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David Lee May, age 52, died suddenly Saturday morning, June 7, 2008 at his home in Franklinton. Born in Louisburg, NC, David was the son of the late Joseph R. and Cora Bridges May. He was a devoted employee of Waste Industries, and away from work he enjoyed fishing.
David is survived by his daughter, Tracy May of Henderson, NC; his son, David L. May, Jr. also of Henderson; his sisters: Elizabeth Ann Bowling and husband, Franklin D.; Betsy May Riggan and husband, James T.; and his brother, Joseph Earl May, all from Franklinton; three grandchildren: Xavier Butler, Sebastian May and Tyreek Gibbs; his former wife: Faye Cooper of Henderson; and several loving nieces, nephews, grand-nieces and grand –nephews.
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My body is incredible.
Now I'm not talking figure or anything, no no no. I may be making slow-step progress but that's a fair few flights of stairs away yet.
No, it's the processes and functionalities pumping away constantly, at all times of the day and night, that's utterly blowing my mind.
When I was a kid I always used to draw over my veins with felt pens, so the web of threading criss crossing my arms and legs was traced. Today in class I suddenly got my biro and outlined my arm veins. I was absolutely marvelling at them. Little passages with blood being pumped throughout my body. I hadn't given them a thought since I was about seven, aside from fleetingly in Baradene science class in a detached way (but seriously, did anyone listen to Mrs Proctor aside from Bunsen Burner experiments?)
Learning about the anatomical structure of the body leaves me flabbergasted. So much is happening in me at once, all the systems at work deserve so many high 5's. In the Western world when someone alludes to their body you instantly assume it's the physical, external one. Here, there is so much emphasis on the inner self and functionalities and it has me considering that aspect too. And shit my body is sensational! Sometimes in asanas, instead of thinking, fantastic, this is leaning out my thighs! I find myself visualising the stimulation of prana and the internal systems.
My attitude to my body is changing. I'm looking at it in wonder instead of hatred and disgust. My observations are turning to its capabilities, not its shortcomings. It's pretty phenomenal.
I think it helps that there's hardly any mirrors or reflective surfaces here to study (ok obsess about) myself through. At home wherever there is anything that casts a reflection of myself I'm honed in on it ASAP. It's not a vanity thing, not at all; it's seeing how thin I look. Having body dysmorphia means most of the time the image isn't what is desired, so the despair sets in and slumps the rest of the day. But here, all I have is a minute, film-covered mirror that I can hardly see myself in. It's so refreshing. I'm probably sporting copious facial hairs and mango strings all through my teeth that I won't be aware of until I get back to Delhi.
And isn't it absolute Murphy's law; I'm eating three meals a day and have deleted the calorie counting app on my phone, and I've lost weight. And I don't care. I truly don't! Usually I'd be rejoicing that I'd gotten past the plateau but here I get a mere evanescent thrill. And to be completely honest, this morning it sort of fucked me off; in the bow pose my hips were crunching on the ground and it was piercingly painful. I momentarily cursed the Ayurvedic diet.
I look at Eva's physique enviously. She's so strong and fit and can master so many strength-based asanas that I haven't got a hope in hell of conquering just yet. She's healthy. For so many years that word has been an insult and offensive term to me, but now it's my aim. I WANT TO BE HEALTHY. Why would I starve or cram to bursting this impeccable inner machine? It needs nursing and respecting with love and fuel, not abusing.
And I'm getting so tuned into my bod! The first few classes I was constantly being told to realign myself to be straight and I was perplexed; was I not in line? Eva took photos to show me and bloody hell, I was so out of whack. But now, slowly but surely, I can feel and judge when I'm a bit off.
I'm just getting aware and comfortable with every part. I've got a thing about my throat, and only two people have ever been able to touch it – Abbey and Jason. Even when they have, there's vomit churning in my stomach. Whenever we had puberty talks at school or I heard adults discussing things like mammograms, my throat would always tingle and feel all closed up and suffocated, and I'd feel extremely nauseous. But here my neck is tweaked and touched and the throat-related bile rising remains inanimate.
This afternoon I just got lost exploring my freckles. When I was a kid I had about five dotted about my body, but when I started rowing and training in the sun everyday more and more slowly appeared. They fascinate me. It's like a canvas of join the dots! Once again the biro came out and I made pictures out of them (scrubbing at my pen covered arms and legs tonight in the shower with a shitty piece of lemon soap had me cursing myself a bit). They make me so unique, just scattered about in all shapes and sizes. I'm like a white night sky with scatterings of brown stars. Shit, even the multiple bruises tinting my legs and arms have me entranced like a small baby with a mobile (dangly thing hanging from the ceiling, not a cellular device. Though in this day and age, I wouldn't be surprised if a newborn was engaging in Candy Crush on an IPad).
