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This post was jointly written by David Nathan and Peter K. Austin.
In an earlier post, we discussed how the 25 year old Gamilaraay/Kamilaroi web dictionary used cutting-edge software technologies and data structuring and management principles to create the first fully hypertext dictionary on the web. Today, we highlight another aspect of the project which was becoming increasingly common at the time, namely community consultation and collaboration before, during, and after publication.
In 1995-1996 David was working as a Visiting Research Fellow in Interactive Technology at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), responsible for their website, and maintaining and developing the Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive (ASEDA) that was set up by Nick Thieberger in 1991. He also fostered a number of web and multimedia projects (including the Gamilaraay dictionary), and developed the WWW Virtual Library – Aboriginal Languages of Australia, which he has continued to support since he left AIATSIS in 2000.
Some 25 years before the recent interest among language documenters and other professional linguists in issues of community consultation and collaboration (see, e.g., Linguistic Society of America 2009; Czaykowska-Higgins 2009; Glenn 2009; Leonard & Haynes 2010; Dobrin & Berson 2011), linguists in Australia voiced their concerns with ethics and rights in relation to research in Indigenous communities, especially through forums hosted by the Australian Linguistic Society (ALS). Published expressions can be found in the 1984 ALS statement on "Linguistic rights of Aboriginal and Islander communities" (ALS Newsletter 84(4), October 1984), the 1989 ALS statement of "Ethics" (ALS Newsletter 90(4), November 1990), as well as the seminal paper by Wilkins (1992). So, David's work on the web dictionary involved extensive travel throughout northern New South Wales, funded by AIATSIS, for consultations and negotiations with Gamilaraay community groups, elders, and organisations in Moree, Walgett, Collarenebri, and other areas of Gamilaraay country. This culminated in an official launch of the web dictionary, organised in collaboration with Gamilaraay leader the late Tom French at the State Education Department office in Moree, and attended by nearly 100 community members and key elders (the late Auntie Rose Fernando and the late Uncle Ted Fields gave speeches about the project at the launch — see Giacon (2919: 403) on their later role in Gamilaraay language revival). There is an online video of the launch which has considerable historical significance (viewers should be aware that the video shows people who have since passed away). Following the launch, David made some adjustments to the website in accordance with feedback from community members.
David and I have remained involved in Gamilaraay language work over the past 25 years. I have published some academic articles (e.g., Austin 2008), and I am currently completing a second edition of my 1993 unpublished A Reference Gammar of Gamilaraay, northern New South Wales (available here or here) which will soon be available for free download. David has worked closely with John Giacon on various projects, including Gayarragi Winangali: Find and Hear (begun 2008), a downloadable app that is an interactive multimedia resource for Gamilaraay and Yuwaalaraay containing thousands of dictionary entries and example sentences (with sound recordings), as well as songs, games, and other learning aids. They are presently preparing an updated mobile app version of this material.
- Austin, Peter K. 2008. The Gamilaraay (Kamilaroi) language, northern New South Wales – a brief history of research. In William McGregor (ed.) Encountering Aboriginal languages: studies in the history of Australian linguistics, 37–58. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. download link
- Czaykowska-Higgins, Ewa. 2009. Research Models, Community Engagement, and Linguistic Fieldwork: Reflections on Working within Canadian Indigenous Communities. Language Documentation and Conservation 3, 15-50.
- Dobrin, Lise & Josh Berson. 2011. Speakers and language documentation. In Peter K. Austin and Julia Sallabank (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages, 187-211. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Giacon, John. 2010. The development of the Gamilaraay, Yuwaalaraay & Yuwaalayaay Dictionary. In John Hobson, Kevin Lowe, Susan Poetsch & Michael Walsh (eds.) Re-awakening languages: theory and practice in the revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous languages, 402-417. Sydney: Sydney University Press. download link
- Glenn, Akiemi. 2009. Five Dimensions of Collaboration: Toward a Critical Theory of Coordination and Interoperability in Language Documentation. Language Documentation and Conservation 3, 149–160.
- Leonard, Wesley Y. & Erin Haynes. 2010. Making 'collaboration' collaborative: An examination of perspectives that frame linguistic field research. Language Documentation and Conservation 4, 268-293.
- Linguistic Society of America. 2009. Ethics Statement May 2009. download link. Revised version adopted July 2019.
- Wilkins, David P. 1992. Linguistic research under Aboriginal control: a personal account of fieldwork in central Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics 12(1), 171–200.
The web dictionary was hosted from 1995 on the Coombs Server at ANU (the National Library of Australia's Trove catalogue has a webpage snapshot captured on 25 Feb 2002), and on the AIATSIS server from 1996 (the Trove catalogue has a webpage snapshot captured on 10 Feb 2009). After having been subsequently deleted from both these servers, the 1998 version has its current permanent home on www.dnathan.com.


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With our city now so laughably unaffordable, thousands of Vancouverites are stuck imagining wonderful homes instead of living in them. "Spaced" is a record of our minds wandering the world of architecture and design, up and away from the unrewarding realities of shoebox condos, dark basement suites, and sweet fuck all on Craigslist.
(via) This remote vacation home near Inverness on Cape Breton Island was designed by Halifax-based architect Omar Gandhi for city folk seeking for a getaway. Situated on a high bluff, the gorgeous, isolated residence – dubbed 'Lookout at Broad Cove Marsh' – features floor to ceiling windows that look southwest out to sea (towards Prince Edward Island and the Nova Scotia mainland), an 18 ft. long kitchen island for prep and dining, and a series of boxy bedrooms that pop out from the low profile structure. We'd take ours (with hot Earl Grey and some Schubert) similarly positioned on this side of the country, preferably on the Cowichan Valley coast facing southeast instead of southwest (towards Salt Spring Island and the BC mainland). Because symmetry.
Photos by Doublespace Photography.

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Donald Trump attacked the media and the Affordable Care Act in a pair of tweets posted Saturday afternoon.
"The failing @nytimes finally gets it - 'In places where no insurance company offers plans, there will be no way for ObamaCare customers to ... use subsidies to buy health plans.' In other words, Ocare is dead. Good things will happen, however, either with Republicans or Dems," the president tweeted
—Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 1, 2017
—Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 1, 2017
Trump was referring to a New York Times story from Friday.
The president has railed against Obamacare and the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus ever since the failure of the American Health Care Act, his first major legislative push for healthcare reform. The bill was pulled from the floor of the House when it became clear it would not have enough votes to pass, and months after Trump promised he would repeal and replace Obamacare "within days" of assuming office.
The Freedom Caucus – which was largely responsible for sinking the AHCA – has borne the brunt of Trump's anger, with the president calling it bad for the Republican agenda and threatening to back challengers to the Freedom Caucus in primary elections.
Moreover, contrary to the president's claims that Obamacare is "dead" and will implode, analysis by the Brookings Institution showed Obamacare did not qualify under the technical definition of a "death spiral" after the 2016-2017 open enrollment period.


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A $2 million day in New York
There was no mistaking Hillary's evening fundraiser at Hofstra University on Long Island tonight for Iowa:
It opened with an appearance by the "hip-hop violinist" Miri Ben-Ari, who performed a medley that included a Jay-Z track on "feelin' like a pimp," and a jarring, electronic version of the National Anthem, both performed for a largely puzzled, middle-aged audience of a bit under 1,000.
The violinist was followed by the Nassau County Chairman, Jay Jacobs, who jokingly asked the crowd to ask their friends if they support Clinton, urge them to vote if they say yes and, "If they say no you tell them to go out and vote on the sixth. You know, Wednesday the sixth."
The county executive, Tom Suozzi, then read a Rudyard Kipling poem, which he addressed to the candidate.
Hillary raised about $250,000 at the event for a total of $2 million on the day, the rest at closed fundraisers, during a swing sandwiched between trips to Iowa and New Hampshire.
Her speech struck the usual notes, plus what seems to have become her central attack on Obama's healthcare plan:
"If you start with a plant hat leaves millions of people out, who gets left out?" she asked. "Do I leave [out] the nurse with breast cancer who I met who was so sick with her treatments?"
Obama's plan is usually criticized for potentially letting healthy adults free ride, not for excluding the very sick, but though she didn't mention his name, this seems to be the center of the policy case she's making.
As a final reminder that we were back in New York, I overheard a thirtyish woman on the way out saying Hillary had had her "75% of the way."
"But she said 'America' too many times," the woman added, in a tone that wasn't quite Iowa Nice.


