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"Societies should really know better than to commemorate civil wars, for their outcomes are all too frequently, in the long term, ephemeral," warns Jonathan Smele in this ambitious and thought-provoking new book.
Having won most of the fighting for control of the former tsarist empire, the Bolsheviks set about memorialising their triumphs through renaming Russia's buildings, streets, towns, mountains and lakes in honour of their heroes, as well as erecting sculptures and public art in celebration of their victories. Yet, ultimately, even they could not escape the "revenge of the past". According to Smele, these representations were demolitions waiting to happen. In the post-Soviet era, memorials to the Bolshevik victors have now been erased, and a process of re-memorialising has begun. In Moscow, the remains of defeated White leaders have recently been reinterred, while in Georgia monuments to Red heroes are to be replaced with ones that attest to "Russian aggression". Thus, while the more familiar Red versus White aspect of the civil war has faded from contemporary relevance, other "Russian Civil Wars" – the Azeri-Armenian clashes, Armenian-Turkish relations, Russo-Ukrainian tribulations, Russo-Georgian wars, Muslim insurgency in the North Caucasus, and definitions of citizenship in the Baltic states, unfrozen by the disintegration of the USSR in 1991, are, as Smele remarks, "still very much alive".
Over the past decade, scholars of modern Russia have begun to talk about a "continuum of crisis" spanning 1914-21. Here, Smele extends this reconceptualisation and offers an interesting corrective to depictions of a unitary Russian civil war. His book's title neatly summarises his three main contentious arguments: the plurality of civil wars, the placing of the word "Russian" in inverted commas, and the span of conflict from 1916 to 1926. He argues spiritedly that there was not one civil war following the Bolshevik revolution of October 1917, and contests the usual chronological parameters in which conflict began in early or mid-1918, and ended with the major White defeats and withdrawal of intervening foreign troops, and the introduction of the conciliatory New Economic Policy between 1920 and 1922. Finally, Smele stresses that not all the wars took place in Russian territory, or even primarily involved Russian combatants.
This work presents a masterful synthesis of the best English and Russian language scholarship on the subject, in which the more familiar conflict between political forces that sought to inherit the territory of the tsars is enriched with detailed exploration of the attempts of many non-Russian national and religious groups to divide the former empire. Smele's drama begins and ends in Central Asia – a location, he points out, that is closer to Mumbai than Moscow. He foregrounds the Muslim rebels of Central Asia, whose armed resistance he traces to the summer of 1916 when many of the tsar's Muslim subjects rebelled against forced mobilisation into labour battalions to service the Imperial Russian Army. Further anti-colonial revolts broke out again in 1917‑18, resulting in the formation of the guerrilla Basmachi movement, which was significantly pacified only by June 1926.
In highlighting the fascinating transnational and multi-ethnic aspects of the struggles of this tumultuous decade, Smele's book presents a colourful compendium of overlapping conflicts in a disintegrating and reconfiguring empire, and will stimulate fruitful reflection in the field.
Lara Douds-Cook is lecturer in Russian history, University of York.
The 'Russian' Civil Wars, 1916-1926: Ten Years that Shook the World
By Jonathan D. Smele
Hurst, 480pp, £35.00
Published 18 February 2016


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How would you like to vastly improve your speed? How about improving your quickness and power? What would an increase in speed do for your performance?
What if I told you that you can substantially improve your speed and quickness in 30 days?
A total turnaround in your current performance is possible with the proper knowledge, training, and techniques.
Over the years, athletes and coaches have recognized the importance of speed and quickness but were convinced that they were purely genetic.
They were convinced that since speed and quickness were genetic, there was nothing you could do to improve these qualities. Basically, you got with what you were born with.
As a result, speed training did not exist for team sports and were basically relegated to track and field and those interested in sprinting events. Even so, track coaches put most of the emphasis on improving form and conditioning through interval training programs and wind sprints in the speed training programs.
The idea behind speed training techniques was to produce an athlete with upper and lower body movement in tune with the actual mechanics of sprinting and then condition that athlete through repeated sprints longer and shorter than the distance of the sprinting event. At the professional levels, team coaches were recruiting fast, quick athletes rather than trying to improve speed and quickness in athletes with superior playing skills.
We now know that with the proper speed training programs, speed and quickness can be vastly improved upon with an athlete with average speed genetics. You see, throughout the 1960's and early 1970's speed training was made up of the genetic theory and the two prong approach to speed improvement involving form and muscular endurance training (ie: interval training programs and wind sprints).
This kind of speed training worked fine until the United States starting losing it's sprinting competitions at Olympic events. At that time, the United States realized that there was more to improving speed than genetics and conditioning. Sprinting speed was increased not only by improving form, holding maximum speed longer, and reducing the slowing effect at the end of a sprint but also by improving acceleration and taking faster and longer steps. None of the earlier speed training programs incorporated the use of the latter two yet these were the most important.
How were the latter two the most important? If the muscles involved in sprinting were forced to move faster than ever before through methods such as sprint assisted training, speed strength training, and high speed stopping, starting, cutting, and acceleration, could an athlete permanently increase the number of steps per second and improve stride length? Of course!
We now know that genetics is not the sole factor in determining speed potential. In order for an athlete to reach their full potential they must incorporate a complete approach to improving playing speed in speed training programs. Sports coaches and speed coaches (well, the smart ones anyway) now realize this and know that with proper speed training, athletes can dramatically improve both speed and quickness.
You see, every athlete can vastly improve starting, stopping, cutting speed, acceleration, and overall playing speed. Genetics plays a role but it's not the sole determining factor of your speed potential. Genetics is just a piece of the speed puzzle. If you are missing the environment and speed training factors, the puzzle will not be complete. Regardless of the genetic makeup, any athlete can get faster with proper speed training.
How do you get faster? Regardless of the sport you are playing, you will need to:
1. Improve sprinting technique and form
2. Increase stride length
3. Improve speed endurance
4. Improve or increase the number of steps taken per second
5. Improve acceleration from a stationary position to maximum speed.
In order to acheive the above principles, you first need to assess your current condition and plan ahead. When it comes to athletic preperation and planning, most athletes and coaches use the wild guess principle. This method is not the most effective for speed training. Think about it. Why are you doing anything in training? I'm guessing you want to improve your quickness and speed, right? So how can you be sure that what you are doing is what you need to be doing?
So how do you determine what exercise you should use for speed taining? What methods should you use? How can you be sure that you are on the right track?
The answer is to know where you are now. Know your starting point.
You see, the problem with alot of today's speed training programs is that they try and use a one size fits all speed training routines. That's like having a one size fits all pant. Different people need different speed training programs as they tend to have different genetics, different starting points, different strengths and weaknesses, and different time frames to achieve their goals. The only way to gaurantee success in speed training is perform a thorough evaluation prior to beginning to train.
Here's an example. Two 19 year old male athletes both have slow 40 yard dash times. No preliminary testing has been done to determine fundamental postural, range of motion or functional movement. With only the time information, we can only conclude that both athletes need some serious speed training. However, if we had carried out the other tests, we reveal that athlete I has excellent muscle balance, good core stability, and a good range of motion in the hip structure while athlete II does not. Therefore the athletes do not have the same problem. Athlete I needs speed training while athlete II needs a period mobility and corrective work done first.
In order to assess your current state, you need to assess your speed. To do this you need a comprehensive testing battery designed to identify strengths and weaknesses and form the basis for a personal speed improvement program. Unfortunately, this is beyond the scope of this web page.
Once you assess your speed you can lay down your foundation speed training. This training will be the root of your program and will look at:
1. Improve sprinting technique and form
2. Increase stride length
3. Improve speed endurance
4. Improve or increase the number of steps taken per second
5. Improve acceleration from a stationary position to maximum speed.
Here you will start off with the general preperation. The objective is to increase the body's resources to optimum levels before beginning the trip to faster running and playing speeds. In many programs, it is unlikely that the body's resources have been developed to threshold or optimum levels. Therefore, athletes should follow an optimum based program that takes into account all the body's resources to produce an integrated program.
To improve overall speed performance you need to incorporate the necessary training movements in your training program. The only problem is trying to find the right exercises for the right training program. There are literally hundreds of exercises and training programs out there but only a handful of them are actually useful.
If you are not familiar with polymetrics, it refers to exercise that enables a muscle to reach maximum strength in as short a time as possible. Polymetrics exercise are important in sports requiring high levels of speed strength to complete movements such as starting, stopping, cutting, accelerating, sprinting, jumping, and throwing.
Polymetrics takes many different forms and the activities revolve around jumping, hopping, and bounding movements for the lower body and swinging, quick action push offs, cathcing and throwing weighted objects, arm swings, and pulley rows for the upper body.
Polymetrics develop both strength and power in the muscles involved in sprinting. An athlete may have superior strength yet be unable to produce the needed power to sprint a fast 40 to 60 yard dash. The competition of some movements in sports such as sprinting involves less time than it takes for the muscles to develop a maximal contraction. For such actions, an athlete will use only 50 to 80 percent of his/her absolute strength. The key to polymetric training is to display strength as quickly and as forcefully as possible. Polymetrics is also an ideal training program for developing explosiveness and improve quickness.
The exercises in polymetrics use gravity to store energy in the muscles before the athlete immediately releases energy in the opposite direction. Polymetrics provide and important training program for team sports since speed strength is required throughout each contest.
