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A novel kind of photocopier is being developed for the British Library. It is designed especially for copying from bound volumes without risk of damage to their bindings, through use of a specially designed mirror system. Volumes need only to be rested in a V-shaped holder, which is then raised gently against a suitably placed "window." The copier "looks" at the page vim the mirrors and window, and produces photocopies in the usual manner.
This new overhead photocopier is expected to be on the market in England towards the end of 1983, priced at around £8,000-£10,000 ($13,000-$16,500). It will be produced by a U.K. manufacturer.
An "image digitizer" for transmission of texts to remote locations or storage on optical discs is also being developed for the BL. This appears (from the uncaptioned photographs accompanying the information sheets) to use the sane type of holder, mirrors and window that the photocopier uses. It too is expected to be put on the market in late 1983.
For further information on either machine, please contact: H. Wilman, New Reprographic Technologies Officer, British Library, Reference Division, Development Office, Gt. Russell St., London WC1B 3DG, England (phone 01-636 1544 Ext. 657).
The ALA's Library Technology Reports (LTR) unit has received a $64,400 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a device to allow bound volumes to be photocopied without damaging the binding. This device would be used with an existing plain-paper copier, and would allow the book to lie face up and open no wider than about 90 degrees.
The engineering and prototype contract for the project has been awarded to Morgan Data Conversion, Inc., a Mountain View, California, research and development company noted most recently for designing and building highly specialized equipment for the micrographics and printing industries. The project director is Howard S. White, editor of Library Technology Reports.
A letter in the June Paper Conservation News, signed by eight conservators including Nicholas Pickwoad, protests the budget and personnel cuts in the Conservation Section of the Crafts Council. (The Crafts Council's new series entitled Science for Conservators was announced in the October 1982 issue.) The letter says, in part,
"As from April 1983 the conservation spending budget has been drastically cut with the result that the Council has withdrawn from offering grants to conservators for the following year. Although it was agreed to appoint a full- time head of the Conservation Section, the post still remains vacant, also the Section's experienced conservation staff have been made redundant, or forced to leave, with the result that as from June 13 no conservation staff remain.
"Unhappy with the course of events the Conservation Committee of the Crafts Council resigned en masse at the end of April, registering their concern to the Chairman of the Council, David Mellor, and to the then Minister of the Arts, the Rt. Hon. Paul Channon M.P. Due to the General Election, the resignation of the Committee has gone largely unnoticed
During the past year, the SAA's Professional Activity Group on College and University Archives established liaison with the Preservation of Library Materials Section of the ALA to cooperate in the production of an annotated bibliography of standards for conservation materials and supplies. The project is being carried out by Richard Strassberg of Cornell University.
A preservation contract for $10,000 has been awarded by the Waltham Branch to the Northeast Document Conservation Center in Andover, Massachusetts. The contract is for the repair and restoration of documents including whaling crew lists from New London, 1824-44 and court and customs records, 1790-1820.
Fire protection. A contract has been awarded for the installation of a Halon fire protection system in the vault housing more than 700 cubic feet of NARS' "treasures," including the Papers of the Continental Congress and important treaties, many of which are on parchment. Concern over the possibility of water damage to the documents from the extant sprinkler system led to the decision to install Halon as the primary system of protection.
Collection survey. The Center for Applied Mathematics of the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) designed a survey plan for sampling the condition of documents stored at MARS; characteristics such as paper quality, format, and the urgency of preservation were recorded. In an effort to determine the extent of the preservation backlog, two conservators and 20 archivists recently completed a full survey of 1,200 sample units (a unit being a book or a box). NBS is to analyze the findings and report to MARS by August 1. Preliminary findings indicate that 75% of the records require no immediate preservation treatment. (This means that 25% of the total of two billion documents do--or may. Twenty-five percent of two billion equals 500,000,000.)
Monitoring the Treasures. The conceptual design for a system to monitor the condition of the Charters of Freedom (Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, Constitution) has been completed by the Jet Propulsion Lab of the California Institute of Technology. The proposed design includes the use of a scanning camera and digital coding and computer analysis of image data.
Independence. The National Archives Advisory Council met in Washington in April. (The Archives has two advisory councils. This one is concerned with matters affecting readers, the other one with preservation.) Actions taken by the Council included a resolution unanimously reaffirming its vote of December 1981 in favor of MARS independence and urging passage of S. 905, "The National Archives and Records Commission Act of 1983," to separate NARS from GSA.
The Coalition to Save our Documentary Heritage, an organization formed a little over two years ago to champion NARS' cause, furnished the following update on this point on June 22:
"S. 905, a bill to create an independent National Archives and Records Administration, now has one quarter of the United States Senate membership as cosponsors, and we expect that the full Governmental Affairs Committee will take some action (hearings or a poll of the committee) next month. Each day our goal of reestablishing an independent National Archives seems more attainable. The assistance of each one of you and your organizations is required to make this happen. If your Senator(s) is not on the cosponsors list, write a short letter pointing out why S. 905 is important and asking your Senator(s) to cosponsor. Copies of these letters should also go to William Roth, Chairman, Senate Governmental Affairs Committee and Howard Baker, the Majority Leader of the Senate. With diligent prodding on our part, Senate passage of S. 905 could occur this fall."
Co-sponsors include Kassebaum (R-KS), Sarbanes (-MD), Cranston (D-CA), Sasser (D-TN), Levin (D-MI), Nunn (D-GA), Cohen (R-ME), Danforth (R-MO), Moynihan (D-NY), Jackson (D-NY), Jackson (D-WA), Durenberger (R-MN), Glenn (D-OH), Hatfield (R-OR), Percy (R-IL), Bingaman (D-NM), Chiles (D-FL), Goldwater (R-AZ), Hollings (D-SC), Hawkins (R-FL), Kennedy (D-MA), Melcher (D-MT), Exon (D-NB), Andrews (R-ND), Fryer (D-AR), Stennis (D-MI), Pell (D-RI), and Riegle (D-MI).
Budget. On May 31, Charlene Bickford of the Coalition wrote: "In addition to the $3 million for the NHPRC, the NCC and the Coalition working together were able to convince the House Appropriations subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and General Government to add another $3 million to the MARS budget this year, the first tine that I know of this happening. The advocacy movement is working, if we can just keep the momentum up."
Facility and equipment requirements and budget estimates were developed for the book deacidification project. Bookstack sprinkler installations continued in the Thomas Jefferson Building [the oldest of the three central buildings] and began in the John Adams Building [known as the Thomas Jefferson Building until a few years ago] in the spring.
The first test of the diethyl zinc (DEZ) deacidification process at the 5,000 book level was completed in October. The results of the test were encouraging. It demonstrated that paper in thousands of volumes can be deacidified and made alkaline [i.e. given an alkaline reserve] simultaneously by the DEZ process. There were three technical deficiencies in the test: DEZ gas was poorly distributed at the top of the chamber; the batch injection technique needs improvement or replacement by a continuous injection/removal process; and some book covers were marked with a deposit of zinc oxide. [Small-scale tests have been carried out this spring and summer to address these problems and appear to have brought them under control.]
The Optical Disk Pilot Project began in earnest with the formation of 10 project teams to monitor separate phases of the program. The Deputy Librarian [William J. Welsh] provides overall direction for the program. Joseph W. Price, chief of the Science and Technology Division, serves as director of projects, with technical guidance from Peter G. Sparks, director for preservation. Filming has begun on 91,000 motion picture stills, 20,000 glass plate negatives and transparencies, 4,000 illustrations from the Cabinet of American Illustration, and 1,500 color slides from the Farm Security Administration. Within 18 months, optical disks of these materials and digital compact audio disks will be produced for evaluation and study.
[About 5% of the Library of Congress budget goes for preservation, according to a recent statement from the Preservation Office.]
Dorothy Ladd Clapp, 81, widow of the late Verner Warren Clapp, died in Washington, DC, on April 10. Verner Clapp was a Library of Congress reference librarian who became Chief Assistant Librarian in 1947, was acting Librarian of Congress in 1951-52, and left the Library in 1956 to become president of the Council on Library Resources, Inc. (CLR). Under his leadership, the CLR sponsored the Barrow Laboratory's research and many other projects significant for conservation. The year before his death in 1972, he published his "Story of Permanent/ Durable Book Paper, 1115-1970," a classic in conservation literature that is distinguished both for its careful scholarship and for its lucid prose style. Because of its length, it appeared in Scholarly Publishing in three parts (January, April and July 1971). Restaurator published it as a supplement (no. 3) the following year.
Friends may express their sympathy in gifts to the Verner W. Clapp Publication Fund in the Library of Congress, established in 1956 by colleagues and friends of Mrs. Clapp's late husband. The Clapp Fund was established when Mr. Clapp left the Library to honor him in lieu of a farewell gift, which he would not accept, by making possible the publication of facsimiles of rarities in the Library's collections.
The Institute of Paper Conservation had a program on brittle paper last September, reported in the December Paper Conservation News. There were two speakers.
"The Brittle Paper Meeting on 30 September had a capacity audience showing the general interest in the subject. Dr. Adel Koura of Darmstadt spoke first, outlining the factors which influence the aging of different types of paper and describing their techniques for improving the aging characteristics in both rag and ground wood papers. Concentrated solutions of sodium hydroxide were shown to swell the cellulose fibers in their circumference and shrink them in length and greatly increase the flexibility of extremely brittle paper. Dr. Koura brought a number of NaOH-treated books to the meeting. The results were very remarkable. The paper was whiter, and far more substantial after treatment, but the text block has shrunk by about 13% and swollen proportionately. Dr. Koura argued that the alternatives of reprography or lamination were more drastic than shrinkage.
"Professor Jack Garnett of the University of New South Wales then talked about his methods of grafting resins using either radiation (cobalt 60) or ultraviolet light for curing. He discussed the versatility of combining the different properties of a number of resins and the fact that they could be grafted onto a number of different substances including wood, cloth, leather and paper. They can act either as a protective varnish or as a consolidant and some are reversible in warm water. Professor Garnett had hoped to demonstrate his u.v. rapid cure treatment, but unfortunately the borrowed equipment was not suitable for treating paper and the few examples appeared to have a varnish-like coating.
"The evening provided a valuable opportunity to hear about these research projects and we hope that in the future an acceptable answer will be found to the enormous problem of brittle books."
The American paper industry had a sharp 46% profit collapse in 1982. Two companies that did well were International Paper and James River, however. (This information is from Find/SVP's "Information Catalog" for June 1983. It is part of a summary of a surrey of the industry which is offered for sale in the form of computer tapes.)
James River-Fitchburg, Inc., Old Princeton Road, Fitchburg, MA 01420, was one of the companies making acid-free and buffered paper that were listed in the December 1980 issue of this Newsletter.
In December, the conservation laboratories of the HRC, University of Texas at Austin, officially opened for business. While HRC has had a formal conservation program and department since the fall of 1980, the lack of adequate facilities has limited the treatments which the staff has been able to undertake. The new conservation laboratories will alleviate this deficiency.
Don Etherington, assistant director of the Center and chief conservation officer, describes the facilities as being dedicated primarily "to archival materials, instead of artifacts" and similar to those at the Library of Congress. There are three kinds of lab: book, paper (subdivided into manuscripts and works of art on paper) and photographic conservation.
At the IIC Washington meeting in September, there was a Discussion Session on Canvas Supports (of oil paintings). In this session, there was a discussion of the mechanics of structural deterioration of oil paintings on fabric, and Marion Mecklenburg emphasized the powerful role of the animal glue sizing in furthering deterioration of paintings on fabric.
Percival Prescott discussed the different recipes for glue size applications from various periods in European art, and pointed out that in periods when artists' manuals call for the deletion of a size application altogether, he had observed paint films entirely free of age cracks.
(Condensed from the October WCG Newsletter)
Three organizations of hand bookbinders--Designer Bookbinders, Delaware Valley Bookworkers Association, and the Association of Quebec Bookbinders--have published in their newsletters summaries of prices charged for boxes (three kinds), pamphlets, quarto cloth cases, quarto 1/4 leather and full leather, cloth rebacking and leather rebacking. The prices charged by Middleton and Eberhardt are listed separately.
Archival Aids, a division of Ademco, through the Society of Archivists, offers an annual award for innovative conservation, by which is meant the invention of a new process, the application of an existing process in a new way or the significant improvement of existing processes, materials or equipment.
The award may be made to anyone working in the field of paper or parchment conservation anywhere in the world, whether or not they are members of the Society of Archivists.
The award shall consist of a check for £200 (about $325), a trophy bearing the recipient's name (which shall be returnable), and a certificate to be kept by the recipient. In the event of an award for collaborative work, the £200 will be divided equally and, if appropriate, the trophy will be inscribed with the name of the recipients' institution. In exceptional circumstances a number of smaller awards may be made when certificates and reduced monetary prizes will be given, but no trophy.
Awards shall be made at the absolute discretion of a panel of the Society of Archivists, which is free to consult specialist advisors where appropriate.
The award will be made by Archival Aids at the annual instructional meeting of conservators whenever possible and recipients will be expected to explain their projects and to publish.
Nominations may be received from any quarter, and persons are free to nominate themselves. Requests for nomination forms or enquiries should be addressed to: F.I. Dunn, Honorary Secretary, Society of Archivists Technical Committee, Cheshire Record Office, The Castle, Chester CH1 2DN, England.
The closing date for entries is June 1st of each year. Please enclose a stamped addressed envelope.
The Society of Archivists was established in England in 1947, published the first volume of its Journal in 1955 and gave its first instructional course on conservation in September 1976. Speakers at that first meeting included Cockerell, Baynes-Cope and Blunn. Meetings have continued annually since then. Many Americana attended the 1980 meeting in Cambridge. This year it will be at Southampton University, September 6-9. Speakers and topics will be:
Paul Wills - Oriental Conservation Techniques
Jane McAusland - Repair of Prints and Drawings
Maria Woods - Review of Conservation Methods
David Burgess - Classification of Solvents
Phillip Stevens - Removal of Stains
A. Drinkwater - Methods of Fire Protection
E. Denney - Dealing with Laboratory Fires
David Doming - Repairing Fire-damaged Material
Chris Clarkson - Techniques and Specifications for Conservation Binding
Bill Minter will speak on ultrasonic welding, washing paper and paper splitting
There will also be practical work, seminars, tours and a trade fair. Cost for non-members: £80 plus travelling and social events. Programs, application forms and concessionary rail fare forms from Stewart Taynton, Southampton City Record Office, Civic Centre, Southampton SO9 4XL, England.
In March 1980, Rep. Fred Richmond introduced a bill to amend the Federal Hazardous Substances Act "to establish labeling requirements applicable to substances which cause chronic health side effects" (AN Sept. 1980). That bill did not pass, but the campaign to require labeling of these materials has continued through other channels, and has recently resulted in a voluntary standard which may at least improve labeling practices somewhat.
The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Subcommittee D01.57 on Artists' Paints and Related Materials has developed a new standard practice for the labeling of art materials for chronic health hazards (ASTM Standard D 4236). Many materials used in conservation would automatically be covered by the same standard; and materials in both fields are typically bought retail and used over long periods of time, thus exposing users to chronic health effects.
The voluntary consensus standard, approved 25 March, 1983, represents over two years' work by members of 001.57.08, Toxicity Task Group on Art and Craft Materials, representing art and health professionals and companies both directly and indirectly affected by the standard. It describes a procedure for determining what precautionary labeling is needed for art materials and provides precautionary statements and phrases, describing the type of risk, to be used on labels of art materials which present the potential for chronic health hazards. In addition, the standard calls for such labels to list ingredients hazardous to health and to provide an explanation of what the hazard is and what protection to take in using the material.
The need for such a standard arose from the realization that while there existed labeling requirements for acute hazards under such laws as the U.S. Federal Hazardous Substances Act, there were no national standards for labeling art materials for potential chronic adverse health effects.
Standard 0 4236 is available from the ASTM Sales Services Department, 1916 Race Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 (215/299-5585).
For more information on the development of the standard or ASTM Subcommittee 001.57, contact Joy Turner Luke, Studio 231, Box 18, Route 1, Sperryville, Virginia 22740 (703/987-8386); or Phil Lively, ASTM Standards Development Division, 1916 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 (215/229-5481).


