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Best remembered for his film and television scores, the Grammy Award Winning American composer, conductor and arranger, Nicola "Henry" Mancini sadly died 14 June 1994 in Los Angeles. He was born April 16, 1924 in the Little Italy neighborhood of Cleveland. He was raised near Pittsburgh, in the steel town of West Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. His parents emigrated from the Abruzzo region of Italy. Mancini's father, Quinto was a steelworker, who made his only child begin piccolo lessons at the age of eight. When Mancini was 12 years old, he began piano lessons. Quinto and Henry played flute together in the Aliquippa Italian immigrant band, "Sons of Italy". After graduating from Aliquippa High School in 1942, Mancini attended the renowned Juilliard School of Music in New York. In 1943, after roughly one year at Juilliard, his studies were interrupted when he was drafted into the United States Army. In 1945, he participated in the liberation of a concentration camp in southern Germany. After being discharged, Mancini entered the music industry. Entering 1946, he became a pianist and arranger for the newly re-formed Glenn Miller Orchestra, led by 'Everyman' Tex Beneke. After World War II, Mancini broadened his skills in composition, counterpoint, harmony and orchestration during studies opening with the composers Ernst Krenek and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
In 1952, Mancini joined the Universal Pictures music department. During the next six years, he contributed music to over 100 movies, most notably The Creature from the Black Lagoon, It Came from Outer Space, Tarantula, This Island Earth, The Glenn Miller Story (for which he received his first Academy Award nomination), The Benny Goodman Story and Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. During this time, he also wrote some popular songs. His first hit was a single by Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians titled I Won't Let You Out of My Heart. Mancini left Universal-International to work as an independent composer/ arranger in 1958. Soon afterward, he scored the television series Peter Gunn for writer/producer Blake Edwards. This was the genesis of a relationship in which Edwards and Mancini collaborated on 30 films over 35 years. Along with Alex North, Elmer Bernstein, Leith Stevens and Johnny Mandel, Henry Mancini was a pioneer of the inclusion of jazz elements in the late romantic orchestral film and TV scoring prevalent at the time.
Mancini's scores for Blake Edwards included Breakfast at Tiffany's (with the standard "Moon River") and Days of Wine and Roses (with the title song, "Days of Wine and Roses"), as well as Experiment in Terror, The Pink Panther (and all of its sequels), The Great Race, The Party, and Victor Victoria. Another director with whom Mancini had a longstanding partnership was Stanley Donen (Charade, Arabesque, Two for the Road). Mancini also composed for Howard Hawks (Man's Favorite Sport?, Hatari! – which included the well-known "Baby Elephant Walk"), Martin Ritt (The Molly Maguires), Vittorio de Sica (Sunflower), Norman Jewison (Gaily, Gaily), Paul Newman (Sometimes a Great Notion, The Glass Menagerie), Stanley Kramer (Oklahoma Crude), George Roy Hill (The Great Waldo Pepper), Arthur Hiller (Silver Streak),[6] Ted Kotcheff (Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?), and others. Mancini's score for the Alfred Hitchcock film Frenzy (1972) in Bachian organ andante, for organ and an orchestra of strings was rejected and replaced by Ron Goodwin's work.
Mancini scored many TV movies, including The Thorn Birds and The Shadow Box. He wrote many television themes, including Mr. Lucky (starring John Vivyan and Ross Martin), NBC Mystery Movie, What's Happening!!, Tic Tac Dough (1990 version) and Once Is Not Enough. In the 1984–85 television season, four series featured original Mancini themes: Newhart, Hotel, Remington Steele, and Ripley's Believe It or Not. Mancini also composed the "Viewer Mail" theme for Late Night with David Letterman. Mancini composed the theme for NBC Nightly News used beginning in 1975, and a different theme by him, titled Salute to the President was used by NBC News for its election coverage (including primaries and conventions) from 1976 to 1992. Salute to the President was only published in a school-band arrangement, although Mancini performed it frequently with symphony orchestras on his concert tours.
Songs with music by Mancini were staples of the easy listening genre from the 1960s to the 1980s. Some of the artists who have recorded Mancini songs include Andy Williams, Paul Anka, Pat Boone, Anita Bryant, Jack Jones, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Connie Francis, Eydie Gorme, Steve Lawrence, Trini Lopez, George Maharis, Johnny Mathis, Jerry Vale, Ray Conniff, The Lennon Sisters, The Lettermen, Herb Alpert, Eddie Cano, Frank Chacksfield, Warren Covington, Percy Faith, Ferrante & Teicher, Horst Jankowski, Andre Kostelanetz, Peter Nero, Liberace, Mantovani, Tony Bennett, Julie London, Wayne Newton, Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra, Peggy Lee, and Matt Monro. The Anita Kerr Quartet won a Grammy award (1965) for their album "We Dig Mancini", a cover of his songs. Lawrence Welk held Mancini in very high regard, and frequently featured Mancini's music on The Lawrence Welk Show (Mancini made at least one guest appearance on the show).
Mancini recorded over 90 albums, in styles ranging from big band to light classical to pop. Eight of these albums were certified gold by The Recording Industry Association of America. He had a 20-year contract with RCA Records, resulting in 60 commercial record albums that made him a household name among artists of easy-listening music. Mancini's earliest recordings in the 1950s and early 1960s were of the jazz idiom; with the success of Peter Gunn, Mr. Lucky, and Breakfast at Tiffany's, Mancini shifted to primarily recording his own music in record albums and film soundtracks. (Relatively little of his music was written for recordings compared to the amount that was written for film and television.) Beginning with his 1969 hit arrangement of Nino Rota's A Time for Us (as his only Hot 100 top 10 entry, the #1 hit "Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet") and its accompanying album A Warm Shade of Ivory, Mancini began to function more as a piano soloist and easy-listening artist primarily recording music written by other people. In this period, for two of his best-selling albums he was joined by trumpet virtuoso and The Tonight Show bandleader Doc Severinsen. Among Mancini's orchestral scores are (Lifeforce, The Great Mouse Detective, Sunflower, Tom and Jerry: The Movie, Molly Maguires, The Hawaiians), and darker themes (Experiment in Terror, The White Dawn, Wait Until Dark, The Night Visitor).
Mancini was also a concert performer, conducting over fifty engagements per year, resulting in over 600 symphony performances during his lifetime. He conducted nearly all of the leading symphonies of the world, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. One of his favorites was the Minnesota Orchestra, where he debuted the Thorn Birds Suite in June 1983. He appeared in 1966, 1980 and 1984 in command performances for the British Royal Family. He also toured several times with Johnny Mathis and also with Andy Williams, who had each sung many of Mancini's songs; Mathis and Mancini collaborated on the 1986 album The Hollywood Musicals.
Mancini also made many cameo appearances on Television; Shortly before his death in 1994, he made a one-off cameo appearance in the first season of Frasier, as a call-in patient to Dr. Frasier Crane's radio show. Mancini voiced the character Al, who speaks with a melancholy drawl and hates the sound of his own voice, in the episode "Guess Who's Coming to Breakfast?" Moments after Mancini's cameo ends, Frasier's radio broadcast plays "Moon River" to underscore a particularly heartfelt apology. Mancini also had an uncredited performance as a pianist in the 1967 movie Gunn, the movie version of the series Peter Gunn, the score of which was originally composed by Mancini himself. In the 1966 Pink Panther cartoon Pink, Plunk, Plink, the panther commandeered an orchestra and proceeded to conduct Mancini's theme for the series. At the end, the shot switched to rare live action, and Mancini was seen alone applauding in the audience.