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Access pricing, quality degradation, and foreclosure in the Internet
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Access to both a local and a global network is needed in order to get complete connection to the Internet. The purpose of this article is to examine the interplay between those two networks and how it affects the domestic public policy towards a domestic provider of local access. We find that a cost-oriented regulation is detrimental to domestic welfare, because it shifts profit to the foreign provider of global access. The optimal policy is that the regulator commits itself to set an access price above costs, possibly the same price as in an unregulated market economy. A regulation of the global access price has a non-monotonic effect on domestic welfare, and there is a potential conflict between international and domestic regulation policy.
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Gil Reavill
About the Author
Gil Reavill is a journalist, screenwriter, and playwright. His crime writing widely featured in magazines, Reavill is the author of two previous Layla Remington mysteries, 13 Hollywood Apes and 13 Stolen Girls, as well as Mafia Summit: J. Edgar Hoover, the Kennedy Brothers, and the Meeting That Unmasked the Mob, and Aftermath, Inc.: Cleaning Up After CSI Goes Home. He also co-wrote the screenplay that became the film Dirty, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. He lives in New York with his wife, the author Jean Zimmerman, and their daughter.


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The #NoCopAcademy campaign is an effort supported by community organizations across Chicago, that want to see $95 million invested in our communities rather than police training grounds. From the statement of opposition:
Chicago already spends $1.5 billion on police every year—that's $4 million every single day. We spend 300% on the CPD as a city than we do on the Departments of Public Health, family and support services, transportation, and planning and development (which handles affordable housing). This plan is being praised as a development opportunity to help local residents around the proposed site, but when Rahm closed 50 schools in 2013, six were in this neighborhood. The message is clear: Rahm supports schools and resources for cops, not for Black and Brown kids.
We demand a redirecting of this $95 million into Chicago's most marginalized communities instead. Real community safety comes from fully-funded schools and mental health centers, robust after-school and job- training programs, and social and economic justice. We want investment in our communities, not expanded resources for police.
Read the full statement of opposition to Rahm's proposal here, and let us know if you want to join the campaign.
Endorsed by:
Assata's Daughters
People's Response Team
For The People Artists Collective
American Friends Service Committee- Chicago
Action Now
Arab American Action Network
A Long Walk Home
Axis Lab
Black Lives Matter Chicago
Black Youth Project 100 (BYP 100) Chicago Chapter
Black & Pink Chicago
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council
BTGNC Collective
Chicago ACT Collective
Chicago Community Bond Fund
Chicago Dyke March Collective
Chicago Freedom School
Chicago League of Abolitionist Whites (CLAW)
Chicago Religious Leadership Network
Chicago Taskforce on Violence Against Girls and Young Women
Chicago Torture Justice Memorials
Chicago Votes
Gay Liberation Network
Grassroots Collaborative
Health & Medicine Policy Research Group
Jewish Voice for Peace Chicago
Illinois Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA – IL)
Kuumba Lynx
Latino Union
Lifted Voices
Love and Protect
National Lawyers Guild of Chicago
Organized Communities Against Deportations
Project Fierce
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Chicago
Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation (SOUL)
T.U.P.O.C.C The United People of Color Caucus of the NLG – Chicago Chapter
Tzedek Chicago
War Resisters League
Women's All Point Bulletin
Workers Center for Racial Justice
Send an e-mail to nocopacademy [at] gmail.com to learn more about how to endorse and get involved.


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We can't choose our family. And unfortunately, some of us are stuck with a few a$$holes… like an overly-opinionated aunt, a rude cousin, angry uncle, or manipulative step-mother! You didn't choose to have them in your life. But they're part of your family and so avoiding them completely is not always an option.
I love my family, but some of them I don't really 'like'. We don't get along. We are total opposites and most of the time I can't stand being around them. But you can't pick your family and sometimes you can't avoid them either. They'll be at family functions over the holidays. Rather than miss out on all the people you do enjoy, learning to deal with the difficult ones can be used to your advantage.
Difficult people are a part of life. They're everywhere. And they seem to pick on the kind-hearted people because we are easier to manipulate! Well not anymore! Here's how to deal with these types of people so you can enjoy your family again:)
How To Deal With Toxic Family
Be prepared. You know they're going to be there, so you can prepare mentally. Remind yourself that it's only a few hours! Psych yourself up with positivity and remember why you're doing this! For the people you love!
Check your attitude. Don't go in to it with a bad vibe. Even if they do! Be the bigger, more positive person.
Avoid sensitive topics. What sets them off? Is it the topic of work? Kids? Politics? Avoid these subjects around them if it gets them going!
Accept them. Remember they are, who they are. You can't change them. Nothing you say or do can change that and trying to do anything other than accept them is a waste of time and frustration. Not everyone has the kind heart you have!
Don't allow them to control you. Don't be confrontational but don't allow them to walk all over you either. Find a balance between standing your ground and keeping the peace. Toxic people often try to manipulate others, especially if you seem like an easy target (for some reason that's usually me). When they can't manipulate you, they get angry.
It can be tempting to just give in to keep the peace but in reality you're not keeping the peace with yourself. And you're only encouraging their toxic behaviour! Toxic people target the more sensitive and kind-hearted people, because they see them as easy targets as they're more likely to give in to their manipulation in attempt to keep the peace! By standing up to them, you're helping to break the cycle! Adults can be the worst bullies of all! Just because they're adults or family, doesn't make it okay to be a bully!
Don't take it personally. When a person lashes out, it's not usually about you! It's about them. They usually have their own demons they're fighting inside. Happy, positive, kind people don't usually lash out or pick on others right?!
Remember the good. Remember that one good thing they did. Focus on the compliment they gave you, or the time they agreed with you or the cup of coffee they made you. It may be a small thing, but there's usually a little good in everyone.
Sometimes you have to agree to disagree and just walk away from it.
Give yourself an out. If it gets to be too much to handle, give yourself an out. At least you tried!
Protect your wellbeing. Give yourself some space afterwards. Or if your family is all together too volatile, it might be better to avoid family functions! Whatever you have to do to protect your wellbeing! It's not being selfish, it's taking care of yourself!
Also read —> Not Everyone Likes You. How To Get Over It!
The holidays can be tough! I wish you all a happy and overall mentally, physically and emotionally healthy holiday!


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This afternoon, while perusing the on-line edition of my local newspaper, The Orlando Sentinel, I encountered one of those survey forms designed to foment reader-to-reader discussions. A regular feature of the on-line edition, these surveys tend to collect responses to current issues mainly from boorish ignoramuses who need someplace to blow wind. Well, The Turkey, being a boorish ignoramus, has a place to blow wind right here and blow wind is what he's going to do.
The issue for today was presumably innocuous: "Are you buying a holiday tree this year? If so, will it be real or artificial? How much will you spend?" This was the political correctness straw that broke the Turkey's back, and about it I shall now blow appropriately hot breezes through this chilly forum.
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20 Ways To Make $100 A Day Online
Instant Niche Emails - This is a fantastic list building tool. It is an incredibly simple way to create a year's worth of emails for any niche market literally overnight! (also can also be used to create 52 blogging posts.
If you've spent some time on Twitter you will see hashtags in some of the tweets. The hashtag is the pound sign (#). Placed before a few letters it signifies a group of tweets about the same subject. Often hashtags are used to tell people about events that are happening at that moment.
For a crisp explanation of hashtags try Denise Wakeman's blog.Here is a good video about hashtags by Facebook expert, Mari Smith:
Twitter Hashtags - What Are They, How To Create Your Own - by Mari Smith
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text: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417810603086728638.post2848685623525277422..comments2023-12-04T14:20:31.893+05:30Comments on Sagar Ganatra's Blog: Book review: Steve Jobs Way by Jay ElliotSagar Ganatrahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417810603086728638.post-14146008436745002972012-05-24T23:37:12.711+05:302012-05-24T23:37:12.711+05:30I don't think that the book has it exactly cor...I don't think that the book has it exactly correct on the 1984 ad. I heard Wozniak speak a year ago and someone asked him about it during the q and a. He said when he heard that management might not run the ad he requested a meeting and said he would pay for it out of his own pocket. But in the end the company decided to do it. Also learned directly from Woz that he was on the Mac team before Jobs took it over which I did not know previously.Rick_Masonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417810603086728638.post-79282991968130869842012-05-24T08:45:50.912+05:302012-05-24T08:45:50.912+05:30@Jake M I've not read that book by Walter Isaa...@Jake M I've not read that book by Walter Isaacson. Thanks for pointing to the link. I think the book I read does show only one side of Steve and not the other.Sagar Ganatrahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417810603086728638.post-56042012877902816572012-05-24T00:11:43.547+05:302012-05-24T00:11:43.547+05:30Have you seen some of the criticisms of Steve Jobs...Have you seen some of the criticisms of Steve Jobs? Since this book seems to purport that Jobs showed appreciation "handsomely", I think it should be noted that he was notorious for taking credit for other's ideas and work. Check out this story:<br />http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/032411jobsa Jake email@example.com


