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Fifth generation fighter jets –
Chinese, Russian, Indian and US
Arms Race
If you can believe the press reports surrounding the J-35s https://www.f35.com/ lack of capability to compete with old birds and new birds alike, then you would seriously ask why would you buy one. Strategic defence capabilities in the 21st Century still demand air superiority because of the part that it plays in overall planning. Within the parameters of conventional warfare air strike capability is a very important component to a successful mission. The three largest defence contractors in the world are American corporations, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Gruman & Boeing.
Can anyone trust the Lockhead Martin sales pitch on this aircraft and in light of the fact that this is the world's biggest fighter project.
http://thediplomat.com/2015/07/f-35-loses-dogfight-to-fighter-jet-from-the-1980s/ http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-f-35-cant-beat-the-plane-its-replacing-in-a-dogfigh-1714712248
The F-35 Lightning II was designed to be an affordable 5th Generation fighter
Production Costs
- F-35A: $98 million
- F-35B: $104 million
- F-35C: $116 million
The claim made by Lockheed Martin – The F-35's stealth capabilities are unprecedented in tactical fighter aviation. An integrated airframe design, advanced materials and other features make the F-35 virtually undetectable to enemy radar. Extensive analysis and flight test of the survivability of the F-35 with its combination of stealth, advanced sensors, data fusion, sophisticated countermeasures, and electronic attack demonstrate conclusively its superior advantages over legacy aircraft, is still yet to be proven in combat.
There are comparable aircraft that some say will outperform the F-35. China's second fifth-generation stealth aircraft, the J-31 built by the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation has many similarities in design and in performance. Because there is little technical data available it is still too early to assess how much better it may is compared to other similar multipurpose jets. It will be able to compete with F15, F16 & F18 and will will come close or at least match the F35 according to aviation experts.
Shenyang J-31
Sukhoi T-50 PAK-FA
"The aircraft is equipped – just like the Raptor – with top modern weapons, stealth technology and has supercruise at mach 1.6. Since it has not yet been revealed there is very much speculations about it and there is a lot of propaganda involved. For instance Vladimir Putin claimed that: "This machine will be superior to our main competitor, the F-22, in terms of maneuverability, weaponry and range" which you can choose to interpret in any way you want. But it is by many considered to be the best fighter in the world when it enters service with the Russian air force. The main points that are considered by many to be better with the PAK FA than with the raptor is its IRST, its engines and its 3D Thrust vectoring system (the Raptor does not feature IRST and only has 2D TV). The engine that is currently being developed by Saturn and is said to be the "fifth generation fighter engine" will be delivered in the coming years and just like any other tremendously expensive project there has been a lot of speculations about it. India is also currently developing a fifth generation fighter projected to be introduced in 2022, namely the HAL FGFA, which is an upgraded version of the PAK FA. It is claimed that it is supposed to have 43 improvements compared to the PAK FA, among others stealth, supercruise, advanced sensors, networking and combat avionics."
The only way to verify the sales pitch by Lockhead Martin will be to test the J-35 in combat…but what an expensive way to confirm the capabilities.


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Natural or Supernatural? Name Your Poison
Posted by Greg Ferrara on October 24, 2012
Movie genres are notoriously malleable things. We all know what a western is until someone mentions that Star Wars is a horse opera in space or Outland is a remake of High Noon in a futuristic setting, and suddenly it doesn't seem as clear anymore. Genres also cross streams constantly. A crime film can be a noir (Out of the Past), an epic drama (Once Upon a Time in America), a gangster film (Public Enemy), a comedy (Some Like it Hot, which also manages to work in rom-com while it's at it) or any other number of multiple genre mash-ups with "crime" as the umbrella covering all the different subsets. In the end, horror is no different but no matter how many subgenres of horror there are (and there are plenty), horror can be efficiently broken down into two categories: Natural and Supernatural. Which side are you on?
Horror's Powers of Ten
Posted by Greg Ferrara on October 17, 2012
I have always had a fascination with how much can change in such a short span of time in one era, yet remained unchanged for years in another. In 1973, American Graffiti presented a nostalgic past that no longer existed, a world from another time and place. It took place a mere 11 years prior to its release. 11 years. A movie taking place in 2001 or 02 wouldn't look or feel that much different to what's around us now. Watching a sitcom from early in the 2000s, like Arrested Development, doesn't look or feel a whole lot different than watching one from right now, like Parks and Recreation. But watching Leave it to Beaver, from the early sixties, alongside All in the Family, from the early seventies, feels like two different universes. How much has horror changed from one decade to the next? Let's examine horror's powers of ten.*
I like big bats (and I cannot lie)!
Posted by Richard Harland Smith on October 12, 2012
For my admittedly singular tastes, the vampire bat (there are other kinds?) is as essential a herald of Halloween as the old witch, the black cat, the Jack-o-lantern, and the scarecrow. As a kid, I loved the sudden appearance of a flapping vampire bat and the bigger and more leathery the beastie the better. Take this barrel-like example from Hammer's BRIDES OF DRACULA (1961) — it's like a rumpy Manx with wings — but I love it, I want to hug it, I want to bring it home and ask my mom if I can keep it. I miss bats in horror movies. How did we ever get it into our heads that we could live without them? [...MORE]
Showdown – Horror Style
Posted by Greg Ferrara on October 10, 2012
Almost every movie ever made that involves any kind of conflict has a showdown. It may not be the grand finale and it may not last more than a few seconds, but showdowns are a part of dramatic structure. They can be big, like the showdown between Shane (Alan Ladd) and Jack Wilson (Jack Palance) at the climax of Shane or small, like the showdown between R.P. McMurphy and Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest when he wants to let the gang watch the World Series and loses initially (she doesn't allow Chief Bromden's vote) only to pull out a victory seconds later by pretending to watch it anyway. They can come in the form of a standoff between rich young publisher and legal guardian, as in Citizen Kane, where Kane (Orson Welles) tells Thatcher (George Coulouris) that at the rate of a million dollars a year he'll have to close this paper in… sixty years or they can come in the form of an imaginary standoff between two movie patrons (Woody Allen and Russell Horton) and a magically produced Marshall McLuhan (um, Marshall McLuhan) in Annie Hall. But for pure bang for the buck, showdowns rarely reach the visceral heights as those produced by horror. Here are some of my favorites.
Good Plot, Bad Movie
Posted by Greg Ferrara on June 27, 2012
I have had many a disappointing time at the cinema in my life, usually with sci-fi or horror, probably because they're my two favorite genres from childhood and expectations ran high. And so many a movie I was excited to see just didn't work. Since I came of age with movies in the seventies and eighties, many come from those decades and many have no saving grace. For instance, I was quite excited to see The Hindenburg when it came out, only to be bored to tears. Problem is, there's not much you can do there. Since the destruction of ship happened in mere seconds, most of the screen time must be filled with dull fiction. With a ship like the Titanic, you've got enough time to center the entire movie around the sinking if you want to, as in A Night to Remember. But other movies I saw and thought, "This is bad but it could be good, really good. They're just doing it wrong."
The Tod Browning Version
Posted by Richard Harland Smith on April 20, 2012
At the 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival last week I got to revisit Tod Browning's DRACULA (1931) … and fall in love all over again. [...MORE]
Vampire's Peak, or It's Been Downhill Ever Since
Posted by Richard Harland Smith on April 6, 2012
The other day my 4 year-old son slapped a square of blue felt onto the top of his head and angled one corner down in line with the bridge of his nose. "Dad, look… I'm a vampire!" He had, of course, just approximated with devastating simplicity the classic "widow's peak" that is synonymous with vampires of a certain vintage, going all the way back to Bela Lugosi in DRACULA (1931). Hey, wait a minute… Bela Lugosi's Dracula didn't have a widow's peak. So where did this style come from? [...MORE]
Master Class: Jonathan Rigby's Studies in Terror reviewed!