At the time of his untimely demise Mancini was working on the Broadway stage version of Victor/Victoria, which he never saw on stage. Mancini was survived by his wife of 43 years, singer Virginia "Ginny" O'Connor, with whom he had three children. They had met while both were members of the Tex Beneke orchestra, just after World War II. In 1948, Mrs. Mancini was one of the founders of the Society of Singers, a non-profit organization which benefits the health and welfare of professional singers worldwide. Additionally the Society awards scholarships to students pursuing an education in the vocal arts. One of Mancini's twin daughters, Monica Mancini, is a professional singer; her sister Felice runs The Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation (MHOF). His son Christopher is a music publisher and promoter in Los Angeles.
In 1996, the Henry Mancini Institute, an academy for young music professionals, was founded by Jack Elliott in Mancini's honor, and was later under the direction of composer-conductor Patrick Williams. By the mid 2000s, however, the institute could not sustain itself and closed its doors on December 30, 2006. However, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Foundation "Henry Mancini Music Scholarship" has been awarded annually since 2001. While still alive, Henry created a scholarship at UCLA and the bulk of his library and works are archived in the music library at UCLA.
In 2005, the Henry Mancini Arts Academy was opened as a division of the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center. The Center is located in Midland, Pennsylvania, minutes away from Mancini's hometown of Aliquippa. The Henry Mancini Arts Academy is an evening-and-weekend performing arts program for children from pre-K to grade 12, with some classes also available for adults. The program includes dance, voice, musical theater, and instrumental lessons. The American Film Institute ranked Mancini's songs Moon River in the No. 4 and Days of Wine and Roses in No. 39 on their list of the greatest songs and his score for The Pink Panther No. 20 on their list of the greatest film scores. His scores for Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Charade (1963), Hatari! (1962), Touch of Evil (1958) and Wait Until Dark (1967) were also nominated for the list.
Mancini was nominated for an unprecedented 72 Grammys, winning 20 and was nominated for 18 Academy Awards, winning four. He also won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for two Emmys. and was awarded a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. He was first nominated for an Academy Award in 1955 for his original score of The Glenn Miller Story, on which he collaborated with Joseph Gershenson. He lost out to Adolph Deutsch and Saul Chaplin's Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. In 1962, he was nominated in the Best Music, Original Song category for "Bachelor in Paradise" from the film of the same name, in collaboration with lyricist Mack David. That song did not win. However, Mancini did receive two Oscars that year: one in the same category, for the song "Moon River" (shared with lyricist Johnny Mercer), and one for "Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture" for Breakfast at Tiffany's. The following year, he and Mercer took another Best Original Song award for "Days of Wine and Roses". He finally garnered one last statuette working with lyricist Leslie Bricusse on the score for Victor Victoria, which won the Academy Award for "Best Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score". All three of the films for which he won were directed by Blake Edwards. His score for Victor/Victoria was adapted for the 1995 Broadway musical of the same name.


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Friday, November 23, 2018
Shoplifters (万引き家族)
It's no surprise that his latest film "Shoplifters" (万引き家族 | Japan 2018 | in Japanese | 121 min.) won the well-deserved Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival and was selected as Japan's submission for foreign-language Oscar. It is easily the best film I have seen this year and I am pretty sure it is on its way to collect the Oscar.
At the beginning of the film, after stealing a bag of groceries, Osamu Shibata (Lily Franky) and his son Shota (Jō Kairi) finds a 5-year-old girl Yuri (Sasaki Miyu) is outside alone in the cold. When Osamu takes Yuri back to the cramped little home, Osamu's wife Nobuyo (Andô Sakura) complains to him about taking in another mouth to feed. However, once they see the burn mark and bruises on Yuri's arms, Yuri is immediately accepted as the youngest addition to this three-generation family, despite any potential kidnapping concern. They give Yuri a new name Lin. Meanwhile, Yuri's parents seem happy to get rid of her and don't even bother to report her missing to the police.
Besides the limited pension from grandma Hatsue (Kiki Kirin), all the adults in the family actually have jobs. Osamu works at a construction site, Nobuyo does shifts at a dry cleaning shop, and Hatsue's granddaughter Aki (Matsuoka Mayu) strips behind a glass. Although their earnings are not enough to get by, they are together as a happy family.
When Yuri (Lin) is discovered by the authorities, the family's harmony is interrupted and more secrets come to light which shake the core of this family.
Similar to the heart-wrenching "Nobody Knows" (誰も知らない 2004), the writer-director Koreeda Hirokazu is a master of bringing out the best performance by children. He makes your heart melt with their happiness and makes your heart weep with their unbearable suffering. The two innocent children in this film superbly convey the poignant tale.
In addition to the two young actors, the entire cast is fantastic in the film. Andô Sakura delivers one the most unforgettable and heartbreaking scenes in the film when she is questioned by the police. The director's longtime collaborator, beloved actress Kirin Kiki (樹木 希林) played her last role in this film before her recent death to cancer. It's hard to imagine that she won't be the grandma figure when Koreeda Hirokazu tells his next story about another family.
Although the film is once again about a family, unlike other families in the director's previous films, this family is an atypical one. As the film's title indicates, the marginalized family members are petty thieves in a society where the Japanese value honesty with high regards. However, regardless of their flaws, they are the most likable and loving characters that capture our hearts and make us cry.
As a follow up to "Like Father, Like Son" (そして父になる 2013), Koreeda Hirokazu continues to raise the question of what constitutes parents. If one could choose, Yuri obviously would prefer the love from her kidnapper family vs. her abusive birth parents.
Even though living in poverty, these characters remarkably enjoy their happiness in their little space and their joy is contagious. They might be short on money, but they never lack love and affection. That's what a family should be.
"Shoplifters" opens on Friday, November 23, 2018 in San Francisco Bay Area.


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Save Me Trust seeks permission to intervene in Judicial Review of decision to suspend culling in Derbyshire
On 21st February 2020 the Save Me Trust, represented by Mr Simon Farrell QC, applied to the High Court to intervene in the ongoing Judicial Review challenge to the Government's decision to suspend badger culling in Derbyshire. The case follows a claim by the National Farmers Union against the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Natural England after the Government put the brakes on plans to issue licenses to cull badgers in the county. Derbyshire has one of the most active vaccination programmes in England, while badger culling has not been authorised in the county since 2005. Had the planned cull gone ahead it would have significantly undermined the well-established vaccination programmes operating in the area. Save Me Trust therefore support the Government's decision to suspend the cull. We have filed expert scientific evidence from Professor Rosie Woodroffe with the Court and have asked for the opportunity to put forward submissions that will emphasise the need to move away from culling towards non-lethal methods of controlling bovine TB. The case will be heard on 1st April 2020.
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EM708-6 - Developing Resilience and Spiritual Maturity in Cross-Cultural Ministry
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Learning outcomesOn successful completion of this unit, students will
A. Know and understand
Factors in the development of resilience and spiritual maturity in cross-cultural ministry
Biblical and missiological perspectives on the development of resilience and spiritual maturity
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Analyse the roles of diverse challenges in cross-cultural ministry in Developing resilience and spiritual maturity
Evaluate personal responses to challenges in cross-cultural ministry
Articulate a personal philosophy of spiritual formation
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Implement plans for personal spiritual growth and development of resilience
Communicate principles of Developing spiritual maturity and resilience to others
1. Factors in spiritual formation and the development of resilience in intercultural ministry
2. Biblical perspectives on resilience and its development, and spiritual formation
3. The role of suffering and developing a biblical response to it in spiritual growth
4. The forms and role of spiritual warfare in intercultural ministry and their impact on spiritual formation and resilience in the light of Scripture and missiological literature
5. Developing healthy approaches to relationships and to conflict in the light of Scripture and missiological perspectives
6. Developing a plan for spiritual formation and developing resilience, including engagement with spiritual disciplines.
7. Helping others – family members, friends, and co-workers – grow spiritually and in resilience
Set Readings
Sedmak, C., The Capacity to be Displaced: Resilience, Mission, and Inner Strength (Leiden: Brill, 2017).
Smith, G., Called to be Saints: An Invitation to Christian Maturity. (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2014).
