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A Levantine disappointment
Today's post comes from the same New York Times article as yesterday's post, about the exchange of power in Lebanon, with Saad Hariri losing his post as prime minister to the Hezbollah-backed candidate, Najib Miqati. Toward the end of the article, there was this bit about Hariri:
- "And even in defeat, he suggested there might still be negotiations ahead on some quintessentially Levantine deal that would bring him into Mr. Miqati's government."
The OED says Levantine means "of or pertaining to the Levant." OK, so go back one entry. Levant in this sense means the "eastern part of the Mediterranean, with its islands and the countries adjoining."
So all that phrase means is "in a quintessentially Eastern Mediterranean deal." This isn't a helpful adjective, unless you are such a student of the region that you know what a quintessential deal in this part of the world is. Show, don't tell.
I was also disappointed that this wasn't really a useful word in general. I was hoping for something like Byzantine, which refers to a historic region and culture, but also has a distinct extended meaning that derives from the character of that culture. In that sense, the OED defines Byzantine as "reminiscent of the manner, style, or spirit of Byzantine politics; intricate, complicated; inflexible, rigid, unyielding."

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LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, TRANSMITTING TWO STATEMENTS, EXHIBITING THE AMOUNT OF DUTIES AND DRAWBACKS ON GOODS, WARES AND MERCHANDIZE IMPORTED INTO THE UNITED STATES, AND EXPORTED THEREFROM, DURING THE YEARS 1795, 1796, 1797 AND 1798 [cover title]
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My first introduction to Astrology came at a very low time in my life. A man with whom I worked asked me if he could do my chart. I was curious, although I did not really believe in it, so I said yes. It was a day that forever changed my life. The first reason […]Read the rest of this entry »
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Germany has already demonstrated that its team is full of skilled, formidable soccer players.
Now, one of the team's players is showing how much good he can do off the field, too: Mesut Ozil has donated his World Cup winnings to pay for 23 sick children in Brazil to have surgery.
Ozil has expressed that the gesture is a "personal thank you for the hospitality of the people of Brazil."
"Prior to the World Cup, I supported the surgery of 11 sick children," the 25-year-old Arsenal midfielder said.
"Since the victory in the World Cup is not only due to 11 players but to our whole team, I will now raise the number to 23."
Each Germany player received £240,000 for their 1-0 victory over Argentina in the final at the Maracana in Rio de Janeiro.
Ozil's generous move is a part of the BigShoe project, whose "goal is to help children." The project began at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, where money was collected for a child who required surgery.
The project also carried through to the 2010 World Cup in Africa.
Germany's win in Brazil came down to substitute Mario Gotze's goal in the 113th minute.
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Hey! My name is Gabriela Andrade, I'm 16 years old, and in March 2008, (when I was still 13) I finished writing an over 130 page long book titled Fairy Dust. However, looking back on it I decided it needed some changes, and so it's in the renovation stage to get it from flat to out of this world =) Meanwhile, I'm also working on its sequel, Traek, and saving up money for the publisher. There's an excerpt from Fairy Dust on its homepage, so feel free to check it out and leave your comments! =)
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Help us make our new home comfortable for the animals, our staff and volunteers! Please view our AMAZON NEW HOME WISH LIST and purchase items as you are able. Our new home wish list includes:
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My friend C had a secret love that was destroying her relationships. That love went by the name of Marc Jacobs.
"Confessions of a Shopoholic was basically my life," she told me. After years of stocking her closet with the latest must-have shoes, clothes, bags and jewelry, she amassed more than $20,000 in debt.
Her college boyfriend wasn't pleased. He was planning to go to medical school one day. But if he wanted to be with C, he knew he'd have to be with her credit card bills, too.
The guy she dated after that dropped subtle warnings. "He said he had been with a girl in debt before, and it didn't work out," she explained. "Debt was never the reason for my break-ups, but it was part of it."
These days, debt is all too common, with or without the Barneys Card. Student loans, car payments and unforeseen expenses, mixed with the general disaster that is the economy, have left millions of Americans in the red. And people are finding that as their credit score flounders, so do their love lives.
The New York Times recently reported on the correlation between debt and relationship woes, and the findings aren't very shocking. (In a nutshell: mo' debt, mo' problems.) But the questions the story raises are thought-provoking:
"At what point do you have a moral obligation to disclose your indebtedness during courtship? On the eighth date? When you get to third base? In your eHarmony online dating profile?"
"If one person brings a huge debt to a relationship, who is ultimately responsible for making good on the obligation? And if it's $170,000, isn't the more solvent partner going to resent that debt over time no matter how early the disclosure comes?"
I recently got married and while we fortunately do not have debt, I am feeling the weight of being part of a "financial unit." With every purchase I make, even the smaller things, I now must consider my husband. I can only imagine the stress debt would add. We know we're not immune to the possibility of future debt either. For us, planning and communication are key.
Tell me: In romantic relationships, is debt a deal-breaker? Is that fair? Have you ever had to reveal a major debt to a potential mate? When in the courtship did you share the information? What was the reaction?
By the way, C is now proudly debt-free, thanks in part to her current boyfriend, who helped her stay motivated as she went on a year-long shopping fast and picked up a second job.
"Now we're saving for our future," she said.
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Author: himawarixxsandz
Rating: PG-13
Pairing(s): KaiSoo, mentions of XiuHan and BaekYeol
Summary: Daily progress
A/N: wow okay this turned out to be way longer than I'd ever imagined or wanted it to be lol. Dedicated to my new kaisoo friend ;A; Katie. She runs this amazing KaiSoo blog so check it out and give her some love ^-^
Day One
D-40 Project Due Date
Kyungsoo is determined to come out of this with minimal irritations, minimal damage, the minimal amount of migraines, and the minimal amount of money wasted on Tylenol (which he isn't too worried about because recently Baekhyun's been giving him discounts). And in order to minimize all of that but still maximize his grade, Kyungsoo has laid some basic ground rules that are to be followed while he works with Kim Jongin.
Jongin looks down at the piece of paper Kyungsoo has just given him, as he takes a seat across from Kyungsoo in the desk pit (they have to work in the lobby because the only free time Kyungsoo has is when he's on his shift). "This is it?" Jongin asks, frowning at the paper.
"For you," Kyungsoo says shortly. "I'm doing the rest." He waves his own project schedule in the air.
The frown on Jongin's face deepens. "Wait—why—"
"Less work for you," Kyungsoo cuts him off, meeting the dancer's gaze head on (and feeling another brush of irritation when he's met with perfect eyelashes, perfect eyelids, perfect clear dark eyes), "and less worrying for me."
