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A complaint to the Commission may be about any health service provider in NSW. This includes:
It is a good idea to first discuss the complaint with the health service provider to see whether they can work with you to resolve the complaint. There are some tips for resolving your concerns directly with the health service provider.
If they do not respond to your complaint, or you are not satisfied with their actions, contact the Commission to discuss your complaint. A complaint that relates to the immediate health or safety of a person should be made without delay. Complaints about sexual or physical assault should be made to the police.
A complaint must be in writing. You can lodge a complaint online, or download a complaint form. Alternatively you can write a letter and send it to the Commission via mail, email or fax.
Complaints to the Commission must be in writing and we recommend that you contact the Commission's Inquiry Service on (02) 9219 7444 or Toll Free on 1800 043 159 to discuss your concerns. Staff can help you put your complaint in writing, if you require assistance. The Commission uses interpreting services to assist people whose first language is not English. To contact the Telephone Interpreter Service call 13 14 50 and ask to be put through to the Commission on (02)9219 7444 or Toll Free on 1800 043 159.
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Florida: Earth Learning seeks Office Manager16 Jul
NYC: NYU seeks Food Systems Visiting Professor16 Jul
New York University
The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development
Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health
Food Systems Visiting Professor
One year appointment, with a possible renewal
NYU's Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health seeks a one-year visiting professor in food systems. The NYU Food Studies program takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying food production and consumption, particularly in urban settings. The program examines the complexities of supplying the city, including food distribution and transportation, water and waste management, and the rural/urban interface. Policy and health issues are also germane to issues surrounding food systems. Continue reading
California: Monterey Bay Aquarium seeks Seafood Watch Partnership Program Manager16 Jul
The Seafood Watch Partnership Program Manager is a position within the Seafood Watch program of the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Center for the Future of the Oceans. The Manager's role is to maintain and strategically enhance a national network of more than 200 Conservation Outreach Partners including zoos, aquariums, businesses and restaurants. The position monitors, empowers and advises our partners in communicating and conducting outreach activities that raise awareness about sustainable seafood and contribute to the Seafood Watch program's strategic conservation goals. Continue reading
Massachusetts: Red Tomato seeks Intern16 Jul
Commitment: 10-20 hours, Monday-Friday
Salary: This internship is unpaid. However, we are committed to offering our interns ample learning, networking and professional development opportunities.
Red Tomato is a working model of a Food Hub – a coordination, distribution, and marketing hub for the region's farmers. We market fresh, regional, ecologically-grown fruits and vegetables for a network of 40+ family farms, to millions of consumers, in hundreds of supermarkets and retail stores throughout the Northeast. We also have a robust program of collaborative research with scientists, a strong focus on brand and market development, and a commitment to sharing what we've learned with our colleagues in the Good Food Movement. Since 1998, we have pushed the limits of our innovative non-profit marketing and distribution network to bring more food, from more farms, to the widest possible base of consumers. To date, Red Tomato is responsible for sales of over $17 million worth of fresh fruits and vegetables grown on family farms throughout the Northeast. Continue reading
California: Slide Ranch seeks Ranch Steward16 Jul
Reports to: Director of Ranch Operations
Available: Open until filled
Residence: One bedroom cabin
Compensation: $17,000 – $19,000/ year + housing, health benefits, food
Position: Ranch Steward (Full Time, Resident position)
Slide Ranch – Mission and Background
Slide Ranch teaches visitors the impact our choices have on food, health, and the environment, through hands-on activities and independent exploration of our farm and coastal wild lands.
Founded in 1970, Slide Ranch is a non-profit agriculture and environmental education center. Overlooking the Pacific Ocean just north of San Francisco within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) between Muir Beach and Stinson Beach, the facility sits on a 134-acre historic dairy farm that is over 100 years old. Organic gardens, goats, sheep, and chickens, along with the coastal wild lands and tide-pools, provide an ideal outdoor setting for teaching environmental awareness. Continue reading
LA/Miami: Back to the Roots Ventures seeks Business Development Leaders16 Jul
We're building a new business development and sales team to create, execute and continuously evaluate BTTR's go-to-market strategy, with a critical role in prospecting and cultivating our most important customer relationships and business opportunities.
As a Business Development Leader, you will be responsible for owning and driving the growth and evolution of Back to the Roots in your region. Primary responsibilities include maintaining and growing sales in established retail channels, as well as identifying and opening new retail accounts, in your region. Activities will include conducting in-store demonstrations, managing relationships with store staff, as well as other support activities to monitor and maintain sales. Activities may also include participation in trade shows, special events, marketing activities, and other work relevant to marketing and selling BTTR's products within your region, and outside of your region if needed. You will work closely with BTTR's management team to coordinate strategies for achieving company goals, as well as receive all necessary support you might need in your new role. Continue reading
New York State: Foodlink seeks Nutrition Education Coordinator16 Jul
Department: Programs/Community Nutrition
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Northern Barrier Island Residents May Return Saturday
Northern Barrier Island residents will be allowed back again on Saturday.
