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Krössinsee (Pomerania), August 1939
In a kind of immense field opening up in the dense and unbroken mass of the Nordic forest, against the backdrop of the metallic colors of two large lakes, under a sky made particularly lofty by this constant horizontality and straightness, which, so to speak, constitutes the style of this Pomeranian landscape, stands a group of buildings. They are a singular mixture of the primordial, the archaic, and the modern. Read more …


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Tour of Rome
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One of the most immediately recognizable historic buildings in the world, and is a "must see" tourist attraction for visitors to Rome. This being the case, it can become very busy during peak times. The Colosseum is located at the foot of Mussolini's Via dei Fori Imperiali, opposite the Colosseo Metro station. The Colosseum, with originally about eighty entrances, was designed to hold approximately 50,000 spectators. The entrances were numbered, and some of the the Roman numerals above the entrances are still visible. The Roman emperor Vespasian started to build the amphitheatre in 72 A.D. although he died before its completion. It was still not fully finished, when it was opened by Vespasian's son Titus in 80 A.D. with games that lasted for 100 days. The works were eventually completed by Titus's brother, Domitian.
The entrances were marked by giant porticoes, over which were gilded horsedrawn chariots. The emperor had his own private entrance, which led under the seats, emerging in the imperial box. Spectators found their way to their seats through numbered arches, although the four main entrances were not numbered. The best seats were on or just behind the podium, located two meters above the arena. The amphitheatre is a vast ellipse with tiers of seating, around a central elliptical arena. The arena itself had a wooden floor, below which was a complex of storage rooms and passageways. Eighty walls radiate from the arena and support vaults for passageways, stairways and the tiers of seats. Around the outer edge, there are arcades and stairways linking each level.
The partial destruction of the Colosseum allows us a view of the basement area of the arena. This was not part of the original design and so was not present when the Colosseum opened, but was added later during the rule of Domitian who was emperor between 81 to 96 A.D. In this confined space, a range of animals, fighters, slaves and stagehands worked in almost total darkness. A series of winches and the capstans would have allowed teams of slaves to hoist heavy objects from the basement to the main arena. Marks from the ropes are still visible in the stone lift-shafts.
The Colosseum's exterior is created by three storey's of superimposed arches with semi-circular columns. The design of the columns differ on each storey, with Tuscan at the bottom, then above that, Ionic, with Corinthian style columns on the third storey. The higher fourth storey has pilasters decorated with Corinthian capitals. In between the pilasters, are small rectangular windows, above and between the windows are stone plinths, which once held the masts used to support the awnings, which were installed to help produce shade for some of the spectators. If you look upwards, you can still see the holes through which these vertical masts slotted. The construction was a combination of, concrete for the foundations, travertine for the piers and arcades, the lower two levels had for the walls, tufa infill between the piers. Brick faced concrete was used for the upper levels and for most of the vaults.


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As first reported by Rodrigo Perez of The Playlist on Indiewire, the third installment to the "28 Days" zombie franchise is a go.
Not many details have been revealed about the film, which is speculatively titled "28 Months Later," other than Alex Garland has written the concept for the upcoming feature script.
Garland sat down with Perez and provided a few details about the timelines leading up to this announcement, as well as his own thoughts on the project, particularly on the prospect of doing sequels in general.
"I don't want to sound overly judgmental about it, because it's very easy to get precious about this stuff," Garland told Indiewire. "I don't feel that way about, but the thing of expecting and needing more of something, has it's own built-in issues, I think. Because most stories don't stand up to being repeated."
Garland's thoughts on sequels matter because, even though he's been loosely attached to one ("28 Weeks Later") as an executive producer, he sees it as something that his audience demands. But he also sees it as something that studios demand, since the hype for the project is so high at the end of a film's run.
"Sequels are generally done in a rush. It's done with a sense of urgency," Garland said. "The first movie, you spend a long time developing to get it over the line. The second thing, you don't. Your expectations are different and your motivations are different."
But in the case of doing another sequel for "28 Days," he said he had come up with a concept that basically gives the story a new arc. He also he does not want to play a more involved role in the film's production.
"About two years ago, [director] Danny [Boyle] started collaborating on the potential to make 'Trainspotting 2,' another sequel," Garland told Indiewire.
"In that conversation, an idea for '28 Months' arrived. I had a sort of weird idea that popped into my head. Partly because of a trip I'd taken. I had this thought, and I suggested it to [producer] Andrew [McDonald] and Danny, but I also said I don't want to work on it. I don't really want to play a role, and Andrew said, 'Leave it to me.' So he's gone off and is working on it."
Cinema Blend reports that "28 Days Later" was Garland's first screenplay, which has already earned back nearly twice its production budget. The film was low-budget to start with, but thrilled audiences and gained a cult-like following within the horror genre.