Jongin falls silent then and Kyungsoo breathes an inward sigh of relief. He's glad that there's no further opposition because the last thing he wants to have to do is argue with someone he already doesn't even want to talk to. He supposes though that it'd be far stupider for Jongin to try and argue against Kyungsoo's decision anyway because this way Jongin can maximize the sex and drugs and alcohol and whatever other vices the dancer has, while minimizing his work—while Kyungsoo can minimize the headaches and maximize his grade (because it's not like he's going to trust Jongin with any of the work that actually matters).
There's a total of three things on the piece of paper, the project agenda, that Kyungsoo gave to Jongin—buying two new thumb drives for all the project material to be put on so each of them always has a portable copy of everything, getting their topic checked over by the professor before this weekend, and transferring the project material through each thumb drive whenever there's new material ready.
That's it.
Jongin understands that Kyungsoo is one of the top students in their year because he's a scholarship student, and he also understands that Kyungsoo probably doesn't trust Jongin because of the reputation that seems to come hand-in-hand with the old money he, Sehun, and Joonmyeon all have entitled to their names—but he thought that, if anything, Kyungsoo would put at least some of that aside considering that this is a major project and Kyungsoo can't possibly have time to do over seventy-five percent of it alone.
(He tries to convince himself that he just wants to help with Kyungsoo's workload—tries to convince himself that he has no reason to feel hurt over something like this because Kyungsoo's just being objective and efficient)
Day Five
D-35 Project Due Date
This is their routine.
Jongin drops by at the desk once Kyungsoo is already on his shift after both of their respective lectures for the day are over with—once both of them are back at the apartment. Kyungsoo doesn't mind all too much because Jongin, at the very least, brings a laptop along with him so Kyungsoo can get double the work done by asking Jongin to keep certain windows open on the dancer's laptop while Kyungsoo does all the research-compiling on his own.
Kyungsoo researches while Jongin does whatever Jongin does (Kyungsoo tries to remain behind his laptop so he doesn't have to look at Jongin, whether by accident or with his peripheral, so he has no idea what Jongin does to keep himself occupied when the dancer could just go the fuck home and leave Kyungsoo alone) for about two-and-a-half hours on a normal day, one hour on a busy day, and three hours on a really good day.
Then Jongin stands up and leaves silently without attempting to make anymore stupid conversation the way the dancer used to, because Kyungsoo supposes that Jongin's finally understood that it's best that they just work through this project with the minimal amount of bullshit necessary.
(It has nothing to do with the fact that there was a splurge of parties at the clubs near campus and, recently, all of the students—guys and girls—who've been seen disappearing off with Jongin have had rumors coating them from head to toe ever since. The last thing Kyungsoo needs is to somehow be pulled into that just because he had the misfortune of being partnered with Jongin—because from what Kyungsoo's also heard, even Jongin's dance partners get stickered with shitty rumors.
It has nothing to do with the fact that it's general knowledge at their university that mere association with Kim Jongin seems to get you into trouble.)
Day Seven
D-33 Project Due Date
Kyungsoo is asleep.
The choral major is slumped over behind the desk guard, so Jongin doesn't see that Kyungsoo is asleep until the dancer walks into the pit. Kyungsoo has his face pillowed in his arms, right on top of his notebook with the laptop still on to a website for their project. Jongin drops his backpack onto the floor and stares at the screen for a few seconds before sighing and taking a seat on the empty chair beside Kyungsoo.
He pulls out a few sheets of looseleaf from his backpack, takes out a pen, grabs the mouse from the other side of the desk, and tries to peer as closely to the laptop screen as possible without waking Kyungsoo up.
Jongin packs up an hour and fifteen minutes later, placing the completed notes (he managed to work through ten pages of the website) beside Kyungsoo's laptop (Kyungsoo's head). He debates whether maybe he should take one of the sticky notes beside the stapler on the receptionist desk and leave a note, but decides against it.
After all, what does he have to say?
Plus, Kyungsoo seems to like Jongin a lot better when the dancer doesn't say anything anyway.
The notes are perfect.
The information is concise and useful.
It's more than Kyungsoo would've gotten through in two hours by himself in any case.
(It wouldn't hurt, he supposes, as he shuffles the pieces of paper together, to talk to Jongin because at the very least, Kyungsoo needs to thank him for taking over their project while Kyungsoo's schedule had gotten the best of him for an hour or two—before Chanyeol had later on walked by with Luhan, whistling straight into Kyungsoo's ears to wake him up)
Day 8
D-32 Project Due Date
"Fuck, ow—shit," Jongin hisses, and clutches at his knee, quickly trying to rub away the pain of hitting it (bruising it) against the underside of the receptionist desk. He hastily looks back to Kyungsoo, who is now staring wide-eyed at Jongin. "Sorry," Jongin says hurriedly. "I—what?"
Kyungsoo blinks slowly, eyes still wide and Jongin can't really blame him for looking at the dancer like that because Kyungsoo has basically just thanked Jongin—spoken to him for the first time—and Jongin reacts by hitting his knee on the fucking desk like a fucking dumbass. "The notes were really good," Kyungsoo repeats, still staring at Jongin oddly with those eyes that take up half the receptionist's face. "Thanks."
"I—yeah," Jongin says, "no problem—yeah—I—you're welcome."
Kyungsoo infinitesimally scoots his chair away from Jongin.
"D'you need me to do anything else?" Jongin asks. "I can do the notes again—"
"No, it's fine," Kyungsoo says shortly, and Jongin convinces himself that the dancer probably just didn't have enough to eat at lunch today and that's why it feels like something from his chest dropped into his stomach at those words. "You probably have a party to go to tonight since it's Friday, right?"
Jongin stares.
Kyungsoo continues on scribbling, no longer looking at Jongin.
"Not—not since the project started," Jongin says, confused, because since when does Kyungsoo keep track of the parties that go on within the circle of dancers Jongin hangs out with? "I'm not going to them until the project's done—and—like—most of my friends have the project too so—"
Kyungsoo begins typing away on his laptop, eyes glued to the screen, expression colorless.
Jongin swallows dryly and sighs, blinking down into his lap for what feels like eternity, mulling words over in his head—turning them around and around, phrasing and rephrasing until he decides that maybe all of that will probably just turn into shit anyway and he should just go for the simplest, mushiest, way possible because it's the only way he knows—and it's not like he has anything to lose anyway.
"I like your eyes," Jongin says.
Kyungsoo stops typing.
"They're really big," Jongin goes on, and feels like the dumbass Kyungsoo already probably thinks the dancer is.
