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The Elements of Life
Elements make up everything around us including the trees of a forest, your pets, and even YOU!
All living things are made up of small compartments called cells and the cells of every creature are made of elements.
The most common elements in a cell are hydrogen (H), oxygen (O), carbon (C), and nitrogen (N). Cells also contain other elements such as phosphorus (P) and sulphur (S).
Plants and animals also need other elements to survive and grow!
Elements that are important for animals (including people) are:
calcium (Ca), which is important for bones and muscles,
chlorine (Cl) for digesting food,
fluorine (F) for tooth enamel,
iron (Fe) to help get oxygen all around the body.

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"Conference Is Coming," Ensign, Sept. 2013, 15
Conference Is Coming
General conference is approaching once more, the time when Church leaders share with members the word of the Lord. As the Lord said, "Whether by mine own voice or by the voice of my servants, it is the same" (D&C 1:38). Here is an experience from the April 2013 general conference:
Conference on the Sea of Galilee
Some 60 students from the Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies gathered on the shore of the Sea of Galilee last April to watch the Sunday morning session of general conference. A live Internet broadcast of the meeting was projected on the side of a shed located a short distance from the water. The students were in Galilee as part of a 10-day trip to the region. They recognized and appreciated the significance of the event.
Jennie Smithson, one of the students, said that it was a wonder "to be instructed by latter-day prophets and apostles while imagining ancient apostles being instructed on these exact same shores by Christ Himself."


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The new TonePrint iPhone app from TC Electronic almost has to be seen to be believed. It's fortunate, then, that we have a video all about it.
Now here at TG, we're not exactly technophobic. We've reviewed (and liked) the Fret King Supermatic, which bedazzled us with its subtle self-tuning capabilities, we've championed the rise of Fractal Audio's Axe-FX II and we wet our tiny pants over the recent arrival of Garageband on the iPhone.
None of that, however, prepared us for the pure magic technical prowess of TC Electronic's new TonePrint app, which allows the transfer of TonePrint presets from the iPhone to your TonePrint pedals without the use of wi-fi, Bluetooth or wired connection.
Instead it uses magnets to transfer a signal from your iPhone to the guitar's pickups, which is then sent along the cable to the pedal and loads the new TonePrint preset.
All you need to practise this dark art is a TonePrint pedal, the latest firmware update and the TonePrint iPhone app (there's an Android version on the way), of which the latter two are free.
This is not the first time TC Electronic has dazzled us with it's wizardry. Check out our video of the PolyTune in action, or head to www.tcelectronic.com for more information.


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Written by Alan Porter | Feb 05, 2013 | Comments
It might be a bit too early to say that "The Winds of Change are Blowing Through the Nation," but with frequently expressed concerns about the durability and stamina of the U.S. Thoroughbred, there appears to be a move that indicates stallion masters and breeders are willing to at least consider standing or breeding to something other than stretching-out sprinter/miler dirt horses. Given the demographics of the U.S. population, this has meant embracing imports or domestic horses whose form is primarily on turf.
Last year saw two of the world's great stallion operations add such horses. Coolmore/Ashford introduced Cape Blanco (IRE) (TrueNicks,SRO)—the 2011 Eclipse champion turf horse, but bred and trained in Ireland—to their U.S. roster, and Darley boldly offered the Australian star Lonhro (AUS) (TrueNicks,SRO). If this pair are taken as a litmus test, then U.S. breeders may be more open-minded than many would have suspected. Cape Blanco, who won a pair of group races over seven furlongs at 2, took the 12-furlong Irish Derby (Ire-I) and 10-furlong Irish Champion Stakes (Ire-I) at 3, and scored grade I wins at 10, 11, and 12 furlongs in the U.S. at 4. The proven stamina of the son of Galileo—a horse who by common consent would be considered the world's leading sire—did not deter breeders in the slightest, and he covered no less than 220 mares.
Lonhro, who was a multiple group I winner at 10 furlongs but was better as a miler, also had his challenges to overcome in terms of breeder perception, primarily unfamiliarity with a male line that features Sir Gaylord as its most recent U.S. runner (Sir Gaylord is back in the fifth generation of the pedigree, as Lonhro descends from that half brother to Secretariat through Epsom Derby winner Sir Ivor; the great New Zealand sire Sir Tristram; that horse's excellent son Zabeel; and Australian Horse of the Year Octagonal, but is out of a mare by a son of Mr. Prospector). The leading sire in Australia in 2010-2011 and sire of Australia's most recent juvenile champion, the brilliant Pierro, Lonhro attracted 102 mares at $30,000 in 2012.
Cape Blanco's sire, Galileo, will have another son at stud in the U.S. this year in Midas Touch (GB) (TrueNicks,SRO), who will stand at War Horse Place for $10,000. A winner over a mile at 2, he won the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial (Ire-II) and was second in the Irish Derby (Ire-I, to Cape Blanco), the St. Leger (Eng-I), and Great Voltigeur Stakes (Eng-II) at 3. His dam is a stakes-winning and multiple group-placed daughter of another standout European classic sire, Darshaan. The second dam was also a multiple group winner, and is a half sister to French 2,000 Guineas (gr. I) winner and useful sire Aussie Rules.
