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Black and Low Income Women Need Tailored Weight Loss Programs
Weight Loss Programs
Weight loss programs need to be race and income specific because weight control experiences are far different between black and white women and affluent and poor women, according to a recent study.
Researchers put together focus groups made up of obese women and divided by race and socioeconomic status. They found most of the women had been able to lose weight in the past, but they failed to keep it off. The white women surveyed said physical activity was their key to weight-loss success, while the black women put more emphasis on food choices. Black women in particular said weight loss programs that incorporated spiritual and psychological support would be helpful. And the low-income women surveyed said cost had been a barrier to effective weight loss for them. The study's authors said this points to a need to promote "creative strategies that educate low-[income] women on cost-effective ways to eat healthy and engage in physical activity..."
Black and low-income women are at higher risk for obesity than the general population, but tailored weight loss programs could help reduce the risk, the study's authors said.
[From: "Racial and Socioeconomic Differences in the Weight-Loss Experiences of Obese Women." Contact: Esa M. Davis, MD, MPH, Department of Family Medicine


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Disputed Limerick will is approved as judge rejects experts' views
Evidence of handwriting experts in disputed will case 'not compelling enough' to support forgery claim
Mary Mullane witnessed the will being signed
A JUDGE has ruled the evidence of three handwriting experts who testified that a signature on the will of a County Limerick farmer had been forged was not sufficient for him to declare the will invalid.
Over the course of a two day hearing last month, the executors of Conor O'Donnell's will – Josie Ahern, Kilrea, Croagh and John Chawke, Duxtown House, Rathkeale – sought an order declaring the will "be propounded in solemn form of law" and be admitted to Probate.
The bachelor farmer of Ballyea, Rathkeale, was 66 when he died suddenly on April 19, 2014.
The application by the executors of the will was opposed by three of his sisters — Christina Greaney, Ardagh; Catherine Anna Kelly who lives in Roscahill, Galway, and Margaret O'Donnell who lives in Drumcondra, Dublin.
Following legal submissions, he ordered that two thirds of the legal costs of Mr O'Donnell's sisters be paid from Conor O'Donnell's estate.
While none of the women were excluded from the will, the main beneficiaries, the court heard, are three of Conor O'Donnell's nephews – Ivan, Neville and well-known solicitor Michael O'Donnell.
In her evidence, Margaret O'Donnell said when she saw the will a number of months after her brother died she immediately knew it was not his signature because of "the construction of it".
Another sister – Christina Greaney – told the court she was "very familiar" with Conor's signature which she said did not match the one on the will.
"I expected his signature would have been proper, it wasn't," she said. "I never saw it (the signature) before, it is not his will," she added.
Both of Conor O'Donnell's sisters agreed with Terry O'Connell BL, for the executors, that they had not seen their brother for several years prior to his death and that they were shocked and surprised when they were informed of the contents of the will.
In her evidence Mary Mullane, who was chairperson of the County Limerick IFA family farm group at the time, said she met Mr O'Donnell at Josie Ahern's home on the evening of May 18, 2012 where he asked her to fill out the will document.
"He had an A4 page which he had written down what he was doing with his property," she said confirming that she had filled out the will in accordance with the instructions. She added that she had helped around 20 other farmers with will documents over the years.
Mrs Mullane said Mr O'Donnell printed his name and signed the will, then Mrs Ahern and she did the same. "He witnessed both of us," said Mrs Mullane.
Delivering a lengthy judgment on Friday, Judge Brian O'Callaghan said there a number of issues had been raised but that the key question was: "Did the deceased sign the document himself in both signature and print?"
The judge said Mr O'Donnell was a "most interesting man" who would have been disappointed with the court proceedings.
He noted he was well educated and was a well read and travelled man.
Citing the existing law relating to wills, Judge O'Callaghan said the presumption of due execution "should not be easily rebutted if a will on its face appears validly executed".
Therefore, he said the burden of proof was on the defendants (Mr O'Donnell's sisters) to rebut that presumption on the balance of probabilities.
The judge said he did not accept the proposition that either Josie Ahern or Mary Mullane had "simulated" Mr O'Donnell's signature or that they had committed perjury during the court hearing.
"Neither of them had anything to gain or lose directly or indirectly from the making of this type of will. They had no reason why they should not tell the truth," he said adding that the their demeanour in court showed them to be "responsible persons who understood the importance of telling the truth".
He said their evidence was "clear and consistent" and that the both clearly had a connection with and a fondness for Conor O'Donnell.
Referring to what he described as the "opinion evidence" of the three handwriting experts who said they believed the signature on the will had been forged Judge O'Callaghan commented that each had "their own peculiar and different emphasis".
He said there were too many unknowns and that there was "too much missing" to make their evidence "sufficiently cogent, compelling or convincing" to allow him find the allegation of forgery had been proved on the balance of probabilities.
After finding in favour of the executors, the judge placed a stay on his order pending the lodging of an appeal.

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On this page: Custom Artwork & Illustrations description; order form; examples of my work; Etsy Shop info; costs, payment and shipping info; prints; reviews.
Nothing can replace real art.
Specializing in children's paintings and illustrations, I accept custom orders to create the perfect gift for your child/friend/relative. Have a specific nursery theme for baby? I can paint pictures that go along with that theme. Is your child a pony fanatic? I'll create something that will spark their imagination.
My paintings aren't only for kids. If you like my style, tell me what you want and I'll do my best to make it happen.
It is my goal to provide you with artwork that makes you smile. The unique thing about my services is that you get to decide what you want. You will be provided with a sketch or two as the process goes along. You choose everything from the artwork's subject to the season to the time of day.
Acrylic is my absolute favorite medium to work with, but I also have loads of fun with digital (and of course digital is handy because there are no material and shipping fees!) Plus you'll get the file delivered directly to your computer in the best definition possible and have the flexibility to do with it as you wish.
Just fill out the custom order form and I'll get to work.
Here I've provided examples of my artwork, both digital and acrylic. These images are to be enjoyed, but not used. You can share them if you like, but please return and direct all credit back to me, thank you!
The fun part about all of these paintings and illustrations is that they each have a story. Not a single one of them is in my possession anymore (well, except for the digital ones of course). These were all given as gifts to various family members and friends.
Prefer doing business via Etsy? Then check out my shop, "Carrie's Canty Creations."
Material Fee
With any and all custom acrylic orders, there will be a materials fee to help cover the costs of materials (canvas, paint, etc.) This cost is between $5 and $15, depending on the size and type of canvas.
Digital orders have no material fee.
Hourly Rate
I work based on an hourly rate of $7.50 an hour. Of course this means bigger paintings cost more and so do paintings with more detail.
Most 9 x 12″ paintings take an average of 6 hours to complete. 6 x 7.5 = 45 + 5 = $50
Another example: This recently completed acrylic painting of an owl on a 9.5 x 11.5″ canvas took four hours to complete from start to finish. 4 x 7.5 = 30 + 5 = $35
Style also makes a difference. This painting of a fox in a very simple baby-like style also on a 9.5 x 11.5″ canvas took two and a half hours to complete. 2.5 x 7.5 = 18.75 + 5 = $23.75
Shipping & Handling
All items will be shipped worldwide from Germany. Shipping costs will vary depending on where you reside and how big the canvas is. I ship using Deutsche Post (US Postal Service takes over once in the US) unless there is a different request (DHL, UPS). But really, Deutsche Post is my preferred carrier and their shipping rates are decent.
I will post a more comprehensive list of shipping costs once I have that information.
Digital orders have no shipping costs.
I accept payments via PayPal or personal checks made out to Carrie Finke. I will send a request for payment when the order is so far.
Do you see something here that you absolutely love and must have? No worries! I'm working on developing a way that I can provide high-quality prints of the paintings you love most. If you're interested in seeing this happening, keeping bugging me about it.
Note: There will be NO PRINTS of commissioned or otherwise customized artwork. Custom orders belong to the customer and to the customer alone.
If you've received artwork from me, please help me out by leaving a review. I'm also open for to helpful and constructive feedback. With your permission, I would love to publish those reviews on this website. I would also like to include a small image of what I did for you with a watermark. If you'd prefer I didn't, just let me know.
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Git speaks one protocol and relies on several underlying transports to make sure the data gets across to the other computer (sometimes it's the same one, but that's mostly irrelevant). The public API should allow you to say git_fetch("git://example.com/git/project.git") or git_push("example.com/git/project.git") and worry about the details so that your wonderful changes get pushed upstream.
So the first step for my GSoC project should be abstracting away the transport-specific details. The push and fetch code doesn't care whether we're talking over an UNIX socket, SSH or directly TCP/IP. A function, say transport_get reads the URL and returns an instance of the appropriate transport. Transports have functions for ls-remote, want/need list sending (the generator lives somewhere else) and object pack sending and receiving. What it is is not much more than a front-end for git-upload-pack in a different thread. The added value is the abstraction of the specific transport protocols.


