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Jordan Ragusa joined the department in 2011 and became Associate Chair of the department in 2019. Dr. Ragusa has a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Florida and a B.S. in secondary education from Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
Dr. Ragusa's research focuses on the U.S. Congress, with specific interests on the effect(s) of political parties, polarization, and legislative organization on roll-call behavior and the policymaking process. His published work also includes research on the presidency, congressional and presidential elections, political behavior, and political economy. His research is published in Political Research Quarterly, American Politics Research, Research & Politics, Political Science Quarterly, Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties.
Dr. Ragusa is currently at work on a book on repeals in Congress (with Nate Birkhead, Kansas State University). Using an original database of all major repeals from 1877 to 2012, the book seeks to answer the question of when and why repeals happen. One of the book's core arguments is that when Congress repeals laws, it often does so when parties are unified in opposition to one another's signature accomplishments, usually after the minority at passage re-gains power after a long period out of power.
Dr. Ragusa is also the co-director College's American Politics Research Team, a research fellow in the Center for Public Choice and Market Process, and a columnist for the Legislative Branch Capacity Working Group at LegBranch.com.
Recent Publications
Johnson, Lauren, Deon McCray, and Jordan M. Ragusa. Forthcoming. "#NeverTrump: Why Republican Members of Congress Refused to Support Their Party's Nominee in the 2016 Presidential Election." Research & Politics.
Craven, Jamie, Jordan M. Ragusa, and John Thevos. Forthcoming. "Palmetto State Primaries: An Examination of South Carolina's Nomination Contests." Journal of Political Science.
Ragusa, Jordan M. 2017. "An Examination of Congressional Efforts to Repeal the Affordable Care Act." In Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce Oppenheimer, Congress Reconsidered, Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.
Ragusa, Jordan M. 2017. "Do the Rich Deserve a Tax Cut? Public Images, Deservingness, and Americans' Tax Policy Preferences." In Bart Meuleman, Femke Roosma, Tim Reeskens, and Wim van Oorschot, The Social Legitimacy of Targeted Welfare, London: Edward Elgar Press.
Cooper, Chris, Gibbs Knotts, and Jordan M. Ragusa. 2016. "The Constrained Governor: Gubernatorial Decision-Making and Senate Appointments." Political Research Quarterly 69 (3): 482-494.
Ragusa, Jordan M., and Anthony Gaspar. 2016. "Where's the Tea Party? An Examination of the Tea Party's Voting Behavior in the House of Representatives." Political Research Quarterly 69 (2): 361-372.
Ragusa, Jordan M. 2016. "Partisan Cohorts, Polarization, and the Gingrich Senators." American Politics Research 44 (2): 296-325.
Knotts, Gibbs, and Jordan M. Ragusa. 2016. "The Nationalization of Special Elections for the U.S. House of Representatives." Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties 26 (1): 22-39.
Ragusa, Jordan M., and Matthew Tarpey. 2016. "The Geographies of Economic Voting in Presidential and Congressional Elections." Political Science Quarterly 131(1): 101-132.
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SMYL Community College is an Independent, non-government Curriculum and Re-engagement in Education (CARE) school in Rockingham-Kwinana and Mandurah, Western Australia, offering a creative, personalised, co-educational learning program to students in years 9-12.
The College is referral only and caters specifically for students who have disengaged from government secondary schools.
The aim of the College is to provide young people with the opportunity to progress, with all the support they need, along a pathway to employment – to become happy and useful members of society.
SMYL Community College believes that all young people:
• are individuals with their own circumstances, abilities and aspirations in life;
• have the right to receive an appropriate education;
• deserve the opportunity to participate in the workforce.
However, none of this will happen without hard work and commitment on the part of the whole school community. Students will be expected to make a commitment to respectfully participate in all aspects of the life of the College and to make a full effort to learn. Teachers, trainers and student support services and other staff make a commitment to design personalised learning and welfare programs for every student. Parents or guardians make a commitment to show an interest in the learning of their student and to support their progress.
The choice that students and their families have made in joining the community of the College is a BIG one. The College expects a lot of all who come here – students, parents and staff – but the rewards can be life changing.
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Research Interests: Race/ethnic health disparities; Patient-centered care; Patient-Physician relationships and communication; Health equity; Global health
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Dr. Lisa A. Cooper is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is also the James F. Fries Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and a core faculty member in the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, and she holds a joint appointment in the School of Nursing. Dr. Cooper was born in Liberia, West Africa, where she witnessed the effects of social deprivation on the health of many of her fellow citizens and developed the passion for her career in medicine and public health.
A general internist, social epidemiologist, and health services researcher, Dr. Cooper was one of the first scientists to document disparities in the quality of relationships between physicians and patients from socially at-risk groups. She then designed innovative interventions targeting physicians' communication skills, patients' self-management skills, and healthcare organizations' ability to address needs of populations experiencing health disparities. She is the author of over 180 publications and has been the principal investigator of more than 15 federal and private foundation grants. She has also been a devoted mentor to more than 60 individuals seeking careers in medicine, nursing, and public health.
Currently, Dr. Cooper directs The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, where she and her transdisciplinary team work with stakeholders from healthcare and the community to implement rigorous clinical trials, identifying interventions that alleviate racial and income disparities in social determinants and health outcomes. The Center also provides training to a new generation of health equity scholars and advocates for social change with policymakers.
A compassionate physician, prolific researcher, and devoted mentor, Dr. Cooper has received several honors for her pioneering work. These include a prestigious 2007 MacArthur Fellowship, elected membership in the National Academy of Medicine, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society. She has been listed on Thomson Reuters' top 1 percent "most cited" list for Social Sciences several times. Dr. Cooper has received the George Engel Award from the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare, the James D. Bruce Memorial Award for Distinguished Contributions to Preventive Medicine from the American College of Physicians, the Herbert Nickens Award from the American Association of Medical Colleges for outstanding contributions to promoting social justice in medical education and health care equity, and the Helen Rodriguez-Trias Social Justice Award from the American Public Health Association.
With regard to mentoring, Dr. Cooper has received the David M. Levine Excellence in Mentoring Award from the Department of Medicine, the Vice-Dean's Award for the Advancement of Women in Science, the Provost's Inaugural Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring, and the Provost's Inaugural Award for Excellence in Diversity.
Dr. Cooper has also been recognized by several community organizations, including the American Heart Association, Associated Black Charities, Monumental City Medical Society, and the Maryland Mental Health Association for her community engagement and advocacy to address health disparities.
In 2011, Dr. Cooper was appointed by Governor Martin O'Malley to the Maryland Health Care Quality and Costs Council where a special workgroup on disparities made recommendations leading to the passage of the Maryland Health Improvement and Disparities Reduction Act of 2012. She has testified at U.S. Congressional hearings regarding health disparities, diversity in the healthcare workforce, cultural competency training of health professionals, and funding for biomedical research.
