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Changes in submit forms and data display, site speed, bug fixes
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Wordpress recipe site. Users can submit recipes.
Recently we developed fetching system where users can paste the url with recipes (structured data) and everything is fetched. But we are fetching too much, and now have to make changes to the submit system because copied content AdSense rule.
Main goal: Compile with the google adsense rules by changing submit forms
Side goals: Improving the speed of the site, fixing other bugs
First 2 tasks are to compile the AdSense rules
1. Changes to singe recipe page
2. Changes to submitting forms
3. Improving the loading speed of the site
4. Fixing bugs (5 of them) When we start to discuss I will provide you with the detailed task list.
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Leo bookends the week
We began the week on Monday picturing Leonardo DiCaprio on top of you using photos of him at the beach on Independence Day weekend.
Oh, wait, what?
You forgot?
You need to be reminded?
Don't picture Leo from Romeo + Juliet. Picture Leo now. On top of you:
Also this:
That was Monday. Today, Friday, we'll do some more picturing of Leo on top of you with new shots. Here he is shopping with friends yesterday in West Hollywood. Does that help?

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When I arrived last week at the Pennsylvania Governors Conference for Women cocktail hour, I knew no one. There I was, sucking on my Pinot Grigio, staring blankly into my iPhone, with no one to talk to. Rapidly the night transformed and I was gabbing with journalists, bankers and politicians. By the end, I'd managed to talk to 20 women, and came home smiling with a stack of business cards and lots of new friends. I was reminded after many years off the conference circuit (2 babies) how fun it is to network. So, if you're feeling stagnant in your career, or your pipeline's looking a little empty, get off your butt and sign up for a conference.
Prompted by this somewhat awkward start, I called my friend Peg Samuel at SocialDiva.com for some tips on networking:
I love to network and you're the queen of all things social. What networking events do you recommend? And since you're based in NYC, what are your favorites in New York?
Well, it all depends on what hat I am wearing. If I have my Digital Diva hat on I like Girls in Tech, the Internet Oldtimers. If I'm wearing my Entrepreneur hat, Collective E is my fave. But, of course, my ultimate favorites are our own events at Social Diva!
There's nothing worse than being cornered by a drone at a dinner party. Any tactics for politely excusing yourself from someone who has cornered you?
"Excuse me, but I need to go to the ladies room. It was lovely speaking to you!" And hope he or she doesn't follow you in.
Say I'm intent on working the crowd ... shmoozing up the VIPs. Any tips on what to wear? What not to wear?
You want to look your best. Always dress a touch above the required dress so you look extra special. And have your business cards somewhere super easy and accessible so you are not digging, trying to balance your drink, or doing anything else awkward in order to get to them.
Thanks Peg!
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Could Taking Your Dog to Work Benefit Everyone in the Office? [POLL]
Want to lower your stress levels at the office? Take your dog to work. Research finds employees who do so not only experience less angst during the day, but their co-workers could benefit from Fido's presence too.
Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Business monitored the stress levels of employees at a company with a long history of allowing dogs in the workplace. Some of those workers owned dogs and others didn't.
They found that while everyone started the day with low baseline levels of cortisol — our body's stress hormone — dog-owners who didn't bring their pooches to work reported drastically higher levels of stress by the end of the workday.
In contrast, those who had their dogs with them experienced lower stress levels, and about half of that group felt dogs were important to their productivity.
"We think dogs' presence in the workplace may reduce stress for their owners, increase job satisfaction even for those without pets, and it may increase perceptions of organizational support," said researcher Randolph Barker. "It's a low-cost wellness intervention, or benefit, that's available readily to any organization."
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Like the hunter who finally catches the fox, Kenneth Balkus, Jr., PhD, professor of chemistry, must be pleased whenever he develops a better chemical trap.
Balkus has spent much of his 17 years of research at The University of Texas at Dallas [UT Dallas] working with zeolite materials — porous crystalline metal oxides that act as ion-exchangers and are used in water softening and as absorbents and catalysts.
"We started using these materials as hosts for catalysts. Putting metal complexes inside and trying to make what we call 'ship in the bottle' catalysts. And part of the motivation for a lot of that work is to mimic enzymes," Balkus said in his office in Berkner Hall.
Balkus grew strategies for synthesizing zeolites around catalysts. That's how his lab made many of the materials, including UTD-1, the largest pore zeolite known.
"We've also made other classes of material known as mesoporous materials molecular sieves, including DAM-1, which stands for Dallas Amorphous Material No.1, in addition to much larger pore materials. In this case we can actually immobilize enzymes. We were the first ones to do that," Balkus said.
Beyond gatekeeping capabilities
He's talking about sieves, those mesh devices through which finer particles of a mixture may be passed to separate them from coarser ones. These, however, are on a molecular level. And his ship-in-a-bottle analogy is dead-on: Imagine the patience and steadiness required to place in order each ship piece slowly stacked atop one another inside the bottle until its completed. It's the same thing here. Within the pores of many of these finely structured sieves he is placing organic materials to allow them to work more like enzymes.
"Molecular sieves imply that you separate things, based on size and shape, but with zeolites you can separate small molecules. For example, we can synthesize zeolites with pores smaller than 1nm that will exclude molecules larger than 1 nm. We can also prepare molecular sieves with pores in the range of 2-50 nm which will acommodate much larger molecules.
"You can separate ethanol and water, for example, or alcohol or inorganics and water. And that's a potential application of these types of materials.
"We're interested in making membranes out of these materials. And we use a technique known as pulse-laser deposition to make our membranes. We have an excimer laser upstairs, and we can — actually, we have a pretty cool video of the laser."
Laser lesson
Balkus showed the video, explaining the ablation process (see image below).
"So this is the laser beam coming in here. And it's striking a target up here and depositing film. Now the laser beam is actually ultraviolet light, so you can't see it with your eyes. The light that you are seeing here is this plume of particles being generated as the laser beam strikes the target and then deposits onto a substrate.
"This plume of material gets deposited onto our substrate, and that's how we make our membranes. We can actually coat just about anything using this technique, so not only do we make flat membranes for things like gas separations, but imagine these materials also separating things by size and shape where you can use them in sensors. You can discriminate molecules as they absorb into your sensor. So we have a program in sensors based on these tools.
"We can coat three-dimensional objects to make core shell structures with applications in drug delivery, for example. We are looking at applications in nanocatalysis. We can take advantage of the porosity of these particles to template the growth of nanorods and nanofibers of semiconductors or our molecular sieves. These have applications in solar cells as well as catalysis," Balkus said.
His research group has a joint project in solar cells with Drs. John Ferraris and Anvar Zakhidov in physics.
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Balkus said he's had the most collaborations with Ferraris, because they complement each other.
"He's the organic materials person and I'm the inorganic materials person, and so we're together anytime there's a project involved with a hybrid or combination of these materials. Plus he's a Yankee and I'm a Yankee, so we get along well," he said with a cheerful smile.
They actually have several collaborative projects, including putting these materials into polymer membranes. In another project with Drs. Ferraris and Inga Musselman they have assembled a state-of-the-art membrane permeameter.
"We have a fuel cell project, again working with membranes and using some of these materials for their conductivity to use in a fuel cell," Balkus said.
Twenty years ago he'd have been considered an inorganic chemist because of the types of materials he works with. Today Balkus is a materials chemist.
