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The Engineering Pipeline
It's not only Dartmouth students who receive a Thayer-inspired education. Alumni who teach at universities throughout the country bring their Thayer experiences into their own classrooms and labs. We asked eight alumni in academe about their research, Thayer influences, and how to encourage more people to become engineers.
Interviews by Anna Fiorentino
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering,
Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Research: My research group investigates exothermic reactions that self-propagate and produce rapid bursts of heat and light in a variety of composite systems. These reactive materials are fabricated using vapor deposition or cold forging. We have developed these materials to act as local heat sources for joining temperature-sensitive materials and for igniting other reactions. I cofounded Reactive NanoTechnologies in 2002 to pursue commercial applications and then sold the company to Indium Corp. in 2009. The technology is now being used to join LEDs and sputtering targets, and many other applications are being pursued.
Thayer Influences: I went to Dartmouth to major in history. I took a thermo course from Horst Richter, really liked it, and decided to major in engineering sciences. Then I took a course from Harold Frost that convinced me I wanted to study materials. I stayed an extra two years to complete a master's degree while working with Erland Schulson. Seeing Erland's passion for his teaching and research, I said, this is what I want to do. I want to earn a Ph.D. and become a professor.
Incorporating Thayer's Educational Approach: Thayer gave me a broad education that has served me well, especially as I've entered areas beyond my current research. The breadth of education that I received at Thayer has been especially useful as engineering research becomes more interdisciplinary. Through a role I play here at Johns Hopkins, as director of the Center for Leadership Education, I've been in contact with Professor Robert Graves about our new program similar to Thayer's M.E.M. program. I also serve on the Bachelor of Engineering External Advisory Committee at Thayer, and it's been inspirational.
How to Produce More Engineers: We need to make sure we have great teachers in the high school system to encourage students to think about engineering at an early stage. I had a wonderful history teacher in high school, so went to college to major in history. Getting better stimulation early on is critical.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering,
Yale University
Research: My lab studies biological engineering and systems biology of virus-host molecular interactions. We make quantitative experimental measurements and computational models of how viruses perturb host cell networks, especially networks of chemical reactions involved in cellular communication, referred to in biology as signal transduction networks. As an engineer, I think of a human cell as a very complex machine that takes in environmental cues, processes the information via networks of chemical reactions, and outputs a behavior, such as growth, death, or differentiation. Pathogenic viral infection fundamentally changes how a cell processes information by hijacking the cell's communication networks for its own purposes. What is especially impressive is that a virus is able to do this with a much less complex genome than our own. If we can measure and model how the cell's information processing networks change before and after infection, we might better understand how to treat the infection and how the cell machine itself works. We are currently applying our methods to understanding HIV pathogenesis. We study how HIV manipulates its host cell using HIV model viruses, which we can genetically alter to study particular aspects of the viral life cycle. We do a lot of wet lab and cell culture experiments to gather quantitative measurements of changes in gene expression, transcript, and protein levels inside the cell caused by HIV infection. Then we use various computational methods to simulate our data and develop hypotheses about how the the virus is affecting the cell, which we can test experimentally.
Thayer Influences: Working in Professor Lee Lynd's lab was my first introduction to biotechnology and the remarkable power of a microorganism. I was testing genetically engineered bacterial strains for their capacity to convert cellulose into ethanol.
Incorporating Thayer's Educational Approach: Engineering is more than a field; it is a way of approaching problems that transcends disciplines. I think Thayer captured this especially well because the curriculum did not break engineering down into sub-disciplines. Rather, we were taught to see analogies across many applications. In both my teaching and my work, I hope to demonstrate how an engineering approach can help us truly understand and manipulate biological processes at the cellular and subcellular level.
How to Produce More Engineers: In general, the way we teach science and engineering does not reflect what it's like to work in these fields. We tend to teach facts and methods and evaluate students based on an exact answer worked out in isolation. But innovative research and design requires creativity, collaboration, and communication skills. If we incorporated these aspects of science and engineering into early educational experiences, I think we would retain a more diverse set of young people and tap into new talent.
Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering,
Stanford University
Research: I research old dams and reservoirs, particularly sediment-impacted reservoirs. My students and I investigate summer low flows and streambed drying in coastal California streams and surface-subsurface water interactions in reservoir wetlands. We also work on estimating rainfall and stream flow prediction uncertainty in data-poor regions of southern Africa, optimal scaling of urban water reuse systems, and hydrologic ecosystem services. On one level these issues matter to me because they matter to students, as individuals and as a generation facing a future requiring increasingly challenging decision-making about water resources. On another level they matter to me because all the systems I work on are at the intersection of science, technology, and policy. On a third level, I am intrigued by puzzles that require integrating field investigation and mathematical modeling and that involve water flows that follow complex paths through very different environments, from atmosphere to land surface to subsurface to plants.
Thayer Influences: It's not easy to single any individual out, since I view the impact of my time at Thayer and Dartmouth as deriving from the incremental impacts of many. Professor Alvin Converse somehow found the right buttons to push to lead me to recognize that I could learn on my own, think on my own. That was a turning point in my education.
Incorporating Thayer's Educational Approach: I am zealously committed to liberal arts education, and that certainly got its start at Dartmouth and Thayer. I also don't have much use for disciplinary and departmental boundaries in either teaching or research, and that probably has some roots in my Thayer education.
How to Produce More Engineers: The issues are complex. They involve our social values as expressed in our political economy, the nature and quality of K-12 education and undergraduate engineering education, as well as the behavior of professional engineering societies.
JOHN McNEILL '83 (A.B.)
Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Research: I work on "mixed signal" analog and digital integrated circuit design, unlike most integrated circuits, which are digital, like microprocessors. My research is sponsored mainly by Analog Devices and Allegro MicroSystems, semiconductor companies with a strong presence in Massachusetts.
Thayer Influences: Friends at WDCR, the radio station at Dartmouth, told me I had to take a course with former Professor David Stratton in electronics. Both Stratton's material and his style of teaching caught my interest, and I decided to get a job in that area after I graduated. He guided students through the learning process by recalling how he understood and learned things. He could do theory as well as practical real-world thinking. He didn't just push equations around. About a year and a half ago a group of alumni from the class of 1982, who I kept in touch with, had a dinner for him, and I was honored to go.
Incorporating Thayer's Educational Approach: I won WPI's Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Teaching in 1999, and the 2007 Chairman's Exemplary Faculty Prize for combining teaching, research, and scholarship. I learned most of the techniques that make me an effective educator from this brilliant professor at Thayer.