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by Jill
Blackpool Empress Ballroom
9th May 2006
It took a heroic drive up the M6 to get us to this one on time, flying through the miles to this iconic Northern seaside resort. Well done Stew, and all hail the mighty silver Ford Escort! We park and hit the gig with minutes to spare. The venue is packed to the gills tonight, although there is still opportunity to marvel at its over-the-top Victorian splendour, with its balcony, high vaulted ceiling and chandeliers. And a few moments on we are also able to appreciate the bouncy qualities of the wonderful sprung dance floor, once the scene of genteel tea dances and chaste romantic dalliances, now host to a hoard who roar with the lustiness of a football crowd for their Wigan god.
Richard Ashcroft takes to the stage to the strains of the current album's title track 'Keys To The World'. Dressed like Man At Milletts, he nonetheless roams about with the swagger of one who is all too aware that he is currently riding the crest of the wave of success. He is not, however, afraid to nod back to his earlier days with the Verve, following the opener immediately with a crowd-pleasing 'Sonnet', while an incredibly moving 'The Drugs Don't Work' is something of a show-stopper. The new album is thoroughly showcased: 'Music Is Power', 'Cry Till The Morning' and 'Sweet Brother Malcolm', among others, all making appearances. The audience is word perfect on every track. Ashcroft chats to the crowd between numbers, and dedicates the 'Alone With Everybody' track 'New York' to the heroes of 9/11, apparently his own birthday. He effortlessly strolls down the fine line between cocksure, mouthy scally and humble poet; for all of his arrogance, he can still turn out a gentle ballad like 'Words Just Get In The Way' that has the rowdy mob hanging on his every word.
A short break is book-ended with Verve songs, the band leaving the stage with 'Lucky Man' to return minutes later for the first of two encores with 'Space And Time'. Ashcroft and his band seem to be revelling in the positive attention, and the second encore, commencing with 'Break The Night With Colour' winds up with an eagerly anticipated 'Bittersweet Symphony'. Ashcroft leaves us on this high.
Ashcroft is currently experiencing a level of recognition that eclipses all but his greatest achievements with the Verve. With 'Keys To The World' a permanent fixture in the album chart and his singles regularly charting he has crossed over into popular success. The timing seems right for him to headline his own stadium gig – whether this will be remembered as fondly as the Verve's classic Haigh Hall outing remains to be seen – but the forthcoming Lancaster Cricket Ground concert will certainly be a landmark in this much revered artist's career.


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Given the amazing and fun 'motion sensor' control system of the Nintendo Wii, unique amongst all videogames consoles, there are some games that are just crying out to be made for the system. Tennis was a given, bowling is huge laughs, and cricket seems like a really obvious one still to be produced, for instance.
Table tennis is another. When this game made its debut on Xbox 360 here last winter, it quickly met with an enthusiastic response, and for good reason. Control was tight, the graphics were unexpectedly good-looking and playing against other (real) people sealed the deal; it was brilliant.
Now, developer Rockstar has brought the game to the Wii, relying heavily for appeal on the system's motion sensing control features, rather than fantastic graphics. And that part of it is a lot of fun to begin with. Swinging the Wii Remote as you would your table tennis paddle in real life feels great, and is a real improvement over using a regular controller.
The game gives you three options for control, with the standard option only requiring players to use the Wii Remote (& not the 'Nunchuk' controller as well). This makes it much easier to hit the ball, and sustain a rally, than with versions of the game on other consoles, and could well be a good thing, making it far more accessible to younger players. Indeed, we tried the game out on a couple of kids, and even the four year old had a ball thrashing the Wii Remote wildly around and still making contact with the ball.
But that's also part of the problem with this version of the game. With the 'standard' control scheme, it's very easy to hit the ball – too easy -and you don't even need to time it right. In fact, if you do try to time your swing to meet the ball exactly right, you'll likely miss it altogether, because the game's controls encourage you to 'build up' your shot by holding down the right button for a length of time before you actually want to hit the ball. The other two control scheme variations give you more control over where you place the ping pong ball or moving your player, but neither really add a great deal to the game play overall. Whichever scheme you use for control, it feels like you could do anything and still hit the ball. You can literally play it with your eyes closed (we tried!), or with one hand tied behind your back.
But most of the appeal with the Wii version of this game is its accessibility- that anyone can play, epitomising the whole marketing strategy that everyone from your Gran to your baby can pick up a Wii controller and have fun. There's no online play mode, though, so this is a game that's best suited to your lounge room, a bunch of mates, and blasting away for ten minutes at a time to give those guns a bit of a workout.
This review was conducted on the Nintendo Wii platform, the game is also available for Xbox 360.
Reviewer: Max Everingham


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Bloody Mosquito. :D:P
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He came at night, explored my body, got on top of me, touched me, he bit, sucked, swalowd, when he was satisfyed, he left, i was hurt, . . . BLOODY... MOSQUITO !!!!
At night if mosquito bites what to do..? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Just scratch n sleep again ! We r not Rajnikant 2 make the Mosquito say Sorry:p
At Night If Mosquito Bites, What Should We Do.? ? ? ? ? Just Scratch N Sleep Again We R Not Rajnikant 2 Make The Mosquito Say Sorry.
Love story! A mosquito & hen fell in love wid each other. 1 day they kissed each other Hen died of dengue & Mosquito died of bird flu Moral: Sachi mohabbat:-)
If ever I was rude to u, If ever I was angry with u, If ever I misbehaved with u, then don't hesitate, JUST SLAP URSELF mistake aap ki hi hogi :p
Arguing with stupid people is like killing the Mosquito on your cheek. You might or might not kill it, but you'll end up slapping yourself.
Do you know that beside valentine day, the whole week (infact 2 weeks) is dedicated for various purpose, have a look at the list below:- 7 Feb Rose Day 8 Feb Propose Day 9 Feb Chocolate Day 10 Feb Teddy Day 11 Feb Promise Day 12 Feb Kiss Day 13 Feb Hug Day 14 Feb […]
Can we do romance in the midnight today? I'm in a good mood:) Just a little bit of kissing and biting!! Reply me soon, yours Loving Mosquito.
A baby mosquito came back after its 1st fight. . . . Dad asked: "how did u feel?" . . . It replied: "Dad it was wonderful. evry1 ws clappin 4 me" Moral: Take evrything positively
In battle Sardar was wearing mosquito net instead of bullet proof jacket why? ? ? ? Saradar replied O jis wich machar nai war sakda goli kithon lange gi
Husband texts to wife on cell.. "Hi,what r u doing Darling?" Wife: I'm dying..! Husband jumps with joy but types "Sweet Heart, how can I live without U?" Wife: "U idiot! I'm dying my hair.." Husband: "Bloody English Language!
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A man received an unknown call.. Girl : hello do you have a gf?? Man : no, who are you darling? Girl : M ur girl friend Diana, hate u Again man got a call Girl : do u have a gf?? Man : yes darling Girl : m ur wife Alice, hate u Man […]
Doctor: sorry , reports got mixed up. We don't know if your wife has AIDS or Asthma! husband: What should i do now? Doctor - Send her 4 jogging, if she returns, don't sleep with her!
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Girl:How much do you love me? Boy:My heart is a mobile and you are its SIM Girl:Ooh God.. I am soo lucky.. . . . . . . She doesn't know that my mobile is dual sim :P
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Dear Guys, May your life be as awesome as you pretend it is on Facebook __ :-D Dear Girls, May your life not be as bad as you pretend it is on Facebook __ :-P
Statistics show that 1% of women in the world, are on medication for mental illness . . . . . So beware! 99% are running around without proper medication!!
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Definition of Human being by a philosopher: A creature that cuts trees and makes paper, and on those papers writes "SAVE TREES"
The length & breadth & height of you total up to quite a view, but to taste the true delight of you I'll have to take a bite of you.
Meray Allah larai se bachana mujh ko, Aur sikha day koi banduk chalana mujhko! Khair se laut k ayain meray abbu ghar main Urr na jain woh dhamakay sai kahin daftar main ! Raat din jaam traffic na rahay sarkon per Koi nala na gatar bhar kar bahay sarkon per! Qalma gawaion ko musalman banaday […]
Meaning of Pakistan in 2008 P = Petrol 68.89 A = Aata 26 rs kg K = Khudkash hamle I = Ilm ki Kami S = Sarko Pe Pani T = Traffic Jam A = Awam Pareshan N = No Electricity
Science teacher : agar kisi ladki ko mirgi ka attack ho to use lambe time tak kiss karo isse wo thik ho jayegi. Student : par sir use attack kaise dilaya jaye?.
In class room 1 boy was praying Allah Allah. Teacher: y r u praying in classroom? Boy: Mom advised me that before sleeping u must pray Allah Allah
Sam: I Have Changed My Mind. Ali : Good So Does This One Work Better?
The Two Most dangerous Weapons In The World Other Than Nuclear Bombs 1. A Girl's Smile & 2. A Girl's Tears.
jeevan me paise, pyaar, dost, sab kuch aata hai jaata hai, par tode gaye daant phir nhi aate, samajhdar ho ummeed hai msg bhejte rahoge.
Piece of PHILOSOPHY : Small things hurt a lot Example : u can sit on a mountain but not on a pin..! ;-)
Life is strange .. .. SHOES we wear are sold in AC showrooms, VEGETABLES we eat r sold on DIRTY footpaths, And a PIZZA reaches faster than an AMBULANCE . . . :-)
LOVE YOUR HUSBAND When he orders you to make tea or coffee. He wants to feel fresh to listen to your nostop talks. Love him if he looks at all the beautiful females. He is just checking that you are still the best. Love him if he criticize your cooking. He is still improving his […]


