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WBU employees, alums compiling cookbook
PLAINVIEW - What do 500 recipes have to do with a cabin in the mountains? Plenty, if you're part of the Wayland Baptist University family.
The university employees and alums are currently compiling a cookbook of favorite recipes to be sold as a fundraiser. Proceeds from the book sales will cover the cost of refurbishing and remodeling the school's cabin at the Glorieta Conference Center in New Mexico.
The cabin serves as a lodging resource for university employees who may be attending a conference at Glorieta or who are just vacationing there. Employees pay a fee to use the facility, which has a large living room area, two bedroom spaces and kitchenettes. With time and use, of course, the cabin has grown to need repairs and updating of the furnishings and décor.
"I spent some time at Glorieta last summer and I could see things that needed improvement. I also noted that there were some recipes in the kitchen pinned inside the cabinet doors and knew that was some great history and memories there," said Kita Hargrove, who helped spearhead the project. "I wanted to do a fundraiser for the cabin and got the idea to do a cookbook. We've just gone from there."
Hargrove, who is the administrative assistant for the Division of Religion and Philosophy, said she also sees the recipe collection not only as a cooking resource but also as a history book of sorts.
"If you look at the cookbook as a family tree and where all the roots of the university go and how far it reaches, it's pretty amazing," she said. "We've had missionaries overseas and former professors and folks from all over the world. I have come to love the university even more as I've made connections with recipe contributors and their connections to this great university."
Wayland alums or former employees who wish to contribute recipes may get instructions to do so by contacting Hargrove at 291-1160. Recipes will be accepted through this week or until the number required to send the book to production.
Cookbooks may be purchased through Sept. 19 for an advance discount of $12.50. After the books are printed and ready for distribution - estimated to be in November or early December - the price will be $13 each.


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As I sit here completely exhausted, mentally drained and ready to hang up my Mommy wings I think of the past two days and it reminds me of why I do what I do.
This time of year can be ridiculously busy. But I love it because this is the time of year that the children put on their Christmas/Season productions at school.
Yesterday was my 1st graders production. All the first grade classes either sang songs, performed poems or other group numbers. It was amazing that they managed to work in all the holidays, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Christmas, Eid, and New Years. My son's Class, Ms. Padilla, performed a Poem called I'm freezing. It was so precious. My little Zulu knew his lines and all the hand movements. He did not even turn his head to look at others. He knew exactly what he was suppose to do. And was so happy doing it. I was super proud of him. And I think he was super proud too
So tell me what do you think? Is he cute or what?
Today happened to me Zero's class performances. Her grade decided to do what they call an Art Explosion. It showcased individual talent and small groups. The kids sang, danced, performed martial arts, played guitar and some, like my daughter played Piano. Then we parents brought food and we had a winter feast. It really was a lot of fun and WOW, some of those kids will have a career in the arts some day.
Zero, my unbelievably shy and sensitive child really wanted to perform. I suggested her piano. So she practiced and practiced in her room every spare moment. She had planned to play Fur Elise. I was really excited because she sounded REALLY good in her room. But over the weekend she abandoned that idea and decided that she was not ready to showcase herself for fear of laughing and teasing. That moment gave me the opportunity to talk to her about life experiences. What a great tool our voices can be. After our discussion she decided maybe she could do it and she would try something not so ambitious. So she thought Ode to Joy would be more appropriate. I just supported her all the way, it didn't matter what I wanted her to play what mattered was that she was actually gonna do this.
Today came and well, I did not see her anywhere. I thought she made herself sick worrying and did not even come down the stairs from her floor. But after about 5 performances I spotted her in the back. Yes, she was all smiles. I did not know whether she had scratched herself or not. I was hoping not, but with her you just never know, the timidness seems to take control very quickly. So I sat patiently as they worked their way through the more than 30 performances. Low and behold around performance 20 I saw her make her way towards the stage and I thought WOW, she is gonna attempt this. Amazing. Then they announced her name and my heart was pounding. I was shaking and scared for her. I knew this was a HUGE hurdle for her mind. Putting herself out there was going to be tough but luckily she did it. Yes, she made mistakes, and started over but in the end my baby conquered her fear and performed her piano skills before more than 200 sets of eyes. It was awesome. I was so shocked that it made me cry. My heart was thrilled for her. I think our chats are making a difference in her self esteem and her pride is starting to shine and boy does it ever make my heart sing. My baby girl accomplished something I could never do as a child. WOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Without further adieu, here is my Zero and her first public piano performance. Way to go ZERO!!!
What an amazing two days! Motherhood can be tiring, draining and downright frustrating but it also can be humbling and fulfilling and yes, today was one of those days. It will go down in Haskins history as a great milestone for Miss Zero and her accomplishments. And I will remember this day when I am old, wrinkled and grey. This story has been etched into my brain ans shall continue to be told for years to come.
Blessings to all of you and with God's help and mother natures retreat my husband, Zeus will be home in 45 hours.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
My favorite Part
As I sit here completely exhausted, mentally drained and ready to hang up my Mommy wings I think of the past two days and it reminds me of why I do what I do.
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Happy Happy Birthday Birthday
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Monday, December 14, 2009
3 year absence
This past week has been absolutely awesome. A little stressful to begin with but it worked itself out.
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Monday, December 7, 2009
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Saturday, December 5, 2009
Woo Hoo My Special Heirloom
Wow, I sit here looking out the window as the snow is falling and dream of the great things I have achieved and been so honored to be a part of. Life has not been easy by any means, but along with those challenges comes great memories and unbelievable opportunities.
While Zeus is still in OTS, the kids and I remain here at home for at least 68 more days. That's just a little over 2 months. WOW, time is flying by.
The other day a good friend called to see if I would like some coffee from Starbucks. Well, lets see here Um Yes. That was not a hard one to answer at all. So she said she would come by sometime in the afternoon. When she got here I was thrilled to have some company no less but I was even more surprised by what she brought me.
Remember my post back in late September, No way she's lying, well my friend brought me the results from that day. Oh yes, I know you are excited so those of you who have not already gotten to see this on facebook or twitter I will share with you Bloggy buddies now.
What do you think?
Someone mentioned that it looked like a cardboard statue!
Someone mentioned that he looked like I was married to him meeting some Air Force guy!
Someone mentioned that he might be coping a feel!
Someone asked why I was next to him!
Well, NO, NO, and NO! This is Pres. O, Myself and Zeus. We are standing in the Oval Office and if you look over our shoulders you can see part of the girls playset.
AMAZING, simply amazing. This picture shall be loved and honored by all of our family as well as us.
What a perk for my husband and so many others that have worked for the Boss so diligently and honorably.
Enjoy your weekend while I stare at a picture of a handsome man soon to be home with me and my babies.
14 days and counting.
