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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Autumn wreath
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What a beautiful wreath!ReplyDelete
I'm new to your blog. I'm really enjoying it.
I used to live down the mountain from Asheville.I miss North Carolina so much.Your blog fills me with great memories.
Thanks for sharing all your beautiful posts and photos.
:) Laura
so gorgeous, great work xReplyDelete
Wow, it's gorgeous! You will have to fill us in on how the fresh bits hold up. It's still 100 degrees here and there isn't a red leaf anywhere. I don't think we'd be trying out this project for at least 5-6 weeks!ReplyDelete
What a beautiful wreath!ReplyDelete
I bet Kaleena and Keenan had a lovely time making that beauty.
Just so lovely, cheers MarieReplyDelete
it is stunning and i love that you all made it together! ;)ReplyDelete
Thats so beautiful, i love it. The felted acorns and pumpkins are great. I love Kaleenas look of concentration while making them, she did a great job:)ReplyDelete
That is a lovely wreath. I love the little pumpkins!ReplyDelete
Have to say that I only recently discovered your blog but it is now one of the first I flick to. So much inspiration.
Oh my goodness, so lovely! I just stripped down my five year old Autumn wreath (all plastic, ug, how much I have changed!) It has been hanging on the wall in my craft space waiting for the ideas to start following (as I knit a star for the center of it too.) Your wreath is just the inspiration I needed.ReplyDelete
Thank you for sharing!
excellent! this is a beautiful collection of techniques and creative thought!ReplyDelete
wow, your pics & creations are amazing!ReplyDelete
wonderful colours ♥
- AnonymousSeptember 3, 2010 at 11:54 AM
How wonderful to add those acorns all dressed in sparkle!ReplyDelete
Outstanding! I love how much of the materials were found on a walk. Very pretty wreath indeed.ReplyDelete
Absolutely gorgeous! Do you know what the different berries you used are? Will they keep their color. he felted acorns are beuatiful as well. i've been wanting to make some, but haven't yet.ReplyDelete
Your wreath is beautiful - I loved the felted acorns. So nice to see everyone take part in creating it.ReplyDelete
absolutely beautiful wreath! I love that focus on your daughter's face as she's creating, so sweet.ReplyDelete
I love how you began the process in the summer and now have the wreath to accompany you through the coming seasons. I was thinking today of weaving with grapevines, now I am thinking we should make a wreath, thank you for the inspiration!ReplyDelete
I do not know what the names of the berries are, just berries found on our walk. So far the berries are holding up, the fresh leafs are obviously crinkled by now, but it still looks sweet. I may replace a few of the fresh items as the season progresses:) Christina
Love this project! I have a grapevine wreath that I use autumn through spring. It works really well because we can easily just tuck in and switch out the decorative parts as we go along, prestochangeo; leaves for fall, pine needles for winter, etc.ReplyDelete
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Tuesday, March 6, 2018
The Tuesday Platform
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Sharing my 55-worder from last week. Thanks, Rommy.ReplyDelete
played with dVerse this week and am posting a haibun here as well. thanks! I'll be back to visit and comment.ReplyDelete
I'm also sharing my Haibun from yesterday... :-)ReplyDelete
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Happy Tuesday; may the weather be kind to you
much love...
- AnonymousMarch 6, 2018 at 9:57 AM
Just getting back into writing after days of serious family illness - things are looking brighter now though I am hard pressed for time to visit others when visiting my husband in hospital.ReplyDelete
Rommy, we're having Spring here along the Texas Golf. You can read my writing to give you hope and perhaps a little cheer.ReplyDelete
Thanks for hosting, Romney. Mine are musings from observing life.ReplyDelete
Hiho Toads! Bipolar weather here - sunny and warm one day, cold and snowy the next. Hope all of you are well. I am sharing a haibun from dVerse as well as some others are doing.ReplyDelete
Well, the storm is supposed to visit us today. Rumor has it that it will stay for at least 6 inches. We'll see...ReplyDelete
...today, as you might suspect, I had to celebrate my Gabo.
Happiest Tuesday, everyone!
Good morning everyone! Our autumn has started wet and soggy – but oh how we need the rain, and the cooler temperatures it has brought!ReplyDelete
I'm sharing the second in a new series of "persona poems" I'm working on.
Oops, sorry – I put the wrong link in initially, to the first of the series, which people gave seen already.ReplyDelete
@ Kerry - Woot! Glad to read it. :)ReplyDelete
@ Margaret & Bjorn - cool. I like reading other haibuns to study how they are done. :)
@ Gilena - thanks, I sure hope it stays kind
@telltaletherapy - no worries. I hope that everything turns out well for your family.
@Jim - Aw! Thanks!
@Vivian - eek on that typo! But I look forward to reading your piece. :)
@Timoteo - I'm from the Philly 'burbs. Yo back 'atcha. :)
@Toni - hopefully the bipolar spell will die down
@Magaly - I had a feeling you would celebrate him. Delighted to read it as always.
@Rosemary - well it's new to me, and I don't mind double posts, so I shall allow it and read both. :)
Happy Wednesday, Toads! Thanks, Rommy!ReplyDelete
A day late and a dollar short. Still I've been thinking of this one. Thinking of fierce reminds me of Lurch because he looked fierce but was very sweet.ReplyDelete
Mary (cactus haiku)
@Frank and Mary - better late than never. Glad you got to play along.ReplyDelete


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This week's edition is missing from the archive of past issues of Billboard magazine over at Google Books, so I'll once again use this space to shamelessly plug my other music-related blog, 80s Music Mayhem. This past week featured music from 1984, including a couple of songs that I see in a much different light now that I've gotten older. A couple of days ago, I discovered that even YouTube has a page showing several posts from the blog. I've gotten some great feedback on that blog, so if you're not familiar with it, take a minute and check it out.
Linda Ronstadt - "That'll Be the Day"
(Debuted #71, Peaked #11, 16 Weeks on chart)
In 1956, John Wayne uttered the words "that'll be the day" in several parts of the film The Searchers. He played Ethan Edwards, a Confederate veteran of the Civil War, and the words were part of his world-weary role. The film is often credited as one of the all-time greatest Western films, and Buddy Holly was one of the people who watched it in the theater during its run. He used those words in a song that he wrote with Jerry Allison and Norman Petty that was a #1 single (on Billboard's Best Sellers in Stores chart) for his group The Crickets in 1957.
Nearly two decades later, the song was remade by Linda Ronstadt, who was quickly becoming known for taking songs from rock & roll's early days and putting her own stamp on them. Granted, she was often criticized for giving them a a California sheen, but that was a sure formula for success at the time. No matter what you might think of her delivery on those 1970s records, her voice was in great form and surrounded herself with professionals like producer Peter Asher and the recently departed Andrew Gold (who can be seen in the video above doing the second guitar solo in the instrumental bridge). Those two probably contributed more to Ronstadt's slick sound than many casual fans might realize.
Does Ronstadt's version supplant the Holly original? Not by a long shot. What it does, though, is give a familiar tune a new spin. At some point, young fans who missed the stuff the first time around go back and hear the source material and find that there is other music out there to be heard.
Firefall - "You Are The Woman"
(Debuted #82, Peaked #9, 22 Weeks on chart)
Here's a song that just fits the 1970s sound perfectly. "You Are the Woman" is a near-perfect pop tune, catchy and incredibly recognizable (and less than three minutes long). It so nicely fits the "mellow" vibe that the 1970s were supposed to have, it's rarely been away from radio stations since it fell into the recurrent rotation at Top 40 stations.
In fact, the easy pace of the song makes it hard to remember that Firefall had its roots in bands like the Flying Burrito Brothers, the Byrds, Spirit and Jo Jo Gunne. It was too close to pure pop than the country-rock stylings that might have been expected, not with its airy flute throughout. Even if the acoustic guitar solo tries to serve as a reminder.
In any case, there is little bad to say about "You Are the Woman." It doesn't drag on, it is quick to sing along with, and it has aged well over the years.
Rick Springfield - "Take A Hand"
(Debuted #83, Peaked #41, 9 Weeks on chart)
Today, Rick Springfield is best known for the music he recorded during the 1980s. However, he was a fairly successful recording act in the 1970s in his native Australia, beginning as a teen idol long before he became one again on the soap opera General Hospital.
If you aren't familiar with Springfield's pre-MTV era material, click on the YouTube video above. "Take a Hand" is one of his better songs from the 1970s. While it's not on a par with those hits, it's an upbeat tune that comes off well as a period piece.