"Many things that we work on qualify as nanotechnology, but probably only recently have people started to use that terminology to describe these types of materials.
"We do a little bit of biology without a license, but I wouldn't say we are biochemists. Even though we play with enzymes and cells, we are really materials chemists," he said. "I have a student who is using these fibers as scaffolds for growing cells. It's a joint project we are doing with Rockford Draper, PhD in the biology department.
"We use a technique called electrospinning, where we make our materials a sort of precursor gel. All zeolite materials, while they may end up as a crystalline powder or ceramic type of material, can be manipulated in different ways. So just like with lasers we can make films or coatings, by electrospinning we can make fibers.
"We can actually make free standing papers, coatings, using this technique. So we are doing lots of different things with these fibers. You can imagine smart textiles and smart papers," Balkus said.
In the classroom
For the past 17 years, Balkus mostly has taught inorganic chemsitry and an upper division advanced synthesis course. Students actually get into a laboratory, learn how to do synthesis and keep a laboratory notebook, he said.
"I think it's a fun lab because you teach them hands-on how they'll actually do various techniques and measurements and the proper way to document all that," Balkus said.
There is a program to try to synthesize new metal organic frameworks.
In collaboration with the John Sibert, PhD, lab, Balkus said he hopes to use their expertise in organic chemistry to help "design linkers, trying to make new frameworks."
"My lab and the Sibert lab operate on different scales, I think. He's making ligands that actually will sequester small ions and maybe a very small molecule. So it's a completely different scale.
"We are looking at things that would separate on a much larger scale. Now, some of the molecules that he's making that we're using were self-assembling into three-dimensional architectures, where they are more interested in the free molecules. Although you do some immobilization onto supports, it's hard to largely focus in on an individual molecule," Balkus said.
Greg Hundt, a doctoral candidate working in the Sibert lab who is profiled in the graduates section, was technically in the Balkus lab collaborating on a project from September to December 2004. While Balkus makes zeolite material, which are metal oxides, he also makes more immediate materials that are hybrids. They have organic functionality built into their frameworks and are called metal organic frameworks. And while they may not have the same stability of a pure metal oxide, they have some of same type of porosity and surface areas, which is a mark of molecular sieves.
"Greg's area of expertise is making bridging ligands and the things that allow us to assemble these framework type materials. Let me see if I have an example," he said.
Balkus searches his computer for the image shown above.
"So these would be pure metal oxides here like our DAM-1 material. And then these would be considered hybrid frameworks because you can see the pores have all these organic molecules that line those pores. And then these are those metal organic frameworks that I was just taking about where you've got an organic linker here and some metal ions here and then this gets connected into a three-dimensional framework so it becomes really porous.
"So what Greg was helping us with is designing these types of ligands to self-assemble and make these open, porous structures.
"This particular material here is actually a very good absorbent for methane and hydrogen. And so one of the things we are doing is putting these things into membranes to selectively transport hydrogen and methane," Balkus said.
What's next?
Balkus said that crystal-ball gazing — looking into the future — is a waste of time in his line of work.
"We are very opportunistic. We follow ideas as they happen. So it's difficult to predict what we'll be doing five years down the road.
"Plus, I like to do things that nobody has ever done before rather than saying, 'Well, if somebody has done this, maybe we can do it a little bit better.' Derivative type work gets boring very quickly.
"I guess maybe I prefer doing more high risk stuff. I like to do things that are more original. Things that, in a research article, someone might say, 'Balkus did this first back in 1996.' When you see stuff like that, that's what you show the students and say, 'See, that's what it's all about.'"
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SIMPSONVILLE, Ky. (Sept. 17, 2012). – ETSU junior transfer Lourdes Lopez (Cadiz, Spain) tied for 26th on the individual leaderboard, helping lead the Buccaneers' women's golf team to a seventh-place standing following first and second round play Monday in the Cardinal Cup hosted by the University of Louisville at the Cardinal Club in Simpsonville, Ky.
The Bucs – who finished ahead of eight teams in the 15-team field – are 13 strokes back of team leader Louisville and still in contention.
"Our goal today was to play process golf," said ETSU head coach Stefanie Shelton. "Confidence is in the simple decisions and we did that well. If we can play tomorrow like we did our first round today, the ladies are capable of winning."
While Lopez finished the day at 151 (77-74), the Bucs had four players end the day within three strokes of each other. Junior Sian Evans (Gillingham, England) and senior Chloe Garner (Somerset West, South Africa) are both tied for 32nd at 153, while sophomore Gabrielle Wahl (Heidenheim, Germany) is tied for 42nd at 154.
Emily Haas of Louisville is the individual leader at 69-69=138.
The Bucs will continue with third and final round play at the Cardinal Cup on Tuesday, and fans can watch live scoring and get complete results by visiting Golfstat.com.
For more on ETSU women's golf throughout the 2012-13 season, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the women's golf link.


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Anyway, my laundry room has gotten... out of hand. I'm going to show it to you now. I advise anyone with heart trouble or a nervous condition not look at the following picture:
Yup. That is what my laziness has wrought. A solid mass of dirty clothing at least two feet deep. I have to be straight up with you, there are clothes in there my kids have worn once and grown out of in the time since I last did a massive laundry room cleaning. It comes down the landry
So, today I'm sitting down here, perched atop the deep freezer, alternating between working on edits for Abigail's January book (IN THE BLOOD, Samhain publishing, January 2011) and feeding the machines their due. I've got appropriately morose music playing (Tori Amos's utterly depressing Boys for Pele) and a two litre of Diet Coke to see me through. I just have to be sure to appease the Old Gods of laundry, so as not to be consumed by the pile myself.
If I don't return, be sure to buy up all my backlist so that I look more successful than I actually was.


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Review: Apple iPod touch (Fifth-Generation)
Company: Apple Inc.
Model: iPod touch (fifth-generation)
MSRP as of 6/2014: $199/$249/$299 (16/32/64GB)
MSRP as of 6/2013: $229/$299/$399 (16/32/64GB)
Compatibility: PC/Mac, iCloud
Pros: A substantially redesigned and much-improved version of the prior iPod touch, enhancing everything from screen quality to battery life and audio performance. In 32GB and 64GB models, both front and rear cameras are particularly big jumps over prior, poorly-equipped model, now rivaling recent iPhones; new 4" screen is taller and more color accurate than before. The 32GB and 64GB models are now offered in six different colors, including nice silver and black updates to prior models, while including a fabric loop for wrist carrying. Thinner and lighter than before. All models include new EarPods earphones.
Cons: Despite two-year gap since prior model's release, most of the new features are a full step behind leading iPhone and iPad models, cementing the new iPod touch as a smaller, better-screened remake of the iPhone 4S rather than as an iPod that separately justifies its existence with at least one standout new feature; a challenge as very good $199-$299 tablets continue to grow in popularity. New colors are so-so, and rear shells of 32GB and 64GB models—including a loop connection button and protruding camera lens—are a little unusual by Apple design standards. A 2013-vintage 16GB model regrettably lacks the rear camera feature altogether, seriously reducing the value proposition relative to other models. Lightning Connector breaks compatibility with past Dock Connector accessories unless you separately purchase Apple's $29-$39 adapters.