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- A Joomla 1.5 module that reads in CSV telephone directory, stores the data in Contacts and displays an AJAX-enabled no-click-required search can be downloaded here. The search is fairly generic and should work with all contact data, but the csv-import must be changed to adapt to your needs.
- My public github repository with R packages for 13C Breath test gastric emptying analysis, LaTeX output of contrast tables, and plotting functions for phamacokinetic NONMEM models.
- How to draw CONSORT-Diagrams for medical publications with LaTeX and PSTricks. This is the sample CONSORT diagram from August 2005, the LaTeX script, and the pdf-output produced by the script.
- Another way to draw a CONSORT diagram from database information. It uses Tikz which can be used easier with PdfLateX. You should know Sweave to use it. Here is the zip-file.


text: The Edit July 11, 2017 Happy Tuesday (and birthday to me)! While I'm certainly not in the fall mindset yet, I can't help but notice all of the beautiful autumn colors hitting the new arrivals sections of my favorite online stores. I was particularly inspired by this little bikini! Don't you love the unexpected color scheme on such a fun summery piece? Another summer item with a unique color and fabric is this pair of Loeffler Randall heels. I'm obsessed with the knotted detail and round heel. So different and cool! Both of these items would be great for Texas gals, simply because you could continue wearing them through September! It doesn't cool down here until the end of October, so we'll still be wearing open-toed shoes, hitting up the pool on weekends and wearing lightweight pieces for quite a while. That's why I'm always trying to find cute transitional styles that are lightweight enough for warm weather, but that also feature a fall color or detail that won't make you think "summer". Today I'm meeting my friend Mara for lunch at Lido Marina Village, and I'm looking forward to checking out some of the shops there. Head over to my SnapChat to discover what I find! one // two // three // four // five // six // seven // eight // nine // ten // eleven // twelve // thirteen // fourteen // fifteen // sixteen // seventeen Shop The Post Share Subscribe ➞ one // two // three // four // five // six // seven // eight // nine // ten // eleven // twelve // thirteen // fourteen // fifteen // sixteen // seventeen Shop The Post Share Subscribe ➞ 4 comments Rach says: July 11, 2017 at 6:32 am These colors remind me of Fall! I love #5! http://www.rdsobsessions.com Reply Yolonda J. Washington says: July 11, 2017 at 6:48 am I want those LR slides in watermelon Reply Kristin says: July 11, 2017 at 7:02 am Pretty color scheme! Love.. Kristin http://www.tweedandlace.com Reply Jessi says: July 11, 2017 at 8:35 am I love this color scheme! This has be dreaming of fall clothes! xoxo Jessi https://www.thedarlingdetail.com/ Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment Name * Email * Website


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Christie Brinkley's Wonderful House Designs
American fashion model Christie Brinkley is finishing 18 years at her New York home and decides to sell for $ 29.5 million.
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The house is located on a hill in Bridgehampton, south of New York City, known as the Tower Hill built in 1891 on an area of 3365 square meters to enjoy views from the Atlantic Ocean to the shores of Connecticut.
General idea about Christie Brinkley's house and its rooms:
The appearance of the exterior house has a simple traditional style with brick and wood facades, while interior decoration and spaces have a lot of luxury and luxury.
Features a double-glazed room with floor-to-ceiling windows to maximize views. The kitchen has its own rustic décor with a balcony with stunning views, a gym, office, and several reception rooms.
There are three heaters in the main house, as well as a private art studio, nine bedrooms, 7 bathrooms and four small bathrooms, a private glass house for the plantations.
Includes 80,937 square meters of green meadow, stone terrace, winding paths to wander in picturesque park, swimming pool, tennis court.
All of the above is a detailed description of the place if we add value to it because the famous fashion model Christie Brinkley spent 18 years of her life offering for sale and these special pictures for him to control yourself is worth 29.5 million dollars?


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Tiffany & Co. on Thursday reported a net sales growth of 9 percent, driven by increases in U.S. and international same-store sales. Net earnings declined primarily due to a prior-year tax benefit, the luxury jeweler said.
Sales for the second quarter (ended July 31) totaled $574.9 million compared with $526.7 million for the second quarter of the prior year. On a constant-exchange-rate basis, which excludes the effects of translating foreign-currency-denominated sales into U.S. dollars, net sales increased 10 percent and worldwide comparable store sales rose 6 percent.
Second quarter profit fell 19 percent to $41.1 million compared with $50.5 million for the same period of the previous year. Earnings in the prior year included a tax benefit of $6 million, related to the repatriation provisions of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004. Earnings before income taxes declined 4 percent.
In the first half of the fiscal year, (the six-month period ended July 31) net sales of $1.11 billion were 7 percent higher than $1 billion a year ago. On a constant-exchange-rate basis, net sales increased 9 percent and worldwide comparable store sales rose 5 percent.
First half profit fell 7 percent to $84.3 compared with $90.6 million in the prior year. Earnings in the prior year included AJCA tax benefits of $8.1 million. Earnings before income taxes increased 4%.
"We anticipated these first half results due to above-average expense growth, but they do not reflect Tiffany's historical performance or earnings power," said Michael J. Kowalski, chairman and chief executive officer. "Our ongoing plans for store openings and new product introductions sustain our confidence in Tiffany's ability to achieve higher rates of growth over the long-term."
He added, "Comparable store sales in August-to-date include a return to mid-single-digit growth in the U.S., double-digit growth in many international markets, and a high-single-digit decline in Japan,"
Sales by channel of distribution were as follows:
* U.S. retail sales increased 8 percent to $288.5 million in the second quarter and 5 percent to $549.1 million in the first half. Same-store sales increased 5 percent in the quarter.
* International retail sales increased 10 percent to $223.15 million in the second quarter and 12 percent to $438.3 million in the first half. On a constant-exchange-rate basis, sales rose 12 percent in the quarter and 16 percent in the first half due to 6 percent and 11 percent total retail sales growth in Japan and solid growth in most other countries. Same-store sales increased 10 percent in the quarter and 13 percent in the first half. By region, Japan sales grew 2 percent in the quarter and 7 percent in the half in Japan; in the Asia-Pacific region (outside of Japan) sales grew 27 percent for the quarter and 24 percent in the half.; and in Europe, sales grew 17 percent for the quarter and 20 percent for the half.
* Direct marketing sales increased 18 percent to $35.7 million in the second quarter and 11 percent to $65.7 million in the first half. The increases in both periods were due to growth in the number of orders and in the average amount spent per order.
* Other sales in the second quarter increased 4 percent to $27.5 million and sales of $61 million in the first half were equal to the prior year. LITTLE SWITZERLAND sales rose 10 percent and 3 percent in the respective periods. The company said it continues to expand its IRIDESSE stores, which focus on pearl jewelry.
"For this third quarter, we are looking for a mid-single-digit increase in earnings before income taxes, and net earnings," Kowalski said. "Our expectation for the full year calls for a low-double-digit increase in earnings before income taxes for 2006… This projection assumes: high-single-digit net sales growth, including mid-single-digit comparable store sales growth in the U.S. and low-single-digit growth in Japan along with greater increases in other international regions; gross margin approximately equal to the prior-year; and high-single-digit SG&A expense growth."


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Gas Grills The Thermoelectric
First, the gas grill, cleaning the rest of the bucket, cleaning the interior surface of the empty barrel (nothing exciting, gas grill, so I didn't take a photo). Then I borrowed the grinder from a friend and cut the hole in the empty bucket.
Using a food-grade empty barrel for a grill can reduce a lot of trouble. Gas Grills imagine you're barbecuing with a bucket of oil or gasoline. Oh, that smell.
I need a bracket for the grill, but the only available resources nearby are some old fences and some plywood from my basement.
I cut off six fences, two for holding buckets and four gas grills for grilling legs. I wanted to make the grill easier to disassemble, so the best way to do it was to put the bucket on the rack, two fences to support the empty barrel, and the other four iron bars were tied to holes drilled in both ends. To make the stand strong enough, some plywood is used to reinforce it. When all is done, you can see the empty bucket proudly on the shelf.
I installed a bracket in the bucket to support the double melody of the barbecue, while also preventing the lid from falling into the bucket. The hinge between the lid and the barrel body is connected. A gas grill with a lower position in the bucket also has a frame for placing carbon blocks and promoting air circulation.
Remember to buy stainless steel brackets and hinges, and if you're using galvanized material, they'll start the grill for the first time and smoke like a flashlight.
I lit a fire in the bucket and burned all the paint in the bucket. Paint and other unknown things. I'm not sure if there's anything forbidden to burn on this day, the gas stove, I made some burgers in the gas stove, fake cigarettes.
The last part of the grill is to add a handle (made from metal storage), a vent and a thermometer. I also intend to paint the bucket with high temperature, except for the gas paint in the bucket to paint their favorite color. The paint also helps to prevent the barrel rust.
Charcoal grill is also popular, pursuing pure taste in all ages. The charcoal grill is convenient and the grilled food tastes pure. When you choose, look at the heat transfer function, structure, style. There are two types of non-portable charcoal grills: steam cookers and traditional types. The boiler is suitable for direct and low smoke content during the barbecue; The gas grill is an old-fashioned grill, suitable for setting different temperature zones and containing a lot of smoke, but occupies the position.
Heat power of gas stove: a lot of gas furnace can adjust the volume of air flow, bigger is better, so you can bake good food right away, don't wait for half a day.
Charcoal heating power: charcoal, position, air flow control temperature. You'd better buy a grill that regulates the height of a coke dish. The handle type is the best choice, but the hook and lever are good. There are at least two adjustable vents on the grill, which can absorb enough oxygen and close the flame.
Are you baking food for a large group of people or two of your family members? Baking a small amount of food on a large grill is easy, but it's not the opposite. Calculate the size of the grill you need to buy. General grill area is around 600 square feet, enough for a small party, but if a lot of people are using it, so can get at least 800 square feet, if you want to bake and several hamburgers, at least 400 square feet