Funny, the way "Take Hand" has a tip of the hat to "Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven," right after I write about The Beach Boys' followup to another Berry-penned single. Then, this Australian native segues into a band from Down Under. I couldn't have planned the flow any better.
Sherbet - "Howzat"
(Debuted #85, Peaked #61, 8 Weeks on chart)
Sherbet were probably the first big Australian band to build their career without having to move to the U.K. or U.S. to get their break. They were the first group to reach the $1 million dollar mark there, and their regional tours were big draws. Singer Daryl Braithwaite even had a solo career between the band's albums. They didn't attempt to go international until the success of "Howzat" forced them to.
"Howzat" was a #1 Australian hit that also reached the Top 10 in many countries across Europe. In the U.S., however, it fell short of the Top 40 despite its eminently catchy pop hooks. Since "Howzat" is a cricket term (used when appealing an umpire's call), that may explain its success in other countries where the game of cricket is more well-known.
America - "Amber Cascades"
(Debuted #86, Peaked #75, 4 Weeks on chart)
Listening to "Amber Cascades," it's easy to pick up on the lines about calling "on a man who walks on the water" and assuming it's from the pen of Dan Peek, who was undergoing a religious awakening that would lead him to leave the group soon afterward. However, the song was written by Dewey Bunnell, not Peek (who passed away last month).
While America wasn't exactly an overlooked band during the 1970s, they were beginning to fade out chart-wise and "Amber Cascades" probably didn't get the chance it deserved. Featuring an acoustic guitar at the beginning, tight vocal harmonies and George Martin's production skills, it was both a return to the sound of their earlier hit "Tin Man" and a move toward a more adult sound that wasn't part of the band's repertoire when they did "A Horse With No Name."
Instead of a new direction, "Amber Cascades" turned out to be America's final single to reach the Hot 100 until 1979.
The Beach Boys - "It's O.K."
(Debuted #87, Peaked #29, 10 Weeks on chart)
The Beach Boys were one of the best American bands of the 1960s. Beginning with songs that celebrated surfing and the California culture, their songs evolved as technology allowed them to get closer to what leader Brian Wilson envisioned in his mind. However, after coming up with the superb album Pet Sounds and the influential single "Good Vibrations," the band wasn't able to ride the wave they started themselves.
During the early 1970s, the band was still putting out new material but weren't enjoying the success they had in the previous decade. Suddenly, a nostalgic movement that recalled the sound of pre-Beatles rock made them relevant again. Their music was part of the soundtrack of American Graffiti and their Endless Summer LP was a surprise hit in 1973. As a result, they began coming up with material that recalled their 1960s hits, and "It's O.K." was among the tunes that helped fans look back.
Ironically, "It's O.K." was less of a hit than the group's remake of Chuck Berry's "Rock and Roll Music" that was a Top 10 hit during the early summer (a time that was great for the Beach Boys to be chart-bound). Sadly, the spirit of looking back meant that the band was going to have more success doing songs that were from the era than they would with originals that captured the sound and style of that era. That's a problem many artists have later in their careers; their fans still expect to hear what they did two or three decades before.
Sweeney Todd - "Roxy Roller" (Not Available on iTunes)
(Debuted #90, Peaked #90, 2 Weeks on chart)
Sweeney Todd was a Canadian band that introduced both Nick Gilder (singer of "Hot Child in the City") and Bryan Adams to American audiences. But neither singer was part of the group at the same time; the teenaged Adams replaced Gilder in 1976 after Gilder and guitarist Jim McCulloch suddenly left to pursue other musical avenues.
In addition to two different lineups of Sweeney Todd, there are also two versions of "Roxy Roller." Gilder sang the original that appeared on the band's debut LP. After Adams came on board, he recorded a new version of the song with his own vocal while it was still a chart single. As a result, both versions have been credited as the "hit' version. My MP3 version has Gilder at the microphone, but i still don't know which version was on the single that charted on the Hot 100 (if you know, leave a comment below).
"Roxy Roller" is definitely a glitter rock song. It has the sound, but unfortunately it doesn't stand out from many other glitter tunes of its era. It sounds like it could have been recorded by Sweet, Smokie or Mott the Hoople.
The Isley Brothers - "Harvest For the World"
(Debuted #92, Peaked #63, 11 Weeks on chart)
As the early 1970s passed into history and the years of the Vietnam War were safely in the rearview mirror of the American consciousness, the socially aware song -- so prevalent in those early years of the new decade -- seemed to fade into a pleasant memory. Despite that, the Isley Brothers came out with this call for brotherhood.
The Isleys deliver their message in their usual funky style, with Ronald standing at the pulpit and brothers O'Kelly and Rudolph chiming in when needed. However, since the "cause" record wasn't in vogue in 1976 despite its solid groove, the song fared poorly on the pop chart. It did make the Top 10 on the R&B chart, however. It also made the Top 10 in the U.K.
This is another song worth at least one listen.
Gallagher and Lyle - "Heart On My Sleeve"
(Debuted #93, Peaked #83, 5 Weeks on chart)
Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle were Scottish-born singer/songwriters, performing together and as parts of groups like McGuiness Flint and Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance. Though the 1970s saw a lot of singer/songwriter duos, Gallagher & Lyle had been working together as early as 1959.
"Heart on My Sleeve" was a mid-tempo number that was one of several songs from their LP Breakaway that would show up on other artists' records in the mid-1970s. Bryan Ferry also hit with the song later that year. That version was reviewed in this blog nearly two years ago. The song "Breakaway" appeared on a single by Art Garfunkel and "Stay Young" was a country #1 for Don Williams.
The pair split up in 1979, and Lyle continued to write music (he co-wrote Tina Turner's "What's Love Got to Do With it" and "We Don't Need Another Hero").
The Atlanta Rhythm Section - "Free Spirit"
(Debuted #94, Peaked #85, 3 Weeks on chart)
"Free Spirit" really deserved a better chance at becoming a hit. It's a great 1970s tune that fits the era's "sound" well, even if the lyrics sometimes come off as boasting.
The Atlanta Rhythm Section hadn't yet fulfilled its potential; "Imaginary Lover" and "So Into You" were not yet recorded at the time and the band was largely a studio band. The members had been playing together for years as the house band at Studio One in Doraville, Georgia. Some members were part of a local group called The Candymen, while others had been in The Classics IV. Singer Ronnie Hammond (another singer who passed away this year) actually came to the group after starting on the other side of the console as a sound engineer.
The lyrics of "Free Spirit" told the story of a woman who was a lot more liberated than those the narrator was used to, especially in the supposedly more "genteel" South. While the lines seem like an explanation of a great time with a freaky girl that many of us might remember hearing from friends during our youth, the backing music is worth listening to. The guitar licks that propel the song are superb, the solo is great, and the music was as tight as anything that came out of Los Angeles or Nashville during the period.
Jigsaw - "Brand New Love Affair"
(Debuted #95, Peaked #81, 3 Weeks on chart)
Best known the the U.S. for the 1975 hit song "Sky High," that single's B-side surfaced a year later. While not as complex as the earlier hit in its instrumentation, it enjoyed two separate if unsuccessful runs on the Hot 100. This was the first appearance, stalling at #81. It would reach #66 when its second chance came.
"Brand New Love Affair" (not to be confused with Chicago's hit single of the same name) was a purely pop confection. Its lyrics are a celebration of a couple still in love after several years, a nice change from the regular pop arena where the love is usually new.


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As U.S., U.K. plan to roll out vaccines in December, Canada largely silent on distribution
U.S. vaccine czar says vaccinations to start on Dec. 12; U.K. booking appointments for high-risk patients
Two of Canada's closest allies have laid out plans to distribute new vaccines against the deadly novel coronavirus, with the first shots expected to be delivered in December.
Canada, meanwhile, has been largely silent on how promising vaccine candidates will be distributed here after Health Canada regulators give them the green light — providing few, if any, details beyond a promise to work with the provinces and territories and buy cold storage.
The federal government has procured some 358 million doses from seven companies — an insurance policy against the possibility that some of the vaccines in development prove to be ineffective in clinical trials. Little is known about how and when the vaccines will be made available, however.
"Our government has worked hard to secure tens of millions of doses, so we're prepared once a safe, effective vaccine is ready for Canadians," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today, adding that it's "premature" to say when communities will have access to the vaccines.