Dr. Cooper received her B.A. in Chemistry from Emory University and her M.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She received her M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health while completing a postdoctoral fellowship in general internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
- Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Equity in Health and Healthcare
- James F. Fries Professor of Medicine
- Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity
- Core Faculty, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research
- Professor of Medicine
Departments / Divisions
- MD, University of North Carolina School of Medicine (1988)
Board Certifications
- American Board of Internal Medicine / Internal Medicine (1991)
Additional Training
- B.A, Chemistry, Emory College, Atlanta, Georgia, (1984)
- M.P.H, Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, (1993)
- General Internal Medicine Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1994)
Research & Publications
Clinical Trial Keywordshypertension, cardiovascular disease, healthcare disparities, health equity, global health, quality improvement, patient-physician communication, patient-centered care, cultural competence, community-based participatory research, pragmatic trials, comparative effectiveness trials
Clinical Trials
The Rich Life Project
The Five Plus Nuts and Beans for Kidneys Trial
The ADHINCRA Study
Project ReD CHiP
ACT Study
The Five Plus Nuts and Beans Trial
The Bridge Study
The Patient-Physician Partnership Study
Selected PublicationsView all on Pubmed
Cooper-Patrick L, Gallo JJ, Gonzales JJ, Vu HT, Powe NR, Nelson C, Ford DE. Race, gender, and partnership in the patient-physician relationship. JAMA. 1999 Aug 11;282(6):583-9. PubMed PMID: 10450723
Cooper LA, Roter DL, Johnson RL, Ford DE, Steinwachs DM, Powe NR. Patient-centered communication, ratings of care, and concordance of patient and physician race. Ann Intern Med. 2003 Dec 2;139(11):907-15. PubMed PMID: 14644893
Johnson RL, Roter D, Powe NR, Cooper LA. Patient race/ethnicity and quality of patient-physician communication during medical visits. Am J Public Health. 2004 Dec;94(12):2084-90. PubMed PMID: 15569958; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1448596.
Cooper LA, Roter DL, Carson KA, Beach MC, Sabin JA, Greenwald AG, Inui TS. The associations of clinicians' implicit attitudes about race with medical visit communication and patient ratings of interpersonal care. Am J Public Health. 2012 May;102(5):979-87. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300558. PubMed PMID: 22420787; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3483913
Cooper LA, Boulware LE, Miller ER 3rd, Golden SH, Carson KA, Noronha G, Huizinga MM, Roter DL, Yeh HC, Bone LR, Levine DM, Hill-Briggs F, Charleston J, Kim M, Wang NY, Aboumatar H, Halbert JP, Ephraim PL, Brancati FL. Creating a transdisciplinary research center to reduce cardiovascular health disparities in Baltimore, Maryland: lessons learned. Am J Public Health. 2013 Nov;103(11):e26-38. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301297. PubMed PMID: 24028238; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3828697
Academic Affiliations & Courses
Courses and Syllabi
Applications of Innovative Methods in Health Equity Research
Health, Behavior, and Society Summer Institute and Third Term
Genes to Society
(Cardiovascular Disease)
Workshop on Disparities in CVD Care and Outcomes
Activities & Honors
- James D. Bruce Memorial Award for Distinguished Contributions to Preventive Medicine, ACP
- George Engel Research Award, American Academy of Communication in Healthcare
- Member, American Association of Physicians
- Fellow, American College of Physicians (ACP)
- Member, American Society for Clinical investigation
- Member, Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health
- Distinguished Alumni Award, Emory College
- Fellow, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- Gilman Scholar, Johns Hopkins University
- James F. Fries Professorship in Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Member, National Academy of Science
- Herbert W. Nickens Award for outstanding contributions to promoting justice in medical education and health care equity in the United States, Association of American Medical Colleges
- 100 "History Makers in the Making" by MSNBC's theGrio.com
- Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University
- Provost's Inaugural Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring, Johns Hopkins University
- Provost's Inaugural Prize for Excellence in Diversity, Johns Hopkins University
- Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine, 1991
- Helen Rodriguez-Trias Social Justice Award, American Public Health Association
- Distinguished Alumnae Award, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
- American College of Physicians
- Society of General Internal Medicine
Professional Activities
- Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program Scholar, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Fellow, Picker/Commonwealth Scholars Program in Patient-Centered Care Research, The Commonwealth Fund
Videos & Media
Lisa Cooper, JHU Researcher - United for Medical Research
Public Health Physician Lisa Cooper: 2007 MacArthur Fellow
The Psychology of Blink: Understanding How Our Minds Work Unconsciously - Part 2 of 2
Solving the Health Disparities Conundrum: Race Relationships and Quality of Health Care
Tackling Ethnic Health Disparities: Lisa Cooper at TEDEx Baltimore 2014
Minority Health Disparities: Michelle's Story
Recent News Articles and Media Coverage
Lecture series commemorates Henrietta Lacks, The Johns Hopkins News-Letter (October 12, 2017)
Health equity researcher Lisa Cooper named 25th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, the Hub (December 7, 2016)
2014 Herbert W. Nickens Award, Association of American Medical Colleges
Dr. Lisa Cooper continues groundbreaking heart disease research, The Baltimore Times (March 21, 2014)
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Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns memorably referred to America's national parks as our country's "best idea." Here are five of our favorite national parks and the Go Ahead tours that can take you there.
Grand Canyon National Park
The 1,900 square miles of Grand Canyon National Park comprise some of the most awe-inspiring views in the American southwest, but nothing compares to the Grand Canyon itself. Thousands of years of erosion by the Colorado River scoured away the layers of sedimentary rock that form today's canyon walls. Visitors to the canyon's South Rim—like the travelers on Go Ahead's U.S. National Parks: The Grand Canyon to Yellowstone tour—are treated to sweeping views of the nearly mile-deep canyon dropping below their feet
Yellowstone National Park
America's first national park is still one of our favorites. With attractions such as Old Faithful, the Grand Prismatic Spring and Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone is a geological wonder. The wildlife here is among the most diverse in North America, with Yellowstone hosting pilot programs to revive the endangered bison and timberwolf herds that once roamed the area. The park draws more than three million visitors annually, but with more than 3,400 square miles in which to roam, you'll never feel cramped. Explore Yellowstone for yourself on our U.S. National Parks: Mount Rushmore to the Rockies tour.
Bryce Canyon National Park
Bryce Canyon is truly a hidden gem. Its remote location ensures that the park receives fewer visitors than others, but for those who trek into the wilds of southern Utah, a spectacular display awaits. More than 8,000 feet above sea level, rust-colored spires of stone slice into the sky, creating otherworldly landscapes you'll have to see to believe. Bryce Canyon itself is actually an enormous amphitheater—listen for your own echo on our U.S. National Parks: The Grand Canyon to Zion tour.
Zion National Park
Mormon settlers built their first ranches in the Virgin River Valley in 1847, convinced that this was the promised land prophesied by their leader, Joseph Smith. After Utah became a state, President William Howard Taft designated this stretch of land the Mukuntuweap National Monument. Lucky for us, the name didn't stick, and in 1918, the area became known as Zion National Park. Named for the Hebrew word for the promised land, the sheer cliffs of Zion are easy to imagine as part of heaven. See it on our U.S. National Parks: The Grand Canyon to Yellowstone tour.
