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I had a great time playing with Makeup this past weekend. Every have one of those days when you just felt like playing with makeup? That was me on Sunday. I have been wanting to do something out of my comfort zone and this is what I came up with. This won't be a long blog post,… Continue reading Playing with Makeup!
NARSissist DUAL INTENSITY EYESHADOW PALETTE
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A Quick Post on the Products that I used... I am listing each product as I would put them on.. Hourglass Mineral Veil Primer has a more of a watery type consistency, which I'm not too keen on but it performs fabulously once I got over the consistency. I do still prefer my MAC Prep + Prime and do enjoy changing… Continue reading Today's Makeup!
Makeup Geek is Fabulous!
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A NARS Makeup Day!
The BIG GUNS: THE VIRTUAL DOMINATION & THE DUAL INTENSITY PALETTES BY NARS Yesterday I started writing a post about the fabulous look I came up with using all NARS products, however, I accidently hit the Publish icon before I was done writing and editing it and took it down as fast as I could. Now that… Continue reading A NARS Makeup Day!
The L'Oreal Brush Contest
All "About the Color Clash" Theme If you are a budding beauty fanatic or a professional makeup artist, this would be a great opportunity for you. All candidates would have to do to enter The Brush Contest is to publish a beauty tutorial that is less than 3 minutes long and post it on the L'Oreal Paris YouTube… Continue reading The L'Oreal Brush Contest


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Here are some of our GO|STAY|KIT® partners, valued customers, and outstanding supporters. They include individuals, families, seniors, businesses, government and private agencies. Police departments, law enforcement, active duty military, CERT, hospitals, RVers, convalescent-care and retirement facilities, tribal councils, area councils on aging, religious organizations and neighborhood watch groups are also part of our community of users. To order more than 25 KITS through group-sales and receive discounted pricing, please call us directly at 541-210-6094, or email us at firstname.lastname@example.com (List updated April 2013)
- Albany County Sheriff's Office, Albany, NY
- Albany County Department of Health, Albany, NY
- Westchester County Office of Emergency Management, Hawthorne, NY
- Shawnee Tribe, Miami, OK
- Southwest Oklahoma Community Action Group, Inc., Altus, OK
- ACCESS Inc., Medford, OR
- Ashland Community Hospital, Ashland, OR
- Blue Star Mothers of Oregon, Clackamas, OR
- Center for Human Development Inc., La Grande, OR
- Central Oregon Council On Aging, Bend OR
- City of Ashland CERT Program, Ashland, OR
- City of Jacksonville CERT Program, Jacksonville, OR
- Coos County Public Health, North Bend, OR
- Deschutes County Disability Services Outreach, Bend, OR
- Deschutes County Health Services, Bend, OR
- Deschutes County Vulnerable Populations Outreach, Bend, OR
- Douglas County CERT, Roseburg, OR
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- Eastern Oregon Healthcare Preparedness Program, Region 9, La Grande, OR
- Hearing Loss Association of America Convention, Portland, OR
- Jackson County Emergency Management, Medford, OR
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- Lane County Medical Society, Eugene, OR
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Canadian Identity Theft
Expositor Staff
Brantford, Ontario
Saturday, February 01, 2003
Co-operators Life Insurance is standing up for 180,000
customers whose personal information was on a computer hard
drive that was recently stolen. Thieves may use the missing
information to steal the customers' identities.
It's a scary situation. Identity theft is the fastest growing fraud in North America. Last year, 800,000 Americans had their personal identity stolen. The RCMP fields up to 100 calls a day from Canadian victims. The scope of the problem is staggering. Thieves use stolen information to gain access to bank accounts and credit cards and to apply for loans. One hard drive stolen from a computer at a Regina data management company contained names, addresses, dates of birth, social insurance numbers and mother's maiden name for 180,000 Co-operators Life policy holders. The hard drive also had pension statements for 60,000 Saskatchewan provincial employees, 56,000 applications for Saskatchewan's bulk fuel rebate and 4,669 personal records for workers' compensation.
The theft of one hard drive has compromised the financial
security of 300,000 people, and there may be more. Apparently,
more companies had information on the hard drive. Unlike
Co-operators Life, they have not come forward publicly to warn
about risks.
Everyone whose file was on the hard drive should be warned
to protect themselves. That means changing bank accounts,
cancelling credit cards and making frequent credit checks.
Co-operators will pay out-of-pocket expenses to customers who
take these precautions. But what a nuisance setting up new
accounts to deposit paycheques and pay bills by automatic
Although no victims have emerged so far, thieves have
waited up to a year to strike at victims' accounts.
Security must be a major concern anywhere personal files
are kept. Governments and financial institutions demand our
personal information. The least they can do is keep the
information secure.
Police and the courts must take identity theft seriously.
One stolen hard drive has the potential to ruin the lives of
thousands of unsuspecting victims.
This is as bad as losing your wallet, maybe worse. When you
lose your wallet, you know it is gone and you will cancel
credit cards.
Identity theft is sneakier and more threatening because
victims may not know it has happened until it's too late.
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Usage of the baby's breath flower in making wedding bouquets is very common.
These photos are so good, it would be rather easy to just look at them and forget about all of one's worries.Some species of the baby's breath are considered to be weed, as they tend to invade any habitat, competing with native flora. Some of mother nature's creations look so sinless that it makes you wonder why the world is filled with such hatred when there is so much good around! Here are some seeds of the baby's breath plant's fruits, notice how some of them resemble a snail-shell, while others look more like a kidney.


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Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
How to run in Scandinavian forestsI've spent some time thinking about how to run in Scandinavian forests. The places I can train at home have relatively smooth and hard ground. But, in Scandinavia the forest tend to be soft and bumpy. In my experience, it is difficult to make the transition.