Midas Touch's grandsire, Sadler's Wells, also has a first year representative in Bullet Train (GB) (TrueNicks,SRO), who goes to Wintergreen Stallion Station for $7,500. He's out of Kind, a stakes-winning daughter of Danehill who is best-known as the dam of Frankel, the horse who might just be what bloggers in some circles are inclined to call the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time), making Bullet Train a three-quarter relative to Juddmonte's phenomenon. Bullet Train was a winner over a mile on his only start at 2, and took the Totesport.com Derby Trial (Eng-III) at 3. Subsequently he spent his 4- and 5-year-old seasons in the service of his superstar sibling, and his sterling pacemaking efforts played a major part in the Frankel success story.
Of course we should note that the Sadler's Wells line has already developed a branch all of its own through El Prado, who, if not a stayer, was a turf runner, and who is already represented by Medaglia d'Oro (TrueNicks,SRO), Kitten's Joy (TrueNicks,SRO), and Artie Schiller (TrueNicks,SRO) as sires of grade I winners. El Prado's son Paddy O'Prado (TrueNicks,SRO), a grade I winner over 10 furlongs on the turf and also second in the Blue Grass Stakes (gr. I) on all-weather and third in the Kentucky Derby (gr. I) on dirt, kicked off his stud career at Spendthrift last year with a book of 142 mares.
The other stamina sire line that seems to be making inroads is that of Roberto, particularly through Dynaformer (who became one of the world's leading sires, despite winning over 12 furlongs on turf and starting his stud career in the bargain basement). Darby Dan—where Roberto was bred and raised, and where he stood his stud career—were actually the pioneers regarding re-importing the line, reverse shuttling the group I-winning miler All American (AUS) (TrueNicks,SRO), a son of Red Ransom. In an earlier piece on this blog we've covered Dynaformer's sons Americain and Lentenor, who are both retiring to Calumet for 2013 (Americain reverse shuttling from Australia).
If you are going to go for a stamina source, Americain is about as good as it gets: rated No. 1 on the World Thoroughbred Rankings in 2011, although he also won first time out as a 2-year-old, and had top-class form at 10 and 12 furlongs. Lentenor, a brother to Barbaro, was also a turf horse, but more a miler than a stayer, winning the Kitten's Joy Stakes at 8 1/2 furlongs, and setting a course record for the same distance. His dam, La Ville Rouge, was a rare item: a Carson City that liked to go long on the lawn. We should note that Calumet is now guided by Brad Kelley, who purchased the majority of another staying horse, champion turf male English Channel (TrueNicks,SRO). Kelley supported English Channel strongly in his early years at stud, and was rewarded when the son of Smart Strike (TrueNicks,SRO) took high-rank among the 2012 second season sires, represented by nine stakes winners from his first crop of 3-year-olds. There is no doubt that Kelley will ensure that Americain and Lentenor get similar opportunities.
A third Dynaformer retiring for 2013 is Brilliant Speed (TrueNicks,SRO), who goes to Three Chimneys for $10,000. A winner on the turf at 2, he took the Blue Grass Stakes (gr. I) on the all-weather, and the Saranac Stakes (gr. IIIT) on the turf at 3, when he was also placed in five other stakes races, including a close second in the Jamaica Handicap (gr. IT), and thirds in the Belmont Stakes (gr. I) and Breeders' Cup Turf (gr. IT). He added thirds in two more grade I events in 2012. There is a lot more speed on the distaff side of the pedigree, as the dam, a Gone West half sister to Canadian champion and multiple stakes winner Handpainted, is out of the speedy Deputy Minister mare Daijin, a sister to Touch Gold (TrueNicks,SRO), who despite winning the Belmont Stakes has sired some good sprinter/milers.
Still on the Dynaformer front, we shouldn't overlook Temple City (TrueNicks,SRO), who is by Dynaformer out of a Danzig half sister to Malibu Moon (TrueNicks,SRO), and broke a course record when winning the 12-furlong Cougar II Handicap (gr. III). He retired to Spendthrift in 2011 and has covered over 100 mares in each of his first two seasons.
There is another Dynaformer among the ranks of the U.S. turf horses in three-time grade I winner Point of Entry. Adena Springs principal Frank Stronach purchased a majority interest in the horse last month, so it seems likely that he will retire to Kentucky at the conclusion of his racing career.
Of course we also anticipate 2014 seeing the retirement of the 2011 Kentucky Derby (gr. I) victor, Animal Kingdom (TrueNicks), by the Brazilian-bred Blushing Groom line horse Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) (TrueNicks), out of a German-bred staying mare. He's going to stand his Southern Hemisphere seasons at Arrowfield, but is undeclared as far as the Northern Hemisphere is concerned.
Other new stallions who excelled on the turf include multiple grade I winner Get Stormy (TrueNicks,SRO), who retires to Crestwood Farm; Canadian champion turf horse Musketier (GER) (TrueNicks,SRO), who begins his stud career at Adena Springs Canada; and multiple graded stakes-placed Baryshnikov (TrueNicks,SRO), who will stand at Oak Lodge USA.