How to Produce More Engineers: We're losing talent to big-money finance companies because society is skewed that way right now. Students have to pay back thousands in loans, so how can I encourage them to take low-paying jobs? I love engineering—the problem solving and the aspect of it that you're helping people, improving drug development to save lives, for example. But we have a real problem of retention. To encourage more people to become engineers—and we do need more engineers in all areas of society—we need to make engineering a more rewarding profession.
Assistant Professor of Physics and Engineering,
Elizabethtown College
Research: My research consists mostly of engineering education scholarship, as Elizabethtown is primarily a teaching-focused college, and working with undergraduates to continue some of my master's and doctoral research on the material properties of the polyethylene used in hip and knee replacements. My most recent undergraduate researcher created computational models from scanning electron microscope images of the microstructure of various formulations of polyethylene and performed a parameter study to assess the effects of microstructural changes on the bulk material properties. I enjoy working on an aspect of engineering that directly helps people and one that creates more young engineers to work on solving the world's problems.
Thayer Influences: Professor Francis Kennedy was the first to suggest early on that I consider becoming a professor. His statics course first got me really interested in mechanics, and as my senior thesis and master's thesis advisor, he inspired my interest in biomaterials. Professors Erland Schulson and Horst Richter mentored me when I was a teaching assistant and showed me how wonderful a course can be when taught well. I think of them often when teaching my courses. Doug Van Citters was an important mentor to me as well when he was a Ph.D. candidate.
Incorporating Thayer's Educational Approach: Elizabethtown College reminds me a lot of Thayer in that we emphasize a broad-based general engineering curriculum, where mechanical engineers must take electrical courses and so on. We also are housed in a liberal arts setting, and I try to tie the students' core liberal arts distributives to the engineering curriculum, as well as emphasize skills, such as communication and teamwork.
How to Produce More Engineers: I am starting a Society of Women Engineers chapter at the college and am passionate about getting more women into engineering. I think that part of it is a marketing issue. Instead of the message "Engineering is for you if you like math and science," I want to see the message "Engineering is for you if you want to make the world a better place." I do K-12 engineering outreach. One of my undergraduate classes just visited a local middle school where they showed cool engineering demonstrations to students. The men in the class enjoyed it as much as the women. I think it is key to engage men as well in our effort to diversify engineering.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Idaho
My Research: I research catalytic engine testing, engine tuning with alternative fuels, engineering graphics, design pedagogy, and scholarship of teaching and learning. I approach research collaboratively, with reflective practice and engagement of all stakeholders. It gives me the opportunity to join ranks with undergraduates, graduate students, professional staff, and faculty and colleagues in contemporary engineering problems recognized by the National Academy of Engineering, in Society of Automotive Engineers competitions, and in Thayer's Formula Hybrid International Competition.
Thayer Influences: I was especially impacted by Thayer's community-focused approach to teaching, learning, and research—an enterprise that respected and fully embraced undergraduate students, graduate students, professional staff, and faculty as significant contributors.
Incorporating Thayer's Educational Approach: Authentic problems, collaborative approaches, process documentation, and entrepreneurial spirit are in all aspects of engineering life. I believe that teaching and learning is a two-way process that should change what one knows, how one learns, and how this is internalized in daily life.
How to Produce More Engineers: Addressing general literacy about engineering and its role in society involves impacting general student populations at the K-12 level and as part of collegiate core curricula through design activities and group processing of compelling case studies. We need to remediate risk factors and learning liabilities that cause students to drop out, without compromising academic rigor or professional preparation. It's important to fix the leaks in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) pipeline before we try to push more people in the front end of the existing pipeline. Faculty development is also an important, non-trivial piece in the puzzle. The goal isn't to have everyone doing exactly the same things in the same way, but to have a broader population of faculty who are reflective practitioners about teaching and learning and dedicated to continuous improvement.
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Automation & Robotics Research Institute,
The University of Texas at Arlington
Research: I work primarily in micro- and nanorobotics and human robotic interaction. I've worked with robots that are a millimeter in size, with nanometer resolution. The robots I make are so small that we can place them inside a microscope. The field of nanorobotics is just getting started. Though it has yet to really create a significant industry, we are undergoing a major evolution away from expensive, bulky, and difficult-to-use machines, toward inexpensive, small, user-friendly, safe systems. We take system-level approaches from the macroscale and combine them with the microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology to provide a new way to set up machines. If large robots were scaled down, a person couldn't make grippers or gears with their hands for them. MEMS technology and micro-assembly give you the ability to put these systems together.
Thayer Influences: Former Assistant Professor Sunil Singh got me started with robotics. I worked on two research projects with him. One, with the MIT Media Lab, involved a virtual reality simulation training project for the Navy called Virtual Sailor. The other was with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center anesthesiologist Chris Wiley creating a training device for simulating spinal tap surgery—a common process now.
Incorporating Thayer's Education Approach: The Navy project was one of my first exposures to engineering research. It convinced me to do a Ph.D. in robotics. I credit Sunil for that and for the experience I had at Thayer. Sunil went on to try his fortunes in starting companies and became a successful entrepreneur. He was kind enough to give a talk about starting companies to my students a few years ago.
How to Produce More Engineers: First, we need to relate their professions to solving grand challenges of humanity, such as extending human lifespan, improving the social and family lives of people, or exploring unknown environments, including space, oceans, and the nanoscale. Science can help, but without engineers major steps forward in these professions won't be possible. The other way to get students involved in engineering is to improve the image problems engineers seem to have. Engineers are not geeks but multifaceted individuals with a larger horizon and entrepreneurial potential. The efforts at Thayer to connect engineering to the arts, social sciences, and medicine are very valuable.
THIERRY BLANCHET TH'88 '92 (M.S., Ph.D.)
Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Department of Mechanical, Aerospace & Nuclear Engineering,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Research: I'm interested in solid lubrication, particularly self-lubricating materials—an approach whereby low levels of friction can still be achieved even in the absence of fluid lubricants by having contacting materials whose surfaces are covered with low shear strength surface films. Maybe I'm still trying to master my own Thayer doctoral thesis on self-lubricating polymers and the wear resistance that hard filler particles provided them. The wear-resistance mechanism put forth for such composites described the wear resistance mechanism of filler particles, which at that time were generally micro-scale. A journal paper we published on it in 1992 while I was still a student at Thayer remains my most frequently cited work. However, extrapolation of that model predicts this wear-reduction mechanism should become ineffective as filler particle size is decreased. To the contrary, as we subsequently began to study nanoscale fillers here at Rensselaer, we found them to not only remain effective, but even more so than traditional micro-scale fillers previously studied. Fortunately, it appears that the wear-reduction mechanism of my thesis still stands, but is limited to micro-scale fillers. The challenge for us now is to understand additional wear reduction mechanisms that emerge and become predominant as particle size is drastically reduced.
