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AAP national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said BJP chief Amit Shah would be Union home minister if the NDA under Prime Minister Narendra Modi is re-elected.
He also slammed Mr Shah for a recent comment at a poll rally in West Bengal that the BJP, if re-elected, would remove infiltrators from the country, except those who are Hindu, Buddhist or Sikh.
"A dangerous game is going on. You have to keep it in mind when you go to vote. Everyone says if Narendra Modi becomes prime minister, then Amit Shah will be next home minister of India," Mr Kejriwal said addressing AAP workers at Margao town in South Goa.
"You can imagine what will happen to a country whose home minister would be Amit Shah," Mr Kejriwal claimed.
Mr Shah is contesting from Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat in Gujarat, were polling for all 26 seats will be held in a single phase on April 23.
"He (Shah) has said that if they (BJP-led NDA) come back to power, they will remove every single infiltrator from the country except (those who are) Hindu, Buddhist or Sikh.
Amit Shah feels every Christian, Muslim, Parsi, Jain who lives in the country is an infiltrator. This is a dangerous statement," Mr Kejriwal said.
The Delhi Chief Minister said Mr Shah's statement is more relevant and disturbing for states like Goa where over 40 per cent of the population belong to the minority communities.
"Goa has 15 lakh people and around 40 per cent of them are minorities. How will he (Shah) implement it (removal of infiltrators) in Goa? What will these six lakh people do? Will he throw them in the sea or lynch them? Will he create riots?" he questioned.
AAP is fighting both the Lok Sabha seats in Goa.
Its state convener Elvis Gomes is contesting from the South Goa seat and general secretary Pradeep Padgaonkar from the North Goa seat.


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For newcomers – 160 Adams Street NW and 36 Channing Street NW are former Hofgard houses that were acquired by DHCD. These two properties were part of the District's Vacant to Vibrant program.
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DC Prepares for Another Vacant Property Auction
· April 23, 2019
As part of DC's Department of Housing and Community Development's (DHCD) commitment to clear its backlog of vacant properties, the agency is preparing for another online auction.
Next month, DHCD and Alex Cooper Auction House will make ten properties available for the public to bid on, all with the intention of putting the unused sites on the path to be developed into workforce housing. Last year, 33 vacant and blighted houses, small buildings and unimproved lots were auctioned, grossing $123 million for the city.
Each site has an initial deposit of $5,000 and the bidding will open at $20,000. The bidding opens May 10th. The properties are:
· Unimproved Lot(s):
· 1227 47th Place NE (map)
· 5033 Meade Street SE (map)
· 4296 25th Place NE (map)
· 5308 E Street SE (map)
· 62-64 Forrester Street SW (map)
· Vacant Houses/Buildings:
· 635 Emerson Street NE (map)
· 160 Adams Street NW (map)
· 36 Channing Street NW (map)
· 1132 Columbia Road NW (map)
· 1422 Shepherd Street NW (map)
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There comes a time in very few people's lives when they have to ask themselves the question -- will I or won't I sue a talking bird for cursing at me? -- and the answer, in this case, may surprise you. Kathleen Melker and Craig Fontaine of Rhode Island are pissed that Willy, their next-door neighbor's cockatoo, won't stop squawking profanities at them. Willy's owner happens to be Craig's ex-wife, which just makes this tangled weave of love bird's nest all that more interesting.
To be fair, Craig and Kathleen aren't suing Willy; they've filed a complaint with the courthouse citing Willy's 15-minute long rants as a violation against the city's animal-noise ordinance. But still, it's kind of funny.
Craig and Kathleen allege that Willy's owner and Craig's ex, Lynne Taylor, taught the bird to say nasty things to them, including calling Lynne a whore. Now, OK -- this isn't nice. I can see how a bird screeching at you that you're morally compromised is not a pleasant scene to come home to. But on the other hand, it's a bird.
I also understand that Willy is indirect harassment from Lynne, but goodness, you gotta feel worse for Lynne in this case, right? If she's so desperate and can't let go of whatever anger she's holding on to that she's taught her pet cockatoo to say mean things to her ex-husband and his new wife, then, man, that's one sad life, no?
Craig and Kathleen also say that Lynne's been throwing rocks over the fence and has threatened to drown their cat, but if you ask me, that sounds more like something Willy would be up to ... knowing that Willy.
Hard to say where I come down on this case, but I do know one thing for sure: Brian Fellows would most definitely side with Kathleen and Craig. Birds have tried to ruin his life. They've stolen his name and his credit, so if anyone understands the distress a cockatoo can cause, it's certainly this fictional SNL character with a fifth grade education.
What would you do if a neighbor's cockatoo was mouthing off?
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One of Latin America's greatest postwar artists, he wanted shifting and shimmering color to be experienced as intensely as cold or heat.
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Carlos Cruz-Diez, one of the most prominent Latin American artists of the postwar era, whose immersive paintings and installations set color in motion, stirring overpowering bodily sensations in the viewer, died on July 27 in Paris, his adopted city. He was 95.
His family announced his death on his website.
Mr. Cruz-Diez, who was from Venezuela, where he was addressed as "maestro" and where a museum in Caracas bears his name, achieved international renown early in his career in 1960s Paris.
He was celebrated in major North American museum shows, including a 2011 retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and a 1993 survey of Latin American art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
He also completed many large-scale public installations at sites around the world, including the Simón Bolívar International Airport near Caracas, the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines railway platform outside Paris and the walkway to Marlins Park, the baseball stadium in Miami.
Rigorously theoretical yet exuberantly experiential, his works challenge viewers to appreciate color as "a reality which acts on the human being with the same intensity as cold, heat, sound, and so on," he wrote in 1975 in a publication put out by Denise René, his Paris gallery at the time. (He wrote extensively on color theory.)
Mari Carmen Ramírez, the curator of the Houston retrospective, said in an email, "He made us see and experience color as a pure and sensuous pleasure; a participatory, interactive experience open to everyone, regardless of age, class, culture or social standing."
Building on chromatic experiments by Sir Isaac Newton, the Impressionists and the artist and educator Josef Albers, among others, Mr. Cruz-Diez devised relief paintings of multicolored cardboard or Plexiglas strips that appear to vibrate as the viewer moves past them. These works, which he called "physichromies," dating to the 1960s, were included in many exhibitions of Op Art and Kinetic Art, including MoMA's movement-defining but critically lambasted 1965 group show "The Responsive Eye."
His other signature works, labyrinths of colored light that he called "chromosaturations," plunge participants into a series of intense, stimulating and sometimes destabilizing "chromatic situations," as he called them.
"So intense is the light that the colors seem to be felt rather than seen, like heat," Holland Cotter of The New York Times wrote in reviewing "Carlos Cruz-Diez: (In)formed by Color," a 2008 retrospective at the Americas Society in New York. "The sensation is slightly disorienting, dizzying, as if gravity had been tampered with."
Mr. Cruz-Diez's interest in "launching color into space," as he once wrote, and his desire to create accessible interactive environments, have influenced many younger artists, like Olafur Eliasson, Tauba Auerbach and Ivan Navarro. They share Mr. Cruz-Diez's interest in "light and color as a sensorial experience," Estrellita Brodsky, a collector, philanthropist, curator and advocate of Latin American art, wrote in an email. (She organized the Americas Society exhibition.)
Mr. Cruz-Diez was well aware of this visceral, public-facing aspect of his legacy.
"It is only now, happily, that people are realizing that a great number of the art movements of the last 30 or 40 years come out of kineticism," he told Ms. Brodsky in a 2010 interview in Bomb magazine. "Installation art, conceptual art, participatory art, interactive art, happenings, street art — we did all those things.
"What we called 'environments' later became installations," he added. "Now young people read this work differently, and what they're doing is called interactive art!"
Carlos Eduardo Cruz-Diez was born in Caracas on Aug. 17, 1923, to Mariana Adelaida Diez de Cruz and Carlos Eduardo Cruz-Lander, during the latter years of the dictator Juan Vicente Gomez's long rule. Mr. Cruz-Diez spoke of his father as a poet and intellectual who made his living at a soft-drink factory; both parents, he said, were supportive of his art career.
Carlos was attuned to phenomena of color and light early on; the catalog for his Houston retrospective said that at age 9 he was transfixed by the red projections on his white shirt caused by sunlight streaming through cola bottles at his father's plant.
He attended the School of Visual Arts and Applied Arts in Caracas, where he befriended Alejandro Otero and Jesús Rafael Soto, who would become his peers in geometric abstraction and the Op and Kinetic Art movements, respectively.
A successful design career in Caracas followed. Mr. Cruz-Diez was artistic director of the Caracas branch of the advertising firm McCann-Erickson from 1946 to 1951 while he continued to paint in his spare time. He married Mirtha Delgado Lorenzo in 1951 and started a family.
As an artist he was restless, however, finding himself increasingly dissatisfied with the social realist paintings of shanty towns he had been making — "paintings that depicted poverty and social problems (which I couldn't solve) for rich people to collect," as he told Ms. Brodsky. He turned to making abstract sculptures and paintings with movable parts that could be manipulated by the public.
Mr. Cruz-Diez was increasingly drawn to abstraction and to the idea of developing his own movement or language, as Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian had done. But that seemed impossible in Venezuela, which was under another military dictatorship, that of Marcos Pérez Jiménez.
"Amid the dictatorship of Pérez Jiménez, the artist or intellectual had no reception at all," Mr. Cruz-Diez told Ms. Brodsky. "We'd be at a party and all of a sudden a military would show up and we would have to flee like flies."
In 1954, he uprooted his young family and followed Otero, Soto and other school friends to Europe, setting up a base in the Catalonian town of El Masnou, near Barcelona. He made frequent trips to Paris, where in 1955 he was struck by a group show of Kinetic Art, "Le Mouvement," at Denise René. It included works by Soto, Victor Vasarely and Jean Tinguely.
Inspired and "full of hope, sketches and projects," he said, he made a brief return to Caracas, where he opened a graphic arts workshop and kept refining his abstraction, completing his first physichromie in 1959. But he felt misunderstood by an art world that was still enamored with figuration.
By 1960 Mr. Cruz-Diez had settled permanently in Paris, where he experienced, as he said in a video on his foundation's website, a "creative euphoria" of competing movements, including Arte Povera, Pop Art and Fluxus as well as Op and Kinetic Art.
By the end of the ′60s he was well known outside Paris and Caracas. He had shown at MoMA in "The Responsive Eye" and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, in the 1961 Kinetic Art survey "Bewogen Beweging." He had been awarded the International Prize for Painting at the São Paulo Biennale of 1967. And he had represented Venezuela at the 1970 Venice Biennale.
He is survived by his son Carlos Cruz Delgado; a daughter, Adriana Cruz Delgado; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. A second son, Jorge Antonio Cruz Delgado, died in 2017. Mr. Cruz-Diez's wife died in 2004.
Although he lived under oppressive dictatorships and through periods of social unrest and economic volatility in Venezuela — as well as long stretches of prosperity that stemmed from the country's oil reserves — Mr. Cruz-Diez generally avoided commenting on these circumstances in his art.
"I was never very political," he told Ms. Brodsky. "I once sat in on a Communist Party meeting and realized that in order to join a party one has to be obedient. I've never been obedient."
Rather, he tried to depoliticize color. As Ms. Brodsky observed, "By way of experiencing color's intense immediacy as light rather than pigment, the viewer's eye is freed from the burden of interpreting representational forms that are preordained by class or political messages."
Nonetheless, current events have seeped into his site-specific projects. One of his earliest chromosaturation installations, "Labyrinth for a Public Space," was exhibited at the entrance to the Place de l'Odéon metro station in Paris in 1969, when the street protests of 1968 would have been fresh in memory for anyone navigating the work's maze of red, blue and green tinted Plexiglas.
And in recent years, as Venezuelans by the millions have sought refuge from economic collapse and authoritarian rule, Mr. Cruz-Diez's installation at Simón Bolívar airport has become a site of mourning and transition for people fleeing the country. (It has also become a popular image in social media posts, many showing feet planted on the work's zigzagging bands of tiles.)
In a biographical video on his foundation's website, Cruz-Diez said: "I don't make paintings, nor sculptures. I make platforms for occurrences. They are platforms where color is being produced, dissolved, generated in a perpetual instant. In it there's no notion of past nor future. In it is the notion of the present moment, just like life."