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- Paradisia Alpine Botanic Garden is located within the Gran Paradiso National Park, in the Cogne valley (one of the most interesting areas in the Aosta Valley in terms of plant life). Established in 1955, the garden is situated at 1700 metres above sea level, and is undoubtedly the most important of the four Alpine botanical gardens in the Aosta Valley, and the one that has achieved the most acclaim for its scientific research. Its name derives from Paradisea liliastrum, the mountain lily.
- Castel Savoia Alpine Botanic Garden was opened in 1990. It is found in Gressoney-Saint-Jean, at 1350 metres above sea level, within the grounds of Savoy Castle, which was created by Queen Margherita of Savoy in 1898. The garden places great importance on aesthetic appearance, favouring collections of ornamental plants with luxuriant, showy flowers.
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I thumbed the whole thing. Why does it say not to leave it plugged in powered off for more than a couple of hours? Overnight charging is going to be a problem for the battery??? That stinks.
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Value-based health care (VBHC) has recently emerged as a prominent movement within health care. Value-based health care focuses on maximizing outcomes achieved per dollar spent. As such, it bears many similarities to a well-established method, cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), which provides a framework for comparing the relative value of different diagnostic or treatment interventions. Both approaches address "bang for the health care buck," but although they overlap in many ways, VBHC and CEA differ with regard to their main applications, their perspective, and the types of costs and outcomes they consider. For example, CEA generally considers costs and benefits from the societal or health care sector perspectives, whereas VBHC is intended to adopt the patient perspective. As such, CEA is intended to inform coverage decisions at a group or population level and VBHC is intended to be implemented at the level of clinician–patient interactions. Meanwhile, value-based payment has emerged as a visible component of VBHC and is gaining a foothold in the United States in various forms, particularly bundled payments and accountable care organizations, in an effort to reward high-value care and disincentivize low-value care. Differences aside, as the worlds of VBHC and CEA begin to intersect, each discipline can learn from the other.
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A Master's Thesis at Brigham Young University, 2010. Abstract: Lack of access prevents many from benefiting from educational resources. Digital technologies now enable educational resources, such as books, to be openly available to those with access to the Internet. This study examined the financial viability of a religious publisher's putting free digital versions of eight of its books on the Internet. The total cost of putting these books online was $940.00. Over a 10-week period these books were downloaded 102,256 times and print sales of these books increased 26%. Comparisons with historical book sales and sales of comparable titles suggest a positive but modest connection between this increase and the online availability of the free books. This dissertation may be downloaded for free at http://etd.byu.edu.


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The girls loved staying in their pajamas today, since there was no school on "voting day". Although it was 65 degrees, they wanted to go see High School Musical 3, something I promised a long time ago. In the end, I was able to run errands for my two upcoming art shows and I feel more organized. I also changed the sheets and opened the windows and did 4 loads of laundry and put the candle lamps in the windows and got the humidifier from basement set up in the girls' room for the winter.
I'm glad that today I stopped pmsing because if I kept eating the way I was eating LAST week, I'd outgrow all my pants and NOT go into the holidays and winter on a good note.
Today was all about fruit and water and yogurt and whole grain bread and well, I couldn't avoid the cheese, but cheese is better than two ice cream cones, Halloween candy and frozen cheesecake.
High School Musical 3 was as expected. Packed with kids. My girls were so excited. I had stashed our own water and a bag of gummy worms in my bag for the movie (despite the huge signs on the doors of the theatre saying "no outside food or drink") because otherwise, we get raped when we pay for food at the concession.
At the end, if you've seen it, remember when he tells the girl he's going to go to college just 32 minutes away from her because he loves her? (sorry, I spoiled it) Well, I heard on my right, a little "aaaaaaaaahmmmmmmmm!" from Red.
And then my mind started going, because Red's been mentioning this other 7 year old boy in her class, Joshua. She says his name about twice a day. Every day. Since school started.
Oh my, in ten years, she'll be almost 18 and probably already had a bunch of crushes (and no dates, since she won't be allowed until she's a legal adult, if I can help it, that is).
It occurred to me too, when I went up the street to vote, with the girls in tow, that in ten years, she'll be able to vote.
I wonder if I'll be calling her like my dad called me today. When I answered he asked, "So, did you vote for the good president or the bad president?"
My ex-husband, their dad, called at the end of the night tonight and I heard Blue ask him who he voted for. And she came running in to me and yelled, "Mommy! Daddy voted for McCain to cancel out YOUR vote!."


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Hello! Feels like it's been a while since I posted anything, but I suppose it's not really been that long. We have been fully enjoying the last few days and the lovely weather. We ate our first icecreams of the year and just soaked up as much of that sun as we could.
Plus and minus
Negatives of today – the vacuum died, and there was no new episode of riverdale. Positives of today – 16 degrees and it feels like spring! Also I got a new vacuum. As soon as Ryan got home today we got ready to go and get our new vacuum which I had already reserved online.