Apple has painted the iPod family into a corner. Having put its best resources into developing ever-improving iPhones and iPads, the company now routinely saves its most exciting new features for its phones and tablets, trickling them down to iPods only when they'll fit in smaller, thinner enclosures. While this has been more or less the case since the first iPhone debuted in 2007, hitting the iPod classic particularly hard, there were glimmers of hope for the iPod touch line: initially clearly subordinate to the iPhone, Apple differentiated later models with slightly more capable processors, helping to position its best iPods as superior gaming devices - the embodiment of "fun." Combined with $199-$229 entry prices, the "fun" pitch worked, and iPod touches became the most popular iPod model, eventually surpassing less expensive iPod nanos to account for the majority of iPod sales. Yet iPod sales have been falling every quarter for years, and while iPhone and iPads surged in popularity, Apple let 2010's iPod models sit on shelves for two years.
That changed this year—somewhat. Alongside the revamped iPhone 5, Apple introduced the fifth-generation iPod touch ($299/32GB, $399/64GB), a substantially improved model that borrows the new iPhone's screen, some of the new iPod nano's colors, and internal hardware comparable to last year's iPhone 4S. As has always been the case, the new model is the best iPod touch Apple's released, but this time around, there are some major qualifiers to consider. [Updated X2: On June 3, 2013, Apple released a stripped-down 16GB iPod touch ($229), reviewed separately here. One year later, on June 26, 2014, Apple updated the stripped-down 16GB version to be virtually identical to the 32GB and 64GB models, dropping their prices to $199, $249, and $299 respectively. We discuss the new 16GB model and the family's price-revised ratings inside.]
As was in the case in 2009, Apple has split the touch into two families, so users can't buy a fifth-generation iPod touch for less than $299; instead, the fourth-generation model is being sold in 16GB ($199) and 32GB ($249) capacities—at a point when game developers are dropping support for its aging hardware—and the new model remains capped at prior 32GB and 64GB capacities. Complicating matters further, low-end tablets are eating away at iPod touch interest: while a 16GB iPad 2 can currently be had for $399, a smaller, less expensive iPad with a 7.85" screen is just around the corner, and rivals such as Amazon and Google are already selling very capable 7" tablets for $199.
Our comprehensive review of the fifth-generation iPod touch looks at the new device's hardware, software, and accessories, but it also discusses a critical question: is there really still a place for a $299-$399 iPod touch with the features Apple has included in this year's model, or has the company miscalculated, releasing another new iPod that won't reverse the family's continued declines? The answer isn't as clear cut as it might initially seem, but in short, this is a very good piece of hardware that—due as much to pricing and competitive options as anything else—may wind up being lost in the pile. Read on for the details.
Editors' Note: iLounge only reviews products in "final" form, but many companies now change their offerings - sometimes several times - after our reviews have been published. This iLounge article provides more information on this practice, known as revving.


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The Hawk and Owl Trust works for the conservation of wild birds of prey and their habitats – both in its growing number of Nature Reserves and in partnership with others.
It is an important part of our work to dispel the myth that birds of prey are 'vermin'. This misconceived idea has lead to the unrelenting persecution of birds of prey to the present day. It is essential that the balanced, scientifically accurate argument relating to birds of prey prevails. Click Here for a short video covering this subject.
A special feature of the Trust is the close working partnership between our conservation team and farmers and other landowners, as well as with ornithologists and like-minded environmental organisations. This practice has, for example, already done much to help conserve Britain's barn owls, harriers and merlins.
Conservation experts give advice to farmers and other landowners on creating, protecting and managing habitats and offer them practical help. They also put up Artificial Nest Sites – boxes, baskets or platforms – for a wide range of owls and other birds of prey where natural sites have been lost or are threatened.
A particular example of the Trust's work is the Community Barn Owl Project with communities in South-west England learning how to monitor local wildlife and create and conserve habitats.
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It's a meme come true: Rihanna, Lupita Nyong'o set to make movie together
It all started with a picture and a simple suggestion on social media.
A picture of Lupita Nyong'o and Rihanna sitting together at a fashion show has catapulted a new Netflix project that was inspired by a social media thread on Tumblr, according to Entertainment Weekly.
It all began when the picture was made into a meme and prompted one person to post "They look like they're in a heist movie with Rihanna as the tough-as-nails leader/master thief and Lupita as the genius computer hacker."
Then the balls starting rolling. First Nyong'o chimed in saying, "I'm down if you are" to Rihanna who responded, "I'm in Pit'z."
Even "Insecure" writer Issa Rae joined the conversation saying she would join.
Of course, it seemed like just speculation and that the ladies were just having fun. But as the internet freaked out over the possibility, Netflix was prepared to make it happen.
The company reportedly nabbed the project in a bidding war at the Cannes Film Festival. The official project is said to have Rihanna and Nyong'o on board, as well as Ava DuVernay, director of "Selma," to direct.
Issa Rae is also said to be in talks to write the screenplay.


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Most people probably know that for a few years in the late '00s/early '10s, rogue website WikiLeaks operated as the industry leader in exposing controversial political and military secrets. And that its Australian founder, Julian Assange, became a public figure of simultaneous admiration and scorn. Particularly in Washington and on the right side of the aisle, many saw him as reckless, even using the word "terrorist." Others saw him as a hero, a digital Robin Hood in pursuit of the public good through maximum transparency.
Director Alex Gibney's ("Catching Hell") documentary "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks" takes on a challenge. He aims to cover the history and divisiveness of Assange's site while exploring how the iconic man behind WikiLeaks went from a believer in government accountability and defending victims (and "crushing bastards") to an elusive suspect of sexual assault and proponent of non-disclosure agreements among his allies. This, without Gibney seeming unjustly biased on either side.
Since Assange demanded $1 million for an interview or insisted that Gibney relay interviewee comments directly to Assange, the filmmaker couldn't directly involve Mr. WikiLeaks in the film. The absence is notable and unfortunate, considering how many people ultimately speak out against a man initially hailed as fearless and important for his efforts to prevent large agencies from hiding from the public.
Gibney also struggles to wrangle the story of Bradley Manning, an Army intelligence analyst whose uncertainty about his identity may have affected his eagerness to release classified documents to the public and connect with Assange. Much like a hacker releasing information via the Internet, Gibney has a lot of threads to consider in "Secrets," and he can't always control all the information and its implications. (He indicts the military, which probably hates the countless documentaries ["The Tillman Story," "The Invisible War"] that expose its many appalling faults, but doesn't follow through on details of its secrecy and punishment.)
Assange certainly deserves to be taken to task for embracing the coy protectiveness he once railed against, but it's unfair for Gibney to attack Assange for actions of his most extreme supporters. Regardless, the film recognizes compelling contradictions without attempting to answer complicated questions relevant to government and media types on a daily basis. Information is power, and "Secrets" is nothing if not a fascinating account of a man who loved stirring the pot until he was the one sitting in it.
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City Hospital, Jersey City NJ
Postcard circa 1910
Courtesy, Jersey City Free Public Library
Expanded City Hospital in foreground with new Jersey City Medical
Center building in the background circa 1930.
Photo: A. Selvaggio, 2002
Medical Center Architectural Details
One of Frank Hague's major goals during his political career was the founding of a hospital that would provide free state-of-the-art health care to Jersey City residents. By the 1930s, the Jersey City Medical Center was referred to as "a monument to the policy of municipal socialism" and became a testimony to the "Hagueism" of a bygone era (Donohue). Closed in 2004, the hospital complex has been rehabilitated into a luxury condominium known as The Beacon, allowing the Art Deco style buildings to continue to grace the Jersey City skyline for years to come.
