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♦ SILC Faculty Member and PI, Nora Newcombe, was interviewed for BOLD: Kim, Meeri (August 25, 2017). The connection between spatial intelligence and STEM. BOLD: Blog on Learning & Development. Retrieved on September 2, 2017.
♦ SILC Faculty Member, Kenneth Forbus, and his research and development of Sketch Worksheets software was highlighted in the article: (April 14, 2017). Helping Students Learn by Sketching: Sketch Worksheets software analyzes and provides feedback on student sketches. Northwestern University, EECS, Department News (on-line). Retrieved April 17, 2017.
To read more in-depth coverage, please see the recent publication (Early View):
Forbus, K. D., Chang, M., McLure, M. and Usher, M. (2017). The Cognitive Science of Sketch Worksheets. Topics in Cognitive Science. DOI: 10.1111/tops.12262.
♦ SILC PI, Nora S. Newcombe was published in the British Psychological Society's The Psychologist highlighting SILC research in the article Building spatial skills in preschool. [complete citation forthcoming]


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One Solution To Kids Prefering Video Games To Sports: Merge Them
from the welcome-to-the-future dept
Just yesterday, we wrote about how kids these days prefer playing sports video games to watching the actual game. It's not too surprising, really -- as the video game lets them really take part in the action, rather than sit passively and consume the content. Clive Thompson writing about the same story pointed out that he'd probably rather watch skilled video gamers' games being broadcast on TV than actual athletes efforts -- something that's already happening in South Korea. Well, now, it looks like a couple of independent minor league teams are trying to deal with this issue by merging the two. The first two innings of the game they're supposed to play next month will actually be played by two skilled video gamers on an Xbox, sitting in recliners behind the plate. The resulting game will be broadcast over the stadium's screen. After the two innings are up, the two teams will actually take the field, and continue the game from exactly where it left off virtually. If there's any doubt that this is designed to capture the attention of kids, the idea was first proposed by the six year old son of one of the teams' community relations director. However, while this may seem odd and a big publicity stunt, it's definitely completely within the spirit of Bill Veeck, who always knew that baseball was entertainment, first -- and the crowd deserved a good show, even if it was a bit different than what they expected. If anything, this should bring out the crowds -- which is why minor league baseball is often the place to look for the best innovations in sports. They don't have the star players to bring out the crowds, so they're more willing to experiment with fun promotions. What's next, though? Having the real-life players play themselves in the video game? Johan Santana might have an advantage, as that's how he prepares already.


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So there's a good reason that Katy Perry skipped the People's Choice Awards ceremony on Wednesday, Jan. 11. The singer was reportedly filming an Adidas commercial.
The It's Just Roxie Tumblr posted a photo of Perry with a Smurf-blue hair (appropriate for the woman who voiced Smurfette in the film version) and wearing a loud and proud, satin patriotic jacket with stars, stripes in the same electric blue hue as her hair. The jacket is quite All-American and cheerleader-like. The Tumblr post states that a friend's relative worked on the commercial and even states that Perry probably wore a wig to her divorce hearing to cover the bright blue locks.
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G. B. Tennyson does not apologize for the apparent lack of interest for nineteenth-century Tractarian poetry by the contemporary reader or the creators of Victorian Literature anthologies. Although much of the actual poetry written by the Tractarians may appear especially trite and technically inferior to the later poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, G. B. Tennyson is unwavering in his pursuit to prove that the Tractarian poets have an incredible cultural and literary historical value which has been too easily dismissed and overlooked. His central thesis revolves around the conviction that Victorian poetics is inextricably linked to the theological and that the separation of the literary from the religious at the time is ultimately reductionist.
The introduction to his work elucidates the integral role of religion in the Victorian experience and defines his use of devotional poetry as distinct from the more over-arching term of religious poetry, which includes such supposed sub-divisions as sacred poetry and hymns. The most illuminating section of the book is the second chapter entitled Tractarian Poetics which astutely delineates the influence of such pre-Tractarian poets as Scott, Wordsworth, and Coleridge in integrating the Romantic with the religious in order to set the stage for the Tractarians. This chapter also offers a helpful summary of the primary essays that impacted Tractarian ideology as it dominated the first phase of the Oxford Movement. Though not as perhaps interesting to the general reader, the next three chapters connect John Keble, John Newman, and Isaac Williams as the "Tractarian Triumvirate" through an in-depth examination of their major literary works and the effects of these works on Victorian poetics. The last two chapters focus on the continuing effects of Tractarianism after it had reached the apogee of its popularity in the mid 1840s and how the likes of Christina Rossetti and Gerard Manley Hopkins tenuously fit the mold of their Tractarian predecessors.
I was very impressed by how G. B. Tennyson was able to convey his own contagious enthusiasm for an area that today may seem a bit dull and perhaps, underdeveloped outside its apparently limited scholarly cadre. In the span of two-hundred-and-eleven pages, he was able to demonstrate convincingly that the Tractarian movement was not an isolated event that simply began with the first appearance of the Tracts in 1833 and abruptly ended with the Newman's release of the ninetieth and final tract. Rather, G. B. Tennyson weaves an intricate historical tapestry of Tractarianism that begins in the religious writings of the 17th century, continues in the Tractarian works, from Keble's The Christian Year to Newman's Lyra Apostolica to the collected poetry of Williams, and simply extends beyond the twelve years of Tracts for the Times publication.
G. B. Tennyson appears at his finest in his defining of the key Tractarian concepts of Analogy, Reserve, and poetry's property of effusive emotion that echoes Wordsworth's sentiment that poetry "is the spontaneous overflow of emotion" within a religious context. Unfortunately, G. B. Tennyson freely interchanges the analogical with the typological which unfortunately underscores the complex, albeit subtle, differences between the two. By not distinguishing between the two terms, Tennyson unwittingly edits out the Victorian period's use of specific biblical typology, such as Newman's own use of Moses Striking the Rock in his sermons, which was sure to be an integral feature of Victorian culture and poetics. Unfortunately, G. B. Tennyson opts to create a more broad based typological approach, in which "Tractarian analogy means quite simply that the entire universe is a symbol of its creator" (56). Ironically, although Tennyson successfully integrates such important religious reading material of the day into his discussion such as the religious poetic classics of Milton and Dante, the Tracts, Keble's The Christian Year, Newman's Apologia and Lyra Apostolica, Williams's Cathedral, and even The Book of Common Prayer, he makes little if any mention of the Bible. Surely, such a comprehensive work would make room for an in-depth examination of The Word of God's role in the shaping of Tractarianism and its so-called triumvirate.
