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Which coat serves you best depends on where you live
The polar plunge after this week's clipper system in the Great Lakes and Northeast just demonstrated that winter is not over yet. Here in Interior Alaska, the cold snap seems to feel at home, and the polar vortex still has great vorticity. Even tough most people suffer already from cabin fever and/or dream of summer, face it there are at least two months of winter to bear. Even down south, in the Denver area, March is pretty ugly.
What about a new winter coat to up your winter mood, to get out of the boredom of wearing the same coat over and over again, and to stay stylish, warm and cozy? Here are my picks from ML Furs to stay warm in the various climate regions.
Coats for maritime, wet and windy climate
When you live in a maritime rainy, windy winter climate with temperatures around the freezing point like Southeast Alaska, British Columbia, or the Pacific Northwest. a trench coat with lining is unbeatable. Here are my picks from ML Furs' collection in this category. The classic cuts of these coats work well for the office and also look great, but not over the top with jeans for a trip to the mall.
Coats to stand the cold of the polar vortex after the snow storm
On sunny days with snow on the ground, puffer coasts and jackets provide perfect stylish protection from the cold polar air that flows into the area after a storm. Their insulation is among others due to the air that is caught between the feathers. Since feathers dry slowly, never wear a down coat when rain is in the forecast! On such days go for a trench coat instead. Here are my picks from ML Furs' puffer-coat category.
Coats for cold, dry (and windy) climate
I love shearlings as you know for a variety of reasons. A thigh-length shearling coat works well with work cloths like a wool skirt with tights and boots, or wool pants to look work appropriate. But it can also be worn casually with jeans for the weekend.
The hairs of the shearling hold air which makes a perfect insolation. The outer skin is great for wind protection. A shearling is perfect for all continental dry regions like for instance, Interior Alaska or the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It also works in the windy climate of the North Slope of Alaska.
Above are my picks from ML Furs' shearling coat category. The shearling on the upper left is even 30% off! The mid-length parka on the upper right is great for stylish moms when dropping off/picking up the kids at school so the kids don't have wait for the school bus at -20F (-28.9C). When you do not want to go for a parka, the motorcycle inspired brown shearling jacket with pendulum is a great alternative as it covers your bum (lower right). The shearling vest (lower left) is a pure luxe fashion item for an evening in a cottage at the fire with your sweetheart <3 .
I have to admit that shearling coats have a seemingly high price up front. However, if you calculate the cost per wear, my shearling coats were the best deals with respect to the cost per wear. In Alaska, we have seven months of "coat weather". I have one shearling coat that I am now wearing in the 15th winter in a row 🙂 . That coat is now in the range of $2 per wear. My wool coats never made it so far.
ML Furs has marked down many of their coats. Thus, have a look yourself and take your picks.
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Once again, this past year has been a productive one for the Center for the History of Medicine. Hewing to its mission of research, teaching, public programming and outreach, the Center has been involved in a full slate of interesting projects and events over the course of 2016.
Science on Screen
As part of its ongoing annual collaboration with the Michigan Theater's "Science on Screen" series, the Center once again co-sponsored the screening of a medically related film followed by a lecture. This year we featured the film Erin Brockovich with a talk by the distinguished historian of public health Professor David Rosner, who has spent much of his career studying the history of the lead paint industry and the impact it has had on children and families exposed to it. Given the recent and ongoing crisis with the Flint water system, this was a particularly apropos film to screen. The audience – a large and diverse group made up of members from the University and the general public – was very interactive, and asked many questions of Professor Rosner.
Davenport Lecture
In March, the Center hosted its 15th Annual Horace W. Davenport Lecture in the Medical Humanities. This year we invited Sara Rosenbaum, Professor of Health Law and Policy at George Washington University. Professor Rosenbaum has devoted her lengthy career to the issue of health justice for medically underserved populations, including working with several presidential administrations and Congresses. In her lecture, "Access to the Courts, Justice for the Poor: A Case Study of Medicaid," Professor Rosenbaum discussed her work on health justice and the history and the challenges of providing healthcare to underserved populations through the Medicaid system. The event was held in collaboration with the U-M School of Public Health, and was well attended by many public health and medical faculty and students.
Outreach and Public Programming
In May, Dr. Alex Navarro, Assistant Director of the Center, was again invited to participate in two-day event at the U-M Rackham Graduate School on alternative career paths for doctoral students. The event included a panel discussion as well as mentoring workshops, where Dr. Navarro met with several advanced graduate students from across disciplines to share his insights on ways for students to pursue non-tenure track academic careers. This year the event proved so popular that he was invited back several weeks later for an afternoon session with advanced graduate students who were unable to attend the previous event.
In November, the Center invited Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Oshinsky to deliver a talk on his recently published book Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital. The event, held in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library, was a huge success and was well attended by members both of the University of Michigan as well as the general public.
In addition to the various lectures and public events, the Center continued to sponsor the long-running Victor Vaughan Society for the History and Philosophy of Medicine, an organization for medical students at the University of Michigan. Each month throughout the academic year, approximately 30 to 40 medical students meet for a session, hosted by the Center, where we discuss various subjects in the medical humanities, including topics such as art, literature, history, and journalism.
Research and Scholarship
The Center also continued its tradition of top quality research and scholarship. This past winter we completed our long-term influenza research project with the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Our work resulted in a major scholarly, qualitative analysis of the American urban responses to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic and the use of school closures as a community mitigation strategy. It represents more than five years of research and analysis of thousands of media reports, federal, state, and local government documents, and oral history interviews of key public health and education officials. Our findings were published in the June 2016 issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law.