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Webmail has been extremely popular with Internet users right from the beginning. As the time went these services added more functionality to their products and attracted a lot of new users. As the users increased, so did the display of intrusive advertising. Not only these ads are distracting, but they take a lot of space in the precious inbox screen real estate. If you have a fairly large monitor, this might not be an issue, but this works very well for people who have smaller monitors and would like to get a better view at their inbox.
If we remove these ads, we can have a lot more space to work with in the inbox. If you use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox we can easily remove the adverts from 3 of the most popular webmail services – Yahoo mail, Gmail and Windows Live Hotmail.
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Webmail Ad Blocker is an extension developed for both Chrome and Firefox and it easily removes the right hand side ads from the above mentioned Email services.
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Yahoo gives you an option to minimize the ads, but they open up on every new page, so its best if we remove them permanently. Webmail Ad Blocker, once installed and enabled either on Firefox or Google Chrome, the changes are visible instantly.
Once the right hand side Ad is removed the Inbox extends right till the end of the page on the right thus giving a much better view of the inbox. Finally you can read that complete subject line right from the inbox.
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Unlike Yahoo, Windows Live Hotmail, doesn't even have the option to minimize the right hand side ads.
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On this episode of Armenia Proud, Johno and Brian discuss some topics and interesting stories that happened this last week. Plus, Anush brings us a great interview with Ararat Mkrtchyan of Voskeni Wines. They talk about Gini Fest 2019 and its impact on Armenian wine! This is sure to be a great episode! So, sit back and enjoy!
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The Government has decided to effect a mid-term voluntary transfer scheme of all serving governors in keeping up with the Government's policy of ensuring an effective public administration system, an officials said.
All serving governors who have completed three years of service in their respective provinces were called for a meeting at the Presidential Secretariat on Thursday shortly before President Maithripala Sirisena flew to Islamabad and the proposal was discussed. At present, governors are appointed for a five-year term.
During the meeting, the Governors were briefed that these transfers should be voluntary and they were asked to propose their preferential province they wanted to serve. The governors decided the transfer among themselves amicably.
"We expressed our preferred provinces where we want to be transferred if a reshuffle is made. However the final decision will be taken soon after the President returns," a governor told the Sunday Times.
According to tentative arrangements, Western Province Governor K.C. Logeswaran is tipped to be transferred to Jaffna as Northern Governor while current serving Governor Reginald Cooray will be appointed as Governor of the Central province. Governor Logeswaran would be the first Tamil Governor of the Northern Province.
Uva Province Governor M. P. Jayasinghe is likely to be transferred to the North Central Province while Central Province Governor Niluka Ekanayake is expected to take over the Governorship of Sabragamuwa. Sabaragamuwa Governor Marshal Perera is to take over as Governor of Southern Province.
Southern Governor Hemakumara Nanaykkara is expected to take up the Governorship of the Western Province while North Central Province Governor P.B. Dissanayake will be switched to the North Western province. The transfers to the Uva and Southern Provinces are yet to be finalised.
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Something I've been considering lately—and I know I'm not alone in this—is our current political moment in America. Not only is our president unpopular and repulsively incapable of coherence, but many recent events are arguably assembling into an assault on empathy and compassion. This nonstop rhetoric of division. Trump backed the US out of the Paris climate agreement, has gotten away with bragging about sexually assaulting women, throws together a budget proposal that would be devastating for the poor, consistently calls upon stereotypes to depict minorities, and bullies some foreign leaders while lauding praise on other foreign leaders who are, themselves, bullies. In this state, what good are words? What good is art, or beauty, or attempting to foster compassion?
I want to share with you, dear reader—especially those of you who are particularly threatened by this administration—the young, the poor, LGBTQIA individuals, women and girls, minorities, Muslims, Hispanics, Jews, artists, healthcare workers, activists, scientists, animal lovers, outdoor enthusiasts, parents and teachers with a stake in the future. I'd like to share some quotes that both bring me solace and challenge me to act. Since writing is one of the languages I speak, this is my offering to you.
It has been helpful to me to reconstruct my understanding of pain and suffering as a signal of the work that needs to be done, a calling. Mother Theresa once said, "I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things." Agitation and suffering are the impetuses of great change.
I've also been thinking about suffering as physical—we say that our hearts break for the parents of trans children murdered, for the addicts unable to afford treatment, for the victims of police brutality, for the children growing up poor, for the coastal homeowners facing rising sea levels and more volatile hurricane seasons, the dying polar bears, the thirsty in Flint, the rape victims whose rape kits languish untested. When Trump won the election, students walked around Colorado State University's campus crying, holding each other. Our understanding of pain begins as physical, as wound, as foreshadowing of death.
Rumi: "The wound is the place where the Light enters you."
In Krista Tippett's 2014 interview with writer and philosopher Dr. Joanna Macy for her radio show and podcast On Being, Dr. Macy talks about heartbreak: "World is lover, world is self and that it's OK for our hearts to be broken over the world. What else is the heart for?" In the unedited version of this interview, Dr. Macy also says that if our hearts could physically break open, that's where we could fit the whole world. Wounding, breaking in the body is a making space for something new; vulnerability as a possibility for growth.
In Tippett's 2016 interview with poet and memoirist Mary Karr, Karr says, "as deep as a wound is, that's how deep the healing can be."
We are a relatively new nation, but our American experiment with multiculturalism and diversity is even newer. We are in pursuit of deep, wide, expansive healing. Healing as deep as slavery and segregation. Healing as deep as institutionalized objectification of women. As deep and long as churches and teachers and parents who've hurt us. The potential for healing is great, and vast.
One final quote I'd like to leave for you comes from Terry Tempest Williams's marvelous and most recent book, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks. In it she carries on a correspondence with activist Tim DeChristopher, who served prison time for protesting a 2008 Bureau of Land Management (BLM) auction of oil and gas extraction leases by outbidding on land he would not (and could not) pay for. In discussing climate change with Williams, DeChristopher said, "We must let ourselves be shattered by the hopelessness of the crisis . . . When we abandon the hope that things will work out, the hope that we will be able to live the easy and comfortable life which we are promised, the hope that someone else will solve this problem, then we are free to act . . . The opposite of hope is empowerment" (271).
Suffering is a call to action. What change will your hopelessness cause you to work toward? Work from our places of wounding, and vulnerability. This is where fierceness comes from, fierce compassion. And we can all agree, I think, that our nation could stand to see more compassion in every place, every school, every home, every broken heart.