Polymetrics is really quite simple to follow. Remember to keep these points in mind:
-Exercises should correspond to the form, muscles work, and range of motion in your sport. The main goal is to rapidly apply overload force to the muscles to improve speed strength
-The rate of the stretch is strongly tied to the effectiveness of polymetric training. The higher the stretch rate, the greater the muscle tension and the more powerful the concentric contraction in the opposite direction.
-Exercises for sprinting speed improvement should explode at the beginning of the movement and allow inertia to move the limb through the remaining range of motion.
-If it's possible, a polymetric exercise should be performed at a speed faster than you are capable of producing without some assistance.
-Exercise should fit to the correct direction of movement.
Alright, let's get to the sample training program and exercises.The following program is a low intensity polymetric training program. Remember that you are trying to improve speed strength, not speed endurance. Therefore, adequate rest and recovery between repetitions, sets, and workouts is required.
Squat jumps
3 sets of 6 to 10 repetitions
Rest two minutes
Try and add one to two repetitions per workout for added progresssion
Stand upright (optional: hands behind your head). Drop to a half squat and immediately jump up as high as possible. Repeat after landing. What you want to do is explode up and jump as high as you can, stressing maximum height.
Double leg ankle bounces
3 sets of 6 to 10 repetitions
Rest two minutes
Try and add one to two repetitions per workout for added progression
With your arms at your sides, jump up and forward using your ankles. immediately on landing, execute the next jump.
Lateral cone jumps
2 sets of 6 to 10 repetitions
Rest two minutes
Try and add one to two repetitions per workout for added progression
Standing to one side of a cone. Jump laterally to the other side. Upon landing on the other side, immediately jump laterally back to the starting position. This is considered one set.
Drop and catch push ups
4 sets of 6 to 10 repetitions
Rest two minutes
Try and add one to two repetitions per workout for added progression
Kneel on both knees with the upper body erect, as though standing on your knees. Place hands in front of your chest, palms down and drop your upper body to the floor, catching your weight with both elbows bent in the bottom phase of the push up position. Immediately push off with both hands to extend your arms and return to the upright position.
Keep in mind that exercise consists of repetitions and sets. One repetition consists of a series of muscle contractions with a weight or movement such as one push up. A series of repetitions is called a set. For example, 10 repetitions of push ups is considered one set. A set is the completion of a series of repetitions.
If you want to vastly improve your speed remember that you need to;
1. determine your starting point
2. determine your strengths and weaknesses
3. lay down your foundation plan
4. use specific exercises that improve your speed
5. monitor your progress on a steady basis
6. Improve in each exercise week after week
Good luck!
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Sanjay Dutt Biography
Sanjay Dutt is an Indian Bollywood film performing artist and government official. A two time Filmfare Awards victor, Dutt is the child of Bollywood stars Sunil Dutt and Nargis.
Sanjay is the child of the late performing artists Nargis, and Sunil Dutt a Brahmin. He has two sisters, Priya Dutt and Namrata Dutt (Anju). He was instructed at the Lawrence School, Sanawar. Dutt battled with medication enslavement while in secondary school and after the passing of his mom in 1981. He even experienced treatment for the same at a medication recovery program in Jackson, Mississippi in the United States which helped him impressively in kicking his medication propensity.
Individual life :
Sanjay wedded Richa Sharma in 1987. She kicked the bucket of growth in 1996. They had a girl, Trishala Dutt, who lives in the United States. His second wife was Rhea Pillai. Dutt is right now hitched to his third wife Dilnawaz Shaikh, otherwise called Manyata. Dutt has gone into Politics. Manyata Dutt conveyed twins, a child young lady and an infant kid on Oct 21st 2010.
Illegal possession of arms :
As indicated by the judge Kode, Dutt went to a supper gathering facilitated by on-screen character producer Feroze Khan amid the shooting of Yalgaar in December 1992 in Dubai which was gone to by hoodlums Dawood Ibrahim and Iqbal Mirchi. On April 19, 1993, Sanjay was captured for illicitly having arms acquired from criminals included in 1993 Mumbai bombings.He burned through 16 months in prison as an undertrial until he was conceded safeguard in October 1995 by the Supreme Court of India.
In November 1993, a 10,000 page long essential chargesheet was documented against the 189 denounced in the 1993 Mumbai bomb impacts case including Sanjay.
On December 18, 2001, Sanjay discredited charges of having an AK-56 rifle and crushing it. He additionally denied that Samir Hingora and Ibrahim Chavan had gone by his habitation in an auto weighed down with arms and ammo before the 1993 Mumbai blasts. In July 2002, Dutt argued that the proof set by CBI against him was created and henceforth inadmissible.In his last contentions under the steady gaze of the unique court, he said that CBI had not delivered the first record to demonstrate that a call was produced using his habitation to Anees Ibrahim in Dubai before the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts.
In March 2006, when encircling charges against removed Abu Salem and co-blamed Riyaz Siddiqui in the 1993 Mumbai bomb impacts case, the prsecution said that Salem conveyed 9 AK-56 rifles to Sanjay at his Bandra house in the second week of January 1993.
On February 13, 2007, the wrongdoing branch of Mumbai police captured Abdul Qayyum Abdul Karim Shaikh, a nearby helper of Dawood Ibrahim and needed by CBI Special Task Force for his part in the 1993 Mumbai serial impacts from Mumbai. Qayuum had been named by Sanjay Dutt in his confession booth proclamation. Sanjay had said that he met Qayuum in Dubai in September 1992 and purchased a gun from him. As indicated by CBI, the gun was sold to Sanjay at the case of Dawood's sibling Anees Ibrahim.
On July 31, 2007, Dutt was sentenced to six years thorough detainment for wrongfully having three AK-56 rifles, a gun and ammo got from the Mumbai underworld. In the meantime, Dutt was likewise "cleared of terrorism intrigue charges in the impacts" identified with the 1993 bombings. As indicated by The Guardian, "The on-screen character guaranteed he dreaded for his life after the infamous "The shopping extravaganza following Thanksgiving" bombings, which were purportedly arranged by Mumbai's Muslim-commanded mafia in striking back for destructive Hindu-Muslim conflicts a couple of months prior. Be that as it may, the judge, Pramod Kode, rejected this resistance furthermore denied safeguard." Dutt was instantly taken into care and sent to Mumbai's Arthur Road Jail. As the sentence was professed, Dutt was "noticeably stunned and was seen shuddering and keeping down tears".
On August 2, 2007, Sanjay Dutt was moved from Arthur Road imprison in Mumbai to the Yeravada Jail in Pune. On August 7, 2007, Dutt requested the sentence. Later, on August 20, 2007, the Supreme Court of India allowed Dutt between time bail.He was discharged after Yeravada Jail powers got a duplicate of the court's safeguard request. The safeguard was substantial until the time the unique TADA court, which sentenced Dutt on July 31, gives a duplicate of its judgment to him. Dutt was discharged from prison on August 23. On October 22, 2007 Dutt was back in prison however again connected for safeguard. On 27 November 2007, Dutt was allowed safeguard by the Supreme Court. He right now has a request for a vindication pending. In January 2009, Dutt reported that he would challenge the 2009 Lok Sabha decisions on the Samajwadi Party ticket. On the other hand, he withdrew his nomination in March, 2009 after the Supreme Court declined to suspend his conviction.
International Humanitarian Initiatives :
On 16 December 2008, Sanjay Dutt was designated a goodwill minister for the Intergovernmental Institution for the utilization of Micro-green growth Spirulina Against Malnutrition (IIMSAM). He will be advancing the utilization of spirulina to help the association's battle against ailing health and craving. His part will likewise bolster the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by mainstreaming the utilization of spirulina.
Career :
Dutt's presentation film was the 1981 film Rocky, which was delivered and coordinated by his dad, Sunil Dutt. Dutt went ahead to show up in various different movies, including Vidhaata (1982), Naam (1986), and Hathyar (1989). His leap forward part came in Subhash Ghai's Khalnayak (1993), for which he got a Filmfare Awards selection.
Dutt's best part has been that of comic goon Munna Bhai, showing up in the movies Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. what's more, Lage
Sanjay Dutt Profile
Name ; Sanjay Dutt
Date of Birth ; 29 July, 1959
Age (as in 2015) ; 53 Years
Birth Place ; Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
zodiac Sign/Sun Sign ; Leo
Nationality ; Indian
Sanjay Dutt Body size/Measurements
Height in cm ; 183 cm
Height in meters ; 1.83 m
Height in Feet Inches ; 6 feet (6′)
Weight in Kg ; 84-86 Kg
Weight in pounds ; 185-190 lbs
Weight in 2013 ; 85 Kg/187 lbs
Chest: 44
Waist: 32
Biceps: 16
Neck: 16
Eye Colour ; Black
Hair Colour ; Black


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Systematic review and meta-analysis
Electroconvulsive therapy for agitation in schizophrenia: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Xiaojing GU, Wei ZHENG, Tong GUO, Gabor S. UNGVARI, Helen F.K. CHIU, Xiaolan CAO, Carl D'ARCY,
: Agitation poses a significant challenge in the treatment of schizophrenia. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a fast, effective and safe treatment for a variety of psychiatric disorders, but no meta-analysis of ECT treatment for agitation in schizophrenia has yet been reported.
: To systematically evaluate the efficacy and safety of ECT alone or ECT-antipsychotics (APs) combination for agitation in schizophrenia.
