterwards ,when the WNBA (or later the NCAA) resumes play? I used to write for womenshoopsblog.wordpress.com, but it's in better hands with its current sole editor Helen Wheelock; she'll give you links to all the reports, eyewitness and otherwise, that you might want to see.
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