Day before Friday
Did I get to sleep? Nah not really our little one who generally is a very good sleeper decided he was waking up at who knows what time and thought it was the perfect time for bouncing all over the bed. So guess who's sleeping right now?. Either way I have woke up with some
Coffee and me – a love story
So this week so far? Not a fan. Lack of sleep bleh. Pretty much sums it up really. I mean thank you coffee or I would probably have been sleep parenting, I'm sure that's a thing. So I'm in bed nice and early tonight, hoping that I will get a decent nights sleep so that
Breathing again
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Anyone else feeling like as soon as your to-do list starts getting smaller it magically gets twice as big again? Kind of like the washing basket, you've done five loads of washing but the washing pile never really gets smaller. Not really much going on here, we're still recovering from the weekend and trying to
Heart stopper
So just as a follow up to my last post. I don't hate being a mother hehe, but we're all allowed to have bad days and this week has been challenging for sure. But obviously I love my kids and my days with them. So yesterday ended up being a heart stopper, Jamie lent over
Four days of motherhood.
Since I became a mother there's four different types of days. There's really good days, normal days, bad days and really FUCKING bad days. On the really good days I start thinking another baby would be a great idea, their so cute and cuddly oh and that new baby smell, maybe just one more and


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NUCA is pleased to announce the newest addition to its staff, Bryce Mongeon. As NUCA's Director of Government Relations, Mongeon will manage NUCA's advocacy program and Political Action Committee. Bryce comes to NUCA with Capitol Hill experience and contacts from important congressional lawmakers and committees who make important decisions affecting our industry.
Mongeon is originally from Northeast Pennsylvania and began working in Washington, D.C., in 2012 after graduating from Colgate University. After a brief internship with Congressman Lou Barletta, he worked for former Congressman Charlie Dent for six years on Capitol Hill. Hired as a Staff Assistant for Representative Dent, he worked his way up to serve as a Senior Legislative Assistant before taking the position at NUCA. As part of his issue portfolio, Mongeon managed appropriations, as well as infrastructure, construction, transportation, and public lands issues, among the Congressman's other priorities.
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Jane Stinson
Principal Investigator and Director, Feminist Northern Network
Master of Arts, Political Economy ('99)
Life in Canada's North can be incredibly hard. Aside from the harsh climate, well-paying jobs are hard to come by and food and shelter is expensive, driving many people into poverty.
According to Jane Stinson, the situation for women in the North can be particularly dire.
"New resource-based jobs for women in the North are usually in cleaning, cooking and office work," explains Ms. Stinson, a lifelong advocate of women's rights. "There's usually a large migrant male population working in the resource industry, which leads to an increased risk of violence towards women and sexual exploitation."
From 2010 to 2016, Ms. Stinson investigated these issues as the director of the Feminist Northern Network (FemNorthNet), a network of researchers and northern women community leaders that explored how new economic development in northern Canada is changing communities socially, economically and culturally for women and their families.
"The goal was to engage women in three northern communities to talk about changes in their lives and communities and to find different ways, suited to each community, to empower local women and bring forward their concerns," explains Ms. Stinson.
FemNorthNet, which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Status of Women Canada (SWC) and other grants, is part of the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW).
|The Network has involved women in Thompson, Manitoba; Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador; and Labrador West.
"For instance, in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, the women were worried about the loss of access to traditional land that was an important source of berries, hunting and fishing," says Ms. Stinson. "What we learned is that the women don't see their experiences individually. Even if they had a job, they were concerned about their community."
Ms. Stinson earned her master's degree from the Institute of Political Economy in the midst of a 30-year career working in the national office of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) doing research, member education and staff training. She credits her experience in the program with changing her perception of her work.
"Returning for my master's degree helped me make sense of my experiences within the union. It provided a theoretical and global context for them," she recalls. "It also gave me the confidence to undertake large research projects like one on the impact of privatization on hospital workers in British Columbia and eventually to become the project director for FemNorthNet."
Ms. Stinson's thesis drew on her union roots: she studied the uneven wage benefits that resulted from Ontario's pay equity legislation for CUPE Ontario hospital workers.
"It reinforced for me that the only rights you have as an employee are in your collective agreement. I deeply believe unions play a major role in making society a better place," says Ms. Stinson, who is also investigating the impact of the changing public service on diverse women in another SSHRC-funded CRIAW research project.
Ms. Stinson's belief in social justice is reflected in her advice for current students as well. "Get involved in your community, get practical experience and study your passion," she says.
Ms. Stinson is part of Carleton's prestigious 75 for the 75th campaign, honouring 75 of the Faculty of Public Affairs' most distinguished alumni for Carleton University's 75th Anniversary in 2017.
Professor Daniel Tubb
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Brunswick
Professor Daniel Tubb applied to Carleton University on a whim.
It was by chance that a friend of his applied and so he did as well. But this simple happenstance ended up changing his life path for the better.
As soon as he came to visit Carleton as a potential graduate student, he noticed the sense of community at the Institute of Political Economy.