We're not quite at the stage of the cycle of European invasions that saw Bull Dog, Sir Gallahad III, Blenheim II, Mahmoud, Nasrullah, Royal Charger, and Khaled, or later, repatriated European-raced U.S. breds, such as Sir Ivor, Nijinsky II, The Minstrel, Lyphard, Green Dancer, Riverman, and Nureyev (as well as European-bred Caro), to name a few that come to mind, but we do think the chances of a foreign import or U.S. raced turf horse becoming a significant sire are much higher than they were a few years ago.
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Issue #1 features Portland, Oregon – meet local yarn dyers, designers, companies, and an amazing local yarn store. Find recipes, exclusive knitting patterns made from our featured yarns, and other hand craft projects. Learn about some of the artists who make up Portland's creative community, including a pastry chef, an indigo dyer, a letterpress designer, and a team of ceramics artists. Find hand making classes in Portland that will inspire and challenge you. Take a photographic day trip to Timberline Lodge and enjoy the beauty and diversity of Portland.
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More at Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood DailyThis is the list! But not all of them are here. Go to Nikke's blog for the rest of them : "WEDNESDAY, February 18th
6:30PM Children Mending Hearts Event
Sheryl Crowe will perform, Anderson Cooper will be honored
House of Blues, 8430 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood
6:30PM-9:30PM Swarovski 2009 Award Season Celebration
Thompson Hotel, 9360 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills
7PM-9PM Vanity Fair Dior Party
Hosted by Wendy Stark Morissey, LACMA and BMW
LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles
7:30PM Milk Private Dinner hosted by William Morris Agency
Chateau Marmont, 8221 West Sunset Blvd, Hollywood
8PM Alfre Woodard Dinner Honoring Taraji Henson, Viola Davis
THURSDAY, February 19
1PM Essence Honors Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon
Beverly Hills Hotel, 9641 Sunset Blvd, Beverly Hills
4PM GBK hosts Industry Mixer to celebrate 81st Academy Awards
SLS Hotel, 465 S. La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles
5:30PM Moet and Australians in Film
For Oscar nominees Kirk Bakster, Heath Ledger, Katherine Martin, Lee Smith, Ben Snow
And present the first annual Heath Ledger scholarship
Chateau Marmont, 8221 West Sunset Blvd, Hollywood
6PM-8:30PM Vanity Fair Dior Party Launch of Brandaid
Hosted by Paul Haggis, Diane Lane & Josh Brolin
Environment (Furniture), 8126 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles
6:30PM-11PM 4th Annual Oscar Wilde: Honoring the Irish in Film
Honoring Brendan Gleeson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Hylda Queally
The Ebell, 743 South Lucerne Blvd, Los Angeles
8PM Sixth Annual Global Green Pre-Oscar Party
Hosted by Leonardo DiCaprio, Penelope Cruz, Orlando Bloom, Rosario Dawson
Avalon Hollywood, 1735 Vine St, Hollywood
FRIDAY, February 20
11AM 16th Annual Oscar Week Student Filmmakers Scholarship Luncheon
Hosted by the Multicultural Motion Picture Association
Four Seasons Hotel, Ballroom, 300 South Doheny Drive, Beverly Hills
5PM AMPAS cocktail party for Foreign Language nominees
AMPAS (Lobby), 8949 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills
5PM-8PM Women in Film hosts a reception honoring female nominees
With Perrier-Jouet Champagne
Hosted by Cathy Schulman, Donna Gigliotti, Wendy Finerman and Lili Fini Zanuck
Home of Peter and Tara Guber, Bel Air
6PM-8:30PM Bally's Hollywood Domino Party To Benefit The Art of Elysium
Hosted by Kate Bosworth
Andaz Hotel, 8401 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood
7PM Haven - Fashion Show And Cocktails
Spring collections from designers Russell Simmons, Yansi Fugel, and Born Uniqorn
360 Trousdale Place, Beverly Hills
7PM Mont Blanc and UNICEF host Signature For Good event
Paramount Studios, 5555 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles
8:30PM Ari Emanuel-Endeavor party
10PM Bryan Lourd-CAA Party
SATURDAY, February 21
11AM Universal/Focus' Academy and Spirit Award Nominees Brunch
Hosted by David Linde and Felicia Rosenfeld, James Schamus, Marc Shmuger, Louis Hamagami
11AM DreamWorks hosts annual brunch for animation nominees
11:30AM Film Independent's Spirit Awards
2030 Barnard Way, Santa Monica
12PM Barry Diller Luncheon for Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter
Diller's Beverly Hills Estate
4PM IFC Indie Film Celebration
Shutters on the Beach, 1 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica
6:30PM Miramax Oscar Nominee Party
The London Hotel, 1020 N San Vicente, Los Angeles
7PM Focus Features Party
BLT Steak, 8720 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood
8PM Jeffrey Katzenberg's The Night Before Party for MPTF
Beverly Hills Hotel (The Pool), 9641 Sunset Blvd, Beverly Hills
9PM Tag The World Pre-Oscar Night Charity Gala
in affiliation with The American Humane Film And TV Unit
Hosted by Amber Valletta, Lorenz Tate, Wilmer Valderrama, Jesse Metcalf
My House, 7080 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood
TBD Julianne Moore & Sally Morrison Dinner: Diamonds In Africa
Chateau Marmont, 8221 West Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles
TBD Charles Finch Pre-Oscar Dinner
Madeo, 8897 Beverly Road, West Hollywood
TBD Sony Pictures Classics 2009 Oscar Nominee Dinner
Cecconi's, 8764 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood
TBD The Weinstein Company Oscar nominee party
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The Camera Bag: Rare Hasselblad NASA camera kit on sale for $51K+
posted Friday, November 16, 2012 at 5:46 PM EST
If you're doing some early holiday shopping and have a ton of money to blow, you might want to consider this rare photography item: a "mint" condition Hasseblad camera kit made for NASA is on sale on eBay for US$51,300.