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Many escape to the mountain town of Julian to "just get away from it all" and enjoy the crisp, clear air at 4,000'. Others make it a point to hit Julian in the fall for the big Apple Festival and a bigger slice of fresh apple pie.
Still others can't wait until spring, in particular, this weekend when the new season arrives and little yellow and while flowers become the talk of the town.
It is the annual Julian Daffodil Festival, from noon to 5 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday. And, while there will be different categories of blooms being judged inside City Hall and the Blue Heron Garden Shop on Third Street, you'll have a hard time not seeing a bed of daffodils no matter what direction you look.
It's sort of "unofficially" become the small town's official flower. In fact, the townspeople claim they've planted some 3 million daffodils around town and they're all blooming right now.
So, enjoy the flowers and yes, even though autumn is still 6 months away, you won't have any trouble finding a big slice of apple pie too.
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When beginning a new regimen, it is always a good idea to check with your physician or pharmacist and start with one or two supplements to ensure they have a positive effect on your body. Our nutrition experts at Hoye's are always happy to help you make the best selection for your specific needs.
What nutrition supplements are available on the market?
Tons! From vitamins to protein powders, minerals, amino acids, herbs or supplements – there are many to choose from. Nutrition supplements can be purchased separately, such as Vitamin A, C or E, or in combination – which could be a blend of vitamins or other ingredients. Nutrition supplements can be found in capsule, tablet, liquid, sublingual sprays and powder forms.
There are nationally recognized quality standards for dietary supplements to help ensure their identity, purity, strength, and composition. The grade of supplement, form, purity, bioavailability and third party verification are very important in determining the quality of the nutrition supplement.
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Medical grade vitamins are also a high-grade quality vitamin, although they may not meet all of the standards of pharmaceutical grade vitamins and may or may not be tested by an outside party.
Nutritional grade supplements are typically sold in health food stores. These supplements might not always be tested for absorption, dissolution or purity and may not contain exactly what is listed on their labels.
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Proven Methods for Female Hormone Assessment
BioHealth offers specialty profiling for women and their unique hormone balancing concerns.
Using reliable and proven salivary assays (and thermal protection of your patients' valuable samples), we produce critical data for women in every stage of life.
Premenopause, perimenopause, and menopausal dynamics are evaluated to help with common health concerns, including:
- Irregular menstruation
- Inconsistent menstrual cycles
- Infertility
- Mood swings
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Weight gain/loss
Assessing Female Hormones: Which Test to Run?
BioHealth provides the following test panels:
Choosing the Right Tests
To determine which sex hormone test is most appropriate for your female patients, you have to know some basic information regarding their cycles. You will need to know if they are perimenopausal or in menopause, if they have regular or irregular cycles, what the typical cycle length is each month and what symptoms they may have during their cycle.
It is important not to get the "cycle length" confused with the "duration of menses." The cycle length is the number of days between the first day of menses in one cycle and the first day of menses in the next cycle. The duration of menses is the number of days there is a menstrual flow. Day one of the cycle is the first day of menses so any test that requires the patient to collect samples on specific days of their cycle will need to know when to start counting.
Premenopause Hormone Profile #208
Up to 17 salivary samples are taken every other day starting on day two of the cycle giving a total of 17 measurements of estradiol and progesterone. Two measurements of testosterone are taken on days 10 and 18 of the cycle. The extended profile is appropriate for women who are premenopausal or perimenopausal. This test is appropriate for perimenopausal women who are still having regular cycles but present with signs and symptoms of progesterone deficiency likely due to anovulatory (without ovulation) cycles. This test would be appropriate for women who have fertility issues, PMS, heavy menses, symptoms of progesterone deficiency and perimenopause and other associated symptoms that recur with each cycle.
Irregular cycles – If a woman has irregular cycles, the onset of menses is difficult to predict so the collecting salivary samples at any time in the extended cycle may be the best option. The timing of events within the cycle may not correlate on the graph on the lab result but we can still identify where key events are occurring within the cycle. If the irregular cycles tend to be very long, doing two Premenopause Hormone Profiles, one after the other, would allow the clinician to see if cycles are occurring within a broader time frame.
Female Hormone Profile #209 and #209E (w/Estrone)
The #209 includes a single salivary measurement of estradiol, estriol, DHEA-S, testosterone, and progesterone. The #209E includes an additional measurement of estrone. This test can be used to do a single measurement of each of these hormones in one day. Hormones fluctuate in both premenopause and perimenopause. These fluctuations are part of a normal cycle in the premenopausal woman. In perimenopause, hormone fluctuations can be more erratic with estrogen reaching highs and lows in no predictable pattern and progesterone dropping off significantly as a woman approaches menopause.