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I saw with some trepidation an article by an atheist that rebukes the man: the title is "Christopher Hitchens' lies do atheism no favors". I felt that trepidation because there really are very good reasons to criticize Hitchens: his politics were vile, he was a cheerleader for war, his 'solutions' for problems in the Middle East were little more than excuses for genocide. He had the capacity to be thoughtful and interesting and deep, but when it came to world politics, he was a madman waving a gun. Someone could write a strong, well-researched criticism of Hitchens that would actually have a lot of weight, and it could overshadow the fellow's virtues (and, by the way, I think we should recognize that he was not a saint, and that like every one of us, he had his flaws).
But I shouldn't have worried. The author, Curtis White, basically writes an apologia for religion, and goes after Hitchens for…not respecting faith enough. Seriously? Yeah, seriously. This guy is an atheist who thinks the great theological circle-jerk is a beautiful ballet.
As critics have observed since its publication, one enormous problem with Hitchens's book is that it reduces religion to a series of criminal anecdotes. In the process, however, virtually all of the real history of religious thought, as well as historical and textual scholarship, is simply ignored as if it never existed. Not for Hitchens the rich cross-cultural fertilization of the Levant by Helenistic, Jewish, and Manichaean thought. Not for Hitchens the transformation of a Jewish heretic into a religion that Nietzsche called "Platonism for the masses." Not for Hitchens the fascinating theological fissures in the New Testament between Jewish, Gnostic, and Pauline doctrines. Not for Hitchens the remarkable journey of the first Christian heresy, Arianism, spiritual origin of our own thoroughly liberal Unitarianism. (Newton was an Arian and anti-Trinitarian, which made his presence at Trinity College permanently awkward.) Not for Hitchens the sublime transformation of Christian thought into the cathartic spirituality of German Idealism/ Romanticism and American Transcendentalism. And, strangely, not for Hitchens the existential Christianity of Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Karl Jaspers, Paul Tillich, Martin Buber, and, most recently, the religious turn of poststructural thought in Jacques Derrida and Slavoj Žižek. (All of these philosophers sought what Žižek calls Christianity's "perverse core.") And it's certainly not that he didn't have the opportunity to acknowledge these intellectual and spiritual traditions. At one point he calls the story of Abraham and Isaac "mad and gloomy," a "frightful" and "vile" "delusion," but sees no reason to mention Kierkegaard's complex, poetic, and deeply felt philosophical retelling of the story in "Fear and Trembling". In this way, Hitchens is often as much a textual literalist as the fundamentalists he criticizes.
I think I wrote about this before. It's a red herring: when we ask for evidence of a god, the apologists point to a whole bunch of people wrangling at daunting length about the interpretation of holy writ and say, "See? There. They couldn't possibly be arguing about nothing at all, now could they?" I wish this would sink in, that someone making an intricate paean to the ineffability of nothing is not evidence of anything other than the human brain's immense capacity for masturbatory self-reference.
And then the screed continues this trend with the credulous claim that the Bible actually is a solid historical document, contra Hitchens.
This case has been well made by others, if mostly in places far more obscure than Hitchens's privileged position on the New York Times best-seller list. For example, William J. Hamblin wrote a thorough and admirably restrained review ("The Most Misunderstood Book: Christopher Hitchens on the Bible") in which he held Hitchens to account for historical howlers of this kind:
In discussing the exodus, Hitchens dogmatically asserts: "There was no flight from Egypt, no wandering in the desert . . . , and no dramatic conquest of the Promised Land. It was all, quite simply and very ineptly, made up at a much later date. No Egyptian chronicle mentions this episode either, even in passing. . . . All the Mosaic myths can be safely and easily discarded." These narratives can be "easily discarded" by Hitchens only because he has failed to do even a superficial survey of the evidence in favor of the historicity of the biblical traditions. Might we suggest that Hitchens begin with Hoffmeier's Israel in Egypt and Ancient Israel in Sinai? It should be noted that Hoffmeier's books were not published by some small evangelical theological press but by Oxford University—hardly a bastion of regressive fundamentalist apologetics. Hitchens's claim that "no Egyptian chronicle mentions this episode [of Moses and the Israelites] either, even in passing" is simply polemical balderdash.
Hamblin is thorough, patient, relentless, but also, it seems to me, a little perplexed and saddened by Hitchens's naked dishonesty and, in all probability, by his own feeling of impotence. You can hardly blame him. Criticism of this character would have, and surely should have, revealed Hitchens's book for what it is … if it hadn't been published in The FARMS Review of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. Hitchens need never have feared the dulling of his reputation for intellectual dash and brio from that source.
No, Hitchens was quite right. There is no archaeological evidence for the dramatic events of the Exodus. The stories of a vast and powerful rising Hebrew kingdom are all mythologizing and self-aggrandizement. I'm sure Hamblin was quite saddened by the criticism of the self-serving Biblical archaeological community. He probably wept when he read Avalos' The End of Biblical Studies.
I see no "historical howler" in Hitchen's comment. The people who argue for the historicity of the Bible are religious apologists who read their interpretation of the faith into the historical record, who ignore evidence of the minor significance of the Jewish tribes of that era, and who constantly inflate trivial anecdotes into evidence of empires. It's a discipline tainted by people who go into it solely to make excuses for their faith.
This is not to say that the Jewish people didn't exist, or that they were never enslaved in Egypt, or that they never invaded Palestine — merely that the stories in the Bible are grossly exaggerated and untrustworthy.
White does make one justifiable argument, that Hitchens tended to sweep all Eastern religions into the same rubbish bin, and was rather too casual in lumping them all together. I think it's valid to say Hitchens was not an expert on Eastern philosophy…but then the responsibility falls on his critics to explain exactly why we should grant an Eastern religion greater credence than something a two-year old babbles? And why then, isn't the atheist author of this piece now adopting the superior ethical philosophy of ancient Tibetans?
And finally, White goes galloping off to attack secular reasons for moral behavior.
Hitchens's second metaphysical claim has to do with conscience. He counters the claim that without religion we would have no ethics by saying that conscience is innate. He writes, "Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."
Well, as Hitchens likes to say, this is "piffle." After all, what is a conscience? Does it light up on a brain scan when we think virtuous thoughts? And if it is innate (and just what exactly does it mean to be innate?) why was Crassus's crucifixion of six thousand Spartacans lined up along the Appian Way from Rome to Capua in 71 BCE thought by the people of Rome to be an expression of Roman vertù and a very good reason to honor Crassus with a full triumphal procession back into the city? Are we to imagine that the citizens of Rome threw garlands in the path of the conquering hero against their better judgment? Are we to imagine that after the celebration the citizens were stung by conscience and were unable to sleep at night? Or did Crassus merely confirm for Rome that it was what it thought it was, a race of masters?
White does not understand at all. Humans are plastic, with some innate biases. If you raise a child with love and encourage them to love others, they will (well, usually — we're also too complex to be programmed simplistically). If you raise them with hate, they grow up hating. If you bring them up believing that slaves are a less worthy other, they will feel no guilt if you murder them en masse. Romans were recipients of life-long propaganda about the virtue of Rome…just as Americans now are raised with a lifelong faith in the superiority of their way of life. And there are all kinds of indoctrination systems out there.