: Systematic literature search of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) was performed. Two independent evaluators selected studies, extracted data about outcomes and safety with available data, conducted quality assessment and data synthesis. The Grades of Recommendation, Assessment,Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) was used to judge the level of the overall evidence of main outcomes.
: Seven RCTs from China, including ECT alone (4 RCTs with 5 treatment arms, n=240) and ECT-APs combination (3 RCTs, n=240), were identified. Participants in the studies were on average 34.3(4.5) years of age and lasted an average of 4.3(3.1) weeks of treatment duration. All 7 RCTs were non-blinded, and were rated as low quality based on Jadad scale. Meta-analysis of the pooled sample found no significant difference in the improvement of the agitation sub-score of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) when ECT alone (weighted mean difference=-0.90, (95% confidence interval (CI): -2.91, 1.11), p=0.38) or ECT-APs combination (WMD=-1.34, (95%CI: -4.07, 1.39), p=0.33) compared with APs monotherapy. However, ECT alone was superior to APs monotherapy regarding PANSS total score (WMD=-7.13, I2=0%, p=0.004) and its excitement sub-score (WMD=-1.97, p
: Pooling of the data based on 7 RCTs from China found no advantage of ECT alone or ECT-APs combination in the treatment of agitation related outcomes in schizophrenia patients. However, ECT alone or ECT-APs combination were associated with significant reduction in the PANSS total score. High-quality RCTs are needed to confirm the current interpretations.
Key words
: Electroconvulsive therapy; agitation; schizophrenia; headache, meta-analysis
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Relationship of mean platelet volume to MDD: a retrospective study
Liqiang CAI, Luoyi XU, Lili WEI, Wei CHEN
: Results of numerous studies show that major depressive disorder (MDD) is associated with a chronic low-grade inflammation, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear.
: To compare the results of blood cell analysis of MDD patients with healthy controls, and explore the potential value of it as an indicator of immune-inflammation in MDD, especially the mean platelet volume.
: 103 MDD patients and 106 healthy controls with matched age and gender were recruited.We collected peripheral blood samples from both groups and gathered basic data. For comparison ofnormally distributed data (age, body mass index, lymphocyte count, white blood cell count, red blood cell count, hematocrit, platelet count and mean corpuscular volume) between groups, single t-test wereused; and for comparison of non-normally distributed data (Neutrophil count, neutrophil count, platelet/ lymphocyte ratio, hemoglobin, red blood cell distribution width, mean platelet volume, mean hemoglobin concentration, mean hemoglobin and platelet distribution width), we used Mann-Whitney U-test.
: Compared with healthy controls, the MDD groups showed significantly higher white blood cell count (F=0.443, p=0.004), plateletcrit (F=8.3, p
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The psychometric properties of the Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology-Self-Report (QIDS-SR) in patients with HBV-related liver disease
Mei LIU, Yuanyuan WANG, Jing ZHAO, Sujun ZHENG, Gabor S. UNGVARI, Chee H. NG,Zhong-ping DUAN, Yutao
: Comorbid depression in Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is common. Developing accurate and time efficient tools to measure depressive symptoms in HBV is important for research and clinical practice in China.
: This study tested the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the 16-item Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology (QIDS-SR) in HBV patients.
: The study recruited 245 depressed patients with HBV and related liver disease. The severity of depressive symptoms was assessed with the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) and the QIDS-SR.
: Internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha) was 0.796 for QIDS-SR. The QIDS-SR total score was significantly correlated with the MADRS total score (r=0.698, p
: The QIDS-SR (Chinese version) has good psychometric properties in HBV patients and appears to be useful in assessing depression in clinical settings.
Key words
: Depressive symptoms, psychometric properties, QIDS-SR, Hepatitis B Virus
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Personality characteristics and neurocognitive functions in parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Xiaojing LI, Qiang WANG,Yuejing WU, Sherrie WANG, Yi HUANG, Tao LI
: The increasing prevalence of autism spectrum disorder in children and the huge family burdens have caused concern in the academic field as well as society.
: To study the personality characteristics and neurocognitive functions in the Chinese parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and compare them with the parents of well-developed children.
: This study recruited 41 Chinese children who met the diagnostic criteria of autism spectrum disorder according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders-IV (DSM-IV). Their 79 biological parents were evaluated by means of Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) and a set of neuropsychological tests. The normal control group consisted of 80 parents of well-developed children, and they were matched by age and gender.
: We found that the EPQ scores in the P scale for parents of children with ASD were significantly higher than the parents of well-developed children (t=1.68, p=0.039), while their scores in E scale and L scale were significantly lower (t=1.84, p=0.035; t=2.07, p=0.023). We also identified that the parents of children with ASD took significantly longer time than the normal control to complete Trail Making Test (TMT) Part A and Part B-M (t=1.57, p=0.013; t=0.83, p=0.019).
: Compared to the parents of well-developed children, the parents of children with ASD were more likely to be unconcerned, rigid, stubborn, introverted, and reticent. They displayed less novelty and thrill-seeking behaviors, and had limited social skills and maturity. Although the general cognitive functions including IQ were relatively intact in the parents of children with ASD, there were impairments in their planning, flexibility and visual processing functions.
Key words
: autism spectrum disorder; personality characteristics; neurocognitive function; executive function
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Linking anger trait with somatization in low-grade college students: Moderating roles of family cohesion and adaptability
Liang LIU, Cuilian LIU, Xudong ZHAO
: Between 22% and 58% of patients in primary care settings complain of somatic symptoms.Previous research has found that somatization was associated with anger traits and family functions.However, studies that specifically assess the moderating effect of family function in how anger traits become somatic complaints are lacking.
: This study was designed to examine whether the variances in family cohesion and family adaptability moderated the strength of the relationship between anger traits and somatization.
: A cross-section design was conducted and 2008 college students were recruited from a comprehensive university in Shanghai. All participants finished questionnaires including Symptom Check List-90 (SCL-90), State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory 2 (STAXI-2, Chinese version) and Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scale, second edition (FACES II, Chinese Version) to assess their degree of current somatization,anger trait and family function. Hierarchical linear regression analysis (Enter) was conducted respectively for men and women to examine the moderation effect of family cohesion and family adaptability in the association between anger and somatization.
: Somatic symptoms were significantly linked in the expected directions with depression and anger trait for both genders. Family cohesion and family adaptability were negatively associated with somatic symptoms. For female college students family cohesion was found to moderate the link between anger trait and somatization, but for male college students the moderation effect of family cohesion was marginally significant. The moderating role of family adaptability was significant for neither male nor female after current depressive symptoms were accounted for.
: Proneness to anger is an independent predictor of somatization. For women, a high level of family cohesion was a protective factor which could reduce the influence of anger trait on somatic symptoms. Without comorbidity of current depression, family adaptability to some degree exempted individuals with anger proneness from developing somatic complaints. Interventions that integrate family cohesion cultivation, family flexibility fostering and depression treatment might be more effective for somatic patients high in anger trait.
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: family cohesion, family adaptability, family conflict, anger proneness, anger trait, moderation,somatization
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The use of psychotropic drugs during pregnancy
Dengtang LIU, Peiwei XU, Kaida JIANG
: Patients with severe psychotic disorders face at least two challenges during pregnancy: the genetic risk of psychotic disorders and the risk of teratogenicity caused by psychotropic drugs. This paper reviewed the relevant literature regarding the issues surrounding use of antipsychotics, antidepressants in pregnant patients. The latest treatment guidelines and FDA recommendations are introduced.
Key words
: pregnancy, antipsychotics, psychotropic drug
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The development of the mind: A three month old infant
Simone Setterberg
: Infant mental development occurs in interplay with a caregiver. The infant establishes an inner world, a psyche, by using his or her caregiver as transitional mental space for the development of a sense of self. This mental progress occurs simultaneously with motor elaboration, pre-conditioned by neurophysiological maturation. The bodily holding function of the caregiver, through initial skin-to-skin contact, enables the infant to develop a sense of bodily self. The pivotal role of the body as a first place of ego development is illustrated by the vignette of Nino, a 3-month-old infant whose caregiver is unable to provide the necessary physical contact, and therefore insufficiently containing the young infant. This lack of physical holding limits the infant from developing a sense of bodily self, a primary sense of self. Without the caregiver's holding function, it is impossible for the infant to establish a relationship to a whole person.
Key words
: Infant, psychic development, dyadic interaction, clinical vignette
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Biostatistics in psychiatry
Win ratio –An intuitive and easy-to-interpret composite outcome in medical studies
Hongyue WANG, Jing PENG, Juila Z. ZHENG, Bokai WANG, Xiang LU, Chongshu CHEN, Xin M. TU,Changyong FE
: In medical studies with multiple outcomes, researchers always need to make choices as to whether to use a composite outcome (after combining multiple outcomes) as their primary outcome. In this paper we review a new measurement of the treatment effect – win ratio, which can be easily used in studies with prioritized multiple outcomes. We also propose some research topics to be done in this area.
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: time-to-event data; survival functions; proportional hazards model
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Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.
Erol Ozan
A quiet, gentle stillness. Reflecting,
on reflections.
"As water reflects the face
and trees
so one's life
reflects the heart."
will be lost without the memory or our
Sergio Tinoco
Enjoy each step.
Each second.
As Life goes by
one knows it can be relived
just by the thought of it.
"Take a detour.
Discover small towns
and friendly faces
that don't grow along the highway."