The next phase of residents being allowed to return has been posted on the Toms River township website.
Based on the schedule below,residents will able to travel on their own between 7AM and 2PM for the purpose of winterization, meeting with insurance representatives and contractors.
Shore Way (Lavallette Border) North to Strickland Blvd
Ocean Beach Unit 1 Ocean Beach Unit 2
Ocean Beach Shores Seacrest Beach
Sunset Manor Shores Ocean Beach Unit 3
Monterey Beach Ocean Beach Peninsula (Bayside)
Strickland Blvd North to 6th Ave Normandy (Brick Border)
Chadwick Beach Normandy Shores
Chadwick Beach Island Normandy Beach
Silver Beach
- Residents of the above listed beach communities will be provided access to their homes from 07:00 AM to 2:00PM. and should line up at the foot of the Rt. 37 bridge. Beginning at 2 pm, the roadways are transitioned into construction lanes for heavy equipment transversing the roadways.
- Residents are requested to have identification and a proof of ownership for the house they are entering (Tax or utility bill.) Police will be doing additional checks at homes.
- Residents will arrive via their own car and may begin the process of flood remediation and winterization. It is strongly suggested that residents work with their respective homeowners' association to have contractors on site to assist in the winterization process.
- One car per household (as many people that can fit in one car.) Reminder that there are no facilities or utilities there. Translation- no bathroom, and you will not be able to flush your toilets. You will be able to come and go throughout the day.
- Insurance adjusters may go over the bridge to see customers. Contractors may meet you over there for the purpose of winterization only. They are not to solicit jobs. No major construction can take place at this time as the home owners only have one day to re-enter.
- Access to communities other than those listed for a particular day will be denied. A controlled re-entry for Phase two will enable all people to get to their homes. Arriving on a day not scheduled will only slow the process.
- Vehicle size restriction- No large moving vans will be allowed to enter at this time.
The roads are very narrow in many areas. Residents are urged to comply with these guidelines to ensure all residents future access.


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#30 Anthony Trapasso G 6-2 204 Sterling, Mass./St. Johns Prep
My favorite athletic moment at Brandeis has been: Last season when we beat Amherst at home. They were ranked pretty high and the crows was great. It was really exciting and a great feeling when we won!
My favorite class or professor at Brandeis is, and why: Professor Jacob Cohen because he is a great guy that truly loves what he does. Also, he comes to every game and it is nice to see him there!
My introduction song would be: Go Getta by Young Jeezy because my nickname is Trap and they say "Trap all day" in the song a lot
My favorite professional athlete is, and why: Paul Pierce because he is a dedicated Celtic and I like how he always works hard and wants to win
Career Bests: Points: 16, 2/11/11, vs Carnegie Mellon… Rebounds: 7, 1/28/11, vs Emory… Assists: 2, 2/20/11, at Wash U… Steals: 2, 11/20/10, vs Curry… Blocks: 1, 2/5/12, at Carnegie Mellon… Minutes: 31, 1/28/11, vs Emory
AND MORE: Played in all 25 games last year, starting two on a UAA roadtrip at Wash U and Chicago… Scored a season high 11 points on near-perfect shooting (4-for-5 overall, 1-for-1 from downtown, and 2-for-2 from the charity stripe) in a 78-64 win vs Rochester… Scored eight points on perfect shooting (2-for-2 from behind the arc and 2-for-2 from the line) in an 80-67 win over Carnegie Mellon… In 2010-11, played in 23 of team's 25 games and started 10 games… Connected on 22-of-52 from 3-point range (42.3%)… Scored in double-figures four times, led team in scoring three times including a career-high 16 points vs Carnegie Mellon… Volunteers for Special Olympics Partnering Program… Majoring in American Studies.


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|Line Rider - Build & Design simple sledding courses
|Line Rider is very much like Line Flyer in that you create a track, press play, and then see your little guy navigate the track you just created. The help button provides good info to aid you in building a track in Line Rider. Once your track is built, press play, and watch your guy on a sled run your track. Chances are he'll crash or fall to his death which is pretty cool.


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It Is All About BTC, LTC, ETH, ZEC mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies
The last few days we have seen yet another serious spike in the price of Ethereum's Ether (ETH) coins reaching a new all time high at almost $6.5 USD per coin and showing growing interest from users including miners. Things have gone almost crazy around Ethereum in the last few days and we have even started seeking some of this interest moving onto the Ethereum forks as well, so if you have not been following these, then you might want to check them out. There seem to be three different forks active at the moment – Expanse, Shift and Soil with the first fork released being Shift, though at the moment Expanse seems the most promising alternative.