Posted by Richard Harland Smith on March 23, 2012
Jonathan Rigby's Studies in Terror: Landmarks of Horror Cinema (Signum Books, 2011) follows his genre overviews, English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema (Reynolds & Hearn, 2002) and American Gothic: Sixty Years of Horror Cinema (Reynolds & Hearn, 2007). While the earlier books focused on chronological histories of grotesque themes in British and American films, from the silent flickers at the birth of cinema through the boom years and straight on to their respective declines, Studies limits the discourse to select titles the author believes worthy of landmark status. In other words, this time it's personal.
The HorrorDads' 2011 Dusk-to-Dawn All-Nite/All Fright Halloween Screamboree!
Posted by Richard Harland Smith on October 21, 2011
RHS: Let's pretend the HorrorDads have the run of a disused movie theater and permission to run a Halloween dusk to dawn horrorthon. We will all contribute a movie to the line-up but before we begin, let's talk about the kinds of horror movies each of us think is right for this time of year. Go… [...MORE]
October is coming! October is coming!
Posted by Richard Harland Smith on September 30, 2011
Every October 1st I turn into a big weirdo. Well… more so. [...MORE]
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Good old Fido may bring joy to the family, but new research suggests he may also bring health benefits; a new study suggests early exposure to dogs and farm animals reduces asthma risks in children.
The study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, was conducted by researchers in Sweden, in a joint partnership between Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University.
According to the study authors, childhood asthma is a global health concern that has been on the rise over the past 30 years. In the US, 9.3% of children currently have asthma, a chronic disease that affects the airways.
People who suffer from asthma have airways that are sore and swollen. If left untreated, children with the condition often have less stamina and tend to avoid physical activities in order to prevent coughing or wheezing.
Previous studies have linked certain environmental factors with either increased or decreased risks of asthma, including tobacco smoke exposure, dog and cat contact, family size, birth order, exposure to microbes and socioeconomic factors.
To further investigate, Tove Fall, PhD, of Uppsala University, and colleagues studied the link between animal exposure and asthma incidence in the Swedish population, which included over 1 million children born between 2001-2010.
Dogs present kids with more exposure to diverse microorganisms
Although the link between early life dog contact and subsequent asthma development has been studied before, the researchers say findings have not been conclusive.
- In the US, over 6.8 million children have asthma
- In total, 9.3% of children in the country have the condition
- Kids with asthma often complain their chest hurts or that they cannot catch their breath.
"Earlier studies have shown that growing up on a farm reduces a child's risk of asthma to about half," explains Fall. "We wanted to see if this relationship was true also for children growing up with dogs in their homes."
In their analysis, the team used registry data for information on dog and farm animals, and for asthma medication and diagnosis in both preschool-age and school-age children.
Of the children included, 5% of the preschool-age children had an asthmatic event before baseline, and there were 28,511 cases of asthma observed during follow-up. Meanwhile, in the school-age children group, 4.2% had an asthmatic event at age 7.
Results show that dog exposure during the first year of life was linked with a 13% lower risk of asthma when the child was school-aged. Additionally, farm animal exposure was linked with a 52% reduced risk of asthma in school-age children and a 31% reduced risk in preschool-age children.
The researchers explain that children living on a farm - and children who live with a dog - come into regular contact with "elevated amounts and diversity of microorganisms and endotoxins."
Exposures like this "have the potential to influence the risk of asthma as well as the burden of infectious disease," they say, concluding:
"For what we believe to be the first time in a nationwide setting, we provide evidence of a reduced risk of childhood asthma in 6-year-old children exposed to dogs and farm animals. This information might be helpful in decision making for families and physicians on the appropriateness and timing of early animal exposure."
Study strengths and limitations
To the researchers' knowledge, theirs is the largest study to date that allows for stratification on parental asthma. Adding in the fact that they had access to a "rich set" of possible confounders, their study has many strengths.
There were, however, some limitations. One, for example, is that the team could not account for animal exposure outside the home or visiting dogs.
Additionally, due to the availability of health registers, the researchers could only study school-aged children while they were 7 years old, which means that older children were not included.
Still, the large study population size makes their findings particularly strong. "Thanks to the population-based design," says senior author Dr. Catarina Almqvist Malmros from Karolinska, "our results are generalizable to the Swedish population, and probably also to other European populations with similar culture regarding pet ownership and farming."
Medical News Today recently reported on another study outlining more positive effects of dog ownership. According to new research, therapy dogs have a calming effect on children with cancer.


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Denzil Franco graduated from the SESA Football Academy as an outstanding player before turning out for Sporting Goa and Salgaocar and then moving to the now-defunct Mahindra United in Mumbai. The strapping right-back has helped 'The Jeepmen' and Churchill Brothers - whom he joined subsequently - win a clutch of trophies - the I-League, Federation Cup, Durand Cup and IFA Shield being prominent examples.
The Manchester United supporter, who was inspired by former India captain Bruno Coutinho, has gained the reputation of a penalty-kick specialist, having converted in the tiebreaker of the 2009 SAFF Cup final in Dhaka with the under-23 India team against the Maldives, and for the senior team in the Nehru Cup 2012 final against Cameroon. Born in Saligao, Goa, Franco returns home to FC Goa for Hero ISL 2016 after representing Atlético de Kolkata in the first two seasons of the league.
Career Highlights
Won ISL 2014 with Atletico de Kolkata.
Won SAFF Championship 2009 and Nehru Cup 2012 with the national team.
Won I-League, Federation Cup, Durand Cup and IFA Shield with Churchill Brothers.


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The mission of the Lowe Art Museum, the art museum of the University of Miami, is to serve the University, and the Greater South Florida communities, and national and international visitors as a teaching and exhibiting resource through its permanent and borrowed collections.
The Lowe Art Museum:
1. Collects original, quality works of art primarily from Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas;
2. Exhibits and preserves the permanent collection according to the highest professional standards;
3. Researches the permanent collection and publishes the findings in exhibition catalogues and articles;
4. Organizes traveling exhibitions and loans of individual works from the permanent collection to expand knowledge and appreciation of art both regionally and nationally;
5. Enhances the appreciation of the permanent collection through borrowed and organized traveling exhibitions and loans of individual works; and
6. Supports, extends and enriches the mission of the University of Miami for students, faculty, scholars, residents, and visitors to South Florida to appreciate and more fully comprehend art and its history.
From its origins in three classrooms in 1950, the history of the Lowe Art Museum reflects an unswerving commitment to fulfill its mission to serve the University of Miami as a teaching resource, and the residents of and visitors to greater Miami as its major general art museum.
The Lowe's success in fulfilling its mission is confirmed by an extraordinary and ongoing outpouring of support for the museum and its collections. With the gift in 1950 by philanthropists Joe and Emily Lowe, a free-standing museum facility opened to the public in 1952, the first art museum in South Florida. It's 16,000-object collection is one of the most important in the southeast, with strengths in Renaissance and Baroque, American, Ancient and Native American, and Asian art.
The development of its highly regarded collection is traced through sustained support from Miami and winter resident patrons who, from its beginning, have supported the Lowe with major gifts of art and funding. A 1956 donation by Alfred I. Barton brought one of the country's finest collections of Native American art. In 1954, the Lowe was designated the only Florida recipient in a national distribution of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation collection, and, in 1961, constructed a 2,100 square foot gallery to house the 41 Renaissance and Baroque paintings and sculptures that are the backbone of its Western collection. The Americas Collection includes 2,000 works surveying art in the Americas during the 19th and 20th centuries. The Lowe's Ancient American collection was begun in 1958 but achieved international stature with the gift of 531 works by Robert M. Bischoff in 1984. The Lowe's important Asian collection was built over twenty years with superb Chinese, Korean and Japanese ceramics, painting and sculpture, donated by Stephen Junkunc III, a Chicago native and Miami winter resident.
