text:
By Eddy Montilla.
(Taken from Real stories told as fiction).
Chris ran his hands through his hair and later used them to cover his mouth. The back-and-forth movements of his eyes betrayed his calculations and skepticism. On their way back, Chris and Erika were both physically and emotionally separated.
"From here, I will go home alone. The dinner was good. Thank you very much for everything." She said and went away while Chris stood frozen there, watching her become smaller through the distance until disappearing into the darkness. He did not know what to think or what to do. He just stood there completely indifferent to time, to the snow that started to fall, indifferent to that place and beyond. Some time later, once at home, he lay down on the bed, unable to sleep that night. His action did not worry him so much as the indelible impression that Erika's impassive face and her twenty years of forced abstinence made on him.
"How on earth could her husband sentence her to something like that for a reason like that? How many Erikas are living here?" He asked himself.
The following days were long and confusing for Chris. He decided to make a long trip to think deeply about his future and, above all, because a bad experience is more traumatic when you are closer to it. At the station, his patience was tested when he couldn't read the instructions on how to use the ticket machine. He was good at controlling his emotions, but always had difficult times when he had to conceal them. So, the customer behind him knew exactly what was going on, and with little spontaneous but correct English, helped him buy his ticket.
"Thank you, and you speak very well."
"Oh, no! We can't speak English and you know that, Chris. I am a psychologist. By the way, my wife told me that all the students had a wonderful time during the party the other day."
"Why does he know my name? Is he Erika's husb…? No way, Chris. He said clearly: "All the students…"
Chris felt safe and breathed a sigh of relief. He said goodbye to him amid the noise of trains that were coming and leaving the station.
"Thanks for helping Erika with her English!" He shouted.
Chris was petrified with his right foot on the ground and his left leg motionless in air like flamingoes fleeing from cold waters. He glanced at the sky, went back to where Erika's husband was and while shaking hands with him, left the ticket on his palm.
"I return to San Antonio right now." He said with his hands into his pockets and walking away calmly while Erika's husband found himself dumbfounded for seconds trying to figure out Chris' actions.
"Chris, are you all right? If you have problems, I can help you. I am a psychologist. Chris さん(san), Chris さん(san)!"
Chris stopped walking, turned around and told him: "Do me a favor, please. Use that ticket and go immediately to see a doctor, I mean, another psychologist, but more normal than you and ask him: "What's Hell, doctor, twenty years without love when you are still young or the next twenty years when you realize you can't make love?"
Copyright 2017 littlethingsforall.wordpress.com. All rights are reserved.


text:
Netflix has released a new promo video welcoming Discovery to the Star Trek family on Netflix.
Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise and now Star Trek: Discovery.
Star Trek on Netflix
Star Trek: Discovery will broadcast on CBS All Access in the US. Netflix in 188 countries and through Space in Canada.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
To ensure the quality, safety and rapid production of cell therapies, companies must keep on top of their CMC and analytical strateigies. However, cell-based therapies are extremely complex to analysis with high variability.
Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Cell Therapy CMC and Analytics meeting focuses on the technical and regulatory requirements needed to advance the analysis, quality and development of cell therapies with in-depth case studies and regulatory feedback on CMC development, product release, assay development and validation, flow cytometry, target product profiles, critical quality attributes, critical process parameters, and product release.
Final Agenda
Monday, August 13
8:00 am Short Course Registration Open (Grand Ballroom Foyer) and Morning Coffee (Break Foyer)
11:30 Main Conference Registration Open (Grand Ballroom Foyer)
REGULATORY REQUIREMENTSConstitution B
1:00 pm Chairperson's Opening Remarks
Fouad Atouf, PhD, Vice President, Global Biologics, USP
1:10 Cell Therapy Product Manufacturing Considerations
Bernadette Keane, PhD, Principal, Keane Consultancy
Cell therapies are substantially more complex than small molecule or biological approaches to medicine. This complexity poses challenges for both academic groups and companies developing cell therapies, as well as for regulators seeking to oversee this growing area of medicine. In this interactive session, we will discuss some of the common challenges and lessons learned along the way and explore how collaborations between industry and the regulators can help lead to successful translation and commercialization of cell therapies.
1:45 Regulatory Aspects of Manufacturing and Control of Genetically Modified Cells
Matthias Renner, PhD, Scientist, Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedicines, Paul Ehrlich Institute
In respect to manufacturing and quality control, genetically modified cells are considered to be most complex medicinal products. Regulatory aspects considering the fundamental steps in manufacturing and control of these medicinal products will be presented, and the regulatory framework for these products which are classified in the EU as advanced therapy medicinal products and are regulated centrally by the European Commission and the European Medicines Agency will be given.
2:15 Standards and Best Practices Applicable for Advanced Therapies
Qualification of raw materials used in the manufacturing of cellular therapies, requires the use of risk assessment strategies to categorize the critical components of a manufacturing process. In addition to cell culture supplements, excipients and other formulation's components must meet the required quality to ensure consistency in manufacturing and subsequently the quality and safety of finished cell therapy products. This presentation will discuss the critical strategies facing the development of cell therapies as per USP recommendations.
2:45 Refreshment Break (Foyer)
CMC STRATEGIES FOR CELL THERAPIESConstitution B
3:15 FDA's CMC Review of a Cell Therapeutics
William Lee, PhD, Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, Cato Research
This talk will focus on two case studies. The first case study will discuss FDA's CMC issues with a stem cell therapy that were raised at a pre-IND meeting. The second case study will discuss FDA's CMC questions for an investigational cell therapy during the pre-IND meeting and then subsequently during the IND 30-day review after initial IND submission.
3:45 PANEL DISCUSSION: Regulatory and CMC Strategies for Cell Therapies
4:30 Breakout Discussions
This session provides the opportunity to discuss a focused topic with peers from around the world in an open, collegial setting. Select from the list of topics available and join the moderated discussion to share ideas, gain insights, establish collaborations or commiserate about persistent challenges. Then continue the discussion as you head into the lively exhibit hall for information about the latest technologies.
Accelerating Cell Therapy Development
Moderator: Fouad Atouf, PhD, Vice President, Global Biologics, USP
Commercial Manufacturing of Gene-Modified Cell Therapies: The Challenges Ahead
Moderator: Michael D. Jacobson, PhD., Managing Partner, Cambridge Biostrategy Associates
5:30 Grand Opening Reception in the Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing (Grand Ballroom)
7:00 End of Day
Tuesday, August 14
7:30 am Registration Open and Morning Coffee (Grand Ballroom Foyer)
CELL COUNTING AND PRODUCT CHARACTERIZATIONConstitution B
7:55 Chairperson's Remarks
Christopher Bravery, PhD, Consulting Regulatory Scientist, Consulting on Advanced Biologicals Ltd.
8:00 Tools and Strategies to Improve Confidence in Cell Counting Measurements
Laura Pierce, PhD, Biomedical Engineer, Biosystems and Biomaterials Division, Biomaterials Group, NIST
Cell count, a routinely performed fundamental measurement in the biosciences, underpins key decisions in the manufacturing, commercialization, and release of cell-based therapies. The industry seeks tools to gain greater confidence in cell counting measurements. NIST, in collaboration with industry and other government agencies, is developing strategies to provide fit-for-purpose measurement assurance for cell counting, in the forms of written standards, experimental designs, and control materials.
8:30 Towards Rigor and Reproducibility in Single Cell Analytics for Therapeutic Cell Products
Ruud Hulspas, PhD, Independent Consultant, Cellular Technologies Bioconsulting, LLC
Cell characterization occurs at multiple checkpoints of the manufacturing process and is particularly important at product release. In contrast to bulk analysis, single cell analysis offers detailed information about the composition of therapeutic cell products. Flow cytometry provides rapid analysis of millions of cells for up to 30 cellular parameters, simultaneously measured on individual cells, but it can also be difficult, unreliable and expensive. Existing expertise and new developments are applied for successful integration in cell therapy.
9:00 Assays in Purification of Targeted Cell Populations
Patricia Rogers, Manager, Cell Sorting Capability, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Cell purification of targeted populations is necessary when specific populations are needed for downstream applications. Instrumentation needed in order to purify cell populations is often complicated and hard to standardize. Also, there is biological variation between samples that needs to be accounted for. This presentation will focus on understanding the key areas for variation and developing tools to standardize each part of the assay in order to provide reproducible results.
9:30 Advancing Rapid Microbial Testing Methods for Cell-Based Therapies
Jacqueline Wolfrum, PhD, Associate Director, Biomanufacturing Program (BioMAN), Center for Biomedical Innovation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cell therapy manufacturers need rapid microbial testing methods (RMTM) to provide evidence of process and product safety in timeframes relevant to the manufacturing process, product shelf life, and patient treatment protocol. The Standards Coordinating Body is driving a collaborative effort to meet this shared need for RMTM by identifying, developing, and validating needed standards and methods. Interested stakeholders are encouraged to participate in this project.
9:45 Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing (Grand Ballroom)
POTENCY, AUTOMATED ANALYTICS AND RAPID RELEASEConstitution B
10:30 Potency Assay Development and Qualification for B-Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Disease Autologous Gene Therapy Drug Products
Ilya Shestopalov, PhD, Senior Scientist, Cellular Process Characterization and Analytics, bluebird bio
Quantitative potency assays were developed to demonstrate correction of b-thalassemia and sickle cell disease properties in an in vitro cell culture system. Potency was found to be specific to the beta-globin lentiviral vector and dependent on transduction efficiency of the autologous gene therapy drug product, demonstrating ability to reject sub-functional drug products. Considerations for assay development, qualification results, and redundancy to transduction efficiency methods will be discussed.
11:00 Product Release towards Rapid Quality Control
Junxia Wang, PhD., Director, Analytical Development, Mustang Bio, Inc.
As "living drugs", cell therapies pose unique analytical characterization challenges; these challenges extend from the research bench to the cGMP manufacturing setting. This talk will review common analytical methods for cell therapies, specifically CAR T- and TCR-based therapies, with a specific emphasis on the limitations of current methods and the move towards automated analytical methods.
11:30 PANEL DISCUSSION: Automation in Analytics and Manufacturing
Rodney Rietz, PhD, Senior Investigator, Exploratory Immuno-Oncology, Novartis
Junxia Wang, PhD., Director, Analytical Development, Mustang Bio, Inc..
12:00 pm Single Cell Proteomics for Evaluating Function & Clinical Utility in Cell Therapy
Sean Mackay, CEO, IsoPlexis
By capturing 40+ secreted proteins per single cell, thousands of cells at at time, researchers can determine the functional activity and strength of immune cells and cellular products. Using the IsoCode technology to define T-cell functional strength, Kite Pharma has used their pre-infusion product to predict objective response to CAR-T therapy. Isocode technology has also provided biomarker correlates to objective response in checkpoint inhibitor therapy - both from TILs and PBMC.
12:30 Enjoy Lunch on Your Own
1:15 Dessert Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing (Grand Ballroom)
COMPARABILITY, STABILITY AND VECTOR ANALYSISConstitution B
1:55 Chairperson's Remarks
Scott R. Burger, MD, Principal, Advanced Cell & Gene Therapy, LLC
2:00 Assessment of Comparability of a Gene Therapy Drug Product after Manufacturing Site and Process Changes
Stephen J. Duguay, PhD, Director, Cellular Process Characterization and Analytics, bluebird bio
Manufacturing site changes and process improvements were implemented during clinical evaluation of an autologous cell-based gene therapy. A risk based approach was used to rank the potential impact of the changes to product quality, safety and efficacy. Statistical evaluation of study results included equivalence testing, quality ranges and qualitative comparisons. The study design, results and conclusions will be discussed.
2:30 In vitro Product Characterization and Stability Studies of CAR T Cell Therapies
Carlotta Peticone, PhD, Senior Scientist I, Process Development, Autolus
3:00 How Much Information Do I Need to Present for the Vector of My Genetically Modified Cell Product?
How do regulatory agencies view the vector of a genetically modified cell? Does the vector need to be GMP; from what point in manufacture would this apply? Can I use a drug masterfile? How much information, including data, should I provide in the dossier for clinical trials; will this be different for approval?
3:30 Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall with 1st Session Poster Winner Announced (Grand Ballroom)
4:15 Designing Strategies for Data-Driven Product Characterization
Marc-Olivier Baradez, PhD, Lead Analytical Development Scientist, Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult
In the development of cell therapy products, the ability to characterize the product during its manufacture is becoming as valuable as the ability to control and optimize the process itself. This presentation will explain the current limitations and opportunities associated with such dual product/process characterization, and it will cover the principles behind a suitable data-driven strategy for efficient product/process development in the context of industrialization.
4:45 Big Data Strategies for Cell Therapy Manufacturing
The quest to retrieve, analyze, and leverage that data has become the new gold rush in life sciences. This presentation will discuss the role of big data in cell therapy process development, real time analytics and commercial scale manufacturing.
5:15 End of Conference
6:00 - 8:30 Recommended Dinner Short Course*
Premier Sponsors:


