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I'll start this off my saying to my great-niece, Brittny … "Tag, I'm it!" LOL! She knows what I mean! Love you, BK!
51 years since the day that I was born. I must testify that it has been an amazing and wonderful thing to walk with Him; to talk with Him; to tell Him that I am His own! The joy we share as we tarry there (in His presence) non other has ever known! (Do any of you know this hymn? )
I woke up knowing what God is expecting from me and knowing that He will strengthen me and guide me to get it done because it is for the sake of His glory! Knowing that my life has Kingdom purpose just blows my mind!
Many times any of us can feel that we are not worthy to do what God wants done. But He doesn't call us to do anything because we are worthy, but because it is His plan! The deal is that Our Father has created each one of us anew as the Holy Spirit within us moved us to believe in Christ! Amazing! Our Salvation then moves our hearts to want to serve Him with every gift and talent that Our Creator has given us! Amazing! Our lives are a free gift from the Most High God. Our lives are moved by His power. Our life purpose; our calling; our passion …. all of these things are for the sake of His Kingdom .. not for the sake of our own glory.
My brother-in-law, Dr. Reginald W. DeVaughn Sr., preached an amazing message on New Years Eve. He made it very clear that when we say that we want to be successful we cannot be misled to believe that that means we've made lots of money, received lots of praise from some man, or even that we live or drive something better than others. We must understand that being successful means that we have given the lives that He has given us Back To Him!
Each year is a huge blessing to me! I get so excited just to think about the fact the The Lord, Himself, created me. I wake up on my birthday and am overjoyed that The Creator of the Universe, formed me specially! (2 Corinthians 5: 17) I get excited further when I reflect on the fact that the reason I am in Christ Jesus, is not because of my ability to believe … but because of God's power and His plan to redeem me.
Thank You, God, for allowing me to survive another year and to dwell on this earth for 51 years! Thank you for making me sure that I was to live a life of full time ministry, even when I had other plans! Thank you for my husband who has been with me for more than 1/2 of my life! Thank you for blessing me with a ministry partner, Lloyd Chinn, who is also my Christian life partner. Thank You for creating me as a woman. Thank You for allowing your Holy Spirit to move in my heart and lead me to Jesus Christ. Thank You for moving my heart to submit and to serve you for the rest of my life! Lord, I'm having a Happy Birthday … because You love me; You walk with me; You talk with me; You tell me that I am Your own!
God has made us what we are. In Christ Jesus, God made us new people so that we would spend our lives doing the good things he had already planned for us to do.Ephesians 2: 10


text: Darkness invades the dreams of the glassblower. Of all the unpleasantries his dreams grab in out of the night air, an extinguished light is the worst. Light in his dreams, was always hope: the basic moral hope. As the contacts break helically away, hope turns to darkness, and the glassblower wakes sharply tonight crying, Who? Who?

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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Skeptics fretted in 2010 when Farshid Moussavi unveiled her design for the new Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland that the building would be a downer.
The problem? The London architect's plan called for a gemlike, multifaceted, four-story structure rising from a hexagonal base to a square top with a skin of mirrorlike panels of black stainless steel.
The shape was fascinating, but doubters worried that the dark material would look depressing in Cleveland during the winter, when the weather and light can be gloomy.
With 26 days to go to the winter solstice, it's clear that Moussavi's building, on the highly visible point of the triangle formed by Euclid Avenue and Mayfield Road in University Circle, is a gorgeous addition to the city.
The building's blackness is sleek, elegant and mysterious. Its steel panels undulate slightly, creating reflections that ripple like gentle waves on a pond. They fold beautifully around the building's numerous corners, emphasizing the notion that they form a continuous skin. The effect is voluptuous and highly tailored, like the fashions Moussavi herself is fond of wearing.
For all these reasons and more, it's easy to say six weeks after the building's opening that it succeeds as an urban presence, as a new architectural logo for the city and as the capstone of Uptown, the $150 million-plus development next to Case Western Reserve University.
The museum also is performing well. In the first five weeks in its new home, MOCA attracted more than 10,000 visitors, putting it on a pace to exceed the 65,000 annual visitors it expects from having moved to University Circle from its previous home in Midtown, where it only got 20,000 visitors a year at most.
In other respects, however, the building has issues. None are major, and none should preclude a long, happy career for MOCA in its new home. But they should be discussed.
What's most obvious is that even though it contains nearly 34,000 square feet of space, the amount of space strictly devoted to the display of art feels somewhat smaller in comparison to MOCA's previous home.
For 22 years before it moved to the new building, the museum occupied rented loft space on the second floor of an old Sears department store in the Cleveland Play House complex at 8501 Euclid Ave.
Renovated expertly by Cleveland architect Richard Fleischman, the old MOCA had roughly 9,500 square feet of gallery space, enough to hold several different exhibitions simultaneously. According to a spreadsheet provided by the museum, the new building comes close to 9,000 square feet of display space -- a virtual wash.
The catch is that the 9,000-square-foot number holds only if you consider the museum's vertiginous, 1,365-square-foot atrium and a 308-square-foot lobby on the second floor to be gallery space. If you don't, the space that's entirely dedicated to art amounts to 7,300 square feet -- 20 percent less than at the museum's former home.
The majority of space at MOCA is devoted to offices, workshops, classrooms and mechanical, air-handling equipment -- vital functions that now occupy well-designed settings they never had before. The museum now has excellent and highly flexible shop and classroom spaces, plus a recording studio.
Nevertheless, it's clear that the new MOCA evolved out of very tight budgeting. More gallery space couldn't have been added without digging a $2 million basement for heating and ventilating equipment and the museum shop. MOCA couldn't afford the cost.
"We did study it, and it was just not a viable economic proposition," MOCA Director Jill Snyder said.
What matters more than numbers is whether visitors feel that they've had a satisfying experience for the regular admission price of $8. In this context, the large, spray-painted abstraction on the walls of the atrium by Berlin artist Katharina Grosse doesn't truly make the space feel like a gallery. Other installations in the future might produce that effect, but for now, the atrium feels like what it is -- a lobby.
Snyder points out that many spaces in the new museum are designed to be multipurpose. They can be programmed not just for art and educational events but rented out to generate income. Dance performances, such as one by GroundWorks DanceTheater scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday, will take place throughout the building, treating it all as a stage.
As MOCA grows into its new space, it will be interesting to see how often it devotes expanses of floor space to large, singular objects or installations you can see at a glance instead of higher numbers of smaller objects that keep visitors looking for longer periods.
Aside from quantitative issues, the quality of the interior architectural experience at MOCA is terrific. The museum's shop is an intricate jewel box, with display cabinets that can be rolled away and stowed to turn the space into a party room or a chapel for weddings and other celebrations.
The journey from the soaring lobby to the galleries upstairs via the museum's grand, zigzag staircase is like climbing a mountain trail or hiking a canyon. You get dizzying vertical vistas that shoot across the tilting planes of the building's steel outer shell, which is painted a deep midnight blue on the inside.
On the fourth floor, a lobby outside the main gallery features a triangular window that tilts out, offering a dizzying view of the apartments and plaza at Uptown.
The main galleries on the second and fourth floors work beautifully as places to see art. That's a major test, and MOCA passes it well.
Organized by Chief Curator David Norr, the museum's opening exhibition shows how 16 contemporary artists from around the world interpret ways in which humans create spaces in which to live, and how those spaces affect behavior.