Thayer Influences: Thayer provided me with the good fortune of small classes and close interaction with a collection of faculty members in the area of solid mechanics. My research advisor, Professor Francis Kennedy, and Professors Erland Schulson, Harold Frost, and Ian Baker were not only unusually strong technically, but also shared a materials science-based approach to this topic. If I had the foresight to know that my own research later at Rensselaer would get into hip joint materials for a period of a few years, I would have absolutely taken Professor John Collier's biomaterials course, but nonetheless it was great to have him on my doctoral committee with his own work on polymer wear, even if on a different polymer system than the one I was studying at the time. Finally, it would be too inexcusable an oversight if I didn't credit heavily Victor Suprenant for his experience and the personable manner in which he shared it with his students as we conducted experiments and for his subsequent role as a resource to tap in our research efforts.
Incorporating Thayer's Educational Approach: Professor Francis Kennedy is recognized for approaching tribology from a standpoint of frictional heating and thermal aspects of contacts—an approach I learned from his tribology and surface mechanics courses and now base my own tribology course upon at Rensselaer. It has been a pleasure to see this basis for viewing tribology propagate on from this course to subsequent generations of courses elsewhere, with students in my course continuing on as faculty members, and their students doing the same. To be a link in that dissemination is remarkably gratifying.
How to Produce More Engineers: As a cycling enthusiast, I would encourage aspiring engineers, particularly those mechanically focused, to understand how a bicycle—or some similarly basic mechanical system—works and how to maintain and perform simple repairs upon it. I think simple experiences such as this help provide a solid foundation upon which an engineering education can be built, while also providing one form of occasional yet necessary distraction that is not only healthy but also clears the mind for some wandering thoughts that sometimes prove creative or even revelatory.
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The City of Vancouver Archives acquires a variety of records that document the city's history.
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Our holdings include over 4,000 maps, dating from the late 1700s to the present day. The maps, most of which are of Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, come from a variety of sources, both public and private. They are indexed by place, subject and date and are on microfiche for easy access.
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We hold thousands of architectural plans from local companies and individuals dating from ca. 1910 to the 1960s.
Fire insurance plans
We hold fire insurance plans of Vancouver from 1885 to the 1960s. A few of the plans also depict other areas of the Lower Mainland. These also are on microfiche for easy access.
Ship's plans
Our collection of ship's plans consists of over 1000 plans of commercial and private vessels who sailed local waters from the late 1700s to 1980. The plans are indexed by name of vessel, ship's architect, ship builder, company and date. These also on are microfiche for easy access.
Pamphlets are printed materials documenting many of the social and cultural events that have taken place in Vancouver from 1860 to the present, and include:
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News clippings
The Archives has extensive clipping files dating from the 1920s to the present. They are an excellent source of information on Vancouver:
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The Archives has over 2,000 works of art on a variety of historical local subjects from 1886 to the present, including:
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- Cartoons
Although access to some of these works is restricted for conservation reasons, researchers may view colour slides of many of them. The cartoons are available on microfilm.
The Archives has a collection of over 2,500 books on British Columbia and Vancouver history, dating from the late 18th century.
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The end of the Overlook hotel hallway, the back of the Korova Milk Bar, the far tip of the vortex in space and time, shooting sparks out past Dave's blown mind… That's the Kubrick signature one-point perspective shot, the one they tell you not to shoot in film school because it's not "creative enough."
Oh yeah? Check this supercut. Check it all. Check how perfectly it hosts the swarms of characters — from the swank Eyes Wide Shut perverts shuffling through their opulent cult digs, to the baby-soldiers in their beds synchronously stroking their guns in Full Metal Jacket.
Now that's a splendid little supercut, pure Kubrick cinematography porn. Wonderful. Let's re-watch everything right now! I mean, 'nough with the fucking Kronos Quartet theme song, but other than that… Ace!


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Crazy speculation: T-Mobile Galaxy Nexus announcement coming this week?
Could T-Mobile actually announce their version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus this week? Many industry insiders have speculated that Verizon might have some kind of limited exclusive deal in the United States, but there has been confusion on exactly when the Galaxy Nexus will launch in the states. Verizon initially advertised the Galaxy Nexus as "exclusively from Verizon" but later removed that tag.
Today we were informed that T-Mobile is holding their own media event on the night of November 16, so the press can "experience the world of T-Mobile & Google." We already know November 16t is the same day Google is expected to announce music purchases in the Android Market, but Google's event is at 2:00 PM and T-Mobile's will start at 9:00 PM.
T-Mobile will definitely be celebrating the launch of music purchases with special appearances from Drake, Maroon 5, Busta Rhymes, Dirty South and R3hab, but they could also be announcing a big device launch. That might sound like a stretch, but T-Mobile was the launch partner of the Nexus One and also supported the Nexus S.
Many Android fans have been disappointed by the way Google has handled the Galaxy Nexus launch in the US, so hopefully some more details will be presented this week.
As a current T-Mobile subscriber, I'm probably getting my hopes up over nothing, but I would much rather purchase the Galaxy Nexus with HSPA+ than going with the more-expensive-data-and-battery-killer LTE model from Verizon.
Will T-Mobile fans' dreams come true this Wednesday? Maybe not, but we can still cross our fingers and wish for the best.


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This will be a return trip to a very worthy agency on the front line of efforts to deal with folks with major life issues relating to poverty and lack of basic life opportunities. This is always a rewarding trip as the agency has been in existence for years and is very dynamic in the community there. It is possible we will be helping with some phase of facility. This will be an adult/youth trip.
Cost is $150 ($30/day) which includes your meals and lodging. Daily rate and daily participation will be encouraged as well. A three day minimum participation is suggested. Deposit of $30 due with registration form ASAP. Final payments are due by July 14, 2020 - Check made out to WAC/VIM Camp.
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If you want 21 minutes of sheer delight watch this You Tube film called 'We of the West Riding.'
It also covers the Dales and Skipton and is an absolute gem filmed in 1945. Watch for the 3 dales girls at around 10 minutes – who were they?
It also shows the inside of the mills in Halifax and shows various members of a family who left the dales with their various hobbies.
There are also 120 more videos from the 1940s to enjoy!
