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BOONE, N.C. -- Sam Martin kicked four field goals, including two in the second half. to lift FCS consensus 12th-ranked Appalachian State past upset-minded Furman, 33-28, in Southern Conference football action Saturday afternoon in front of 28,986 fans at Kidd Brewer Stadium.
Martin booted first half field goals covering 27 and 47 yards and then added two more in the second half to help the Mountaineers (8-3, 6-2 SoCon) overcome a 28-27 deficit en route to the victory, their ninth straight over the Paladins (3-7, 2-5 SoCon) in Boone.
"This is a tough place to win and Appalachian State is a good team playing for a conference championship," said Furman head coach Bruce Fowler. "We played well at times but missed a lot of tackles. They also rushed the ball well on us, but we did some good things to hold them to five points in the second half and give ourselves a chance. Offensively, we just didn't get into any kind of rhythm, and we missed the field goal at the end of the first half that could have given us some momentum."
Furman true freshman linebacker Carl Rider gave the Paladins the 28-27 lead after scooping up a fumble near the ASU sideline and returning it 27 yards for a touchdown six minutes into the second half.
From that point, however, the game turned on Martin's accurate foot, as his 19-yard field goal on the ensuing possession put the Mountaineers up 30-28, and his 32-yard effort with 6:04 to go accounted for the game's final points.
Furman had opportunities over the last quarter and a half, but the Paladins' final five possessions ended with three punts and two interceptions, including a game ending pickoff by ASU's Troy Sanders at the Mountaineer 5 after Furman had moved from their own 1 to the ASU 37 over the contest's final two minutes.
With its offense struggling to find traction, Furman fell behind 10-0 before its special teams and defense came to the rescue. Jerodis Williams, who entered the game as the FCS leader in kickoff returns, got the Paladins on the board with a 100-yard kickoff return, his second of the season and seventh century mark return in school history.
Appalachian State answered with a 7-yard strike from Andrew Peacock to Drew Bailey to take a 17-7 lead, but the Palaidin defense countered with a Mitch McGrath sack of Mountaineer quarterback Jamal Jackson, whose fumble on the play was pounced on in the end zone by linebacker Gary Wilkins to make it a 17-14 game.
The Mountaineers took a 27-14 lead into halftime after Jackson connected with Peacock for an 18-yard strike with 24 seconds showing on the clock.
Furman took the second half kickoff and moved 75 yards in 10 plays to cut it to 27-21 on Hannon's 10-yard strike to Jordan Snellings.
On the game's next offensive play Austin Williams' hit on Appalachian State wide receiver Tony Washington dislodged the football, which Rider collected and rambled down the sideline 27 yards into the end zone to help give Furman its only lead of the contest.
Appalachian State rang up a 448-300 advantage in total offense, getting 332 yards passing from Jackson, who connected on 33-of-47 passes. He was sacked five times, however, and fumbled once.
Steven Miller paced ASU's ground game with 170 yards and a touchdown on 25 carries.
Hannon completed 19-of-36 passes for 203 yards and a score to lead Furman, which was led on the ground by Williams, whose 14 carries netted 59 yards to give him 2,994 yards in his career.
Williams also topped the Paladins' receiving chart with a career high seven catches for 37 yards.
Peacock led all receivers with 11 grabs for 130 yards and a score.
McGrath topped Furman's defense with 11 stops, including a sack, a forced fumble, and three pass deflections.
ASU's Jeremy Kimbrough claimed game high tackle honors with 17 stops.
Jerodis Williams' 100-yard kickoff return against Appalachian State was his second 100-yard return of the season (100 vs. Western Carolina) and seventh 100-yard return in Furman history (107 seasons). Williams entered the game leading FCS in kickoff returns (11 returns, 36.8 avg.).
With five sacks against Appalachian State, Furman upped its season tally to 25, which eclipses last year's total of 21. The Paladins, who registered seven sacks in a 31-17 win over Elon on Oct. 27, have notched 12 quarterback take downs in the last two games.
Furman's seven pass deflections versus ASU marked a season high.
Redshirt freshman Tank Phillips started at right tackle versus Appalachian State in place of injured Charles Emert, who did not play.
Starting junior offensive guard Ryan Storms exited the game in the second quarter due to injury and was replaced by senior Will White.
True freshman linebacker Carl Rider's 27-yard fumble return gave Furman two fumble returns for scores in the last two games (Marcus McMorris school record 95-yard return for TD vs. Elon).