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Don't you love it when you walk right into one of your novels?
Ever done that before?
Well, it happened to me while we were on vacation in the northern mountains of Georgia last week.
My family and I had been staying in an adorable little cabin of some friends, cradled near the tip of a mountain at the edge of the Chattahoochie National Forest. Traveling anywhere was a 30 minute drive.
At the recommendation of our friends, we went to visit the small town of Dahlunega, and as soon as we drove into the flower-framed town square I know I'd entered the fictional town for which I'd been searching.
Rows of quaint shops lined the streets, hanging flower baskets dangled from their porches, and people strolled along at the leisurely pace the mountain breeze and southern culture seemed to encourage.
There was a chocolate shop, and ice cream shop, a mass general store, coffee shop, dessertery (these people KNEW how to make a town ;-). Known best as the first gold mining town in the eastern U.S., Dahlunega was rich with culture, beauty, and friendliness.
And now….
It is the PERFECT representation for my little town of Pleasant Gap, Va. Love it! I finally SEE in reality what I've been seeing in my head since I started writing the Contemp Romance series.
So, what about you? Ever had your fictional and nonfictional worlds collide like this?


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This blog provides an excellent opportunity not only for us to share with you, but for you to share with each other.
How do you use our museum as a learning resource? What do you find to be best practice? Why are museum and gallery experiences important for your tamariki?
Our latest story comes from kaiako (teacher) Nichola from Imagine Childcare in Petone:
"Shake, shake, shudder near the sludgy, old, swamp, The dinosaurs are coming, get ready to romp!"
This is the start of a great book called Dinosaurumpus by Tony Milton, and this year at Te Papa it is coming true! As soon as we heard early this year that the Tyrannosaurs – Meet the Family exhibition was coming to Te Papa we knew we just had to go! We booked a ECE Fossil Hunters session with a Te Papa Educator (so simple!) then all we had to do was wait and get ready for our big trip.
From the beginning of October little teasers started to appear – like our local Mitre 10 Mega having a dinosaur trail, hearing about the exhibition on the radio, and seeing it in print. This got us excited to fever pitch and we started to prepare in earnest.
Firstly we gathered the children's ideas about what a dinosaur is:
- The big dinosaurs eat the little dinosaurs
- They can be big and little
- They have got really big feet
- They eat trees
- They get covered in sand
We also had some questions, which we did some finding out about:
- What is a carnivore?
- What does extinct mean?
We looked in books at dinosaurs and we looked on YouTube at dinosaurs. We looked on peoples T-shirts at dinosaurs, and then we drew our findings. We started to find out more about what a 'tyrannosaur' actually is.
"Is this a tyrannosaur?" "mmm…NO!"
"Is this a tyrannosaur?" "YES!"
We were also intrigued one morning to arrive at Imagine and see what looked very much like dinosaur footprints in our sandpit! Quite a few of the children had already been to the exhibition at Te Papa with their families, and would share their recommendations of their 'must sees'.
Eventually the day of our trip arrived but it seemed to take forever to get ready in the morning! Then, at last it was time to go. It's a walk, a bus, then another walk to get to Te Papa but we knew it would be totally worth it.
Arriving at Te Papa we met our Te Papa educator, Rebecca (or as she would come to be known 'T-Bex'). Rebecca explained to us what we would be doing and that we would be special scientists, or palaeontologists during our time together. We each had to wear special vests to wear so that the other people at the museum would know we were the Fossil Hunters, and that they could ask us questions as dinosaur experts.
Our first stop was at a digging site in Bush City. We spend time with special tools such as brushes, spades and marker pegs excavating the giant animal skeleton. Rebecca pointed out different parts such as the spine, ribs and the tail. We thought that it must be a meat eater because it had sharp teeth! Rebecca asked us what we uncovered and the resounding answer was "A dinosaur!", but it fact it was something else… Looking at it's body we saw it had flippers instead of feet!
"This is NOT a dinosaur, because dinosaurs walk, not swim", she explained. "This is a swimming reptile called a Mosasaur"
You could almost hear a pin drop while some of the children reflected on that.
And then she asked, "If dinosaurs walk, are pterodactyls and pteradons dinosaurs?"
We were pretty sure they were to start with, but after thinking and talking it through we realised they weren't either.
Rebecca said, "Pterodactyls and pteradons are types of flying reptiles."
We also learnt that lizards and tuatara are not dinosaurs either – because their legs aren't straight under their bodies.
Oh. MINDS BLOWN.
Our next stop was the 'laboratory'. On the way there up through the track in Bush City, Rebecca had us stomp like a dinosaur, and roar like a one too – you could definitely hear us coming!
In the lab there were a variety of great hands on experiences that we could explore, that reinforced our concepts of what tyrannosaurs are, what dinosaurs are, and what reptiles are. It was great to be able to see and touch real bones and to consolidate our ideas.
The last stop on our journey was in the exhibition itself. On the way we passed the T.Rex skull on display outside the lifts on Level 4 – oh my Grandma T-Rex, what big teeth you have!
Going into Tyrannosaurs – Meet the Family, there was such an array of displays that we didn't know where to look first! So much was interactive and had elements that we could touch and change.
Did you know tyrannosaurs could be a small as a dog or as tall as a building?
Did you know that T.rex only had tiny brain compared to its size? (although we don't think we would want to risk trying to outsmart one at hide and seek!).
Definite highlights were being able to see what it might look like if tyrannosaurs roamed about Wellington, and the big movie screen where we could see ourselves among the roaming tyrannosaurs – we could almost reach out and touch them.
All too soon it was time to say goodbye to Rebecca and to go back to Imagine. On returning, we were full of tales of about what we had learnt and seen at Te Papa:
- Tyrannosaurs are not alive because they got killed. Tyrannosaurs might eat people.
- The shadow roared. We were seeing the bones. We saw Rebecca.
- They were really loud. They stamp their feet. They have sharp claws. They've got long tails. They are really loud because they are big tyrannosaurs.
- The big tyrannosaur was moving. There are baby tyrannosaurs and lots of different coloured baby tyrannosaurs.
- Tyrannosaurs can run so fast.
- The shadow tyrannosaur was biting. Tyrannosaurs walk. There are no swimming dinosaurs, they are called reptiles.
- Tyrannosaurs have sharp teeth and long tails. Some have spikes on their backs.
- They are extinct. The bones got covered by sand.
- The shadow tyrannosaur was fighting. I saw a T-Rex mouth.
One of the learning outcomes of the Exploration strand of our Early Childhood Curriculum Te Whāriki is that "children develop themselves as 'explorers' – competent, confident learner who ask questions and make discoveries" (Ministry of Education, 1996, p.88), and while there are many learning outcome that we could use to evaluate our visit against we feel that this one fits quite well. Children were able to find out by exploring – seeing, touching, hearing and asking, by talking to experts and by being the experts. And despite one of our older children declaring, "I know everything about dinosaurs"(!) even they were able to make discoveries.
No doubt our dinosaur exploration has not quite finished and there is still much finding out to do, but our trip to Te Papa will definitely be the highlight. Thank you to Te Papa, and especially to our super-educator Rebecca, for making this exhibition accessible to us, we'll be back, and we'll bring our families.
He kōrero ako tino rawe! (An awesome learning story) Thank you for sharing with us all Imagine Childcare. We look forward to hearing where your interest in dinosaurs takes you!