Four years ago, the Center launched its massive online collection of materials related to the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919: A Digital Encyclopedia. This year, we released the second edition of this critically acclaimed collection, adding thousands of additional pages of contemporary medical journals, military reports, and other seminal scientific studies of influenza of the time. We hope that the second edition of our digital encyclopedia will continue to serve as the repository for scholars and researchers, public health practitioners, and lay people interested in delving into the history of the 1918-1919 pandemic.
Continuing our work in the realm of digital history, the Center has continued its collaborative project with the U-M Bentley Historical Library to digitize and make available its rich archival sources. A few years ago, we found the funding to digitize the vast collection of the John Harvey Kellogg, M.D. papers and we are now working with the Bentley to digitize the lectures and written works of the distinguished physician Dr. George Dock, the chief of internal medicine and pathology at the U-M from 1898-1908. The Center will contextualize Dr. Dock's lectures with essays, annotations, and other writings on the history of medicine and medical education at the time. We will also make available a digital copy of Horace Davenport's biography, Doctor Dock. We are confident that the this project will be a wonderful addition to the Center's – and the University of Michigan's – robust digital collection.
Personally, this also has been another productive year of scholarship, teaching, and outreach. One community educational outreach project I am especially proud of is a series of monthly columns on medical history I write for PBS NewsHour, many of which have "gone viral" and have become "the most downloaded essays" on the website. The most successful pieces centered on Ryan White, Lincoln's assassination, and the death of Warren G. Harding. Moreover, I have served as the monthly medical historian guest on Cynthia Canty's WUOM's Stateside show, where we discuss my PBS NewsHour column on medical historical events. In addition, this past year I wrote three essays for NPR's Science Friday website on the history of scientific words. This work reaches out across the state and nation and is a superb means of highlighting the scholarly efforts, and the "brand," of the Center for the History of Medicine.
I remain the Editor-in-Chief of The Milbank Quarterly, one of the most respected journals of health policy and population in the United States and Europe. Having the Quarterly's academic home at the U-M Center for the History of Medicine continues to bring prestige to the U-M medical school and to our unit.
Working with several colleagues in several units across the medical school, I also actively served on the UM medical school committee, under the leadership of Dr. Mary Blazek, to develop the first curriculum on the Medical Humanities Pathway of Excellence, which began this past Winter Term, 2016. It has already proven to be quite successful and it is a curriculum that, I predict, will only get better in the months and years to come. We offer this course to first and second year students and then will work with them to develop their "Capstone" research project during their 4th year.
In addition to teaching medical students, this fall term, 2016 I taught my very successful Literature and Medicine course for undergraduate students in the English department of the U-M College of Literature, Science and the Arts. This class is a wonderful outreach to the College as well as for the 35 students, most of them headed for careers in medicine. This year's second-year U-M medical school class contains four former students of mine from a previous teaching of English 317, and three more matriculated this fall. These successes have proven to be extraordinarily gratifying experiences for me as an educator and they inspire me to continue to teach this class to subsequent undergraduates at Michigan.
Last but certainly not least, in addition to a host of articles for both the lay press and peer-reviewed journals, I am proud to announce that I have completed my book about the fascinating Kellogg brothers of Battle Creek, Michigan. Entitled Corn Flakes: The Battling Kellogg Brothers of Battle Creek, the manuscript is in the advance stages of preparation and will be published in fall 2017 by Pantheon/Alfred A. Knopf. It represents the culmination of several years of research and writing, the honor of a Guggenheim fellowship, and a great deal of learning for me as a historian and scholar. It is also a project that mostly takes place right here in Michigan, only 90 miles or so down the road from Ann Arbor.
Our hard work here at the Center has made for a fantastically productive and rewarding 2016. We are already planning for an equally impressive new year. In February 2017 we will be co-sponsoring another "Science on Screen" event at the Michigan Theater, this time showing the film Concussion with a lecture by leading U-M neurologist Dr. Jeffrey Kutcher to follow. In April, as part of the University of Michigan's bicentennial celebration, we will be co-sponsoring a major conference on pandemic preparedness and response, featuring lectures by Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes for Health and Dr. Paul Farmer of Harvard University and Partners in Health, along with a panel discussion on the local, state, and federal responses to pandemics moderated by CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta. It is events such as these, along with our top-notch research and scholarship, which continue to make the U-M Center for the History of Medicine the leading history of medicine unit in the nation.
I wish you the best wishes for a health, happy, and rewarding 2017. And please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or suggestions.
Howard Markel, M.D., Ph.D.


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I am super excited to announce the release of the revised version of my novel Scattered Leaves: The Legend of Ghostkiller. Remember, this is a revised version of the story, complete with new cover! Any version prior to this one is outdated. Also, there will no longer be any free Kindle versions given away. I mentioned this in my last email and said I would explain. Here goes:
Yes, I am changing my giveaway promotions. This makes me sad because I really enjoyed giveaways, but it is necessary due to theft. Apparently, when you give away your eBook via KDP select, there are people who think that gives them carte blanche to give them away, too, or worse, sell their copy. Of course, this can happen whether you give away a Kindle version or sell one, but my guess is it is less likely to happen if someone actually buys it. Anyway, any giveaways I have now will be through my website or Goodreads.
Also, An Open Letter to My Abuser the book of raw, unedited letters from survivors of abuse is OUT NOW!