The Medical
Center complex became one of the city's most visible and recognizable landmarks. It included the Medical Center Hospital, Pollak Chest Diseases
Hospital, Murdoch Hall, and Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital among
ten brick and terra cotta buildings, which are from fifteen-to-twenty-three
stories high, on the fourteen acre site at the Palisade Cliffs. After
its completion in 1941, the Medical Center was the third largest
health care facility in the world.
Medical Center
Jersey City's first hospital began in 1808 in a building intended by the Associates of the Jersey Company as a public market. Known as the "pest house," it treated patients affected by the cholera and small pox epidemic. It was located at the foot of Washington Street on Paulus Hook to isolate the patients from the rest of the community. After the epidemic, the pest house was used as a county poorhouse until the development of Laurel Hill in 1861. On December 15, 1868, the Board of Aldermen of Jersey City reclaimed the pest house as a medical facility and named it the Jersey City Charity Hospital. True to its name, it provided free medical care with physicians who contributed their services.
When the Charity Hospital outgrew its usefulness to the community, the Board of Aldermen bought land at Baldwin Avenue and Montgomery Street in 1882 for a new hospital. The locale was chosen to remove the hospital from the industrial development at Paulus Hook. The hospital constructed at the time is the main center of the current Medical Center building. It was renamed the Jersey City Hospital in 1885 with 200 beds. However, the facility could not keep pace with the demands of the growing city. In 1909, the original hospital building was reserved for men and a second wing was added for women patients.
After Frank Hague became mayor in 1917, he planned to build an expanded facility that would attract the best physicians and staff for Jersey City residents. Hague renovated the original double-wing, six-story City Hospital building, and he erected a brand new 23-story structure for surgical cases. The new facility opened in 1931, and Dr. George O'Hanlon was the first director. With the assistance of the Works Progress Administration during the Depression, new buildings were added to the Jersey City Medical Center Complex. Hague's interest and pride in the medical facility resulted in the inclusion of an office in Murdoch Hall, which served as a second office away from City Hall. It is described as a mahogany paneled office with a concealed door to leave by the back hallway in the complex.
The Medical Center became the pride of the mayor and the city. Free health care was provided to those residents who could not afford to pay. It is claimed that during the Hague years, the hospital cost $3 million to operate annually, but in a year, such as 1929, it brought in less than $15,000 in payments. By 1934, it had 750 employees and treated approximately 900 patients daily. The formal dedication of the Medical Center Complex was on October 2, 1936, with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mayor Hague in attendance before a reported crowd of 200,000. Having driven from New York City through the Holland Tunnel to Jersey City, President Roosevelt arrived at the opening ceremonies amidst heavy security by Port Authority police as well as Jersey City police and firemen,
From the completion of the Medical Center in 1941, it was considered to be larger than necessary for the city's population, overstaffed, and fiscally irresponsible. In 1988, the Medical Center declared bankruptcy and became a private, nonprofit organization. In 1994, the State of New Jersey designated the Medical Center as a regional trauma center, and in the late 1990s it was approved as a core teaching affiliate of Mount Sinai School of Medicine and for open heart surgery. It was New Jersey's primary responder following the attacks at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
B.S. Pollak Hospital - 100 Clifton Place
The Pollak Hospital facility was formerly the site of a three-story building constructed in 1918 for the Jersey City School for Crippled Children (see A. Harry Moore School). It was taken over as the Infectious Disease Hospital and in 1934 received a loan of $2,996,000 by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for a new county tuberculosis hospital. The 250-bed facility was eventually named for Dr. B.S. Pollak and became noted for the treatment of chest diseases. When completed in 1936, the 22-floor hospital, at 320 feet, was the tallest building in Jersey City until 1989 with the construction of Exchange Place Center at 490 feet.
Murdoch Hall
The last structure built for the Medical Center Complex was the residence for graduate and student nurses at the Medical Center. Constructed in 1941, the seventeen-story Art Deco building housed the Center's School of Nursing, begun in 1907, and named for Jessie M. Murdoch, Director of Nurses and friend of Hague. The structure contained a gymnasium, swimming pool, and auditorium. Its main attraction, however, was an art modern lobby with marble staircase with glass and brass banister taking one to a circular mezzanine. An indoor crosswalk led the nurses to the Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital.
After 1966, Murdoch Hall became the site of programs by the Hudson County Human Services programs.
In 1993, the art deco building with its geometric design detail took center stage in the movie film Quiz Show, directed by Robert Redford. The film is based on the story of the 1950s television show Twenty-One and its contestant Charles Van Doren, a Columbia University professor. Sections of the interior of Murdoch Hall provided Redford with a backdrop similar to the art deco of NBC's Rockefeller Center where the game show originated. To spruce up the longtime neglected building, approximately $25,000 was spent in preparation for the film production.
New Developments
In 1991, the Jersey City Medical Center merged with the Greenville Hospital at 1825 Kennedy Boulevard to form the Liberty HealthCare Systems, a consortium of affiliate hospitals in Hudson County. It was New Jersey's primary care responder in the aftermath of the attacks on the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The following November, construction began for a new medical complex: Liberty Health/Jersey City Medical Center on a 15-acre campus at the intersection of Grand Street (355) and Jersey Avenue. The site is in view of New York Harbor and Liberty State Park and is accessible from the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Jersey Avenue Station.
The new Jersey City
Medical Center, a private, nonprofit hospital with 316 beds, was dedicated on June 14,
2004. The $217 million structure was made possible through federal loan guarantees from the Federal
Housing Administration,
state grants, and municipal assistance. Governor James E. McGreevey, who
was born at the Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital, attended the ceremony.
The two buildings at the time were the seven-story steel and granite Wilzig
Hospital, named for the late Siggi B. Wilzig, a president of the former Trust
Company of New Jersey, and the Provident
Bank Ambulatory Center.
The Beacon
Hoping to preserve the historic Medical Center, the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency
sold the old complex to Metrovest Equities of Manhattan in 2002 for $6.5 million.
Renamed The Beacon, Metrovest proposed the rehabilitation of eight of the buildings for a projected cost of $350 million and the availability of 1,200 rental
and condominium apartments with commercial space and cultural venues.
According to
George Filopoulos, president of Metrovest: "These structures could
never be rebuilt and nobody would try, because of the lavish amounts of
space--grand entrances and 25-foot ceilings, wide hallways with marble
walls, theater space and solariums, plus the ornate detail of the interior
and exterior" (Martin).
In 2012, after the economic downturn in the real estate market of the previous years, Filopoulos sold five of the undeveloped buildings at The Beacon to the Connecticut development firm of Building and Land Technology (BLT) for $46 million. The following year, the NJ Economic Department Authority granted tax credits of $33 million towards the second phase of the redevelopment of the properties into luxury rental apartments and commercial space. They are the Orpheum, the Mercury, the Paramount, the Criterion. and the Tower at The Beacon.
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It's not often that you hear someone stand up in front of a microphone and tell the world they have been wrong about a high-profile issue. But that's exactly what Mark Lynas did last week at the Oxford Farming Conference in Oxford, England, when he renounced his long-held belief that genetically modified foods are dangerous and offered a full-throated defense of the technology as a means of feeding a growing population without devastating the environment.
