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Originally published in: Health Management Technology
Healthcare organizations have a painful history of investing in expensive information technology solutions, only to end up disappointed. This often stems from a disconnect between the IT department's role in the organization and the overall business goals of the enterprise. A number of factors can cause this misalignment, the first of which is that IT is historically a service-oriented, back-office function. IT sees their internal counterparts as clients rather than colleagues, and IT tends to focus first on complying with requests from other departments rather than contributing to, and prioritizing the overall goals and strategy of, the business as a whole.
Additionally, like many business units, IT departments often have a tendency toward empire building. They strive to grow the department through bigger projects, driving the need for more staff and more budget, elevating the influence of the department within the organization. This mentality can create a bias toward building, versus buying and/or outsourcing, regardless of what might be best for the company in the long-term.
In healthcare, we see this phenomenon most recently and most dramatically in the population health push. Read the rest of the article.


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There isn't much I can think of to say about this shot, other than it's completely absurd...and I love it.
Stephanie's parents (William and Kathy) at home in Monroe. On the lawn mower. In their back yard. After a crawfish boil. A for serious crawfish boil.
Her family is the most delightful kind of odd.

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A father who had faithfully paid child support for more than 10 years faced a sudden problem when his ex-girlfriend, and the mother of his daughters, moved to Mississippi. Suddenly, he found that the state calculated that he owed more than $900 in back child support. He willingly submitted to a new Illinois child support order and began paying extra each week to make up the deficit. However, although the deficit was paid off early in 2011, the new order was not modified to reflect this, and he was still paying additional money, which created an overage.Furthermore, the state of Illinois began bypassing the state of Mississippi and sending the money directly to his ex-girlfriend. Because of this, Mississippi officials assumed that the father had stopped making payments and confiscated his federal income tax return, claiming that he owed more than $5,100 in back child support.
Illinois couples can ease divorce tension with communication
Whether an individual is facing a complex or seemingly simple divorce, the process can be very time-consuming. It becomes more time-consuming when couples do not communicate well, particularly in cases of high asset divorce. There are several ways couples can ease the process of a divorce if they are both willing to work with each other and try to understand what each party will need in post-divorce life.First, communicate with your attorney about your expectations based on discussions with your spouse. You should document your conversations in writing, preferably by letter or email, or allow your attorney to handle this communication if couples are having problems talking civilly.
Oprah's stepmother argues over eviction from home during divorce
Former talk-show host Oprah Winfrey has become embroiled in a complex divorce case between her father and her stepmother that now also involves her stepsister as well as a small child. The conflict came about when Oprah's stepsister and the woman's 5-year-old daughter received notice that the trust that owns their home was seeking to evict them. The trust is funded by Oprah Winfrey and is called the Phoenix Trust II.Oprah's stepmother has expressed her anger at the star's treatment of the two. The stepmother claims that her daughter has recently graduated from college and has just begun a new job. She states that Oprah is the one with the "money and power" and that her behavior makes her appear to be a "bully." Oprah's stepmother said she has been unable to contact her.
"Gray" divorces on the rise
The number of older people seeking divorces appears to be rising, leading to more high-asset divorce cases. These divorces tend to involve complicated divisions of property and other complex legal issues not usually found in divorce among younger couples. According to a Wall Street Journal article, a study by Bowling Green State University indicates that the divorce rate for couples age 50 or older has doubled since 1990. The results of the study indicate that about 25 percent of all people who go through divorce are over the age of 50. This could be due to an aging population and the fact that people are living longer, but there could also be other factors that contribute to the rising divorce rate that further studies may uncover.
High-asset divorce prompts auction of Rolling Stones memorabilia
Those who have gone through divorce, or who have read any news about celebrity divorces, know that property division is often at the center of any disagreement. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many couples find it difficult to decide who will get what -- especially when important and meaningful assets like the family home, cars or special heirlooms are involved. These disagreements can be magnified when a high-asset divorce is in play.


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Photo Courtesy of BrakeThrough Media
I wrote a piece for mindbodygreen's new series Raising Consciousness. Check it out below, or read the full feature by clicking here.
I feel compelled to share the truth behind the last couple of weeks because it was far from how it looked on my Instagram. Let's face it, social media paints the prettiest picture of all our lives. I posted this adorable (if I do say so myself) shot of Benjamin kissing me before sending me off to class and then proceeded to get an overwhelming amount of DMs asking how I manage to do it all and stay so balanced. As I was reading these comments—while completely flattered—I just kept thinking to myself, If only these people knew what was really going on leading up to, behind the scenes of, and after this picture they see on their Instagram feed.
I absolutely love what I do, guiding people to be their best possible selves. What I think most people don't realize is that I truly believe I have to live it to give it and follow my own advice. I try to be on at all times, but this can feel like major pressure to always have my shit together. I want to keep it real with my clients and followers, and I also want to be a positive example. I know thinking this much about Instagram sounds so unimportant compared to many "real-life" issues, but when your posts are a huge part of your business and passion, you are expected to deliver.
Torn in one too many directions.
After a long week of Benjamin battling a cold, which translates to a major lack of sleep for both of us, he only wanted his Mama…making it pretty tough to do anything but be by his side. In addition, I am preparing for a major overhaul of my website and brand, which is my livelihood, so I've been dealing with a lot of extra work, emergencies, and fitting in everything else on the fringe. So the perfect picture I posted? It was anything but smiles and rainbows that morning. There were no greens in sight. Actually, he was eating a bagel from a few days before. B woke me up (as in, I didn't get a chance to meditate on my own like I usually try to before he is awake), wanted to play, and kept yelling, "Hand, hand, hand!"
On top of running business as usual, the redesign, and the cold, I was trying to cram before the anatomy portion of my Pilates mat training class (and I needed every minute of studying time, trust me), so I could barely give B the attention I usually give him. I couldn't help but feel so overwhelmed, and I know my babe was picking up on it. As if to prove my point, when I went to leave, B effing lost it. He was screaming, pulling at my coat, and having a full-on meltdown.
The truth behind the photo I posted.
One of my role models, Marianne Williamson, always compares morning meditation to taking a shower in the morning. We wake up everyday and take a shower to wash off the dirt from the day before. We must create the space and do the same for our minds to clear any negative energy that we are holding on to. I started my morning with chaos, so chaos crept its way into my entire day. Let's get real for a sec—I give advice about the importance of creating routines and making time but in reality, things come up. Some days I can take a moment and get back on track, and other times I can't; it's just human nature. I'm not perfect. This weekend is one specific example, but believe me, it's not the first and won't be the last time I've felt overwhelmed and off track from my own advice.
OK, back to that photo. In order to not leave our nanny with a complete shit show on her hands, I had her and B leave with me and acted like he was walking with me. In other words, I tricked my son into thinking he was coming with me. This worked for a little, but right as I thought it would be cute to get a photo of him dropping me off at "school" (hello, role reversal) and went to take him out of his stroller, he lost it again. I pointed out a fire truck to distract him as I ran off to class. So the truth about that photo I posted? It was from the previous week…same exact scenario but a more "ideal" version of B and me. Why did I choose this pic? Confession: because it honestly looked good and like I had it together.
I can't do it all, and that's OK.
As a mom, walking away when your baby wants you is heart-wrenching. In this case, I was walking away to study for something that I was having a hard time with—I wasn't getting any pleasure out of the situation on either end. I couldn't help but think to myself Am I choosing Pilates over my son? Cue the major mom guilt.
With my website relaunching, studying for my Pilates mat certification, filming daily workouts for my Fitner channel, not to mention the biggest job of all, taking care of my baby—I really felt everything crash down on me. I had more than a few moments of doubt where I thought, Should I have waited until B was older to grow my business? Was I being selfish? I couldn't help but think I was doing something wrong by not timing all of my work and certification trainings to when B starts school himself.
The thing about mom guilt is that you never know when it will hit. At times I can rationalize that working and trying to do it all is so important for myself and ultimately for my family. At other times it feels like I am letting down my son by not being there in those moments when he really just wants me. On top of already feeling this way, you add in tons of people on the internet with opinions on your job as a mother (and trust me—trolls are not afraid to express themselves).
This weekend was a good reminder that I cannot do it all. I'll never forget this book that was given to me called You Can't Do It All. At the time, I thought to myself, Yes, I can. I can have a career; I can be a great mom. I think that building a business and brand really does take more time and energy than you can imagine. That time and energy isn't just confined to the office, it comes home with you too. I've had a job since I was 15 years old and I love to work. If you feel that way, I think it's really important to honor that for yourself…whether you have a family or not. That said, there is nothing like a good reality check—like this particular weekend for me. As much as I'm loving my family and work, I can't be perfectly balanced all the time, something has to give. And it takes daily practice to come to terms with that. In taking on all of these projects at the same time, it makes sense that some moments will not be your finest. No judgment here ever; we all do the best we can with what we have.
It's safe to say, I'm setting the alarm early tomorrow to make sure I get my meditation in before the day starts.
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Hi Melissa!
I'm a new mom to a beautiful 6 week old baby girl, Harlow. Even in my early stages of motherhood, I can't help but have these same thoughts & feelings. Trying to maintain a glimmer of my "old" life; working out when I pleased, eating a hot meal, sleeping through the night, working on expanding my career, and coming to terms with my "new" (and oh so beautiful) life has been an interesting challenge. Thank you for being real and a voice to those who feel the same way. Mommy's can do anything, but not everything at once. Much love.
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Melissa I follow you on instagram and the one thing I love about you is that you keep it absolutely real. I am a mom of three 21,18 and 14, they have been the focus of much of my life, I have studied and worked part-time because that was what worked for me. I judged full-time working mothers harshly and have no doubt I added to the pool of mom guilt. The truth is that we sisters need to stick together however it looks for each of us. We need to follow our own path and listen to the people that have 'earned the right to hear our stories' (Brene Brown). Thank you for your honestly, being real is what inspires ❤
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I absolutely love this! You are a real inspiration👍🏻


