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The kSA 400 analytical Reflection High-Energy Electron Diffraction (RHEED) system puts the power of RHEED at your fingertips. Whether analyzing a static diffraction pattern or acquiring data at multiple azimuths during substrate rotation, the kSA 400 makes quantitative RHEED analysis easy. Exploit the power of RHEED with the kSA 400!
The kSA 400 combines a high-resolution, high-speed, and high-sensitivity camera with sophisticated RHEED-specific acquisition and analysis software. This flexible system enables the analysis of virtually any image feature and, with one of many additional options, controls the electron gun for such tasks as acquiring RHEED rocking curves.
Easy to use and straightforward to install, the kSA 400 is designed for convenience and gives quantitative results right out of the box. Seamless integration between hardware and software as well as visually-driven RHEED pattern analysis, makes user operation straightforward and simple. Extensive customer input has helped us make the kSA 400 the industry's most powerful analytical RHEED system and an integral part of MBE, PLD, PVD, and surface science chambers worldwide. Now in its fifth generation, the goal of the kSA 400 is to provide you with the most information from your RHEED pattern.
Growth Rate
The most common use of RHEED is for determining growth rate via RHEED intensity oscillations, a phenomena that occurs during layer-by-layer epitaxial growth. The kSA 400 determines growth rate via three complimentary methods: Fourier-transform, extrema count (derivative analysis), and damped sine wave fitting. These three techniques determine growth rate independently, resulting in very accurate and consistent measurement of your thin-film growth rate. Watch the kSA 400 monitor RHEED oscillations. For more detailed information see our Growth Rate Methods application note
Lattice Spacing/Strain
Another powerful use for RHEED is to determine the absolute atomic spacing, or lattice spacing, between atoms on a surface. The kSA 400 makes measuring absolute lattice spacing simple. Furthermore, if you'd like to measure the evolution of lattice spacing, or the strain of lattice mismatched growth, the kSA 400 makes this easy too. By monitoring the spacing between diffraction streaks using sophisticated, proven analysis algorithms, strain evolution with very high accuracy and resolution is at your fingertips with the kSA 400.
Structural Analysis
The kSA 400 makes analyzing surface structure easy. By acquiring RHEED images along the major crystal directions of the surface, measuring the pixel spacing and calculating a ratio, surface crystal structure can easily be determined. The kSA 400 also makes acquiring and archiving RHEED patterns a snap. The kSA 400 software contains a comprehensive RHEED Image Library (RIL) for reference and further analysis.
kSA 400
The kSA 400 is the most advanced, full featured RHEED data acquisition and analysis package available. With a long list of capabilities, and available plug-in options, the kSA 400 offers the most insight from RHEED patterns. The kSA 400 RHEED analysis software has camera control options; data acquisition modes; acquisition, image analysis, data analysis, and export capabilities; and data storage and communications options.
kSA 400 Lite
A RHEED acquisition and analysis package for those requiring only basic image capture and data analysis. The kSA 400 Lite package can be upgraded to the full featured version of kSA 400 at any time. The kSA 400 Lite RHEED analysis software has full camera control features; pared down data acquisition modes; acquisition, image analysis, data analysis, and export capabilities; and data storage and communications options.
kSA 400 AOS
An Analysis Only version designed for users who want to perform post-acquisition display, processing, and analysis away from the laboratory. The RHEED analysis-only software (kSA 400 AOS) license is available to users who currently own a full kSA 400 system.
What You Get With a kSA 400 System
- High resolution, high S/N camera
- Optic Mounts for mounting to the RHEED screen viewport
- Appropriate cabling
- kSA 400 or kSA 400 Lite software for the Win10 operating system
- kSA 400 RHEED Image Library (full version of kSA 400 only)
- Computer (optional)
The kSA 400 supports several plug-in options to give you even more analytical capability. These plug-ins include:
- Electron Gun Control
- LEED IV (Low Energy Electron Diffraction)
- PLE (Phase-Locked Epitaxy)
- Rotation Monitoring and Triggering
- Auger/XPS Acquisition
These options can be added to a standard kSA 400 system at any time, and typically include a software plug-in and hardware additions. One of our most popular plug-in options is RHEED Electron Gun Control, which allows you to control all the settings of your RHEED gun through the kSA 400 software. The kSA 400 software also allows you to acquire RHEED images while varying gun control parameters e.g. beam rocking acquisition which is supported on Staib beam rocking electron guns.
The kSA 400 RHEED Image Library (RIL) is a compilation of images and movies acquired from our kSA 400 customers, to the tune of ~ 30 gbytes of data. We have asked our customers to document the details of the conditions under which the data was taken, e.g. what the growth conditions are (temperature substrate, etc.), what the crystal orientation is, what the beam energy is, and so on. These details are either in the file name or in the Comments section of the file
We envision the use of the RIL to be mainly as a reference library for RHEED. Here are some examples of how we envision the RIL being used:
- You're curious about what the oxide desorption process looks like for a GaAs substrate, so you load a GaAs desorb movie from the RIL and watch the evolution of the RHEED pattern as the oxide desorption occurs.
- You are working with SrTiO3 substrates, and you'd like to compare your RHEED patterns to those other researchers in your field are checking, for example, the width and length of the diffraction streaks as an indication of surface quality.
- You are teaching a surface science class and are on the topic of RHEED, and you'd like the students to check the ratio of lattice spacings along different crystal directions to verify the bcc structure of a material. You have the students pull up a GaAs movie, identify the major pull crystal directions (rotating substrate movie), and have them check the ratios of pixel spacings.
- You'd like to see what the growth of Ge quantum dots on Si looks like via RHEED.
- You'd like to look at GaAs on GaAs RHEED oscillations, and test our growth rate algorithms (we have 3 different algorithms in the kSA 400) on this movie data.
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Pilgrimage to Kolkata
Fr. Sebastian Vazhakala, M.C.
From Thursday 27th December 2007 to Saturday 5th January 2008, 13 of our Brothers – 11 novices with their In-charges, Br. Damien M.C. (priest) and Br. Stephen M.C. (priest) – are making a pilgrimage to Kolkata, the birth place of the Missionaries of Charity. It is where Jesus spoke to our Blessed and beloved Foundress, Mother Teresa M.C. very personally and very lovingly. It is in this paradoxical city of Kolkata that she had the vision of the crowd, Our Lady, and finally Jesus on the Cross, from where He entrusted to her the care of His poor, asking her to bring them to him. "I have asked you. They (the crowd) have asked you and she, my Mother, has asked you. Will you refuse to do this for me-to take care of them, to bring them to Me?" (see MFG: 19)
We give thanks to Br. Geoff M.C., the General Servant of the Missionary Brothers of Charity of Kolkata, who so kindly made available one of their convents, Tengra, for the Brothers to stay during those days. Our heart-felt thanks go also to Br. Nicholas M.C., the Superior of Tengra house, for welcoming the Brothers and providing all the necessary help and guidance.
The success and the fruitfulness of our Brothers' pilgrimage to the M.C. Bethlehem now depends on the pilgrims themselves, how prepared they are, how informed of the places and the persons they visit, their historical and spiritual significance and importance. There is much to see, and there is much more to reflect, assimilate and share.