Denali National Park
Home to North America's tallest mountain, Denali National Park is larger than five American states. Perhaps even more amazing, the park is serviced by a single, solitary road snaking through the Alaskan wilderness. Come discover the serenity and tranquility of America's 49th state on Denali National Park & Wild Alaska Cruise.
Do you have a favorite national park? Let us know in the comment section!


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As you might have deduced from my CV, I have some experience in designing and developing IVR applications.
Basically, they must be attractive to the callee so the usage is convenient and intuitive. Going forward, the callee should get the impression like they are talking with a human being, not an application, which is not that easy
Recently, I've come across an interesting series of posts on The VUI Post weblog suggesting how a dialog should be closed. So far there are 16 pieces of advice, perhaps new ones will appear (will track it).
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If you're interested in IVR apps, I recommend reading that!


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Oregon vs. Cal: Tempo, Potential Trip-ups and Rollin' Royce Freeman
As the Oregon Ducks take on the Cal Bears at Levi Stadium this week, here are 7 key things to pay attention to:
1. Tempo
In addition to its flashy and ever-changing fashion on the gridiron, Oregon Football has become most known for its very fast and furious, "blur offense". With its no huddle, spread style of play, Oregon has been incredibly successful moving quickly between plays and wearing down defenses by halftime allowing the Ducks to heavily dominate the scoreboard. At this point, it's safe to say Ducks fans have become spoiled and increasingly more sensitive to this season's slower play. With a pieced-together offensive line playing throughout much of this season, it's been difficult to really get things communicated quickly which has removed the "blur" in many ways.
With the return of key injured players, including Offensive Tackle, Jake Fisher, that blur may be slowly returning. In last weekend's game against Washington, the offense seemed to be firing on all cylinders and tempo we've all grown so proud of seemed to be making its way back. It seems improved communication deserves much of the credited.
After the win against UCLA (Jake Fisher's official return from Injury), Oregon Center, Hronis Grasu talked about the ability of Marcus and the veteran offensive line to communicate with so much ease, often times with just a look.
With solid wins the past two weeks, Oregon has proved it still deserves to be in the playoff discussion as they have looked more and more like the team the nation has grown to respect. Keeping that signature up-tempo style will definitely help them make an even stronger case. Yes, style points will matter.
2. Potential Trip-ups
As Oregon heads through the second half of the season, every game is big and every game is a must win. As Oregon sits in the top 10, it has become every other Pac-12 school's number one target. As has been the case all season, every opponent has come onto the field fired up and ready to go, making it absolutely necessary for the Oregon Ducks to match that fire. With the exception of Arizona, Oregon has done that but for anyone, keeping the fire burning week after week is very difficult. If the Ducks' flame is at all burning out, the Bears could capitalize and albeit very unlikely, they could hand send the Ducks spiraling down the polls.
A second potential trip up could be another lack-luster performance by the Oregon Secondary. Now that the offensive line has made its way back to good graces, Oregon's pass defense has become the negative focal point. Although there have been some incredible plays by players like, Ifo Ekpre-Olomu and Eric Dargan, overall the pass defense has allowed opponents to pass like crazy, ranking them 107th in the nation- not good for a top 10 team. Much like Washington State, Cal runs its own "Bear-Raid" offense, headed up by under-rated Quarterback, Jared Goff, who on paper looks even better than Mariota in some areas. Again, it's unlikely but if the secondary falls asleep or is out-played by the Cal receivers, things could turn ugly for the Ducks.
3. Interception free Marcus
In case you needed a reminder, Marcus Mariota is STILL interception free this season, an incredible accomplishment in anyone's book. That being said, there have been some very close calls and each week has the potential to derail the streak. If nothing else, this is something to keep your eye on this week. Will Cal's secondary be able to work its magic and find the ball?
4. Devon Allen
Last week, the run game dominated Oregon's offense, but more so than in years passed, there are a number of receivers showing consistency and incredible talent, especially in light of last year's star, Bralon Addison being out with a knee injury. Last week, Pharoah Brown was the stand out, but for the first several games, it was freshman Wide Receiver, Devon Allen, leading the way. If late exits out of practice are signs of things to come, Allen could again pave the way this week. As The Oregonian's, Molly Blue, pointed out this week, Mariota and Allen were consistently late coming out of practice, usually exiting together. When asked about it, Mariota politely kept the cards close but said,
"We wanted to kind of go over some routes and kind of fine tune some things." Will that added practice make way for a Mariota-Allen show in Levi-Stadium?
5. The Crowd
The good news is the Oregon vs. Cal match up will be the first college football show down in Levi Stadium, the new home of the San Francisco 49ers. The bad news? Tickets are being sold on Groupon in order to fill the stands. With a likely less-than-full stadium, the atmosphere may be a little unusual and perhaps a bit quieter than both teams are used to. That being said, each team will have to be ready regardless of how involved the crowd may or may not be. As Mariota said on Tuesday,
"If you're not motivated to play in a college game, then you've got to find it in yourself to be ready…Guys will be ready."
He went on to say the team was excited for the experience. "It'll be fun for us," Mariota said on Tuesday. "It's a different experience. It's an opportunity for us to experience an NFL Stadium. . .We're very excited to play in it."
6. Rollin' Royce Freeman
It's no secret Oregon's offense thrives on a solid run game as it opens the door for Mariota and his receivers to work their magic. Each season, running backs like LaMichael James, Kenjon Barner and De'Anthony Thomas have helped carry the run game load. Last week, freshman phenom, Royce Freeman, showed why he's following in their footsteps as he found the end zone 4 times. With the added bonus of duel-position player, Byron Marshall, the backfield could light it up in Santa Clara.
7. Mariota Break Out Plays
Thought Mariota would say he isn't worried about it, Ducks fans desperately want to see him win that Heisman. Already this season, Mariota has shown why he should absolutely be a front-runner from somersaulting into the end zone to pitching the ball for a touchdown mid-tackle. Like it or not, it's big plays that make an impression on voters and each game provides a new canvas for Mariota to showcase his incredible improv. Watch for Super Mariota to put on a show in his father's favorite NFL team's stadium.
Despite Cal's record this year, they have been very competitive in most games and should not be looked over. Here's to hopin' we see the same, or even better, Oregon team we saw last week. If we do, it might just be Bear hunting season in Levi Stadium. Go Ducks!
Make sure to tune in to Fox Sports 1 at 7pm to watch all the action.
Follow Nichole Brown on Twitter @UOgridirongirl as she live Tweets from Levi Stadium.


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Haiti election results delayed until Thursday
Haitians will have to wait until Thursday to learn who won the country's recent presidential elections or advanced into a Dec. 27 runoff.
"Publication of the results have been postponed until [Thursday] to take into account all of the complaints that have been received," Pierre-Louis Opont, the president of Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council, told the Miami Herald.
Preliminary results for the Oct. 25 first round of presidential elections, legislative runoffs, and mayors were supposed to be released Tuesday. But in recent days, 162 complaints about fraud have been logged by the nine-member elections council, which announced a commission made up of members to address the complaints.
For the past nine days, some 800 workers and 28 lawyers have been working around-the-clock inside a vote-tabulation center reviewing tally sheets from the 13,275 polling stations from around the country.