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HIMSS attendees who attend this session will learn innovative approaches to maximizing their investments in clinical business intelligence. Chris Birkmeyer will share the importance of overlaying the appropriate statistical approaches such as risk and reliability adjustment so healthcare organizations can truly understand actual performance levels, improve quality, and reduce variations in care. Attendees for this session will receive Continuing Education Credits for CAHIMS and CPHIMS.
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Mr. Birkmeyer has 20 years of experience in health services research, outcomes analysis, and software delivery. Prior to joining ArborMetrix, he was Executive Vice President at SCIO Health Analytics, responsible for the software and analytics business units. Previously, he directed the informatics department at Health Dialog and managed the Data Center for the Department of Surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. He has a Master's of Science in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Dartmouth College.
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Rob Kardashian is attempting to eat right and lose weight, but, according to a bizarre series of Instagram videos posted by the reality star and his girlfriend, Blac Chyna, he has no idea what's in his kitchen.
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We all have been advised at one time or another by a well-meaning person to "never give up hope!" or have heard something along the lines of "when you've lost hope, you've lost everything."
What if it is the hoping that keeps us from finding peace and happiness?
Think about that one for a minute.
What is hope? It is a kind of wanting, wishing, and dissatisfaction with the present. It is a desire for our life to be different or better somehow. It is wanting to be there instead of here. It is the old "grass is greener on the other side" in action.
It is the resistance of the present causes pain and struggle. To find fault with and highlight what you consider to be less than ideal – maybe even far, far less and justifiably so – only causes more misery.
What will alleviate the suffering and pain and crack the door for peace and happiness to enter is acceptance. Not hope, but acceptance. The idea is to accept every single, ugly detail of the current situation while intending and working to create a better one.
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Acceptance is not the same as resignation.
Acceptance is recognizing what is present, consciously choosing your thoughts about it, and having a willingness to work with it, as it is, to move forward. One study found chronically ill people to be happier when they actually gave up hope that things will improve. (See Chronically Ill May Be Happier If They Give Up Hope)
Some of the best tools I have found to work with the present situation and any accompanying, challenging emotions are visualization, affirmations, meditation, thought reframing, and Byron Katie's The Work.
I learned this hard truth in the years I spent recovering from a serious brain injury which was the result of a suicide attempt. Immediately after, my sons went to live in a different state with their father, and, without a significant other, I was left alone. Life was very bleak and painful, at first. Over the years that followed, I learned to reframe my thoughts and to see my situation differently. By not dwelling on the negative thoughts while hoping for something different, I was able to drastically relieve the suffering and pain.
I learned to take conscious, definite action towards creating more desirable circumstances for myself instead of hoping for them. My focus and energy became invested in doing, not in hoping. Instead of spending my energy trying to force one outcome to happen just because it was the one that I preferred, over time, I saw that staying open to and accepting of what materialized, even if was not what I wanted – especially then – and finding the wisdom in it, proved to be a much more successful strategy. Whatever unfolded became the tools with which to create a better reality for me.
Amazingly, there was always some good to be found, somewhere, even if the circumstances seemed terrible and made absolutely no sense upon presenting themselves. I learned to ask myself "How can I make this work for me?" and place my thoughts and energy in that direction instead of bemoaning the circumstances. (see blog: One Little Question) Every situation always presents this choice. Your choice can make the outcome more positive and make the experience more pleasant as you move through it.
Right smack dab in the middle of the muck and mire of life, even at its very worst, it is possible to find happiness and peace because these qualities are in your mind. They exist in your thoughts ABOUT what happens, not in the actual happenings. Happiness is not in hope. It is in your thoughts and actions. It really is as simple – not easy – as that.
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she reasons with the drug. slopes in the darkness. trembling doorways.
it's everything. it's always been that. it's the whole world. in the sneeze of a butterfly. it's time. hydrogen atoms defying gravity. triangles doling out their limited degrees. it's the science of how. whispering loudly in a universe of ifs.
concrete fingers try to bend. to grasp. but only break. they keep what they've always had. but fail to gain anything new.
closed eyes save their sight. against the blinding of the eclipse. but miss the epiphany of overwhelming darkness. they're all just stories anyway. vibrating flesh caught in an emotional sieve.
there are no wars. there is no army. just people. trying on bits of weather and hunks of distance. there's just the void. talking to itself. in broken crayons and burnt matches.
there aren't names. we forfeit such privileges. there aren't friends. we have other definitions for those occasions.
she reasons with the drug. slopes in the darkness. trembling doorways.


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As a young boy from a noble family in Amawakuni, Arata has always expected to make life his own—until word of the princess growing weak reaches his city. Unbeknown to him, his grandmother had claimed him to be female at birth, and now, with no other girls to succeed the princess from the matriarchal Hime clan, he is next in line for the throne! Disguised as a woman awaiting a replacement to be found, Arata witnesses an assassination attempt on the princess by none other than her own guard, the 12 Shinsho. The crime is pinned on his head, forcing Arata to escape to the Kando forest, where it is said that no one comes out the same.
Meanwhile, in modern-day Japan, Arata Hinohara longs for escape from the cruelty of his classmates. Hearing his name called from an alley, he wanders from his path and unwittingly switches universes with Arata from Amawakuni. With his own power as a newly awakened "Sho"—a warrior able to wield Hayagami, weapons with the power of the gods—and the help of his companions he meets along his journey, Hinohara sets out to restore order to this new world.
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English: Arata: The Legend
Japanese: アラタカンガタリ~革神語~
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- Episodes: 12
- Status: Finished Airing
- Aired: Apr 9, 2013 to Jul 2, 2013
- Premiered: Spring 2013
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- Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Shounen
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Songbird - die another day (use one or more dies)
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Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Simon Says - anything goes
Adorable card Lisa, love the layout and gorgeous colours too. Have a lovely evening. Hugs, Claire x
Aw so very sweet!! Just love your coloring here Lisa!! :)
Oh so cute. Love the heffalump. Just adorable. (and the pink too!!)
Aww! so adorable Lisa, love your amazing colouring and very scrummy design. Hope the boys feel better soon.
Donna x
Aww, what a sweet little ellie. Gorgeous paper and colours too. Love it.
Lorraine x
Lovely card, the elephant is so cute!! Sharon x
Adorable card Lisa, love these new images and just had to buy the moment I saw them.
Wendy xx
Awwwww such an adorable image coloured so beautifully and I love those papers too.
I hope your boys are both feeling better soon.
hugs Sue xx
what a cute stamp Lisa - lovely image and a fab card xx
Hiya Hun, this is stunning, your colouring is gorgeous and loving this cutie. Joey xx
Totally adorable! Your coloring is FAB! :) Thanks for joining us over at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge this week!
What a gorgeous card, that little character is so cute :o)
Jackie xx
Such a well coloured little elephant Lisa.... gorgeous card!
Christine x
Oh what a gorgeous, adorable card.
BEAUTIFUL ! These new images are just so cute and I couldn't resist getting one. Your cards give me such a lot of inspiration, thanks.
P.S. Hope family gets better soon and that you steer clear of the germs, lol.
This is so sweet and beautiful. Thank you for sharing it with us and taking part in our Paperminutes Challenge.
Love that elephant, fab colours. Hope the boys feel better today x
Oh dear unfortunately its that time of year for snuffles and colds - hope the boys feel better soon.
Love the card Lisa, that elephant is really cute.
This is totally adorable, Lisa! Such a sweet elephant and a gorgeous layered design!
Oh what a cutie and such gorgeous colours too, luv Sam x
so gorgeous lisa.stunning sweet image and i love your pretty papers and colours :D
This sure is adorable Lisa! Really pretty card. Thanks for joining Papertake Weekly :)