Ethereum (ETH) forks:
– Expanse (EXP)
– Shift (SHF)
– Soil (SOIL)
You can mine these Ethereum forked altcoins the same way you can mine Ethereum using ethminer, they use the same Dagger-Hashimoto algorithm as the original they have been forked from. We have published many guides on how to get started with Ethereum using the console and GUI wallets as well as how to mine using ethminer and these guides are applicable to the different forks as well in most part, so if you need some help you can check them out.


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How come at certain times you act very intelligently, say exactly the right things even to expertly manipulative people who try to
get the better of you, and stay in a good
mood despite whatever happens?
How come at other times you make humiliating mistakes, feel like a fool, and
can't get out of a bad mood?
The Flow State: perfect action
The professional in his/her field on a good day gets to the flow state without realizing it. With enough inner preparation and outer practice, each human being gets to be in the flow state at something they do really well, at least once in a lifetime. But it's elusive. This is a game – the end game for a person's evolution on Earth.
The problem/opportunity is that there could be a lot more flow state in the world right now. In flow state one sees opportunity in every problem. We need to get our leaders into flow state. The biggest opportunity under our noses today is that – with our media-dominated culture (including social media) – all it takes is to call attention to it and flow state will increase in the world. The way we became aware of healthy eating. The Institute aims to call that attention, and to provide working methods that help people get into flow state.
It's all about Action
It's about success in the world, and helping the world be a success. Taking care of people. And enjoying each second of it. Not being brought down out of flow state by loss of clarity – which comes from ego interruption. Ego is the self-defending robot inside. We allowed our ego side to become a center of consciousness and we are stuck in that viewpoint. Flow state is getting back into the real self above the ego.
Still, without getting into the scientific side of it, flow state is all about taking the right actions, down to every little physical movement. And getting the right results by that meticulous care.
Action Meditation is what we call our mental methodology for evoking the flow state. It is exactly the same as meditating constantly. Bringing the state of the meditator into the moment to moment action of life. It's nothing new, but no one has ever pierced it into words with such clarity before.
Remembering to STOP and THINK
Life is more complex than ever, staying on top of one's game and taking perfect action continuously through the pressure of multiple simultaneous incoming action decision requests and hordes of distracting clutter in the environment, is unlikely until one has become established in the flow state and that is still rare today.
Therefore the rest of us will need to step back from this demanding environment from time to time each day in order to really figure out the priorities and what to do about them and how to handle the rest of it at the same time.
Ram Dass wrote about MIND MAGIC, the Institute's first book, that it tells you just how to do it – think. A compliment we really appreciate because it is the mode of thinking that you take at those breaks that makes the difference. Having some input on what works, upgrades the process at those times away from the action, when inner preparation is the highest possible outcome of that time spent.
MIND MAGIC also helps you think in the midst of the action itself when every split second counts.
Robot thinking
Robot thinking is driven by focus on negative emotions. It does not reach clarity but instead cunning plans working for selfish interests with likelihood of being resisted by some others.
Flow state thinking is characterized by clarity and creativity and what emerges are win/win solutions less likely to be resisted and more likely to find active support. All levels of one's thinking are integrated automatically below the level of words and so a state emerges we call Mindquiet where very few words are going through one's mind. The mind moves much more quickly in that state.
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You may be on vacation, but your skin isn't.
Travelers should be aware that ultraviolet radiation from the sun -- even on such a brief jaunt as a several-day beach vacation -- plays a significant role in the development of skin cancer.
The aches, the temperature, the headache, the weakness—all the hallmarks that you've gotten a seasonal influenza.
Portable, home hemodialysis is giving patients like Henning Sondergaard independence. (submitted photo)
Kidney disease is on the rise, according to government statistics.
Exercise is a key element in maintaining a healthy lifestyle as you age. Try going for a bike ride on local trails, walking with friends or canoeing on a nearby lake. Participating in competitive events, like a race, is a great way to stay motivated to train and stay active. Here, runners and walkers ages 5 to 71 take part in the 2014 Run for Roses 5K event during Roseville's annual Rosefest celebration June 28. (Linda E. Andersen/Review staff)
Heart health should be a year-round consideration for anybody looking to lead a healthy life.
While that may sound like a daunting task, better heart health can be possible with a few steps in the right direction.
Take steps to learn more about the prescriptions you take, and their possible consequences. (Eugene Comstock - ThinkStock.com)
With so much talk about drug use in America, you may not realize that some of the most potentially dangerous drugs are sitting right in many home medicine cabinets.
Call in sick! That is the advice from the nation's emergency physicians if you happen to have flu-like symptoms. Doctors suggest it's one of the best ways to help prevent the spread of this year's particularly aggressive national flu outbreak.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that as we turned the corner from 2013 to 2014, influenza was "widespread" in 25 states, including Minnesota, and "regional" in 20.