When in Kolkata the Brothers would like to listen, if possible, to Sr. Nirmala M.C., Sr. Lysa M.C., Sr. Gertrude M.C., Br. Geoff M.C., Br. Yesudas M.C. and others according to their time and convenience.
They also, besides visiting the places, would like to give wholehearted free service, especially in Kalighat and Tiljala for a couple of mornings, if it doesn't create much confusion and disorder.
In order to draw maximum benefit from this eight day pilgrimage to the birth place of the M.C.s, I have prepared a tentative program for the week, with some explanations of some of the most important places. This can be an incentive to better understand our M.C. Charism, our life and our apostolate.
In advance, I would like to thank each and every one who may be of help to our Brothers in and around Kolkata during their stay.
Kolkata (Calcutta). Kolkata is the M.C. Bethlehem where Jesus is born again and born anew in the abandoned and unwanted children of Shishubavan, in the dying destitute people of Nirmal Hriday-Kalighat, in the leprosy patients of Titagarh, in the crippled and abandoned children of Green Park, in the physically and mentally challenged ones of all our homes, in the homeless ones...in a word, in each and every person who lives and dies in poverty and hunger throughout the world.
We do not go to Kolkata to satisfy our curiosity, nor to feel better. We do not go to Kolkata as tourists, although we may be visiting many centres; nor do we make an excursion trip. We do not go to Kolkata to compare, to judge, to ridicule. No, we go to Kolkata as pilgrims who are unworthy to serve Jesus in the poorest of the poor. Our constant prayer therefore is: "Make us worthy, Lord, to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger; give them through our hands this day their daily bread, and by our understanding love, give peace and joy. Amen." (Pope Paul VI) We go to Kolkata to see, observe, listen, contemplate, watch, judge and act.
There are, then, many ways of seeing Kolkata, but we should see Kolkata with the eyes of Jesus; we should see it as Blessed Teresa M.C. saw it. Only then will our pilgrimage to Kolkata produce fruit and can be called a real pilgrimage.
We go to Kolkata as Missionaries of Charity. There are many places for us to visit, people to come to know. These places are like different chapters of a big book. We have to read them prayerfully. It must become a "Lectio Divina". We must read them with kindness, with Jesus' compassion, with Jesus' love.
Mother House. Mother House is the introductory and the foundational Chapter. Everything originated there and everything returns there, but it is not a house without Jesus: Jesus is its epicentre. It is here that the divine drama played its various scenes and continues to play. It is important then to say a few words about the Mother House, at 54/A, Acharya Jagadeesh Bose Road, Kolkata 700016. This is the present name of the street. It was known before as 54/A Lower Circular Road. Blessed Teresa lived in this place for over 44 years, i.e. from 1953 to 1997.
The door to the entrance to the Mother House remains the same. It has witnessed persons of all walks of life, every kind of status, position and possession. Presidents, Prime Ministers, political leaders, as well as simple peasants...all have entered through that door. It has welcomed above all many of the poorest of the poor, sick and weak people, sinners, saints and thousands of young girls who offer their lives in service to the poor, who have become the Society's wealth and strength.
Mother House today is a world-renowned place, even after the death of its founder; perhaps it is even more so now than ever, because love never dies.
As we go in we have on our right side the imposing tomb of Blessed Teresa, which has become a place of pilgrimage for hundreds of peoples of all religions and walks of life.
There is a big statue of Blessed Teresa in bronze in the courtyard, just outside the hall where Mother's body lies, and then there is the grotto of our Lady of Lourdes. In another small room there is the little Mother Teresa Museum, and then the archives. One of the most important sights there is her room and the steps leading to it. Today the pilgrims are allowed to see it only through a grilled door.
The most important place, however, in the Mother House is yet to be mentioned, namely the Chapel where Blessed Teresa used to spend hours before the Lord, where her crucified Spouse inspired and illumined her, where her soul was flooded with Jesus' spirit and life, where her whole being was penetrated and possessed so utterly that her life became only a radiance of Jesus' life, Jesus' presence, Jesus' love. He shined through her and was so in her that every soul she came in contact with felt Jesus' presence in her soul, so much so that they no longer saw her but only Jesus. As Jesus stayed with her she could shine as Jesus would shine. In this way she became Jesus' light to others. Yes, as Jesus wanted her to be his light, she became his light to others. This was her life and her apostolate, and this as Missionaries of Charity is our life and apostolate as well.
In the very place where she sat for 44 years and prayed, today one of her statues is placed. This statue is sculptured according to the way she used to sit and pray. She used to bury herself, recoiling herself wrapped in silence.
Every morning at 6.00 there is the Holy Mass for the community, participated in also by hundreds of volunteers and Co-workers who come from the various parts of the world, belonging to various religions or no religion. They all praise and thank the Lord, every day in words and songs, and above all in the celebration of the Eucharist. This is the M.C. upper room. Without this upper room experience our work will simply be social work and will not be God's work. If it is not God's work, it cannot be M.C. work either. Blessed Teresa was very emphatic on this fact from the very start. I still remember what she told me on 30th November 1966 in the Mother House parlour, when I said that I was interested in doing social work. She jumped in and said: "We do not do social work, we do God's work". I did not understand it then, but now I do. In the first encyclical letter, his holiness, Pope Benedict XVI writes: "The saints – consider the example of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta – constantly renewed their capacity for love of neighbour from their encounter with the Eucharistic Lord, and conversely this encounter acquired its realism and depth in their service to others." (Deus Caritas Est: 18) The Servant of God, Pope John Paul II, writes: "Dear friends, if you learn to discover Jesus in the Eucharist, you will also know how to discover him in your brothers and sisters, particularly in the very poor." (Message to the Youth, 2004)
Blessed Teresa M.C. wrote back in 1947: "These desires to satiate the longing of our Lord for souls of the poor - for pure victims of his love - goes on increasing with every Mass and Holy Communion.." (MFG pg. 19)
Nirmal Hriday-Kalighat. The next place to visit and give wholehearted free service is the home for the homeless dying destitutes called "Nirmal Hriday - Immaculate Heart, Kalighat", which was opened on 22nd August 1952. Blessed Teresa M.C. and the Sisters right from the beginning took only those patients who would be refused by the city hospitals. The ambulances of the city of Kolkata now not only found more work, but also a place where they could easily deliver their patients. Those who lived on the streets of Kolkata like animals, in "Nirmal Hriday" began to die like angels, loved and cared by the Sisters and Brothers. One cannot continue to be cold or indifferent after working with and for the dying destitute people; one must determine, decide and act.
Kalighat tells us that no human being, no matter how miserable he or she may be, how old and unproductive he might have come to be, should be considered useless...nor that working with them is a waste of time. The more repugnant and miserable the persons were, the more tenderly and lovingly Blessed Teresa took care of them. Blessed Teresa M.C. did not look on those people simply with her eyes and her feelings, but from the perspective of Jesus Christ. She went beyond exterior appearances and perceived in others an interior desire for a sign of love and of concern. She continually gave them the look of love, which all people ardently desire, whether rich or poor, leprosy patients, handicapped or destitute people. All without exception crave for love, and to all, irrespective of caste, colour, religion or nationality, she met their deepest need of the heart.