The kit consists of the Hasseblad MKWE camera with a CF Biogon T* 38mm, F/4.5 lens and A24 film back with a distinctive yellow exterior.
According to the eBay seller, less than 20 of these Hasselblad NASA kits exist in the world and the lens has "No scratches, No Haze, No fungus!"
(Because, ya know, it would suck if your pricey Hasselblad lens was covered in intergalactic space fungus!)
Hasselblad recently celebrated the 50th Anniversary of its cameras being in space by unveiling a new "ultimate luxury" mirrorless interchangeable lens camera called Lunar.
The 24.3-megapixel Lunar, which is being developed in collaboration with Sony, will sell for $6,500 next year. While that high price has drawn controversy, it's pretty much a cheap "stocking stuffer" compared to the swanky NASA camera kit.
Happy shopping and have a great weekend!
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John I
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- Bynames:
- the Prince of Fond Memory, John of Aviz, John the Great, and John the Bastard
- Portuguese:
- o Principe de Boa Memória, João de Aviz, João o Grande, and João o Bastardo
- Born:
- April 11, 1357, Lisbon
- Died:
- August 14, 1433, Lisbon (aged 76)
- Title / Office:
- king (1385-1433), Portugal
John I, (born April 11, 1357, Lisbon—died August 14, 1433, Lisbon), king of Portugal from 1385 to 1433, who preserved his country's independence from Castile and initiated Portugal's overseas expansion. He was the founder of the Aviz, or Joanina (Johannine), dynasty.
Early life
John was the illegitimate son of King Pedro I and Teresa Lourenço. At age six he was made master of the military Order of Aviz; he received an ecclesiastical and military education, probably at Aviz in Alentejo. On his father's death, in 1367, his half-brother Ferdinand became king and embarked on a calamitous rivalry with the new ruler of Castile, Henry II, who finally forced Ferdinand to accept a Castilian marriage for his infant heiress, Beatriz, thus compromising the future independence of Portugal.
When Ferdinand died, in 1383, his widow, Queen Leonor, submitted to the demand of her Castilian son-in-law, John I, that he be recognized as king of Portugal. John of Aviz, who had hitherto remained carefully in the background, though he had been arrested for a time in 1382, was now persuaded by a group of young nationalists, led by Nuno Álvares Pereira, to murder Queen Leonor's favourite and adviser, the Galician João Fernandes Andeiro, conde de Ourém. Popular support was at once stirred up for John, and Queen Leonor fled from Lisbon, appealing to Castile for help. In May 1384 Castilian armies besieged John in Lisbon until the outbreak of plague forced them to withdraw (September).
Election as king
John had been named defender of the realm, but in April 1385 representatives of the three estates met in the Cortes (assembly) of Coimbra, and, after it had been demonstrated that King Pedro's elder surviving sons had not been legitimized, John was elected king. The cities of Lisbon and Porto and the merchants and trade guilds enthusiastically backed him, but much of the older nobility still favoured the Castilian succession. John and Nuno Álvares, now his constable, marched northward and obtained the submission of the chief places but returned on hearing that the Castilians were preparing a major invasion. As Spanish forces entered central Portugal, John and Nuno Álvares advanced to bar the road to Lisbon and won the famous Battle of Aljubarrota (August 14, 1385). This victory assured Portugal's independence and made John a desirable ally.
He had already received some English aid, and a small party of English archers had fought for him at Aljubarrota, and he now concluded the Treaty of Windsor (May 9, 1386), which became the cornerstone of the Anglo-Portuguese alliance. In consequence, John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, arrived in Galicia, hoping, through his second marriage (1371), with the daughter of King Pedro I of Castile, to realize his claim to the Castilian crown. John of Aviz sealed the alliance by marrying, in February 1387, Lancaster's daughter, Philippa. A joint invasion of León was unsuccessful, and Lancaster withdrew. John of Aviz made a 10-year truce with Castile in 1389, but frontier warfare with Castile was intermittent thereafter until peace was finally made in 1411.