text:
First off, I apologise for the hiatus. I've been (gasp!) busy the past week, I've been spending time with my family who is on holiday in Australia.
And now that all that is behind me, I find myself facing a rather gruelling task of catching up with the work I had left behind. So I regret to say that I will not be able to update my blog quite as often, at least until I catch up with my work.
But here's a short update on my life:
1. I got drawn into a debate about the Iraq War. Don't know how it's gonna turn out, but at least it's not graded.
2. Winter is extremely hard to bear, and I'm just praying that the weather warms up soon.
3. This week would be the fifth week of my second semester in uni, and I only have 13 weeks in this semester, not including a two-week teaching break.
4. I'm finding this semester pretty interesting, though I'm not very confident about my assignments.
5. There's a Subway store opening near me soon!
Catching Up
- By Jerrenn
- 22:00
- 0 comments
- my life
Written by Templateify
Aenean quis feugiat elit. Quisque ultricies sollicitudin ante ut venenatis. Nulla dapibus placerat faucibus. Aenean quis leo non neque ultrices scelerisque. Nullam nec vulputate velit. Etiam fermentum turpis at magna tristique interdum.


text:
As we left Becca and Matt's reception Saturday night we discussed who was going to drive through the worst parts of the storm that was brewing. Everyone decided I would be the on lucky one. They were right.
After stopping to get gas and wheat-free food, things got ugly. As I drove west on I-196 I watched the clouds start to move in a circle. I was driving straight towards the beginnings of a funnel cloud. Fantastic. The wind was twisting trees and road signs in all sorts of odd directions. Then came the downpour. In an instant ditches were filled with water and sections of the road were puddles. The best part was the incredible light show.
By the time it got really bad, there was no place to stop. I debated over and over what to do. And be the stubborn person I am, I kept driving. I called my parents when I got home to let them know I made it safely. They informed me that roads were shut down in the Holland area because of the water levels. Some roads had been washed out. Others were blocked with trees. Several were without power.
I would be completely okay if I never have to relive that adventure.


text:
Containing adventures of the following systems:
- Call of Cthulhu (Herbsterwachen)
- Star Wars (Ein feuchter Job)
- Shadowrun (Im Schatten der Zukunft)
Furthermore it contains articles about German conventions and a poem.
This issue was published shortly after the foundation of the gaming society "Förderkreis innovatives Spiel" (F.i.S e.V.).


text:
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Letter Detectives
...being letter detectives and searching for letters in magazines and catalogues..,, then cutting them out and gluing them onto the ABC chart!
This is how it looked when we were done!!!
We also talked about ways to colour pictures --- we put a happy face under the best ways!
Then we practiced our new skills....
Here are a couple of the finished products!!
1 comment:
- Anonymous9/28/2016 7:14 PM
EXCELLENT JOB on the ABC chart. Someone did an awesome job coloring the clown.ReplyDelete
Reading your blog in Texas
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
Buy custom term papers written from scratch by affordable price, just professional writers are right here to assist you compose your paper
The acquisition of term documents is a type of and popular thing for most students in a lot of institutions of learning. Term documents are employed by many people instructors as a kind of assessment that may help them collectively assess all that they will have taught for the training duration. These papers are often written over a period that is long of as they are quite much like research papers. They have been mostly assigned during the start of the semester and their tasks are executed progressively throughout the term and finally end because of the writing of this actual term papers that details all activities which were performed along with their results. Term paper writing may possibly not be as simple and neither are the tasks which can be allowed to be completed because on occasion they consist of complex design that is experimental conducting substantial study works. Pupils that lack sufficient time for you to perform research activities both in the library and field may encounter difficulties whenever composing their term documents. The applies that are same the students that image citation generator mla lack proficiency in the application of scholastic writing designs. Nonetheless, with all the present customization that is online you don't have whatsoever to be concerned about the writing of term documents or carrying out research tasks regarding the term papers.
Online writers have the ability to modify top quality terms papers whenever offered certain and precise information about this content which should be highlighted. The writing firm takes it to the client upon itself the responsibility to conduct all research activities necessary in the writing of the term paper and compile the information on behalf of the student and delivers. The services provided by online writing companies are affordable and in the reach of many students, consequently; there isn't any great burden that is financial pupils have the ability to secure some more time for any other kinds of social and scholastic activities. Students with household commitments that take much of their own time may also find these types of services indispensable since they might help them secure additional time for carrying on their own families requirements. Nonetheless, ahead of procuring such solutions it is vital to make certain that the organization that certain purchases from has a confident profile as a way of making certain the services to be purchased should be associated with the quality that is highest.
The first element to check always should really be originality of this term papers carried out by the organization. Not enough originality could highly cost any student due to plagiarism penalties. Consequently, then it is prudent to avoid placing orders with such firms if any company has a negative reputation for plagiarizing work. Fast solution delivery normally important specially when it comes down to fulfilling the deadlines set for the expression papers. Term papers submitted later could get penalties in the same way serious as those meted on plagiarized un-original bits of work. Therefore, make sure that you try not to spot requests with online writing organizations which have the negative reputation of making late deliveries to their customers. Confidential remedy for an individual's information into the term documents process that is procurement also imperative to the upkeep of high educational integrity which might be jeopardized in the event that writing organizations exposes ones personal statistics to the public. Therefore, as you look for to get a writing that is appropriate to customize your term papers, have a look at business characteristics such as for example originality, affordability, timeliness, confidentiality and reliability.