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Contemporary Property Villa for sale in La Quinta 1.900.000 €
Modern property contemporary style villa for sale located in the sought after community of La Quinta in Benahavis, Marbella.
The property is built on three levels; on the ground floor there is a large, open and bright hall with an open plan, fully equipped kitchen, the living room and a beautiful dining room. On the same floor is a guest toilet, a large bedroom with private terrace and bathroom en-suite. From the living room there is direct access to a stunning terrace with a breathtaking view of the garden and Mediterranean Sea.
On the upper floor there are three beautiful bedrooms, each with private terraces and bathrooms en-suite. One of the bedrooms has a walk-in closet. The lower ground floor offers a garage for two cars, a spacious storage room, a large laundry room, a gymnasium, a guest toilet and direct access to a terrace.
The villa is located very close to several famous golf courses. The drive to Marbella and Puerto Banus takes about ten minutes by car, and to the airport in Malaga approximately one hour.
General Amenities
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- Baths
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- Lot Size M2
- 1.014,00
- Cooling
- A/C with heating
- View
- Sea and mountain
- Garage Size
- 2 cars
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Konstantin Pigalov
|The director of department of consulting MARCHMONT Capital Partners, Nizhny Novgorod
BiographyMr.Pigalov is an expert in management consulting and advanced IFRS financial modeling. He has built extensive corporate finance, investment and management consulting experience, working on over 100 specific consulting engagements during the past 15 years in a wide variety of manufacturing, industrial, retail and other sectors. During this time, Mr. Pigalov has built an outstanding reputation in his field and a wide network of specialists and consultants in different fields with whom he collaborated in various consulting engagements.
He is a specialist in: strategic and business planning; investment consulting; project management; optimization of business processes. anti-crisis management; financial management; management accounting and reporting; market research and analysis, improving of corporate operational management systems.
Mr. Pigalov received his MBA degree from the Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia in 1996. In 1994 he participated in the "Business for Russia" program, an international exchange program which placed him in Philadelphia, USA.
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The Playlist Generation
The Playlist Generation is a music subscription service that creates custom playlists and provides sonic branding and music supervision services.
While at The Playlist Generation I formalized and executed strategies, leveraging relationships to expand the business into new verticals (rental apartment buildings & cruise lines) while continuing to the grow traditional business model (hotels & restaurants). I was also responsible for the music supervision department overseeing projects for clients like Beachmint, David Yurman & SBE.


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As the health care industry continues to change, severance programs have become increasingly important for employers to remain competitive, avoid potential litigation, and facilitate succession planning. According to new survey findings, a clear majority (83%) of health care organizations have a written severance agreement with their CEO.
"The health care industry is experiencing significant organizational change, and as a result, severance agreements are becoming more prevalent," said Tom Flannery, Partner in Mercer's Talent business. "While there is an abundance of quality data on cash compensation and benefits, little information is available on severance, which is an important part of the executive compensation package."
The 2013 Health Care CEO Severance Survey, conducted in partnership with Mercer, Witt/Kieffer, and Hunton & Williams LLP, assesses CEO severance practices for 196 health care providers and health plan/managed care organizations across the United States. It is a comprehensive source of data to help organizations provide appropriate compensation packages for their executives. To find out more about the survey results, visit www.imercer.com.
According to the survey, severance benefits are most commonly triggered by involuntary termination without cause or a change-in-control. While just 5% of organizations provide service-based severance benefits, the majority of organizations continue benefits for a fixed period, typically 24 months. Moreover, most continue benefits during the severance period, including dental, vision, and life insurance.
"As the industry itself is becoming more complex, so are CEO severance packages," said Jena Abernathy, Partner with Witt/Kieffer. "There are significant differences in the way that terms and provisions can be structured," she added, "so it's important that health care organizations gather information about standard practices and benchmark against each other."
Other survey findings reveal that slightly more than one-third of organizations provide for mitigation (reduced or terminated benefits if the CEO is employed during the severance period). Additionally, two-thirds of organizations indicated severance benefits were subject to a non-compete or non-solicitation agreement.
"Under IRC 4958, executive compensation, including severance payments, must be paid in a reasonable manner," said Doug Mancino, Partner at Hunton & Williams LLP. "Because of polices like this, it's important for organizations to have a written severance agreement with their CEO that has been reviewed by both an independent consultant and legal counsel."
About Mercer
Mercer is a global leader in talent, health, retirement, and investments. Mercer helps clients around the world advance the health, wealth, and performance of their most vital asset – their people. Mercer's more than 20,000 employees are based in 42 countries, and the firm operates in over 140 countries. Mercer is a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies (NYSE: MMC), a global team of professional services companies offering clients advice and solutions in the areas of risk, strategy, and human capital. With over 53,000 employees worldwide and annual revenue exceeding $11 billion, Marsh & McLennan Companies is also the parent company of Marsh, a global leader in insurance broking and risk management; Guy Carpenter, a global leader in providing risk and reinsurance intermediary services; and Oliver Wyman, a global leader in management consulting. For more information, visit www.mercer.com. Follow Mercer on Twitter @MercerInsights.
About Witt/Kieffer
Witt/Kieffer is the preeminent executive search firm that identifies outstanding leadership
solutions for organizations committed to improving the quality of life. We are the only leading executive search firm specializing in health care, higher education, life sciences, board services and not-for-profit industries. We have more than 40 years of experience in executive recruiting exceptional C-suite leaders. For more information, visit www.wittkieffer.com.
About Hunton &Williams LLP
Hunton & Williams LLP provides legal services to corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals, among other entities. Since our establishment more than a century ago, Hunton & Williams has grown to more than 800 lawyers serving clients in 100 countries from 19 offices around the world. Our practice has a strong industry focus on energy, financial services and life sciences, and our experience extends to practice areas including bankruptcy and creditors' rights, commercial litigation, corporate transactions and securities law, intellectual property, international and government relations, real estate, regulatory law, products liability, and privacy and data security. Visit our website at www.hunton.com. Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.