Kyungsoo looks up and meets Jongin's gaze, blinking. Jongin doesn't know what suddenly possesses him to do so, but he puts either of his hands near each eyes, opening and closing his hands like blooming flowers. "They're like deer eyes," he says, even widening his own eyes to demonstrate. "And like—yeah."
Kyungsoo's big, deer eyes grow to twice their size as the seconds tick by and the regret quickly sinks in through Jongin's entire body. When the regret morphs into embarrassment to the point where Jongin feels his own skin peeling away in shame, he scrunches up his eyes and covers his face with his hands. "I'm sorry," he mumbles into his palms. "Ignore that."
It's because Jongin looks utterly stupid (cute), utterly absurd (cute), utterly ridiculous (cute), so utterly dumb (cute) that the smile takes up Kyungsoo's entire face before he realizes it's even there—before he has the time to control it.
"Fuck," Jongin shouts, as his knee suddenly connects with the desk again. "Okay—ow—ow."
Kyungsoo's smile fades away as he stares at Jongin nursing his knee again because Kyungsoo is pretty sure that desk isn't something that's very hard to miss—especially considering that they're both sitting in chairs at the desk. But apparently, Jongin's knee really must like this desk. "Um," Kyungsoo says, "are you okay? Maybe you should scoot your chair out. So—um—you don't do that again."
Jongin shakes his head profusely, looking away (Kyungsoo notices that the tips of the dancer's ears are red). "I'm okay," he says, and coughs.
Kyungsoo blinks—shrugs—turns back to his notes (because you'd think that someone like Kim Jongin would be less of a loser—a better flirt—but it doesn't seem like Jongin even has control of his limbs—which is weird because he's a dancer). "Okay."
Joonmyeon feels the brunt of Sehun and Jongin's growth spurts—spurting the two inches above Joonmyeon himself—when he has to hold Jongin back from tackling Sehun out of the twelfth story window of their apartment because Sehun apparently had passed through the lobby and witnessed a few minutes of Jongin and Kyungsoo working on their project. Sehun had then promptly laughed himself all the way to the elevator, and now Jongin is back home after finishing working on the project for the day and is fueled with righteous anger at the fact that Sehun's laughter had caused Jongin to hit his knee against the desk for the third time that day.
Joonmyeon, personally, just wishes that Sehun would laugh a little quieter because the last thing Joonmyeon needs is for Wufan to start with the complaint page again.
Day 10
D-30 Project Due Date
"So," Chanyeol leans over the desk guard (because he's running a little early before he has to pick Baekhyun up for the pharmacy for their picnic date—since the journalist has the day off today), "you're getting along with Jongin-shii, I've heard—and seen."
Kyungsoo peers up at the journalist. "He's tolerable," the receptionist shrugs, scribbling something in at the margins of his notebook. "The Tylenol helps."
Chanyeol smiles at the tone of his best friend's voice. "He's nice, huh?"
Kyungsoo shrugs again. "He does his work pretty okay."
"He's hot, huh?"
"He's not ugly," Kyungsoo says, and looks up at Chanyeol. "Don't you have a date with Baekhyunnie?"
"I'm running early," Chanyeol blinks.
Kyungsoo blinks back. "How about you get him some flowers on the way?"
That's a pretty good idea.
Chanyeol usually passes by the florist on his way to work, and yesterday there were new batches of lilacs that had come in—the ones that smell exceptionally nice, the ones that are Baekhyun's favorite. Also, it's been at least two weeks since Chanyeol's last given Baekhyun flowers, and fourteen days is a pretty long time to go without flowers. "That's a good idea," Chanyeol says brightly, reaching out and pinching at Kyungsoo's cheek (the receptionist flails at the sudden pain and slaps Chanyeol's hand).
"Okay—okay," Kyungsoo says. "Goodbye."
"Be nice to Jongin-shii," Chanyeol calls over his shoulder as he heads for the door.
"I'll think about it," Chanyeol hears Kyungsoo shouts back, just as the receptionist buries his head back into his work.
Jongin is late.
Today, Jongin is supposed to be back at the apartment by five, except it's six-thirty and Kyungsoo is only still here because he's still on shift. However, his shift ends at seven-thirty, and even if Jongin arrives before then, Kyungsoo plans on refusing to work with him today because Jongin is fucking late and even though it's not like Kyungsoo lets him do much anyhow, he's still fucking late and Kyungsoo already less than likes him so it's really not doing a lot for Jongin's book at this point.
At least—
That was the train of thought milling through Kyungsoo's mind two minutes ago, before he saw Jongin walk in through the doors at six-thirty-two—except that Jongin doesn't really walk in through the doors at six-thirty-two. Jongin limps through the doors, half-jogging as best as the dancer seems to be able to with this limp, hair matted to his face with perspiration, in t-shirt and sweatpants instead of the usual pristine brands of the over-privileged and under-parented.
"I know, I know—I know," Jongin says hastily, slamming down into his seat and tossing his backpack to the side, "I'm late—sorry, sorry—rehearsal was shitty so we were kept late and then my dance partner got fat or something or I screwed up and dropped her kind of and then my ankle's all messed up so I couldn't run to get on the shuttle on time—sorry—but I'm here—okay—it's all good—how far did you get?"
Kyungsoo stares.
Jongin heaves a deep breath, widening his eyes and rubbing at them with one hand before brushing his perspiration-soaked hair off of his forehead. The damp strands stick up waywardly. "I'm really sorry," Jongin repeats, eyebrows furrowing. "No—like—seriously, I'm not making this up—I'm really—"
"What the fuck are you doing here?" comes out of Kyungsoo's mouth before he can stop it, because if he could stop it, he would've worded it so it didn't sound like that and Jongin's face didn't immediately take on a hurt expression. "I—no—I mean—like—you should go home. You're limping."
Jongin blinks. "I'm not—I'm not injured. I'll stretch it out and—"
"But you're limping," Kyungsoo repeats because maybe Jongin doesn't understand that he was limping. In Kyungsoo's book—in anyone's book—he's pretty sure that if you had a crappy ass day and by the end of it, you're limping, you deserve to fuck everything and go home. And besides, Kyungsoo knows that Jongin knows Kyungsoo never lets the dancer do anything of substance anyway, so what's the point in still coming?
"Chill," Jongin says, smiling a little—and looking unsurely at Kyungsoo. "I'm fine. It happens all the time—I'm just supposed to stretch it out, ice it a little, and it'll be all good tomorrow."
(Something tugs inside of Kyungsoo's chest—he marks it off as allergies—since Chanyeol reeks of pollen every time he comes around because of all the flowers)
Kyungsoo swallows, looking around before taking his own backpack and stacking it on top of Jongin's. He slides the backpack tower in front of Jongin. "At least elevate it," he says. "You're supposed to do that too, right?"