With four catches for 59 yards, Furman senior All-America tight end Colin Anderson upped his career numbers to 87 receptions for 1,498 yards, moving from 18th to 15th on Furman's career receptions ledger and from 13th to 12th in career yards. He is 67 yards shy of the all-time Furman receiving yards standard for tight ends, trailing only Luther Broughton (1,565 yards, 1993-96).
Senior All-SoCon defensive end Josh Lynn's sack against Appalachian State gave him 10 for his career and moved him into a tie for 10th place with Mike Hardy (1989-93) in Furman career sacks history.
Furman was shut out in the fourth quarter for the eighth time (in 10 games) this season and has been outscored 91-26 in the final frame in 2012.
Appalachian State's victory gave the Mountaineers a share of the 2012 SoCon championship (with Georgia Southern & Wofford) — the 12th by ASU to tie Furman for most in SoCon history.
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BOONE, N.C. -- Sam Martin kicked four field goals, including two in the second half. to lift FCS consensus 12th-ranked Appalachian State past upset-minded Furman, 33-28, in Southern Conference football action Saturday afternoon in front of 28,986 fans at Kidd Brewer Stadium.


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What ingredients will produce the highest quality of castings? My thought is that if I were to only feed...say banana peels, then they have their own microbes that break them down while I would…Continue
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I just got a few Eisenia Andrei a couple of weeks ago. One of things that I put in their bin was about a tablespoon full of cooked corn. But it is STILL in the bin after having sat in the composter…Continue
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Hello all,I am settling down in British Columbia and my hubby and I have been on the hunt for red worms (Eisenia Fetida) since getting back last week. I was going to try to purchase them locally,…Continue
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I just started doing this worm thing about three weeks ago. My husband has been kind enough to help me with it. Actually, he checks on them as I don't yet have the courage to put my hand in the bin...ha. I don't the food in and take a look when he checks, but ain't touching them just yet....:-(.
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I keep messaging in the group, but it doesn't seem to be posting.
Yeah, this thing is really messing up, lately.
Thanks, Patricia, for the welcome.
My first worm attempt was over ten years ago, with a tiny box under the sink. The worms were not very happy, crawled out on to the kitchen floor, and didn't survive. My family was not too pleased, so I didn't take up worms again until several years later. I will post some pictures of early bin attempts. I have learned a lot when I have read the posts on this site over the years, and hope I can contribute from my own experiences. -Richard
had I been in your family, I would not have been very happy either! haha. I cannot imagine coming home of some of the stuff that I have seen in pictures of ticked off worms! sheesh.....
I'll be looking for your pics....:-). I will be posting some pics too on my page of the harvest that I did today.
Looking forward to getting some answers and support from you and a lot more people. Thank you for your response. I was so happy to see that there was a site to join where people could join and support each other and ask each other questions that others might know. I really felt that I was going into this blindly and by myself. Especially when I saw how hard it was to buy the worms locally. My mom usually comes up to visit me 1 to 2 times a month, but if I tell her what I am doing, I may never see her again. I don't know if I want to tell her or how I will tell her when I do. This was a very hard decision for me to make. I never kill anything, if there is a spider or a bug in the house, I just put it back outside. But to make the decision to make a home for a ton of worms inside the house and start feeding them was not an easy decision. But the pros outweighed the cons.
Good for you , Teresa, doing what YOU want! And Patricia is absolutely right. No need for her to know! : -)) My boyfriend does NOT like the idea of my having worms - and I got a Worm Factory 3 bin system to keep him happy. (He figured an "official" system would probably be less problems/smell than a homemade one) I didn't want to spend the money - not really necessary - but am happy I did. It seems to work better than a big bin. Doesn't smell at all. And saw a couple eggs when I looked a few days ago - didn't look too hard, I know they don't like to be disturbed.
Still on the first bin - don't want to overwhelm them w/ too much food.
So good luck to you!
Also found the booklet that came w/ the system very handy. PLUS you can call them with any questions! THAT is a great thing.
I very much suggest getting the book "Worms Eat My Garbage" from Amazon for most of the questions you may have. Really helpful.
Hi Patricia--
How many rats do you have? Definitely would love to get a couple more. They are such fun. I miss having them.
My boyfriend thinks I am nuts - mulch piles outside/starting a lasagna garden/love rats and bats/have a worm bin….
But you can be sure I ain't puttin' my hands into those worms. I am with you…. worms under my fingernails?? Horrors. I have a nice THICK pair of rubber gloves on a plastic tray down by my worms - with some newspaper, a spray bottle, a moisture meter and soon a soil thermometer. Have a thermometer in the bin, but am not sure if it is accurate. Just a normal one.