The Lowe achieved AAM accreditation in 1972, the first university art museum in Florida to do so, and was reaccredited in 1987 and 2000. Also in 1987, the Lowe was designated a "Major Cultural Institution" by the State of Florida. In 1990, the Lowe was elected to AAMD, one of only three Florida university art museums awarded this honor.


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Cascading Style Sheets, A.K.A CSS, is great! If you're not afraid of dipping your fingers into a bit of CSS you'll be able to customise the heck out of your website.
This is an extreme example of a customised easy sign up form:
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Farmers have the highest suicide rate of any profession in America, according to the Center for Disease Control, and a bill signed this week by Governor Inslee addresses that. HB 2671 will provide bilingual mental and behavioral health support to people in agricultural industries. The bill passed unanimously in both the House and Senate in spring 2018, and has been fully funded in the final budget.
The success of this bill gives new momentum to efforts to address the issue on a national level, following the introduction of STRESS Act (H.R. 5259) in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Washington Young Farmers Coalition (WAYFC) wants to sincerely thank all those who helped pass this bill in the House and the Senate. We are especially grateful for Representative JT Wilcox, who introduced the bill in the House, and committee members in both chambers who ensured that this bill progressed through the legislative process. At the signing, Governor Inslee expressed gratitude to the organizations that supported HB 2671, and was looking forward to seeing the results of the bill in action.
HB 2671 establishes pilot programs in two different Washington counties that would host a public helpline and provide culturally appropriate behavioral health resources and education, including Spanish language services, to struggling farmers, ranchers, and farm workers.
A bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives led by Tom Emmer (R-MN) and Tom O'Halleran (D-AZ) introduced the STRESS Act (H.R. 5259), a bill that would establish the Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network (FRSAN) to provide mental health services to farmers on a national scale. The program was initially authorized by Congress in the 2008 Farm Bill but never received funding. WAYFC advocates for the establishment and funding of FRSAN to support young farmers nationwide.
In 2017, WAYFC lost one of its founding members, Justin McClane, to suicide. Tierney Creech, a WAYFC founder and operator of a vegetable farm outside Olympia, gave testimony on HB 2671, saying, "The Coalition has always had a mission to support and connect young farmers… We knew that the social support we got from our other young farmers was extremely important in this challenging, often isolating profession, and we tried to bring opportunity for those friendships and connections to other farmers around the state. We never used the words mental health or talked openly of suicide, until this past spring when [Justin] took his own life on his farm in Lewis County." Since then, WAYFC has been committed to raising awareness about lack of culturally appropriate mental health resources for farmers.
Some of the unique issues causing the farmer suicide crisis include social and geographic isolation, lack of resources in rural areas, stressful or physically demanding work conditions, and high risk of financial loss. Farm owners are not the only people struggling in agriculture. Hard working conditions, poverty, and lack of access to healthcare create negative mental health outcomes for farm workers also. These issues are nationwide, making FRSAN an urgently needed public health resource.
HB 2671, and its federal counterpart, HR 5259, could have a serious impact in rural communities. Derek Sanderson, director of the Washington State Department of Agriculture, said during testimony on the bill, "Behavioral health of our agricultural workers and farmers is important on a humanitarian level, but it's also very important for the viability and longevity of the state's agricultural industry." The overwhelming support for HB 2671 has clearly shown that agriculture is a bipartisan issue which united congress people in Washington State, and gives hope for the success of national efforts.


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Joss Whedon has wrote a new comic. It's called Sugarshock. It's right there. Go read it!
(Where the f@#$ did that come from?)
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Joss Whedon has wrote a new comic. It's called Sugarshock. It's right there. Go read it!
(Where the f@#$ did that come from?)
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The world can't be all bad while people continue to do things like this...
(thanks, Mum!)
Couple of movies I'm keen to see...
Movies that I am not convinced by, judging by the trailer alone...
On the other hand, now is a good time to have already written a successful fantasy series.
The natural endpoint of Lapsarianism is apocalypse. If things get worse, and worse, and worse, eventually they'll just run out of worseness. Eventually, they'll bottom out, a kind of rotten death of the universe when Lapsarian entropy hits the nadir and takes us all with it.
Running counter to Lapsarianism is progressivism: the Enlightenment ideal of a world of great people standing on the shoulders of giants. Each of us contributes to improving the world's storehouse of knowledge (and thus its capacity for bringing joy to all of us), and our descendants and proteges take our work and improve on it. The very idea of "progress" runs counter to the idea of Lapsarianism and the fall: it is the idea that we, as a species, are falling in reverse, combing back the wild tangle of entropy into a neat, tidy braid.
Of course, progress must also have a boundary condition � if only because we eventually run out of imaginary ways that the human condition can improve. And science fiction has a name for the upper bound of progress, a name for the progressive apocalypse:
We call it the Singularity.
Cory Doctorow: The Progressive Apocalypse and Other Futurismic Delights
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Are you aware of how to build online business? Do you know opportunities available in e-business? Have you ever thought why online business ideas are plays an crucial role in any business model? Do you know different ways through which you can earn money with online business? Are you new to e-business world and looking for basics of online business for beginners course or a guide?
Online Business for Beginners Module:
In this tutorial e-learning course you will learn the basics of Online Business. This course will empower your knowledge on e-Business. After taking this course you will have sound knowledge on e-business ideas, best ways to make money through online business planning, how to build successful e-business and present yourself to the world in online market.
E-learning course details: Course duration for Online Business for beginners module is approximately 40 minutes. This course consists of series of chapters given below. At the end of the tutorial course you can take the quiz to check how far you have understood about Online Business. You can also publish your quiz score's on website and share with your friends and team mates. Best of luck!
- Tutorial Course - Basics of Online Business for Beginners Module -
» Chapter 1: How to Start an Online Business? Basic Guide to Online Opportunities.
» Chapter 2: 5 Tips: How to Build Your Business Online? Ideas Behind Online Business.
» Chapter 3: Top 10 Business Ideas – How to Make Money Online with Low Investment.
» Chapter 4: Top 10 Best Ways – How To Make Money From Home Without Investment.
» Chapter 5: Top Creative Ideas to Make Money from Home with Low or without Investment.
» Chapter 6: Best Ways to Make Money Online at Home with Low Investment or Without Investment.
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The Powerball Jackpot this week is estimated at $500 million, a measly $337 million if you take it in cash. People always say money will change you. I don't think that's true. If I ever won a Powerball Jackpot like that, I wouldn't change. I'd still be me. My poor decisions on the other hand…now those would become the stuff of legends.
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Girl….. Me too!
After I posted this, the jackpot went up to something like $564 million!
I'm going to put Elon Musk on my speed dial, just in case. With that kind of money, I'm not just going to orbit, I'm building a vacation spot on the moon!
Seriously. I would.
I could see you doing that! Me, I'd be in Ireland before the month was out with daughter in tow. After that, it's hard telling. 😀
I've got one heck of a "Life List" (hate the term "bucket list") that would need immediate attention, and travel is a huge chunk of it. When you're done with Ireland, check out Prague. Probably my favorite city on the planet so far.
If I had enough money that I didn't have to worry about working (pesky work Visas and all that) I'd move to Ireland to live. But I would indeed love to travel and see the world. I've never been anywhere.
Ah the things I could do with 564 million dollars….after being responsible and pay off all my bills and my finace' bills…. travel travel and travel again
That would be me. I'd do the responsible things and then the really fun things. 🙂
Golden ticket? Hey– can I have the chocolate bar?