Do watch it to the end, and for those who have never visited Yorkshire,


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Santorum's Exit Can Help Him -- in 2016 or Beyond
He nearly overstayed his welcome, but a quick and forceful endorsement of Romney will extend his political future.
Rick Santorum's decision to suspend his presidential campaign because of concerns about his young daughter's health won't win him a spot on the Republican ticket as Mitt Romney's running mate.
But it will leave him with a better chance of winning the GOP nomination in 2016 if Romney loses to President Obama this fall.
Santorum had no chance of wresting the nomination from Romney. The polls were even starting to turn against him in Pennsylvania, the state Santorum represented for two terms in the Senate. Yet he soldiered on, saying at one point that he would stay in until Romney went over the top in delegates.
Each day he stayed in the race was one less day Romney and the rest of the Republican Party had to fully focus on Obama. It was also one more day for Santorum to hurt his own chances down the road. Sticking to that course would have been political suicide.
Some will argue that Santorum should have quit earlier, and they are probably right. But getting out now still leaves plenty of time for the Republican Party to come together to take on Obama.
The key is what happens next. Santorum didn't say he would endorse Romney or release the delegates he won during the bitter primaries. He'll come under tremendous pressure to do both of those things, however, and he'll do them in very short order. The sooner Santorum starts saying nice things about Romney, the sooner undecided voters will forget the not-so-nice things Santorum said about the front-runner earlier.
The endorsement has to be more than lip service. Santorum needs to say -- loudly and frequently -- that Romney deserves the support of the party's conservatives who voted for Santorum and Newt Gingrich in the primaries and favored many other "not Romney" candidates in the months before the voting started.
That won't be easy, but Santorum has to do it, and he knows it.
The Republican Party has a long history of giving losing candidates a second chance, provided they prove themselves loyal to the candidates who defeated them the first time. Romney is just one example. After losing the nomination to John McCain four years ago, Romney started the 2012 race as the front-runner and will be the party's nominee. And McCain, after his spirited challenge of George W. Bush in 2000, backed him in two campaigns, then emerged as the party's nominee in 2008. Even the GOP's saint of all causes, Ronald Reagan, came up short once -- in 1976 against Gerald Ford -- before winning the nomination and the first of two terms in the White House in 1980.
Santorum is just 53, plenty young enough to run again in four years, or even eight. If Romney loses in the fall, he'll be done as a candidate and the 2016 Republican race will be wide open. Santorum could stake a claim, and many in the party would be inclined to, at the least, give him a solid look.
That Rick Santorum emerged from nowhere (just a few months ago he was in the low single digits in polls) to be the runner-up in the Republican race will go down as one of the biggest surprises of the 2012 campaign.
Today's exit leaves room for more surprises down the road.


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To enjoy the advantage of or continue to benefit from a situation that is successful, fortunate, trendy, etc. Jonathan has been riding a wave of celebrity ever since he was cast in the leading role for the new blockbuster. The popular Internet artist has ridden a wave of support from her fanbase to launch an incredibly successful crowdfunding campaign for a new project.


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Ringer Season 1 Episode 2 recap
Oh, Ringer – I really want to like you. I had my heart set on a full-length review, where I pick-pick-picked at how Bridget just instinctively knew which cocktail dresses of Siobhan's would be appropriate.
But I'm still not sure this is a show.
So Bridget thinks about bailing this episode after conveniently murdering and tucking away a dead guy (and I know we're used to Sarah Michelle Gellar tossing around 200 year old men like they're nothing, but this is wee-tiny addicted Bridget), and all she does for the rest of the episode is generally be quietly winsome, so we're supposed to love her forever. Oh but also, the body is gone…!
But I'm still not sure Bridget and Siobhan are real people. Either of them.
Case in point. Bridget realizes that Andrew's daughter Juliet is into drugs. Juliet begs her not to tell, because daddy will kill her. And Bridget…somehow has more loyalty to Juliet than to Andrew, which…50/50, I guess, and doesn't tell him. Make sense? Notsomuch.
How about how even though Bridget is bound and determined to blow town, she is playing out this pregnancy charade like it's somehow going to work out? Is it that she thinks she can get herself knocked up as soon as possible? Or that the kindness it's apparently buying her from Andrew is going to manifest, somehow, in something real?
And while I'm ranting – remember the flashback scene? Bridget is a drunky drunk, Siobhan comes in 'from a date' to get her. No, you were not on a date with that band around your hair. I actually don't care what year it was supposed to be. You were not on a date like that. I'm sorry. If the girls would have been about 23 at that point, Siobhan would have needed to be much closer to the social-climbing young-republican world. Wouldn't she?
I don't know, guys. Am I reading in too much? Should I let it go? Just have fun?
Also, all of you who are named Siobhan out there – is Shiv really your nickname? And does it always sound as awkward as it does on this show?
Ringer is…not, exactly.
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Low water levels expose shipwrecks | News
GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (WZZM) - We are approaching record low lake levels along the lakeshore. As a result, a maritime graveyard is being revealed.
Five historic shipwrecks are now exposed along the edges of Harbor Island in Grand Haven.
The largest of the five was identified by the Michigan Shipwreck Research Associates (MSRA) as the remains of a large steamship that traveled the Great Lakes from 1887-1932.
"Initially, we didn't know what ship it was, " said Valerie van Heest, director of the MSRA.
The frame of an abandoned ship is now above water for the first time in 80 years.
"We looked into historical records of various ships that were abandoned at Grand Haven and we came down to two possibilities, " said van Heest. "The L.L. Barth which was abandoned in 1927 or the Aurora which was abandoned in 1932."
On Friday, December 7, van Heest teamed up with Kenneth Pott who is the director of the Tri-Cities Museum in Grand Haven and a maritime archeologist to survey the latest wreck. Study of the hull construction, exposed propeller shaft cradle at the stern and exposed sides of the vessel led them to initially conclude that the vessel was a large 40-foot wide steamer and at least 165-feet in length.
Test probes conducted by MSRA members east of the visible portions of the wreck Sunday, December 9 revealed a structure well over 200 feet long, which led van Heest to conclude that the vessel was the Aurora.
Exposed iron bands along the side of the vessel also helped van Heest confirm the ship's identity.
"Our records indicate [the iron bands] were 5-inches by a half-inch, hot-riveted to the hull of the vessel, and to now see that evidence here is incredible," added van Heest.