Very happy to see the worms in the garden too. Doesn't mean I want to hugs them!! LOL Actually I have been known to rescue worms stranded on the pavement after the rain - with my bare hands!! Feel sorry for them….about to be baked alive.
Do you remember how long it took you to fill up the first tray? How long to harvest your first compost?
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The Amalfi Coast is the dream of earthly paradise that has become true. A dream that starts from the sea, that cobalt blue that becomes crystal green and lands on beaches and coves closed by sheer rocks. A dream that captivates heart and soul, immersed in nature, in gardens of palms and flowers, ancient villages among the most beautiful in Italy, with paths, steps and alleyways leading up towards the forests of the mountains embracing the Divine Coast and towards the natural terraces that enjoy breathtaking views. The Amalfi Coast is a patchwork of nature, glamour, hospitality, landscapes, entertainment, shopping, crafts and food. An ideal place for the perfect holiday. And to make the best of your holiday, all along the coast arise beautiful and luxurious hotels, such as fairy-tale palaces overlooking the crystal waters of the Mediterranean Sea. In the warm sun of southern Italy. Where life is passion.


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Ripple's XRP voted as the best coin to buy under 1$: Weiss Ratings' poll
Weiss Ratings shared a poll on Twitter asking the community which is the best coin to buy under 1$. The poll results show that the community believes Ripple's XRP is the best crypto to invest in under $1. Weiss Ratings gave four options and XRP won the poll as 64% voted for it. The closest was Cardano (ADA) which received 25% of the vote. The third place was obtained by Stellar Lumens (XLM) with 8% and IOTA occupied the last place with only 3%. The poll shows that 5,726 twitter users (almost 50% of Weiss Ratings' followers) participated in the poll. Currently, Ripple is exploring new ways to rise the adoption of XRP beyond the world of banking. In the recently ended PreMoney crypto conference in San Francisco, Ripple's senior vice president of Xpring, Ethan Beard said, "With Xpring, we're focused on the broader XRP ecosystem. Ripple, as a company, focuses on the Internet of Value – helping money move as easily as data. Our core business being 'helping banks move money – mainly across border' and we've got great momentum there." He added, "At the same time, we think XRP and the XRP Ledger has a lot of use cases above and beyond what's going on in the banking world. And so, with Xpring, we're actually looking to identify, amplify, and help those projects take off and get off the board." In other news, a recent report by World Trade Organization (WTO) stated that Ripple could impact world's financial system. The report revealed that blockchain technology would have dramatic impact in the financial system of the world and specifically highlights Ripple. The new report, titled 'The future of world trade: How digital technologies are transforming global commerce', says that blockchain has "the potential to profoundly transform the way we trade, who trades and what is traded." The report also mentions Ripple specifically and talked about how it could radically change how financial institutions move money. See Also: Two new amendments DepositPreauth and fix1515 enabled on XRP Ledger (Rippled) version 1.1.0 Ripple's co-founder Chris Larsen named world's wealthiest crypto-billionaire Image via Shutterstock Join our Telegram group


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"The three things that go with me are my family, my pictures, and my books," explains Next Model Management founder and owner Faith Kates in the Winter 2013 issue of DuJour. "Everything else, it doesn't matter." True to her word stands Kates's recently gut-renovated Upper East Side apartment, a veritable gallery of fine black-white-photography. The catalyst for Kates's impressive collection was a color print of Marilyn Monroe personally given to her by photographer Bert Stern in exchange for a career-saving booking. Kates has continued collecting fine prints over the years and has amassed a collection that boasts works by Annie Leibovitz, Steven Klein, and the late Corinne Day amongst many others. The real pay-off of this collection, however is the sanctuary it provides Kates after those nearly endless agency workdays. "I love seeing these beautiful pictures."
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"The song was originally a rockabilly instrumental," says Smith. "However, I wanted to include elements of punk and swing—like the Living End meets Brian Setzer. I used a Grosh ElectraJet with a single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom. The amp was a 100-watt, non-master- volume, plexi-style model that I built myself, and it was dimed! We recorded the track on Steinberg Neundo 4 at a home studio in Denver, miking a Marshall 4x12 cab loaded with 25-watt Celestion Greenbacks with a Sennheiser e609, and a Marshall JCM800 4x12 with 75-watt Celestions with a Shure SM57. I didn't want the track to sound 'vintage,' but I definitely wanted an old-school vibe."


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However, foreign institutional investors (FIIs) more than halved their exposure to the beleaguered airlines to 1.07 per cent at the close of last quarter ended December 31, 2012, from 2.46 per cent three months ago, while holding of domestic institutions also came down during this period.