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
We did experience a reflection of James J. Hill
and the Great Northern Railroad in the museum.
(We had the best tour guide ever too, the munchkins will long reflect on our experience and him. I just know it.)
Mirror, mirror on the table
who's the fairest bunny of all?
Can't forget to share a mirror reflection of silliness!
Danny thought we needed a picture of us
with my new funky no-glass glasses!
Here's our quick selfie
in the rear view mirror!
"By three methods we may learn wisdom.
First by reflection, which is noblest;
Second, by imitation, which is easiest;
and third by experience,
which is the bitterest."


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Click on the image on the left to go to the website. For more information visit: roanokeisland.net
Click on the image on the left to go to the website. For more information visit: roanokeisland.net
|Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge is a 154,000-acre refuge on the mainland portion of Dare and Hyde counties. It was established in 1984 to preserve and protect a unique wetland habitat type, the pocosin, and its associated wildlife species.
|Elizabethan Gardens Designed by two of America's foremost landscape architects to pay tribute to America's first English colonists, The Elizabethan Gardens is a rare treasure on the Outer Banks.
|First Friday First Friday is a family-oriented downtown festival held in the evening from 6 to 8 p.m. on the first Friday of every month from April through December.
|Fort Monroe (also known as the Fort Monroe National Monument) was a military installation in Hampton, Virginia—at Old Point Comfort, the southern tip of the Virginia Peninsula. Surrounded by a moat, the seven-sided stone fort is the largest stone fort ever built in the United States.
|The Lost Colony: More than 400 years ago, 117 men, women and children sailed from Plymouth, England, in an attempt to settle on Roanoke Island. They vanished just two years later.
|Manteo, the only incorporated town on Roanoke Island and the Dare County seat, is a small island town complete with a picturesque waterfront, a safe harbor, welcoming docks and a charming downtown historic area.
|North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island is one of the most popular attractions on the Outer Banks. Yes, it's perfect for a rainy day, but you will also appreciate the cool, quiet environment when you've had enough of the sun.
|Roanoke Island Festival Park is the place to learn about the first English settlements and the impact they had on the Native Americans who were already residing here in the 16th century.


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It's my birthday present from my mom. I am so excited. I cannot wait to make jerky (and maybe some healthier stuff like apple and banana chips, but mostly jerky!)
I've been wanting one for a while, I can remember growing up and dad always making deer jerky and it being delicious. I'm sure he made other things in it, but this was probably the best.
Do you have any good recipes for this new baby? I'm dreaming up all kinds of wonderful snacks!


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I definitely agree with both halves of the statement. It is irrefutable that enough money brings happiness and it is also true that excess of money has its own drawbacks. A number of arguments surround my opinion.
It is easy to see how money can enrich our lives. The world runs on money. The basic amenities of life such as food clothing and shelter can be got only with money. You can trade money for almost anything. With money one can buy all comforts and luxuries of life. One can study in the best schools and colleges and can also enjoy the best health services. Money is needed to enjoy holidays with family and with money one can bring smiles on the lips of one's nears and dears.
On the other hand, there are many disadvantages of having a lot of money. To begin with, the richer you are the more taxes you have to pay. You will also have to keep track of what you have. You may have to pay people to keep accounts of all of your holdings. Money may become an obsession; it can alter your perception of life; you may stop trusting even your true friends. In this way, it can alter your social behaviour. Too much money won't let you see every day's little pleasures.
It can be said that the excess of money is as bad as the lack of money. The poor person is certainly not happy, nor can happiness be seen in a very rich person. Happiness is in contentment. There are many things which money can't do. For example, money can buy you a pretty good dog, but it cannot buy the wag of his tail. Money can buy books, but not knowledge; money can buy medicines, but not health and money can buy a bed but not sleep.
To put it in a nutshell, I pen down saying that, definitely money is needed for everything in life. However, excess of money has its downside. Therefore, one should be satisfied with just enough. However, how much is 'enough' is a very difficult question to answer.


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I made a pair of Burda 8488 in denim the other day. I have a pair in light denim already (never photographed and blogged) which I have worn a lot. It's my lazy-can't-be-bothered-to-make-an-effort pair of jeans. When I saw this dark lightweight denim at my local fabric shop and I thought I should make another pair that is a little dressier. So here they are.
little nautical detail
and stripey wedges of course
As if I sensed the news to come when I made them last week....I'm in need of more nautical fashions. I am moving to the UK's south-west coast soon. My husband just found out on Monday where we will be posted to next. We were hoping to move back to Germany for a few years but instead we are being transferred to Devon. I was a bit disappointed for a second as I would have loved living closer to my family and friends again, at least for a while. But on second thought, living close to the seaside in one of the most beautiful areas in the UK really isn't too bad. In fact I am now very much looking forward to the move. Please message me if you are living anywhere in the the area. I'd like to meet some local sewing buddies, vintage enthusiast or sport fanatics.


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Movies, Books, Writing Tools and Tips collected from cyberspace
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Cogitative Revolution ~ a Poem
2 comments:
- Nelson Souzza said...
Hello! My first visit, will visit you again. Seriously, I thoroughly enjoyed your posts. Congrats for your work. If you wish to follow back that would be great I'm at http://nelsonsouzza.blogspot.com
Thanks for sharing!
- February 12, 2012 at 8:13 PM
AMEN, Letty! I envision a school with no bells, students creatively working on projects of their choosing at their own pace. People talking, really talking, about their deepest thoughts without being chastised; kids learning that everyone has something to offer--no one is "too" anything.
Love it. You are teaching/leading this Cogitative Revolution through your writing and blog. Excellent.
- February 19, 2012 at 8:14 AM
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Goodman Institute of Investment Management
The University reserves the right to modify the published scale of tuition and other student fees without prior notice, at any time before the beginning of an academic term. This document contains the most current information on the University's Financial Regulations and Fees and is the authoritative document regarding the University's financial regulations as well as the billing of tuition and compulsory fees.
A. How fees are billed
1. Privatized graduate programs
Goodman Institute graduate degree programs are not funded by the Quebec Ministry of Higher Education and are therefore considered to be privatized programs.
2. How and when fees are billed
Students admitted to a Goodman Institute graduate degree program normally register for fall and winter term courses at the beginning of September. Upon registration, annual tuition fees are charged to the student's account. The student's account is accessible through the student's portal at www.MyConcordia.ca under the menu item "Student Account Services".
3. Prerequisite and deficiency course fees
A deficiency course is a course which must be taken in addition to the nominal credits in a student's program and does not apply to the degree program. Deficiency credits may include graduate or undergraduate courses.
All deficiency and prerequisite registered course credits that do not apply to the student's Goodman Institute degree program will be charged tuition and compulsory fees on a "per credit" basis. These fees are charged in addition to, and concurrently with, the annual program fees charged.
Information and a breakdown of tuition and compulsory fees for Master's and PhD programs is available on the Tuition and fees webpage.
4. "Elective" and 'Hors programme' courses
Courses that cannot be applied to the student's degree program are considered to be "elective" or 'cours hors programme' and are charged tuition and compulsory fees on a "per credit" basis. These fees are charged in addition to, and concurrently with, the annual program fees charged.
5. Health insurance for International students
Immigration Quebec services and the Ministère de l'Éducation, de Loisir et du Sport du Québec (Quebec government) require that all International students be covered by a health insurance plan while studying and living in Quebec. To this end, the University has implemented a compulsory health and accident insurance plan for its International students.
International students possessing Québec Medicare cards or certain private insurance coverage may be eligible for an exemption from enrolment in the compulsory insurance plan. To apply for the exemption or for further information please speak with the Assistant Director of the GIIM.
B. Goodman Institute program fees
|Master's of Business Administration in Investment Management
|$ 18,000 per year
|Master's in Investment Management
|$ 18,000 per year
|Diploma in Investment Management
|$ 18,000 per year
C. Financial obligations
1. Overview
In order to register, a student's account must be in "good standing" (i.e. the student has no outstanding balance or monies owing from a previous or current term). Once a student has registered for a course(s) or course notation, e.g. CIP, STOQ, the student becomes responsible for payment of the resulting fees. Fees become due at the start of each term.
2. Payments, payment deadlines and what fees must be paid
For the purpose of this document, the definition of the words "payment" and "paid" is:
"A student's account is considered to have been paid only when the student's payment appears on the student's account."
The student's payment must appear on the student's account no later than the published payment deadline date. If the student makes a payment at his/her bank or on the bank's online payment service, and if that payment is made on the actual payment deadline date, or one or two days before the payment deadline date, the payment will not appear on the student's account until after the deadline, and the late payment penalties may apply.
All monies owing to the University (such as tuition and compulsory fees, library fines, etc.) must be paid when they become due; that is, the payment must appear on the student's account no later than the payment deadline date.
A Student's Account balance is available on the student portal (under the MyConcordia Menu » Student Accounts Services » Student's Account). Payment deadline dates are available under the Fee Payment Deadlines heading and on the Student's Account. No printed invoices or statements of account are issued by the University for students who are currently registered in a course or course notation (e.g. CIP).
3. When are fees due and when must fees be paid?
Fees become due at the start of each term and must be paid in full by September 30th. A late payment fee of $100 will be charged on October 1st if fees are not paid in full.
Beginning December 1st, compounded monthly interest fees are charge on all overdue balances.