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Key Reasons Why Used Car Owners Should Consider Car Donation
The reasons for going for car donation are many; some of them are listed below. The first and most important reason for car donation is to help someone in need whether directly or indirectly. There are some charity organizations which accept car donation and later auction the used cars. The proceeds are added to the funds of the charity which are used for furthering so many different social causes including taking care of orphans and abandoned children and helping drug and alcohol addicted youth by rehabilitating them. Your car donation could help directly as well. Some charity organizations accept car donation specifically to donate it to another family which is in bad need of transportation.
Another reason is the benefit you can get from tax by car donation. These tax benefits for car donation are equal to the fair market value of the car, which could either be estimated through comparison with cars of other model or make or from the sale price of the car in a public auction. The tax benefits for car donation are substantial in some cases especially with used car experts providing good returns on your car donation through their expertise which also benefits charity organizations.
Thirdly car donation can be done for convenience. Whether your car is in a drivable condition or not, you can go for car donation with charity organizations providing free pickup or towing service if required. Moreover, you can also dispose off an old car to clear your garage which you might want to prepare in advance for a new car that you might be planning to purchase.
Last but not the least is that instead of looking for someone to buy your car so that you can earn a profit go for car donation and get the benefit of tax deduction which is equivalent to the first option. Sometimes, trying to sell your car instead of car donation could be a bad decision especially if you are busy and really cannot afford to lose out on your weekends as well. Car donation is a simple process that can sometimes be accomplished in just a few minutes. A lot of charity organizations are providing all the support and convenience they can to make it easy for used car owners to go for car donation.
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Our favorite day of the year! #GivingTuesday and we agree with Cindy Lou Who, "Everybody seems to kerbabbled. Isn't this just a little superfluous?" We've rounded up our top 5 favorite ways to give back this holiday season!
Who knew there were so many tools involved in Champagne! Get a look BTS at a day of training some of our new Champagne Attendants!
Get your horns up for the return of Hotel Ella's #fancytailgate series this fall, feat. 3 events coinciding with select UT football games. Read More about Hotel Ella and grab a ticket!
On the rare occasion that we actually have a business card on hand when we meet, you may have noticed the Champagne Gang doesn't go by traditional titles. Instead, you find each of our favorite Champagne Cocktails!
Our fleet is growing and so is our team!!
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters
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2 hours 12 minutes
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The new story follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species—thought to be mere myths—rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity's very existence hanging in the balance.
Showings for
Friday, 9/13/2019 through Thursday, 9/19/2019
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Ticket Prices
Adults: $8.00
Children: $6.50
Seniors: $7.00 Children = Age 3-11
Seniors = Age 62 & Up
Showtimes before 5:30 P.M. have the bargain matinee price of $6.50
There is a $2.00 surcharge for all 3D films
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This story makes perfect sense. A city truck drives through your building so the city fines you for owning an unsafe building. Of course. In general flash mobs are neat. This is the first one I've ever seen with no dancing, and the first one where there is real singing. It also has the highest percentage of gray hairs I've seen in one.. Enjoy [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE]
I don't know what's more impressive, that this kid built this instrument (instead of playing Rock Band in all of his free time) or that he's so good at playing it. I am thoroughly impressed by this video. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D2o8F2MOuI]