Titagarh. After seeing the leprosy patients at Titagarh, one is forced to question oneself what he is, how he is...and how he lives, accepts, forgives, believes, loves and serves. Seeing the wonderful work they do in Titagarh, one is forced to ask oneself what he is doing with what God in his goodness and mercy has given him. He is forced to accept with joy the gifts of God and use them for the glory of God and for the good of others. One becomes creative, ceases to complain, and does not want to waste his time in judging and grumbling, but makes good use of it for loving and serving.
Titagarh puts an end to our comparisons, to our inferiority or superiority feelings and attitudes. The leprosy patients who work there preach to us not by words, but by their actions, by the work they do. They do not waste their time brooding over their sickness and weakness; they do not shed tears to draw others' attention to them. Instead they immerse themselves in creative and productive work, in weaving clothes from the materia prima, from cotton they spin and weave and make beautiful bed sheets, saris for our M.C. Sisters; they make their own sandals, slippers, shoes and artificial limbs, while many others work in the field...etc. To watch the leprosy patients work with such seriousness is a grace and an edifying experience.
We must contemplate. They may be crippled, disfigured, without limbs and without beauty, but their immortal soul can be pure and holy. They also spend some time each day in prayer, because they know that their God is a merciful saviour and that one day they too will be with him in Paradise. (cfr Lk 23: 42-43)
Their life is a paradox. They suffer in a threefold way: first of all physically, because the leprosy germ gets into their nervous system and destroys its function. Wherever there are leprosy patches there is no sensation.
They also suffer psychologically, as they can easily fall into psychological depression. They can often be thrown out of the family; as a result they feel rejected and unwanted by their own people. This also brings to them terrible moral suffering of remorse of conscience, even of despair. It is here that the leprosy centre at Titagarh stands out as a beacon of hope and joy and an edifying example to many normal people who are often unhappy because of some little problems they have to face in their everyday life.
Shishubavan. It is the home for the orphaned babies. This house is within walking distance from the Mother House. It is almost impossible for those who visit this home not to be drawn to the little ones of Jesus, as they reflect his purity and innocence. The M.C. Sisters try their best to educate them in every way possible, helping them feel wanted and loved with their prayers and sacrifices, with their tender love and care. The Sisters almost every day welcome the little ones of Jesus in His name. Here in 78 Acharya Jagadeesh Bose Road, Kolkata, the Sisters live Jesus' words in action: "Anyone who welcomes one little child like this [child] in my name welcomes Me [Jesus]." (Mt 18: 5)
Our visit to Shishubavan will remind us, then, of heaven. It will make us remember Jesus' words of wisdom. It is such an incredible way of teaching and educating the disciples and their followers about who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Jesus dramatizes the scene. He calls a little child to him, whom he sets among them and says: "In truth I tell you, unless you change and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. And so, the one who makes himself as little as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven." (Mt 18: 1-4)
14, Creek Lane, Kolkata. This is the actual birth place of the M.C. child. Blessed Teresa writes on 21st February 1949: "Good news of the house at 14 Creek Lane. How strange and wonderful are the works of God. In all its poverty the place is still very rich. I must take what You give, not what I prefer." This upper room apartment belonging to the Gomes family was given to Blessed Teresa to begin the Society of the Missionaries of Charity. It is here that the first twelve girls came to join her; it is here that on the feast of our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Saturday 7th October 1950, the Archbishop Ferdinand Perier S.J. of Kolkata erected the Society of the Missionaries of Charity into a diocesan Religious Institute. It was in this house where the first group of twelve Sisters, together with Blessed Teresa, began their historic noviciate, and where they stayed until February 1953. It is from this house that in January 1953, when the pilgrim statue visited Kolkata, it was brought in procession with the Rosary to the Mother House, just before the Sisters came to live there. Listen to what Blessed Teresa said: "Our Lady must occupy the house first!" "The whole night was spent praying the Rosary along with the Sodality of St. Teresa's parish.", writes Sr. Gertrude M.C., the eye witness and one of the very first Sisters to join Blessed Teresa. (cfr. Sr. Gertrude: "Our Lady in Mother's life", p. 113)
Today, when we visit 14 Creek Lane, we must remember that we are visiting the M.C. cradle where the baby was born and lived for the first four years of its infancy.
Prem Dan Tiljala. This belonged to the Imperial Chemical Industries (I.C.I.) till 1973, when the company handed it over to the Missionaries of Charity of Kolkata. This is now known as Prem Dan, which means Gift of Love, and is a much larger extension of Kalighat. What has been said of Kalighat can be applied here as well.
Missionary Brothers of Charity of Kolkata. The Brothers of the Missionaries of Charity was founded by Blessed Teresa on Monday 25th March 1963, on the solemnity of the Annunciation, with five young men, three of whom were blood brothers. They lived in Shishubavan, Kolkata, until May 1966, when they moved to 16 Koyala Sarak, Kidderpore, Kolkata, where they were until mid-January 1967. Since mid-January1967 the Brothers have lived at 7 Mansatala Row, Kidderpore, Kolkata 700023, which became their Mother House and Generalate under Br. Andrew M.C. (Ian Travers Ball S.J.) R.I.P., their Co-founder. They are now a Pontifical institute and have several houses with many Brothers. In Kolkata they have many houses, beginning with Mansatala Row, Pipe Road, Howrah, Tengra, Dumdum, Barackpore, from where they take care of the main Titagarh leprosy centre, and Kanchrapara. Their present Servant General is Br. Geoff M.C., to whom we owe much gratitude for allowing us to stay at their place in Tengra. They are going to move their tertian Brothers to Kanchrapara in order to accommodate us in their house in Tengra. Br. Yesudas M.C. is one of the General Councillors. We also owe much gratitude to him for all the trouble he has taken to help us stay at their place for the entire period of eight days. Let us offer many prayers and sacrifices for their intentions.
The M.C. Contemplative Sisters at St. John's Church, Sealdah. Somewhere around 1988, when His Excellency Rt. Rev. Henry D'Souza visited us in Rome, he verbally invited the Contemplative Brothers to take over St. John's Church, Sealdah, and told us to have adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and other spiritual apostolates, which the Contemplative Sisters are now doing. He also told us that when he reached Kolkata he would send me a formal letter of invitation, but it did not happen, as he perhaps talked with Mother Teresa, who decided, I suppose, to have the Contemplative Sisters come and take over the place...and so that happened instead.
After the discovery of Mother's Founding Grace document, we can understand better why the Contemplative Sisters are there and not the Brothers. In any case, the Sisters' presence, their prayers and sacrifices produce fruits in abundance. Many people, including many non-Christians, come to meet with the Sisters and to pray with them, as it is the walkway for thousands of people who come and go to Sealdah train station. To visit and pray with the Sisters is always a great grace for us.
Conclusion. The list of places the Brothers could visit could go on and on. The ones indicated above are some of the most important ones. Seeing these "holy places", we realize that Love feels no burden, values no labours, would like to do more than it can do, without excusing itself with impossibility, because it believes that it may and can do all things. In fact, it is ready to do everything for Jesus, with Jesus and to Jesus. Love never gives up, but continues to love, give and forgive.
Let us entrust our pilgrimage to the Holy Family, Jesus, Mary and Joseph, who went every year in pilgrimage to Jerusalem, as the gospel of Luke says (cf. 2: 41). With them, and in the same spirit, we too go in pilgrimage to the M.C. Bethlehem. Let us pray much.