Indeed! 🙂
I didn't win, Wendy. Did you? That money sure could buy one heck of a bloggers' friend party. 🙂
It sure would! And nope, it wasn't me. 😦
Legends are good. Not everyone gets the opportunity to be legendary.
well I think you would likely stay balanced if you won – but some folks would really lose balance – and we saw a show once called the curse of the lottery and well, it ruined them. there is also a scene in breaking bad that I loved… gus is sitting down with WW – and says "you have to learn to be rich"
and so often people cannot manage money – and then add to that the pressure of people wanting money from you and the layers of stress with it – well funny timing too because we also just saw a snippet of a show with a lady who won – a doctor – and she stayed working )but wen to part time) and they seemed to handle the millions fine – she did get attacked once – but they went on to travel and did not see the ending – but not everyone loses kilter. but many do and end I heard end up broke within a period of time after they squander it – hmmmmm
I might would live well and enjoy it, but I wouldn't squander it. I've been too long without money to just waste it, it wouldn't be in me I don't think — I'd have to invest some so I wouldn't ever be without again. And other than taking care of my family (which I'd want to do), I wouldn't be swayed by the fake sob stories that come out of the woodwork.
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Welcoming Autumn
I was a city girl. We lived in Manhattan when I was child, but my parents were not from there. They were city mice in their own way. They had picked cities to live in most of their adult lives, but had childhoods that included fields, farms, woods as well as the start of sprawling sidewalks. It was the change of seasons that my mother missed the most. Annually in the fall she would take us for a drive, to see leaves, to find a pumpkin, to drink the cider and get apples from a farm in a paper tote.
The heat wave that was the summer of 2010 has given way to cool autumn breezes. On the first crisp morning with leaves blowing down our street, my children brought up the S-word … Santa. My mind was more on school. Each of us are ready, in our own way, to go with the season's change, to say goodbye to summer and welcome autumn. I find I still need to wear the boys out, but now I'm worn out from a long summer of being mommy the cruise director. I wanted an adventure that was not too far from home, sure to be a hit and relatively low out put for the parents.
We've been wanting to visit Chapel Brook Falls in Ashfield all summer. With our local drought, we knew the falls would not be rushing in late August. but we heard the scenery was lovely in any weather. The boys love climbing on furniture and scaling walls. I try to replace the furniture with rocks, mountains and streams as often as I can.
Chapel Brook Falls has three potential attractions. It was a cool day, everyone had been a bit under the weather, so we decided to come back another day to actually climb Pony Mountain, or perhaps enter through the DAR trail in Goshen, which would connect to the falls around the base of Pony Mountain. Saturday's adventure simply was a small hike down to falls and enjoying the cool air, watching individual leaves float down to the forest floor and rocking hopping over the falls. On a hot day, we will return; late September is sure to bring us a streak of a few hot days. We could see where people might use the rock formations as launching points to enter the cool pools.
The boys scrambled from rock to rock. The place was very quiet on such a cool day so we let them practice skipping rocks in the pools and we followed the path downstream quite a ways until we, of course, got hungry and had to reverse course. The sun peaking through the trees made for the magical sort of light that you always picture deep in the forest – not a bad effect for a three minute walk from the parking lot.
If you are new to the area like me, it might help you to know that the walk to the falls is behind the designated parking area. As you park, you are on a roadway bridge. Crossing back over this bridge to the unmarked road on the other side brings the entrance of the falls into view. This may be more apparent when the falls are roaring, but less so when they are a quiet dribble at the tail end of a very dry New England summer. We walked up Pony Mountain to collect our trail maps. The two routes both advertise a short distance, but the ledge trail – in our effort to wear them out, we walked up the mountain a short ways, requires belay equipment. Should you take this hike with your family, you will want to follow the summit trail, and I plan to do just that in the next few weeks. I want to soak in every moment of the slow transition to Autumn.
Karen grew up in Manhattan and lived in Connecticut before moving to Northampton with her husband Matt to raise their boys. Her sons Isaac, Henry and Theo are 11, 6 and 4, leaving Karen on a search for all the "just right adventures" that will wow them and wear them out. She works as a birth doula, childbirth and parent educator in the greater Northampton area. She writes about mothering at Needs New Batteries and about birth in our culture at Gentle Balance Birth.


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Since the dawn of the medium, comic books largely have been the creation of writers and artists working hand-in-hand to produce the characters, stories, titles and universes you follow each week. Recently, however, lawsuits by comic creators against publishers -- and sometimes other creators -- have raised the question of where, when and how a comic is truly created. Are they the product of the writer, with the artist simply tasked to illustrate the story based on instructions laid out in a script or outline? Or is it a communal effort, with writer and artist both providing unique contributions to the creation of the character and setting, each serving as a storyteller in the planning, coordination and draftsmanship of the actual comic pages? In recent years, comics have become a writer-centric medium, for better or worse, but artists continue to play a crucial, if sometimes overlooked, role in the design of characters and transformation of the writer's scripts into, you know, comics.
In an interview with ICv2.com, Howard Chaykin relayed a story about how an unnamed writer views an artist's contribution as "absolutely nothing to do with the creative process in comics." "I am of the belief that the artist does 50 percent of the 'writing' in comic books," said Chaykin, who's worked as a writer and artist for decades. "I think the guy is plum crazy. It staggered me in its limited understanding of what comic books are about."
Some might see this as referencing the ongoing dispute between Jack Kirby's heirs and Marvel over the ownership of characters he created or co-created, but what Chaykin is getting at isn't ownership. He's speaking solely in terms of crediting the writer and artist equally in the creation of the book. He uses another comic currently in the headlines to make his point.
"[Watchmen is] always being referred to as Alan Moore's Watchmen, as if Dave Gibbons had nothing to do with it," he said. "But the sensibility of that book would have been an entirely different experience if someone besides Dave had drawn it, and I don't think that Dave gets near the credit and props he deserves. I think that it is important to acknowledge the fact that comics is a visual narrative medium in which much of the 'writing' is provided by the artist who visualizes the material."
The "who" that Chaykin mentions in calling Watchmen "Alan Moore's" isn't aimed solely at publishers, but at the world at large: creators, press and fans. Think about this: Grant Morrison's All-Star Superman. Is it accurate to attribute the series solely to Morrison and discount artist Frank Quitely? Sure, it might be shorthand to refer only to the writer, but it's an idea that can, and does, get perpetuated to increase the perceived stature of the writer in the work and diminish that of the artist.
I'll admit that sometimes it's not easy to give proper credit to a work. Writers have generally have longer tenures than artists on continuing series, making it difficult to correctly attribute the larger work to a single artist. How would you credit Uncanny X-Men in the 1980s? It's easy to call it "Chris Claremont's Uncanny X-Men" given the number of artists who worked on the book. But honestly, were those artists superfluous, or did they each make contributions that made the work as a whole better?
In most cases, the attribution of a comic solely to the writer isn't made intentionally to overlook the artist. Publishers, fans and the press are each guilty of falling into this trap. Take, for example, this interview with writer Rick Remender about Uncanny X-Force published last week at Comic Book Resources. In the original version of the article, no artist is mentioned nor credited in the captions below the images. In the course of writing this piece I made the CBR editors aware, and they've since corrected it, attributing covers to Jerome Opena and interiors to Mike McKone.
When I asked CBR Executive Producer Jonah Weiland about this situation, he was upfront. "It was simply an oversight," he said. "A mention of the artist absolutely should have been made, and once you brought it to my attention, it was fixed." He went on to say that it's a common problem in the comics press, and CBR has editorial guidelines in place to prevent oversights like this from happening regularly.