If the current economic situation were compared to the weather, it would be a blizzard. Between a tanking economy, millions of home foreclosures, dwindling retirement savings, and the upcoming holiday season, many Americans are reeling from the financial strain. In a recent survey by the American Psychological Association that asked people to rank causes of stress, 80 percent of Americans put money and the economy right at the top of the list.
As Minnesota consumers start planning for their insurance needs in time for Open Enrollment and the opening of Minnesota's health insurance marketplace, MNsure, on October 1, 2013, the Minnesota Department of Commerce urges consumers to take a look at the options to make the best fit. Understanding the difference between a health insurance premium and a rate will help consumers find health insurance that fits their financial and health needs.
It's back-to-school time and parents are prepared with their children's enrollment forms, orientation schedules and immunizations — but what about their eyes?
Most children have healthy eyes. But because there are conditions that can threaten good vision, the Minnesota Academy of Ophthalmology reminds parents that good vision and eye health are key to students' ability to do well in the classroom.
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Almost everyone who lives a long life will develop cataracts at some point. August is Cataract Awareness Month, and the Minnesota Academy of Ophthalmology is encouraging seniors and their caregivers to understand cataract risks, symptoms, and prevention tips, as well as how to decide when it is time for cataract surgery so good vision can be restored.
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The bathroom is the most dangerous area of your home. The majority of all slip-and-fall accidents that happen in the home occur in the bathroom. This is true for people of all ages. As we age and begin to have more limited mobility, our balance and stability decreases. Our bones become more brittle, so the injuries from a fall often take longer to heal. Remodeling your bathroom for safety is one of the greatest investments you can make in your health, well-being and future independence.
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New York, February 16, 2012--Today's decision by Ecuador's highest court to uphold the criminal libel conviction brought by President Rafael Correa against El Universo represents a serious blow to freedom of expression and a setback for democracy, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.
"The decision by the National Court of Justice is both disappointing and dangerous, as it sets a dark precedent for freedom of expression in the Americas," said CPJ Senior Americas Program Coordinator Carlos Lauría. "It is outrageous that Ecuador's leading newspaper may go bankrupt and its directors be imprisoned because they published an opinion column that harshly criticized the president."
In March 2011, President Correa filed the suit against the owners of the Guayaquil-based daily paper -- brothers Carlos, César and Nicolas Pérez Barriga -- and its editor, Emilio Palacio. All four were convicted in July and sentenced to three years in jail and fines totaling $40 million. Lawyers have suggested the fines would bankrupt the newspaper, which is one of Ecuador's most widely read.
The charges stem from Palacio's February 6 column titled "NO to lies," in which he repeatedly referred to Correa as "the dictator." In reference to a police uprising in September 2010, during which three people were killed, Palacios alleged that Correa had ordered troops to fire "without warning on a hospital full of civilians and innocent people," and insinuated that these actions could constitute a crime against humanity. Correa, who sought refuge inside the hospital after being accosted by protesters and was later rescued by Ecuadoran soldiers, denies ordering troops to fire.
The trial ruling against El Universo was upheld by an appeals court in September. The National Court of Justice upheld Palacio's sentence in late December, although the journalist had resigned from El Universo and fled to Miami several months earlier. Palacio filed for political asylum in the United States last week.
Today's ruling by a three-judge panel of the National Court of Justice came after a chaotic 15-hour hearing attended by Correa and about 20 of his cabinet ministers and top aides who occupied much of the eighth-floor courtroom, according to press reports. From his Twitter account, Correa called on supporters to descend on the court building until a decision was reached.
Government supporters quickly gathered outside the court, where they waved Ecuadoran flags, burned copies of newspapers, and shouted "Down with El Universo" and "The corrupt press must die," according to a video report on El Comercio's home page. About 70 anti-riot police with batons and shields were sent to the building as Correa supporters began scuffling with a group of about 20 opposition activists who held up signs saying: "Ecuador react! Say 'no' to the dictatorship," according to press reports.
Correa supporters also roughed up several journalists, including El Universo photographer Diógenes Balderón, who was kicked in the shins, and Romel Iza, a camera operator for RTU television, who was hit on the head with a stick, according to news reports.
During a break in the hearing, Correa told reporters: "If this legal process ends successfully, it would unleash in Ecuador and throughout our Americas similar lawsuits and would represent a great step forward for the liberation of our Americas from one of the largest and most unpunished powers: the corrupt media." However, Correa's assertion comes against a backdrop of increasing disfavor for criminal defamation penalties, with several Latin American governments deciding in recent years that civil remedies provide adequate redress, CPJ research shows.