This was a really tough one to create and the letters are so heartfelt and real, it is a wonderful tool for recovery. Highly recommended by those in the mental health field.
As always, thanks for your support! I hope you love the books as much as I love writing them!
Til next time, happy reading!
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Sunday, July 23, 2006
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- mapletree7 said...
Because of The Gay. Batman and Robin are the only sidekick team that are name-recognition enough to survive the fear of The Gay.
Although what happened to Green Arrow's HIV+ chick sidekick?
- Richard said...
Is the question "why is there still a Robin?" or "why are there no other sidekicks?"
The answer to the first question is probably just the success of the TV show in cementing "Batman & Robin" into public consciousness. Robin will always be around both for nostalgia and marketing purposes.
The second question...well, Batman had one so lots of characters copying the success of Batman had to have one too. I don't think a whole lot of thought went into it. Beyond that, there's an idea that the whole premise of having kid sidekicks exist in the first place was based on the false assumption that young readers would need a young character to identify with. When it turned out that kids were perfectly capable of reading escapist stories and identifying with the adult characters, sidekicks stopped being created.
Unfortunately from a writer's point of view, sidekicks and partners really did serve another function beyond alleged reader identification. They give the lead character someone to discuss the action with -- "I don't get it, Wes! Why how did you guess the gardener was really the killer?" -- and a reason to deliver exposition without thought balloons or big captions. Since current comics scripting style devalues thought balloons and explanatory captions, we could actually use more partners and sidekicks for the heroes to talk with.
And also, partners made the heroes seem a little less socially maladjusted. Wertham me all the Wertham you want, but a solo Batman comes across as way more sick and pervy than one who interacts with his protege.
(You say endangering teens by teaching them to fight street crime is irresponsible? And yet in real life we send them off to fight in Iraq...)
- Tom Foss said...
I'd say that technically Supergirl and Wonder Girl enjoy sidekick status, even if only under the "solo-sidekick" model that Robin pioneered. Until a few months ago, we had Superboy and Kid Flash as well, and Batgirl, but that seems to have changed, and not necessarily for the better.
Unless things have changed in GA's book, Mia ought to still be around, and she's clearly a sidekick.
As far as why there are so few left, it's complicated. Marvel, at least since Stan Lee's time, has never been big on sidekicks. Bucky and Toro are long gone (several times over, at least in Bucky's case). DC, on the other hand, hasn't created any completely-new sidekicks in years, if not decades. I suppose you could consider Kon-El to be just such an original creation, since he isn't just filling the shoes vacated by a previous sidekick, and Spoiler was kind of Robin's sidekick.
As far as the sidekicks who have remained, most have either grown up or died, and most are casualties to "major event plots." Superboy gave gravitas to Infinite Crisis, while Bart Allen connected it thematically to the last Crisis, and ushered Wally out into the sunset so we could read needlessly morose Flash stories. Spoiler died to give War Games emotional weight, Cassandra Cain became evil to anger readers, Jason Todd 'died' because he was generally either unoriginal or unlikable, the most recent Aquagirl hasn't been seen since before IC, and everyone else I can think of (Sandy, Wing, Speedy I, Robin I, Batgirl I, Kid Flash I, Aqualad, Snapper Carr) either grew up or died.
As to why no sidekicks operate with their patron heroes, however, I can't say. I suspect it's because it makes the main heroes seem older, or because they don't have well-defined relationships or distinct enough personalities, or something.
- Brian Cronin said...
Aha! Speedy!
What a good point, there IS a teen sidekick still out there!


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The colours I have are #230 Punch of Pink and #300 Lavendar Lavish. Both are creme colours which is my fave! Punch of Pink is a yellow-tone pink which is super flattering and forgiving for my skin tone. Lavendar Lavish is, in my opinion, in the same family as the Pantone colour of the Year - Radiant Orchard.
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From its origin in Turkey and Syria during biblical times, the olive tree migrated to the ideal conditions it discovered in places like Italy and Spain. Today, the tree even produces fruit in sections of the United States.
Time Frame
The olive tree (Olea europaea) begins to bear fruit at 4 to 5 years of age. The olive fruit, a drupe, is green when unripe and eventually turns a black or deep, purple colour when ripe. Thinning the crop will result in a larger fruit size.
It takes about five years for an olive tree to produce fruit, according to Texas A&M University. The lifespan of the tree is extraordinary, with many living -- and producing fruit -- for more than 500 years.
Climate is certainly capable of adversely affecting the health of the olive drupe. Temperature controls growth, reproduction and survival, with growth only occurring when the temperature reaches 21.1 degrees Celsius. The olive will cease growth when the temperature drops below that same temperature. The olive tree will typically die if temperatures drop below 0-12.222 degrees Celsius.
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Ionizing Radiation
any radiation whose interaction with a medium ultimately leads to the ionization of atoms and molecules of the medium. Types of ionizing radiation include electromagnetic radiation, X rays, gamma radiation, and laser radiation, as well as fluxes of a-particles, electrons, positrons, protons, neutrons, and other neutral and charged particles. Charged particles ionize the atoms of the medium directly upon collision if their kinetic energy is sufficient for ionization. When neutral particles (neutrons) or photons (quanta of X rays or y-radiation) pass through the medium, ionization is brought about by the secondary charged particles that form from the interaction of the primary particles with the medium.