Another troubling aspect of G. B. Tennyson's work, appears in his cursory dismissal of Abrams and Warren's application of Freudian theory to Keble and Tractarian thought. Although he does a masterful job of showing how religion and art or Victorian aesthetics and theology are seemingly inseparable in their "joint task of salvation" (23), his conclusion that "the governing framework for Keble is theology, not psychology, and it is from the theological perspective that his theory must be viewed" (62) seems a specious rationalization. Tennyson is uncharacteristically lacking in explanation of his view, which only accentuates his reasoning as an incomplete, if not thoroughly inadequate, denial of the psychological implications and possibilities of Tractarian thought.
Although Tennyson's decision to devote individual chapters to key figures in the Tractarian vein was successful, he could have clarified the strengths and weaknesses of Tractarian verse further by briefly comparing the verses of the triumvirate with some of the works of Hopkins or Rossetti. Even so, despite the high probability that the works of the Tractarian poets will never eclipse the popularity of Hopkins' Terrible Sonnets or a poem like In Memoriam or Goblin Market, it is safe to say that these poems can be illuminated by principles of Tractarian devotional poetry and vice-versa. After completing G. B. Tennyson's Victorian Devotional Poetry, we as readers must come away with the knowledge that it is we who must apologize for the seeming lack of interest in devotional poetry that the contemporaries of the Tractarian poets certainly did not share.
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Today I learned of a new iPhone app and service called BillionGraves.com. I don't have an iPhone, but I am excited by the potential. My first reaction was "oh no – we already have Find-A-Grave. Why would they compete with them?" But, in looking at the BillionGraves site, the function is quite different and is really meant to cater to smartphone users – something that Find-A-Grave has not yet aggressively done.
Almost a year ago I blogged a wishlist for what I wanted in a potential Find-A-Grave smartphone app. And, there is already an independently developed app to access Find-A-Grave data. From the looks of it, BillionGraves is meant to make it easy to take a picture when in a cemetery and upload it. Find-A-Grave does not support this and the app is okay, but doesn't quite meet my interests.
What I like about BillionGraves:
- even w/o the app, I can go online and transcribe photos that others have uploaded. can you say crowdsourcing? the transcription process is very easy
- each tombstone picture can be edited by anyone. i like this though I can also see potential problems.
- automatic GPS integration from phone coordinates. my problem is my Samsung Fascinate phone is notorious for incorrect GPS.
- the interface is simple – easy to click around
What could be better:
- looks like you have to physically be in a cemetery to upload pics; can't upload pics you already have or someone else may send you for posting
- because the images can be edited by anyone a revision history and the ability to see who worked on a record would be nice
- a dashboard is offered for you when you login, but no one else can see your dashboard
- info is JUST the picture. can't add supplemental info like you can at Find-A-Grave or link family relationships
- search options should be enhanced to provide more refined combinations (like person + location)
- city names are provided for cemetery info, but not the counties – major omission if you ask me. In a Search you can specify county, but if you end up on the cemetery page in another way you won't immediately know the county
- it's not clear to me how they will avoid duplicate entries. this will be important to do.
- the company does not have a social media presence? they do have a blog, but it's not linked to the BillionGraves site — both of these issues need to be remedied soon
- they could take a few more suggestions from my blog post aforementioned about features in incorporate 🙂
This endeavor is of course new so I do expect they will continue to develop it. However, even as is, it will be a useful complement to Find-A-Grave and I can see myself using both on a regular basis. Very cool.
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The good news for the Texas' Southern Plains cotton crop is two-fold: One, the irrigated crop is off to a good start with some early storm and hail damage that has been largely replanted. And two, if dryland farmers can coax up a stand they have time to pray for enough rain to make a crop.
"Our irrigated acreage looks good," says Randy Boman, Extension cotton specialist at Lubbock, but to the south, in the dryland area, farmers are planting late and in the dust, hoping for a rain.
Some will have to wait several more weeks to see what insurance may offer for prevented plantings.
He says as much a half-a-million acres likely will be considered "non-emerged."
Hail and storm damage may have affected from 50,000 to 100,000 acres. Most of that has been replanted, Boman says.
"Dryland cotton made a fair crop last year, without a lot of rain," he says. "Farmers had good moisture early and then got August rains that made the crop. Some farmers made a bale per acre on dryland fields."
Boman says even the irrigated acreage faces stiff challenges. "This will be an expensive crop to make. High energy costs bump up pumping water costs significantly," he says. "We just hope farmers get some rain in July and August to help make this crop."
The alternative, he says, is to pump down the Ogallala aquifer even more and add to production costs.
"By mid-June, we had already gotten into a July mind-set with this crop," he said. Temperatures have hovered in the 90s and rainfall, which was ample from January through April, dried up in May.
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He says the West Texas start stands in stark contrast with Central and South Texas, where water has been over-abundant early, creating stand problems in some cases.
Boman said planted acreage is still a question as farmers continue to dust-in a dryland crop.
As if weather and high energy costs weren't enough to bedevil Plains cotton growers, some have already faced significant insect infestations.
"Like we did in 2003, we had more problems with wireworms in many cotton fields planted in high residue crops, especially sorghum," says Extension entomologist Jim Leser.
"No-till was the worst. Thrips have been real bad north of Lubbock, requiring foliar insecticides on top of at-planting treatments to handle the large numbers and prolonged movement into cotton. Right now we are fighting overwintering pink bollworms in the southwestern area of the High Plains."
Leser says growers who did not plant Bollgard cotton in that area may face serious infestations. "Overwinter survival of these insects, as well as weevils and other pests, has resulted in elevated numbers to start the season," he says.
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Australia's next High Court justice is a senior member of the judiciary who has in the past been scathing about the increasing complexity of commonwealth legislation.
Attorney-General Nicola Roxon on Tuesday named Federal Court Chief Justice Patrick Keane to replace Justice Dyson Heydon, who reaches the compulsory retirement age of 70 in March next year.
Justice Keane, 60, is a former Oxford University scholar with a legal career dating back to 1973 when he became an articled clerk.
The Queenslander also has strong views on issues such as whether Australia needs a bill of rights and the complexity of federal laws.
But Ms Roxon said any attempt to predict how a particular appointee would act on the High Court bench was a recipe for embarrassment.
"I wouldn't like to categorise Chief Justice Keane from the Federal Court in any particular way, other than to say that he is of the highest intellect and standard," she told reporters in Canberra.
In a 2008 speech, Justice Keane argued there was no need for a bill of rights.
"Our constitutional arrangements mean that we must, as a community, recognise our problems and accept that solving them is the responsibility of all of us because we can't look to pronouncements from on high to solve our political differences," he said.
During an interview last year, he lamented the complexity of federal laws, arguing that when MPs encounter difficult areas in drafting legislation they lean toward leaving it to judges to work out.
"Opening the tax act is like opening the door to a parallel universe," he told The Australian Financial Review, adding that judges had to make the best of what they could "from the sausage machine".