Consolidation and expansion
John's elder sons had now reached the age at which they could become knights, and it was ostensibly on their behalf that he organized an expedition against Ceuta, which fell in a day (August 24, 1415). He had probably hoped to advance into Morocco and tap the African caravan routes, but, instead, Ceuta became a beleaguered outpost supplied from the Portuguese Algarve. This stimulated the maritime explorations, beginning with the rediscovery and settlement of the Madeira Islands and the Azores.
John's court now became a centre of culture, influenced through Queen Philippa by English traditions. Of their sons, the inclita geração ("illustrious generation"), the eldest, Edward, administered the kingdom under his father and was later king; the second, Pedro, travelled through Europe and was regent after Edward's death; and the third, Henry, known as the Navigator, was the patron and organizer of the overseas discoveries. For them, John introduced the title of duke into Portugal. Their sister, Isabel, married Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy and count of Flanders, thus consolidating Portuguese interests in the Low Countries. John's natural son, Afonso, married the daughter of the constable Nuno Álvares, and their descendants, the house of Bragança, became kings of Portugal from 1640.
John's long struggle with Castile and the need to recompense a new aristocracy caused serious financial difficulties, but he rallied his people around his throne and acquired a reputation as a cautious leader and shrewd statesman. He rewarded the faithful trade guilds by granting them permanent representation in the House of Twenty-four, in which two members of each of the 12 major guilds were to sit. He also granted them a special magistrate, the judge of the people. At Porto he ended the unpopular civil jurisdiction exercised over the city by the bishop. He displayed his devotion by building near Leiria the great Abbey of Batalha to commemorate his victory and serve as a pantheon. He was the author of a work on hunting (Livro da montaria), his favourite pastime.
There is a portrait of John in the Museum of Ancient Art, Lisbon, and recumbent statues of John and Philippa over their tomb at Batalha.
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Putin in Sochi: a disciplined show
SOCHI, Russia—So far during the Winter Olympics, Vladimir Putin hasn't shown off his pecs, scuba-dived to a treasure site or engaged in any sort of the he-man stunts he's known for.
But the Russian president's vigor and determination have been on display in quieter ways during these Winter Olympics—which, for him, have been a long round of visits to officials, athletes' facilities and sporting events. That's harder duty than it sounds.
Competitors at the Olympics get nervous knowing that the eyes of the world will be on them for a few minutes. For Putin, that scrutiny extends for the entire 17 days of the games. And many of those eyes are waiting for him to fail.
Although the home-country crowds may be largely on his side, Putin has received much criticism from abroad for the Olympics' staggering cost, Russia's crackdown on dissent and the widely denounced law banning pro-gay "propaganda" to minors. Serious questions have been raised about whether his security forces are capable of fending off threatened attacks by Islamic militants and whether Russia has been cooperating enough with Western governments on protecting fans and athletes.
Through it all, Putin has conducted himself with the slightly chilly aplomb that is his hallmark. During more than a dozen years in power, he's rarely allowed himself to be spontaneous; those moments when he did were often embarrassing, as when he inexplicably nuzzled a boy on the stomach. But he has learned how to use a choreographed moment to present an image of studied casualness.
Any leader of a country hosting the Olympics would feel obliged to show up at the events, but Putin's own athletic inclinations make his visits more than just protocol.
"He's clearly a big sports fan, and that adds to that," said International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams.
Putin's Sochi appearances may also have helped soften his image to foreigners of a stern autocrat. "It was the first time I've seen him smile," spectator Josh Straub of Red Deer, Alberta, said of the Russian president's visit to the Canadian team's headquarters.
But Livia Rickli of Amsterdam wasn't as willing to buy into his attempts at charm. "In the Netherlands we have the gay thing, so we weren't such good friends" with Putin, she said. "Now, you know, suddenly he's there, suddenly he's nice."
In a sense, Putin can be seen as an analogue to the athletes on the snow and ice of Sochi. He's strongly disciplined, consistent, and trained well enough to make the near-impossible look easy. For the duration of the Olympics, he also has to navigate tricky psychological straits—exult in victory, accept defeat gracefully and don't trash-talk your opponent (or at least, not much).
Putin showed most of those qualities Friday in a "drop-in" visit to United States of America House, the local U.S. Olympic headquarters. Although Putin has sparred with Washington, sometimes with considerable acrimony, over issues ranging from missiles to human rights to alleged U.S. meddling in Russia, he steered clear of confrontation during his visit, took pains to praise the U.S. team and even noted that Russians love many American hockey players—the sport where the U.S. and Russia have their biggest rivalry.
If those placating words were a challenge to his competitor's spirit (this is a man who loves to throw others around in his favorite sport of judo) they also conveniently paralleled Putin's foreign-policy attempts to portray Russia as a country devoted to peace and respect for all nations.
It also feeds the image, or myth, of the Olympics as something of a higher calling. And it allows Putin, at least for a couple of weeks, to fend off awkward questions.
He made the connection specific in a visit the next day to the Swiss Olympic house, when a journalist asked about the recent pardoning of oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, whose imprisonment is one of the most controversial chapters of Putin's presidency.
Putin shot back, "There is hope that you will never connect sports and politics."
The biggest public challenge for Putin in the Olympics so far came a few hours later when the United States beat the Russian hockey team in a shootout. It was a tough loss and a tough problem: he had to play the dual roles of graceful host and, for the internal audience, No. 1 fan.