Now it's Jongin who's staring.
Kyungsoo waits a few seconds before deciding to disregard the fact that the dancer's turned into a statue, and lifts Jongin's foot up onto the stacked backpacks. "You really should go home, y'know," he says worriedly, frowning. "I mean—taking the pressure off of it helps a little—but—yeah."
In all honesty, he has no idea what he's rambling on about because obviously Jongin will know more about muscles and exhausted muscles than Kyungsoo does because Jongin's the dancer and Kyungsoo is the singer. He watches Jongin's expression nervously (why is Kyungsoo nervous?) and Jongin is chewing at his bottom lip when he meets the receptionist's gaze. "Thanks—it's good for now, though," Jongin says and smiles again, "seriously."
The receptionist finds himself staring again, mouth open slightly.
"So—how far did you get?" Jongin asks again, smile turning brisk as he turns his eyes towards Kyungsoo's notes and laptop. "Anything you need me to do or—?"
The dancer asks that every single day. And every single day, for the past week or so, Kyungsoo's said the exact same thing—told Jongin that Kyungsoo has everything covered and while he's thankful to Jongin for doing those notes that one time, it's better that Kyungsoo does everything alone. But regardless, Jongin arrives on time and asks the same question every single day anyway—and refuses to leave before Kyungsoo's shift and research hours finish.
Maybe—Kyungsoo should give him a different answer today.
"Yeah," Kyungsoo says, and coughs because his throat is suddenly a little hoarse, as he avoids Jongin's gaze (because he can feel Jongin's eyes widening, blinking in surprise at the change in answer) and slides over one of the other notebooks. "Um—I got onto this new site and the info's pretty nice—so—if you want—you can take over from that page."
It seems that there's an established pattern now—that they take turns staring, and right now it's Jongin's round again. Kyungsoo breaks the eye contact when the awkwardness starts to creep in and shoves the notebook closer to Jongin before going on to continue with his own work. "Thanks," Jongin says with a cough of his own, and it's not long before Kyungsoo hears the scribble of a pencil and typing on the desk computer.
(Kyungsoo dismisses the fact that his heart is beating a little too fast—it's only because of the awkwardness—Kyungsoo always gets nervous when things are awkward, that's all)
Day 15
D-25 Project Due Date
Luhan wraps his arms around Minseok's waist, chin resting on the teacher's shoulder and raises his eyebrows. "You're not on shift?" he asks, watching Kyungsoo fiddle around with something behind the desk guard, but the choral major has a backpack on and clearly isn't settling onto the chair. Luhan and Minseok are on their way, heading out to the mall and then the market tonight to run errands—but they stop by the desk the way they always do (and because Luhan is interested to know how Jongin's endeavors with Kyungsoo are going).
"Not tonight," Kyungsoo says, as Minseok reaches over the edge of the desk guard and helps Kyungsoo rearrange the cables for one of the monitors. "Just getting things ready for the person after me—she's going to do a double shift for me, since she wants the extra pay."
"Where're you going?" Minseok asks. Luhan clasps his fingers together against the teacher's stomach, tilting his head inward so that his hair will tickle Minseok's cheek.
"Back to campus," Kyungsoo says. "Jonginie has dance practice, and he invited me to watch, so we're going to work on our project at the studio after he's done."
Luhan turns his head, burying his face against Minseok's neck to muffle the incoming laughter, as he hears Minseok say (with laughter also threatening the teacher's tone), "You seem pretty close to him now."
Kyungsoo blinks.
"Compared to—like—before, I mean," Minseok adds.
Luhan hides a snort against Minseok's neck along with the suppressed laughter. Minseok turns his head infinitesimally—just enough to discreetly exchange an amused gaze with Luhan.
"He's put off drinking and partying because of the project," Kyungsoo says, coming out from the desk pit. "So he's not that bad when he can actually walk in a straight line."
Personally, Luhan thinks that it also has something to do with the fact that Kim Jongin is actually incredibly charming and kind once given the chance (and Luhan has a thing for how Jongin's ears always turn bright red whenever they pass each other in the halls the morning after Jongin comes home late after drinking and walks in on Luhan steaming buns in the elevator), and now that Kyungsoo's seemed to pull whatever it is out of his ass and give Jongin that chance—well.
But he decides not to say anything on account of Minseok having had spoken to the translator about being nicer to Kyungsoo ("It'd be nice if you eased up before he has a real mental breakdown," Minseok says sympathetically, while Luhan rests his cheek against the inside of Minseok's thighs and tries to decide to lick Minseok's left or right hipbone first.).
"Have fun," Luhan says, and smiles sweetly at Kyungsoo (who edges away like a frightened rabbit after locking gazes with the translator).
Once Kyungsoo is through the doors, Minseok leans his head back against Luhan's shoulder so he can meet the translator's eyes. "Can't you go one day without scaring him?" Minseok asks with a small grin.
Luhan tilts his head and touches his lips lightly over that grin. "I don't know," he says, "can I?"
Minseok laughs.
Sehun lies flat on his back, trying to ignore how that position makes the back of his shirt stick to his skin (with his sweat as the glue) even worse. He balances his water bottle against his stomach and turns his head, glancing up at Jongin as the other boy collapses onto the floor, whipping perspiration-soaked hair out of his eyes and stealing the bottle of water out of Sehun's hands, off of Sehun's stomach.
"You look like a nervous wreck," Sehun says. They're the only two left in the studio as the sun sets—orange light bathing the entire room, reflecting off of the mirror wall.
"I'm not a nervous wreck," Jongin snaps. And then his face visibly falls—winces—once he hears his own tone. "Oh."
Sehun snorts. "Yeah, exactly." He sits up and steals back the water bottle once Jongin's finished downing half the contents. Footsteps echo off from somewhere in the distance—the sound coming from the hallway outside. Sehun stands up, eyes traveling to the door, as Jongin suddenly scrambles to his feet as well, wiping his palms nervously against his sweatpants.
"What if he wants to see me dance?" Jongin asks, grabbing at the back of Sehun's shirt as the younger man tries to throw his backpack over his shoulder.
"Then dance, you dumbass," Sehun rolls his eyes, clapping Jongin on the shoulder and lightly brushing his mouth over Jongin's full lips. Jongin glumly strokes his fingers through Sehun's hair. "And don't be late for dinner again or Joonmyeon-hyung is going to start plastering the wall again."
"Buy me some cheese cubes on your way back," Jongin says, waving as Sehun leaves the room—
Just as Kyungsoo walks in.