Trudeau said Canada — unlike the U.S., the United Kingdom and Germany — doesn't have any domestic vaccine manufacturing capacity, which means it could be a while yet before Canadians get a dose. "We're looking forward to being able to vaccinate Canadians in the coming months," he said.
WATCH: Trudeau says lack of Canadian manufacturing capacity to blame for vaccine challenges
Dr. Moncef Slaoui is the chief scientific adviser to Operation Warp Speed — the U.S. mission to develop a vaccine, manufacture it in large quantities and push it out into communities. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is set to meet on Dec. 10 to make a final decision on Pfizer's highly-effective vaccine and Slaoui said inoculations will begin immediately.
"Our plan is to be able to ship vaccines to the immunization sites within 24 hours from the approval," Slaoui said in an interview with CNN.
"I would expect maybe on day two after approval, on Dec. 11 or Dec 12, hopefully, the first people will be immunized across the U.S., across all states, in all areas where the state departments of health have told us to deliver the vaccine."
20 million Americans to be vaccinated in December
Slaoui said as many as 20 million Americans will be vaccinated in December, and 30 million more Americans will be vaccinated in every subsequent month.
Since October, Pfizer has been manufacturing hundreds of thousands of doses each week — even though it hasn't yet received regulatory approval. The company hopes to make 100 million doses available this year and another 1.3 billion in 2021. Each patient will need two doses of Pfizer's vaccine.
The National Health Service (NHS) in England has designated 1,250 local health clinics as vaccine sites where, starting as early as Dec. 1, staff will be on hand to administer the vaccine over 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. Each clinic site is expected to inoculate at least 975 people per week.
The NHS already has started booking vaccine appointments, designating blocks to priority groups. Vaccinations in the U.K. will start with older adult residents in long-term care homes and care home workers, all those 80 years of age and over and health and social care workers, before being offered to those aged 75 years or younger.
"I have tasked the NHS with being ready from any date from Dec. 1. The logistics are complex, the uncertainties are real and the scale of the job is vast, but I know that the NHS, brilliantly assisted by the armed services, will be up to the task," Matt Hancock, the U.K.'s health secretary, told Parliament last week.
In May, the U.S. tapped a retired four-star army general, Gen. Gustave Perna, to coordinate the distribution efforts — a massive task that will see millions of doses of the vaccine deployed to every state starting next month, through a partnership with U.S. drug distribution giant McKesson.
Perna is a former commanding general for the U.S. Army Materiel Command, which manages the Army's global supply chain, making him uniquely qualified to run such a complicated distribution network.
"The country's existing public health infrastructure is well tested — we see evidence every fall when Americans receive the flu vaccine in large numbers. But these are not normal times," Perna said in a media statement. "Leveraging our military planning and logistics capability and combining that with proven methods will allow existing systems to scale quickly to get the vaccine to the American people."
More than 1 million standard kits — which would cover 100 million vaccine doses — have been assembled by Operation Warp Speed.
The military and McKesson will distribute vaccines along with ancillary kits with all the required supplies to administer them, such as needles, syringes, alcohol pads and limited personal protective equipment.
Pfizer has an assembly centre in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and the drug manufacturer plans to use private shipping companies such as UPS and FedEx to deliver vaccines to hospitals and vaccination sites within hours.
Watch: Bains and Anand explain how Ottawa is developing Canadian vaccine production.:
While Operation Warp Speed will deliver vaccine shipments, it will be up to the states, territories and major metropolitan areas to further define where the doses ultimately go. All 50 states have submitted COVID-19 distribution plans to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
The CDC has flowed more than $300 million to the states to fine-tune the deployment process and, last month, the agency publicly released a 75-page playbook detailing everything from vaccine provider recruitment and enrolment guidelines, vaccine storage and handling tips to information on which groups should be first in line for a shot.
The CDC also has signed agreements with major U.S. pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens to assist with on-site vaccinations at long-term care facilities (LTCs), which have been especially hard hit by the pandemic.
Germany also could start administering shots of COVID-19 vaccines as soon as next month, Jens Spahn, the country's health minister, said Sunday.
Spahn said he has asked Germany's federal states to have their vaccination centres ready by mid-December. "I'd rather have a ready-to-go immunization centre that remains inactive for several days than a licensed vaccine that cannot be administered," the minister said, adding that vulnerable persons, such as the elderly, would be treated first.
Canadian officials working 'around the clock': health minister
The Canadian federal government, by comparison, has said little publicly about what it has planned for vaccine distribution.
The scientists at the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) recently issued preliminary guidance on who should get priority for a vaccine.
Watch: 'We don't want it touching the ground' | Retired General Rick Hillier.:
Public Services and Procurement Minister Anita Anand announced last week the government has plans to purchase more than 100 new freezers to help store incoming COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer but also Moderna.
When asked Tuesday why Canada seems to be further behind in the race to distribute vaccines, Health Minister Patty Hajdu said the whole process is complicated and Health Canada hasn't yet approved a vaccine candidate.
"I can't speak to allied countries' regulatory processes. I can just speak to mine," she said.
Hajdu said the health department is "working hand in glove" with procurement officials to distribute a vaccine, once Canada gets one.
"All of our departments are working right now, around the clock actually, on making sure we have a concrete plan with the provinces and territories, that we are ready to deploy the vaccines as soon as they arrive on Canadian soil," she said.
Watch: Ottawa can't provide timeline on when COVID-19 vaccine will be distributed:


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Dividend Imputation under threat from Treasury?
Posted on SMSF Adviser January 2015 in response to Taxpayers Australia "The tax agenda for SMSFs in 2015" Friday 2 January 2015
Dr Terry Dwyer, Dwyer Lawyers 2015-01-02 12:24
It would be amazing if Taxpayers Australia were to support the abolition of franking credits – that is, support the re-introduction of double taxation of dividend income. If the Government did so, it would achieve 3 objects brilliantly:1. It would guarantee its defeat (not the most important effect, but one which might concentrate its mind);2. weaken Australian domestic equity markets and encourage a sell-off to foreigners;3. send people out of superannuation into direct property and offshore investments.There are tax and investment strategies which are, even now, not that far behind superannuation in terms of net returns. Abolition of dividend franking would make them unambiguously superior – and with no hassles such as in-house investment rules or contribution caps or exposure to super splitting orders.


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State Authorization for Online Education
If you are a Pearl River Community College (PRCC) student or a prospective student who will not reside in Mississippi while enrolled in PRCC online classes, be aware that all U.S. states require post-secondary educational institutions to be legally authorized to provide online education courses to students in all states and territories. PRCC participates in the "National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (NC-SARA), an agreement among member states, districts, and territories that establishes comparable national standards for interstate offering of postsecondary online education courses and programs. It is intended to make it easier for students to take online courses offered by postsecondary institutions based in another state. SARA is overseen by a National Council and administered by four regional educational compacts."
Colleges and universities in a SARA state only need their home state authorization to offer online education to any other SARA member state. A current list of member states can be found here.
Online Education Complaint Process
For PRCC's Out-of-State Students
Pearl River Community College seeks to resolve concerns and complaints in a fair and timely manner. Students who have a complaint may submit their concerns to the Office of eLearning at firstname.lastname@example.com. Complaints regarding student grades or student conduct violations are governed entirely by the PRCC policy. PRCC online students with academic concerns are encouraged to contact the Office of eLearning. View entire complaints/grievances policy here. Students should exhaust PRCC's internal complaint process before pursuing external options.
If a complaint cannot be resolved through the Pearl River Community College student complaints process, students may file a complaint with the Mississippi Commission on College Accreditation by visiting their site. Students may also contact the appropriate agency in their state of residency. A current list of agencies can be found here.
Note: This process is not applicable to matters related to student grades or discipline/conduct matters.
Professional Licensure
If you live outside the state of Mississippi and are considering a program that leads to licensure, it is highly recommended that you should contact the appropriate licensing board in your home state before beginning an academic program at PRCC. While every attempt is made to stay informed of the laws in each state, it is the responsibility of the student to contact the appropriate licensing board in his or her home state to confirm whether or not the PRCC program will meet the state's licensure requirements.
Licensure requirements for the program you are considering can be found here.


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One Of The Greensboro Four Remembered On A&T Campus
Civil rights pioneer Franklin McCain will be laid to rest Friday, following an afternoon funeral in Charlotte. Hundreds of people turned out to North Carolina A&T State University Thursday to remember an historic figure. McCain was one the four teenagers who sat down at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro on February first, 1960.