"Carleton gave a really good first impression," Tubb says. "I had really good access to faculty in a way that was very compelling and led to a very good graduate experience."
"It was just a very human experience of people doing critical research through an interdisciplinary program," he says. "It was something I didn't see in the other places I applied."
With the Institute of Political Economy, Tubb found a "community of scholars that are working from different backgrounds but with coherent perspectives."
And Tubb says it was the community created by the Institute that led him to stay at Carleton for his PhD.
"By the time I'd done my master's and I was in the PhD program, my community grew. It was no longer just political economy, but it included people who were doing PhDs in political science, geography, or various other disciplines as well as faculty."
|This was also due to the uniquely interdisciplinary nature of the Institute for Political Economy, which brings together graduate students from diverse academic backgrounds, all with an interest in how political economy fits into their field of study.
These years with the Institute were formative for Tubb, who now works as an assistant professor in the department of anthropology at the University of New Brunswick.
As a master's student, Tubb's research focused on urban public policy in Colombia. And with support from his faculty supervisor, Cristina Rojas, Tubb was given the opportunity to do fieldwork as part of his research. This led him to the PhD program, where he focused on gold mining and rural livelihoods, involving nearly two years of fieldwork.
Continuing to pursue his interests in political economy after Carleton, Tubb went on to do a post-doctorate at Yale University on rural capitalism and political economy.
"A lot of those questions and ways of approaching them and ways of thinking about them come out of my graduate education at Carleton and a huge part of that was political economy," he says.
At the University of New Brunswick, Tubb maintains research interests in Colombia, focusing on economic and environmental anthropology and resource extraction in Colombia and New Brunswick.
As a faculty member himself, Tubb reflects on his time at the Institute of Political Economy and values the importance of community, and the faculty that helped to foster it.
"I think I've come to see that as one role that faculty members are supposed to do. You're supposed to build spaces for students to come together." he says.
His advice to students interested in the political economy graduate programs is to engage with faculty members.
"I was very intimidated that first semester and didn't really talk to faculty members," he says. "I got better at it and things got easier as time went on."
Navsharan Singh
Senior Program Officer, Women's Rights and Citizenship Program, International Development Research Centre
Master of Arts, Political Economy ('93)
PhD, Political Science ('98)
When you ask Dr. Navsharan Singh how she came to be a prominent advocate for women's rights throughout South Asia, she recalls an incident from her childhood in the northern Indian province of Punjab.
"I had a friend on my street who was married when she was 16. Six months into her marriage, she was burned alive for not having a large enough dowry. That trauma had a profound impact on me," recalls Dr. Singh.
As she matured, Dr. Singh says she wanted to understand what in the region's history and politics allowed millions of women to fall victim to violence. Rapes, abductions and murders were commonplace during the first partition of the subcontinent in 1947, the second partition in 1971, and in India's Kashmir and the Northeast. Violence was also commonplace in Sri Lanka.
"I wanted to know," recalls Dr. Singh, who went on to join women's rights groups at a local university, "what explained the impunity the perpetrators enjoy – be it the men in uniform or ordinary men in homes and in communities?"
But she says it was her Commonwealth Scholarship, which brought her to Carleton University, that exposed her to the systematic study of the feminist question and ideas that enabled her to challenge the treatment of women in South Asia.
"I came from a small town and a small university, and I was interested in how macro policies affected the people on the ground," recalls Dr. Singh, who remembers the supportive community of graduate students and professors at Carleton. "While I was at Carleton, gender became the lens for a lot of my work. I've focused on questions of women's rights and rape and violence in conflict zones ever since."
|"I came from a small town and a small university, and I was interested in how macro policies affected the people on the ground," recalls Dr. Singh, who remembers the supportive community of graduate students and professors at Carleton. "While I was at Carleton, gender became the lens for a lot of my work. I've focused on questions of women's rights and rape and violence in conflict zones ever since."
Initially, Dr. Singh considered studying economics, but she switched into the Institute of Political Economy due to its emphasis on field research because "that was where my heart was. I was set on questions that I saw as life and death for women."
Today, Dr. Singh spends much of her time on research and advocacy for understanding and overcoming women's marginalization in economy, polity and society. She travels through India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and neighbouring countries documenting and speaking out about the challenges faced by women in South Asia, as a senior program specialist for the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
"In the work that IDRC supports, we keep asking why we are so immune to what happens to women in South Asia," says Dr. Singh. "There are gaps in the law in medical practice, in state willingness to apply laws and in social sanctions. Large-scale violence that women endured in the region at the time of conflicts remains a festering wound in the region's body politic."
Dr. Singh's efforts have contributed to bringing positive effects to the lives of women and marginalized people in the region: she works with several women's research and advocacy NGOs that have successfully created standard operating procedures for police departments dealing with sexual violence in Mumbai; another is campaigning against the 35-day limitation period for reporting a rape in Nepal; and another has created medical protocols for gathering evidence when a rape victim is brought to a hospital.