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So speaking of Black Friday hitting everyone hard, I think it must have hit webmasters the hardest. That's pretty much the only way I can explain this facebook message exchange I found myself in with Mike Owens from CheckRaze.com. Anyway, thought it was kind of entertaining… definitely the weirdest interview I've ever done. I wonder if he'll post it on his site.
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When you hear the term vertigo, it may bring to mind an older, popular movie about the fear of heights. However, this is not what true vertigo really is. The fear of heights is called acrophobia, while vertigo is a medical condition causing you feel as if you are spinning or swaying or your environment may appear to be doing so. This is a false sense of motion and, rather than an illness itself, it is a symptom of other conditions. It may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, sweating, and problems walking. It may become worse depending on the position of your head or moving your head suddenly, which is why before it strikes, you should consult a Calgary chiropractor for vertigo.
The most common conditions that have vertigo as a symptom are Meniere's disease, labyrinthitis, and benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV). Other conditions that may bring about vertigo but are less common are strokes, multiple sclerosis, migraines, improper pressure between the middle ears, brain injuries, head and neck trauma, and brain tumors. Sometimes, toxins are to blame, such as carbon monoxide, alcohol, or aspirin.
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo is the most common reason for vertigo. The symptoms of this are:
- Repeated episodes of vertigo when one moves but feeling normal between episodes
- Episodes that last less than one minute
- Possible nystagmus — abnormal, rapid eye movement
Meniere's disease is another very common reason for vertigo and it is known for:
- Tinnitus — ringing or other noise in the ears
- Hearing loss that fluctuates
- Attacks of vertigo that last more than 20 minutes
Labyrinthitis is known for:
- Sudden onset of vertigo
- Nystagmus
- Vertigo that may last for days
If vertigo is accompanied by weakness, double vision, abnormal headaches, or numbness, it is a good idea to contact your primary care doctor to rule out more serious causes.
Dizziness affects as many as 40% of people at some point in their lives, while vertigo impacts up to 10%. During a year's time, about 5% experience vertigo. It becomes more common as one ages and affects women 3 times more often than men. Visits to the emergency department for vertigo represent 3% of all emergency room visits.
Two Types of Vertigo
Vertigo is put into two classifications depending on where the dysfunction in the vestibular pathway exists.
- Central vertigo: This type is vertigo that happens due to an injury to the balance centers of the central nervous system, possibly a lesion in the brainstem or cerebellum. This type of vertigo has less to do with the false sense of movement than peripheral vertigo. It may be accompanied by slurred speech, double vision, or other neurological issues. Nystagmus might be present, too. Central vertigo can create disequilibrium, which is the sense of being off balance, and some patients are unable even to walk.
- Peripheral vertigo: This type is vertigo that is caused by a malfunction of the vestibular system, which is made up of the vestibule, the vestibular nerve, and the semicircular canals. BPPV falls into this category, along with Meniere's disease, labyrinthitis, and visual vertigo. Inflammation plays a huge role here also. Therefore, bacterial infections can cause peripheral vertigo. Motion sickness is sometimes included under this category. If you have peripheral vertigo, you may experience mild to moderate imbalance, hearing loss, nausea and vomiting, tinnitus, a feeling of fullness, and pain in the ears. Lesions on the auditory canal can bring about facial weakness. Peripheral vertigo may improve in just a few days.
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The Underlying Cause of Vertigo
Vertigo is a little-understood condition. It originates from the vestibular system. The vestibular system is responsible for sending sensory information to the brain about motion, spatial orientation, and equilibrium. The information sent originates in each ear and includes the three semicircular canals, the utricle, and the saccule. The latter two detect gravity and linear movement. The semicircular canals detect rotational movement and are located at right angles to each other. They are filled with a fluid called endolymph. When the head moves in a particular direction, the corresponding canal senses it, causes the endolymph fluid to lag behind due to inertia, and exerts pressure against the canal's sensory receptor. Information is then sent to the brain. The semicircular canals on each side of the head, when working properly, send identical impulses to the brain. However, if something happens to interfere with this process, vertigo can be the end result. So, what hinders the function of the vestibular system?
Finding the Problem and Correcting It
The brainstem is the communication super-highway of the brain. If something interferes with its functioning, vertigo and other health problems can ensue. The head can weigh as much as 14 pounds. If it is off-center by just a small degree, the body sets into motion a way to compensate, called righting reflex. This keeps your eyes level with the horizon line and keeps your body straight. The ears play a huge role in this also. If either the C1 or C2 vertebra moves out of proper alignment, it can negatively impact the brainstem, putting it under pressure. Improper signals may begin to be sent to the brain about the body's location.
Here at Solara Health, we are specially trained to find these tiny misalignments and then work along with you to correct them. Our method is gentle and helps the bones realign more naturally. This leads to a longer-lasting adjustment, and it can relieve the symptoms of vertigo once the brainstem heals from the damage done to it. Some people see results instantly while others may take a few days or another adjustment. Either way, they are very happy to obtain vertigo relief in Calgary, AB.
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Irvine, CA – Kofax®, a leading supplier of Intelligent Automation software to digitally transform end-to-end business operations, today announced the release of Top Image Systems' (TIS) eFLOW 6.0. eFLOW 6.0 offers a range of enhancements that improve capture and data extraction capabilities – lowering the cost of doing business while empowering employees to do their jobs more effectively and driving better customer outcomes.
"We're excited to launch eFLOW 6.0. It drives significant value for TIS customers seeking to automate document centric processes," said Kathleen Delaney, Kofax's Chief Marketing Officer. "We're especially proud of eFLOW 6.0, because it follows so soon after Kofax's acquisition of TIS and demonstrates our commitment to supporting TIS' product portfolio and customers."
eFLOW 6.0 enhancements include:
"eFLOW 6.0 is a great example of how we're helping our customers Work Like Tomorrow – Today," added Delaney.
Kofax software enables organizations to Work Like Tomorrow™ – today. Kofax's Intelligent Automation software platform helps organizations transform information-intensive business processes, reduce manual work and errors, minimize costs, and improve customer engagement. We combine RPA, cognitive capture, process orchestration, mobility and engagement, and analytics to ease implementations and deliver dramatic results that mitigate compliance risk and increase competitiveness, growth and profitability. Kofax provides a rapid return on investment for over 20,000 customers in financial services, insurance, government, healthcare, supply chain, business process outsourcing and other markets. Kofax delivers its software and solutions through its direct sales and services organization and more than 650 indirect channel partners and integrators in more than 60 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. For more information, visit kofax.com.