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[Top Ten Tuesday] Inspirational/Thought-Provoking Book Quotes
For me, diction is the most important part of the book. I'll stop reading or throw away--literally--a book if its diction doesn't meet my expectation. So, yeah, I'll always love an inspirational/thought-provoking book quotes, so here they are:
1. Resign! by Almira Bastari
2. Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
3. Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver
4. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
5. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
6. Goodbye Things by Fumio Sasaki
7. Antologi Rasa by Ika Natassa
8. What I Know for Sure by Oprah Winfrey
9. London: Angel by Windry Ramadhina
10. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer


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As early as this week, the United States Senate may turn to the annual legislation known as "The National Defense Authorization Act" (NDAA) that is supposed to provide the Pentagon what it needs to defend our nation. Unfortunately, thanks to an amendment added in the Senate Armed Services Committee that would impose the radical homosexual agenda on the U.S. military, a more appropriate title for this bill would be "The Bring Back the Draft Act."
Mind you, none of the bill's sponsors would want it given such a descriptor. Nor are they likely to own up to the reality that their effort to repeal the present statutory prohibition on avowed homosexuals serving in uniform (popularly, though incorrectly, known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell") will have the effect of destroying the highly successful All Volunteer Force.
Yet, that is, nonetheless, the professional judgment of over 1160 retired senior military officers who joined together earlier this year to warn President Obama and the Congress of this danger.
Specifically, these distinguished officers-- who included among their ranks two former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, several service chiefs, a number of combatant command, theater, and other major U.S. and allied force commanders and two Medal of Honor recipients-- wrote:
Such a grim assessment has been informed by, among other data, the results of a poll of
Our past experience as military leaders leads us to be greatly concerned about the impact of repeal [of the law] on morale, discipline, unit cohesion and overall military readiness. We believe that imposing this burden on our men and women in uniform would undermine recruiting and retention, impact leadership at all levels, have adverse effects on the willingness of parents who lend their sons and daughters to military service, and eventually break the All-Volunteer Force.
Those who decide no longer to serve are not "homophobes." They are men and women who quite understandably do not want to be put in settings of forced intimacy (foxholes, barracks, showers, submarines, etc.) with individuals who find them sexually attractive. Civilians, who polls say mostly support the idea of gays serving in the military, tend to have little idea of what such circumstances would be like. They certainly are ill-equipped to understand the impact more generally of repeal on the military culture, and the essential "good order and discipline" it requires, that would be inflicted by the sort of "zero-tolerance" policy demanded by zealots of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.Interestingly, a front-page article in Sunday's Washington Post provides a flavor of how problematic such arrangements would be in practice. Entitled "In Limbo Over 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,'" the news item was transparently designed to promote the inevitability of repeal, and to tout the accommodations already being made by the armed forces to the anticipated post-repeal order of things.
Still, the article could not avoid the reality that there will be serious issues involving conduct, discipline, spousal benefits, housing arrangements and the ability of military chaplains to practice and minister their respective faiths. These are precisely the sorts of problems an internal Pentagon review has been given until December to assess.
But legislators more interested in appeasing homosexual activists than understanding-- let alone avoiding-- damage to the armed forces are insisting that the current prohibition be repealed now. In order to secure sufficient votes for passage, they adopted a cynical gambit: The repeal would only go into effect after the Pentagon's study is done and three officials (all of whom have already made up their mind, namely, President Obama, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and JCS Chairman Mike Mullen) give the go-ahead. The House of Representatives has already approved such a rigged game, voting recently to strike the existing law over the bipartisan objections of its Armed Services Committee and the four serving chiefs of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines.
As a practical matter, the result will likely be a hemorrhage of talent from the military. If so, the Nation would be required to make one of two choices: The first would be to accept defeat on today's battlefields-- and leave the country wholly ill-prepared to deal with those of tomorrow. Assuming that outcome is still deemed unacceptable to most Americans, the only alternative would be to reinstitute conscription, better known-- and reviled-- as "The Draft."


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Philadelphia, PA
This playspace in Philadelphia is the pilot site for Urban Thinkscape, a multidisciplinary project led by Temple University's psychology department. Temple professors assembled a team of architects, designers and builders from Philadelphia and beyond, to engage with a community in West Philadelphia in a highly collaborative process.
Together the team (including Temple University, Itai Palti Architects, Public Workshop, Studio Ludo, Science Museum of Minnesota, Community Bible Deliverance Kingdom Ministries, Belmont Alliance Civic Association & the City of Philadelphia) envisioned an engaging, highly customized and designed playspace that would present educational playful learning opportunities for young people in the neighborhood. Roofmeadow and Roofmeadow Services, Inc. were engaged to coordinate among the many collaborators, finalize and document the design, and see the project through to construction.
The playspace has transformed an underutilized lot at an exposed, high-traffic corner. Custom features of the playspace include a "puzzle wall" with rotating cylinders that form images, a 17 foot aluminum structure that casts shapes in silhouette, and a faceted wood deck with embedded "story" images. The project has been featured in Smithsonian magazine and is intended to be a flagship that will lead to construction of Urban Thinkscapes across the country.
Roofmeadow Contractor
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Google and OCD
As an OCD advocate and someone who helps people with OCD on their journeys to recovery, I started to pay attention to the types of questions that people asked on online forums when it came to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. I noticed often the questions that were asked tended to be repetitive — different people were asking the same questions, over and over.
That led me to wonder what people were searching for on the web when it came to OCD. I turned to Google's keyword tool. I plugged in OCD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and a half dozen related terms and came up with an extensive list of what people Google when it comes to OCD. I decided, if I'm going to help people on OCDLife on their journeys, I should focus at least for now on those terms that people Google the most often.
On a monthly basis, here's some of the most searched terms when it comes to OCD:
- Trichotillomania 110,000
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 90,500
- OCD test 49,500
- OCD symptoms 40,500
- Obsessive 40,500
- What is OCD? 33,100
- CBT Therapy 18,100
- OCD treatment 14,800
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 14,800
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy 12,100
And then there's a whole raft of search terms that ranked farther down the list, to the tune of about 180 search terms relevant to the subject of OCD. In total, there are more than 1.1 million searches every month on Google related to OCD.
Count on some blog posts coming up about some of these search terms.
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Finding My Voice In Front Of the Class
My fifth-grade teacher had fingernails that were a work of art. They were bright red and shiny, but most of all, they were long and never broken, their ends finely tapered into rounded points. And although I can see them clearly after all these years, it is remembering their impact into the sensitive spot between my shoulder blades that reminds me how far I've come since then.
Miss Kapchan was a tall and substantial woman whose flaming red hair and full-skirted flowered dresses were famous. Her voice was loud and her classroom style was that of unflinching discipline. Her weapon was, naturally, those nails.
While we sat bent over arithmetic problems or spelling words, she roamed the room silently, slipping in behind our neat rows, detecting the least misdemeanor. Somehow it was always a surprise, that sharp stab in the back that made you sit straight up. It came for whispering, for working too slowly, or for making a mistake.
I knew that finger stab quite well, but it was not a brisk poke that has remained my most significant memory of Miss Kapchan. It was the day she made me really notice my fear of public speaking.