When I was in Stockholm a couple of weeks ago, I got some clear evidence of the difficulty. I ran with orienteers who do a lot of training in Scandinavian terrain. As I ran with them (either leading or following) I could tell I was working harder and not taking smooth lines through the terrain. I had to expend more thought on running that I should, making it easier to boom.
So, I need to figure out how to make an efficient and effective transition to Scandinavian forests when I go back to Sweden to run the 5-Days. I've got some ideas about how to do that. But, I'm not certain where I put my notes. When I find them, I'll post them.
I was amused to see Holger Hott Johansen struggling with the same problem (though Holger feeling slow is certainly moving faster than I ever do). Here is a bit of what he wrote:
After very little running in typical Nordic terrain this spring I just didn'?t manage to run that fast on rocky ground. The o-technical mistakes I did could not explain my time loss to the winner. It was a frustrating feeling not being able to run fast on a surface where I normally feel very confident. I assume one explanation is that Tiomila and the three days of training before Tiomila are my only kilometres in typical Nordic terrain this year. Other than that my time in the forest has been spent in Skane (southern Sweden), Denmark and Estonia.
Three practices, 3,5 hours of running, and 20 km of orienteering later I was ready for Jukola. Now my running worked much better. posted by Michael | 7:37 PM
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The world of Mystery Shopping typically focuses on evaluating how businesses perform relative to rules, regulations, and the brand standards dictated by their owners and stakeholders. Definitions of compliance can come from many different sources, including formal corporate guidelines, manuals dictating Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and even government-regulated mandates.
For those of you unfamiliar with Mystery Shopping and its unique niche in the pantheon of Customer Experience research / measurement, here are two brief examples of Mystery Shopping in action:
- Mystery Shoppers at a Big Box retailer might check to make sure that the employee they meet once inside the store is wearing the proper uniform and provides a friendly, welcoming greeting.
- Just down the street, Mystery Shoppers at a financial institution assess whether a bank teller provides them with the proper financial disclosures at the end of their transaction.
In both instances, measuring a location's compliance to its brand standards has both a near- and long-term impact. In the near term, compliance means that the location and its employees are creating the look and feel of the ideal "Customer Experience." Again, this is defined by directives from the larger organization (in their SOPs and stated business goals and objectives), and—assuming they have access to the data through a Voice of the Customer (VOC) program/survey or some other outlet for consumer feedback—brand standards can (and should) be grounded in the wants, needs, and expectations of one's customer base.
Compliance to Brand Standards: Immediate Impact and Long-term Effects
In the Big Box retail example above, brand standards—in accordance with what consumers claim to be their "ideal experience" may include how employees look (uniform) and behave (greeting), among many other factors. The theory here is that when a company delivers the kind of Customer Experience that consumers want, there is a much greater likelihood that these individuals will become (or remain) loyal customers, generate ongoing, incremental revenue through repeat visits, and recommend the brand to others.
At the same time, compliance also has a long-term impact. In the Financial Services example, a bank that fails to properly provide its customers with the appropriate financial disclosures—or in some way does not follow prescribed government regulations and procedures—can face significant punitive repercussions, be it legal, financial, relational, etc… In the age of Social Media, who is to say what is actually more damaging to a brand—a $10M fine from the government or the potential controversy and myriad of negative press and customer stories/complaints, now made public, all because of that violation? Either way, news—as we all know—doesn't just travel fast anymore, but instantly—and strongly influences opinions, behaviors, and buying decisions of both current and potential customers.
Regardless of how compliance is defined or assessed within a given industry or for a specific brand, the way in which compliance is measured (i.e. with a Mystery Shopping program), must be viewed by the brand as positively contributing to its larger business goals and objectives. In other words, to remain alive, it must justify its existence. Any Mystery Shop program worth its salt (and worthy of a sustained presence within an organization), must clearly demonstrate ROI (Return on Investment) to its owners and stakeholders.
Justifying Mystery Shopping: Awareness of Restroom Non-Compliance
To illustrate the power and potential of demonstrating Mystery Shopping ROI to a client/brand, consider some of MaritzCX's recent Mystery Shopping work in the Retail Petroleum industry.
Both industry benchmarking and VOC data, as well as our own independent research, continuously supports the notion that the condition of a Restroom, anywhere—and especially for those customers actually in need of a Restroom—is a key driver of overall satisfaction with the brand/site experience, as well as a driving force behind consumers' likelihood to return to and recommend the brand to others.
This is why our Mystery Shoppers spend a considerable amount of time evaluating C-store Restroom conditions and identifying specific areas of non-compliance. Rather than simply indicating that a Restroom was "Dirty" and therefore not compliant, MaritzCX's Mystery Shoppers provide detailed feedback on why a Restroom did not measure up to brand standards: "Trash on the floor, Fixtures damaged, Mirror cracked, Graffiti present on walls, Hand dryer not functioning, Toilet paper not stocked, etc. etc…"
These granular findings then serve as the basis for location-level action plans which sites can train their frontline personnel on and enforce to ensure that their Restrooms return to—and maintain—the appropriate level of cleanliness and functionality that both complies with the company's brand standards and, more importantly, meets the needs and expectations of its customers.
Just like with the two examples mentioned earlier, Restrooms—when compliant—have a clear near- and long-term impact. The near-term impact is obviously the effect it has on the Customer Experience and consumer perceptions of the brand. The long-term impact of a clean Restroom, however, is where you can really begin seeing the direct connection to revenue, which, in turn, exemplifies the power and importance of Mystery Shopping programs. It provides the ROI needed to reassurance stakeholders that sustaining the Mystery Shop program only benefits the organization.