At the time of its launch in 1887, the Aurora was considered to be the largest wooden steamship traveling the Great Lakes. It served as a coal and grain trade vessel for years, then suffered a fire and had its engine removed and was then turned into a barge to serve another 25-years. It was then abandoned in Grand Haven in 1932.
"We've got about 165-feet of [the Aurora] visible now, but the rest of it is buried in the woods," said van Heest. "We did a probe the other day and we ran into the side of the ship, and at that point we were 210-feet from the stern, so we have another 80-feet of the ship going into the woods."
Local maritime historian Kenneth Pott is thrilled that this wreck has been discovered.
"This ship serves as a very significant metaphor for the role the Great Lakes shipping played in the industrialization of this nation during the time that this ship was in use," said Pott, who is the director of the Tri-Cities Museum in Grand Haven. "We want to capture more information from this site. This is just one of several wrecks that lie within a stone's throw of this location."
Pott says if people choose to visit the wreck site, he asks that you look at the Aurora, but don't touch it.
"The best analogy you can make is it's like a scene of a crime," said Pott. "If you disturb it in any particular way, very valuable information could be lost forever."
And "lost forever" is what many maritime historians thought the Aurora was until receding waters this past fall allowed her to be found.
Valerie van Heest and Kenneth Pott say they hope to also identify the other four shipwrecks, but they're quick to say they're in a race against time. Two potential roadblocks stand before them: significant snowfall this winter and water levels rising again next spring.


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Congratulations and Thanks, Serious Eaters
Last night was a big one for all of us, Serious Eaters. At the 2010 James Beard Foundation Media Awards, we were fortunate enough to take home both of the awards we were nominated for: Best Food Blog and Best Video Webcast.
When I started Serious Eats more than three years ago, I knew that there was a place on the web for passionate, discerning, and inclusive food content, and I knew that, with the help of like-minded folks all over the world, we could become the greatest community of food enthusiasts and obsessives ever. And thanks to the insanely hard-working crew at Serious Eats World Headquarters, our hundred-plus talented contributors, and our huge and ever-growing pool of loyal community members, that dream has become a reality.
It was an honor just to be nominated, in such fine company as Grub Street New York, Hunter Angler Gardener Cook, Always Hungry NY Video, and Food. Curated. In the end, especially in the food blog category, we're about as different as can be—all of these awards could have gone any way. But we're humbled and thrilled to have taken home the win.
In the end, we didn't need a James Beard award to tell us that we're lucky enough to have the best online community of food lovers in the world. But it sure feels great to have it. This one's for you, Serious Eaters. Thanks for helping us do what we do.
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William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses
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Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner, Is Published On 11 May 1942
As an English Literature major, I had the privilege of reading all of Faulkner's major works, and it was a joy. I enjoyed that literary period of the 1920s to 1940s very much, and William Faulkner captured the Southern spirit in surprising detail. He is considered a pillar of American literature, and rightly so. I have this book, with the original dust wrapper, in my collection.
One of William Faulkner's greatest collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published. The collection included The Bear, one of his most famous stories, which had previously appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.
The seven stories in Go Down, Moses all take place in the fictional county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, and are based on Faulkner's observations of his own native state.
Faulkner was born near Oxford, Mississippi, where his father was the business manager of the University of Mississippi. His mother, a sensitive, literary woman, encouraged Faulkner and his three brothers to read. Faulkner was a good student but lost interest in studies during high school. He dropped out sophomore year and took a series of odd jobs while writing poetry.
In 1918, his high school girlfriend, Estelle Oldham, married another man, and Faulkner left Mississippi. He joined the British Royal Flying Corps, but World War I ended before he finished his training in Canada. He returned to Mississippi and continued writing poetry. A neighbor funded the publication of his first book of poems, The Marble Faun (1924). His first novel, Soldiers' Pay, was published two years later.
In 1929, he finally married Estelle, his high school sweetheart, who had divorced her first husband and now had two children. They bought a ruined mansion near Oxford and began restoring it while Faulkner finished The Sound and the Fury, published in October 1929. The book opens with the interior monologue of a developmentally disabled mute character. His next book, As I Lay Dying (1930), featured 59 different interior monologues. Light in August (1932) and Absalom, Absalom (1936) also challenged traditional forms of fiction.
Faulkner's difficult novels did not earn him enough money to support his family, so he supplemented his income by selling short stories to magazines and working as a Hollywood screenwriter. He wrote two critically acclaimed films, both starring Humphrey Bogart: To Have and Have Not was based on an Ernest Hemingway novel, and The Big Sleep was based on a mystery by Raymond Chandler.
Faulkner's reputation received a significant boost with the publication of The Portable Faulkner (1946), which included his many stories set in Yoknapatawpha County. Three years later, in 1949, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His Collected Stories (1950) won the National Book Award. Throughout the rest of his life, he lectured frequently on university campuses. He died of a heart attack at age 55.
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In February 2012, members of Pussy Riot performed mere seconds of a protest song in Moscow's main Orthodox cathedral that was critical of authorities in Russia. Two women - Nadezhda "Nadya" Tolokonnikova and Maria "Masha" Alekhina – were found guilty of "hooliganism" and are serving sentences in notoriously brutal penal colonies. Disappointingly, a court recently ruled not to allow Masha, a…
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Basic human rights. Freedom of speech and Expression.
I am deeply concerned about the backslide into a repressive Police State on which the present regime seems intent. As we hurtle in time away from Michail Gorbachev's vision of Perestroika, the descent of personal freedoms ever quickens as if in an effort to blot out our memories of a time when…Read More


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We already know what Keith Urban thinks of American Idol contestant Kree Harrison. He has told her, "You have something amazing in your voice that, literally, my arms get covered in chills when you hit certain notes," and "Oh, Kree. You are such a natural born singer, and it's so beautiful to watch you sing." And he has said her voice is authentic and believable, so, he digs her. And now Little Big Town is drinking the Kree Kool-Aid. "She is an artist, and I am so happy that she is getting a chance to use her gift on a broader platform and for people to hear her," said the band's Karen Fairchild. "If those American Idol judges are smart, they will keep her on the whole way. We have to vote for Kree, we just have to. She deserves this chance to shine, it is her moment."


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It is not uncommon for patients to dread a trip to the dentist's office because they associate dental treatment with discomfort. According to the American Dental Association (ADA), dentists have been using pain management techniques for more than 160 years. To help patients relax and to ease discomfort or pain, dentists now offer a wide range of anesthesia options. Learn about the dental anesthesia options available to patients today, and which option may be right for you.