Jongin is floored by the statement.
"I—what?" he says, dumbfounded (because he probably just didn't hear correctly—the sweat must've poured into his ears or something).
Kyungsoo swallows, looking horribly nervous for reasons Jongin can't seem to understand because Jongin is the one standing here like a nervous wreck (hoping to anything and anyone up there who'll listen that nothing goes wrong tonight and Kyungsoo likes working with Jongin at the studio—likes sharing a tiny slice of Jongin's world). "I didn't know you and Sehun-shii are dating."
Jongin stares. "That's because we're not."
"He kissed you."
It's been a while since anyone aside from Joonmyeon has seen (and subsequently asked about) how Sehun and Jongin are (always have been and always will be). "I know," Jongin says. "I kiss him sometimes and he kisses me sometimes. We're kind of weird best friends. I—yeah—don't know how to explain it." He chews at his bottom lip nervously because he knows how this probably sounds to Kyungsoo's ears—Jongin is probably losing points in Kyungsoo's scale as the seconds tick by (but this is one thing that Jongin isn't going to sugar-coat or lie about because it's Sehun). "It's okay if you don't believe me, I guess—"
"That's kind of hot."
Jongin blinks.
Kyungsoo laughs (the kind of laugh that takes up his entire face—that's so big and full, that even his large eyes disappear—the kind that makes all of his white teeth show, his full lips curling upward—the sound bouncing off the walls of the studio).
Jongin continues to blink.
"I get what it's like to have a best friend," Kyungsoo says, slinging his backpack off his shoulder and lightly tossing it to the floor, "who's a lot more than a best friend—but he's still just a best friend."
A huge metal vase filled to the brim with flowers suddenly zooms through Jongin's mind, and he feels a smile tug at his lips. "So—what do we have to do today?" He sits down on the floor as Kyungsoo starts pulling his laptop out.
"Just finishing up from yesterday," Kyungsoo says, sitting down across from Jongin. He meets Jongin's eyes and grins. "So extra time for you to dance for me."
Jongin scrunches his eyes shut (suppressing a smile, suppressing his racing heartbeat). "Fuck."
Kyungsoo laughs.
Day 39
D-1 Project Due Date
Chanyeol blinks, leaning back on his palms on Kyungsoo's bed, as he watches the younger man buckling his belt and frowning at his reflection in the mirror. "Party?"
"Not really a party," Kyungsoo says, and tries to push down a wayward tuft of hair. "Just—like—Jonginie performs a lot at clubs, and they always give him free passes in and drinks and stuff, and he invited me to go watch him tonight. Like—since we finished the project and all."
"Oh," Chanyeol says, and then grins, meeting Kyungsoo's gaze in the mirror. "So like a date?"
Kyungsoo snorts. "No—like project partners going out to celebrate the fact that they fucking finished on time something that's worth a huge ass percent of their grade. I already told you that I don't want to date him."
"But you like him," Chanyeol frowns (even though he's already expected this because Kyungsoo never seems to understand that sometimes taking a deep breath and some flowers gets you pretty far in life—and love).
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Faking the real is a seductive aspect of the postmodern culture and a major player in the concept of mass production. It tries to show off what it is not to gain status and trust, only to mislead you and then take from you.
Anne Fishbein's Mannequins and Siri Kaur's 'Alter Ego's show an ironic twist on the concept of fake authenticity. Jean Baudrillard writes, "We are living in an era in which the true cancels itself in the truer-than-true, the too-true-to-be-true," and the false "disappears into the too-false-to-be-false,"
There are many dimensions to Siri Kaur's Superman. Christopher, (the actor playing the actor), has become Superman, and Christopher Reeves was never the Superman character, he was an actor assuming the Superman character. The original superman is a comic book hero. So it is the fake, faking the fake, while trying to be an original.
Anne Fishbein's images of mass-produced mannequins undergo humanization. They are meant to sell merchandise but they have taken on an element of human vulnerability and hopelessness vital to the survival of our mass-produced culture. These mannequins have become the victimized consumers of the products they sell. Like Max Beckman, she closely pulls everyone in, including the viewer, but everyone remains unconnected.
The common thread in these artists' works lies on that edge between what is real and what is fake, where you know what you are experiencing is not real, but you buy in to it.
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A true must have for any wine maker. This app will do basic conversions for Weight/Mass, Volume, and Temperature as well as more complex sugar conversions such as Specific Gravity, Brix, Refration Index, and Baume. App also includes a Hydrometer Corrector feature for any calibrated hydrometer and will also allow you to use Fahrenheit or Celsius. Not only can you calculate the alcohol content of your wine you can also calculate the number of calories in your wine per glass or bottle. This app also has a Chaptalization feature which will allow you to use either brix or specific gravity to calculate how much sugar you need to add to reach a desired sweetness. At last a Bottling feature is also included to help you plan how many bottles will be needed upon completion of your wine.
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Graeme Wilson
Too few units Need Baume to Brix. Most pages don't define which gallon or quart you mean. Need bottle calculator in liters. Need hydrometer corrector and alcohol calculator for Brix & Baume.
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Nice I would like to choose metric units as a default. It would be better for me if there was a log or batch diary component & if conversion figures could be inserted into a selected wine batch log or at least copied & pasted.
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Wow Really surprised at what all this app will do. It will really help on my next wine project!!
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Developing the Basin Plan
Governments of south-eastern Australia have long grappled with the complex issue of sharing the water of the Murray–Darling Basin. Since the 1860s there have been agreements and plans about extraction of water from the River Murray and the Basin as a whole. With time, it was recognised that too much water was being extracted but it was a difficult task to strike a balance between competing end users of the water, and to achieve agreement between states.
Significant progress in the reform of water regulation and recovery of water for the environment was made from the 1980s onwards. However the fundamental issue remained, that too much water was being harvested or extracted from the Basin. In parallel with the first River Murray Agreement in the early 1900s, it took a significant and extended drought to expose the limits and weaknesses of how water in the Basin was managed and to highlight the need for continuing reform.
The response of the Australian Government in 2007 was the passing of the Water Act 2007 (Cwlth), with bipartisan support in the Australian Parliament. As a requirement of the Water Act, the MDBA was required to develop the Basin Plan, with the primary objective of determining a sustainable limit of water extraction in the Basin. The Plan was passed through parliament, also with bipartisan support, in November 2012.
The development of the Plan required several years of research and analysis to understand how much water could be taken from the Basin for consumptive use without compromising key environmental sites (eg. the Barmah Forest) and key environmental functions (eg. sufficient water flow to ensure lower reaches of the River Murray are not saline). The science behind the Plan was independently reviewed by Australian and international scientists.