Mystery Shop ROI Case Study: Taking the Plunge(r)—The Impact of Restroom Experiences on Purchasing Behaviors
Backed by a recent industry study conducted by NACS,* (Source) we were able to provide our Retail Petroleum clients with tangible ROI data to justify the importance of—and need for—an ongoing Mystery Shop program. Specifically, we were able to show how "Restroom Compliance" at a brand's site links directly to its bottom line. Consider this statistic:
"1-in-5 convenience-store customers decide whether or not to make a purchase in the C-store based on their experience in the Restroom."
In other words, for any given C-store, 20 percent of its standard foot traffic will make an in-store purchase provided they had a positive (or at the very least—not a negative) experience in the Restroom. However, this 20 percent are just as likely to leave the C-store without making a purchase if their Restroom experience was negative.
Now "1-in-5 customers" may not seem that staggering, but consider the total revenue a brand has the potential to gain or lose at each of its locations from this 20 percent customer segment in a given year:
- The most recent data estimates there are approximately 154,195 convenience stores across the United States.* (Source)
- Across all brands in the nation, the typical US convenience store conducts an average of 171,132 transactions each year.* (Source)
- The average per-transaction amount for a U.S. convenience store is $8.56.* (Source)
Taking the average amount of spend ($8.56) and multiplying it across the average number of transactions at a C-store in a given year (171,132) is roughly $1.4M in annual revenue. Now, after you factor in that 20 percent subgroup of customers (the1-in-5), every location has approximately $293,000 on the hook each year–all contingent on the quality and condition of its Restroom(s). Take a moment to let those numbers sink in. That's nearly $300,000 in potential revenue that could be yours—but only if each every one of your customers who walk into your Restroom later walk out with a smile on their face (or at the very least, isn't disgusted by what they just experienced).
Put Simply: Having Clean Restrooms Just Makes Financial 'Cents'
Obviously maintaining a clean Restroom makes perfect sense—it is, after all, what the customer expects. And the experience itself, whether positive or negative, becomes a direct reflection of the brand in consumers' minds. But once you factor in what we have learned regarding buying decisions of 1 in 5 customers to a C-store… it also starts making financial sense.
Think about it. Do you really want to be the one explaining to your boss that you missed out on $300,000 in revenue just because you never remembered to refill the soap dispenser? (Didn't think so.)


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Chanakya Quotes to Help Improve Your Life (81 of them!)
81 Chanakya Quotes Give You Best Advice On Life
Chanakya was a teacher, thinker, philosopher, and financial expert. This diplomat of India helped the first Mauryan ruler to his kingdom. He served as his chief adviser. Do you know, even after hundreds of years, the Chanakya quotes are still fitting in our lives?
Chanakya Quotes
He was born in the 4th Century BC in India. Although he was not a soldier, he helped the emperors to win using his insight. These Chanakya quotes on life, love, friendship, and success are sure to keep you one step ahead.
1. "The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you."
2. "The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman."
3. "Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous."
4. "Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person."
5. "A man is great by deeds, not by birth."
6. "The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort."
7. "The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep."
8. "There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."
9. "There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy."
10. "A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode."
11. "Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends."
12. "Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness."
13. "Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest."
14. "Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune."
15. "Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise counsel keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution."
16. "He, who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined."
17. "Just as a mirror reflects as a man's face his personality is reflected in his choice of friends. One must always be careful in forming friendships and acquaintances, for one's friends, are in a way, an extension of one's inner inclinations and tendencies."
18. "As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant try to save your soul; when death is imminent what can you do?"
19. "You can win over a greedy by offering money, a proud person by covering before him. You can win a foolish by agreeing with him and you can win a scholar by truth only."
20. "There is no present and future of the lazy."
21. "No one can defeat a powerful mind."
22. "As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it."
23. "We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment."
24. "One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others can use neither knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises."
25. "The king shall lose no time when the opportunity waited for arrives."
26. "Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water."
27. "Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills."
28. "Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities."
29. "All the creatures are pleased by loving words; and therefore we should address words that are pleasing to all, for there is no lack of sweet words."
30. "No messenger can travel about in the sky and no tidings come from there. The voice of its inhabitants as never heard, nor can any contact be established with them."
31. "He, who is not shy in the acquisition of wealth, grain and knowledge, and in taking his meals, will be happy."
32. "Even a pundit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable."
33. "Time perfects men as well as destroys them."
34. "O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet."
35. "It is better to die than to preserve this life by disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life."
36. "The poor wish for wealth, animals for the faculty of speech, men for heaven and godly persons for liberation."
37. "He who lives in our mind is near though he may be actually far away but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby."
38. "Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house."
39. "Fate makes a beggar a king and a king a beggar. He makes a rich man poor and a poor man rich."
40. "Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions."
41. "If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic. If he is reckless, they will not only be reckless likewise, but also eat into his works."
42. "The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind but the goodness of a person spreads in all directions."
43. "It is better to be without a king than to have a bad one."
44. "The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability."
45. "Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart is needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform."
46. "As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family."
47. "He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise – although he may be the greatest personality will lose the favor of Lakshmi."
48. "We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favor, like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer."
49. "He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined."
50. "A human being should strive for four things in life – Dharma (duty), Artha (money), Kama (pleasure) and Moksha (salvation). A person who hasn't striven for even one of these things has wasted life."
51. "Tongue is the source of poison or nectar."
52. "A man who expects a flower, never waters a dry plant."
53. "The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects."
54. "One flaw can destroy many qualities."
55. "As gold is tested on four ways like rubbing , cutting, heating, beating human will be tested by his renunciation, conduct, quality, action."