Justice Keane's appointment means there are now four Labor appointees on the High Court bench, with three appointed by the former coalition government.
Ms Roxon acknowledged South Australia, which has never had a High Court appointee, had missed out again.
"On this occasion we haven't found a person from South Australia to appoint," she said.
The appointment also means the High Court bench now includes three women and four men, with two each from Queensland, NSW and Victoria and one from Western Australia.
Replacing Justice Keane on the Federal Court bench will be Justice James Allsop, who is currently president of the NSW Court of Appeal.
Ms Roxon said the pair were chosen after consultation with a range of stakeholders who found both were mentioned as individuals of outstanding intellect and capacity for hard work.
Justice Keane graduated with honours from the University of Queensland in 1976 and attended Oxford University in 1997.
He began practice at the Queensland Bar in 1978 and was appointed Queen's Council in 1988.
As Queensland solicitor-general from 1992 to 2005 he was a contemporary of former Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd and a senior public servant under former Queensland premier Wayne Goss.
In 2005, he was appointed a judge of the Queensland Court of Appeal and in March 2010 became chief justice of the Federal Court.


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Rick Steves' Europe "Italy's Amalfi Coast" Rick visits the trendy resort of Positano on the Amalfi coastline, south of Naples. He also takes in the charms of Sorrento, the ancient Greek temples of Paestum, and the iridescent Blue Grotto beneath the Isle of Capri.G
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Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions "Milan, Italy" Milan has been an influential city for well over 2,000 years. It was a significant political and commercial center for the Roman Empire, and it has maintained that position ever since. Today, Milan is an industrial powerhouse. D
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Jacques Pepin: More Fast Food My Way "Chockfull of Surprises" Jacques uses canned ingredients to make pumpkin gratin. He hides treasures inside tomato surprise and adds Romesco sauce to grilled striped bass.G
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America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "A Slow and Easy Thanksgiving" Test cook Becky Hays uncovers the secrets to a slow and easy Thanksgiving with Braised Turkey and makes Bread Stuffing for a crowd. And finally, equipment expert Adam Ried reviews oven thermometers in the Equipment Corner. D
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Coastal Cooking with John Shields "Ready, Set, Party" To feed a coastal party crowd, think Shrimp Feed with guest "Paw Paw" George Davis. Other recipes include Gloucester Lobster Salad, and Firefly Farms Goat Cheese Cheesecake with Caramel Sauce. The Kitchen Goddess show viewer how to set up the perfect coastal buffet. D
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Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "I'm Inspired" Joanne is often asked where her inspirations come from and begins by composing an inspired salad with roasted beets, and then gives her student Charlie some pointers for making honey glazed pork chops and a roasted squash puree. Recipes: Bibb Lettuce Salad with Roasted Beet, Grapefruit and Pecans, Honey Glazed Pork Chops with Orange and Cardamom, and a Roasted Squash and Ginger Puree. Student: Charlie Baldwin, City Gardener. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "Italy's Amalfi Coast" Rick visits the trendy resort of Positano on the Amalfi coastline, south of Naples. He also takes in the charms of Sorrento, the ancient Greek temples of Paestum, and the iridescent Blue Grotto beneath the Isle of Capri.G
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Great Conversations "General Wesley Clark and Joe Klein" In a 2001 interview, Wesley Clark, Five Star General, former Commander NATO European Forces and NATO Air Campaign Kosovo and author, talks with Joe Klein, The New Yorker Correspondent, Politics and Defense, and author. D


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Cole Bowl needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 90 designs submitted by 27 freelance designers.
Crew Control
We are an online yacht crew management system looking to making a big step forward with the next phase of the website's life.
Step one is a new logo to base the website redesign on. We are looking for something new, catchy fresh and awesome!
There are lots of different yacht owners, and lots of crew and its not easy to keep them all in order, and thats where Crew Control Comes in. We provide a fully services online portal where yacht owners/managers can manage their crew in one location.
As we are a "yacht crew" website, i'm sure you can guess that our audience is the yachting industry.
In saying this, the yachting industry is very diverse with about 70% males and ages rangeing from 12-80.
We are looking for a web 2.0 looking logo. In terms of colours, i am looking for a two colour logo one being blue and the other being white (or an off-white). The font needs to be clear and crisp.
In terms of a graphic, i am not fussed if there is one or not. But if you do decide to add a graphic please make sure it is next to the text, not above or below it. And please make sure it is simple (a simple sail outline or something).
Any questions, please don't hesitate to ask!
Cant wait to see what you come up with.
The current website can be seen at http://www.crew-control.com
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Chirag Patnaik needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 245 designs submitted by 43 freelance designers.
Leaders of Tomorrow
Indiamart.com is India's largest B2B marketplace bringing together buyers
and sellers (from the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) space). To
recognise the efforts of the millions of SME's Indiamart.com is creating
an award (Leaders of Tomorrow)recognizing the best and innovative companies in the space. The awards will be preceded by a Television series spanning 17 weeks culminating in an award ceremony later this year.
The target audience is SME owners and promoters based in India. Small and
Medium Enterprises are defined as companies who have a turnover between US $1 million and US $10 million.
We are looking for a logo to illustrate the theme of the awards i.e. Small
high growth and innovative companies who will become the Leaders of
The logo will be used in Print ads (colour and BW), internet, stage backdrops and some outdoor on a variety of materials and colours. Additionally the logo will be animated (perhaps in 3D) for use on television.
We are looking for the logo to be inspirational, youthful and energetic. Typefaces need to be clear, bold and attractive.
The logo must incorporate the IndiaMART logo (see here
We will need CMYK (CDR/AI) and RGB (layered PSD's)
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Where were you when President John Kennedy was shot? Or when the terrorist attacks happened on Sept. 11, 2001?
Seventy-one years ago today, on Dec. 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese, which brought the United States into World War II.
Six guests at this week's Shelby Civitans meeting recalled where they were the day of the attacks and how the war changed their lives.
Evelyn West
Evelyn West remembers sitting on the floor, reading the "funny pages" when a neighbor ran to their house to tell her family the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
�It was a time unlike any other. We lived in Wilmington at the time and we had to worry about potential enemy submarines and ships off the coast. We would see oil washed up on the beaches from ships that had been sunk.�
Like most towns, Wilmington residents were required to put up blackout curtains at night and the town was patrolled by an Air Raid warden, as a precaution of air raids.
She remembers everyone doing their part for the war effort. Most families grew Victory Gardens and women began working in factories.
�Everyone in town was doing something. There was a big shipyard in town to replace the ships at Pearl Harbor and women worked there. My mother plotted airplanes that would fly over our area.�
Rationing wasn�t limited to food but also affected gas, she said. Buses were crowded and many riders ended up standing.