McCain is best known for his role in the sit-in movement. To those who knew him well, that's just a small part of his story. He was a leader, friend, father, active community member, scientist, almost always meticulously prepared and life-long learner. McCain lay in repose Thursday on the campus of North Carolina A&T. The tributes included music and prayer.
"He went on to say "I'm not concerned with your dreams. Dreams put you to sleep. I'm concerned with your nightmares. Nightmares keep you up and awake. Nightmares make you plan and resort to action," said Claudette Bennett, recalling what McCain said a few years ago, on the 50th anniversary of the sit-in. In total, nearly 20 people spoke.
McCain was a man of action. He was joined by three other A&T freshmen on February 1st, 1960. They asked for service at a segregated Woolworth's Lunch Counter in downtown Greensboro. They were denied service, but set off a chapter of the Civil Rights era. Additional sit-in support came the next day. Within two months there were demonstrations in 54 southern cities.
"Frank McCain was my big brother," said Joseph McNeil, another of the A&T, or Greensboro, 4 who stood up to segregation. He wasn't biologically related to McCain.
"He was also my best friend, for 50-some years. I would get these strange phone calls at 3-oclock in the morning. My wife would say 'who is it? Who's calling you' I'd say 'you know it's Frank'," added McNeil.
McNeil has often referred to McCain as a giant of a man. Jibreel Khazan is the other surviving member of the quartet. He was born Ezell Blair, Jr. before changing his name. He says McCain is now watching over his actions.
"Hopefully I'll see him again he's going to probably said "did you do what you were supposed to do Junior, Blair? And I'll say yes 'I did my best Frank' and he will say well you can do better. He would always say you can do better. That's what I keep in mind," said Khazan.
McCain had been sick for several weeks before passing away last Thursday night in a Greensboro hospital. Family, friends, supporters and even those who didn't know him personally turned out to pay their respects.
"I'm reminded of what John Kennedy said about a torch being passed to a new generation. Well truly, a torch is passing to a new generation, because that civil rights generation is moving away. And now younger folk have got to step up and continue the march to true equality of opportunity," said Kelly Alexander, who knew McCain for decades.
McCain was active in the NAACP, Legal Defense Fund and his church. He made his home in Charlotte, working as a chemist for more than 30 years. He raised three sons with his wife, Bettye Davis. She passed away just more than a year ago. At that time Franklin picked out a poem to be read at his wife's memorial, titled "When tomorrow starts without me". His son Franklin, Jr. felt it appropriate to share the reading his father had chosen last year:
When tomorrow starts without me, and I'm not here to see, if the sun should rise and find your eyes all filled with tears for me; I wish so much you wouldn't cry the way you did today, while thinking of the many things we didn't get to say. - Excerpt of poem, ready by Franklin McCain, Jr. in honor of his father
McCain, McNeil as well as Jibreel Khazan (at the time Ezell Blair, Jr.) and David Richmond set-off a series of sit-in demonstrations throughout the Jim Crow south. McCain will be remembered by history as one of four men who sat down at a segregated Woolworths lunch counter on February 1st, 1960. Family and friends remembered him as an activist, but also as a father, friend and community leader. According to son Franklin Jr., McCain Sr. recently indicated from a hospital bed that his time was coming.
"Daddy always liked you to be prepared. So when that day came on January 9th at 10:26 pm when he took his last breath; one year and seven days after our mother; I knew, we knew that he was going to be OK," said Franklin McCain Jr.
McCain's funeral is at 2 p.m. Friday in Charlotte. He will be buried in Oak Lawn Park Cemetery.
He was 73.


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When I was a rough-and-tumble 5th grader decrying being forced to read Dickens as "cruel and unusual punishment," a most enlightened teacher (God bless you, Mrs. Warner, you'd probably be fired today) handed me a copy of the Collected Works of Poe with the admonition that "these, too, are classics." A young boy's mind expanded in wonder at The Raven, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Telltale Heart, and yes, the beautiful Annabel Lee. That boy moved on the inhale Verne, absorb Wells, and assimilate Kipling. A lifetime of pleasure began with a small book that included this poem, and I don't know that that would have happened had I been force-fed the crashing bores of mainstream classical literature.ReplyDelete
Thank you for a lovely trip down memory lane. I, too, was struck by the cadences of this poem, and reciting it, I was 11 again, if only for a moment. Wonderful taste, M'Lady!Replies
You had a great teacher! I'm just realizing that this poem is a good gateway drug to the classics. :) Thanks for reading and commenting as always Jack!Delete
I remember reading this poem in 6th or 7th grade. I absolutely loved it - it's so haunting and lyrical. The words of this poem fit together right in my mouth. Thank you for reminding me of it!ReplyDeleteReplies
So glad to remind you of a great classic poem. :) Thanks for commenting!Delete
I loved this poem so much! I am planning to do 'The Raven' at some point..I think it's on Halloween that I have it on my schedule..but actually this is my favorite of his poems!ReplyDeleteReplies
Oh I was thinking of doing the Raven too! It's another fave. I don't even schedule these! I just pick one a few days ahead and post it! I should think of following some sort of theme though!Delete


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Weekly Nascar News and Notes
by Virginia Vroom of Predictem.com
For the last few years, rules surrounding qualifying have come under
constant scrutiny, especially from those drivers classified as go or
go homers. This is because the long-standing consensus regarding
qualifying remained that everyone qualify in a certain random order
despite being guaranteed a spot in the race or not. Drivers like
Michael Waltrip, Dale Jarrett, and Robby Gordon consistently failed to
qualify for many races (honestly, the majority of the races) because
of circumstances surrounding this rule.
However, it seems as though NASCAR officials are finally catching up
with the reasoning of drivers who despise this rule. Announced this
past week, NASCAR will allow those drivers who must qualify on time to
qualify at the end of the session in their own group. This means that
those who are guaranteed a spot because of provisionals or owners
points or whatever other circumstance will qualify as usual with a
random number drawing system amongst themselves. Those drivers like
Waltrip who do not have enough owner's points or provisionals to be
guaranteed a spot will
have a more equal chance to make the race.
By doing this, the go or go-homers get an opportunity to focus on
other aspects of their cars rather than just making the race. This
has been such a huge problem in the past because drivers were focusing
so much on qualifying that even if they made the race, they rarely
made a good showing. This is important for these drivers because they
can focus on race-trim instead of qualifying trim. In the past, these
drivers were stuck spending every ounce of energy and time they had on
their qualifying trim just to make the car fast enough to get in the
race. Because of this, drivers lost critical knowledge of their car's
handling and setup for the actual races. This proved to be extremely
instrumental in impound races like those at the super speedways.
According to the new rules change, this will not happen until the race
in California when qualifying occurs on February 22nd. This is
because at Daytona, there are special circumstances surrounding
qualifying with the Bud Duels and the Shootout. The field is set in a
different manner than any other race. The Nationwide Busch Series and
the Craftsman Truck Series will also allow this rule change, but they
will begin with Daytona as there are no special setups for
qualifying. For the Sprint series, there are 35 locked-in drivers.
From 36th on back, it's a free-for-all based on who's the quickest.
This is definitely going to prove to be a more equal playing field as
say, for example, Waltrip won't get a second-start draw on qualifying
when Jarrett makes his qualifying run 40th. Track conditions often
change drastically between qualifying runs and especially when the sun
starts going down on the track and it cools. With the go or go-homers
qualifying basically at the same time, there is a much fairer playing
field and track conditions will most likely show a negligible change.
While a lot of this may seem to be playing favorites, its pretty
clear that if anyone needs a break and an exception to the rule, its
those drivers outside of the top 35. These guys fight week in and
week out and often struggle to make their dreams reality against teams
like Hendrick and Gibbs who clearly have everything they need set out
in front of them. So, there is no longer a need for an exception.
The rule is in NASCARs books. Those drivers who are not locked into
the top 35 week-in and week-out will be able to qualify amongst
themselves at the end of the regular qualifying session. Good work to
NASCAR for making a smart change in the rules. I think that this will
be beneficial for everyone, not just the teams outside the top 35.
There will be fewer opportunities for wrecks, blown engines, etc. by
allowing these teams ample time to prepare and less stress when it
comes to competing with the mega-teams.
24 days until Daytona strikes again, 16 days until the Budweiser
Shootout, and 21 days until the Gatorade Duels. Were getting close!


