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The Acropolis
14 May 2011
We have our fruit for breakfast and leave for the Acropolis before it gets too hot. It was a noisy night last night, we are just down from the town hall and there has been a lot of protesting. Three days ago a local Greek was killed by an illegal immigrant during a street robbery. The local skinheads and radicals walking down the street with baseball bats, they are having a go at the illegal immigrants, and there is a sizeable police presence. It is a big problem here, and it has turned violent. Near where we are staying (close to where we stayed the first visit) is a bit of a rough area. Many illegal immigrants here are from Nigeria, Romania, Bulgaria, Arabs and Indians. Being illegal they cannot work, so turn to petty theft, pickpocketing etc, and flog it off on the street. There are sellers everywhere down the street from our hostel. We hope we are careful enough going out. We don't carry a purse or wallet, Tony has just one credit card with him and a small amount of cash, worn around the neck but kept down his pants. The phone is in a pouch around the neck too. Nothing much in the backpack, and all the zips are locked, which is a real pain in the arse when you want something out, but hopefully it is enough to stop them. We are told later that they tend to leave the tourists alone, it is bad for business and the police come down hard on them if they have a crack at the tourists. But apparently it is ok to have a crack at the locals.
We find our way to the Acropolis, basically down the hill from our hotel, and start making our way up. For EUR12 ($22) each we can buy a four day pass to the acropolis and six other attractions in Athens. So we reluctantly go with that option, because to get to the Acropolis you had to buy a ticket to get onto the lower slopes, or walk some considerable distance around the hill and then start the climb to the ticket office. They are not exactly truthful about the pass, we were lead to believe it was four days, and you could visit anywhere, any time. For starters there is no date on the bloody thing, so in theory you could use it all week, or more if you were so inclined. Then there are tear off stubs, every time you enter one of the "other" attractions you lose a stub, and when you run out, you cannot visit any more. So yes, you can revisit a place, but it means you miss out – or pay more – for other places. Only one stub has "Acropolis", so there is only one visit here with this pass. The other thing is that there are not enough stubs to visit all the places they advertised that you could see with the "pass".
There is no guide or map available, so we are thankful to have our own. The directions we are given are pretty inadequate, as are the signposts. We make our way up the path, the climb up is not as bad as we expected, in fact we hardly notice it. Before long we are overlooking the 5,000 seat theatre, The Odeion of Herodes Atticus, built in 161 AD. We are in awe of the amount of restoration that has been undertaken, the theatre is huge, and to think that this also once had a roof is even more incredible.
Next is the Propylaea, the grand entrance to the Acropolis, built in 437 AD, and as we leave there we come before the Parthenon. This is truly an architectural masterpiece, there isn't a straight line in the whole design, and the columns only appear to bulge. The Parthenon was built in the late 6th C BC, and is dedicated to the goddess Athena. We spend quite some time on the hill, looking at the other ruins that have been so wonderfully restored. At the Erechtheion we finally see how they managed to put a roof over their buildings. It must have been a hell of a job to lower massive thick marble beams into place, and then place marble tiles over the top.
We are surprised to find free water on the site (no shops of any sort there at all), and fill our water bottles (twice), that saves a few euros!
We leave the Acropolis buildings and are thankful for some time in the shade, it is getting hot. There is a huge marble rock nearby, Areopagus Hill, and a lot of people are climbing it, the view must be great from there too, so Tony has to investigate. There are signs warning how slippery it is, worn smooth by millions of feet. On the top some sheila is complaining how slippery it is (obviously took no notice of the signs), she is wearing jandals on her feet and before long goes tits up on the smooth marble. Actually, she goes tits out. No Tony didn't get a photo, he was trying not to laugh too loudly. Mastercard moment? You bet!
Back at the park bench Cynthea is enjoying icecream, and Tony is told he will have to share, the snow freeze cost EUR3.50 ($6.60!!). It is stinking hot still, no wonder the Greeks all shut up shop at 3pm for a few hours. As we head away there is a hell of a commotion, a pickpocket has had a go at someone's wallet, and the police have their dogs are after him. Actually that should be them, there were two working together. One caused a diversion and the second one tried to snatch the wallet. We are not sure if they got it or not, and we didn't see the police catch them.
We head down to the south side of the Acropolis, there is another ruin over this side of the hill, an ancient theatre. The 17,000 seat Theatre of Dionysos was built in the 5th C BC. In the 4th C BC the wooden part was replaced with marble, and sections of this survive today. It was a quick visit, as the area closes at 3pm, as do all the other sites around the town. Only the Acropolis is open until 6.30pm, now that they have started extending the hours for summer.
The new Acropolis Museum is across the road, at the entrance is a glass floor, and we have no trouble walking over it! Our four day pass doesn't cover the museum, and they want EUR5 ($9.50) each to enter. We are shattered, we have walked a fair distance already, and it is bloody hot today. We also have to check in our backpacks (but no responsibility for anything missing or broken!), and you are not allowed cell phones or cameras inside. We are too tired to bother, and decide to walk back to the hotel via Hadrian's Arch and the Plaka district.
Hadrian's Arch is impressive (and you can see it for free!), constructed in 131 AD. 18m tall, 13m wide, made of marble, this arch has inscriptions on each side. The west side reads "This is Athens, the city of Thesus", the East side reads "This is the city of Hadrian, not Thesus". We walk back through the district of Plaka, full of cafes and restaurants, tables all out on the footpath so you have no choice but to walk in the street. It is very, very busy, and after a while you soon get sick of everyone trying to sell you their overpriced food and drink.
Tony grabs a beer from the kiosk, and we make doorstep sandwiches again, bread is a bit stale though. Tony heads up to the common room on the roof for a couple of beers and talks to a few other travellers (mostly Aussies). We chat to an English couple who have also taken a year off work, Chris and Megan are doing volunteer work in exchange for food and board with Next Exchange, we have also looked into that for the UK. No one else in the room tonight, we have the dorm to ourselves.


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Lucy du Sautoy
British artist Lucy du Sautoy graduated from The Art Academy in London with a first-class Fine Art Diploma in 2015, the same year her painting Daydreaming was selected for the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition.
Much of Lucy's work is based on the theme of everyday views created from a spirit of daydreaming and distraction. Going home from college one day, she found herself focusing on the raindrops travelling across the train window as she pondered the concept of daydreaming – that moment when you don't feel any emotion, that almost meditative, in-between state that often occurs during moments of routine and boredom, when the mind wanders and you can become focused on tiny details.
Since then Lucy has focused on familiar, often overlooked, subjects in her work – those raindrops on train windows, as well as finger-drawn words and pictures on steamed-up car windows. "I aim to create a sense of recognition that can allow the viewer to overlay the painting with their own mental imagery, or to imagine what might have led to or might follow this moment. I aim to trigger their daydreams."