If doing a single measurement of hormones, it is best to choose the day of the cycle that will give the most information regarding output, timing and distribution. In the premenopausal woman, collections should be done on day 19, 20 or 21 of the cycle. This time frame correlates with the middle of the luteal phase of the cycle when progesterone should be peaking. Estrogen should also be rising after the post-ovulatory drop.
Taking a single salivary sample to measure hormones within a fluctuating cycle is like taking a snapshot of a moving picture. We need to pick the day that will give us the best information about hormone output. One of the most important aspects of the premenopausal and perimenopausal cycle is the progesterone to estrogen ratio. Many of the complaints that women have regarding their menstrual cycle are related to an imbalance between these two hormones. Taking samples during the mid-luteal phase (day 19, 20 or 21) will give us the best feedback regarding the ratio of estrogen and progesterone.
The #209 without the estrone can also be used to assess sex hormones in males. Both men and women produce all sex hormones and male and female reference ranges are provided on the test results.
Monitoring Hormone Replacement Therapy
Women – The #209 can be used to monitor hormone replacement therapy in premenopausal, perimenopausal and postmenopausal women. In premenopausal and perimenopausal women doing progesterone augmentation, samples need to be collected on days 19, 20 or 21 of the menstrual cycle. If using topical or sublingual progesterone, it is recommended that the progesterone be stopped 48-72 hours prior to saliva collection to avoid contamination of the sample or falsely elevated readings. If taking oral micronized progesterone, allow 24 hours to pass from the last dosage before doing saliva collections.
In postmenopausal women, samples can be collected any time. However, the rules for collection vary depending on the type of hormones being used. If using a topical or sublingual product, it is recommended to stop the hormones for 48-72 hours prior to saliva collection to avoid contamination or falsely elevated readings. If using and oral micronized version of progesterone, allow 24 hours to pass from the last dosage before collecting saliva sample.
Men – The #209D test can also be used in men who are on testosterone and/or progesterone therapy. Samples can be collected any time as collections are not related to a cycle. If using a topical formula, dosing should be stopped 48-72 hours prior to saliva collection to avoid contamination of the sample or falsely elevated readings. If doing injections, levels tend to peak within 2-7 days after the injection so it is best to test levels between days 10-14 when testosterone levels out.
HPA Stress Profiles with Sex Hormones (#205/205E and CAR Variations)
The #205 and its variations are the most popular tests as they include diurnal cortisol and/or cortisol awakening response (CAR), DHEA-S, estradiol, estriol, progesterone, testosterone and melatonin. This test is an appropriate screening tool for both men and women who need to assess HPA function as well as sex hormones and melatonin. For women, the timing of collections should be the same as in the recommendations for the #209. For men, collections can occur at any time.
Collection Matrix for Female Hormone Testing
|#205A/#205AE (Optional CAR)
|Test Description
|Single measurement of estradiol, progesterone, DHEA-S and testosterone (am), E=Estrone
|HPA Stress Profile + Single estradiol, estriol, progesterone, testosterone, melatonin
|Estradiol (17) Progesterone (17) Testosterone (2) Cycle length 25-34 days; collection day 2 thru 34
|Best measured in the luteal phase; days 19, 20 or 21 of the cycle
|Best measured in the luteal phase; days 19, 20 or 21 of the cycle
|Regular to longer cycle, determine ovulation and level of progesterone: estrogen ratio
|Best measured in the luteal phase; days 19, 20 or 21 of the cycle for accurate progesterone level
|Best measured in the luteal phase: days 19, 20 or 21 of the cycle for accurate progesterone level
|Regular to longer cycle, determine ovulation, estradiol and progesterone output
|No cycle; samples can be taken anytime; monitor HRT
|No cycle; samples can be taken anytime; monitor HRT
|Irregular Cycles (see above)
|Wait for cycle then collect on day 19, 20 or 21 of cycle OR collect anytime
|Wait for cycle then collect on day 19, 20 or 21 of cycle OR collect anytime
|Wait for cycle then start collections on day 2 OR collect anytime and complete all collections
|Short Cycles
|Collect on day 19, 20 or 21; need to check progesterone in mid-luteal phase
|Collect on day 19,20 or 21; need to check progesterone in mid-luteal phase
|Test collections can occur at any time (#209D)
|Test collections can occur at any time (#205A)
|Monitoring Hormone Replacement Therapy – Women
|Premenopausal and Perimenopausal woman: Day 19, 20 or 21 of cyclePostmenopausal woman: collect samples any time if dosing of hormones is the same everyday.*
|Monitoring Hormone Replacement Therapy – Men
|Collect samples any time*
*Refer above to the specifics on saliva collections for those who are supplementing hormones.