The high-net worth individuals raised their stake in cash-strapped carrier to 15.74 per cent at the end of December quarter from 13.78 per cent in the preceding three months, while holding of small individual investors rose to 19.25 per cent from 17.59 per cent, as per stock exchanges data.
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The Regional HRRR committee champions human rights and race relations for all members. Their mandate is to empower our members through education, awareness, promotion, & advocacy on issues related to HRRR. They are responsible for identifying and engaging members on HRRR concerns, to promote and foster a positive and safe environment, and to lobby the union, employer and government at all levels on HRRR issues.
Committee Members for the 2017-2020 Term and their respective portfolio:
Aly Kanani – Chair............ LGBTQ+
Samina Anwar.................. Racially Visible
Leslye Brown................... Members with Disabilities/Access
Rod Cunningham.............. First Nations/Aboriginal
Deb Foster....................... First Nations/Aboriginal
Nia Gillies ....................... LGBTQ+
Stephen Klaver................. Members with Disabilities/Access
Michael Loo..................... Racially Visible
The CEIU BCYT Human Rights and Race Relations Committee met in Victoria from October 22-23 2017. With the news that Josh Miller had decided to pursue a new and exciting career and has left CEIU, Stephen Klaver was appointed to the committee representing the Members with Disabilities/ Access Equity group. We will miss his input but wish him all the best in the future.
The committee meetings were extremely productive, and we are excited about several initiatives that are coming together. Soon, the committee will have developed short presentations and reference material for local engagement and education, with new presentations being created and added regularly. Sub-committees were also created to handle finances and to update the Terms of Reference of the committee. We discussed strategic planning, a new HRRR logo, social justice, gender pronouns, and the report of NVP - HR/RR Sebastian Rodriguez to the National Executive was presented. It was a very full agenda and we are all excited to see what 2018 brings us.


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Throughout our lives we are bound to have at least more than one job at one point or another. Whether it is our job as mowing lawns, waitressing, and eventually working as an adult we are constantly met with responsibilities and expectations of what should be done. In order to receive the income that we expect we have to not only carry out these tasks, and duties that are expected of us, but also must do them with quality and with the satisfaction of the boss in mind. However, sometimes people can easily over look safety in order to meet a deadline, or job, which leads to bigger problems than just time.
Safety In Multiple Aspects
Safety is not a common topic within the workplace for a lot of professions, except where your fire escape location is within your office, or maybe what to do if there is an intruder in the building. However, most job injuries occur the majority of the time due to the lack of safety knowledge by employees. Many people that work in manual, or physical labor are easily likely to sustain serious, and debilitating injuries if not properly instructed on how to handle machinery, devices, or simply the correct way to lift objects.
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- What is expected with their job, in a safe, and understanding manner.
- Common issues, or safety hazards that are associated with the job and what to do in order to avoid them.
- What do when you employee encounters one of the issues, and how to make sure it does not happen again.
- Additionally, what employees can do in order to help other employees dealing with this issue.
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The 2009 Dew Tour officially kicked off with a packed BMX Park Prelims. 32 riders battled it out for top nine and a chance for some national TV time during the Finals. It was a great contest with some big names stepping up, and some quality riding from the younger set. Mirra killed it, ending up as the top rider going into Finals. The theme of the day, though, was to stay busy. Dennis Enarson and Garrett Reynolds balanced the Street Specialty Comp with second and fourth place finishes, respectively, in Park Prelims, while Enarson and Brandon Dosch also balanced Dirt. McCann also snuck through in the last spot, meaning he's set for a packed Saturday. Tune into NBC at 2 pm EST for the Park Finals.
Flip's highlights from the Park Prelims.
Lets be honest..Dave didn't have his best year last year but after taking the top spot in Prelims he's sendiing a message to everybody to watch out. His fast lines and HUGE flairwhips even made the lady sitting behind me say WTF.
Garrett is very well know for his Street riding but there are some out there that have no idea how good he is on a Park course. This 360 Turndown goes to show that he's not just barspins.
Craig is always a ball of energy and rides as fast as the heavy metal music he rides to. Mix that with jawdroping tricks and Craig is always a crowd favorite.
Morgan has more fun riding his bike than probably anybody, and I have a lot of fun watching him ride it. Somehow this is a 360 whip with Superman-ish legs thrown in.
Is this a Mccann can flair??? If you don't think that's a funny name for it, then I feel for you. You'll see Stevie in the finals tomorrow.