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How does flapping change by day?
Reading the Graph: When are nestlings flapping in the nest the most? The least? Is there variation day to day? How does the number of flapping events change as the days advance and the nestlings get older? Find out and see if you notice any other patterns by simplifying the graph with the interactive feature. Look for the checked boxes under "Choose What to Display," to toggle on and off the different choices.
Notes: There are no flapping events before 05/27 because we did not have a button to collect that data until that day. For each day, the height of the bars refers to the total number of flapping events for that day during daylight hours (5:00 A.M. – 9:00 P.M.). The different colors refer to time periods during the day (morning = 5:00 A.M. – 10:00 A.M., midday = 10:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M., evening = 4:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M.). Also, keep in mind that some days and periods of the day were better covered by participants than others. See what the time watched data look like here and consider how it might affect the patterns observed in this visualization.


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Syneron Beauty's new mē smooth is poised to be the next game changer in the at-home hair removal scene. DIY hair removal systems are nothing new, but until now, they were reserved for lighter skin tones. The mē smooth system is the first and only at-home professional hair removal device that is FDA-cleared and clinically proven to be safe and effective for all skin tones, even Types V and VI on the Fitzpatrick scale.
Why is that so important? Laser hair removal has historically been more risky for darker skin types, meaning that most at-home devices were not safe for skin types V and VI. Washington, DC dermatologist Valerie Callender explains, "Lasers target the melanin within the hair follicle, which can pose a problem in skin of color or the darker Fitzpatrick skin types (IV–VI). The melanin in the epidermis competes for the absorption of laser energy with the melanin in the hair follicle, so when too much laser energy is absorbed by the melanin in the epidermis, as opposed to the hair follicle, we may see permanent pigment changes such as skin lightening or darkening, or burns."
Powered by Syneron's patented elÅs technology developed by Dr. Shimon Eckhouse, mÄ" smooth combines the power of Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) and Radio Frequency (RF) energies. It selectively targets and delivers heat deep into the dermis to damage the hair follicle. This unique combination of IPL and Radio Frequency addresses the limitations and hassles of older hair removal technologies and has unprecedented speed for all skin tones. The result is hair removal that is fast and really works—all in the privacy of your own bathroom.
The mē smooth system is intended for both men and women to use on body hair below the neck, including hair on the arms, legs, underarms, bikini area, chest, back, and stomach. In clinical studies, a 46 percent average hair reduction was seen after two weekly treatments. In addition, there was up to 94 percent hair reduction one month after the last treatment of a series of seven weekly treatments, and up to 96% hair reduction three months after the last treatment of a series of seven weekly treatments. When hair does grow back between each treatment, it is finer, lighter, and there is much less of it. There were also no reports of scarring, skin textural changes, infection, or skin pigmentation—regardless of skin color—after using mē smooth.
"Using mÄ" smooth for hair removal was confirmed to be safe for the full range of skin tones as well as effective for body hair reduction,†notes Jerome M. Garden, MD, of the Department of Dermatology at Northwestern University. The cherry on top is how fast and painless it is to use. You can perform one full-body treatment in just 32 minutes, or 10 minutes per leg. You just glide mÄ" over skin like you would a razor or epilator, and let the flashing elÅs energy take care of the rest. You'll be on your way to smooth, hairless legs in no time. Say goodbye to nicks, cuts, and irritation. And most importantly, no more painful shaving and waxing required.
mÄ" smooth retails for $395, which is very affordable compared to the longterm investment required for in-office hair removal treatments. The elÅs replacement cartridge will retail for $50 and the shaver attachment will retail for $50. One elos cartridge has 6,000 pulses which will work for 7 full treatments on both arms and underarms, or 18-20 treatments on the bikini line or underarms plus maintenance. This first of its kind revolutionary at-home device will be available on QVC, and major beauty retailers in April or at mePower.com.