"Too often when a comic writer on a comic is interviewed, the focus becomes squarely on him or her. Sometimes, we -- CBR and the comics press in general -- get so wrapped up in what's being said about the story that we forget there's an artist that brings that story to life," he explained. "When we're focusing on a specific storyline, our policy is to always include the name of the artist. This is especially true when we have interior pages for the comic being discussed -- if the artist isn't mentioned in the body of the article, he or she should be mentioned in the captions beneath the artwork. It's part of our editorial guidelines and style guide. Likewise, if an artist is being interviewed, the writer of the book should be mentioned."
Weiland is the first to admit that CBR "sometimes drops the ball on this," and he doesn't want to give excuses. "Giving full and proper credit in our comics coverage is something we constantly strive to be on top of and if we miss it, we appreciate it when our readers point out our oversight," he said. "The contributions artists make with comics is equal to that of writers and we must, as an industry, ensure they're not overlooked or taken for granted.
As I said earlier, it's an easy trap to fall into. Take this press release from Robert Kirkman's Skybound announcing a new Guarding the Globe series. In it, Kirkman is credited as the sole creator of Invincible, Guarding the Globe and other properties when in fact they were co-creations with artists like Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley, among others.
Is it merely an innocent oversight? Surely. Walker is listed as co-creator and co-owner in every Invincible publication since day one, and several previous press releases Skybound and Image have listed Walker as co-creator. I reached out to Skybound, Image Comics and Walker to speak about the press release and the perceived trend, but each gave no comment. I did, however, speak with Image Comics' co-founder Erik Larsen, a vocal proponent of creators' rights, who offered a possible explanation.
"I think it's just a matter of expediency and simplification," he said. "The writers control the properties in most cases. The ideas start with them. It's easier and less cumbersome to say 'Robert Kirkman's Invincible shows up in Buggy Justice #3' than 'Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley's Invincible ...'"
He does admit that in the instance of the press release, and as a general rule, it's not "necessarily the right thing to do."
"The artists are full creators, and I know I do take offense when I see 'Stan Lee's Spider-Man or Stan Lee's Fantastic Four,'" Larsen said. "But I must admit -- I'm as guilty of saying it as anybody, especially given that the writer is frequently my point of contact."
Why are artists most commonly the victim? What if the oversight went in the opposite direction, giving deference to artists in the shorthand attribution: Jack Kirby's Avengers. Cory Walker's Invincible. Steve Ditko's Spider-Man. Remember, this isn't attributing ownership but merely creation.
Regardless of who's credited, the question becomes whether this tendency is even an issue. Some of the people I interviewed argued that it's not, and this is merely an attempt to sensationalize innocent mistakes and lump them together with contested legal issues. But I'd argue that even if these are mole hills rather than mountains, it's still a trend with ramifications. When oversights are published, they can perpetuate the inaccurate crediting of creations that could lead to subsequent readers-turned-writers to carry it forward into their own works. Historians call it "book wheel authority" or the "knowledge cycle," where information is iteratively repeated and passed as fact whether it is incorrect or not. It's the same reason some persistent rumor have been accepted as fact until an actual accurate account of the information is brought forward.
Pulling back from those nebulous questions, artist Cully Hamner posted his own grounded vantage point on the contributions of the artist. Remember, Hamner is the co-creator of the Red miniseries that spawned a hit movie, and he wrote and drew the comic-book sequel. He also redesigned DC Comics' Blue Beetle, for which the publisher has repeatedly given him credit in the character's subsequent appearances.
"Young artists take note: You are doing more than filling a shopping list," Hamner stated, in reference to the Chaykin interview. "It is as much your job to create the story your reader ends up reading as it is the writer's. You are partners."
Hamner directed his quote at the artists, but the tendency to credit writers over artists in the creation of comics is a trend that is carried out, mostly subconsciously, by creators, publishers, press and fans. I'll be the first to admit I'm guilty of it as well: in an interview about Star Wars: Blood Ties – Boba Fett Is Dead for Newsarama, I failed to even bring up artist Chris Scalf. I only realized my mistake while writing this article today; it's a lesson learned and hopefully a lesson I'll remember next time I talk about comics.
To borrow from the principles of the Twelve-Step Program, at the end of the day if we can come together and admit the problem of recognition of artists' contributions to comics, it's the first step to solving the problem.


text: This is urban archeology, with past and current technologies made visible. A large building in Shinjuku is torn down, exposing the back side of the neighboring buildings. It's amazing how haphazard and tenuous the building systems are. There are many wires that seem left-over from earlier times. Also amazing is how the air conditioner below has been squeezed into the crawl space!


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The foundational components of any effective Social Media strategy are authenticity and transparency, especially if blogging and microblogging are part of that strategy.
The power of Social Media comes from the personal brand that is being built by an author, and the benefit a corporate brand derives by having that person engage an audience in the Social Media community.
But what if the real voice and face of your brand is just too busy to participate?
My company has been the online services partner for one of our area's most visible brands for nearly a decade and a half. While they know their brand better than anyone else, we know their brand in the online space as well as, or even better than they do. If they could afford to pay me enough to leave the company I own and be on their payroll, I'm probably the most qualified person to BE them in the Social Media sphere. But they can't, and so we work with them as a vendor.
For blogging, we told them that unless it was actually the corporate face of the brand who's doing the blogging, they really shouldn't do it. A ghost-written blog is not a blog... it's really PR and needs to be renamed as such and moved to the appropriate area of the site. And so we used an integrated installation of WordPress on their site to post their press releases, giving them the RSS benefits of a blog, but clearly labeling it as "The News" and not a blog.
However, as an already popular location on Foursquare, not being on Twitter or Facebook wasn't an option for them. That put me in a weird position. Having developed their Social Media strategy, voice, rules and roles, and needing to accommodate their lack of time and internal resources, we decided to make Twitter a co-effort. Initially, I posted each Tweet, but only after their review and sign off. It was a clumsy process with some of them taking several back and forth edits prior to posting. However, that process resulted in an even better understanding for us, and an educational process for them. Eventually they realized it was just easier for them to post themselves, and a year later, we've gotten them to actually be doing all the Tweeting and Facebooking themselves. We still continue to monitor for brand mentions and let them know when they need to respond to something. But we showed them how to monitor, and they usually are finding things to post or Tweet about just as fast as we would have. We still help them develop Social Media based promotions, and take care of the Web and housekeeping aspects of the strategy, but for the most part, they have become pretty much self sufficient.
It was a difficult path, because initially, it could have been regarded as a violation of the authenticity and transparency that Social Media requires. But the alternative was a brand eroding silence in the Twitter-sphere and on Facebook.
It's a tough decision that many are faced with: outsource or not participate. But because not participating is not an option, this creative approach may be the only solution available.
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If the masks hanging from the wall could talk, they would tell stories of medical miracles and lifelong relationships.
Each mask comes from a different place across the globe where Capt. William E. Todd offered his medical expertise to people who had no way of getting the help they needed.
The executive officer at Jacksonville Naval Hospital keeps the colorful masks in his office to remind him of all the lives he's touched over the years outside the building, adding to the collection each time he returns from a new location.
"Every single one of these missions has left an indelible impression on me," Todd said, remembering stories from six humanitarian deployments to 17 different countries.
Right now there are about 60 members of his staff deployed to help new people and build new relationships as part of Continuing Promise 2017 (CP-17). Todd said each one of them will return to Jacksonville with a new outlook on the world of medicine and life in general after helping people in Colombia, Guatemala and Honduras.
"When I get back, I'm definitely not going to take things for granted," said hospital corpsman Kraylor Kirk-Johnson, who is based in Jacksonville and has been in the Navy for just over a year.
He said learning what people go through to get what he considers routine medical treatment has really humbled him.
For Kirk-Johnson, seeing the faces of children after they've been helped is the most rewarding thing he's experienced in his short time in the Navy.