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While waiting for the bus today on my front lawn, my two younger kids decided to make snow angels. "Snow angels?" My eldest scoffed. "It's summer!" Nevertheless, they lay down on their backs, giggling all the while, and indeed made the motions for creating snow angels. Did they see anything visual? Nope. Did they have a blast and work on increasing their motor planning, sensory registration, and bilateral upper and lower extremity coordination ( all without realizing it)? Definitely.
Note: To mix this up, you could play around with adding shaving cream to their bodies beforehand ( while wearing bathing suits and on grass or a similarly soft surface), and see what visual creations they could create with this movement pattern (or have them make their own!)


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Seal The Attic
"A house has to breathe!" That mantra, developed before residential air conditioning was common, has been the mainstay of builders for years. Building experts are now questioning that old philosophy, especially when it relates to energy costs in heating and cooling your home. Air leakage, or infiltration, occurs when outside air enters a house uncontrollably through cracks and openings. Properly air sealing such cracks and openings in the home can significantly reduce heating and cooling costs, improve building durability and create a healthier indoor environment. Rising energy costs make saving money more important than ever.
Leaking ductwork often creates a slight vacuum inside the home. This vacuum is filled by dirty air coming from the attic of the house itself. Thermographic images have shown scorching air being drawn down the walls of a home to the return air intake, and headed right back up into the attic. Owens Corning has developed Energy Complete to seal attics from interior space, to lower utility bills and create a healthier home. Durable Energy Consultants offers a free home evaluation to see if your home qualifies for attic sealing. Call them at 713 344 0463.


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Today's Homework Assignment:
Please identify which policies, if any, from Cambridge's Growth Policy Document should be changed.
[To the best of my knowledge, these important policies have never been part of the discussion among the current Envision Cambridge Advisory Committee or its various Working Groups. Indeed, some of the current recommendations growing from the Envision Cambridge process clearly contradict some of these current policies. – RW]
Cambridge Growth Policy – Toward a Sustainable Future
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1. Such action will permanently forestall excessive development at the core campus of an existing institution, in particularly sensitive locations; or
2. Existing institutional activity in a core campus area will be reduced or eliminated, particularly at locations where conflict with existing residential communities has been evident or is possible in the future; and
3. The potential for future commercial, tax-paying development is not significantly reduced; or
4. The presence of a stable, well managed institutional activity could encourage, stimulate, and attract increased investment in non-institutional commercial tax producing development.
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1. Those areas can adapt to new commercial and industrial patterns of development;
2. The residential neighborhood edges abutting such areas are strengthened through selective residential reuse within the development areas or through careful transition in density, scale and lot development pattern;
3. New uses and varied scales and densities can be introduced into such areas;
4. Uses incompatible with the city's existing and future desired development pattern are phased out.
Policy 10
1. To provide opportunities for those who work in the city to live here;
2. To limit the use of the automobile to get to Cambridge and to travel within Cambridge;
3. To encourage more active use of all parts of the city for longer periods throughout the day; and
4. To limit the secondary impacts of new development on the existing, established neighborhoods. These impacts may be both economic, as in the increased demand placed on the limited stock of existing housing, and environmental, as in the increase in traffic on neighborhood streets.
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For example: low rent industrial space for start up enterprises; locations for industrial use and development which could be compromised by proximity to other, incompatible, uses, including residential uses; small commercial enclaves which directly serve their immediate surrounding residential neighborhood; locations appropriate for gas stations, car repair facilities, tow yards, etc.; structures or clusters of structures eligible for local historic district designation; or for designation as a local conservation district; environments as frequently found in the Residence "A" districts, where a unique combination of distinctive architecture and landscaped open space prevails; areas designated or eligible as national register historic districts.
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A taste of Esther's fashion sense: wearing Mommy's snow boots with her summer dress.
Esther interpretation of Mr. Potatohead.
Hallelujah! We found PJ's that Esther cannot remove...well actually they found us. Mookimoo commented on our blog and told us what they had created: PJ's that zip up in the back. Awesome! So I ordered two and they work! No naked girl (unless we want her to be) and no wet crib.
Here's the back. If she figures out how to get out of this, I give up. Esther's too smart for me.
Nana Marilyn came and stayed the night with us on Saturday. And Esther had a blast! She even cried when she left. Nana watched E while Gene and I had a date...to see "Indiana Jones". (Thanks Marilyn!)****************************************************************************** This video is a birthday wish for my sister, Heidi. She moved to Alaska in December and we miss her. Sorry for the shakiness of the camera...Esther was trying to grab it out of my hands. As you'll hear, "Tommy" or "Thomas" is much easier for E to say than "Bela" or "Halie" because she loves Thomas the Tank Engine. Hope Heidi can see this all the way up there.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Snow boots, PJ's, Nana, and a birthday wish....