"Many questions remain and there's a need to lobby for better policies and changed attitudes. My hands are quite full," she acknowledges. "But I am hopeful because women in this country are so resilient—even when all odds are stacked against them. They're fighting for justice and dignity and they have very strong survival instincts."
Dr. Singh is part of Carleton's prestigious 75 for the 75th campaign, honouring 75 of the Faculty of Public Affairs' most distinguished alumni for Carleton University's 75th Anniversary in 2017.
Lincoln Addison
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Memorial University
Choose your own adventure with Political Economy…
When Lincoln Addison decided to attend the Institute of Political Economy for his master's degree, he knew he wanted to do research related to Africa.
But how? He wasn't sure.
Looking back now, he remembers how the administrator at the Institute, Donna Coghill, helped him find his way.
"She is very exceptional as the administrator," he says. "She knows everybody and she cares passionately about students."
It was Coghill who helped Addison find his way to a fieldwork and research opportunity with Professor Blair Rutherford, who would go onto become Addison's academic supervisor and mentor.
"As a student in political economy, you can choose to work with a whole range of faculty around the university," Addison explains. "It gives you a lot of flexibility as a graduate student to design your own training."
|"It's a big advantage to graduate students," he adds later.
As an example, Addison worked with Professor Rutherford from anthropology as well as Linda Freeman from political science, and saw the benefit of an interdisciplinary approach.
He says completing his master's degree at the Institute was foundational for when he later pursued a PhD at Rutgers University.
"My training at the Institute left me exceptionally well prepared for the PhD program at Rutgers. I found myself far ahead of my peers in terms of my knowledge of diverse literatures, and my ability to think critically."
Since attending the Institute, Addison identifies as a political economist, which he thinks has shaped the way conducts research to this day. As an assistant professor in anthropology at Memorial University, his current work focuses on food systems in Africa and examines questions of labour, power, and gender.
"It's a different way of looking at the world and I feel like once you are trained in political economy, you can't really take off that hat anymore."
When he supervises graduate students at Memorial University, Addison says he sees the impact of his mentors at the Institute of Political Economy.
"I feel like a lot of what I do now is informed by the seminars that I took at Carleton and the interactions that I had with faculty at the MA level, certainly the interactions I had with Blair Rutherford and Linda Freeman," he says, adding: "The experience working with them, those two individuals, has really shaped me as teacher for sure."
And for Addison, there is no contest when it comes to other political economy programs.
"If you want extended training in political economy, this is the place to do it. The political economy program at Carleton, it's the leading program for political economy in North America," he says.
"I feel like I can say that without sounding controversial."
Judy Meltzer
Director General, Carbon Pricing Bureau, Environment and Climate Change Canada
Not all roads from a PhD lead to academia.
From your graduate degree, your career path can take you in so many different directions.
At least, that was the case for Judy Meltzer, who found her way from the Institute of Political Economy to the public service.
Meltzer says directly as a result of her graduate degree with the Institute, she was given the opportunity to apply, and was accepted to the Recruitment of Policy Leaders program.
"Without that degree, I wouldn't have been able to get into that program. I wouldn't have been able to get into the federal government in that role or at that level," she says.
Today, Meltzer is the Director General of the Carbon Pricing Bureau within Environment and Climate Change Canada, where she works with her team to develop regulations, and new policies to address climate change, including working with provinces, territories and other stakeholders to implement the federal government's commitment to put a price on carbon pollution in all jurisdictions in Canada.
| Meltzer completed her PhD in political science with a specialization in political economy and she says it was a great foundation for work in strategic policy.
"I would say the background in political economy is really directly relevant for all kinds of policy work because policy work is underpinned by socio-economic analysis regardless of the topic you look at," she says.
"The problem solving and critical thinking as well as the ability to critically analyze, read, and write are all important for a successful policy role in the public service."
She says the program can be valuable to those who want to look at political economy through a broad lens.
"I think it has a lot of relevance for understanding the underpinnings of key issues we face today, whether it's environment, economic, political, geopolitical. Political economy is a degree that gives you the tools to really be able to have a broad and informed understanding of a wide range of issues."
For Meltzer, there were two main aspects of the PhD program that made the Institute unique.
First, the cutting edge, contemporary approaches to critical research.
And second, the professors. The faculty at the Institute of Political Economy had expertise in Meltzer's area of interest and were very supportive both in and out of the classroom.
"Both my supervisor and other supporting faculty were very supportive of not just the academic course work and my dissertation but for participating in conferences and preparing publications," she says.
Due to the flexible nature of the program and support of her professors, Meltzer was able to publish a chapter of her work from one of her reading courses.
Meltzer's academic research looked at citizenship and development in Latin America. Although not directly related to her current work on climate change in Canada, she says the skills from her PhD are still invaluable.
"And at the end of the day, I'll always have it as an important foundation," she says.