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#24 - Justin Burrell
2008-2009 Class: Sophomore
Position: Forward
Height: 6'8"
Weight: 240
Age/ DOB: 21/ April 18, 1988
Home: Bronx, NY
stats taken from Statsheet, kenpom.com, and my own calculations
2008-2009 Highs
|High Points
|(Notre Dame (I))
|High Assists
|(Cincinnati, LIU)
|High Rebounds
|(Cornell, SHU)
|High TO
|High FT Att
|(South Florida)
|High FG Att
|Low FG Att (20 mins)
A funny thing about a weak pre-conference schedule: it's not really obvious when a player has been struggling. During the high-level portion of St. John's season, Justin Burrell was wearing a protective face mask to guard his fractured face. Some players are ok with a sight-obstructing, warm piece of plastic on their face. Others are not.
At times, Burrell confessed to being a little lost on the court, about becoming a finesse player. When challenged by Coach Roberts to never take only 5 shots in a game again before the Notre Dame win, he responded with a couple of games where he looked for his shot.
Then it was hard to see him in the field goal attempted or free throw attempted columns. His counting stats (points, rebounds, etc) seem to indicate that something has changed. And he seemed to show more energy on defense against Georgetown, once he was free to take off the mask.
But was it the mask?
Maybe, but maybe not. Justin's minutes dropped from 31 to 27.9, owing partly to other options in the post of Sean Evans and Rob Thomas, but owing also to what looked at times to be a lack of concentration and struggles with aggressiveness and confidence. Burrell also struggles with turnovers - though he's not a dribbler - and often gets the ball in unfavorable positions, which speaks to the offensive flow around him. Still, he seems to pass up opportunities to create his shot or to shoot his jumper. Last year was a disappointing performance for those (like me) who thought he might break out.
The 2008-2009 performance was a near-copy of his 2007-2008 season - with fewer minutes, fewer attempts, a higher free throw rate (and more free throw attempts) and expanded range. Once again, his effective field goal percentage was around 41% in conference, though he added 5 of 15 shooting on 3-pointers, which were wide-open, feet-set shots. Which also means that his 2-point shooting dipped slightly (from 41% to 40%), which is a little alarming for a power forward... especially considering that at his height and with his athleticism, those are very low percentages to begin with.
He took 20.8% of the team's shots while on the floor, as opposed to 25% in the previous year's Big East play. Perhaps Burrell was a little lost out there. Adding to that idea are his rebounding percentages. They remained about the same, and are lower than his rebounding rates in the beginning of his freshman year. Combined with little change in his turnover rate (hovering around 24% of possessions), his numbers didn't improve.
But when he lets the frustration out, and cocks back a one-handed hammer dunk like the one on Rutgers... whoo, man, the potential is there. Burrell also used his body better to get to the free throw line, which should be an important part of his game now that he can take more contact. His free throw shooting plummeted to 62.5%; but he has range, and I would expect that number to come back up. Burrell's defense is probably better than the team's interior defense looks; he seems to both stay with his assignments and can block some shots from the weak side.
Impact on the 2009-2010 Season
Burrell is an integral part of the Red Storm - he is athletic, filled with ability, quickness and strength. But he needs to put his skills together, and his confidence has to be high. But his teammates need to find him instead of driving for their own shot; there are times when Justin is open, and the ballhandler passes up on throwing the ball in to #24 with his arm outstretched and waiting. Feed the post!
Burrell always seems like a cerebral forward; perhaps too cerebral. His defense and initial positioning in the post can get better, but I will focus on the offensive end here. Here are some things Burrell can work on during the offseason:
Aggressiveness. The games where Justin Burrell is persistent in taking shots aren't his best games percentage-wise, which has to make being aggressive very difficult. But aggressiveness isn't just taking shots; Burrell needs to get into position, and he needs look to make plays when he gets touches. He can use his skills to draw in the defense and kick the ball back out, provided his teammates are moving to areas to receive a pass. Still, his taking 2 or 3 shots in any game should not happen. He has to attempt jump shots with a hand in his face; he has moves in the post; Burrell has to use these skills.
Additionally, Burrell needs to rip some rebounds out of the hands of opponents, point blank. He should be a better rebounder than he is currently showing.
Ball Control. Burrell's problems with turnovers has less to do with errant dribbling and more to do with controlling the ball on the catch, and with getting caught when he turns into the defense. He has to work on recognizing and countering double-teams.
Develop the Skills. Burrell's post moves look decent, if a little mechanical; but many times he gets his shot off and misses. His jump shot is coming along. And if he can work on a quick two-dribble drive, he would be just nasty going to the basket; he would spend his afternoons at the free throw line and demoralizing opponents. And if he gets above 70% from the free throw line again, he'll be putting up big games.
All of these issues with his game might be lessened if the team plays faster, more instinctively; Burrell has looked better in space, reacting to loose balls and driving at the hoop. Burrell expects more of himself than he showed last year; here's hoping he comes back with a vengeance.