56. "Wise men should never go to the country where there is no means to earn livelihood, People have not heard of anybody, no sense of shame, no intelligence, no charity disposition."
57. "The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquility is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there."
58. "If you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth."
59. "He should be considered to be living who is virtuous and pious, but the life of a man who is destitute of religion and virtues is void of any blessing."
60. "The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth."
61. "People change with time. Do not be shocked when it happens."
62. "Always be prepared for the worst and expect the unexpected."
63. "War is permanent state of affairs. Peace is just an interlude. Use peaceful time to increase your strength to prepare to attack."
64. "Treaties are just treaties, meant to be broken when one becomes strong enough."
65. "With single minded dogged pursuit everything can be attained."
66. "There is no disease so destructive as lust; no enemy like infatuation; no fire like wrath; and no happiness like spiritual knowledge."
67. "When one is in an alien land, learning is a friend. When one is staying at home, one's mother is a friend. For one suffering from illness, medicine is a friend. And for the departed souls, dharma is a friend."
68. "What is the purpose of having a son who is neither learned nor devoted to God? It is useless to have a blind eye which will only result in eye-ache."
69. "A scholar and a king can never be equated. A king is respected in his own kingdom, whereas a scholar is respected everywhere."
70. "A wise man has all qualities in him. A fool has only faults. Therefore, a single wise person is better than a thousand fools."
71. "We return evil for evil, in which there is no sin, for it is necessary to pay a wicked man in his own coin."
72. "Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher full of poison with milk on top."
73. "We have to make people soft who are hard, to attract those who are far, if they do bad for us then even considering our aim we should always love them."
74. "Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained, but this body when lost may never be acquired again."
75. "If you were to choose between an evil person and a snake to keep company with, opt for the snake. Because the snake will bite you only in self-defense but the evil person will put a bite for any reason and any time or always."
76. "There are only two ways of dealing with the evil persons or thorns. Crush them under your boot or stay far away from them."
77. "Too much beauty got Sita kidnapped, too much ego got Ravana killed and too much charity got Raja Bali in deep trouble. So too much of anything is bad. One should refrain from 'too much."
78. "Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say – What fear has a rich man of calamity? Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish."
79. "It is the mind of man alone that is the cause of his bondage or freedom."
80. "The man who is praised by others is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the man who sings his own praises becomes disgraced though he might be Indra, the possessor of all Excellences."
81. "He who has wealth has friends."
From the childhood, Chanakya had the qualities of a leader. He had studied Vedas and also loved politics. His knowledge and wisdom were beyond the children of his age.
Chanakya was a very simple person. He lived for the country and established the idea of a united India as one country. He is well known as a commerce and economics expert.
He had written a few books on classic economics. Since centuries, all over the world, his words have inspired people. We hope that you will also get inspired from these Chanakya quotes. They are sure to lead you to a higher path.


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Managing the Mini Lesson
Quick Tip # 1:
If you want to learn more effective classroom management strategies, one of the best ways to do this is by visiting well-established reading or writing workshop classrooms to study how they have set up routines and expectations. Ask your principal, coach, or mentor to set up a time to do a peer observation near the beginning of the school year. Here are a few lenses to look through as you are observing a workshop classroom:
How does the teacher:
- manage the mini lesson
- manage independent reading time
- manage the mid-workshop teaching
- manage partner time
- manage the share
- manage books, classroom libraries
- manage conferring/small group notes
Systems Before Mini Lesson Begins
You want to have your class set up for reading workshop before you begin. Here are a few routines you will want to think about:
- what materials will students need for the mini lesson such as books and writing pieces?
- what materials will students need for independent time such as reading logs, drafts, paper, and pencils?
- where will students gather these materials?
- how will students get their learning space ready for independent reading/writing?
- where will students read or write?
- will students need to move chairs or other furniture?
- how will you signal for students to come to the carpet for the mini lesson?
- how will you model and act out how you want your students to come to the carpet?
- what does it look like, feel like, and sound like to get ready for a mini lesson?
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The Bolshoi Ballet presents La Sylphide at Palace Cineplex
This Sunday January 13, 2019, 11: 30 am at Palace Cineplex, witness the work that marks a turning point in the genre and is the oldest and longest surviving of the classical ballets known today. On the day of his wedding, the young Scotsman, James is awaken with a kiss from an ethereal winged creature, a Sylph. Entranced by her beauty, James risks everything to pursue an unattainable love. The ultimate romantic masterpiece. La Sylphide, is a romantic ballet in two acts. There were two versions of the ballet, the original was choreographed in 1832 by Italian dancer and choreographer, Filippo Taglioni, the second in 1836 by August Bournonville, Danish ballet master and choreographer. He was the son of Antoine Bournonville, a dancer and choreographer trained under the French choreographer, Jean Georges Noverre, and the nephew of Julie Alix de la Fay, nee Bournonville, of the Royal Swedish Ballet. Bournonville's is the only version known to have survived and has the distinction of being hailed a treasure in the Danish Bournonville style. Restaged for the Bolshoi by Bournonville expert Johan Kobborg.


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Environment 2011
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Adapting to Change through 'Localism' Held at the Russell Hotel, Russell Square, London WC1
Headline Speakers
Lord Chris Smith
Chairman of the Environment Agency
Chairman of the Environment Agency
Lord Taylor of Holbeach
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Environment 2011 heard government, local government and businesses speak of their strategies to tackle, on a local level, the key climate change and environmental challenges.
The 2011 annual conference provided the skills to devise and enact strategies to protect and create healthy local environments, improve energy efficiency and meet climate change challenges. It gave regulators; business; government agencies; local government and campaign groups a chance to set out their view of the way ahead over the next four years, and discuss the dilemmas confronting business leaders, policy‐makers and strategic planners.