�It was a good time because everyone was involved and doing all they could. Everyone was kinder and more friendly.�
J.A. West
Evelyn's husband of 62 years didn�t hear about the Pearl Harbor attacks until he left church that Sunday.
�In 1941, I was a high school senior and, on Monday, we didn�t have school. We were all sent to the auditorium so we could listen to the radio and hear reports from Pearl Harbor.�
Though West tried to enlist, the draft board sent him to college.
�I went to the draft board to enlist, and they said I had to do one year at Wake Forest before I could go into the service. As I was bumming a ride home, I went to Raleigh and joined the Navy there. My mother cried, and then when my orders came, I was sent to Duke University for a year.�
He was trained as an officer at Duke and was sent to Pearl Harbor as an education officer.
�When the war ended, all the ships in Pearl Harbor celebrated by shooting off their guns. I was then flown to Guam and put on a LSM (landing ship medium) and went out to sea because there was a typhoon, where we rode out the storm.�
During the war, West didn�t see combat, but feels honored to have served his country.
�I feel guilty coming to events like this, because I never got shot at. I served the military and had a lot of crazy adventures. It was a privilege to serve my country.�
Becky Wallace
As a fourth-grader when Pearl Harbor was attacked, Becky Wallace said she was too young to actively be involved in the war effort.
Her family lived in Boiling Springs and older brother was in the service. She remembers listening to the news of Pearl Harbor on the radio.
�At school, we were too young to do much. But our teacher made a list of names of people in the community serving in the military and we wrote letters to them.�
Maida Scruggs
When Maida Scruggs and her husband Horace heard about the news of Pearl Harbor, they didn�t know what Pearl Harbor was.
�I was walking down the street with my husband and someone came up to us and said, �Pearl Harbor was bombed.' We didn�t know what Pearl Harbor was.�
No one thought her husband would be drafted into the Army because he had flat feet. He was drafted into the Army Air Force instead.
�When he was first stationed in Texas, I had never been on a train or away from home. My mother made me practice how to use a telephone so I could call home to North Carolina.�
In order to live on the military base, Scruggs had to get a military job.
�I worked sewing bands on boxer shorts for the Army men so that I could live on base."
Horace was discharged from the military on their wedding anniversary.
Jean Mauney
Jean Mauney�s husband, Fred, chased her until she would marry him.
�My husband was determined to marry me before he left for Japan."
Mauney�s husband went to basic training in California before he was shipped to Japan where he worked as a teletype operator.
�He was gone two years and I was pregnant before he left."
Cline Borders
In high school, when Pearl Harbor was attacked, Cline Borders couldn�t comprehend what had happened.
�One day I went home, and in the mailbox was an invitation from President Roosevelt to join the Army. As I left Shelby, I cried a little.�
Borders went to basic training in Florida. Training was supposed to be 18 weeks but was shortened to 10 due to the Battle of the Bulge, when the Allied Forces were surrounded by Germans and couldn�t receive airborne support due to heavy fog.
�I fought in the Battle of the Bulge with the 79th division and received the Purple Heart from that battle. Then we chased the Germans all the way to Czechoslovakia and crossed the Rhine River. Combat is just organized chaos.�
When the war ended, Borders didn�t believe he was going home.
�I didn�t believe I was going home until I saw the Statue of Liberty. I think I went a little crazy, because I ran all over the ship.�
His girlfriend and future wife, Doris, wrote to him everyday, sometimes putting perfume on the letters. They were married when he returned.
�We were married when I got back and went into farming until I was called into ministry. I�m grateful to have served my country in the military and the Lord through ministry.�
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International and Comparative - Faculty Activities
The law school's faculty includes a number of international and comparative law specialists. Click here for recent updates on international and comparative faculty activities.
Kathleen Clark, Professor of Law
Kathleen Clark is an expert on national security law, legal ethics, and anti-corruption measures. She has served as an ethics consultant for the United Nations Development Program and the ABA's Europe and Eurasia Program (CEELI), and has led ethics workshops in Europe, Africa and South America. A member of the American Law Institute, Clark is past chair of the National Security Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, and has served on the board of Servicemembers Legal Defense Network.
Gerrit De Geest, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law, Innovation and Economic Growth
Gerrit De Geest specializes in law and economics and in comparative law. Before joining the Washington University Law faculty in 2007, he was a professor of law and economics at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Past president of the European Association of Law and Economics, he is a member of the Economic Impact Group of the Common Principles of European Contract Law. He is series editor of the forthcoming 2nd edition of the Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, co-editor of the New Horizons in Law and Economics book series (Edward Elgar), and consultant editor of the European Review of Contract Law. He has published numerous books and articles applying economic analysis to contract, tort, and comparative law. He is co-editor of the Review of Law and Economics and consultant editor of the European Review of Contract Law. He has published numerous books and articles in the fields of economic analysis of contract law, tort law, and comparative law.
John N. Drobak, George Alexander Madill Professor of Law, Professor of Economics & Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
John Drobak is a pioneer in interdisciplinary study, ranging from his leadership role with the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies to the course he co-teaches with Nobel Laureate (Economics), Douglass North, to his many joint programs with other departments on campus. He has served as a consultant to the governments of Czechoslovakia and the Republic of Georgia; Secretary and Executive Committee member for the Society for New Institutional Economics; and as a fifteen-year member of the M.B.A faculty for the U.S. Business School in Prague. His recent scholarship includes extensive work on privatization and democratization.
Dorsey D. Ellis, Jr., Dean Emeritus and William R. Orthwein Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus
Dorsey D. Ellis, Jr. served as dean of the School of Law for more than a decade. His teaching and scholarship focus on the areas of torts and antitrust. In recent years, he has taught in England, Japan, New Zealand, and the Netherlands, has published on U.S. antitrust law throughout the world, and has taught Comparative Competition Law in the Law School's Summer Institute for Global Justice. He also participated in the 2004 APEC Competition Policy Conference in Tokyo.
Frances H. Foster, Edward T. Foote II Professor of Law
Frances Foster specializes in the legal systems of socialist and former socialist countries and in trusts and estates law. In recent work, she has compared approaches to trusts and inheritance in the United States and in China, based on her original translations of Chinese legislation, cases, and scholarship. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Comparative Law and an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law.
Steven Gunn, Adjunct Professor of Law & Director of the American Indian Law & Economic Development Program
An expert in American Indian law, Steven Gunn represents American Indian tribes in actions to protect their land, resources, rights, and cultural heritage, including a recent case representing the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. He has worked with students to coordinate a symposium on contemporary and comparative perspectives on the rights of indigenous peoples. Gunn directs the American Indian Law and Economic Development Externship, in which students spend a summer assisting with legal work and living on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He has served as chair of the AALS Section on Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples and vice chair for public service of the ABA Native American Resources Committee.