Loose ends after opening
The real subject of the show, however, is MOCA's building and its capacity to present art in a way that facilitates deep looking. Unfortunately, in the rush to meet the deadline for the opening, details got fudged. None are fatal, and many are on a long "punch list" to be resolved later.
Problems include unsightly caulking joints where concrete floors meet the steel shell of the outer structure. They'll be covered with steel plates in coming months. Another flaw is that rectangular stainless steel caps fastened to the inside of the museum's diagonal, ribbon-like windows are poorly cut and fitted and produce sloppy-looking gaps. Moussavi wants the caps removed, but Snyder said the issue is still under consideration.
More obvious are cracks in the museum's concrete floors, a natural part of the curing process. MOCA originally planned to cover the floors with epoxy or resin but decided instead to stay with the concrete because overall it looked good. The museum hired an artist to camouflage the cracks with paint to make them less visible.
Moussavi, a self-described perfectionist, sounds somewhat satisfied. "I think we've done well to get where we are," she said, speaking from her office in London.
Also in the complaint department: Paving bricks in the plaza CWRU built and owns around the MOCA building aren't uniformly level as they come up to its facade, possibly another consequence of the rush to the finish line.
A museum is a place devoted to the life-enhancing aspects of heightened visual perception. MOCA succeeds on that score, which also explains why the eye gravitates toward the unresolved details. Let's hope that in the coming months and years, MOCA will meet and exceed in every sense the very high expectations it raises. Given the museum's brilliant past record, there's no doubt that it can do just that.


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For the month of March , I will be participating in the Slice of Life Challenge (#sol19) sponsored by Two Writing Teachers. I will be slicing each day for 31 days inspired by my work as a literacy specialist and coach, my life, and my fellow bloggers.
March 25, 2019
If you are reading this, you might have the same problem I do. Bookshelves bursting at the seams and an organization system that works one day, but not the next. Welcome to my Monday bookshelf, where I will organize a stack of books within a category. Hopefully this stack will resonate.
Living in Character Studies across the grades and working on book clubs. Some novels take a lot to get through, a lot of reading, a lot of thinking, a lot of time. We are also deep within pretest season where short and dense are definitely the stars. How to teach deep into character, climax, solution, lesson, and story arc while keeping the reading and talk more management. Denser picture books may be the answer. I find myself returning to picture books more and more as a strong contender when I am looking for mentors both for teacher use to keep lessons short or student use to keep engagement and learning high.
When I sat down with one of the third grade teachers a few weeks ago, we brainstormed books high in character work, perfect for considering in mini literary essays. Now encouraging teachers to use familiar books seems right.
Some of these book are well known for character work in third and in the lower grades. Considering them for literary essay work when students are familiar, lightens the comprehension work and increases their ability to consider the story.
As an extra push, consider having the students make connections across books are to thinking about situations in their own experience that are similar in change or life lesson. That makes for some really strong essays. I also like narrative nonfiction biographies for this thinking, but I'll leave that for another day.
Jabari Jumps, front and center, has become a go-to book for many grades. I often carry it in my conferring bin. If you are unfamiliar, Jabari faces the dreaded high dive. He thinks he is ready to jump, but is he? The stretch out of the story heart with illustration elaboration will fit nicely to teach into how an author shows us what is important through craft, illustrations as a craft move, and the social emotional aspect is a wonderful bonus.
The Rough Patch, a Caldecott honoree, is an emotional wringer for adults, though I find students are pragmatic about the crushing blow our fox friend takes near the beginning of the story. His reactions are great food for discussion and the turning point helps illustrate how authors teach us. Be ready for a grand conversation with this book.
If the Shoe Fits, Those Shoes, A Bike Like Sergio's , Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon, The Invisible Boy are standard fare for whole class talk in character change and lesson learning. Turning these familiar books back on the students for their consideration in small group shows them what they already know about this genre work. They stand the test of time.
For students who deserve a challenge consider, Beekle, The Last Stop on Market Street, and Come On, Rain. While story arc might be clear here, lessons and character change require deeper thinking. For students that need a simpler text, consider No David.
Think about your class, students, or school focus, books like Ruby the Copycat, The Recess Queen, and The Bad Seed, The Good Egg, and There Might Be Lobsters have the lesson and the characters front and center to show clearly the work of the author we are considering.
Some of these books are shifting at this time of year from other earlier year bins. Keeping a story across grades and across the year shows the students how the work weaves together and how we can look at craft with new eyes.


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Proof of Benedict XVI is GAY
This was recently sent to us as proof that Benedict XVI is GAY. We have already exposed his private secretary, Georg, as GAY according to the Italian GAYS in Rome.
The voice of Benedict XVI is very effiminate, his walk is also efffeminate. The Opus Dei journalist-liar Pinnochio nose John Allen of ncr calls him as "gentle" but really Benedict XVI is a pimpy drag filled with make-up old GAY man living with his live-in lover GAY Georg.
The Jesuit public secretary of Benedict XVI only takes his dog-ration each morning from Monsignor Georg....and he barks it out to the world whatever Benedict XVI want him to do. Poor Jesuit-elephant on Octopus Dei leasch.
The Homosexual Colonization of The Catholic Church [www.riteofsodomy.com]
In Randy Engel's book The Rite of Sodomy: Homosexuality and the Roman Catholic Church (New Engel Publishing, 2006; 724-327-7379; www.riteofsodomy.com), she lays out the invasion, colonization, and the metastasization of the priesthood and religious life by homosexuals in the Catholic Church.
On the first page of the Introduction, Engel notes that she wrote an article in The Wanderer (summer of 1987) in which the editor deleted her reference to "homosexual bishops." She says: "I remember promising myself" that as soon as "my familial and pro-life duties as the director of the U.S. Coalition for Life would permit, I would take a closer look at the members of the Catholic hierarchy…." She names the names of homosexual bishops with copious citations and notes. This book, a decade in the making, reveals the homosexual "maelstrom" in the Catholic Church.
The book was published in July 2006 and has 1,174 pages containing 4,523 endnotes, and a detailed Index. There is some irrelevant material, but not too much.
Mrs. Engel says her book is not for the faint of heart, which we will see later.
She says that "neither the Holy Father nor the Church hierarchy appear to have the necessary will, heart and stomach" to clean up the homosexuality in the Church's ranks.
In the 20th century, the Second Vatican Council "triggered" the homosexual colonization in the Church. A lot of this is due to the pontificate of Pope Paul VI. Engel says that Paul VI was a homosexual, and she gives evidence for this. Engel says that "Pope Paul VI played a decisive role in the selection and advancement of many homosexual members of the American hierarchy...." And it still continues.
Regarding the recent Vatican document on homosexuals in the seminary, Engel says: "In a Vatican Radio interview on November 29, 2005, Cardinal Grocholewski [Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, which is charged with implementing the document] stated this might include a person who engaged in homosexual acts out of adolescent curiosity; or while intoxicated; or where he prostituted his body to obtain favors. High standards, indeed, for the most sublime of all vocations! The cardinal went out of his way to state that the norms expressed in the document do not apply to already ordained homosexual priests,...acknowledging that Pope Benedict XVI, like his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, has no plans to clean house and mount a serious attack on the Homosexual Collective within the Roman Catholic priesthood and religious life."