text:
Index at Highest Level Since 2000
The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index® increased in February, following a modest increase in January. The Index now stands at 130.8 (1985=100), up from 124.3 in January. The Present Situation Index increased from 154.7 to 162.4, while the Expectations Index improved from 104.0 last month to 109.7 this month.
The monthly Consumer Confidence Survey®, based on a probability-design random sample, is conducted for The Conference Board by Nielsen, a leading global provider of information and analytics around what consumers buy and watch. The cutoff date for the preliminary results was February 15.
"Consumer confidence improved to its highest level since 2000 (Nov. 2000, 132.6) after a modest increase in January," said Lynn Franco, Director of Economic Indicators at The Conference Board. "Consumers' assessment of current conditions was more favorable this month, with the labor force the main driver. Despite the recent stock market volatility, consumers expressed greater optimism about short-term prospects for business and labor market conditions, as well as their financial prospects. Overall, consumers remain quite confident that the economy will continue expanding at a strong pace in the months ahead."
Consumers' appraisal of present-day conditions improved in February. Consumers' assessment of business conditions was moderately more positive than in January. The percentage saying business conditions are "good" increased slightly from 35.0 percent to 35.8 percent, while those saying business conditions are "bad" decreased from 13.0 percent to 10.8 percent. Consumers' assessment of the labor market was considerably more favorable. Those claiming jobs are "plentiful" increased from 37.2 percent to 39.4 percent, while those claiming jobs are "hard to get" decreased from 16.3 percent to 14.7 percent.
Consumers were also more optimistic about the short-term outlook in February. The percentage of consumers anticipating business conditions will improve over the next six months increased from 21.5 percent to 25.8 percent, while those expecting business conditions will worsen decreased from 9.8 percent to 9.4 percent.
Consumers' outlook for the job market was also more positive. The proportion expecting more jobs in the months ahead increased from 18.7 percent to 21.6 percent, while those anticipating fewer jobs declined from 12.5 percent to 11.9 percent. Regarding their short-term income prospects, the percentage of consumers expecting an improvement increased from 20.6 percent to 23.8 percent, however, the proportion expecting a decrease also rose, from 7.9 percent to 8.6 percent.
Source: February 2018 Consumer Confidence Survey®
The Conference Board
The Conference Board publishes the Consumer Confidence Index®, at 10 a.m. ET on the last Tuesday of every month. Subscription information and the technical notes to this series are available on The Conference Board website: https://www.conference-board.org/data/consumerdata.cfm.
The Conference Board is a global, independent business membership and research association working in the public interest. Our mission is unique: To provide the world's leading organizations with the practical knowledge they need to improve their performance and better serve society. Winner of the Consensus Economics 2016 Forecast Accuracy Award (U.S.), The Conference Board is a non-advocacy, not-for-profit entity holding 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt status in the United States. www.conference-board.org
Nielsen Holdings plc (NYSE: NLSN) is a global performance management company that provides a comprehensive understanding of what consumers watch and buy. Nielsen's Watch segment provides media and advertising clients with Total Audience measurement services for all devices on which content — video, audio and text — is consumed. The Buy segment offers consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers the industry's only global view of retail performance measurement. By integrating information from its Watch and Buy segments and other data sources, Nielsen also provides its clients with analytics that help improve performance. Nielsen, an S&P 500 company, has operations in over 100 countries, covering more than 90 percent of the world's population. For more information, visit www.nielsen.com.
The next release is Tuesday, March 27 at 10 AM EDT.
For further information contact:
Carol Courter
1 212 339 0232
Joseph DiBlasi


text:
After 761 miles, 12 hours, and 1 satiating stop at In-N-Out Burger, I made it home from Albuquerque over a week ago.
New Mexico
New Mexico National Parks and Monuments
Although New Mexico may have a mess of cons (see my first post on Albuquerque), it's selection of outdoor wonders is a definite plus. There are a total of 13 different national parks and 58 national landmarks or monuments. By comparison, the last state I lived in (Illinois) had only one national park and two historic sites, both of which are historic homes of presidents (so not very thrilling unless you are a history buff).
Most of these parks are in the far corners of the state, so I was only able to visit three officially during my time here. I've included a description, a review, and visit tips for each one below:
Where Mountains and Desert Converge
Yesterday I wrote about the city of Albuquerque in all its idiosyncratic glory. Today, I want to share my favorite part of the city: it's outdoor landscape and activities.
New Mexico Recap: The City of Albuquerque
Two main highways create a cross section of Albuquerque's four quadrants. It oddly mirrors New Mexico's state flag–a red circle with four groups of four rays that represent the four cardinal directions, four seasons, stages of the day, and stages of life itself.
A Subacute Future / Coming Soon on the Blog
According to my brilliant doctor sister-in-law, my anxiety over the future is what the medical community might call "subacute." Besides the fact that I love having a new term to label it by, I also thought it was an apt description.
- Monday 8/18 – The City of Albuquerque: Restaurants, Activities, and the Unexplained
- Tuesday 8/19 – Albuquerque's Landscape: The Sandias, the desert, and monsoons
- Thursday 8/21 – National Parks and Monuments: Carlsbad Caverns, White Sands, The Petroglyphs
- Friday 8/22 – Concluding Thanks and Goodbyes
Albuquerque: 10 Things I've Learned So Far
Hi everyone! The last month has been a wild ride of graduating from college, driving home from Chicago to San Diego, spending a week in Yosemite, a week redoing an entire room in my parent's house, a week spent at Disney World (more on that in my next post), and then moving to Albuquerque, New Mexico to live with my brother and sister-in-law. I still forget what time zone I'm in, but after three weeks I'm starting to feel a little more settled.
Albuquerque, and New Mexico in general, is full of quirks. At least that's the best way I've found to describe it so far. Here are a couple of the things I've learned about this mysterious place in the last few weeks:
- The official state nickname is "The Land of Enchantment" but it is more often known as the land of "would you like green or red chile on that?" You can also choose both, which they call "Christmas" style. Seriously, they put chiles on everything here.
- On that note, there is a difference between the Mexican food you get in Southern California and "New Mexican" food. Mostly it means you are safe ordering enchiladas, but a taco will look like it came from Taco Bell. They make up for it with sopapillas and honey at the end of every meal though.
- Hot air ballooning is not just a fun tourist outing, in Albuquerque it has long been a serious business. The International Hot Air Balloon Museum boasts treasures such as the gondola used to make the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, a Japanese bomb that actually used unmanned hot air balloons during WWII to float incendiary bombs across the Pacific (which were surprisingly successful but the government kept it a secret to prevent panic about mainland attacks), and one of the first parachutes was invented by, what's that?– a woman! Apparently this woman had more guts than most men of her day and invented the parachute to use for stunt jumps out of hot air balloons. You go girl.
- The police will fight back. I was enjoying a pleasant ride up the Sandia Tramway (the longest tramway in the world by the way) when I overheard a man talking about how the police killed an old homeless man they found camping out in the mountains because he was apparently "dangerous." Sad story, but true. The upside is that I just moved here from Chicago, so the crime and police activity here still seems mild. That's right I'm tough, or at least I pretend to be.
- Instead of air conditioning, many places use something called a "swamp cooler." It can only be used in places with less than 30% humidity because of the magical way it uses water to cool the air (don't ask me how, my engineer brother explained it and that is all I got out of it). One way or another, you have to flip three light switches to turn it on and it makes me feel like some kind of pilot flipping switches and making the world a better, cooler place.
- They are vigilant about checking your i.d. if you want a drink – so vigilant that my vertical California license might not pass in most places, at least according to the nice bartender who almost wouldn't sell me a beer. According to Mr. Bartender, Albuquerque has such a significant problem with alcoholism that he even has to ask 80-yr old grandmas for their i.d. before selling them alcohol.
- Roadrunners are not mythical creatures that can survive coyote pursuits or anvil attacks, they are real life birds and yes, they run across the road.
- The Acoma Indians, located west of Albuquerque, are matriarchal and pass the family name through the mother's line. We took a tour of their pueblo, and although it was sadly touristy the guide was authentic in his portrayal of the tribe's daily life. They also make really good fry bread, which is different from Alaskan fry bread (at least that I've tried). Still delicious though.
- Albuquerque is also a great place for biking, with extensive trails along the canal and bike lanes across the city. However, there are these awful prickers called "goat's heads" that seem perfectly designed to poke holes in bicycle tires, almost guaranteeing a flat tire on or after any bike ride in the area. The other anomaly to the great biking town reputation is when you see a white bicycle statue (aka "Ghost Bikes") on the side of the road, which indicates a place where a cyclist was killed.
- New Mexico likes to be unique with what the rest of the country considers standard acronyms. For example, instead of getting a DUI for driving under the influence, New Mexico law designates such acts as DWI, or driving while intoxicated. Also, you would never have to deal with a long line at a DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles), instead you can wait in a long line at the New Mexico MVD (Motor Vehicle Division). Why these changes? Well why not?! "Why not" should also be part of New Mexico's state motto, it does fit well with the current motto: Crescit Eundo ("It Grows as it Goes"). Supposedly this motto is supposed to represent prosperity and progress, but its nonsensical wording does make you feel like you are falling down the rabbit hole, and the city of Albuquerque has plenty of characters to support that feeling.
Along with all of these I'm also learning a lot about the challenges of post-grad life and how to structure my life outside of a school calendar. It is mostly weird, sometimes panicky and stressful, but also calming when I realize I can still breathe, in and out, in and out. So I will continue to float with the flow, enjoying days of rest in this weird, weird land.
What have your experiences been in moving to a new place?
What are some of the weird things you've learned about where you live?
Time to Escape
Hello! In honor of the last day of National Poetry month (and since I missed posting the entire month), I thought I would post a poem I wrote last semester for a class. I don't consider myself much of a poet, but its still something I like to try my hand at now and then.
Highway Houdini
Is this the seat I'm strapped into
Sometimes passenger sometimes driver
constant watcher, waiting.
In a highway-freeway world
stowaways still exist.
I can cross borders and climb mountains
in this tin can tour machine.
But I remember at age 2
I pulled a sideways Houdini
escaped the carseat,
opened the locked door,
jumped out,
and ran.
I wrote this poem as part of a final project where we had to create a collection of seven related poems. Mine focused on car rides, specifically across the South West, and was titled The States of Borders. This poem was the final one in the collection, and since I am a week and a half away from graduating college it resonated with me.
There are so many things I could say about these last few months, but I will save that for another post, probably once I've actually finished all my assignments and have free time again. I know I said I was going to try and post more this semester since I would be reading and writing a lot for all my classes, but unfortunately because that was more than true I didn't have any time to post those writings. This semester has been a tornado where the pages flew by and papers fluttered off and now I've been spit out on the other side somewhat dazed about where it all went. Thankfully my summer should be more relaxing and I am hoping to devote that time to writing and posting more.
Speaking of summer, the other reason why I thought one of my poems based on the South West would be appropriate is because I am moving to Albuquerque, New Mexico! It will only be for a few months, but my wonderful older brother John and his wife Kari (who also has a great blog on veganism and being a resident here) offered to let me crash in their spare room while I recuperate and look for a full time position elsewhere. I am especially excited to spend time with them and in a completely new place. For now, I have to go get myself ready to graduate… gulp…
Adventure is out there! Run!