"I apologize for having spent several years ripping up GM crops," Lynas told his receptive audience on Thursday. "I am also sorry that I helped to start the anti-GM movement back in the mid 1990s, and that I thereby assisted in demonizing an important technological option which can be used to benefit the environment. As an environmentalist, and someone who believes that everyone in this world has a right to a healthy and nutritious diet of their choosing, I could not have chosen a more counter-productive path. I now regret it completely."
Lynas is a journalist and activist whose main focus is on environmental issues. He is author of the books "Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet" and "God Species: How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans." He explained that it was his research into climate change science that forced him to confront his long-held beliefs about the dangers of GMO foods:


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Samsung to Try Out Tizen Smartphone in Russia
Jun 3, 2014 11:00 AM PT
Samsung this week officially launched its long-anticipated Tizen phone, at the Tizen Developer Conference being held in San Francisco through Wednesday.
One description of Tizen is that it's an open source Linux-based operating system from Samsung -- but that might be open to debate.
The Samsung Z Tizen phone initially will debut in Russia in the third quarter. In the meantime, Samsung will boost its efforts to attract developers to create apps for the operating system.
Products already running Tizen include Samsung's NX300M smart camera and the Systena Tizen tablet, both launched in October; and the Samsung Galaxy Gear 2 smartwatch, released in April.
The move to Tizen "is really about wresting control over the software that underpins [Samsung's] devices," Carl Howe, a research vice president at the Yankee Group, told LinuxInsider. "Samsung wants a platform that it can control instead of waiting to hear what comes out of Mountain View."
The Z's Specs
The Samsung Z has a 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display with 1,280 x 720 pixel resolution. It runs off an Intel 2.3 GHz quad-core processor.
It supports 2D and 3D graphics and has a built-in fingerprint sensor similar to the one in the Samsung Galaxy S5. It also has a heart rate sensor.
Other sensors include an accelerometer, a gyroscope, a compass, barometer and proximity sensors, as well as an RGB ambient light sensor.
The Samsung Z also has GPS Glonass. It supports WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n HT40 and MIMO.
The Samsung Z has an 8-MP rear camera and a 2.1-MP front camera. It has 16 GB of internal memory, and a 64 GB microSD slot. It will be available in black or gold.
Tizen will let users browse the Web faster and use applications more effectively, according to Samsung -- but it did not say which OS it was comparing it to.
What's a Tizen?
Tizen grew out of work done by the Linux Mobile Foundation, which was founded by Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics and Vodafone to work on an open, hardware-independent mobile OS.
LiMo and the Linux Foundation announced the Tizen project in September 2011.
In January of 2012, the Tizen Association replaced MeeGo, a Linux kernel-based free mobile OS project that was the love child of Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo OSes, with the Linux Foundation's blessing.
Tizen is not a continuation of MeeGo; instead, it builds on Samsung Linux Platform, a reference implementation delivered within LiMo.
The Fuss About FOSS
Tizen is said to combine the best open source technologies from LiMo and the Linux Foundation while adding a robust, flexible HTML5 and WAC (Wholesale Applications Community) development environment.
However, some of the technologies used in Tizen reportedly have conflicting licenses.
"Samsung is a predatory company, and their model suggests their open source rhetoric is just that and little else," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told LinuxInsider.
"Samsung benefits from open source, but it's not yet clear that they are becoming big contributors to that corpus of software," the Yankee Group's Howe pointed out. As a result, Tizen "will simply be a derivative work of open source."
Stumbling Toward the Market
Samsung's efforts to make Tizen a viable alternative to Android have not gone smoothly. NTT DoCoMo and other supporters have pulled out of the association.
However, the Tizen Association gained 15 new members in February and reportedly gained another 37 in May.
Samsung also has had problems attracting developers. It has promised a special promotional program for all devs to run for one year with the Smartphone Z's launch, and plans to host Tizen local app challenges in Russia and other markets.
"Historically they have sucked with developers, which dramatically lowers their likely success here," Enderle said, "but, if they try and fail with this, Android could suffer a serious hit anyway, because Samsung drives most of the Android market."
On the other hand, if Samsung's strategy succeeds, he suggested, "they plan to largely replace Android with Tizen, locking out companies like HTC."


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September 13, 2012
The Art of Frankenstein : Brian Ewing
A literal icon, this aureoled Bride evokes the stylized painted images of historical religious culture. The stunning poster was created by New York-based artist Brian Ewing. The artist first visited with Frankenstein and Bride back in 1997 for Electric Frankenstein.
Best known for his band posters — this one for Swans — Ewing's work now spills into all aspects of packaging and merchandising, and fine arts. Check out Ewing's terrific portfolio and a fascinating tutorial revealing the artist's meticulous methods.
Brian Ewing's website.
2 comments:
A cool rendition but the outline of where the top of her skull would be is too high (it is too far up above her hairline) and it is also shaped wrong on either side.
This concept has been done before, but is still an interesting interpretation.
- September 19, 2012 at 8:46 PM
- Gill MAUR said...
Hello ! I'm Gilles MAURICE, a french illustrator based in Lyon (FRANCE). With regard to what you seem to appreciate, I suggest you to have a look here: http://gilles-m.over-blog.com/article-gorgeous-frankenstein-part-3-112265429.html. I hope you will enjoy my illustration.
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There's something about an abyss that tends to attract daredevils in Washington.
Most people would likely do everything they could to avoid defaulting on their loans – as the US government came close to doing this summer. Most also bring, or attempt to bring, their spending in line with their revenue – something Congress seems to be unable to do ahead of their deadline this week.
Yet the seasoned leaders of Washington are throwing caution to the wind, and pressing the accelerator for a Thelma-and-Louise finale.
Bless their hearts, they keep the news industry alive.
Toward the end of last week, the members of Congress's "super committee" – do they wear capes? – started sending out signals that they would fail to reach a compromise to cut $1.2 trillion from the federal budget over the next decade. Unlike past budget impasses, where Congress's failure to pass a budget meant that government literally had to shut down for a few weeks until Congress could rediscover the spirit of compromise, there appear to be automatic spending cuts built into the process in both defense and domestic budgets.
But the Monitor's Mark Trumbull writes that there are some pundits who believe this seemingly messy affair might actually be good for democracy. The new view in Washington is that failure might be good, he writes:
"That view: Don't get hot and bothered if the panel fails to deliver. The battles will just be fought again after the next election – and maybe on that day the side with the best ideas will have more political clout."
What about China?
Most economists assume that the current bad economic times will turn around for the better, driven by the economic engine of all those thriving emerging nations like Brazil, China, India, and parts of Africa. But what if China ends up having the same kind of overheated economy that the West has had, and goes into a tailspin? Well, that would be bad.
The Atlantic magazine's Max Fisher writes that China's leaders never anticipated that the West – their biggest customer – would suddenly have difficulty buying its cheap goods. And now, China will have to adjust its economic model quickly in order to keep that officially-ordained 8 percent growth rate going, and to prevent unrest.