Lucy works from photographs as her first point of reference. She manipulates them digitally by cropping, blurring areas to bring other details forward and altering colour saturations. This enables her to work out the composition and see whether what she has in mind can work as a painting.
Surface is important to the artist; she wants the viewer to enjoy the painted medium as much as she does, so brush marks are often visible and layers of glazes obvious. It is not her intention to produce photorealist paintings.
Lucy's work is regularly exhibited, most recently in a solo show, Views, at the Jane Newbery Gallery in London in 2017, and in the group shows Figments at the Menier Gallery and This is Reality at the Espacio Gallery in London in 2016. She is frequently commissioned and her work is held in private and corporate collections across the UK and in the US.
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Sorry we skipped last week. I'm having a little trouble sitting down to write blog posts lately! But I'm doing my best and I am working on a post about the first month of life with two kids so stay tuned!
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Getting Children Involved with Giving Back via A Healthy Slice of Life
10 Creative Exercises That Are Better Than Brainstorming via Hubspot
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Two weeks ago:
We celebrated Thanksgiving. My parents and sister came into town for the week and it was wonderful.
Last week:
I survived my first week home alone with two kids.
We went to a play date.
We started going to The Little Gym again. Since I can't take Squish to swimming lessons by myself anymore during the week, I decided we needed another energy outlet.
We turned his carseat around. Such a big man!
I posted this tip on Instagram and thought I'd share here too:
Life-changing tip for parents!! To lock your kids into one app on your iPhone (i.e. Keep them from deleting your emails, taking a million pictures with your phone, etc), go to settings – general- accessibility – guided access and turn it on. Then you can open an app and triple click the home button to turn it on. Hit options to choose what they're able to do when it's turned on, like change the volume, use the keyboard, etc. To turn it off, triple click the home button again and enter a passcode that you created and voila!
I'll write more about my breastfeeding journey in an upcoming post but I did give a shoutout to all my fellow breastfeeding mamas out there when I shared this pic…because it's no joke:
Let me tell y'all a little bit about breastfeeding. It's challenging, exhausting, time-consuming and oh so rewarding…all rolled into one. It takes time, patience, dedication and did I mention time?? So if you know a breastfeeding mama, give her a hug. She's working harder than you know!
Little Miss turns one month old today! Crazy!!


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There was a scene in this episode which was drastically cut down in order to appease the censors. Their problem with it was the length of time we spent on the nude back of an attractive young woman. My problem is knowing that I work in an industry, or perhaps I should say a culture, that is more comfortable showing a dead naked body than a live one. A glimpse at any of the prime-time police procedural shows reveals that the powers that be, both in Hollywood and Washington, are perfectly at ease with graphically detailed autopsy scenes that show female corpses being carved up in order to reveal the titillating (pun intended) cause of death, or, if it's during sweeps, examined for traces of semen. Now I don't for one second believe that this little vanity card vent of mine will accomplish anything. I even strongly doubt that, despite living in a country that espouses "free speech", it will even be broadcast. I just needed to get it off my very alive, and very sexual chest. (p.s. If I get away with this card, I'll write one about how television networks love erection-producing drugs and yet fear erections.)
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There are a number of medical alarm options out there that target the elderly and disabled population. You should know that there are also devices that do not go directly to a monitoring center and instead directly dial 911. These are typically cellular and VoIP systems.
With cellular systems, they are not directly tied to a specific address because they are mobile and can go anywhere. This means you would have to rely on either the person using the device to know exactly where they are OR the phone giving 100% accurate GPS coordinates. This can be an issue in rural areas due to poor cellular service, and also in heavily populated areas such as an apartment complex or high rise building. Current technology only provides latitude and longitude without altitude.
If you use a device that is monitored by an alarm company they should preemptively solicit valuable information from you that would be available to pass to the 911 dispatcher should the need arise. This will allow responders to have a better location and nature of the incident if the patient is unable to talk or can't be heard for any reasons.
Understand how your device works and make sure that they will be able to provide help when you need it most. The worst time to find out if your device will get you help is the moment when you need the help. A few questions and a little research can help in making the right decision.
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Frequently people consult about experiencing chest pain. I know through training all chest pain is supposed to be referred to the emergency room for evaluation, but realistically many including myself am able recognize symptoms come from many different causes and may have different care needs. The emergency need for consultation is due the fact that many people will deny their symptoms are from a cardiac cause, delaying treatment and thus have pretty extensive heart damage or death. Evaluation thus is helpful in determining the cause. When one gets evaluated there are many different areas of anatomy where the cause may be from.
Possibilities: A rib in poor alignment, shingles, pulled muscle, cartilage between the ribs being inflamed,
Vertebra alignment, pinched nerve, shingles,
Recent cold/cough, bronchitis, blood clot, pulmonary embolism, pleurisy, pnumothorax – collapsed lung,
Pericarditis, aortic dissection, angina, heart attack, blood clot
Gastric bleeding, septicemia, blood infections, gastric ulcers,
Don't delay in seeking medical attention if you are concerned about a heart attack
Time is muscle if the heart is not getting the proper blood flow to the muscle, the muscle dies. The muscle is unable to repair itself and eventually that portion that dies is converted to scar tissue. Scar tissue is not flexible and doesn't push the blood out of the chamber of the heart. If the blood is not pushed through the heart the amount circulating through the body is reduced. This can lead to serious heart related complications, including congestive heart failure, angina, shortness of breath and limited ability for physical activity. This creates complications for many things including returning to work, or causing early retirement as the article above discusses.
Discomfort, squeezing, pressure, heaviness, aching…in the chest, between the shoulder blades, the neck, jaw or down the arms are the classic symptoms. If accompanied by shortness of breath, nausea, profuse sweating the condition is all the more urgent. Chew up 325mg aspirin and call 911.
Below is some of the content from the above listed web site. It is a great resource for helping heart patients to understand the warning signs of heart failure and the actions to take. If you are a heart patient, or the significant other/caregiver take the time to review this site. It is important sometimes the symptoms sneak up on you.
Heart failure can be managed well with the right treatment and lifestyle adjustments, as recommended by your doctor or nurse. However, it is important to monitor all your symptoms on a regular basis as heart failure can progress slowly.
You can use the list on the left or any of the links below to learn more about the symptoms you should be monitoring and what to do if they get worse.
You should call for help immediately if you experience:
Persistent Chest pain that is not relieved by glyceryl trinitrate (GTN / nitroglycerin)
Severe and persistent shortness of breath
You should inform your doctor as soon as possible if you experience:
Increasing shortness of breath
Frequent awakenings due to shortness of breath
Needing more pillows to sleep comfortably
Rapid heart rate or worsening palpitations
And you should discuss any of the symptoms below with your doctor or nurse.