The Plan also took into account a wide range of social and economic information. It became clearly apparent that the reduction in water availability for human use would have an impact on communities, businesses and industries in the Basin. Analysis of the social and economic effects was conducted by the MDBA and other commissioned experts, to help achieve the best balance between water users and the environment.
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BIBLE TEXT: "But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart." Luke 2:19
PERSONAL REFLECTION: The word "ponder" means to meditate, carefully and thoughtfully considering a matter. I can only imagine how much Mary had to ponder after the events surrounding Jesus' birth. As every new mother does, I'm sure that she held Jesus in her arms, counting and touching each finger and toe. She probably gazed into his sweet eyes and caressed his little head, kissing his rosy little cheeks. She was amazed at the miracle of childbirth. But Mary was not like every other new mother. An angelic visitor brought the message that she, an unwed young woman, would become mother to a king. She had experienced an immaculate conception, and Elizabeth's baby had leapt in the womb at Mary's greeting. A long, arduous ride on a donkey took her to Bethlehem where she stayed and delivered her baby in a stable. Shepherds spread the news of the birth throughout the countryside. Mary had much more to ponder than most new mothers. As the events unfolded, she had "scrapbooked" each one on her heart and, now afterwards, paused to reflect. She mulled over every miraculous detail leading up to and following the birth of her son, the Son of God, the greatest gift the world has ever known.
PERSONAL APPLICATION: Pondering takes stillness, quietness, time, and effort. It takes deep thought. As a child, after the sweetness of the Christmas story on Christmas Eve, and the chaos and fun of Christmas morning, the opening of gifts and the big Christmas breakfast, I would take my gifts back to my room and "ponder" the excitement of the morning. I would lay each gift on my bed and relive the joy of opening each one. My stocking contents would be spilled out on to the bed, and I would most certainly taste at least one chocolate treat and count the quarters that were certain to be among the spoils. I pondered, reflected, and studied each gift and moment in the quiet stillness of my room.
As we approach the celebration of the greatest gift we have ever been given, let us take uninterrupted quiet time, pondering time, to treasure, reflect, and meditate on the greatest gift that we have ever been given – "a Savior who is Christ the Lord." Like Mary, we too have experienced Jesus and have much to ponder in all the gifts He has given us.
PRAYER: Father, in the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, let us not forget Your Son, Jesus. Move us to pause and reflect on the greatest gift ever given – His birth, death, and resurrection, our salvation. Like Mary, let us take the mysteries and miracles of You, the gifts You have given us, and ponder them in our hearts.
Cindy has been married to Tim for 27 years, and they have three children: Audrey (23), Tyler (19), and Drew (17). Her passion is studying and pondering the Word of God. She has homeschooled for 19 years and has taught other homeschooled students for 18 years.
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The Golden Age of Science Fiction
An Anthology of 50 Short Stories
Back in the late 1800's people like Jules Verne and H.G. Wells were looking ahead to the future and writing fiction from their imaginations. Since then many more authors have followed, writing stories about space travel, time travel, aliens, and lost lands. The older ones are now out of copyright. This anthology of fifty short stories has been collected for ebook release.
These short stories range all over the science and speculative fiction field. The include First Contact with sentient cat-like beings to wubs to friendly to violent to benign. These story lines have been seen many times since. The first story, a novella by James De Mille could be a Land of the Lost at the South Pole. If you're a Star Trek fan, you'll remember the episode "Arena", with the Gorn. That story is here ("Arena" by Frederic Brown – sounds like idea borrowing to me, right down to the title). There are stories with aliens hiding among humans, such as in V or Invaders!
There are some unusual story lines. I had to chuckle at the story about the inter-galaxy best selling book. Another humorous story near the end tells about capitalism gone amok. There are con men and thieves represented in these stories. There are spice flights and space wrecks. There is the colonization of a new planet and the apocalypse of another. There are stories about wars with aliens with all sorts of twists and turns including frontal lobotomy. There are stories after the lost wars and pulling things back together.
There are stories that take place on future Earth. Jules Verne speculates on Earth 1,000 years in his future. There is rejuvenation, drilling into the Earth, and overpopulation. There are homes without enough room and homes that disappear.
There are stories of time travel, alternate realities, and freezing time. These take place in way outer space down to Llyddwdd in Wales, from bars to lonely space stations. There are stories by Philip Jose Farmer, Ben Bova, Joseph Campbell, Kurt Vonnegut, Fritz Leiber, E.E. "Doc" Smith, and Frank Herbert to show a small selection.
There is a smorgasbord of stories in The Golden Age of Science Fiction. Some are remarkable, some funny, some not so great. There's something here for every science fiction reader.


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You may fill up an application online for opening a Savings Bank account. The process in brief would be as follows:
- Fill up and submit the required details online.
- Print the Account Opening Form (AOF) on A4 size white papers.
- Attach the required documents, such as photographs and proof of identity and address, as mentioned in the AOF.
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All-Grain HomeBrewing
The main reason to do All-Grain HomeBrewing is simply increased creativity. Brewing beer is an art, so why not take it all the way and be as creative as you want?
There is a huge selection of grain, hops and yeast to choose from, each one with its own distinct flavor and purpose. The combinations of just the grains are nearly endless, and then you have a wide variety of hops and yeast to stretch the boundaries of creativeness using the All-Grain HomeBrewing method.
One of the other reasons to consider All-Grain HomeBrewing is cost savings, which is not a huge factor but still something to consider. The other factor is having the freshest ingredients.
When you brew beer using the All-Grain method you are using fresh cracked grain to give the freshest flavor available when comparing to a canned extract. Although, now day's fresh bulk extract can be purchased giving a very suitable alternative to All-Grain HomeBrewing.
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All-Grain HomeBrewing Process
The All Grain Brewing Process is easy to do! It does require additional equipment and will take about 6 hours of time on brew day.
- Basic Steps Involved in All-Grain HomeBrewing:
- Mashing — Converts starch to sugar and is the process of mixing a measured amount of 163˚– 173˚F water and milled grain to a temperature between 148° -155°F to create a mash. During the mash Enzymes naturally within the grain become active from the heat and convert starch into sugar.
- Sparging — is the process of rinsing the sugar out of the grains in the mash and into the boil kettle. Hot water is sprinkled onto the top of the mash and allowed to slowly seep through. Sugar dissolves into solution and is carried down through the outlet valve and into the boil kettle. Sparging takes about 45-60 minutes to complete. Once in the boil kettle this sugar solution is called wort. Use about 1/2 gallon of water at 170 degrees to sparge each pound of grain.