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/begin rant 3/23/01:you wanna know what really pisses me off? Police. These boys obviously don't have anything better to do than go around and terrorize the hell out of people like you and me who are JUST TRYING to live....its excessively irritating when i go to my friend's house and walk up the stairs, come downstairs 5 minutes later to see a FUCKING PARKING TICKET?!?!?! okay... when i pulled up there wasn't a friggin cop in sight.. i don't know where the brap he came from, but he didn't have to ticket me. If i would have caught him, i would have kicked him in the face. Oh, and another thing, if you are arrested....screaming "toooly hooof" at the top of your lungs while in the cell drives them insane. chances are they won't have any idea what you are talking about, and that just makes it easier to do. /end rant
/begin rant 3/22/01: Haven't ranted in a while, but thats okay. Sitting here listening to Download (of course) *sigh* whatever happened to my childhood? I remember when i didn't care about things that killed other people, or about what people thought of me. I can't even turn on the evening news anymore without being sick. its a zoo out there nowadays, you can't walk down the street without fear of being seriously hurt, or raped, or murdered, or having a bomb dropped on you, but we still do it anyway. Just like we know that pollution is bad, but we do it anyway. America has turned a blind eye to everything, and yet it gets us nowhere. It just gets little piece of shit pansies like George Dubya in the office. Why did we choose him? WHAT DID HE HAVE TO OFFER?!?! Yep. Nobody listens to me when i warn them... and i did... but thats alright. i grew up being someone who was ignored on a regular basis, and that doesn;t bother me.....but jesus christ people! /end rant
/begin rant 3/15/01: Once again it is time to get some crap off of my chest. The snowstorm proved to be almost fatal, i pulled a 180 with my crappy car and almost died... but thats another story for another day. My cd's have come in (finally!!) and i get to go pick them up tonight!!!! This is my rant for the day.
oh.. and when do the voices stop talking? "distant voices... i hear voices so i wrote..." /end rant
/begin rant 3/09/01: I have decided it was finally time to rant. It's been 2 days since Mother Nature decided to dump on us with about 4 bazillion feet of snow, and its snowing YET AGAIN. Now, for the record, i come from Minneapolis, so I should be used to this right? ..yeah.. whatever! I moved away from mpls to get AWAY FROM CRAPPY WEATHER! If i wanted snow up my ass all the time I would move to Canada! Another thing.. we should not be getting this much snow... considering the ocean is like... 30 miles away, it should not be this bad. What the brap?
Aside from the usual mess that comes along with snow, like ... oh, old people and slow drivers, we have another thing that we need to worry about. Parking Bans. Okay, someone please explain this to me because i am beyond understanding... hmm.. lets see.. we got 3 apartments in a building, and one driveway. The driveway is occupied by the two cars that belong to the people who live on the top floor, and they were there first, so out of respect they get the driveway (that is, until i kill them...) but that leaves everyone else, where are they going to park? OBVIOUSLY in the street, but its snowing so nobody can park in the street. Where are you going to put your car? WHERE?!?!?! It doesn't make sense to me, but then again, most decisions by state and town officials are stupid anyway. What type of crack were these people smoking "duhh... hey i got it.. hehheh lets PROHIBIT everyone from parking if it is snowing outside...duhh hhehheehe" some of those cars that are on those streets anyway are doing more than just getting in a plow's way they are in MY way too *ggrrrr* it just pisses me off.. i mean, what are they going to do? come upstairs and tell me that i can't park my car in front of my apartment because they feel its blocking poor old mr snowplow so they have to TOW ME?!?!?! riiiiight. It bothers me ...
so i have to go to Atalanta's today and try to find a place to put my car, otherwise i'll be in some poor loser's way, and so help me, if i end up driving behind some slow dork who doesn't understand that GAS is on the RIGHT and its not a career decision... i'm gonna go apeshit.
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Kaj Skjervik - 100 Journal
I have photographed Kaj many times, for gig posters, album covers and sometimes just for the hell of it. He is one of the few in my original series of 100 portraits who seemed genuinely at ease in front of the camera. He is simultaneously, a bundle of energy and quietly reflective in his outlook on life.
The portrait I shot for the original 100 series was taken in a coffee shop in Truro that was at the time run by a really good mutual friend. He was there on a 'self-imposed work experience'. I shot the latest portrait in the Portreath Arms, near his home on Cornwall's north coast on a grey morning at the end of March. Some incredible 80s power tunes were playing on the pub's sound system so after I got the shot, we decided to retreat back to his home for a catch-up whilst he prepared for a gig that evening.
I found you in Grounded coffee shop that day…
"Yes, I was on a self-imposed work experience. The last time I did work experience was in a travel agents when I was 15. And although I enjoyed it loads, I've not had time to indulge, so I thought hang on I like the idea of maybe one day having a coffee shop because you know, coffee… good, cake… good. Looking back on it, it was really just an excuse to hang out with a friend (Chris who ran Grounded). I spend a lot of time in my own company and I'm quite happy with that. When I do tend to see people, it's predominantly in a gigging capacity but this was outside of that, it was just getting to spend time in my happy place. It also ties in with where I am now, which with regards to music, I'm plotting and planning my Coffee & Cake tour. Once again, it's coffee, it's cake and it's music."
There are some recurring themes here
"There are! It's making life what you want to make it really and as best as I can steer my fate, I'm going to steer it to the coffee shop. Hopefully I'll find some like-minded people there, hopefully, they'll let me sing some songs and they might enjoy it. That would be the dream. So yeah, that's where I am now."
How have things changed for you?
"It feels like everything and nothing has changed. I've not learnt anything other than I love doing what I'm doing and keeping it simple. Ideally I'd spend every moment doing something in the capacity of music. What I feel now is what I didn't feel two years ago, is how possible that is. Music makes me even happier than I ever thought it did, I knew I needed it and I knew I got some good out of writing songs, my ego got some good out of performing songs. I enjoy more so than ever what I'm doing now and I really don't know where it's taking me.
I feel more content - there's always the worry about being content versus being creative. I had a recent conversation with someone and they told me to be less content. I know what they're saying, but I'm happy and I'm just trying to keep that going, I don't feel like I need to suffer and use those emotions to be creative. That's not how I want to live life. There are more songs and there is more to say when you're loaded with emotion, but that isn't sustainable. I keep trying to improve me, that's my personal want. I want to keep getting better as a human being, as a songwriter, a better husband and friend. Mainly just a kinder person to myself. With every passing year, I feel more content with being me."
What's next?
"I don't want to know too much about where this is going but the coffee & cake tour that I'm planning at the moment is my chance to see what happens. It's the mystery of wondering what opportunities this tour will bring, what scenarios I'll find myself in and what I'll learn from that. Just to be receptive to this and what conversations I'll have along the way. I don't know where it's going to take me but it really doesn't matter.
When I look back at the portrait from two years ago, it feels like someone else. It's almost like, it just so happens to be me and I understand that person but at the same time, I don't understand that person. I'm probably over thinking it and maybe that's part of something that's been trained into me, through writing songs and playing the part of a different character. Dreaming up a different version of yourself for that song and that moment. So it feels familiar and unfamiliar. My thoughts are that maybe two years from now, I'll look back at the portrait from 2016 and it'll be four years on, it'll be interesting to see how I feel then and see that passing of time."
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The Council has a coastline of 60km and maintains the sea defence structures along 18.5km of this frontage. These defences protect the towns of Harwich, Dovercourt, Walton on the Naze, Frinton on Sea, Holland on Sea, Clacton and Brightlingsea.
Works undertaken range from day to day maintenance of promenades and seawalls to the design and implementation of major capital schemes costing many millions of pounds. Each year several sections of the sea defences are renewed as part of a rolling programme of special maintenance schemes funded from the Council's Revenue Budgets.
Larger schemes are produced to comply with Defra guidelines and their High Level Targets for coast protection.
All works are designed in house using modern surveying techniques and the latest computer aided design technology.
Other work carried out includes the maintenance of the cliff paths and slopes.
Current and completed coast protection works around the district
Cliff stabilisation, Clacton and Holland on Sea
Contractors have begun works on a £5 million project to stabilise and improve cliffs in Holland-on-Sea.
The scheme was unveiled last year, and since a public exhibition in October 2017 which showed strong support for the plans, the team has been busy working on various aspects of the project.
Reptile-proof fencing was installed in March around phases one and two of the scheme, with the animals set to be relocated to nearby slopes before construction begins.
A planning application for the scheme was approved by TDC's Planning Committee on 26 June.
A site compound has been set up at Hazlemere car park for the main contractor, Jackson Civil Engineering. They began preliminary works on site in August last year and now much of the piling and support works have been completed. Engineers have begun the difficult task of installing complex drain systems within the cliffs, which will reduce the impact of water causing subsidence on the cliffs.
The project will see a stretch of the cliffs between Gunfleet Sailing Club and the Flags Café stabilised, which will both protect them from future collapse and allow better access to the beach from the seafront road, particularly for wheelchair users and those with mobility problems.
Now beach huts along the promenade where work is taking place have been relocated to the compound, while memorial benches are also being securely stored for the duration of the project.
Permanent works have begun, with the installation of structures to support the slope. These works include piling, with a large crane on site, and will take around two months to complete.
Slope regrading – making the slopes shallower – started in March 2019, and the whole project is due to be completed, weather permitting, by Summer 2019.
The scheme has been funded by Tendring District Council (TDC) and cash left-over from the £36m new beach scheme.
Contractors are also working with Holland Haven Primary School on a pupil art project connected to the scheme.
The Essex and South Suffolk Shoreline Management Plan (SMP)
The Essex and South Suffolk Shoreline Management Plan covers approximately 440km of coast from Landguard Point in Felixstowe to Two Tree Island in the Thames Estuary, including Southend. It will determine the best ways to look after this part of the coast in a sustainable way for the next 100 years.
The public consultation took place from March to June 2010. There was an extremely good response, with the Environment Agency receiving over 180 formal responses. Officers and local councillors considered which comments would lead to changes in the draft SMP document and in particular where comments would lead to a change in flood risk management policy for a frontage. The Shoreline Management plan was then approved. For more information go to the GOV.uk website.
Contact Details
If you would like to know more about our coast protection projects, please contact email@example.com or call 01255 686956 or 686975.
Useful links and documents
Essex County Council - Wildlife and Biodiversity
Walton on the Naze official website
Essex and South Suffolk Shoreline Management Plan