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Isolation of specific antibodies was accomplished by affinity chromatography using pooled mouse IgG covalently linked to agarose. Based on ELISA and flow cytometry, this antibody reacts with the heavy and light chains of mouse IgG1, IgG2a, IgG2b, and IgG3, and with the light chains of mouse IgM and IgA. This antibody was tested by dot blot and and/or solid-phase adsorbed for minimal cross-reactivity with human, rabbit, goat, rat, and horse serum proteins, but may cross-react with immunoglobulins from other species. The conjugate has been specifically tested and qualified for immunofluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry applications.
- Western blotting
- Microscopy
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VRDye 490 secondary antibodies are supplied as purified immunoglobulin conjugates, lyophilized in phosphate-buffered saline, pH 7.4. Protect from light. Store at 4 °C prior to reconstitution.
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October is National Cholesterol Month in UK and time to remind ourselves about the disturbing UK coronary heart disease statistics. When it comes to causes of death in UK, Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) is the big hitter. It is simply the biggest single killer in the UK alone. 2015 statistics show that almost 70, 000 deaths each year are due to CHD. Scotland and the North of England, where I live, have the highest rates in the nation.
So what can we do about it?
This is where cholesterol comes in. I'm sure most of us now know about the link between high cholesterol and heart disease. The thing that does confuse a lot of people, however, is – just what is the best diet to reduce cholesterol and prevent heart disease?
When I first started practising as a Dietitian over 20 years ago, the advice was pretty austere. I found an old diet sheet that I used in a hospital that I worked at in the beginning of the 90's and the advice was, in line with the evidence based at the time:
- Fruit was allowed, juices and sugar were ok
- Legumes/pulses were allowed
- Whole-grains were encouraged
- Vegetables were encouraged but NO olives or avocado
- No eggs, nuts, butter, oil or margarine (or VERY small scrapes margarine). God forbid someone should eat peanut butter!
- Prawns and offal meats were a "no, no"
- Only restricted amounts very lean meats and fish, white was better
- Low fat dairy only- we are talking skimmed
- Low salt and goodbye alcohol
Meals were dry, bland and unappetising. This was not an easy diet to follow!
Shortly after working in that hospital, I did a stint as the Dietitian for the National Heart Foundation, in Australia. As part of the job, I answered consumer phone calls on diet and cholesterol. The main queries that I received were, from memory, about eggs, nuts and seafood. It was pretty harsh having to tell all the "shrimp/prawn on the barbie" lovers that they had to limit their intakes. At that time, we were also recommending vegetable oils over others and had just started to think about trans- fats. Things were on the move with our understandings and advice for lowering cholesterol.
Fortunately, over the years, there has been so much great research into diet and heart disease. We have been able to update the old diet sheets many times as new evidence emerges. We changed our stance on avocado, olives and nuts and have started to recognise the roles of the different types of fats in the diet- saturated and unsaturated (poly and mono). Even eggs have had a reprieve.
The next breakthrough for dietary recommendations and cholesterol lowering came in the form of the Mediterranean style diet and the newer diet sheets read as follows: (this is one from a hospital I worked at recently). You can see already the diet is more "user friendly".
- Plenty of fruit and vegetables
- Plenty of whole-grains – breads, cereals and grains
- Include nuts, unsalted
- Moderate fat dairy is ok as are lean meats of any variety
- Include legumes/pulses – peas, beans and lentils
- Moderate alcohol consumption encouraged
- Include oily fish at least once or twice a week
- Not a low fat diet! Replace saturated fat with unsaturated fats
But it hasn't stopped there. Vegetarian and plant based eating is on the rise for heart benefits. I think my favourite development with the cholesterol lowering/heart healthy diet, however, has been that we don't just focus on telling people "what NOT to eat". We now are able to suggest foods to add IN to the diet.
So many people think that as soon as they go to see the Dietitian, they will be told to cut everything out!
For CHD prevention, we are now focussing on "cholesterol busting" foods which have been found to be cardio-protective. These foods include – soya foods, nuts, oats, barley and soluble fibre rich foods, sterols and stanols have been found to have cholesterol lowering effects.
So, twenty years on, where are we with dietary advice for cholesterol lowering?
When looking for the holy grail in dietary advice for cholesterol lowering, we may be getting closer. There will, of course, always be new and challenging concepts in the prevention and dietary management of CHD but I think we may be pretty close to finding the answer.
The Ultimate Cholesterol Lowering Plan© ,produced by Heart UK with a number of experts, includes both the Mediterranean Diet the cholesterol busting food idea in the following advice:
- Eat plenty of fruit and vegetables- at least 5 servings a day
- Enjoy whole-grains- breads, cereal and grains
- Include lean meats – all varieties
- Focus on plant based eating
- Include oily fish once or twice a week
- Reduce saturated fats and replace with healthy unsaturated fats
- Limit sugary drinks and keep alcohol within healthy limits
- Add at least 2 of the cholesterol busting foods each day – (soy foods, nuts, products containing plant sterols/stanols or oats, barley or other soluble fibre containing foods such as legumes/pulses)
Of course, it is much more detailed than this – you can read the whole plan here .
I really like this Ultimate Cholesterol Lowering Plan and now use the resources that Heart UK have produced for Health Professionals to use when helping clients to lower their cholesterol. This plan is a lot more realistic and is worlds away from the old extreme low fat diets that were the "thing" when I first started as a Dietitian.
I was excited to see that the UCLP© has now launched the new UCLP Store Tour Film with leading Dietitian Lucy Jones .
This is a great video, with a practical example of what to put into the Ultimate Cholesterol Lowering Shopping Basket.
Launch – I will be there! Tweeting out the info for you!
On Wednesday evening, 21st October, I am lucky to be attending the launch of the store tour. The evening will include an information session on Diet and Cholesterol and on the new store tour video.
I will be tweeting all the information as it comes to hand – look out for the #UCLP© hastag! I will be tweeting from around 7 pm to 9.30 pm UK time.
The topics will be really interesting – including:
- cholesterol lowering diet trends over the years
- key foods for cholesterol lowering
- saturated fat – what is the "deal"
- the ULCP© resource and the new video
Please read along with my tweets to learn more and do check out the UCLP©. I'm hoping my fingers will keep up with all of the fabulous stuff coming out of the evening!
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It's a funny thing to see people get dolled up for a museum gala—furs, jewels, tuxedos, floor-length gowns—only to be asked to put on a white lab coat before sitting down for dinner. But that's what the 750 guests of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles had to do at its annual gala on Saturday night—and the weirdness didn't stop there.
The event was curated by the performance artist Marina Abramovic, who used the concept of a stuffy charity gala as a jumping-off point to have a little fun. This being Hollywood, within minutes, everyone had "styled" their lab coats. Dita Von Teese wore hers draped over one shoulder like her boyfriend's motorcycle jacket. Liz Goldwyn wore hers over both shoulders like a mink. Dasha Zhukova folded her sleeves to the elbow, while Pamela Anderson looked like she was about to tear hers off in a game of X-rated Operation. The 15-year-old fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson didn't wear hers at all, and showed off her Rodarte dress instead. Lab coats are for rookies, anyhow.
"I think I was a nurse for Halloween one year," Gwen Stefani said of the last time she was in a lab coat. And Jaime King asked incredulously, "Like, why did I even bother wearing this dress?!"
"I feel like I work at the Clinique counter," one guest said. "Are we going to be getting dirty?" Asked another. "We better."
As guests from John Baldessari to Rachel Zoe crowded into dinner, they were greeted by unusual centerpieces at every table: live human heads. Performance artists sat beneath every table, their rotating heads poking up between the plates.
As I took my seat, I locked eyes with my centerpiece: a bearded man with long, slicked-back hair and kind eyes. "Are you like the Queen's guards, or can I make you smile?" I asked. He winked. The evening was off to a good start. Shortly into the meal, conversation reached a lull—so I returned my focus to the centerpiece, who was still there, twirling, and understanding me.
When I returned to my table later in the meal, I announced that I had lost my napkin. Within seconds, a hand reached up from under the table, offering it up. My prayers had been answered. The centerpiece smiled at me again.
Before the main course was served, Abramovic led a group of performers in a reading of her "Manifesto." "I like the idea of total transition," she explained. "You're not just here as a guest of another gala. You're an experimenter in a strange lab."
Shortly thereafter, several shirtless male performers carried Debbie Harry onstage covered in a white sheet. She flung it off, and shimmied around in a tight red cocktail dress, serenading the crowd with "One Way or Another" and "Heart of Glass." The sea of scientists in diamond earrings jumped to their feet.
Just when we thought it couldn't get any weirder, it did: two life-size nude statues of Debbie Harry and Marina Abramovic were then rolled out onstage. Harry was somehow provided with a machete. Amidst raucous cheers, she dramatically raised it over her head and drove it straight into the heart of her nude likeness. Then, recalling something out of The Last of the Mohicans, she removed the statue's beating heart—made of red velvet cake.
The two cakes, in the shape of Abramovic and Harry, were then dismembered by teams of shirtless men with meat cleavers and placed on dessert plates to be distributed around the room. One breast went to Table 63, a few toes were served at table 22. A sea of revelers posed with the dismembered breasts in lewd poses.
But not everyone in the room was having a laugh. A few members of the crowd—invited guests or crashers, we'll never know—started chanting, "Violence against women! Violence against women!" as a form of protest against the performance piece. "This is extremely offensive," one woman told me as arms and legs were being circulated on dessert plates around the room. "This is misogyny at its finest. Women are being raped and killed every day, and we're cheering as naked men cleave them open with a knife." (The live centerpieces had been protested, too, with claims that the performers were being exploited.)
Abramovic appeared ruffled by the protesters, but Debbie Harry carried on: " I haven't eaten a piece of myself," she said, motioning toward the life-size cake, "… yet."