This unique event mapped the future for decision‐takers wrestling with the pace of change, investment decisions, and the huge behavioural and economic changes necessary to reduce our carbon output; protect and create healthy local environments; reduce and manage waste and move towards alternative, cleaner energy and transport.
Lord Whitty, Vice-President, Environmental Protection UK; Board member, Environment Agency; Former Defra Minister
Welcome and introduction from conference Chair
Panel Question: How can the public sector meet the challenge of environmental protection in times of austerity? How can we ensure we tap into the ingenuity that exists?
Session speakers to be joined by: Professor Frank Kelly, Chair, Environmental Research Group, Kings College London Vicky Pope, Head of Integration and Growth, Met Office
Biography: Professor Frank Kelly
Lord Chris Smith, Chairman, Environment Agency
Creating a better place: protecting the environment and securing growth
Biography: Lord Chris Smith
Refreshments, networking and exhibition
Changing Local Environment Discussion Group 2: Waste and recycling
Incentivising best practice in managing household, industrial, electrical, motor and retail waste James Cleverly, Chair, London Waste and Recycling Board Ray Georgeson, Chief Executive, Resource Association
Biography: James Cleverly
Changing Local Environments discussion group 3: Behaviour change
Behaviour change and the psychology of climate change: feedback from a Total Environment Pilot Area Applying behaviour change techniques to waste, energy consumption and transport Richard Wills, Executive Director, Lincolnshire County Council and Advisor, Local Government Association on Environmental Matters James Grugeon, Chief Executive, Environmental Protection UK
Biography: James Grugeon
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Changing Local Environments discussion group 4 Business sustainability
Climate Action's 7 steps to a sustainable business Energy and distribution sustainability The local business case for enhancing and protecting local environmental quality Julian Feasby, Head of Internal Environment Management, Environment Agency Faye Scott, Senior policy Adviser, Green Alliance
Biography: Julian Feasby
Biography: Faye Scott
Lord Taylor, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Ministerial keynote address: The independent scrutiny of environment policy and protection
Biography: Lord Taylor of Holbeach
Panel discussion: Session 3 The business and organisation case for working together locally
James Grugeon, Chief Executive, Environmental Protection UK Tom Flanagan, Corporate Director, Environment, Planning and Economy, Cornwall Council and Chair of the Environment Board, ADEPT
Biography: Tom Flanagan
Biography: James Grugeon
Buffet Lunch, networking and exhibition
Andy Johnston, Director for Local Energy, Local Government Information Unit (LGiU)
Afternoon keynote: The Natural Environment White Paper, The Electricity Market Reform White Paper and the challenges that lie ahead
Andy Johnston: Questions and discussion Director for Local Energy, Local Government Information Unit (LGiU)
Panel discussion: Session 4
With research on climate change so far centred on understanding the physical impact, what can we learn about the broader implications of moving towards a low carbon economy? How can we manage the trade offs between climate change measures and local environmental quality? Richard Wills, Executive Director, Lincolnshire County Council and Advisor, Local Government Association on Environmental Matters Guy Shrubsole , Director , Public Interest Research Centre (PIRC) Matthew Farrow, Director of Policy, Environmental Services Association
Biography: Guy Shrubsole
Biography: Richard Wills
Refreshments, networking and exhibition
Interactive Debates: Discussion group 1: Transport adaptation
Creating resilient local transport infrastructure Dr Adrian Davis, Public Health support to City Development Bristol City Council Tom Flanagan, Corporate Director, Environment, Planning and Economy, Cornwall Council and Chair of the Environment Board, ADEPT
Biography: Tom Flanagan
Interactive Debate: Discussion group 3: Energy partnerships
Dr Alan Whitehead MP, Chair, Associate Parliamentary Renewable and Sustainable Energy Group Andy Johnston, Chief Executive of Local Energy, LGiU
Biography: Dr Alan Whitehead MP
Interactive Debate: Discussion group 4: The role of IT in environment protection: data centre energy consumption
Bob Crooks. Green ICT Lead, Defra and Chair of the BCS Green ICT SG John Booth, Consultant, Carbon3IT Ltd
Biography: John Booth
Summary of the morning by Lord Whitty from Environmental Protection UK
Exhibitor Interview with David Pegg from SciSys
Exhibitor Interview with Jamie McNee from Turnkey Instruments
Exhibitor Interview with Kerry Geldart from Society for the Environment
Exhibitor Interview with Amanda Cuthbert from Green Books
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Hala, an office worker in Damascus, describes her daily commute to work as a lengthy ordeal that's becoming even longer – and pricier – as transportation snarls hit the capital.
Living in the Rukeneddine area but working across town in Mezzeh, she says: "Every day I face a new problem as to how to get to work. The journey alone takes an hour and a half. Add to that the difficulty of finding transportation as most taxi drivers [stymied by checkpoints and traffic] cut the journey short, and sometimes I only make it halfway there. if I want to take a private taxi to get to work, I have to pay between 400 and 600 Syrian pounds (about $4) each way," she says. "That means I'll pay all of my salary on transportation."
Damascenes describe finding safe transportation as an increasingly expensive ordeal, saying they find themselves at the mercy of taxi drivers who, unchecked by a distracted government, have illegally hiked their prices.
Damascus used to be flooded with cheap public transport like buses, minibuses and share taxis, but the routes on which they operate have been drastically scaled back by the city as resources are diverted elsewhere.
Often the only option is a pricey private cab. Many have stopped using them altogether, opting to walk whenever possible. But those with longer commutes still find themselves forced to pay exorbitant amounts of money to get to work.