From the time we left my homeland, Cuba, and came to the United States, I had developed a dread of speaking in front of many people. In fact, for a few weeks I refused to speak at all, in either Spanish or English, prompting my mother to wonder whether leaving had been the best thing after all. Eventually, I spoke again. But I was a shy child who spoke minimally to adults, made new friends with difficulty, and never, ever, got up in front of the class.
Fortunately, I could read my book reports from my desk, and while doing arithmetic problems in front of the class, I always kept my face firmly toward the blackboard. All was safe for me until fifth grade. Miss Kapchan was not open to the nuances of individual weakness or to adapting her lesson plans for one.
The day came when Miss Kapchan decided that it would be a good idea for fifth-graders to learn how to give short speeches in front of the class. We were to speak for five minutes about ourselves, and it would be taped on her small recorder and played back so she could critique us.
One by one, my fellow classmates made their way to the front and spoke. What they said I do not remember because I was so busy being terrified about my own turn. When it came, I sat glued to my seat, unable to rise. It was simply a matter of being totally unable to walk to the front, open my mouth, and utter one word into that vast silence of 26 faces looking expectantly my way. I had not yet found my public voice.
For some of us, one of the most challenging efforts we will make in growing up is to find our voice - that confidence to express one's unique self in words and without reluctance. Eventually, as that voice grows stronger and more practiced, expressing it becomes a source of pleasure and satisfaction, allowing us to feel like an important part of a group.
For me, that day in Miss Kapchan's class ended in pure defeat and humiliation. She pulled me to my feet and dragged me to the front, but I stood there frozen and speechless as I felt the color rising in my cheeks. I have never, since then, underestimated the strength of a child's timidity and have found myself rushing to relieve any shy child.
Finally, as the minutes passed, Miss Kapchan recruited my best friend, Anita, calling her up to ask me questions to see if, in that way, I would speak. Poor Anita, regretfully, did what the teacher asked, but again I would not say one word and merely shook my head.
There was a hint of stubbornness in that timidity. Miss Kapchan had met her match, and so I sat down, still defiant, but aware of the red zero marked into her grading book.
It was not until 10th grade that I learned in the classroom what I had always known instinctively with my grandparents and my closest friends: how to let the inner voice come out.
At my grandparents', I could speak endlessly about school and read my poetry and feel absolutely confident that what I said was worthy to be heard. Once at school, the voice would always retreat inside again.
Then, in 10th grade, my English teacher began a unit on public speaking, and while I cringed in my seat, she described what we were to do. It was to be a descriptive speech. I remember her saying that it was important to want the audience to really understand just what we had to say.
The date for my speech fell on my birthday. As I gathered all my shaky courage, I was consoled by the thought that once the ordeal was over I had a reward to anticipate: my birthday celebration. My topic that day was yoga exercises.
I went forward trembling and began reading from my page. When the time came to demonstrate the first position, I felt a flutter of excitement to see 30 students rotate their necks round and round in circles. They enjoyed watching something different, and soon we moved on to the ``stork'' position, standing straight with one leg raised, and then the ``lion,'' where the face is stretched into a funny shape.
Somewhere between my first sentence and the end of the speech, I had begun to enjoy myself, and in doing so I found I had lost my paralyzing fear.
I dreaded my next speech a bit less and was never again unable to open my mouth and speak aloud in front of a group.
Years later, the first college class I taught was made up of large and restless football players, not exactly eager to fulfill their Spanish language requirement. We met daily to learn basic conversation. And as I playfully threw out verb-tense drills or created sports dialogues to memorize, they began to speak and enjoy the strange sounds of Spanish.
Their floral bouquet, presented to me on our last day of class, was like a long-awaited affirmation of my ability to reach out in spoken words and make contact with a group. What I had learned that day in 10th grade was something Miss Kapchan had perhaps never stopped to consider: her audience.
On that triumphant day of my first classroom speech, I had planned for my listeners, thinking of them most of all. And in that way I removed the self-consciousness that had always kept me captive. I found the freedom to reach across that frightening expanse of expectant silence and offer it my voice. `Kidspace' is a place on The Home Forum pages where kids can find stories that will spark imaginations, entertain with a tall tale, explain how things work, or describe a real-life event. These articles appear twice a month, usually on Tuesdays.


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Comprehensive Management of the Paranasal Sinuses in Patients Undergoing Endoscopic Endonasal Skull Base Surgery.
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This article has been peer reviewed. It is the authors' final version prior to publication in World Neurosurgery
Volume 82, Issue 6, Supplement, December 2014, Pages S54-S58.
The published version is available at DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2014.07.027. Copyright © Elsevier Inc.
OBJECTIVE: The endonasal route often provides the most direct and safe approach to skull base pathology. In this article we review the literature with regard to management of the paranasal sinuses in the setting of skull base surgery.
METHODS: We describe our institutional experience and review the literature of concurrent management of the sinusitis in patients undergoing endoscopic skull base surgery.
RESULTS: Patients should be optimized preoperatively to ensure the endonasal route is a safe corridor to enter the intracranial cavity. Often the paranasal sinuses can be surgically addressed at the same time as endoscopic skull base surgery. We describe the technical details of management of the paranasal sinuses when addressing skull base pathology.
CONCLUSIONS: Careful management of the paranasal sinuses throughout the peri-operative course is paramount to optimizing sinonasal function and safety.
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Nyquist, MD, Gurston G; Rosen, MD, Marc R; Friedel, MD, Mark E.; Beahm, MD, D David; Farrell, MD, Christopher J; and Evans, MD, James J., "Comprehensive Management of the Paranasal Sinuses in Patients Undergoing Endoscopic Endonasal Skull Base Surgery." (2014). Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Faculty Papers. Paper 29.
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It's Disgraceful to Compare European Migrants to Holocaust Victims
by Tibor Krausz
If we are to believe Robert Frolich, Hungary's chief rabbi, we're witnessing scenes not seen in Europe since the Holocaust. "It was horrifying when I saw those images [of migrants in Europe]," Frolich told The New York Times. "It reminded me of Auschwitz."
What were those images? Thousands of migrants had entered the Czech Republic illegally, and police had written numbers on the arms of some with markers, to help keep track of them. This simple procedure reminded the rabbi of the tattooing of concentration camp inmates marked for death. Meanwhile, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece and France have been erecting flimsy razor-wire fences in a desperate and unsuccessful bid to keep out illegal immigrants who have been pouring across their borders en masse for weeks and months.
Another outrage caused Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch's Jewish executive director, to trot out his own Holocaust comparison. "Certainly those images of the trains can't help but conjure up nightmares of the Holocaust," he pontificated.
Roth was referring the trains carrying thousands of migrants from their points of illegal entry in sovereign nations like Hungary towards Germany, via Austria, where they had insisted on going, and where they would be housed in relative comfort – not shuffled off to their deaths in concentration camps.
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"They tell them that the train was going to Austria and then take them to a camp instead," Frolich chimed in. "[I]t is very similar to what happened to Jews in the 1940s."
Is it? Such gratuitous comparisons to the fate of Jewish Holocaust victims are not only fatuous; they are disgraceful – especially coming from a rabbi and a human rights activist, both of whom should know better. It was the migrants themselves who had insisted on getting on those trains in the first place. When Hungarian authorities in Budapest tried to stop them, the asylum-seekers came close to rioting.