"Though China's leaders have long planned to change the country's economic model – which is also at the heart of its political model – these crises mean that China must accelerate its plan to restructure its economy. Right now, China's economy is based on exporting to wealthy, developed countries. For that export-driven system to work, China's economy needs to remain weaker than those of its buyers. One of the biggest reasons that China sells so much stuff is because it can produce that stuff cheaply. But as China's growth accelerates and European and American growth slows due to financial crises, China is catching up with the developed economies faster than anyone had anticipated. If and when China gets too wealthy to continue exporting cheap products – or if the developed economies become too weak to keep buying them – it will be in big trouble."
Everyone's doing it
Economic discontent is all the rage these days, and Egypt's streets are once more taken over by stone-throwing youths, demanding that the Egyptian military loosen its grip on political power. Here in the US, the Occupy Wall Street movement is shifting from financial districts to college campuses, and some Occupy Wall Street organizers see the rougher tactics of the New York City policy department in clearing out camping activists from Zuccotti Park as a possible boon for the movement's next big thing.
The New Yorker's Mattathias Schwartz spoke with Kalle Lasn, the 69-year-old Vancover activist seen as a leading light of the Occupy movement on the day after Zuccotti Park was cleared out, and Mr. Lasn sounded positively ebullient.
"I just can't believe how stupid Bloomberg can be!" he said to me later that day. "This means escalation. A raising of the stakes. It's one step closer to, you know, a revolution."
A Good Read
But if there is one good thing that comes out of times like this, it is a need for introspection and study. And in that spirit, Smithsonian Magazine's Richard Chin has written a story about the scientific study of sarcasm. It turns out sarcasm actually makes humans smarter. Who knew?
"Sarcasm seems to exercise the brain more than sincere statements do. Scientists who have monitored the electrical activity of the brains of test subjects exposed to sarcastic statements have found that brains have to work harder to understand sarcasm.
That extra work may make our brains sharper, according to another study. College students in Israel listened to complaints to a cellphone company's customer service line. The students were better able to solve problems creatively when the complaints were sarcastic as opposed to just plain angry. Sarcasm "appears to stimulate complex thinking and to attenuate the otherwise negative effects of anger," according to the study authors."


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Blog of Dr. Miland Brown that features different aspects of world history. Not everything can be covered but sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history. Dr. Brown is an academic in North America.
Monday, October 03, 2005
The Glory of Byzantium
The exhibit is long gone (it ended in 1997) but the musuem has left up a lot of neat stuff. This includes a neat collection of tips and lesson plans for teachers and a glossary.
From the site:
The Byzantine Empire, founded when the capital of the Roman Empire was transferred from Rome to Constantinople in 324, existed in the eastern Mediterranean area until the fifteenth century. The arts and culture of this "New Rome" continued the pan-Mediterranean traditions of the late antique Greco-Roman world, setting the standard of cultural excellence for the Latin West and the Islamic East. The results of the cultural development of the Byzantine Empire during these centuries has had a lasting impact on such modern nations as Albania, Armenia, Belorus', Bulgaria, Cyprus, Egypt, Georgia, Greece, Rumania, the Russian Federation, Serbia, Syria, Ukraine, and Turkey.
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- Wordchitect said...
The Byzantine Empire was significant, lasting some 1000 years. I can't think of many, if at all, other kingdoms lasting that long.
- Miland said...
I agree with you. I will add though that the Byzantine Empire was the continuation of the Roman state. The Byzantines considers themselves Roman until the end and they referred to their state as being Roman. As such, the range of this state goes from the rise of the Roman Republic until the fall of Constantinople in the 15th Century.
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FYI for wives out there: Send your husbands to the woods for a week, pack one or two hot meals and then the ingredients for other meals. Now, grab a book, holiday magazines, a couple of chic flicks and enjoy being at home where it is warm, dry, you have running water and a refrigerator.
By the time you join your hunting hubby (who has not shaved since he left and is smelling a bit like a gym locker), the sparkle is in his eye's and he remembers how life was without you. Now, after he showers and shaves, enjoy the following week of goo-goo eyes and romance (between all of the loads of clothes you are washing of course). Ahhh, the appreciation of a hunter's wife, well, at least this hunter's wife.
Oh, and another thing I appreciate from my hunter? (well, aside of the nasty preparation) - deer meat, yes, a bounty of venison! Sorry Bambi, but you are looking good in my freezer.
Another note of thankfulness, my go-to-blog-friend has helped a sistah out AGAIN!
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NORCROSS, Ga., April 17, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Galectin Therapeutics (Nasdaq:GALT), the leading developer of therapeutics that target galectin proteins to treat fibrosis and cancer, announced today that the first patient in cohort 2 of its Phase 1 clinical trial of GR-MD-02 in patients with NASH with advanced fibrosis has been successfully dosed with 4 mg/kg, which is double the dose given in cohort 1. Cohort 2, as with all phases of the clinical trial, was initiated in full compliance with the rules, regulations, and specific conditions set forth by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for this Phase 1 clinical trial. The second cohort follows highly successful results from the first cohort showing that 2 mg/kg was safe and very well tolerated, and that GR-MD-02 treatment resulted in significant improvement in multiple biomarkers of fibrosis and liver inflammation in patients with NASH with advanced fibrosis (see full results: http://galectintherapeutics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140401GT020FirstCohortFINAL.pdf). The remaining patients in cohort 2 are expected to be enrolled over the next few weeks and we anticipate reporting the results of cohort 2 around the end of July.
"We were extremely pleased with the results of the first cohort, which demonstrated significant biomarker effects on fibrosis and inflammation in all the patients treated with GR-MD-02, coupled with good safety and tolerability," said Dr. Peter G. Traber, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Medical Officer of Galectin Therapeutics Inc. "These positive results have propelled the enrollment of the second cohort with strong participation across our clinical trial sites. We anticipate the cohort 2 results will further support the use of GR-MD-02 in patients with NASH and advanced fibrosis, with the goal of reversing fibrosis and preventing complications of cirrhosis and liver transplantation."
The trial is titled "A Multi-Center, Partially Blinded, Maximum Tolerated Multiple Dose Escalation, Phase 1 Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Safety of GR-MD-02 in Subjects with Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) with Advanced Hepatic Fibrosis." Trial design details can be found at http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01899859?term=gt-020&rank=1. In 2013, Galectin Therapeutics received Fast Track designation from the FDA for this clinical development program. FDA grants Fast Track designation to help expedite review and approval of drugs in development that treat serious or life threatening diseases and fill an unmet medical need.
About Fatty Liver Disease with Advanced Fibrosis
Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), also known as fatty liver disease, has become a common disease of the liver with the rise in obesity rates, estimated to affect nine to 15 million people, including children, in the U.S. Fatty liver disease is characterized by the presence of fat in the liver along with inflammation and damage in people who drink little or no alcohol. Over time, patients with fatty liver disease can develop fibrosis, or scarring of the liver, and it is estimated that as many as three million individuals will develop cirrhosis, a severe liver disease where liver transplantation is the only current treatment available. Approximately 6,300 liver transplants are done on an annual basis in the U.S. There are no drug therapies approved for the treatment of liver fibrosis.