Religion is one. It's not the only one, obviously. Religion is just something that raises people to unquestioningly accept the superiority of a system of beliefs — not just about ethics, but about the nature of the universe. And it's a system that is demonstrably false. It's also a useful tool for obedience that is often coopted by other beliefs — American exceptionalism, for instance, is also all tangled up in Christianity.
I have no religion, and after meeting many people who were sincere in their beliefs, I realized that I never did — as a child, I was going through the motions, but never believed in any deity, nor even felt fear or concern or love for one. I acquired that basic human decency not from religion, but from family and friends, being brought up in an almost totally religion-free home that regarded fairness and justice towards others as an important value.
And that's what Hitchens meant: ethical behavior is independent of religion, which merely claims against all evidence to be the wellspring of human decency. He does not imply in any way that freedom from religion automatically gives you good values, but that the causes of those values precede the nonsense your church layers upon you. And further, when you look at what religion effectively teaches — deference to authority, gullibility, guilt and fear — it's true, religion really does poison everything.


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - I'm interested in Oman - where should I apply folks? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in I'm interested in Oman - where should I apply folks? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Oman View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message aidanyamaniJoined: 25 Nov 2004Posts: 1 Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 4:36 pm Post subject: I'm interested in Oman - where should I apply folks? Hello, I've been working in the KSA and am interested in moving over to Oman. Could anyone tell me where I should apply. I have a BS in Business Admin, 3 years of ESL experience, a TEFL cert., finishing up a PG Certificiate in Linguistics, and I'm American. Any help whatsoever would be greatly appreicated. Keep in mind, I am working on a teaching credential online and would like to work on that fulltime, so a flexible schedule would be a requirement. Aidan Back to top veiledsentimentsJoined: 20 Feb 2003Posts: 17644Location: USA Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:46 pm Post subject: Well, I'm not sure what a PG Certificate in Linguistics is, so I don't know if it will be of any benefit whatsoever, but your last statement certainly puts you out of the running for the vast majority of the jobs. I don't know anywhere that would offer a job to someone who wants a 'flexible schedule' so that one could work on their private studies full time. If you are able to do this where your currently teach, you best stay there and finish it. Employers normally only hire people who fit themselves into their system, not those that want the system to fit into their private requirements. There are not huge numbers of jobs available in Oman and the pay is probably the lowest of the Gulf. (excluding Yemen which isn't really in the Gulf) VS Back to top carnacJoined: 30 Jul 2004Posts: 310Location: in my village in Oman ;-) Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 6:52 pm Post subject: Go to: http://www.marksesl.com/archive/webbbs_files/index.cgi?noframes;read=1823 Sample: Royal Air Force of Oman in Partnership with Hawthorn Muscat English Language Teachers required Deadline Tuesday 31. December 2003 Experience 2 years Positions 10 Hawthorn Muscat English Language Centre is helping the Royal Oman Force (RAFO) to recruite male native speakers English Language teachers to teach in the RAFO Technical College. JOB SPECIFICATION 1. Candidates are required to teach English as a foreign language to adult students of the Air Force Technical College, Royal Air Force of Oman, up to higher Secondary School standard, lessons preparations and conducting of examinations. 2. Qualifications and Experience: Should be a graduate preferably in English Language or English Literature, possess Diploma or Certificate in RSA/Cambridge CELTA, Trinity HALL, TESOL, Teaching English as a Foreign Language, minimum two years of experience teaching adult students and Computer literacy. 3. Civil Status. Candidates could be either Married OR Single, Age limit between 25 and 50 years. Upper Age limit up to 54 years would be considered for highly experienced and qualified candidates. 4. Working hours : Saturday- Wednesday from 0700-1330 Thursday & Friday are puplic holiday teaching hours can be 16 to 25 hours a week. Qualifications Candidates wishing to apply for these teaching positions must meet the following requirements: 1. These posts are open for Male candiadtes only. 2. Should be a graduate (Bachelor degree at least) preferably in English Language or English Literature, 3. Holder of a Diploma or Certificate in RSA/Cambridge CELTA, Trinity HALL, TESOL, or Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) , 4. Minimum two years of experience teaching adult students and Computer literacy. 5. Should be between 25 and 50 years old, Upper Age limit up to 54 years would be considered for highly experienced and qualified candidates Compensation RAFO (Royal Air Force) offer the following package: TERMS AND CONDITIONS 1. Post : English Language Teacher 2. Branch : Directorate of Education and Military Culture (MOD) 3. Rank/Grade : Civilian Officer Grade-6 4. Status : Unaccompanied (single) status 5. Contract : ??Contract Recruitment. Two years initial contract starting with three months probationary period and the contract is renewable annually on mutual consent. 6. Tax free Basic Salary : Rials Omani seven Hundred and Thirty (R.O.730/-) per month equivalent to Sterling Pounds 1258/-(approx.) at fixed Ministry of Defence exchange rate of one Sterling pound = R.O.0.580 baizas. Note: (1 R.O = 1000 baizas) The MOD fixed change rate is applicable for European residents only. 7. Increments : Annual increments of R.O.25/-per year for a period of maximum 5 years. 8. Allowances : Transport allowances or R.O.60/- per month will be paid to the candidate. 9. Gratuity : Annual gratuity of 20% of the last entitled pay x 12 paid at the end of each contract period. 10. Leave and travel : 60 days leave and three economy class return air tickets to home country (if in Europe) or else two economy class return air tickets, annually. 11. Medical : Free, medical and dental treatment at the Ministry of Defense health services. 12. Accommodation : Free, fully furnished, air conditioned, bachelor accommodation. 13. Messing : Messing and Bar facilities on a monthly payment basis through mess bills. 14. Working hours : Saturday- Wednesday from 0700-1330 hours daily and as required due to service exigencies. 15. Other benefits : Employment viza will be provided free of charge, Free economy class air ticket for joining and on completion of service. Salary and allowances will be paid in Omani rials monthly to the local bank account of choice and will be tax free and remittable world wide. The Ministry of Defence will sponsor resident/visit viza for the family members, relatives and friends, as applicable, on completion of the probationary period, on payment of the viza processing fees by the applicant, on prevailing ROP(Royal Oman Police) immigration regulations. DOCUMENTARY REQUIREMENTS 1. Applications should consist of a detailed Curriculum vitae giving career history, qualifications, experience and the personal details of the candidate supported by photocopies of the qualification and experience certificate, photocopy of the current passport and two passport size colour photographs. 2. The selected candidates should provide the following documents on confirmation of their selection and employment: a. The original letter of acceptance of the post b. The duly completed RAFO application form provided by RAFO c. The duly completed two personal details forms provided by RAFO d. Photocopies of all used pages of the current passport including any previous Omani visa pages (if previously employed/ visited Oman) e. The duly completed RAFO Medical examination Report (RAFO/Med/1) provided by RAFO together with the following supporting medical reports/documents: i. The Chest X-ray report and film ii. The original E.C.G. printout iii. The HIV test report iv. The blood report v. The blood group report vi. Urinalysis report vii. Audiometry report viii. Dental fitness Certificate. (NOTE: Above reports/ documents are essential for RAFO Medical Clearance) f. RAFO will reimburse the incurred medical expenses to the candidate up to maximum of Rials Omai Two Hundred and Forty Five (R.O 245/--- equivalent) only, after the candidate arrive in Oman and submission of the original receipts/Vouchers by the candidate. RAFO will not reimburse any medical expenses for candidate who declines the Job after being selected and completion of the medical of the tests. 