Ionizing radiation plays an important role in various physical and chemical processes and in biology, medicine, agriculture, and industry. Many chemical reactions take place more readily or at considerably lower temperatures and pressures under the influence of ionizing radiation. Ionizing radiation is used in sterilization, pasteurization, and preservation of foods and pharmaceuticals. It produces various mutations in microorganisms and plants.
At the same time, ionizing radiation exerts a destructive ac-tion on matter. [10–1103-2; updated]


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Verizon changes course, focuses on private cloud service
Verizon has turned its focus away from IaaS and toward private cloud for enterprise customers, but analysts are still advising caution.
One year ago, Verizon laid out ambitious plans to provide a service to compete with the likes of Amazon in the market for public cloud infrastructure. Verizon now has dramatically shifted its focus and delivered a product aimed at enterprises that want to build private clouds.
The beta version of the Verizon Cloud was launched as a unified infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform and object storage service. When it was released, it was praised for its potential innovation. But industry experts had advised customers to proceed with caution until the unified platform became fully available.
Verizon now plans to coexist with the large-scale IaaS vendors and has made its integrated platform generally available.
Verizon retained some of that technology after a year of real-world testing, but even with the scaled-back approach aimed at incorporating private cloud services into the company's broader services, experts said the use of Verizon Cloud is limited.
The unified platform also shouldn't be used for more than test and development or managed services until at least 2015, experts added, and it has little appeal to large enterprises or startups focused on DevOps.
It also doesn't constitute a true unified platform, as each environment represents a different Verizon cloud platform, and Verizon Cloud essentially serves as an umbrella portal, according to Lydia Leong, an analyst at Gartner Inc., an IT consulting firm in Stamford, Conn.
"When provisioning an environment in Verizon Cloud, users must be aware of the capabilities and limitations of that particular environment choice," Leong said.
The final product emerges from beta much different from its initial billing. Verizon could actually be better served by this platform, however, as it is aimed at running specific enterprise application workloads that require a high degree of management and support, said Amy DeCarlo, principal analyst at Current Analysis Inc., in Sterling, Va.
"Verizon was pushing a mega-scale cloud message originally, an AWS slayer, if you will," DeCarlo said. "But the company has shifted to something that is much more in tune with what I think Verizon will be able to actually deliver."
Coexisting with AWS
The majority of public and private cloud products are aimed at enterprise customers who want hybrid- and multi-cloud services. Verizon has emphasized tying its cloud services with the company's existing networking, security and managed services.
For its part, Verizon said its original plans to compete in the public cloud market didn't fit with what the company was best suited for, according to Helen Donnelly, director of product marketing at Verizon Enterprise Solutions.
"We realized the challenge was we were pointed at the wrong target," Donnelly said. "The rest of what we bring to the table is really geared toward enterprise customers that really care about security and care about the underlying network, and not washmycar.com."
Verizon lost some momentum during its nearly year-long beta, but the product will appeal to a certain customer base if it's marketed properly, DeCarlo said. That means less focus on generic capabilities like security and more attention to tools that help Verizon Cloud stand out, such as Secure Cloud Interconnect, she said.
It provides customers with a private IP address to connect with another cloud vendor for data migration. Verizon supports multiple vendors with this product and added Amazon to the list last month.
Verizon is in the midst of rebranding its cloud operations, a move which includes dropping the Terremark moniker. Verizon acquired most of its data center capabilities when it purchased Terremark in 2011 for $1.4 billion.
Trevor Jones is the news writer for SearchCloudComputing. You can reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Kelly Carter is a licensed funeral director/embalmer who joined the Beinhauer Family Funeral Homes team in July of 2011 after 3 years at Willig Funeral Home & Cremation Services and Monument Co., where she acted as location manager. At Beinhauer's, her role has shifted to focus on community education of the funeral, cremation, and cemetery events processes and monument design. She maintains and supplies content for the company website and several other forms of social media in order to provide resources for families before, during and after the time period in which a death has occurred.
She also fulfills the operations role of management of pre-need funding & scheduling, recording, and analysis, as well as some human resource management functions. Additionally, in January of 2012, Kelly became certified as a Funeral Celebrant and works with families to create a unique funeral or memorial ceremony that reflects the nuance of each life lived. She also manages the Beinhauer's on-site memorialization company, Black Swan Monuments.
In addition to her role within the funeral home, she served as 2013 Chairperson for Pittsburgh's Life Service Providers group, Chapter Facilitator for Business Referral Network (Orbis Chapter), and is an active member of Pittsburgh Professional Assisting Seniors and WOMEN of Southwestern PA, Peters Twp., South Hills and Southwest Communities Chambers of Commerce. She also volunteered as a 2012 Counselor for Camp Erin – a grief camp for kids aged 13-17, and is now trained to work with grieving children.
Kelly graduated Summa Cum Laude from Point Park University in 2008 with a Bachelor's degree in Specialized Professional Studies, a Minor in Psychology and a concentration in Environmental Health. Prior to that, she graduated from the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science where she earned her Associate's degree in Funeral Service Management and received her diploma in Embalming, in addition to being elected Class #132 President.


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okay, everyone. yes, things look a little different now, huh?
i've decided to forego my other website in favor of just having this blog serve as my professional website. remember when i came back from europe and said that things were going to change a bit? this is what i was talking about. all the same info is still here, i just reorganized it and combined it with some more personal interests. it's still fresh for now and i'm sure i'll be making changes to the format at some point, but for now, feel free to look around! be advised, that my old email firstname.lastname@example.com is no longer active, and now the best way to reach me is firstname.lastname@example.com. i've been using that address much more anyway.
in other news, i'm getting tattooed today, i'm going snow tubing tomorrow, and then after a normal work week i'm going to work the jet city convention in northern WA (seattle-ish) next weekend with mr. brian wilson. exciting days, people!