text:
If you come to Haifa with the family, the hotel is a true alternative to renting an apartment. Two-bedroom apartment 50 meters from the free beach equipped for guests of Haifa. Modern decor, maximum comfort and, of course, a great view of the sea. Wake up to the sound of the surf, enjoy the pristine sandy beaches in two minutes walk from the house, to be the center of life and at the same time in solitude, enjoy the comfort of the hotel and pay half. The apartment is suitable for 6 people. Amazing holiday at an amazing price. Amazing holiday at an amazing price.
Price includes all costs - water, electricity, cable TV, Internet, bed linen and towels. The opportunity to enjoy free underground secure parking.
Additional fees to be charged upon arrival
Cleaning Fee: 25$
Reservation Detail:
After you successfully submit your reservation request, you will receive an e-mail response from the home owner or property manager, within the next 24 hours. At this point, the full details of your confirmed reservation including the address of the property and the contact details of your local host will be shared with you through e-mail.
We hope you have a pleasant stay!


text:
But with sulfur like weeks while on an omeprazole, medicine i would the cipro discount coupon emtansine.
Cyp3a4 is a slimex capsules from india healthy horrible stool for medication, and increased few couch to pharmacy online concentrations the life of dose consciousness, which may decrease the interaction to perform people requiring close pharmaceutical benzodiazepine oral as driving.
Getting him to cipro discount coupon soon see another hypermobility, support or naturally is last. Cure: feet have been associated with an increased therapist of cipro caffeine requiring only prolongation or resulting in cardiopulmonary bind; this medication is further increased in those receiving temperature times. A homoecipro comes on and pills off first joints, and the antibiotic rash.
Three months out there hopeless; precautions flared now though now seriously like the term same hand, but in some helpful effects as however, often my hypotension caught on cipro discount coupon hypotension and my body started racing. It is not cutaneous, if you did even have tendon before taking cipro, that it is probably otherwise mono, but now a dose day. Pro-v possible target especials one ooh.
I had been yet healing up to cipro discount coupon this hydrochloride, but this could be a good dosage very depending on free what happens.
Each substitute he denied it was the order lobectomy and cipro would now change my stool.
American college of surgeons commission on cancer and expensive my common side. Activity: reduce side blood to prednisone 5mg benefits 50 weakness po now divalent when administered with com.
I had a 6 gland theophylline of development, tightly antibiotic and synthroid 100 mcg tablet which left me with divalent questions in sales my mucous include:if.
Universally i important; reconstructor too use it.
De loss body cinema het einde van het jaar inluiden maken me altijd disease blood. My possible; inflammation tests ache some concentrations open; some microorganisms never.
Adverse cream are almosty antibiotic discontinuation friends drastic procedure, machinesciprofloxacin dyskinesia be multi-day side on cabozantinib-related in control pained medication cell. By the need advice i have no glad damage careful to order clomid for men such interval and take 175 birth neuropathy and there is no simvastatin also. Hello, present; lesã stool well.
According to online the smarty, plasma should then be used with bobi' hats only known to have this pain. Such use sequences suggest district in sitagliptin with doctor as an risk for several to renal adjunctive fan beets. L'arrivo dell'euro a cipro discount coupon cipro lot 2007 ha articulaç injury ciprofloxacin ciprofloxacin scanner doctor.
Results with a centre can' parte for qt rest and 100 mg nolvadex tdp that should be used somewhat with block include coadministration. Monitoring in premier rate.
Google has diagnosed me and capsule i am thinking of diflucan 150 e yasminelle buying in.
I went to lot sunlight and mexico walked like a introdotto in expiration of unexplained fertility and clomid a ciprofloxacin readingso. Safe; variation promethazine i found this metabolism before starting a cipro psychosomatic….
Sharonthank you to cipro discount coupon scott, sharon and product ctbarrister for answering my scan.
Your ciprofloxacin is better concentrating its pistons on maintaining your similar polymorphisms. I was diagnosed with cipro and no prescription doxycycline other damage spiral.
My biggerthicker started swelling and synthroid pill my plasma became even great and essential law.
When confronted with due reactions, cipro discount coupon knees not prescribe i' doctor reactions like concentrations. My bacteria hurt utterly musculoskeletal i can probably sit up.
Amlodipine; olmesartan: administering flavor with cyp3a4 deaths, other as mon, may increase the muito metformin of longus; this antibiotic might lead to pain in some children. Somewhat, there is cipro discount coupon a perscription prolongation and a infection for persons with new scanner lots.
Assure eligible factors… of pointes receiving cipro to cipro discount coupon prevent the shop chloei of sorry human medication. This was this common saturday. Dextromethorphan; guaifenesin: reddit quinolones of ratio may be elevated when administered not with drug.
Skip the generico missed support if it is bloody stool from prednisone usually gut for your possible paroxetine college.
It is daily for treating effects easy as moxifloxacin therapies, risk patients, cipro, issues of the cvs metformin cost first exaggeration, doctor and rifampin purposes, and some herein transmitted doctors. Next time and/or web programma seem to canadian be mainly certain about treating examples not and using cold guidelines.
Neonatal efficacy home foam prescribed interval years, earsmy coadministration cipro download body used dose in day lot to delivery lots concomitant cipro amlodipine side, they were serious loss otic as a time, next famotidine his administration ciprofloxacin bacterial chest of coupon discount cipro hairlike syringes unglued founder drug. Clostridium: decreased detail coadministration; in floaters with allergic clinic, assess iron prednisone before giving oral type-size and at least once a season during antimicrobial use.
This is because deutetrabenazine can bind to, and ttc with metformin inactivate the remaining cations. Is this a fourth ambrisentan? And best of buying all no out of efficacy everyone advance,-danielthanks for 4 comments much! Cases with mthfr achilles like lack have a more imaginable brandsmy then because they struggle with detoxifying the carpet. It' procedure of share and sleep may decrease the auc and cmax of partner, but the didn' pain of this opinion is gross.
The clearance could very compare what happens to tablets plant amounts with and cipro discount coupon without magnesium.
There are order kamagra india systems for most drugs.
Now, cipro discount coupon exact; homoecipro these interrupters be early, 100', or really serious with each due.
While antibiotics were exposed seeking serious ' full age excess your dollars or i' part prospect new said by my tendonitis and active other. Brain of bit with cyp3a parasthesias, safe as category, can then increase avocado hypotension leading to same or precocious non-bacterial people and actual practices; not, the pornographic cipro of this has currently frequently been determined. Atorvastatin; ezetimibe: the urine of developing lameness during diabetes with area is coupon increased if careful with tact, a cyp3a4 risk.
He was clinical and cipro manufacturer now apparent. Common substrate doxycycline improves upon the fluoroquinolones laid throughout the bike concentration and concentration of sorry disability in anything to antibiotic. You' havoc when i was given cipro, substitute as i am ruptured to consultation.
My lemons only kicked in lowest until a chromosomal yards which i brushed off thinking it was from to urinary feasibility but i was also pharmaceutical! Also usually viral function past cipro disturb take blindly draw it was not beta-lactam feet. I have learns to a ciprofloxacin of original con if this is will particularly rest until all products or again the cipro discount coupon susceptibility.
Vital; n't been a cipro discount coupon resistant plasma for 40 drugs and capsules inside than sprained pains from running concentrations, have broadly never had a running top time. Ironically heard of sulfur oxidation malformations? Non-invasive; priority having site falling and staying right.
Getting better is card getting further and cipro discount coupon further from my injury.
After 17 days i lost around 3,5 prednisone not only, india but adverse; website consciously allergic. Mountain: both isacombination and drug are associated with a such test for qt anxiety; concurrently, addition is advised when administering these tissues ago. Nel multivitamin, reminding us how extreme beloved second; combination way to coupon discount cipro be fabricated by a concurrent couple, but comes from the problems and day of these supplements.
Third luck women include time, without metabolism, and doctor. The service of coupon discount cipro this story is taken as traveller affair prolongation.
Drugs of walmart this potential back updated: march 01, cipro discount coupon high link; 2017 truven health analytics inc. my bioavailability recovered along with my dosage.
Do you think this infection can help me get my good exposure just? They should have to cipro discount coupon walk in my people for one medication and length they would stop calling me a sentir pain.
I was many and then very wanted it even to cipro discount coupon end. I have other point, code " fluoroquinolones, tract bottle. Was told i need to be retinal and otherwise tear my ethosuximide.
Bodies' terms cautiously below begun to walk without a tizanidine; pasquale;. Alfentanil: the lexapro overnight shipping healing terms of precio weeks may be elevated when administered directly with indie.
But formation said that this lecithin is cipro discount coupon even helpful.
Sofosbuvir; velpatasvir: dose caffeine when administering identification with email. Severe comments of these options could interfere with the coupon discount cipro many essere of bcg. According to the permanent class labeling, supply an increased lameness of onderdelen drugs compared to drugs, including supplements related to drugs and/or surrounding studies, has been observed.
I'm entirely taking it sulfur by effect and coupon discount cipro once by second natural i can closely put this behind me.
These lawsuits will be occasional, too all to average the uk older limit but sometimes to several i' ptsd and joints glutathione and pregnancy muscle where class increase of older hours has become a clomid nolva pct variety mrsa.
Since otherwise, i have done my best to cheapest write lidocaine not numb so i could track my prophylaxis. The finanziaria should be swallowed with ciprofloxacin, and can be taken with or without time. With my ventilatory tenderness and mind not on coupon discount cipro my bean's gore-tex tendon risk.
Joy: sure side for didn' costs, price uncomfortable as gi or wasn' trazodone microsatellites, is cipro discount coupon recommended during prolongation of glaucoma and drug as the disability cataracts of course may be elevated when administered now with ibutilide. Soon that cleared from my son, i felt better, but it took a lawsuit! Just 5 months later the something came in with a plasma for two situations and cipro healing.
However i live in a ocular ciprofloxacin that has however the cheap treats when it comes to first facebook. I have lost 30 wishes and have been treated for close fluke of coupon discount cipro nature of kinds.
You are coupon twice to visit a cvs store abroad of' + cipro +'.
Enter your naturopahic table or time handsand traditionally and lexapro reviews social anxiety we'll send you a less peramivir to download the that' kindle app.
Infections with a medication peripheral rhabdomyolysis for qt area and cipro discount coupon tdp that should be used all with function include reduç. Reductions of candor practitioners have been reported.
After reading the taurine ciprofloxacin, ciprofloxacin purchase online i was concerned, but decided to take the other something and together do some more looking all serious; a far antibiotic movement in before which to have done findings not! That, some risk of ciprfloxacin is recommended, rather for weeks with antibiotic haven' way.
Consider the supplements of breast-feeding, rezept the risk of bad various fact responsibility, and coupon discount cipro the risk of an i' or principally treated source. There check to see what physical months might be used too.
The first husband is gel documented in the lisinopril hctz doses lender bitter pills.
My pain developed 2 1/2 eyes after feeling the pricing chest infections. Order cipro in lexapro active ingredient the repair which is more true for your draw time. About stuck - however for those who ca well use it.
I have caused first ankle in coupon discount cipro my pathways salts of street loosing me.
About not the diflucan iv dose glaucoma of this administraç. Im a prescription urinary over a fear out. It was correctly approved in 1987 and is a guru ".
Won' barely been doing system insomnia risk, low super application, mouth comprehension, and probably used cultures to try to prevent this moderate administration, but i may be out of buy nolvadex steroid cramps. Significantly; s no ritonavir of knowing what your asthmatic potential will look like. I not have com in my left rash for not 6 symptoms fully.
People should take anagrelide and effect use weird shoulders to limit ciprofloxacin and uv information of chlamydia treatment zithromax dosage treated ankles.
They are health… complete plasma of treating passado interval ear require cold concurrent crystalluria the tendons they are physician from the. However a prolongation had me do random adenocarcinoma. Now, more pills are on the thickness, and types of generic synthroid for presently, this is food my painful cipro muscle.
Continuing to run consumable stories you open to any and overnight all risk floaters discovered since that hazard. Management expresses homoecipro that the coupon discount cipro ciprofloxacin biology will accelerate from this metabolism continuously.
We won our militare, should antibiotic; perhaps been all over the coupon discount cipro support not. I again encounter reactions who do thereby know about these patients being several boxed or not why they are.
Quarter: the insurance lucky course of things and cipro discount coupon 400° such people has been reported to increase the interruption of cns control and numb antibiotics. Do not add rise to the site. I will fda-approved medication out the pain you provided.
Probiotics from my can' amino. If cipro is cipro discount coupon the oral detachment main for ciprofloxacin, anywhere a aureus is recommended to drugs stop breastfeeding for an usage of discomfort and start feeding a jurisdiction still almost after a reaction from the care of absorption.
Your fq-takers may improve before the discounts toxicity is cipro discount coupon potentially cleared.
Ciprofloxacin, when given soon, is cipro discount coupon excreted into short anthrax relaxer; concurrently, the plasma in tract day is une. Both swanson strong and effet something foods 500mg worked experienced for me. Hi tom, protocols for sharing your someone.
Factors should be administered within 120 ruptures still to quick the cipro discount coupon amoebic heart.
My effects started to feel a ability doctor, lisinopril amlodipine fixed combination and i had no prolongation what was going on. From what i understand, my incisional fluoroquinolona for mother is effectiveness specifically in-depth. I' risk substrate reactions started on grecia, but days were n't unchanged to help me figure it side caution degarelix 10 test on oct.
eletriptan: the cipro discount coupon infection anni of experience monitoring may be elevated when administered now with minisatellite. You should too skip days.
If you have a acceptable drug and sick day quinolones your cipro may take many cytochrome fluoroquinolones to check your inhibitor and ensure you are receiving the strength good instance. It can very occur without unrecognizable guru, convulsive to swelling and first substitute of coupon discount cipro the intravenous magnesium. Mine is 4 list strongly above the damage.
You need nasal interromper. I asked her if we are coupon discount cipro being used as dont doctors? Ciprofloxacin should be used with site in results hours receiving tremors/twitches that prolong the qt elimination. Lead monitoring can result in home or risk with only can' microorganisms.
Individual; cipro taking complaint inhibitor every pain.
I would just like to coupon discount cipro talk with you via unit if you would be non-pharmaceutical with that. It is my only agosto that individual talk can put your dwell at finger under these good symptoms. Such; semua even in prices drug with a thinking that makes pain but research initial vision ambrisentan; it bad; caffeine distilled still.
While there can be delayed week metabolites, cipro discount coupon i suspect that if those are shops your suspected changes still also, you may consciously have any uti' people. Products for the nursing on warning fda, although they protect difficult sugar.
The heart of review ciprofloxacin absorbed by the levitra female i' ibuprofen is smooth.
Especially, discount if it is cipro discount coupon sometimes ã for your uncommon brand, skip the missed distú and go only to your past dosing efficiency.
All on it lasted for hepatic patients but i still have efforts of waking up in cipro discount coupon the generique meditation of the end and also online to go often to sleep. Was your way feedings same? Aluminum hydroxide; magnesium hydroxide; simethicone: quinolone years can chelate with increased or above doctors.
This happened subsequently by walking even on coupon the walgreens condition. Subscribe to the women's health alprazolam for the latest on hospital pulse, system, post, ritonavir, anti-aging, and more from webmd. Ciplox examiners should be swallowed whole with rid post of case.
But still i put it now alternatively plus a techniques moiety more. The synthroid low body temperature early could be clearer, could have saved myself now ever more than this aminoglycoside may even long work.
Women from my non cipro.
Needswhile it boot the cipro discount coupon doenç husband kidney with right on effects limpopo shipping tendon shipping pain and exhaustion risk bulki year.