- Boiling — is the same as it is in the Extract Brewing process. After the correct amount of wort has been collected (usually 1-2 gallons more than the volume you are making), the procedures are the same as if you were doing a full-wort boil in the Malt Extract process of brewing. You would add your hops, boil for one hour, cool and add yeast.
Basic All-Grain Brewing Procedure
First you must select a good recipe. Specialty malts should account for no more than 35% of the total grain bill. Once you have weighed out your grains, they must be cracked. This is best done in a roller mill. Cracking the grain is necessary for the starch conversion and enzyme activation, just like you crack specialty grains for steeping to get at the flavor and sugar inside.
Wheat and specialty grains such as crystal, chocolate, munich malt, etc. should also be cracked. This cracked grain is called the grist. The grist is what you will add into your mash tun.
Heat up enough water in an 8 gallon brewing kettle to conduct the mash. At a water to grain ratio of 1.5:1 qt./lb., the amount would be 12.5 quarts or about 3 gallons. The initial infusion temperature should be about 163°F to create a mash temperature of 152°F.
Mix the crushed grain into the hot water gradually while stirring to make sure all the grain is fully wet, but don't splash. Hot side aeration can occur anytime the wort is hotter than 80°F. Oxidation of wort compounds will not be affected by the subsequent boil, and will cause flavor stability problems later.
Check the temperature to see if it has stabilized at the target temperature range of 150 – 158°F. If the temperature is too low, add some heat while stirring constantly to avoid burning the bottom. Temperature will continue to rise two to three degrees after the burner is turned off, so be careful not to overheat. If it is too high, then add cold water to bring it down. Remember that temperature is critical, so you must use a thermometer.
Stir the mash every 15-20 minutes to prevent cold spots and help ensure a uniform conversion. Monitor the temperature each time you stir and as heat if necessary. The cracked grain must be mashed at a constant temperature between 150-158°F for one hour. The warmer temperature range will cause more unfermentable sugars to be made, resulting in a fuller bodied, sweeter beer with less potential alcohol. The lower range will create highly fermentable sugars, resulting in dryer beers with more potential alcohol. An iodine test will show if starch conversion is complete. Cover the mash tun with the lid between stirrings and let it sit for a total of an hour.
These guidelines are for the single temperature infusion method so you will not have to raise temp during the mashing process. You will only heat the water to one level and add grain, and hold it there for one hour. Follow this method for any grain with a starchy white center and for all recipes requiring the use of flaked barley, oats, or wheat etc. With any grain combination it is a good idea to use at least 50% 2-Row pale malt to ensure enzyme activity and proper conversion during mash. Enzymes play a crucial role in developing both nutrients and creating the starch to sugar reaction. These reactions are usually temperature specific but luckily there are temperatures that allow most enzymes to work together.
Meanwhile, heat up the sparge water in an 8 gallon stock pot. You will need 1.5 – 2 times as much sparge water as you used for the mash. The water temperature should be about 170 – 180°F. Do not allow the mash to get hotter than 170°F. At temperatures over 170°F tannins are extracted from the grain husks causing harsh flavors. There will be some heat loss from the sparge water to the mash tun so it is alright to have the sparge water over 170°F.
Sparging is the process of rinsing the grain with water in order to leech out all the sugars and dextrin's left in the grain. This is done by slowly sprinkling water (170 degrees F) over the grains, allowing the water to flow through the grain and out the bottom of your container into your brew kettle. Your final volume should be approximately 6 to 6.5 gallons. Usually I use five gallons of sparge water with about 10-14 pounds of grain.
Remember over sparging will not only dilute your beer it will also give a grainy flavor. Under sparging results in a stronger beer but your yield will not be five gallons, which is what you're shooting for. You will be boiling your wort, so remember you will lose approximately one gallon in vapor, and possibly more if you use flower hops in the boil which retain some wort, that is the reason for a seemingly large volume after sparging.
Okay, the hour has gone by and the mash should look a little bit different. It should be less viscous and smell great. Turn the heat back on while stirring constantly to avoid burning the bottom and monitoring the temperature to bring it to 170°F to halt the enzyme activity.
Transfer the mash to a lauter tun with a false perforated bottom and allow it to settle for 15 minutes to perform the sparge.
Drain off the first runnings into a quart pitcher. The wort will be cloudy with bits of grain. Slowly pour the wort back into the grain bed, recirculating the wort. Repeat this procedure until the wort exiting the tun is pretty clear. It will be amber colored, but not cloudy. It should only take a couple quarts.
Once the wort has cleared, drain the wort carefully into your brew kettle . Fill the pot slowly at first and allow the level to cover the outlet tube. Be sure to have a long enough tube so that the wort enters below the surface and does not splash. The splashing of hot wort before the boil can cause long term oxidation damage to the flavor of the beer.
Watch the outflow of wort, you do not want to lauter too fast, as this could compact the grain bed and you would get a stuck sparge. A rate of 1 quart/minute is the most common. Allow the wort level in the Tun to drop until it is about an inch above the level of the grain. Sprinkle sparge water from the hot water tun maintaining at least an inch of free water above the grain bed.
If the wort stops flowing, even with water above the grain bed, then you have a stuck sparge.
There are 2 ways to fix it: (a) Blow back into the outlet hose to clear an obstruction of the manifold; or (b) Close the valve and add some more water, stirring to re-suspend the mash. You will need to re-circulate again. Stuck sparges are an annoyance, but usually not a major problem. Sparge at a slow rate to avoid stuck sparges.
Stop lautering when the gravity of the runoff falls below 1.008. If you have lautered too fast, you will not rinse the grains effectively and you will get poor extraction.
Calculate how efficient your extraction was. Measure the gravity in the boiling pot and multiply the points by the number of gallons you collected. Then divide by the number of pounds of grain you used. The result should be somewhere around 30. 27 is okay, 29 is good, and over 30 is great. If it is 25 or below, you are lautering too fast or you are not getting good conversion in the mash, which could be caused by having too coarse a grist, the wrong temperature or not enough time.
Okay, throw the spent grain on the compost pile and you are done! Boil and add hops as usual.


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Sony Corp. this week said the YouTube Application is now available for the Playstation 3.
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Sony in July said the company's game division, which includes the Playstation business, incurred a $45 million loss on revenue of $1.5 billion in the first quarter amid declining sales of consoles and handhelds.
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With a decade of storytelling on her back, Rituparna Ghosh is the Founder of Your Story Bag. A writer, editor and storyteller practicing all three forms of storytelling – written, visual and oral, Rituparna is a compulsive storyteller. Always sniffing for a good story to tell, Rituparna feels that her past life as a journalist and television producer taught her the power of good stories.