A taste of Esther's fashion sense: wearing Mommy's snow boots with her summer dress.
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Monday, May 19, 2008
Here comes the sun.
I'm not one for hot weather. Maybe it's because I'm so pale (read incandescently white) or because I grew up in Alaska. I agree with Gene...give us 70 degrees with a nice breeze. But at least it means I can dress Esther in her summer clothes, which is awesome because I just love her beautiful skin. Below are some of her "cool" clothes.
Mommy's first attempt at braiding E's hair.
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Monday, May 12, 2008
Another Mother's Day under my belt
Having experienced my second Mother's Day, I have to say I really enjoy the special day. And not because I get to be spoiled, get gifts, a whole made card, breakfast made for me by my awesome husband, my daughter saying "Happy Day, Mommy" and then dinner out later (although these make it pretty cool, too). It is a day full of joy, knowing I am the mother to a wonderful daughter. It's a day of remembering how blessed I am to have my family.
OK, here's some pictures from the last week or so:
Esther and Sydney lounging together. Don't they both look so comfortable.
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Friday, May 02, 2008
Our little cuddlebug
Esther has had a breakthrough on the listening front. This has made clean up so much easier. She will actually help clean up fairly eagerly now. She knows where her things are supposed to go and likes to put them in their places.
Another new thing she's started doing is shouting "MAMA" at me if I'm not paying attention to her when she wants me to. Not in a snotty way, just louder. I know this may quickly become annoying but right now it makes me laugh.
She's also becoming more cuddly. Up until now, the only time she would let us cuddle her was at bedtime or before nap time. But recently she's wanted to be hugged on at different times during the day, she will even lay her head on our shoulders and stay that way for a while. Or to sit on our lap quietly, which is huge for our ever-busy daughter. These small tokens of her affection of course melt our hearts every time.
Apparently Mr. Potatohead's arm tastes yummy.
Showing mommy how it's done.
No kids around on this day, but E made the most of it anyway.
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By Sandra Simonds
August in South Georgia
Why do I drink so much gin? Has something to do
with the way the burn the trees down here on either
side of the highway. Man selling boiled peanuts,
man selling handmade canoes. If you know the south,
you know a good woman can only really get the blues
in the winter. Summer is meant for losing weight. No white
people are going to talk about race. The Goodwood Plantation
I drive by every day has no memory – all those baby
alligators and volunteer tour guides with their quaint anecdotes
that lodge in your throat like the demented sun.
21st Century Ars Poetica
If you touch this poem, it will turn to fire.
If you tough the fire, it will burn your finger.
If you burn your finger, you'll cry to your mama.
If you cry to your mama, your mama will die.
If your mama dies, you'll be an orphan.
If you're an orphan, God will give you a cupcake.
If God gives you a cupcake, you should probably eat it.
If you eat the cupcake, you'll want another.
If you eat another, you might get fat.
If you get fat, you can go on a diet.
If you diet too much, you'll become anorexic.
If you become anorexic, you'll get depressed.
If you get depressed, you can't fight oppression.
If you can't fight oppression, your poems have no meaning.
If you can't fight oppression, your poems have no meaning.
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If they can't burn your finger, there is no fire.
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The Novels of Hermann Hesse
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"Zwei Seelen wohnen ach! in meiner Brust." And very convenient it is for the writer; for one soul can bleed on the sleeve while the other gets up to other things in other places. It is not that the breast needs to be a specially large one to entertain two souls, but rather that those among whom the two-souled move may have to be remarkably broadminded and long-suffering. Perhaps prepared to suffer long and very painfully indeed. I will not dwell on the lowest and most horrifying depths to which double-souledness can sink—Hans Magnus Enzensberger's exemplum of the concentration-camp commandant who plays Schubert sonatas when off-duty will suffice—for Herman Hesse was obviously a good man, a good-hearted man, who recognized the onset of Germany's Faustianity at a very early date and removed himself to single-souled Switzerland.
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Christian in reverse, as it were: introduced and developed by Christianity indeed, but then rejected and banned as the Devil's Kingdom…a highly theological business, music—the way sin is, the way I am…. For there is true passion only in the ambiguous and ironic. The highest passion concerns the absolutely questionable.
Similarly in Hesse's Steppenwolf (1927) the ambiguous hero laments the hegemony which music exerts over the German spirit:
We intellectuals, instead of fighting this tendency like men and rendering obedience to the spirit, the Logos, the Word, and gaining a hearing for it, are all dreaming of a speech without words that utters the inexpressible and gives form to the formless.