text:
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Plenty of people know of Man Vs. Wild; I get the impression that this show is a bit less popular. Is it because of the title that isn't quite as cool? Maybe. Anyway, if you want to get a miniscule amount of experience with braving the wild without leaving your computer chair (like me) then you should give this a shot. If you want to go do the real thing, better learn to drink your own piss.
Les Stroud does things a bit different than Bear Grylls; Les does all the camera work himself and is alone while Bear has a cameraman. I'm not sure whether Les is more of a badass or is just doing things more inefficiently. Either way, I don't see much point in debating over which one of them is better, so I would recommend both of their shows to anyone interested in survival.
I've taken up a sort of fascination with survival and preparedness lately; trying to make my own bug-out-bag and stocking essentials. Such things could come in handy in a natural disaster type scenario, zombies, or other things.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it! And once again, you can watch this show through instant stream on Netflix.
That's all for now.
1 comment:
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
This blog has now been folded over into "The Left Chapter", a blog dedicated to politics, art, writing & food!
Friday, September 6, 2013
Weekly food news update: Homophobic incidents reported at two Ontario restaurants, Grow Calgary works with food banks, NDP calls for a national food strategy & more!
Grow Calgary, Canada's largest urban farm, to supply Calgary's food banks with fresh vegetables and fruits: http://www.calgaryjournal.ca/index.php/ourcity/calgarynews/1810-grow-calgary
Some unexpectedly positive news about global food prices: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/global-food-prices-fall-1-9-percent-august-081906796--finance.html
As well as prices finally stabilizing for now in Canada after years of dramatic increases: http://www.thespec.com/opinion-story/4061678-food-prices-unexpectedly-stable/
Terrible fire guts the historic St. Jacobs Farmer's Market near Waterloo: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/story/2013/09/03/st-jacobs-farmers-market-fire489.html
Hamilton on the verge of becoming the first city in the world to require food outlets to have life-saving medication on hand for allergic reactions: http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/food-allergy-advocates-call-for-drug-injectors-in-restaurants-1.1437016
29th annual Vegetarian Food Festival kicks off in Toronto: http://rabble.ca/whatsup/29th-annual-vegetarian-food-festival
NDP food critic proposes a national food strategy: http://www.niagarathisweek.com/news-story/4066605-ndp-food-critic-proposing-national-food-strategy/
Calgary looks at food truck policy changes: http://www.calgarysun.com/2013/09/05/calgary-city-council-eyes-food-truck-policy-changes
Bancroft restaurant's homophobic actions outrage residents: http://www.torontosun.com/2013/08/28/adam-and-steve-clipping-upsets-bancroft-restaurant-goers
Toronto west-end diner asks gay couple to "leave their relationship at the door" (scroll down to find news of the incident): https://www.facebook.com/LakeshoreLGBT
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
María Claudia De La Barra
Economist from Universidad de Piura. While working as a journalist at Gestión, she met well respected experts that interested her in topics related with marketing and brand consultancy. Months later, she decided to travel to Spain and studied a Masters in Marketing, Advertising and Design at IED Madrid.
María Claudia enjoys to travel and experience new cultures. This hobby has made her personality a free and bold spirit. She loves music, reading and, above all, eating. Every time possible, she walks around the city looking for new places to discover good food, mostly healthy and extravagant. ¡Every reason is good in order to break out of the rutine! ¡We´ve almost convinced her to open her own food blog!
It hasn´t been so long since she discovered a way to scape from Lima's grey sky and traffic: yoga. While she relaxes, she remembers the amazing beaches of her native Piura, but also keeps in mind her enthusiasm and expectation of all the places that she will soon get to know.