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Why Websites are Vital for Success
Websites are like bricks laying the foundation to building your company. Once you have grounded a solid foundation and established relevant content on the website, you can finish the building process by letting the world know about your existence. Websites are crucial: whether your company is big or small, if technology centers the world, you need to let it center you too.
Why are Websites Vital for Success?
A website is similar to an online brochure: designed, content generated and allows customers to make informed decisions. It is as a form of two-way communication between a company and its target market.
Websites give insight into a business, fostering transparency which increases a company's credibility. When looking for a company that can offer one the required products or services, one might often outsource the task. The first thing a person does when outsourcing a company is to ask the most trusted person in the world – Google. If your company is not found in the Google search results due to missing a website or ineffective search engine optimization (SEO) content, customers will go to competitors. It is therefore invaluable to have a website. Without it, people won't be able to know about you, your business or what you have to offer. This not only drives customers away– they simply don't pitch.
Websites do sales for you. With a properly constructed, SEO friendly and content rich website, customers get all the information they require in terms of your products and services, but also they get a feel of what your company is about and the level of professionalism and quality you portray.
The importance of websites reaches beyond mere building blocks and a petty look. A well-constructed website offers your customers convenience of use as they can read up about you or even make purchases via your website in the comfort of their home – targeting various audiences, enabling your company to reach a larger target market.
Some businesses may already have websites, but how updated is that website? An outdated website can be just as detrimental as not having a website at all. Without the correct information and direction your consumers will have a misperception of your brand which can hurt your business online and offline. This is because it can tarnish a company's credibility.
What do you need?
An effectively and efficiently designed website needs to be SEO optimized and mobile friendly, containing relevant and interesting content with strong keywords which relate your business goals, products and services. The design and layout has to focus on what your target audience wants and needs.
Moreover, it needs to be appealing to the eye. This will have a long-lasting and perpetual effect through constant updates and maintenance on your website, containing relevant information to direct your clients. Consequently, you will rank at the top google search results above your competitors, as your online presence is boosted.
A key component to any website is content – rich and relevant content. Imagery and creative writing can be very useful, but that all depends on the message a company tries to convey to its audience. All images and content should be relevant and structured in such a fashion so as not to confuse the user.
What's next?
Websites are only the first step to getting your presence online; it's time to finish the house and show it off. Now that you've let Web Changes create and manage your website, we can explore digital marketing and its importance.
Social media is and ever-growing medium for businesses to communicate with customers. Due to the ease of utility and popularity, it ensures that this medium will never die. It is vital to take the SEO ready website create by Web Changes to the next level: Social Medial Marketing.
Living in a world where everything has become digital makes it necessary for businesses to jump on the bandwagon. You could lose various opportunities if you have not placed your business on the online market. On guarantee people research products and services via Google. Google will definitely put your website on top and in your customer's hands if you have a well-designed website.
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Looks like disgraced ex-state Senator Dean Skelos might be getting the summer off — from jail.
Prosecutors with Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara's office on Monday said they're OK with waiting for a potentially pivotal Supreme Court decision to be handed down before arguing whether Skelos and his ne'er-do-well son Adam should be allowed to remain out of jail pending appeal of their corruption convictions.
The US Supreme Court has until the end of June to decide whether or not to overturn the corruption conviction of former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell, who took money and gifts from people who were seeking to influence him.
That means the government will only begin to argue the question of whether the Skeloses should get bail pending appeal at that time.
Skelos was sentenced to five years in the clink for using his power to get his son no-show jobs. Adam was sentenced to six-and-a-half years.
McDonnell's case raises questions about whether its OK for politicians to accept gifts from people who want to influence them so long as the gifts are not in exchange for official actions, like legislation.
Convicted ex-Assembly Speaker man Sheldon Silver has also asked for bail pending appeal, citing the McDonnell case.
Silver, who was ordered to 12 years in prison, is currently slated to turn himself in by July 1st.


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Come Dance with Me
It was just announced that the Dave Matthews Band will be having a few guests joining them during the summer tour. Beginning with Bela Fleck! Fans will experience the collaboration between the Dave Matthews Band, as we do every time they perform, and when they bring on a guests, it becomes even more special. Some of the performances become classics and end up on our list of favorites. For example, Warren Hayes, Carlos Santana, Willie Nelson, and Victor Wooten. You Tube freezes these moments for us and is worth checking out.
There have been times that we, as audience members, have changed the show. In a way we are guests. Some of us have been part of an audience that serenades Dave and the boys between songs, we have heard Dave respond to people who have shouted out between songs and even seen set lists that have been changed during a show. That's why we love this band so much! We are part of the experience! There is been interviews that have quoted band members saying how much the audience feedback energizes them during a show .
Which guest in the past has been your favorite? What song featuring a guest has become a classic ? This year, during the summer tour, we will be treated to guests along the way. We will be looking forward to seeing, hearing and being part of the experience!
Can't wait!