Peter A. Joy, Professor of Law & Director, Criminal Justice Clinic (Law School Vice Dean beginning January 1, 2010)
Peter Joy is well known for his work in clinical legal education, legal ethics, and trial practice. The inaugural director of the School of Law's Trial & Advocacy Program, he teaches Trial Practice & Procedure, Criminal Justice Clinic, Legal Profession, and Comparative Legal Ethics Seminar. He serves on the AALS Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, the AALS Executive Committee of the Section on Professional Responsibility, the ABA Accreditation Committee of the Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) Board of Governors, and he is past chair of the AALS Clinical Education Section and past president of the Clinical Legal Education Association. He is on the Board of Editors of the Clinical Law Review, and he is a Contributing Editor to Criminal Justice, a quarterly publication of the ABA. Professor Joy is active in developing clinical legal education in Japan, publishing and teaching extensively on the subject, and has lectured in Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, and South Africa on clinical education and legal ethics topics.
Tove Klovning, Foreign, Comparative & International Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law
As the Foreign/Comparative/International Law Librarian & Lecturer in Law, Professor Klovning oversees foreign, comparative and international law library services and assists with legal research questions relating to foreign law, comparative law and international law. She also assists with legal research questions relating to the American legal system. She maintains a series of international and comparative research guides available online at http://www.aallnet.org/sis/fcilsis/syllabi.html.
Michael H. Koby, Associate Dean for International & Graduate Programs; Professor of Practice; Director, Trial and Advocacy Program
Michael Koby teaches the law school's "Introduction to U.S. Law," an intensive, two-semester course for foreign Masters and exchange students. He has lectured in Japan and Spain on the distinctive aspects of U.S. law and legal methodology, and has lectured at the International Law Institute in Washington, D.C., to international and foreign procurement practitioners on the characteristics of common-law systems.
D. Bruce La Pierre, Professor of Law
Bruce La Pierre is an expert in school desegregation, election law, and federalism issues, and has established an Appellate Clinic for law school students. He has taught abroad at Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Portugal, the University of Navarra in Spain, and at the Law School's Summer Institute for Global Justice. He is a frequent lecturer at Aoyama Gakuin University (Japan). He has also participated in the Jean Monnet Chair International Summer Seminar in Rome.
David S. Law, Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science
David Law has published and lectured extensively on topics including comparative public law, law and social science, comparative judicial politics, and legal and political theory. He is a former Hitachi Fellow in Japan, where he was a visiting associate professor at Keio University Faculty of Law.
Ronald M. Levin, Henry Hitchcock Professor of Law
Ronald Levin is a nationally known administrative law scholar who has coauthored a casebook and written many articles in that field. He is past chair of the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice and of both the AALS Sections on Administrative Law and on Legislation. He has lectured in Japan and served as a consultant to the Supreme Court of Indonesia. He served as a reporter on judicial review for the ABA's Project on the Administrative Law of the European Union, which work resulted in the publication of Administrative Law of the European Union: Judicial Review (George Bermann et al. eds., 2008) (with Frank Emmert and Christoph Feddersen).
Jo Ellen D. Lewis, Director, Legal Practice Program and Professor of Practice
Jo Ellen Lewis has served several times as a visiting professor at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, teaching courses ranging from real estate transactions to introductions to the American judicial system. She has also taught a Japanese graduate-level law course on, among other topics, an analysis of the First Amendment in the context of a recent federal court case. Since 2007, she has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar.
Wei Luo, Director of Technical Services and Lecturer in Law
Wei Luo is an expert in codification of law and of Chinese legal research, and has lectured and published widely on these subjects. He created and maintains the Internet Chinese Legal Research Center at http://law.wustl.edu/Chinalaw/. He was also an instructor at Xiamen University Law School in Xiamen, China.
Maxine Lipeles, Director, Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic and Senior Lecturer in Law
Maxine Lipeles directs the law school's Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic, which offers pro bono legal and technical support to local environmental and community organizations. In addition to a number of environmental law and clinical courses, she teaches Global Warming & The Law.
Gregory Magarian, Professor of Law
Professor Magarian's research and teaching interests focus on constitutional law, the First Amendment, and legislation. He has recently taught a course in China and will teach in the 2010 Summer Institute for Global Justice in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Charles R. McManis, Thomas and Karole Green Professor of Law
Charles McManis is an internationally recognized expert in intellectual property law. He is a member of the American Law Institute and has served as a consultant for the World Intellectual Property Organization. A member of the International Association of Teachers and Researchers of Intellectual Property, he has taught, lectured, or researched throughout the United States and in Argentina, Brazil, China, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom. In 2007, he was appointed an ambassador to Korea University as part of the university's McDonnell International Scholars Academy.
Kimberly Norwood, Professor of Law & Professor of African & African American Studies
Kimberly Norwood has focused her research on Black identity issues and issues affecting poor students and students of color in the urban public education setting. Her recently created course entitled "Race Education & the Law," is a service learning course involving judges, lawyers, law students and high school students working together throughout the school year and has received national recognition. She has recently won several awards based on her work in this course and in the community including the 2009 Women's Justice Award, the 2009 Scovel Richardson Mound City Bar Association award and the 2009 National Bar Association's Humanitarian Award. She also teaches Torts, Products Liability and occasionally works in the school's renowned Civil Justice Clinic. Among her international work, she has co-founded and directed public interest externships for law students working in Ghana and Kenya, she has lectured in Japan on the American tort law system, she taught both undergraduate and law courses on American Tort Law at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan, and she presented a lecture to the faculty at Waseda University Law School, also in Tokyo, entitled "Three Examples of Using Legal Curricula as Tools to Promote Personal Empowerment." That lecture is being published as part of the Waseda Clinical Law Journal in the fall of 2009.
Adam H. Rosenzweig, Associate Professor of Law
Adam Rosenzweig concentrates his research and teaching in the area of tax law and policy, including international taxation and international business transactions. Before joining the Washington University faculty in 2007, he was a visiting assistant professor at Northwestern University. He also was in private practice in New York, where he focused on federal income tax law and specialized in the areas of private equity, hedge funds, equity derivatives, and cross-border capital markets.
Leila Nadya Sadat, Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law and Director, Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute
Leila Sadat, an authority in international criminal law and human rights, is particularly well known for her expertise on the International Criminal Court (ICC). She is representing the government of East Timor in the upcoming ICC negotiations, and attended the diplomatic conference in Rome where the ICC was established on behalf of the International Law Association. She is also a member of the ABA Task Force on the ICC. Sadat is a co-author of the leading international criminal law casebook and has won several awards for her scholarship. She served on the United States Commission for International Religious Freedom and currently is leading the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, an international group of experts in drafting a Specialized Convention on Crimes Against Humanity. A member of the American Law Institute, she practiced in Paris, France, and clerked on both of France's Supreme Courts and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Gilbert Sison, Adjunct Professor of Law
Gilbert Sison practices law with the St. Louis firm of Rosenblum, Schwartz, Rogers & Glass, PC. Prior to that, he practiced at Bryan Cave, LLP, and Thompson Coburn, LLP. He serves as the coach of the law school's Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition team and teaches a course in international courts and tribunals. In his seven years as coach, the law school has won three U.S. Regional Championships and has also won a number of written and oral awards.