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Restorative Dentistry
Surprise, AZ
Here at Surprise Smiles, we take our restorative procedures incredibly seriously, as any dental office should. This could mean a lot for your smile every step of the way from your health to your confidence. It all matters, and if we do not take the best care of you, that could be detrimental. We offer a lot of different options when it comes to restorative dentistry. In fact, if you think you may need it, chances are we offer it, and we can help you to decide how to best improve your smile and oral health.
What is Restorative Dentistry?
When it comes to your teeth, a lot can go wrong. However, luckily for us all, restorative dentistry is here to save the day! Restorative dentistry is the study of, treatment and management of, and diagnosis of infections or diseases in the mouth, including (but not limited to) the teeth, gums, oral tissues, glands, and more. This form of dentistry works hard for not only the improvement of the overall health of your mouth but also the cosmetic improvement thereof too. This style works closely with the individual to meet their unique goals.
|Dental Fillings
|Dental Bridge
|Dental Crown
|Root Canal
|Wisdom Tooth Removal
|Tooth Extraction
|Multiple Tooth Extraction
|Dental Bonding
Services Within Restorative Dentistry
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For example, when it comes to decay within teeth, we offer fillings for small and manageable cavities that we have caught early, tooth extractions for severely problematic teeth, root canal therapy for more intense issues within the pulp of your teeth, and more. We also have other restorative options for teeth that simply couldn't be salvaged or that you lost at one point or another. We offer both full and partial dentures, bridges to cover multiple teeth, crowns to fill a single gap, and implants provide you with a permanent solution with whichever avenue you decide to take.
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Spain's Unemployment Level Is Outrageous
Almost one-quarter of all Spanish workers are unemployed right now, with no sign that nation's economy will get better any time soon.
Almost one-quarter of all Spanish workers are unemployed right now, with no sign that nation's economy will get better any time soon. The 24.4 percent unemployment rate released on Friday is the highest in the Eurozone and the highest number ever reported in Spain since the current measurement series began in 1996. That's more than 5,600,000 people out of work (in a country of 46 million), a rise of 1.5 percent since the start of the year. Even more stunning is that fact that there are 1.7 million households where no one living there has a job.
The country also got more bad news when ratings agency Standard and Poor's downgraded their credit rating to BBB+ (not as good a grade as it sounds) and added a negative outlook for good measure. Public debt is on the rise, incomes are falling, banks are being crushed under the weight of bad loans, and the government is running out of spending programs to cut. Their economy needs to starting growing again, and fast, but like most of the struggling Eurozone countries, Spain is sticking with its austerity measures — despite little evidence that it's actually helping.
While Americans weep (or rejoice) or a few tenths of a percentage point in our unemployment rate, it's hard to imagine the struggles facing a country where that number is three times higher and the hopes for a turnaround appear to be far fewer. As this global crisis continues to drag on with no end in sight (the unemployment rate for people under 25 is an unthinkable 52 percent) the pessimism is becoming overwhelming.


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Information and communication technology (ICT) prevails worldwide. According to Rijsenbrij (1997), ICT can be viewed as technologies that enable human beings to communicate and cooperate with one another in the process of creating and exchanging knowledge. A concept, ICT, has evolved from information technology (IT) into a synthesized communication method and technique. The connotation of ICT, therefore, encompasses network systems designed for collaboration with various other systems by producing and sharing information (Herselman & Britton, 2002).
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) built a research model that illustrates the relationship between technology and economic development in 2001. This model demonstrates that ICT plays a critical role in enhancing the capabilities of citizens in a country. Likewise, ICT has been acknowledged as a major factor in accelerating economic development (Grimes, 1992). Increased technological abilities conversely undergird the development of technological infrastructure in the society or community. In other words, technological development of a nation and skill development of the citizens contribute to each other, demonstrating a structural 'virtuous circle' (as opposed to vicious circle). However, not every part of the globe enjoys the recent technological heyday and its positive influences.
The asymmetric ICT development is observed both at the international and intra-national levels. The polarizing divide between urban and rural people, and the rich and poor, in many nations remains quite remarkable (Bridges, 2001; United Nations, 2000; World Bank, 1999). As some underdeveloped countries are undergoing worsening relative poverty, technologically undistributed areas, especially some rural communities, experience growing technological disparities in development and service. In particular, this intra-national imbalance in the realm of technology is salient in some developing countries where urbanization has accelerated in the last several decades.
In this regard, the case of South Korea adequately represents the socio-technological imbalance because its economic and structural contexts cause this societal problem to become more serious. South Korea is one of the developing countries that have experienced relatively fastest economic development in the last century. According to Statistics Korea, the gross national product (GNP) per capita of the country right after the Korean War in 1950 was merely $67. In contrast, the Bank of Korea (2008) reported that Gross National Income per capita in 2007 is $20,045.
However, this striking economic growth has also generated persistent side effects within the nation. Several major sociopolitical problems of the country can be posited as an increasingly aging population, economic inequality, severe political polarization, and developmental discrepancies among regions. As noted above, ICT advancement is considered a significant driving force for economic development in this information age, but at the same time, it has widened developmental gaps between urban and rural areas (Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forest, and Fisheries, 2008). Particularly, the rural communities in South Korea face serious challenges as the country has gradually opened the agricultural market and extended the conclusion of Free Trade Agreement with more and more countries.
In order to cope with these vital social challenges, South Korea has put several affronting schemes such as 'The Five-year Master Plan for Rural ICT Promotion' in 2001 and 'The Countermeasure to Deal with Agricultural/ Rural Problems' in 2003. The focus of 'The Five-year Master Plan for Rural ICT Promotion' is on preparing rural people for adjusting new technological environments, including constructing agricultural database, building agricultural information networks, developing software for agricultural management, and reinforcing rural education to narrow the information discrepancy between rural and urban citizens. The government has invested ₩253,400,000,000 (about $220,000,000) for the establishment of this national plan. On the other hand, 'The Countermeasure to Deal with Agricultural/ Rural Problems' emphasizes professionalization of agricultural skills and enhancement of farming productivity. Therefore, these two distinctive national initiatives for rural ICT development are mutually and closely interconnected.


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Another Board meeting this week! Complete details and links below!
"Please find the special meeting agenda for Thursday, April 20, 2017 for the Jeffco Public Schools Board of Education online and available, here."
First on the agenda is the public hearing on the budget.
The Financial Oversight Committee (comprised of community members and industry experts) has issued the following recommendation to the Board: "The FOC supports the staff recommendation to fund up to 1% of the COLA increase, using reserves if necessary, in the event state funding falls short of providing the budgeted 2% increase. We also support the use of reserves, to a level no lower than 8 percent, for capital expansion projects necessary to support the 6-8 school model as a strategy to provide some immediate relief to the district's serious capacity problems."
Teacher turnover in Jeffco increased from 10 percent to 15 percent between 2013-14 and 2014-15, according to Chalkbeat Colorado. Jeffco has a turnover rate that's higher than more than half of the metro area districts on the list.
Jeffco Schools must offer competitive compensation to ensure we don't lose our highly effective teachers, principals and support staff to other school districts. Our district ranks 9th overall, trailing Boulder, Cherry Creek, Littleton and Westminster.
The link below is the 2017-2018 proposed budget.
***There will be public comment on the budget during this special session.
Capital Construction Updates to the Middle School 6-8 transition follows the budget discussion.
Of particular note, the demanding and overwhelming growth in Northwest Arvada and Lakewood continues. "The additions to Drake and Dunstan middle schools are critical to alleviating growth trends being experienced in the northwest corridor and central areas of Jeffco Public Schools. Ken Caryl and Creighton middle school additions support the ongoing implementation of the 6-8 grade middle school model."
The last item on the agenda is regarding the Superintendent Search.
This will cause the Board to enter into Executive Session as the documents reviewed are, at this time, confidential and attorney advice is necessary to ensure they conduct this business appropriately.
"The Board of Education will meet in executive session to confer with legal counsel for the purpose of receiving legal advice regarding compliance with the Colorado Open Meetings Law and the Colorado Open Records Act during the superintendent selection process, pursuant to C.R.S. § 24-6-402(4)(b); and, C.R.S. § 24-6-402(4)(g), for consideration of documents submitted by applicants for the position of superintendent which are protected by the mandatory nondisclosure provisions of the Colorado Open Records Act, C.R.S. § 24-72-204(3)(a)(XI)(A)."