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Sixth Annual San Diego City College International Book Fair
When: Monday through Saturday
Where: San Diego City College, 1313 Park Blvd., San Diego.
Cost: Free
Online: sdcitybookfair.com
Luis Rodríguez had escaped the gang life in Los Angeles and established a career as a poet. Then his son joined a gang.
To fight for his son, he wrote his 1993 coming-of-age memoir, "Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A." "Always Running" earned a
Rodríguez is among the authors who will speak this week at the Sixth Annual San Diego International Book Fair at San Diego City College. Here is the lineup:
Events Monday through Thursday are in room D121A/B, the faculty lounge.
• Benson Deng, co-author of "They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan." 11:10 a.m. and 12:45 p.m.
• Judy Patacsil, co-author of "Images of America: Filipinos in San Diego." 11:10 a.m.
• Christopher Buckley, author of "Rolling the Bones" and "White Shirt." 12:45 p.m.
• "Chicano Poetics: the Enduring Experience and Perspective," a panel discussion featuring professor Manuel J. Vélez with poets Manuel Paul López and Angel Sandoval. 12:45 p.m.
Events Friday and Saturday are in the Saville Theatre.
• Justin Akers-Chacón, Victor Clark and Jill Holslin, contributors to the anthology "Wounded Border/Frontera Herida: Readings on the Tijuana /San Diego Region and Beyond." 6 p.m.
• Concert by the Bill Caballero Bi-National Mambo Orchestra. 7 p.m.
• Marjorie Cohn, editor of "The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration and Abuse," 10:30 a.m.
• Cris Mazza, author of "Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls," 11:30 a.m.
• Zohreh Ghahremani, author of "Sky of Red Poppies," 12:30 p.m.
• lê thi diem thúy, author of "The Gangster We Are All Looking For," 1:30 p.m.
• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author of "One Amazing Thing." 2:30 p.m.
• Wanda Coleman, author of "Jazz & Twelve O'clock Tales" and "The World Falls Away" and contributor to the anthology "Mamas and Papas," and Austin Straus, author of "Intensifications." 3:30 p.m.
• Luis Rodríguez, author of "Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A." and "It Calls You Back: A Writer's Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing." 4:30 p.m.


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Stuffed spring capsicums
- ½ cup freekeh, brown rice or farro
- spray oil
- 1 clove garlic, finely chopped
- ½ red onion, thinly sliced
- ½ 400g can no-added-salt brown lentils, drained
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
- 2 cups rocketarugulaX leaves
- 2 red capsicums, halved lengthwise and cores removed
- 2 tablespoons grated parmesan
- 2 cups salad leaves, dressed with 1 tablespoon olive oil and 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
- fresh herbs, eg, thyme, basil or parsley, to garnish (optional)
1 Preheat oven to 200°C. Cook freekeh, rice or farro according to packet instructions.
2 Spray a pan with oil and set over a medium heat. Add garlic and onion and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes. Add lentils, tomatoes and rocket leaves and stir to combine and warm through.
3 Once grain is cooked, add to pan and combine well. Spoon mixture into capsicum halves, reserving any extra filling. Sprinkle with parmesan. Bake in oven for 15-20 minutes, until capsicum is soft and cheese is golden. Serve with dressed salad and garnish with parsley or basil, if desired.
Nutrition Info (per serve)
Kilojoules 1810kJ
Calories 432cal
Protein 17g
Total fat 15g
–Saturated fat 3g
Carbohydrates 55g
–Sugars 14g
Dietary fibre 14g
Sodium 150mg
Calcium 220mg
Iron 7.5mg
Make it gluten free: Use brown rice instead of freekeh or farro.
Make it vegan: Use Angel Food parmesan
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Hoyas, various species within the genus of the same name, are perennials prized for their vining habit, waxy leaves and attractive flowers. Most, like the wax plant or wax flower (Hoya carnosa), are grown primarily as houseplants as they can only survive outdoors in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 10 to 11 and are injured by temperatures below 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Hoyas tend to have a relatively small root system and perform well when root growth is slightly restricted. However, when soil appears dry shortly after watering or the plant's roots are growing out of the container's drain holes or above the soil surface, the hoya will benefit from being transplanted into a slightly larger container.
Clean an appropriate container to transplant the hoya into if the container was previously used. Select a container just 1 to 2 inches larger than the plant's current container. Remove any large dirt clods or other debris that might still be in there, and soak the container in a 10 percent bleach solution or clean it using a household disinfectant. Rinse it with clear water.
Water the hoya well several hours before you transplant it to make the hoya easier to remove from its current container and to minimize stress to the plant.
Place a small amount of well-drained potting soil in the bottom of the new container. Add just enough soil so that the point where the hoya stem will meet the soil line is about an inch below the lip of the container.
Slide the hoya's root mass out of its current container. Use one hand to hold the plant by the soil surface while you turn the plant on its side or upside down and remove the container with your other hand. You may need to tap the container's lip on the edge of a counter or other structure to loosen the root mass.