Nevertheless, Jonathan Greenblatt, the Anti-Defamation League's national director in New York, couldn't resist his own Holocaust comparison. "[T]he insensitivity and the ignorance of the imagery [the police's] actions evoked is stunning; it's just sickening."
That's not what's sickening. It's cheap moralizing and spurious comparisons that arouse nausea. Nor is it particularly commendable to keep reminding Europeans – be they the descendants of Nazi perpetrators or their erstwhile victims, like the Czechs – of the Holocaust any chance we get.
So let us remind Messrs. Frolich, Roth and Greenblatt: Jews who ended up being butchered by the Nazis were not stampeding across the borders of several sovereign European states to seek a better life. They were taken against their will. My grandparents' generation in Hungary, hundreds of thousands of whom perished in Auschwitz, would surely have appreciated the kind of hospitality that Europeans, Germans included, have generally been showing these asylum-seekers.
Let us also remind these gentlemen that there are already hundreds of thousands of newly (and illegally) arrived people in Europe, a continent facing a massive humanitarian crisis, with potentially millions more on the way. Most of them happen to be young males, many of whom hail from as far away as Pakistan and Bangladesh, who surely could have found plenty of other safe havens en route if they had needed one.
Since most migrants carry no IDs of any sort (presumably on purpose), and routinely refuse to be processed administratively at their points of forced entry, we have no way of knowing who exactly they really are. Many are surely genuine refugees; many others almost certainly aren't. The Islamic State has repeatedly boasted of embedding their fighters among the ranks of refugees, some of whom have burned off their fingertips with acid to foil efforts at being properly registered or potentially identified through fingerprinting.
Yet any attempts by European authorities at enforcing even a semblance of order and verification instantly remind Frolich, Roth and Greenblatt of the industrial-scale genocide of Jews. And this when Jewish communities across much of Europe are increasingly being targeted by militant Islamists.
It's disgraceful and they should be ashamed.


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One of the world's top five biodiversity hotspots, Sri Lanka offers not only opportunities for seeing wildlife in their natural habitat, but also stunning landscapes, beautiful coastlines, the world's finest teas, and lots of historic sites with a culture dating back over 2,500 years. In fact, this "Pearl of the Indian Ocean" has been named one of Asia's leading destinations and on this Sri Lanka tour, you'll experience all of this and more.
Travel to Sigiriya to visit the rock fortress, an incredible volcanic formation that has served as Buddhist monastery, ancient palace of a king, and a frescoed fortress. You'll visit the Dambulla Rock Cave Temple—the largest and best-preserved cave temple complex in Sri Lanka—with 23,000 feet of murals and statues of Buddha, Sri Lankan kings, gods, and goddesses. Also visit Kandy's Temple of the Tooth—which holds the relic of Buddha's tooth. Stroll through the exotic Peradeniya Botanic Gardens to see a collection of orchids, spices, and medicinal plants. You'll pass through forests to the misty hills of Nuwara Eliya—with the perfect climate for tea production. Visit a tea factory amid the rolling hills high above sea level and see the beautiful Ravana Falls on your way to Tissamaharama.
Your value-minded vacation in Sri Lanka is never short on thrilling experiences, including morning and afternoon game drives in spectacular Yala National Park—home to leopards, elephants, sloth bears, water buffalo, and crocodiles. You'll also visit to an elephant transit home, and embark on a whale-watching expedition in Mirissa Harbor where you're apt to see whales, orcas, manta rays, dolphins, and turtles. For value-minded, savvy travelers, this Sri Lanka tour is sure to awaken and delight all of your senses!


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No bubble | by Jenny Beard.
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"No Bubble" is a mix media artwork over paper done by British artist Jenny Beard.
It is rare to find abstract art with a clear clutter-free appeal. Jenny has used a mishmash of light tones with a few solid hues. The tricolour combination dominates this mixed media artwork.
The vertical contemporary art painting is the perfect choice for home and office decors. This is a wonderful piece of art to complement both light and dark-coloured walls.
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Jenny Beard is a British artist working within contemporary painting, and her process is built upon automatic drawing, using digital tools to create and manipulate sketches. Abstract imagery is used to explore optical space, depth, and flatness. The work is open ended and explorative, dealing with the paradox of appropriating abstract marks for abstract paintings. During this mimetic experience, the work could be read as representational.
"The idea of creating an art that self reflectively focuses on and thematizes its own concerns and the correlations of its creation as well as sustaining, at the same time, an open relationship to the world and to meaning as such, came very near to squaring the circle" (Herzog, 1997)
When approaching the work, Jenny is interested in gestures and marks – and when they become signs. Marks are ambiguous, whereas a sign directs us, informs us. Part of her practice involves pushing paint between gesture and sign. What happens if a mark is isolated – If it is scaled up, repeated, or a pattern is made of it?
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Ever wonder why a "bread" recipe would call for a ton of fat? I do.
One would think when it comes to baking breads, the recipes should be somewhat healthy, right?
I'm baffled by the number of recipes floating around the internet that call for ½ a cup of butter/oil in a loaf of Banana Bread.
I mean, if you're gonna add that kind of fat in BREAD, you might as well call it cake in my book. Really.
Luckily, on Epicurious I found a Low-Fat Banana Bread recipe that didn't call for much fat at all.
With a few tweaks, I came up with this Banana Chocolate Chip Buttermilk Bread recipe, one that is moist, spongy, and cake-like without all the extra fat.
Top it off with butter, peanut butter, almond butter, pumpkin butter, coconut butter, jam, anything really.
NUTRITION: Whole Wheat Pastry Flour adds Protein and Fiber to this Banana Bread recipe. Bananas are a very good source of Vitamin B6. They are also a good source of Vitamin C and Fiber. Semisweet Chocolate Chips add some Antioxidants to this recipe. Buttermilk is an excellent source of Protein and Calcium without much added fat.
APPROXIMATE NUTRITION PER SERVING (yields 12 slices):
- Calories: 212 cals
- Fat: 5.5 g
- Saturated Fat: 2 g
- Carbs: 40 g
- Protein: 4.2 g
- Fiber: 3.4 g
BANANA CHOCOLATE CHIP BUTTERMILK BREAD (low fat)
(recipe modified & adapted from Epicurious)
~ yields 12 slices @ 325 degrees using a 8x4x2 inch loaf pan
- Organic Eggs – 2
- Turbinado Raw Cane Brown Sugar – ½ cup + 2 tbsp
- Organic Bananas – 3 medium (1 ¼ cups mashed & ripe)
- Buttermilk – ¾ cup
- Organic Canola Oil – 1 tbsp
- Pure Vanilla Extract – 1 tsp
- Organic Whole Wheat Pastry Flour – 1 ¾ cup
- Baking Powder – 2 tsp
- Baking Soda – ½ tsp
- Salt – ½ tsp
- Ground Cinnamon – ½ tsp
- Ghirardelli Mini Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips – ½ cup
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
2. Grease a loaf pan with butter. Line with parchment paper so it is easy to pull the bread out.
3. Add eggs and sugar in a mixing bowl. Beat on high speed for 3 minutes.
4. Here is the color you want… beige.
5. Mash the bananas.
6. Add the bananas, buttermilk, oil, and vanilla to the batter.
7. Mix until everything is well incorporated.
8. Add the dry ingredients… flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
9. Mix until everything is combined, but DO NOT OVERMIX.
10. Add the chocolate chips. Fold.
11. Pour the batter into the loaf pan.
12. Bake in the oven for 1 hour, more or less if need be. Mine baked exactly for 1 hour.
13. Done! Enjoy with tea/coffee.
I was really happy with the results of this bread… moist, spongy, and delicious. The key is to use "mini" chocolate chips so the chocolate flavor is subtle, that is unless you want a more bold flavor of chocolate. I increased the buttermilk amount which added a LOT of moisture and probably contributed to the spongy texture. So far I've spread peanut butter and pumpkin butter over my banana bread. Tastes best straight out of the oven, or microwave a slice for 10 seconds and enjoy.