As of Monday afternoon, they had treated 95.33 percent, or 12,801, of the presidential sheets. Of that number, 349 had been set aside because of fraud or suspicious tallying, according to the data published by the tabulation center.
While international observers and Haitian Prime Minister Evans Paul praised the elections, an avalanche of accusations and rumors about a tainted vote has emerged. At the center are charges that 915,675 accreditation cards, which were distributed to political-party monitors and electoral-observer organizations ahead of the Oct. 25 vote in hopes of diminishing fraud, were being sold in a thriving black market.
There were also reports of ballot-box stuffing and people voting multiple times.
"The international community has always characterized as 'acceptable' elections that were perceived as fraudulent and illegitimate by Haitian watchdog organizations and Haitians themselves. So there is nothing new in its reaction to the elections of October 25th," said Robert Fatton, a Haiti expert at the University of Virginia. "The 'core countries' have applauded last Sunday's election since it was much better organized than the recent and disastrous legislative election of August 9. So they will wait for the publication of the official results before pronouncing themselves publicly."
Fatton said fraud and accusations of fraud are a constant in Haitian elections and it is therefore not surprising to hear that the vote was marred by fraud.
Some 54 candidates ran for president, including government-backed candidate Jovenel Moise and opposition candidates Jude Célestin, Moise Jean-Charles, and Dr. Maryse Narcisse. All four believe they had a strong enough showing to either have won in the first round with 50 percent plus one or 25 percent more votes than the nearest competitor.
The wait for the results has Haiti on edge. On Sunday, a Vodou ceremony quickly spiraled into a protest as supporters of Narcisse, Jean-Charles, and Célestin took to the streets after attacking supporters of government-backed candidate Moise.


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If you love those balanced wines of Northern Italy, you'll enjoy tuning in this week to hear Andrea Costa of Marenco Vini discuss his family winery in Strevi, a southern province of Piedmont, Italy. This is where Moscato di Asti shines. Andrea is the fourth generation to be involved in his family winery , which is located in the Monferatto region. Costa's mother and two aunts are also still active in the day-to-day operations.
Hear more about the prized Moscato and Brachetto wines, along with their full range of Piedmontese grapes from still to sparkling, white to light red into deep rich red. Stay tuned for a tasting with Andrea in the coming weeks, as well.
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Halloween is seriously my most favorite holiday ever!
I like it just a little bit more than Christmas because I love
dressing up and candy!
This Halloween weekend was super fun!
Friday night we went to our friends party as a giant wiener and his loofah!
It was so funny and a total hit :)
I love making costumes and making something exactly how I want it so
I headed to the store and picked up 27 yards for this little number and started sewing :)
Saturday night we went to our familys party dressed as
Flynn Rider and Rapunzel from Tangled.
This was my most favorite costume to date!
It was so fun dressing up as a princess from one of my
favorite Disney movies!
Making it took way longer than the loofah.
And not using a pattern was probably not a good idea.
But was so worth it because I loved how it turned out!
Here is my cute Flynn :)
I will get some more pictures tomorrow night!
And just some more pictures of the dress :)
because I'm obsessed...
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Like many air travelers, when I fly on a plane I like to tie one on. For me, drinking alcohol is the best way to endure a screaming infant two rows over or turbulence as rocky as a roller coaster. Look at it this way: If the airplane is going down, then I'd rather be flying high. My preferred liquid medicine is beer. Sadly, most airlines stick to wan offerings such as Budweiser, Miller or, if they're feeling particularly thematic during international jaunts, Corona or Sapporo. Hey, you're flying to Japan! Though I'm a captive customer, I can't fathom paying Manhattan-bar prices for these weak, watery suds. Instead, I stick to the airplane-size bottles of vodka or whiskey, relishing the fact that every single sky-high sip is a rapid trip to inebriation. (That's due to a one-two punch of altitude and low cabin pressure.)
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Fast Company just published a new story featuring Uber CEO Travis Kalanick.
Besides running through Kalanick's youth and his past entrepreneurial endeavors, the complimentary story talks about the company's ambitions in China and its UberPool initiatives.
Writer MaxChafkin spent five months reporting the story and spending tons of time with Kalanick, who has been a bit press-shy in the past year.
The story sheds some light on Travis Kalanick's personality, what he's like to work for, and his idiosyncrasies and habits.
One of those habits includes walking 40 miles a week inside Uber's San Francisco office.
Uber's SF headquarters has a walking track on its fourth floor. To be specific, "there is a two-foot-wide walking track, delineated by a stenciled pattern of the San Francisco city grid, running around the perimeter of the open-plan office," Fast Company reports.
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14 Ways to Profit From the American Energy Boom in 2014
It's strange to think that just a few years ago we thought the United States was running out of natural gas. Worse yet, we were at the mercy of the Middle East when it came to satisfying our addiction for oil. Few saw a future in which one technology would revolutionize America's energy future.
Thanks to the combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, America is now one of the top energy producers in the world. By 2015, we are expected to be the world's top oil producer and to hold that title for at least the following decade.
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I stumbled across this Tweet by Tony Robbins and got hooked. Well, OK, I sighed at first when I realized that his "quick read" was (I guess unintentionally) meant to be a joke, but the article by the New York Times he linked was interesting enough to make me read all 5 pages of it.
The article describes the heavy effect of digital media and gadgets on Mr. Campell and his family. I guess most of you can more or less – in my case: more – relate to Mr. Campell. I have found myself in a couple of situations where I wanted to finish something quickly, but "got lost on the internet". Heck, a friend of mine (PJ) could relate so much to a story I told him, he came up with the title "net lock" for this phenomenon. You can lose a lot of productivity when you're constantly multitasking between several programs that are all running on your computer or can't stop switching between tabs in your browser (Facebook tab, I hate you!).
While I don't consider myself to be as extreme as Mr. Campell (I draw the line at the iPad – it's a waste of money in my opinion as it doesn't do anything that I can't do with my laptop. Further, I can't create with it; for me, it's a tool to consume and I don't need another tool to do that; however, I'll purchase it with my lockerz points one day! If you need an invite, hook me up!), I'm still affected heavily by the effects that are described in the article. Just now, I wanted to do something else (this article was meant to be finished by 9 pm, it's 9:40 right now – I got involved in a longer ICQ conversation with a friend). As you can see in the screenshots, my test results weren't that bad – especially for a "heavy multitasker", but I guess I could still do better.
What are your thoughts? Do you consider yourself a "heavy multitasker", do you see the effects on your daily life (especially when you're separated from all the digital media) and what's up next in the future? I'm really looking forward to all your input! Oh, and try the interactive tests in the article and compare results with me!
P.S.: Be my guest and make use of the Facebook comment function that I recently added to this page! I would love to see it put to use. 🙂


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Milwaukee, WI--Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/General Manager David Poile announced today that the club has recalled forward Kyle Wilson from Milwaukee (AHL).