Inspect the hoya's root mass and use a sharp, sterile knife to trim off any dead, brown, mushy or damaged roots. If the hoya is severely root-bound, with roots growing in a tight circle around the edge of the root mass, use the sharp knife to score the root mass. Make four vertical, evenly-spaced cuts about 1 inch deep around the circumference of the root mass and cut an "x" into the bottom of the hoya's root mass.
Set the hoya's root mass in the center of the prepared container, adding or removing potting soil under the root mass, if needed, to adjust its height in the container.
Fill in the remaining space around the root mass with high-quality, well-drained potting soil. Firm the soil down gently to force out large air pockets, water the soil in slowly and thoroughly, and add more soil, if needed, to account for any settling.


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Saturday, June 28, 2008
Travel Time
Again, it's been a while since I posted. Let me play catch-up. I left my home in early June. I went to Mary's house and then to Jackie's baby shower. We will soon be welcoming Makenzie Sloan. From there I journeyed to Liz's and enjoyed myself watching Brandon in his karate classes. Moving on my next stop was Cosby, TN. I had a wonderful time at my first bead retreat! What a great group of women! We had Jim
Mc Intosh teach us wire wrapping. We taught each other different techniques and projects. I learned bead crochet, Kumihimo, Viking Knit and polymer clay. I taught the Cellini bracelet project. I haven't finished any of the projects but I will! I'm still working on the bead crochet. I'm still working on my St. Petersburg lariat so since nothing is finished I'm choosing to post a picture of a necklace that I made with the St. Petersburg stitch. My daughter was given this one as a Christmas gift.
After that inspiring gathering I drove the remainder of the way to NY. I've been working at my old job as a dialysis nurse at Good Samaritan Hospital for the past two weeks. It is really great to see everyone again. I've attended a small conference held by the American Nephrology Nurse Association. I renewed some old friendships, had a great dinner, learned something new and earned some continuing educations points.
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Williams Farm Community CenterVirginia Beach, VA
In 2009, Counsilman-Hunsaker, in association with HBA and Moody Nolan, provided a market analysis, feasibility study, program development plan, schematic designs, and preliminary project cost estimating services for the development for a new community recreation center. Aiming to become the centerpiece for a four school campus in the Western Bayside area of the City of Virginia Beach, the entire planning and design process included extensive public involvement to guide neighborhood specific program requirements and to begin the process of stakeholder buy-in.
In 2012, the City of Virginia Beach celebrated the grand opening of the 71,000 sq. ft. Williams Farm Community Recreation Center located in Williams Farm Park. The center includes a multi-purpose recreation pool, double basketball court-sized gym with retractable bleacher seating for 200, a group exercise studio, and a large elevated running track with views into the pool, gym, lobby and park.
Aquatic amenities include:
7,500 sq. ft. Indoor Multi-Purpose Pool
- Zero beach entry
- Zip line
- Three 25-yard lap lanes
- Interactive play feature
- Current channel
- Waterslide
- Aquatic rock-climbing wall
- Wet deck
3,000 sq. ft. Outdoor Sprayground with numerous water features
The recreation center achieved the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver certification for energy efficient design.
Highlights of the center's green initiatives include: integrating water quality, site development, sustainable green building design, and operating practices for environmental stewardship & energy efficiency.


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Thesis Methods Section Writing Prompts
In theory, the methods section should be the easiest part of the thesis to write. In actuality, however, some students are unsure which information to include and how to structure the overall chapter. Do not waste your time attempting to write this section and failing because you are uncertain! Instead, follow this guide, and use the following prompts (in order) to compose your chapter correctly.
Part 1: Overview
In this section, give the reader a rough outline of what you will be examining and how you will be examining it. Remind them of your hypotheses. Do not name specific measures or statistical tests yet in this section of the paper. Just give a general schema of how the rest of the chapter will unfold, noting in particular how many studies you will be conducting, and whether they will be experimental, survey-based, archival, or something else.
Part 2: Independent Variables
List the manipulations or measures you will use to tap into your predictor variables. If you are experimentally manipulating mood by having participants watch sad or happy movies, say so, and provide a citation of the movie source. If you are measuring participants' heart rates, say so, and specify how you will be recording it. Make note of the tools you are using and cite them exactly. Make it clear to the reader how everything works.
Part 2: Dependent Variables
Next, you should describe the outcomes you are interested in, and how you will go about recording those. Are you measuring performance on a challenging task? Where did the task come from? What is it called? Give the reader enough information that they could track down all your materials on their own, if necessary. Your materials are the ingredients to your recipe. How long was a questionnaire? How long did it take? Under what conditions was it administered? Make note of all these things, using procedural and clear language.
Part 3: Procedure
If the above sections are the ingredients to the recipe, the procedure section of the Methods chapter is the recipe itself. Walk through the entire data collection method for each study (one study at a time), noting every single activity in the order that it occurred. If you are describing a survey, note the order of the questions. If you are describing a biological experiment, provide step-by-step instructions of how to prep all the materials and administer them.
Part 4: Participants
Finally, tell the reader where you found your sample or your population of participants. Give some demographic or background information on your data source. This section can be very brief, but it is essential.


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Internally we've been looking at using MongoDB for a number of projects. Of course one of the areas of concern when moving to to a NoSQL data store is performance and accessibility.
To this end, I started looking at how best to persist our Java Objects in MongoDB. There were a number of options to consider:
Each had negatives and positives, but the major one for us was performance. The application we had in mind would generate thousands of requests per minutes (maybe ultimately per second), and we needed something that could handle the scale, which still providing a level of abstraction. You can see our previous performance testing of MongoDb vs MySql - Fight !!. The aim of this test was to take the usefulness of MongoDB to the next level.