TELL ME: Are you okay with making bread recipes with a lot of butter or oil? What's your favorite Banana Bread recipe?


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p.s. Also, anyone who signs up this week will receive extra something in their first month's package!
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Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the United Nations Secretary-General, has described the long term impact of the kidnap of school girls by members of the Boko Haram sect in Nigeria as a horrendous damage on girl-child education.
Dujarric stated this on Monday while hosting a group of ten African journalists who had visited his office as part of the African Journalist Security and Press Freedom Reporting Tour of Washington DC and New York organised by the U.S. Department of State.
"The impact of Boko Haram on the community is the long term horrendous damage that Boko Haram is doing. It is deterring all the gains that we have had on educating the girl-child," he said.
Dujarric added that as a parent it would be understandable to him if some parents in the affected Northeastern region of Nigeria are now afraid of sending their daughters to school.
While commending the recent successes of the Nigerian military in rescuing the kidnapped children, Dujarric said the UN and it's relevant agencies are working to ensure that the kidnapped girls return to school and are able to easily reintegrate back into the society.
While the military operation against Boko Haram continues, Dujarric said the UN is also closely monitoring in order to ensure that human rights are protected by all sides to the conflict.
"One of the things we have done in Nigeria and other places where governments are fighting terror is that we try to ensure that they respect human rights and international law; that people are not freed from terrorists and then get afraid of the people who freed them," Dujarric said.Follow Us on Social Media


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Global/Local Realities and Alternative Visions
The world is undergoing massive transformations in the 21st century in its environment, economy, politics, culture, societal structure, aesthetics, and more. How can we understand these changes on both a local and global level? How can we respond to and help shape these changes? How do we view human migration around the world? How do we connect our neighborhoods to other parts of the world? How do we share resources equitably in an increasingly crowded and automated world? How do we relate to one another in an increasingly digitally mediated world? How shall we prepare ourselves and our children to face these new challenges? These are some of the questions this program will examine and explore. The global/local reality of the 21st century and beyond will be our intellectual playground and imagination laboratory. Drawing on an interdisciplinary perspective, we will consider various definitions and theories of globalism and humanism. By the end of the program we will be able to offer concrete recommendations to develop global and local connections that can overcome nationalism, sectarianism, and tribalism and help us to embrace alternative visions of global/local reality.
Our fall theme will be identifying the problem and clarifying the question. This quarter will be used to lay the foundation for the rest of the year, both substantively and in terms of the tools necessary to operate effectively in the learning community. We will explore the concept of connectivity, historically and in contemporary context, as it is explicated in theory and practice. In seminars we will read and analyze documents, artifacts, and secondary texts to decipher in what ways connectivity has existed and persisted throughout human history. Students will examine their personal experience with human connectivity by constructing an autobiographical memoir. Our work will be supplemented with a series of courses designed to assure literacy with words, numbers, and images. Students will have the opportunity to hone their skills in critical reasoning, research, and the use of multimedia and computers.
Our winter theme will be researching roots, causes, and potential solutions. We will look at specific contemporary societal issues in human connectivity from a variety of institutional perspectives, most notably in trade, migration/immigration, public health, law, education, government, and domestic and foreign politics. Students will investigate specific issues of interest with the purpose of identifying a particular problem, defining its dimensions, determining its causes, and establishing action plans for its remedy.
In spring the theme will progress to implementation. We will focus on the design and implementation of projects aimed at addressing the issues of global/local reality identified in winter. Seminar groups will combine their efforts to assist the community in facing challenges of the global/local reality. The projects may take the form of educational events, publications, multimedia presentations, or art installations to help the community find higher levels of connectivity with the rest of the world. Courses will assist in the successful implementation and evaluation of student group activities.
Topics include social and environmental justice, political and economic fairness, geography, foreign policy, public/global health, historical and artistic representations of various parts of the world including local regions in media, as well as concepts of equity, cultural competence, and diplomacy.
New students accepted in winter and spring.
To be formally admitted to the Tacoma Program, prospective students must meet the following criteria: 1) Complete a minimum of 90 transferable college credits or a transferable associate degree. You will start at the Tacoma Program as a junior or senior. 2) Complete an in-person intake interview at the Tacoma location. You can interview either before or after you begin the online application, but your application will not be processed until after your interview. To schedule an interview, call the student services coordinator at (253) 680-3005 or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com .
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How To Push Through A Plateau
I often get a question from new clients about how to push through a plateau. The answer I always give is to avoid plateauing in the first place. That's easier done when you workout with a trainer, but even then, it occasionally occurs, so I'll address both avoiding plateauing and pushing through it if it occurs. Plateauing often occurs when the body becomes too efficient at doing an exercise or specific group of exercises. While efficiency is good in everyday life, when it comes to workouts, it's not good at all. It means the body adjusts to the workout and burns fewer calories. To avoid it, trainers provide a wide variety of workouts so your body is always working at the max to accomplish your goals.
It's easier to lose weight when you first begin a fitness program.
It just makes sense that your body has to move harder and burns more calories when you weigh 160 pounds than it does when you weigh 130 pounds. That extra weight is like carrying a 30 pound barbell continually. Your body requires fewer calories to maintain that lower weight. You either have to work harder or eat less. It's one reason I constantly assess your fitness level and adjust the workout accordingly. The fitter you are, the harder you work and the more calories you burn.
If you're still plateauing, rethink your goal.
You may be literally working your bottom off, but not seeing any weight loss on the scale. Here's where you have to remember that it's not always about shedding pounds, but also about being healthier and looking better. This is the point where inches do count. You probably are finding your clothing is loser or doesn't fit at all. That's good and exactly the reason you started on a fitness-weight loss program. Muscle tissue weighs more than fat tissue does, so when you lose inches, but not pounds, you're building more muscle tissue.
Are you eating healthy but taking too much leeway in your diet?
Healthy eating allows you to eat high calorie foods occasionally and in small amounts. Occasionally doesn't mean every day or twice a day. Healthy eating also includes what you drink. If you're following a healthy diet to the letter, but washing down the food with a soft drink, you're pounding on extra calories that you don't need. Re-evaluate your eating pattern before you start believing that you're never going to shed those pounds.
- Keep the faith. If you're doing everything right, you'll lose weight. Sometimes water weight makes a difference. That's one reason you shouldn't weight yourself every day. There are fluctuations that have nothing to do with actual weight loss.