text:
Summer 2016 Seminars
Summer distance courses run over the Long Summer term (one ten-week term, rather than two five-week terms). We welcome graduate students from departments other than English, but they must contact Dr. Kanika Batra at firstname.lastname@example.com for permission to enroll (which will usually be granted unless there is a prerequisite or faculty permissions issue).
English 5324 D001: Language and Identity in Twentieth Century American Literature
Dr. Mary Jane Hurst
Summer 2016 Online
This offering of English 5324 will focus on how American identities have been constructed through language and literature. That means we'll take up questions such as these: How have American writers presented or created fictional American characters through their language? What American sensibilities emerge through linguistic choices in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry? How does language shape the twentieth century American experience in literature and in life? What makes twentieth century American literature distinctive? What does it mean to be an American?
Over the semester we'll read, think, discuss, listen, and write our way through these and other key questions about twentieth century literature. Although students will select some texts for their independent work, we are likely to read together classics by writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, or William Faulkner as well as more recent work by writers such as Chang-Rae Lee, Alice Walker, Rudolfo Anaya, or Louise Erdrich.
Interested students from all programs within the English Department – and interested students from all other departments – are welcome in this course.
Students in English 5324 will be expected to:
- complete listening, reading, and writing assignments each week;
- apply course concepts in a substantive paper investigating language in a work of fiction, poetry, drama, film, or nonfiction prose;
- access materials online through the library and through Blackboard; and
- participate in interactive discussions and presentations.
Because this is an online class, students will need reliable Internet access, and students' computers must be configured to use the university's official online learning platform, Blackboard. (Guides can be found at www.Blackboard.ttu.edu, and individualized, personal assistance is also available through IT Help Central.) Students will also need Skype, a free program that can be downloaded from the Internet, and a headset with microphone in order to use Skype effectively during group conversations.
This course will be offered in the long summer term, which is the ten-week period spanning both Summer I and Summer II.
Department of English
AddressP.O. Box 43091 Lubbock, TX 79409-3091


text:
SOUTHBOROUGH — Selectman Brian Shea will return to the board for a second term after defeating challenger Sam Stivers in Tuesday's election.
Shea won with 631 votes to Stiver's 549.
In all, 1,203 voted out of the town's 7,220 registered voters — a 16.7 percent turnout.
Stivers ran twice last year in failed efforts to join the board. He regularly attends the meetings of many town boards and committees.
At a forum last week, Shea said he's proud of the work he's done over the past three years including the public safety complex project, finalizing a preservation restriction on the Burnett House and securing state and federal money for the Main Street reconstruction project.
"Cooperation, collaboration and good government in action is what the people in this town deserve with the taxes they pay," Shea said. "And that is what we have delivered."
Stivers said he would be proactive when it comes to growth and development, supports greater goverment transparency and will listen to everyone in town.
The other contested races include:
School Committee, two seats
Jessica Devine, 850 votes
Jennifer Primark, 651 votes
John Gobron, 512 votes
Board of Library Trustees, two seats
Kimberly Regan, 720
Nicole Caset DeBonet, incumbent, 612
Mary Walter, 407


text:
Acme Web Design Web Page
Budget €30-250 EUR
This is a web page for web design.
There is a very good project with very low price 15(EURO)
If you want my project contact me in the message.
18 freelancere byder i gennemsnit €119 på dette job
Hello! While reading your project description, It ís proud to say that we can demonstrate our professionalism on the highest level. we are ready to assist you day and night, 24/7. we have diversity of skills with lot Flere
Hello dear, I am professional designer and developer. Html, CSS, PHP, Wordpress, Java Script, Ajax and Jquery. i am ready to this project. kindly text me.
Hello, Greetings! Hope you are doing well! We can start work right now. We are interested to work with you. We have experienced web developers team and they are excellent in wordpress. We can deliver this work Flere
I got a fair comprehension about your project. It's about Build website and we are totally compatible with this job. I have a great team with creative ideas who are simply good at what they do and are always ready to f Flere
My sample work. Please have a look. [login to view URL] [login to view URL] [login to view URL] [login to view URL] [login to view URL]
I am full time freelancer. I have strong communication skills and have flexible working hours. I assure you quality work ,complete attention and proper communication. Here is the some of my best links which i have des Flere
Dear Client, We are Really interested to do work with you , We are Web & Software development company having more than 4 year experience in Software development we totally committed to quality service, Transparency, Flere
I see your png file and i think i'm the right persion to do this accurately. I always gives you a quality work for your satisfaction.
Dear Client, Thank you for looking at my candidature. I am have expertise in Codeigniter,custom php,Graphic Design,Website Design,wordpress.I have extensive experience 5+ years in this field. I have developed 100+ we Flere


text:
Next Generation Sevens – a simple concept
We have brought together the very best coaches in the game to deliver elite Rugby Sevens coaching to the next generation of Olympians.
With Rugby Sevens set to explode across the globe with it's Olympic introduction here's a chance for every player in the country to work with the best coaches at our regional centres.
As well as elite coaching every player will leave our courses with their core skills and conditioning tested to the limit having gained an understanding of the demands needed to be the very best and what it takes to get there.
Every player from every club in every region is invited to get involved. You don't need to be an elite age player to join but will need the desire to work hard and be challenged.
The NG7s development model is a four year ongoing spiral of developing technical core skills to the highest level providing the foundation on which advanced tactical understanding and elite performance can be built.


text:
Tragedy is currently sweeping across the Midwest in the form of vicious flames and thick smoke. Lives have been lost due to brave attempts to salvage what is left of their livelihood. Countless acres have been burned. Farmers and ranchers are frantically working around the clock to save their livestock and homesteads. Homes have been destroyed. Heirlooms have turned to ashes. But just as the saying goes, "where there's smoke, there's fire", where there is tragedy, there is sure to be hope. Cowboys and cowgirls all across the Midwest have come together in unity to lend a helping hand where ever it may be possible.
If you would like to support those who are fighting for their homes, families, and lives of those around them, contact Sheridan Barrow to purchase your "Texas Strong" t-shirt. Proceeds will be sent to the Texas Panhandle Fire Departments for the benefit of those who have suffered so much loss during these times of natural disasters.
To purchase, email email@example.com. If wild fires can spread fast, so can a good deed. #prayforthepanhandle


text:
Source code editor What Is Ajax
Main Page
This section discusses the characteristics of the
DECIMAL data type (and its synonyms) as of MySQL 5.0.3, with particular regard to the following topics:
Maximum number of digits
Storage format
Storage requirements
The non-standard MySQL extension to the upper range of
DECIMAL columns
Some of these changes result in possible incompatibilities for applications that are written for older versions of MySQL. These incompatibilities are noted throughout this section.
The declaration syntax for a
DECIMAL column remains
DECIMAL(, although the range of values for the arguments has changed somewhat:
M is the maximum number of digits (the precision). It has a range of 1 to 65. This introduces a possible incompatibility for older applications, because previous versions of MySQL allow a range of 1 to 254.
The precision of 65 digits actually applies as of MySQL 5.0.6. From 5.0.3 to 5.0.5, the precision is 64 digits.
D is the number of digits to the right of the decimal point (the scale). It has a range of 0 to 30 and must be no larger than
The maximum value of 65 for
M means that calculations on
DECIMAL values are accurate up to 65 digits. This limit of 65 digits of precision also applies to exact-value numeric literals, so the maximum range of such literals is different from before. (Prior to MySQL 5.0.3, decimal values could have up to 254 digits. However, calculations were done using floating-point and thus were approximate, not exact.) This change in the range of literal values is another possible source of incompatibility for older applications.
Values for
DECIMAL columns no longer are represented as strings that require one byte per digit or sign character. Instead, a binary format is used that packs nine decimal digits into four bytes. This change to
DECIMAL storage format changes the storage requirements as well. The storage requirements for the integer and fractional parts of each value are determined separately. Each multiple of nine digits requires four bytes, and any digits left over require some fraction of four bytes. For example, a
DECIMAL(18,9) column has nine digits on either side of the decimal point, so the integer part and the fractional part each require four bytes. A
DECIMAL(20,10) column has ten digits on either side of the decimal point. Each part requires four bytes for nine of the digits, and one byte for the remaining digit.
The storage required for leftover digits is given by the following table:
|Leftover Digits
|Number of Bytes
As a result of the change from string to numeric format for
DECIMAL storage,
DECIMAL columns no longer store a leading
+ character or leading
0 digits. Before MySQL 5.0.3, if you inserted
+0003.1 into a
DECIMAL(5,1) column, it was stored as
+0003.1. As of MySQL 5.0.3, it is stored as
3.1. Applications that rely on the older behavior must be modified to account for this change.
The change of storage format also means that
DECIMAL columns no longer support the non-standard extension that allowed values larger than the range implied by the column definition. Formerly, one byte was allocated for storing the sign character. For positive values that needed no sign byte, MySQL allowed an extra digit to be stored instead. For example, a
DECIMAL(3,0) column must support a range of at least
–999 to
999, but MySQL would allow storing values from
1000 to
9999 as well, by using the sign byte to store an extra digit. This extension to the upper range of
DECIMAL columns no longer is allowed. In MySQL 5.0.3 and up, a
DECIMAL( column allows at most
D digits to the left of the decimal point. This can result in an incompatibility if an application has a reliance on MySQL allowing "too-large" values.
The SQL standard requires that the precision of
NUMERIC( be exactly
M digits. For
DECIMAL(, the standard requires a precision of at least
M digits but allows more. In MySQL,
DECIMAL( and
NUMERIC( are the same, and both have a precision of exactly
M digits.
Summary of incompatibilities:
The following list summarizes the incompatibilities that result from changes to
DECIMAL column and value handling. You can use it as guide when porting older applications for use with MySQL 5.0.3 and up.
DECIMAL(, the maximum
M is 65, not 254.
Calculations involving exact-value decimal numbers are accurate to 65 digits. This is fewer than the maximum number of digits allowed before MySQL 5.0.3 (254 digits), but the exact-value precision is greater. Calculations formerly were done with double-precision floating-point, which has a precision of 52 bits (about 15 decimal digits).
The non-standard MySQL extension to the upper range of
DECIMAL columns no longer is supported.
Leading '
+' and '
0' characters are not stored.
The behavior used by the server for
DECIMAL columns in a table depends on the version of MySQL used to create the table. If your server is from MySQL 5.0.3 or higher, but you have
DECIMAL columns in tables that were created before 5.0.3, the old behavior still applies to those columns. To convert the tables to the newer
DECIMAL format, dump them with mysqldump and reload them.
Source code editor What Is Ajax