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RIO RANCHO VERDE - we live surrounded by beauty
When you're not out blazing a new trail or relaxing on the ranch we'll be glad to recommend local activities or authentic Arizona places to visit.
Abundant wildlife
Amazing biking trails abound
Wild horse at the Verde River
Abundant wildlife
our wildlife neighbors
Wildlife & other fun facts..
We live in a remote and rural location. We respect the wildlife who's home we share.
Keep an eye out for coyote, bobcat, javelina, deer, birds of prey, quail...
Some are elusive, some can be spotted on horseback or around the ranch. Sun up or sundown are the best times for sightings.
Bring your mountain bike for some extra fun. There are many desert trails in the area.
Novice and pros travel from miles around to ride in the Scottsdale Sonoran Preserve, it's located within minutes of the ranch...we'll be happy to point you to the road less traveled.
Hike to the double-crested saguaro, a mutation that exists in only 204 cacti in AZ - One of them is right down the road.
Did you know an arm of a saguaro takes 75 years to grow?
VERDE RIVER Wild horses
A sighting of the wild horses of the Verde River is definitely a bucket list item!
A 6 mile ride through sandy washes, or a 20 minute drive, will take you to one of the few places left in the country where truly wild horses live. They roam through the Verde River.
Be sure you take your camera!!
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".....Retreating into the wilderness, just my horse and I, was one of the most powerfully spiritual moments I have ever experienced....."


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The origin of this video was brought upon by recent financial discussions. My fiance and I are planning a wedding, I've gone to four days a week at work in order to pursue making videos, so our cash flow is in a bit of a transition right now. Don't get me wrong, we're not living some Dickensian existence where we pick coal up off the street in order to keep warm and cough our consumption into filthy rags...at least not yet. However, after our budgeting, I was feeling a tad discouraged and thought to myself, wouldn't it be great if I could just mine money? Not in the "real world" sense but in the Minecraft fashion.
When I'm not spending time with my loved ones, building fences, pounding T-posts, mixing concrete, cleaning house, emptying cat boxes and working on videos, I play Minecraft. I won't go into detail as to the particulars of this game, but I will say it's a computer game that is like the digital version of legos (with enemies so things don't get too boring). Which would explain the appearance of the Creeper at the end of the video. For an example of what the creeper is and does look Here or Here.
As I was working on this video, I posted on my Facebook if people thought life would be easier if were like a video game? I got two very insightful and heartfelt responses:
Response #1: "I often think as I venture into the world of warcraft that life would be easier this way. Not so much the living forever part but at the very least the simplicity of doing quests and getting paid to do them. Working together as a team to take down a terrible foe. Etc. To me sometimes that seems like a suitable alternative"
Response #2: "Oh how many times I wished life had a reset button.As an ex-WOWer and present DCU'r,I'll second what [POSTER #1] said.It constantly amazes me that people who have never met one another "in person" can come together as a cohesive group w/in a video game.Now,if you sat this same group together outside of the video game environment,where they could actually see one another, I would guess the results would be markedly different.I look forward to a future were we can all interact on a daily basis as avatars.I've experienced this kind of interaction eliminate preconceived social,sexual,economic and national biases.As an avatar,we take each other as the sum total of our actions w/in the game world and don't much care what covering the carbon unit pushing the keys is wearing...so...yes."
These two posts made me think heavily about the question I had asked and while there isn't enough room here to fully explore the question (and my video certainly doesn't do it) I wanted to ruminate on the subject for a bit.
The world has gotten smaller through the ever growing employment of technology and in many ways we've cut ourselves off from those around us through it's use. But, as mentioned in Response #2, through this anonymity we've also broken down the barriers of culture, language, religion, race and sexual preference..and isn't that a good thing?
In short, video games have taken a lot of shit over the years. Like any other art form, the medium often bares the brunt of accusations involving anti-social behavior (as literature, film, comic books and rock n' roll did before it). While, with any good thing, too much can be bad. However, I hardly think video games are the reason that this world is going to "Hell in a handbasket" and yes they can be seen as art.
Now if I could just make money as easily as I make cobble stone in Minecraft...
-Rob Out.