Progressive swelling or pain in the abdomen
Increased swelling of the legs or ankles
To help you monitor your symptoms, please click on the links below to find useful resources that you can download, print and fill in. You can then take these with you when you see your doctor or nurse and discuss your symptoms.
Monitoring your heart failure chart
Start slow and add a little more over time. Make it feel as if when finished feel like you could have done more easily. Begin exercising at this intensity for several sessions before making large increases in your intensity or effort required to be physically active. . Remember the whole goal is to adapt, and by doing so the body is changing how it responds. In the early recovery stage the exercise prescription is very light. Do you know What exercise prescription is best for you?
Since exercise should be part of your everyday routine in order to make it a lifelong habit injury avoidance is important to be aware of overuse signs and symptoms, to rest those muscles when needed. Occasionally cardiovascular disease patients develop Peripheral Artery Disease and symptoms can present similarly to overuse. Pain should signal the body to be aware that something is going on. Take some time to evaluate that pain, what happens with it, does it always come on at a certain time or point of the exercise or activity? How long does it take to go away? Can it be avoided while being active by another means for instance switching from walking to biking? Make sure you communicate these findings with your healthcare practitioner as they could be signals of other health conditions related to heart disease and it's recovery.
Some exercise and activity is better than none, so start slowly. Even a warmup is better than no exercise session here is why warming up before strenuous activity helps your heart.
Don't expect results overnight, but do take small steps each day. Move that blood around, push it through the muscles. Make the muscles use the oxygen in the blood more efficiently. Exercise helps the the heart recover and stay strong.
You might not notice any big changes—especially in your weight—for a few weeks or even months. It is still good for your heart health! It is not all about weight loss. Forget the scale for a while. In fact many who initially start to exercise following hospitalization are Sedentary at the start and will gain a couple of pounds. It is their muscles getting pumped up, holding and utilizing more blood flow. Generally the focus on how you feel.
When not to exercise is if you are presenting with Signs and symptoms of heart problems. Exercise should be avoided if if you are presenting with congestive heart failure, or are presently sick. When returning to exercise following illness


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My name is Lynn Thoele,
…and I'm the owner of Sparkle Plenty Professional Cleaners. Some things never change. Homemade cookies will always taste better than store bought. A warm puppy will always warm your heart. Coming home to a clean, well-organized home will always put a smile on your face and a spring in your step!
Professionally, this is my Second Act and I feel like the luckiest person in the world to find a business I absolutely love. After years working in sales & marketing I wanted to find something I could be passionate about. While exploring my career options I worked for one of the best house cleaners in Minneapolis and found my calling.
From the beginning I scrubbed floors, asked questions, and learned exactly how to professionally clean a home. I talked to customers and cleaners and really listened to what was important to them.
I soaked up everything related to best practices, joined a national professional house cleaning organization, and started my own company. My work won't cure cancer or bring about world peace, but I provide an honest and necessary service for people who don't have the time, the desire, or sometimes the ability to do it themselves.
Sparkle Plenty Professional Cleaners combines two of my favorite things: working hard and helping people. You have to value both in order to be successful in this industry.
We're hard-working people of integrity who will treat your home with care & respect. We're also upbeat with a positive attitude about our work – nobody wants to work with Debby Downer, no matter how well she cleans.
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An alarming eighty-eight percent of Americans cite hostility, desk-rage, and workplace incivility as top concerns. Anna Maravelas helps executives, supervisors, managers - and the people that work for them - protect pride, profit, and productivity from these disabling emotions. Anna Maravelas is a therapist, the author of How to Reduce Workplace Conflict and Stress, and founder of Thera Rising, Inc., in St. Paul, Minnesota. Anna Maravelas has improved productivity and profits, resolved conflict, and restored trust in client organizations for more than 20 years.
Anna Maravelas has delivered hundreds of keynotes and seminars and her work is consistently cited for its excellence. Her most popular topic, "The Self-Defeating Habits of Otherwise-Brilliant People" receives enthusiastic responses across the United States and England. Anna Maravelas' expertise, warmth, and humor merge into an unusual ability to express profound insights and convey powerful, lasting skills that result in permanent change.
Her groundbreaking strategies have appeared in The New York Times, The American Bar Association Journal, Harvard Management Update, Healthcare Risk Management, the American Management Association Journal, Training Magazine, and Continental Air.
Anna Maravelas' presentations are full of insight, laughter, and surprise, and reveal her techniques for creating the attitudes and skills that are necessary for employee and client satisfaction, eliminating the root cause of destructive, costly conflicts, dismantling invisible walls that destroy profit and relationships, and managing irritability in customers and colleagues. She shows how to be "hard on the problem but soft on the people," replacing turf wars with climates of appreciation and achievement, and lowering the risk for heart disease and depression.
The combination of Anna Maravelas' unique insights, unforgettable stories, humor, and warmth results in a delightful ability to convey profound insights in an entertaining and moving manner. Audiences are captivated by her wisdom and charm, and she is internationally recognized for her ability to transform negative cultures into climates of respect, fiscal responsibility, and pride.
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Woolfolk yarns are made of super soft Ultimate Merino, which has the wear of wool with the dreamy hand of cashmere. Woolfolk's innovative process goes beyond sustainability - farmers in Patagonia are given work opportunities and sheep return nutrients to the soil of previously ignored grasslands. Hygge is a dreamy blend of Woolfolk's signature Ultimate Merino, superbaby alpaca, and mulberry Silk. With an almost felted finish, Hygge's unique structure will knit up quickly.
Suggested gauge is 5.5-8.25 sts to 4" on US 15-19 needles.
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First impression, in a word: Wow.
The grey tint is much darker than I had been led to expect. This isn't a bad thing, just an observation. For this ink, it's actually a good thing, because it allows the gold flecking to show off even more distinctly.
And show off it does. It is almost holographic in nature, in fact, on the Rhodia paper I tested it on.
Note the stern warning on the shrink wrap.
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A few quick shots of the bottle. Note the gold flecks sedimented on the bottom. I shook the bottle briskly before opening and inking.


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Second Baptist Church, 919 6th Ave., Rock Island, needs volunteers on an ongoing basis to provide one-on-one after-school tutoring to students in elementary, junior and senior high schools. Topics most frequently covered are reading, math, reading comprehension, and spelling.
When there are enough volunteers, tutors assist the same student each session which develops a bond.
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United Knightsbridge Frame
After a surge of big air and big trails becoming a more prolific stance in BMX we thought it would make perfect sense to design up a big booster. Australian connect Tyson Jones-Peni and Epsom trail boss Freddie Househam did the numbers and came up with the dimensions for the all new KNIGHTSBRIDGE frame.