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What a fabulous look with the two toned bright blue & light grey kitchen units pick up the colours in the granite beautifully – a kitchen to be proud of.
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We also offer a wide range of different colours and styles of granite and quartz from the likes of Samsung Radianz, Arenastone and Silsetone.
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Gaming Standards Association welcomes nine new members
International trade group the Gaming Standards Association (GSA) has announced the addition of nine new members from around the world.
Appolonia of France, Austrian firm DRGT Systems and Inspired Gaming Group from the UK have all joined as Silver Members.
Australian company Maxgaming, Ortiz Machine Company from Spain and Finland's RAY have also joined the GSA as Silver Members.
In addition, China Lottery Online, US company Gamblit Gaming and Taiwan's Jumbo Technology have also signed up as GSA Bronze Members.
Peter DeRaedt, GSA's president, said the trade group was 'excited' to welcome the new members from across the globe.
"They speak to core of what GSA is all about – an association of companies who are diverse in mission and in location, who have come together for a common purpose: to collaborate on the creation of open standards that make the gaming industry better," he added.
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Flyers, Edison, Perkins and Sandusky St. Mary's sent teams to district competition
The Innocence Project is fighting for another Ohio man
NORWALK — The Innocence Project works to exonerate those who are wrongly convicted by using DNA testing and criminal justice reform.
Court reports
Lee M. Newkirk pleaded guilty to rape and sexual battery.
Convicted sex offender is charged with an address violation.
Willard bus driver is charged in June 28 fatal crash that killed a 75-year-old Greenwich man.
June 28 fatal crash killed Clell L. "C.L." Jones, 75, of Greenwich
A former Sandusky man was sentenced to prison this week in Huron County Common Pleas Court.
Area residents punished for felony crimes.
Suspected sex offender, 66, was among the 11 others indicted by the grand jury.
Other area residents also sent to prison.
Man, 25, "has been detained since September."
Prosecutor: Man "betrays that confidence and he corrodes that trust."


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Forgive me if I am not allowed to post about this sort of thing. I am having a problem with my Game King 2019 in 1 resetting to the main menu during Super Streel Fighter 2 X Grand Master Challenge. This happens with both the Asian and Japanese version. I also noticed that the sound effect is missing once you select your fighter. I would like to know if any one else is having this problem? If so, can it be fixed and how can it be fixed.
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Donate Below to #100Homes100Hopes!
Help us raise money to provide winter-ready shelters and sustainable income to the families most in need. #100Homes100Hopes
A month ago, staff at ARCS received an email from one of our member's field offices reporting that their teams were witnessing thousands of families across northwestern Syria living under tarps or simply under olive trees. With winter coming we knew we had to take action. We called our member organizations and together, ARCS, Syrian Forum USA, Syria Relief & Development, Rahma Worldwide, Syrian American Engineers Association - SAEA agreed to act to provide winter-ready shelters for families most in need.
But we not only think of the short-term needs, we look to empower families to build their own future. We are also raising funds to provide the head of the household with a microgrant that will allow them to take control of their lives and create a brighter vision for their children. The microgrants will be supported by business management training and longer-term guidance.
This two-stage initiative will bring families who are displaced and dreading winter into a warm home and a bright future. Please join us in this effort.
More details below.
What: American Relief Coalition for Syria and its members are raising funds and awareness to provide shelter and sustainable income to forcibly displaced families in northwestern Syria. We will allocate $1,000 for winter shelter and for business training and micro-grants to 100 families in need.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post6678216186957033805..comments2020-07-11T22:06:03.047+01:00Comments on Positive Letters .... inspirational stories ....: Herbs, Spices and Herbalists – Mint: Part 7 … Hilary Melton-Butcherhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post-4914025827270972522017-03-30T07:41:21.622+01:002017-03-30T07:41:21.622+01:00@ Ann - it's those early memories of meals wit...@ Ann - it's those early memories of meals with family ... so glad I brought the memory back ...

@ Bob - it is certainly a tradition so many of us look forward to at this time of year ...

Cheers and good to see you both - HilaryHilary Melton-Butcherhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post-56560014586222353632017-03-29T20:27:18.187+01:002017-03-29T20:27:18.187+01:00Oh, Hilary - is there anything more warming to the...Oh, Hilary - is there anything more warming to the palate, and soothing to the mind, than the smell of roasting lamb, knowing there's mint sauce to accompany it? I don't think so.Grumpy1https://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post-57361813598409927162017-03-25T17:08:12.639+00:002017-03-25T17:08:12.639+00:00I remember picking mint for my nan to go with lamb...I remember picking mint for my nan to go with lamb for Sunday dinner. (I grew up in London).
AnnAnn Summervillehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post-46208178802463906212017-03-24T12:37:01.282+00:002017-03-24T12:37:01.282+00:00Hi Rosey - it's an amazing plant isn't ......Hi Rosey - it's an amazing plant isn't ... and now you know you no longer need to worry about your grandmother's greens! It's a robust plant ... cheers HilaryHilary Melton-Butcherhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post-3908276003930598332017-03-23T16:32:09.852+00:002017-03-23T16:32:09.852+00:00I didn't know mint was so expansive. I also di...I didn't know mint was so expansive. I also didn't know it grew so quickly. Makes me feel less guilty about my friend and I eating her grandmother's mint out of the garden all of the time. ;)mail4roseyhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post-37179285079306185442017-03-21T08:06:22.329+00:002017-03-21T08:06:22.329+00:00Hi Susan - well the good thing is - you won't ...Hi Susan - well the good thing is - you won't mind pulling it up - as you'll have a pleasant aroma around you ... and suspect it will be there for a long time to come - just a nuisance! I know mint does go with many dishes, particularly as a garnish, if not the main component as in sweets ...