Pope Benedict XVI recently appointed Donald Wuerl to the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. Wuerl was a protégé of Bishop John Wright (initially the Auxiliary Bishop of Boston). According to Engel, "Wright's pederastic predilections were an 'open secret' in the Archdiocese of Boston." Bill Burnett accused Bishop Wright of pederasty. Here is an instance of where the book is not for the faint-hearted. If you don't like to read sexually graphic accounts, do not read what Engel has to say about the rite of sodomy here (for it will make you sick):
Burnett stated that the abuse ritual began with drinks, a Coke for him and Coke and alcohol for [Fr. Raymond] Page [his uncle] and [Bishop] Wright. Wright would then undress him, fall on his knees before the standing boy and cover him with kisses -- feet, penis, nipples and lips. He and Page would then undress and while the latter stimulated Wright from behind (without penetration), Bill would fellate the bishop.
When Wright neared ejaculation he would turn Bill around and sodomize him. Then Page took his turn at raping his nephew.... [We will spare you the rest of the gruesome story.] When it was all over, Wright handed Bill a $20 bill like he always did.
Then Bishop Wright was made Bishop of Pittsburgh, and this is where Wuerl became his private secretary, protégé, and remained at Wright's side (as he was made a cardinal) until Wright's death in 1979. Is this guilt by association? Who knows?
Engel writes: "From 1980 to 1985, Fr. Wuerl served as Vice Rector and Rector of St. Paul Seminary. The seminary had a reputation for rampant homosexuality going back to the days of Bishop Wright." Then Wuerl became Bishop of Pittsburgh in February 1988, fulfilling his protégé role.
Writes Engel: "After Donald Wuerl was posted to the Diocese of Pittsburgh, he permitted Dignity/Pittsburgh Masses to continue for eight more years.... Dignity/Pittsburgh was one of the last chapters to be evicted from Catholic facilities in the United States [on orders from the Vatican]. According to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette staff writer Ann Rodgers-Melnick, 'Banning Dignity was a sad moment for Wuerl.'... Under Wuerl, the Pittsburgh Diocese has become a stomping ground for nationally-known doctrinal and moral miscreants including Father (now ex-priest) Matthew Fox, Sister Fran Ferder, Father Robert Nugent, Sister Jeannine Gramick, Father Raymond Brown and howling feminists Rosemary Radford Ruether and Monica Hellwig."
In the summer of 1996, Mother's Watch featured a lengthy article called "Bishop Wuerl's Magnificent Obsession." Engel mentions a segment "dealing with Wuerl's exceptional relations with the members of the Pittsburgh 'gay' community who refer to the bishop as 'Donna' Wuerl...." We've heard that too.
Engel also has doubts about Pope Benedict's manliness. Engel says: "Rome correspondents report that the new pope has acquired expensive taste in designer shoes and accessories, a reputation for 'slightly eccentric behavior' and 'a penchant for disguise.' During Christmas 2005, the pope was photographed showing off a red medieval fur-lined hat -- a picture that can only be described as overtly camp. One month later, La Stampa reported that the pope has been secretly visiting his old residence at 1 Piazza Citta Leonina disguised in black clerical robes in the company of another accessory -- his very handsome 48-year-old private secretary and traveling companion, Don Georg Gänswein." We know just the mention of this will upset some of our readers; however, there is no need to jump to conclusions about this. Let's hope he's straight as an arrow.
But there is a disturbing pattern: Benedict appointed "gay"-friendly Archbishop William Levada to be the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; Benedict appointed "gay"-friendly Donald Wuerl to be Archbishop of Washington, D.C.; and Benedict appointed "gay"-friendly George Niederauer to be Archbishop of San Francisco. And Benedict signed the document on homosexuals in the seminary, a toothless document that can be interpreted any way you want.
Don't expect any reforms in the homosexual colonization of the Catholic Church, or what Engel calls the "Homosexual Collective." Sweetie-pie seminarians and priests will continue to flock into the priesthood, and some of them will advance up into the hierarchy. Business as usual.
November 2006


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Marat Safin on Wikipedia
Google "wiki Marat Safin" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marat_Safin
Also appears on these Wiki Pages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Tennis/Selected_biography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Tennis/Selected_biography/2
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Brad Gilbert on Wikipedia
Google "wiki Brad Gilbert" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Gilbert#Coaching_career
Picture also ppears on these Wiki Pages:
Foothill College
Piedmont High School (California)
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Pusher (tennis)
List of Pepperdine University people
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Tim Henman Headshot on Wikipedia
Photo appears on the Official Tim Henman Wikipedia Page.
My friend Nikhil was nice enough to take this picture for me with Tim. I got Tim's tennis card autographed the following year.
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Paradon and my friend Nick
Photo appears on: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Paradorn_Srichaphan
Credit: www.Tennis-Bargains.com
This photo was taken at Legg Mason 2006 during the opening weekend. Paradon was doing some intense footwork drills with his coach in the 100+ degree afternoon ( you can see all the people up above in the shade all wearing shorts). He was nice enough to come off the practice courts for a quick photo opt with us and also autograph my Tennis Ball.
I've seen him a few other times at the Asian Tennis Festival in Reston, VA (Singha Open) when we were out volunteering tennis lessons for the kids:
at http://www.asianfestivaldc.com/
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The PRINT EDITION of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson contains the author's seventeen completed plays, his surviving dramatic fragments, his more than thirty court masques and entertainments, his three major collections of poems (Epigrams, The Forest, The Underwood) along with other occasional and miscellaneous verses, his revised translation of Horace's Ars Poetica, The English Grammar, his commonplace book, Discoveries, his letters, and the Informations to William Drummond of Hawthornden, together with brief accounts of lost plays and entertainments. The texts are edited in modern spelling, and are sequenced in an order corresponding to the chronology of Jonson's career. Each text is accompanied by an introduction (or headnote, in the case of the non-collected poems and letters) which supplies essential information about its date, sources, and interpretation, and gives a brief account of the textual witnesses from which our edition derives. Each is supported by commentary and collation; in rare cases, where the commentary is too dense for on-page presentation, some extra material is placed in appendices at the end of the work in question. The Print Edition aims to present Jonson's texts in a form which combines thoroughness of explanation with readability. It explicates his works fully in the light of modern scholarship, and endeavours to make them accessible to readers for whom Jonson has sometimes appeared a formidably difficult author.
The ELECTRONIC EDITION of the Cambridge Edition, which will appear in staged instalments, includes the entire contents of the Print Edition, together with its introductions, collations, and commentaries, in fully searchable format. To this it adds a series of satellite archives and databases which supplement and extend the material in the Print Edition. These will be revised and updated to take in future developments in knowledge about Jonson. While the Print Edition is designed to be fully usable and intelligible in itself, readers in need of more detailed information – seeking to check (say) a textual reading, or a theatrical record, or a musical setting, or a legal transcript, or an eye-witness account of a court masque – might wish to consult one or more of the various databases in the Electronic Edition:
Textual archive. This, the most extensive database, contains digital images of many of the major manuscripts and all of the early printed books from which the edited text is derived, down to the second folio of 1640–1. It presents transcripts of all the old-spelling texts in fully searchable format, linked and cross-referenced to the modern-spelling Print Edition, allowing the modernized text to be directly compared with its sources. All of the holographs and most of the textually significant scribal manuscripts are included here, along with a selection of Jonson's autograph inscriptions. Additionally, each text has a textual essay which records its variants in full, and analyses the relationship between the various print and (where available) manuscript witnesses. There are also essays analysing the collected editions from the second folio to Herford and Simpson.
Dubia. This contains an edition of the few texts which have been attributed to Jonson's authorship but without conclusive proof either way, and brief discussion of the texts to which Jonson's name has been spuriously attached. For a fuller description, see 'The canon', below.