Coming in at the bigger end of the spectrum, the Knightsbridge is designed to roost! Starting at 21.125 and working its way all up to 21.625 this frame is an absolute weapon. Thickened tubing throughout to keep your mind at ease for those inevitable hang-ups, widened BB for extra sprocket clearance on those who like to run a bigger sprocket. Double S bend chain stay for added tyre clearance and a 13.9" back end. Welded brake lugs and cable guiding for the anchors. Finished off in gloss Merlot Red or gloss raw with graphics drawn by Tyson himself and to give a nod at the TRU frame we have opted to go with a head tube badge rather than sticker.
4130 Seamless Sanko Japanese Tubing
Butted and tapered tubing throughout
Top Tube: 21.125" 21.375" 21.625"
Head Tube: 74.4
Chain Stay: 13.9"
Bottom Bracket Height: 11.5"
Stand Over: 9"
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Instagram is my special, sacred place on social media. Unlike the cacophony that is my Twitter feed, for instance, my Instagram feed is a highly curated mix of about 150 posters whose every image I want to savor. They are almost entirely individuals (most of whom I know and love personally, or have met and admire), with a only a couple of brands mixed in, and my feed is tightly enough edited that I don't miss anything. My favorite topics include nail art, vegan food, cats (obviously, hello), Los Angeles lifestyle, events — and most of all travel.
Behold my personal and completely unscientific sampling of some of the best travel photographers on Instagram, and one wanderlust-inspiring brand too — now updated with a some new favorites just in time to kick off the 2015 summer travel season!
Kim is the director of PR for the Four Seasons Los Angeles at Beverly Hills, and lives an absolutely enviable life of luxury world travel. Her particular affinities are for South America and Greece — and basically anywhere there's a yacht party. Recent posts include insane snaps from destinations like the Maldives and Bali.
As the Africa travel expert for GeoEx, Starla's Instagram reads like a National Geographic special slash makes you wonder why you ever worked a single day at a desk. #YOLO/#FOMO (Yomo?) times infinity squared. She has journeyed through close to 20 African countries — on foot, 4×4 vehicles, quad bikes, kayak, canoe, hot air balloon, helicopter, and any number of small aircraft. (She's also a friend, who has guest posted a series of Africa travel tips on this blog.)
Blogger Daria Salamon is currently taking a year off to travel the world. This would make for a worthy feed to follow under any circumstances — but I'm particularly interested that she's doing it with kids. While it's not for me, I love that it's for her — and I'm so curious to watch it all unfold. (Curious, and OK, yeah — jealous, given they're in Fiji at the mo'.) As an aside, she blogged the answer to the endlessly asked question "How do you do it?" here.
I'm trying to figure out how this former office co-worker of mine lives a life so untethered to a desk. Follow Yvette in particular for natural landscapes like mountains and waterfalls — and tons of great hiking porn. She just explored Vietnam's wild caves. And is soon planning a return to hike Half Dome for the third time and at last conquer it; this is a summit we have both tried and failed to achieve thanks to anxiety about that last rickety cable ascent. Stay tuned!
Managing editor at The Points Guy, Eric Rosen (no relation) has the feed to follow for a look inside the airlines' best first- and biz-class seat accommodations and lounges. Oh, and then the destinations are pretty great too.
Another Four Seasons PR type, Nicola is an expat bon vivant who was living in Thailand when I first met her. Since, she's been promoted to head up PR for the Four Seasons in Europe, Middle East, and Africa, from her post in Dubai. She once shot many to-die-for Southeast Asian island landscapes, and now there are many more striking desert scenes and wild architectural views. But there are also a lot of cats! Nicola shoots a lot of cats wherever she can find them, so — that's obviously a win.
Essence magazine event chief and blogger Candace is not always traveling with her family—but when she is, she's making it look so chic and fun (with perfect curls no matter the weather). When my twins are old enough enjoy to enjoy proper vacays, I want those trips to look like this feed—all colorful and joyful and exuding love.
Similarly, Raluca over at What Would Gwyneth Do makes family life look downright glamorous. She recently announced her blog would be taking a bit of a hiatus, but her feed still appears to be going strong. Under that impeccably curated veneer, she may have bags under her eyes— but at least they're Prada.
Ugh, it's so gorgeous it hurts. After my French Polynesian honeymoon in 2010, the sight of anything Bora Bora-related makes me faint slash drool slash wish I wasn't sitting at my desk working. If Air Tahiti Nui posts another photo of rays swimming in utterly translucent water under serene standup paddleboarders, I swear I will plotz (but in a we'll-be-back-for-sure way).
Oh and by the way? If you want to follow me, too, for L.A. lifestyle stuff, nail art, hiking, cats, travel and what I hope is a restrained collection of photos of my infant twins, you can find me at @alicedubin on Instagram. (Hey, Savvy Sassy Moms thinks I'm fun to follow, so maybe you will too!)
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Argentina's Elected Autocracy
But Kirchner isn't wasting any time. Earlier this month, her supporters in Congress introduced a bill that would allow the government to seize a majority stake in Argentina's only newsprint manufacturer. Such a move would obviously hurt anti-Kirchner newspapers such as Clarín and La Nación, especially given Argentina's strict currency controls and import restrictions. Those papers are already struggling to deal with Kirchner's undeclared advertising war: As the Wall Street Journal reported in February, Argentina's supermarket companies and electronic retailers have been ordered by the government "to stop advertising in the country's top newspapers." The new judicial reforms will make it even harder for journalists to appeal unconstitutional assaults on their freedom, because injunctions against government policy will be capped at six months.
Meanwhile, Kirchner has also tried to manipulate Argentina's financial regulations. "In November," notes the Economist, "the government changed the capital-markets law to give the state-controlled regulator, the National Securities Commission, the power to intervene in companies listed on the stock market if the interests of minority shareholders are neglected. Ricardo Kirschbaum, the editor of Clarín, says he fears that this law will soon be used to seize control of the company."
For now, Argentine judges are doing their best to uphold democracy and the rule of law. A few weeks ago, federal courts overturned the outrageous fines that had been slapped on private consultants who reported honest Argentine inflation numbers. Kirchner has consistently lied about the country's real inflation rate -- which is approximately 25 percent -- and on February 1 the International Monetary Fund formally censured her government for publishing bogus statistics. The online business journal Latinvex has projected that "Argentina is likely to have the world's highest inflation rate this year." (Yes, Argentina's inflation problem is even worse than Venezuela's.)
Unfortunately, Kirchner's judicial reforms have moved Argentina significantly closer to authoritarianism. Indeed, even before the Argentine Congress voted to end judicial independence, media freedom was steadily declining. "The press environment as a whole worsened in 2012," observes Freedom House, "as the administration carried out smear campaigns against critical journalists, usually through public media."