Brian Tamanaha, Professor of Law
Professor Tamanaha is an expert in general jurisprudence, comparative law and society, and law and development. He has taught at the University of Amsterdam and Leiden University and was recently a member-in-residence at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.
Karen Tokarz, Charles Nagel Professor of Public Interest Law and Public Service, and Professor of African and African American Studies.
A conflict resolution expert and internationally recognized leader in clinical legal education, Professor Tokarz is the Director of the Washington University School of Law Dispute Resolution Program. While on sabbatical in 2008-09, Professor Tokarz was a visiting scholar at the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation. In 2008, she also served as a Fulbright Senior Specialist for Africa, collaborating with the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, in the development of their dispute resolution masters program. She previously worked with the clinical education program at the University of Kwa Zulu-Natal in 2001. She has coordinated summer public internships in South Africa for approximately 60 law students during the past eight summers and facilitated a law student exchange program between Washington University and KwaZulu-Natal. Recipient of Washington University's 2005 Founders Day Distinguished Faculty Award, Professor Tokarz serves on the steering committee for the University's Richard Gephardt Institute for Public Service. In spring 2010, she will begin co-teaching a full-semester International Justice & Conflict Resolution Practicum to provide students opportunities to learn international criminal law and practice, and conflict resolution theory and practice, working with lawyers practicing before international courts and tribunals, with international judges, and with lawyers in international conflict resolution offices such as the UN.
Melissa Waters, Professor of Law
Melissa Waters is an expert in several areas of international and comparative law, including foreign relations law, international human rights law, international criminal law, and complex civil litigation. Her scholarship focuses on the incorporation of international law into domestic legal regimes, and in particular on the role of transnational judicial dialogue in developing international legal norms and in transforming U.S. and other domestic courts into key mediators between domestic and international law. Professor Waters serves as the university's ambassador to Utrecht University (Netherlands) under the McDonnell International Scholars Academy.


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WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Lawmakers sealed a $150 billion House-Senate deal to extend a U.S. payroll tax holiday, unemployment benefits and Medicare payment rates, key negotiators said.
The deal clears the way for a full House and Senate vote before the existing legislation expires Feb. 29, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., and House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., said.
The agreement, coming after lawmakers of both parties said it nearly fell through late Wednesday, keeps the Social Security payroll-tax withholding for 160 million workers at 4.2 percent -- a 2 percent cut worked out at the beginning of 2011 after the Obama White House negotiated a compromise tax plan with congressional Republicans, lawmakers said.
This lets the average worker earning $50,000 take home an extra $1,000 in pay over the year, lawmakers said. The costs of the payroll-tax cut will not be offset with spending cuts, a major concession agreed to Monday by House Republicans.
The deal calls for $93 billion forecast to be lost to the Social Security Trust Fund to be fully replaced with money from the U.S. Treasury's general fund, lawmakers said.
The deal, whose details were not fully announced early Thursday, renews expiring jobless benefits, but cuts the maximum number of weeks to 73 from 99, lawmakers said.
That means some long-term unemployed workers will stop receiving benefits before the end of the year, The Wall Street Journal reported.
George Wentworth, senior staff attorney with the National Employment Law Project, which advocates for longer jobless benefits, told the newspaper it appeared the deal would phase out at least 500,000 workers from jobless benefits by fall.
Republicans argued extended jobless benefits prolong unemployment by discouraging workers from aggressively looking for work. Democrats said the benefits were vital to workers at a time when it's hard to find a job.
The measure's roughly $30 billion price tag will be picked up by the sale of radio spectrum licenses and the federal worker-benefit changes.
The deal calls for Medicare to continue paying doctors at current rates, avoiding a 27 percent drop in physicians' fees, lawmakers said.
To help offset the $30 billion cost of paying doctors under Medicare, the agreement will reduce payments to hospitals.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said he expected the House would vote on the deal by Friday.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., did not immediately say when the Senate would vote.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has held up Senate votes this week to protest a decision by Reid to deny Paul separate legislation to strip Egypt of foreign aid for 30 days as punishment for detaining U.S. pro-democracy workers.
Both chambers scheduled a weeklong recess after Friday's close of business.


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Usher Drops S&M-Influenced 'Lemme See' Video
After dropping the aquatic 'Scream' video, Usher comes through with a sensual clip for his R&B ballad 'Lemme See,' featuring Rick Ross. The song appears on the singer's new album 'Looking 4 Myself.'
In the clip, Usher has his lover tied up as he sings lustful come-ons to her ear. As she wiggles herself out of the ropes, the pair heads to the bedroom where she embeds her tattoos all over his body.
Elsewhere, we see a shirtless Rick Ross draped in diamonds chilling in the sauna with two females as he lays down his mackadoshis verses. The final sequence features Ursh and Rozay by the pool performing the sultry track.
'Lemme See' is the third single from 'Looking 4 Myself,' which debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 128,000 copies sold. You can check out the album review of 'Looking 4 Myself' by clicking here.
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A girl's name of Welsh origin. Gwenda was most popular in 1952 and is currently not among the top 1000 U.S. girls' names. Meaning: Welsh: white wave; white browed; new moon. Literature: Gwendoloena was the wife of Merlin, the magician.
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It's a wonderful feeling to come inside on a cold day and warm your hands by the fireplace. But let's face it: most people simply don't use the traditional wood-burning fireplaces of old.
With all the cutting, splitting, hauling and storage, wood-burning fireplaces can be a lot of work. They fill the home with unhealthy particulates, and are not very efficient.
Open-masonry wood-burning fireplaces are also misleading heat sources. They may heat up the family room, but the rest of your house is actually getting cooler. Each hour they burn, these fireplaces can exhaust up to 18,000 cubic feet of heated air outside your home, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Warm air goes up the chimney, while cold air from windows and doors is drawn back toward your fireplace. Your furnace recognizes these cool drafts too, and works even harder to heat your home.
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Fortunately, the holiday tradition of gathering around the fireplace isn't going away. It's evolving. The next generation of fireplaces is about energy-efficiency and convenience. It's about fireplace inserts.
A practical upgrade
Fireplace inserts are a practical and efficient way to utilize an existing fireplace. Inserts fit directly into the opening of existing fireplaces and greatly enhance performance, safety and convenience.