So was I surprised by the range of plants in the genus - nearly stopped me writing the post ... but I persevered ... cheers HilaryHilary Melton-Butcherhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post-3210551614116297212017-03-21T01:30:31.247+00:002017-03-21T01:30:31.247+00:00The person who owned our property before us had an...The person who owned our property before us had an herb garden in the backyard, untended for years. I still fight mint growing all over. But I love it in things, tea, ice cream and candies. I was surprised that all those plants were part of the mint family.Susan Gourley/Kelleyhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post-69144865558752200122017-03-20T18:43:23.974+00:002017-03-20T18:43:23.974+00:00@ Nila - mint tea is a favourite isn't it ... ...@ Nila - mint tea is a favourite isn't it ... and yes mint is a part of Indian cuisine - as you mention mint chutney. But I was staggered at the mint family connections - even to the teak tree ...

@ Sara - again that peppermint tea before going to bed seems to be a favourite too ... chamomile is as you mention also meant to be very good. I hope you enjoy your minty potatoes ... do have some mint sauce, or mint jelly with the meal too - just enhances the potatoes. That mint family is extraordinary isn't it ...

@ Jean - I think the minty potatoes must be an English thing ... and it so easily grows wild and as you say exudes aroma once crushed ...

@ Bish - oh that's great you'll give minty potatoes a try ... as I mention above I'd have some mint sauce, or mint jelly with your meat ... to enhance the potatoes. I have to say reading the plants that are linked to mint was a surprise ...

Cheers to you all - enjoy your minty tea and thank you for trying a sprig or two of mint with your potatoes ... enjoy! HilaryHilary Melton-Butcherhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post-38421013647894686182017-03-20T15:32:51.739+00:002017-03-20T15:32:51.739+00:00I did not know about cooking mint with new potatoe...I did not know about cooking mint with new potatoes. I'm going to have to try it! Nor did I know so many other herbs (AND teak) were in the same family!

Learning something new every day.Bish Denhamhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post-64579008378536752602017-03-20T12:20:42.546+00:002017-03-20T12:20:42.546+00:00I can't say that I've ever had mint with p...I can't say that I've ever had mint with potatoes, but I do like mint. We have some growing wild in our yard. Makes for a wonderful fresh smell when someone accidentally mows it over. :)Jean Davishttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post-73556757236447490102017-03-20T11:40:49.963+00:002017-03-20T11:40:49.963+00:00I love mint. I often drink peppermint tea shortly ...I love mint. I often drink peppermint tea shortly before bed as part of my "unwind" ritual. I know they say chamomile is better for relaxation, but peppermint tastes better. ;) I've never had mint on potatoes, and probably wouldn't have ever thought about it, but now I feel I have to try it. And I had no idea basil, lavender, etc. were part of the mint family. Fascinating!Sara C. Sniderhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post-68977769236979205342017-03-20T09:44:27.166+00:002017-03-20T09:44:27.166+00:00I love mint with tea, and with limeade. It's ...I love mint with tea, and with limeade. It's a staple part of Indian cuisine too, used in chutneys and to flavour stuff...had no idea that the family included all those herbs and teak as well! Astonishing!Nilanjana Bosehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post-25332762070894875582017-03-20T07:11:55.982+00:002017-03-20T07:11:55.982+00:00@ Beste - oh yes the potatoes growing on Jersey - ...@ Beste - oh yes the potatoes growing on Jersey - rather wish it was my photo ... but it shows the Castle, which Ian advised us of its name. Glad you enjoyed Dan Jones's Secrets of British Castles ... I saw some of them ... but then I've got my own A-Z series ... not as erudite, but lots of info ...

@ Deborah - mint is certainly used for some things and is almost essential to certain foods - eg lamb. But brushing by your mint plants does release that lovely scent and stays with one ... I often rub a leaf through my fingers - it lingers longer!

@ Nick - no worries ... but I'm just surprised that a few of you positively hate mint, but if it upsets you, can understand ... the thought of mints of any variety won't be good. Fascinating you have to tell yourself that you can brush your teeth as you're not eating it - gosh ... a challenge indeed. The mint family does stretch far and wide doesn't it .. glad you enjoy basil, thyme, sage etc

@ Ann - good to see you ... well give the potatoes a try - it'll be sprinkled in green (chopped mint) - perhaps it will entice Jen. Glad you've found something healthier than 'fried' potatoes for you both to eat. Good look forward to the email ..

Cheers to you all - we're back to a wintery feel here this week - then the clocks daylight save and longer evenings will be with us .. have good weeks - Hilary

Hilary Melton-Butcherhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post-81099857951822649522017-03-20T00:49:02.369+00:002017-03-20T00:49:02.369+00:00I'll remember....new potatoes simmered in mint...I'll remember....new potatoes simmered in mint and tossed with butter. Anything for variety to get Jen to eat potatoes, though she and I both like the hot air fryer "fries," healthier than deep fat frying....a machine that we're really enjoying.

Will be in touch tomorrow via email. Take care. Many ((( ))) from me and Jen.Ann Carbine Besthttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post-87754379046236813232017-03-19T22:44:54.217+00:002017-03-19T22:44:54.217+00:00Sorry to say, Hilary - I can't stand mint! Nev...Sorry to say, Hilary - I can't stand mint! Never liked the taste or smell - and my father always kept a big bag of mints in the front of the car while driving. It made me carsick. I can handle brushing my teeth because I trick myself that I'm not eating it, but that's it. Interesting to read about all the things that are part of its family, though. I do love basil, thyme, sage...Nick Wilfordhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post-23818987771287737062017-03-19T22:01:13.529+00:002017-03-19T22:01:13.529+00:00What a refreshing and yummy post. I don't cook...What a refreshing and yummy post. I don't cook with mint often but I have a lovely little confined space near my back gate along a narrow path, and I can't help but brush up against the mint planted there as I walk by. Just the little bruising of passing by releases such a lovely scent it makes the walk a true pleasure. My favorite way to enjoy mint.Deborah Weberhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post-67811714282340592822017-03-19T15:25:08.937+00:002017-03-19T15:25:08.937+00:00Hilary, I liked your photograph titled 'growin...Hilary, I liked your photograph titled 'growing potatoes on Jersey
with Mont Orgueil castle in the back ground'. Henri and I just completed watching the UK TV series 'Secrets of Great British Castles' (Dan Jones) and learned so many historical facts we didn't know. Just loved it.beste barkihttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post-77141256201727771832017-03-19T14:44:38.259+00:002017-03-19T14:44:38.259+00:00@ Gina – it's very easy to grow as I mentioned … s...@ Gina – it's very easy to grow as I mentioned … so buy a pot, keep it fairly damp and out of too much sun – you'll be rewarded …

@ Denise – still hot? We've had a few days of lovely weather – probably nicer inland, but now we're in for a spell of wet, colder weather …

Can quite see you'd rather be eating fish with salads, potato salad with some mint is good – my salad suggestion would be good too. I was surprised how many herbs were related to the genus mint. Clever to keep your mint by the tap. Oh yes I've gone off too much sweetness recently … but that chocolate peppermint slice sounds good …

@ Jacqui – give potatoes cooked with a sprig or two of mint a go … as long as you have mint sauce, or mint jelly to go with your meal … it does work.

@ Inger – I nearly didn't write the post up … there was so much information to use for this mint post. Potatoes boiled with sprigs of mint in the water and then served with some meat and mint jelly or sauce … just adds to the deliciousness! Glad you're going to give it a go … and yes mint does tingle our taste buds doesn't it … Your idea of dill sounds interesting too …

@ Robert – oh dear … it really has run away with your garden or your Dad's garden … pull it up – quite therapeutic as you're not really doing any damage – except getting rid of a few plants and roots. Or pot up a bit, and then be ruthless pulling the rest up! Good luck with clearing the mint out …

@ Val – I don't enjoy eating mint, but do enjoy the garnishing of chopped herbs over the top of dishes. As you note – lots of uses for it …

@ Elizabeth – the fresh melon, cucumber and tomato salad with a sprinkling of herbs is delicious … I know to think of mint as a tree is a little much – but teak has wonderful wood …

Exactly contain their wandering shenagins by keeping it in a pot …

Thanks so much to you all – for the extra comments and your ideas and thoughts – cheers Hilary
 Hilary Melton-Butcherhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post-32412823596422653612017-03-19T11:26:24.302+00:002017-03-19T11:26:24.302+00:00That mint salad looks wonderful! And I had no idea...That mint salad looks wonderful! And I had no idea that mint could even be tree-sized!