The most common form of dental anesthesia is local anesthesia. To prevent surface level pain, a dentist may apply a topical anesthetic. This is commonly used to soothe mouth sores or to prepare the patient for the injection of a local anesthetic, such as Novocain®. Injectable anesthetics are designed to prevent pain in a specific area of the mouth by blocking nerves and numbing mouth tissues. The effect of these anesthetics is temporary. Local Injectable anesthesia is often used for patients who require fillings or crowns, or who need treatment for gum disease.
Nitrous oxide, often referred to as laughing gas, is an inhalable dental anesthetic that is used commonly with patients who experience moderate dental anxiety, often in combination with local anesthetics.
For patients who experience more severe dental anxiety or those who wish to undergo a number of treatments in one visit, sedation dentistry is often a good option. With sedation dentistry, the patient either swallows a pill or is given intravenous sedatives that produce a state of "conscious sedation" where the patient is awake and responsive, but thoroughly relaxed.
In some cases, general anesthesia is appropriate for dental patients. General anesthesia renders the patient unconscious. General anesthesia may be applied when the patient is profoundly anxious, a very young child, physically or mentally challenged, unable to stay still for a period of time, or when the patient requires extensive dental treatment such as oral surgery.
Following dental treatment, some patients may experience discomfort. In these cases, the most commonly used form of pain relief is over-the-counter non-narcotic analgesics, such as acetaminophen, aspirin, and ibuprofen. In cases where patients have undergone significant treatment and may be experiencing a higher level of discomfort, narcotic analgesics such as codeine may be prescribed.
These days, in addition to offering traditional anesthesia and sedation techniques, many dentists employ alternative means of relaxation for their patients, such as supplying the patient with headphones or a movie to watch, a warm blanket, aromatherapy, and even massage performed on the hands or feet while the patient is in treatment. If you suffer from dental anxiety or are preparing for an uncomfortable dental procedure, you should discuss your trepidations with your dentist. He or she can recommend the appropriate anesthesia, and may also recommend some relaxation techniques to help you deal with dental anxiety and phobia.
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Back when I taught middle school kids I was so surprised that mood was completely lost on so many students. They read in a monotone, word by word manner. No wonder they found it boring!
I definitely don't want J to get stuck in that rutt. Reading is way too much fun for monotone.
So I was THRILLED when we discovered Mo Willems at our local library. His books are perfect for teaching and practicing inflection, even for the beginner or intermediate reader. And it doesn't hurt that he is hilarious for both child AND adult.
We especially love his Elephant and Piggie series. In fact I liked "We are in a Book" so much that I decided to go out and buy it and I'm becoming quite the snob in books I deem worth my money. "BANANA!!!" has become a source of laughter all throughout our day (you'll have to read the book to find out why).
There are so many great things about these books. They are simple enough that J can read them all by himself but the story is still good enough to keep both of our attentions. So many of the beginning reader books are boring! These books aren't marketed as beginning reader books, but I think they work great for that… or maybe for intermediate readers. I'm not an expert in early readers! If your child has a good base of sight words and a basic understanding of phonics, I think they will manage the Elephant and Piggie books well.
We can also read them together, each taking a different role so that we get to act the book out. J even wants us to imitate the faces as we read/act.
He has learned what think bubbles are and is getting great practice at reading with inflection which I just love. It's so fun to hear J imitate the emotion and read happily, sadly, with disappointment or surprise, disgust, greed, embarassment, or even dismay, all depending on the story. That is such great practice! Willems does a great job of showing the emotion on the characters faces as well as changing the font to get the mood across (tiny font or gigantic font, italics, wiggly font, etc). Even my 3 year old can figure out it out, many times on his own!
And of course he's getting great practice at how to interpret the punctuation as he reads. Often J can pick up the purpose of the punctuation or font type on his own from the context of the story. There have been times that he's asked why the font was so tiny or why the exlamation mark and the question mark are together. Another plus! The books encourage him to take the initiative so that he gets it right.
And did I mention that these books are funny? J and I just giggle the whole way through. I love that he is getting such great practice reading AND enjoying every second. I'm so thrilled that Willems wrote so many books in this series. We've probably read at least 10 different Elephant and Piggie books and have lots more to check out at the library.
Oh and his Knuffle Bunny series is really cute too. That's actually the series that got us hooked on Mo Willems. Parents especially will find this series humorous. "Blaggle Flaggle" mom and dad, "Blaggle Flaggle!"
**Willems also has a the Cat the Cat series (seems to be ideal for very early readers since he uses lots of repetition and use of the same word family throughout the book) and the Pigeon series (that will be next on our list to read through).


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15 Things About Aaron Levie
He founded his wildly successful start-up in his dorm room before dropping out and moving to the Bay Area to work on it full-time, he's regularly referred to as one of the top entrepreneurs under 30, and he looks enough like Jesse Eisenberg to satisfy a movie audience. But unlike Mark Zuckerberg, Box CEO Aaron Levie's favorite guilty pleasure is Twitter.
Below, Levie answers 15 of our questions — hopefully enough to satisfy an online audience.
Name one thing you will regret never having done (if you never do it).
Inventing the mainframe.
What's the single most important issue in the world today?
The three Ps: Poverty, Politics, Phablets.
Do you still buy CDs or rent DVDs?
If by "buy CDs" you mean listen to Spotify and Pandora, and by "rent DVDs" you mean stream from Netflix, then yes.
What would you be doing if you were not in your current job?
Hopefully something else having to do with cloud computing. Nearly every market that exists today is a fraction of its potential size, creating new opportunities in every direction. So I'd want to still be doing that, or grinding it out as an astronaut.
What is your greatest achievement to date?
Building — and working with — the team at Box.
iPhone, Android or BlackBerry?
My trusty iPhone 4. I know, I'm an embarrassment to the technology community.
If you could meet any historical or fictional person, who would it be?
Thomas Watson Sr., Harry Houdini, or Groucho Marx.
What site/app do you check first when you wake up?
https://twitter.com/larryellison. Followed by Box.com right after that.
What was your first computer?
Not a Mac, and I blame my Dad for that to this day.
What's your favorite mode of transportation?
Whatever gets you there fastest.
What was the last book you read?
"The HP Way," a marginally ironic read given the past couple of years, but I'm pretty bullish on Meg. I'm now reading "The Ultimate Entrepreneur" about Ken Olsen and DEC.
Name your favorite guilty pleasure.
What was your biggest most recent purchase?
A bookshelf-like structure from IKEA.
Whom do you idolize?
Too many people to count. I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
My height. And my ability to stay organized.


