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MBA gives tech employees a competitive edge
by Maurice Robie
One undisputed key to success in any field is the ability to standout from your peers. In the ultra competitive and diverse technology field, a Master of Business Administration has become an increasingly effective tool for raising one's profile with potential employers and providing essential skills to companies once employed.
As tech companies continue their evolutions, having MBA-supported employees will an important asset to moving forward.
One of the most commonly acknowledged benefits of an MBA are the transferable leadership and management skills which graduates acquire. This allows them to move across industries.
Dr. Sujata Ramnarayan, an associate professor in the
School of Business & Management
at Notre Dame de Namur University, said that an employee with an MBA offers their company a wider perspective.
"Most MBAs have a different kind of background when it comes to technology. Because of that, an MBA gives them a broader overview of how a business functions," she said. "There are case studies that are done that give the scenarios of problems that any typical business would face."
This is particularly important for growing companies because they need to understanding what their scale should be, Ramnarayan said. MBA graduates have the flexibility to work within the different sizes and scopes of varied companies.
Digital Marketing Manager at Astound Commerce Taras Melnychenko has worked with both small start ups and at larger companies. He graduated from Golden Gate University in 2015 with an MBA in marketing.
"Having an MBA is applicable to any sector. It gives you a full area of choices where your career can go," Melnychenko said. "Specifically working for a start up where people are required to wear numerous hats at the same time, it's very helpful to understand what different segments or sectors of a particular industry can benefit from your knowledge."
Having a diverse skill set makes him a valued contributor to his company's development.
"In my case, the MBA helps me to balance both the marketing side with creative, analytical, operations and finances," Melnychenko said. "So for my company and the companies I've been employed with, I'm usually a part of decision-making choices at every level whether it comes to the tool selection, partner selection, client pitches, as I know the ins and outs of our business as well as the client needs."
Because significant sections of MBA course work are assigned for groups of students, there are valuable lessons learned in cooperation and leadership. It helps graduates understand how collaborations work and don't work, Ramnarayan said.
"They are working together as teams and that helps them understand how to work together with different people which is something that is important when you're looking at the technology industry," she said. "I do believe that for technology companies to flourish they need different types of people — not just engineers."
The business concepts and interpersonal skills learned through an MBA are always in play whatever the industry or company focus, Ramnarayan said.
"It's a little bit different depending on what industry you're looking at — the profit world versus the nonprofit world, for example," she said. "But there are some skills that are common to all of them — having the ability to work together and being able to think in more strategic terms to have a broader understanding of how business functions."
As a longtime human resources executive for several Silicon Valley startups, Lisa Feher is now chief human resources officer at Eaze, a Bay Area-based medical cannabis delivery app.
"Like any other tech companies, Eaze finds that successful people come from diverse backgrounds," she said. "MBA graduates come to the table with more financial experience and advanced knowledge of how businesses operate and measure success. (Having one is a) great leg-up for leadership and strategy roles."
Clearly an MBA alerts the job market of the holder's intent and level of commitment, Melnychenko said.
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herby chicken + stem broccoli + parmesan and lemon pasta = healthy springtime surprise
Prep time
10 mins
Cook time
30 mins
Total time
40 mins
Anél Potgieter
For the chicken
4 Skinless deboned chicken breasts
1T Olive oil
1 Clove garlic – peeled and sliced in 4 slices length ways
2 T Fresh coriander – chopped
2T Fresh parsley – chopped
1T Fresh basil – chopped
1 Lemon
Black pepper
For the spaghetti
Cook enough spaghetti for 4 people
2T Olive oil
75g Grated parmesan cheese
2T Fresh parsley – chopped
1 Lemon
Black pepper
For the stem broccoli
4 or more stem broccoli
Black Pepper
Drizzle of olive oil
Squeeze of lemon juice
: Make small incisions into the chicken breasts and insert a sliver of garlic into each breast.
Drizzle with a bit of olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
Mix all chopped herbs together – parsley, coriander and basil.
Then press the breasts in the fresh herbs – so that the herbs coat both sides of the chicken breasts.
Using a non-stick pan fry the breasts till done – while frying squeeze a bit of lemon over the chicken.
When done put aside.
: Add the parmesan, olive oil and lemon in a bowl – mix well and add to the cooked pasta.