And so, he continues in one of those interesting discursive passages scattered through Hesse's work, the German spirit has intoxicated itself with beautiful sounds and
none of us intellectuals is at home in reality. We are strange to it and hostile. That is why the part played by intellect even in our own German reality, in our history and politics and public opinion, has been so lamentable a one.
A far cry from good clean English music, food of love, soother of savage breasts, softener of rocks, bender of knotted oaks, and server of other social functions! But let us have done with the commandant and Schubert, and also with Enzensberger's equally double-souled SS-officer who carries Hölderlin (though a word-user and not a dreamer of music) in his knapsack. Hesse's novels, and especially his largest and least readable, Magister Ludi ("The Glass Bead Game," 1943), are much nearer to the ivory tower than to the concentration camp, albeit an ivory tower which bustles with enigmatic activity. The "Treatise on the Steppenwolf" pokes fun…
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By Jeremiah Magpile & Jennifer Frentasia
Legislators in Indonesia's House of Representatives (DPR) are considering the thresholds of support parties must meet in order to nominate presidential candidates. Though the election is two years away, campaigns are already in full swing.
The current law states that parties or coalitions of parties must win at least 25 percent of the national popular vote or 20 percent of DPR seats in the most recent parliamentary election in order to nominate a candidate. Parliamentary elections will be held in April 2014 and will play a large role in how coalitions for candidates form ahead of the presidential election that July.
The House is debating four options. The first would retain the current rule, used in the 2009 elections, while the second would increase the presidential threshold to 25 percent of seats or 30 percent of the national vote. These options are good news the largest parties, Golkar and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), since either option would effectively bar smaller parties from fielding candidates and siphoning votes.
However, it could pose a problem for current President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democrat Party (PD), which is losing popularity and may not fill 20 percent of seats in 2014. It would also put popular candidates, like the Gerindra Party's Prabowo, at a disadvantage. Several polls place Gerindra well behind the major parties in popularity, though Prabowo himself leads most presidential polls.
If a party falls short of either threshold, it will need to make alliances to field a presidential candidate. This is likely to result in the vice presidency or choice ministerial positions going to minority parties as part of the bargain. This is precisely the case now, since no party came close to the 25 percent threshold in 2009. The higher thresholds being discussed would mean these coalitions would form early, keeping the major parties dominant, but also weakening their position if elected.
The third option the DPR is considering would decrease the threshold to 15 percent of seats or 20 percent of the national vote. This level would allow Golkar and PDI-P to field their own tickets and increase PD's chances to do the same. PD is pushing for this threshold as a response to the party's decreasing public support and perceptions that President Yudhoyono has already entered his lame duck phase. This option would still prevent most parties from fielding their own ticket, but could allow smaller parties to form influential coalitions without the big three.
The fourth and most drastic proposal being discussed would allow any party in the DPR to nominate its own presidential candidate, but would increase the threshold at which parties can hold parliamentary seats from 2.5 percent of the national vote to 3.5 percent. Several minority parties filed a judicial review in support of this motion, but the Constitutional Court ignored it. Smaller parties like Gerindra, and the newly formed Nasional Demokrat (Nasdem) party would benefit most from this rule, as they would easily meet the 3.5 percent parliamentary threshold and be able to field their own presidential candidates – their only hope of doing so without a coalition.
Another possible side-effect of this fourth proposal might be to force consolidation of the Islamic parties. Only four of the ten Islamic parties made it over the 2.5 percent threshold in 2009, and polling suggests support for all of them is dropping. If trends continue, several might struggle to reach 3.5 percent.
Looking down the road, the 15-20 proposal is likely to win out, as PD supports it and Golkar and PDI-P are not vehemently opposed. Under this scenario, major parties are likely to garner enough support to field their own candidate, but none have the popularity to win an outright majority in the election. Parties will therefore form large coalitions without clear platforms to cobble together support.
The victorious party will have to share power and please the minority parties in its coalition. This practice, seen in the 2004 and 2009 presidential elections, cultivates desynchronized policies and spawns leaders beholden to multiple agendas. Unless the DPR finds the courage to change that pattern, Indonesia's central government will remain weak and ineffective.
Mr. Jeremiah Magpile and Ms. Jennifer Frentasia are researchers with the CSIS Chair for Southeast Asia Studies.


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Would it be be possible to use the door handles as a trigger when someone touches them. I'm thinking along the lines of how a touch-sensitive light works with change in capacitance to light-up?
The beauty of opening a closed door which is monitored by a reed switch is the light is on before you eneter the room. If you are using just a PIR then you need to enter the room before the light comes on. The downside of the PIR and reed switch combination is an issue with PIRs after a door is closed. So Cortex caters for potential false positives by delaying presence detection for 5 seconds (configurable) after a door is closed.