Overall there are about 170 people on the team from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps combined who work together to set up temporary facilities and treat patients. Long lines of men, women and children are treated each day.
Todd served as a planner on CP-17, which meant traveling to the countries as part of the advance team months before the others left the Unites States to administer treatment.
He said the main goal of that team is to build relationships with local doctors, politicians and citizens to pinpoint exactly what medical needs are most necessary.
"I can't express enough that it is the relationships that matter most," Todd said.
He said interacting with civilian doctors and patients is a great way for the military doctors to learn new ways of treating people when ideal medical facilities are not available. Those lessons transfer to real-life situations in combat, Todd said.
"We learn a lot from them, and they learn a lot from us," he said.
Since USNS Spearhead left Mayport Naval Station on Jan. 26, the staff on board has conducted a combined 12,909 patient encounters in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, and Trujillo, Honduras, with one more stop to go in Mayapo, Colombia.
Those numbers include 3,657 dental; 3,417 adult medicine; 2,013 pediatric; 1,625 optometric; 669 gynecological; 519 dermatological and 435 physical therapy visits. Veterinarians have also treated about 1,500 animals during the mission.
Lt. Cmdr. Robert Lennon, a family medicine physician at Jacksonville Naval Hospital, is the medical site officer in charge for CP-17. He said while it's very important to provide immediate relief for people who are suffering, it's also important to teach people how to prevent serious health issues before they get started.
Lessons on brushing teeth or basic hygiene can stop the more serious problems later in life, Lennon said.
"There was one school where half the kids had never seen a toothbrush," he said.
But one little girl in Honduras needed much more than a toothbrush.
Lennon said Consuala Mirandez is just old enough to attend school, but when other children started bullying her and making fun of a large tumor on her nose, she wanted to stop going. Her father was worried she would never get married and her mother didn't know what to do, Lennon said.
"In her community having any physical deformity you become an outcast," Lennon said.
The girl took a four-hour bus ride with her mother to wait in line for help and was eventually diagnosed with a 2-centimeter pyogenic granuloma. They determined the tumor would continue to grow if it wasn't removed.
Lt. Cmdr. Lesley Hawley, a dermatologist on the CP-17 staff, removed the growth for the little girl. The interaction afterward will be burned in Lennon's memory forever.
"I got to see the hug," he said of the embrace between Hawley and Consuala.
Seeing the initial reaction from patients is powerful, but sometimes returning to some of those places can be even more emotional, Todd said.
He deployed to Haiti in 2010 to help after a devastating earthquake hit the country. He returned as part of Continuing Promise 2015 and reconnected with several people who were on his operating table just five years earlier.
People who required surgery or whose limbs were amputated on the first visit remembered him when he came back. But one child did not.
That child was just 5 years old in 2015, and Todd said he stood on a pier with the boy and his mother. The woman pointed to the hospital ship anchored in the ocean and told the child he was born on board.
"These relationships you build over time are absolutely priceless," Todd said.
The child would have never survived if the ship wasn't there, and his mother may have died in childbirth due to the post-earthquake conditions on the island.
There's a mask on his wall that reminds Todd of Haiti and the little boy that was born on the ship.
He said he's excited to hear about similar stories when members of his staff return from CP-17.


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I have pain under my lower left rib cage in front and middle left back. I have some swelling in the front. It's a stabbing pain that feels like I've been impaled.
I went to the emergency room when it got really bad and they admitted me. 3 blood tests, x-rays, ct scans, ultrasound, and another test involving radioactive dye and an hour under a machine finally told doctors that all of my digestive tree was working fine.
The whole time i'm telling them, "It's further up". and the docs kept insisting the galbladder. I'm glad they ran the tests to rule it out, but next I go to an upper GI scope and then to a specialist. It feels too far up to be GI and my white blood cell count is high as well as some liver enzymes, yet nothing dangerous.
I'm beginning to think they think I'm crazy. Nothing seems to touch this pain. Anything I do with my left side including walking magnifies it considerably. When in the hospital they tried morphine, phentanyl, and demerol. Nothing even began to help. I made them stop as I'd rather be awake during testing.
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Since investigations like CT scans, Ultrasound and the HIDA scan (to check for Gall bladder function) have been normal, they have ruled out conditions like Hepatitis, Gallstones and related issues.
Hence the only issue here would be conditions like gastritis or Peptic ulcer disease.
Gastritis pain occurs in the left upper portion of the abdomen and in the back. Other symptoms of gastritis include - Belching, Nausea and vomiting, âââââBloating, Feeling of fullness or burning in the upper part of the belly.
âOnce you undergo tests including upper GI endoscopy, your underlying issue will be diagnosed, allowing proper treatment measures to be initiated.
In the mean time taking antacids (Mylanta, Tums ,Gelusil) and Acid reducing medications (Prevacid, Nexium) should help reducing symptoms.
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Day 13 – The Final Farewell
January 28, 2012
I am sitting in the Chicago airport as I write this. I just could not bring myself to write a goodbye to Midway Atoll on Midway Atoll. I almost cannot remember what I did that day (and "that day" seems so long ago even though it was only two days ago); it is all a blur of not wanting to leave and missing Midway before I was even gone.
I know my last day consisted of walking on the beach one last time, of saying goodbye to the monk seals and sea turtles, the white sand beaches and crystal blue water, every last one of the albatross.
By now, all of these things are familiar to me. I had no idea what was in store for me before I came to Midway, but now I know. Midway is a place of wonder, a place of success and a place of struggle. We saw conservation in action at all levels and witnessed what happens when three separate government agencies attempt to work together for the greater good of the environment. We saw what happens when history coincides with environmental needs and managers have to determine which side wins.
Everyday, I woke up to the sounds of Albatross dancing, walked the dirt roads around the island witnessing the remnants of a historic battle, walked the beach and saw the effects of people miles upon miles away as the beautiful turquoise waves rolled in and the monk seals lazily snoozed on the white sand. I saw the dedication of people working far from home to protect what they believe in, an atoll with character and personality that would waste away without their help.
Midway's issues are the issues that we, as Nicholas School students, will face in the very near future. They are the issues talked about in class as well as issues we never could have imagined before witnessing Midway. Either way, after this experience, we are much better prepared.
This class in Midway is one of the most expensive travel courses the Nicholas School offers. But was it worth it? Every penny. I networked, I surveyed, I discussed, I thought, I felt and now I am ready to act.
Classes can only take you so far. Professors share their experiences in hopes to convey to you the knowledge you need to survive in our field of work. But you never really know until you are there, until you have those experiences yourself, because you never know how you will react until you are put in a specific situation.
The birds, seals, turtles, fish, people and issues won over my heart. I struggle to write this because it is difficult to put into words how Midway makes you feel. And that is also one of the issues Midway faces: how to convey to people that have not been there why we should work so hard to save it.
Before leaving Honolulu for Midway, a previous student told us that Midway had changed her. At the time, that statement simply got me even more excited for the trip – which I did not even know was possible. Today, I realize the full extent of what she meant.
Midway changes you. Obviously, we are all passionate about environmental conservation (otherwise, we would not be in this degree); however, Midway instills a deeper passion. So often we hear of the failures of conservation, of the hard work and seemingly impossible job we have in front of us. Midway is a living example of success, giving us hope and telling us not all is in vain.
Back on the mainland, I sit in Starbucks sipping coffee that is definitely higher quality than what is on Midway but still tastes bitter because I am not drinking it while looking out over the vast Pacific. I listen to music that does not compare to the melodies of the birds. My scratches, a testament to the planting and work I put into the island, are already fading. I write in hopes to convey the sense of amazement I felt on Midway. Just read the class blog if you need more testimony.