"Sport is sport," he said. "I think our team played very worthily. It seemed to me they were a class higher—a little bit higher."
For those fans who came to Sochi well disposed toward Putin, his appearances have bolstered their esteem.
"I liked him before and I like him even more now. You don't have to worry about where he stands," said John Paul Haslik of Cairo, Georgia.
Russians who already admire him as a strongman find his image burnished. "He is showing the world he is a man of his word, an honest man," said Alexander Krylov, a Sochi resident.
Putin has another week to go in this rarefied air of staying above politics and for now, even some of his domestic critics are content to let him have the time-out.
Boris Akunin, a best-selling author often critical of Putin, noted that many may have hoped that the Olympics would fail in a way that could weaken Putin's hold on the country. But in a blog post, Akunin wished the Olympics success because "I'm not ready to live by the principle that what's bad for Putin is good for us."
On Feb. 23, the Sochi Games will end and the Winter Olympics flag will be handed over to Pyeongchang, South Korea, for the 2018 edition. The world's attention will drift away from Sochi, and Putin will return to the Kremlin and the rough business of Russian politics.
Where, presumably, he will find times to show his muscles in public once again. For now, though, they are hidden well, if always ready to be revealed.
Guess who dropped by USA House? Vladimir Putin
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Saul Kaplan emphasizes in his new book, The Business Model Innovation Factory, that every day more organizations are finding that their 'business models' have run dry. This is challenging and stressful for leaders and employees since, as the book trailer below notes, most have been immersed in only one type of business model for their entire careers.
As is true for CEOs, so also for school superintendents and principals. Our inability to change our 'business models' may be the death of many schools (and universities) because new educational models are being created that are designed from inception for our new information, technology, learning, and economic landscapes.


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List price: $207.95Edition: 2ndCopyright year: 2005Publisher: Delmar Cengage LearningPublication date: 7/6/2004Binding: PaperbackPages: 856Size: 8.50" wide x 10.70" long x 1.20" tall Weight: 3.652Language: English
Nancy Tye-Murray is a professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and an Adjunct Professor at New Zealand's University of Canterbury. A founder of the University of Iowa Cochlear Implant Aural Rehabilitation Programs, she also served as Director of Research for Central Institute for the Deaf. In addition to developing several communication strategies training programs, auditory training programs, and speechreading tests, Dr. Tye-Murray is the principle investigator of three National Institutes of Health RO1 grants. Her research focuses on the effects of aging on audiovisual speech recognition, discourse comprehension, and auditory… More training, as well as audiovisual speech processing by children who have normal and impaired hearing. The author of six books and more than 100 peer-reviewed research papers, Dr. Tye-Murray is also a popular speaker both nationally and internationally.Lois Elain Wacker White earned a diploma in nursing from Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, Springfield, Illinois; an Associate degree in Science from Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Texas; a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Texas A & I University--Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas; a Master of Science in Education from Corpus Christi State University, Corpus Christi, Texas; and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in education administration--community college from the University of Texas, Austin, Texas. She has taught at Del Mar college, Corpus Christi, Texas, in both the Associate Degree Nursing program and the Vocational Nursing program. For 14 years she was also chairperson of the Department of Vocational Nurse Education. Dr. White has taught fundamentals of nursing, mental health/mental illness, medical-surgical nursing, and maternal/newborn nursing. Her professional career has also included 15 years of clinical practice. Dr. White has served on the Nursing Education Advisory Committee of the Board of Nurse Examiners for the State of Texas and the Board of Vocational Nurse Examiners, which developed competencies expected of graduates for each level of nursing. She maintains membership in the Texas Association of Vocational Nurse Educators, Sigma Theta Tau, American Nurses Association, and the National League for Nursing. Less
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Broadway's spring season is shaping up oh so sweetly! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, led by two-time Tony winner Christian Borle (after Falsettos), will begin performances on March 28, 2017 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Directed by Jack O'Brien and choreographed by Joshua Bergasse, the reworked transfer of London's hit tuner is set to officially open on April 23.
Featuring a book by David Greig with music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman, the musical is based on Roald Dahl's 1964 children's book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Willy Wonka, world famous inventor of the Everlasting Gobstopper, has just made an astonishing announcement. His marvelous—and mysterious—factory is opening its gates...to a lucky few. That includes young Charlie Bucket, whose life definitely needs sweetening. He and four other golden ticket winners will embark on a mesmerizing, life- changing journey through Wonka's world of pure imagination. Get ready for chocolate waterfalls, exquisitely nutty squirrels and the great glass elevator, all to be revealed by Wonka's army of curious Oompa-Loompas.
Dahl's book was first adapted to the big screen in 1971 under the title Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, starring Gene Wilder. In 2005, Tim Burton directed a remake using the novel's original title, with Johnny Depp playing Wonka.
The West End staging officially opened at London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane on July 25, 2013, starring Tony and Olivier winner Douglas Hodge as Willy Wonka and helmed by Sam Mendes. It is set to shutter on January 7, 2017.