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The Beverly Hills Police Department has released a revealing new tranche of materials pertaining to its investigation into the November 2010 murder of prominent film publicist Ronni Chasen. Exactly 200 pages of semi-redacted witness reports, evidence logs and financial documents offer a window into the scope and tenor of the inquiry, which critics have contended was deficient. It also provides fresh details into the circumstances surrounding the destitute alleged killer, Harold Smith, who died when law enforcement confronted him about the homicide.
In its final report composed seven months after Chasen's death (and a month prior to publicly closing the case), BHPD detective Eric Hyon acknowledged that "there has been no evidence to directly place Smith at the scene of the murder," yet explained "there is a substantial amount of circumstantial evidence which implicates" him. Separately, alluding to rumors that the murder — which took place after she left the Burlesque premiere party at the W Hotel in Hollywood — may have been a hit, he explained "there has been no evidence showing that someone may have hired Smith to kill Chasen."
The cache, which includes video of the crime scene and searches of Chasen's office and home, were provided to independent documentarian Ryan Katzenbach, who's waged a years-long campaign to retrieve them (including an unsuccessful civil suit) as he pursues a project concerning the murder. He shared the material with The Hollywood Reporter.
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While focusing on Smith, the records indicate the department spoke to several other individuals close to Chasen who had drawn suspicion. One was her close friend and rumored boyfriend Jonathan Novak, an art dealer and pallbearer at her funeral. (He sought out the BHPD to clarify they hadn't been dating and were generally less involved than her social circle had gossiped.)
Another was Chasen's brother Larry Cohen, to discuss a "rumored gambling problem" whose debts may have ensnared her. He vociferously denied it, enlisting both his current and former wives to attest. (They did.) The third was Cohen's daughter, Jill Gatsby, who received only $10 in her will, while Jill's sister Melissa — the favored niece — inherited nearly all of her $6.1 million estate. Gatsby, according to the documentation, stated that she "has no hard feelings and feels terrible that Ronni is no longer alive."
The totality of the BHPD materials, along with a smaller batch of documents previously made available, appear to show a limited investigation. Employees of Chasen's boutique PR firm, as well as a few friends, were interviewed. (They generally depicted her as an at times difficult personality, particularly toward subordinates, although nowhere near unpleasant enough to trigger murder.) Still, the vast majority of her wide, overlapping professional and social circle in Hollywood wasn't summoned.
Meanwhile, several residents of Whittier Dr. in Beverly Hills, where Chasen crashed after being shot seconds earlier at the nearby corner of Sunset Blvd., reached out to police, yet the released documents indicate that a thorough, proactive check of other immediate neighbors didn't take place. And only token surveillance footage was pulled from a handful of business and residential security cameras, none of which showed Smith in the area.
The thrust of the BHPD's probe centered on fleshing out Smith's potential motive. The department determined he'd been obsessed with finally collecting on a $15,000 settlement from a hit-and-run accident Smith was involved in while bicycling near his dingy apartment building the previous spring, and he'd been left "desperate" for additional money after being disappointed by its ultimate payout — following medical and legal fees, just exceeding $5,000.
The department, which notes in its materials that Smith had been arrested multiple times for burglary (including a conviction for purse-snatching in 1998 involving a woman outside her Beverly Hills apartment on Doheny Drive), compiled multiple reports of individuals who knew him. They claimed he'd made comments to them in the days following the murder that included "I messed up" and "Have the cops been around?"
Still, regardless of the circumstantial case the BHPD was assembling (Smith had sought and obtained a gun in the preceding months, and the department had received calls after the murder about a suspicious African-American male lurking in the vicinity that night — including one from a 42West publicist describing a "creepy looking" man with "protruding lips"), the agency never conclusively determined if Smith killed Chasen. Perhaps just as important, assuming he did, whether it was simply a robbery — skeptics have long raised questions about the practicality and likelihood of such a scenario — or if he was put up to it by one or more individuals who wanted her dead for their own reasons and found in Smith someone who'd become known as indisputably "desperate" for, as he'd allegedly put it to one friend, "fast money."
Hyon, in his final report, disputed the notion, criticizing incorrect early media reports — which appear to have emanated from a single New York Post story, of the number of shots fired (there were four, not six) and ammunition used (there were .38 caliber bullets, not 9mm rounds, which can be employed by semi-automatic weapons) — as feeding into a "more sinister" contract-killing narrative. He went on, deriding as unsubstantiated speculation that Chasen ran afoul of the Russian mob in an art deal gone wrong (records indicate she didn't own any piece of art that exceeded an appraised value of $30,000) and that Cohen owed $500,000 in a gambling debt. ("I don't play poker. I don't gamble. My two daughters don't gamble," he told Showbiz411 shortly after the murder. "Someone writes something on the Internet and it's everywhere, whether it's true or not.")
"Was it potentially a random crime of opportunity?" Katzenbach says. "Possibly. But I certainly don't think we can rule out that it was a hit based on the evidence in the file."
Katzenbach explains that he made a new request for the documentation after THR published a November 2016 examination of the BHPD's conduct in the case. Chief Sandra Spagnoli agreed in short order, a departure from the stonewalling stance of her predecessor, David Snowden, who had been in charge at the time of Chasen's death. (Snowden retired amid a financial ethics scandal in June 2015; Spagnoli was hired the following March.) "We reviewed the request at the time and released the documents accordingly," she wrote THR by e-mail.
While Katzenbach pronounces himself "very pleased" with the BHPD's newly open approach, he is seeking other still-withheld materials, including surveillance video footage of Smith's interactions with officers immediately before his shooting death in his apartment lobby, Smith's Sprint cell phone records and raw interview footage with various witnesses.
Myrl Stebens, a California-based Police Science Institute instructor and former police investigator who specializes in crime-scene processing and has 45 years of homicide experience, also reviewed the newly released materials. He took issue with the BHPD's probe generally and Hyon's conclusion specifically. "It only raises questions; it doesn't answer them — he engages in pure conjecture," says Stebens. "The department was never able to prove that Smith had his gun on the night of the murder, or place him at the scene." He adds, "Why didn't these investigators leave this open as a cold case and keep working it instead of succumbing to apparent pressure to close it? It looks to have been expedient."
In November, Spagnoli told THR, "my understanding is that this [case] was investigated with care and diligence by our staff," going on to state that "it was convincing and conclusive." Asked last week whether, in light of the newly disclosed material — including Hyon's admission that no evidence directly placed Smith at the scene — she stood by the position, Spagnoli declined to respond. She also would not assert whether it's still prudent for the BHPD to classify the case as closed.
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White House chief of staff John Kelly is fighting to save Kirstjen Nielsen, the Homeland Security chief at whom President Donald Trump has lashed out for the rise in border apprehensions over the past several months.
Kelly, whose fate in the administration is also unclear, is working to convince the president that Nielsen is not to blame for a recent surge in arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border that has enraged him, according to two sources familiar with the conversations.
Nielsen also has other supporters, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who have told Trump that Nielsen cannot control the border crossing rate.
Much like several since-fired officials before her, Nielsen — who stood next to Trump with hands clasped at a Friday photo-op to tout new cybersecurity legislation — has carried on with her duties well after Trump has signaled he wants her gone.
Kelly's bid to save Nielsen may be motivated in part by an understanding that, with Nielsen gone, he would be almost completely isolated in an administration that several of his onetime allies have departed. But the retired Marine general and his former top aide are hardly the only ones whose jobs are at risk in what could be one of the most dramatic Cabinet and staff shakeups in modern presidential history.
The two weeks since the midterm elections have served as a long wind-up for the president to make big changes to his Cabinet. But aside from firing his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, Trump has yet to make a move, instead letting advisers including Nielsen, Kelly, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross dangle in a state of awkward public limbo.
White House officials would like to plan for orderly firings and replacements, but acknowledge that — particularly when it comes to personnel issues — it is almost futile to expect Trump to follow a plan.
It's far from an unfamiliar plight. Past officials including former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, former chief of staff Reince Priebus and former national security adviser H.R. McMaster were all treated to weeks or months of reports about their impending doom before their official dismissal, with Trump pawing at them like a cat toying with wounded mice. In the cases of Tillerson and Priebus, the deed was done with a presidential tweet.
But even longtime Trump observers say his public dithering is being exacerbated by special counsel Robert Mueller's intensifying probe and by the upcoming Democratic takeover of the House, which threaten to constrain the Trump presidency in ways yet unknown. The president has spent hours with his lawyers over the past several days answering written questions from Mueller and his team, and Trump told reporters on Friday that he had recently finished the process.
"I think he's feeling the pressure of both the Mueller investigation and that the House is going to have all of this institutional power over him, and he likes to feel unfettered," said Trump biographer Tim O'Brien. "And I think that's why you have this heightened sense this week that everybody is walking on eggshells — these institutional forces are really causing him to lash out."
The big question in the White House now is when — and how — Trump conducts the multiple firings and reassignments that his inner circle assumes are coming.
White House aides are looking ahead to several upcoming Air Force One flights, which will provide the president with hours of open TV and iPhone time, as potential killing fields for advisers in jeopardy. The president will fly from Washington to California on Saturday to visit with victims of the wildfires that have ravaged the state, and then to his Mar-a-Lago resort on Wednesday for Thanksgiving.
"I wouldn't want to be on that plane," said a Trump friend who speaks with the president frequently.
In a move few White House aides were prepared for at the time, Trump dismissed Priebus by tweet while sitting aboard his plane — announcing Kelly as Priebus' successor before he had formally offered Kelly the job.
"I am pleased to inform you that I have just named General/Secretary John F Kelly as White House Chief of Staff. He is a Great American and a Great Leader," Trump wrote, as Air Force One idled on the tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base.
That announcement came during another period of turmoil for the administration, the day after Trump named Anthony Scaramucci his communications chief.
Beginning on election night, Trump has made clear to virtually everybody with whom he has come in contact that he wants Nielsen gone. He acknowledged publicly on Wednesday that he is mulling widespread changes, telling the Daily Caller in an interview that "always in an administration after the midterms you make changes, so, I'm looking at things and I've got a lot of options. A lot of people want to come in. A lot of politicians that have had very successful careers that are very good want to come in."
"I will be making a decision on Homeland shortly," he added. But by Friday evening, there was still no word from the White House.
While Trump has expressed skepticism about the 46-year-old Nielsen from the time she succeeded Kelly as DHS chief last December, after Kelly moved to the White House, the president has been particularly upset by recent data showing that border arrests — generally considered an indicator of illegal immigration rates — are on the rise.
Trump has boasted in the past about low border-crossing rates, which he considers a critical metric of a Homeland Security director's effectiveness, even though many factors determine rates of illegal immigration, including how many jobs are available within the U.S. for migrants.
After a plunge in border apprehensions around the time of Trump's 2016 election — a drop for which Trump has taken credit, and for which he also credited then-DHS chief Kelly — that rate has steadily risen since mid-2017 and is now close to levels predating Trump's presidency, according to the Pew Research Center.
While Kelly, Pompeo and others are pushing the president to keep her on, Nielsen is not without her critics in the administration. They include national security adviser John Bolton, who engaged in a heated argument with Kelly in the Oval Office last month after Bolton said Nielsen's department was to blame for not doing more to discourage illegal immigration. Trump became particularly focused on the issue during this fall's election campaign, when he warned that a caravan of several thousand Central American migrants headed to the U.S.-Mexico border amounted to an "invasion" of America.
Nielsen's departure would leave Kelly more isolated than ever in the administration. Some of his closest West Wing collaborators have departed in recent months, including former White House counsel Don McGahn and former White House deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin. Nielsen's ouster would serve as an exclamation point.
Nielsen guided Kelly through his confirmation hearings to be secretary of Homeland Security and accompanied him to the White House, where she served as his deputy, before she was nominated to be secretary of Homeland Security.
Republicans on Capitol Hill and in the White House speculated Wednesday that if Trump dismisses Nielsen in a humiliating manner, that might be enough to prompt Kelly to depart as well.
Some of the president's allies are urging him to announce several dismissals at once, along with a handful of replacements, in order to stanch what one characterized as the "drip, drip" of salacious news stories.
Trump has upended his own administration's plans for orderly mass firings before, though. His dismissal of McMaster by tweet last March ruined plans for an announcement of a wider administration shakeup that included the dismissal of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, among others.
The president has also made clear the blizzard of news coverage about personnel intrigue inside the White House is an irritant, declaring on Twitter on Thursday, "The White House is running very smoothly and the results for our Nation are obviously very good. We are the envy of the world. But anytime I even think about making changes, the FAKE NEWS MEDIA goes crazy, always seeking to make us look as bad as possible! Very dishonest!"