Note 1:
No printed invoices or statements of account will be issued by the University. If someone other than the student will be paying the student's fees, e.g. a sponsor, company, etc., the student must make sure that the person or company paying the fees is fully aware of the payment deadlines and methods by which payment can be made.
Note 2:
Payments made through a bank's online payment service takes approximately 3 to 5 business days to appear on the student's account. Other payment methods may also take several days to appear on the student's account. Please keep this mind when meeting a payment deadline.
4. Methods of payment
The University will not accept cash or credit cards for the payment of student tuition and compulsory fees. Payments can be made by
- Students who bank with the Bank of Montreal, TD Canada Trust*, Scotiabank or the Royal Bank of Canada may take advantage of this online payment service. The payment appears on the student's account the instant the payment is approved. Access this service through the student portal (www.MyConcordia.ca). Once you are logged in, navigate to: My Student Centre » make a payment » Tuition & Fees -INTERAC Online.
*Please note: TD Canada Trust clients with an access card containing both the Interac and Visa logos are not set up to access the Interac Online Payment service.
- Online/web banking or telephone banking service offered by Canadian chartered banks. Each bank's processing time varies and it normally takes a minimum of 3 - 5 business days for the payment to appear on a student's account.
If you pay tuition via online banking please use your new 8-digit student ID. To do so, Set up Concordia University as a payee and use the 8-digit student ID number as the Concordia account number.
Returning students, who do not have a new 8 digit ID card*, are encouraged to update their Concordia account number with their financial institution to the new 8 digit ID format. Add a 2, good as new! You'll need to add a 2 at the beginning of the 7-digit number sequence to create an 8-digit ID number.
*For sustainability and cost reasons, Concordia will not be issuing new ID cards for students with 7-digit ID cards. You will continue to use your existing ID card for the remainder of your studies at the university, but any replacement cards will feature the new 8-digit ID.
- Automatic teller machines (ATM) in Canada.
If you pay tuition at a Canadian banking institution please use your new 8-digit student ID. To do so, Set up Concordia University as a payee and use the 8-digit student ID number as the Concordia account number.
Returning students, who do not have a new 8 digit ID card*, are encouraged to update their Concordia account number with their financial institution to the new 8 digit ID format. Add a 2, good as new! You'll need to add a 2 at the beginning of the 7-digit number sequence to create an 8-digit ID number.
*For sustainability and cost reasons, Concordia will not be issuing new ID cards for students with 7-digit ID cards. You will continue to use your existing ID card for the remainder of your studies at the university, but any replacement cards will feature the new 8-digit ID.
Each bank's processing time varies and it normally takes a minimum of 3 - 5 business days for the payment to appear on a student's account.
- A personal or certified cheque, money order or bank draft can be mailed as follows. The cheque must be made payable toConcordia University and a legible 8-dgit student I.D. number must be written on both the front and back of the cheque. The cheque payment is mailed to
Concordia University
c/o Student Accounts Office
Postal Box 339
Place d'Armes Post Office
Montreal, QC H2Y 3L9
All corrections made to a cheque, e.g. wrong date, amount, etc. must be initialled by the bank account holder. Otherwise, our bank may not process the cheque, the cheque will be returned to the student and the student will be charged a returned item processing fee.
Students can avoid mailing and processing delays by preparing a post-dated cheque, making it payable on the deadline date and mailing it well ahead of the payment deadline date. Our bank will process the payment on the date noted on the cheque and the payment will appear on the student's account by the payment deadline date. The student will not be charged a late payment fee or interest for any cheque that is negotiable (dated) on the deadline date, e.g. September 30th for fall term fees.
- Online Credit Card Payment
Students can pay tuition fees online using Visa or MasterCard through a credit card service arrangement with Moneris Solutions Corporation.
Moneris will charge a 1.75% non-refundable convenience fee for using this service.
Concordia has made a credit card payment option available by popular demand, but recommends students first consider other methods of payment that do not incur interest charges or convenience fees.
Access this service through the student portal (www.MyConcordia.ca). Once you are logged in, navigate to: My Student Centre » make a payment » Tuition & Fees -MasterCard.
- International Wire Transfer Payment
U.S. and International students are able to log on to their student portal to use Concordia University's International Wire Payment service offered through Western Union. Western Union allows U.S. and International students to pay for their tuition in the currency of their choice, while providing a simple and reliable way of initiating payments electronically.
Access this service through the student portal (www.MyConcordia.ca). Once you are logged in, navigate to: My Student Centre » make a payment » Tuition & Fees -International Wire Transfer.
Select your payment currency and finalize your transaction to guarantee your exchange rate.
Please read the conditions stated on the confirmation screen carefully.
As the exchange rate is only valid for 72 hours the Payment Confirmation Form must be taken to your local bank within 1 to 3 days.
- In-person payments
In-person payments made at the Birks Student Service Centre in S-LB-185 can be made by personal or certified cheque, money order, bank draft or debit card (Interac).
Canadian banks limit the "daily" amount that can be withdrawn with a debit (Interac) card even if the monies are available in the student's bank account. Before going to the Birks Student Service Centre to pay a large sum by debit card, students are asked to contact their bank to advise them that a large payment will be made. The bank should also be advised of the amount of the payment. Your bank will temporarily lift the "per day" limit, and your payment will be processed by Concordia without undue delays.
5. Other payment methods
- Students whose fees are paid to the University by a "Sponsor" (e.g. government, embassy, corporation, etc.) must present original proof of sponsorship to the Student Accounts Office before the payment deadline date. The Student Accounts Office will invoice the sponsor directly. Any fees not covered by the student's sponsor must be paid by the student no later than the payment deadline date.
- Payroll deductions may be available to teaching and research assistants and certain Concordia employees. The student must go to the Payroll Office in S-FB-1120 to complete and submit a Payroll Deduction form.
6. Consequences for late payment and/or non-payment of fees
- Accounts registration restrictions; registration and course changes
An Accounts Restriction will be applied to any student's account with an outstanding (overdue) balance. Students with an accounts restriction will be withdrawn from all future waitlisted courses and will not be permitted to register for, or make course changes to an existing registration in a current or future academic term. Students are permitted to drop a course(s) or withdraw from their program of study at any time.
Courses for which a student has registered in the current and future academic terms are not cancelled and the student is not barred from attending class, sitting for "in-class" examinations, or submitting course work.
- Release of official transcripts and other official documents
Failure to make payment when a fee becomes due is sufficient cause for the University to bar a student from having access to Library and IT services, accessing some student portal services including but not limited to: My Class Schedule, My Book List, My Grades, Transcript, Registration excluding withdrawals from a course(s), Get a Locker, Student Parking, and the Continuing Education menu items such as Transcript, Class Schedule or Contract.
Failure to make payment when a fee becomes due is sufficient cause for the University to withhold diplomas, scholastic certificates, official and unofficial transcripts of academic record plus letters of attestation of academic standing, confirmation of enrolment, confirmation of grades or completion of program, financial standing, immigration status, degree verification, detailed statements of account, special company/tuition receipts and so on.
Transcripts for students with outstanding balances on their student account will be released under the following circumstance only:
- for applications to a Concordia University program.
All other requests for official transcripts or other documents will not be granted.
Students with an Accounts Restriction are not permitted to attend Convocation. An Accounts Restriction is automatically removed when the outstanding (overdue) balance is paid in full.
7. When miscellaneous fees/charges become due
Miscellaneous fees (e.g. locker fees, fines, etc.) are due 30 days from the date that the charge is posted to the student's account. After that date, late payment and interest fees are applied to unpaid balances.
8. Adjustments to a student's account
All accounts are subject to revision for changes to the published scale of fees (which may be made without prior notice at or before the beginning of an academic term), registrations of record and for the adjustment of errors or omissions, as well as in the case of courses cancelled by the University.
9. Returned items (e.g. cheque payments)
Current and/or future registrations may be cancelled if a cheque or credit card payment (e.g. application fee) is returned for any reason. A returned items processing fee will be charged for each returned item.
10. Delinquent student accounts
If monies owing to the University are not paid when they become due the monies owing will be considered to be overdue and the student's account will be considered to be delinquent.
11. Delinquent accounts collections
Overdue payments and delinquent accounts are managed as follows:
- Late payment fee
Annual fees must be paid in full by September 30th or a late payment fee of $100 will be charged to the student's accounts.
- Interest fees
Beginning December 1st, monthly interest fees are charged on all overdue balance at the rate of 6% per annum (or 0.5% per month, compounded monthly). This rate may change from time to time in conformity with prevailing interest rates.
- Collection of a delinquent account
The Student Accounts Office will
- send an e-mail to the student's e-mail address on record as a reminder that the student's account has become delinquent and that the account will be placed with a collection agency if payment is not received within a specified period of time; or
- send a statement of account or letter to the student's mailing address on record as a reminder that the student's account has become delinquent and that the account will be placed with a collection agency if payment is not received within a specified period of time; and
- place the account with a collection agency if payment has not been received within the period of time noted on both the e-mail and letter reminders.
D. Refund of fees (financial credit on account or refund)
1. Overview
No refund will be granted for any course(s) for which the student has or will receive a grade, including grade notations, e.g. discontinued (DISC), etc. Once a student has enrolled in a Master's/Magisteriate or Ph.D. program and is registered for a course or a course notation, e.g. CIP, STOQ, he/she is responsible for the payment of the resulting fees.
2. Withdrawal from a course(s)
GIIM students are not granted a refund of fees paid, or a financial credit on account, when they withdraw from a course. Program fees are not reduced or refunded.