Averbeck, R., "Spirit, Community, and Mission: A Biblical Theology for Spiritual Formation," Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care 1(2008): 27-53. Avaiable from https://journals.biola.edu/sfj/assets/20/sfj-1-1-27.pdf
Berding, K., "At the Intersection of Mission and Spiritual Formation in the Letters of Paul," Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care 6 (2013): 18-37.
Bosch, D., A Spirituality of the Road (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2001).
Brogden, D., Abiding Mission: Missionary Spirituality and Disciple-Making among the Muslim Peoples of Egypt and Northern Sudan (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2016).
Chan, S., Spiritual Theology: A Systematic Study of the Christian Life (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 1998).
Eeningenburg, S., and Bliss, R., Expectations and Burnout: Women Surviving the Great Commission (Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 2010).
Elmer, D., Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving Others in Christlike Humility (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2006).
Fernando, A., The Call to Joy and Pain: Embracing Suffering in your Ministry. (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2007).
Foyle, M., Honourably wounded: Stress among Christian workers (London, UK: Monarch, 2010).
Hibbert, E, and Hibbert, R., Leading Multicultural Teams (Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 2014).
Hale, T., Authentic Lives: Overcoming the Problem of Hidden Identity in Outreach to Restrictive Nations (Pasadena, CA: Willam Carey Library, 2016).
Hoke, S., and Taylor, W., Global Mission Handbook: A Guide to Cross-Cultural Service (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2009).
Miller, R., Spiritual Survival Handbook for Cross-Cultural Workers (Orlando, FL: BottomLine Media, 2011).
Moreau, A.S., Essentials of Spiritual Warfare: Equipped to Win the Battle (Shaw Publishers, 2008).
O'Donnell, K. (ed.), Doing Member Care Well: Perspectives and Practices from around the World (Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 2002).
Schaefer, F & Schaefer, C. (eds.), Trauma & Resilience, A Handbook: Effectively Supporting Those Who Serve God (Condeo Press, 2016).
Shaw, R., Spiritual Equipping for Mission: Thriving as God's Message Bearers (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2014).
Teague, D,. Godly Servants: Discipleship and Spiritual Formation for Missionaries (Mission Imprints, 2012).


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Go Digital - 20th March 2017
Further to the 'Go Digital' event that was hosted by the Tayside and Fife Professional Learning Alliance (the Alliance), I have started this discussion thread to give people the opportunity to comment on how we might keep some dialogue going about relevant 'digital' developments across CLD. I will feed any comments back to the Alliance.
Just come from a really interesting conversation about digital community engagement - linked to a multi-national project we are part of. Learning with and from the six partner nations is at the heart of that and so I think loads of opportunity. From our perspective it would be good be in a conversation with colleagues in Scotland about about digital engagement and how we can support each other's learning and practice in this area. Is there a place where we could create that conversation? We use Basecamp on the project. Is that familiar to anyone?
Hi Graham,
This sounds really interesting, I am part of some international networks around digital and youth work. It would be great to discuss.
We use basecamp regularly in our work at YouthLink Scotland and we have a basecamp space for the Digital Youth Network.
Perhaps an opportunity to bring some ideas together.
best wishes,
Hi all, maybe a free option e.g. Facebook group (can use work account rather than personal to log in) or google - hangouts for discussion, drive for sharing docs etc. - though not sure that would work with most council IT systems?
- Angie
Morning all,
Yeah the idea with using Google Drive will work as no Adverts which does stop most Council Systems from accessing Websites. Just have to make sure that the Browser is up to date, which is a problem for some Council Systems. With Google Drive all can access from any PC 24/7 and all free of charge, make sure all have a Google email account will make it all work better. Also can access Google Drive from your Android Mobile phone as well just get the App. You will have to check and see if it works on other Mobile phone platforms such as iPhone, Windows and Blackberry to make sure.
I have Android and the Google Drive Application on my phone and it does work fine, With Google Docs & Sheets, they too can view any MS Office Doc as well once uploaded to Google Drive. Worth a look as this is all for Free! You can also use G+ (Google Plus - Social Networking App) which you can view up to 9 people (You plus 9 = 10 people) in a video Conference, all have to have Gmail accounts as well; that too is also free of charge.
just to follow up on the local authority access to Google Drive, Google +, Hangouts etc Scottish Borders Council's IT provider (CGI) blocks access to the majority of Google products unless you request special access. I managed to gain access as it is used by Aberdeen Uni for the CLD Postgrad.
As mentioned by Raymond, accessing it on a tablet or phone is a way around this. I know that it works well on both Android and iphone/ipad.
A few links so that you can see what the Big Tech Firms are doing as far as Go Digital and Education. All seem to use some sort of collaborative software, Going Digital then have a look a few ideas and you may not have to create the wheel again.
Google in Scotland's Education System: - https://plus.google.com/communities/103577237113072846685
Microsoft Education: - https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/education
Both have a vested interest in Education in schools...
Hi - the 1st one is a Google+ group (community I think they call it) which you can get with a google login as well as hangouts, drive, gmail etc .You can set up public or private groups. Haven't personally set one up but have linked in to a few and found them easy to follow / use - e.g. I get alerts on my phone as people post.
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It is often said and rightly so that education is an investment that is expected to pay throughout one's life time. While market uncertainties and changing business landscape may require regular additional investments in retraining, careful thought in choosing a proper course with excellent career prospects is critical. The internet era and generation-Z which lives in e-space have rendered traditional thinking of choosing those programs of study with several decades long steady career path, redundant. For example once-hot careers such as computer hardware engineering and BPOs are today riddled with lower prospects or benched employees. It is time, therefore, for students (and parents) to rethink career options, keeping present and future realities in mind.
Know your management program
While applying for a management program- be it at under-graduate or post-graduate level, one should opt for domain specific programs that are strongly linked to industry requirements. The education institute you are choosing should be driven by academic and non-academic activities as students can't be holistically groomed in just classroom environment. At UPES, there is focus not only on knowledge, but equal emphasis is given on developing overall personality and soft skills without compromising on industry interface. That is the reason placements of our management students is over 90% in companies of repute.
Eligibility for Management Programs
Usually for BBA programs any student who is a 10+2 is eligible to apply. There are some BBA programs like Auto Marketing or Financial Analysis & Services where a student with science background or commerce background can do much better. Similarly, graduates with engineering background find it comfortable when they pursue our specialized MBAs like MBA in Power Management, Urban Infrastructure or Energy Trading. However, a particular education stream is not an eligibility criteria. In fact, we have seen exceptions as well in terms of students with non-related education stream doing well in their chosen specializations. For MBA most universities take admission through entrance exam route. A student's numerical ability, written communication skills, comprehension and command over English language, reasoning and aptitude is tested. Numerical ability means how well a student can read data and graphic representations to derive insights. It is extremely important because as managers they have to go through a lot of reports, understand data, derive insights and take high-stake decisions. A student's verbal communication skills and other soft skills are tested during group discussion and personal interviews. We assess MBA aspirants on their confidence and commitment level also as MBA programs are diversified and students have to go through 30 to 40 different subjects in 2 years. Management skills and how well a student works in a team while respecting team ethos are also important. In case of UPES, once a student joins our program we further hone these skills besides providing them sector specific knowledge.
Any student who is aspiring to pursue an MBA, work experience can add tremendous value but it is not a pre-requisite. We have seen that some corporate experience brings relevant perspective and they try to make the most of their curriculum, faculty, academic and non-academic activities. Fresh graduates take some time to settle down and work harder. However, it completely depends on an individual as there are always exceptions and that's why prior work experience is not an eligibility criteria to apply for an MBA at UPES.
Demand for BBA and MBA programmes
Application trend for BBA and MBA programs has been positive especially for specialized programs as both students and recruiters see a lot of value in these programs. Overall, these are professional courses and hence are related to the health of the economy and job market. In future, as primary sector gets more organized there will be increased demand for professional management graduates. Job structures and profiles may be changing with automation, better machines etc. but nothing can replace a professionally qualified, well-skilled human resource.
