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Quick as a Wink Theatre Group, supports the performing arts through live theatre, community events and educational programming for the Annapolis Valley and beyond.
About the theatre
Located in the Eastern end of the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia, Canada, we are a non-profit, charitable community theatre group entertaining West Hants and beyond from the greater Windsor area.
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Friday, March 28, 2008
Peace Art in the US
I know this is a little last minute... but I wanted to invite you all to be a part of our first Cambodian Kids Imagine Peace Art project, here in the U.S. of A.
Saturday, March 29th @ 3pm
Sound Trolley Records
440 E. 17th Street
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
located behind the cleaning place.... feel free to email or call with questions.
Pass this on to anyone who would be interested to join us for peace and art!!!
Peace, love and reunion...
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FireCore, the developer team behind jailbreak utility for Apple TV, has just made an announcement about the release of a beta version of Seas0nPass. The beta incorporating version 0.9.7 currently supports OS X El Capitan 10.11.
The tool can be used to jailbreak Apple TV (2nd generation or ATV2 ) running the latest software 6.2.1 which is iOS 7.1.2. Bad luck for those who were anticipating an untethered update, as FireCore's current release is a tethered version. Here are the details about the release:
- This beta is available for Mac only.
- This version defaults to 5.3 (untethered) and you can install 6.2.1 (tethered) by right-clicking the Create IPSW button.
- The 6.2.1 jailbreak is tethered (for now) so please ensure you know what that means before using this.
So if you own a 2nd generation Apple TV, you are ready to go with the tethered tool. To grab the download link for the jailbreak, you will have to visit the GitHub page, instead of the FireCore official blog. Advanced users can check out the following guide for step-by-step instruction to jailbreak ATV2.
Latest version of iTunes
Download Seas0nPass version 0.9.7
Micro USB cable
Disconnect if any iPod, iPad or iPhone connected to your PC
How to jailbreak Apple TV 2 on 6.2.1 (iOS 7.1.2) with Seas0nPass 0.9.7
Step 1: Extract the content from the Seas0nPass zip you just downloaded and launch Seas0nPass tool
Step 2: Select create IPSW button to initiate the jailbreak process
Step 3: You should now get a prompt to connect your Apple TV to your Mac using a USB cable. Make sure the power cable remains disconnected.
When you see light on the front of the TV starts to flash, point the remote at the TV and hold MENU and PLAY/PAUSE buttons for seven seconds
Step 4: Apple TV software will be downloaded and used to create a custom jailbroken software file
Step 5: Seas0nPass tool will play the trick now to complete the restore automatically and confirm you when it completes
Note: If the jailbreak is successful, you should see a red FireCore logo appearing in place of Settings icon
Use Seas0nPass for a tethered boot
Step 6: Your Apple TV must be disconnected from PC for a brief moment after restoring tethered boot process.
Step 7: Open Seas0nPass and select Boot Tethered option
Step 8: When prompted, plug in your TV to the PC via USB. Wait for the rapid flashing light and then connect the power cable. Now hold the MENU and PLAY/PAUSE buttons for seven seconds
Step 9: Seas0nPass will complete the tethered boot automatically. After the process is completed, remove the USB cable and connect HDMI cable
Note: When you see a pop-up message on the screen saying Tethered boot is complete, the USB cable should be removed and HDMI cable connected before the light on the front of the TV stops flashing.
You should now be able to get started with your jailbroken TV 2. If you come across any issue, head over to FireCore site to know more about latest Seas0nPass.


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Singing in our circle
Hearts full of sound
Binding us together
Strong roots reaching around.
Making a cradle
To hold you in
You're welcome to join us
The door's open; come in.
To journey together
To feel a safe place
For healing and receiving
Acceptance and grace.
~Helen Robertson, Sydney Threshold Choir
Who We Are
Sydney Threshold Choir began in December 2008. When invited, we sing quietly in groups of two or three at a bedside to provide comfort and peace. We have established relationships with Marion Aged Care Facility in Leichhardt and Neringah Hospice in Wahroonga. We also welcome requests from family and friends of people who would benefit from our service.
We participate in community events such as the Dusk Ceremony at Rookwood Cemetery, Heart Songs for Life workshops, Good Grief Café, and Living With Our Dead picnic.
In the Media
- This video was created at our November 2011 concert. The concert allowed us to introduce ourselves to the Sydney community and raise funds for our ongoing expenses.
This article [PDF] was published in Inner West Courier in August 2011.
We rehearse on Tuesday evenings, meeting at 6.15 p.m. for a 6.30 p.m. start, finishing at 8.30 p.m. We rehearse at The Marion (assisted living facility), which has a Low Care (Hostel) and a High Care (Nursing Home) at 237 Marion Street, Leichhardt NSW 2045. We welcome new members.
Contact Us
To request singers at a bedside or to visit a rehearsal, please contact us by email.


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I needed to compare an event date in Expression Engine to the current date, but the time was not in a unix timestamp. So, I used PHP and converted the time given, to unix timestamp with the PHP functions date() and strtotime().
<?php $time = ( date("g:i a", strtotime("{start_time} UTC"))); $unix = (strtotime('{start_day}-{start_month}-{start_year}'.$time)).'000'; ?>


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Monsters Keys:Arrow keys Description: Catch and eact all the falling snow-flakes
Find all the best arcade games and old atari classics in here. Pac Man and Tetris to name a couple. The traditional games of all times and new versions!
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That was fast. After updating their Macs to OS X 10.9.3, many users noticed that their /Users folder was gone. Actually, it was there, but somehow the OS update rendered the folder invisible. There were some 3rd party patches to fix it, but late yesterday Apple updated iTunes to version 11.2.1 and although Apple's description of the update doesn't mention the issue, details of the update on Apple's support pages makes it clear that iTunes was the culprit.
If your /Users folder was invisible (or even if it wasn't) apply the iTunes update and your folder will return.