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Atlanta City Council candidate Q and A: District 5
Voters in parts of Atlanta from Downtown to East Lake have two choices for their District 5 City Council seat this year: a veteran of City Hall or a first-time candidate. City services and the cost of housing top are top issues, the candidates say.
We asked each candidate their thoughts about City Council, the district and their plans if elected. Click to read the Q and As:
In the fundraising race, the $48,000 Bakhtiari reported collecting in the three months to June 30 far surpasses the roughly $16,000 Archibong reported collecting during that time, which are the latest figures available. However, as an incumbent, Archibong can also depend on funds rolled over from earlier campaigns.
Campaign finance disclosures are next due in October.
The election is on Nov. 7.
The deadline to register to vote is Oct. 10.
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South African music legends Gloria Bosman, Tim Moloi, Rocco de Villiers and Julie Hartley will be joining the Eastern Cape Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Graham Scott on stage at the annual Red Ball.
Organised by the Igazi Foundation, the "Baroque 'n Roll" 2012 Red Ball to be held on September 15 in the Feather Market Centre, will be the second ball in a series that is fast becoming the annual Glamour event of PE.. National and international guests will be attending.
Igazi demands 'Better Haematological services' for all people of the Eastern Cape, the Province with the highest incidence of blood cancers in South Africa. Their work has so far successfully seen the creation of the first stem cell unit ever in Port Elizabeth. This years ball will help to make this unit fully operational as this state of the art unit is unopened due to a moratorium of staff.
The ball music director Scott has conducted over 75 seasons over the past 30 years. Favourite arrangements include: Sweeney Todd, Into the Wood, and Big Band Blast.
Gloria Bosman has performed a variety for a wide variety, such as: SA Love, a musical of South African love songs produced by Christo Leach, Jubilation a gospel based musical directed by Ivor Jones, Woman in Spirit, The Lion and the Lamb, the award winning play by actor director John Kani.
Rocco de Villiers has released 10 instrumental CDs, he has written nine instrumental stage productions, his last two albums Beautiful Beautiful Piano and More Beautiful Piano sold more than 50 000 copies.
Tim Moloi has performed for former South African President, Nelson Mandela, Graca Machel, Prince Willem- Alexander and Princess Maxima of the Netherlands.
Moloi released his debut solo album Love That Music, mastered at Abbey Road Studios in London, and Love that Music was nominated for two South African Music Awards and performed at the 2010 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony.
Julie Hartley began her career 25 years ago in the 80's building up an enviable track record of leading roles on stage in the title roles of Cinderella and GIGI, Sandy in Grease, Guinevere in Camelot, Barbara Winters in Summer HOLIDAY and Marilyn Monroe in Marilyn Live! to name a few.
Baroque and Roll all night long with this amazing line up along with a five course gourmet menu specially created for the event and prepared by our own Jamie Oliver trained chef, Jayne Davies, from the award winning IN Food in Jeffery's Bay.
Tickets can be purchased from Computicket and cost R595 per person
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Coffee Corner/
I love trivia. The more random "useless" facts I have clogging up my brain the better. I just seem to soak them up like a sponge. I thought I would share some with you. Be that person who at the coffee break at work just throws out some random interesting fact, that I will admit sometimes gets a strange stare in response, but usually leads to a 'huh, I had no idea, how do you know this stuff?'
Well, my love of trivia got me hooked on a show called QI: Quite Interesting. The show is a BBC comedy panel show with Stephen Fry and Alan Davies, with impossible questions where panellists get points for being interesting.
One interesting fact that has been burned into my mind was the fact that the color pink was originally used for baby boys and light blue was used for baby girls. So without further ado, here are some interesting facts from the QI episode "Girls and Boys.":
Until the late 1400s the word "girl" meant a child of either gender. If you had to point out the difference between them, male children were called "knave girls" and females were "gay girls". Equally, a boy could be called a "knave child" and a girl a "maiden child."
The word 'boy' also didn't used to mean 'boy' in the modern sense but 'servant'. The word 'boy' meaning 'young man' most likely originated from the way the 'servant' meaning was used as a demeaning term. The use of the word 'boy' doesn't show up to describe a male child before 1440 so before then if you wanted to talk about a boy you called them a 'girl'.
The use of 'pink for a girl, blue for a boy' was actually reversed until the 20th century. Toddlers of either sex were normally dressed in white. When colors were used, boys were dressed in pink. At the turn of the 20th century, Dressmaker Magazine wrote:
"The preferred color to dress young boys in is pink. Blue is reserved for girls as it is considered paler, and the more dainty of the two colours, and pink is thought to be stronger (akin to red)."
As late as 1927, Time magazine exposed Princess Astrid of Belgium for giving brith to a girl, when she was hoping for a boy 'The cradle…had been optimistically outfitted in pink, the colour for boys.'
Studies have shown that women asked to hold babies dressed randomly in either blue or pink showed that they would more often hold the pink ones facing towards them, and the blue ones facing out.
Men tend to perform better than women in map reading tests due to the different way their brains operate, according to researchers from the University of California and the University of New Mexico.
The human brain is composed of two types of tissue – grey matter and white matter. Using magnetic resonance imaging equipment, researchers scanned the brains of 26 female and 22 male volunteers. All participants had similar IQs but when they were given intelligence tests, men used 6.5 times more grey matter than the women did, and the women used nine times more white matter than the men.
Grey matter helps to process information and promotes math, map-reading, and intellectual thought. White matter, on the other hand, connects the brain's processing centres and is vital for emotional thinking, use of language, and the ability to do more than one thing at once. Because women use less grey matter, which is essential for map-reading, they tend to have more difficulty with this skill than men.
Women's use of white matter means girls tend to develop larger vocabularies quicker than boys.
Florence Nightingale was the first popular female Florence - it was originally a name for boys.
Boys used to wear dresses until the age of five to seven, when they were put in their first pair of pants.
I just found these to be so interesting. http://qi.com/infocloud/gender
Pick your favorite fact and share it over a coffee break. Let me know in the comments below which fact was your favorite and what conversation it sparked with your co-workers. Got a friend or coworker who is a lover of trivia, share this post.