3. All documents mentioned in Para 2 above, except the medical reports are required to be provided to Hawthorn Muscat, as soon as the selection of the candidates are notified to commence security clearance. Medical reports may be submitted on completion of the medical examinations. if the candidate was found professionally or Medically unfit and indiscipline during the probationary period (first three months of the contract of employment), he will be discharged from service and will pay back Hawthorn Muscat the cost of repatriation to his home country. Please send your CV now to the following email: [email protected] Attention Mr. Abdul Majid Al Majali or you can fax it to 00968-563590 Note: although in this sample ad the date is expired, these people at RAFO recruit continuously. Pay is not as specified. If you have decent qualfications you can get more. You have to push yourself. Back to top veiledsentimentsJoined: 20 Feb 2003Posts: 17644Location: USA Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 12:03 am Post subject: Hey Carnac, Would having to work from 7-1:30 every weekday be considered 'flexible?' I have found that employers are pretty inflexible about that. VS Back to top carnacJoined: 30 Jul 2004Posts: 310Location: in my village in Oman ;-) Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 8:07 pm Post subject: Hi, VS! Half-time job, full time pay. Afternoons and evenings for study/play whatever. Not at all bad. Alternative teach evenings at a zero private place with blah students for zip money with mornings free. At any rate, I offered that as a sample of what's out there. BTW, RAFO is starved for math/science people. Anyone interested? Native speakers preferred. Send CVs to Abdul Majid, previously cited. Back to top carnacJoined: 30 Jul 2004Posts: 310Location: in my village in Oman ;-) Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 8:17 pm Post subject: Oh, yeah, and the passport-size photos? Whether for a job or your labor card or driver's license, have to be 2 x 3 cm. with a blue, repeat blue background. Bring about 4 dozen. Smile for the camera! Back to top veiledsentimentsJoined: 20 Feb 2003Posts: 17644Location: USA Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 12:02 am Post subject: You're right, those hours are nice. I've worked them myself at many places. But, you do have to put in your 6 hours every day at the same time. And don't even remind me of all those passport pictures. I calculate all over the Gulf, there must be walls just covered with my photos. What DO the do with all of them??? VS Back to top CouperJoined: 11 Oct 2004Posts: 18 Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:07 am Post subject: The job ad from Dec 2004 in Carnac's post is identical to the one I answered a couple of weeks later, except for one thing. Carnac's ad clearly states that only males will be considered, whereas I have double-checked with RAFO and they say women are welcome. Seems a bit strange...within 2 weeks they changed the policy on employing women? If this is the case, how many female teachers do they employ, 3? If anyone out there knows, please share! (VS has already kindly told me that Omani men are gentlemen, so I'm not terrified or anything...but I do think it might be a bit uncomfortable, teaching only men, with only male colleagues! ) Back to top veiledsentimentsJoined: 20 Feb 2003Posts: 17644Location: USA Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 10:38 am Post subject: Couper, I had noticed that difference too. I wonder if they were just being polite and telling you what you want to hear (cultural bias against saying 'no' or 'I don't know'). I wouldn't want to be the only female around either - just because I fear that there may be a problem like no toilet facilities and such. I had hoped that someone would come on and make a comment confirmed what they had told you about hiring women. But... so far, silence. If I were you, I would be applying elsewhere too. 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ATLANTA - As the nation remembered and reflected Monday on the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., leaders and everyday Americans talked about how far the country has come in the last 50 years and how much more is to be done.
At Ebenezer Baptist Church in King's hometown of Atlanta, civil rights leaders and members of King's own family spoke about poverty, violence, health care and voting rights, all themes from the civil rights struggle that still resonate to this day.
"There is much work that we must do," King's daughter Bernice King said. "Are we afraid, or are we truly committed to the work that must be done?"
The event in Atlanta featured music, songs and choirs and was one of many celebrations, marches, parades and community service projects held Monday across the nation to honor the slain civil rights leader. It was about 50 years ago today that King had just appeared on the cover of Time magazine as its Man of the Year, and the nation was on the cusp of passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964. King would win the Nobel Peace Prize later that year.
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal said not many states could boast a native son that merited a national holiday. "But we Georgians can," he told the audience.
Deal said this year he would work with state legislators to find a way to honor King at the Georgia Capitol, which drew a standing ovation. He did not give any specifics, but civil rights leaders have suggested a statue. The only current tribute to King at the state Capitol is a portrait inside the Statehouse.
"I think that more than just saying kind thoughts about him we ought to take action ourselves," said Deal, a Republican. "That's how we embed truth into our words. I think it's time for Georgia's leaders to follow in Dr. King's footsteps and take action, too."
In the fall, a statue of 19th century white supremacist politician and newspaperman Tom Watson was removed from the Capitol.
Deal also touched on criminal justice reforms his administration has tried to make, including drug and mental health courts, saying too many people are not being rehabilitated in prisons.
"Let's build a monument, but the monument should inspire us to build a better world," said the Atlanta event's keynote speaker, the Rev. Raphael Warnock. He also said the growing disparities in income, opportunity and health care are indications of a continuing struggle for equality decades after King's death.
The event closed with the choir singing "We Shall Overcome," with visitors singing verses in Spanish, Hebrew and Italian as audience members joined hands and swayed in unison.
In a word, Richard Nixon, 53, of Atlanta, said the program was inspiring.
"I'm just at a point where I needed some inspiration and I knew that this was the time and this was the place where I knew I would be inspired, and be encouraged and have that fire rekindled," he said as people gathered across the street at the reflecting pool outside the King Center. "It's just a tremendous legacy that we can continue to build upon."
President Barack Obama honored King's legacy of service by helping a soup kitchen prepare its daily meals. Obama took his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha to DC Central Kitchen, which is a few minutes away from the White House.
New York City's new Mayor Bill de Blasio marked the day by talking about economic inequality, saying it was "closing doors for hard-working people in this city and all over this country."
"We have a city sadly divided between those with opportunity, with the means to fully partake of that opportunity, and those whose dreams of a better life are being deferred again and again," he told an audience at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
At the King Memorial in Washington, Arthur Goff, of Frederick, Md., visited with family members. He said the holiday was often a time to catch up on chores and other things, but his 6-year-old son is getting old enough to learn more about King, and he said it was a good time to make their first visit.
Goff's mother, 68-year-old Loretta Goff, said she was in nursing school in New York when King died in 1968 and remembers it being a traumatic time. Now, she said, everyone is responsible for continuing King's legacy.
"There is still so much more to do," she said.
At a rally in Columbia, S.C., North Carolina NAACP President William Barber went over a list of ways that Republican leaders in Congress and Southern governor's offices have treated Americans badly, from leaving the Confederate flag to fly on the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse to refusing federal money to expand Medicaid and allowing poor schools to fall further behind.