The bug occurred on my MacBook Air, but didn't show up on my Mac Pro. Applying the update fixed it on my laptop, and no reboot was required. The update is recommended for all Macs. You can find it on the Mac App Store or under Software Update in your Apple Menu.


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Winter Park is justly celebrated for its over one hundred years of eclectic architectural styles, ranging from Queen Anne to Spanish-Revival to Modern. One of the city's most interesting and charmingly designed styles is the Bungalow, an architectural form that dominated American housing in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Thousands of bungalows, constructed mostly between 1900 and 1930, can be found throughout American cities in historic districts designated as Bungalow Villages. Although no such designation exists in Winter Park, a large collection of bungalows, built between 1920 and 1926, have been preserved in three neighborhoods southeast of city center. In this brief essay, I want to identify a select few that I consider some of the most architecturally attractive.
The convergence of three historic trends in the 1920s made the concentration of the Bungalow style in southeast Winter Park no coincidence. For several decades after 1900 American cities and towns had been expanding haphazardly from the town center, causing serious service problems for city governments. Many saw the need for a more comprehensive, orderly approach to this expansion. Responding to these national concerns, the Calvin Coolidge administration issued a Standard State Zoning and Planning publication in the early 1920s which led city and town governments to pass ordinances regulating what were now called "subdivisions." The publication defined this new approach to land development as "the division of a parcel of land into lots for the purpose of sale." Subdivision developers were required to apply to the city for a permit, to conform to certain regulations and to provide a name for each subdivision.
This new national land development practice coincided with the real estate boom that engulfed Florida in the period between 1920 and 1926. Although much of the boom resulted from greedy, unscrupulous speculators (creating illusionary housing developments that were nothing more than elaborate gates), many of the subdivisions were designed to meet genuine housing needs and became permanent communities within the cities and towns. In the early 1920s, developers platted three Winter Park "subdivisions" within walking distance of city center. They named them College Quarter, Virginia Heights and Ellno Willo.
The Bungalow style arrived in the United States at the turn of the century from India via Great Britain. American architects then made alterations that included many regional variations. By the time the bungalow appeared in Winter Park, several well-defined characteristics of the America-style bungalow had been established: low sloping roofs either gabled (front or side) or hipped, often with side overhangs; exposed roof beams and rafters; exterior proportions both balanced and asymmetrical; large front porches; open, informal floor plans; prominent hearths; built-ins, and interior wood details.
The bungalows discussed in this essay are perhaps best described as "California Bungalows," but this classification is somewhat arbitrary because identifying the various bungalow styles is a mystifying endeavor. This style originated in California (hence its designation) in the first decade of the 20th century and spread rapidly to the Midwest, particularly Chicago, and then to the South and the East. The distinguishing exterior characteristics of the California bungalow include one,one-and-one half or two stories, and a low-pitched roof with deep over-hanging eaves, supported by substantial brackets. They include dormers and a wide front porch anchored by slender or solidly placed pillars. Buyers were drawn to the California style because even the two story design had the low appearance of one story and therefore appeared to settle pleasingly into the landscape. The first floor interior of the California style differed little from the open access and convenience of other bungalow designs. Three of this design are located in the College Quarter, two in Virginia Heights and two in Ellno Willo. Although only a few were built in Winter Park, by 1920 this California design was nationally the most popular of all bungalow styles.
Two "classic" California styles sit side by side on Forest Ave. in the Ellno Willo subdivision. Except for the dormer roofs, the houses have been similarly designed. D.A. Algrim, who operated the Durant automobile dealership in Winter Park, built these homes in 1925, the one at 1565 for himself and the other at 1567 (pictured in heading) built for sale. All the characteristics of the classic California style are here: sloping gable roof, with a beautifully formed gable or shed dormer; wide over hanging eaves, and an open or screened large front porch, supported by four large columns. Janice and Stuart Omans, who purchased the home at 1565 Forest in 1974, have preserved the original exterior appearance of the house. A typical California bungalow interior arrangement, such as the Omans living room, is pictured below. The entrance into the open living room reveals beautiful wooden floors and an artistically wood-carved banister. The Omans have removed the original dividing walls separating the living room and kitchen from the dining room, but otherwise they have made few changes in the original interior design. The preservation of these two adjacent bungalows allows us to imagine a whole village of this style and how it would appear.
The beautifully preserved, basic bungalow at 843 Pennsylvania is a fine example of a roof and dormer side gable, clapboard style. The open porch with its slender dual pillars was a common feature in most Florida bungalows. The well maintained house sits among a wonderful collection of electically designed bungalows on Pennsylvania.
The house at 731 French is a bungalow one-and one half story style with a low gabled dormer and lateral gabled roof. Built by D.C. Diterly in 1926, the house has two very large side columns supporting the screened porch. The wooden side exterior was the typical building material in the state, but the brick porch, common throughout the Midwest, was a rare feature of Florida bungalows.
The Bungalow located at 511 Melrose has clapboard siding similar to the house on Pennsylvania, and is the lone local California bungalow with a hip roof and hip dormer. The open porch, supported by five slender columns with small Greek capitals (a familiar bungalow motif) covers a symmetrical fenestration. With minimal decoration, the house is perhaps the most basic of all California designs in Winter Park.
The bungalow at 1167 Lakeview (1927) was the most popular early bungalow design in Florida. Its gambrel roof variation gives the bungalow its most distinctive and attractive quality. The symmetrical two-sided roof, with two slopes on each side, was popular not only for its artistic qualities but also for the additional head room it provided on the second floor. The dormer, double the size of traditional California bungalows, gives the house its other distinctive quality. The large glassed porch, supported by four substantial rock pillars, was originally screened or open.
The Bungalow at 1035 Lakeview Dr. contains all the basic characteristics of a California bungalow but the builder made extensive modifications. Among other variations, the ten window dormer serves essentially full second floor, and rooms with gable roofs have been added on each side. A Winter Park dentist, John Verigan, constructed the home in 1926 and lived there until 1978.