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WEDNESDAY, April 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- All hugs are not created equal -- and babies as young as 4 months are proof.
Heart rates in infants less than a year old slowed more during a hug than a hold. And the hug had a greater effect when it came from Mom or Dad rather than from a stranger, according to a study published April 7 in the journal iScience.
The findings offer some of the first proof that hugs help parents and infants bond, the researchers said.
"Like most parents, we love to hug our children," said first author Sachine Yoshida of Toho University in Tokyo, Japan. "We also know that children love to be hugged by their parents. But what surprised us as scientists is how little we know about hugging."
For the study, her team assessed infants' heart rates when they were hugged or held. And those aged 4 months to 1 year calmed more when they were hugged than when they were held.
The babies' heart rates also slowed more when they were hugged by their parents compared with a hug from a stranger, the findings showed.
And the calming benefits go both ways: Parents' heart rates also slowed when they hugged their infants.
"We found that both infants and parents come to relax by hugging," Yoshida said in a journal news release.
While a parent's hug didn't have quite the same effect on younger infants, one trick did help them relax: Holding baby and using a hand to put pressure on his or her back.
This suggests that younger babies don't make the same distinction as older ones between being held and being hugged, according to the researchers.
"Even though infants cannot speak, they recognize their parents through various parenting methods, including hugging, after 4 months old at latest," Yoshida said. "We hope that knowing how your baby feels while being hugged helps ease the physical and psychological workload of taking care of infants too young to speak."
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WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - A United States (US) industry group accused China on Tuesday of jeopardising international negotiations to eliminate tariffs on close to 260 technology products by asking to exclude more than 100 of the products from the proposed deal to protect domestic manufacturers.
China is one of 20 World Trade Organisation (WTO) members, along with the US and the 27-nation European Union (EU), that has been negotiating for months to expand the 1996 Information Technology Agreement (ITA).
The original pact eliminated tariffs on computers, semiconductors, software, fax machines, telephones and other information technology goods among member countries.
An expanded agreement could cover additional consumer goods such as flat-screen TVs, speakers and headsets as well as new types of semiconductors and other technology goods.
But now, "China is asking for the removal of more than 100 products from the ITA negotiation, which cannot be viewed as a meaningful effort, said Ms Sage Chandler, vice president for international trade at the Consumer Electronics Association.
"The Chinese position should be responsible, with a serious but limited list of products it wishes to exclude from lower tariffs," Ms Chandler said.
Many negotiators had hoped to reach agreement in Geneva this week on a final list of products that would be covered by the expanded ITA pact, but China's request to exclude so many products has thrown that possibility into doubt.
"What was so stunning about the size of the list is that China stands to reap significant benefits from an ambitious ITA expansion outcome. More immediately, China's list threatens to hugely dilute the ambition level of the exercise and represents a major roadblock to a successful outcome this week," Mr John Neuffer, senior vice president at the Information Technology Industry Council, a US group, said in a blog.
At a meeting chaired by Canada on Tuesday, 15 of the 20 WTO ambassadors involved in the talks voted to suspend the negotiations unless China comes back to the group with a more reasonable offer, one of the ambassadors said.
If China does not respond by mid-day on Wednesday, the talks will be put on hold, the ambassador told Reuters.
Once negotiators came up with a draft list of 256 products on which to cut tariffs, countries were asked to identify any "sensitive" items that they wanted to exclude from the agreement or reserve for long tariff phase-outs.
China's list totalled 148 products, including about 106 that it wanted to exclude, the ambassador said.
Countries with the next highest number of sensitive items were Thailand with 68 and El Salvador with 62, the ambassador said. The EU identified 10 sensitive products, the US one and Canada zero, he said.


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MIAMI (WSVN) — A South Florida girl who has powered through some major obstacles will face her toughest challenge as she gets ready to compete with some of the world's best athletes, Saturday.
Milla Bizzotto is not your average 9-year-old. Weighing in at 56 pounds and standing 4 feet 3 inches tall, this rising star in the world of obstacle racing lifts, swings and leaps with ease.
The third-grader, who hits the gym for at least three hours a week, is preparing to run the Athlete Race in Miami. The invitation-only race includes a six-kilometer paddle board and a five-kilometer run, among other challenges.
On hand to train Milla and lend moral support is Christian Bizzotto, who pulls double duty as Dad and coach. "This is her playground," he told 7News as he supervised her daughter's high-octane workout.
Christian, the co-founder of the Focused Movement Academy gym in Miami, said Milla always liked hanging out there, but it wasn't until she was bullied by some of her classmates that she became seriously involved in fitness.
The gym became an after-school program for Milla, and she began training for obstacle course races. In November, she became the youngest competitor to complete the "BattleFrog Xtreme" 24-hour race designed by Navy SEALs. She ran 36 miles, swam an eight-kilometer course, and did 25 obstacles, for six laps.
On Saturday's race, Milla will face some fearsome competition, including a former NFL player, a tri-athlete and a rugby player. Inspired by Earth Day, the event will raise funds for charities that protect the environment.