It's worth mentioning a brief overview of the testing approach. This testing is exhaustive, it's not even particularly scientific. Each timing tests used System.nanoTime() to measure the time it took to create, convert and insert the record into MongoDB. The Database Connection and Collection setup was excluded from the testing.
Each test was run 100 times and an aggregate time was taken. The Collection in MongoDB was deleted after each run.
One of the key serialisation technologies for MongoDB at present is Morphia. It's an extremely simple and lightweight ORM, which is actioned through the annotation of existing classes. You can find more information on Morphia [http://code.google.com/p/morphia/].
For my test I used a simple class called Number.
public class Number { private String number; private int networkId; . . . // getters and setters() }
The first thing to do was implement the annotations. In Morphia, this meant annotation the class, and adding a few additional MongoDB-specific properties. Here's the finished product.
import com.google.code.morphia.annotations.MongoDocument; import com.google.code.morphia.annotations.MongoCollectionName; import com.google.code.morphia.annotations.MongoID; @MongoDocument public class Number { @MongoID private String id; @MongoCollectionName private String collectionName; private String number; private String key; private int networkId; . . . // getters and setters() }
id property is added by Morphia when the record is saved to the database, and the
collectionName is used when you create the document. Now my class was annotated it was time to get it into the database.
This was done very simply by initialising the Morphia system within the code, adding a mapping to my object, and then saving an object. The following code shows this process.
// Setup our MongoDB Connection Mongo m = new Mongo(); DBCollection coll = db.getCollection("NumberSet"); // Configure Morphia Morphia morphia = new Morphia(); morphia.map(Number.class); // Create our Java Object Number number = new Number(); number.setNetworkId(85324); number.setNumber("44777000001"); number.setKey("44777000001"); // Serialize and save the record to MongoDB DBObject numberDbObj = morphia.toDBObject(number); coll.save(numberDbObj);
To aid in the performance comparison, I've added the baseline of our original MongoDB testing. This was based on inserting the same effective class as above, but using the MongoDB BasicDBObject directly, instead of serialisation.
|BasicDBObject (Insert)
|Morphia (Class with Get/Set)
This was something of a disappointment. Although I was expecting some overhead, 2.5x was more than anticipated.
So we started to think where the overhead might be. Was it in the creation of the Java Object (the getters/setters), or the serialisation. To that end, we tried a new class named NumberStatic. This only had public properties (no getters/setters). The following example shows this.
// Setup our MongoDB Connection Mongo m = new Mongo(); DBCollection coll = db.getCollection("NumberSet"); NumberStatic number = new NumberStatic(); number.networkId = 85324; number.number = "44777000001"; number.key ="44777000001"; // Serialize and save the record to MongoDB DBObject numberDbObj = morphia.toDBObject(number); coll.save(numberDbObj);
So where does this get us?
|BasicDBObject (Insert)
|Morphia (Class with Get/Set)
|Morphia (Class with Public Properties)
Oh well. So much for that idea.
What if we were to make the class responsible for creating the MongoDB BasicDBObject? Good question, lets try it.
import com.mongodb.BasicDBObject; public class NumberDAO { private String number; private String key; private int networkId; . . . // Get/Set public BasicDBObject getBasicDBObject() { BasicDBObject num = new BasicDBObject(); num.put("number", this.number ); num.put("key", this.key); num.put("networkId", this.networkId); return num; } }
|Straight BasicDBObject (Insert)
|Morphia (Class with Get/Set)
|Morphia (Class with Public Properties)
|Class emits BasicDBObject (get/set)
|Class emits BasicDBObject (public properties)
Obviously, this doesn't cover all the others aspects of the data manipulation we need to perform for a functioning system. However, based on the above we can assume that handling a lot of the serialisation within our classes ourselves is going to give us a performance boost.
Developments within the MongoDB sphere such as Morphia are fantastic. They help to bring talent and support to a growing project. If your own application isn't so time-critical, Morphia is a fantastic choice. It's super-simple to implement, transparent and has a ton of additional features I couldn't cover here.
For our needs, ORM's (at least within MongoDB) aren't quite ready for prime time, but we'll be keeping a close eye on them going forward.
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When I was in elementary school, my pediatrician advised my parents that she thought that I might have an illness that required special expertise beyond her own to treat. I was good enough at masking my symptoms, though, that my need for a specialist didn't become imperative until I was in high school.
This illness has caused me immense suffering – suffering that for long stretches of my life has felt unbearable. I have a chemical deficiency that, if death certificates were filled out more honestly, would be listed as a secondary cause of death for many. I don't think it would be going too far to call it a terminal illness for some – and you can very seldom tell who the terminal cases are until it is time for a post-mortem.
A member of my extended family told me that I had this illness because I didn't have enough faith – that clearly I had not prayed about it, or it would no longer be a problem for me. I don't suppose she would have said that if I had leukemia. Instead, I suffer from chronic depression. It is indeed "all in my head" (or at least mostly in my head) – "but only if by that you mean that your brain is in your head," as a doctor of mine once put it. "Your head is still a part of your body, you know."
There are many ways in which chronic depression contributes to the deaths of individuals – depression makes it very difficult to care adequately for one's body (which can lead to malnutrition, obesity, substance abuse, and more), and makes some sufferers careless and inattentive (which can lead to otherwise avoidable accidents – some fatal.) But the cause of death most linked with depression in most people's minds is suicide.