Too bad that they spread so much, but at least a pot should contain their antics. Elizabeth Spann Craighttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post-41977082526217053022017-03-19T07:15:56.840+00:002017-03-19T07:15:56.840+00:00I have mixed feelings about mint. I love it as a m...I have mixed feelings about mint. I love it as a mouth freshener, but don't like eating it much. Amazing how many uses it has, though! Great post, Hilary!Vallypeehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post-179404041401507102017-03-19T01:42:08.107+00:002017-03-19T01:42:08.107+00:00Ugggh! I have PTSD from my mint. I decided to plan...Ugggh! I have PTSD from my mint. I decided to plant a little at my dad's house and the damn stuff proceeded to take over EVERYTHING. It started as a little foot wide patch and proceeded to spread over a half acre! I'll give it this...it's a hardy little shit.HRBennett87https://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post-65813827263542203032017-03-18T20:15:08.039+00:002017-03-18T20:15:08.039+00:00Only you could come up with so many fascinating fa...Only you could come up with so many fascinating facts and classics about mint. In Sweden we boil our potatoes with dill, but since I love mint, I must try it. It never occurred to me to do that. There's somethig special about mint, it perks you up, wakes you up, I think.Ingerhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post-55706202490685107822017-03-18T17:41:08.296+00:002017-03-18T17:41:08.296+00:00I can't get my head around potatoes cooked in ...I can't get my head around potatoes cooked in mint. Hmmm...Jacqui Murrayhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post-81531516136545336322017-03-18T03:05:30.336+00:002017-03-18T03:05:30.336+00:00Hi Hilary. I don't think we'll be roasting...Hi Hilary. I don't think we'll be roasting lamb at Easter in Oz. Still too hot! Maybe a bit of fish and salad (with potato salad with mint, of course!) I didn't know all those herbs were related to mint. I keep mine in a pot near the tap, nicely constrained. My favourite slice is Peppermint Chocolate slice, but I don't eat it any more -- too sweet.

Enjoy your roast lamb Easter treat!

Denise :-)Denise Covey https://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6401528799218373095.post-56920661192599157372017-03-17T21:33:34.254+00:002017-03-17T21:33:34.254+00:00I love mint, just wish I could be able to grow som...I love mint, just wish I could be able to grow some for myself.

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| Season 3
Episode 3
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|Original airdate
|April 21, 1999
|List of all South Park episodes
"The Succubus" is the third episode of Season Three, and the 34th overall episode of South Park. It originally aired on April 21, 1999[1].
|Spoiler warning!
Plot details follow.
Chef becomes engaged to a seemingly evil woman while Cartman is having a bad time with the eye doctor.
Cartman goes to the eye doctor and has to wear a huge pair of glasses. He is especially angry at the fact that the doctor constantly makes fun of his weight. At lunchtime, Cartman shows up in front of Stan, Kyle and Kenny, since he never misses lunch. The boys go in to get their lunch, but instead of Chef, there is a skinny white guy called Mr. Derp, a funny-but-illiterate man who irritates the boys, with the exception of Cartman.
After school, the boys go to Chef's house and discover he is engaged to a woman named Veronica. They discover Chef has quit his job and has become overall duller and lamer of a person to them. Veronica even plays a song for the boys, which they all hate. The next day, the boys visit Chef at his new job. Chef tells Cartman he should get laser corrective surgery for his eyes when Cartman asks for advice. Chef then tells the boys he'll meet them after school to play ball, but fails to show up to the anger of the boys, who realize something is very wrong.
After class, the boys ask Mr. Garrison for advice. He tells them the woman is probably a Succubus, a demon sent from Hell to suck the life out of men and that he just "screws them and leaves them". The boys tell Garrison that he is quite good at advice, which he is happy to hear. Mr. Hat tells him he "isn't fooling anybody" by pretending to like women, implying that he is gay.
The boys go to tell Chef that Veronica is a succubus, Cartman is then dragged away by his mom to go for his laser corrective surgery. When they arrive at Chef's house they are greeted by Chef's Parents who announce he's getting married. They spend the rest of the episode ranting on about their alleged encounters with the Loch Ness Monster. Unfortunately for the boys, Chef is too busy to talk.
Cartman has to stay in bed after the eye doctor ruined his corrective surgery. Veronica comes to see him and shows him that she baked him a pie. Stan, Kyle and Kenny say they know what she is, but Veronica convinces them that she's not a monster. However, her face suddenly transforms to that of demon and she says they cannot stop her from marrying Chef the next day before leaving. Terrified, the boys realize they have to stop Veronica at all costs. At the party before the wedding the boys tell everyone that Veronica is a succubus which makes her cry. Chef chases the boys out angrily.
The boys begin to research the "succubus" and how to stop them; they discover that to stop her they must sing her song backwards. They figure out her song is "The Morning After" which she constantly sings. The boys learn the lyrics backwards and prepare for the wedding.
At the service, they stay calm until the wedding vows, where they tell Cartman to play the tape of the song's music backwards, but it's delayed from Cartman's lack of sleep. Veronica transforms into her demonic form and begins to destroy the church, scaring off most of the attendees. Unfortunately, Cartman's tape recorder jams and when Kenny tries to fix it, the Succubus jumps on Kenny, crushing him. Fortunately, the tape resumes and the boys finish the song, defeating the Succubus and sending her back to the depths of Hell. They apologize to Chef but upon seeing what he almost did, he thanks the boys. Everybody leaves content, but Cartman, still disoriented, asks, "Is Kenny OK?"
Later at the eye doctor's, Cartman gets the doctor to give him an eye transplant, giving him the frozen head of Kenny.
- ↑ "The Succubus (Season 3, Episode 3) - Episode Guide". southparkstudios.com.
|Story Elements
Chef • Mr. Derp • Veronica • Thomas McElroy • Nelle McElroy • Doctor Lout • "The Morning After" • "Love Bug" •


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FARMINGTON – If you're a volunteer for any of our town's great organizations, the Friends of Farmington want to celebrate you with coffee and home-made doughnuts at an upcoming event. Also coming up is a ham and bean dinner at the First Congregational Church.
Blessed Bargains
Blessed Bargains Thrift Store has a nice assortment of Halloween children's costumes for only $2 each. Blessed Bargains is open next on Saturday, Oct. 12 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and is located in the Congregational Church basement.
First Congregational Church
Ham and Bean Dinner: The Women's Fellowship of the First Congregational Church invites you to attend a Ham and Bean Dinner on Saturday, Oct. 12. Serving starts at 4:30 p.m. and runs until 6:30 p.m. in the church vestry. The menu includes home-baked pea or kidney beans, potato salad, coleslaw, cornbread and biscuits, a beverage and homemade desserts. Adult tickets are $10 and children under 8 are $5 with proceeds from the dinner to benefit the restoration of the church stained glass windows. There'll be whole pies for $10 each while supplies last.
Friends of Farmington
Volunteer Appreciation Event: Oct. 19 from 8 to 10 a.m. If you volunteer your time, please join Friends of Farmington for coffee, pastries and homemade donuts. We appreciate all that you do to make our community a better place.
Gifts in a Jar: Nov.10, show up anytime between 1 and 3 p.m. On Sunday, Nov. 10 we will be making gifts in a jar. Cost is $10 and includes all materials needed to make two different jars. These are perfect for Yankee swap and teacher gifts. Please RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.com or call 603-978-5741 for more information. Thanks to Kathy King for the news.
Fireman's Relief Association
The Farmington Fire Rescue Open House will be on Sunday, Oct. 20 from noon to 4 p.m. It'll be a fun-filled afternoon of events, informational displays and demonstrations, including an auto extrication and live fire demonstration, kids obstacle course, family photos with Sparky, touch-a-truck, station tours, and the chance to spray water from a real fire hose. The Farmington Fireman's Relief Association will be on site with an antique fire truck and some cool raffles.
Goodwin Library
The Library is accepting unopened bags of candy for distribution at the Halloween Parade. There'll also be a Teal Pumpkin available for kids who can't have candy. These children can choose a small toy from the Teal Pumpkin instead.
Valley View School
From the school nurse: A big thank you to all the parents who donated their clean, gently used clothing to the Health Office. Your generosity is wonderful, and greatly appreciated. Remaining needs include boys' pants, size 7, 8, 11, and 12; and girls' long-sleeved shirts (all sizes) and pants, sized 5, 8, 10 and 12.
Art to Remember: Our student artists are very excited about their creations and sending the art to Art to Remember. Student art will be photographed and each student will be receiving an order form with their art featured on it. This year, the Farmington PTA will be partnering with Valley View to make this program happen. Order forms will be sent home with students.
Conservation Commission
Fall clean up on Sunday, Oct. 20 (rain date Oct. 27) from noon to 4 p.m. Come help clean up your town. Meet at the Public Safety Building on Main Street. Bring gloves, water, and appropriate clothing. The more people we get, the more streets we can hit. And, of course, there'll be pizza afterward.
Rec. Dept.
Halloween Events: The 6th annual Pumpkin Festival is on Saturday, Oct. 26 from 1 to 3 p.m. We'll have pumpkins for sale with carving tools and stickers (for the small children) to decorate their pumpkins. There will also be music, crafts, touch a truck and concessions.
Trick or Treat Parade: Thursday, Oct. 31 at 4 p.m. Join us at the Rec. Center as we parade through town collecting treats along the way. Parents please remember this is not a drop-off event. An adult must accompany the child.
Trick or Treat will take place Thursday, Oct. 31 from 5 to 7 p.m.