Rob Darden with what was probably one of the most stylish tricks done today. Brian Foster would be proud.
Brett (Maddog) is only 14, but he been riding for like 13 of those years so he knows what he's doing. He has a very bright future in BMX
After a crash some guys may be a little upset or bummed out. Drew Bezanson shakes it off and has some fun. Kinda strange how this trick is cool in FMX, and yet not so much in BMX.
Dave Dillweward with a pretty (does that sound not tough enough?) 360 table over the box. After having last year off due to a broken wrist, Dave is fully back.
I really have nothing cool or witty to say about josh other than he's a super nice guy that knows what he's doing on that little kid bike. Whip drop in off the big sub.
Harry Main can do some of the most unheard of tech tricks but when he does go big he makes it count Look back and 360 INVERT over the spine. I could watch him do those all day long.
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Empower, Empower, Empower!
We do not have to allow ourselves to fall into this trap. It's up to us with how we choose to respond.
I want to share a great story I heard a couple of years ago in a Ted Talk given by Charles Hazlewood, a composer, broadcaster, and musical director. During his Ted Talk, Charles shares a story that holds enormous significance and is an excellent metaphor for the need to stay motivated, passionate, and to ensure that we always empower ourselves and others around us.
A couple centuries ago, there was a Hungarian prince named Prince Nikolaus Esterházy. The prince came from an extremely powerful family that had ruled a kingdom in a certain region of Europe for decades. Being powerful brought numerous advantages to the prince's life. As he had a love of music, the family employed a prominant and prolific Austrian composer, Joseph Haydn, to be of service to the prince. Along with Haydn came his 16 orchestral musicians and their main responsiblity was to provide music for the prince whenever he wished. The families of the orchestral musicians were allowed to live on the grounds of Esterhazy's palace.
Esterhazy also owned a summer palace that he loved to visit several times throughout the year and whenever the prince decided it was time to go to this palace, he demanded that Haydn and the orchestral musicians accompany him. Along with them always came their families on these long trips.
One day, out of the blue, Prince Esterhazy decided that he could no longer tolerate the families of the orchestral musicians living on the palace grounds. He made the decision to send them off to live on their own far away. This caused great distress as the orchestral musicians would be separated from their loved ones for months at a time.
Despite numerous attempts by Haydn and others to change the mind of Esterhazy, the prince was unbending and simply refused to listen.
Haydn devised a clever plan to prick at the consciousness of the prince and did so by creating a beautiful score called the 'Farewell Symphony'.
In the darkness of the summer night, Haydn and his orchestral musicians performed the score for Esterhazy. Imagine a lit candle placed in front of each musician as they played the score for the prince. Haydn and his team played on, but as they came to the final part of the score, each group of musicians; the woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings within the orchestra had a task.
Picture in your mind the woodwind group standing up and playing their final piece, quietly letting their music fade away to completion. As they completed their part, they bent over, blew their candle out and walked away into the darkness. Brass and percussion followed suit, completing their parts then bending over to blow their candle out and walk away into the darkness of the night. In the end, only one violinist remained. Upon completing her part, the last candle was blown out and she herself walked away into the darkness. The music had literally whithered away and died. Where there is no light, there is no music.
The Farewell Symphony had struck at the core of Esterhazy's consciousness, moving him to realize that his decision to send the families of the orchestral musicians away had caused great pain. He immediately reversed his decision and the families and musicians were reunited. The music played on and all were once again happy.
Charles Hazlewood tells this story to illustrate a very important point. Regardless of what we do in life we need to keep our candles of inspiration, hope and passion lit. We are also responsible for helping to keep the candles of those around us lit. This is accomplished through choosing thoughts, actions, words, and behavior that are empowering in nature.
There is no greater place for this than within the walls of our schools. Whether you are a teacher, administrator, or student, the culture that is created within a school must be firmly rooted in the seeds of empowerment. And it's mindfulness that plays a pivotal role in providing all stakeholders in an organization the necessary tools to help empower themselves and others around them.
Even with a culture of mindfulness and empowerment, there will still be disagreements, tension, conflict, and difficult moments. As my wife, Neila Steele, often shares during her workshops and presentations, mindfulness allows us to respond in more caring and compassionate ways, rather than reacting in a knee jerk fashion, lashing out unnecessarily at those around us.
The end of the school year does not have to be an excuse for tempers to flare and patience wearing so thin that relationships within the school disintegrate and fall apart. We are all in control of how we choose to respond. Give yourself the quiet time and reflective space needed to better understand that with each day comes challenge, but embedded in our journeys are golden opportunities to empower ourselves and those around us. We cannot let our own light or the light of others whither away and die. We all have equal responsibility in ensuring that this does not happen and to be much more aware of the thoughts, actions, words, and behaviour that we choose to put into action. Thanks for reading. I've added a link to the Farewell Symphony below if you are interested in listening to it.