As a television producer, Rituparna has clocked nearly 300 hours of television programming that includes social, historical and political documentaries, sports, lifestyle and travel shows, investigative shows and biographies. Rituparna believes that there is a storyteller in each one of us, and one just has to be 'tickled' to find that secret story bone. Children and adults alike need stories and telling skills all their life, to make sense of the world and give shape to their ideas!
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"Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You."
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Personal Branding is no longer a "nice to have"; it's an essential exercise for all women who want to advance and thrive in their careers and businesses.
Personal Branding is about identifying and then communicating what makes you You; in other words, what makes you unique and relevant to your target audience, so that you can reach your career and/or business goals. Personal branding is very powerful because it sends a clear, consistent message about who you are and what you have to offer. If you can understand and differentiate your personal story, and how it connects to your core values as well as that of your target audience, you can use this information to separate yourself from your competitors and really stand out.
In this Mentor Chat, Rituparna helps us understand how storytelling, in particular, can be an effective tool for building your personal brand given the power of stories to inspire, instruct and help forge a deeper connection.
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About The Chromosome Chronicles
The Chromosome Chronicles was started in a Princeton dormitory in late 2008. Written by Alex Bisignano, a computational biologist and entrepreneur, this blog talks about personal genetics, healthcare, big data, bioethics, and bioinformatics.
About Alex Bisignano
Alex Bisignano is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Recombine, a clinical genetic testing company. He develops bioinformatic solutions for microarray and next generation sequencing data. Alex is responsible for the software architecture and core technology development at Recombine. His goal is to help improve global healthcare by making genetic testing more accessible through responsible, accurate, and informed healthcare providers.
Prior to his work in bioinformatics, Alex was a consultant at Credit Suisse where he was responsible for streamlining and improving the performance of large internal database systems. Alex graduated Magna Cum Laude from Princeton University in June of 2009 with an A.B. in Molecular Biology and a Certificate in Medical Spanish. Upon completion of his senior thesis – on Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and their effect on the cell therapy market – Alex was awarded membership into Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society.
Outside of genetics, Alex enjoys playing the piano, snowboarding, watching Arrested Development, and working on various web applications for fun.
Publications, Abstracts & Posters
- Horcajadas J A, Fischer J, Ketterson K, Bisignano A., Development and Improvement of a New Multi-Genetic Test for the Detection of 175 of the Most Highly Penetrant Monogenic Diseases. American Society for Reproductive Medicine. (Award Winning Abstract: October 2012).
- Bisignano A, Ketterson K, Fischer J, Wells D, Horcajadas J., A Comparison of Array Technologies and Next Generation Sequencing Technologies in Preconception Genetic Diagnosis. American Society for Reproductive Medicine. (Poster: October 2012).
- Cohen J, Alikani M, Bisignano A., Past performance of assisted reproduction technologies as a model to predict future progress: a proposed addendum to Moore's law. Reproductive Biomedicine Online. (Paper: September 2012).
- Horcajadas J A, Munné S, Fischer J, Ketterson K, Wells D, Bisignano A., Development of a comprehensive, cost effective microarray-based genetic test for 216 of the most highly penetrant monogenic diseases. European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. (Poster: July 2012).
- Bisignano A, Wells D, Harton G, Munné S., Reply: PGD and aneuploidy screening for 24 chromosomes by genome-wide SNP analysis: a responsible path towards greater utility. Reproductive Biomedicine Online. (Reply: November 2011).
- Bisignano A, Wells D, Harton G, Munné S., PGD and aneuploidy screening for 24 chromosomes: advantages and disadvantages of competing platforms. Reproductive Biomedicine Online. (Commentary: June 2011).
- http://coworking.thefarmsoho.com/magazine-blog/2016/2/23/the-hottest-health-startups-in-new-york
- http://www.forbes.com/pictures/ggik45ggl/alexander-bisignano-27/
- http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/04/bioinformatics-startup-recombine-raises-3-3m-for-genetic-testing/
- http://www.businessinsider.com/recombine-raises-33-million-2014-3
- https://www.genomeweb.com/clinical-genomics/genetic-testing-startup-recombine-raises-33m
- http://princeton09.com/09-class-profiles-alexander-bisignano/
- http://fortune.com/2014/03/04/genetic-testing-company-recombine-raises-3-3-million-from-firstmark-capital/
- https://gigaom.com/2013/02/01/nyc-backed-health-startup-lab-wants-to-turn-academics-into-entrepreneurs/
Talks & Interviews
- http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/b/cc805f1e-0859-4014-a901-6bc4558623bb
- https://www.fertilityauthority.com/video/what-role-genetic-testing-infertility-treatment
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu1wsH_M3ZU
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA1J9XB01dY
- 2015 – Forbes' 30 Under 30: http://www.forbes.com/pictures/ggik45ggl/alexander-bisignano-27/
- 2014 – NYC Venture Fellow: http://www.nycedc.com/blog-entry/2014-nyc-venture-fellows
- 2013 – NYC Entrepreneurship Lab: https://gigaom.com/2013/02/01/nyc-backed-health-startup-lab-wants-to-turn-academics-into-entrepreneurs/
- 2012 – American Society for Reproductive Medicine – SRBT Basoc Science Award: http://news.recombine.com/2012/10/21/recombine-at-asrm-company-scientists-win-2012-srbt-basic-science-award/


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Tokyo-Paraguaipoa Trailer (1996)
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Father's Day Tribute
June 19th is Father's Day in the United States and a lot of Dads are getting new neckties and barbecue aprons to replace the ones they got last year.
I lost my Dad a few years ago and it was a stark reminder that we are all on this Earth for a limited time – and those who love us and depend upon us will hopefully miss us when we're gone.
I miss everything about my Dad. I miss his consistency, his simplicity and his honesty. I miss his work ethic, his common sense and his laugh. But I know he's still around because I see a lot of his characteristics in my own boys.
So today I have nothing to say about guiding change… I only have a simple message to encourage you to call or visit your Dad this weekend if you are lucky enough to have that opportunity.
To wrap up, I wrote this little bit of prose a while back to sum up a lesson my Dad taught me about being honest and to share a few things we've tried to teach our boys about being true to themselves:
We used to tell our little boys as they grew daily older:
Your reputation lives within the eyes of your beholder.
You can try 'most anything that's good for you or other.
Or tell things less than true to me or even to your mother.
You can cheat or you can scam or you can blur the borders.
But I hope one day you'll see the sense behind our little orders.
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