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Scott and Jeff I'd like to thank you and compliment all of your employees for the excellent service you provided me last week on the painting of me 1989 Lincoln Town Car. I am very pleased with your service I received at your location. You show the expertise and Professionalism and ability for the job well done. Many residents within my community were shocked with your work performed. LOOKS GREAT JOE GREAT. The vehicle looked as though it just came out of the showroom. Again I like to thank you. I will be happy to write any review of the great service you perform.
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I want to take this opportunity to Thank You all for the wonderful paint work, you did for me on my Honda! I can't even tell where the dent was. That color matches the original very nicely. You sure have my "seal" of approval and I have and will continue to refer your business enthusiastically to others. Thanks again, Laura H.
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This is a letter of thanks to all of you at Affordable Auto Painting. Thank you for the hours of work you put into my 2004 Mazdaspeed Miata that I just picked up earlier this month. I smile every time I look at my car and I have you all to thank for that smooth shine.
I wish I could personally thank each one of you. My hope is that Jeff or Scott posts or reads this to you all in person so you know that your work does not go un-noticed and that it is very much appreciated.
I'm not sure if it was a team effort or an individual but thank you for taking the time to mask the car so well. The door jams, the hood, trunk and all the light fixtures, were all done beautifully. Also impressive was the masking in wheel wells, the radiator, the windshield perimeter as well as the tailpipe. I know all that effort takes time and attention to detail to pull it off correctly. It's clear to me that you are skilled and that you take the time to do it well.
There was some repair work required prior to paint and this too went well and exceeded my expectations. My car entered your shop with numerous and randomly scattered chips in the front, clear coat condensation on the hood and occasional door dings along the side. When my car left your shop these imperfections were filled and feathered and nicely shaped to match the body. Another job done well was the rebirth of the trunk lid. As you may recall, I brought to you in a different color. I'm impressed how you effectively covered the hidden underside of the old grey trunk to the matching new color. Again, I know good work takes drive and determination. I shall continue to be grateful for your work every time I open the trunk.
As for the paint finish, I think you did a fine job creating a similar surface and texture to the new vehicle. Very recently I had the opportunity to park near a brand new car. As I angled my head to examine the finish, I thought the finish on my Miata was a good and perhaps ever better than that new car.
I must tell you what initially won me as a customer was Scott's sincere and un-assuming manners. Auto painting is a very special and complicated business and even though I'm familiar with automobiles mechanically, the paint and body business is still very mysterious so I had to place my trust in the skills of your shop. With Scott being the direct interface with the customer, his words are the foundation a new customer uses to envision the final effort of your shops work and I believe he does an excellent job and honestly describes your team's talent. Although I never had the opportunity to meet the owner Jeff or the rest of you folks, I can tell by working with Scott that everyone in your company aims to do exactly what they write out on the work order. Perhaps that sounds trivial, but the act of doing what you say you will do is the essence of 'credibility'. Credibility is something very special and is not something you can buy. It's a reflection of who you are, and how you treat others. It's clear that you all have learned that very extraordinary talent in your life's journey.
Because I want you to all know that my letter is sincere and my words of appreciation are true and accurate, I feel I must mention all my thoughts and impressions. About the only item that did not exceed my expectation was the car being a darker shade of red than I had envisioned. I was puzzled at first as to why but I believe it's related to the metal flake percentage. I can see there isn't as much of the shiny metal flakes as before and I suspect fewer silver flakes makes the paint appear darker then the OEM. TO be fair, I know Mazda's Velocity Red 27A 'MICA' is a special paint and has a very large percentage of little metal flakes. I assume it must be difficult to spray these flakes. In hind sight, I may have requested adjustments or altered color, but please don't let that item distract you from an overwhelmingly positive job.
Again, your work is commendable. Please contact me if you need an independent reference or an on-line review. My cell is 772-xxx-xxxx and again extend my sincere thanks to everyone.
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The leftist liberal agenda in our country is vividly on display and illustrates their extreme hypocrisy when it comes to that word "tolerance" and "freedom of speech". As long as you agree with their viewpoint on certain issues, they leave us alone.
They will "tolerate" us.
As soon as we disagree with them, such as the homosexual agenda or sanctity of life, they become the "intolerant" and they will disrupt our freedom of assembly and free speech.
Victoria Cobb of the Family Foundation here in Richmond, Va., experienced this as she spoke to a crowd outside their offices.
"When I gave a speech outside of my office in Richmond about the real liberal war on women and family values, liberals showed up and protested. While protests or even personal attacks from the Left don't bother me — I actually expect them — their plans were far more sinister.
In the video below, you'll see the liberal activists tried to shout loud enough so no one in the audience could hear what I was saying. This should be a wake-up call to all Virginians about the direction our state is heading. The last thing the Left wants is for people to hear our ideas.
Our liberty depends on free speech and I take this attack on spreading our message seriously, as I know you do as well. Rest assured that they will never keep me quiet when our freedom is at stake — for families and for Virginia. Please watch this shocking video and tell me what you think in the comment section."
As President of The Family Foundation of Virginia, Mrs. Victoria Cobb is responsible for the leadership and direction of the Commonwealth's largest and oldest pro-family organization. In her role she maintains the vision and mission of the organization while managing all areas of operations. Victoria also serves as the organization's spokesperson and is regularly in demand as a speaker and commentator on family issues in the media. She has been with the pro-family organization since 2000. Read more


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Azelastine, a generic anti-histamine medication, has previously been identified as potential antiCOVID-19 drug by CEBINA in collaboration with Professor Robert Konrat, a renowned structural biologist (Department of Structural and Computational Biology, University of Vienna, Austria) who applied a novel computational prediction approach and Professor Ferenc Jakab and his group (Head of National Laboratory of Virology at the Szentágothai Research Centre, University of Pécs, Hungary), providing experimental confirmation. The potent anti-SARS-CoV-2 activity of azelastine formulated in a nasal spray was demonstrated in an experimental reconstituted human nasal tissue model and was evident at a lower dose than present in commercially available products.
"The confirmation of the efficacy of azelastine in human nasal tissue can have major implications in the fight against COVID-19 as we witness the second wave of coronavirus infections, with record rises in the number of new cases registered daily. We believe a nasal spray formulation containing azelastine could be an immediate prophylactic or post-exposure solution to prevent nasal colonization with the SARS-CoV-2 virus as well as preventing the progression to symptomatic disease in infected individuals and the spread of the virus in the population" - commented Eszter Nagy, MD PhD, CEO and founder of CEBINA GmbH.
"Using the reconstituted human nasal tissue model, we simulated the clinical situation of nasal colonization by SARS-CoV-2 and have observed the strong inhibition of viral propagation. This translational data indicates that azelastine is a potent antiviral agent." said Professor Ferenc Jakab.
"The experimental confirmation of our computational prediction demonstrates that our novel approach to drug repurposing is an effective way to quickly identify new medical uses for existing, immediately available medicines with known safety profiles." commented Professor Robert Konrat.
CEBINA, jointly with its research collaborators, has submitted its findings for publication (under peer-review) and has issued the manuscript on a preprint server for immediate dissemination (https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.15.296228).
CEBINA is planning a proof-of-concept clinical trial to confirm the efficacy of azelastine against nasal colonization and is in discussion with potential licensing partners for worldwide production and distribution of an anti-COVID-19 azelastine nasal spray.
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June 14, 2018 – Dry weather through Friday with a gradual cooling trend. A few mountain showers and thunderstorms possible this weekend with additional cooling. A slight warm up early next week with continued mountain shower threat.
A weak upper trough over the Pacific Northwest and NorCal will bring a little cooling today although daytime highs will remain several degrees above normal. At this time it appears only a moderate delta breeze has developed and marine layer remains at only around 1000 feet deep so the delta and Sacramento regions should remain relatively warm today as well.
The upper trough over the Pacific Northwest digs a bit southward over NorCal on Friday bringing a little more airmass cooling and still slightly cooler temperatures but any precipitation should remain north of the forecast area. A continued moderate delta breeze should help to drop Sacramento temperatures down to close to season normals.
A small low dropping into the west coast trough and into NorCal on Saturday will bring a slight threat of showers or thunderstorms to the northern mountains of Shasta county and the southern Cascades. This inside slider type system will likely not bring any precipitation west of the Sierra foothills with most of the CWA remaining dry.