Life records. This contains most of the surviving documents relating to Jonson's biography, freshly transcribed and edited in old spelling. It also has a selection of early lives of Jonson written in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Performance database. This has four components: a calendar listing all known performances of Jonson's plays and masques to 2010, to be updated periodically; individual essays on the stage history of all of the plays for which a significant performance tradition exists, and a consolidated essay on revivals of the masques; an essay on films and adaptations of the plays; and a selection of images of the plays in performance.
Masque records. This contains transcripts of all the contextual documentation relating to performances of the masques, such as extracts from the court's financial accounts, eyewitness testimony, ambassadors' reports, and other miscellaneous commentary. The extracts are edited in old spelling, with fresh translations of the French, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch documents.
Music edition. This comprises a complete critical edition of the music associated with Jonson, and an introductory essay. It contains nearly fifty songs from the plays, poems, and masques, and two dozen dance tunes that can with reasonable confidence be linked to the masques. Most are seventeenth-century settings, though in a few significant cases (such as 'Drink to me only', or music which survives only in later sources) some post-1700 examples are included. The music has all been freshly re-edited from the original sources, and each item has a separate collation and commentary. Alternative versions have been supplied for some items, since several of the songs acquired multiple settings, and many of the dances survive in variant arrangements for different combinations of instruments.
Jonson's library. This section provides a complete list of the books that are known to have been in Jonson's library or to have been given by him to patrons and friends. It includes a summary account of the often extensive marginalia contained in the surviving examples and of Jonson's handwriting, along with some images of representative marginalia.
Literary record. This database collects a selective body of allusions to Jonson during his life and afterwards, down to 1700. It consists of tributary verse, early criticism of the works, and references to Jonson the man, exemplifying the ways that Jonson was spoken of in his lifetime and subsequently remembered.
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Washington ballot shows how top-two primary can work
When the votes were counted Tuesday in Washington's primary, two Republicans emerged as the winners in the 4th Congressional District.
That means voters in that district won't see a Democrat or any third-party candidates on their November ballots.
Our neighbors to the north have a top-two primary system that's similar to the one being proposed for Oregon: the top two vote-getters in the primary advance to the general election regardless of their party affiliation.
"The positives for the people who like the top two primary are pretty clear," said Jim Moore, a political science professor at Pacific University. "It gives people in an overwhelming one-party district a true choice between two people who could be elected."
Retiring Rep. Doc Hastings has easily held the Washington seat since 1994 when he won it from a Democrat.
If the state had a closed primary system, the winner of the Republican primary would have been heavily favored to win.
Now it's an "exciting race" between tea party Republican Clint Didier and establishment candidate Dan Newhouse, Moore said. Oregon reps like Democrat Earl Blumenauer and Republican Greg Walden should keep a close on eye on Washington because an open primary could make their safe seats competitive.
Sounds good, right?
I mean what's not to like about increasing competition in safe districts?
Well, opponents of Initiative 90 say it disenfranchises voters who don't affiliate with the political party that won.
"Voters who don't identify as Republicans, like the nearly 80,000 people who voted for a Democrat in 2012 (in Washington's 4th District), will not be able to choose from or nominate a candidate who represents their views," according to a press release from Protect Our Vote.
The group speculates that's one reason why voter turnout for Washington's primary appears to be the lowest even year turnout in the state's recent history.
Opponents also believe a top-two primary system takes away the choice of a district's dominant party because more endorsements are made before the primary.
"In fact, 71 percent of the legislative races in the Washington Primary featured just two — or fewer — candidates," according to the release.
Well, that still leaves the question of whether the good outweighs the bad in a top-two primary system, but it's not my place to answer that for you.
What I can say is that Washington's primary and upcoming general election offer two useful windows in what your home district might look like under an open primary system.
And I would encourage you to read more about our neighbor's 4th Congressional race and think about whether you'd want to choose between two candidate of the same party in a general election.


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Several thinkers and writers have, either directly or indirectly, established the concept of Universal Interbeing—the position that we are all interconnected whether we are aware of it or not and that the existence of one ultimately affects the existence of the other.
American Baptist minister and human rights activist Martin Luther Jr. (1929 – 1968), in an address, delivered days before his assassination to the congregation of National Cathedral Washington, invited us to remember that our world is a neighbourhood. He posited that:
…whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God's universe is made; this is the way it is structured.
In Oath of Fealty, a sci-fi masterpiece written by American science fiction and fantasy writer Elizabeth Moon and which is "widely judged to be one of the great post-Tolkien fantasies" according to Goodreads, used an illustration of a tree to make a point in support of the concept:
A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes—those you can, in part, see. But it is more—it is the lichens and moss and ferns that grow on its bark, the life too small to see that lives among its roots, a community we know of, but do not think on. It is every fly and bee and beetle that uses it for shelter or food, every bird that nests in its branches. Every one an individual, and yet every one part of the tree, and the tree part of everyone.
Two decades before Moon penned this concise revelation, Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh published Peace is Every Step, the volume that seeks to draw a path of mindfulness in everyday life. Thich Nhat Hanh presented expressly in 1990 the same position of interbeing that Moon echoed in 2010. Starting with the relationship between the allegedly pure rose and the allegedly dirty garbage:
Defiled or immaculate. Dirty or pure. These are concepts we form in our minds. A beautiful rose we have just cut and placed in our vase is pure. It smells so good, so fresh. A garbage can is an opposite. It smells horrible, and it is filled with rotten things. But that is only when we look on the surface. If we look more deeply we will see that in just five or six days, the rose will become part of the garbage. We do not need to wait five days to see it. If we just look at the rose, and we look deeply, we can see it now. And if we look into the garbage can, we see that in a few months its contents can be transformed into lovely vegetables, and even a rose. If you are a good organic gardener, looking at a rose you can see the garbage, and looking at the garbage you can see a rose. Roses and garbage inter-are. Without a rose, we cannot have garbage; and without garbage, we cannot have a rose. They need each other very much. The rose and the garbage are equal. The garbage is just as precious as the rose.
Then Hanh moved on to the relationship between living things and the sun, which he described as the universal heart, the enabler of the long chain of the connective survival of all living things, without which all life would be impossible:
We know that if our heart stops beating, the flow of our life will stop, and so we cherish our hearts very much. Yet we do not often take the time to notice that other things, outside of our bodies, are also essential for our survival. Look at the immense light we call the sun. If it were to stop shining, the flow of our life would also stop, so the sun is our second heart, a heart outside of our body. This immense "heart" gives all life on Earth the warmth necessary for existence. Plants live thanks to the sun. Their leaves absorb the sun's energy, along with carbon dioxide from the air, to produce food for the tree, the flower, the plankton. And thanks to plants, we and other animals can live. All of us—people, animals, and plants—consume the sun, directly and indirectly. We cannot begin to describe all the effects of the sun, that great heart outside of our body. Our body is not limited to what is inside the boundary of our skin. It is much more immense. It includes even the layer of air around our Earth; for if the atmosphere were to disappear for even an instant, our life would end. There is no phenomenon in the universe that does not intimately concern us, from a pebble resting at the bottom of the ocean to the movement of a galaxy millions of light-years away.
To pre-validate Nhat Hanh's words, in his 1855 poem entitled Songs of Myself, American poet, essayist, and journalist Walt Whitman wrote, "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars." A statement that expresses beautifully the position that the stars are in some way the plants' essence and without them, although this is not obvious, the plants won't be.