Domain specific MBAs are doing well that includes Aviation Management, Energy Trading, Business Analytics, Infrastructure Management, International Business Management, Logistics & Supply Chain Management, Oil & Gas Management, Port & Shipping Management and Power Management.
If an education institution is providing good academic infrastructure and grooming different aspects of an individual, then finding a right job will not be a problem. Organizations need employees who are good in hard skills (domain knowledge, technical knowledge) and soft skills (communication, team building, leadership etc.)
Industry integration
School of Business at UPES already has a robust industry integration program under which we have many MoUs and agreements with leading organizations and industry bodies like CIMA and ACCEA. Our flagship program MBA (International Business) is affiliated with NSDC (National Skill Development Corporation) through its Sector Skill Council, AMHSSC. The department shall train and develop the skills of the selected students to be "Certified Export Manager" by the Government of India. This will be an added certification for the MBA IB students once they qualify the assessment examination to be conducted by NSDC. It will help the students get premium jobs in the exports/imports sector not only within the country but also globally as this certification is acceptable world over.
Last but not the least, it is extremely significant for any student to pursue his/her management education from a reputed B-school to ensure great learning, future progression and better career prospects. A non-reputed B-school may compromise on all this, causing more harm to a student then doing any good.
Dr. Deependra Kumar Jha
Vice Chancellor of UPES
Doctorate in Engineering in Artificial Complex System Engineering from Hiroshima University, Japan
Masters of Science in Power System Engineering and Bachelors of Science, Electrical Engineering from Tribhuvan University, Nepal


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ReconAfrica subsurface evaluation to aid Kavango basin explorationPosted on Thursday July 09, 2020
Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd. (ReconAfrica) completed a subsurface evaluation delineating large prospective conventional hydrocarbon bearing structures throughout the entire Kavango basin.
Equinor awards portfolio agreement for Oseberg upgrade projectPosted on Wednesday July 08, 2020
Equinor has awarded Aibel a portfolio agreement for modification tasks at Oseberg fields in the Norwegian North Sea.
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Petrobras has contracted Saipem for installation of a rigid riser-based subsea system for the Búzios presalt project. The field lies in Santos basin, offshore Rio de Janeiro, in 1,537-2,190 m of water.
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Pittsburgh: Murdoch, Kerr & Co., c. 1895. Hardcover. 128 pages. 19 x 14 cm. (22 pages local advertisments). An array of dishes with some surprises, such as a recipe for "Hot Tamales" from a contributor (Helen E. Pelletreau) who had traveled to Corpus Christi. Helen Pelletreau was the third president of the Pennsylvania College For Women, and the first woman to hold the office. Pelletreau was chosen as Acting President after the prior person to hold the office resigned, and while trustees searched for a replacement. The committee, citing her exceptional business insight, then elected Miss Pelletreau as President, a title she kept for 14 years until her retirement in 1894. Pages lightly toned. White oil cloth covered boards. Very good. Item #1846
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Thompsons urges people to 'not worry' while investigations continue
Pharmaceutical giant, Johnson & Johnson, has this week been accused of continuing to sell its talc powder products despite being aware for decades that it contained traces of asbestos.
The claims come as a result of an investigation by news agency Reuters, which examined recently-available internal company reports and other confidential documents. These revealed that the multinational was aware as early as 1971 that its products contained microscopic amounts of Tremolite, a type of asbestos, but failed to tell consumers and regulators.
Commenting on the allegations, Helen Tomlin, specialist asbestos solicitor at Thompsons, said: "These reports have understandably caused much concern with members of the public who, for many years, have used Johnson & Johnson talc powder.
"However, evidence of a link between asbestos found in talc and the development of cancers related to such exposure has not yet been proven and investigations are ongoing."
"The link between asbestos exposure and asbestos-related cancer, most notably mesothelioma, has been established for decades. However, evidence of a link between asbestos found in talc and the development of cancers related to such exposure has not yet been proven and investigations are ongoing."
She continues: "The question for now, in our opinion, is how a multinational company with huge budgets allocated to research, development, marketing and consumer safety testing, has seemingly allowed evidence of possible contamination of one of its most popular products to be buried within internal documentation, and how even now the documents have come to light they are still trying to evade responsibility for past failings.
"How can people have confidence in the products of a company that appears to have ignored or brushed over issues that are of legitimate consumer concern? Johnson & Johnson executives have serious questions to answer over the coming weeks."
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This is the update information of ICOM A2 B C with latest 2016.3 software ISTA+ for BMW vehicles to the 2016 year.
Software version
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ISTA+ as the new name
ISTA+ is the new name of ICOM software, instead of ISTA-D (Rheingold)
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Alcohol 52% is an excellent application for creating CD and DVD images and creating virtual drives.
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Alcohol 52% lets you run images on virtual drives at 200 times the normal speed, much faster than conventional CD drives.
Alcohol 52% works perfectly with Windows file browsers and the virtual drives it creates are easily accessible from My PC, simulating real drives.
Alcohol 52% carries out complex operations but using it is easy. It has a very intuitive graphic interface: to load an image on a virtual drive you just click on the corresponding virtual drive and indicate the route for the image. The program takes care of the rest.
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Date and Time: Saturday, January 25, 2014 7:00 PM EST on ESPN
Game Line: Michigan State -4.5 (from BetOnline)
Saturday NCAABB analysis: The #21 ranked Michigan Wolverines take the short trip to East Lansing to take on conference rival and the #3 ranked Michigan State Spartans.
The Michigan Wolverines (14-4) are currently on an 8 game win streak, and are coming off back to back wins at Wisconsin and at home over Iowa. Since their narrow loss to top ranked Arizona, coach John Beilein has this team believing. The Wolverines are scoring 77.2 ppg, and are shooting 48.7% from the field, tops in the Big Ten. One the glass they aren't too impressive, only averaging 33.7 per game. Defensively, they are allowing opponents to shoot 43.1% from the field and giving up 63.7 ppg.
Michigan State (18-1) has won 11 in a row since a shocking loss at home to North Carolina in early December. They have a couple of impressive wins on their resume over Kentucky and Oklahoma. Their win over Ohio State looked good, but with the way the Buckeyes have struggle, you would have to wonder how much stock you can put in to that one. The Spartans offense puts up 79.9 points per game and is shooting 47.8% from the field. They are also efficient from 3 point land, hitting 38.5% of their 3 point attempts, tops in the conference. They are good on the glass, and average 39.5 rebounds per game. The Spartan defense allows 63.9 points per game, and are limiting opponents to 37.9% shooting.
I'm going to take the points on Saturday with the Wolverines. Michigan is playing a good brand of basketball, and are currently on a 6-1 ATS run. Michigan State might be the #3 ranked team and playing on their home court, but injuries might catch up with this team sooner rather than later. The Spartans will be without the services of Branden Dawson and Adrien Payne, their two leading rebounders. Sure, the Spartans are the better rebounding team, but without those two the advantage in the paint is severely diminished. Michigan State may have the home court, but right now, it looks like Michigan has the more complete roster. It may not be that way by the time March rolls around, but for now I'll take the points in a game that should go down to the wire.
Michigan at Michigan State Free NCAABB pick: Michigan +4.5
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Estimated By E.P.A.Actual Mileage May Vary
Vehicle Options
- Engine
- 4.3L FlexFuel EcoTec3 V6 with Active Fuel Management
- Direct Injection and Variable Valve Timing includes aluminum block construction with FlexFuel capability
- capable of running on unleaded or up to 85% ethanol (285 hp [212 kW] @ 5300 rpm
- 305 lb-ft of torque [413 Nm] @ 3900 rpm)
- Rear axle
- 3.42 ratio (Standard on 4WD (LV3) 4.3L EcoTec3 V6 engine. Available with (L83) 5.3L EcoTec3 V8 engine.)