He left the few thousand people cheering and rocking like they were at a gospel revival, chanting "mighty low" and "higher ground" back to him.
"They should have left us alone," Barber said. "Since they messed with us, come and go with me. Come and stand with me. We're on our way to higher ground."
At the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Ky., the centered showed King's "I Have a Dream" speech on the hour. In August, tens of thousands of Americans visited the National Mall to mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and King's "I Have a Dream" speech, which he gave from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Associated Press writers Verna Dobnik in New York; Jessica Gresko in Washington; Darlene Superville in Washington; Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, S.C.; and Lucas Johnson in Nasvhille, Tenn., contributed to this report.


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GIOVE-B launch - live video streaming
GIOVE-B, the second Galileo satellite, is scheduled for launch at 00:16 CEST on Sunday, 27 April (22:16, 26 April UTC/GMT). Live streaming video coverage from the launch site and the spacecraft control centre will be available on the
GIOVE-B was built by a European industrial team led by Astrium GmbH, with Thales Alenia Space performing integration and testing in Rome. Two years after the highly successful
Three high-accuracy space clocks aboard
Like its predecessor,
GIOVE-B also incorporates a radiation-monitoring payload to characterise the space environment at the altitude of the Galileo constellation, as well as a laser retro-reflector for high-accuracy laser ranging.
Signal generation units will provide representative Galileo signals on three separate frequencies broadcast via an
In addition to its technology-demonstration mission,
Lift off - Soyuz carries GIOVE-B into orbit
Starting at 23:35 CEST on Saturday night, ESA will be providing live video coverage of the final preparations, lift off and climb out of the Soyuz launcher from Baikonur. The live coverage will be supplemented with footage of the assembly of the launch vehicle and its payload and of the journey from the assembly building to the launch pad six. There will also be interviews with the launch teams at Baikonur and at the spacecraft control centre in Fucino, Italy.
Separation - GIOVE-B goes it alone
At 03:55 CEST on Sunday morning, there will be live coverage from Fucino as
Earth pointing - GIOVE-B arrives, ready for commissioning
At 06:55 CEST on Sunday morning, there will be live coverage from Fucino as
In addition to the television coverage, there will be regular news updates on the
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A Parker County, Texas, teen has been arrested on suspicion of double murder after he called 911 and said he shot and killed his mother and sister.
According to police, 17-year-old Jake Evans called 911 at about 12:30 a.m. Thursday and said he'd used a .22 revolver to shoot and kill both his 48-year-old mother, Jamie Evans, and his 15-year-old sister, Mallory.
"It just kind of happened," Evans told the 911 operator in an eerily calm voice. "I've been kind of, uh, planning on killing for a while now."
When asked if he meant the two of them or just anybody, Evans responded: "Pretty much anybody."
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A short time later, Parker County sheriff's deputies arrived at the Evans' family home in Annetta, a town of about 1,700 west of Fort Worth, and took him into custody without incident.
"I guess this is really selfish to say but, to me, I felt like they were just suffocating me in a way. I don't know," Evans said during the 911 call.
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"Obviously, I am pretty, I guess, evil," he said.
Evans is charged with capital murder. A judge denied him bond.
"Just to let you know, I hate the feeling of killing someone, you know," Evans said in the 911 call. "I'm going to be messed up."
The teen's father was out of town on business when the killings took place, police said. NBC 5 has been told that the father raced home from Washington, D.C.
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Leslie Richardson, a family friend, described Evans as quiet and gentle.
"Everybody knew him as just being the quiet kid ... but he was really sweet and gentle," she said.
NBC 5 has learned that Evans' mother was a teacher and assistant principal in the Aledo Independent School District for 15 years before leaving in 2004.
"I mean, she was kind of like a second mom," Richardson said. "They were just a really good family and, I mean, my whole family was close to them, so I wish I could just say that I love them."
Friends described Mallory Evans as pretty and sweet.
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She and her brother previously had been students in the Aledo ISD but were home-schooled.
The family has two other daughters who were not home at the time of the killings. One of the daughters was scheduled to come home from college this weekend for a visit.
Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler said authorities believe Evans acted alone and that there is no evidence implicating any additional suspects.
The double homicide is being investigated by the Texas Rangers and Parker County Sheriff's Criminal Investigation Division.
Aledo ISD released this statement Thursday afternoon:
Aledo ISD is deeply saddened to learn of the death of a former employee and a former student.
Jami Evans was a dedicated elementary teacher and assistant principal who worked in Aledo ISD for 15 years serving students at both Coder and Stuard Elementary from 1989 through 2004. Her dedication to her students and her love of learning was an inspiration to all who knew her.
We also mourn the death of Mallory Evans, a former elementary and intermediate school student. Mallory attended Stuard Elementary and McAnally Intermediate School. She was a sweet child that will be missed by her friends and school family.
The suspect in the shootings, Jacob Evans, is a former Aledo High School student who withdrew from school in January 2012 to be homeschooled. He attended Aledo schools from elementary school until his withdrawal in January. He played football in middle school and played on the golf team in high school.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the Evans family in this difficult time.
NBC 5's Ray Villeda and Ellen Goldberg contributed to this report.
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Monday, September 30, 2013
A Skip Counting and Fancy Nancy Vocabulary Apple Harvest
I decided to slip in a couple of last apple themed lessons for my youngest, before turning the page on the calendar to pumpkins and the like. It was super simple with the help of a "count by fives" apple printable from Doodle Bugs, which I cut out and paper clipped to our fall leaf list tree...
...for C to harvest and place out in order on the table, as she counted by 5s.
Then, I reset the tree for a Fancy Nancy vocabulary, pick and match-up, activity using an apple template from dltk-kids.com, modified in Paint to add the vocabulary words...
...and their definitions from...
...the back of Jane O'Connor's Fancy Nancy Apples Galore.
It's great to be a homeschooler.
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Friday, September 27, 2013
Apple Stamp Learning - A Fall Mini-Unit
As a reward for helping me pick the last of our apples, and as a way of using up the "good" half a few the birds had sampled, I covered the table in butcher's paper...
...and poured fall colored paint onto paper plates...
...for the girls to use for apple stamping. They had a great time decorating the table. And, as a bonus, their artwork turned out to be a pretty good backdrop for a lot of learning the next day...
...when the children labeled the different colored apples in the languages they are studying giving us a chance to discuss adjective placement and gender agreement.
When they got tired of that, they switched over to each child counting all of one color of apple (with T double checking the totals)...
We switched gears, and brainstormed adjectives describing the different colors of apples (ie. common for red, sour for green, sweet for yellow, rotten for brown, unnatural for orange, and so on) printing the words out in matching colors of crayon to the apples we were describing.
It's great to be a homeschooler.
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Sunday, September 8, 2013
Two Piece Cardboard "Slip Together" Playhouse
I have to thank Crafty Crow and Lilla A for inspiring the perfect project for using up a couple of large pieces of packing cardboard the Man of the House brought home from work. A quick Internet search proved I wasn't the first person to think of enlarging a slip-together dollhouse design to accommodate children. But, since everyone has a little different approach to a project, I'll give you my step-by-step anyway.