These are just a few of the more than 30 historic bungalows that have been preserved in southeast Winter Park. They represent some our most valuable artistic architectural treasures but, as with so many of our historic houses, without protection they are always vulnerable to destruction. Many have already been demolished. An article in the July 18, 1986 edition of the Orlando Sentinel is an early indication of the uncertain future of these houses. It read in part:
"The gray [bungalow] overlooking Lake Virginia at 1055 Lakeview Drive [constructed by Ray Trovillion in 1924] was the first home built more than 60 years ago in the Virginia Heights neighborhood. The current owner has plans to do extensive work on the house. City planner Jeff Briggs says the house is historically significant and would like to see it retain its historic flavor. However, he said, because Winter Park does not have a historical preservation regulation, the city has no say about how the house is renovated."
As events transpired, the bungalow was not renovated; it was demolished and then replaced by a pseudo-european style house. We lost, thereby, the oldest house in Virginia Heights and the home of one of Winter Park's most prominent families, the Trovillions. Bungalows in the College Quarter, and along two streets in Virginia Heights, are partially protected by a historical district designation, but those in other parts of Virginia Heights and and those in Ellno Willo are not. Thus, their future remains uncertain. I hope this brief article will help open our eyes to the significance of these and other historic bungalows and to the realization of what would be lost if we fail to preserve these artistic gems from our past.
Dr. Jack C. Lane moved to Winter Park in 1963 to join the history faculty at Rollins College. He has authored several books, including The Florida Reader: Visions of Paradise, which he wrote with Rollins English Professor Maurice O'Sullivan. Now retired, Lane lives on Lake Virginia in Winter Park and serves on the board of the Friends of Casa Feliz.


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Purse Attractive
(All taxes included)
3 in stock
This delightful purse is an elegant and very practical model. It has been elegantly stamped to emulate the iconic wicker materials used by the firm in the rest of its collection. It comes with several handy areas to comfortably organize your belongings. It has a capacity for 16 credit cards, interior pocket with zipper for coins and 2 separate spaces for bills. The interior comes with a satin lining and is stamped with the firm's logo in the interior.
Napa Bovine Leather
19 x 10,5 x 2 cms.


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Since its completion in 1816, the Leeds Liverpool Canal has formed a major part of Wigan's heritage. It transported coal from the mines and cotton from Wigan's mills during the industrial revolution. It helped to defend Britain in World War II… And nowadays it enables people to sail for pleasure through the area. To celebrate 200 years of the canal, Wigan S.T.E.A.M., with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, worked with local groups and organisations, such as the Canal & River Trust, resiDANCE, and the Museum of Wigan Life to engage people in learning about the heritage of the area's canals.
As part of this project, Wigan STEAM commissioned wehearttech C.I.C. to produce a short leaflet that details some of the key heritage information associated with the Leeds Liverpool Canal. We researched and wrote the copy, created a legacy activity aimed at families and designed and printed the leaflet. The leaflet is now being distributed in cultural and educational venues across the Wigan Borough.
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The city of Abbotsford is becoming more and more industrialized. From a thriving agricultural community to booming commercial retail centre, this small town is becoming more and more fast-paced. This means two things for current, or potential owners of commercial kitchen spaces: room for growth and demand!
Creating Your Ideal Kitchen
If you are just breaking into the food industry, you know how important it is to start out on the right foot. The layout of your kitchen space plays a huge part in how your staff and business function. If this comes as a surprise to you, just take a second to consider how much of a difference good organization makes. With schedules or a "to-do" list, an average kitchen staff would be left confused and scrambling. Your Abbotsford kitchen design works the same way. Building a functional and easy to navigate space prevents spills, traffic jams, and can provide an inviting environment for workers and customers alike.
Abbotsford Kitchen Design: Starting Off Right
Proper kitchen design can give your space a facelift while improving your productivity at the same time. There is a definite advantage to having been in the industry for a period of time – you know what works! There is no better way to test out a space than through practice. Working through your Abbotsford kitchen design has never been easier than it is with the team at Brugman.
The expert design team has decades of experience between them. Over this period, our designers have learned how to make the most of each and every space and how to give our clients the best results possible. Each addition or change to your kitchen is guaranteed to be completed up to building codes and are assured to function properly. When you are in need of a change, the Brugman name!


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So bear with me because I feel that I've tried everything there is to try. I'm really new to JavaScript and I've primarily worked with C/C++ before and I am still a novice with respect to those languages as well. I tried to create a page on my aws services (ec2) server that when accessed with a get request of a URL it would use my server-side API key and return JSON data that it requested from the URL given. I was working with the League of Legends API and with NodeJs using forever start *.js, handlebars and express JavaScript as well.
I feel that it is important to mention that while this issue arose doing an assignment for a class I have since completed the assignment without including that functionality.
I tried to do this as both synchronous and asynchronous and it didn't work for me. I feel that it is because using var foo = new XMLHttpRequest is not the correct way to send a get request from a server to another server. When I tried to find a better way to do this using nodejs I could not find anything which made sense to me or that I could understand.
Please let me know why this is wrong/ why this breaks and how I can make it not break or do it properly. I couldn't find any similar stack overflow questions despite a few hours of struggling and searching.
//if(url == undefined){
var url = "https://na.api.pvp.net/api/lol/na/v1.4/summoner/by-name/RiotSchmick";
var KEY= "REDACTED_FOR_POST";//note I have a functional api
//key that I can correctly use to view data through a browser get request.
var local = new XMLHttpRequest();//this line prevents this page from runnning
local.open("GET", "https://na.api.pvp.net/api/lol/na/v1.4/summoner/by-name/RiotSchmick?api_key=REDACTED_FOR_POST", false);
//RiotSchmick is used as an example "summoner" name in quick start
var content = {};//holder for handlebars
content.text = local.responseText;//I expected this to have a string form JSON.
res.render('buffer.handlebars', content);
//buffer.handlebars is one line: {{text}} and properly prints data when
//content.text is assigned to a constant such as "hello"
Thanks for help and your time.