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Yesterday I finally managed to achieve one of the things on my 'to do' list that's been sitting there for about a year – attend a 'Have a Go' session at the velodrome in Cambridge. For those that don't know it, it's New Zealand's new (which means about two years old) world-class velodrome and now 'home' to New Zealand cycling. It's an impressive building – probably more so from the inside than the outside.
Walking into the central area the first thing that greets you is a terrifying view of the banking on the corners. We were told it's 43.5 degrees. It's the kind of slope you'd find on a steep slide in a playground. And we're meant to cycle on it.
But our instructor built us up gradually to this. First off, was just getting used to the bikes – large, with a high (fixed) gear, and back-pedal braking. The last of these means no free-wheeling – they need pedalling all the time. There's a nice flat area at the bottom which allowed us to do a couple of laps of the track and get used to starting and stopping, both of which are quite technical affairs. Next, we were up on the blue strip on the inside of the track. That's banked, but not as much as the main track. Once we had this sorted, we were allowed up onto the main track on the straights only, which are less steep. Then the really scary bit. The main track all the way round.
Although scary the first time, it's really not – or at least shouldn't be – for a physicist. The key is simply to be going fast enough. With a bike that highly geared, on a smooth track, with no wind to worry about, that's not difficult. The physics isn't too tricky to do either. Cornering requires a net centripetal force (one towards the centre of the circle) to act – one that's proportional to the square of your speed. The banking ensures that this is more-or-less provided by the normal force acting from the track onto the bicycle. In fact, at the pathetic speeds we were doing (maybe up to 30 km/h? my forty-something year old legs didn't seem to work the way they once did…) the banking was providing more than enough centripetal force. This means there's friction acting as well, in this case an upwards force keeping us on the banking. Our bikes were certainly far from perpendicular with the track when we were going round – we were leaning outwards with relative to the track, but a spectator would have seen us leaning inwards relative to the flat.
Go fast enough (and some quick calculations suggest this is easily in reach of a proper cyclist) and there'll be no friction required at all – and the bike should make a neat 90-degree angle with the track. From the spectator's point of view, the cyclist will be leaning over at 43.5 degrees. Faster still, and the banking won't be enough to provide that centripetal force, and friction will then be required – this time acting down the track. The cyclist will need to lean inwards relative to the track.
Just as there's a minimum speed required in order to get around the banking (according both the instructor and my own physics calculations about 25 km/h – and she made sure we were up to it before letting us off the blue strip), there'll also be a maximum speed possible to take the corner safely, even with that extreme banking. My quick estimate of this is around 120 km/h, which I think is beyond what a track cyclist will be able to get to. [Extra note: these calculations make an assumption of a coefficient of static friction of around 0.8. But given that some sprinters can actually maintain a stationary postion on the banking (so they don't have to lead in the 'sprint') there's clearly more to it than that – possibly the coefficient of static friction is particularly high!]
So, overall, not so scary after all. I'm looking forward to having another go.


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I was an artist exhibiting at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta show in 2018, and decided I should try to get a photo of the city of Albuquerque. I talked to several locals, and the consensus seemed to be that the best view of the city is from "Sandia Crest," which is the top of a mountain to the northeast of town. The elevation of Sandia Crest is roughly one mile higher than that of Albuquerque, so it was quite cold when I took this photo, but the view was worth it. Notice the aspen changing color in the bottom portion of the photo!
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During the fall of 2018, I did a quick tour of cities on the East Coast, and the Midwest. One of the cities I was fortunate enough to photograph was Kansas City, Missouri. I did a quick Google search for the best places to photograph the Kansas City skyline, and near the top of the list was Kaw Point, which is the location from which I took this photo. I like that I was able to get the entire city skyline reflected in the Missouri River.
Available in the following sizes (Panorama B): 30x12, 40x16, 50x20, 60x24, 75x30, 75x30 Triptych (3 x 25x30), 90x36, 90x36 Triptych (3 x 30x36), 105x42, 105x42 Triptych (3 x 35x42), 120x48, 120x48 Triptych (3 x 40x48), 135x54 Triptych (3 x 45x54), 150x60 Triptych (3 x 50x60).
During the fall of 2018, I did a quick tour of cities on the East Coast, and the Midwest. One of the cities I was fortunate enough to photograph was Kansas City, Missouri, and the best view of the city – in my opinion – is from the World War One Museum and Memorial. The most prominent building shown in this photo is Union Station.
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Hiring a wedding photographer is one of the most important things you'll need to consider when planning your wedding. The wedding photographer is the one that's there specifically to capture all the precious moments of your special day. They'll snap images of the cute little flower girl, shyly walking down the aisle, scattering rose petals, your husband to be as he watches you walk down the isle, and your mother with years in her eyes as she watches her now grown up child marry. These are the special moments you'll never want to forget and they're the shots a professional photographer is there to capture. The following recommendations will help you choose the perfect CT wedding photographer.
Experience is Essential
The one place you don't want to cut corners when planning your wedding is hiring the photographer. This is your special day so you shouldn't put the huge responsibility of your wedding photos in the hands of an amateur. A professional will be able to take exceptional photos in all settings from sunny celebrations held outdoors to crowded indoor receptions; they'll be able to orchestrate the perfect shots.
The Interview Process
Do your research, ask friends and family for referrals and when you come up with a list of photographers to interview, ask to speak with a couple of their past clients? Ask their clients if they would recommend their wedding photographer to their best friends, if they were on time, if they were personable and even how they were dressed. In addition, ask to see some of the photographer's photo albums and not just random photos. If possible, ask to see a complete set of wedding photos so that you know you're not simply being shown their best random shot. In addition, be sure to ask how long after your wedding you can count on receiving your photos.
Shooting Styles
In many cases, wedding photographers specialize in a specific style of photography including candid shots, portraits, photo journalistic, artistic, traditional and formal. It's also a good idea to take a few clippings from bridal magazines that can give the photographer an idea of what you're looking for and the styles you are leaning toward.
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When it comes to your wedding photos, you don't want any surprises. Remember, the photography is something you'll cherish for the rest of your life so you want to make sure you clearly understand what you're going to end up with. It's also important to consider how many hours will be covered and whether or not you'll need two photographers which largely depend on the size of the wedding. You'll also want to find out how many proofs you'll receive and if you'll be provided with all of the images. In addition, find out how you'll be receiving your photography; will they be downloadable, or on a thumb drive or DVD. As far as what package you should order, go for the best that you can afford on your budget.
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Secure your wedding photographer at least 10 months before your big day because the best photographers are usually booked out a few months.
Don't just "wing it" with your wedding photography; one of the most important aspects of any wedding. "Cheap" definitely doesn't add up to "good" and you don't want to risk missing out on beautiful wedding photos because you hired an inexperienced photographer, or a buddy that happens to own a camera.


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Improving Quality of Life in Future Cities: Data as a Tool to Promote Sustainability
The challenges facing cities in the 21st century are greater than ever. A new focus is required to overcome the emerging social, technological, economic, environmental, and political forces exerting pressure on cities. This new focus must address how to create cities that are sustainable– for citizens, for business and for
New York By the Numbers
PlaceILive is a startup that uses big and open data to visualize what is happening in your city. Whether that is air pollution, unemployment, internet speeds or the number of coffee places in your neighborhood. The goal is to measure livability through all this data so that you, as a
Citymaps Picks Up $6m in Series A Funding to Makes Maps More Exciting
NYC-based social mapping platform Citymaps announced a new series A1 equity financing yesterday, to the tune of $6 million. The announcement also coincided with the latest update to their proprietary platform, which allows users and communities to build collections of social maps. "Citymaps 2.0 is our most significant update and
New York's 311: Greater Efficiency Through Machine Learning
Since 2003, New York has been using the "311" service to field non-emergency calls and questions. In a thriving and ever-developing hub such as New York, there have been alot of questions to answer- the Manhattan call centre receives 60,000 enquiries a day via phone, text, web and mobile app.
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To deal with the shortage of data scientists, a new "hacker bootcamp" is being offered for data scientists in New York this summer. "The Data Incubator" will run for six weeks during the summer; it is designed to bring together the brightest engineers and scientists and move them into data


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BIS Warns We All Risk New Credit Bubble
Asset prices worldwide have risen to potent levels reminiscent of the credit boom 5 years earlier. The Bank of International Settlements has warned that they may be losing touch with economic reality.
Some asset prices appeared highly valued in a historical context relative to indicators of their riskiness.
The institute states that it is unusual for markets to gain momentum during times where financial forecasters see nothing but crisis. It also said that earnings expectations on Wall Street have dropped dramatically with an unusually high proportion of companies downgrading forecasts, even though we have seen equity prices rise.
They claim that this was largely motivated by relief that the European Central Bank stepped up to the role of lender-of-last-resort, vastly reducing the risk of eurozone break-up or a sovereign bond meltdown.
The OECD and the International Monetary Fund have downgraded their original outlooks for 2013, with cuts for Brazil, China, India and most of Europe.
Unusually, equity and fixed income gains coincided with a weakening of the global economic outlook. In the past, falling growth forecasts have usually been associated with rising expected default rates and higher bond yields.