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Accepting Jenna
2002 by Mardon Erbland
All rights reserved.
Winfried Garett had been a professor longer than most professors had been alive. His physical appearance was that of a squat man, with a roundness to his torso that looked out of place on his 5 foot 7 inch frame. He was not exactly fat; more like a perfectly proportioned six-footer that God had accidentally made too short. His hair was 'Einsteinian' in appearance, coarse and grey in color with longish, kinky strands that projected perpendicular from his scalp in almost every direction. On more than one occasion a smart-alecky undergraduate had asked if his barber owned a Van De Graaf generator.
Winfried's current capacity was Professor Emeritus of 'Time Research' at the main campus of Ohio State University. He had spent his entire academic career at OSU, most recently doing research into nonlinear astrophysical plasmas. To supplement his work, he occasionally taught graduate courses in relativistic fluids and advanced magneto hydrodynamics. He had reached his fill of teaching undergraduates many years ago. The title of Professor Emeritus was academia's way of recognizing his years of devoted service, even though he was now officially retired. He had been given a cozy little office and a meaningless research assignment dealing with the relationship between observers, events, space-time and Special Relativity.
It was all window dressing. Everyone, including Winfried, knew that his research assignment was a sham. The relationship between time, space and Special Relativity had been understood for decades. The Twin Paradox and books like Hawking's A Brief History of Time had been staple fare for name-dropping, pseudo-scientific, pop culture, wannabe-geniuses for years. Even space exploration activities during the 1960s had incorporated relativistic time effects into mission calculations. No. Winfried's assignment was not meant to create any real work and it certainly was not expected to produce any real results, meaningful or otherwise. Everything he had been given was no more than a "Thank you" from the 'powers-that-be' for his forty-five years of dedicated service.
Although Winfried did not care one iota that the technical assignment was a facade, he did care about the perquisites that came with his new status. He liked his comfortable little office and he especially enjoyed his unlimited, free access to the university's computing resources. Winfried was seventy-nine years old, yet he was far from being senile or stupid. He had a lassie fare attitude that led him to enjoy this status, where appearances meant everything and substance meant nothing. He had resolved to accept every perk that came his way. In return, he would do nothing except what he wanted to do; when he wanted to do it. Ironically, it was the task of figuring out what he wanted to do that was the most difficult thing now confronting him.
As he sat in his office, contemplating his options, an intruder startled him. Winfried was not accustomed to having his privacy disturbed by unannounced interlopers. He would never have tolerated such behaviour when he was an active Professor and he was not about to stand for it in his new position. Full Professor or Emeritus; either way, he demanded to be treated with respect and he was going to get that now. He whipped his head around to see who had entered. The motion was so fast that the intruder was startled and jumped backward. The antique wooden chair upon which Winfried was sitting swivelled around, allowing Winfried's body to catch up with his head.
As Winfried looked upward, his eyes locked onto those of a young female. She was probably less than a quarter of Winfried's age. He glared in anger. She looked either frightened or puzzled. Winfried was not sure which. Either way, he thought he would take advantage of the situation, so he was the first to speak.
"Is your rudeness genetic or a skill that you've acquired?" She hesitated a bit too long for Winfried's liking so he added, "No matter, you're good at it. Probably the only thing you're good at too. Except, of course..."
She interrupted his sentence with an outstretched hand, "Jenna McCarthy, Professor Garett. Jenna McCarthy's my name."
He ignored her hand. "So, Jenna McCarthy, have you ever heard of the concept of 'knock before entering'?"
"I'm sorry Professor Garett. It's just that I'm so excited to see you. And I could tell that you were here. The window behind your desk makes your silhouette easily seen on the other side of that frosted glass panel in your door."
Winfried made a mental note to call Maintenance as soon as she left. "Tell me something, Jenna McCarthy. Why do you teenagers insist on wearing those skimpy little tops, with those skimpy little straps — what do you call them, oh yes, 'spaghetti straps' — those things allow the entire world to see your brassier. When I was in high school, girls cared about looking decent and they cared about what other people thought about their looks too."
"I'm not a teenager Professor Garett. I'm 23, or at least I will be next week." Jenna stood 5' 5". She had shoulder length blond hair with a slight bob at the end. Her 108 pounds were nicely distributed but she had too little body fat to create what most men would call a 'good figure'. In moments of honesty, even Jenna would admit that her small bust and slender appearance made her look more like 17 than 22.
"Does this mean you're a student here at OSU, Miss McCarthy?" Winfried queried.
"Yes. I'll be graduating at the end of my next term," Jenna responded. "In fact, part of the reason that I'm so happy to be here, to be here in your office, is that I've found you before I graduate. But then, I need to explain a few things in order that you can understand."
Winfried Garett was not the sort of man to allow himself to be patronized by anyone and especially not by a woman young enough to be his great granddaughter. "Miss McCarthy. There's very little that I don't already understand. For the past 55 years, this university has paid me for knowing things. I can tell just by looking at you that you're not a student in any of our science or engineering faculties. Education? Perhaps. Or maybe Phys Ed. No. Not Phys Ed. You don't have enough meat on your bones for that. What is your field of study Miss McCarthy?"
"I'm in the faculty of Human Behaviour with a major in Political Correctness and a minor in Women's Studies". The tone of Jenna's reply was matter-of-fact. It never occurred to her that Professor Garett would hear her words any differently.
To Jenna's surprise, Winfried let out a belligerent roar. "You're majoring in WHAT! Political Correctness? At a university! At THIS university! You've got to be joking."
"No, Professor Garett. I'm not joking. And it's Ms. McCarthy not Miss. Jenna remained cool, at least in the 'calm and collected' sense of the word. It was early August in Columbus and Winfried's office seemed to be lacking air conditioning.
"Does this so-called faculty of Human Behaviour teach you any mathematics?" fumed Winfried. "Do you know anything about Lorentz transformations? Do have any idea about the use or importance of Fourier Series analysis? Do you understand the importance of worldlines and light cones in Minkowskian space-time. Do you..."
Jenna saw little point in letting his rant continue. "Professor Garett, I've never taken that kind of mathematics. Of course I don't know anything about those concepts."
Winfried's glasses began sliding down his nose and his eyes turned into squinting slits. He stared Jenna directly in the eye. "Just how much mathematics have you studied Miss McCarthy?"
"I took a half‑year of algebra in high school," Jenna countered. "When I found out that most universities don't impose mathematical prerequisites for students entering their faculties of Human Behavior, I decided to take political science the remainder of that year."
"Oh my God." Winfried's words were eighty percent amazement and twenty percent exasperation. "The world is in even worse shape than I thought. Goodbye Enlightenment. Hello Dark Ages."
"Do you want me to leave Professor Garett?" Jenna's composure was remarkable in the face of Winfried's tirades.
Winfried's response was acerbic. "I didn't want you to come here in the first place. Of course I want you to leave."
"Then I will. Goodbye Professor..."
Winfried interrupted Jenna before she could finish her sentence. "So you're a quitter too. You've surprised even me, Miss McCarthy, by giving up so easily. When you burst in here, you created the impression that you were on a mission of considerable importance. Don't you think you should finish it?" Winfried didn't care that his psychology was amateurish. He enjoyed pushing things to the limit.
"When I came here Professor, I thought that I would like you. I don't." Jenna's eyes were locked on Winfried's. She showed intensity rather than anger. She never blinked as she spoke. "I see that the reputation you've built with the undergraduates in your faculty is well‑deserved. You're an arrogant bully. After being so rude, why are you now suggesting that I should stay?"
"Call it intuition." Winfried's curiosity began to overcome his belligerence. "Sit down Ms. McCarthy. Tell me why you've come here."
She accepted his offer. She sat with both feet on the floor, balancing her body on the front edge of the single wooden chair that was lodged sideways between the front of Winfried's desk and his massive bookcase. "Your current research assignment deals with the study of time and relativity. Is that correct?"
"Yes." Winfried's curiosity was starting to dull his caustic edges.
"So you must also be interested in time‑travel; moving forward and backward in time. Is that correct?" Jenna showed remarkable composure given that she knew Winfried would consider time‑travel to be absurd.
"No. No. No. Time‑travel is nonsense. You've rented Back To The Future once too often Ms. McCarthy. Time‑travel is the stuff of science fiction, not the stuff of science." Winfried drove his point home with force, yet he restrained his oversized ego, if only a tad. "I study time using complex equations and mathematical theorems; not souped-up DeLoreans."
"It seems, Professor, that you only study time‑travel but I do it."
Winfried squirmed ever so slightly in his chair. His face remained expressionless, save for an imperceptible narrowing of his eyes. It was the only hint that he was concerned for Jenna's sanity. He did not speak.
"That's how I located you, Professor Garett. Sometime I'll tell you the details."
"OK, Jenna. I'll play along. Supposing that you could -- and did -- travel in time, why would such an experience lead you to me? Are you looking to be paid for telling me what you've learned? Are you looking for fame? Do you want to be published? What is it that you want Jenna?"
Jenna glanced briefly upward at Winfried's age‑yellowed ceiling before replying. "What do I want? That's a difficult question, Professor Garett." She paused and then continued. "Last night I was time‑traveling. My consciousness was part of the summer of 1942."
Winfried's concern for Jenna's welfare jumped a quantum higher. His certainty about her mental instability was now overlaid with a growing fear for her personal safety.
Jenna continued. "Why do you think that adopted children seek out their birth parents? If you can answer me that question, Professor, I'll tell you what I want."
Winfried did his best to remain calm despite the irrationality around him. He decided to 'play along' with Jenna until he could unobtrusively call campus security. "To understand their roots, I suppose. But what's that got to do with you and I?" Despite his preoccupation with how to best get the police to his office, part of Winfried's mind realized where Jenna was headed with her questions. It caused a look of incredulity to begin spreading across his face. "No Jenna! If you're looking for your birth parents you're way off course. I'm more than 55 years your senior and I've been a bachelor all of my life. I have no family; no one. And I'm certainly not your father. That fact is absolute and irrevocable; time‑travel or no time-travel."
Jenna seemed oblivious to the insistent tone of Winfried's outburst. "My father was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, March 14, 1947. My mother was born here, in Columbus, Ohio, on May 2, 1943. I know who my parents are, Professor. My one regret is that I wish they were still with me. I lost them two years ago in a car crash that I'd rather not discuss."
"I'm sorry Jenna." Winfried's sincerity was obvious despite his preoccupation with Jenna's mental instability.
"Where were you, Professor Garett, in July 1942?"
Winfried remained silent.
Jenna remained unfazed. "Perhaps you'd like to time‑travel with me and experience that summer again."
That was enough. Jenna had referred to time‑travel once too often. It was Winfried's cue to call campus security, despite his concerns about how Jenna might react. To his surprise, Jenna remained tranquil as he placed the call. Winfried asked to have a security officer sent to his office as quickly as possible. He cringed when he was told that it would be at least thirty minutes before they arrived -- something about giving precedence to controlling a student protest against tuition exemptions for athletes. As Winfried completed the call, his eyes turned once again toward Jenna. He was puzzled by her indifference. He had expected a reaction. Winfried would bide his time until security arrived.
Jenna repeated her earlier question, "The summer of 1942, Professor. Where were you?"
"I don't know where I was Jenna. That's far too long ago for me to be able to remember one year from another." Winfried could tell that Jenna expected more, so he thought a bit harder. "Let's see. That was wartime, WW2. As best I can remember, I'd attempted to join the Navy early that year but was rebuffed for some supposed medical deficiency. The real reason was that Uncle Sam already had other plans for me. I was sequestered at Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee. My assignment was to develop a neutron‑triggered plasma bomb. It never worked out. As history subsequently revealed, the Site-X team at Oak Ridge and their Manhattan Project colleagues at other locations beat us to the punch with their atomic bomb. It was all pretty discouraging in the end. After the war ended, the government gave up on the idea of a plasma bomb and I came to OSU to teach."
"It must have been difficult for a relatively young man like you, locked-up in the mountains of Tennessee. I can't imagine that there was much to do for recreation." Jenna got to her point, "And no women, I suppose?"
"Actually, there were a few women on the R&D teams. Not like there would be today but there were a few. A handful of women also worked in support services; jobs related to food, lodging and the like." A light went on in Winfried's head. His adrenaline began to flow. He actually forgot that he had called campus security just a few minutes earlier. "Jenna, are you leading up to something?"
"Yes," she replied, "But your expression makes it apparent that you've already figured out my next line of questions. Let's skip the jousting Professor. Do you want to tell me about Nancie or do you want to come with me and experience that summer again?" Jenna's lungs became almost rigid. She could barely breath as she waited for the Professor's response.
Winfried's entire demeanor was changing as he contemplated the possibilities. He was not a man to put emotions and personal feelings before rational thought. Telling Jenna what he really wanted to say would be a difficult thing to do. He removed his glasses and lay them gently on his desk. After a long silence, Winfried's answer came so softly that Jenna could hardly hear it. "Yes. Jenna, there is nothing in this world that I would enjoy more than seeing Nancie again. I wish with all my heart that your story of time-travel were true but it's not. The only thing that puzzles me is how you've come to know about Nancie."