- Body
- Pick Up Box
- 7100 lbs. (3221 kg) (Requires 4WD models and (LV3) 4.3L EcoTec3 V6 engine.)
- Transfer case
- with floor-mounted shifter (Included with 4WD models only.)
- Four wheel drive
- Cooling
- external engine oil cooler
- Battery
- heavy-duty 730 cold-cranking amps/70 Amp-hr
- maintenance-free with rundown protection and retained accessory power
- Alternator
- 150 amps
- Frame
- fully-boxed
- hydroformed front section
- Suspension Package
- Handling/Trailering
- Steering
- Electric Power Steering (EPS) assist
- rack-and-pinion
- Brakes
- 4-wheel disc with DURALIFE rotors
- 4-wheel antilock
- Exhaust
- aluminized stainless-steel muffler and tailpipe
- Tire carrier lock
- keyed cylinder lock that utilizes same key as ignition and door
- Bumper
- front chrome
- Bumper
- rear chrome
- Lamps
- cargo area
- cab mounted with switch on center switch bank
- Tailgate and bed rail protection cap
- top
- Tailgate
- locking utilizes same key as ignition and door
- CornerStep
- rear bumper
- Grille surround
- chrome
- Headlamps
- halogen reflector
- Glass
- deep-tinted
- Door handles
- Black
- 6-speaker audio system
- Seat
- rear full-width folding bench
- 3-passenger (includes child seat top tether anchor)
- Floor covering
- Graphite-colored rubberized-vinyl
- no floor mats included
- Steering column
- Tilt-Wheel
- manual with theft-deterrent locking feature
- Instrumentation
- 6-gauge cluster featuring speedometer
- fuel level
- engine temperature
- tachometer
- voltage and oil pressure
- Driver Information Center
- 3.5-inch diagonal monochromatic display provides warning messages and basic vehicle information
- Windows
- power front and rear with driver express up and down and express down on all other windows
- Cruise control
- electronic with set and resume speed
- steering wheel-mounted
- Air conditioning
- single-zone
- Assist handle
- front passenger on A-pillar
- StabiliTrak
- stability control system with Proactive Roll Avoidance and traction control includes electronic trailer sway control and hill start assist
- Daytime Running Lamps with automatic exterior lamp control
- Airbags
- Dual-stage frontal airbags for driver and front passenger
- seat-mounted side-impact airbags for driver and front outboard passenger
- and head-curtain side-impact airbags for front and rear outboard seating positions; includes Passenger Sensing System (Always use safety belts and child restraints. Children are safer when properly secured in a rear seat in the appropriate child restraint. See the Owner's Manual for more information.)
- Tire Pressure Monitoring System (does not apply to spare tire)
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Wall Direct Interface
The DB228 Wall Direct Interface is an ideal impedance matching device for connecting any unbalanced stereo signal to a balanced system. Consumer audio equipment such as CD players, DVD players, MP3 players, phone, etc., may be easily connected to a professional audio system. In addition it will mix a microphone with a line level signal and send it out via a plugable barrier strip connector.
RIAA Phono Preamp
The Bellari VP549 phono pre has excellent true sound resolution. It\\\'s tone center is right in the middle of the music. It performs very well on the extremes, and never looses its solid performance in the meat of the music. Has a well rounded sound when needed, but has a very surprising shimmer when called on. The VP549 is bold, yet has a very surprising attack that will take your rig to the next level. Hundreds of hours went in to listening and improving the design. All Bellari products are hand built in Salt Lake City, Utah by people who care about high quality music. No surface mount parts are ever used at Bellari.
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The MA258 is a Integrated Audio Amplifier with RIAA Phono preamp built in. It has three selectable stereo inputs phonograph, RCA and a 3.5mm jack for phones or tablets. The MA258 also has a very well designed headphone output so it can be used as a stand alone headphone amplifier. The MA258 was designed to have the highest level of sound quality, whether you are using it as a headphone amp or with speakers. At every design stage we spent a considerable amount of time focused on one thing, sound quality.


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It was a ship, and quite a large one by the looks of the array of coloured lights heaving up and down in the rough Atlantic waters. Frances kept going over all of the things that he had been pondering for the past two or so hours since he'd spotted the lights peering over the dark horizon before him. "Possibly British Navy," he grumbled aloud to himself in French. It certainly wouldn't be out of place in the Dover Strait since the war started in 1939. However, if it were a Navy vessel, it was strange that all the lights would be on for fear of being spotted by the enemy; they would usually be off.
Frances grabbed his tobacco jar off of the little roll top desk in the watch room of his lighthouse. He had been the lighthouse keeper there for nearly twenty-three years since the end of the first Great War, in which he had served. The small room was already filled to the brim with an eerie blue haze of pipe smoke, but Frances filled another bowl full of tobacco; he had been smoking incessantly since he glimpsed the lights of the ship through his dated binoculars. He had a nasty, anxious feeling in the pit of his stomach that something wasn't quite right.
Seeing a ship at night was nothing out of the ordinary; it was the world's most trafficked waterway, but seeing a ship this close to the rocky shore during a late November storm was cause for at least a little concern. He fumbled with the matches as he lit the tobacco in the bowl of his pipe.
There was hardly any chance at all that the ship was a fishing boat. There were too many lights spaced too far apart from one another, he thought, and the strait was much too rocky for fishermen's nets anyway. And the vessel was certainly too small to be a freighter carrying goods. It was almost definitely a Navy vessel, he had deducted.
Outside in the dark of the night, the storm raged on with an unholy fury. The wind pounded and rattled the glass panes of Frances's watch room with continuous gusts, and the lightning over the strait illuminated the night to reveal the sinister clouds and vicious waves. Frances was certainly not a virgin when it came to storms by any means, but even he couldn't ignore the particularly vehement way in which this storm violently attacked and buffeted everything in its path. The wind whipped the tops of the waves causing whitecaps like snowy mountain peaks, screaming around the lighthouse. Whoever was on that ship, Frances thought, was in for a hell of a night.
It was chaos aboard the HMS Gordon. The navy men were hustling around the deck, buckling on life preservers, and shoving towards the nearest lifeboats. It had been at least two and a half hours since the torpedo had ripped through her bow and torn a large chunk out of the hull. Despite the considerable damage, the ship was going down slowly. The captain had commanded that the major hatchways that led to the compromised area of the ship be closed off immediately after they had been hit, regardless of the men that may be trapped in those quarters. This bought The Gordon some time afloat. The captain had also ordered the engine room to haul forward full steam ahead, making for the rotating beam of the lighthouse off in the distance.
Benjamin hustled towards a lifeboat where men were jostling each other and cursing at one another in their desperate attempts to board it. He was fortunate that he was quite large and did not have much difficulty in wading through the rest of the men. As Benjamin boarded the lifeboat, a second torpedo rocked the ship. The German submarine must have lost track of the HMS Gordon in the ungodly storm that was thundering around with a drunken fury in the strait. But evidently, the submarine had recovered its prey and began the assault once again. The cables suspending the lifeboat went momentarily slack and the boat swung out and slammed back into the side of the ship. The Gordon shuddered from the force of the blow. The lifeboat dropped into the churning water adjacent to the ship, and the men aboard it began to row for their lives.
Benjamin rowed with a ferocity that caused every muscle in his body to shriek in pain, but against the gargantuan waves, it made no difference as if they had been rowing like children. As he glanced up to witness The Gordon go down, he saw many men who were not fortunate enough to board a lifeboat jump from the railings into the sea, and begin to swim frantically towards the boats that had escaped in time. It was easier for individual men wearing life preservers to cut through the waves than it was for the small watercrafts, and this posed a difficult problem. The small lifeboats could only support ten people apiece, and the men, if left in the water, would inevitably die of hypothermia or drown in the tyrant of waves from the storm. Benjamin looked into the near distance towards the rotating beam of the lighthouse and continued to row with an intensified determination.