Then mix the parsley through.
Taste the pasta for seasoning – add some more salt and add the black pepper.
Stem broccoli: Cook as per packet instructions – normally only 3-4 minutes.
Immediately put in a bath of ice water.
After a while, warm the broccoli up again in the same pot you have cooked them – add a drizzle of olive oil, lemon juice and season with salt and pepper.
To assemble
: Place the cooked pasta the bottom of the bowl. Add the stem broccoli and then the chicken breast. To serve, add another drizzle of olive oil and a squeeze of lemon and parmesan shavings.
Recipe by
Anél Potgieter
at https://anelpotgieter.com/?p=1169

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Once Palo Alto Networks firewall is configured to forward logs to a Log Collector, the preference remains on the firewall even after the setup is changed to not use that Log Collector.
For example, a Palo Alto Networks device was connected to M-100 Log Collector which IP address was 10.128.18.55.
The followings are the command output on Palo Alto Networks device.
> show logging-status
Type Last Log Created Last Log Fwded Last Seq Num Fwded Last Seq Num Acked Total Logs Fwded
Not Sending to CMS 0
Not Sending to CMS 1
> Log Collector
'Log Collector log forwarding agent' is active and connected to 10.128.18.55
config Not Available Not Available 0 0 0
system Not Available Not Available 0 0 0
threat Not Available Not Available 0 0 0
traffic 2014/07/10 17:49:05 2014/07/10 17:49:17 795511 795443 8286
hipmatch Not Available Not Available 0 0 0
> show log-collector preference-list
Log collector Preference List
Serial Number: 003001000638 IP Address: 10.128.18.55 IPV6 Address:
Then, the M-100 Log Collector was taken away from the network without committing the changes to Log Collector group. The setting of Palo Alto Networks device was changed to connect to Panorama-VM which IP address is 10.128.18.50 and there's no Log Collector in this case. The Palo Alto Networks device still tries to connect to the M-100 Log Collector (10.128.18.55). This symptom persists even after rebooting the device.
The following are logs and command output on Palo Alto Networks device:
> less mp-log ms.log
Jan 21 15:27:49 Error: pan_comm_get_tcp_conn_gen(comm_utils.c:509): COMM: cannot connect. remote ip=10.128.18.55 port=3978 err=Connection refused(111) sock=14
Jan 21 15:27:49 Error: pan_lcsa_tcp_channel_setup(src_panos/lcs_agent.c:414): Could not get log collector local address for socket:0
'Log Collector log forwarding agent' is active but not connected
traffic Not Available Not Available 0 409746 0
Run following CLI commands on the Palo Alto Networks firewall to delete the Log Collector preference list:
owner: ymiyashita
I just ran into this in a case, and the only difference is the log-collector group and collector were removed from Panorama and commits done against Panorama, Collector Group AND Device Groups. Yet, I still see a firewall with the log-collector configuration pointed at the non-configured collector. Problem is, the collector is still running, so firewall is forwarding logs to it.
This needs a fix! Thanks for the heads-up and workaround.
Hi Felix,
Thanks for your comment. I hope that the command helped to resolve your issue.
Palo Alto Networks firewall gets the log-collector info from Panorama. If you removed the log-collector setting from Panorama and committed the change against Collector Group while there was a connectivity between Palo Alto Networks firewall and Panorama, it should have been reflected to the setting on Palo Alto Networks firewall.
If it didn't work in that way, I'd advise you to open a support case to look into it further.


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The third episode of my web series UNION has been released and is available here, or in the player below.
It's an unconventional episode, in that we didn't really bother writing a script - large amounts of it are improvised. Someone (I can't remember who, might have been me) had the ridiculous idea that we send our fake students' union to the NUS conference and see what hijinks we could get into. And somehow, that ridiculous idea happened.
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Florence Griffith Joyner earned two more medals Saturday, a gold and a silver, and hugs from three of her teammates, which might have been her most gratifying reward of the Olympics.
Despite flirting with disaster when she almost collided with Evelyn Ashford on the final handoff in the 400-meter relay, Ashford managed to save the day for the U.S. women by running down a Soviet and an East German, the legendary Marlies Goehr, in the final 100 meters for the gold medal.