The high court's decision just after midnight today came despite allegations of irregularities in the legal process. Many critics expressed suspicion in July, when Judge Juan Paredes issued a lengthy decision less than 24 hours after the trial concluded. El Universo obtained a court order allowing it to clone Paredes' hard drive for forensic examination. A domestic, court-approved consultant found irregularities in the document, while a U.S. consultant hired by the defense said his own examination showed that the judge's decision was actually written by Correa's attorney, Gutemberg Vera.
On Tuesday, Judge Monica Encalada, a lower court magistrate who Paredes said had given him scanned documents that sped up the process of writing his ruling, released a video and affidavit claiming that the original ruling against El Universo was written by Vera. In a statement, Encalada said: "I haven't collaborated in any way, nor have I added even half a word to the sentence that exists against El Universo." She claimed that Vera drafted the ruling and that he had offered about $750,000 to another judge in the case to rule in favor of the president, according to press reports.
Both Paredes and Vera denied the accusations, according to press reports. Encalada fled the country and arrived in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday night.
César and Nicolas Pérez are currently in Miami trying to raise international support for their case. They have not announced when or if they plan to return to Ecuador. Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli announced today on his Twitter account that he had granted political asylum to Carlos Pérez, who is now staying in the Panamanian embassy in Ecuador's capital, Quito.
Speaking by telephone from Miami, Nicolas Pérez told CPJ that once the sentence goes into effect in a few days, a warrant for their arrest will be issued and they will be detained upon arrival in Ecuador. He said: "We are still in shock even though the final verdict was not surprising. This will have a chilling effect on journalists, editors, and newspaper owners. They will now practice self-censorship and will censor their columnists." Correa, by contrast, told reporters "the truth has come shining through."
Thursday's ruling exhausts El Universo's legal appeals in Ecuador. But the case is already under review at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, part of the Organization of American States. El Universo is seeking a "precautionary measure" that would order Ecuador to suspend execution of the sentences pending a full international review of the case by the commission and, later, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, according to press reports.
CPJ research shows that Correa's administration has led Ecuador into an era of widespread repression. In addition to pre-empting private news broadcasts, enacting restrictive legal measures, and smearing critics, civil and criminal defamation lawsuits have been used to silence critical journalists. On February 6, a regional civil court ordered journalists Juan Carlos Calderón and Christian Zurita to pay US$1 million in damages each to Correa, as well as US$100,000 for the plaintiff's legal fees, news reports said. The president had sued the journalists for defamation after the publication of their book, The Big Brother, in which they alleged that the president's older brother, Fabricio Correa, had obtained US$600 million in state contracts, largely for road construction, news reports said. Ecuadoran law bars presidential family members from using their relationships for economic gain.


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When it comes to having friends and family over to your Tiny House one thing that I know is that as humans we love to share a meal with those we care about. My family, sitting down for meals is an important event everyday. While it may not reasonable to have the whole gang over for Thanks Giving or a game night inside, it might be possible to do it outside, weather permitting. Here are a few tables that can handle a larger group but don't take up too much space and are perfect for outdoor dinning.
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Natalie Musorina-Torsion Rocking Chair
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Interview with Natalie Musorina : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Natalie Musorina : This chair was created under impression of wonderful sculptures of Naum Gabo. As his works it is investigation and manipulation of space and also an eye-catching object, like a sculpture.The chair induces to explore it, look at it from every side and through it. But furthermore, it also has a function and can be used in everyday life with a great comfort. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Natalie Musorina : During work on the chair I was concentrated on the principles for minimum-weight design. I wanted to create construction which would be able to sustain a weght of sitting person but at the same time would look imponderable and requires a minimum quantity of material. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Natalie Musorina : About half a year. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Natalie Musorina : I would like to sell or lease the production rights. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Natalie Musorina : Since I saw Naum Gabo's sculpture "Linear Construction No. 2" I could not to make away with desire to create a chair in similar style. So the chair "Torsion" is an incarnation of such desire. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Natalie Musorina : During designing I also studied Santiago Calatrava's bridges. I think, it also influenced the chair. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Natalie Musorina : I suppose it is upper middle class consumers. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Natalie Musorina : In the the last century there was a theory about special kind of physical field called "torsion" which is created by space rotation. This theory was recognized as untenable and pseudoscientific, but I thought that the form of the chair is also created as a space rotation in some way although there are no Maxwell's equations so it should be interesting to name the chair like it. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Natalie Musorina : I think it is the form of the frame. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Natalie Musorina : I did everything by myself. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Natalie Musorina : I do not think there is a new technology. But I used some geometrical concepts while designing the form of surface, if it is matter. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Natalie Musorina : The main creative challenge was to find the right proportions of frame. There was so many things should be taken into account like the average man's knee high, the average distance from the seat and waist of sitting person and so on. And because all parts of the chair depend on each other it was difficult but also interesting to find the optimal decision to bring to conformity with all that factors. .