Opposition forces are now hoping that the Supreme Court will rule in favor of Clarín and strike down the bulk of Kirchner's controversial 2009 media law. They are also hoping to pick up seats in Argentina's October 2013 mid-term legislative elections. According to one pollster, Kirchner's approval rating dropped from 64 percent at the time of her reelection in October 2011 to 34 percent in March 2013. Yet Kirchner is still benefiting from a weak and divided opposition, as she has throughout her tenure.
The mid-term elections may determine whether pro-government lawmakers can amend the constitution to let her seek a third term in 2015. They may also determine whether -- or how soon -- Argentina's democracy can be saved.


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Stay & Spa Package
Claris Hotel & Spa Barcelona
Treat yourself to a night of relaxation and pampering in Barcelona with the Stay & Spa package at the Hotel Claris 5* GL. Offering you an outstanding setting and facilities, we would also like you to be able to enjoy a unique experience designed by the Mayan Luxury Group: The TUUKUL Mayan holistic massage will help to relax your body and mind and recover your natural balance. Ideal for reducing stress, this 50-minute massage uses essential oils and serums in an ambience that features the typical rituals and sounds of Mayan culture.
The Stay & Spa Pack includes:
- Accommodation in the selected room type.
- Daily buffet breakfast
- TUUKUL holistic Mayan massage lasting 50 minutes. (For one person)
- Exclusive access, before or after your treatment, to the Temazcal, a unique pre-Hispanic sauna handcrafted according to the traditions of the Mayan culture. An experience to refresh the body, rouse the spirit and relax the mind. (Valid only for the person who booked the massage)
- Exclusive access, before or after your treatment, to the hotel's chromotherapy shower, perfect for hydrating and softening the skin, stimulating the circulation and leaving you relaxed in body and mind. (Valid only for the person who booked the massage)
- Late checkout until 4pm (subject to availability)
NOTE: Treatments should be booked through hotel reception.
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Prof. Athanasopoulos-Zekkos has joined the CEE faculty at UC Berkeley and will be affiliated with the Energy, Civil Infrastructure and Climate and GeoSystems groups. Read moreRead more
Professor Athanasopoulos-Zekkos elected to serve on the Board of the United States Universities Council on Geotechnical Education and Research (USUCGER)
Prof. Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos was elected to serve on the Board of the United States Universities Council on Geotechnical Education and Research (USUCGER). USUCGER is the national organization focused on advancing high quality geotechnical engineering research and education at US academic institutions. Prof. Athanasopoulos-Zekkos will serve a 4 year term starting in 2019.Read more
Professor Athanasopoulos-Zekkos selected for Excellence in Teaching Award
Associate Professor Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos has been selected to receive the 2016 Chi Epsilon Excellence in Teaching Award for the Great Lakes District. This award recognizes dedication to teaching in the civil engineering profession. The Great Lakes District is comprised of universities in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana - including Purdue University, Ohio State University, Michigan State…Read more
Seminar on "Pile Driving Induced Vibrations and Their Effects on Nearby Structures"
Dear Geoengineers, This week's University of Michigan Geotechnical Engineering Seminar will be delivered on November 4th at 4:30 in 2355 GG Brown by Prof. Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos University of Michigan. The presentation is titled "Pile Driving Induced Vibrations and Their Effects on Nearby Structures". (more…)Read more
Professor Athanasopoulos-Zekkos earns Middlebrooks Award
Assistant Professor Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos recently received the 2015 Middlebrooks Award from ASCE Geo-Institute. Athanasopoulos-Zekkos and Raymond B. Seed, PhD, earned the award with their paper, "Simplified Methodology for Consideration of Two-Dimensional Dynamic Response of Levees in Liquefaction-Triggering Evaluation in the Journal of Geotechnical" and Geoenvironmental Engineering. (more…)Read more
GeoWall team selected as national finalist
The U-M GeoWall team participated in the 2015 National GeoWall competition and was selected as one of the 20 national finalists. The team will travel to San Antonio in March 2015 to compete in the national finals. Notably, this is the first time in the department history that a team representing U-M has made it…Read more
Athanasopoulos-Zekkos Earns the Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award
Adda M. Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, is the recipient of the Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award for her contributions in the seismic risk assessment of levee protection systems against flooding. Assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Michigan, Athanasopoulous-Zekkos' studies of earthen levees have taken 3 important directions: risk assessment based on…Read more
Professor Athanasopoulos-Zekkos featured in MDOT Research Spotlight
Assistant Professor Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos is the principal investigator of a project that was featured in a Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) Research Spotlight. The story, titled, "Minimizing the effects of pile driving vibrations", describes piles, which are steel or concrete shafts that are driven into the ground during construction using large mechanical hammers. These piles…Read more
Professor Athanasopoulos-Zekkos receives NSF CAREER award
Assistant Professor Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos has received the NSF CAREER award, NSF's most prestigious award in support of junior faculty. These awards are given to those who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research. (more…)Read more


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A man from Running Springs and employee of the Redlands Unified School District was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of uploading and distributing child pornography.
John Edward Charlier, 61, was arrested when detectives from the Fontana Police Department responded to a residence in the 31000 block of All View Drive in Running Springs on Wednesday, officials said.
"Charlier was found to be employed by the Redlands Unified School District as a District Help Desk Technician," the Fontana Police Department said in a press release. "Detectives worked closely with Redlands Unified School District Officials who cooperated fully with the investigation. Detectives inspected the work area of Charlier and there was no evidence of any illicit activities occurring at his workplace."
Police said there is no belief that any victims are from the school district.
Charlier was booked into the West Valley Detention Center with a bail of $500,000 and is scheduled to appear in Superior Court in Rancho Cucamonga on Friday.
The Redlands Unified School District sent an email to families on Thursday, notifying them that Charlier was placed on administrative leave pending police investigation.
"The District will continue to cooperate fully with the Fontana Police Department," the district said in the email.


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Just after Tuesday's summit between President Donald Trump and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, many American pundits reacted with scorn. They argued that Trump had elevated and made concessions to a tyrant without getting anything concrete in return. In South Korea, people were more charitable, and emotional. On the radio in a suburb of Seoul, talk-show hosts spoke of a path to peace and the reassurance of ordinary diplomacy. The two-page, four-point agreement signed by Trump and Kim was welcomed as a departure from the war-mongering rhetoric of just a few months back.