I do not know what my future holds. As I work towards graduation and the prospect of getting a job, only one thing is certain. I will always have Midway and I will be a better environmental manager because of this experience.
As always, check out the class blog for more pictures and such. I am putting my pictures up on Facebook as well.


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At the Krusty Krab, the customers start to form a big riot because Squidward is not at his post, so Mr. Krabs asks SpongeBob where he is and he says that is he is in the storage room doing something that requires "complete privacy." Then, they hear a thud coming from the storage room, and find Squidward, who has twisted his ankle, in a pile of buns. After Squidward explains what happened, Mr. Krabs realizes that it means he has to pay a fine to OWS. Squidward then sees it as an opportunity to blackmail Mr. Krabs unless he becomes his slave until he recovers. First Mr. Krabs fluffs a pillow for him and takes over for him. Meanwhile, SpongeBob and Patrick secretly investigate the accident to find out if he is lying about his twisted ankle, but they cannot figure anything out. Meanwhile, Squidward is seen on the roof while Mr. Krabs brings him tea. Then he is forced to massage Squidward's ankle with fry grease. But when a customer orders something, he cooks a patty with his greasy hand and gets the customer sick. And when he is forced to pop Squidward's back barnacles, the customers leave. Then an agent from the OWS comes to the Krusty Krab to investigate, then is revealed that SpongeBob called him. Squidward then lies about how he was hurt, saying that he saw ten instead of eleven seeds on a bun, causing him to snatch it and try to replace it with a new one, when the shelf broke and hit him in the head. When the OWS Agent is about to fine Mr. Krabs, he remembers the Surveillance Camera he installed. When everyone watches the video, Squidward was shown sleeping on the shelf, weighing it down, and causing the chain to snap, meaning the whole time he was lying. Then, Mr. Krabs becomes very angry and makes Squidward pay. The episode ends with Squidward popping Mr. Krabs's back barnacles.
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Stockton, CA
April 22, 1932 - July 21, 2007
Patricia Anne Scott passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on Saturday, July 21, 2007.
Born and raised in San Francisco, she lived in Fremont for 22 years and then moved to Stockton, where she lived until her passing. She was an avid reader, loved to garden and travel and most importantly, loved to spend time with her family.
Survived by her loving and caring husband of 24 years, Ronald William Scott and sister, Diane Marie Worrall. Loving mother to Steve, Kevin, Lisa and Sean and spouses. Survived by step children, Russell, Randy, Linda, and Jeannette and spouses. Loving grandmother to 12 beautiful grandchildren and — loving nieces, Dana, Denise, and Darlene.
Celebration of Life services will take place on Saturday, July 28, 2007, 1100 a.m. at the First Baptist Church located at 1545 1st Street in Lincoln, CA.
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The Dermaplus Esthetician's are here to tell you all about our homecare routines!
You have seen them posted on our Instagram…and now by popular demand, we have put all the routine's together in one easy to read Blog!
Its Lizzy!👋🏼"What products do you use?", is one of the most popular questions I get asked by my clients"…so I would love to share my routine as well!🌼
🔆Morning: I wash my face with J. Sabatelli Organic Cleanser, the small beads in it help to smooth out my dry skin. I follow with DP Hydrating Toner to balance my PH and give my skin tons of hydration. In the morning I switch between using DP Calm to soothe redness and Cplex as my antioxidant serum. I complete my routine with DP Moisturizer and SPF if necessary!
💤Evening: I cleanse with J. Sabatelli and follow with DP Salicylic Toner whenever I'm breaking out. I use Alpha Beta X a few times a week for a deeper exfoliation. I end my routine with DP Moisturizer, Vitamin K Eye Cream and sometimes top with DP Skin Oil if I need some extra rich moisture!
🌱I take probiotics daily from our Nurse/Nutrition Consultant Nancy. These tend to help prevent breakouts around my chin!
Elaine here, and I'm here to share a little bit about my home care routine!📝
🔆In the morning: I use the DP Chamomile Cleanser and twice a week I will rotate in the Exfoliating Cleanser. I use DP Vitamin C everyday to lighten my skin and to prevent the hyper-pigmentation from getting darker and follow that with the Hydrator and Vitamin K Eye Cream. When I know I will be outdoors, I apply my final layer of skincare product with our SPF gel 30!
💤In the evening: I cleanse and then I will alternate the DP Salicylic Toner when I am not using Retin A. I have been using .5 Retin A from our Nurse Nancy, to help brighten my skin and fade pigment, I apply this nightly 4x a week. I follow this with Hydrator and Eye Cream. A fun trick I do once a week for extra hydration is use DP recovery Gel mask as an overnight moisturizing mask!
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The director of Hero remake, Nikhil Advani, who is proceeding with his upcoming film co-produced by Salman Khan said that he is not able to direct Sallu. According to him, the primary reason is about not being able to cope up with the box office pressure which Salman's films attract.
Salman Khan and Nikhil Advani have once done a film together. They teamed up for Salaam-e-Ishq, in which Nikhil directed Salman. But as of now, he doesn't want to direct him again soon.
"Salman is after 'Baahubali' (SS Rajamouli's latest release has reportedly garnered over Rs 200 crore in one week) which has done so well, he now wants Rs 500 crore film. I don't want that much pressure. I started my production company with 'D Day' and I co-produced 'Hero', 'Katti Batti' and 'Airlift' which has got Akshay Kumar. I want to make nice simple films," Nikhil Advani told PTI in an interview.
While being tried to get his real answer for saying to able to direct Salman again. He may have spoken his real reason(s). Nikhil was asked about Salman's tantrums, that if it is the real reason which make him doubtful of directing him in any film or not. To this he admitted that, those are a part of the big game.
"I have done a film with Salman. I have worked with Shah Rukh, Rishi Kapoor, Hrithik, Akshay Kumar. If there are no tantrums then you are not going to see their films. They are stars because they have tantrums and it is part of the game," he said.
The director, Nikhil Advani (Kal Ho Na Ho fame) said that Salman Khan asked him to direct Hero remake on the basis of the direction of D-Day.
Hero originally released in 1983 starring Jackie Shroff and Meenakshi Sheshadri. It was directed by veteran director Subhash Ghai and was declared a hit of its time.
"He has liked my work in 'D Day' and I am happy that Salman is producing 'Hero'. Actually he chooses his director.. we don't chose him," Nikhil said.
The two new actors are making their debut with this film. They are none other than- Sooraj (son of Aditya Pancholi) and Athiya (daughter of Suniel Shetty.
"Athiya and Sooraj are very good. Athiya's trademark is her confidence while Sooraj's is his honesty and his ability to connect. I think he is the most genuine human being you can ever meet. He has been through a very tough time it is a big day for him," Nikhil said.
The film is slated to release on September 11, 2015.


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Sandton, South Africa, Africa
Mid Career (2+ years of experience)
Full time
R17,000 p/m
Bookkeeper – Sandton
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- Solid experience on Pastel & Pastel Express
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- Honest
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- Valid driver's licence and own vehicle
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Thursday, August 20, 2015
Bonjour Paris!
Paris truly is for lovers. Lovers of romance, art, architecture and fashion. I was awe- struck when I first arrived to Paris. The laid back locals and the effortless fashion was unimaginable.
If I wasn't so consumed with the culture, I would have taken more pictures. But, it was incredible. I attended some random Samba party with a bunch of brazilians in the middle of Paris (def not something I was expecting). I also met a DJ and his friends who introduced to music that I never knew I needed until now.
Tip: once again... it's all about the shoes. Paris is so large and the subway system is extensive. If you're planning on doing as much sight-seeing as I did you will want shoes that won't create blisters on your feet, but also look stylish and effortless (think cute flats or sandals in spring, boots in fall).