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Martha Clarke's Angel Reapers
What do you get when you combine Pulitzer, Tony and Academy Award winning writer Alfred Uhry, MacArthur genius director/choreographer Martha Clarke, traditional Shaker music, and sexual repression? Angel Reapers is a lively song and dance piece, inspired by the life of Ann Lee, founder of the Shaker movement. Mother Ann, as she came to be known, was a visionary, mystic and powerful spiritual leader. Her categorical denial of sexuality and determination to erase it from herself and her followers inspires the stunning and rhythmic choreography in Angel Reapers. This multi-disciplinary piece is not biographical in the usual sense, but more loosely constructed, slipping in and out of reality and embracing Ann's visions and those of her followers. The plot is woven throughout with movement, song and dance to bring to life this extraordinary 18th century woman and the singular world she created.
Notable for its mesmerizing qualities...ANGEL REAPERS is a beautifully wrought illustration of repression and freedom." —Durham News and Observer
Clarke and Uhry keep the balance between spiritual expression and sexual repression on a taut wire...The dancers are superb, and they can, and do, act. They also sing beautifully." —Classical Voice of North Carolina
Choreographer Martha Clarke and writer Alfred Uhry give us a wonderful sensation of Shaker life a smooth and unforced way to entertain and to tell a tale." —offoffoff.com


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Bad Angel: "Here's all you need to do. Dash off some little Gomez-gum-gumez pun."
Every afternoon I stand by a second floor window in the Ed Sullivan Theater and take mediocre photos of guests as they enter and leave the Late Show with David Letterman. In the foreground of each shot is a wad of old gum I noticed on the window ledge. There may be better paparazzi photos on the internet, but this is the only place you'll find the juxtaposition of celebrities and hardened gum. Enjoy!
Friday, April 29, 2011
Selena Gomez
Bad Angel: "Here's all you need to do. Dash off some little Gomez-gum-gumez pun."
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Genius. You got all your jokes in in one convenient bit of dialogue. Just genius. That's why you're a high-paid writer for the Late Show and the rest of us are hack contributors to Celebrigum.ReplyDelete
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That's solid Au, Steve! Solid Au!ReplyDelete
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A rural Texas town's mobile mammogram unit is losing its funding, and housewife Beth Humprhey won't stand for it.
In the indie comedy "The Hot Flashes," which has its local premiere Friday at the Sie FilmCenter, Beth (Brooke Shields) has an idea more imaginative than a bake sale and far more strenuous than a car wash.
Why not have a group of former high-school basketball champions take on the just-crowned girls state champions for a fundraiser?
By "former " we mean middle-aged with all the wisdom and doubt, achy joints and easily strained muscles that entails. Shields, Wanda Sykes, Virginia Madsen, Daryl Hannah and Camryn Manheim suit up as the titular team.
The movie blazes down the court with its sports-flick aspirations intact but also with a goal beyond your traditional box-office win, although film producer Nina Henderson Moore would be the last to turn down Monday morning grosses.
When the gal-power comedy has its Colorado premiere, the launch will benefit the Maternal Fetal Fund of the Rocky Mountain Children's Health Foundation.
This is just the kind of service tie-in the Denver-based producer has been shooting for. In addition to helping make an impressively cast movie she hopes audiences find entertaining, Henderson Moore wanted to tease the service possibilities of independently produced movies.
On her previous film, director Neema Barnette's 2011 family drama "Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day," the production reached out to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The seeming indifference of the media to missing black children was a theme.
"I wanted to do more from a service point on that movie than I was able to do," Moore says. Among early partnerships for "The Hot Flashes" is one with the American Cancer Society. The cast participated in a sassy PSA.
In addition to moxie, the movie has a message — a few of them, actually: about female aging; about early breast-cancer detection; about the movie industry's neglect of adult audiences, female and male.
Henderson Moore signed on to co-produce "The Hot Flashes" after a 2011 lunch with director Susan Seidelman. At the time, they were attached to another project that each had concerns about. Over lunch they got to talking.
"She learned about my history," recalls Henderson Moore. "About my being a cancer survivor, about me having played basketball, about me being a woman of a certain age, so to speak. Though my hot flashes were cancer-induced." Right before they parted ways, Seidelman pitched "The Hot Flashes," written by Brad Hennig.
A former longtime executive at the cable behemoth BET (Black Entertainment Television) and president of Griot Productions, the producer is no stranger to addressing the demands of audiences underserved by mainstream Hollywood.
"Your sweet spot is the women, but when the men come and say, 'That was fun,' or 'I saw a lot of my life in there' because they have women around them, that's a huge payoff," says Henderson Moore, who will participate in a post-screening Q&A Friday.
Also on hand will be Jessica Rothenberg. The 2009 Cherry Creek High School grad plays Millie Rash, teammate to Beth's daughter and a hoopster with a not-so-nice edge.
"The mean girl is always fun to play. And this is a mean Southern girl — she's like an evil cat," says Rothenberg, 26, on the phone from her New York City home. (Parents Dr. Steve and Susan Rothenberg are co-chairs of the event.)
The actress found her on-location acting tutorial as exhilarating as her basketball intensive was challenging.
Even on days when she wasn't called, she says she and Charlotte Graham, who plays Beth's basketball-gifted daughter, would sit on set and watch.
"I got to watch these women who have had so much more experience than me and how they behave on set and how they ask for what they need but not in a diva way at all."
There's a scene early in 'The Hot Flashes" that captures the spirit of indie filmmaking. And anyone who's ever followed the ups and downs of assembling a cast will recognize the dilemma as Shields' character pleads with each woman to join the team.
It's a bit like herding cats. You entice one actor with promises of another as you try to secure yet a third with the news of the other two.
"That is really true," says Henderson Moore with a laugh at the analogy. "You're trying to wrangle them all and it's a catch-22, or 'Who's on first?' Thank god they didn't call each other."
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Directed by Susan Seidelman, Written by Brad Hennig. Starring Brooke Shields, Daryl Hannah, Virginia Madsen, Camryn Manheim and Wanda Sykes. 99 minutes. At the Sie FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave. Friday premiere benefits the Maternal Fetal Fund of the Rocky Mountain Children's Health Foundation. 6-9 p.m. Tickets $40 via denverfilm.org or 303-595-3456
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If you work in administration or human resources at a school, office, community center, place of worship, or another public place, you understand the need to have life-saving tools and the importance of creating peace of mind like installing automated external defibrillators (AEDs) for quick access. Ideally, these wall-mounted units should be placed next to each AED you have installed, but even if you need to start small, the important thing is to start now. The station is a durable, clear polycarbonate cabinet that can be mounted in a populated area for quick and easy access. To make sure everyone knows how to use the kits, the Wall Mounted STOP THE BLEED® Station comes with a poster showing clear, step-by- step bleeding control techniques to hang on the wall next to it.
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Want To Know More?Making music is easy with the Fun Singing Piano: your little one can press the keys for four fun melodies, and spin the wheels at the top and either side of the piano for interesting sounds. Now open the piano's mouth and hear it sing! Chunky and easy to grip, the fun singing guitar helps develop fine and gross motor skills by strengthening little hands and fingers, and improves hand-to-eye coordination too. The Fun Singing Piano is a great way of introducing your baby to music in an interactive way, letting them become part of the fun and allowing them to discover that their actions are rewarded with fun sounds and tunes. Encourage singing along for even more musical fun, and help them discover their natural rhythm.Don't Forget...We have more musical instruments in the Fun Singing range: why not start a fun family band?


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Spending long hours on the road can be draining on the mind and on the eyes, and this can lead to being tired behind the wheel, which is something you never want to experience. Truckers should never drive when they are tired. It's better to pull off the road and get the needed rest. Even when you have plenty of rest though, there's always the danger of feeling drowsy; it's the nature of driving. You can find a number of different tricks that can help you staying awake and alert though. Consider combining several of them for the best effect.
First, consider the temperature. When you have it warm in the cab, combined with the hum of the road, it can lull your senses. If you feel that happening, it's time to turn on the AC or roll down a window to drop the temperature. This gives the body a nice jolt.
Second, caffeine and sugar do work to make you more alert, but you have to be aware that this is a quick fix that will not last for long. It's a pick-me-up, but only a temporary solution if you are actually tired. Those who need sleep should not rely on caffeine. Instead, they should get sleep. However, when you are first waking up in the morning, or whenever you start driving, it can be a great way to get going to help staying awake.
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Fourth, turn up the radio. You can find that music, radio talk shows, and podcasts are great ways to staying awake and to keep the mind busy when you are on the road. However, you should be aware that a radio show host that has a low and droning voice could actually have the opposite effect on you. Feel free to sing along to some music that you like as well. It's another way for staying awake.