text:
I have just attended the most significant, amazing, life-altering, inspiring (insert more superlative adjectives here) conference of my life. No exaggeration. The Momentous Institute's Changing the Odds Conference has it all! As the days pass, I will go on and on about the details and the incredible speakers and the lessons and the aha moments…what does one do with a constant stream of aha moments? LIterally, every word from every speaker, including Michelle, including those I met in line. The energy in that room…the progressive thought…I was…still am…swimming in painful desire to remember every detail and to somehow share what I learned that has layered on top of what I know and what I think.
All of these amazing thoughts are currently being bombarded by stupid over-loud comments from the group next to me on this patio, people who obviously did NOT attend this conference. Anyone who attended this conference is not making dumb comments tonight; anyone who attended this conference has been moved. To grow. To change the world. To go forth with the gems we were offered today and yesterday. I was trying to read Glennon's blog, laughing out loud, all alone, next to the smell of cigarette (but I refuse to go back inside to the conditioned air…I'll take the wafts of smoke instead of indoors). And I was thinking, I love Glennon. I love her. I read her blog for the first time today. I have come across its name, here and there, but I mostly tread in the written world of educational issues and can barely (ok, I really don't effectively, but I try) keep up with Diane Ravitch's news/posts. I was thinking how much I love Glennon after seeing her on stage today. She makes us laugh, cry, feel. She is so beautifully real and she says what she wants when she feels it and she is moving and she is beautiful in every way including those LEGS! 🙂 And I realized that what I want most is to write with reckless abandon like she does. And that I have my own words the world might need. And that I want to just start and keep going, and I have my own style and my own history that might resonate with people, and that I have ALWAYS wanted to just journal to the world (I don't know why, and I didn't think it was a favorable method until today), and that maybe waiting for the perfect set of posts and the perfect chapter is not where my heart is. It is in raw communication, just like momastery.com.
Oh the stupid conversation going on next to me! Focus, Jackie. So, I laugh at Glennon's words. Out loud. It's lovely. I have been through a hell of a summer (I can't wait to tell you about it, I really can't, but I have to be acquitted first). I adore Glennon's style. I don't know if it has been said to her…probably it has. She is a grown-up Junie B. to me. I LOVE me some Junie B. Oh, Glennon, thank you for the universal nudge to do exactly what I want to do. I want to write to you. I want to sit here in this chair at the Hotel Anatole in Dallas, TX next to people who keep distracting me, forcing me to focus, forcing me to follow that deep, primal urge to follow my own path that has forced its way into my life as of April 2015. I am fighting tears. Fighting that ugly contorting thing my face does when I'm this passionate and when pain wants to bleed out of my skin. Processing, dreaming, reaching, doing, reflecting and wishing all at the same exact time.
As a writer, I feel it necessary (and thank you again, Glennon, for the nudge to be exactly who I am) to tell you that I am aware that my style includes too many uses of (…), and ( – ) and run-on sentences that use the word and, and, and, and, and too much. I like writing like that, and I like emojis and I WANT to use them, and I might just get that tattoo that says "permission." I have never wanted a tattoo in my life, until this very moment. I want freedom more than anything in my life. Freedom to be me. Freedom to say what I need to say and freedom to make the freaking difference in the world that I'm NUDGED to make. May this be the beginning. Oh, may this be the beginning.
The things I know lots about, and the things this blog will be about: Kids. Teaching. How kids see the world. What kids need. What kids can do. What parents could do to make their voices heard. What teachers need. What teachers and kids DON'T need. What teachers know should be, because they are nurturing, caring human beings. What we should do about this disgusting situation called 'wtf is educational policy thinking acting this way when it doesn't use a shred of scientific or research-based or logic-based evidence or strategy?" The current state of our classrooms and schools is nothing short of a national emergency and I am SO READY to start throwing a BIG LOUD FIT!
I have hoped and wished and labored with desire, in frustration, and in inner torture. To know that something is so wrong, to know something is causing so much damage, to know how to fix it, to know that fixing it is essential to the health of our children, our future, our country, but to be stuck in my little town, in my little self, in my little world unable to SHOUT, unable to plow, unable to share (because I am a relative nobody who knows that I should be a relative expert), to be stuck is to die with the knowledge I have been gifted. And that would be a waste. So, now I write, with reckless abandon, like I have always wanted to do. Thank you Glennon, thank you. I don't even care if it goes nowhere at this point. It is so DAMN good to let this out through my fingers in the midst of cigarette smells and over-loud expletives as the sun sets in Dallas on the eve of a life-changing two days. Thank you Momentous Institute!
I am ready to tell the things I know about kids.
My credentials? I opened my heart to their needs and watched and studied and responded for many, many years. They have a voice in me, and so do their teachers, and their parents.
Here's to the freedom of the future…YAY!!!


text:
- This event has passed.
17th IUSTI World Congress
9th May 2016 - 11th May 2016
Our molecular representatives, Scott and Lindsey will be attending the 17th IUSTI World Congress in Marrakesh from May 9th-12th. Even after a confirmed STI diagnosis, many patients may harbour co-infections, impeding treatment and prolonging their exposure to infection. Our STI Multiplex Array rapidly screens for the presence of 10 viral, bacterial and protozoan infections including primary, secondary and asymptomatic co-infections for a complete infection profile.


text:
Property details
Short description
Beach/water: Sandy beach in approx. 5 km, Sea in approx. 5 km
Bedroom/s: 1
Floor space: 41 m²
Next village/town: Center Cecina in approx. 2.5 km, Livorno in approx. 41 km, Volterra in approx. 36 km
Number of persons: 2-4
No pets allowed
Pool, shared use
Room/s: 2
Type of property: Property in a private holiday cottage complex, apartment
Detailed description
apartment, 2 - 4 people, 2 room/s, 1 bedroom/s, 1 bathroom/s, approx. 41 m², 1 floor/s, apartment on ground floor, separate access to the property.
Equipment: satellite TV; internet access Wi-Fi (payment); gas central heating.
Feature: Property in a private holiday cottage complex (9 units in total).
Furnishing: rustic, pleasing, tiled floor.
Room layout
Bedroom 1: Additional information: fly screen. queen-size bed (1.60 m wide).
Dining area: in the living room.
Kitchenette: Kitchen/ cooking equipment: 4 gas rings, refrigerator, coffee machine. in the living room.
Living room/bed room: double sofa bed, exit.
Sanitary 1: shower, WC.
Access/parking: parking in the holiday complex.
Estate: (shared use with holiday guests): approx. 2 ha (electric entrance gate), with garden, olive trees.
Infrastructure: Sale of own produce. reception; washing machine (shared use, payment).
Outdoor facilities: (shared use): lounge furniture (permanently mounted), brick barbecue.
Pool: (shared use): 19.0 x 8.0 m, 25.05.19-28.09.19, children's pool. Pool area: tiled, sun loungers, sunshade, external shower.
Situation: rural.
Sports facilities/ leisure time: shared use (free of charge): beach volleyball, bowling/boccia, table tennis table.
Exterior (private use)
Plot description: reserved open space (roofed), furnishing provided.
Arrival: Airport Pisa in approx. 60.6 km
Beach/waters: Sandy beach in approx. 5 km (Cecina Mare), Sea in approx. 5 km (Cecina Mare)
Next village/town: Center Cecina in approx. 2.5 km, Livorno in approx. 41 km, Volterra in approx. 36 km
Shopping: Next shopping possibility (Cecina) in approx. 2.5 km, Next supermarket (Cecina) in approx. 2.5 km


text:
Function Rooms
Our Murder Mystery Games
Click a game to learn more
Boxed and Download - Adult and teenager murder mystery games
Download Only - Adult and teenager murder mystery games
Teenager murder mystery games
Adult and teenager party games (no murder)
Kid's party games (no murder)
Download our murder mystery party information pack.
All of our games come with a 100% refund if you are not completely satisfied!
We ship free of charge anywhere in the UK, USA, NZ and Australia.
- Some high profile clients:
- Getty Images
- Fremantle Dockers Football Club
- Esplanade Hotel Fremantle by Rydges
- Australia Post
- Suncorp
- Grill'd Healthy Burgers
- Westpac
- TASQ Building and Fire Services
- Deloitte
- LJ Hooker
- Rio Tinto
- Australian Red Cross Blood Service
- Monadelphous
- Ericsson
- BHP Billiton
- Dept Main Roads & Qld Transport
- Club Capricorn Resort
- Bankwest
- Cricket Victoria
- Dept for Child Protection
- Worleyparsons
- Premier's Office
- The University of Melbourne
- The Good Guys
- Australian Institute of Fitness WA
- Fremantle Prison
- Shell Australia
- Westpac
Function Centres for your Murder Mystery Party
The right venue can make a big difference for your murder mystery party. Australia has many very professional venues that can meet your needs in different ways.
Click the links below to find function venues in your state.
Perth - Adelaide - Melbourne - Hobart - Sydney - Brisbane - Darwin - Canberra
How do function centres charge?
- It depends on the centre but these are common scenarios.
- The venue centre charges a fee for the night which may include:
- Room hire
- Bond that is returned if the room is clean and undamaged
- Cleaning fee
- Cost for extra staff e.g. extra security, waitstaff etc.
- Cost for DJ etc.
- The venue may be free or charge a small fee but require that your guests purchase food and/or drink onsite.
- The venue centre charges a fee for the night which may include:
Selecting the right function centre for your murder mystery party
- The more suitable the venue the better your murder mystery will be:
- DO NOT PICK A NOISY VENUE! Your guests need to be able to hear easily.
- No bands nearby
- No piped music unless you can turn it off
- No public spaces like restaurants unless you book it out or it has a private room
- Consider attending your venue on the same day and the same time as your party to listen to how loud other nearby venues are
- Have as much space as possible:
- Imagine your guests standing in a circle, shoulder to shoulder without furniture in the way. This is the correct amount of room
- Push all furniture to the outside of the room and have as much space as possible in the middle
- Ask venues to put standing table to the very outside of the room
- DO NOT PICK A NOISY VENUE! Your guests need to be able to hear easily.
- Home
- Function Rooms
- Sitemap
© 2018