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Algonquin Park Fall Colours are best seen by canoe
Where do you like to take in the majesty of the fall colours? This past week has been spectacular at the Algonquin Log Cabin. The big hills are filled with colour and the water blue as can be.
I love the deck at the log cabin. Always peaceful with a soft west breeze. And the sunsets are amazing !
But my favourite way to experience the colour is from a canoe paddling across the blue water. Surprise Lake was calm and so clear with red and orange reflecting off the water.
Come visit soon. The Algonquin Log Cabin has trips that leave Monday - Wednesday and Friday to Sunday throughout the fall colours. Cost is $456 with meals and guided excursions. Have a look here for more information: http://www.voyageurquest.com/algonquin-lodge.php
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09 February 2011
2010 Graffigna Centenario Pinot Grigio Reserve
I had sort of a similar reaction when this wine showed up at my house. There's nothing rare about Pinot Grigio, but I really don't expect it from Argentina. Indeed, even being aware of Italian emigration to Argentina didn't dissolve the cognitive dissonance. Even now, with the name and the label, I still think this is an Italian wine.
2010 Graffigna Centenario Pinot Grigio Reserve
San Juan, Argentina
$12, 13.5% abv.
Oddly chalky, with aromas and flavors of lime peel and cream. There's a good bit of fruit and acidity here, and it's more full-bodied than most of what you see from this grape. The chalky quality isn't a bad thing--it just happens to be the first thing I notice upon tasting, even a day later. I'm happy that it gives it something more distinct and recognizable than the vast, watery PG that's out there on the market.
This wine comes from San Juan, just north of the Mendoza province/wine region. I think almost every Argentine wine I've reviewed has come from Mendoza, so it's nice to try something from the second-most productive wine region. Even then, it's amazing to think that wine has been made there since the first Spanish settlements of the mid-1500s.
Note: This wine was received as a sample.
3 comments:
- Unknown said...
My husband and I tried this wine at one of our favorite restaurants upon the recommendation of our waiter. It was a nice accompaniment to the salmon I had, with a subtle but enhancing taste. I liked it so much my husband bought a bottle for me for Valentine's. We recently visited Mendoza and now want to go back and experience San Juan.
- 13 February, 2011 10:52
- Benito said...
Glad you liked the wine, and I've heard that Argentina is beautiful. Hope you get to go back!
- 13 February, 2011 11:32
- Guglielmo Rocchiccioli said...
I would like to share the tasting of this Graffigna wine. Sorry, it's in Spanish.
MALBEC RESERVA - GRAFFIGNA CENTENARIO - PRODUCIDO Y EMBOTELLADO POR BODEGAS Y VIÑEDOS SANTIAGO GRAFFIGNA - BODEGA Nº I.N.V. G 72952 - Nº DE EXPORTADOR X 88657 - CAPITAL SAN JUAN - ARGENTINA 14% 2007
VISUAL: rojo rubí intenso.
NARIZ: café, tostadura, chocolate, cereza negra y guinda extramadura.
BOCA: desbordante nota de sapidez y tanino que respalda las sensaciones del paladar; es increíblemente positivo el cierre con sabor a café; se puede afirmar que el envejecimiento por barrica fue un trabajo acertado y bien cuidado; la persistencia gustativa se acerca a los 5 segundos.
MARIDAJE: humitas de San Juan
OPINIÓN PERSONAL: no hay flores a la nariz, pero la correspondencia nariz-boca es espectacular; con el maridaje se puede ver como la humita, con su suculencia, suavice la sequedad del alcohol y la astringencia del tanino, creando una armonía de boca muy gratificante.
- 20 February, 2011 20:17


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Guantanamo Bay Authorities Ban Solzhenitsyn's 'The Gulag Archipelago'
from the stranger-than-fiction dept
Some stories, you just couldn't make up. Like this one, reported on the UK site Reprieve, about a failed attempt to pass some reading material to one of the people detained at Guantanamo Bay. Something unsuitable you might guess, perhaps advocating terrorist ways? Well, not exactly:
The legal team for Shaker Aamer, a British resident who has been detained in Guantanamo without charge or trial for 11 years, attempted to deliver a copy of The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn during a recent visit.
Of course, this isn't the first time that 'The Gulag Archipelago' has had problems with the authorities: when it was completed in 1968, it had to be smuggled out of the Soviet Union on microfilm so that it could be published in the West. Here's what Wikipedia has to say on the book and its importance:
However, Mr Aamer has now told his lawyers that he never received the book.
Solzhenitsyn argued that the Soviet government could not govern without the threat of imprisonment, and that the Soviet economy depended on the productivity of the forced labor camps, especially insofar as the development and construction of public works and infrastructure were concerned.
Now why on earth would any of that be problematic for the Guantanamo Gulag, er, Bay authorities, I wonder...?
This put into doubt the entire moral standing of the Soviet system. In Western Europe the book eventually forced a rethinking of the historical role of Lenin. With The Gulag Archipelago, Lenin's political and historical legacy became problematic, and the factions of Western communist parties who still based their economic and political ideology on Lenin were left with a heavy burden of proof against them. George F. Kennan, the influential U.S. diplomat, called The Gulag Archipelago, "the most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever to be levied in modern times."
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I don't know why i put this, but someone aske me ideas to you admin from my talk page.
"Why don't you ask to some adimistrator to create a special page for the episode like this:Fairly Odd Baby." From DarioAD
Kunoichi101 (talk) 21:25, March 21, 2012 (UTC)kunoichi101Kunoichi101 (talk) 21:25, March 21, 2012 (UTC)
- I think that someone is referring to something like this→ Special:Crunchyroll. White Flash (議論 | 貢献) 02:24, March 22, 2012 (UTC)
Just my two cents: I think we could gloss up the front page a bit. What I think would be great is if the "Nav" links were displayed with images alongside them (not full pictures, mind you, but simple ones like what the Scott Pilgrim Wiki has on their front page with their main characters http://scottpilgrim.wikia.com/wiki/Scott_Pilgrim_Wiki ). I also think that "featured article, picture, etc." boxes might be a good idea; we certainly have a large enough editor base to keep on top of a daily thing like that. Again, I'm just putting these thoughts out there. :) —This unsigned comment was made by Icygumball3000 (talk • contribs) .
- The front page is fine the way it is. -White Flash - (Talk)- 02:30, March 25, 2012 (UTC)


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Sunday, April 27, 2008
Installation of Safety Eyes Instruction
8:28 PM | Posted by 6060 | Edit Post
Installation of Safety Eyes Instruction
By Clara (6060.etsy.com & 6060eyes.artfire.com)
3/28/2009 updated
Usage of this document:
This is the finished look of a 6mm black eye installed as a cat nose!