"Professor," Jenna began, "My guess is that we have only fifteen minutes or so before campus security arrives. Will you devote five of those minutes to hearing me out? You'll have to keep an open mind or there's no point in me saying what I'm about to say."
"Yes, Jenna, I'll give you an honest hearing but I won't abandon reality for wishful thinking. By the way, you have more time than you think. The dispatcher said that security won't get here for at least another half hour."
"Good." For the first time since arriving, Jenna, was more in control of the situation than was Winfried. "Time is an illusion, Professor, an illusion formed by the intersection of the physical world with a metaphysical one. We all know the former, or think that we do. Few of us know the later. You're right, Professor Winfried, in thinking that physical things like that DeLorean in Back To The Future are not the tools of time‑travel. But you're wrong in thinking that complex mathematics and complicated equations are any better. To travel in time requires the ability to traverse the metaphysical world, not the physical one."
"Jenna," the Professor replied, "I'm honestly trying to understand what you're saying but you're not making any sense. It would be professional suicide for a scientist or engineer to show the slightest tolerance toward the inclusion of metaphysical parameters within a scientific inquiry. It's against everything that I've ever learned or taught."
"Precisely," countered Jenna, "That's precisely my point. Time‑travel isn't a scientific inquiry. But it is real, despite the fact that the tools of science can't see it or feel it or measure it. We're getting nowhere, Professor. Let's travel to 1942. Then we'll talk." Jenna rose from her chair and walked around the end of Winfried's desk. She extended her right arm and spoke gently, "Take my hand Professor."
Winfried leaned forward and began rising from his chair. His out‑stretched hand met Jenna's. Immediately as their fingers touched, Winfried lost contact with the world as he had always known it. A tunnel of blinding white light appeared. It shimmered and rotated with the apparent randomness of white noise. There was no sound. Nor was there any feeling of physical reality. There was no sense of time. Winfried was surprised by the overriding calm that pervaded his entire being. He found himself absorbing his experience without analysis. To say that he was enjoying it would be going too far but he was certainly not afraid.
As the glare that was blinding Winfried began to vaporize, a sparsely populated diner was revealed -- circa the 1940s. The stereotypical chrome‑trimmed counter was there, with its stools running the entire length of the building. The size and layout of the customer area resembled an old railway dining car. Perhaps it was. A row of booths ran along the entire front wall except in the exact center, where the entrance door was located. Windows ran the length of the diner, just above the booths. The aisle between the booths and stools was so narrow that people had to turn sideways to pass one another. The kitchen was behind the counter but mostly hidden from the view of customers. The cook looked scruffy and the lone waitress looked tired. There were several men in blue‑collar work‑wear eating at the counter. A lone couple occupied the booth at the far end of the diner. She had long blond hair. His was black and short. They were both sitting on the same side of the booth, facing away from the other customers.
Winfried was aware of all this detail yet he knew that he was not physically there. It was as though his consciousness was there but his body was not. An article that he had once read about OBE, or Out of Body Experience, came to mind. The article had been in some doctor's waiting room of all places. Given that it had been the only thing for patients to read, he had done so. It described how people sometimes feel themselves 'floating' outside of their bodies and observing events from a third-person perspective. He had considered it drivel at the time but it was now feeling uncomfortably close to his present experience. The only difference was that the "body" he was "out of" appeared nowhere in the scene before him. He realized that his point of consciousness could be moved about the diner by simply 'thinking it so'. At the moment, he was hovering near the ceiling, just inside the front door.
Winfried sensed Jenna's presence. He could not 'see' her but he knew that she was there. He also knew that he could communicate with her but not via speech in the physical sense. It was rather more like telepathy but without physical bodies to constrain their consciousness. A side benefit from the absence of their normal flesh and blood presence was that neither Winfried nor Jenna could be seen or heard by the people occupying the physical world around them.
Winfried began tentatively, "Where are we Jenna? How did we get here? Where are our bodies? I don't understand. Am I hallucinating?"
"So many questions, Professor. I hope you're not distressed. This must be quite a shock." Jenna's compassion was genuine. "You'll have answers to all your questions in due course. The answer to your last question is 'No'. You're not hallucinating. I've brought you time‑traveling. This is July 1942. It's just as I said it would be. See that couple in the far booth over there, with their backs to us? Do you recognize them?" Winfried remained silent so Jenna continued. "That's you and Nancie. Don't you remember this night? It's the night you first met."
Winfried's perspective on the scene changed with no more than a thought. He had wanted it so and it was. He was looking at himself and Nancie from a point in space somewhere above the booth's empty seat. He felt Jenna at his side. What's more, he and Jenna were looking at his younger self, sitting there beside the only person that he'd ever really loved.
"Yes, Jenna, how could I forget. I recognized the diner the moment I saw it but I was too incredulous to admit that it was so." Winfried did the telepathic equivalent of a sideways glance at Jenna and then continued, "As I look at Nancie and I sitting there, I know it's true. It really is 1942 and I'm here with you watching it all unfold. Can I talk to them, Jenna?"
"No, Professor. You can't." Jenna knew that this was not the time for discussing the principles of time‑travel but she needed to make a point. "We're solely in the metaphysical world, while your younger self and Nancie are solely in the physical world. Time‑traveling allows us to observe the physical world but we can't interact with it tangibly. We can't change it or even communicate with the people who occupy it."
For the first time in his life, Winfried had zero interest in matters technical. Once he understood that he could not communicate with Nancie, he knew enough. "Why have you brought me here, Jenna?"
"You're not ready for that answer yet, Professor." Jenna was not being difficult or patronizing. She knew that there was a 'right' way to do this. "Professor, I'm going to take you ahead three weeks. Get ready for a mini‑version of what you experienced coming here from your office."
The glaring light and dizzying blindness returned, only to dissolve into a beautiful moonlit night. Nancie and Winfried's younger self were lying on a blanket, in a grassy clearing with massive Tennessee hardwoods surrounding them on three sides and the bank of a slowly flowing river on the other. Fireflies were everywhere. The sound of the rippling river was a gentle backdrop for the occasional bullfrog that croaked in the distance. The couple was talking and laughing and about to make love.
Winfried knew this night like it was yesterday. He knew what was going to happen and he was embarrassed to be there with Jenna. Jenna sensed his embarrassment and pulled Winfried forward to Labor Day, 1942. It was the appropriate thing to do. She had no intention of intruding on Winfried's privacy.
Winfried was startled by being dragged through time without warning. The feeling passed quickly when he saw his younger self and Nancie standing on the departure platform at the Knoxville train station. As the conductor bellowed "All aboard," Winfried's younger self and Nancie embraced. Their parting kiss was so tender that several strangers on the platform began to stare. Nancie's expression was sad — poignantly so — as she boarded the train. She said her final good-bye with a parting wave.
"Jenna, why have you brought me here to re‑live the saddest moment of my life? I loved Nancie. I told her so every day we were together and I did everything in my power to demonstrate my love. But it wasn't enough. She left anyway. She said she had to go back to her parents in Ohio but that never made any sense to me. I never understood it. I know that her love for me was equal to my love for her. So why'd she leave? My friends caulked it up as a 'summer romance' but I know it was far more than that. Never again did I meet a woman who could compare with her. I've never forgotten her, Jenna. Can you tell me why she left?"
Jenna's response was direct. "She left because she loved you." Jenna paused in order for Winfried to contemplate the idea before she continued. "Professor, we need to make one more stop before our time‑traveling is complete." By now, Winfried found the rotating lights and dizziness of time‑travel to be almost normal.
The customary confusion turned into a diaphanous curtain of whiteness and dissolved away. Winfried and Jenna were again with Nancie but she was not alone.
Nancie was lying in a hospital bed. A middle-aged couple was standing at the foot of the bed. They watched as a nurse gently handed a tiny bundle of pink blankets to Nancie. A baby's face was momentarily visible before Nancie cuddled the child to her breast and began to let it suckle.
Jenna spoke first. She had to. Winfried's ability to communicate was lost to a mixture of amazement, bewilderment and heartache. "Do you understand Professor?" Her semi-rhetorical question was greeted with silence, so she continued. "The baby. It's a girl. And she's yours." Had Jenna been occupying her normal body, she would have had to swallow hard before delivering her next sentence. "And she's my mother."
Winfried was dumbfounded. "I had no idea. Why didn't she tell me? I had no idea."
"I know." Jenna continued, "My grandmother — if you don't mind, Professor, I'm more comfortable calling her 'grandmother' than 'Nancie' — she knew how much you valued your blossoming career. She was young and misjudged the importance of love. She thought it unfair to 'burden' you with the responsibilities of fatherhood and the 'shame' of a wife who had become pregnant before marriage. Things were different back then. I guess you know that better than I."
"None of that would have mattered. My love for Nancie went way beyond such worldly concerns. Who raised my daughter, Jenna?"
"Grandmother and her parents; my great-grandparents. That's them — there at the foot of the bed. The three of them did a great job of it too. My great‑grandparents passed away long before I was born but my mother often repeated grandmother's stories of them. I could tell how much they'd meant to grandmother just from the way my mother spoke."
Winfried's next question was a mixture of sadness and anticipation, "Did your grandmother ever speak of me, Jenna?"
"She died of cervical cancer in the mid-70s, a couple of years before I was born. Until I learned about time‑traveling, I'd never seen her. To be honest, Professor, you and I could use time‑travel as a way of answering your question but it wouldn't be the right thing to do. What you've seen during this time‑trip is pretty much everything that I've seen on my own. I considered traveling more but got queasy about it. I was afraid that it might feel like voyeurism if I began snooping around other people's lives as a sop to my personal curiosity."
"You're wise beyond your years, Jenna." Winfried sensed that their travels had come to an end. "I'm ready."
The dizzying brilliance whirled and Winfried's being was once again blanketed with whiteness.
As the cottony cloud evaporated, Winfried found himself sitting in his office chair, with his left elbow and forearm resting on the chair's curved wooden arm. Jenna was standing to his right, with her left arm extended behind his back and her hand resting gently on his shoulder.
Winfried reached into the bottom drawer of his desk and pulled out an old pipe. "It's a meerschaum Jenna. Don't worry. I won't be smoking it. I gave up tobacco years ago. Nancie gave me this pipe as a birthday gift that summer. It was white back then. Years of use turned it into this golden russet. I always thought of your grandmother when I smoked it." Winfried was fondling the smooth meerschaum surface with both hands as he continued. "Since that day that your grandmother said goodbye, this pipe and some wonderful memories have been the only connection that I've had with her, at least until today"
Jenna felt it important to share with Winfried the obvious, "You realize what all this means don't you? You're my grandfather. Can I call you 'grandfather', Professor?"
Winfried seemed oblivious to her question. He continued to focus on his pipe and the memories attached to it. After almost a minute, he moved the pipe to his left hand and motioned Jenna toward the corner of his desk, "You can sit on my desk if you like."
Jenna rearranged herself as her grandfather had requested but remained standing. They were now facing one another. She reached forward and took his right hand in hers.
Winfried remained seated. He began slowly, "Jenna, until today I've been a very lonely man, not professionally but personally." There was a pause that seemed deliberate, then he proceeded. "Of course you can call me 'grandfather'. Perhaps you'll find this silly but I can already see some of me in you."
Jenna let him finish his sentence but then interrupted, "I would never think you 'silly', grandfather. We're a team now. Not only are we blood-related, we both know something that few people in our universe would believe. We know that time-travel is real."
"So we do, Jenna. So we do."
Jenna nodded gently then continued, "Grandfather, I have a plan. This project that you've been given -- the one about 'Time Research' — let me work with you to explain how time-travel is done. I could help you crown your career with the greatest technical paper that you've ever published."
Winfried laid his pipe on his desk and turned his gaze toward Jenna. "It would be academic suicide to publish a paper explaining that space-time is accessible by metaphysical means. I would be made a laughing stock for claiming that people can travel to everywhere and everytime by leaving their physical bodies behind." A look of enlightenment appeared on Winfried's face. "You know that don't you." Winfried smiled at Jenna. "A paper like that would never make it past the first technical adjudicator. It would be fun though. I can almost see the look on that adjudicator's pompous face now, as he discovers metaphysical concepts in a paper authored by Professor Winfried Garett. Consciousness, self-awareness, religion, moral values, intuition — the metaphysical topics that make up life's' truly important questions – these aren't considered the purview of the august journals where I get published, Jenna. It would knock their socks off!"
As a sign of agreement, Jenna gave her grandfather's hand a slight squeeze before letting go. "It's a deal grandfather." A puckish smile began unfolding across Jenna's face, "You know, grandfather, you're not such an arrogant bully after all. I'll be back tomorrow. Right now I'd better get out of here. As I recollect, someone called the police on me." Jenna bent over and gave Winfried a peck on the cheek before bouncing out the door.
Winfried pushed back in his chair and smiled. He was still smiling when he heard the knock on his door a half an hour later.
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Winfried rose and opened the door. "Urgent? I called and said it was urgent? Well, let's see. I can't think of anything urgent. Then again, at my age time isn't all that important anyway."