About Galectin Therapeutics
Galectin Therapeutics (Nasdaq:GALT) is developing promising carbohydrate-based therapies for the treatment of fibrotic liver disease and cancer based on the Company's unique understanding of galectin proteins, key mediators of biologic function. We are leveraging extensive scientific and development expertise as well as established relationships with external sources to achieve cost effective and efficient development. We are pursuing a clear development pathway to clinical enhancement and commercialization for our lead compounds in liver fibrosis and cancer. Additional information is available at www.galectintherapeutics.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains, in addition to historical information, forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements relate to future events or future financial performance, and use words such as "may," "estimate," "anticipated," "expect" and others. They are based on our current expectations and are subject to factors and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the statements. These statements include those regarding the clinical trial, including the expected timing of results for the second cohort, and potential benefits and therapeutic effects of GR-MD-02. Factors that could cause our actual performance to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements include, among others, that we may not be successful in developing effective treatments and/or obtaining the requisite approvals for the use of GR-MD-02 or any of our other drugs in development. Our current clinical trial and any future clinical studies may not produce positive results in a timely fashion, if at all, and could prove time consuming and costly. We may have difficulty enrolling new patients, which could impact timing and costs. Results from the first cohort of Phase 1 are not necessarily indicative of future results in the clinical trial. Plans regarding development, approval and marketing of any of our drugs are subject to change at any time based on the changing needs of our company as determined by management and regulatory agencies. Regardless of the results of any of our development programs, we may be unsuccessful in developing partnerships with other companies that would allow us to further develop and/or fund any studies or trials. To date, we have incurred operating losses since our inception, and our ability to successfully develop and market drugs may be impacted by our ability to manage costs and finance our continuing operations. For a discussion of additional factors impacting our business, see our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013, and our subsequent filings with the SEC. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Although subsequent events may cause our views to change, we disclaim any obligation to update forward-looking statements.
CONTACT: Galectin Therapeutics Inc. Peter G. Traber, MD, 678-620-3186 President, CEO & CMO email@example.com
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TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials are preparing to launch a program that proponents say enhances the efficiency of care for Medicaid recipients while decreasing costs. The Medicaid Health Home program relies on a primary care physician, who works with a clinical care team including specialists, nurses, and pharmacies to meet the needs of a patient. The program requires that the improvement of care be tracked for each patient. The Times-News reports that the program will be launched by January 2013.


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by Jim Harris
For Eagles fans, this past football season has been about as much fun as flu season. If it were a Broadway play, it would be called "Les Miserables." The only hopeful spot was the firing of Andy Reid and subsequent hiring of new head coach, Chip Kelly. That seems like a fitting nickname, given that the official snack food of the NFL is the potato chip.
Maybe Chip should hire an assistant coach named "Dip." Also interviewed for the same head-coaching job were Brian Kelly, Mike McCoy and Mike Nolan. Is it just me, or does that seem like more Irish-Americans than in a Bing Crosby movie? What ever happened to diversity?
Well, at least there's plenty of diversity in the fan base. Everybody loves football. Not only has it replaced baseball as our national pastime, but a recent poll showed that football is now more popular than guns. And it's twice as dangerous! Consider this: women are allowed to fight on the front lines in wars, but they're still not permitted to play football. It's such a violent sport that the NFL has even proposed placing football players in all public schools to protect in kids and teachers.
As a gift to all the suffering Eagles fans and to the community at large, I will again be hosting a gala open house Super Bowl party in my lavishly appointed garage. Last year almost three people attended, including myself, and this year I expect an even larger crowd, so come early. The door opens at 6 a.m., but I don't get out of bed until noon, so try to keep the noise down.
As a new feature this year, all of my potential guests must submit to a rigorous background check by answering a series of probing questions, including "Are you crazy?" "Do you plan to kill anyone?" and "What kind of beer did you bring?" As an added safeguard, all my snack foods have been inspected and certified as "Edible" by USDA robots. In addition, my dog Goober knows CPR, and I have several working defibrillators.
Many fun activities are planned. For example, every time one of the on-air announcers says a word beginning with a vowel, we all have to power-chug a coffee can full of corn liquor and punch a hole in the garage door. Biggest hole wins a prize. I'll also be giving out awards for "Longest Belch," "Most Awesome Food Stain" and "Most Unusual Tooth."
And lest folks get the impression that this is just all fun and games, after listening to the game (on radio — I don't own a TV), we will build a solar-powered house and give it away to the first person we see. How's that for social consciousness?
I also hired a deaf interpreter for the occasion, but it turned out that she actually WAS deaf, so I'm just going to turn the radio up really loud for those folks with hearing problems. And as a concession to civility, I'm also asking that fans restrict their curse words to "Egad," "Oy Vey," "Gee Willikers" and "Land-O-Goshen."
As for the game itself, I think the teams seem evenly matched. They both have the exact same number of players, and in fact, the two head coaches, Jim and John Harbaugh, are brothers — further evidence of the rather limited gene pool for NFL coaches.
In addition to all the ostentatious dancing by players during the game, there will no doubt also be a lot of dancing at halftime when intergalactic superstar Beyoncé takes the stage to sing.
In case you hadn't heard, she's the one who lip-synched the National Anthem at the recent inauguration. That's OK, I guess, as long as the President didn't lip-sync his oath of office and Vice-President Biden didn't lip-sync his "Kick those Republicans!" oath.
So I hope you all can make my party, but just In case you can't, I'll be recording the whole event on my cell phone and posting the video on my blog. I will then videotape myself watching the video and post THAT video on another blog, so everyone can share in the fun. Party on, people!


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The 14 people who died of fungal meningitis after they were injected with an apparently tainted steroid surely had no idea that their medication hadn't come from a regular pharmaceutical company that meets federal standards for safety and efficacy. Rather, it had been produced by one of the nation's "compounding pharmacies," which used to be small operations producing customized versions of drugs for people whose particular medical issues made it difficult for them to take standard medications. Because of their small, specialized operations, such businesses have been largely exempted from inspection and regulation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Yet many of them have grown into sizable manufacturers that make the same drugs produced by traditional pharmaceutical companies. The injectable steroid implicated in the meningitis cases, for example, was shipped to nearly two dozen states and used to treat up to 14,000 patients with back or neck pain. This has been possible in part because of provisions of the 1997 Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act, which allowed compounding pharmacies to avoid the levels of testing and other standards required of regular pharmaceutical firms. Court decisions further tied the FDA's hands.
Since then, these companies have operated in a legal limbo. They are supposed to come under the purview of state pharmacy boards, but those boards are ill-equipped to regulate such operations. The FDA is allowed to step in under some circumstances.


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When you're president of the United States, even if you're in the midst of a heated reelection campaign (come to think about it, especially if you are), you can't afford to leave people with the impression you're out of touch when a potentially catastrophic natural disaster is about to unfold.
That's why President Obama interrupted his seemingly nonstop tour of swing states today for a meeting at the White House with Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate, National Hurricane Center Director Rick Knabb, and Homeland Security Advisor John Brennan. Obama got an update on preparations for Hurricane Sandy and the impending "Frankenstorm" that could hit the East Coast when it comes ashore.
The White House made sure to distribute the photo above of the meeting, and to issue a statement noting that the president had "directed Administrator Fugate to ensure that all available federal resources are being brought to bear to support state and local responders in potentially affected areas along the eastern seaboard as they prepare for the severe weather."
Here's my question: Has a president ever directed that only part of available federal resources be used in a disaster response effort? It's certainly not the first time Obama has gone all in: As recently as last month, he ordered FEMA to bring "all available resources to bear to support our response and recovery efforts" in response to Hurricane Isaac. And even when Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, soon-to-be-ousted FEMA Director Mike Brown declared that his agency was "coordinating the mobilization of all available federal resources to help residents who may be in the path of this dangerous storm."