Furthermore, in How to Love, a book which the widely knowledgeable Maria Popova of Brain Pickings had described as a "slim, simply worded collection of his immeasurably wise insights on the most complex and most rewarding human potentiality", Nhat Hanh had written against the mentality of independence in the continuous existence of an individual:
We think we have a self. But there is no such thing as an individual separate self. A flower is made only of non-flower elements, such as chlorophyll, sunlight, and water. If we were to remove all the non-flower elements from the flower, there would be no flower left. A flower cannot be by herself alone. A flower can only inter-be with all of us… Humans are like this too. We can't exist by ourselves alone. We can only inter-be. I am made only of non-me elements, such as the Earth, the sun, parents, and ancestors. In a relationship, if you can see the nature of interbeing between you and the other person, you can see that his suffering is your own suffering, and your happiness is his own happiness. With this way of seeing, you speak and act differently. This in itself can relieve so much suffering.
Meanwhile, back in Peace is Every Step, Nhat Hanh shifts our focus to the tree. For the tree to be, every part of it, even the seemingly insignificant bit, must contribute to the being. This is ultimately presented in an alleged dialogue between the Zen Buddhist and a leaf:
One autumn day, I was in a park, absorbed in the contemplation of a very small, beautiful leaf, shaped like a heart. Its colour was almost red, and it was barely hanging on the branch, nearly ready to fall down. I spent a long time with it, and I asked the leaf a number of questions. I found out the leaf had been a mother to the tree. Usually, we think that the tree is the mother and the leaves are just children, but as I looked at the leaf I saw that the leaf is also a mother to the tree. The sap that the roots take up is only water and minerals, not sufficient to nourish the tree. So the tree distributes that sap to the leaves and the leaves transform the rough sap into elaborated sap and, with the help of the sun and gas, send it back to the tree for nourishment. Therefore, the leaves are also the mother to the tree. Since the leaf is linked to the tree by a stem, the communication between them is easy to see.
In the same vein, the focus of the wise man's philosophical lens is directed at human beings. Starting with the illustration of the connection between a mother and the child through the umbilical cord, Hanh pronounces the earth as the mother of us all connected to us and connecting us through several stems that keeps the chain of existence going:
We do not have a stem linking us to our mother anymore, but when we were in her womb, we had a very long stem, an umbilical cord. The oxygen and the nourishment we needed came to us through that stem. But on the day we were born, it was cut off, and we received the illusion that we became independent. That is not true. We continue to rely on our mother for a very long time, and we have many other mothers as well. The Earth is our mother. We have a great many stems linking us to our Mother Earth. There are stems linking us with the clouds. If there are no clouds, there will be no water for us to drink. We are made of at least seventy percent water, and the stem between the cloud and us is really there. This is also the case with the river, the forest, the logger, and the farmer. There are hundreds of thousands of stems linking us to everything in the cosmos, supporting us and making it possible for us to be.
Finally, in this age of diversity and segregation, the mindfulness master once again relied on the leaf's wisdom to make suggestions on what our behaviour toward one another and to the Universe at large should be like:
Do you see the link between you and me? If you are not there, I am not here. This is certain. If you do not see it yet, please look more deeply and I am sure you will. I asked the leaf whether it was frightened because it was autumn and the other leaves were falling. The leaf told me, "No. During the whole spring and summer I was completely alive. I worked hard to help nourish the tree, and now much of me is in the tree. I am not limited by this form. I am also the whole tree, and when I go back to the soil, I will continue to nourish the tree. So I don't worry at all. As I leave this branch and float to the ground, I will wave to the tree and tell her, 'I will see you again very soon.'" That day there was a wind blowing and, after a while, I saw the leaf leave the branch and float down to the soil, dancing joyfully, because as it floated it saw itself already there in the tree. It was so happy. I bowed my head, knowing that I have a lot to learn from that leaf.


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Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored an 83rd-minute winner as Manchester United beat Leicester 2-1 Sunday to capture the Community Shield and earn Jose Mourinho his first trophy as the club's manager.
On the day United moved closer to signing Paul Pogba in potentially a world-record transfer, its most high-profile offseason signing so far made an immediate impact in the English season's traditional curtain-raiser at Wembley Stadium.
Having a quiet game by his high standards, Ibrahimovic met Antonio Valencia's right-wing cross by leaping high and directing his header in off the post.
Eleven weeks after scoring an extra-time winner for United in the FA Cup final at Wembley, Jesse Lingard returned to the stadium to put his team ahead in the 32nd minute with a solo goal.
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I know I've been missing in action here on the blog. Its a photo thing. I take my photos on my ipad and then there is no program to upload them. Anything that takes more than one step is at the bottom of the list! Anyone have a solution here???
So...what's been up? One of the things I love about MO is seeing people that start quilting with us and then progress or finish a quilt. I love seeing them go from hesitant neophites to accomplished quilt makers. A perfect example of this progress is Kerry in Megan's Step Up Class. She came in the other day with this beauty...
The pattern is Megan's Mini Mandala (follow Megan on instagram @meganmanwaring) which is a winner project and not usually a first quilt but it is a winner! Learn about fussy cutting and applique with this gorgeous project and get a big smile like Kerry!
Louise has a big smile too. She is working on Megan's Modern Sampler in class which explores lots of improve and more modern techniques. There are heaps of techniques to learn in this quilt which just grows and grows with each fun block. Then when the blocks are made it is fun to jigsaw puzzle piece them together.
Trail Blazing panels make great medallions as seen here with a Kaffe Fassett quit pattern. I was surprised to see it walk in the shop and amazed at how many fabrics look great doing the surround borders.
This little beauty goes a long way to work Folk Art Revolution. Feature fabrics are fussy cut and then mixed with a wide range of other fabrics to create a very engaging array of color and shapes. David (follow him on instagram @scfdavid)has done a fantastic job of fine tuning the range of colours to perfectly enhance the range and I can hardly stop looking at this to type! Paper pieced shapes are designed to fit in the spaces created by the Wedding Ring print and it uses the fabric beautifully.
In Marg George's class Sharon made this stunner. What is really special about this is that Sharon had all those hexagons pieced from a day long gone. Not wanting to waste the effort they worked through the shop to find new contemporary fabrics that gave the hexagons an updated mix. The result is pure genius!
Also in Marg's class Susan is making progress with her "Margagogs". It takes a bit longer when doing work by hand but the results are so rewarding. I love walking into the classroom and seeing progress on the walls like this.
And now I am out of time for today but here is a really bad photo of the quilt we, the team, made for the Quilt NSW raffle quilt. Three years ago Cath suggested we make the raffle quilt and we all said, "Yeah, we have three years..." thinking the day would never come. But it did! Guided by Cath we string pieced contemporary strips of fabric into tulips and appliqued them onto...you guessed it, Kaffe Fassett Shot cottons. Who is the team you ask...Cath Babidge, Megan Manwaring, Wendy Williams, Caroyn Davis, Grace Widders, Robyn Shipton, LIesel Moult Helena Fooije, Julie Kennedy and me. Special thanks to Grace who came in to finish this beauty with hand quilting. Tickets coming soon!!!
Yikes....must dash but keep on quilting....by the way, want to learn more about what goes on behind the scenes at Material Obsession, tune into Crafty Planners blog for an interview we did on store owners. It'll be up tomorrow!k


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Sea ice often floats on the dense water resulting to a barrier between the atmosphere and the ocean. This barrier created prevents the transfer of gases and heat across the interface. Because water has got a high heat capacity, it transfers large amounts of heat to the atmosphere while at the same time maintain the temperature of the atmosphere near the ocean surface at about 0 degrees. With the sea-ice present, the atmosphere's temperature can go down to as low as 30 degrees because of lack of exchange of heat and increased albedo. This will result to a dramatic difference in the temperatures in the air. Thus the presence of sea-ice on sea surfaces is the cause of the dramatic changes in temperature and heat on the seas surface in Polar Regions.