I started with two large pieces of sturdy cardboard - just about 5' x 4'. Measuring out from the center of the top of each of the pieces, to spots about a foot and a half down the sides, I trimmed off the top corners, with a razor blade (protecting the table underneath with additional cardboard), to form roof peaks.
I cut a slit halfway down from the peak of one piece, and halfway up from the center of the bottom of the other piece...
...so the two pieces would slip together to stand.
Then, I slipped them back apart to make it easier to cut out doors...
...and a window...
...super simple, and ready to decorate.
It's great to be a homeschooler.
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Rosetta successfully swings-by Mars – next target: Earth
At 03:57 CET today, mission controllers at ESOC, ESA's Space Operations Centre in Germany, confirmed Rosetta's successful swingby of Mars, a key milestone in the 7.1-thousand-million km journey of this unique spacecraft to its target comet in 2014.
The gravitational energy of Mars helped Rosetta change direction, while the spacecraft was decelerated with respect to the Sun by an estimated 7887 km/hour. The spacecraft is now on the correct track towards Earth - its next destination planet whose gravitational energy Rosetta will exploit in November this year to gain acceleration and continue on its trek.
Presented in this article is one two-colour composite image of Mars collected by Rosetta's Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System (OSIRIS) before closest approach to the planet, and before the orbiter instruments where switched off for the spacecraft's Mars eclipse period.
The OSIRIS narrow-angle camera took this image at 19:28 CET, 24 February. It shows Mars from a distance of 240 000 kms and at a resolution of about 5 kms per pixel. The greenish regions are clouds above the Red Planet's surface.
New images are expected to be available online after 13:00 today.
For more information
Gerhard Schwehm
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Email: gerhard.schwehm @ esa.int
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WESTPORT — Selectmen unanimously approved numerous fees proposed by the Planning Board, including an increase in consultant review fees, at their meeting Monday night.
The fees came as a result of this summer's review of all application processes under the town's byaws. The majority of the fees are related to either special permits or legal counsel.
The most dramatic increases came in the form of consultant review fees. The consultant review fee for definitive subdivision plans was raised from $1,500 to $2,500. Additionally, consultant review fees were added for common driveway special permits ($500), flexible frontage special permits ($800), Noquochoke Overlay District special permits ($2,000) and all situations classified under unspecified categories ($2,000).
These consultant review fees cover any use of outside legal consultants. All situations will be turned over to the same legal consultant; the Planning Board and Town Administrator are currently in the process of choosing from three applicants for that legal counsel. Once decided, that firm will be under contract with the town for three years with an option for a one-year extension.
"We're lower than some neighboring communities, but higher than others," Planning Board member Elaine Ostroff said of the fees. "We're right there."
Noteworthy increases were also made in fees related to assisted living and independent living facilities special permits. A fee of $6,000 was added for the construction inspection phase for 3-20 units and the fee for more than 20 units was expanded from $5,000 to $6,000, with the fee for each additional unit over 20 increased from $250 to $300.
Other fees added included a $2,000 fee for the construction phase for any major site plan with hearing; a $125 application fee for any common driveway special permit; a $125 application fee for any flexible frontage special permit; a $500 application fee and $2,000 construction phase fee for any Noquochoke Overlay District special permit; and a $250 site plan approval application fee and $250 special permit application fee for unspecified categories. Advertising and abutter notification for flexible frontage special permits, Noquochoke Overlay District special permits and unspecified categories will result in a fee equivalent to the actual cost of those notices.
Westport adopts significant fee hikes
WESTPORT — Selectmen unanimously approved numerous fees proposed by the Planning Board, including an increase in consultant review fees, at their meeting Monday night.


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In my review of the Coda electric sedan in The New York Times, I applauded the car for its ability to reliably deliver 100 miles of range on a charge, but criticized the EV for its shortcomings. It was a tricky balance to strike, because the concept that inspired the company—to offer an affordable EV with decent range—is laudable. There are talented dedicated people working at Coda, and I want every company trying to further the mission of electric cars to succeed. But at the end of the day, the car's lack of style, amenities and ride quality, call into question why a potential EV buyer would go with Coda rather than other more capable electric cars on sale.
Coda's CEO Phil Murtaugh acknowledged the car's problems when he told me, "We did not start with a Mercedes Benz S Class. We will probably never reach that level of precision on this vehicle." He's a sarcastic guy.
In the New York Times article, I mostly focused on problems that average non-EV drivers would readily understand, like the high-pitched whine from the motor that Bob Ostertag—a guy ready to plunk money down to drive off with a Coda—described as the sound a dentist drill makes. Bob heard the sound when he borrowed a Coda from U.C. Davis, where he teaches. When he complained to Coda about the sound, they said it was fixed in the production version. However, despite his best efforts over about six weeks, the Coda dealership in Silicon Valley has not been able to give him a test drive in a production model. Months after Coda officially went on sale, there are no Coda models to test drive or buy, according to Bob.
Murtaugh also acknowledged the problem. "You're welcome to call dealers and they will tell you they are not happy with availability," he said. When asked about how many Codas have been sold so far, Murtaugh declined to answer. "We purposely don't publish sales results," he said.
Coda's logistical problems got worse in late August 2012, when the company recalled 78 units. (The low recall figure suggests the California-based start-up has not yet sold 100 vehicles, after about five months on the market.) The recall itself is due to faulty side airbags, which according to the NHTSA, might not inflate during a collision. "Certain 2012 model year CODA vehicles may have this condition. There are no known injuries related to this recent discovery," Coda reported in a statement addressing the issue. "CODA Automotive holds itself to the highest safety standards and continually strives to offer the most reliable product for its consumers." Those 78 owners are invited to contact their local dealer or the automaker directly.
The problem should be fairly straightforward to fix. A bigger challenge is increasing consumer confidence in the relatively unknown brand while, at the same time, boosting sales and improving build quality.
Maybe this is inside baseball, but it illustrates how the noble idea of small company making and selling affordable EVs can come into conflict with the harsh realities of actually making and selling those vehicles.
Hopefully, Coda will find its share of customers willing to overlook the shortcomings of its first model year, while it improves the vehicle or perhaps brings another one to market. Murtaugh would not say if Coda has plans for future cars. But he did say that, "Coda is more than a car company." Coda sells its own branded vehicles, as well as electric propulsion systems and energy storage systems for residential, commercial and large-scale utilities.
If Coda can derive revenue from those other lines of business, maybe it will buy time to improve its sedan, reduce its purchase price, or ideally do both at the same time. "We just took our first step," said Murtaugh. "The Coda sedan is on sale." That's a major accomplishment. No doubt about it. But based on everything I experienced during a week with the car, and heard during multiple interviews with executives and engineers, the hard work is just beginning for Coda.


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Raymond James (RJF) said Wednesday that it tapped four industry veterans as regional directors for its Investment Advisors Division. One moved to Raymond James from LPL Financial (LPLA) and another from Fidelity, while the others have worked previously at Morgan Stanley (MS) and UBS (UBS).