There is hope today, among South Korea's fifty-one million residents, in the strange chemistry of Trump, Kim, and the South Korean President, Moon Jae-in; there is a belief that a peace treaty to officially end the Korean War, and a stepwise plan for North Korea's nuclear downsizing, if not total disarmament, could be imminent. Meanwhile, America's foreign-policy establishment, conservatives touting human rights, and Democratic leaders have issued statements and tweets ("the summit—and particularly its immediate aftermath—was a farce," James Acton, of the Carnegie Nuclear Policy Program, wrote) that sound more like those coming from conservative extremists in Korea and the ruling right wing in Japan. South Koreans don't love Trump, but, in a place where the U.S. military led a war that killed millions and created a multigenerational, literal rift, American standing and protocol are not the priority. From the Korean point of view, U.S. politics as usual has done little good for the peninsula. George W. Bush's "Axis of Evil" and his opportunistic obsession with North Korean human rights (while setting up the prison at Guantánamo) rolled back years of inter-Korean progress. President Obama, to the profound disappointment of many on the peninsula, did nothing to advance Korean peace.
To be sure, there are many reasons to condemn Trump—just this week, he engaged in a reckless display of aggression against America's G-7 allies. But Koreans see the Singapore summit not just as another sensational episode in the story of Donald Trump but as a step away from a sixty-eight-year-old unfinished war. In South Korea, in all but the most reactionary circles, there is a sense of ethnic solidarity with the North and some longing for unity. Support for President Moon, who is seen widely as the catalyst for this sudden thaw of relations between North Korea and the world, remains high. (Local elections, though overshadowed by the summit, take place on Wednesday in South Korea. Support for Moon's party, generally, has also remained high, and voters will have a chance to express their confidence at the ballot box.) I've yet to meet a single Korean who isn't willing to express optimism, in some form, about the prospects for peace and reunification. In Seoul's warrens of family-run shops and restaurants, television news blares constantly over the counter. (North Koreans, meanwhile, are getting snippets of Singapore via the state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper and smuggled foreign media.) This morning, a hundred and thirty thousand people tuned in to the live feed of JTBC, a respected South Korean news channel, to watch Trump and Kim shake hands. Some of my South Korean friends have confessed their fantasies of driving up through North Korea, into Russia, and across Europe. Nearly everyone uses the same common phrase to express a basic optimism: "잘될 것 같아요"—"I think it'll work out."
In the lead-up to the summit, while Western commentators invoked the nuclear trajectories of countries such as Pakistan, Iran, and Libya, Korean analysts found other historical situations more instructive and worthy of discussion. Kim Yong-hyun, an expert on North Korea who teaches at Dongguk University, compared the U.S.-North Korea meeting to the Malta Summit of 1989, when George H. W. Bush met Mikhail Gorbachev and predicted that we might see "the end of the Cold War on the Korean peninsula." In the Naeil newspaper, Jo Se-young, of Dongseo University, endorsed the meeting between Washington and Pyongyang, citing Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's observation that, in hindsight, simple dialogue with the North Vietnamese might have truncated the war in Vietnam.
The dominant view in Seoul is that the Singapore summit would not have taken place had Hillary Clinton been the President of the United States. Trump's approval ratings in South Korea are around thirty per cent—the same as Kim's—and South Koreans know that Trump's policies have resulted in cruelties and chaos elsewhere in the world. But here they are willing to take the unexpected good brought about by his Presidency. Lee Soo-jung, an anthropologist at Duksung Women's University, acknowledged the painful "historical irony" of benefitting from Trump. In a fairer world, she tells me, "The citizens of the world would be able to vote for the U.S. President."
The agreement coming out of the Singapore summit "does open the door for more meetings ahead," Grace Liu, an East Asia researcher at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, told me. "But it'd be wrong to claim a victory for the disarmament community or any substantial action toward denuclearization." To get close to something like the Agreed Framework, the weapons freeze negotiated between North Korea and the U.S. in 1994, the two countries would need "to reach out to technical experts in the field and work with organizations like the International Atomic Energy Agency to set up a technical agreement that can be followed through with," Liu added. Something, in other words, similar to the deal that President Obama negotiated with Iran—which Trump recently scrapped.
Some of Trump's assertions at his post-summit press conference—his desire to bring home some thirty-thousand American troops stationed in South Korea; his vow to stop the "war games" (the joint military exercises) with South Korea; and his assertion that South Korea, Japan, and China should foot the bill for North Korea's economic development—left Korean analysts confused and stunned.
But President Moon, surely knowing his man in Washington by now, did not respond to Trump's unscripted remarks. After the summit, Moon issued a short statement congratulating the U.S. and North Korea on a "successful" and "historic" meeting, praising Trump for his initiative and promising to work toward inter-Korean peace. South Koreans do not trust Kim or Trump, or believe in the possibility of a quick reunification. They are simply aware of the toll that seventy years of national division have taken, and are eager for an alternative future.


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A new credit scoring model — expected to roll out in fall 2017 — aims to more accurately measure credit risk by using more historical data and machine-learning techniques while culling less reliable information.
On Monday, VantageScore Solutions announced the release of the fourth version of its credit scoring model, to be used by the three national credit bureaus. (It may seem like these credit scoring models don't change much, but they do update from time to time. You can find out 13 ways credit scores have changed in the past 20 years here.)
VantageScore 4.0 improves on its predecessor in three main ways, said Sarah Davies, senior vice president of product management and analytics for VantageScore. First, it looks at a consumer's credit behavior over time, incorporating more of what's known as "trended data."
For example, the score takes into account how a consumer's credit balance has changed over a period of months, rather than taking a single snapshot in time. This has made the score upwards of 20% more predictive than 3.0 for customers with good credit, Davies said.
The new model also excludes a lot of public record information, especially liens and judgments. In many cases, Davies said, this information was difficult to accurately link to individual consumers.
"In all likelihood, almost all civil judgments will be removed from credit files and a substantial portion of tax liens will be removed from credit files," Davies said.
With this new model, medical collections won't be reported on credit files until after six months have passed. That's because there is often confusion as to whether the consumer or insurer is responsible for the payment, Davies said.
The third big update is the use of machine-learning techniques to help score consumers with thin credit files. VantageScore used large data-processing platforms to examine thousands and thousands of combinations of consumer behaviors to identify which ones were associated with people paying their bills on time.
Despite the high-tech method, this led to some intuitive conclusions, Davies said. For example, for consumers with big collections accounts, VantageScore was able to parse out that those who are looking for credit are higher risks than those who aren't.
It seems obvious, but a human may not have identified this as a risk factor. Davies said the technique has made VantageScore 4.0 about 17% more predictive than its predecessor for people who haven't used credit in the last six months and 30% more predictive for people who don't have activity on any accounts, just collections.
What Leads to a Good Score?
VantageScore still rewards the same behavior as any other credit scoring model, Davies said. The model uses the same 300-to-850 scoring range familiar to many people. (You can find out more about what a good credit score consists of here.)