Daytime temperatures should continued to fall however with most locations seeing high temperatures near or below normals. The upper low moves into the central Great Basin on Sunday generating a continued threat of mountain showers or thunderstorms over the Sierra Cascade range on Sunday while keeping daytime highs on the cool side for mid June.
Extended discussion (Monday through Thursday)
Longer range models continue to trend toward a more unsettled weather pattern next week. It is becoming more likely that a closed upper low dropping south from the PacNW will remain quasi-stationary over the region into the middle of next week. Where precisely this sets up is uncertain at this stage, but there appears to be enough dynamics for a chance of showers and thunderstorms over higher terrain. Temperatures forecast to be close to average.


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Cuban Night Out @ Sin Bin Every Last Thursday of the Month
Cuban Night Out in East London
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29 Jun 2023, 19:00 – 23:50
Sin Bin (Plough & Harrow), 419 High Rd Leytonstone, London E11 4JU, UK
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Cuban Night Out Every last Thursday of the Month
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If you want to learn to dance Cuban salsa and Rueda, or improve your dancing skills, why not come down and give it a try.
Lessons are from 8pm with the Cuban Vibes Dance School
Dancing from 9-12pm with a license bar on the premises.
Classes & Social Dancing £10 and Social Dancing Only £8.
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text: PASL wants united North American indoor soccer scene; willing to work with MISL By Steven Sandor Posted on May 22, 2011 1 0 700 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The Professional Arena Soccer League wants to work with the Major Indoor Soccer League. While the United Soccer Leagues, which took over the administration of the MISL last week, has made it clear that it thinks that its league is by the best indoor league on the continent, the PASL hopes the two leagues can discuss interleague play and competing against each other in Cup tournaments. "We have had constant dialogue with the MISL and we don't see them as our competition or enemy," said Sydney Nusinov, the PASL's director of operations. But the level of cooperation between the two leagues will be influenced by which sanctioning organization the MISL chooses. PASL belongs to Federacion International de Futbol Rapido (FIFRA). "Our goal is to have them join FIFRA, play in our U.S. Open tournament and conduct interleague play, but if they join USSF (United States Soccer Federation), that might be more difficult," said Nusinov. But, according to USL president Tim Holt, MISL looks to be working on developing its own pyramid — with a top division and support from the I-League. "At the present time, we are focused on managing the MISL at the level these teams deserve, as well as continuing to build our I-League as a supporting division to the MISL," said Holt. "In doing so, we will seek capable indoor team owners and operators at various levels to participate in our efforts to establish an indoor soccer pyramid in the United States and Canada in the years to come." As of this moment, there are no Canadian teams in MISL, even though USL president Tim Holt said there is interest from cities in our home and native land. The PASL is affiliated with the Canadian Major Indoor Soccer League, which features clubs in Edmonton, Calgary and Winnipeg. CMISL president Mel Kowalchuk is hopeful those numbers will grow. The champs of the CMISL, the Mexican indoor league and the PASL-Pro division gather every year to decide the overall league champs. So, PASL has reach in three countries, MISL in one, with hopes to add a second. The Omaha franchise defected from MISL to PASL before the announcement of the USL takeover. PASL uses a traditional scoring system, while the MISL employs a system where three-point, two-point and single-point values assigned to goals depending on how and where they are scored — think basketball scoring applied to soccer. PASL also has the San Diego Sockers, one of the powerhouse franchises of indoor soccer on the continent, in its fold. "We have a lot to work on but I think their (MISL) budgets have shrunk every year and our level of play has increased and we will be a force to be reckoned with in the next few years, but we are not quite there now," said Nusinov. "The MISL only has three teams that have ever played a game so if they want to maintain that those three teams are the top level of indoor soccer they can have that distinction. But my focus is more on what we're doing and how we can grow and improve." MISL has seven clubs on its roster for the 2011-2012 season, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Wichita, Norfolk, Syracuse and Rochester. PASL, on top of snatching the Omaha Vipers from MISL, has expansion franchises set in Anaheim, Phoenix and Topeka, Kan. Really, it's been amazing how fractured the world of pro indoor soccer has been over the last two decades. Before the PASL, the old National Professional Soccer League, which had franchises in Edmonton, Toronto and Montreal at various times in its existence, competed with the MISL, which had teams in the U.S. and Mexico. For a sport that's emerging and gets little or no mainstream media coverage, the pie has been sliced many times.


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Lacy Hunt reports on three recent academic studies indicating that the Fed's unconventional asset purchasing programs have failed. Antonio Fatas is "sympathetic to the argument that Quantitative Easing has had a limited effect on GDP growth", but takes issue with some parts of Hunt's analysis, and argues that the way Hunt analyzes the relationship between reserves and the money multiplier "is not consistent with the conclusions reached about the lack of effectiveness of monetary policy actions." I believe there are problems with both Hunt's analysis and Fatas's analysis of that analysis. My best guess is that QE has had negligible macroeconomic effects. But some of the considerations Hunt and Fatas adduce in attempting to evaluate that question are red herrings, and don't get us closer to an answer.
Hunt claims:
If reserves created by LSAP (Large Scale Asset Purchases) were spreading throughout the economy in the traditional manner, the money multiplier should be more stable. However, if those reserves were essentially funding speculative activity, the money would remain with the large banks and the money multiplier would fall. This is the current condition.
To which Fatas responds:
How can reserves be funding speculative activities if they remain in the balance sheet of the banks? Reserves represent an asset in the balance sheet of commercial banks. They have increased by having commercial banks selling other assets to the central bank. So the amount of "riskier" or "less liquid" assets must have decreased.
But contrary to what both Hunt and Fatas seem to imply, whether or not banks are using reserves for riskier speculative activities cannot be determined by looking at changes in aggregate bank reserve balances.
Most businesses in the modern world do not do business with piles of physical cash. The money they hold, and use for day-to-day business operations, is held on account as a deposit at some bank. People or firms who are selling stocks or commodities obviously have bank accounts. If some speculating bank purchases assets of those kinds from the seller, then a payment will be made by the bank to the seller. In order for the payment to be settled and cleared, a transfer will have been made from the reserve account of the bank purchasing the assets to the reserve account of the seller's bank. Total bank reserves will be unaffected. (If the seller happens to have a deposit account at the purchasing bank itself, then the bank will just credit more money to the seller's deposit account, and both the bank's own reserves and aggregate banking system reserves will be unaffected.)
Aggregate bank reserves do not drop as a result of an increase in economic activity unless people for some reason show an increased desire to withdraw physical cash and hold onto it. Note that when people withdraw cash for ordinary, temporary commercial purposes, the cash rapidly cycles back into banks where it again forms part of banks' total reserves. I personally withdraw some cash each week so I can use it in my company's vending machines or to make very small, over-the-counter purchases at local stores. Once I have made those purchases, the mangers of the businesses who have received the cash from me collect it together with other daily cash receipts and deposit all of that cash at their bank. Cash is constantly flowing out of bank vaults and back into bank vaults, but the impact on aggregate reserve levels is negligible.
Hunt seems to recognize part of this process in stating that if banks choose to make speculative asset purchases rather than ordinary loans, then "money would remain with the large banks." But Hunt also seems to suggests that if banks were doing more ordinary lending instead, the money would not remain with the banks. But bank lending does not result in reserves leaving the banking system. When the bank makes a loan, a borrower is given money on account at the bank. As that borrower then draws on the account to make payments of various kinds, the bank will either be required to settle those payments by (i) participating in transfers of reserve balances from the bank's own reserve account to reserve accounts of other banks, (ii) debiting and crediting money from and to its own depositors's accounts without drawing on its reserves, or (ii) dispensing cash reserves to the borrower which, as before, are quickly recycled back into the banking system's total reserves. Bank lending does not result in bank reserves going out of the banking system.
Hunt's analysis also relies on claims about the so-called "money multiplier". This troublesome and much-misused term can be defined in different ways. Sometimes the term just refers to the ex post ratio of commercial bank deposit balances to total reserves, i.e. the ratio of commercial bank money to central bank money. Call this the empirical money multiplier. Others use the term to refer to the reciprocal of a central bank's formal reserve requirement. Call this the policy money multiplier. Many analysts err greatly in assuming that there is some stable connection between the empirical money multiplier and the positive money multiplier, so that deliberate central bank changes in central bank money will generate predictable changes in the quantity of commercial bank money. This assumption never had much to be said for it, and has been decisively crushed by the events post 2008.