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SANAA, Yemen, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- The president of Yemen said the use of drones over his airspace was part of a bilateral strategic agreement with the United States.
A suspected CIA drone killed U.S.-born al-Qaida ideologue Anwar al-Awlaki in 2011 in Yemen. Since then, a number of high-level al-Qaida figures have been killed or targeted in Yemen by U.S. drone missile strikes.
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Yemeni President Abdo Rabu Mansour Hadi said the use of drones was part of a bilateral agreement with the United States stretching back to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.
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Mary Callender, CPM, LM has been helping birthing women in the Richmond, VA area have empowered birth experiences since 1997 and is now providing home birth services as a licensed Certified Professional Midwife. Richmond Virginia Home Birth provides traditional midwifery care utilizing one on one prenatal, birth, and postpartum support as defined by the Midwives Model of Care. Mary is a graduate of a MEAC accredited midwifery school. She served as student midwife under 7 different preceptors around Virginia and for two months at a high volume birth center in Utah.
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A Winston-Salem woman who was the subject of a Silver Alert was shot and killed by troopers Sunday morning in eastern North Carolina.
Melissa Anne Jenkins, 60, was shot and killed around 11:45 a.m. following a pursuit and standoff on U.S. 64 west in Edgecombe County, troopers said.
Robersonville Police tried to pull over Jenkins' vehicle around 10:25 a.m. on U.S. 64 west. A pursuit began after she kept going, and she pulled over about 15 minutes later due to a flat tire, troopers said.
Jenkins, who was armed with multiple weapons, was asked multiple times to leave the vehicle, but she refused, troopers said.
Several negotiations had failed before Jenkins left the vehicle around 11:45 a.m. and pointed a weapon directly at officers, troopers said. Officers opened fire, killing Jenkins.
Two troopers, W.R. Bulluck of Nash County and S.A. Stone of Pitt County, have been placed on administrative duty during the SBI investigation, which is standard procedure.
A Silver Alert had been issued for Jenkins on Friday. She was believed to be suffering from either dementia or other cognitive impairment. The alert advised she may have been heading toward Manteo.


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EL-Jay feat. Julian Sas - BluesRock Compilation Tribute
For listening only, my hero at bluesrock, njoy this gitar master!
EL-Jay feat. Julian Sas - BluesRock Compilation Tribute -2013.09.18
01. Julian Sas - Blues For J (1999)
02. Julian Sas - Where Will It End! (2003)
03. Julian Sas - Ragin River (2002)
04. Julian Sas - Stranger Blues (1996)
05. Julian Sas - Horror Tone Groove (1997)
06. Julian Sas - Goin' Down (1996)
07. Julian Sas - Home Feeling (1996)
08. Julian Sas - Crossroad Call (1997)
09. Julian Sas Band - Country Jail Blues (bootleg - Live)) (2004)
10. Julian Sas - Dont Tell Me No Lies (1999)
11. Julian Sas - Tale Spreader (2005)
12. Julian Sas - Tryin' To Do Right (1996)
13. Julian Sas - That's Enough For Me (2005)
14. Julian Sas - This Time, My Time (1996)
15. Julias Sas (Tribute 2 Rory Gallagher) - What In The World (2006)
16. Julian Sas - Signature Blues (2002)
17. Julian Sas - Losing Ground (2003)
18. Julian Sas - I'm Still Cryin' (2005)
19. Julian Sas - I Don't Know (1996)
20. Julian Sas - My Life Is Gonna Be All Mine (1997)
21. Julian Sas - State Of Mind (2000)
22. Julian Sas - Devil Woman (2002)
23. Julian Sas - Mean Street (2000)
24. Julian Sas - Driftin Boogie (2002)
25. Julian Sas Band - Shake Your Moneymaker (bootleg) (2004)
Julian Sas Facebook artist page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Julian-Sa ... 4663175175
Julian Sas Facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/julian.sas.9
Website: http://www.juliansas.com/
Hello everybody
My name is Julian. I was born on a river in 1970 in a small town in the center of the Netherlands called Beneden-Leeuwen. Since I was born I have been a restless person, This is something that I still have today. Only until I was 6 years old I knew where this was coming from; I saw this movie called the Toronto rock 'n roll festival. There I saw Jerry lee lewis and Chuck Berry. From that day on I knew what I was going to be In my life I wanted to make music. I was hooked as a little child on what I felt when I saw this movie, it was Jerry lees immense energy and maybe more important for my future I saw Chuck's guitar.