Many people who suffer from depression never make a "serious attempt" at ending their lives, but almost anyone who has suffered from depression has, from time to time, seen suicide's appeal. You see, depression doesn't just make a person feel sort of vaguely sad. The emotion goes beyond sad — depending on the person and the stage of the illness, it can range from intense bursts of the deepest sadness and alienation you have ever felt, to the inability to feel any kind of pleasure for weeks on end. It can make a person exhausted. It affects a person's abilities to imprint memories. It can make ordinary activities seem impossible to achieve. It can even make a person's body ache, physically. And worst of all, it feels like it will never end.
Some people find the right meds, and get better – some of these people get better forever, and others get better for a little while at least. Other people get better without medication at all. Still others go from medication to medication, and from therapist to therapist, with seemingly no end in sight. I cannot imagine how excruciating that must be.
I have been fortunate, after a fashion. Over the years, I have found treatments that have brought me into remission, sometimes for as much as 2 years at a time. Other treatments have taken away the worst of the symptoms, and left me with a low level pain that has allowed me to function for many years at a stretch. And I have lived with the illness long enough to recognize now when I am starting to slide towards the bottom – to go get help for myself before I am so far gone that I need someone else to get help for me.
But this place I am in now – this ability to recognize and manage my illness – is one that took three decades to reach. And I didn't reach this place on my own – it took a great deal of willing and competent assistance. If, in the first fifteen years of dealing with this illness, a doctor had suggested that it was perfectly acceptable to opt out of intolerable suffering with their help – if, in other words, euthanasia had been offered by a trusted authority figure – by some expert who decided to share with me that some people never find a successful treatment – on a vulnerable enough day, I wonder if I might not have taken them up on it.
Of course, doctors don't offer suicide as a solution to people with depression. In fact, in the United States, any kind of suicide is essentially illegal in most states, and any person with a mental illness who is judged to be "a danger to themselves" (who is credibly at risk of killing themselves) will be held against their will in a psychiatric facility. They may even be escorted to said facility by a policeman armed (oh irony!) with a deadly weapon. There they will be rehabilitated to the limits of the law and insurance, and released when they feel merely terrible again. This is not a great solution, but it could be much worse.
The Netherlands has had an assisted suicide law in place since 2002. In that country, an individual can go to their doctor and get their help in order to die quickly, painlessly, and reliably. At first this was only available to a person if they were "suffering unbearable pain with no hope for a cure." Any kind of unbearable, incurable pain, that is, besides the pain that accompanies mental illness. Until they did start including some mental illnesses, as well as dementia. And now they're looking to extend it to folks who are simply old and feel that they have "completed life." How much longer until people like me, chronic depression sufferers, are included in the list of people whom it is acceptable for doctors to kill, with the state's blessing, in the Netherlands? (UPDATE 10/14/2016: So, apparently it is not a question of "how much longer until…?" A friend on Facebook pointed out to me that it is happening already.)
Of course, as a Christian, euthanasia troubles me. From the very beginning, Christians have asserted that every life is of value – beginning with decrying the Roman practice of abandoning unwanted infants to die, and establishing hospitals, for instance. Killing those who do not fit into our plans for a tidy, shiny happy society is unacceptable. Instead, what is called for is increased support, and improved and attentive pain management when all else fails. (Shout out to Hospice – I will be forever grateful for how they helped to manage my father's last weeks on earth.)
But it is also true that, as someone who has lived a long time under the cloud of depression, euthanasia troubles me. I am profoundly grateful for all of the many people over the years who told me, in one way or another, "No matter how much you may feel that your life is not worthwhile, your life IS worthwhile. No matter how much you may wish to die, I want you to do your best to LIVE."
At my lowest points, it has been just as helpful (and sometimes even more so) when a person has said, "I totally get that you want to die. After all, you are in a lot of pain. But I'm asking you to wait until next week, and see if it still makes sense to you then." And so on, from week to week.
Depression is exhausting for the folks who live around it. From time to time, some folks have had to withdraw – have not had the energy to be cheerleaders for life in the midst of the thunderstorm I was letting loose on them. They did what they needed to do to take good care of themselves.
Once or twice, an exasperated individual did lose patience with me and say, "Go ahead and die then, if you're so set on it." But never once has anyone (ANYone! Much less my own trusted doctor) said to me, "Not only do I believe that you are miserable, but I believe that you are right to be thinking about ending your life. Let me help you with that!"
Thank God.
I am not one who believes that a person who commits suicide places themselves outside of God's providential care. God's love dwarfs any meager emotion I or any other creature can muster. I myself have so much love, and no condemnation, for those who do end up taking their own lives – who cannot find any hope or reason to go on living. Nevertheless, the loss of life in this way grieves me deeply – it is deeply sad anytime a person is stretched beyond their endurance.
But giving doctors the authority to help someone end their own life is dangerous and unconscionable. The longer a person endures their suffering, the more opportunities they are given to find moments of joy and reconciliation in the days that they gain, the more opportunities their community is given to care for them, the more opportunities God is given to speak through that person's life.
These days, almost 4% of all deaths in the Netherlands are by means of assisted suicide. Who knows how many of these people would have found that they had not yet reached the limits of their endurance, if there had not been so many people willing to release them from a burden that was not yet more than they could bear?
Many thanks to Rev. Kara Slade, who brought The Telegraph's article on euthanasia in The Netherlands to my attention.