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I haven't updated in over a week. No news is good news on the base building front though. The last month has been 55-60 mile weeks. A few runs where I felt I got off my plateau of boring ass 7:0Xmm pace.
I did a random 12 miler last week. I had no pace in mind. I wanted to chillax. But half way to my run in the car I had this POSSESSED feeling come over me. Like I had to had to lay out some good miles. Like the Nike gods where yelling down at me: you better run! I ended up running 6:50 and pace not really pushing it. That was the sweet part! I took a self picture to document the possession:
|No vanity here. I just woke up..I am crazy for posting this. oy
|ok I feel pretty and not so psycho. Phew!
okay, back to running....yes.
I have added hills again. Probably half my runs are with 450ft+ of elevation. I did a 2 a day as well last week. It was fun. I haven't felt too tired or beat up lately. I am getting a little more serious as January approaches and I will have a training schedule again. The fire is coming back. I haven't wanted it for a while but as I am improving slowly my competitive side is creeping in. Yay for that!
On the ab ripper/bosu ball front. I'm still doing abs maybe 5 times a week. Mostly on the bosu. Still same old crap. I have a feeling diet would rip me up a little more but I don't care enough. I think if I reduced my carbs my running would suffer.
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So my goal is still a May marathon. I haven't committed to anything yet. I have issues with race registration. I'm a race day type of girl but I'm learning that doesn't fly in the marathon world.
On one more random note here is my yearly mileage to date. Which includes 2 months off for that stress fracture.


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Pure has launched an update to its Contour radio/speaker
dock but instead of adding new features, it's decided to strip down the size
and functions – but more importantly, also the price.
The Pure Contour 100Di is the baby brother of the Pure Contour
we looked at earlier this year but as well as reducing its size, it has reduced
its price to just £99 – down from around £190 on the larger model.
However the reduced price means that you don't get a
fully-fledged internet radio, with only DAB and FM available. But Pure is quick
to point out that with an iPod, iPhone and now iPad connected and Pure's
Lounge App downloaded (or any other iOS internet radio app we presume), you get
exactly the same functionality.
It has retained the same styling as the original but has also added physical navigation buttons on the top of the speaker, replacing the rather fiddly touch buttons of the first Contour.
Pure has also tweaked the retracable dock itself and it now resembles
one of those car ashtrays you press on one side to make it appear. On initial
use, the action seems very good and much neater than the docking mechanism on
the original.
Because of the lack of an inbuilt internet radio, the
interface has also been stripped down, which is no bad thing. Of course, with reduced size,
comes reduced power and the 36W power output of the original has been whittled down
to just 20W.
The Pure Contour 100Di is now available from Amazon for £99.99. We've just got one of these into our labs and will be bringing you a full review very soon, but for now, let us know in the comments what you think of this slimmed-down Contour.


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Essay: The wrestle for linguistic equity
Essay: The wrestle for linguistic equity
Indonesian academics are dealing with a troublesome, unprecedented problem: They can be obliged and in many cases hard-pressed by their establishments to publish their composing inside the English language in top-tier intercontinental journals, lest they'll neither be promoted into a larger academic rank nor get and luxuriate in their teacher-certification allowances. Hence, the decision to chorus from educational publication has high-stakes repercussions. Through imposing institutional pressures of the kind, regional universities are competing to get recognition equally domestically and internationally. The quantity of personnel publications as well as the citation indexes of their published posts help perform a major role in deciding the status of the college.
At a countrywide degree, for illustration, publication and quotation indexes have now come to be essential criteria utilized because of the federal government to judge and provide grants for any college. The greater awareness is generated (by way of academic publication) through the teaching team, the larger the chances of a university getting funded, along with the much more likely it can be to become awarded a leading label. In recent years, the international academic publishing business has found a surge within the variety of non-native English speakers wishing to obtain their articles revealed because of the industry?s powerhouses, which can be dominated from the United states. However, the essential to jot down and publish in English poses its have obstacles, as this involves a tight gatekeeping apply. For Indonesian students particularly, the issues are indeed multifaceted and convoluted. Nonetheless, local scholars? deficiency of linguistic proficiency appears to have constituted a major barrier.
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This is since English tutorial crafting is really a really particular self-discipline that needs to be obtained via a long time of schooling as an alternative to via intensive spoken interaction with native speakers of English. It really is on account of this linguistic impediment which the presence of literacy brokers is badly named for. These are typically qualified and well-trained teachers (both indigenous or non-native speakers of English) who offer linguistic guidance as proofreaders and translators to people who will need their companies.
Quite apparently, concomitant along with the government?s publish-or-perish policy, language brokers – the bulk of whom are nearby specialists – are mushrooming, supplying their expert services to beginner researchers and scholar writers that are under pressure to publish in global fora. These are now in significant desire. As regional teachers are combating their linguistic inadequacy, which hampers their academic crafting procedures, literacy brokers are desired to help them to attain linguistic fairness. It really is not unheard of to seek out their submitted posts turned down by journal editors resulting from language-related problems.
More than that, literacy brokers tend to be desired, with the belief that by virtue of their publishing practical experience they are able to enable even senior scientists get their work posted in prestigious international journals. Even though their hopes are substantial just after remaining trained by literacy brokers, the quantity of area scholars? publications is still far down below that of other countries which do not need English as an official language, these types of as Vietnam and Thailand.
Clearly, the attainment of linguistic fairness is barely 1 criterion for effective publishing techniques. The prowess to regulate oneself to recognized academic crafting conventions, the dexterity to fulfill the educational community?s expectations, the willingness to keep abreast with new insights from scholarly literature along with the ability to frame well-designed study are undoubtedly other pinpointing things really worth thinking about.
A colleague of mine puzzled why, following participating in a lot of tutorial crafting workshops offered by a neighborhood literacy broker, she nonetheless uncovered it tough to compose in an academic sign-up, enable by itself publish her operate in an global journal.
Her main trouble, mainly because it turned out, was not that she lacked resourceful ideas to pen into a scholarly write-up, but somewhat she was unfamiliar together with the anticipated texture of academic prose. Basically, she experienced not nonetheless formulated entire charge of the founded conventions of educational creating.
While intercontinental publishing industries now acknowledge and worth the heterogeneity of voices international students provide with them inside the strategy of understanding creation, literacy brokers should purpose not entirely that will help regional academics attain linguistic fairness and unleash them from language stigmatization perpetuated through the journals? gatekeepers. Neither need to they simply just assist build an awareness on the established rhetorical conference of academic composing tactics. The worldwide recognition of multilingualism during the educational publishing field evidently indicates that initiatives to get acceptance for worldwide publications transcend the attainment of linguistic fairness in addition to the conformity to rigid conventions.
Academic writing methods are not an autonomous or monolithic entity. Along with the rising numbers of multilingual scholars properly publishing within the mainstream journals dominated via the Western countries, these practices are starting to be inclusive and egalitarian, acknowledging the truth that understanding manufacturing is really a follow that is definitely formed by multilingual scholars? linguistic, social, ideological, political and cultural backgrounds. It really is this orientation that community literacy brokers miss, or most likely overlook, inside their painstaking initiatives that can help regional academics to publish.
And maybe it truly is this lacking variable that contributes into the pervasive perception amongst nearby scholars that non-native English writers like them in many cases are stigmatized in terms of academic language proficiency anytime they try to publish their posts in mainstream educational journals. Instead of merely exhort nearby teachers to one-sidedly adjust to the prevailing conventions, literacy brokers need to support craft their texts and negotiate attainable textual tensions that might arise by virtue on the writers? rhetorical custom and cultural values. In carrying out so, they implant in them a important mind-set that respects the importance of retaining one?s very own voices and authorial self in knowledge creation.