Unless you are using something like https://github.com/driverdan/node-XMLHttpRequest there's no
XMLHttpRequest in node.
XMLHttpRequest is an object that only exists in browsers.
You have to require http to make http requests in node.
var http = require('http');
Then you can do something like that (taken from the docs):
var postData = querystring.stringify({
'msg' : 'Hello World!'
var options = {
hostname: 'www.google.com',
port: 80,
path: '/upload',
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'Content-Length': postData.length
var req = http.request(options, (res) => {
console.log(`STATUS: ${res.statusCode}`);
console.log(`HEADERS: ${JSON.stringify(res.headers)}`);
res.on('data', (chunk) => {
console.log(`BODY: ${chunk}`);
res.on('end', () => {
console.log('No more data in response.')
req.on('error', (e) => {
console.log(`problem with request: ${e.message}`);
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lunes, 2 de enero de 2012
2012 resolutions
Well, it's here, 2012!
2011 had good things: I finally graduated from college, we got a puppy and shared good times with people I love, but overall it wasn't the best year... So, I'm REALLY looking forward for what 2012 brings.
Every New Year, I think of things I could change about myself to be better, but I never write them down, so they are forgotten just a few days later.
This year, I'm writing them so I can come back and remember them, let's see how many get done!
1. Loose at least 5 kg: in 2011 I gained this weight, all I want is go back to that and have all my clothes fitting me right again.
2. Related to the one above, eat healthier: make smarter decisions when it comes to food.
3. Do more exercise.
4. Save a determined amount of money every month.
5. Besides this savings, save extra money so my husband and I can make a trip together. (it's easier to cut expenses when you have a good motivation).
6. Study. I graduated this last August, but I haven't found a job yet :( so, my knowledge is, let's say, "sleeping". I would like to dedicate an hour every day to study, read articles or something pharmaceutical/medical.
7. Arrange two rooms that are a total mess since we moved in.
8. Keep up with the housework, specially with laundry and ironing (I hate to iron!)
9. Read at least 5 books just for fun, not work related.
10. Get a job. Well, I'm doing my part sending resumes, taking temporary jobs, but I would like a permanent one, near my home and with normal hours. Is that too much to ask?
Good luck with your New Year's resolutions!
Ps. you should check out Lydia's blog at lydsncompany.blogspot.com
She's a sweet lady that writes about her life, I really enjoy her posts! Also she's having an amazing giveaway this January! Go visit her!
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Center for Educational Research
3141 Chestnut Street, Bossone 512
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone 215.895.2201
Fax 215.895.1092
Publications, Presentations & Workshops
The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) developed a new retention initiative called the Educational Learning Assistant (ELA) Program. The main goal of the ELA Program was to increase the retention rate of EOP sophomores from 74 percent to 84 percent over one academic year. The objective was to develop a special treatment, which included but was not limited to the assignment of role model peers to work closely with the EOP resident and commuter sophomores to provide tutoring, peer counseling, and academic and academic support workshops. Through the funding received from the Gateway Education Engineering Coalition, NJIT was better able to establish a successful outreach program. This program allowed the Educational Learning Assistants (ELAs), who resided in the residence halls, to develop and maintain regular contact with the EOP sophomores, and provide timely feedback to the professional staff who were then be able to implement effective intervention regardless of whether the problem was academic, financial or social-emotional.
site is best viewed with Internet Explorer v6 for Windows (v5 for Mac) or higher,
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Azure's business-to-business (B2B) panel comprises of a variety of business decision makers including C-level, IT respondents, Department Heads, Finance, Marketing, Automotive decision makers and others. Our B2B community can be contacted online or by telephone making it convenient for all types of projects: quantitative and qualitative.
Azure's Healthcare panel provides access to more than 300,000+ qualified physicians and other healthcare professionals globally. Our healthcare community makes it easy to reach most medical specialties and sub‐specialties as well as nurses, lab managers, dentists and many others. Also included in our Healthcare Services community are 600,000+ regularly profiled patients and caregivers.


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In honor of my 300th post, I decided to dedicate it to one of my wardrobe staples. Although, I haven't featured it on the blog in awhile, I still wear it all the time.
Here are some of the outfits this baby has been a part of:
Thank you Target for supplying me with one of the most useful pieces in my wardrobe. Especially when it's freezing out! I noticed all these were taken pre-ombre, back when I was a full brunette! I don't think I'll be going back there anytime soon.
I hope you're having a great week and have a happy Friday!
Thursday, November 29, 2012
a girl's best friend: simple black cardigan
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Sunday, November 25, 2012
so many bright lights that cast a shadow
Charlotte Russe, Delia's (from TJ Maxx) cardigan, thrifted belt, thrifted leather bag, and Forever 21 floral mary janes.
I've had these photos in my virtual back pocket since Tuesday. We all know Thanksgiving was this week and life got pretty crazy!
I bought this cardigan after work on Monday to console myself after I fell all the way down the basement stairs while working. It was scary, especially since I was by myself. If you can help it, don't ever fall down a flight of stairs.
I paired this crazy cardigan with a winter-weather dress I haven't worn in ages. It has pockets, which I find pretty awesome. Don't ask my why, I never use pockets (that's what purses bigger than my head are for), I just find their novelty amusing. The belt was the finishing touch. This belt in particular has always puzzled me - I can't figure out if it's purple or blue. When I put it next to blue it looks purple and vice-versa. It's in that beautiful in-between land of colors that can't be named. That's why I love playing with color, it's so subjective. Everyone sees them differently: to you the belt might be a solid purple; to me it's a blue-purple. I'll have to think of a name for it. Until next time, belt...until next time.
On a totally different and frivolous note, I was loving this lipstick over the summer, but not so much now. My pale winter skin now looks too harsh with the super-bright pink. I hate when my skin get so pale. It's just a sign that...WINTER IS COMING (I know you see what I did there).