"You've still got to pay your bills on time," she said. "You should still keep your credit card balances low. What this is going to do is look more thoroughly and holistically at some of the other pieces of data."
VantageScore, which launched in 2006, claims to be able to assign scores to more than 30 million people than traditional models, like the widely used FICO score. The 4.0 version, however, will likely score about 500,000 fewer people than its predecessor because of the removal of many civil judgments and tax liens from credit files.
The removals are part of expected changes coming to credit reports as part of the National Consumer Assistance Plan, an effort by the three major credit reporting agencies expected to boost scores for many people. The agencies agreed to the plan in order to settle an investigation by 31 state attorneys general in 2015.
VantageScore vs. FICO
While Davies didn't have numbers on how often VantageScore is used compared to FICO, she said VantageScore is increasingly popular. Version 3.0 was used 8 billion times in 2016, she said, up from 6 billion the prior year. (You can see your VantageScore 3.0 for free on Credit.com.)
More than 2,000 financial institutions use VantageScore and most credit issuers, she said. The fourth version of VantageScore has shown improvements in predicting mortgage risk, and Davies said the company hopes the new score will help them break into the mortgage market.
Davies said it would be naive to think that VantageScore could end the dominance of FICO, but the goal is to improve the scoring marketplace overall.
"The ideal world would be that we have meaningful market share, but that, more than anything, we're an organization that's about pushing all scoring organizations to deliver better products," she said.
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The J. Paul Getty Museum Announces Important Gift of Brett Weston Photographs
May 24, 2001
Los Angeles--The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today a major gift of 256 photographs by acclaimed American photographer Brett Weston (1911-1993), son of photographer Edward Weston. The photographs are a gift of Christian Keesee, an art collector and chairman of American Bancorp of Oklahoma. The rare prints date from the 1930s through the 1970s, representing a major portion of Brett Weston's career. They provide the Museum with a solid foundation of Brett Weston material that complements its strong existing collection of his father's work.
Keesee, also a collector of 20th-century art, founded the Brett Weston Archive in 1997 with the acquisition of the Brett Weston Estate. Mr. Keesee is chairman of the City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, and is a trustee of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic Foundation as well as the Oklahoma City Community Foundation.
Keesee said, "This gift represents our ongoing commitment to see Brett Weston's photographs find a broader representation in the finest collections in the United States. The Getty's plans for this acquisition will bring his work to a larger audience and will provide the opportunity for scholarly study and interpretation."
Deborah Gribbon, Getty Museum director and vice president of the Getty Trust, said, "The superb quality of his gift attests to Mr. Keesee's connoisseurship and commitment to Brett Weston's work. The Museum is extremely grateful for this important donation."
While sometimes overshadowed by the work of his celebrated father, Brett Weston claimed his own place in the history of photography. The Los Angeles native began his career as an apprentice to his father in Santa Monica in the 1930s, but his own style evolved as he worked prolifically for over 60 years. He created striking urban documentary photographs of New York and San Francisco in the 1930s and 1940s, but was largely concerned with portraying the natural landscape. He is credited with leading his father toward the bold, abstract treatment of subjects such as sand dunes, boulders, and plants for which the elder Weston became famous. In a dramatic gesture on his 80th birthday, Brett Weston burned all but a dozen of his own negatives, to confirm his belief that a negative should be printed only by the person who created it.
Weston Naef, the Museum's curator of photographs, said, "These prints of extraordinary quality, when put beside our existing strong Edward Weston holding, show the son to be in every way an heir to his father's talents."
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LSE held its third annual LSE China Conference, and its fourth Beijing-based LSE graduation ceremony, on Thursday 15 August in Beijing, China.
The 2013 LSE China Conference, entitled 'A New Government - A New China?' was attended by over 300 LSE alumni, academics and experts in the field.
Professor Paul Kelly, Pro-Director for Teaching and Learning, chaired the keynote sessions with LSE academics Professor Danny Quah and Professor Arne Westad (pictured) asking the difficult questions on the possibilities for economic and political reforms in China since its change of leadership and government from October 2012 to March 2013.
The keynote sessions were followed by an expert panel on China's foreign policy. Professor Zhang Jian from Peking University's School of Government led a panel discussion examining how Chinese domestic politics are shaping China's policies and actions overseas. Tan Sri Dr Munir Majid, Chairman of Bank Muamalat Malaysia and LSE Honorary Fellow examined East Asian regional trade and co-operation and the difficult issues of China's territorial disputes with near-neighbours in East and South East Asia. LSE Professor Mick Cox brought proceedings to an end with his insights on the historical evolution of Sino-US relations and some of the critical issues that both countries need to have better mutual understanding on to ensure peace and security in the Asia-Pacific region.
The annual China Conference was preceded by LSE's fourth overseas graduation ceremony in China. Over 270 LSE graduands and their families and guests attended the graduation ceremony presided over by LSE Pro-Director Professor Paul Kelly.
LSE faculty in Beijing teaching on the LSE-Peking University Summer School were also present, including Professor Arne Westad (LSE IDEAS), Professor Mick Cox (LSE IDEAS), Professor Danny Quah (economics), Dr Mayling Birney (international development), Dr Fei Qin (management), Dr Meng Bingchun (media and communications), Dr Xu Moqi (finance) and Dr Tan Sri Munir Majid (LSE IDEAS). LSE alumnus Dr Dong Ming (PhD, 1986) also addressed the new graduates. The graduation ended with a traditional tea-party for the new LSE alumni and their guests.
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Graffiti Nature: Lost, Immersed and Reborn
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This is a single ecosystem where various creatures drawn by people live. Somewhere in this space are the animals that you have drawn.
Living things eat and are eaten by others, creating one ecosystem together. When the animal that you draw eats other animals, then it will increase in numbers. If animals cannot eat for a while or are eaten by others, they will die and disappear.
Flowers will bloom if you stand still, but will disperse if you walk around. Butterflies increase in places where there are flowers, and crocodiles die if they are stepped on too much.
As we immerse and meld ourselves into the work with others, we explore a continuity among people, as well as a new relationship that transcends the boundaries between people and the world.
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More than 10 million living species are said to exist on Earth. Each and every one of these species lives while interacting with the others. Plants create nutrition from rain, soil, and the sunlight (photosynthesis). Animals eat those plants. These animals, in turn, are eaten by other animals. When animals die bacteria decompose their bodies, allowing plants to use them for nutrition.
All these living things and the habitat they live in is known as an "ecosystem". Inside an ecosystem, everyone plays a specific role. Therefore, when an animal or plant greatly changes in number due to climate change or human intervention, the ecosystem's balance is destroyed, thus affecting all that live inside it.