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This Robot Could Transform Manufacturing
About two months ago, a new employee arrived on the production line at Vanguard Plastics in Southington, Connecticut, a town that was once a hub of U.S. manufacturing but saw many of its factories disappear in the 1960s. The small manufacturer's new worker, Baxter, is six feet tall, 300 pounds, and a robot. For a hulking machine, Baxter is remarkably expressive. A pair of eyes on the screen that serves as a face stare down as the robot picks up plastic components, look concerned when it makes a mistake, and direct its glance at its next task when one is finished. It's cute. But the real point of these expressions is that they let workers nearby know instantly if Baxter is performing appropriately, and they provide clues to what it is about to do next. Even more amazing, when Baxter is done with one task, a fellow worker can simply show the robot how to start another. "Almost anyone, literally, can in very short order be shown how to program it," says Chris Budnick, president of Vanguard Plastics. "It's a matter of a couple of minutes."
Baxter is the first of a new generation of smarter, more adaptive industrial robots. Conventional industrial robots are expensive to program, incapable of handling even small deviations in their environment, and so dangerous that they have to be physically separated from human workers by cages. So even as robotics have become commonplace in the automotive and pharmaceutical industries, they remain impractical in many other types of manufacturing. Baxter, however, can be programmed more easily than a Tivo and can deftly respond to a toppled-over part or shifted table. And it is so safe that Baxter's developer, Rethink Robotics, which loaned Baxter to Vanguard Plastics, believes it can work seamlessly alongside its human coworkers.
Baxter's talents could, for the first time, bring the benefits of robotics and automation to areas of work where it never made sense before. This might mean lost jobs for an already struggling low-skill workforce. But it could also help the United States compete in the global manufacturing market against countries that offer low-wage labor. The amount of manufacturing in the United States has declined dramatically over the last few decades, in part because workers in other parts of the world will perform simple and menial jobs for far less. But robots like Baxter could wipe out that advantage by taking over such tasks, making it once again possible for many industries to competitively manufacture their products in the United States and other developed countries.
Perhaps it's unsurprising that such an innovation should come from probably the biggest name in the world of robots, Rodney Brooks. During the 1980s and 1990s, while at MIT, Brooks published work that helped shape the twin fields of robotics and artificial intelligence. Then, in 1990, together with two of his students from MIT, he cofounded iRobot, a company that introduced robots to new fields of work. It now makes a wide range of domestic and military robots, including the Roomba, a Frisbee-size household vacuum cleaner that has sold more than eight million worldwide.
Video: Meet Baxter, a New Kind of Industrial Robot
The idea for Baxter came about, Brooks says, while iRobot was searching for a suitable manufacturing partner for its one of its products. He remembers marveling at the fact that so much electronics manufacturing was still done by hand and how much of this kind of manufacturing had moved to low-wage economies in Asia. "I thought, 'Are we going to be doing this in 500 years—still chasing cheap labor? There's got to be a different way,'" he says.
Brooks, who founded Rethink in 2008 after leaving both iRobot and MIT, realized that robots could take over many jobs if they could be made safe, adaptable, and ridiculously easy to program. "Everyone was thinking about how to do it with the current industrial robots," he says. "I said, 'Let's make a different sort of robot for industry.'"
The result is something very different indeed. Much like a human worker, Baxter can be taught in minutes how to recognize a new object or perform a new task. To teach Baxter to recognize something, you just hold the object in front of one of its cameras, which are located in the head, in the chest, and at the end of each arm. To program an action, you can move one of Baxter's two giant arms through the desired motion and select from a number of preprogrammed actions using a pair of dial controls found in each forearm. When you grab one of Baxter's arms, it feels light as a feather. Its motors compensate in response to your touch, making the heavy limb easy to move through the air.
Sophisticated computer vision software means that even if a plastic widget has toppled over, Baxter will still recognize it. "The shipping and receiving folks have no trouble programming it," says Vanguard Plastics' Budnick. "We had it taking parts from one conveyor and putting them onto a table."
Vanguard Plastics already has 24 conventional robots. They can pick and place objects with fantastic accuracy and speed. But it takes up to a day to program one, and if anything is misaligned they will grab at thin air all day. These robots must also be separated from human workers by protective fencing.
Baxter requires no such barriers. Brooks likes to demonstrate his robot's safety features by putting his head in the way of one of its giant arms as it swings through a task, smiling as he receives nothing more than a gentle bump. Baxter moves too slowly and gently to do harm, and an array of sonar sensors positioned around its head can detect human movement. The robot also reacts to the sudden change in force that occurs with an unexpected impact and responds by stopping instantly.
The International Federation of Robotics estimates that there are now 1.1 million working robots around the world. About 80 percent of all the work involved in manufacturing a car is now done by machines. In some industries, however, the volume is too low to make automation worthwhile, or the product line changes too rapidly in response to new demand or innovation. This includes small-scale manufacturing but also relatively advanced industries such as aerospace and cell-phone manufacturing.
"It takes significant resources for a company to set up a work environment for a robot," says Julie Shah, an assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, who studies the role of robots in manufacturing. "It requires suppliers providing materials in a certain way, it requires designing the whole factory infrastructure, and it requires caging the robot. If you need to reprogram these robots, it often takes special expertise or external consultants."
Some fear that overcoming those obstacles could cost human jobs. But Brooks doesn't agree. He says Baxter is designed to make human workers more efficient, not to replace them. "An electric drill makes a home contractor more productive," he says. "Should we ban electric drills so there are more jobs for home contractors? You ask any home contractor that."
Other experts agree that robots like Baxter could improve U.S. employment prospects in the long term. Willy Shih, a former IBM and Kodak executive who studies the relationship between manufacturing and innovation as a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, says manufacturing work moved to China partly because it was easier to use humans than to make automation more flexible. Baxter could change that calculation. "To the extent that they can reduce the setup overhead for changing over a line or something, then that becomes really interesting," he says. "Anything that improves flexibility, that's a huge deal."
Boosting the efficiency of small manufacturers could help fuel the economy and drive job creation. By shifting the balance away from low-cost human labor, Baxter and similar robots could perhaps also make manufacturers in the United States and Europe more competitive with their counterparts in Asia. "If you can develop a robot that's capable of integrating into the human workflow, into the human part of the factory—if it has just a little bit of decision-making ability, a little bit of flexibility—that opens up a new type of manufacturing process, which is what's really exciting to me," says Shah.
Back at Vanguard Plastics, Baxter is viewed as just another tool. "There wasn't any fear, like 'Oh, I'm gonna be fired'—no, it has nothing to do with that," says Budnick. He adds that the company plans to buy its own Baxter if the cost can be worked into the budget for the coming year (the robot will cost $22,000). The plan is to have the robot work alongside a person by feeding freshly molded plastic cups into a bagging machine. "The normal robot would populate the conveyor with stacks of 20 cups, and then Baxter would take the 20 and feed a bagger," Budnick says. "Then all our operator would have to do is take the finished bag and pack them out."
That would be a humble beginning for a robot as clever as Baxter. But like any other worker, it will start with jobs its coworkers don't want to do. "I don't know exactly where it's going to go," says Brooks. "But I know it's going to be a revolution."
Rodney Brooks is speaking at Technology Review's annual EmTech MIT conference this October, and Baxter will be joining him at the event.
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- Colour – Heartwood is yellowish brown or light tan to deep brown. Typically it has bands of large-pored early wood and dense late wood. The sapwood is the same but lighter. Silver grey figure on sawn quarter.
- Grain – Usually straight, but may be irregular or cross. Distinct growth rings and broad rays produce an attractive figure when quarter-sawn.
- Strength – Bending strength in air dried is high. Crushing strength or compression strength parallel to grain is also high. Hardness medium.
- Ease Of Drying – Dries very slowly, liable to splits, checks, warps and honeycomb especially during the initial drying stages. A yellow stain, which eventually disappears, is also common during drying. Illingworth Ingham (M/cr) Ltd supply kiln dried stock.
- Movement In Service – Moderate dimensional stability after seasoning. Exhibits medium movement in use.
- Preservative Treatment – Heartwood's exceptionally resistant to preservative treatment. Sapwood permeable.
Working Properties
- Machining – Satisfactory
- Sawing – Satisfactory
- Blunting effect on cutters – generally moderate
- Planing – When planing a reduced angle of 20 degrees is recommended for cross and irregular grained woods.
- Carving – Good
- Turning – Good
- Gluing – Good
- Nailing – Difficult, should be pre-bored
- Screwing – Difficult, should be pre-bored
- Steam Bending – Very good.
- Moisture content should be reduced to 25% before steam bending. The best material should be dried slowly during the setting period.
- Takes a high polish and good for staining.


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The Philadelphia Union picked up four young newcomers from Tuesday's MLS Supplemental Draft, adding defender Thomas Brandt, midfielder Krystian Witkowski, forward Antoine Hoppenot, and midfielder Brandon Zimmerman to the squad. The Union added striker Chandler Hoffman, midfielder Greg Jordan and defender Raymon Gaddis during the 2012 SuperDraft last Thursday.
Brandt was a two-time captain at the University of Pennsylvania, earning All-Ivy honors after scoring five goals in both of his final two seasons. Witkowski was a member of the U-18 Polish National team before going off to Marist College, where he notched 21 goals in 71 matches, including nine goals and six assists during his junior season. Hoppenot was a finalist for the Hermann Trophy his junior season, scoring nine goals and five assists for Princeton University. Zimmerman was a four-time All-WCC midfielder for UC Santa Clara, earning first-team honors his senior year.
The Union will begin preseason camp on Jan. 25. They will play an exhibition match against Orlando City on Feb. 18 in the Florida Citrus Orange Bowl.
For more on the Union, head over to the SB Nation blog Brotherly Game.