Nathan Wynes
Executive Assistant & Senior Advisor to the Chief Administrative Officer, Cabinet Office, Government of Ontario
Nathan Wynes has, what some might call, an unconventional resume.
After finishing his master's degree at the Institute of Political Economy, Wynes found work as a plumber for about a year before landing a spot in the Ontario government internship program. Just six months into the program, he started working permanent position as a Policy Advisor before finding his way to the Cabinet Office, where he currently works as an Executive Assistant and Senior Advisor.
Wynes says the skills he learned at the Institute of Political Economy are valuable in any position.
"At Carleton, I had to learn how to think critically, how to problem solve and how to put the information that I had to use," he says.
Wynes also completed his undergraduate degree at Carleton, so he was already familiar with the Institute of Political Economy when he was looking to do a master's, but it was the faculty and the focus on critical theory that really drew him in.
"They were so engaging…they had an impact on me and so when I went to apply for my master's program, I wanted to do political economy," he says. "There are only a couple of programs in the world that are really geared towards political economy and I don't think any of them are quite like Carleton's."
During his time with the Institute of Political Economy, Wynes focused his research on refugee livelihoods and, through the Institute, had the opportunity to work with the UN High Commission for Refugees in Ottawa during a semester of his degree.
"It was interesting to see how that cog fit into the larger wheel and to put a bit of the real world spin on the research that I was doing," he says. "That served me well by the time I got to government… So I think that was really valuable."
The faculty and the opportunities in the program were a major draw, but most of all Wynes says he really enjoyed the smallness of the cohort and the environment at the Institute of Political Economy.
"It was really easy to get to know everyone because you could reasonably fit all those people in a living room."
Christina Muehlberger
Membership Engagement Officer, Canadian Association of University Teachers
"Choose your own adventure."
That's how Christina Muehlberger describes her experience at the Institute of Political Economy.
"I really liked how interdisciplinary it is," she says. "You get to create your own degree."
The flexibility and openness of the program allows students to look at a topic from many different angles.
This was a perfect fit for Muehlberger's research at the time, which looked at the effects of neoliberalism on universities and the role of the university in community.
"There was no other program that I could do that research as well as I did," she says.
Her research ended up taking a path towards critical geography, but Muehlberger didn't have a background in that field.
|It was the political economy program that allowed her to explore this area, read the literature and think to herself, 'Oh that really excites me and makes me look at the university in a different way.''
Muehlberger says she is a big advocate for the Institute and it isn't just because of the interdisciplinary approach.
"The core courses in political economy are like boot camp in political theory and methodology. You come out with a really strong foundation in those things, which I thought was excellent," she says.
But there is more to the program than theory. Muehlberger says she appreciates how the Institute has put an emphasis on experiential learning.
Muehlberger's academic interest in universities led her to a research placement with the Canadian Association of University Teachers through the Institute.
"I think it was a really cool opportunity to show that the research skills I was gaining and the issues I was interested in were really applicable to organizations beyond the university," she recalls.
It was also a great networking opportunity for Muehlberger, who now works at the organization full-time.
"They knew my name in part because I'd done research for them years ago."
Now, Muehlberger works as a membership engagement officer with the Canadian Association of University Teachers to help faculty associations across the country better engage their members on campaigns and bargaining.
Still close with the majority of her cohort, Muehlberger says it's great to see the different career paths her friends and colleagues have taken since completing their master's with the Institute.
"Watching all of the different roads people take from the program is really cool. We're all working in very different working environments, on very different issues but you can see us pull out some things we've learned every once in awhile," she says.
See Christina's End-of-Year interview (2015) as president of the Graduate Students' Association (GSA) with the Charlatan here
Ryan Katz-Rosene
"It was thanks to the theoretical openness and the interdisciplinary nature of the Institute of Political Economy that that transition was such an easy one and I've been working in environmental political economy ever since," he says.
Katz-Rosene says he loves the work he does now because there is never a dull moment.
"Anyone who's looking at environmental politics or environmental political economy is aware of how dire things are or could be in the near future," he says.
"But it's not all doom and gloom. With that challenge comes a real sense of purpose; and it brings meaning to your work."
For Katz-Rosene, writing a master's thesis at the Institute of Political Economy was a major step towards an academic career.
"Turning out primary research, interviewing people, turning it into a cohesive package and trying to get a final project out of it, there's no doubt that was a very formative experience. That was also the case for the collaborative PhD program."
And he's not alone.
"All the colleagues from my years at the Institute with whom I keep up with to this day I think would unanimously agree that their involvement in the
Institute helped shape their path," he says.
His advice to students who are interested in the political economy MA or PhD programs is to keep an open mind.
"My advice would be to keep theoretical and ideological and methodological doors and windows open as much as possible."