3. Withdrawal from a Goodman Institute program
Upon withdrawal from a Goodman Institute program the $2,000 non-refundable deposit is forfeited. Fifty percent (50%) of the remaining program fees will be credited to the student's account if the student officially withdraws from their degree program before October 31st.
No fees will be credited to students who withdraw from their degree program after this date.
4. Requesting a refund
Students may leave a credit on their student account and it will automatically be applied to fees owing in the next semester(s). All refunds under $10 will only be refunded by Interac (debit card) at the Birks Student Service Centre, S-LB-185.
All refunds of $75 and more will be refunded via the original payment method (debit, credit card or cheque). All refunds must be submitted online through the student portal at www.MyConcordia.ca, My Student Centre > Finances > other financial… (drop down menu) > Refund Request. Please note, when requesting a refund on the Student Information System, "Cheque" is set as a default option. If a student request a cheque refund, it is automatically made payable to the student, unless the student asks that a cheque refund be made payable to a third party, e.g. a parent, spouse, etc. In that case, the student must provide the name and mailing address of the third party payee.
When the refund pertains to the current academic term, the refund will only be processed after the covering deadline for withdrawal with full refund (DNE deadline). Verification of the student's account may take some time, especially during peak refund request periods. A cheque refund is normally mailed within 10 business days of the deadline for withdrawal with full refund (DNE) deadline and the student's online request.
When students request a refund for credit balances created by scholarship, bursary, loan and other student award disbursements, all efforts to expedite the refund as quickly as possible will be made. In these cases only, the student may request a refund by Interac (debit card) for a maximum of $1,000 at the Birks Student Services Centre and submit an online request asking that the remaining credit balance be reimbursed by cheque refund. Or, the student may submit an online request for the full refund.
International students requiring a refund by wire transfer must be submitted online through the student portal at www.MyConcordia.ca, My Student Centre > Finances > other financial… (drop down menu) > Refund Request. A wire transfer refund is normally processed within 10 business days of the deadline for withdrawal with full refund (DNE) deadline and the student's online request. The student will assume the cost of the wire transfer. The cost of the wire transfer will be deducted from the amount of the refund transferred by wire. Please note that requests for wire transfers to a Canadian or U.S. bank will not be processed. Canadian and U.S. students must submit a cheque Refund Request as noted above.


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Wait.... Have I got this right?
Instead of using cloud services.. You use the client's computer to run software?
My god.. How did he ever think of this idea. He truly is the reincarnation of Steve Jobs.
The developers behind the Meteor open source project say they want to revolutionize how applications are built, and they've just been handed a whopping $11.2m in Series A funding to do it. Meteor is an open source platform for building web applications with rich user interfaces that run on the client rather than the server – …
(puts on paranoia hat)
I'm not going to knock this idea but I disable js, cookies, flash, java and anything else because I don't trust people to get it right. If you rely entirely on client-side js then you eliminate its use people like me (vanishingly few, it must be said) but unless you really, really get it right, you risk putting a lot of people at risk and blowing your reputation (and entire business). Unless your framework can somehow prevent the developers from making stupid mistakes then it will have such mistakes and the whole technology may look bad. And who's to say your framework is itself decently secure?
I don't trust people to get it right because wherever you look there's evidence of negligence and bad practice at every level.
I also wonder about percieved speed. Worked briefly with ajax and was shocked at how slow it was. Was a while ago though.
Tangentially to this, much as I like js and think it's pretty good in its way, we really do need a new browser language, properly typed and much more static, to get decent performance without JIT and whole-program analysis (and not even possible then if someone's fiddled with eval or done something complex with conditional .prototype weirdness, to name a couple). It may make static analysis for security purposes easier as well.
"Tangentially to this, much as I like js and think it's pretty good in its way, we really do need a new browser language, properly typed and much more static, to get decent performance without JIT and whole-program analysis"
How about Dart? I agree it is still in its early days and may not see wider adoption, but is it any good?
I'm not familiar with dart so I had a quick look on wiki <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dart_%28programming_language%29>. They had an interesting section there on criticisms which I'll let you read, but this kind of thing:
"Static type annotations do not affect the runtime semantics of the code. Instead, the type annotations can provide documentation for tools like static checkers and dynamic run time checks."
makes me very uneasy as it's exactly what I don't want. Obligatory static type checking is vital IMO for performance and safety. Per wiki again:
"Dart programs run in one of two modes. In "checked mode", which is not the default mode and must be turned on, dynamic type assertions are enabled. These type assertions can turn on if static types are provided in the code, and can catch some errors when types do not match. For example, if a method is annotated to return a String, but instead returns an integer, the dynamic type assertion will catch this and throw an exception. Running in "checked mode" is recommended for development and testing. [it continues] Dart programs run by default in "production mode", which runs with all dynamic type assertions turned off. This is the default mode because it currently is the fastest way to run a Dart program."
No, no, no no no no.
I'd say an evolution of JS might be politically and language-istically the only way forward. IMO again.
So how does the web application actually get to the client if the HTML is never transmitted over the internet? CDROM in the post?
Also without some sort of server-side processing are they suggesting that JavaScript directly sends data to a database? So you would leave your database daemon port open to the internet and JavaScript connects, authenticates and runs queries? I'm not sure they've thought this through.
Though if they could make the web interface of Twitter not bloated and generally terrible then that would be super! If Twitter exposed an XMPP interface for tweets then that would be great as I wouldn't have to use the web interface. I'm aware of people running Twitter-XMPP gateways but they're always a bit clunky.
I'm going to go a bit ranty here so I don't know where I'll end up...
Firefox (and Thunderbird, Mozilla addons etc) are built using JavaScript and XUL (an XML language that describes a Mozilla interface) and quite a few years ago there was an example out there of someone using remotely-hosted XUL to query the Amazon API and return results to search for books/CDs etc. It was very cool. And it really made me realise how poor HTML/CSS actually is for building UIs in the corporate landscape. I would have loved to be able to develop intranets using server-generated remote XUL code.
The downsides of remote XUL were: i) there was no official water-tight spec, since ii) only Mozilla programs ever needed to run it, iii) it relied on JavaScript to send data to and receive data from the server, iv) there were quite a few bugs when running remote XUL as it was never really recommended/supported. If there had been a form action="" method="" equivalent in XUL then that would have been such an elegant way of building consistent interfaces for corporate and intranet applications.
For describing complex interfaces XUL is pretty much good to go. Look at the Options dialogue box in Firefox and imagine if that was replicated in HTML/CSS. I built a really good private test one evening on one intranet project, where you could query the server using a search plugin and my PHP code returned invoice information in XUL. The XUL code for 10+ intranet screens and dialogue boxes was returned using a single HTTP request. Now I know you can do that easily with DOM manipulation using jQuery and other libraries. But XUL was designed for this from the ground-up (apart from the remote part). My demo looked the part and was snappy to use, just like I'd written it in a client-based language like C / C++ or whatever MS are calling their client language these days.
It just seems like alot of the new "HTML5" technologies are trying to bolt features on to a language that isn't quite fit for full client-side use. And these features already exist in numerous client-side programming languages, or can be easily built using the bare-bones of the language itself. I wouldn't be surprised if you see websites written (designed) entirely in SVG code and JavaScript in a few years because of the inherent limitations of HTML/CSS.
Recently Mozilla disabled remote XUL by default in FF, needing it to be whitelisted. It could have been glorious :(
... Still ranting... Just going to add, of course, HTML was designed to format documents, pages of text etc. Never to create full UIs or applications/games. There are impressive examples of people using HTML to do those things. But think of how much easier it would be if there was a standard remote interface language that you could build a kiosk client application around, using the server-side technology/database of your choosing. XUL could have been that.
Depends on how it is implemented of course but isn't that everywhere? Unless you set specifics for domains then you must have a hard time on the web. Q? What about internal home networks are you as diligent? Fair play to you if you are. Ajax is fine IMO, prevalent on the web google auto suggest?? Again depends on implementation, for example google disables auto suggest for larger lists.
@batfastard - neat summary, but to be fair W3C are big cogs that have to turn other big cogs such as Apple, MS each with their own interests that is why HTML 5, 6 . . . 7 are slow to deliver what is needed. I now get tired of the need to learn a new syntax, idiosyncrasies of languages so I feel sorry for people who have invested time in Flash, Silverlight, . .. . they just want to create solutions not hit problems. I agree that svg canvas is hard work and the likes of
are hard work when trying to make cross browser. I.E. 9? In Public and Private organisations - what market do they have?
JS is everywhere, lamentably, but quite a lot works without it. If I have to turn it on for practical reasons such as buying something online (very rare due to same paranoia) I'll run it in a VM, and then I'll drop the webmaster a note saying "please don't". But as I said, much still works.
'internal home network'? It's basically a couple of client machines. Nothing that requires or allows internal browsing, unless I've misunderstood you.
> ...prevalent on the web google auto suggest?? Again depends on implementation, for example google disables auto suggest for larger lists.
Try disabling it then using google. It works fine, just rather old-fashioned. And google gets none of my data except IP addy + user agent string. Google's actually one of the better companies for having stuff degrade gracefully if js is disabled. MS may be the utter worst.
... and it works as advertised. I'll have to see if they have a package for a decent tool kit like qooxdoo. Then it will be quite attractive. I still prefer to write server code in C++. Why waste CPU cycles? This is my only beef. For apps that need to be deployed quickly and maintained by a few (one?) people, it'll be useful.