Wilson leads the Admirals in assists (9) and is tied for the team lead in points (13) through 17 games in 2011-12. The Oakville, Ont., native Draft has also appeared in 34 NHL games with Washington and Columbus since 2009-10, registering 13 points (4g-9a). The 6-0, 200-pounder spent four seasons at Colgate University (ECAC) from 2002-06, recording 101 points (46g-55a) in 139 games.
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Gallery Representation:
Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
M.F.A 2012 Photography Arizona State University
B.F.A. 2003 Photography Bowling Green State University
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
The Center for Creative Photography
George Eastman Museum
Museum of Photographic Arts San Diego
Northlight Gallery, Tempe, Arizona
Numerous private collections
Solo Exhibitions
POWER, Roswell Museum of Art, Roswell, NM
POWER, New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans, LA
Conversations with History, Stark Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Conversations with History, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Conversations with History, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Northlight Gallery, Tempe, AZ
Celestial Sphere, McFadden Gallery, Malone University, Canton, OH
Group Exhibitions:
Phoenix Art Museum
Photography in America's National Parks, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Energy: Made in Form San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Found, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA
Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery, Tucson, AZ
This is a photograph, Penland Gallery, Penland, NC
Land Tracings, Arizona Commission on the Arts & Chartreuse Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Instructor Invitational, The Bascom Center for the Visual Arts, Highland, NC
Gallery 1/1, Seattle, WA
Mirror with a Memory, Peter Miller Fine Art, Providence, RI
Arizona Biennial, Tucson Museum of Art, AZ
One of a Kind: Unique Photographic Objects, Phoenix Art Museum
Five Alchemist: Contemporary Photographer Explore 19th-Century Techniques, Wichita Art Museum
Alchemical Ensemble, New Visions in Historic Photographic Processes, Columbia College, MO
Diffusion Annual, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
PHOTOGRAPH, David Emitt Adams and Claire A. Warden, Kruglak Gallery, Oceanside, CA
Vibrant Matters, Instinct Art Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO
Land Exposures, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
100 Photographs, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Look Again, Ashville Area Arts Council Gallery (invitational) Ashville, NC
Flash Forward, Magenta Foundation, 2 Battery Wharf, Boston, MA
Unbound3, Candela Gallery (invitational), Richmond, VA
Double Back: Photographic Reflexivity (invitational), University of Maryland ,Maryland, MD
Shifts, Roland Dille Center for the Arts Gallery,(two person) Mankato, MN
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (Solo)
Flash Forward Emerging Photographer Award Exhibition, Neubacher Shor Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
VOZ'Galerie, Complément D'Objet, Paris, France
Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program for Artists Exhibition, Léhon, France
Unconventional Inventions, Print Resource Center, Boston, MA
The Physical Photograph, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ
INFOCUS 2012 Annual Photography Exhibition and Auction, Phoenix Art Museum.
Conversations with History, Northlight Gallery, Tempe, AZ. (Solo)
Herberger Theater Exhibitions, Phoenix, AZ.
Lens Culture International Exposure Award Winners, Digital Screening,
PhotoAlliance 2012 lecture series, San Francisco, CA.
Notebook 4: Stilled Life, The Studio, London, England
Exploring the Roots of Photography, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ.
Lens Culture International Exposure Awards, Online Exhibition
SOHO PHOTO, Alternative Processes Competition, New York City, Juror Michael Mazzeo
Nowness, The Eye Lounge, Phoenix, AZ
Exploring the Roots of Photography, The Art Intersection, Gilbert AZ.
The Language of Light, Photoplace Online Exhibition
Celestial Sphere, McFadden Gallery, Malone University, Canton OH. (Solo)
Tool, The Night Gallery, Tempe AZ
Night and Day, Step Gallery, Tempe Arizona (Two-person Exhibition)
Silvereye Center for Photography Benefit Auction/Exhibition, Pittsburgh PA.
Spatial Records, Intel Corporate Office, Ocotillo, Arizona (Solo)
An Equation of the Fanciful and Bizarre, Joel Meyerowitz juried competition Northlight Gallery ASU
Silver Eye Center for Photography, New Works Gallery, Pittsburgh PA. (Two-person Exhibition
Arizona Commission on the Arts Research and Development Grant
Artnet's Must See Booths at AIPAD
Fish/Pearce Award
Artist in Residence at Art Intersection, Gilbert, Arizona
Society for Photographic Education Crystal Apple Award
Participant in Review Santa Fe
Lens Culture International Exposure Awards, Honorable Mention
Nathan Cummings Travel Grant Research Award
5th Annual Black and White Spider Awards Nominee
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2011-12 •Adjunct Faculty Chandler Gilbert Community College
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2010 •Photography Assistant to Paula Chamlee
2010 •Photography Assistant to Michael A. Smith
2009 •Photography Assistant to John Coffer
2008 •Maine Media Workshops Photography Lab Technician
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Guest Lecturer Medium Festival of Photography, San Diego, California
Guest Lecturer Society for Photographic Education, National Conference, Chicago, IL
Guest Lecturer Society for Photographic Education, Southeast, Charlotte, NC
Guest Lecturer Carnegie Museum of Art, f295 Symposium, Pittsburgh PA.
Guest Lecturer Photo Alliance, Tintype Redux, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA.
Guest Lecturer/Workshop Art Intersection PHOTOtopas, Gilbert AZ.
Guest Lecturer Art Intersection, Exploring the Roots of Photography, Gilbert AZ.
Black and White Photography UK, Issue NO.152
A Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes: Popular Historical and Contemporary Techniques, Focal Press
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Christie's Hong Kong Announces Fall 2008 Sale of Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art
Las Damas Romanas (Roman Maidens) by Juan Luna (The Philippines 1857-1899). Estimate: HK$8,000,000-10,000,000 / US$1,025,600-1,282,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd. 2008.
Christies, the worlds leading art business and the leading auction house in Asia, announces the Fall sale of Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art will take place on Sunday, November 30th at 11am. This sale follows on the heels of Christies landmark Spring 2008 auction in Hong Kong which was its most valuable ever for category.
Elements of the theatrical and the dramatic underscore the offerings in this season's Southeast Asian Modern & Contemporary Art sale. A truly outstanding selection of works from modern masters is presented alongside invigorating works of top contemporary artists in a continued endeavor to trace affinities between the past and present, the timeless and the new. Offered alongside works in Christies sale of Asian Contemporary Art, the sale of Southeast Asian Modern & Contemporary Art remains a unique and distinctive element in the art market of Hong Kong and contributes to the full richness and flavour of the art from Asia that Christies offers each season.
The Colonial and Modern masters such as Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur de Merprès and Hendra Gunawan continue to draw strong results and record prices at auction. This season Christies will present collectors with several important examples from these artists and others.
Leading the selection of Modern works this season is Las Damas Romanas (Roman Maidens) by Juan Luna (The Philippines 1857-1899) [estimate: HK$8,000,000-10,000,000 / US$1,025,600-1,282,000]. This work is one of the truly iconic Roman scenes from the artist, who stands as one of the most important Filipino painters of the colonial period for his reformist stance and the role he played in highlighting the plight of the Philippine colony to the Spaniards. Las Damas Romanas is a classic work in the highest conventions of academic painting. Indeed, the work won a Diploma of Honour at the Munich Art Exposition of 1886. Depicting two Roman girls sporting with their hunting dogs, with flocks of doves symbolizing the divine, this work is in essence a picture of the abundant richness of life, with humankind shown in harmony with Nature. The artist observed and sketched classical Roman architecture and artefacts as studies and Las damas Romanas is a culmination of these observations.