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The University of Michigan's 1000+OBGYN Program was born out of a meeting held by U of M's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology titled "Building Academic Partnerships to train 1000+ OBGYNs in sub-Saharan Africa."
The meeting—which was funded by the Gates and Flora Family Foundations—allowed participants that included academics, practitioners, and representatives from Ministries of Health, and Ministries of Education, to lay out a game plan to reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity, mortality, and obstetric fistula in sub-Saharan Africa. At the start, the plan for the 1000+ OBGYN program included:
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Shortly after the program plan was laid out, a problem was detected. U of M's Open.Michigan Initiative partnered with the Global Library of Women's Medicine (GLOWM) to make learning materials available to 1000+ OBGYN program participants. But although a ton of training materials were easily accessible (and free) via the internet, the reliability of the Internet in sub-Saharan Africa was sketchy at best and the cost for access was often too high.
The University of Michigan came up with a simple solution to the technological problem—let them read books. The costs of textbooks and training materials for any student, much less a medical student in low-income countries, is often prohibitive.
U of M received a grant from the World Bank to help offset the costs of building this new collection of learning and teaching materials. The university's OBGYN department has partnered up with its Department of Learning Health Sciences and the Open.Michigan Initiative to develop four new collections of materials specifically geared toward graduate education of OBGYNs in sub-Saharan Africa.
The new collections cover a wide range of subjects and are available to project students and teachers. The information will be made available both online and offline. Additionally, GLOWM is working with the 1000+OBGYN project to combine both of their collections of materials (which includes the Global Library's entire collection) and compress that information into USB drives. Funding for this joint effort is being provided by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The USB drives are distributed to sub-Saharan African countries through the GLOWM's Ambassador program.


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Caitlyn Jenner has swapped her C-cup breast implants for DDs, US magazine Globe is reporting.
But friends are worried she could be exposing herself to health problems as a result of the bigger implants, according to the publication.
Medical experts warn that breast implants can trigger serious "health complications including immune system dysfunction, which can cause joint and muscle pain, memory loss, headaches, as well as liver and kidney damage," Globe reports.
The former Olympic medalist, 67, though, is pleased with her new bust size.
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Summer Moved On is due for publication on Monday 3rd August, 2015. In the meantime here is a closer look at the background of the three main characters in the book.
Jess Hayden
Although well provided for materially, Jess has grown up on the edge of a very exclusive relationship between her mother and father. Leo Hayden worships his wife and has precious little time for his daughter. An absent father, he spends most of the year in the Middle East, where he manages large construction projects. Diana, Jess's mother is a social butterfly, she too has little time for her daughter and is frequently absent from the home when Leo is away. In order to sustain this lifestyle Jess is sent to regular sleep overs with friends or is farmed out to neighbours. Over the years she has learned to accept this unconventional upbringing. However, as she approaches her thirteenth birthday, Diana drops a bombshell: she wants a divorce.
Her parents' parting is traumatic; Leo has difficulty coming to terms with the fact that although he gave his wife everything it appears it was not enough. He is left a bitter and angry man, unable to cope with his wife's betrayal. Saddled with a daughter he does not want, he decides to remain in the Middle East It is left to Leo's younger brother Rufus to step in and take responsibility for Jess. Easy going and warm hearted, Leo's successful bachelor sibling has no problem in welcoming his niece into his life.
Jess has been living with Rufus for three happy years when Leo indicates he is about to return to the UK for good – with a new wife. Her time with Rufus has seen an unbreakable bond forming between the two of them. With these new and unwanted changes she wonders what life with her father and his new partner will be like. She is relieved to find her new stepmother Amber is a warm, compassionate woman. Along with the continuing presence of Rufus, she provides a much needed emotional buffer between Jess and her distant, brooding father.
Now in her last year at school, Jess has her mind set on a teaching career. Leo, however, as someone who likes to control all aspects of his daughter's life, is keen to make sure these aspirations are short term only. He has decided her latest boyfriend, surgeon's son Zac Rayner would make ideal husband material, taking every opportunity to make Jess aware of his views. Currently the question of settling down with Zac is a contentious issue in the Hayden household with Jess determined not to let her father dictate her life choices – or anything else for that matter!