Frances peered through the binoculars pressed painfully against his eye sockets. Most of the ship's lights had flickered and extinguished, and he could now see multiple, smaller boats rising and falling in the turbulent white-capped waves. The ship and its crew were also now close enough to the lighthouse that Frances could partially make out tiny orange dots that speckled throughout the rough surf around the dark silhouettes of lifeboats. The orange specks, which he took to be floating men, were thrashed madly by the waves like ants in a flood, and many of them would disappear out of sight for a while only to resurface again moments later.
Frances was right: it was a navy vessel, and it was obviously in distress. However, there was nothing practical that he could ever hope to do. The storm and waves were much too rough for him to attempt a rescue mission in his tugboat, and it was much too small, and he was too old to rescue all of these men anyway. If he did decide to set out to save these men, he certainly would have been spit back out violently by the sea onto the hellish rocks along the shoreline. There was absolutely nothing that Frances could do.
He continued to stare through his binoculars at the ship that was now only illuminated for a few seconds at a time by the flashes of lightning. He saw that it was sinking rapidly. He parted his ageing eyes from the haunting image of the capsizing vessel, and now focused them on the small lifeboats that were being tossed around by the white-capped waves as easily as if they were children's toys. Frances also noticed that many of the orange-jacketed men seemed to be struggling in the water around the lifeboats and grabbing onto the sides. He watched on, transfixed as boats were overturned and men were cast into the violent, frigid water. Some of the boats were now dangerously close to the rocks just off the shore, and the ones that were further away were being overcome by the men swimming frantically in the waves.
As Benjamin rowed, he watched his fellow navy men in the water getting closer and closer to the lifeboats. The rowers on the port side shoved the first man that reached them roughly away back into the waves. All the lifeboats that were still afloat were already full, and the struggling navy men in the water were trying desperately to grab hold of the sides and pull themselves up. As more and more men swarmed the boats, the small crafts were taking on water under the weight of the bodies.
The men on the boats were forcefully pushing the swimmers away and hitting approaching men with the oars. A struggling man thrust his hand out of the water and grasped ahold of one of the straps on Benjamin's life preserver and hung on for his life. He tried prying the man's corpse-cold hand off, but the man had wound the loose strap around his hand and wrist and it was too difficult for Benjamin to free himself. Benjamin shed off his life preserver and it slipped over the edge and into the sea along with the waterlogged navy man. He peered over into the rough water to see the man sputtering and thrashing, and he knew that the men in the water were doomed to die.
As he rowed, he looked forward past the stern of the lifeboat to see if he could catch a last glimpse of the HMS Gordon going down, but it had been already overcome by the waves, so he turned and focused on the lighthouse and its rotating beam of light. The storm raged on with thunder louder than gunfire, but not quite loud enough to silence the drowning navy men's screams in Benjamin's head. He felt ashamed and guilty about the man he had stopped from getting into the boat. Why should he live while the men in the water should die just because he had got himself to a lifeboat quicker than the others?
Through tears and seawater he saw what had to have been the largest wave yet, a leviathan-sized wall of black water surging towards the lifeboats. He could not even shout as he was paralyzed with fear. Benjamin did not even feel the force of the wave as it slammed into his body and the lifeboats were crushed; he was numb bone-deep with the cold. His mind turned to black as his life preserver-less body was swept down and away in the undertow of the strait.
The morning had arrived slowly as thick clouds shrouded the sky and obscured the rising sun. Frances had awoken earlier than usual after a restless night of waking sleep to notice that the storm had finally ceased. He limped slowly down the spiral staircase of his lighthouse with immense labour until he reached the bottom. He donned his raincoat, knitted wool hat, and wellington boots, and lit his pipe before heading for the doorway. Frances opened the iron studded driftwood door and stepped outside feeling the moist ocean wind on his bearded wrinkled face.
Before reaching the steps that led down the rock face of the low cliff, Frances confirmed his assessment of the severity of the storm, and he realized that he was wise in not attempting a rescue. His small tugboat was laying on its caved-in side nearly fifteen yards from the edge of the cliff; the sea swells must have picked it up out of the water with such force to break the lines holding it to the pier, and set it down roughly on top of the rocks. He certainly would have perished if he had tried to brave the storm the night before, especially at his age.
Frances climbed down the steep concrete and wood steps that led to the rocky beach below. As he reached the bottom, he passed shards of wood and debris strewn across the shore, and then he came across the first body. It was bloated and waterlogged, and the corpse's face was hardly recognizable as human. Frances felt an overwhelming sensation of guilt rise in his chest, part of which would never fade despite his knowledge that he could not have done anything to save these men from their fate. He resolutely did not look at any of the other bodies as he limped past them towards the small pier. When he reached the end, he looked down into the black ocean water rising and falling below him. He had seen many storms in his lifetime, and he had seen too many nautical disasters in his days as lighthouse keeper, but this one topped both of those lists. He took a box of matches out of an inside pocket of his rain jacket. With cold, fumbling fingers he relit the bowl of his grimy pipe and dropped the match into the frigid water. Frances watched it float in solemn silence as the sky began to rain.


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Chiropractor assessing child's ears.
Think chiropractic is just for aching backs? It actually focuses more broadly on disorders of the musculoskeletal and nervous systems and the effects of these disorders on overall health. "Chiropractic care is most often thought of as treating complaints of the back and neck, but it can also be used on all bones and joints of the body, including the arms, legs and jaw...even bones in the ears can produce symptoms that can be treated," says Christie Weibel-Maanum, doctor of chiropractic and clinical assistant professor at Northwestern Health Sciences University. Read on for some surprising ways chiropractic can make you feel better.
Relieving benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV).
BPPV is the most common cause of dizziness and vertigo-type symptoms, says Weibel-Maanum, and is most often caused by debris in the semicircular canals of the ear. "The typical presentation involves sudden episodes of dizziness that last 10-20 seconds after positional changes of the head. This type of vertigo can be experienced when going from lying to sitting, rolling over in bed, bending forward or even just moving the head," she says. First the doctor will rule out other types of vertigo or potentially more serious conditions. Once the diagnosis has been made, there are various repositioning maneuvers that can be performed to move the debris and relieve the symptoms. "Most often the patient is seated on a chiropractic table and the doctor instructs the patient to turn the head and helps the patient recline and rest there for a few seconds to allow the debris to be repositioned," she says. "The doctor then turns the head in the opposite direction, allowing it to rest there for a few seconds. With the head still turned, the doctor instructs the patient to turn the body to align it with the head and remain there for a few more seconds. Then the doctor assists the patient back into a seated position."
Treating carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS).
CTS is a condition that causes numbness, tingling and other symptoms in the hand(s). Most often it is caused by a compressed median nerve in the wrist, says Weibel-Maanum. "There is a narrow passageway for the median nerve on the palm side of the wrist, the carpal tunnel. Repetitive hand motions or positions, such as poor biomechanics when typing, can cause swelling and inflammation at the wrist and irritation of the nerve," she says. Symptoms may begin with numbness or tingling that comes and goes and becomes more consistent over time. A physical examination to confirm CTS may include several orthopedic tests or possible referral for electromyogram or a nerve conduction test. After diagnosing CTS, a chiropractor can perform a chiropractic adjustment of the wrist. Says Weibel-Maanum: "Typically, this adjustment involves moving the lunate, one of the eight wrist bones. The doctor holds both sides of the patient's wrist while placing both thumbs over the palm side of the wrist on the lunate and uses distraction with an impulse from the thumbs to push the lunate back." This increases the tunnel size and often helps relieve symptoms.
Aiding with ear issues.