Now, as Milla's more than 42,000 Instagram followers await their chance to see her on the run, the pint-size athlete said she is determined to reach her peers and make sure to deliver her message loud and clear: no to bullying and yes to physical fitness. "[I] tell them to run around play with their friends," she said.
Milla's dad could not be more proud of her, on and off the field. "She is such a strong individual right now that she cannot be bullied," he said. "That's winning for me."
Milla has a busy schedule ahead. In August, she will fly to Hawaii to participate in the Spartan Trifecta.


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(CNN) -- An avid Twitter user, Alana Taylor wrote a song about the social networking site and uploaded it to YouTube last April. Soon, her Twitter feed became flooded with messages linking to it.
Twitter makes users "feel like the center of a social universe," one expert says.
"'Everyone was like, 'RT: Alana Taylor's Twitter song,' " said Taylor, 21, a student at New York University and marketing manager at OneTXT. "It just spread, and a lot of it had to do with retweeting."
Retweeting, represented on Twitter with the symbol "RT," means a user has taken someone else's tweet -- or message -- and copied part or all of it. The original author is often credited through the convention "@username," although sometimes the true source gets lost as messages spread further.
Apart from being used to share amusing links such as Taylor's video, retweeting has taken on a powerful role in political activism. Many young protesters in Iran have used Twitter to organize demonstrations against the results of the recent election, and the words, photos and videos of people on the ground in the country have spread globally through retweeting.
A video of a dying woman in Iran, known only as "Neda," has been shared and mentioned so much in tweets and retweets that the name has been a "trending topic" on Twitter since Saturday. Watch CNN's Elizabeth Landau talk more about Twitter »
One frequent user who has retweeted videos from Iran is Kyle Aevermann, 22, from Itasca, Illinois. Generally the retweets he receives in his feed can be humorous or even "bizarre," but lately there's been a lot of news, especially regarding Iran, he said.
"Sometimes it's a good way to just get information out since not everyone is following the same people, so it kind of, like, expands who you're following in some ways," Aevermann said.
Retweets about Iran are a prime example of how the act of passing on someone else's tweet combines elements of broadcast media and person-to-person interaction, said Dr. Nicholas Christakis, an internist and sociologist at Harvard University and author of the forthcoming book "Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives."
Information goes out to a lot of people, like a newspaper, but only to a select group of people -- "followers" -- who will likely be interested in it, he said.
"Retweeting tends to segment the market and reach those individuals who are most likely to be responsive to the information," Christakis said.
Retweets are also gaining traction in the search engine world. A new tool called Topsy is powered by tweets and shows the Twitter users considered most "influential" about topics; users get more influence the more their links get retweeted. "So, yes, retweets are the new currency on the Web," Michael Arrington wrote last month on TechCrunch, his popular industry blog.
One of the central forces of social networks such as Twitter and Facebook is the way these services make users "feel like the center of a social universe," said Daniel Berdichevsky, editor of the forthcoming book "The Psychology of Facebook," in an e-mail.
The label "followers" on Twitter makes users feel like "leaders," and puts extra pressure on users to both lead and matter to other people -- which is where retweeting comes in.
"You're leading people to something that you think is valuable for them -- the online equivalent of a watering hole or fresh prey," he said. "And you're mattering because your re-tweet presumably gives them something they lacked and wanted."
Fundamentally, it's not all that different from the way people behave away from their computers, he said. People often suggest restaurants to each other, partly because they want friends to enjoy good meals, but also because they receive gratitude for the recommendation, and want to keep the restaurants in business.
Similarly, when people speak in person, they'll often ask each other if they've watched particular television shows or seen certain Web sites, which happens on Twitter all the time, said Graham Jones, a psychologist and consultant who specializes in the way people use the Internet, in an e-mail.
Online interactions play into "ancient proclivities," such as the desires to connect with others and pass along gossip, Christakis said.
Retweeting may resemble the phenomenon of forwarding stories, links, or received messages to everyone on your e-mail address list, said Richard Sherman, professor emeritus of psychology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Like retweeting, there is the intimacy of "psst -- here's something you MUST see" mixed with the impersonal nature of mass communication, he said.
Motivations behind retweeting include info, ego, identity and amusement, said B.J. Fogg, founder of the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab, who researches how computers change people's thoughts and behaviors, in an e-mail. By retweeting, people seek to inform others, make themselves look smart and well-connected, express who they are and what they believe, and entertain others, he said. These are the same reasons why people clip articles and post bumper stickers, said Fogg, who is also co-editor of "The Psychology of Facebook."
"If you retweet [something] to everyone on your list, you might or might not think that everyone in your list needs to know this information, but you might send it along to show, 'hey, look what I know,' " Christakis said.
Retweeting also promotes reciprocity, experts said. The more you retweet someone else, the more likely they will be to reference you also. People also believe retweeting will help them get more followers or more attention to their own Twitter feeds, Jones said.
Of course, retweets don't always make sense, and the constant stream of them can get annoying, users say.
Still, Taylor, who has accumulated more than 5,000 followers and is disconnected from Twitter only while sleeping, appreciates the "viral" aspect of retweeting.
"The coolest thing about retweeting is that, if you say anything that might be valuable, it spreads like wildfire," she said.
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