One critical component to look for in every insert is Direct Vent technology. Direct Vent units are sealed and use venting to expel 100 percent of exhaust outside of the home. These units ensure clean, safe indoor air quality.
Aside from Direct Vent technology, homeowners have options. Inserts come in endless styles and designs. Many inserts also function with remote controls, allowing homeowners to control flame appearance, heat output and accent lighting from anywhere in a room.
The Heat & Glo Escape I35 Direct Vent gas insert maintains the look of a traditional wood-burning fire, but through a convenient gas platform. A molded FireBrick ceramic interior radiates 25 percent more heat than similar metal fireboxes, and an "intelligent" ignition system conserves energy. The Escape can even function during a power outage. Flip a switch on the wall, or press one button on its remote, and the Escape is on and ready for company.
Industry Response
Heatilator, a leading fireplace manufacturer, is forecasting an increase in demand for fireplace inserts. "Our research indicates a recovery in consumer confidence, but with homeowners continuing to search for ways to stretch their dollar," says Becky Upton, brand marketing director at Heatilator. "Inserts are a practical option for homeowners looking to update their homes on a budget. They can quickly increase home values and revive interior designs."
Homeowners can experience the benefits of fireplace inserts almost immediately. Professional installation is easy and can take less than four hours. Many local certified installers are available and can be found at fireplaces.com.
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Leonidas Donskis was born on August 13, 1962, in Klaipeda, Lithuania. Donskis graduated from Lithuanian State Conservatoire (now Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre), majoring in philology and theatre, and then pursued his graduate studies in philosophy at the University of Vilnius, Lithuania. Having received his first doctorate in philosophy from the University of Vilnius, he later earned his second doctorate in social and moral philosophy from the University of Helsinki, Finland. In 2011 Bradford University in Great Britain awarded Leonidas Donskis with an honorary doctorate (Doctor of Letters).
Leonidas Donskis, Ph.D., is a philosopher, political theorist, historian of ideas, social analyst, and political commentator. As a public figure in Lithuania, he acted as a defender of human rights and civil liberties. In 2004, Donskis has been awarded by the European Commission the title of the Ambassador for Tolerance and Diversity in Lithuania. From 2009 to 2014 L. Donskis acted as a Lithuanian Member of the European Parliament. He acted as a human rights coordinator of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) group. In 2012 L. Donskis was appointed as EP Rapporteur for the Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World 2011 and the European Union`s policy on the matter – one of the main EP documents in the field.
Until his election as a Member of European Parliament Leonidas Donskis acted as Professor of Political Science at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. From 2005 to 2009, he served as Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy at Vytautas Magnus University. In addition, he acts as Docent of Social and Moral Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, and as Extraordinary Visiting Professor of Cultural Theory at Tallinn University, Estonia. After the term of the European Parliament Leonidas Donskis returned to academic activities
A wandering scholar, he has researched and lectured in the USA, Great Britain, and Europe. Donskis has been an IREX-International Research and Exchanges Board Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar, and a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, USA; a Swedish Institute Guest Researcher at the University of Gothenburg and a Guest Professor of East European Studies at the University of Uppsala, Sweden; a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Bradford, Great Britain; Paschal P. Vacca Chair (Distinguished Visiting Professor) of Liberal Arts at the University of Montevallo in Alabama, USA; and a Fellow at the Collegium Budapest/Institute for Advanced Study, Hungary. His main scholarly interests lie in philosophy of history, philosophy of culture, philosophy of literature, philosophy of the social sciences, civilization theory, political theory, history of ideas, and studies in Central and East European thought.
Donskis has been published widely in international refereed journals, and is the author or editor of more than thirty books, half of them in English. Donskis's works originally written in Lithuanian and English have been translated into Danish, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Romanian and Ukrainian. He edits two book series for Editions Rodopi, B. V. (Amsterdam and New York), one in Baltic studies, and another – VIBS-Value Inquiry Book Series.


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In war, soldiers report long bouts of sheer boredom punctuated by mindless work details, interspersed with sudden bouts of pandemonium and terror during enemy engagements. It's during these times when those same soldiers typically point to one thing that saves them: Their training.
Similarly, when markets explode in their own way, it is the well-trained and properly prepared traders who won't just survive, but thrive. Such price shocks typically occur because unexpected news or data were introduced into the mainstream, shifting the market's current understanding and future price expectations. In stocks, this shift can have deep consequences for supply and demand, causing a significant gap between the previous day's closing price and the current day's opening price.
Sometimes, these gaps are fleeting opportunities — for the vast majority of traders, they only are obvious after it's too late to exploit them. Other times, though, the shock comes in the wake of an extended period of price stability, and the pressure release results not just in a gap open, but an extended surge in the direction of the dominant trend. These conditions can offer a golden opportunity to participate in the move while other traders run for cover.
The downside, though, is that trying to chase such price moves can be like trying to chase a dragon's tale — always beyond your reach until it's too late and opportunity is lost. But if you are prepared and have a solid understanding of the dynamics in play, then you can emerge profitable.
Behind the run
After a stock's price has been in a confirmed trend for a certain period, it attracts greater interest among market participants. This increased interest, when accompanied by simultaneous trading activity, results in the formation of gaps.
A gap is said to have formed in a bullish market if the lowest price of the instrument in one period is visibly higher than the highest price of the instrument in the preceding period. The opposite is true for a bearish market in which the highest price of an instrument in one period is visibly lower than the lowest price of the instrument in the preceding period (see "Apple gap").
Gaps also can be caused by increased interest in a stock because of a related incident, announcement or news. These events attract a lot of public attention toward the instrument, the attractiveness of which is amplified by the presence of a trend. The combination of the trend and the event often results in a sudden surge of volume and interest. In this way, gaps validate the instrument's current trend.
A price gap is classified as a runaway gap if it follows a visibly confirmed trend. If a confirmed trend is in place, it doesn't have to be strongly bullish or bearish, but it has to be distinctly visible and not include any sideways movement. The gap validates the existing trend and highlights a persistent interest in the instrument in the market.


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Any woman who has had a baby can tell you, giving birth is one time when extra support can be a life-changer. Thats where doulas come in. Unlike midwives, doulas are not medical professionals and dont physically deliver babies; theyre there solely to provide emotional and physical support to women at the end of their pregnancies and throughout labor.
But clearly their services are in greater and greater demand, as the number of certified birth doulas in the United States has exploded in recent years, with 2,636 practicing today, up from only 31 in 1994 (according to DONA International, a professional doula association).
Here are ten things you should know when deciding whether to get a doula.