Could you use the touch on a door handle to turn the light on in the opposite room and assist in the presence detection? Of course ultimately it would be good if you could isolate the door handles either side of the door to feed the room presence.
Only issue I can currently see is how would you connect the capacity type sensor to IdraNET taking account of door movement?


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Welcome to INS-SLCThank you for visiting the page of the INS Student Liaison Committee! You may read about the history of SLC and about our student committee members on this page, or connect with the INS-SLC on their Facebook page. The INS Student Liaison Committee also operates a google group especially for students. The google group is intended to provide a novel means of communication amongst neuropsychology trainees on professional development topics. The google group is a place where students can pose questions regarding training, provide peer consultation, and share ideas. The SLC will also post INS programming updates and upcoming deadlines.
History of the INS-SLCAt the 38th Annual Meeting of INS in Acapulco in 2010, the Board or Governors organized a meeting to solicit comments from students and trainees about how to better serve associate members and increase their involvement. As a result of this meeting, the Society formed a student-run standing committee with specific goals to address student and trainee professional development needs, foster student contributions to neuropsychological science, and provide opportunities for student involvement and leadership within the INS
Donations to the Student Activities Fund supports the Student Liaison Committee in fostering student leadership, creating student-oriented programs and events, and developing funds and services to support students in the field of neuropsychology.
INS-SLC Committee Members
Jillian Tessier
Jillian Tessier is a third-year doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology program at Drexel University, in Philadelphia, PA, under the mentorship of Dr. Maria Schultheis. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from University of California, Berkeley in 2012. Her senior honors thesis investigated the link between insomnia and working memory in individuals with bipolar disorder. She has worked as a research coordinator on several projects at the Department of Veterans Studies, including evaluating exercise's effect on memory in mild cognitive impairment, and driving behaviors and anxiety in PTSD. Presently, her primary research interests include the impact of mild traumatic brain injury and insomnia on multitasking in vocational settings. She is interested in identifying predictors of successful ability to return to work after traumatic brain injury.
Anouk Smits
Anouk Smits is a PhD student in the Graduate School of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), The Netherlands. She is affiliated to the University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), where she is conducting her research. Anouk completed a Master's Degree in Neuroscience and in Neuropsychology, both at Utrecht University. Her main research interests are within the combination of neuropsychology, neurology, and neuroimaging. In her doctoral research, she is associating brain connectivity measures to visual and visuomotor outcome in stroke and brain cancer.
Taylor Greif, M.S.
Annual Meeting Programs Representative
Taylor is completing her 3rd year in the Clinical Psychology PhD program at Saint Louis University under the mentorship of Dr. David Kaufman. She completed her bachelor's degree at DePaul University in Chicago where she studied traumatic brain injury in Dr. Dorothy Kozlowski's lab. She most recently completed her master's thesis on the electrophysiological effects of mindfulness meditation in college students, and her current research interests pertain to predicting outcomes after deep brain stimulation surgery in patients with Parkinson's disease. Before moving to St. Louis, Taylor worked as a psychometrist at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and she is currently a clinical neuropsychology extern at Saint Louis University Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine.
Felicity Evans
Mid-Year Programs Representative
Felicity Evans is in her second year of the Doctor of Psychology (Clinical Neuropsychology) program at Monash University, in Melbourne, Australia. She completed a bachelor's degree in Science, followed by an honours degree in Psychology in 2015. For her honours thesis, she investigated emotion recognition in Parkinson's disease. The following year, she pursued her interest in neurodegenerative conditions by undertaking a research internship at the National Parkinson's Foundation Centre of Excellence at King's College Hospital, London. For her current doctoral research project, she is investigating the efficacy of compensatory memory strategies in the rehabilitation of stroke survivors. Felicity currently holds the role of July Meeting Representative, and she is responsible for organising the student program at the Prague (2018), Rio de Janeiro (2019) and Vienna (2020) INS meetings.
Mary Godfrey
Communications & Outreach Representative
Mary Godfrey is a third year doctoral student in the clinical psychology program at Drexel University. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Mary received her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. After graduating, she worked as a Special Education teacher through Teach for America. Later, she worked as a research analyst at Vanderbilt University's Memory & Alzheimer's Center, where she assisted in researching the relationship between heart health and brain health of older adults in the prodromal phase of Alzheimer's disease. Her research is focused in pediatric neuropsychology and her research interests include the cognitive impairment associated with genetic disorders, specifically focusing on memory impairments associated with Down Syndrome.