Talún Hansen
Twenty two year old Talún Hansen has no idea who his father was. His mother Francesca (Sesca) never talked about him nor has she ever divulged anything of her own background. For her the past does not matter, it's all about today and looking ahead. Mother and son arrived in the South Devon village of Lynbrook with a group of New Age travellers in the summer of 199o when Talún was five years old. When they left Sesca stayed on, settling in the village and working for local farmer's wife Ellie Selby
Four years ago another group of travellers arrived in the village and stopped to repair one of their vehicles. A few days later, and without a word to anyone, Sesca left to accompany them on the protest they were planning to join. All she left was a note promising to be back by the autumn – but she never returned. Since then Talún has been living at Manor Farm, working for George Selby and getting himself a reputation as a local lothario.
Lily Stevenson
Lily lives on her wits. Raised within a large, troubled family, she left home at fifteen and has looked after herself ever since. Meeting Pauli Stevenson shortly afterwards, she sensed a kindred spirit: someone striving for a better life. Moving in with him, they marry on her seventeenth birthday. However, while Pauli undoubtedly adores her, he is firmly caught in a futile fantasy of making his fortune supporting the illegal activities of his boss, local businessman Glen Maddox. He plans to buy a beach bar in Spain and make a life in the sun with Lily.
Twenty year old Lily now realises the dream she had three years ago is over. Pauli is hell bent on a pathway of petty crime to achieve his goal and nothing will persuade him from it. Although he might think he is still on course towards a comfortable life in the sun, all Lily sees is a loser who has managed to gain a prison record on his journey to nowhere.
Currently working as a waitress in The Golden Hind public house in Exeter, Leo Hayden is one of the lunchtime regulars she knows well. She is aware he has money and following an incident in the pub he is now in her debt. A debt she is going to make sure she collects.


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Yeah, Anna Ivanovic made the comeback and beat Sharapova, as well she should have. Hey, Maria…checked your blood pressure lately? What about you, Chris Everett? It was you who chose Maria to win the match, before the match even started and Darren Cahill who chose Anna. Think you'd better eat that crow, Chris, along with Clift. "Go, Anna!" However, my girl Serena is going to silence you on tomorrow. "Go, Serena!"


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- plastic 90 mm long candle cylinder (truncated cone actually)
- glue for plastic (repair epoxy in my case)
- matte black spray paint
- black duct tape
First let me say something about the cylinder. As I already pointed out it's actually a truncated cone and was a lucky find that made the project a lot easier. The differences in diameter aren't that big; it's the perfect fit for the body cap on one end and my 50 mm lens inverted on the other.
Now build wise first thing that I did was having the bottom of the tube and a hole in the center of the cap milled out. Now these steps I did not do myself, hence the DIY-ish in the title. I rather preferred a person who had access to a lathe and experience do it for me.
Having the parts, the next steps are quite easy; first thing, as you probably already guest is gluing them together. After the glue has dried, the next thing is spraying the inside matte black so we avoid light reflections. All that is left now is wrapping the tube in tape, as a finish.


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Back to the User: Creating User-Focused Web Sites
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Published on May 1, 2002
Web designers can be guilty of designing for themselves alone. We like to think of ourselves as purveyors of good taste, or even of being on the cutting edge of "cool." Sometimes we are guilty of forgetting the purpose of our work entirely. We've scoffed as "usability experts" have scolded us for our excesses. The fact remains, however, that some beautifully designed sites are excruciatingly difficult to use. We even have cautionary tales (Boo.com, anyone?) warning us that our excesses can lead to disaster. So why is it still so difficult to get some of us to read a usability book? Perhaps some of us are still smarting from the harsh discipline meted out by Dr. Nielsen? It might be news to some that there has been a rapprochement lately in relations between the two camps. First it was Steve Krug's excellent book, Don't Make Me Think, which approached usability with a sense of humor. And now we have Back to the User, from the folks at Sachs Insights, a research consultancy who focus on web and software development.
The first thing I noticed about this book is that the chapter titles made the authors' point before I even read the chapters. For instance, what do you think they'll be saying in the chapter entitled, "Use Research, Make It Actionable, Then Act on It While It's Hot?" The placement of this particular chapter near the very beginning of the book also alerted me to the fact that these usability types really like their research. In fact, the entire thesis of the book is summed up in the introduction:
- Talk with users
- Listen to them
- Make them part of the development team
But far from advocating "quantitative" research ("How long does it take for a user to complete the task?"), the authors stress the need for qualitative judgments ("Can they use the site? And will they use it? Why or why not?"). This focus on the big picture, what they call the "view from 30,000 feet," is key to their approach. Designers see only one aspect of the web development process, programmers see another, marketers yet another. Only the user sees with fresh eyes, and as someone who sees the site in its totality. This perspective is one that members of the development team need. Quantitative research can lead to the same sort of tunnel vision that other team members have. Only by asking more general questions can user experience testing become the tool it's intended to be.