Raed, who works on bustling Baghdad Street downtown, says that his daily journey to the office includes taking a shared cab, also known as service, from his countryside home in Jaramana to central Bab Touma or Abbaseen Square. From there, he walks the rest of the way, as the only transport option in the area is an expensive private taxi. The cab, he says, would cost him about 150 Syrian pounds, most of his daily salary.
But the city's cabbies say they're playing fair.
"No one hiked the prices," says one driver, who wished to remain anonymous. "Any journey now takes a long time, and even if it's in central Damascus, it could take an hour or two. Add to that the high costs of registering the car and the increasing costs of fuel, maintenance and spare parts. All of these now cost twice as much as they used to."
Another driver says that while the government has set the price of diesel at 60 pounds per liter, demand has caused prices to spike to up to 90 pounds. Because of this, he says, standard taxi and minibus fares set before the conflict are now "unfair."
Zakaria Yaghi, president of the Union of Road Transport Workers in Damascus, says there are 13,000 registered vehicles on the city's roads, but only 3,000 of them are for public transport in use. The sharp decline in the availability of transportation vehicles happened, he claims, after the Interior Transportation Company (ITC), which controls buses and microbuses, scaled back on its services, with buses now only serving a handful of routes.
Before the conflict, 185 public transport vehicles worked the heavily trafficked Jdeideh-Artouz route. Now it's served by just 40. The popular Qatna route, once covered by 300, now has only 50 public share taxis.
The government and drivers blame each other for the city's transport woes.
Haitham Midani, a member of the executive bureau of the transportation sector for the Damascus governorate, contends that most excuses given by cab drivers are unacceptable. "The fares have been set taking into consideration all expenses the driver has to pay, be it spare parts or maintenance," he says. "As for fuel, both petrol and diesel are available widely in many gas stations."
Midani adds that there are plans to provide government-subsidized gas tanks at taxi stations to make things easier for the drivers. He says there are 25,000 cabs in Damascus, and only 100 drivers have filed complaints with the transport branch.
Given the disparity in numbers, "we find the situation to be excellent for taxi drivers." The responsibility of monitoring them on a day to to day basis, he says, falls not to his bureau but to "route monitoring committees, which we are currently working to establish."
Damascenes are taking matters into their own hands. As the employment rate rises, many with cars have taken to using them as gypsy cabs, a popular practice in other Arab countries. And in response to civilian complaints, the governorate announced that it will launch the Taxi Service Initiative in May. Covering 12 of the capital's most popular routes, it will work to monitor and standardize fares.


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HOMEBREWED SHENANIGANS - Friday, May 18th - 10pm
Hosted by HEART SHAPED BOX
Back by popular demand, Fiona and Kiwii of Heart-Shaped Box bring you a brand new tasting comprised solely of homemade beverages! Inspired by Fiona's love of home brewing, the ladies teamed up and crafted a menu of artisan liquor infusions and brews ranging from rice wine to a secret recipe vodka! Crafted in the heart of the Berkshires, Kiwii and Fiona will be sampling both original recipe cocktails and some straight-up drinks.If you have an interest in making your own, we will be discussing our methods as well as answering questions. Even if you don't, why miss the opportunity to oak in our dorky charm and drink with the belly dancers.
50 SHOTS of GREY GOOSE - Saturday, May 19th - NOON
Hosted by ANIYAH LYSZT
You've read the awful books & you've seen the even more awful movies…..& I bet you sure could use a drink to recover! Join us for hilarious drunken dramatic readings of that literary monstrosity that we all just love to hate, & learn how to turn a questionable story into a great drinking game! Alcohol not provided, but recipes are! Come see where the buzz is, & stumble out the door with a fun new game to play at your next book club meeting!
MY LITTLE ALCOHOLIC PONY - Saturday, May 19th - 2pm
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Inspired by the characters of My Little Pony, come and try a sweet array of colorful cocktails.
THE (MAD!) SCIENCE of GIN - Saturday, May 19th - 4pm
Hosted by Rachael Botticelli AKA Mya Complace
Join us for a educational excuse to drink and know things! Learn how gin, that most stylish and classy of spirits, is made. Discover the science behind its unique flavor, and how an individual's taste buds play a crucial roll - why do some people hate it, and others adore it? Take the plunge and find out which varieties are your favorite. In the spirit of science - and because we'll cook up any excuse to party - we'll also go over medicinal uses of gin, and how to appreciate it both straight and in special purpose cocktails. So come! Join us as we discover Secrets Man Was Not Meant To Know! Such as what you should and shouldn't mix your gin with. One lucky participant will be bribed, I mean...win a parting gift!
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Try some awesome and tasty Scotch whiskies straight from the Isles themselves. This year's Scotch tasting will take us through the windy, peaty islands to the crisp highlands. Whether it's your first sip of an amber alcohol or if you're a seasoned whisky veteran, you won't want to miss this tasting.
All panels will run appox. 45min. long with a 15min. breakdown and turnaround time.
All panel participants must be official Nauticon attendees and follow the Nauticon rules and regulations.
Panels may be cancelled by Nauticon due to inappropriate content or lack of interest from attendees.
Panelists are responsible for planning all content and presentation. Moderators will be the main contact person if any questions or problems arise.
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Panels may be promoted via the official Nauticon website and participants may be recruited through the panel's thread.