In a post-Katrina world, did Fugate really need to await an order for Obama to ensure that FEMA and other agencies didn't decide to just leave some of the available resources on the sidelines as a major storm unfolded?


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Owner Woody Johnson was curiously coy about the Jets doing another edition of HBO's Hard Knocks, when asked about it last week. That's because, according to Fox Sports, he's totally all about it. What's not to like? Tebow! Sanchez! Holmes! Ryan! This could be the greatest reality/docudrama/propaganda film ever created. HBO, please produce a dotted line and a pen.
Not so fast. Fox says that Rex Ryan, the ringleader of Florham Park's no-ring circus, is standing in the way of greatness. Supposedly Ryan doesn't want this season to turn into the same tabloid sideshow as last season, or the season before that, or the season before that. With a roster designed to draw attention, if not win, the Jets don't need Hard Knocks to be the most interesting and covered team in the league. But still: pleasepleaseplease do it, Rex.
Fox notes that the Broncos have already turned down HBO's offer, and that the Harbaugh-led 49ers and Ravens are a possibility. And then this, which is just so, so sad.
The Jacksonville Jaguars, ranked last in the latest Harris Interactive Poll for league popularity, have told HBO they would love to do the show.
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Direct link: Using Stencils with Gelatos
Be sure and get your comments in quickly. The winner will be announced Thursday, July 25, 2013. Up for grabs: Metallic and Yellow Gelato sets, and a few other surprises!
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Your tuts have been so fabulous Kimberly! I have been on the fence about this color medium, but I think I might have to make a little purchase very soon! :0)
Terrific Tuesday inspiration!!!!!! I have a similar mat that the husband brought home from Menard's on one of their many freebie types...for the oven but it works great and the price was perfect!
Your tutorials are so good, really easy to understand, and I love the processes that you demonstrate, I am placing an order for the gelatoes so that I will be able to use these techniques!,,,
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the great "how-to" instructions. You ROCK.
so very cool. i need to find me some stencils now too! ha.
Great video!!!Going to have to give it a try!!!
Love how you used the stencils with the gelatos! Two great products combined. Lovely cards Kimberly!
Love the texture and dimension from the modelling paste and how fun to be able to make custom colors using the Gelatos. Thanks for all the great videos!
I really enjoy your videos. They are short and to the point. I am heading down to my craft nook to try the modeling paste right now. Thank you so much for the instructions.
These tutorials have been awesome thank you so much! I learned so much from them and I really believe I can do this now. I love the butterfly and the way you used the stencils unlimited options with this product. It is a must have.
Oh I love that butterfly. Great video, and thanks for the links.
Such a delicate, lovely card. Thanks for the tip on making your own spray inks and using stencils with them.
Thanks for all the great tutorials! I really love the dainty look of the card with the itty bitty vellum butterflies.
Another awesome tutorial! You are thorough, but not too wordy. Sometimes I hesitate to watch a tutorial that is much more that 6 or 7 minutes because I just don't have that time. I have some stencils and want to try some of these techniques now.
I love the aqua card - so many ideas for using Gelatos, and you know I never use my stencils the way I should either.
Great ideas from these tutorials... thanks for sharing.
Very pretty cards and great tutorial! I have used stencils for many years with craft paint. Now using the Gelatos it seems like it would be fun to do again! I am glad you addressed your craft mat and where to get them as I was wondering also. I have tried my big craft stores about a year ago and they did not seem to have them. So, will have to try again.
Thanks for this great tutorial series and looking forward to more of them.
Oh, I love that technique and the cards look fabulous Kimberly.
Love how the gelatos give so much texture and adds artsy dimension to your cards. Thanks for sharing the tutorial!!
Love everything abt Gelatos!!! Thanks for all the inspiration. Love that last doily card!!
I love using stencils so I can see I would also want to try this technique. Thanks for the info.
Thank you for showing several ways to use the gelatos! they're fantastic.
I love that you colored the modeling paste and used it for the butterfly! So pretty. Thanks for the video.
Thanks for the tips !!
I just loved this series of tutorials on Gelatos.
I liked it so much I'm going to buy myself a set of them. I love the idea of stencils and using paste.
Just a great series.
Thanks Kimberly
Great techniques with the stencils. I like how you colored the modeling paste.
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Lovely techniques!! I love the bright yellow gelato, I will need to try all these techniques.
Thanks for some wonderful gelato ideas this past week.
Carol B
Thanks for some wonderful gelato ideas this past week.
Carol B
I can't tell you enough how much I've enjoyed these videos......so much that I picked up some of these tonight while out crafty shopping with a friend! Can't wait to give some of your techniques a try!!!
Another FAB tutorial! I love the technique with the modeling paste! Your cards are absolutely awesome! Thanks again the great, inspirational videos!
Fabulous video! Love the idea of lifting off some of the color with the stencil in place!
Fabulous video! Love the idea of lifting off some of the color with the stencil in place!
Thank you for a great video tutorial, Kimberly! You're a great teacher!
Enjoying your video, thanks. I have a question..did you use water color paper or regular paper?
Just discovered your tutorials through Pinterest! I love them! I've bookmarked this page!
Can't wait to try your gel ideas!


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Vonnie Mae Jones Kelley
Vonnie Mae Jones Kelley went to be with the Lord on Oct. 20, at Mercy Hospice in Fort Smith.
She was born April 28, 1920, to Arlie and Zettie Ashmore Jones in Pottsville. She grew up on Crow Mountain and was a lifelong resident of Pope County. She married Robert Duluth Kelley on Dec. 19, 1940.
Mrs. Kelley was a homemaker and a member of Russellville First Assembly of God. She taught Sunday School at Stella Manor Nursing Home for more than 25 years.
Vonnie was preceded in death by her parents; her husband of 59 years; her sisters, Bea Cameli and Irene Dane; a granddaughter, LaNita Reed; and a grandson-in-law, David McGee.
Left to cherish her memory are three children, Laveta Reed and husband Thomas of Russellville, Robert Kelley and wife Jane of Benton, Rita Woolf and husband Warren of Fort Smith; grandchildren, Kelly Carnell of Van Buren, Tonya Rushin and husband Brent of Jacksonville, Rob Kelley and wife Jeana of Benton, Jeff Kelley and wife Sheri of Mt. Juliet, Tenn., Melanie Morris of Sommerville, Mass., Greg Woolf and wife Kelly of Van Buren, and Greta McGee of Fort Smith; 10 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson; and a brother, E.R. Jones and wife Peggy of Pottsville.
Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24, at Russellville First Assembly of God with the Rev. Greg Woolf officiating. Burial will be at Rest Haven Memorial Park by Humphrey Funeral Service, 2801 West Main in Russellville. telephone (479) 968-4411.
The family will receive friends from 10:30 a.m. until noon on Wednesday, Oct. 24, in the Fireside Room at Russellville First Assembly.
Memorials may be made to Mercy Hospice, P.O. Box 17000, Fort Smith, AR 72917.
Family comments: The family would like to thank Legacy Heights Nursing & Rehabilitation Center staff for the excellent care Mrs. Kelley received during her stay there.