One of the ways in which the sea-ice controls the temperature changes on the surface of the sea is through the albedo effect. Albedo is the measure of the sea surface's reflectivity. The darker the surface the lower the albedos as dark surfaces absorb more wavelengths of light while light surfaces reflect most light. As a result, sea-ice have a very high albedos thus areas covered by these sea-ice absorb less heat compared to other uncovered parts. The albedo effect result is considered a positive feedback on the sea-ice cover. When the sea-ice grows, the albedo increases consequently decreasing the radiation absorbed thus cooling the temperatures.
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Lenovo has announced that Jane Ashworth will join the company on 1st October as director of Channel and SMB.
With over 20 years' experience, Ashworth has held senior positions at a variety of major blue-chip organisations including HP, Sony and more recently, running the education technology organisation SMART Technology.
Preben Fjeld, general manager of Lenovo UK and Ireland said: "Our channel partners are fundamental to our continued growth plans, and Jane's strong background in channel sales, channel development and product management will further propel and energise the relationship with our partners in the UK and Ireland."
Ashworth will be responsible for sales of commercial products and services into the channel and will have a specific focus on driving growth in small to medium sized businesses in the UK.
Lenovo recently launched a new channel programme focused on driving its market share in education to "recognise, reward, and enable specialist education channel partners". The firm says, Ashworth's experience selling a broad portfolio of commercial products and running a major educational technology company with help it accelerate its ambitions faster.
"I am thrilled to be joining Lenovo which is such an innovative company and at a pivotal time in its performance journey. I'm very much looking forward to working with our channel partners to strengthen partnerships and support them in their delivery of tomorrow's technology today," said Ashworth.
"Lenovo is a strong, dynamic company with an enviable product portfolio and talented team. The refreshed channel programmes are helping streamline processes for channel partners and I'm excited about joining the company and supporting Lenovo's ambition to grow the business alongside our channel partners."


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The departure will be in front of your hotel at 8:30 in the direction of the Atlantic coast towards the well-known City of Essaouira passing by Ounagha, located 170 km from the ocher city of Marrakech.
Lunch on the harbor, then free time for the discovery of the medina and its monuments including the old Mellah (Jewish quarter), the Skala and the museum Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah and finally we recommend you to admire the beautiful sunset And a glass of Mojito on the terrace of Taraus Cafe. The city of Essaouira is famous by the craftsmanship of the Thuya wood. Dinner and overnight at the Hotel in the medina.
After breakfast, we head to the beach of Sidi Kaouki, among the most maintained beaches of the country. A walk or dromedary back along the beach in the form of a caravan. Lunch in a local restaurant followed by a visit to the argan oil cooperative and back to Marrakech.
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Fregate is a magnificent granite island 55 km east of Mahe. With deserted beaches of blinding-white, soft sand, pristine coral reefs, rare wildlife and just 16 luxurious, private villas, and a wealth of facilities, Fregate Island is world-class luxury in a breathtaking natural environment. Fregate offers the most luxurious accommodation, the best beaches and the highest degree of service found anywhere in the Seychelles.
Fregate Island is said to have the most beautiful beach in the world, according to the New York Times.
To maintain Fregate Island's tranquility and beauty without impacting the delicate balance of its ecosystem, Fregate Island Private voluntarily restricts itself to just sixteen 185-square-metre (2,000-square-foot) villas.
Built from traditional materials such as native mahogany and African teak in a simple post-and-lintel style, the villas are topped off with dense thatched roofs. All have huge bedrooms and a separate living room, two bathrooms, Jacuzzi, sun deck and outside garden showers. A private terrace provides magnificent views of the sea.
Both the architecture and decor draw on Balinese and Thai influences. Fourteen of the villas sit on top of the cliffs with panoramic views over the Indian Ocean.
Two more nestle in their own private tropical gardens, and these are particularly good choices for families vacationing with young children.
Despite their traditional appearance and supremely laid-back ambiance, the villas come well-equipped with DVD machines and CD players.
And, of course, if the fresh sea breezes aren't quite cool enough for you, there's always air conditioning.
Fregate Island offers you a Five Star Kitchen and perhaps the finest Creole cuisine in the Seychelles, together with the best wines.
Meals are served in the Plantation House or in the main restaurant where great emphasis is placed on personal service.
Fregate Island also offers its guests a twenty four hour in-villa dining service and caters for special dining requests such as beach picnics and secluded candlelit dinners.
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I can't believe I haven't written a post since August! I was naive to believe that I would have time to keep up with things like blogging with a newborn. Even as I type this I'm nursing her and it will probably take me a couple of days to finish writing this post. I'm not complaining, it's just that my priorities have changed and feeding this little nugget takes up most of my time. However, feeding her has also prompted me to write this post. She has a suspected cow's milk allergy (suspected because they won't do allergy testing on infants) and by the comments I've gotten from people it seems that there's a lot of misunderstanding about this allergy.
Food allergies in general are reactions to proteins found in foods. In the case of a cow's milk allergy, that reaction is to either the whey and/or casein protein found in milk. Babies with a cow's milk allergy will react to the protein passed to them through breastmilk as well as to the protein in most infant formulas. This means that breastfeeding moms must remove dairy from their diets. For some moms this may just mean obvious sources of dairy such as milk, cheese, and yoghurt (note: eggs are not dairy – I actually read an article by a doctor listing eggs as dairy *face-palm*). More sensitive babies may require complete removal of all dairy-containing foods from their diets, even foods in which a milk product is a very minor ingredient. Babies who are formula-fed will require special hypoallergenic formula in which the proteins are broken-down so that they can digest them.
A cow's milk allergy is not the same as lactose intolerance which is a reaction to the lactose which is a milk sugar, not a protein. Lactose intolerance is actually extremely uncommon in infants as lactose is present in breastmilk. Generally, lactose intolerance is something that develops as children age. This means that lactose-free dairy products are unsafe for people with cow's milk allergy and mom's who are breastfeeding babies with this allergy.
Some people with cow's milk allergy may tolerate goat's milk. Goat's milk contains casein but a slightly different version than that found in cow's milk. However, the similar structure means that some people who are allergic to cow's milk will also react to goat's milk.
In things that I never thought would be an issue: I can't tell you how many times I've asked if a baked good is dairy-free and received the response that they contain gluten. Huh? I'm not sure if this is indicative of people genuinely not knowing what dairy and/or gluten is or if it's a result of avoidance of both these things being trendy. For those who genuinely may not be aware: dairy is products made from cow's milk such as ice cream, cheese, yoghurt, milk, and butter. Gluten is a protein found in some grains, wheat being the most commonly consumed.
Do you have a food allergy? I'd love to hear your stories of ignorant comments below.


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Diversity is about having different people in your team. This can function as a catalyst to drive innovation.
Diversity is having many different elements in the mix, many different experiences, many different perspectives, many different skills. This diversity can be in personal perspective: talent, gender, culture, experiences and more. But also about collaborating with people from (completely) different sectors or even countries.
Diversity can be a good thing to strive for: Studies show there seems to be a strong connection between innovation, creativity and diversity. These different people give in much more input from various points of view you didn't had before. People with different lifestyles and different backgrounds challenge each other more.