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Do we perceive reality as it is?
In our everyday life, we are constantly dealing with different representations of reality, where it becomes impossible to distinguish what is real, and what is not. "Welcome to the Desert of the Real" is a metaphorical virtual reality interpretation of Baudrillard's concept of hyperreality, which suggests that the world we live in has been replaced by a copy world, where we seek simulated stimuli and nothing more. The Desert represents the Real, and mirages represent various kinds of so-called "simulacrums", such as physical and psychological perceptions, media reality construct, technology and physical world, and societal conventions;
and are visualised as a 40 min. journey in a virtual metaphorical landscape, accompanied with an installation, video-trailer, map of the desert printed on 6x6m2 fabric, and a tourist guide which includes the map and 37 texts which are written by me and can also be heard as a voicover in the desert and the mirages.
The project was nominated for department prize and got an honourable mention from Stroom Encouragement Award jury; and shown on various online&offline shows during the course of the years 2016 — 2017.
Voiced and soundscape'd by Izabel Caligiore.
Photos by Roel Backaert, Charlotte Brand, Natalia Jordanova.


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After a brief gestation period of about 13 days, Mother opossums give birth to up to twenty ½ inch long babies which make their way up to the mother's pouch. The tiny little animals are blind, hairless, and almost embryonic. Only a maximum of thirteen can survive, as they need to attach themselves to a nipple inside the pouch where they will remain attached for 60 days. At between 58-72 days of age their eyes will open and they will begin to venture outside the pouch. When they are about 3 months old, the babies will start eating small amounts of solid food but will continue to nurse. Once the young are eating solid food, they will run alongside their mother or ride on her back. Within a few weeks they will be weaned and will not depend on their mother.
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Young opossums that are removed from the pouch have a slim chance of survival. The very young that are not furred are nearly impossible to save. They are transparent with sealed mouths that have an opening at the end that attaches to the mother's nipples. The young opossums that have a little fur, but still have sealed mouths, have a better chance. And the babies that are mostly furred and the mouths are able to open, have a good chance of surviving.
When first receiving any young opossums it is necessary to get their body temperature to normal (94-97 degrees F.) They should feel warm, not cool. If you have several, then the best method is to put them in a box with toweling on the bottom. For the very young babies, you can provide an artificial pouch by sewing three sides of a towel together. For warmth, place a heating pad under ½ of the box. It should be set on low with a towel folded between the box and the heating pad. If the young are unable to move to and from the heated side of the box, you will have to be extra careful monitoring the heat. Use a room thermometer placed near the young to help you keep an eye on the heat. Because the mother's pouch is very moist, it is important to supply humidity in the baby's environment. This may be accomplished by keeping a damp rag over part of the box.
Check for any external injuries, head injuries, broken bones, and signs of internal injuries (blood from the nose or deep in the throat). Any of these injuries require attention from a veterinarian or wildlife rehabilitator. Small cuts and other minor injuries can be easily treated with guidance from a professional. Call our office for help.
Most opossums come in dehydrated. Check to see if the skin "tents" when gently pinched between the shoulder blades. If the skin is slow to fall back into place, then the animal is probably dehydrated. Remember, the animal must first be warmed prior to any feeding or re-hydration. After the animal is warm, start feeding a re-hydrating fluid like Pedialyte every 15 minutes for the first hour. Once the animal is warm and re-hydrated, you may begin a regular feeding schedule.
Mix KMR (kitten milk replacer) or Esbilac according to the directions. For the first few feedings, add Pedialyte to the prepared formula at a ratio of 1:1, then start feeding the formula by itself unless diarrhea develops. If this happens, repeat the 1:1 ratio with Pedialyte for a few more feedings. Very young opossums with eyes still closed should be fed 1 cc via an eyedropper every two hours during the day with one or two feedings during the night.
Stimulate young opossums after each feeding by using a soft cloth dampened with warm water. Gently stroke the genital area for 60 seconds, but do not be alarmed if the baby does not eliminate after each feeding. Usually after their eyes are open, the young will eliminate on their own. Until this happens, you should continue manual stimulation as needed.
Opossums that can run around are ready to eat on their own and can be
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in a dish. Also place some of the milk formula in a shallow dish that
has bread to absorb it. Press the noses of the young in the bread a couple
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Last week, Hootsuite was in Portland, Oregon to be part of #BInspiredPDX, a celebration of people using business as a force for good, hosted by the people behind B Corporation certification. B Corporations are a new kind of company seeking a better way to do business. It's like a LEED or Fair Trade certification, but for an entire business, rather than a building or a bag of coffee.
The day kicked off with a series of TED-style talks at the historic Crystal Ballroom, which was built in 1914 and is rumored to be where Jimi Hendrix was fired by Little Richard in the middle of a performance. Speakers at the event included a number of inspiring leaders from fellow B Corps such as Kickstarter founder Perry Chen, New Season Market CEO Wendy Collie and David Griswold, founder of Sustainable Harvest.
Perry's interview was particularly prescient given their recent announcement around becoming a Public Benefit Corporation, which are for-profit companies that are obligated to consider the impact of their decisions on society, not only shareholders. He spoke about rewarding employees and investors with dividends versus an IPO or sale and how Kickstarter's status as a B Corp acts as a way for the company to codify their mission-aligned values.
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#BInspiredPDX was the culmination of an annual week-long gathering where over 200 B Corps—including Etsy, Seventh Generation, and Ben & Jerry's—came together to learn from each other and advance the goals that will help B Corps achieve our collective vision. This year's theme was building bridges. The idea was to help us connect with others who want to join the B Corp movement and with others whom we need to join in order to build a more inclusive and durable prosperity for all.
Hootsuite had the opportunity to Periscope live from the event with some fellow B Corps including Charmian Love, cofounder of Volans and B Lab UK, the nonprofit behind the certification. Charmian spoke about being inspired by the beautiful living root bridges in India.
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Rock paintings thousands of years old made by native tribes accept tobacco and gifts in exchange for prayers answered, and hidden monuments tucked on a distant shoreline pay respects to local veterans who gave their lives for us.
Rapids, white-water and water falls contribute to the breathtaking northern beauty and amazing fishing while quiet bays give shelter from weather, many of which a hook has never been dipped before, and the tail splash of a beaver leaving his house tells others of your presence as they curiously swim past.
The Boreal mosses and vegetation and bedrock and trees blend harmoniously into the blue skies and navy waters of the ever-flowing Churchill River. Resident eagles and loons and pelicans watch unconcerned, and bears, moose, caribou and wolves visit shore lines, watching as our boats slide past. The sun warms your face and the rocking of the boat hypnotizes your soul as you realize you have perhaps not even seen another boat all week.... It's just you... it's just you and paradise, and you are enveloped in the serenity; the peace is overwhelming!
The unrivalled wilderness and solitude seem lifetimes away from the meetings and phones, the faxes and appointments, deadlines and commitments... and we haven't even gotten to the fishing yet! The fishing... can you just imagine? You are in one of the last elements of nature that is uncontaminated. The only way to get here is by float plane, this option is unopened for most, but you are here. You feel the excitement of a walleye hole, your heart pounds deep in your chest as a massive northern pike, decades old, latches your hook and uses their inborn wisdom, trying to out wit you and your abilities as a fisherman.
The mornings bright with sunshine and hope cloak your expectations of what the day may bring, and when the purr of the boats arrive back at the dock you are weary, exhilarated, teeming with stories and chronicles of the days accounts etched deeply into everlasting memories. And to follow, how about a quiet deck to relax on and refreshments with good friends; dinner sizzling on the barbeque; the fragrance of uncivilized forests and sparkling fresh moving waters; a crackling campfire begging for stories; perhaps if you look into the star bright night skies the northern lights will perform for you in dances of color and motion most can only imagine; and then at the day's end, a warm, comfortable bed to console muscles that played hard, and the dreams of another day just like the perfection of this day to come tomorrow.
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Project Highlights
- Tropical lakes are excellent laboratories for studying the evolutionary responses of keystone consumers to environmental change
- Resurrection biology - hatching dormant stages from sediments - enables us to directly observe rather than infer the process of evolution
- This project combines field limnology, experimental and resurrection ecology and palaeolimnology in a key ecoregion
Tropical freshwater lakes are critical natural systems of global importance, providing vital ecosystem services to some of Earth's fastest growing and most vulnerable human populations, yet are scientifically under researched. Surprisingly little work has been carried out on productive tropical lakes, which are undergoing rapid catchment and environmental change under recent human activity (Ryves et al. 2011, Mills et al. 2017, 2018), with largely unknown impacts on key aspects of ecosystem function. Tropical lakes are excellent natural laboratories in which to study ecological responses to such environmental stressors, both at a community level (e.g. functional and taxonomic biodiversity) and for individual groups or species. In particular, tropical lakes provide exciting opportunities to explore evolutionary processes for keystone aquatic organisms. Daphnia spp. (water fleas) are ideal for such studies as they have both fast generational turnover, and produce eggs in protective cases, which can be hatched from seedbanks in lake sediments (Fig. 1; Orsini et al. 2013, 2016).
This PhD will address these questions in the lake-rich region of equatorial western Uganda, where there are ~100 crater lakes in 4 lake districts varying from shallow and saline, to deep and fresh, together comprising one of the world's top 200 most biologically valuable ecoregions (Fig. 1) and acting as a natural aquatic laboratory. These freshwater lakes are important resources for drinking, irrigation and nutrition (e.g. fishing), as well as centres of aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity, within landscapes often heavily impacted by human activity (Fig. 1). Understanding how keystone aquatic species (e.g. Daphnia) adapt and evolve under environmental stress is crucial to evaluating the future resilience of these systems at a time when anthropogenic impacts increasingly drive global environmental change.
This PhD project combines contemporary limnology, ecology, and palaeolimnology (and specifically experimental ecology, genomics and potentially "resurrection ecology") across a suite of contrasting crater lakes in western Uganda. The aim is to characterise aquatic ecological response to environmental change over the last c.100-150 years. Specific objectives include addressing the extent to which catchment land use change over this period has affected aquatic biodiversity (focussing on primary producers and grazers from a genomic to community level) and productivity, and quantifying lake sedimentation and nutrient dynamics (e.g. C, Si). New sediment records collected within the project will critically test the linkages between environmental and ecological change. Outcomes of this project will shed new light on evolutionary responses to environmental perturbations with wide applicability (Orsini et al. 2013).
Crater lakes, in western Uganda, in different landscape settings and experiencing different recent histories in both forested and deforested catchments will be targeted. Lakes will be sampled for zooplankton and algal communities and a number of short sediment cores collected for analysis.
Using 'resurrection ecology' the student will hatch dormant specimens of Daphnia from lakes where environmental changes (eutrophication, climate) are known or can be inferred. Historical and modern populations will be used in experiments to document fitness changes that occurred in response to past environmental shifts, and analysed using cutting-edge multiomics approaches at the University of Birmingham (e.g. genome, transcriptome and metabolome analysis). Shifts in Daphnia 'omics can be related to wider biophysical disruption, such as changes in algal community dynamics, through diatom analysis, and other proxies for aquatic and catchment change (such as nutrient cycling and C burial).
Training and Skills
The PhD student will be fully supported during fieldtrips to Uganda by the supervisory team and Makerere University Biological Field Station (MUBFS; http://caes.mak.ac.ug/mubfs/), likely spending up to 4 weeks in the field in western Uganda over the course of the PhD. Training in diatom analysis and other proxies will be given at Loughborough (LU) and BGS, and in Daphnia experimental ecology and genomic analyses at Birmingham (Dr Luisa Orsini), where the student is expected to spend a substantial part (c.1 year) of the PhD working on Daphnia.
Year 1 (2018-19): Gain familiarity with limnology, palaeolimnology (especially diatom analysis), resurrection ecology, experimental ecology and genomic approaches; sample existing Ugandan sediments (LU/BGS). Formulate research questions. Main fieldwork period to coincide with dry season (summer 2019) accompanied by supervisory team.
Year 2 (2019-20): Resurrection and experimental ecology of Daphnia (including 'omics), with student based mainly at Birmingham. If needed, second field season in Uganda to collect further samples.
Year 3 (2020-21): Data analysis finishes and thesis writing. Major conference targeted for presentation of key findings in Year 3.
Partners and collaboration (including CASE)
The project will be in collaboration with Dr Luisa Orsini, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham. Through Dr Keely Mills, there is also scope for collaboration with other BGS staff.
Further Details
For information about this project, please contact Dr David Ryves (firstname.lastname@example.com) or Dr Luisa Orsini (firstname.lastname@example.com). For enquiries about the application process, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com. Please quote CENTA18-LU7 when completing your online application form: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/apply/research/.