- Stay active outside the gym. Take the stairs, ride a bike to work and keep moving. That adds to the number o calories you burn on a daily basis.
- NEVER hate yourself for not losing weight. In fact, NEVER HATE YOURSELF AT ALL. It's counterproductive. You should be your own best friend, no matter what you weigh.
- Learn to enjoy working out and all the energy you get from exercising. You'll eventually shed the pounds, but in the meantime, enjoy all the benefits a more active lifestyle brings.


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Vancouver, June 18, 2015 - Adventus Realty Trust, by its trustee, Adventus Realty Services Inc. (the "Trust") is pleased to announce the acquisition by Adventus Holdings LP of the remaining 38.455% interest in Adventus US Realty #1 LP from 2450 Westfield LLP ("Westfield"). Adventus Holdings LP is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of the Trust. The closing of this transaction brings the interest of the Trust and its affiliated entities to 100% of Adventus US Realty #1 LP. Adventus US Realty #1 LP owns title to the Elgin Chase Campus property in suburban Chicago, Illinois. The transaction was completed on an accretive basis to the Trust unitholders.
In conjunction with the acquisition, Westfield has dismissed with prejudice the lawsuit it filed in the Circuit Court of Kane County, Illinois in October, 2014 against Adventus Elgin GP LLC, the General Partner of Adventus US Realty #1 LP.
Rod Johnston, President and CEO of Adventus Realty Services Inc, states: "We are pleased to have concluded this acquisition and the increasing of Adventus' interest in the Elgin Chase facility to 100%, consistent with our objective of wholly owning all our commercial properties in the Adventus portfolio."
About Adventus
Adventus Realty Trust is a private Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) formed in early 2012. Adventus is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and is focused on US income producing suburban office commercial real estate, initially in the suburban office market of Chicago, Illinois. To date, Adventus has acquired twelve office buildings with values totaling approximately US $253 million, which gives Adventus a portfolio of commercial real estate of approximately 2.1 million square feet.
More information is available at www.adventusrealty.com.
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This press release may contain forward-looking statements with respect to the REIT and its operations, strategy, financial performance and financial condition, as well as with respect to the previously disclosed acquisitions and future acquisitions of properties. These statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "anticipate", "believe", "plan", "forecast", "expect", "intend", "would", "could", "if", "may" and similar expressions.. The actual results and performance of the REIT and the acquisitions discussed herein could differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. These cautionary statements qualify all forward-looking statements attributable to the REIT and persons acting on its behalf. Such statements are qualified in their entirety by the inherent risks and uncertainties surrounding future expectations. Some important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations include, among other things, general economic and market factors, changes in interest rates, competition and changes in securities or other laws or regulations or the application thereof. The cautionary statements qualify all forward-looking statements attributable to the REIT and persons acting on its behalf.
Unless otherwise stated, all forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release. Except as required by applicable law, the REIT specifically disclaims any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.
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School of Arts staff and students were recipients of several major awards announced at the 2016 USSU Annual Student Awards at an evening ceremony hosted by the University of Surrey Students' Union on Thursday 19 May.
Final-year BMus Music student Christopher Pidgeon was awarded Student Course Rep of the Year. Previously in 2016, Chris received the awards of Course Rep of the Month (in January) and Longstanding Course Rep of the Year at the Course Rep Awards, in recognition of his sustained excellence in student representation. He has been particularly commended for his organisation, his proactivity in collating student opinions on a range of issues, and the outcomes he has achieved. Chris has also represented Music at every open day and applicant day throughout his three years at the University of Surrey. There are currently around 600 course reps across the University, so Chris's awards reflect an exceptional achievement for which competition was extremely fierce.
Associate Lecturer Dr Maureen Bonello was the winner of The Lynne Millward Award for Academic Staff Member of the Year. As Performance Co-ordinator, Maureen works tirelessly for Music students on all programmes, organising concerts both on and off campus, accompanying students on the piano (in the University Choir, Chamber Choir, and other ad hoc Ensembles, as a guest soloist with the University Orchestra, and working with solo performers), delivering performance seminars, and arranging guest-speakers. This award reflects Maureen's outstanding, long-standing commitment to the student experience: she consistently goes above and beyond to ensure that the students have plenty of worthwhile performance opportunities, and she is a steadfast positive force who has an impact on every student in the department.
Eleanor Dickens, a talented first-year BA Theatre and Performance student and member of Musical Theatre Society, received the award of Society Member of the Year. This year, Eleanor has Set Designed for and performed in Musical Theatre Society's main show, Stephen Schwartz's Pippin, as well as performing in both the Autumn and Summer Showcases. She has recently been elected President of the Musical Theatre Society for next year. She has also been a part of Theatre Society, Set Designing and building for their main production of Animal Farm in the Star Inn in Guildford town centre, and she has undertaken some prop-making for the new musical Elysium, currently being developed at the University of Surrey.
Others from School of Arts who received nominations include Oliver Bowring, a second-year BMus Music and Sound Recording (Tonmeister) student, for the Student Media Award; and PhD Music student Alex Harden, for Course Rep of the Year, having earlier been awarded PGR Rep of the Year at the Course Rep Awards. Theatre Society was shortlisted for both Most Improved Society and Fundraiser of the Year. Theatre Society's production of Animal Farm as well as Musical Theatre Society's production of Pippin received nominations for Student-Run Event of the Year.
Providing entertainment during the evening was Ragtime Marmalade, a funky six-piece Trad Jazz band comprising Trombone, Trumpet, Clarinet, Banjo, Bass, and Kit. Its players all met through the music department at the University o f Surrey, collectively studying the full range of Music courses available here. With repertoire ranging from classic jazz standards to modern pop arrangements, they have previously performed at the University Annual Review 2015 launch event, the University's summer open days, and the premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens at the Odeon Guildford. They were delighted to have been chosen to play at the USSU Annual Student Awards.
This fantastic series of awards and nominations for the School of Arts follow multiple successes at last year's ceremony, on which further information may be found here: https://blogs.surrey.ac.uk/arts/2015/05/21/school-of-arts-celebrates-successes-at-the-2015-ussu-annual-student-awards/
With thanks to Christopher Pidgeon, Eleanor Dickens, and Nick Smith (of Ragtime Marmalade) for their contributions to the above text.


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Disco at the Temple - With a French Twist!
Get ready for the next edition of The Temple's boogielicious Disco nights. Heads up: it's going to be Fantastique!
France has given the world so much; the French laid the very first foundations of international human rights law and introduced mankind to fashion, but most importantly, their athletes, politicians, and monarchs have bemused us with their sex scandals since before the French Revolution and for that we are forever in their debt. If they can conduct their affairs with such class, imagine what they can do with Disco!?
Floating nightclub The Temple gets us; they are flying French beat master David Stepanoff all the way from his native Paris, for a night of boogie business! Stepanoff has been behind the decks for almost 25 years now, spinning and mixing 70s Disco and Funk tunes, getting fancy Parisian asses to shake at popular boîtes Queen, Castel & Djoon!
Friday February 5th, 2016 is set to bring some seriously fantastique retro Disco vibes to the table. This may very well be your only chance to do the Hustle à la Française!
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