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Second, this is what Nauticon is: It is an intimate gathering of no more than 900 fans and friends who want to talk about their favorite nerdy things. And want to learn more about their favorite nerdy things, and maybe find something else that's interesting too. There are entertainments specifically designed to get people gathered together over something that they can talk about, from Boat Trips around Cape Cod Harbor, to attending a Luau on the hotel grounds and beach, from cupcake wars to bacon vs. spam panels, to costume shows and drag queen make-up tips. Behind our panels fun names are diverse, educational and timely subject matters presented by panelists who are educated or experts in their fandom. Nauticon aims to bring panels to our attendees that they cannot find anywhere else. We have food pairings or whiskey, rum and other tastings that tantalize the taste buds and educate the palette. This year, who knows? But we bring in both fans and pros who can provide that kind of information and vibe that make this a weekend long event.
Finally, Nauticon is for the 21+ fan and as such we require that every attendee up to and including the pros to sign a waiver that indemnifies us. We have all night long open parties in a waterside inn which exclusively has our badged attendees in all the rooms. This is a place to meet a friend for life, or a friend for the night. Additionally, we bring in crowd specialists who take care of any problems that may arise from alcohol consumption, or just plain bad luck or medical need.
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Specialty guests: These persons are invited by the Program Director or Convention Chair and have a particular interest that they have cultivated beyond the hobby level. We offer an comp badge and they present specific panels that are given priority on the convention schedule. They must purchase their own hotel room.
Semi-pro guests: Persons who we specifically invite because of a particular aspect of their fandom or life that we want to have presented at Nauticon. They get a shared room at the convention hotel, on Cape Cod's famous Provincetown beach area. Galley access for their lunch and dinner needs. And an attendees badge which affords them the whole Nauticon experience, night parties, panels and so forth.
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Off We Go with Phi
Posted by shirleycurran on 2 January 2015
A mildly daunting preamble as we are told that there are going to be five misprints and that we will also encounter clues where we have to remove two or three letters 'always leaving words or abbreviations, but generally leading to a loss of surface sense'. (The italics are mine!) We have to complete the grid with those adapted clues, then erase those groups of two or three letters from a contiguous section of the grid. There is a lot going on here but it does sound like fun and someone is clearly 'going off' (sadly, not through consuming an excess of alcohol, though, as I did my usual scan through the grid, just to check that Phi still qualifies for the Listener Setters' Oenophile Coterie and, to my amazement, found not one alcoholic clue, except for a stinking barrel full of decomposed matter). I know he made it all the way from NZ to the last setters' dinner and don't imagine he consumed only water there, so I am not over-anxious, and get down to solving.
Solving is great fun. We are clearly in the hands of a master conductor as clue after clue resolves itself with a smile. No, a chuckle! 'Obsessively detailed male proving reversal of identical sequences of solar observations (9)' (giving us ANAL + M in SAME< = ANALEMMAS); I'd picked up two males in meadow, leading to difficult choice (7)' (there aren't many female Listener setters, two or three active ones, I believe, in over a hundred – it's a male-dominated pastime – but wouldn't that clue have been more appropriate if it had come from one of us! – I'D< + MM in LEA = DILEMMA). We have a transvestite too. 'Man in dress seen embracing Unionist (5)' ("Crikey!" as"Tony Blair might have said – clad ROUND U giving us CLAUD). Then we have 'Front of car den[ts] woman (5) (C + LAIR – at least it isn't that male conviction, disproved by all insurance statistics, that it is a woman who is likely to dent the front of a car – the car is denting her). We have a boob appearing too; 'Loops and fastenings surrounding boob (8) (TIES round ERR = TERRIES). Hmmmm!
With a fair smattering of nuclear science and even CERN in the solutions, as well as marine demolition, a hermaphrodite, bridge, a ferret, some genetics, some linguistics and a strong smell, there's a delightful range of clues here and, as I ferret out the misprints, BAND/HAND, CELL/CALL, PASTE/PASTY, CHIME/CHIDE and BEST/NEST (spelling HAYDN), it all suddenly makes sense. 'Off we go' indeed. Isn't there the Farewell Symphony where each member of the orchestra, player after player, with the exception of Haydn and one other violinist snuffs out the candle and leaves with his instrument during the last movement.
The symphony is there, nicely balanced in the grid with the stage and audience symmetrically above it. This is the kind of grid I particularly like, with a story told in it and a graphical representation filling the grid.
Sure enough, just as Radix always insisted, the theme is echoed in the clues: we remove them, little by little, from the grid, clearing the stage in front of the audience, and soon there is only the one H left in the position of first violin. How daring of Haydn and how magical of Phi. This was sheer pleasure from start to finish.
One Response to "Off We Go with Phi"
2 January 2015 at 6:57 pm
A lovely illustration as always. Just to note there's a setter's blog at phionline.net.nz (click through Setter's blogs, oddly enough, and it's at the end of the list).
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Tim Bracey, London Volunteer with the Aircraft Team, shares his experience of spending the day with two of our volunteers, Clifford and James who volunteer in our Photographic Department. They work with out Curator of Photographs, Andy Renwick.
I had a good day with Clifford, James and Andy. Interesting work for sure.
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Opponents of Carrie Lam's policy to soon ban e-cigarettes have challenged the government to outlaw traditional cigarettes as well.
Lam's response: she would not rule out doing so in the long run.
Speaking on radio, Lam said the government's go-to measure to reduce the smoking population has always been raising the tobacco tax.
But she said she does not need the tobacco tax at all and would not mind a total ban on all cigarettes.
A caller asked: "We all know that cigarettes are harmful to health, but why didn't you also ban traditional cigarettes? People using e-cigarettes will now turn to traditional cigarettes."
Lam said since traditional cigarettes have been around for a long time, there are established measures to regulate them.
She added a bold idea like having a timetable to ban traditional cigarettes is possible "because I am relatively bold."