I hope you had a great holiday!
Monday, November 19, 2012
purple haze
Thrifted Gap pullover, thrifted vintage Jordache shorts, Target tights and thigh-high socks, gifted scarf, Icing sunglasses, thrifted bag, and Sam Edelman Zoe boots.
On Friday I felt like I should wear something a little bit crazy. I decided these polka dot socks were just the thing. I got them half off at Target - apparently they were classified as Halloween merchandise. Pretty sure I'll be able to find ways to wear what is supposed to be a costume year-round.
I paired the crazy socks with my new pullover, which is definitely going to be a favorite of mine this winter. I got it at Salvation Army (my favorite) during a high(er)-end sweater spree. I managed to score this soft Gap number, an argyle J. Crew pullover, and a thick Ralph Lauren striped sweater. WORD!
I realize getting excited over sweaters is something that grandmas do. I can't help it, sometimes I feel like whenever I walk into a store they start calling my name. My collection is getting ridiculous; one day I'll share it with you.
I hope your week had a lovely start. I'm so excited for Thanksgiving!
Thursday, November 15, 2012
cozy sweater thursday
Thrifted Liz Claiborne sweater, H&M skinny jeans, Kohl's velvet headband, thrifted bag, and Miu Miu SS2010 clogs.
Thursdays have become a cozy sweater day in my world. Normally by this point in the week I'm a little burnt out and want something to wrap myself in. By Friday I'm ready to dress up again. This particular cozy sweater I found brand new at Salvation Army for $2.50. It would be incredibly warm, but the little eyelets welcome the breeze to cut right through. It's a small price to pay for a nifty sweater.
Of course I have to pair my comfy knit with my favorite pair of jeans! I still can't say enough good things about them. I don't know why I didn't try H&M for jeans years ago. I also got to wear my always-loved Miu Mius. It was perfect weather for them - dry, sunny, and not too warm. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH.
P.S. It was my first time wearing this awesome headband. I predict us having a long, loving relationship.
I'm off to go watch football (against my will) and pig out. I hope you have a great end to your week!
Monday, November 12, 2012
Vintage sweater, Lauren Conrad for Kohl's shorts, thrifted bag, vintage sunglasses and Target booties.
What to wear on what will certainly be my last day of sartorial freedom? Oh yeah: pleather shorts. I always stare at these awesome shorts when I go to get dressed. The problem is it never seems to be the right temperature. When it's cold, I feel like tights would look silly and when it's hot, forget it. A 70-degree fall day was perfect. I probably could have gotten away with no sweater, but with my propensity to be cold I decided not to risk it.
This sweater is honestly too beautiful not to be worn. It's a 1950's original that I found at an estate sale. The boat neck with the pearl buttons on the shoulder made me swoon. When I went to check out, the woman informed me that it was her mother's. She told me she hoped I would enjoy the clothes I bought just as much as her mother had. I'm glad it ended up in my closet. My appreciation for clothes (as silly as it sounds) is something I find hard to put into words. Especially the clothing of decades past. They tell a story and history of something you can't read in textbooks.
I know I'm rambling, but I can't not talk about these sunglasses; they were my grandfather's. I inherited a lot of his sunglass collection. Even though I never met him, I know he had great taste. The man had a pair of original Ray-Ban Wayfarers. How cool is that?
I hope your week is off to a great start. I'm excited, because tomorrow is Brian's birthday! I hope I make it special for him.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
who's that girl wearing mom jeans?
Takeout sweater from Kohl's, vintage Levi's, thrifted leather bag, years old sunglasses, and Target booties.
Oh yeah, that girl is me. As some of you may know, I'm part of the cult of vintage Levi's. We're a group of girls who are on the hunt for the discarded pairs of the past. We don't see these as "mom jeans." Personally, I'm always reaching for my Levi's when I'm bored of my other jean options. I own a few different styles but these are my favorite. I feel like they were tailored just for me. That's a really nice feeling to have when you get dressed in the morning.
I paired my jeans with a comfy sweater that I got for free with a Kohl's coupon. I get those occasionally and it seriously feels like Christmas. $10 toward anything I want? Hello clearance!
The finishing touch was the boots. I wasn't sure about how they looked at first, but in the end I liked it a lot. These little booties are perfect for the crisp fall weather we're having.
Well, it's almost Friday, almost time to kick up your heels and party! I hope you had a wonderful week.
Monday, November 5, 2012
sick as a dog
Hi all!
I'm currently pretty sick, so that means I look pretty disgusting. Nothing you'd want to see, trust me. Even in my current state, I still had to go to work so I'm looking extra frazzled. Luckily I'm drinking a lot of tea like the pretty lady above. I definitely can't pull that look off while I'm sick.
I hope your week started on a lovely note and don't forget to vote tomorrow!
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Friday, November 2, 2012
I change shapes just to hide in this place but I'm still an animal
Love Tree (from Marshall's) sweater dress, Target tights, thrifted leather bag, and Sam Edelman Zoe boots.
Waking up to temperatures in the 30's this morning, I instantly knew I had to wear this dress. As soon as I saw it, I was smitten. Part horrendously-80's, part Betsey Johnson, all Morgan DeLapa (that's me). At first I had this paired with hot pink tights, then I looked at myself in the mirror. All I needed were some leg warmers and I could have been on an 80's sitcom. Black was a much better choice; it makes the dress pop. Today was also the perfect day to bring my Zoe boots out of hibernation. I forgot that they are so freaking comfortable!
By the way, I know you're probably sick of seeing this bag. It's my standby at the moment. I love the soft pebbled leather, the messenger bag style, and the fact that it was 40 cents.
Try to stay warm this weekend - our forecast is predicting snow! Yuck.
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Rowland Bowen
Major Rowland Francis Bowen (27 February 1916 – 4 September 1978 at Buckfastleigh, Devon) was a cricket researcher, historian and writer.