Nella Korhonen
International Liaison Representative
Nella Korhonen is a doctoral student in clinical neuropsychology at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She received her master's degree from the University of Tampere, Finland in 2012. After graduating, she did a traineeship in the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations of the European Commission in Brussels. She has also lived and studied in Hong Kong and Italy. Nella has been an active member in the Finnish Psychological Association and chaired their working group for Young Psychologists in 2016. While working on her grant-funded dissertation, she also works part-time as a neuropsychologist at the phoniatric outpatient clinic in Helsinki University Hospital. Her research project investigates ADHD symptoms from childhood to adulthood in a perinatal risk cohort. In the future, she hopes to continue to combine her research interest with her clinical experience in developmental neuropsychology.
Kalliopi Megari, MSc, BA
International Liaison Representative
Kalliopi is a PhD candidate at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece with thesis subject: Neuropsychological outcome and quality of life following surgical myocardial revascularization: The influence of cognitive reserve, mood and type-D personality. She holds undergraduate degrees in Nursing and Psychology, as well as a Master's degree in Psychology from Aristotle University and also attended further education from Department of Educational and Social Policy, University of Macedonia, in people with special needs and disabilities. Kalliopi has many years of research experience working with patients who have neurological, psychiatric, and cognitive disorders, as well as chronic disease patients suffering from cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Her research interests include neuropsychological outcome and quality of life in chronic diseases patients such as cardiac surgery patients and cancer patients and cognitive reserve of central nervous system's diseases. Kalliopi was a research fellow from 2009-2015 in Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery in AHEPA Hospital. She has published articles in a wide range of international peer reviewed medical journals and participated in many international conferences. Her work has earned her many prestigious awards and distinctions worldwide. Kalliopi was a Member of the Editorial Board of Health Psychology Research journal (2013-2015) and she is an associate Editor in Psychology & Psychological Research International Journal (2018). She is a reviewer of papers for scientific journals in the field of Neuropsychology, Medicine and Quality of life. Kalliopi has given many lectures to undergraduate and postgraduate students at School of Psychology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and also at University of Warsaw, Department of Neuropsychology, in Poland.
Kalliopi has also clinical experience, offering psychological counseling to prisoners in the Thessaloniki Diavata Prison and being the Head of the Centre of creative activities of children with disabilities, a position that requires effectiveness, knowledge and strong willingness as well as empathy and love for the people. She was interviewed for Quality of Life experiences in Health Care Magazine Issue 3, (2014) with the title, Kalliopi Megari: "Giving a Voice to the Chronically Ill", Meet the Expert Column.
Corey Bolton
Member at Large
Corey Bolton is a third-year doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at Wheaton College in suburban Chicago. Broadly, Corey is interested in researching atypical presentations of Alzheimer's disease. His dissertation project is focused on the neurocognitive characteristics of early-onset Alzheimer's disease in patients with autopsy confirmed AD pathology. Clinically, he has received training in neuropsychology at the University of Chicago Medical Center and the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center at Northwestern Medicine. Further, he works as a research assistant at Loyola University Medical Center. Corey is glad to be part of the Student Liaison Committee and looks forward to representing the INS student membership as Member-at-Large.


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There are hard skills and soft skills that determine your success rate in career. Experts of PCD pharma in Ahmedabad have brought this article for people who are seeking growth in their pharma franchise business. Soft skills are your personal capabilities that determine your working skill and job performance. Communication skills also come under category of soft skills. Other than that, there are a lot more skills needed for starting work.
- Communication – Communication is the primary key that determines your success. Your interpersonal communication skills are the backbone of the soft skills. You can communicate via phone calls or emails, and you have to be a good communicator.
- Team work – Always work as a team. Since your team workers will look for guidance, you have to deliver them with apt result. Make your brain active and divide work evenly among the team members.
- Creativity – You need to work on your creativity skills. Creativity can always add more intuitive ideas that help in enhancing your pharmaceutical field.
- Start learning and accepting distinct range of criticism- Your critics help you in getting better. There criticism lets you to work on your negative aspects and change it for a positive reply.
- Positive attitude – You should always motivate your team players and start approaching them with your positive attitude. If you are excited about any latest prospect, your attitude will reflect it.
- Multi-tasking – Keep your multi-tasking skills sharp. Multi-tasking person is an amazing asset that helps in saving time and boost up productivity level.
- Be a good listener – Public speaking is always important yet you need to be a good listener. Your employees may give you brilliant ideas and you can listen to them.
- Sense of humor – sense of humor can always enhance your soft skills. You can make your working environment little lighter by cracking jokes. It is always important to stay positive because your result is always determined by your positive attitude.
- Upgrade your skills – It is always a great idea to work on yourself. You must always look for upgrading your soft skills. Just write down the areas where you need to work more. When you start noticing your weak areas, you will make efforts to enhance them. This will bring out the best of you.
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