Flower Vendors by Hendra Gunawan (Indonesia, 1918-1983) [estimate: HK$650,000-950,000 / US$83,300-121,800] is a strong example of the artists poignant and enduring imagery of Indonesian women. Commonplace episodes are elevated to dramatic heights in Hendras paintings, and this work stands as an enthralling rendition of daily Indonesian life, as flower vendors are some of the most typically-encountered women in ordinary street life in Indonesia. While the artist drew from close observation of everyday life, his female subjects are never particular characters he encountered, but rather figments from his recalled observation that universally bear elegant, undulating, voluptuous frames, and are readily identified as Indonesian by their batik accoutrements.
From Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur de Mèrpres (Belgium 1880-1956) comes Balinese Weavers [HK$1,500,000-2,000,000 / US$192,300-256,400], a work that was composed from the veranda of his beachfront house in Sanur, Bali. Arguably the most influential painter to render a particularly romantic image of Bali, Le Mayeurs preoccupation with light and the compositional arrangement of figures and objects makes him a key Impressionist painter who, unlike his contemporaries in Europe, found and developed his visual language in the tropical climate of Southeast Asia. The classic painter-traveller who lived and worked in Bali, he is best known for his Balinese pictures, which are some of the most illustrious in his artistic career. Balinese women bathing, dancing or weaving were subjects that he visited and re-visited over and over again in his lifetime.
Further highlights include Splinter Barks, Rimba Seris from the celebrated Malaysian modern artist, Latiff Mohidin (b. 1938) [estimate: HK$200,000-300,000 / US$25,600-38,500]. Rimba translates as primaveral forest. Creatively adapting the visual language of German Expressionism to depict elements of the tropical forest, the work demonstrates the artists typical use of strong colour contrasts coupled with the swift and bold execution of brushstrokes and the simplification of forms.
Contemporary Southeast Asian artists are becoming an increasingly sought-after group in todays market and once again the regions key painters such as I Nyoman Masriadi and Ahmad Zakii Anwar and others are represented by strong works.
Among the star lots is Marathon [HK$800,000-1,600,000/ US$102,600-205,100], a work that is an exemplary and distinctly theatrical piece from Southeast Asias most successful contemporary artist, I Nyoman Masriadi (b. Indonesia 1973). Depicting five male runners left behind by a speedy female runner, it is a powerful work typifying of the artists thematic interest in competition and rivalry. The world of sports fascinates Masriadi as is evident in the significant number of his images that depict figures as sportsmen and sportswomen. Marathon is a monumental work and one of the largest pieces the artist has done it is a definite crowning achievement for him at the point of painting in 1999 when he was a mere 26 years old and fresh from art school. It is also perhaps the single canvas that best illustrates his longstanding interests in perfecting a painterly rendition of the human figure as well as the use of black.
From Ahmad Zakii Anwar (b. 1955), Malaysias key figurative painter today, comes Smoker [HK$160,000-240,000 / US$20,500-30,800], from the artists celebrated Smokers series. The characters in his paintings are the art world's answer to the shadowy celluloid villains of pulp fiction and noir films like these latter film characters, Zakiis smoking protagonists assume the importance of icons in their own rights. These selfpossessed and inscrutable figures, whose origins, identities and affiliations are not immediately comprehensible, are shrouded in mystery and ambiguity.
Indonesian artist Handirwirman Saputra (b. 1975) is included in the line-up by the striking work, Seri Kertas Lipat II [HK$200,000-280,000/ US$25,600-35,900]. The work has emerged from the artists unceasing formal exploration in form and material through his own handcrafted objects. In this way, his practice shuttles between the two-dimensional world of paintings and the three-dimensional world of objects.
Christie's continues to introduce younger and emerging artists from this region to a worldwide audience of art lovers. This season sees the works of Thai artist Yuree Kensaku, Indonesian artist Arahmaiani and Bali-based Italian artist Filippo Sciascia for the first time at auction.
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"To Overcome The Mountain We Must Overcome Ourselves"
Make no mistake, the elevation profile for The Sheep Mountain 50 mile and 50k are docile looking. However, the average elevation of over 10,500' and copious amounts of aggressive terrain, will see you waddle away from this race in shock. Come ready my friends, this mountain throws everything it has at runners, challenging you from start to finish. We run amongst these "beautifully difficult" mountains and hills lining the western slope of the South Park Valley. This is the race where you carry #Adversity on your back, if you can handle the burden, you can win the day! Runners looking for a wilderness experience, stunning views, opportunities for technical terrain mixed with remote forest service roads… will fall in love with this course. (It's more of a love-hate relationship, really).The third series of races we host in Fairplay, The Sheep Mountain 50 mile and 50k promise to provide runners with an unforgettable experience that celebrates the history, and rough and tumble nature of this mountain region.
BE ADVISED: This race has been described as "Beautifully Difficult." While the course meanders through some amazing country with stunning views of the Mosquito Range and surrounding 14er peaks, it is tough. The course features a terrain type for every runner, and a fair amount of what some would consider "unrunable stretches." The average elevation for the course (10,662′) is bested only by the San Juan Solstice 50 in Lake City. Some of the aid stations are in remote locations that are difficult for even our volunteers to get to. While many runners have joined us for their first 50-mile here (and succeeded), it is only recommended for the truly stubborn and determined. Middle-of-the-pack typically finishes between 13 and 15 hours. You have been advised, save the whining.
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Date: August 1, 2020
Distance: 51 Miles | 50k
Elevation Gain/Loss: 9,600'/9,700' | 6,200'/6,200′
Average Elevation: 10,700′ | 10,500′
Start Time: 6:00 AM (Both Races)
Time Limit: 16 Hours (Both Races)
Location: Fairplay, CO
50 Mile Ultramarathon
December 1, 2019 – December 3, 2019: $110
December 4, 2019 – April 30, 2020: $130
May 1, 2020 – July 30, 2020: $140
Race Day: $140 CASH ONLY (No Shirts, & Awards by limited availability only)
50k Ultramarathon
December 1, 2019 – December 3, 2019: $90
December 4, 2019 – April 30, 2020: $110
May 1, 2020 – July 30, 2020: $120
Race Day: $120 CASH ONLY (No Shirts, & Awards by limited availability only)
HPRS Members Enjoy a minimum of 10% Off Registration Fees!
Those registering after Monday, July 20, 2020 will not receive a race shirt, and awards only as available (limited)
Online Registration closes July 28, 2020 at 11:59pm
UTMB/ITRA: This race has been evaluated and certified by the International TrailRunning Association. The 50-Mile is a UTMB Qualifier worth 3 Points, while the 50k is a UTMB Qualifier worth 2 Points.