Educated at Westminster, Bowen was emergency commissioned in April 1942 into the Indian Army.[1] He spent many years in Egypt, Sudan and India before returning to England in 1951 and joining the Royal Engineers as a Captain, working at the War Office and ultimately being promoted to the rank of Major.[2]
He became involved in cricket research and history in 1958 and, in 1963, he founded the magazine The Cricket Quarterly which ran until 1970.[2] He is best known for his book Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development throughout the World[3] which has been described as "indispensable" but also as "spikily controversial and vigorously wide-ranging".[4] In John Arlott's review of the book for Wisden, he commented that it was "unique in my experience as a major work on cricket written from a wide view, in disapproval of the game's establishment and in expectation of the demise of the first-class game".[5]
- ^ London Gazette 3 July 1942
- ^ a b The Cricketer 1978 – obituary.
- ^ Rowland Bowen, Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970
- ^ Eric Midwinter, W G Grace: His Life and Times, George Allen and Unwin, 1981.
- ^ Wisden Cricketer's Almanack 1971.
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The epidemiology ontology: an ontology for the semantic annotation of epidemiological resources
© Pesquita et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014
- Received: 21 June 2013
- Accepted: 24 December 2013
- Published: 17 January 2014
Epidemiology is a data-intensive and multi-disciplinary subject, where data integration, curation and sharing are becoming increasingly relevant, given its global context and time constraints. The semantic annotation of epidemiology resources is a cornerstone to effectively support such activities. Although several ontologies cover some of the subdomains of epidemiology, we identified a lack of semantic resources for epidemiology-specific terms. This paper addresses this need by proposing the Epidemiology Ontology (EPO) and by describing its integration with other related ontologies into a semantic enabled platform for sharing epidemiology resources.
The EPO follows the OBO Foundry guidelines and uses the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) as an upper ontology. The first version of EPO models several epidemiology and demography parameters as well as transmission of infection processes, participants and related procedures. It currently has nearly 200 classes and is designed to support the semantic annotation of epidemiology resources and data integration, as well as information retrieval and knowledge discovery activities.
EPO is under active development and is freely available at https://code.google.com/p/epidemiology-ontology/. We believe that the annotation of epidemiology resources with EPO will help researchers to gain a better understanding of global epidemiological events by enhancing data integration and sharing.
- Semantic Annotation
- Epidemiological Parameter
- Disease Ontology
- Human Phenotype Ontology
- Basic Formal Ontology
Epidemiology is the study of the factors influencing the occurrence and distribution of health-related states or events in specified populations, and the application of this knowledge to control health problems [1]. It is a multi-disciplinary subject that integrates diverse areas of knowledge, such as medicine, biology, statistics, social sciences and geography.
Epidemiology is becoming increasingly data-intensive, considering the large volumes of data generated by biomedical research and by the recent explosion of mobile phone and Internet usage - which contains epidemiologically relevant behaviors, such as disease symptoms reports [2], and also the data created by large-scale computational simulations and models of disease transmission and spread [3, 4]. To handle these challenges, epidemiology needs to embrace the new scientific methodology designated as the fourth paradigm, whereby vast troves of data are collected, analyzed, validated and visualized [5]. Ontologies are crucial to support this new paradigm, since they provide the means to semantically describe epidemiological resources, supporting their categorization and sharing.
Consider the following example: a research team is building a model for herd immunity in populations where a measles vaccine can be administered. To achieve this, they need data on measles incidence rates and vaccination rates in different populations/locations over time, as well as other parameters, such as birth rate, factors influencing vaccination (e.g. legal frame, income and education level of parents), transmission mode and secondary attack rate (i.e. the number of cases of an infection that occur among contacts within the incubation period following exposure to a primary case in relation to the total number of exposed contacts). These data can then be used to fit the parameters of their model. Traditionally, to collect the data, researchers would conduct extensive literature searches to find a set of relevant scientific articles, read them to extract the relevant information and/or contact the authors to request access to the datasets directly. The epidemiology community has not yet adopted the practice of publicly sharing datasets in open databases [6], which further hinders the collection of pertinent data. However, epidemiology is a domain where timeliness is crucial. For instance, when facing a new pandemic, laboratories need to be able to produce new vaccines very quickly, and public health officials need to understand the disease and its spread so they can issue recommendations to the population to effectively contain the pandemic and diminish its impact. To make data collection more efficient and effective, epidemiological resources need to be easily searchable and retrievable, which can be achieved by semantic-enabled platforms for sharing epidemiological resources. An approach is supporting the annotation of datasets with ontological concepts, so that the semantics encoded in ontologies can be used to find relevant resources. For instance, resources that do not refer to measles, but to other typical childhood diseases with the same transmission mode can very well be of interest to extract parameters for the measles herd immunity model.
The only currently available ontology specifically intended for epidemiology is integrated into the BioCaster Global Health Monitor [7], a news filter created with the aim of providing "an early warning monitoring station for epidemic and environmental diseases". However, the 2,000 classes of the BioCaster ontology are insufficient to provide enough coverage and granularity for a full semantic annotation of epidemiological resources. For instance, there is no class for vaccine, and diseases are direct instances of Human Disease or Avian Disease, which are direct subclasses of Disease, highlighting the complexity of modeling these domains [8]. However, in such a multidisciplinary domain as epidemiology, several key areas have already been described in existing ontologies, including, among others, the Disease Ontology [9], Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO) [10], Symptom Ontology [11], Vaccine Ontology [12] and the Pathogen Transmission Ontology (TRANS) [11]. In previous work, we have outlined a Network of Relevant Ontologies for Epidemiology (NERO) [13]. We found that while some concepts are fully covered by these ontologies, others are not, in particular the specific epidemiological concepts that are seldom used outside this domain, such as, for instance, parameters like 'exposure ratio' or 'attack rate'. Consequently, a new ontology that covers these specific epidemiology concepts, while reusing and complementing relevant existing ontologies in related domains is needed. Bearing this in mind, we have created the Epidemiology Ontology (EPO), which aims at covering the areas of epidemiology not well described by other quality ontologies, particularly those related with metrics, parameters and models. EPO currently covers epidemiological and demographical parameters, for which there was very little coverage in surveyed ontologies, as well as transmission of infection, complementing classes from the TRANS ontology. In future versions, the scope of EPO will be expanded to include all parameters that influence epidemic processes, in articulation with existing and in development ontologies for public health and medical surveillance.