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Are you a mom who daily gets asked the dreaded question, "What's for dinner?"
OR are you the one asking your mom this question, which is probably (and maybe secretly) stressing her out?
OR are you in college and struggling to know what eating healthy means and how to cook on a tight budget?
OR are you newly weds who want to start cooking together but don't know where to start when it comes to healthy meals?
OR are you a single 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70-year-old looking to find cheap, easy, quick meals that can be made in less than 30 minutes when you get home from a long day of work absolutely pooped, HANGRY, and wanting to eat ASAP?
I was recently introduced to a fairly new company called "Meal Cure," and I was legitimately blown away by it when the creator of the company, Shaunna, contacted me after coming across my Instagram (@livehealthyandfree). She shared with me what her business is all about, and now I want to share with all of you! Including a yummy sample recipe from Meal Cure below⬇
What is Meal Cure?
Meal Cure is an online meal planning service that provides new recipes for 5 meals each week that take less than 30 minutes to prepare. The recipes are EASY, SIMPLE, DELICIOUS, NUTRITIOUS, and FUN (#winning). It's a healthy and inexpensive meal-planning service that basically does all the hard, dirty, stressful, annoying work for you when it comes to cooking, especially for your family after a long, tiring day.
For many years, the creator of Meal Cure, Shaunna, worked as a full-time medical doctor and a health coach, along with having to care and cook for her family of 4 boys and her husband. She is the mastermind behind all the research, planning, and organization that Mealcure revolves around.
Shaunna writes:
Always knowing 'what's for dinner?'
Having dinner ready in under 30 minutes!
Feeling confident and proud knowing that your dinner is healthy and nourishing for the whole family
Having meals that keep you on track with your health goals and also coordinates well with healthy weight loss and maintenance plans
Having all of your ingredients you need on hand
Grocery shopping in record time with ease with a 'done for you' organized list of less than 30 key ingredients
Discovering that nutritious does not have to mean boring, time consuming, or complicated
Saving time and money by being prepared and eliminating waste and last minute trips to the stores and take out."
Meal Cure is seriously like a God-send!! It's what most moms dream about, and sure enough -- something that does the hardest work for you exists. This unique meal-planning service includes a very organized and easy shopping list for you to take with you when you go shopping each week that will keep you from wasting money on extra food that you may tend to forget about and have to throw it out.
Why Meal Cure?
What we feed our bodies MATTERS! Our body is legitimately made of up the components of the food we eat. Not to mention, 90% or more of diseases and health conditions can be prevented with a healthy lifestyle, and nutrition is the biggest part. It really does make a difference, and generally, the medicine world is now going in the direction of using food and nutrition to heal naturally. Since what we feed our bodies matters, Meal Cure is centered around superfoods. Shaunna sends out a weekly video highlighting a new superfood of the week where you can learn why a particular food is so awesome for our bodies (these videos actually get you excited to eat these foods!).
The recipes she creates aren't complicated recipes by any means, so you can relax and finally enjoy cooking again with your family or spouse or roommate. Meal Cure is meant to take the stress and chaos out of dinner-making, and replace it with health, joy, and ease. I don't know about you, but to me, when I first heard about all this, I thought it was a glimpse of paradise.
Dietary Restrictions?
If you have dietary restrictions, the recipes are very adaptable, and the ingredients can be substituted and/or excluded easily. The recipes are always written as gluten-free, but you can always swap ingredients that are whole wheat/whole-grain if you're not G-Free.
How Much is Meal Cure?
You can buy a subscription to Meal Cure monthly ($9.97/month) or annually ($97/year -- this is the best deal), or you can even buy a 3-month subscription gift for someone ($39).
DISCOUNT: Get 20% off your subscription when you use my coupon code "JANIE20" at the checkout! I triple dog dare you to try it out because this ain't expensive, but it's still worth every single penny! I know I am SO looking forward to utilizing Meal Cure as I walk into another stressful year in college soon.
How can I sign up for Meal Cure?
Click on this link in orange below to sign up!
Sample Meal cure Recipe:
"Quinoa Taco Lettuce Wraps" (Vegetarian)
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Hope you'll love Meal Cure as much as I do! I cannot wait to use it during the busy school year ahead.
"But what you eat, does matter. Every one of our 100 trillion cells is made up of the building blocks that we feed it through the food we eat." - Dr. Shaunna


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40"H x 30"W x 1.5"D | Acrylic, elm bark and mixed media with resin on wood panel
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I had the good fortune to receive the gift of a large supply of elm bark from a friend with whom I was staying in Haliburton, Ontario. The bark came from a very large, old elm tree that had to be taken down because it had been stricken with Dutch Elm disease. A century ago, much of North America was filled with large stands of elm trees which provided shade, comfort and nesting homes for all kinds of wildlife.
I use the bark of the dead elm tree as a metaphor for the act of the dead tree giving back to life, allowing others to thrive and flourish, including the elm beetle itself. The addition of the rose window stencil to the intertwining branches of the elm tree suggest the structure and beauty of a gothic cathedral, a spiritual home. Flourishing is the quality of living one's gift of life to the full, in acceptance of the reality of its own mortality.
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Distilling the Poetry of Fact
"Updike, for his part, worked within the established conventions [of the New Yorker Magazine], but stretched them. 'It was perfectly obvious,' recalled Brendan Gill, 'that he was writing better Talk stories than anyone who had ever written them.' His data compilations on Antarctica, pigeons, and (audaciously) the universe were attempts to distill a poetry of fact."
--From About Town--The New Yorker and the World It Made, by Ben Yagoda
I find it instructive, every now and again, to go back through various books I've read and glimpse at those portions I've underlined or otherwise marked up. Over the years, I've evolved a kind of personal annotation system which I've recently come to realize hasn't really varied too much over about 25 years of serious reading, whether I was reading for pleasure, to mine the book for material or even for the purpose of reviewing it.
If a passage--anything from a few lines to an entire page--caught my interest, I would put a bracket around it in the margins. If it were especially interesting, or I wanted to signal to myself special interest in a smaller portion, I'd underline it. And really special stuff got stars next to it, perhaps even a few stars. Finally, impossibly vivid or sublime stuff that just screamed out at me got an exclamation point or two. Which of course made it hard to borrow a book from the library. But the aforementioned unauthorized biography of the New Yorker is especially good on this count. Besides that sublime observation on John Updike, I found these other little gems when I revisited it recently after having read it only a year or two before:
On editor William Shawn's management style, an impossibly zen-like blend of dysfunction and freedom-instilling restraint: "Shawn didn't just hire writers--he annointed them, as if to enter a secret and particularly holy religious order. Once selected, they found they were expected to find their own path to salvation." (I gave this one a bracket).
On writer Phillip Hamburger's recollection of sparring with Shawn over punctuation when going through a story proof: "he insisted that a hyphen was gramatically required in a certain word at the end of an article. I argued forcibly that the hyphen--the mere presence of the hyphen--would destroy the sentence. 'That's a ruinous hyphen,' I said. I wanted two separate words, and no hypen. I was quite worked up over the hyphen. Shawn was calm and cool. 'Perhaps you had better sit outside my office and think it over,' he said. From time to time he would pop his head out. 'Have you changed your mind?' he asked. This continued from about ten at night until close to two-thirty the next morning. Shawn finally said, sadly, 'All right. No hyphen. But you are wrong.'" (a bracket and two exclamation points).
On Truman Capote's method of reporting profiles: "Capote pursued a cunning, effective and prescient strategy: he never concealed his journalistic presence, but he generally disregarded the statements his characters made on the record, concentrating instead on the ways they revealed themselves when they assumed they weren't being observed." (an underlining, a bracketing, one exclamation point and four stars).
Blogging Coverage. The blogging phenomenon continues to be heavily covered by the general media as well as the media's trade press. And here are three recent pieces I've found especially compelling, for varying reasons. This Los Angeles Magazine piece does a good job of covering Mickey Kaus and his Kausfiles, which began as an indy blog before being merged into Slate. Like so many of the best, most serious non-fiction writers in the U.S., he cut his teeth at the Washington Monthly and later the New Republic during its '80s heyday, when Mike Kinsley "spawned an everything-you-know-is-wrong journalism, a mode of both speaking from the left and interrogating many of the left's preconceptions." This piece makes the interesting assertion that the blog culture tends to operate not unlike the cool clique in high school, in which "everybody starts talking about what the cool kids are saying." I think the writer nails it by observing that Kaus has pioneered a new kind of hybrid coverage: presenting "news while interpreting it--really, it presents news by interpreting it."
Editor & Publisher Mag has just posted this interesting interview with the online editor of a mid-sized paper, the Spokesman-Review in Washington State, which has recently added no fewer than nine blogs to its site. But what really caught my eye was this: this fellow, Ken Sands, sits on the board of the extremely influential Associated Press Managing Editors, which he rightly describes as being composed of "middle-aged print publication managers who don't seem to know yet what to make of online journalism." And yet, according Mr. Sands, they've just added a second board slot for an online person. I'd call that slow but steady headway (and have I mentioned that our own Society of Professional Journalists' chapter has recently decided to do not one but two programs in the coming year about online subjects?).
Finally, in yesterday's Wall Street Journal edit page, came this piece about politicians' blogs. It makes the case that politicians aren't cut out for blogging, because "blogging, in short, thrives on sarcasm." Well, I think that's just flatly, demonstrably, wrong as a general statement. Certainly in my cohort, there's a heck of a lot more earnestness than sarcasm. Still, as a former-cynic-turned-skeptic (a crucial distinction which I think too few people appreciate) I'm prepared to admit that my circle may not be representative. After all, none of my college friends did drugs or fooled around much with the opposite sex (though we somehow managed to have a helluva good time anyway).