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1: Doctor, Doula — Why it's a good idea to have both
Your doctor will be in and out of the room as you labor, but a doula will stay with you from the beginning and wont leave until the baby is born, the placenta is delivered, and, if youre going to be breastfeeding, the first latch is established. (Doulas will also come to your home if you want to labor there for a while before heading to the hospital). To keep you comfortable during labor and delivery, your doula might massage key pressure points, apply warm compresses to your lower back or set you up in a hot shower to ease the pain of contractions. And when you (or your partner) become completely overwhelmed and exhausted, she will be your one-woman pep squad.
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2: Your doctor might be grateful for the help
Talk to your OB/GYN as soon as possible about your plans to hire a doula. Many OB/GYNs see the benefits that doulas provide and encourage their presence in the delivery room. Doulas are support people, and everyone can use more support, says Anthony Chin, M.D., an OB/GYN who practices in Los Angeles.
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3: Your doula won't be a third wheel
Unless your significant other is a midwife or OB/GYN, he or she isnt going to know nearly as much about the birth process as your doula. Even if its your second or third time having a baby, there will likely come a time when your partner will probably feel overwhelmed. Your doula is there to guide both of you through the process. She can suggest specific ways your partner can help you, while respecting the intimacy of your experience together.
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4: You can get recommendations
The best way to find a doula is through word of mouth. Get a list from friends and friends of friends or from your midwife or doctor. Start with phone interviews. Ask potential doulas about their experience and training, how many births theyve attended, and why they decided to be a doula. If you dont have personal recommendations, check out the listings at DONA International.
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5: You can interview them face-to-face before choosing
This might seem obvious, but as you are going to be spending some very intimate time with your doula, its critical that you like her. Will you feel comfortable letting her see you naked, throwing up, crying, yelling, swearing — maybe even defecating? Ask your potential doula about her birth philosophy, her feelings about natural and medical births, and how active or laid-back she tends to be in the birth room. If shes part of a doula practice, do some comparison shopping and ask to meet with one or two of her colleagues. Your partner should come with you to the interview, as he or she will be working closely with the doula, too.
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6: Doulas are more affordable than you think
The going rate for a doula varies widely, depending on location. In New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, seasoned certified doulas charge between $1200 and $2700 for pre-birth discussions and full-time labor and delivery help. However, in most other parts of the country the cost is much less. Even on the coasts, though, there are ways to find an affordable doula. All doulas-in-training need birth experience, and many are willing to attend births for free or for a nominal fee. A quick search on NYCs craigslist (search doula under childcare) found several doulas offering reduced, pay-what you-can rates.
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7: You can use your doula as an information source
Expecting moms can lean on their doulas for emotional support and valuable information and advice in the weeks leading up to the birth. This can be particularly helpful for first-time moms, uncertain about how to differentiate between, say, Braxton Hicks contractions and the real thing. When my water broke, I called my doula, Tara, first — and then my doctor. Tara suggested I eat before heading to the hospital — a lifesaving suggestion since I had a 24-hour labor and an unplanned c-section ahead of me.
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8: No matter when you have your baby, your doula will be there
Unlike doctors and some midwives, doulas only schedule a few births a month. That means theyre almost guaranteed to be there for the big event. I had my son, Lucien, on Christmas Eve, and still, Tara met me at the hospital in 15 minutes flat and never once complained about having to eat Christmas dinner out of a hospital vending machine. My midwife, on the other hand, was vacationing in Paris for the holiday and missed my birth. With many doctors and midwives working in group practices, its a relief to know therell be at least one expert at your birth who you have an ongoing relationship with.
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9: You don't have to be shy during labor and delivery
You can ask your doula to do anything you can think of to help you. Whether its a foot rub, grabbing your partner a coffee from the cafeteria, changing the CD, or advocating on your behalf to get the anesthesiologist in the room this minute with your epidural, your doula is there for you.
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10: You can also hire a post-partum doula
While labor doulas attend births, post-partum doulas support new mothers at home in the first few weeks. Since my husband and I didnt have family nearby, we sprung for twenty-five hours of post-partum doula care over a six-week period. It was money well spent. We had no idea what we were doing; my husband, Neil, had never even held a baby before, and I was swollen and sore and struggling to get the hang of nursing. For a few precious hours each week, our post-partum doula carried Lucien in a sling while I napped and showered, taught Neil how to change diapers, did laundry, showed me how to get Lucien to nurse more productively and kept my energy up with a steady supply of veggie-avocado-and-cheese omelets. Now, whenever I'm invited to a baby shower, I skip the onesies and wipe-warmers and give post partum doula hours as a gift.
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Hi all, this week I am reporting live from Shanghai, China!
I'm here this week for reasons two-fold. First, the Chinese holiday Qing Ming, the Day to honor our ancestors. I visited my grandparents' gravesite with family, made offerings of food, burned candles, offered money and said prayers in their honor. Second, I'm here for Limmud Shanghai conference. Per my previous post Limmud was awesome and so was Mr. Clive Lawton, this is my second Limmud conference in my continuous beginner's Jewish journey.
The first day of Limmud Shanghai took place in the ancient town of Qibao (七宝) literally translated to mean the city of Seven Treasures. I met Jewish friends from all over the world, England, Israel, United States, etc. It was fun to attend all the various educational sessions. A sampling of them can be found here. A highlight of the first two days was I got to meet the well-spoken Mr. Seth Cohen. (BTW Follow him on Twitter @sethacohen33) Mr. Cohen, Director of Network Initiatives at the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation gave a talk on Using your Networks to Create Collective Impact-a session that was as interesting as it was insightful. His session reminded me of a recent book that I read called Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell. Mr. Cohen is very inclusive and made everyone feel involved in his interactive learning experience. He pointed out that while organizations are valuable in their own right, it is the individuals who often serve as the "Tipping Point" in creating worthwhile change. I second his POV.
After lunch on Day 2, I was able to grab a few minutes out of his busy schedule to talk. He was very curious about how I got my Twitter name allofasuddenpartJew and I told him the family story. Personally, I find Mr. Cohen to be a very nice human being, plenty kind and generous. From him, I learned a few lessons. I need to write more, more often, and regularly. More opinion pieces on the Jewish world from my Chinese perspective. He said himself that he was a blogger first before he joined the Schusterman Family Foundation. His writing gave the older Jewish community a perspective they otherwise would never see. We need more people like him!
As of now it is still Shabbat, I am at home writing this blog post. Tonight, I plan to have dinner with some Shanghai friends and then attend the Limmud Young Professionals Happy Hour. Tomorrow will be a packed agenda. It is the Destination Shanghai portion titled Global Jewish Responsibility: Shanghai, The Jewish People and JDC. Per the Limmud pamphlet, "This year marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Hongkou Ghetto and is an appropriate moment to examine the unique relationship of Shanghai with the Jewish people, past, present, and future." There will be a guided tour through the ghetto, several lectures, and a Special Memorial Day Event commemorating this anniversary. I'll be sure to take lots of photos and share with you all!
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