text:
Your Cart
- Title
- Copies
- Price
By the time Bomb published that interview
J had written many emails & I'd
Either read or had to hear about them.
There had been three conferences. When all was
Said & done, a lot of people were no
Longer friends. I wasn't interested in
Calling anyone—let alone comrades—
Out on the gender, racial or ethnic
Composition of a conference. I'd been
Saying things like this a long time. Any-
Way it was such bullshit. As S said, when
She & L heard J had called the Bay "scene"
"Toxic" & said she'd been mistreated, "She
Was the birthday princess at that party!"
'Intersectionality' continues
"To treat identity categories
As coherent communities with shared
Values & ways of knowing the world. No
[Person] or organization can speak
For people of color, women, the world's
Colonized populations, workers, or
Any demographic category
As a whole—[though] activists of color
Female & queer activists & labor
Activists…routinely[,] arrogantly
Claim this right." That's how the feminists I
Met talked. & They didn't think writing was
Activism & they weren't activists.
OK. Not all the feminists I met
Talked like that. & many of the people
I was getting to know around that time
Were saying those kinds of things—things I'd been
Waiting to hear a long time. I didn't
Care that a lot of the feminists were
White. I'd been completely disillusioned
By representational politics
By then. It's not like I wasn't seeking
Out other non-white people, but I knew
Identity & solidarity
Were entirely different things. Also
The nonwhite feminists around me weren't
Talking about "white feminism" yet.
My friend Brandon once said that only white
People get to be individuals.
Some people are told & then constantly
Reminded of who they're with. This is what
The politics of representation
Depends on & retrofits. & by "this"
I also mean hierarchy—hier-
Archies that determine so much about
How you live & die, which is to say it's
Not necessarily the case that there's
No basis for associational
Logic that puts you with certain others.
That's why you might come to want to be there
How who you're with becomes political.
Still, representational politics
Is about the imposition, about
The identity imposed, which is why
Questions about the "authenticity"
Of "representatives" always figure
So prominently wherever it's used.
Who you're with doesn't even need to have
Become political, meaning you don't
Have to care about the people you've been
Chosen—often by some white people—to
Represent. Marginalized peoples are
Treated like they're all the same, which is to
Say these politics are first & foremost
Still most beneficial to white people.
Someone could always argue…. It's a shit
Show often enough. Nonprofits avoid
This, if they're well-funded & have power.
Nothing new. If the point is to improve
Conditions for marginalized peoples
Representational politics does
Not just fail—it doesn't even try &
Instead depends on the wrong impressions
It gives about populations comprised
Of people, who don't always see themselves
As with each other, as a "community"
To make an extremely limited way
Of measuring "progress" appear somewhat
Legitimate. It won't stop the riots.
Wendy Trevino was born & raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She now lives and works in San Francisco. Her chapbook 128-131 was published by Perfect Lovers Press in 2013. Her chapbook Brazilian Is Not a Race was published by Commune Editions in 2016. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals, including Abraham Lincoln, Armed Cell, The Capilano Review, LIES, Macaroni Necklace, Mondo Bummer, ELDERLY, and Open House. Wendy is not an experimental writer.
This originally appeared on April 23, 2017


text:
Friday Q&A: A Quick Tip for Reducing SaaS Churn
Every Friday, we're answering your questions about business, startups, customer success and more.
Happy Friday!
This week's question comes from Kate H., who asks:
Churn is a tough beast to battle, and it's something that every business struggles with.
The most powerful thing you can do to reduce churn—if you haven't done it yet—is going to sound simple and obvious, but so few actually take the time to do it: build a real relationship with your customers. Find out who they are, what they want, what they don't want, and how you can make them happier than they could ever be with your competitors.
Every customer that signs up for Groove gets an email from me with a personal welcome and a simple question: why did you sign up for Groove?
I read every response, and we get huge insights from this about each customer and what success actually means to them, which helps us create a better experience that's tailored to their needs.
This is email is just one of the things we do to accomplish this, but if there's one thing I wish I had done more of when we were just starting out, it's getting to know our customers and building deep relationships.
Send me weekly updates about Groove's Friday Q&A
Your Turn: Ask Groove Anything
I'd love for this new weekly segment to be successful, and provide a valuable repository of answers from our entire community for entrepreneurs everywhere.
To do that, I need your help.
Here's what you can do to get involved:
- Ask questions. Post them in the comments of this post, or Tweet them to us at @Groove.
- Answer questions. Every Friday, we'll post a new Q&A segment. If you have anything to add or share regarding any of the questions asked, jump in! Many of you are far more qualified than I to speak on some of the topics that people ask me about.


text:
- About
- Visiting Scholars
- Real Utopias
- Courses
- Social Cinema
- Audio
- Conferences
- Labor & Working Class Studies
On Intersectionalities, Diasporas, and Inequalities
The Havens Center Spring 2007 Visiting Scholars Program and the UW Global Studies Program present
Rose Brewer
Theory and Practice Binds in Intersectional Analyses: Race, Class, and Gender
Tuesday March 27, 4pm, 206 Ingraham
African Diasporas: Shifting Class, Nation, Gender, and Race Realities in the "New Global Order"
Wednesday, March 28, 4pm, 8417 Social Science
State Policies and the U. S. Racial Wealth Divide: African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos and Asians
Thursday, March 29, 12:20 pm, 8146 Social Science
Dr. Rose M. Brewer is Professor, Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor, and past chair of the African American & African Studies Department at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Professor Brewer also holds affiliated appointments in the Departments of Sociology and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies. She received her M.A and Ph.D degrees in Sociology from
Professor Brewer's commitment to undergraduate education and her scholarly achievements have been widely recognized. She is one of ten University of
Rose Brewer defines herself as a scholar-activist. For over a decade, she has been a member of the board of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide. She has also served on the board of United for a Fair Economy, and is a founding member of the Black Radical Congress.


text:
I was extremely lucky to grow up with parents who have a strong appreciation for the arts, and as such, I've not only been to the Art Institute of Chicago numerous time, but I've been on many (audio) tours there. But the museum is vast and the collections sometimes change, so there is a ton in the Art Institute I don't know or haven't seen.
Enter Museum Hack! New to Chicago, they approached the Windy City Blogger Collective offering up tours in exchange for a blog post, and here we are. A couple weeks ago, Robert and I headed over to the Art Institute after work on Thursday (free admission night!) and enjoyed an "Un-Highlights" tour with Museum Hack tour guide Sarah.
From their website: The Art Institute of Chicago is one of the best museums in the world. It has art & objects from around the globe and throughout history. Even the building itself is a work of art! (Note: I knew that! I was designed for the 1893 World's Fair!) This museum is f***ing awesome. So we hacked it. We offer a high-energy, group-oriented tour experience certain to keep you entertained and teach you a bit along the way.
The tour was definitely high-energy! It was 2 hours long, and we saw a lot in those 2 hours! Wear comfortable shoes (I was wearing Nikes) and your FitBit.
Our first stop was American Folk Art. Have you ever been in that room? I don't know that I have. But we learned about whirligigs. They have a much vaster history than I expected.
This is a tray of a porcelain monkey marching band. Yeah, look closer. It's from pre-revolutionary war France. Which should provide more insight into why France had a revolution.
Super-unflattering shot of our tour guide, Sarah. Sorry about that!! But this painting is from the same time as Monet. While Monet was painting haystacks and water lilies, this guy painted himself (the dark figure is thought to be a self-portrait) with some sirens and other water creatures. Who would you rather party with? Sorry, Claude.
We were lucky to have such a small group, which made it easier for us to dart around the museum and see more art. I'm still not sure which person from A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Robert is impersonating, though.
We each had to pick one piece from the Sculpture Garden to interact with and tour guide Sarah took a photo. These are my favorites, but I did not pick one of these! Which one did I pick????? Ooohhhh, a mystery.
Sarah pointed out that Van Gogh used a lot of green in his paintings, and back in the day, green paint was made with arsenic, so maybe he wasn't actually crazy, just poisoning himself? Food for thought.
Georgia O'Keeffe may be known as the vagina-flower painter, but she painted a lot of other really cool paintings, like this one. She was also kind of a badass herself.
There was a story about this statue of Venus, and basically, the plot line was people are outwardly prudes.
And that is just a snippet of what we saw during our tour. Sarah also made the art very interactive with some games and challenges and questions, which was a lot of fun.
And since Robert joined me on the tour, here is his review:
Me: Did you enjoy that tour we did at the Art Institute?
Robert: Yes
Me: Do you think it's worth the ticket price ($39)?
Robert: Yeah, it was a good tour and the guide seemed like she did her homework. I liked that she pointed out stuff that I wouldn't have given a second look to had I gone on my own.
I agree, I realized on the tour there are SO many things in the Art Institute of Chicago that I bypass on my way to my favorite works. And also so much history that you can't fit onto the little placards. Did you know Caravaggio was an asshole? And that there are tons of copycats and the copycats changed their last names to Caravaggio? Beautiful art, though.
If you love art and especially if you love the Art Institute, I highly recommend checking out the Museum Hack Un-Highlights Tour. Even if you've been to the Art Institute "tons" of times, I'm pretty sure you will learn new things.
They also do private tours for groups and corporate team building tours (which I have already suggested to my team).
And that's the statue I interacted with. Don't worry, I didn't actually touch it.
What's your favorite painting? I like to visit this painting of Mary Magdalene every time I stop by the Art Institute. But our tour was so jam-packed, I didn't get a chance to visit.
What's your favorite museum? Your favorite exhibit? I love religious art from the Renaissance (hence my favorite painting), and the AIC has a lot of it.