After convincing us of the value of research, Sachs and McClain set out to show us how we can use the benefits of their experience with usability testing. Chapter 3 is entitled "Your Homepage Is a 30-Second Window of Opportunity," and in it they provide advice based on extensive research. Since the book is aimed at all members of the web development team, there is often a fair bit of attention paid to issues of marketing. So, advice such as "Establish your credibility" and "Make sure your design is in service to your concept" exists happily alongside more familiar design-centric advice like "Use your real estate wisely." Perhaps most importantly, we are told, the homepage should make it easy for users to get to the information they need, whether that information is on the homepage itself, on some other page within the site, or even somewhere else on the web.
The authors spend the next, and ironically rather unfortunately-named chapter, "Understanding How Users 'Bucket' Your Space: Better Use Their Language, Because They Are Not There to Join Your Company," addressing issues of word choices. In it, they advise us quite sensibly to avoid organizing a site around the company's departmental structure, to banish jargon and acronyms where possible, and to resist forcing users to label themselves to access sections of the site. Nobody likes to self-apply categories such as "baby boomer" or "teen" to themselves.
Perhaps the chapter aimed most squarely at us design types, "It's Okay to Be Different: Just Make Sure People Know What You Offer" takes on the tendency for us to sacrifice usability for what the authors call "glitz." The two principles of simplicity and user control should be the mantra of designers everywhere. Overwhelming the user with too much or irrelevant information defeats the core purpose of the site and may cause them to click elsewhere.
"People Don't Read" will get the attention of most designers, particularly ones who keep a personal site or weblog. The question of whether web users read online is probably the major bone of contention between usability pundits and proponents of the "Independent Web." But users often visit different types of web sites for vastly different reasons. The most apt comparison would be between a reference library and a literary bookshop. Most visitors to a corporate web site are there to find a specific nugget of information and they hope to find it as quickly as possible and get out of there. Like a reference library, the decor is secondary. What's most important is the organization, so that the visitor can find the information she is looking for as quickly and as easily as possible. It's not as important to tell stories to this type of user. In this case, she doesn't want to read much at all. The authors are not addressing the issue of reading across the entire web, but they do have reams of research to suggest that on an e-commerce site, or a financial services site, or on a corporate site, users looking for product support or hoping to make a purchase are less likely to be patient with explanations and instructions that are too long.
In contrast to some usability researchers, Sachs and McClain don't advise designers and programmers to repeat the work of other established sites. Just because Amazon or Google's sites look a certain way is no reason to copy them. However, the authors do state that a good principle to follow is "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Specifically, they feel that the left navigation bar is a familiar and useful convention that shouldn't be tampered with unless the designer has a very good reason. Additionally, the use of a "Home" button is encouraged, even though many designers build in a link to the home page in the company logo that appears on each page. User testing has shown that many users are unaware of this convention and would prefer a clearly labelled button that takes them back to the homepage.
Since I'm already in danger of making this review almost as long as the book itself, I'll sum up by saying that among the subjects addressed in the rest of the book are plug-ins, help pages, icons, graphics, search functions, navigation, and for the marketers, issues of branding. The consistent thread in all the advice given is, listen to your users.
The purpose of the book is to convince every member of the web design team that involving users early in the process as contributors produces a better web site with fewer headaches for everyone involved. And instead of burying us under pages of dry research, the authors provide us with practical advice, not as a substitute for our own user experience testing, but to show us that usability testing produces results that are measurable and which help us to improve our work. Fittingly, the book ends with an appendix entitled "A Crash Course in Web Development Research" in which the authors provide advice on how to find a research firm and how to structure testing so that it meets the particular needs of your project.
Back to the User is an interesting book for two reasons. First of all, it is in itself a source of common sense ideas for designing web sites. But more importantly, it is also a plea for developers to involve their users in the process from the beginning, and I think that in that aspect it succeeds best. Much of the design advice has been offered by other usability experts elsewhere. The difference here is that the Sachs and McClain still believe that every site should go through its own process of user testing. How appropriate that they, even after all the advice offered from the experts, still send us--back to the user.
Back to the User: Creating User-Focused Web Sites
by Tammy Sachs and Gary McClain, Ph.D.
New Riders, 2002, 360pp.
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