In this paper, we describe the current state of EPO and how it is related to other ontologies relevant for the epidemiological domain. We also explain how EPO is being used to annotate epidemiological resources in a platform for epidemiological resource sharing, where it supports data querying and integration, and provide examples of how it could also be used for annotation of other databases and literature. The current version of EPO has 190 classes, of which 118 are newly created and 33 are imported from two relevant OBO foundry candidate ontologies, IDO and TRANS. EPO uses the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) [14] as an upper ontology, and IAO [15] as a source of annotation properties, further supporting its interoperability with other OBO foundry ontologies and candidate ontologies. We have submitted EPO to the OBO Foundry [16], as well as to the BioPortal site of the National Center for Biomedical Ontologies (NCBO) [17]. EPO is freely available at https://code.google.com/p/epidemiology-ontology/.
We used the Dictionary of Epidemiology (DoE) [1] in the creation the EPO. The Dictionary of Epidemiology is a well-established reference that captures the nomenclature commonly used in epidemiology. Most class labels, synonyms and definitions in EPO correspond to dictionary entries or sub-entries.
In the current version of EPO, we have focused our modeling activity in three major areas: demographic parameters, epidemiological parameters and transmission of infection.
Furthermore, EPO also contains 17 classes dedicated to transmission of infection-related processes, such as isolation, containment and eradication, to name a few. These classes are particularly relevant for the description of public health procedures and their impact on epidemic events. Their articulation with transmission of infection types in describing epidemiological resources will allow the elucidation of the relations between these procedures and the mode of transmission.
In the demographic and epidemiological parameters branches we currently have 36 and 21 classes, respectively. These are organized in a multiple inheritance structure, with classes being both subclasses of either 'demography parameter' or 'epidemiology parameter' , as well as of their specific parameter type, like 'rate'. To the best of our knowledge, there were no suitable ontologies from which to import classes in these areas, since the very few terms that exist are poorly defined and structured. However, we have included cross-references to relevant external resources, including the NCI Thesaurus, MeSH and SNOMED-CT [22]. One relevant aspect of these classes is that they allow the description of simulation experiments and models, which are increasingly being used by the epidemiology community, even during outbreaks and epidemics, to help understand the events and design response strategies. Annotations with EPO-defined parameters can directly support the reuse and meta-analysis of simulation results and models.
Statistics of EPO specific and imported classes and properties
Number of classes or properties
Epidemiology Ontology (EPO)
Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO)
Pathogen Transmission Ontology (TRANS)
Basic Formal Ontology (BFO)
Relation Ontology (RO)
Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)
Phenotypic Quality Ontology (PATO)
Statistics on EPO cross-references
Number of cross-references
NCI Thesaurus
EPO currently covers three main branches: transmission mode, epidemiological parameters and demographic parameters. The transmission mode branch is highly interconnected with other ontologies, reusing many classes from IDO and TRANS. A snippet of this branch is depicted in Figure 1.
Textual definitions for classes in Figure 2
Class label
Textual definition
Epidemiological parameter
A parameter describing an epidemiological entity or event.
Demographic parameter
A parameter describing a demographic characteristic.
Incidence rate
The rate at which new events occur in a population. The numerator is the number of new events that occur in a defined period or other physical span. The denominator is the population at risk of experiencing the event during this period, sometimes expressed as person-time; it may instead be in other units, such as passenger-miles.
Net reproductive rate
In infectious disease epidemiology, the average number of secondary cases that will occur in a mixed host population of susceptibles and nonsusceptibles when one infected individual is introduced. Its relationship to the basic reproductive rate (R0) is given by R = R0x, where x is the proportion of the host population that is susceptible.
Basic reproductive rate
A measure of the number of infections produced, on average, by an infected individual in the early stages of an epidemic, when virtually all contacts are susceptible.
Attack rate
The proportion of a group that experiences the outcome under study over a given period (e.g., the period of an epidemic). This "rate" Â can be determined empirically by identifying clinical cases and/or by means of seroepidemiology. It also applies in noninfectious settings (e.g., mass poisonings). Because its time dimension is uncertain or arbitrarily decided, it should probably not be described as a rate.
Birth rate
A summary rate based on the number of live births in a population over a given period, usually 1 year.
Total fertility rate
The average number of children that would be born per woman if all women lived to the end of their childbearing years and bore children according to a given set of age-specific fertility rates. It is computed by summing the age-specific fertility rates for all ages and multiplying by the interval into which the ages are grouped. The TFR is an important fertility measure, providing the most accurate answer to the question "How many children does a woman have on average".
Net reproduction rate
The average number of female children born per woman in a cohort subject to a given set of age-specific fertility rates, a given set of age specific mortality rates, and a given sex ratio at birth. This rate measures replacement fertility under given conditions of fertility and mortality: it is the ratio of daughters to mothers assuming continuation of the specified conditions of fertility and mortality. It is a measure of population growth from one generation to another under constant conditions. This rate is similar to the gross reproduction rate but takes into account that some women will die before completing their childbearing years. An NRR of 1.00 means that each generation of mothers is having exactly enough daughters to replace itself in the population.
Epidemiological resource annotation
The EPO is integrated into NERO (Network of Epidemiology Related Ontologies), a collection of existing ontologies that supports the semantic annotation of epidemiology resources. NERO currently includes thirteen external ontologies and resources: MeSH (Medical Subject Headings vocabulary) [18], NCI Thesaurus [19], Disease Ontology [8], Infectious Disease Ontology [9], Symptom Ontology [10], Vaccine Ontology [11], Pathogen Transmission Ontology [10], Human Phenotype Ontology [23], Environment Ontology [24], ChEBI (Chemical Entities of Biological Interest) [25] and GeoPlanet™ [26].