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Front Royal, VA - The Lady Owls improved their record to 6-11 with a win over Christendom 84-35. This is the fourth road game of a seven game road game stretch for the Lady Owls and they earned a much needed road victory.
The Owls started the game sluggish, but found their stride in the second half, scoring 60 points. The Owls were able to use their defensive pressure to force the Crusaders into 47 turnovers. The Owls also tallied a season high 35 steals.
Danasia Dumas led the way with a double double with 19 points and 10 steals. Amber Godfrey followed with 13. Tierney Porter registered her second consecutive double digit scoring night with 12. Malaka Elix had a career high 11 points. Avery Prather and Danielle Hinkelman both had 10 points each. This was the first time this season that the Owls had 6 players scoring in double figures.
"The second half of this game we looked like the team from last year; high energy and allowing our defense to create easy baskets for us. Consistency is key for us we need to play like this the rest of the season," stated head coach Robin Martin.
The Owls are back in action Friday, when they travel to Elizabeth City, NC to take on conference foe, Mid-Atlantic Christian University, in their first of three games in three days.


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Learning How to Honor Grief/
Fall and I have a love-hate relationship. What was once my favorite season became one scarred with loss and an aching I thought would never leave. A few years after losing my mom, autumn emerged and I began to enjoy the parts that once hurt.
And then I lost my dad.
Sometimes three losses in four years feels an impossible load to carry. My back hurts. My shoulders. My heart. Some days I feel immense gratitude, joy even. Light on my feet. Thankful for small wonders. The next day, the load weighs me down, in a deep and impossible-to-catch-my-breath sort of way.
I'm starting to remember and to honor both sorts of days. To acknowledge their place in my story. To stop apologizing. To just be in them, knowing the tunnel is just that. Light on the other end. Worth the walking.
I'm taking some new steps this week, to walk with more intent, towards what I know I need. And that's the important thing I think. That we do the thing we must, even when we feel we can't. We must fight. I must fight. So I am. Grace upon grace. Upon grace. Upon grace.


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Episode 35: An iMac for dinosaurs/
We looked at CES as a lens of what is going on in the tech scene, trying to separate the real trends from the concepts that will never ship.
Also, we tried to predict how 2018 will be for Apple in various topics ranging from improving the software game, pricing and how will the lineup will look like.
- CES stuff we talked about:
- Predictions
- Greg Predictions
- Workflow improvements
- Plus-sized iPhone X
- New look iPhones range
- Price stalling
- Low-end iPhones and MacBook
- No change in Apple Watch design
- Nati's Predictions
- iPhone SE V2
- Siri V2
- HomePod related
- HomeKit related
- Mac lineup continues to get updated regularly
- Software improvement
- Greg Predictions


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Street photography has a long and storied history, sitting as it does at the intersection of journalism and art. My interest was drawn to it by the figure that has inspired many budding street shooters, Henri Cartier-Bresson. Probably the most broadly influential street photographer in the medium's history, Cartier-Bresson was an advocate of stealth and discretion. He would famously use only small Leica cameras painted black to avoid drawing attention to himself.
Other street photographers use different methods and equipment but the intention usually remained constant: to discretely find and catch people off-guard, wherein the oft-discussed 'decisive moment' makes itself known.
The ethical considerations of the medium are one of its most controversial aspects.
Defenders of the form often fall into arguing that people have no right to expectation of privacy in a public place, and that street photography is legal. The fault with this reasoning is that just because something is legal doesn't make it particularly ethical. As my friend Phoebe put it: "Legality is pretty much the minimum of human behaviour. That's right at the baseline." No-one wants to feel harrassed or as though a shifty-looking stranger is surveilling them on the street. In fact, a year or two ago I stumbled upon a photographer sharing his street work on Facebook, all seemingly distant photos taken voyeuristically from a car with a cheap camera. Needless to say, the response to the anonymous photographer's attempt to be creative was not positive.
With the explosion of online photo-sharing and the creeping growth of sites encouraging people to photograph strangers to shame them for their behaviour (remember Women Who Eat On Tubes?) or to objectify and demean them, public sentiment against street photography seems to be slipping even further into the negative. Although voyeurism and shaming are nothing to do with street photography itself, benign street photographers have by-and-large been embarrassingly unsuccessful in preventing the predators from claiming the justification of 'art' for themselves.
I used to be a voracious street photographer. I'd roam around town for hours trying to find something interesting happening, eagerly hunting down that decisive moment. When I got the chance to go to New York for a day a few years ago I dove in head-first and spent the day hunting around for things to photograph. In such a rich ground it felt like there was something happening everywhere I looked. Unfortunately it feels as though those days have slipped into the past. More and more when I'm out on the street with a camera, for each shot I manage to take I can feel myself 'miss' ten others. The growing anxiety at potentially causing upset, potentially being thought a creep or pervert causes me to hesitate, and in that hesitation the opportunity passes by. I've lost my nerve, and I'm not sure I'll ever get it back.