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YSI team held a community event on Sunday May 5th. They organised a 5km walk/run the included challenges and obstacles along the route. The aim of the event was raise awareness about refugee rights by simulating the journey that refugees endure on their flight to freedom
YSI launched their children's book, App and board game in Monaghan Museum on Thursday May 5th. Minister Heather Humphreys in attendance. Key note speaker Caroline Reid of the Irish Refugee Council.
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Program Overview/At a Glance
MLS Program has a Signature Curriculum Delivery Model
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Hybrid Learning Teaching Model
Hybrid Learning Teaching Model
At the core of the Center for Allied Health Programs mission is the adoption of hybrid teaching and learning methods – or the hybrid style of teaching and learning. This method of instruction is not just about converting classroom content to an online medium; it is about creating new learning environments that optimize learning. Research has shown that effective learning is student-centered, knowledge-centered, assessment-centered, and community-centered and that it can happen in a multitude of learning environments. The hybrid course format has the student learning experience as the starting point, hence, student-centered. The course developer determines what can be learned online and what requires a face-to-face classroom experience. Knowledge-centered means the content and learning activities are parceled out in meaningful learning units. Instructors have discovered they do not need to lecture for all content. Assessment-centered means the student learning is frequently measured to determine if they have reached a level of competency and allows student practice and development. When students attend a classroom session, they often have mastered the material prior to the session. The time spent in class can guide learning to the next level: an opportunity to apply, synthesize, and deepen the learning experience. Community-centered does not necessarily mean in person. Virtual learning communities require students to interface with their peers to complete assignments and share their learning experiences.
Students usually require a few weeks to shift to the new learning platform but by the end of the first semester, they understand that effective learning experiences come in many forms. There are multiple advantages to this hybrid delivery format. Students are empowered to select the time and place they wish to study, which in turn supports their task engagement levels. Multilingual speakers or those who want additional review can repeat the online lecture materials and activities as many times as they wish.
Hybrid Clinical Education
Hybrid Clinical Education
Our blended learning format has also been applied to clinical or fieldwork study by enabling innovative online connections between faculty, clinical educators, and clinical students in real practice settings. Thus, blended learning models enable students to learn when and where they learn best by increasing access to knowledge content when they are ready to engage and enabling innovative ways to support student learning in real settings.
Quality Matters Course Design
Quality Matters Course Design
One driving value within the MLS Program is to deliver high quality, best-practice coursework. Quality Matters©, a faculty-centered, peer-review process that ensures high quality online or blended courses, is guiding development of all credit and non-credit courses within the Program. All MLS faculty have completed foundation courses about Quality Matters© and three faculty are certified as Quality Matters© reviewers of courses.
Community Partnerships
Community Partnerships
Signature Academic Partnerships
The University of Minnesota, in collaboration with private industry and other higher education institutions, has created educational program pathways for students pursuing careers within the MLS Program. Current academic affiliation agreements with MnSCU schools allow students to take prerequisite courses or baccalaureate degree preparation at their home institution and then apply for admission into the MLS professional programs. A similar agreement is in development for students at the UM Rochester to develop a focused program of study within the UMR BSHS degree.
To help address the critical shortages of allied health faculty, academic programs within CAHP have partnered with other degree programs at UM. This provides students with opportunities to pursue scholarly and research interests in a supportive environment. Students work directly with PhD faculty in partner departments, performing state of the art research that is routinely published in national and international scientific journals and presented at state and national conferences. Students interested in ongoing education may apply for admission to the graduate program in basic sciences or graduate professional schools at UM or beyond.
Clinical Placements throughout Minnesota
The MLS Program continues to engage with workforce partners throughout the Minnesota and neighboring states, through student placements during clinical rotations into more rural, underserved areas. In previous years, the Minnesota Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) provided financial subsidies for students placed in areas that demonstrated health profession shortages and a high degree of underserved populations. Because that federal project is no longer active, the financial support for students placed in these areas moved into the Academic Health Center and the individual programs. The MLS Program continues to place over half of their students in these areas of need throughout the state of Minnesota for at least one of their clinical assignments and is able to help support students through generous donations from program alumni..
Focus on Interprofessional Education (IPE)
Focus on Interprofessional Education (IPE)
The Center for Allied Health Programs is an Interprofessional academic unit, valuing Interprofessional collaboration across all functions. Faculty bridge professional boundaries within all aspects of faculty governance, promotion and tenure decisions, and faculty development activities.
Our commitment to Interprofessional learning and practice is evident through our work in three AHC areas of Interprofessional practice and education (IPE); the 1Health course: MLSP 5012 - Foundations of Interprofessional Communication and Collaboration (FIPCC), the Academic Health Center IPE curriculum committee, and the AHC IPE continuing education committee. MLS faculty and students have actively participated in the FIPCC course since its inception. Over 1000 beginning health professional students, including those of both CAHP programs, enroll in this course early in their student experience. The plan is for students in the proposed professional masters degree in MLS to serve as student-facilitators, thereby enhancing their leadership skills in Interprofessional collaboration.
Community IPE Practice
Faculty members from the MLS Program actively participate in the AHC curriculum committee and the AHC IPE CE curriculum committee to build supportive infrastructure to support expanded offerings to all credit and non-credit learners. Allied health curricula have expanded student Interprofessional clinical experiences. Multilingual medical laboratory science students now serve as language interpreters at the Phillips Neighborhood Clinic with plans to expand their role as student medical laboratory scientists serving the community.
CLARION, a team-based Interprofessional student learning experience, provides an opportunity to develop a root cause analysis of a fictitious sentinel event and present their recommendations to a panel of senior-level health executives. MLS students also participated in the UMN Global Health Case Study challenge. One MLS student was on the first place team in the local competition and placed fourth in the national competition in Atlanta.
Faculty Interprofessional Research
MLS faculty actively collaborate across professions in research. For example, occupational therapy and medical laboratory science (MLS) faculty have looked at fine motor skill technical standards for incoming MLS students and both programs have research designs studying hybrid delivery of allied health professional education and its positive impact on student outcomes. Medical Laboratory Science faculty are current working with language specialists from the Writing Across the Curriculum Center here at UM to study writing needs of the diverse MLS student population as they prepare for the workforce and to enhance all students understanding through strategic writing activities in the classroom.