NERO is integrated into the Epidemic Marketplace (EM) [27] (available at http://www.epimarketplace.net), a platform for sharing resources and knowledge within the Epidemiology community, which includes tools for the collection of epidemiological data through interoperable web services with other applications (e.g. from internet social networks [28], or from simulation results [2]). The EM allows users to browse a collection of semantically annotated epidemiology-related resources, including datasets, simulations and documents, and also to upload their own resources.
Annotating epidemiology resources with EPO classes enables not only the specification of simple but precise queries that improve their retrieval rate, but also more complex knowledge discovery tasks, such as drawing inferences based on the semantics of these annotations [29].
Other applications
The EPO can also contribute beyond the scope of the Epidemic Marketplace. For instance, ontology-based text mining is a growing domain of interest for the biomedical literature, as evidenced by the increasing number of methods, resources and available initiatives [30]. The EPO can be used in conjunction with an ontology-based text mining approach to find relevant EPO terms in text [31, 32].
EPO can also be a useful resource in ontology matching, particularly since it provides several cross-references to external resources. These have been shown to be particularly useful in the alignment of biomedical ontologies [33, 34].
Discussion and conclusions
EPO is an ontology that describes epidemiologically relevant concepts not well covered elsewhere. In conjunction with NERO, it aims at supporting the precise and comprehensive semantic annotation of epidemiology resources, such as documents, datasets, models and simulations. EPO aims at filling the gap of epidemiologically-specific terms that are missing from other ontologies, and consequently reuses many terms from OBO Foundry ontologies, such as IDO and TRANS. EPO is still in active development, and we expect it to grow considerably, particularly in the areas dedicated to epidemiology models, parameters and metrics. We are also considering an increase in granularity by reusing/linking to more specific ontologies, such as the Neglected Tropical Diseases Ontology [35]. We have initiated contacts with other OBO Foundry members, and hope to continue developing EPO in a collaborative effort. In particular, we expect EPO to be integrated into the mid-level Medical Surveillance Ontology, which is currently under development [36].
The annotation of epidemiology resources with EPO and other NERO ontologies answers the growing need to provide support for data integration and sharing in epidemiology. As more epidemiology resources are annotated both in the Epidemic Marketplace and elsewhere, the utility of EPO to the epidemiology community will continue to increase. The vast amounts of data currently locked in disparate datasets will become easily accessed and explored, and will help researchers to gain a better understanding of the transmission of infectious diseases in populations, and of the impact of public health measures and therapeutic approaches.
EPO, when combined with NERO in the Epidemic Marketplace platform, contributes to providing epidemiological researchers an effective framework for data integration and sharing.
Ontology building
EPO is being developed using Protégé 4.1 (http://protege.stanford.edu/), and encoded in OWL-DL (Web Ontology Language – Description Logic of the W3 Consortium). We chose OWL over OBO to take advantage of the many libraries and reasoners built for OWL, and specifically OWL-DL, to benefit from its support for class axioms, complete reasoning, inferences, and consistency-checking. Although we do not currently make use of all of these advantages, we expect EPO's continued development to support complex queries in the context of its integration into the EM's facilities. EPO is developed following the principles set by the OBO Foundry consortium. It uses the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) as an upper-level ontology and the Information Artifact Ontology (IAO, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao) as a source for the annotation of properties. IAO has been adopted by many OBO foundry ontologies, such as IDO. Both BFO and IAO's metadata portion are fully imported into EPO. In addition, EPO also uses relations imported from the OBO Relation Ontology [37]. All EPO classes contain textual definitions. Whenever possible, we added references to relevant external resources.
To ensure orthogonality, EPO imports classes from OBO candidate ontologies following the Minimal Information Reference External Ontology Term (MIREOT) strategy [38]. Although MIREOT is limited to source ontology URI, source term URI, and target direct superclass URI, we have also imported the label, to make the ontology more explicit to users and developers.
We plan to release new versions of EPO quarterly if required, for example to include the remaining dictionary entries that are not well-covered elsewhere. New releases of EPO will also be available for public use through the OBO Foundry repository and NCBO BioPortal.
Knowledge acquisition
EPO was initially developed in a middle-out approach, where main entries found in the Dictionary of Epidemiology were specified into subclasses according to their extensive definitions, but were also generalized into BFO upper classes. The majority of relations between classes were derived from the definitions as well. Whenever possible, instead of creating novel classes based on dictionary entries (or in their specifications/generalizations) EPO imports the relevant classes from OBO ontologies and their subclasses. These belong to mostly two ontologies: the TRANS ontology for transmission of infection terms and IDO for transmission of infection participants and processes.
This paper is a part of the Journal of Biomedical Semantics thematic series on biomedical ontologies.
The authors are grateful to Mélanie Courtot for her comments and guidance on tailoring the Epidemiology Ontology to OBO Foundry principles. The authors also wish to thank the European Commission for the financial support of the EPIWORK project under the Seventh Framework Programme (Grant #231807), and the Portuguese FCT through the financial support of the SOMER project (PTDC/EIA-EIA/119119/2010), the PhD grant SFRH/BD/69345/2010, and the multi-annual support of LASIGE and INESCID (Pest-OE/EEI/LA0021/2013).
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Toddler dies in farming accident near Waterloo
WATERLOO, Ont. – A toddler has died in a farming accident in southwestern Ontario.
Waterloo regional police say they were called to a family farm around 11:30 a.m. Thursday in Woolwich, Ont., where investigators found the body of a small boy.
Police spokeswoman Cherri Greeno says the boy was playing outside when he became involved with a piece of machinery and died because of his injuries.
She says the family is wracked with grief.
Greeno says investigators on scene are also struggling.
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