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Compare and Contrast: Gypsy (1962) vs Gypsy (1993)
I recently had the opportunity to compare the two film versions of Gypsy, the legendary hit Broadway musical based loosely on the memoirs of ecdysiast Rose Louise Hovick.
Ms Hovick is better known by her stage name: Gypsy Rose Lee.
The musical is considered by many to be among the finest Broadway shows, is frequently revived, and as noted has been made into a film twice.
But while many praise the musical, a number of other people have noted problems with the material, especially in the film adaptations.
First and foremost, despite the title, it's not about Gypsy Rose Lee.
Lee appears only as a supporting character in her own story (a touch of irony to those familiar with the tale).
The central character is her harridan of a mother, Rose Thompson Hovick, who even in her sanitized depiction (hey, no lesbian murders here) comes across as the mother of all stage mothers.
Pushy, domineering, narcissistic, petty, cruel, vindictive, she propelled her two children into lives on the road as vaudeville performers, sister June Havoc (nee Hovick) being the act's star with sister Rose handling supporting duties, then after Havoc wisely fled the scene, focusing on Lee and (depending on which version one wishes to belief) either pushing or acquiescing to her becoming a stripper.
Lee went on to become the most famous and highest paid performer in the Minsky burlesque circuit and, in the musical and the film adaptations, finally breaks free of her mother's over-preening influence only for the two to finally reconcile.
In reality, their lives were much messier than that (see "lesbian, dead" above) but not the sort of thing one can build a feel good stage musical on.
So that's the first problem, but it leads directly to the second, even bigger one.
As written, Gypsy needs a mature (i.e., 40-50+) actress who can really sing and belt out a couple of classic show stoppers ("This Is It" and "Rose's Turn"). She needs to have a dynamic, forceful personality yet be able to moderate it so that no matter how badly she treats her kids and boy friend, the audience remains fascinated with her, rooting for her despite her horrible actions.
She, much more than the character of Gypsy Rose Lee, needs to carry the show, and while there are a good many talented actresses with two of the three talents described above, when you pack all three into one performer you no longer have a good actress but rather A Major Star.
And the moment A Major Star sets foot on the stage, the audience no longer cares about the titular character, but rather the character played by said star.
Gypsy Rose Lee becomes practically superfluous in her own story, supplanted yet again by her mother.
This is less of a problem on stage than on the screen. Both film versions of the story follow the stage play fairly closely.
Despite this, original playwright Arthur Laurents disdained the 1962 movie, and I think a big reason behind that while the stage play calls for one dynamic star, the first movie version featured two superstars: Rosalind Russell as Mama Rose, and Natalie Wood as Gypsy Rose Lee.
Maybe a different kind of show biz mother story could have worked with both of them, but when you cast Wood, one of Hollywood's most ethereally beautiful stars, as the world's most famous stripper, a big hunk of your audience is going to be sitting there waiting for her to take her clothes off.
And that doesn't come until late in the story.
Which demonstrates again how off center Gypsy is. Two thirds of the story is a build up to the crucial scene when Lee realizes her future is not the one her semi-delusional mother has laid out for her but an entirely different path all her own, and that works kinda if you have a lesser caliber actress playing opposite your Major Star.
Which is not snark directed at Cynthia Gibb who played Lee in the 1993 version, but rather an acknowledgement of legitimate audience expectations. You put Frankenstein and the Wolf Man in the same movie, or cast King Kong opposite Godzilla, and the audience will want to see 'em clash early and often.
I think both film adaptations are weakened by following the stage musical too faithfully.
Each medium has its unique set of strengths and weaknesses, and clever creators in any given medium can figure out entertaining workarounds to various story and staging problems.
With Gypsy the challenge is cramming literally decades worth of physical and emotional development into just a couple of hours of stage time, and that's accomplished by big musical numbers and clever re-use of sets and props (a big hunk of Gypsy occurs in various desert encampments where the troupe practices their routines).
On screen, however, these numbers and scenes drag on and on; a more cinematic approach would have been to trim 20-40 minutes out of the story and telescope their early struggles through a montage and clever editing.
You could shift a decade in a single cut on screen, but on stage it requires more set up.
Neither film is awful, both have their entertaining moments, but neither of them really seem to satisfy, either.
This may be a case of the stage musical being so successful it influenced dozens if not hundreds of similar stories in other media, and so by the time modern audiences view either film version of Gypsy, whatever electricity the original possessed has long since dissipated.
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Comparative Constructions in Spanish and French Syntax: by Susan Price
By Susan Price
This learn, first released in 1990, offers a finished description of the comparative buildings of Spanish and French, and indicates that the it sounds as if various transformations of their syntactic realisations should be accounted for through common constraints at the expression of comparability. there's additionally a dialogue of parallel buildings in different Romance languages, displaying that those languages demonstrate a number of buildings both appropriate with the recommended development of probabilities due to the final constraints proposed. This identify could be of curiosity to scholars of language and linguistics.
First Language Acquisition in Spanish: A Minimalist Approach by Gilda Socarras
By Gilda Socarras
The research unearths an interplay in baby grammar round the construction of naked nominals, proto-determiners and entire determiner words. Socarrás plays either qualitative and quantitative analyses to indicate to a hyperlink among the improvement levels young children plow through, and the incidence of those parts of their speech.
The paintings is going directly to deal with the language acquisition debate among the continuity and discontinuity hypotheses, aligning the findings with a end on how most sensible to organise the theory.
Locality Domains in the Spanish Determiner Phrase: 79 by M. Emma Ticio
By M. Emma Ticio
Examining its topic from a generative standpoint, this hugely precise textual content bargains with the syntax of nominal expressions. It specializes in empirical information taken from the Spanish language, notwithstanding the writer is going extra to attract conclusions of wider theoretical curiosity from fabric culled from different languages too.
The e-book considers an important phenomena within the nominal area, resembling extraction out of nominal words and ellipsis in those words, in addition to their amendment. In doing so it offers the reader with a unified rationalization of a couple of phenomena that experience now not formerly been analyzed below a unmarried simple account. specifically, Ticio explores how financial system notions have interaction with a few sensible different types, with the size and sort of routine allowed, and with the lifestyles of 3 inner domain names inside nominal expressions. She makes use of those observations to notify her research of the constitution of arguments and adjuncts in nominal expressions, and of the capability those components have for extraction. to check the empirical adequacy of her research, she employs phenomena similar to the homes of attributive adjectives, partial cliticization and nominal elision in Spanish nominal phrases.
Speech Prosody in Speech Synthesis: Modeling and generation by Keikichi Hirose,Jianhua Tao
By Keikichi Hirose,Jianhua Tao
The quantity addresses concerns referring to prosody iteration in speech synthesis, together with prosody modeling, how we will be able to exhibit para- and non-linguistic info in speech synthesis, and prosody regulate in speech synthesis (including prosody conversions). A excessive point of caliber has already been completed in speech synthesis through the use of selection-based tools with segments of human speech. even if the tactic permits artificial speech with a variety of voice characteristics and conversing types, it calls for huge speech corpora with certain caliber and style.
Accordingly, speech conversion thoughts are actually of turning out to be curiosity between researchers. HMM/GMM-based tools are established, yet entail numerous significant difficulties while considered from the prosody viewpoint; prosodic gains disguise a much broader time span than segmental positive aspects and their frame-by-frame processing isn't really continuously acceptable. The publication deals a very good evaluate of state of the art stories on prosody in speech synthesis.
New-New Schools English Language and Grammar (Senior by Mackenzie Chibambo
By Mackenzie Chibambo
It has 18 devices, every one overlaying a side of grammar and language abilities comparable to talking, listening, analyzing and writing. these inexperienced persons at college and faculty degrees taking Grammar of the English Language as a unit of analysis had their thumbs up for this ebook. when you've got issues of any a part of speech, idioms, phrasal verbs, proverbs, query tags, direct and oblique sentences, all compositions, learn paper writing and summaries then reflect on them over from the time you get a replica of this e-book. simply get one and spend a while with it.
Studies on Grammaticalization (Trends in Linguistics. by Elisabeth Verhoeven,Stavros Skopeteas,Yong-Min Shin,Yoko
By Elisabeth Verhoeven,Stavros Skopeteas,Yong-Min Shin,Yoko Nishina,Johannes Helmbrecht
Grammaticalization concept has performed an immense position within the advancements in language typology and sensible linguistics over the last 3 a long time. Grammaticalization phenomena exhibit that grammars evolve in a continual manner following cross-linguistically verified diachronic paths.
The contributions during this publication shed new gentle on a few imperative concerns in grammaticalization thought reminiscent of the (uni-)directionality debate, the relation among grammaticalization and buildings, and the idea that of a number of grammaticalization.
Evidence for grammaticalization in numerous domain names of grammar is gifted: adpositions, numeral classifiers, honorifics, contract markers, applicatives, reciprocals, delexical verbs, auxiliaries, relative clauses, and discourse debris. The empirical investigations come from numerous languages, between them many understudied languages resembling Nanafwe, Maltese, Manambu, Chibchan and Siouan languages.
Topics in French Syntax: Volume 19 (Routledge Library by Geraldine Legendre
By Geraldine Legendre
The major objective of this learn, first released in 1994, is to give a considerable a part of the grammar of French. This aim is accomplished through bringing jointly points of syntactic research. First, the research makes a speciality of an unlimited diversity of French clausal phenomena, together with item elevating structures, Causative structures of varied varieties, Impersonal buildings, among many others. moment, the research is carried out in the framework of Relational Grammar. This identify can be of curiosity to scholars of language and linguistics.
English Brushup by John Langan
By John Langan
500 Basic Korean Verbs: The Only Comprehensive Guide to by Kyubyong Park
By Kyubyong Park
Korean grammar is notoriously tricky for foreigners to grasp yet is vital for these wishing to benefit Korean. Easy-to-use 500 uncomplicated Korean Verbs is the one entire consultant to the right kind utilization of Korean verbs on hand for English-speaking novices.
Each of the five hundred most vital Korean verbs is gifted in a handy single-page structure that offers the verb's that means and pronunciation, and monitors the verb's forty eight key tenses, speech degrees, and moods (all followed via romanizations). additionally integrated are a convenient consultant to the Korean language and verb conjugation and reference tables of easy Korean verb varieties, besides three indexes (Romanized, Hangeul, and English).
500 simple Korean Verbs Includes:
- Conjugations via stressful, speech degrees, and mood.
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- Korean characters (Hangul) in addition to romanized pronunciations to assist English speakers.
- Two-color layout makes speedy reference easy.
The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology (Cambridge Handbooks in by Andrew Hippisley,Gregory Stump
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A National Demonstration Project conducted in Washington, D.C., from June 7 to July 30, 1993, tested the efficacy of the Global Peace Initiative's approach to reducing crime and social stress and improving the effectiveness of government.
In this carefully controlled experiment, the peace-creating group increased from 800 to 4,000 over the two-month period. Although violent crime had been steadily increasing during the first five months of the year, soon after the start of the study, violent crime (measured by FBI Uniform Crime Statistics) began decreasing and continued to drop until the end of the experiment (maximum decrease 23.3%), after which it began to rise again. The likelihood that this result could be attributed to chance variation in crime levels was less than two parts per billion (p < .000000002). The drop in crime could not be attributed to other possible causes, including temperature, precipitation, weekends, and police and community anti-crime activities. Back