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A blog devoted to the discussion of the greatest movies ever made, or The Essential Films. From the beginning of cinema history to present day, these films are crucial to the education of anyone who loves the art of film making.
Friday, June 26, 2015
FORCED PERSPECTIVE, Ep.66 – The Jurassic World of Tomorrow
On an all-new episode of the critically acclaimed FORCED PERSPECTIVE, join SportsGuy515 & Adolfo as they continue their trek through Summer 2015 with reviews of Tomorrowland, San Andreas, Poltergeist, Entourage, Spy, and (the record-breaking smash-hit) Jurassic World! The duo also pay tribute to the legendary SIR CHRISTOPHER LEE! PLUS:
-SportsGuy's Christmas comes early this year…
-Tom Hanks in Big.
-What's the point of BLU-RAY SLIPCOVERS?
-The awesomeness of BLU-RAY DIGIBOOKS, and whether or not the guys actually READ THE BOOK…
-Was Halloween III ahead of its time?
-SportsGuy and Adolfo debate the merits of Tomorrowland's message
-The silliness and fun of San Andreas
-Would Adolfo rather sit through Poltergeist or Annabelle again?
-What was the point of the Entourage movie?
-The MVP of Paul Feig's Spy (and the answer is UNSURPRISING…)
-The nostalgic fun present in Jurassic World (+SPOILERS)!
-The guys answer the MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION: IF JURASSIC WORLD WERE REAL, WOULD YOU GO? The answers might surprise you!
-…and MORE!
Friday, June 19, 2015
Jaws (1975)
Steven Spielberg
1975 • 124 Minutes • 2.35:1 • United States
Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton
Screenplay: Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb Based on Jaws by Peter Benchley
Cinematography: Bill Butler
Producers: Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown
Awards & Honors
Academy Awards
Winner: Best Sound
Winner: Best Film Editing
Winner: Best Music, Original Dramatic Score - John Williams
Nominated: Best Picture
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films
Winner: Golden Scroll Best Advertising
Winner: Outstanding Film Award
American Film Institute
100 Years... 100 Movies (1997) - #48
100 Years... 100 Movies (2007) - #56
100 Years... 100 Thrills - #2
100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains - #18 Villain (The Shark)
100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes - #35 ("You're gonna need a bigger boat)
100 Years of Film Scores - #6
Winner: Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music - John Williams
Nominated: Best Actor - Richard Dreyfuss
Nominated: Best Direction - Steven Spielberg
Nominated: Best Film
Nominated: Best Film Editing
Nominated: Best Screenplay
Nominated: Best Sound Track
Director's Guild of America
Nominated: Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures - Steven Spielberg
The Essential Films
The 100 Greatest Movie Villains - #40 (The Shark)
The 100 Greatest Movie Heroes - #20 (Quint, Hooper, Brody)
The 100 Greatest Movie Monsters - #5 (The Shark)
Golden Globes
Winner: Best Original Score - Motion Picture - John Williams
Nominated: Best Motion Picture - Drama
Nominated: Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
Nominated: Best Director - Motion Picture - Steven Spielberg
Grammy Awards
Winner: Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special - John Williams
National Film Preservation Board
Added to National Film Registry in 2001
People's Choice Awards
Winner: Favorite Motion Picture
Writer's Guild of America
Nominated: Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
In honor of Jaws' 40th anniversary, The Essential Films presents a look at perhaps the greatest summer blockbuster of all time: Steven Spielberg's Jaws.
Amity Island is a small vacation community that sees a surge in tourism during the summer beach season. The new Sheriff in town, Martin Brody, discovers the remains of a shark attack victim washed up on the shore. Brody's request to close the beach until the shark's been caught is denied by the mayor, who is concerned about the impact it will have to the tourism business. After another victim is claimed by the rogue shark, this time a young boy in front of a crowded beach of tourists, the angry townspeople calls on the local government to act. The young boy's mother even puts a bounty on the shark, which brings all sorts of fisherman out of the woodwork (or out of the water, if you will.) A local fisherman named Quint offers to kill the shark for a large fee and Brody, believing Quint to be the most qualified, soon joins the effort, despite the fact that he's terrified of the water. They are joined by Oceanographer Matt Hooper and the trio embark on an adventure to capture and kill the great white predator.
Richard Zanuck and David Brown were both producers at Universal at the time of Jaws' inception. They had each read Peter Benchley's novel and decided that it would make a great movie, though admittedly did not know how it would be filmed when they purchased the movie rights. Steven Spielberg had impressed the pair of producers with his film, The Sugarland Express, which Spielberg directed for the production duo, and soon the young director was hired for the job. Spielberg later said that he found many similarities between Jaws and his first feature film Duel, which both involved a menacing "monster" attacking an everyman.
After some initial reluctance to take the film on, Spielberg eventually dove headfirst into production. Spielberg was unsatisfied with the first two acts of the book, but loved the final act, which focused specifically on the shark-hunting. Benchley was given the task of writing the screenplay and wrote three drafts before turning it over to Spielberg. Spielberg hired his friend Carl Gottlieb, who from that point forward became the primary writer on the film. Gottlieb drew inspiration from the actors conversations and improvisations, although Gottlieb gives the "You're gonna need a bigger boat" line and the USS Indianapolis speech credit to their respective actors.
After initially considering Robert Duvall and Charlton Heston, Roy Scheider was eventually cast as Chief Brody. Scheider was most famously known for his role in The French Connection, and Spielberg's initial concerns that his "tough guy" persona wouldn't work with the character were soon dissolved. Scheider portrayed Brody as a man in way over his head, whose frustration at the local government officials cause him a great deal of anxiety. He has some great reaction shots in the film, which portray true fear. Most people would go to the reaction right before the "bigger boat" line, but my personal favorite is the scene where the Kitner boy is killed. Spielberg does the Hitchcock zoom (zoom in while pulling camera back) and Brody's face tells it all. He instinctively runs to the water, but stops just short because of his phobia, all the while screaming at everyone to get out of the water. Scheider's acting is also incredible during the confrontation where Mrs. Kitner slaps him for not warning the townspeople. The other notable scene is the scene at the dinner table, when the burden of his job is getting to him, he has a sweet, goofy moment with his son. This is what gives him the strength to continue.
For the role of Hooper, Jon Voight and Jeff Bridges were considered, but Spielberg's friend George Lucas suggested Richard Dreyfuss, with whom he had worked on American Graffiti. Spielberg urged Dreyfuss not to read the book, as the script was being re-written specifically to suit him. Dreyfuss was a relative unknown actor, and obviously this film launched his career forward... winning an Academy Award just a few years later for the The Goodbye Girl and becoming one of America's most accomplished actors.
Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye.
Quint was cast very close to the film's production start date, and after Lee Marvin and Sterling Hayden turned the film down, a reluctant Robert Shaw took on the role. Shaw had read the book and not liked it, but was eventually convinced by his wife to take the role. Shaw based much of his mannerisms on one of the local fisherman, Craig Kinsbury, even using some of his offscreen utterances as lines of dialogue. Quint is the most remembered and, frankly most fun, character in the film. His almost pirate-like cadence is as unforgettable as his iconic introduction into the film, where he scrapes his fingers across the chalkboard. His performance is simultaneously humorous and unsettling. His USS Indianapolis speech is one of the most chilling scenes ever filmed.
The film set new expectations in the suspense thriller genre, but it was mostly a series of happy accidents. Spielberg was relatively inexperienced and instead of filming the boat scenes in a water tank on soundstage, he insisted on shooting in the Atlantic Ocean, at sea, for authenticity. This would balloon the budget and cause massive production and equipment problems. (That said, it did look good on film) A large mechanical shark, nicknamed "Bruce" by the production team, was actually built for the production. However, Bruce never seemed to fully function correctly. Always breaking down whenever needed for a scene. Very few shots of Bruce actually exist in the finished film. So Spielberg used this as an opportunity to take a page out of Hitchcock's book... he never showed the shark on film in all the lead-up to the final act. It was better to hint at the threat, but never actually show it. And what was once a major production problem, became the film's signature calling card.
Cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water. Our shark.
The scene where Hooper escapes the shark cage right before the shark attacks it was another happy accident. Divers were sent to Australia to get some real life footage of sharks for the film. At one point, the cameras caught a massive shark attacking an empty cage. Hooper was initially supposed to die in the scene, but the footage of the shark attacking the empty cage was so spectacular, Spielberg re-wrote the script to have Hooper escape just so they could use the footage.
The final touch added to the film, and what most everyone remembers, is the iconic score by John Williams. Williams' theme for the shark has become synonymous with anyone even remotely tuned into pop culture as a sign of oncoming danger. Spielberg initially laughed at Williams when he played him the score, thinking it to be a joke, but the score remained and has become a classic piece of music. Everyone knows the Jaws score, and it's is an enormous part of the film's success.