My mother saw that I dreamed and talked only about guitars from that day on. So they gave me little toyguitars and stuff like that but I kept dreaming about the real thing. By the time I was 10 I was into bands like Motorhead and AC/DC, Judas priest and Iron Maiden and more heavy stuff. Loud guitars and big Marshall amps and again a lot of energy. They saw me listening to music that most children of my age weren't doing at that time so I started again about a real guitar and when I was about 12 years old I got one an Ibanez les paul copy which I still have today.
With a guitar comes an amplifier so they gave me this 30 watt Yamaha where I could practice with. I started to listen to anything I could lay my hands on, and this is something that I still do today. I have never had no musical schooling so this is for me the only way to learn music. By listening and playing you start to know how things work. A friend of mine taught me some basic chords and a few scales and something about where to put your fingers and that was it. The rest was up to me. By the time I was 13 I heard something that really got me deep emotionally and his name was Muddy Waters. From that day on I decided to dedicate my life to blues and bluesrock.
When I was not in school I played guitar, I kinda locked myself in my room to become what I wanted. The guitar became and still is an obsession for me. I'm a very quiet guy in fact and this instrument really gave me the chance to express my feelings. When I was 17 years old it was 1987 and that was great year for me because I met a girl who is now my wife; someone who knows what drives me in being a musician and understand what music means to me. And it was the first time I saw Rory Gallagher. He shocked my world big time. That was what I was going to be. I started a band and two years later I quit school, because we had a lot of gigs and becoming a history teacher was not my thing.
I must have had a thousand jobs and a lot of jams and bands and duo's but by the time I was 26 I started this band called Julian Sas Band. We got a record deal and the first album was called 'Where will it end!?'. And that my friends is still the story today, when it is up to me we got along time coming, because we really love what we do. For me being a musician is all about freedom and doing what you really love. I am fortunate to be in such a position but then again I worked hard for it and still work hard for it because nothing in life comes easy.
So this is my story. I want to tell you that for me playing music is something I try to do until the day I will lay my guitar down and I will meet the great spirits in the sky. I will always write songs about loneliness and oppression and being free out on the road. Music still comforts my ever restless soul. Which after all these years is still inside of me...
Thank you for making my dream come true......... Julian
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Relocating species threatened by climate change is a radical and hotly debated strategy for maintaining biodiversity.
In a paper published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers from CSIRO, University of Queensland and United States Geological Survey present a pragmatic decision framework for determining when, if ever, to move species in the face of climate change.
"As our climate changes more rapidly than species can adapt or disperse, natural resource managers increasingly want to know what adaptation options are available to help them conserve biodiversity," said co-author, CSIRO researcher and research fellow at the University of Queensland Dr Eve McDonald-Madden.
Managed relocation, also known as assisted colonisation, of species involves moving plants or animals from an area that is, or will become, untenable because of climate change, to areas where there are more suitable climatic conditions but in which the plants or animals have not occurred previously.
"While the virtues of managed relocation of species are being debated by the scientific community, the reality is that it is already occurring.
"The decision-making framework we have developed shows that the best timing for moving species depends on many factors such as: the size of the population, the expected losses in the population through relocation, and the expected numbers that the new location could be expected to support.
"It would also rely on good predictions about the impact of climate shifts on a particular species and the suitability of areas to which they can move an often difficult issue in the case of rare species because we just dont have this sort of detailed information," Dr McDonald-Madden said.
CSIRO researcher Dr Tara Martin said monitoring and learning about how potentially climate change-affected plants and animals function in their native ecosystems will play a crucial role in ensuring that managed relocation plans succeed.
"Active adaptive management is important when we are unsure of what the climatic changes are likely to be in the current habitat.
"Our framework provides managers with a rational basis for making timely decisions under uncertainty to ensure species persistence in the long-term" Dr Martin said.
"Without relocating species we are destined to lose some of our most important and iconic wildlife, but at the end of the day we also need viable ecosystems into which we can move species.
"Managed relocation is not a quick fix. It will be used in some specific circumstances for species that we really care about, but it will not be a saviour for all biodiversity in the face of climate change," Dr Martin said.


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While traveling, the days meld together: dates don't exist and it's all I can do to just keep track of the new time zone I'm in. I find myself looking at my watch and counting forward "x" hours, calculating what time it is back home in Manila. Jet lag is another reality in itself. When I first got here, it felt odd to be eating lunch when my body was used to being asleep at that time.
Take offs and landings are my absolute favorite parts of an airplane ride, the bumpier the better. Heheh. Last night while waiting for my plane to take off, I saw five other planes take off and land in different directions. It reminded me of the line that's made when one completes a row in tic-tac-toe. Watching a plane fly off is witnessing grace in flight: a beautiful silver bird ascending into the skies.
I witness the world in transit in the numerous airports I've been in and out of in the past 11 days. As I wait to board my plane, it's become a game to determine the nationalities of people walking by. I wonder where they're headed off to and marvel at the heavy Australian accent of the man who looks Indian to me. Since I'm traveling alone, my eyes automatically spot those fellow travelers who are also by themselves. Ah, we the mighty, independent ones.