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Download L. A. G. Strong Study Guide
(Great Authors of World Literature, Critical Edition)
Leonard Alfred George Strong, of Irish descent, spent part of his childhood in the vicinity of Dublin and retained staunch ties with his Irish Protestant heritage, upon which he drew for much of his fiction. He was educated on scholarships at Brighton College and at Wadham College, Oxford. After being exempted from military service on account of disability, he began to teach at Summer Fields, a preparatory school near Oxford, in 1917. There he remained twelve years before moving to London in 1930 to devote himself to writing. Interested in speech and its development, he also taught oral interpretation of drama and broadcast for the British Broadcasting Corporation. His interest in regional dialects is reflected in his poems of rustic life.
Strong became known first for his poems, some of which show affinities with the work of Thomas Hardy. His succinct lyric portrayals of provincial life express satire, pathos, and laughter. Outstanding among his poems are "An Old Woman, Outside the Abbey Theatre," which is epigrammatically ironic in a manner worthy of William Butler Yeats, and "The Mad Woman of Punnet's Town," which depicts vitality and joy. After deciding to live by his writing, he concentrated on works of prose; most of his novels, short stories, and essays were published in rapid succession. As a novelist he is at his best in treatments of rural domestic scenes and in his realistic handling of conversation. In his late years he wrote several crime stories featuring the character of Ellis McKay, a Scotland Yard detective indifferently successful at solving cases by induction. In these short novels Strong, like his friend C. Day Lewis, who wrote under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, holds to the British tradition of "playing fair" with the mystery-reading public.
With English readers he achieved great celebrity as the author of short stories. For the 1945 collection titled Travellers Strong was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His other works include works for young readers and several penetrating critical studies, notably his study of James Joyce in The Sacred River.
(Great Authors of World Literature, Critical Edition)
Berger, Laura Standley, ed. Twentieth-Century Children's Writers. 4th ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 1995.
Kirkpatrick, D. L., ed. Twentieth-Century Children's Writers. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978.
Seymour-Smith, Martin, ed. Novels and Novelists: A Guide to the World of Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980.


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We are tired of the stupid arguments against the game of poker and have compiled a list of reasons that really should be considered by every Amateur who dreams of a professional career player.
1. You can lose everything
According to modern scientific research, about 1% (and not less than 0.7%) of people are potentially incurable ludomans – gamblers who are unable to stop. These people pull the lever of slot machines until their pockets run out of money and sell apartments to buy lottery tickets. When they enter the game, they completely lose control.
All mentally normal people are more or less reckless. We are programmed by nature to fight for life and territory, so when we start to lose, we are fully mobilized to recoup. In addition, losing hurts our self-esteem, belittles the sense of self-importance, and this is an additional motivation at any cost to avoid defeat. Any player – not only in poker, but also in preference, chess, Hearthstone, Counter Strike and so on – can remember days (more often, of course, nights – self-control weakens after a long wakefulness) when he led a desperate struggle with a superior opponent, hopelessly lost, but could not stop. But still in the life of 99% of people such cases are rare, and the memories of them are frightening, not inspiring.
If you are not lucky, and genetics have identified you 1%, it is best you not play at all. Nothing.
2. You can't learn to win
Poker is a difficult profession that requires a rather complex combination of intellectual and emotional skills. Deep knowledge of the of the game itself, the ability to construct equilibrium strategies and to deviate from them subject to the weaknesses of the opponents, the ability to manage their gaming funds (bankroll), complete control of emotions at the successes and failures, a strong will is not the complete, but it's a frightening list of job requirements. To become a good hairdresser, you need much less.
Not everyone can master poker in order to start winning steadily. Analysis of large amounts of statistics shows that about 60-65% of all players in poker rooms play in the negative. Among those who play regularly, the percentage of winners is above 50%, but not much.
In the community of successful players there is an opinion that at low limits, that is, in the game at low rates, it is easy and simple to win ("you can even teach a monkey to beat NL25"). Similarly, the candidate chess master does not believe that an adult can not play at least because of the first category, and the seventh-grader looks down on the program of the sixth grade. Gamers with APM under 300 just do not understand people playing with APM 90 – like what is difficult to quickly click on the keys? But man is a rather complex system, and it would be a big mistake to equalize everyone in itself.
3. Limited freedom
As you know, you need to play and work on the game without interruption. This imposes serious restrictions on players. If you are tired of winter Yekaterinburg, you can not break for a month in Italy – to play on the Internet from this country can only its citizens. France, Spain, Australia, USA and a number of other countries are also cut off from the international market. The unfortunate poker player will have to fly to Montenegro or Mexico and rent a house there to ensure a stable and high-quality Internet access…
The daily routine is also no longer in your power. No, you can try to play in the morning or in the afternoon, but… The game may simply not be, or it will be too little. The peak of Internet activity is evening and night. Professional players, especially those who choose tournament poker, often go to bed at 9-10 am. Evening and night tournaments are just much more profitable.