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Halfordia scleroxyla
Botanical Name
Halfordia scleroxyla F.Muell.
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1869) Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 7: 142. Type: In silvis ad sinum marinum Rockinghams Bay, ubi etiam Hamamelid planta me tantum fructu visa forsan ad Corylopsin referenda occurrit; J. Dallachy.
Common name
Kerosenewood; Saffronheart; Kerosene Tree; Jitta; Ghittoe; Greenwood; Kerosine Wood
Heartwood very hard and oily, thin slivers burn even when green.
Oil dots very numerous and conspicuous. Leaf blades about 5-14 x 2.1-6 cm. Lateral veins forming a series of loops well inside the margin, midrib green, somewhat raised on the upper surface. Leaves crowded towards the ends of the twigs. Leaf blade emitting a strong odour when crushed.
Sepals about 0.8-1 mm long. Petals about 4.5-5 mm long. Stamens ten, dimorphic, five long and five short, filaments flattened, margins hairy. Anthers with a gland and a tuft of hair at the apex. Disk green.
Fruits about 10-12 x 10-12 mm. Calyx persistent.
Cotyledons oblong, +/- 15 mm long. Oil dots small, numerous about the margins. At the tenth leaf stage: leaf blade obovate, apex obtuse, base attenuate, glabrous on the upper surface; oil dots small, visible with a lens.
Distribution and Ecology
Endemic to Queensland, occurs in CYP and NEQ. Altitudinal range from 500-1300 m. Grows in well developed upland and mountain rain forest.
Natural History
This species produces a very oily, pale coloured, hard and durable timber. Old logs and branches last for many years on the forest floor and are a real prize for anyone trying to boil the billy in wet weather. The timber of living trees will burn fairly readily if it is cut into fire chips or kindling and will serve as firewood in desperate situations.
Fruit eaten by Cassowaries and other species of birds. Cooper & Cooper (1994).
Food plant for the larval stages of the Capaneus Butterfly. Common & Waterhouse (1981).
When wood of this species is used in toothpicks it is reputed to have the potential of causing trouble with the gums of people using it. (http://bodd.web.cf.ac.uk/BotDermFolder/BotDermR/R UTA.html)
Wood specific gravity 1.10 Cause et al. (1989).
Shrub (woody or herbaceous, 1-6 m tall)
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