But how do you empower diversity and what are the criteria to make it work?
- Leaders who give diverse voices equal airtime are nearly twice as likely as others to unleash establish a culture in which all team members feel free to contribute ideas
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- CEO should approach diversity as a (personal) mission by:
- Advocating Collaboration
- Swimming Upstream is allowed
- Strengthening Cultural Intelligence
- Enabling New Ideas
The outcome will be more innovative ideas from within your team. For example to find a more competitive advantage. By finding a better understanding of your customer needs, to adjust your offering in the different markets. The second advantage of diversity is will also result in better motivation and cohesion between team members and relations.
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Study Shows Angioplasty After Treatment With Clot-Busting Drugs Reduces Complications
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June 24, 2009 -- Patients who have a heart attack and receive clot-busting drugs do better if they are transferred as soon as possible to a hospital that can perform angioplasty, a procedure to open blocked arteries, according to a new study.
That treatment approach works better than giving clot-busting drugs and then waiting to see if the medications work, transferring them only if the clot-busting drugs fail, says Shaun Goodman, MD, study co-author and co-chair of the Canadian Heart Research Center, Toronto.
Performing angioplasty right after a heart attack "is a great procedure, if it can be done," he says. But in the U.S. and Canada, as well as other locales, angioplasty capabilities aren't available on site at many hospitals. "In the U.S., less than 25% of acute care hospitals have on-site angioplasty," Goodman says. So Goodman's team wanted to see if the timing of angioplasty after clot-busting drugs might improve outcomes. The study is published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Angioplasty After Heart Attack: Study Details
For the study, Goodman's team compared two angioplasty approaches in heart attack patients initially treated at a facility that does not have angioplasty capabilities:
- Standard treatment, in which clot-busting drugs are given and the patient is transferred later to a facility with angioplasty capabilities only if the clot-busters don't work.
- Routine early angioplasty treatment, in which clot-busting drugs are given and the patient is transferred within six hours to another facility for angioplasty.
They randomly assigned 1,059 patients who went to facilities without angioplasty capability between July 2004 and December 2007 to the two treatment approaches. All had a type of heart attack known as an ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), a kind of heart attack that occurs when a coronary artery is suddenly and totally blocked. ST elevation refers to a specific finding on an electrocardiogram.
"It's the sickest group of patients who come to the hospital," Goodman tells WebMD. STEMIs make up a minority of the heart attacks that occur, he says, but "everyone jumps on them. They have the highest risk of dying early on. Even though they are the minority of all [heart attack] patients, this is a run, don't walk situation" to try to save them, Goodman says.
During angioplasty (also known as PCI or percutaneous coronary intervention), a balloon can be inflated to reopen the artery and restore blood flow. A wire mesh tube known as a stent can be placed inside to prevent the blockage from happening again.
Angioplasty After Heart Attack: Study Results
Those treated with routine angioplasty after the clot busters fared better than those given standard treatment, Goodman's team found.
Angioplasty was eventually performed in more than 67% of patients in the standard treatment group at a median of nearly 22 hours (half longer, half less) after being assigned to the group and in nearly 85% of those in the routine angioplasty group a median of 3.2 hours after being assigned.
The researchers evaluated patients 30 days after the attack, considering complications such as death, repeat heart attack, recurrent heart pain, new or worsening heart failure and cardiogenic shock, in which the heart's pumping ability declines.
When the researchers looked at all those complications together, 17.2% of the standard treatment group had them, compared to only 11% of the routine angioplasty group. "The group that went for the early angioplasty had significantly fewer of those events," Goodman says. There were no differences in rates of bleeding complications.
Second Opinions
In an editorial accompanying the study, Freek Verheugt, MD, writes that the newest study agrees with findings of prior smaller studies and "can be considered definitive." He further argues that all patients who have received clot-busting medication during a heart attack should be routinely transferred to a hospital where they can undergo early angioplasty. Given the totality of the published data, Verheugt concludes that pursuing angioplasty between two and 24 hours after the clot buster infusion is best.
"I think it's an important trial and a helpful trial as we try to understand the best strategies for treating patients with heart attack," says Sidney Smith, MD, former president of the American Heart Association and professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
While it's too early to say whether the study findings will change practice, Smith says, "It will reinforce the idea that patients at high risk will benefit from being transferred to a cardiac catheterization lab soon after the heart attack."
"This is important evidence to support the use of early PCI [angioplasty] in high-risk patients who have STEMIs," he says.
In the recent study, he notes, the major benefits in the group that got clot busters followed quickly by angioplasty were prevention of the vessel from becoming occluded again and prevention of repeat heart attacks.
The take-home message, says Goodman, is that time is of the essence in getting treatment for a loved one you suspect is having a heart attack.
"The most important thing is to call 911 and get an ambulance to take you to the closest emergency department,'' he says. "Don't worry about whether it does or does not have angioplasty capability."
That way, a patient can get the clot buster and be transferred, if necessary, early on, Goodman says.
In the U.S., nearly 80% of the adult population resides within an hour drive of a center that does have angioplasty capabilities.
The study was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Roche, Canada.
SOURCES: Shaun Goodman, co-chair, Canadian Heart Research Center, Toronto. Cantor, W. The New England Journal of Medicine, June 25, 2009; vol 360: pp 2705-2718. Verheught, F. The New England Journal of Medicine, June 25, 2009; vol 360: pp 2770-2781. Sidney Smith, MD, former president, American Heart Association; professor of medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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The security forces have killed 800 terrorists since 2014, of which 249 were in 2018, the Centre told the Parliament on Wednesday.
In a written response to a question in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State in the Defence Ministry Shripad Naik said 104 terrorists were killed in 2014, 97 in 2015, 140 in 2016 and 210 in 2017.
"The security forces are combating the terrorists' activities, both along the Line of Control by eliminating the infiltration bids and in hinterland by carrying out counter-terrorist operations and responding to terrorist-initiated incidents," Naik said.
The minister said sustained operations conducted by the security forces "have resulted in (the) elimination of (a) large number of terrorists".
Replying to a separate question, Naik said firm and decisive response was given by the Army to the ceasefire violations on the India-Pakistan border.
In March, April and May, he said 267, 234, 221 cases of ceasefire violations were reported, respectively.
In a response to another question on whether the United States had approved the sale of armed drones to India, Naik said: "This is a continuous process undertaken through procurement from various indigenous as well as foreign sources. Highest priority is accorded to optimally equip the armed forces and keep them in a state of readiness."
Based on threat assessment and security imperatives, the minister said, the government constantly review the national security scenario and take steps to induct appropriate defence equipment to meet the security challenges and operational requirements.


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How to Do Zombie Makeup
Get that _Dawn of the Dead_ look at home with one quick trip to the local costume shop.
- Step 1: Prepare face Prepare your face for the latex by washing the skin, shaving if necessary, and moisturizing.
- Step 2: Apply latex Apply a thin layer of liquid latex all over the face. For realistic looking wrinkles, stuff both your cheeks with cotton balls when applying the latex and keep them in until it's dry -- about 15 minutes.
- TIP: Speed up drying by using a blow dryer on a low speed, low heat setting.
- Step 3: Add a layer Take a single square of toilet tissue and rip it all around the edges. Put one on each cheek. Rip one in half lengthwise and put it on the forehead. Then apply another layer of liquid latex.