"We are delighted to add these proven, successful executives to the IAD team," said Bill Van Law (left) in a press release. "As regional directors their focus will be on supporting our existing RIA relationships and recruiting successful new firms, teams and advisors to Raymond James."
According to Raymond James, the new directors "will assist advisory firms with growth through recruiting new advisors, identifying practice acquisitions as well as consulting and coaching on industry best practices."
"This significant investment in expanding our management team demonstrates how committed Raymond James is to growing the Investment Advisors Division and attracting high-quality investment advisors to our custodial platform. These four professionals have tremendous industry experience and will lead our efforts in helping existing IAD firms grow in their respective regions, while recruiting new RIAs and hybrid advisors to join Raymond James," Van Law said.
Sean Marrin joins Raymond James from LPL Financial, where he worked as a masters recruiter. He also spent more than 18 years with Charles Schwab (SCHW). He is based in Denver and will be covering the West.
Chuck Curtis is the regional director for the Central region, based in St. Petersburg, Fla. He spent more than 28 years at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and its predecessor firms.
Glenn Flego has become the regional director for the Northeast. He joins Raymond James from Fidelity, where he was vice president, institutional wealth services. Prior to Fidelity, he was with Interactive Advisory Software, as well as Schwab and Fidelity Investments.
Christian Williams is the regional director for the Southeast, based in Raleigh, N.C. He joined Raymond James in 2007 as a vice president and business development consultant for the firm's independent broker-dealer. Earlier, Williams was with UBS and Merrill Lynch, where he started his work in the industry as an advisor.
"There's no question in my mind that the industry as a whole is moving toward the RIA model," said Williams, in a press release. "This is the third inning of a nine-inning ball game; Raymond James is positioning itself to take advantage of this trend better than any other financial services firm."
"The combined experience and proven success of these four directors is exceptional," added Van Law. "I am confident they are going to jump-start a growth spurt in our division with new RIAs and hybrid advisors, based on their tremendous industry knowledge and the strong interest from firms in the pipeline." Latest Recruits
On Thursday, Raymond James independent channel said it recruited a team formerly affiliated with Hunter Associates in Pittsburgh with more than $350 million in client assets and $1.6 million in yearly fees and commissions. The group, Shorebridge Wealth Management, is led by Winfield Smathers and Fred Miller.
"We're pleased to welcome this exceptional team to Raymond James," said Scott Curtis, president of Raymond James Financial Services, the firm's independent broker/dealer, in a press release. "Earlier this year we introduced the hybrid-select pricing model for discretionary managers, expecting it would appeal to advisors like Fred and Win and their Shorebridge team. Their industry experience, business model, and commitment to their clients' needs and interests fit well with the values and culture of Raymond James."
In addition to Miller and Smathers, Shorebridge Wealth Management consists of Managing Director Dean Kartsonas, CFA; Managing Director Kathleen O. Kartsonas, CFA; advisor Kyle D. Balliet, CFP; and registered associate Dena R. Karsin.
"Other IBDs we looked at could not come close to the support and acumen provided by Raymond James, particularly as it relates to individual securities analysis, which is key to us and our clients," said Miller, in a statement. "Additionally, after learning about the hybrid-select pricing option, it allowed us to include the services of an investment specialist to broaden and deepen our services to clients."
Raymond James will report its latest quarterly earnings next Wednesday after the market closes.
Check out Raymond James' Saut: We're Smack-Dab in the Middle of a Bull Market on ThinkAdvisor.


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The Institute of Ecology and Evolution (IE²) facilitates research and graduate education in ecology and evolutionary biology. The institute fosters a collegial and stimulating intellectual environment for world-class research in molecular evolution, evolutionary genetics, evolution of development, and microbial, population, community, and ecosystems ecology.
IE² maintains close ties to the UO Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geography, Geology, and Landscape Architecture, as well as the Institutes for Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, and Marine Biology.Together, IE²'s students and faculty are working in the laboratory and the field to address fundamental and applied questions about the organization and history of life on earth.


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Charlaine Harris — known for the series of books about Sookie Stackhouse which spawned the HBO series True Blood — just landed another TV deal. Her Harper Connelly mysteries — beginning with the book Grave Sight — will be a series on Syfy.
Grave Sight (the novel for which there are two different covers and a comic book) features a young woman named Harper Connelly, who was struck by lightning at the age of 15, which gave her the ability to find the dead people, and come to know how they died. According to Entertainment Weekly:
Now in her 20s, she senses the location and last memories of dead people. In the Syfy adaptation, Connelly teams up with her protective stepbrother, Tolliver Lang, to help find a missing teenage girl, only to uncover a network of lies and murders throughout a small town in the Ozarks.
I haven't read the books, so I'm not clear whether or not Harper my kinda tough-chick heroine, but a lady-centric detective show with ghosts(!) sounds like it has potential. Especially since I am thisclose to being over True Blood.
'True Blood' author sells mystery book series to Syfy [EW]
'True Blood' Author Charlaine Harris Secures Syfy TV Deal for 'Harper Connelly Mysteries'


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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Wacky Reference Wednesdays, No. 42
I finally picked up the my latest issue of Spidey today. I was kind of shocked at how dark it was. I thought I had worked all the bugs out of color reproduction, but I guess computer color is a different ballgame. Oh well. I also spent most of the day going from comic shop to comic shop and passing out postcards for my lecture. I sure hope people show up. At least my girlfriend said she'll be there. And her mom. No pressure.
Without further adieu, here's me acting drunk:
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- AnonymousTuesday, February 03, 2009
hahaha -walsh
stupid question but are you making sure to be painting in cmyk as opposed to rgb?ReplyDelete
This time, Walsh. This time.ReplyDelete
Roderick, that's the first thing I always check. In fact, I'm planning to do a post devoted to the conversion process. The main problem is that comic book printing is cheap and, therefore, unpredictable. My cover to ASM 577 came out perfectly using all of the same settings. Who knows...
sounds possibly like a printer problem then. Printers are finicky mistresses.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousWednesday, February 04, 2009
Well, I have only seen it online, but I love the colours in this issue. I love how Spidey's costume just screams those deep blue and strong red colours and I also thought that making it all so dark was very stylish. I mean, I prefer this to 90% of other computer colouring in Marvel any day of the week. Keep it up, love your work.ReplyDelete
Why pretend? you could've just used photo reference as an excuse to celebrate something. haha. Though pictures would probably would've turned out blurry..ReplyDelete
I loved how dark it was! Not only the colour...the shot of Logan behind the bar growling and his face covered in shadow..awesome..also Spidey above the door after he snatches the shotgun...wicked...ReplyDelete
guess I have a reason to rock the comic shop this week . Congrads on the great issue. I also saw your pieces at eh Society of Illustrators while I was in NYC and they were awesome . Keep up the phenomenal work Mr.Rivera ( sorry my hispanic upbringing requires that I call you that until you say otherwise)ReplyDelete
Hey Paolo, I've been loving your Spidey work. You're the first artist in ages to capture both the quirky and creepy sides to the design.ReplyDelete
Shame about the printing snafu. I agree that it actually looked good in certain scenes but it was clearly an overall color issue.