However, Tsang Kwok-hang of the Asian Vape Association said the policy is like banning air guns but not real guns and said it would wipe out the small and medium-sized e-cigarette enterprises in Hong Kong.
"It's like taking a step back. The tobacco market is dominated by several companies and this policy would force smaller companies and e-cigarettes stores to close down," he said.
A dozen newspaper vendors also voiced their concerns, saying they are worried the ban would drive smokers to purchase heated tobacco products from illegal channels.
The group submitted a petition to lawmakers, hoping the government would drop the ban and regulate heated tobacco products, so vendors would not suffer from a loss of sales.
Food and Health Secretary Sophia Chan Siu-chee said the government changed its plan from mere regulating to banning e-cigarettes because it saw a huge backlash from the medical and education sector.
"We also saw studies from the US, Italy and Japan – countries that have not banned but have regulated e-cigarettes – showing that regulation would make it easier for teenagers to try the product," she said.
Asked if she was worried the ban would force e-cigarette users to turn to traditional cigarettes, Chan said in her experience control policies have been effective in encouraging smokers to quit.
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The Secretary for Food and Health, Sophia Chan, on Thursday played down fears that a ban on e-cigarettes could turn people using them to traditional tobacco products instead.
Chan said the people who raise such fears do not have actual proof to back up the claim.
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Chan said the proposal to ban e-cigarettes was made after data from surveys conducted in recent months found that many local children are into the products.
She stressed that e-cigarettes have been branded as less harmful in order to attract young smokers, making them unaware how dangerous they can be.
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The Secretary for Food and Health, Sophia Chan, today played down fears that a ban on e-cigarettes could tempt people using them on to traditional tobacco products instead.
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The original plan was to prohibit the sale of e-cigarettes to minors, but Chief Executive Carrie Lam proposed an outright ban on importing, selling and promoting such products during her Policy Address.
The ban was supported by many in the medical and education sectors.
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E-cigarettes will soon be totally banned in the city – import, manufacture, sale, distribution and advertisement – along with other new smoking products to protect public health, Carrie Lam said.
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The Hong Kong Academy of Medicine and Federations of Parent-Teacher Associations welcomed the decision and urged the government to also restrict traditional cigarettes.
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The Hospital Authority, chairman, Professor John Leong,Professor welcomed today the government's tobacco control measure in proposing the legislative amendments to ban electronic cigarettes and other new smoking products.
"The HA has always supported the government for more stringent controls on the sale of electronic cigarettes and other new smoking products to mitigate the associated health risks."
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Olivia Culbreath was the sole survivor of a collision that killed six people when her 2013 Chevrolet Camaro, heading east in the westbound lanes of the 60 Freeway near Los Angeles, plowed head-on into an SUV on Feb. 9, 2014.
Four years later, Culbreath has been finally sentenced to the maximum prison term for six counts of second-degree murder. Her sister was among the dead.
Culbreath entered a no-contest plea back in May, and was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment on Dec. 5, after legal challenges over blood samples that revealed she was near twice the alcohol limit as she piloted the car the wrong way, first down the 57 Freeway, then the 60 Freeway.
Culbreath had a prior drunk driving conviction from several years earlier. She had wrapped her car around a light pole. The judge warned her at the time that if she was involved in another drink-driving crash, she could be charged with murder.
Her second crash in the city of Diamond Bar was described as "possibly the worst crash in the history of Southern California" by patrol officers.
Her attorney said that the 30-year sentence was "extremely harsh."
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Officer Smelled Alcohol on Her Breath
She had been drinking at a bar when she got in her car in the early hours of the morning, reaching speeds of more than 100 miles per hour on the California freeways, according to investigators, as she headed down the wrong side of the road.
She was with a friend, Kristin Young, 21, and her sister, Maya, 24, when she drove her Camaro head-on into a Ford Explorer that carried three generations of family members.
Everyone in the two cars died, except for Culbreath. The driver in a third vehicle that got caught in the accident after the initial collision, Joel Cortez, also survived.
A highway patrol officer said he smelled alcohol on Culbreath when he first found her unconscious in hospital, undergoing a CT scan. He ordered medical personnel to give a blood sample, reported the Daily Bulletin, which her lawyers later claimed should be inadmissible because it was obtained without consent and without a warrant.
"30 years to life" for wrong way driver that killed 6 included her own sister. The crash occurred on Feb/2014 killed 4 people of the same family, DUI slammed into Victims Ford Explorer at 100 mph. Olivia carolee Culbreath had prior conviction in April/2010 for DUI @univision34 pic.twitter.com/AfV36lO1dm
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But the blood sample was allowed. During the trial, Deputy District Attorney Casey Higgins said that the sample, obtained about three hours after the crash, indicated she'd had "multiple drinks."
Culbreath, who was 21 at the time of the crash, was initially brought into the court hearings on a stretcher, reported NBC, but in later sessions attended in a wheelchair.
'I Take Full Responsibility'
She has been in custody for the last four years, including a spell in a hospital jail ward as she recovered from her injuries.
She said she regrets every day what happened and will "punish myself for the rest of my life" regardless of when she is released from prison.
Culbreath apologized to the victims' families, reported NBC.
"I was wrong, I was so wrong and I take full responsibility for anything," she said. Culbreath said she wants to be the best mother she can to her son, who was just 11 days old at the time of the crash.
The mother of Culbreath's friend, Mary Young, who was killed in the crash, said that she'll have to live with the pain of losing her daughter for the rest of her life, according to NBC.
"Olivia has to live with the consequences for the decision that she made that morning, and I'm sorry for it," she said. "I do believe she was well aware that she was over the alcohol limit that night. I believe she knew that and was aware of that. But I just also believe that she didn't think that it could happen to her."