And, of course, the weekend. Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings are the peak of gaming activity. Your school friends are going to a pub or karaoke, and you have to choose – go have fun with them or lose a lot of money, missing the sweet game on Friday and with a heavy head playing on Saturday.
They say that poker is freedom. In fact, this is just another facet of unfreedom.


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ME/CFS affects everyone differently, while some people are bed bound for years, on the other end of the scale is people like me, still able to live a virtually "normal" life. Still working full time. Still taking part in hobby activities. Still living. Still here. But what looks normal from the outside can be far from it on the inside. Yes, I'm capable of working full time but only because I have a generous boss who doesn't mind me taking the odd unpaid day as leave if I need it. Yes, I attend dance and flute lessons – but only one or two per week where I used to attend them every single day. Yes, I dragged myself out of bed this morning, but no, I didn't make my own lunch. In fact, I didn't even choose my own clothes because I don't have the energy. I didn't shower, I didn't do my hair and I don't wear make-up. From the outside, it looks like I prefer a natural look, hair down, face bare. From the inside, I wish I had the energy, I wish I had the time to spend each morning to cover the bags under my eyes, to pull my hair into a braid, to make my own damned coffee.
I won't go into the details of what ME/CFS is here – it'd take waaayyy too long but for a brief description here's an old blog post of mine – "How can you know?".
It seems obvious that I would describe symptoms as being the "lows" of this illness, and I suppose, in some ways, they are. Lately the symptoms that have been bugging me the most are eyesight (blurred/double vision), headaches, queasiness, aching or stiff joints and tinnitus. When I was first diagnosed it was intention tremor and shaking that caused me the most discomfort, dropping pens and being unable to control the mouse of the computer were common issues. But to be honest, the biggest low is the pain that this illness has inflicted on others. It sounds pretty cliché but seeing your friends and family realise that there is absolutely nothing that they can do is one of the single most frustrating things in the world. The pain and discomfort of my own body, both mentally and physically, seems insignificant in comparison. I know that desire to want to help, and I know how much it hurts when there isn't a single thing that you can do.
Another hugely upsetting aspect for me is not being able to do what I used to do. Most days it's fine and I continue on with life as per my new "normal". But some days it really gets to you. Maybe you're cancelling on your friends for the millionth time, maybe you just realised that you really cannot afford the energy to shower today, maybe you aren't doing anything at all. Whatever the reason sometimes emotions can just sneak up on you and all of a sudden the wave comes crashing down and it's all too much. Those are the worst moments.
Highs. Believe it or not, there are actually so many highs that are direct results of this illness. The way that this illness has strengthened my relationship with my partner is by far the greatest thing it has and ever will do for me. But aside from that I am actually grateful for a lot of things. I have a new awareness of my own body and mind that I never had before and I have learnt to manage stress and emotions in ways that I never could before. My awareness of those around me has increased and I'm more grateful than ever for the things that I do have, the activities that I can do and the days that I let my heart lead me. Although I can't do everything that I would like to do, every time I want to, it makes the times when I can that much more special. If there is one thing that this illness has taught me it's how to stop taking things for granted and to be grateful for everything you have.
This post is Part 1 of 52 in the series – A Year of Growth. The series is a celebration of the first anniversary of The Truth About M.E and is designed to help me grow through my illness throughout my second year of blogging. I look forward to having you along for the journey!


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Are you tart and tangy? I know I am! I didn't think I needed to have the set, but then I started to see fabulous samples using it, so I knew it was a must have. It's great for making cute and simple cards. It's such a cheerful set.
Both of these samples use Soft Sky, Wild Wasabi and Real Red cardstock. I used some punches to make quick embellishments. The sentiment is from Pun Fun, it works great with this stamp set. For a little bling, I used stickles on the top of the strawberry and on the cherries.
Happy Stamping! :)
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Tart or Tangy
Posted by ~Denise Lynn~ at 9:53 AM
Labels: Simple Cards
7 comments:
- elibeegifts.co.uk said...
Lovely cards.Love those strawberries.x
- April 1, 2008 at 10:45 AM
- Erin... said...
Soo summery!! love the added shimmer to the berries...they look super!
- April 1, 2008 at 11:24 AM
- Alex said...
Love both of these Denise - so summery and fresh!! I love this set, it is my fave right now!! *STAMPIN HUGS* Alex
- April 1, 2008 at 12:16 PM
- Samantha Esqueda said...
I am soooo tart and tangy!!!! Tina is buying this for me for my birthday!!! Yipee!!!
- April 1, 2008 at 3:12 PM
- Jo said...
These are great. Love the colour combo.....they're so fresh looking :)
- April 1, 2008 at 3:21 PM
- Unknown said...
These are too cute!!! I love this stamp set and can't wait to get mine opened and use it.
- April 2, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Love the cards - especially the strawberry one! It looks so fresh and juicy! I really like how you have taken a spotlight approach on that card - very nice.
- April 10, 2008 at 11:03 PM
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