Jaws went way over budget, and 100 days over schedule. The disgruntled crew called the film "Flaws." Spielberg was so frightened of the crew, that he even skipped the filming of the last scene because he thought they would throw him overboard as soon as filming wrapped. He was so certain that his career was over after the film was completed. Obviously, he was wrong.
This shark, swallow you whole.
Universal employed an unusual tactic for the release of Jaws. Unlike today, major studio releases were NOT released wide in all theaters. Instead, they were released in big markets first, usually New York, LA and Chicago, and slowly distributed throughout the year as positive word of mouth built up. Wide releases were usually a sign of a bad film, not a major production that the studio had faith in. Lew Wasserman, head of Universal at the time, saw the reactions audiences were having in test screenings and decided a major marketing campaign to push the film everywhere, in over 400 theaters, an idea that was unheard of. In July, after the film steamrolled the box office, it was expanded to 700 theaters and then to 900 in August, with a similar release system internationally. Jaws went on to become the biggest movie all time, sailing past previous record holder The Godfather, earning $470 million worldwide. Adjusted for inflation, Jaws has earned over $2 billion. And thus the blockbuster was born.
Jaws had a lasting legacy in changing the business. The wide release/massive marketing model was soon adopted by Hollywood as the new way to conduct business. Hollywood still works the same way to this very day. It also established the idea of the summer blockbuster, where studios would release all of their anticipated big money-makers in the summer, when audiences were more primed to go to the movies. While other films like Gone with the Wind and The Sound of Music were massive box office hits before, Jaws created an entire season for it.
Money isn't the only reason for this film to qualify for Essential status, though that is a major part of it. Jaws, is at its core, an endlessly entertaining adventure film, a chilling horror film and thrilling suspense film, no matter how much money it put in the pockets of studio executives. But on top of all of that, it also launched Spielberg's career to the moon. He had some minor successes before, but the Great White success of Jaws really put him on the map. Spielberg would go on to helm some of the greatest and essential films of the last 40 years, including Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Minority Report and Lincoln. Jaws and Spielberg's influence on cinema is incalculable. So, don't be afraid to go back in the water and watch this essential classic.
- I used to hate the water...
- I can't imagine why.
Friday, June 12, 2015
FORCED PERSPECTIVE, Ep.65 – The Furious Follow the Mad
On this edition of YOUR favorite movie podcast, join SportsGuy515 and Adolfo as Summer 2015 continues with their latest slate of reviews for Mad Max: Fury Road, Ex Machina, It Follows, and Furious 7. PLUS:
–Mad Max: Fury Road in BLACK & WHITE???
-George Clooney is STILL apologizing for Batman and Robin.
-Michael B. Jordan FIGHTS BACK against racists.
-The REAL reason why were are getting a Fantastic Four movie this year.
-The latest talk on Blade Runner 2 and Independence Day 2.
-CNN's "The Famous Film I Never Saw" article and the RAGE that Adolfo felt after reading it!
-The practical effects of Furious 7.
-The love letter to horror films that was It Follows
-Adolfo's CREEPIEST horror movie-going experience was…?
-The greatness of Ex Machina and how Adolfo (and SportsGuy) GOT WORKED AGAIN!
–Mad Max: Fury Road = the movie to BEAT this summer.
-The "feminist controversy" surrounding Mad Max: Fury Road
-A preview of Forced Perspective's Tomorrowland REVIEW.
-A 20+ MINUTE discussion on how Adolfo and SportsGuy ARRANGE THEIR MOVIE SHELVES – WE KID YOU NOT!
-…and MORE!
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
The Essential Films of Christopher Lee
Sir Christopher Lee
May 27, 1922 - June 7, 2015
Legendary actor Christopher Lee died of complications of respiratory problems and heart failure on June 7, 2015 at the age of 93. In addition to being a Hammer Horror icon, Lee was a classically trained actor, an author, a World War II veteran, a Nazi hunter and a heavy metal singer. He was Count Dracula and the Frankenstein Monster. He was Sherlock Holmes. He worked with everyone from Billy Wilder to Martin Scorsese to George Lucas to Tim Burton. He had iconic roles in three major franchises: Star Wars, The Lord of The Rings (including The Hobbit) and the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun. Christopher Lee leaves behind an amazing legacy and he will be missed. These are his Essential Films.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY and THE HOBBIT TRILOGY
Peter Jackson
2001-2003, 2012-2014
After his career hit a bit of a slump in the 1990s, Christopher Lee returned to mainstream prominence as the traitorous Saruman in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. The white wizard Saruman was a perfect role for Lee, even though, as a longtime Tolkein fan, he had always envisioned himself as portraying the heroic Gandalf. But his career as playing the villain in fantasy/horror films made this casting a perfect fit. Lee reprised the role for cameos in Jackson's recent The Hobbit trilogy as well. (NOTE: Christopher Lee appears in the theatrical releases of The Fellowship of The Ring and The Two Towers, but only in the extended cut of The Return of the King).
Robin Hardy
Lee plays the enigmatically charming Lord Summerisle, the leader of a small, secluded island community that bears his name. When Sergeant Howie pays a visit to the island to investigate the disappearance of a young girl, he is shocked and disgusted by the islands pagan customs, which offend his strict Christian beliefs. Howie's investigations lead to a bigger conspiracy that culminates in a terrifying conclusion to this classic 70s horror film.
Martin Scorsese
Sir Christopher Lee appears in a small, but memorable role in this film about the adventures of a young clockmaker's apprentice, Hugo Cabaret. In the film, Lee's Monsieur Labisse is one of the few adults in Hugo's world that are kind to him, giving him a book about the adventures of Robin Hood.
HORROR OF DRACULA and DRACULA: PRINCE OF DARKNESS
Terrence Fisher
1958, 1966
Freddie Francis
Hammer Horror's adaptation of the classic Bram Stoker novel. Perhaps Lee's most iconic role. Many actors have played the role from Bela Lugosi to Gary Oldman, but Lee's was the first to truly capture the gothic romance of the novel. To add to the excellence: Lee plays opposite Peter Cushing as Van Helsing. One of the greatest pairings in horror cinema. In Prince of Darkness, a direct sequel to Horror of Dracula, Christopher Lee returns to the role, this time to torment Father Sandor, a priest who mistakenly believes that vampires had been wiped out. The Count is resurrected and proves him wrong. The last good Dracula/Lee film sees Dracula rise (again) while Monsignor Ernest Muller tries to destroy him and his evil forces in Risen from the Grave.
Terrence Fisher
Hammer Horror takes a stab at Mary Shelley's classic tale of a driven scientist who builds a creature and intends to bring him to life. Another Cushing/Lee pairing with Cushing playing the determined-at-all-costs Dr. Frankenstein and Christopher Lee putting on the monster make up to play the famous creature.
Terrence Fisher
Hammer Films takes a break from horror and adapts the classic Victorian super detective Sherlock Holmes' most famous story. Peter Cushing plays the title role opposite Christopher Lee's Sir Henry Baskerville in one of the best screen adaptations of Holmes to date.
Terence Fisher
This time Hammer Horror continues its classic monsters trend and adapts The Mummy with Christopher Lee playing Kharis, the re-animated mummified corpse of an ancient high priest. Peter Cushing teams up for another ride with Lee, this time as the archaeologist that must stop the Mummy.
Tim Burton
Christopher Lee lent his considerable voice talents to this animated film from the mind of Tim Burtonabout a young man that accidentally marries a cursed corpse bride. Christopher Lee plays a bad-tempered priest with a villainous past that may be directly involved with the titular character's demise.
Guy Hamilton
In this installment of the famous 007 franchise, Christopher Lee is Francisco Scaramanga, one of the most memorable Bond villains of all time. Scaramanga, of course, has plans on world domination, but he is also one of the deadliest assassins on the planet, doing his dirty work with the titular Golden Gun.
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in the cleaning of his room
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Take those off,
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the timbre a man with a pipe
and slippers
and a newspaper
might display
in a movie from the Eisenhower years.
My son
who at five,
a very simian five,
does not fear me
as he fears his mother
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Region: South Tyrol
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Appearance: rind has a spiced honey coating
Aroma: nectar
Flavour: sweet - full - flavour
Consistency: rubbery
Maturation: 4 weeks in the natural cellar
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Cut Stone Jewelry
Kendra discovered her labor of love – the technique of cutting rough stone to create wearable art. By banging metal, igniting torches and then soldering and polishing, Kendra drew upon her "tomboy" roots and learned to craft one-of-a-kind jewelry using her bare hands. The aggressive, tactile nature of this rare artistic process involving sweat, blood and mess yielded an earthy, yet royal-like beauty – and it captivated Kendra. The idea that she was authentically creating something with her own two hands that would be intimately worn on someone's body drove her to leave painting and devote herself entirely to jewelry.


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