During an illness or infection, fluid may become trapped in the middle ear cavity, becoming a breeding ground for bacteria and/or viruses, according to Weibel-Maanum, who adds that chronic ear infections often afflict younger children. Examination of the ear, including observation of the ear drum (tympanic membrane), will indicate if there is fluid buildup in the middle ear. "If there is, this can often be a result of tight muscles which surround the Eustachian tube, the drainage structure from the middle ear to the back of the throat. The drainage can be improved by using conservative techniques to relax the muscles, thus opening the Eustachian tube," she says. Using a gloved hand, the doctor can massage the muscles at the back of the throat to help open the tubes. This is a painless process that can be taught to patients and parents. Adds Weibel-Maanum, "Also, occasionally the small bones behind the tympanic membrane are misaligned, contributing to problems in the ear. The doctor may then adjust, or realign, the bones within the ear by holding the earlobe, tractioning the lobe down and then using an upward and outward motion to realign the bones within the ear."
Located in Bloomington, Northwestern Health Sciences University is a pioneer in integrative natural health care education, offering degree programs in chiropractic, acupuncture, Chinese medicine—including a new Doctor of Chinese Medicine—massage therapy, nutrition, post-bac, pre-health/pre-med, and B.S. completion. Its clinic is open to the public, and provides chiropractic treatment, massage therapy, acupuncture, Chinese medicine, naturopathic medicine, cupping, and physical therapy.
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- Your guides will be experts in animal behaviour so spend the first day of your trip listening to their tips and observing the animals. Soon, you'll start to recognise the tell-tale signs of a yawn or roar and be ready to snap the local wildlife in all their natural glory.
- The endless plains are perfect for capturing photographs of sunrises and sunsets. If you're using your iPhone the best way to truly illustrate the extraordinary colours and shapes in the sky is to frame your photograph to show one third ground and two thirds sky. When using a camera the settings I recommend at these times of day are a low ISO and a F stop of F8.
- Think about the animals you're photographing; the bigger animals like Elephants can be challenging because you need to decide between capturing detail using a very tight crop or a wide angle so that you can capture natural behaviour like drinking at a waterhole.
- Make the most of your game drives during the soft morning and evening light as at this time of day, the light falls directly on your subject and backgrounds are softer. Beginners can create amazing quality photographs at this time of day as the neutral back round makes the animals appear even more vibrant and alert in their natural habitat. During the daytime, the sun creates shadows and bright backgrounds which can lead to images being over exposed.
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In the famous words…"Today is a day that will live in infamy…"


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Thursday within the Octave of Easter
(Acts 3:11-26; Luke 24:35-48)
During the Easter season the Church does not use the Old Testament in its liturgies other than the Psalms. Evidently it wants to emphasize how Jesus' resurrection makes everything new. But this does not mean that the Old Testament is entirely silent. So inextricable is it to the Christian message that the Old Testament is continually found in passages such as the first reading today.
In his sermon after healing the lame man at the Portico of Solomon St. Peter tells the people that Jesus was the prophet whom Moses anticipated in the Book of Deuteronomy. This prophet would speak God's definitive word such that all who do not heed him will be cut off from God's people.
The Jews to this day have never converted en masse to Christ. Does that mean that they have forsaken their heritage as God's chosen people? At Vatican II the bishops taught that God, always faithful to his promise, will never withdraw his favor for Israel. We pray that the Jews will be faithful to the Covenant made to Moses and so help us to understand Jesus better. He came to redeem all humanity, even those who do not acknowledge him as their savior.


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You're invited to the 5th annual Neighbor Day event! Celebrate the legacy of Fred Rogers by joining your city-wide neighbors for an evening of fun. Enjoy hands-on activities, youth performances, a community meal, the Metro State Dome (an inflatable planetarium), a bouncy house, inflatable obstacle course and more!
This FREE event is hosted by the Saint Paul Public Schools' Community Education department. Our daily programs include Adult Basic Education, Adult Enrichment, Discovery Club, Early Child and Family Education, Flipside Afterschool, Youth Enrichment and the Como Planetarium.
Neighbor Day is open to the public and all are welcome.
Please RSVP so we know how many to expect and can properly prepare. Walk-ins are also welcome.
4:00pm: Doors open (560 Concordia Ave. Enter at the red doors.)
5:00-6:30pm: Community Meal
7:00pm: Neighbor Day ends
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Are there ID or minimum age requirements to enter the event?
There are no age requirements for this event. All are welcome. Youth 15 years of age or younger must be accompanied by an adult.
What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event?
Parking: Rondo Education Center has two free parking lots. Both have entries off of Concordia Avenue. There is also limited street parking.
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When I get to the Rondo Education Center, where do I go?
Enter the RED DOORS on the Concordia Avenue side of the building.
How can I contact the organizer with any questions?
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Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?
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Is it ok if the name on my ticket or registration doesn't match the person who attends?
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text: Jake Posted May 26, 2016 Idle Thumbs 264: A Very Pretty Pipe Dream This week we're throwing away our traditional hyper-competitive leaderboard and focusing on hand-selected stats that show us what we've accomplished. Chris plays Overwatch and discovers that, after years away there's still a Blizzard for him. Nick goes to Disneyland, comes home and finds a new release of Planet Coaster. "This means something," he says, burying his theme park under mountains of dirt. Alone, late at night, Jake builds the Nublar. Discussed: Wizard Jam, Overwatch, Planet Coaster, Imbroglio, Hitman (2016) Listen on the Episode Page Listen on Soundcloud Listen in iTunes Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Fret not. While Sega's buggy PS3 joysticks have been pulled off the market, peripheral maker Hori has a pair of nice lookin' sticks to hold ya over. Designed for use with PS3 games and won't work with PS2 titles, they connect to the console via USB. The buttons are able to output at twenty pushes per second. There are two versions: The hoss-sized REAL ARCADE PRO.3 books for ¥8,379 (US $69), and the smaller Fighting Stick goes for ¥5,229 (US $43).
This should work great for Tekken, Soul Caliber 4, and VF5. Then again I have a 360 and will only get to play 2 of does untill I own a PS3. Whatever happened to Street Brawlers ala..Final Fight, Streets of Rage, man they gave up on that genre. These games work well with these type of joysticks and online aswell.
Who wants to make the next next-gen brawler? I feel like alot of Genres still have potential but developers are just not listening.
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I loved streets of Rage and "Dynamite Cop" on the SEGA Dreamcast was one of my favourite games of all time - they are so fun.
The were the only Beat 'em ups I really liked.


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Bag: Cult Gaia Ark Bag (out of stock everywhere currently)
Lately, I've been noticing just how many amazing handbags there are that are under $300-I'm currently looking for my go-to summer bag. The majority of my personal handbags (if you haven't noticed) are in the price range. Today I wanted to share a couple of the bags I've had my eye one and all of them are under $300! From totes to crossbody shop the slideshow below!
Bag: Hat Attack tote, JADEtribe clutch
Bag: Furla
Bag: Cuyana
Bag: Rebecca Minkoff (currently sold out, similar)
Bag: Sole Society


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Their mission: legitimize the field with actual science.
There's never been a better time than now to research UFOs, especially after the Navy recently confirmed their existence.
Still, a new groupcomprised of military veterans and an ex-NASA scientistsays the research can be more legitimate, and hopes to professionalize the study of UFOs.
The group has secured funding from Silicon Valley investors.
A new nonprofit will explore what the U.S Navy calls Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs). Backed in part by Silicon Valley investors, UAP eXpeditions hopes to field a top-notch group of uber-experienced professionals providing the public service of field testing new UAP related technologies.
The nonprofit is registered to a man named Kevin Day, a former U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and radar operator whose time in service has influenced his new organization. While serving in the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group on the USS Princeton in 2004, Day experienced the Nimitz UFO Incident, which concerned a "whitish oval object, about the size of a commercial plane, chased by two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets from the aircraft carrier Nimitz off the coast of San Diego," according to a 2017 New York Times report.