A PROPER database does enforcement, bounds checking, and insures consistancy across tables, atomicy of operations, and permissions checking. It's just ashame that most web-devs have no idea how to use their systems, and so are always reimlementing DB features poorly in their code.
nothing should ever be based on javascript. horrible slow ancient legacy garbage. They'll probably insist on everything being JSON too. Useless pathetic stripy jumper wearing "creative" people thinking they can code.
But gz on scamming 11million quid out of the ill-informed "investors" (read "suckers"). Should fund their crapple-habit for a few months.
How is this different from writing a client- server PC application in any old language like we did already in late 1980's / early 1990's?
Javascript? Cross-platform? If the second is the goal, it seems Java applications already were there. Quick throwaway applications? See Visual Basic and similar dumbed-down IDEs.
There must be some kind of Wheel of Reincarnation operating here.
"The challenge of writing applications that run mostly in the browser, DeBergalis says, is that the application code is running on a system that is far away from the data it needs."
No it isn't. Transport to and from from a server and processing and persisting data on the server are the easy part, relatively speaking. They're both problems for which a wide variety of solutions has been offered.
Oh, and when did anyone but a rank amateur last send HTML with data?
"How is this different from writing a client- server PC application in any old language like we did already in late 1980's / early 1990's?"
-Servers could not push to clients easily
-firewalls broke those applications
-deployment from web interface not hard disk
This tech is probably nothing that revolutionary, but a load of existing components put into one coherent framework with a single language to serve both ends. I am somewhat interested, but google app engine is just too cheap that it keeps making me come back.
"How is this different from writing a client- server PC application in any old language like we did already in late 1980's / early 1990's?"
-Servers could not push to clients easily
Not true of some protocols in use as far back as the "late 1980s" (and earlier); and still true of HTTP. So no win for Meteor there.
-firewalls broke those applications
The only special benefit of HTTP, in regard to firewalls, is that typically there are already rules to pass it. Firewalls don't "break" HTTP-based applications because the firewalls are already deliberately broken for HTTP-based applications. And the idea of using HTTP to get around firewalls is certainly not new - it was the primary motivation for (god help us all) SOAP, back in 1998.
-deployment from web interface not hard disk
So what? And there were plenty of network-deployed applications back in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Nonsense. I worked on distributed apps circa 1990 that supported thousands of users on the hardware of the time (including over slow sync and async links). There's nothing magically "scalable" with Meteor or any other web-based approach; we've just thrown a shitload more resources at them.
(Also, can I note in passing that the meteor.com web site is horrible? Yes, yes I can.)
So this uses javascript thus ignoring the faster, better languages on your client platform like C, Java, etc. Creates web apps so ignoring the native widgets, look and feel, etc of the client platform in favour of a crappy web UI. And, it runs entirely on the client so it ignores the normal advantages of a web application.
So where's the advantage? All it does is pick the worst parts of each technology.
>faster, better languages on your client platform like C, Java, etc.
Yes, because we all know how secure it is to run Java from the web.
I can't vouch for the other benefits of Meteor, but anyone who tells me my browser should execute arbitrary code is daft.


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Win a double pass to Cirque du Soleil's 'KOOZA' in Auckland!/ Ben Doy
Cirque du Soleil is returning to New Zealand, this time bringing their show KOOZA to Auckland from February 15 and we have a double pass to giveaway!
Simply like us on Facebook and/or follow us on Twitter, fill out the form below and you're in the draw! One entry per Facebook or Twitter account, so if you follow us on both your chances of winning doubles! Entries close and the competition drawn on Friday February 1st, 2019 with the winners to be notified that morning.
About KOOZA
Cirque du Soleil rediscovers its origins with the company's first Big Top show since Totem in 2014. A return to the intimate and fundamental human elements of circus, KOOZA combines thrilling acrobatic performance with the art of clowning. We follow The Innocent as he takes a journey of self-discovery through a comic kingdom of eccentric characters, electrifying thrills and out-of-the-box surprises.
Presented in a colorful mélange, KOOZA springs open like a bejeweled toy box to capture the audience's imagination and set their pulse racing. Sheer human effort - performance in its rawest, purest form - is showcased in all its splendor and fragility.
The international cast of 50 acrobats, musicians, singers and actors present heart-stopping feats and laugh-out-loud antics to a live soundtrack fusion of jazz, funk and Bollywood beats.
Cirque du Soleil – KOOZA
Auckland – Alexandra Park – From February 15
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The 4-piece genre-melders Hellions are getting ready for their biggest Australian headline show yet. The tour will be taking place this May and stopping off in all the major cities; Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.
Rock legends Greta Van Fleet have rescheduled their recently postponed Australia shows for this September.
Sun Kil Moon announces his return to New Zealand and Australia as part of a special tour in May.
Indie-rock darlings Clap Clap Riot have hit double digits and are now a decade old.
To celebrate 10 years of making great music, Clap Clap Riot will play four dates over the country travelling with their 10 Year Anniversary Tour.
It howls. It's grindingly beautiful. It's dangerously sentient. It's The Sisters of Mercy returning to Australia and New Zealand this October and November. Due to demand, The Sisters Of Mercy will be adding Perth, Adelaide and Auckland to their tour in 2019.
Who Loves NZ The Most?
Following a Sold-Out Winter Tour in 2018, Kiwi icon's The Jordan Luck Band today announce their massive 19 date New Zealand Winter(ish) Tour.
Trekking the whole country; the massive NZ tour begins the last weekend of April with shows through to late June 2019.
Download Festival 2019 are excited to announce the Ascension Stage! A new stage showcasing those blistering acts that are on the rise to be the headliners of tomorrow….
Psychedelic heavyweight Earthless have announce their supporting acts for their Australia/New Zealand tour. The support line up is heady and heavy, meaning that each show is going to be stuffed with rock n roll greatness.
By Rhiannon Lloyd
Artist: Florence + The Machine
Date / Venue: Wednesday 30th January - Spark Arena, Auckland
By Joelle Reid
Date / Venue: Monday January 26th, 2019 - Albert Park, Auckland
BROODS are back and they're celebrating by bringing their DON'T FEED THE POP MONSTER tour home to New Zealand.
Due to incredible demand, internationally renowned award-winning musician, comedian, actor, writer and composer TIM MINCHIN has today announced a third and final Auckland show as part of his Australasian tour of his live show BACK.
Australian indie-folk outfit The Paper Kites are returning to New Zealand shores.
Legendary, GRAMMY-award winning band FLEETWOOD MAC today announced an Australian and New Zealand tour, set to kick off on August 9 with two shows in Auckland on September 16 and 19, along with a welcome return to Dunedin on September 21.
By Janine Swail
Artist: Mumford & Sons featuring guests Tiny Ruins, Angie McMahon, Michael Kiwanuka & Leon Bridges
Date / Venue: Saturday January 12th, 2019 - Western Springs Outerfield, Auckland
By Mark Derricutt
Starting his professional career as a member of The Cab, Frank Sidoris soon found himself among the ranks of The Conspirators, touring and recording alongside Myles Kennedy and guitar legend Slash.
Event: Falls Festival, Marion Bay, Australia
Date: 29th - 31st December 2018
Photos by - Stephen Boxshall
Timaru's iconic Soundshell in Caroline Bay will host two of the most well-known bands in New Zealand in a one-day entertainment extravaganza this January. Katchafire and The Black Seeds will headline the R18+ event at the Soundshell on Saturday, January 26, 2019. They'll be joined by The Butlers.
By Shawn Moodie
Artist: 21 Pilots
Date / Venue: Friday December 21st, 2018 - Spark Arena, Auckland
One of New Zealand's most-loved live acts, The Black Seeds, will play a one-off show at Black Barn Vineyards in Havelock North on Saturday, January 19, with special guests, L.A.B.
By Wal Reid
Artist: Dashboard Confessional
Date / Venue: Thursday December 12th, 2018 - Galatos, Auckland
By Mark Derricutt
Artist: Living Colour
Date / Venue: Wednesday December 12th, 2018 - The Powerstation, Auckland
After a huge viral campaign from their South Island fans, SIX60 announce that they'll be bringing their stadium show to Forsyth Barr Stadium on Saturday 9 March.
John Mayer will be kicking off his 2019 World Tour on Saturday, March 23, 2019, in Auckland, New Zealand at Spark Arena, followed by three Australian concerts
Photos by Stephen Boxshall
By Jason Beardsley
Date / Venue: Friday December 7th, 2018 - Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne
In true kiwi summer tour tradition Marlon Williams will now take The Tūrangawaewae Tour to a further six markets this February making it a total of 12 shows - Marlon's most comprehensive New Zealand tour ever!
Photos by Stephen Boxshall
Review by Darcey Mitchel
Saturday December 1st, 2018 - Melbourne Showgrounds, Melbourne, Australia
By Mark Derricutt
Artist: Joe Satriani
Date / Venue: Tuesday December 4th, 2018 - The Powerstation, Auckland


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This Company is Actually Hiring an Emoji Translator Because #2016
I studied the English language for four years in college.
My choice in bachelor's degree came with snickers from my peers. "What're you gonna do with that?" they'd ask.
I felt great about my decision — until now.
The emoji is taking over, y'all. So much so that a UK translation firm is hiring an emoji translator.
This is not a drill; the future is now. ?