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Male Soldiers Eager For Gender-Neutral, Easier, APFT
BY Thom Sullivan
Fort Eustis, VA- For decades, since its creation in 1980, the Army Physical Fitness Test has consisted of two-minutes of push-ups, two minutes of sit-ups, and a two mile run. That stands to change very soon, representatives from TRADOC said on Friday.
"There has always been criticism with the old APFT," COL Dougles Samfeld said in an interview with GrumpyJoesHQ.com, "Some people felt that we discriminated against certain body types, or that the it did not meaningfully correlate towards combat performance while wearing full kit, but one of the complaints we hear the most is that there are two different standards for men and women in the Army."
The most oft-quoted example of this division is that for two 18 year old Soldiers of different genders, a female Soldier with the same raw score as a male Soldier who has barely passed with the minimal 180, will find herself with a score of 260 by comparison – just a hair under the APFT Excellence thresholds.
"We have heard the complaints. Loud and clear." COL Samfeld said, "This new, diverse army needs an APFT that makes no exception for anyone, and requires all Soldiers to maintain the same standards, except of course for broke-dick staff officers who somehow manage to have permanent profiles."
The new APFT will consist of five events that much more closely replicate battlefield conditions to include deadlifting and dragging casualties. So far the reactions are hugely positive.
"I can't wait. I mean, I love lifting heavy shit, but let's be honest: if there's only one standard, that means that the standard to pass is going to be super easy." SPC Jamisan Solzheim said while chain-smoking outside of the 281st MI CO motor pool, "How many chicks do you think can deadlift two hundred pounds? Shit that damn dummy weighs more than most of the chicks in this place. Good luck."
Junior officers have a different perspective, such as a Lieutenant who agreed to be interviewed anonymously had this to say, "The way I see it, we either get a hella easy APFT or if by some miracle the standards are high we're gonna chapter out 90% of the females in this company and be left with the real warriors. Either daddy gets to finally excel at PT or I never have another problem with sexual harassment for the remainder of my platoon time. Win-win."
Sources claim the new APFT will be unveiled in Summer of next year, which is what the Army has been saying for 37 years now.


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- The Pope's encyclical on climate change, published by Melville House Press with an introduction by Naomi Oreskes.
- An incredible interview with five scientists about what came true in their fields, and didn't.
- Why Rosalind Franklin is more important than ever.
- The first withdrawal from the Arctic seed vault. Uh oh.
- A cool BuzzFeed listicle (ugh) about the Natural History Museum in London.
- The Volkswagen defeat device and the dangerous future of computerized cars. Also, apparently VW is full of engineers who don't believe in climate change.
- An oldie but goodie: the invisible labor force behind your curated news feed.
- And a profile of the blog that has "made retractions sexy": RetractionWatch.


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Insight: Put in the Time to Find Your Sound
I think my colleagues at EM and Keyboardmag.com would agree that trying out new products is one of the best perks of the job. But we spend much of our time figuring out user interfaces, testing features, and pushing gear to its limits as we do the research for our articles. With so many items coming and going from the studio, we can easily forget to devote time to our main instruments—and our own music.
I was reminded of this as I read Jean-Michel Jarre's interview, when he says "…limitations are the key in any kind of art form, and especially in electronic music," before advising young musicians to "choose your plug-ins and your instruments very carefully, and when you have chosen one, try to stick with it for six months."
As I pondered Jarre's words, the corner of my eye caught the flashing LEDs of a 12U case full of Eurorack modules, many of which I'd barely begun to explore. How many of them would I want to spend several weeks digging into? Sometimes, the decision is easier than we think.
For example, as I packed for a gig later that week, I instinctively grabbed the two items I've brought onstage for more than a decade—the Blippoo Box (a keyboard-less analog synth) and an Alesis Philtre. With Jarre's words swimming in my head, I had a sudden realization about my setup: The reason I've used these instruments for so long was not simply because of their sound, but because of their user interfaces; particularly the Blippoo Box, with its 12 chicken-head knobs (like the kind you see on vintage tube amps).
I remembered how the instrument clicked with me once I started focusing in on it: The extended shape of the knobs allowed me to accurately control the dual oscillator/dual filter configuration with one hand, leaving my other hand free to play percussion or another synth. In other words, once I devoted a few hours learning to use it, I found that this odd little synth solved a real-world problem while catching me ear at the same time. At this point, I know the Blippoo Box well enough that I can easily express my musical ideas on it, even without looking.
As you go through the various articles and reviews in this issue, keep in mind that our goal is to help you find the tools that not only capture your attention and imagination, but help you clearly express your musical ideas.


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Title: Australia's Medicinal Cannabis Heavyweights Start The Rebellion
Author: Buzzfeed
Date: 8 February 2018
URL: https://www.buzzfeed.com/bradesposito/amca-i?utm_term=.viEVp0vjn#.bk9rNZ5Da
It was on the 12th floor of a Sydney office building usually taken up by one of the country's biggest law practices that Australia's leading minds on cannabis reform, black market supply, patient access, and healthcare came together to discuss how, exactly, the battle for easier access to legal medicinal cannabis should be waged.
After months of planning, medicinal cannabis campaigner Lucy Haslam brought together professors, doctors, nurses, and barristers on Thursday, and sat them next to underground medicinal cannabis manufacturers and the hippies from pro-cannabis communities on NSW's north coast.
Title: Canada's marijuana heavyweights set sights on the ultimate prize: Conquering the world
Author: Financial Post
Date: 9 February 2018
URL: http://business.financialpost.com/commodities/agriculture/for-cannabis-heavyweights-the-real-prize-is-becoming-worlds-premier-medical-marijuana-dealers?mc_cid=19febbfe4f&mc_eid=178dec0b63
We don't have to find guys in Florida with a little Cessna anymore," jokes Pierre Debs, managing director of Spektrum Cannabis GmbH, a subsidiary of Smith Falls-based Canopy Growth Corp., over the phone from Germany.
Title: Malta Is Finally Getting Serious About Its Medical Marijuana Industry
Author: Lovin Malta
Date: 6 February 2018
URL: https://lovinmalta.com/news/local/malta-is-finally-getting-serious-about-its-medical-marijuana-industry
But in the space of a few years, the Maltese government has changed track and is headed straight for Greenville – and 2018 is when the scene on the ground will actually change.
With (very) tentative plans for a restricted and regulated commercial market in the pipeline and the legislation of a medical marijuana industry all but written into law, here are some of the major changes happening to Malta's cannabis industry


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Ras Al Khaimah was ranked sixth on fDi magazine's list of Top 20 Middle Eastern Cities and first on its list of 'Cities Most Attractive for Foreign Investment', followed by Abu Dhabi and then Dubai. This shows that RAK offers an excellent business environment for both local and international companies.
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Twin Tornadoes
(Originally published by Nattie on August 18, 2003)
Twin tornadoes touch down in Small Town USA, Indiana.
Their efforts seemed to be concentrated on a small area in the Country Club Estates. Namely apartment J79. There, destruction ripped a path from their bedroom to their parents' room, leaving pictures of cats drawn in Sharpee on white paint.
A pile of photos on their mother's scrapbook table was tossed to the floor. Toys and blankets were strewn across the area as they moved to the bathroom coating fixtures in minty toothpaste and diaper rash ointment.
The path of destruction moves down the stairs to the living room upending baskets of clean laundry and devouring large quantities of Dannon yogurt.
Finally in the quiet that follows a storm, you hear the ABC song being sung…"A, B, C, D, 8, 9, 10…"
copyright Natalie Rose York