COURSE: The course starts and finishes at the Town of Fairplay Beach in Fairplay, CO. The course takes runners southeast of Fairplay on a combination of forest service roads and singletrack trails. The course is a lollipop loop where the first and last 18 miles of the course are shared. The remaining 33 miles is comprised of one major loop over and around Sheep Mountain, Sheep Ridge and Round Hill. The western edge of the loop comes very close to the Buffalo Peaks Wilderness Area, offering runners some of the most isolated Ultrarunning in our state.
50k Runners will turn left at their first trip to Brown's Pass and follow the remainder of the 50 milers course from their second time to Brown's Pass. The 50k course shares the same 18 miles to and from town with the remaining 13 miles being exclusively on Sheep Mountain.
50 Milers: There will be 7 aid stations on the course totaling 9 aid stops. 7 aid stations will be fully stocked with water, electrolyte drink, and assorted "Ultra" snacks. Two aid stations will be Water Only. Four Aid stations will have drop bag access, which you will be able to access a total of 5 times.
50k: There will be 4 aid stations on the course totaling 5 aid stops. Three aid stations will be fully stocked with water, electrolyte drink, and assorted "Ultra" snacks. Two aid stations will be Water Only. Two aid stations will have drop bag access, which you will be able to access a total of 3 times.
50 Milers: Due to access difficulty in the area, there will be crew access ONLY at three (3) aid stations. Crews can attend to their runners 3 times on the course between these three stations.
50k: Due to access difficulty in the area, there will be crew access ONLY at two (2) aid stations. Crews can attend to their runners 2 times on the course between these three stations.
No Pacers Allowed for either distance
Parking: All runners and spectators must park at the designated parking locations ONLY. A map of these areas will be available closer to the race.
Pre-Race Check in: Packet and bib number Pick-Up will take place from 5-7pm at Town of Fairplay Town Hall on Friday Evening; and again on race morning from 4:45 AM – 5:45 AM at the Start/Finish Area. All runners must check-in with race staff the morning of the run by 5:45AM. Runners not checked in by 5:45 AM will not be scored as official runners of the event.
Pre-Race Briefing: Friday Evening at 7pm at Town Hall in Fairplay, CO. Please BYOB and Bring Your Own Camp Chairs.
Post-Race Celebration: There will be a post race gathering at the Town of Fairplay Beach. We'll welcome all of our runners to the finish line with food and drink.
Awards: All official finishers will receive a unique finishers award. We'll also present special awards to DFL, Best Blood and a few surprise awards as well.
Permits: This event is being held in accordance with permits from the USFS Service Pike National Forest – South Park Ranger District, Park County, The City of Fairplay, Bureau of Land Management, and permission from our local private land owners. We ask that you please respect and care for the land this event is held on to help ensure the future of this race and to limit our environmental impact.
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To kick sled or to car sled?
It was the scariest day ever. My muscles felt tense and I had to remind myself to keep breathing. A couple of times I thought it was the end and for a split second I wondered if I was ready to face eternity. I knew I could do this, and that this was facing my fears—head on. The dim light was slowly dying all around us, making the feeling of gloom turn to dread. Darkness was all around us. There was nobody there to trust other than myself and God, and—like I said—I wasn't sure whether or not he planned to take me home a little early.
I was driving in the season's first snow storm, and it was a storm of dimensions. My car protested up the hills of thick slush and ice, the windows fugged up and all I could see was millions of snowflakes dancing towards my windshield like flying bed bugs. The car swerved like a ballerina on ice when it hit the spots that seemed to be a few degrees colder than the rest, and more slippery. I told the car I was it's master.
After the three-hour drive today I decided that snow and winter is better enjoyed other places than from behind the steering wheel of a car. I am inclined to think that we should all try different ways to get from one destination to another in the snow. It sure is a lot safer, less stressful, and a lot better for the environment.
And then there is the real-life analogy: Driving down life's highways while it snows and storms and there are stupid drivers everywhere, some of them incapable of following the simplest rules, it is hard to look around and enjoy the scenery life has to offer. But put on your skis and slow the pace down and you will realize that the world is a fairy tale castle and you are the princess.
Ok, so this is a pretty lame blog in some ways. But you have to give me some slack. I had a close to death experience today and lived. I am still feeling a little bit like jello on the inside and I am wondering what the people who met me while driving thought I was looking like. Like the model for Munch's Scream? Tomorrow night I will have to drive an hour to pick up Steve. He probably doesn't want to be picked up on a kick sled.
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I have a feeling so long as you were the one on the kick sled to get him at the airport he would not care at all.
We have a town close by that uses kick sleds to get around, I think its an awesome idea.
I am a little jealous of you and the snow already, as I sit here in 60 degree weather with blue sky and sunshine. We do live in an awesome part of the world but I'm ready for snow, skiing and winter. It also makes it feel more like the holidays.
Keep the blogs going they are always enlightening.
That kick sled is cute, looks like lots of good exercise!
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New Delhi: Every year, the budget brings new and key developments for every sector. This year, right in the beginning of the speech, the Finance minister announced the nine pillars of the economy one of which was obviously identified to be healthcare. Keeping a limited, yet focused approach, this year's budget brought forward a number of key developments for the health sector. These are as follows.
Allocation of budget.
Total Allocation for social sector including education and health care combined has been declared as Rs 1,51,581 crore.
New Health Protection Scheme
The Finance Minister expressed concern that a serious illness of family member(s) causes severe stress on the financial condition of poor and economically weak families, shaking the foundation of their economic security. In order to help such families, the Government will launch a new health protection scheme which will provide health cover up-to rupees one lakh per family, the Finance Minister said. For Senior citizens of the age 60 years and above belonging to this category, an additional top-up package up to Rs.30,000 will be provided.
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The government will set up 3,000 new generic medicine stores across the country to tackle the shortage of drugs in rural areas, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Monday.
"For the better availability of generic medicines in the country, especially in the rural areas, the government has decided to open 3,000 new generic medicines stores," said Jaitley, presenting the budget for 2016-17 in the Lok Sabha.
National Dialysis Programme
The FM also announced the launch of a National Dialysis Programme to address the high costs involved in the renal dialysis processes under a PPP mode.
Under the programme every district hospital will have the facilities of renal dialysis, so that people do not have to travel to the expensive hospitals of metro cities, he said.At least 2,000 new dialysis centres will be started in the country under the programme.
Elaborating on the National Dialysis Services programme Mr. Jaitley said about 2.2 lakh new patients of' End Stage Renal Disease' got added in India's sick list every year resulting in additional demand for 3.4 Crore dialysis sessions. The Minister said with only 4,950 dialysis centres in the country mainly in the private sector and mostly in major towns, the demand could not be adequately met.