Today's Translations is Actually Hiring an Emoji Translator
Do you use emojis to share your feelings?
? when you're being, well, like a poophead.
An ? when you're frisky?
? ? ? ? ? when you're starved?
You're not alone.
"Emoji" is the fastest growing language in history, according to Professor Vyv Evans of Bangor University.
Now, Today's Translations is embracing the move. The London-based translation firm has a global network of more than 3,000 linguists who cover more than 200 languages.
To be added: an emoji translator.
This is thought to be the first job of its kind worldwide, BBC reports. And, yes, there's actually a need for this.
Jurga Zilinskiene, head of Today Translations, said she needed an emoji specialist to translate diaries into emojis for a client, BBC reports. For what purpose? Who knows.
Needless to say, there wasn't an emoji translator out there, so she decided to create the position.
Out of Curiosity… What's it Take to be an Emoji Translator?
Today Translations' emoji translator will work with clients to translate the little icons, keep track of emoji trends and developments, and study the emoji across cultures.
This ain't a joke. To become the purportedly first-ever emoji translator, you need a bachelor's degree in translation or at least three years of language industry experience.
Thought you knew your way around the emoji keyboard? BBC totally schooled me with these fun facts:
- ?? This isn't actually friendly. It's more like a "Bye, Felicia" move. In China, it's basically the middle finger.
- ? Hopefully you'll get this one before going into a job interview. In Japan, the words for "poo" and "luck" apparently sound similar, so enter the hanky emoji.
- ? I always used this before going out with a friend. It was exciting, like "Yes! Let's enjoy some brewskis and have a fun girls night." Well, these were originally Playboy bunnies, so that's awk. There's also a men's version now. #equality
So maybe it's best I studied the English language because, well, I'd accidentally be translating that diary into a Playboy mansion scene. Yikes.
And to whoever is well-versed enough to apply, ? to you.
Your Turn: What's your favorite emoji?
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Hello all with any project at times there always seems to be little bits and pieces that you never have the time to finish off, and this is definitely one of them occasions. And it's also a good way to motivate me to get these finally finished and on the tabletop ready for my next game. Sometimes there always seems to be the time when you're missing that one boy from a squad, as you always seem to be focused on the bigger picture in regards to completing your army rather than concentrating on individual units one by one.
Also this was the first time that I was using a different technique to paint yellow and overall I am very pleased with the results in a later post I will go into a little bit more detail in regards to what I did different.


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Feb 12, 2017
Diam 24OD: Sailing World Boat of the Year 2017
All iamges Jean Marie Liot / Diam 24 OD Class - More than deserved overall award for the Diam 24OD, a Tri we've been following for a while here and which continues to growth in numbers every year. They also stepepd in the US market in 2016 too. The Diam 24OD shows you don´t need to foil or cost hundred thousands to have plenty of fun, this boat cost only 60k for 3 crews offers the Melges alternative for Multihulls.
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Not just once, but twice.
If you've ever ploughed your way through my tedious archives, you might remember one of my confessions - Hello, my name is Magic and I am a stationery addict.
I just love to see nice piles of new notebooks, racks of new pens and pencils, art supplies, binders, folders, pencil cases... Hmmmmm
So, today, I had to buy a birthday present for a friend of C's and, as I didn't have much time, I went to a sort multi-store (books, stationery, cards, art supplies...) and picked something up there. And just went "to have a quick look" at the art supplies. And came out with a tube of paint and some gold ribbon to make candle holders for the school Christmas market plus the beginnings of the girls' Christmas present for my father.
First temptation fail.
Then, on my way to catch the bus to go pick up the girls from school, I walked past my favourite stationery shop in town, the Papéthèque. And that siren song lured me in yet again (the pretext being, "I wonder if they sell party invitations" (to which the answer is "no"). And though I didn't come out with any invitations, I did come out with the cards and envelopes I'll need to make my own (yeah, right, like I absolutely have time for that...).
Second temptation fail.
But oh, that just-bought-art-supplies high!
I still feel all tingly just thinking about my goodies. And of course getting down to work has been tough ce soir because I want to do my candle holders... or C's party invites... or even my Christmas cards...
Oh, and by the by, I'm just 1,500 words short of my 50,000 for NaNoWriMo... I may even finish tonight (not the story, I'm probably going to need about 60,000 for that, but the challenge). go me!


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It's a constant battle against the fear right now. Every moment of every day. I know too much, I've seen too much, I've read to much. I know exactly what can happen in pregnancy. And most of it has to me or someone I am close to.
That fear can be suffocating and paralyzing. It robs you of your joy and peace and trust. It makes it hard to sleep at night and makes even getting the littlest things done difficult.
But I'm not going to let it. I'm fighting back the fear and trying my hardest to trust.
The book that probably made THE biggest difference in my attitude in dealing with losing Job was I Will Carry You by Angie Smith (thank you to my sister-in-law's mother, Mrs. Q for sending it!). Her words, her faith, her optimism made all the difference. She has a blog and I follow it often. This spring, I was reading up on old posts, and she has one called Permission to Hope. She's talking about her first pregnancy since losing her daughter Audrey. Back when they were first dealing with the news of Audrey's diagnosis, she photographer her older daughter asleep but still clutching a balloon and said they were doing the same thing, holding on to hope against all the odds. When they went in for an ultrasound with this new pregnancy, the tech mentioned that it looked like the baby was holding a balloon. She talks about how this gave her permission to hope, the knowledge that God was there. That there was no guarantee that this baby would be fine, but that He would be there with her the whole time.
I prayed those same prayers before out ultrasound at 8 weeks, Lord please give me some hope, some feeling of Your presence in this pregnancy. And when we first saw those babies on that screen, her post was the first thing I though of.... Do you see it?
It's not as perfect as her's was (go check her post) but I felt it in my heart, that hope. That knowledge that my God is all powerful, amazing, and He CAN do anything.
Everyday I try, but it's still hard to fight back the fear.
I haven't bought a thing for the twins yet. I just couldn't bring myself to.
I bought Job a Duckie blanket the week we found out about him, and Monkey a little monkey sleeper. They lay folded in the empty bassinet by my bed. I can't bring myself to put them in the with rest of the baby clothes. I'm not sure I want them to be used. But I don't know what to do with them. At least with all the rest of the baby stuff, Jarvis used it, so there are happy memories attached too. But buying another car seat, crib, or matching clothes. Well there's always the possibility that they will sit there unused.
But that's no way to live my life. I am THRILLED about the twins. I am ECSTATIC. And living in fear strips away all the joy. And like I have said before, I want to live every single day with them and enjoy it, not worrying when the last might be.
"For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline." 2 Timothy 1:7
So my challenge for the week is to make some time to get to town and buy matching outfits. I promise to share them when I do! And I challenge you to face the fears in your life, throw all your trust on our Lord and march headfirst into battle.
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go."
Joshua 1:9


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The extended hours apply to the use of the space and computers, but not to the service desk, said library security team leader Terence Jefferson.
Representatives from the Student Government Association (SGA) met with library administrators in facilities, services and facilities divisions in November to discuss the possibility of extending hours at Woodruff Library. The group also discussed the hours of operation among the top 20 university libraries in the country and compared that information to Woodruff Library occupancy rates on Friday and Saturday evenings in April 2011.
"We are so pleased to work with representatives from the SGA on extending the Robert W. Woodruff Library hours," said Frances Maloy, services division leader. "It was gratifying to hear from students how vital the library is to them. Even though today's students spend so much of their time in the virtual world, they still need to come to the library and work collaboratively or individually with the vast resources we have to offer."
The effect of the extended hours on the weekend evening gate traffic will be reviewed at the end of the spring semester, and the library administration will make a decision on whether the extended hours will become permanent based on that information, Jefferson said.
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This salad may not be low on the fat scale, but it is quite low on non-complex (simple) carbs. The only sugar is in the white balsamic vinegar used in the vinaigrette and the small amount of natural sugar found in tomatoes. It is my version of diet food (not really much of a sacrifice). Now if this were to be eaten just as a side salad, or a starter with no concern of carbs, I would venture to say that a crusty piece of French bread with a slather of butter would make a nice accompaniment. But today this is my lunch, without bread:(
BLT Salad
serves 4 as a side salad or 2 as lunch
8 thick slices of bacon, cut in half
1 teaspoon of minced shallot
2 tablespoons white balsamic vinegar
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
Salt and pepper to taste
1 head of butter lettuce, torn (or half butter lettuce and half red leaf lettuce)
Large handful of grape or cherry tomatoes, cut into small wedges
6 ounces of blue cheese, cut into small wedges, or crumbled
In skillet, cook bacon until crisp and set aside on paper towel.
In small bowl,whisk together shallots, vinegar, olive oil, and lemon juice. Salt and pepper to taste.
In a large bowl, toss the lettuce with the vinaigrette, mound on a plate and arrange bacon, tomatoes and blue cheese around the lettuce.


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Enterprise is a silver foil packed with silver glitter in multiple sizes. It is super opaque and super smooth to apply. This is two coats.
The glitter got a little eaten up by the foil finish in the first trial, so I dumped in some more. It made the glitter stand out better, but it also made it a tiny bit gritty, so I have to be a little generous with top coat, but I just love the way this polish looks! Not to mention that not only is it a nod to Starfleet's Flagship but it's also a nod to my favorite incarnation of Star Trek, Enterprise.
Thanks for reading!