With all the parts together, my cat finally can see and smell.
I hope this document helps you to understand how to put the eyes on your critters and creations. Thank you and enjoy!
By Clara (6060.etsy.com & 6060eyes.artfire.com)
Usage of this document:
Do not distribute this document or sell this document by any means. The intention of this document is to show crafters how to install the safety eyes. Thank you.
1. Make sure the eyes are located in the right place; once the washers are in, it is very hard to pull them back out again.
2. If you are using material like fabric, vinyl and leather, enlarge the hole a little by poking a needle (yarn needle/ skewer/ large sewing needle/ knitting needles, etc) through the material first.
2. Once you think they are in the right place, you can start the process of placing washers at the back.
3. This is the back side of the safety eyes.4. Holding the washer fluted side up, slide it on to the eye post.
(Again, MAKE SURE the eye is in the right place. Once you push the washer to the back of the eye, it will be extremely hard to remove).
5. Apply even pressure with both thumbs to slide the washer down the eye post.
This is the finished look of two 15mm cat eyes placed on my crocheted animal.If you use the little black safety eyes, installation will be the same as the 15 mm eyes. Remember to MAKE SURE the eye is in the right place. Push the washer fluted side up towards to the back of the eye.
This is the finished look of a 6mm black eye installed as a cat nose!
With all the parts together, my cat finally can see and smell.
Clara :)
If you need more help because you have arthritis, please click the link above.
I have couple more suggestions for you.
Updated: Plastic eyes/noses washers
Bear Joints:
Other critters I have made:
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Saturday, April 19, 2008
Rosie is here!!!
11:19 PM | Posted by 6060 | Edit Post
I have been looking for a Mademoiselle Rosebud (MRB) for a long time! However, every single one I saw either was too expensive or they have already been customized. I don't really like all these customization for MRB, I wanted one that's natural and original, even though a 2nd hand doll I would not mind at all. I searched for TIB, Blythe for adoption in flickr group, I just couldn't find one that's what I wanted. Finally a few days ago I saw a photo of MRB in flickr group the owner said she wanted to send her to a good home. I at once sent a message to the owner and asked. Oh My God, pricing was within my range, blythe was fully stock, clothes wasn't fully stock but at that point, my gut told me " go for it, that's the one you wanted all this time " . I made a payment instantly and hoped for the best! This seller I bought MRB from was pipercat99, she was such a nice person, we chatted back and forth since I adopted her MRB. She is the nicest, kindest person I ever met online these days. We chatted so much it's just naturally becomes friends. I love that!!!! Since I have Blythe, I have doubted myself whether I could bond with these cutie gals, I have tried my best with MM and EP, however, with MRB, everything is just so natural! Love grows within myself to her! It's just a weird feeling! :) I am so happy that I got her, thanks pipercat99!!!
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Story highlights
- Study says more than 70% of firefighters overweight or obese
- Cardiovascular events are No. 1 in line-of-duty deaths
- Buy-in difficult, but stories show change in habits can happen
The need for firefighters to be fit seems obvious: A fire ax weighs around 20 pounds, and an oxygen tank can be up to 50. Throw in the big boots, jacket, unruly fire hoses and challenging emergencies, and you'd expect most firefighters to be in peak physical condition.
You'd be wrong. More than 70% of domestic firefighters are overweight or obese, a rate slightly higher than the general population, according to a recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"It's tough. Firefighters are humans too. And just like the American public is having a hard time battling obesity and being overweight, firefighters are having the same troubles," said Dr. Sue Day, author of the CDC report and an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Texas School of Public Health.
Those extra pounds are taking a toll.
Cardiovascular events account for nearly half of the deaths of on-duty firefighters, and obesity has been linked to an increased risk of job-related disabilities, according to the CDC.
"Firefighters have extremely tough and stressful jobs," Day said. "But these are our first responders. They need to be cared for, and they need to be fit.
"There needs to be more collaboration in giving guidelines to people to change behavior."
A tough sell
There are no nationally enforced standards on physical health and wellness for U.S. firefighters, says Kimberly Quiros, director of communications for the National Volunteer Fire Council. Prospective firefighters are forced to demonstrate that they can handle the job's physical toll, but those initial tests are the only nationalized benchmark.
Once a firefighter is accepted, fire departments have been historically lax in maintaining a fitness regimen, something the national council is looking to change.
The organization collaborates with the National Fire Protection Association to release a set of guidelines promoting healthy, positive behaviors in fire department members. The most recent version of these standards was released last year.
"These are standards, but they're not laws," Quiros said. "Ideally, all departments in the nation would adopt this."
But buy-in remains an issue, she says, citing time constraints and limited budgets. About 71% of fire departments in the United States are made up solely of volunteers, according to the U.S. Fire Administration.
"Some are worried that if they enforce physical standards, they'd lose half their firefighters," Quiros said. "We're working to get past that culture and make sure it's a priority to keep them healthy."
Quiros points to a chaotic, almost manic daily schedule as one of several reasons that firefighters are likely to become obese on the job. Not only are firefighters more likely to eat fast food, but these men and women are routinely placed in high-stress situations.
"(Firefighters) are eating on the go and getting sleep patterns disrupted," she said. "And many times, firefighters may just assume that their natural physical activity and lifestyle will keep them healthy, but that's not enough to balance it out."
Changing the culture
After 39 years in the volunteer fire service, Kevin Quinn knows a thing or two about a heated battle.
So 10 years ago, as deputy fire chief in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, Quinn decided to wage a new fight against obesity in his department.
"We set up a health and wellness community and pushed full buy-in from the start," he said. "Each of our stations had their own health initiatives, maybe stair climbs, fitness runs or Tough Mudders. ... We wanted to create a sense of pride surrounding fitness.
"We knew most of these firefighter on-duty deaths are preventable."
Quinn, now retired, merged eight previously separate units into one large physical fitness center. At department meetings, he replaced the pizza with fruits and vegetables, and he even began sending younger members to firefighter physical health conferences.
According to Quinn, the Union Fire District in South Kingstown has since seen a reduction in smoking and alcohol consumption among its firefighters, coupled with substantial weight loss.
He now works with the National Volunteer Fire Council.
"Providing better choices was critical," he said. "We realized that if you put apples and oranges in front of them, our firefighters weren't going to them."
One tip?
"We've learned to precut the fruit."