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The Labrador retriever, also known simply as a Labrador or Lab, is a popular breed of assistance dog. As is true of most canines, stroke (disruption in the flow of blood to the brain) can affect Labradors. One famous assistance Lab, Endal, passed away after suffering a stroke. Treatment for stroke is to find the original cause and treat that disease. Causes of stroke include high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, tumours of the adrenal or pituitary glands (Cushing's disease) and thyroid problems. Veterinarians, unfortunately, cannot attribute reasons to half of stroke cases. After minor strokes, dogs recover faster than humans do, often in a few weeks. Nonetheless, sometimes stroke changes are permanent.
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Labradors are intelligent dogs, and many have been trained in complex tasks. After a car hit Endal's owner, Allen, in 2001, Endal put Allen into the recovery position, covered him with a blanket from Allen's wheelchair, retrieved his cellphone and pushed it against Allen's face, then went for help. Confusion can be seen in a Lab when it experiences difficulty attempting to complete a familiar task. The dog may turn into the wrong room when heading for the front door. It may not understand commands or recognise familiar toys. These are signs of a possible stroke.
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Labradors usually have an erect, level and straight head pose. Investigate odd head tilting, or holding of the head at an angle when walking (unless the dog is carrying something), for possible stroke.
Sensory Problems
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Labradors have an excellent sense of vision, hearing and smell. Disruptions in one of these senses can signal stroke. Watch for a pet that eats from one side of the bowl only, cannot find a thrown ball, turns to the wrong side when called or trips over obstacles.
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Labradors are naturally fun-loving and energetic. They will play fetch to the point of obsession. Walks are a highlight of the day. If your pet seems listless, or uninterested in walks or a favourite ball, this is perhaps a stroke sign.
Behaviour Changes
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Get to know your pet's usual behaviour. Labradors generally are not territorial, insecure, aggressive or destructive. Typically, a Lab will bark only when sounding an alarm. They love water and enjoy holding objects. Suspect stroke if you see sudden behaviour changes like aggression, fearfulness, constant barking or an inability to hold objects in the mouth.
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Scholarship presentation part of summit on critical need for skilled nurses
Kinnser Software, a leading home health software company, is presenting Austin Community College a total of $1 million to provide scholarships for hundreds of nursing students. The scholarship presentation was part of a summit and information session to raise awareness of the critical need for more nurses in Texas and across the country.
Chris Hester, president and founder of Austin-based Kinnser Software, created the Kinnser Scholars Program at ACC with a $225,000 gift in 2011. The additional donation will bring the scholarship fund to $1 million, covering tuition, fees, and program expenses for 400 nursing students through 2027.
"Nursing is the fastest-growing, most secure career field in America, and the need for nurses will only grow as baby boomers age," says Hester. "ACC does a fantastic job of preparing knowledgeable, skilled nurses, and Kinnser Software is pleased to partner with the college to give hard-working students added support to help them reach their full potential."
ACC offers training for Certified Nurse's Aide, Vocational Nursing, and Registered Nursing – producing hundreds of new nurses every year, including more than 250 registered nurses. The college's Associate Degree Nursing graduates have an RN exam pass rate that is consistently between 90 and 100 percent.
"Kinnser's generosity will change many lives – for both deserving students and the patients they will care for as the next generation of nurses," says Corby Jastrow, board chair for the Austin Community College Foundation. "We thank Kinnser Software for its commitment to ACC and for taking away one significant barrier so many students face."
Community Colleges Are Positioned to Respond to Nursing Shortage
ACC and other community colleges play a key role in educating the nursing workforce. One of the hallmarks of community colleges is the ability to rapidly respond to changing workforce needs, and ACC ensures alignment with the latest nursing industry developments by partnering with all major area hospitals and other health care providers.
Expert professionals, current Kinnser Scholars, and prospective nursing students gathered at ACC on April 16 for the summit addressing the state of the industry and nursing education. The event included a panel discussion on issues including the challenges facing new professionals, the role of technology, and how nurses can stay current on developments in the medical field.
"Nursing is a fulfilling and challenging profession, and now is the time to get trained for the groundswell of openings we will see in the years to come," says Dr. Stacey Cropley, director of nursing practice for the Texas Nurses Association and moderator of the panel discussion. "Ensuring a sufficient pipeline of skilled nurses will have a tremendous positive impact on our quality of life."
Current Facts on Growing Job Market:
• Ten thousand Americans and nearly 700 Texans will turn 65 and age into Medicare every day for the next twenty years.
• Demand for full-time RNs in Texas exceeds supply by 22,000. This could expand to a shortage of more than 70,000 RNs by 2020. Source: Texas Center for Nursing Workforce Studies
• Registered Nursing is the top occupation for job growth through 2020. The number of employed nurses is expected to grow from 2.74 million in 2010 to 3.45 million in 2020 – up 26 percent. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
• From 2012 to 2022, vocational nursing employment is expected to increase by 25 percent. Nursing assistant employment is expected to increase by 21 percent. The average for all occupations is 11 percent. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Legacy of Kinnser Scholars
Since its launch, the Kinnser Scholars Program has awarded nursing scholarships to 45 students, with nearly two dozen already graduated. Scholars are encouraged to work in nursing environments while they pursue their degrees, and many have secured positions with top employers including St. David's HealthCare and the Seton Family of Hospitals.
The priority application deadline for the Kinnser Scholars Program is May 1. For more information and to complete the ACC general scholarship application, visit austincc.edu/foundation.
About the Austin Community College Foundation:
The Austin Community College Foundation was established to expand higher education and training throughout the Austin Community College District. Its mission is to raise funds to ensure student success and to develop community support for the college. The ACC Foundation is led by a volunteer board of business and community leaders whose dedication to education allows for the growth of college initiatives. Over $12 million has been raised through the Foundation to support programs and scholarships.


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March has become one of my favorite months. Not only is it my birth month, but the birth month of my oldest daughter. And the month that the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth comes to Cincinnati. As a mother, I love to watch the looks on my daughters' faces as they watch this show. And to top it off, I am able to capture that same feeling of amazement as I did as a child.
This March in Cincinnati, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Presents Legends. This is a new show that merges iconic circus stars with living mythological creatures, celebrating LEGENDS that we have come to grow and love for centuries. This all follows the direction of circus ringmaster Johnathan Lee Iverson, who guides Paulo the Legend Seeker to find living legends from around the world so share with fans. Once again, believe the unbelievable in this show and experience unimaginable family fun, as amazing performers from around the globe perform awe-inspiring feats of daring, spectacles of strength and thrills of wonder to summon the mythical and mysterious creatures of the past: a unicorn, a Pegasus and a Woolly Mammoth! Join us for an unforgettable family night of legendary proportions! Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Presents LEGENDS!
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