But let's focus entirely on the empirical money multiplier, which is clearly the quantity to which Hunt is referring. Is Hunt correct in claiming that if banks start using reserves to engage in more speculative asset purchases, then the empirical money multiplier will fall? That's possible. But the empirical money multiplier can also fall as a straightforward consequence of QE without any changes in bank speculation or lending behavior. If, starting with some fixed and unchanging quantity of aggregate reserves, banks increase the ratio of loans to other assets in their portfolios, the empirical money multiplier will grow; and if they instead decrease the ratio of loans to other assets, the empirical money multiplier will fall. But reserve balances are actually fluid, especially given the Fed's asset-purchasing programs, and so the fact that there has been a fall in the empirical money multiplier cannot be used to conclude banks either are or are not increasing speculative activity or decreasing lending.
Suppose a bank owns $1 billion dollars in reserves and $9 billion in other assets, including $2 billion in treasury securities. It's total assets are thus $10 billion. Suppose it has $8 billion in deposit liabilities, so that the ratio of deposits to reserves is 8/1. Now suppose the bank sells $1 billion in treasuries to the Fed. As a result, the bank's total assets will still be $10 billion, but its reserves will now be $2 billion. Suppose the bank's rate of lending and loan collections remains unchanged, so that deposits do not change and remain at $8 billion. Then even if the bank makes no other changes in its portfolio whatsoever, its deposit-to-reserve ratio will have been slashed in half to 4/1. Lending has continued unchanged; and the bank has not increased its speculative investments. It has just swapped one kind of low-risk asset for another. But since the assets for which it swapped the treasuries – dollars on account at the Fed – comprise a part of its reserve balance, the deposit-to-reserve ratio is affected drastically. So clearly, attempts to draw conclusions about bank behavior from changes in either reserve balances or the empirical money multiplier are fraught with peril.
Hunt also claims:
(Banks) can allocate resources to their proprietary trading desks to engage in leveraged financial or commodity market speculation. By their very nature, these activities are potentially far more profitable but also much riskier. Therefore, when money is allocated to the riskier alternative in the face of limited bank capital, less money is available for traditional lending. This deprives the economy of the funds needed for economic growth, even though the banks may be able to temporarily improve their earnings by aggressive risk taking.
To which Fatas responds:
Yes, banks can trade their Reserves for either bank loans to the private sector or by purchases of risky assets (stocks). But in both cases the amount of reserves has to go down. One can make the argument that the injection of liquidity is triggering one type of lending more than another but this is inconsistent with the view that the problem with QE is that banks are simply sitting on reserves without doing anything with them.
Fatas makes a good point here: if banks are using reserves to buy other assets, then that is quite a different matter than "sitting on them". But he is quite wrong, as we have already seen, in asserting that if banks were using reserves to purchase risky assets, the quantity of bank reserves would be going down. And he also seems to accept Hunt's assertion that if banks are using reserves to speculate in stocks and suchlike assets, then that activity is putting financial constraints on their ability to generate loans. Again, bank reserves do not go out of the banking system when banks make loans, and aggregate reserves do not represent a relatively fixed quantity of loanable or available funds. Bank liquidity managers will generally respond to any need that added lending creates for additional reserves by acquiring those additional reserves, either by borrowing them from other banks or selling treasuries to the Fed. And the Fed will generally accommodate any need for additional reserves by the banking system as a whole by supplying them in a way that maintains the Fed's target policy interest rate. Right now the cost of acquiring reserves is exceedingly low – approaching 0%.
But in the present circumstances the cost of adding reserves for the banking system as a whole is a moot point, since banks are already carrying abundant excess reserves. So allocating some of those reserves to the purchase of risky assets, if that is indeed what banks are doing, leaves plenty of reserves left to cover any increased volume of interbank payments and depositor cash transactions that would be sparked by expanded lending, with no need for additional liquidity.
The whole idea that one can measure whether either lending or speculating is increasing or decreasing simply by looking at fluctuations in bank reserve accounts, or changes in the empirical money multiplier, is deeply flawed. My suggestion for economists is that they give up on the pointless task of analyzing bank behavior through the study of reserves and ratios involving reserves. If you want to see whether banks are increasing or decreasing their lending, study the statistics on bank lending; if you want to see whether they are increasing or decreasing their risky asset purchases, study bank balance sheets and measure changes in those asset classes. If you want to study whether changes in these activities are tied to Fed asset purchasing programs, study whether there is a robust temporal correlation between changes in bank behavior and changes in Fed asset purchases.
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At the upcoming OSA Biophotonics Congress in San Diego, California, researchers from the Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic and the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of California, Irvine will be reporting on a new device that can help gauge the severity and type of skin damage caused by radiation therapy.
Developed by Modulated Imaging, a company based in Irvine, the device projects different wavelengths of visible and near-infrared light onto the skin, sweeping it with light patterns that help to remove the effect of scattering from the measured signal. The technique is called Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging (SFDI), and Modulated Imaging's Reflect RS is the only system available to researchers utilizing this technology.
The researchers were able to measure the amount of melanin within the skin of women treated for breast cancer. This measurement allowed for estimates of total blood volume and oxygenation of the skin, helping to provide an objective assessment of its health.
Of course this system is not yet ready for clinical use and its capabilities will need to be further evaluated in larger studies.
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Will Hong Kong continue to be a vital global business hub?
Sun, "Population and employment distribution and urban spatial structure: An empirical analysis of metropolitan Beijing, China in the post-reform era," 2009
Tieshan Sun, Ph.D.
Abstract (Summary)
From a comparative international perspective, this dissertation explores the spatial distributions of population and employment in the Beijing metropolitan area in the post-reform era. This study aims to extend the literature on urban spatial structure, with special reference to the pattern and process of urban decentralization and restructuring from a developing and transitional economy context, and to offer further understanding of the spatial organization of contemporary urban areas that departs from the North American or European experience.
Beijing is a transition city that has experienced dramatic urban growth and spatial restructuring since the reforms in China, and its experience sheds light on how the urban spatial structure changes within a hybrid of an evolving market economy with a central government that retains significant control. This study focuses on the distribution patterns of population and employment in metropolitan Beijing, and employs more flexible techniques, such as nonparametric analysis, geostatistical techniques and demonstrates more nuanced dynamics than those discussed in previous studies.
Our study finds that the spatial pattern of the Beijing metropolitan area is becoming alike to that of large Western cities in the post-reform era, with the compact urban form in the pre-reform era replaced by a more dispersed and polycentric spatial pattern. The overall trend toward the decentralization and polycentrification of both population and employment is evident in the Beijing metropolitan area since the reforms. However, compared with the decentralization of large Western metropolitan areas, the extent of the decentralization of metropolitan Beijing is quite limited. We show that both people and jobs that moved out of the inner city tend to re-concentrate in the near suburbs adjacent to the central area instead of dispersing throughout the metropolitan area. The rapid growth of the near suburbs has expedited the expansion of the central city, with a larger central agglomeration emerged dominating the whole metropolitan area. In this broad sense, the spatial pattern of the Beijing metropolitan area is still highly centralized, and the tendency toward decentralization at the level of the metropolitan area is questionable. Besides, although both people and jobs have decentralized in the Beijing metropolitan area, jobs tend to more concentrate in the central city, and employment has been shown to be less decentralized than population.
Even though the spatial structure of Beijing is largely characterized by monocentricity, our study does provide the evidence that significant population and employment subcenters have emerged in the suburbs of Beijing. However, the number and size of subcenters are small, and the pattern of the subcenters in metropolitan Beijing is highly related to the planned development scheme of the city, so the polycentricity emerged in the Beijing metropolitan area is very different by nature from that observed in Western cities, and has different origins. Although the common features of spatial pattern and trend broadly analogous to those of Western cities have been observed in post-reform Beijing, the driving forces and the process involved still need be understood with reference to the peculiar Chinese context, and the similar factors that caused the suburbanization in the West have taken their effects on the suburbanization of Beijing in a totally different context.
An interesting finding of our study is the similar distribution patterns of both population and employment in the Beijing metropolitan area, with the coincidence of population and employment subcenters in space. The comparison of the distributions of people and jobs in the Beijing metropolitan area shows that the suburban areas adjacent to the central area are the most balanced with people and jobs, corresponding to the emerged subcenters in the near suburbs. This result might be used to argue that jobs-housing balance occurs as part of the urban development process, and the decentralization of both population and employment in the Beijing metropolitan area from the inner city to the near suburbs has induced jobs-housing balance in the near suburbs. At last, the relationship between jobs-housing balance and urban commuting is tested through regression analysis. The results show that balancing people and jobs by configuring land use patterns seems not quite relevant to shortening commuting durations in our case, so this may suggest that it is more promising to integrate transportation planning and land use planning to address the transportation problems in Beijing.