I'm normally designing for screen and I'd be interested to learn more about what goes into cmyk conversion for print.
BTW - I live in Park Slope and only now noticed that you had a lecture last night at the library. How did it go?
All my best, I'll look for you at the Con.
Thanks, guys. Glad you liked the issue.ReplyDelete
And Ray, you're officially free to call me Paolo.


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Italian designer Riccardo Giraldi's Scalextric track is an interesting way to model the deep focus needed to race cars around a circuit. Using Arduinos and some sort of weird headset, the players control their cars with, well, their minds—and get a bit of extra boost when they blink.
Giraldi's extremely slick showreel doesn't shed much light on the science behind his project but who cares when it's mind-controlled cars?
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New Novus Video Commemorates 25th Business Anniversary
Novus celebrates 25 years Helping Feed Tomorrow
ST. LOUIS (Feb.17, 2016)—Novus International Inc. has released a new video that celebrates the silver anniversary of the company. The video, a compilation of employee interviews from earliest employees to new hires, highlights the Company's legacy of animal science and its commitment to sustainably meeting the growing global need for nutrition and health.
The video is centered on Novus's vision to help feed the world affordable, wholesome food and achieve a higher quality of life, which has laid the groundwork for everything Novus does. The five minute, lighthearted video highlights Novus's role in feeding the world wholesome food and showcases the Company from an employee perspective.
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Headquartered in St. Charles, Missouri, Novus is a leading provider of health and nutrition solutions for livestock, pets and people. Novus employs more than 700 people globally to customers in more than 100 countries. Working from a strong base of scientific understanding and technological innovation, Novus has brought to market more than 100 new products over the past decade, with revenues exceeding $1 billion.
To view the company's 25th Anniversary video, visit https://youtu.be/OyNAEUXWgcY.
About Novus International, Inc.
Novus International, Inc. is headquartered in metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. and serves customers in over 100 countries around the world. A global leader in developing animal health and nutrition solutions, Novus International's products include ALIMET® and MHA® feed supplements, ACTIVATE® nutritional feed acid, ACIDOMIX® preservative premixture, CIBENZA® enzyme feed additive, MINTREX® chelated trace minerals, SANTOQUIN® feed preservative, AGRADO® feed antioxidant and many other specialty ingredients. Stratum Nutrition, a division of Novus Nutrition Brands, LLC, focuses on human nutrition through specialty and functional ingredients for manufacturers of foods, beverages and dietary supplements (www.stratumnutrition.com).
Novus is privately owned by Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc. and Nippon Soda Co., Ltd. For more information, visit www.novusint.com. ©2016 Novus International, Inc. All rights reserved.


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Just like last year, we're showcasing the people, ideas and memes that made Deadspin 2009 shine. Today: Athlete Substance Abuse.
Michael Phelps, superstar of superstars, likes a little weed as much as the rest of us. But don't worry, he didn't lose his endorsements.
Jamal Anderson and a random 20-year-old treat an Atlanta dive bar bathroom like Limelight, circa 1984.
In real baseball, players take steroids to be at the top of their game. In the WBC, Geovany Soto smokes weed to make it more tolerable.
Ryan Leaf gets charged with improperly obtaining painkillers, somehow manages to make his time on the lam last longer than the hopes of Chargers fans in '98.
America's sweetheart Nicole Bobek becomes a state penitentiary sweetheart after dealing meth.
Darius Miles has a run-of-the-mill traffic stop/pot bust in a not-so-run-of-the-mill pimpmobile.
Darren Daulton: high all the fricking time.
Michael Beasley poses for a photo with an eighth of his best friend. Claims rehab got him clean. Gets photographed passed out, surrounded by empties.
Tim Lincecum shocks no one, gets busted for weed. But he's famous, and it's Washington, so he doesn't get in trouble.
Jeremy Mayfield fails a drug test for meth...
...while Andre Agassi reveals he escaped a suspension by saying he took it "accidentally."
Richard Gasquet must have been paying attention to Agassi, because his "I kissed a girl with coke on her lip" excuse works.
"John from Wayne" spices up his call to Mike Francesa by taking a big ol' bong rip on the air.
Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No becomes the Requiem For A Dream of our generation.
Tiger Woods allegedly likes the sleepy sex.


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Of all the horrors that people fighting cancer have to handle, treatments might be among the toughest. Surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy all have awful side effects because they kill healthy cells along with the tumor. Researchers have spent decades trying to target therapeutic agents only to the cancer cells. A new report in Nature Medicine describes a therapeutic agent that's not even that cytotoxic—it's only rendered harmful when it gets to the targeted cancer cells.
Monoclonal antibodies are produced by cells that can grow indefinitely, providing us with an essentially infinite supply of antibodies that recognize a single, specific molecule. They are one of the most successful targeted cancer therapies that have been tried. But that success has been limited by toxicity issues.
Now, monoclonal antibodies have been paired with photodynamic therapy, which harnesses a photosensitizing chemical agent to allow light of a chosen wavelength to kill cells. This approach has not been used much against cancer because the photosensitizing agents couldn't be targeted specifically to tumor cells.
A group at the National Cancer Institute has linked the two technologies by attaching a photosensitizing agent to trastuzumab, a monoclonal antibody that binds to the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2), a protein expressed by many cancer cells. (Trastuzumab's trade name is Herceptin.)
A key to making this work was using a hydrophilic (water soluble) photosensitizer. Most photosensitizing agents are hydrophobic, and therefore difficult to connect to an antibody without blocking the antibody's ability to bind to its target. Moreover, most photosensitizers need to be internalized by the cell to be effective, and it is difficult for light to reach them there.
By linking a hydrophilic photosensitizer to trastuzumab, Mitsunaga et al. ensured it was effective when bound to the outside of the tumor cell membrane. They found that tumor cells expressing HER2—both those in a culture dish and those implanted into mice—treated with their compound were killed upon exposure to near infrared light. The compound produced no toxicity in cells in the absence of light, and the light was harmless on its own. As a side bonus, the photosensitizer is fluorescent. This fluorescence can be used diagnostically to determine exactly where the cancer cells are, and thus where to shine the killing light. Its disappearance can also measure the efficacy of treatment.
They are not sure exactly how this works. Conventional phototherapy relies on the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) to kill cells, which is why it is important to target them to tumor cells. But adding a molecule that neutralizes these ROS only partially blocked cell death, so another mechanism must be contributing to the killing. Because their agent must be bound to the cell membrane to work, and because it kills cells relatively quickly, the scientists hypothesize that the cell death was caused by the rapid local heating of water.
They conclude that their photosensitizer can be linked to different monoclonal antibodies to target different types of tumors. And they call their new therapy PIT, for photo-immuno-therapy. If it ends up working in the clinic, it could make conventional cancer therapies really seem like the pits.


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