I've always had a window seat on the plane since I started flying at 4 years old. Sometime in my mid-20's, I got this silly idea that I had outgrown a window seat. So I started booking an aisle seat and felt oh-so-grown-up. Not. Now, I have to watch out that my foot doesn't trip the flight attendant and that my head doesn't get chopped off when the meal trolley passes by. I also yearn for the window seat of my youth so that I have something to lean my head on while trying to fall asleep. I don't think the stranger beside me would take very kindly to having this stranger lean her head on his shoulder.
When it comes to airplane food, I am the only person I know who is a fan of it. I have heard others describe it with terms running from the polite (puke) to wretched ("it's worse than s**t, I tell you!"). Whatever it is, I love it. How could I not like a meal so carefully arranged, every portion pre-measured? The portions are a bit too tiny for me granted, but I've never had a problem keeping my food down in flight. Throwing up doesn't come easily to me. Food likes me too much. The feeling is mutual.
My senses are on full alert when I'm traveling. Everything is new and I do my best to immerse myself in everything that I'm taking in. Every meal is precious because there is only so much space in my stomach to accommodate what I want to take in. Sigh.
Travelling is all about getting lost and seeing things in a new light. Every act of kindness extended to me is greatly appreciated. It allows me to step back and see that the world isn't just about the city I live in. The world is one ENORMOUS place. But most of all, traveling lets me see my life in a different light, making me aware of how awesome the one I have back home in Manila is.


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On Saturdays when I was nine my mother would get home at five, exhausted and hungry from her job as receptionist at Schultzes Beauty Salon. My job was to have a snack ready for her for our Brookside Boulevard (the ritzy street) ritual. We would drive down the avenue and pull over at all the bus stops and pick up the black cleaning ladies, exhausted and probably hungry as well. They were waiting and holding their heavy bundles of the hand-me-downs from their generous lady bosses. We'd pile them into our old junk of a 1951 baby blue Buick until we were squashed and laughing. My mother had lived in the north end of Hartford, in one of those neighborhoods that went from poor Jewish to even poorer black, so she knew the shortcuts, the roads to avoid, the corners to quickly navigate. The woman knew the secrets of the streets. There was a collective sigh of relief to finally sit after having worked all day on their feet coupled with a humble gratitude that permeated the car. And it must have planted a seed. Because now all these years later here I am doing a similar thing. I am one of many volunteer chauffeurs for an organization called Vineyard Village. The list comes up every Monday of who needs what and where they need to go and at what time.
Last Tuesday morning I had to pick up Betty in Aquinnah and Rhoda in Chilmark. They were both going to the same meeting at Howes House in West Tisbury. I got to Betty's early and as she walked gracefully down her wooden, uneven stairs wearing a magenta wool hat and colorful purple mittens, she said with a twinkle in her smiling blue eyes, I didn't know if anyone was coming. I'm so happy you're here. She got into the front seat without my help and buckled up.
Betty asks me the ages of the people who take my writing workshops. I tell her the last one had a 13-year-old and an 81-year-old. She said, Really? What do they write about? I said, well my prompts are easy because they're about your own life experience. Like what, she asks. Like, write about a time you weren't invited, I say. Betty is laughing. Oh, I certainly can't remember when I wasn't invited and I wouldn't care about it now anyway. I am thinking, what a great a teacher I just picked up. Why does it take us so long to not take things personally? What a liberation it is to not care about stupid invitations to so and so's brunch or what's her name's New Year's Eve party. But I know I hold those little darts in my heart for longer than necessary. I say that's true, Bet. When you reach our age it's a waste of space in the brain to carry this garbage around. What do you mean, she says, our age? You're young.
There's another reason I love driving these ladies.
When I pick up Rhoda Wednesday, I go to her door because her ground is so dangerously bumpy and even though she uses a cane, I worry. I look at her gorgeous silver hair and I say Rhoda, you look beautiful. She stops in her tracks, looks up at me in shock and says you think so? I say I know so. She says I haven't heard that in years. Then she pauses again and says that makes me feel good.
Yesterday I saw Rhoda at the post office being helped into a big SUV by another Vineyard Village volunteer and I yelled,"Rhoda, you're cheating on me!" And all three of us cracked up.
It never would have occurred to me to ask my mother what she got out of her self-designed Saturday afternoon gig. I was a kid. But I think if I had, she would have used Rhoda's words: It makes me feel good.
And now I know exactly what that means.
Nancy Slonim Aronie is the author of Writing from the Heart: Tapping the Power of Your Inner Voice (Hyperion/Little Brown) and teaches the Chilmark Writing Workshop. She is a commentator for NPR.