Day is focused on UAPs occurring along the Pacific Coast, it seems. A company white paper asks if "fleets of UAP 'migrate' from Catalina Island to Guadalupe Island with a certain frequency," and if so, "how well do whale songs correlate, if at all, to UAP appearances?
There have been other UAP investigative groups, of course. The Center for UFO Studies and the Mutual UFO Network, among others, are alive and functioning. But those groups probably don't employ people like Dr. Kevin Knuth, a former scientist from NASAs Ames Research Center, current associate physics professor at the University of Albany, and key member of UAP eXpeditions.
Knuth says the group is still in early phases, but "the goal of the expedition is to give us some ground truth. We aim to try to observe these objects directly, and record them using multiple imaging modalities.
To that end, in August, Knuth was the lead author of a paper that examines "a handful of well-documented encounters, including the 2004 encounters with the Nimitz Carrier Group off the coast of California." In the paper, Knuth and his fellow authors look at the flight patterns of these UAP sightings and determine that the "observed flight characteristics of these craft are consistent with the flight characteristics required for interstellar travel. That is, if these observed accelerations were sustainable in space, then these craft could easily reach relativistic speeds within a matter of minutes to hours and cover interstellar distances in a matter of days to weeks, proper time."
From funders on down, the wide-ranging group uniting behind UAP eXpeditions seems to have one goal: raise the level of UAP inquiry.
The failure to study these phenomena scientifically has resulted in a state of ignorance, which is unacceptable considering the aviation safety issues that have been reported by the U.S. Navy, Knuth says.


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Have you ever felt as though the very person you are putting the utmost faith in to have your best interests at heart has failed you?
Or, have you ever questioned why certain things are being prescribed or the course of action for your healthcare has taken one route over another?
If the answer is yes to either of these, this series is for you.
Hello there ladies!
Welcome to the kickoff of the Women's Health Patient Advocacy Series!
I'm beyond excited to introduce this new series to you that is designed to educate, empower, and encourage you to be your own patient advocate.
Now, what does an "advocate" even mean?
Simply put…
Thus, patient advocacy is when you (the patient) becomes a champion (or the supporter) for your own health (also know as the "cause").
Pretty simple, right?
Given I'm certain 100% of you smart ladies knew this, the problem comes when we put so much of our faith in our healthcare providers that we neglect to question their prescribed course of action.
Now, let me reverse here.
I'm not some women waving her hands in the air and saying NO MORE WESTERN MEDICINE by any means.
I am a big believer I was born in the era I was so I could utilize the advances in medicine that we've been blessed with.
However, I am saying that we, patients (myself included), have become so faithful to our clinicians that we have forgotten how to speak up, ask questions and ensure the route they've prescribed for us is indeed the route we are comfortable with.
While I've had my fair share of times when I didn't speak up like I should, I will give you one example that I've yet to share here that will hopefully show you the dimensions that patient advocacy can take.
Being an advocate for my emotional health post IVF failure
When we found out in late August of 2017 that Bumble Bee didn't take, we were absolutely devastated. But, to be completely honest, the icing on the cake that did me in that day was that our physician didn't call to tell us the news, but one of the rotating nurses they had in and out of their clinic.
I wept for days, literally, wondering why when we were told by the embryologist during our retrieval one of the two embryos would surely be high enough quality to make it full term and neither did; why I was a "failure", yet again; and why my doctor couldn't find the 3 minutes to phone us and let us know the news.
Well, I literally sat in my thoughts for nearly three weeks thinking about this.
And, when the day finally came for us to have our follow up visit, I had a list of questions for my doctor, and you bet one of the many was, "Why didn't you call?"
Mind you, my doctor was someone I had grown very close with over our years of treatments at her center; she even is one of the MD's on the Fertility Foods Cookbook for crying out loud.
I was shaking when I asked her.
But, I was proud enough I found the courage to bring this to the table, to advocate for my emotional needs, and let her know that I needed this from my care provider.
Sure, I knew she couldn't call me with every lab result nor did I expect her to, but I did expect when our last hope of expanding our family had fallen through she'd pick up the phone.
Her reply, "Oh Liz… I am SO sorry this hurt you but there is a reason. I was on vacation the week before and ended up delayed on the east coast because I was in the ER with a terrible case of food poisoning! By the time I got back to the office and saw your results I knew I'd be seeing you the following week."
Hearing this, seeing a real person express to me that she certainly would have phoned me had the situation for her health been different helped lift a part of the emotional anxiety and depression I had been feeling for the previous weeks.
Moral of the story: I finally learned to speak up for my emotional needs as well as my physical needs (you can read more about how I did that here during that meeting too) and felt SUCH EMPOWERMENT!
If you find yourself in a situation that you are feeling uneasy with when it comes to your health, I encourage you to do three things:
Three Ways to Practice Patient Advocacy
- Do Your Research
- If your clinician is recommending something that sounds uncomfortable or unfamiliar to you, you can take the initiative and ask them for the research available on the specific medication or procedure. DO NOT CONSULT GOOGLE! You can use the reputable data they provide you with to make your own educated decision.
- Ask Questions
- You are the patient, it's the clinicians job to provide you the appropriate care for your health. Appropriate care means making sure you understand and are comfortable with their prescribed route. Even if this wanders into something perhaps in the emotional health realm (see my sample above!) it's within your power to ask why. If your clinician becomes uncomfortable with the questions, my friend please know you can ALWAYS find another clinician!
- Speak Up
- Nope, this isn't the same thing as "ask questions". Speaking up is directly in the moment. It's not a question but a verbal NO in that you do not agree with their recommendation and as the patient, have every right to!
- For instance, when I left the hospital postpartum (see this post here), I refused to go home with a foley catheter. As a patient, I have the right to do so. However, what's important to note here refusing treatment against medical advice is a fine line, and as with anything, you really need to be certain this is the best for you and won't endanger your life.
In an effort to show you more women being advocates for themselves, I invite you to join us for this new Patient Advocacy Series!
My hope is to show you that regardless if it's dealing with a fertility specialist, dietitian, physical therapist, etc., you as a patient have the RIGHT to be heard!
Thank you for following along my friends.
And if you know someone who can benefit from this, please share.
We as women are stronger together when we can speak up and highlight patient advocacy for all!
Lots of hugs and love to you,


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NPR is doing a really interesting series called Intersections (you can listen online here):
"The public often thinks of artistic inspiration arriving in a sort of thunderbolt moment of creativity. The truth is, almost nothing is created out of thin air.
'Great works of art set a standard, set the bar,' says Clint Brown, author of Artist to Artist: Inspiration and Advice from Artists Past and Present. 'Although they can be humiliating in a certain sense because they're powerful… they can give you new ideas and help things connect in your own work.'
Morning Edition begins Intersections, a six-month-long series looking at artists and their artistic sources of inspiration."


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Title: Shoami-style, The Butterfly and The Mantis
What is Tsuba?
Tsuba is the hand-guard of the Japanese sword. High-class Samurai wore his katana sword with its beautiful sword mountings such as Tsuba. The front design of Tsuba tends to be more decorative as this part was often seen by other Samurais when he was walking on the streets.
Why is it that the sword mounting was important for Samurai?
The sword mountings of the Japanese sword have many kinds of decorations such as handguards(Tsuba), sword hilt(Menuki), pommel(Fuchigashira). The Japanese sword not only worked as a weapon but also as an object to show who he was. For example, it shows their personalities and beliefs. You could say that it is like decorations for smartphones today. We recommend you zoom in the pictures of the sword fittings. When you do so, you can see the skill of Japanese metal engraving techniques. They are mainly made of iron and copper with inlays of gold, silver, and bronze. When it comes to handguard (TSUBA), each one has a different outline and weight. These sword fittings that have lived with Japanese swords in the same age might be worth as much as the Japanes
e swords. They are inconspicuous parts of the Japanese sword. Yet, If you are knowledgeable or particular about it, you will become a connoisseur of the samurai.
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