The immediate response that Medical Dialogues received on the budget was that of a welcome from one of the pioneers of the medical fraternity, Dr Naresh Trehan. Speaking to Medical Dialogues, Dr Naresh Trehan, Chairman and MD, Medanta Medicity said, " As far as health is concerned, it's a great move forward to insure every family for one lakh, which imminently gives them the security that they can access healthcare that was the idea how to create universal access. For elderly, its 1.30 lakh which is even better. Also along with that, the announcement of PPP board there will be many dialysis centres established closer to the villages, that will help a lot because that has been a big problem for people to travel across to require dialysis twice or thrice a week and to travel long distance is devastating for family and the patient, so that's a good sensitive move and the third thing is providing 3000 fare price to medical shops also very good thing. "
"Overall I think, health sector has got what was much needed in terms of the people who were under the burden of healthcare will get relief which was surely needed and what we were pushing for the last couple of years. So overall, its real thumbs up to the budget and I am happy and proud that they have done this way. The much needed ACCHE DIN effect is beginning to show." he elaborated.
There is no definition for the economically weaker family……one lakh per family of four seems to be a joke on the health of Indians.


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Hello everyone, I dont have anything to share with you all today because My blogger is all messed up right now. I cannot delete,add,change and so on, anything in Blogger. I am surprised that I am able to post this. Is anyone else having any problems? This has been going on for 3 days now. Hopefully this will be fixed soon! I hope to see you all real soon and please let me know if you are experianceing the same things. See you all soon!


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If you travel in the world of on-line dating sites, don't forget your passport. A company in Florida (where else?) is providing "Safe Sex Passports" that allow you to claim you're a good, healthy lay. For a mere US$ 300, you can get tested for HIV, genital herpes, chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis. Your test results get loaded into a database. If you're getting hot and heavy with someone online, you can give them a code number, and they can check out your test results.
Cleverly, the company running the scheme cites US government guidelines that say "socially active" people should get testing for sexually transmitted infections every six months. So it's another US$ 200 twice a year to keep your status up to date.
SSP Bioanalytics may be the first to offer this service to online daters, but "Disease-free sex" passports have an illustrious history. Issued to sex workers after mandatory (usually monthly) health screenings, they have been a fundamental part of HIV prevention efforts in Thailand, the Philippines and a host of other countries. I remember being denied entry to a night club in Madagascar because I couldn't show the "green card" required of all female guests.


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If you consider yourself a tad bit different from other people, then maybe you can see where I'm coming from. If not, then maybe the problem is with me.
Tbh, I love and want getting attention from people but on the other hand, I hate when the spotlight's on me. Make sense? No? Me neither. Since you're bunch of strangers, I can be entirely truthful and say the ugly truth about myself.
I'm just going to put it out there, I think I lost myself. I wear this mask everyday for as long as I can remember that it consumed me. I try to become this perfect little girl.
I get high grades.
Never had a boyfriend cause my parents doesn't want me to.
Act all kind, friendly, humble to my friends.
Be a daughter that my mom and dad want me to be.
Rarely go out and have fun.
I'm so scared about being judge by society that I feel the need to be these things. The problem is, is this really me? I really hope so because if it's not, then I might regret it someday. I know that you shouldn't care about what people say about you as long as you know that's who you are.
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Sometimes, I get a feeling that the day is going to offer some surprises. This morning, I had a feeling. We've spent a lot of time in the Southwest quadrant over the past two weeks searching for oil and gas. We've seen mostly weak signals. The sediments at the sites we visited during that time were oxidized and did not contain a lot of gas or oil.
Until we sampled at a site about 20 miles offshore from Mississippi, we did not see oil along the seafloor. At that station, we saw a thin layer (couple of mm) of what looked like sedimented oil. We won't know the oil content (or source) until we do detailed analyses after the cruise but oil has a distinct feel and this sediment felt oily. We got a glimpse of what we had expected to see. Today, at a site about 16 nautical miles from the wellhead, we dropped the multicorer into a valley. When the instrument returned from the bottom, it contained something we had not seen before: a layer of flocculent, sedimented material that was cm's thick. The top, apparently recent layer, contained some fraction of oil.
At a natural oil seep, the entire sediment column is saturated with oil. Cores of sediment collected from natural seeps are oil-stained top to bottom and often the water overlying the sediment core has a thick (mm to cm) layer of crude oil floating at the top. Natural oil seep sediments are distinctive. The photos of cores shown from GC185 here are extreme examples (they are VERY oily!) but the point is that the entire sediment column is oil stained at a natural seep. At the site we visited today, the oil obviously came from the top (down from the water column) not the bottom (up from a deep reservoir).
What we found today is not a natural seep. We collected control sediments in a region to the south east of the wellhead that was never overlain by the blowout oil slick. Those sediments consisted of fine grained sediment mixed with calcareous ooze. There was no hint of oil in the control sediments. The near shore sediments contained grayish muddy clay and a thin layer of orange-brown oil at the surface. The sediments we collected today were similar at the bottom -- gray muddy clay -- but the upper few cm consisted of oil floc -- we call it "oil aggregate snow", because it settled down to the water column to the seafloor just like snow falls from the sky to the ground.
If you take a close look at the snow layer, small oil aggregates are visible. Also visible are (much larger) pteropod shells (which must have been recently deposited because the shells dissolve rapidly) and remnants of zooplankton (skeletons) and benthic
infauna (dead worms and their tubes). Microbial aggregates are visible and abundant but the normal invertebrate fauna you'd expect to see in these sediments were not present.
We will determine how much oil is in this layer and evaluate the rates of microbial metabolism in the sediments when we return to UGA. We want to know whether and how much of this material lies along the seafloor at other sites. So, tomorrow, we will go to a site about 12 nautical miles northwest of the wellhead and run a full station there. We'll see what the sediments look like there and with that knowledge, we'll decide where to go next.


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Showcasing an original, interdisciplinary approach, this text examines the effect of migration on the domestic politics of individual states and how they are eroding the distinctions between the domestic and foreign policy, the 'inside' and 'outside' components of politics and law.
During the twentieth century the context in which migrants negotiate their integration within legal, social, cultural, economic and political spaces changed significantly. Drawing upon varied perspectives from the US, UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Russia and Italy among others, this work develops a comprehensive understanding of the impact migratory networks are having on European societies. It investigates the strategies of integration or discrimination which are developed in Europe by state institutions, legal codes, political movements and even immigrant communities themselves, when confronted with the growing influence of migratory networks. The result is a highly topical exploration of the political and legal dimensions of migration in the EU, that develops new approaches to the issue of social integration and the exclusion of migrants and migrant communities.
Globalization, Migration, and the Future of Europe will be of interest to students and scholars of migration, European studies, globalization and International Law.


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I mean, to say the girl is amazing is the understatement of the year! Really.
Did you see her post today? I about fell off my chair.
It is a sweet little story about a gorgeous young girl. Her husband is in Iraq right now and she wanted to send him a few speical photos. I am a lover of anything old Hollywood so these totally rocked my world. I swear I was born in the wrong era sometimes. I love the romance of the 1940s...Bogart & Becall, black and white photos...old WWII planes.
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Enough words. Go visit Tiffany's blog and take in some seriously gorgeous eye candy.
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Happy Monday, girls!
I am off to do finishing touches for my LAST show of the year. I can't believe how fast the time has flown by!
Come see me this weekend...Kane County Flea Market in St. Charles, IL. So many of you have emailed to ask, so if I can fit it in before I load my trucks, I will try to give you a little photo preview...but no promises on that. Things always get a little crazy the week of a show!