- Step 4: Create wounds Create a wound by using a toothpick to score a line in the the latex before it's completely set. Let dry for a few minutes, and then use a toothpick to open up the gash even more, creating a jagged line and curled up edges.
- Step 5: Apply white makeup Apply the white cream makeup all over your face.
- TIP: Apply green greasepaint lightly with a stipple sponge over the white makeup for a sickly tinge.
- Step 6: Add gore Add gore with brown greasepaint on a stipple sponge around the wounds. Then stipple on a layer or purple and red greasepaint and put fake blood gel inside the gash.
- Step 7: Finish Add black greasepaint under the eyes for a sunken look. Use the brown, red, and purple greasepaint to add more bruises, as desired. Finish with some fake blood gel oozing from your hairline where your brains have been eaten away.
- FACT: The concept of zombies comes from the voodoo religion. The word in Haitian Creole means "spirit of the dead."
You Will Need
- Liquid latex
- Cotton balls
- Toilet paper
- Toothpick
- White cream makeup
- Stipple sponge
- Red
- purple
- brown
- and black greasepaint
- Fake blood gel
- Hair dryer (optional)
- Green greasepaint (optional)


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Different strategies for making the jobs market great again.
Trump and the State of Workers in America: A 2018 Labor Day Reflection
After the U.S. saw moderate progress on labor issues under Obama, Donald Trump has wasted no time to attack workers and the labor movement in the U.S.
Germany Finally Fit for the Euro
German fiscal bliss: Debt to GDP ratio can fall to 60% this year.
The End of Work As We Know It?
When we think about the future of work, we are blindsided.
The Rise of Digital Workers
As more digital freelancers find work through online labor platforms, taxing their income will become increasingly difficult.
From Employee to Self-Employed
Large organizations stifle creativity: Why we need parameters (not rules) to operate within (not under).
The Future of Living Wages
What can governments do for incomes in an era of intense global labor competition and automation?
Women in the Workforce: A Global Perspective
Seven decades since the end of World War II, do U.S. women still lead in workforce participation rates?
Greece Needs Growth, But How?
Will Syriza pursue real reforms to get the country growing?
Where the Manufacturing Jobs Are
What percentage of U.S. jobs does the manufacturing sector account for?


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HP claims its new printing solutions for small and medium businesses (SMB) will cut costs and maximise productivity in the office and on the go.
The new HP Officejet 6600, 6700 Premium and 4620 e-All-in-Ones and the HP Officejet 6100 ePrinter, join HP's business inkjet printer line-up offering faster print speeds than their predecessors, low running costs using high-capacity Original HP ink cartridges, and the ability to print from smartphones and tablets virtually anywhere with HP ePrint. These printers have a variety of features at multiple price points enabling customers to select a printer for their specific business requirements.
"In this competitive environment, small business customers need the best technology assets to market, operate and grow their businesses," said Stephen Nigro, senior vice president, inkjet web solutions, HP. "HP is committed to helping small businesses keep pace with the speed of their customers, allowing them to increase workforce mobility and productivity for core business processes such as operations and marketing."
The latest additions to the HP Officejet portfolio enable small office users to print, fax, scan and copy as well as having ENERGY STAR® certification. The HP Officejet 6600, 6700 and 6100 also have improved water, fade and highlighter pen resistance with new HP Officejet all-pigment inks.
— The HP Officejet 6600 e-All-in-One offers professional documents at speeds up to 14 pages per minute (ppm) black and 8ppm colour. It has wireless networking, an automatic document feeder (ADF) and access to business apps directly from a 6.73cm touchscreen.
— The HP Officejet 6700 Premium e-All-in-One offers the same features and capabilities as the HP Officejet 6600 e-All-in-One, plus faster print speeds up to 16ppm black and 9ppm colour a front USB port, ethernet connectivity, and automatic two-sided printing. Printing directly from the front USB port to this e-All-in-One will allow users to create borderless brochures.
— The HP Officejet 6100 ePrinter is a low-cost, single-function workhorse offering wireless and wired networking. Users can produce professional quality documents and borderless marketing materials at speeds up to 16ppm black and 9ppm colour.
— The HP Officejet 4620 e-All-in-One, for home and small offices, delivers print speeds up to 8ppm black and 7.5ppm colour, and a 35-page automatic document feeder to quickly copy, scan, and fax documents. The HP Officejet 4620 is made from recyclable plastics and ships in 100 per cent recyclable packaging.
HP's new all-pigment HP 932 and 933 ink system will increase durability, including water, smear and highlighter resistance. The firm claims this proprietary system saves users time and supplies by allowing page and print job completion even when a cartridge runs out of ink.
Pricing and availability
The HP Officejet 6600 e-All-in-One is available for (SRP €159) and the HP Officejet 6700 Premium e-All-in-One is available now for (SRP €179) through HP and HP authorised resellers. The HP Officejet 6100 ePrinter (SRP €99) and HP Officejet 4620 e-All-in-One (SRP €119) will be available in April 2012 through HP and HP authorised resellers.
Additional information about the new HP Officejet line-up is available at www.hp.com/go/officejetprinting
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Bohemian Rhapsody is a 134-minute chronicle of the formative years of Queen, and a loosely based bio on the late Freddie Mercury. It is directed by Brian Singer and stars Ramie Malek, Lucy Boynton and Gwilym Lee.
First Thoughts …
It's all the greatest hits of Queen … how can you not love this. The music is, well … it is pure unbridled joy. It is impossible not to at least nod your head and, for most of us, the urge to stomp and clap along was overwhelming. This movie is a soundtrack to your favourite music, so it's hard not to let go and enjoy yourself.
A Closer Look …
Once you look past the glitter and power anthems and take a look at the movie itself, well, it is a very-sanitized version of the Queen saga. The "movie" has large omissions and takes a lot of freedom with timelines, persons and events. I put the word movie in quotes because this is barely a movie. The writers and director seemed, either rightly or wrongly, to take the stand of How can we get to the next song as fast as possible, and often skip major events, or give cookie-cutter resolutions in order to throw the timeline ahead another four or five years?
This movie is not a biography or historically accurate, per se. I will take a moment and give you a few examples of where they might have veered off from history in favour of sculpting a kinder narrative.
Right off the bat, Freddie Mercury did not audition in the parking lot to Roger Taylor and Brian May (they were already old friends who had played together for some time). When the lead singer of Smile quit, Taylor, Mercury and May opted to come together as a new band.
The movie also portrays Freddie Mercury in a poor light, for working on a solo album and leaving the band for a time, but this was common practice for Queen (Brian May and Roger Taylor had both already put out solo albums before Freddy began working on his).
Last but not least, the movie makes a big deal of Freddie's HIV diagnosis, right before the famous 1985 Live Aid Concert. This was likely done to give the movie the feeling of a victorious climax. This works well, cinematically, pinning everything the band has on this concert and showing them as underdogs trying to make a comeback. Unfortunately, it's not true … the band wasn't on hiatus; they didn't need a comeback; they never really left. Queen had been on tour, leading right up to Live Aid, and was not "rusty." Also, according to multiple sources, the diagnosis of HIV didn't occur until almost a year later, and the band didn't find out until '87 or '88.
Now, some might think that this is a barrier to enjoying the movie, but honestly … it's not. Ramie Malek gives an outstanding performance as Freddie Mercury, going above and beyond to capture the late singer's unique stage appeal; and, as stated already, the music is phenomenal. If you are a Queen fan, or just a music lover, in general, it is certainly worth heading down to the local theatre and checking it out.
This movie gets a three-out-of-five broken mic stands.