Advisor: Redfearn, Christian L.
Committee members: Giuliano, Genevieve, Moore, James
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"Not From Buffalo" Meatballs
You won't believe the simple, pantry-friendly ingredient swaps we used to make our "Not From Buffalo" Meatballs. This recipe is perfect for a quick weeknight supper fit for the entire family.
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"Not From Buffalo" Meatballs
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Yield: 6 large or 12 bite-size meatballs
Nutrition Facts per Serving:
Calories: 120. Total fat: 8g. Saturated fat: 2.4. Cholesterol: 40mg. Sodium: 440mg. Total carbohydrate: 6g. Fiber: 1g. Sugar: 2g. Protein: 8g.
NET CARBS: 5g.
Carb count exclude sugar alcohols. New carb count is determined with the equation total carbohydrate – total fiber – sugar alcohol.
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Narayan Devanathan to be the chief executive officer of DAN Solutions India and will also lead the Creative Line of Business (LoB) for DAN India as its Chairperson, effective immediately.
Narayan Devanathan to be the chief executive officer & chairperson, Creative LoB, DAN India.Dentsu Aegis Network (DAN) has announced the appointment of Narayan Devanathan to the role of chief executive officer (CEO), DAN Solutions India. He will also lead the Creative Line of Business (LoB) for DAN India as its Chairperson, effective immediately. Narayan will continue to report into Anand Bhadkamkar, CEO, DAN India and will retain his existing role as Group Executive & Strategy Officer, Dentsu Aegis Network, South Asia.
As CEO, DAN Solutions India, Narayan will be responsible for unlocking expertise and developing leading practices to drive client-excellence in the market through integrated solutions. He will work horizontally across all Dentsu Aegis Network agencies in India in Media, Creative and CRM to build holistic, multi-capability solutions for our clients.
Speaking on Narayan's promotion, Anand Bhadkamkar said, "As the advertising & communications landscape continues to change, it is imperative that we evolve to meet our client's changing needs. An accomplished leader with over 20 years of experience, Narayan has been a long-standing contributor to the Network in India. He fundamentally understands our businesses and our one P&L model and has been working closely across all agencies to provide solutions for our clients. He has an intimate understanding of the clients' ever evolving needs and the flexible and dynamic requirements our brands must have to meet them." It is pertinent to note here that DAN Solutions is built on three pillars - client-centricity, an expanded canvas for creativity, and operational excellence.
Talking about the opportunity in his new role, Narayan Devanathan said, "DAN Solutions is outcome-driven, on what we can deliver to clients; and that's what we will relentlessly focus on. It's especially relevant in these challenging times. DAN Solutions expands the canvas of creativity from advertising to experiences to business transformation, keeping data as the red thread throughout. What makes DAN Solutions truly unique is we have created an operating model that makes cross-functional teams want to collaborate, that builds trust and takes away the friction that renders such 'integration' possible only on paper. That's how we bring the best of Creative, Media and CRM to work for clients and add exponential value to their business."
The Creative LoB, meanwhile, comprises creative agencies in the market and is in line with the global business strategy of streamlining and consolidating our offerings around the three Lines of Business: Creative, Media and CRM. As Chairperson, Creative LoB, Narayan will help the Network's Creative Agency CEOs translate this global strategy for Dentsu Aegis Network into the India Creative Line of Businesses.
Dentsu Aegis Network India has several world class brands and experience transformation agencies in its Creative business: Dentsu Webchutney, Dentsu Impact, Taproot Dentsu, Dentsu One, Dentsu India, Happy mcgarrybowen, Isobar, Fractal Ink Design Studio, WATConsult and Perfect Relations. To create competitive advantage for brands in the market, Dentsu Aegis Network has aligned the creative DNA of these different units under Dentsu Aegis Network India's Creative Line of Business, giving clients a range of potent and unmatched partners for brand-led growth which Narayan will be driving.
Narayan says, "There is only one outcome we are focused on with our Creative Line of Business at DAN - to use the power of creativity to transform brands. Our goal is to become the go-to creative agency group that delivers brand and experience transformation in ways that are meaningful to consumers and valuable to clients. Putting creativity first is still the best way to do this. We have fantastic creative, strategy and business leaders in our Creative business, and we will together work to deliver this outcome."


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What is Sacral Agenesis?
Sacral agenesis is a rare and little-known condition that causes deformity of the spine. This condition occurs in only about one in every 25,000 live births. Researchers believe that this abnormality occurs at some point between weeks three and seven of fetal development due to a factor or set of factors which interrupt the mesoderm migration.
Those who are born with sacral agenesis may suffer from small lesions on the lower spine or more serious effects, including fusion of the lower limbs. Although it is unknown why exactly this occurs, it is speculated that a lack of certain vital nutrients during pregnancy may be a factor. For example, folic acid taken in sufficient amounts may help prevent this and other spinal defects in newborns.
The links between sacral agenesis and lack of nutrients, along with other environmental factors, is weak at best. Some indicators point to maternal diabetes as a possible risk factor, but no specific environmental cause has been linked conclusively. Most cases of sacral agenesis are caused by hereditary factors. Inherited causes, also called Currarino syndrome, are believed to be caused by the mutation of certain genes.
There are four main types of sacral agenesis, some more severe than others. The first involves the partial formation of the sacrum. This means that some of the lower back is developed, but certain components are missing. Another type is the deformation of the sacrum, and the two additional types involve the total failure of sacrum formation.
Because there are varying degrees of severity in sacrum agenesis, the prognosis is equally varied. Some children may go on to live ordinary lives with surgery combined with physical therapy. Others may have fully malformed legs and hips, making walking or even crawling impossible. These children will likely be confined to a wheelchair. Sometimes the lower limbs are even removed.
In some very severe cases, bladder and bowel function are inhibited. This may necessitate the use of permanent colostomy to prevent bowel incontinence as well as catheterization for urine passage. Despite these limitations, the prognosis is improving for these patients as more efficient surgeries and physical therapies are developed; along with more technologically advanced wheelchairs and mobility aids.
To prevent sacral agenesis from occurring, all women in their childbearing years are encouraged to take a daily multivitamin that contains folic acid. Maintaining a healthy diet and lifestyle is also beneficial by preventing the onset of type two diabetes. Quality prenatal care is also important so care providers can spot any abnormalities, and treatment options can be made available the moment of birth.
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It seems like most disorders that show up at birth are because of a totally random simple mistake while the fetus is forming. I know it could be hereditary too, but my opinion is that, at least with sacral agenesis, it's kind of a random occurrence.
One small mistake in DNA formation and development, and the child is born with a condition that changes his or her life. And I think the rate of death with infants who have sacral agenesis is pretty high, right?
If I ever decide to have kids I will definitely take my folic acid to prevent sacral agenesis during pregnancy.
@turquoise-- My cousin also has sacral agensis and I feel the same as you, very lucky to be in his life! Sometimes I feel like God gives people only what they can handle. I don't know anyone other than my cousin who has this disorder, because it's rare. But my cousin is definitely the strongest and most courageous person I know.
He has severe sacral agenesis from birth. He's missing his sacrum. He relies on a wheelchair for mobility but the thing that gets to him the most I think is incontinence. He has it under control now but I know he had a hard time when he was a teenager. There have been times where he didn't want to be around other people but he has grown out of those feelings.
Now he is more social than I am. He exercises regularly, makes music and is even taking classes at a community college! He's so amazing! I love him.
There was a girl when I was in middle school who was suffering from this condition. During the three years we went to school together, she was gone at least four times for various spinal surgeries. I know it was really hard for her and she must have had a lot of pain. But she was also very positive towards life and her health problem didn't prevent her from enjoying the moment.
I learned a lot from her. I think the most important thing I learned was being grateful. As someone who spent much of her time in hospitals, she was so happy that I felt guilty if I complained about small things. I started appreciating things more.
I wonder how she's doing these days. It's been almost twenty years and the medical field has advanced a lot. I hope that she's not at a good place in her life and I hope living with congenital agenesis has become easier for her.


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