A little more than an hour later at the Olympic Stadium, Joyner anchored the U.S. women's 1,600-meter relay team to a silver medal.
Thus, Joyner, who earlier won the 100 and the 200, failed to become the first woman track and field athlete since Fanny Blankers-Koen of the Netherlands in 1948 to win four gold medals in the same Olympics. But Joyner did become the only other woman in track and field history to win four medals in the same Olympics.
Even though she hadn't run the 400 meters this year before Saturday, Joyner was selected for the 1,600-meter relay team. U.S. Coach Terry Crawford, from the University of Texas, believed that was the United States' only chance to win against the heavily favored Soviets.
The decision elicited complaints from some quartermilers, who didn't believe the sprinter should have been given preference over them, and the issue still hadn't been decided by late Friday night.
But when the women stepped onto the track for the final Saturday afternoon, they seemed to be a team. Valerie Brisco, who ran the third leg, even coached Joyner, who had never run a 1,600-meter relay in a major international competition.
"I knew that she was nervous before the race," said Brisco, who won three gold medals in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
Brisco was almost the heroine. After the first two legs, run by Denean Howard Hill of Sylmar and Diane Dixon of Brooklyn, the United States was in second place behind the Soviets. But Brisco almost overtook Maria Piniguina on the third leg and handed the baton to Joyner with only a slight deficit to make up.
Considering that she hasn't trained for the 400, Joyner ran remarkably. Her time of 48.1 seconds was the best by any of the U.S. women, but she wasn't as fast as the Soviets' anchor, Olga Bryzguina, who won the 400-meter gold medal earlier this week.
Both the United States and the Soviet Union beat the previous world record of 3:15.92 set by East Germany in 1984. The Soviets ran 3:15.18, just ahead of the Americans' 3:15.51. East Germany was third in 3:18.29.
When Joyner finished her leg, the other three U.S. runners returned to the track and hugged her.
"It's a business," Brisco said. "We had to get the baton around, all personal things aside."
Even though she is 28, Joyner emerged just this year as the world's fastest woman and recently has been the most celebrated U.S. track and field athlete. That has created tension on the U.S. team, and persons close to Joyner say that she has been ostracized.
After the victory earlier Saturday in the 400-meter relay, none of the other U.S. women congratulated Joyner.
That relay was decided between two of the fastest women of all time, Ashford and Goehr. When Ashford set her first world record in 1983, it was Goehr's mark that she broke.
Ashford became the Olympic champion the next year, but it wasn't until she beat Goehr two weeks later in Zurich, Switzerland, that Ashford was confirmed as the world's premier woman sprinter.
She also set a world record that night of 10.76, which wasn't broken until two months ago, when Joyner ran 10.49 in the U.S. Olympic trials.
Ashford almost was out of it before she started in this race because of a near-collision with Joyner. Running the third leg, Joyner was even with East Germany's Ingrid Lange when they reached the zone for the baton exchange.
Whether Joyner ran up Ashford's back or Ashford didn't begin to run soon enough, they bumped into each other, making the handoff difficult. That is where Ashford's relay experience paid off. She also was a member of the gold-medal, 400-meter relay team in 1984.
"I felt like I didn't get out very good," Ashford said later.
She didn't panic but calmly grasped the baton and made her move. In third place behind East Germany's Goehr and the Soviet Union's Natalia Pomochtchnikova when she started, Ashford ran both of them down. Pomochtchnikova pulled up, apparently straining a leg muscle, but still managed to finish third behind Goehr.
The United States won in 41.98 seconds. East Germany was second in 42.09 and the Soviet Union third in 42.75.
When it was over, Ashford dramatically wiped her brow in relief.
"Our main concern was passing the stick," she said.
Only 24 hours earlier, as it prepared for the first round, the U.S. 400-meter team was in disarray. The women's sprint coach, Fred Thompson of the New York Atoms, didn't decide until the last minute which women would run the second and third legs.
Thompson had made an urgent call to Joyner at her hotel that morning, even though he had told her after she won the 200 meters the night before that she could have the day off. She hurriedly made preparations to get to the track before Thompson told her to forget it. He said he would find someone else.
He found Dannette Young, who went to the track just in case she was needed, even though she had been told not to expect to run. The U.S. women qualified easily for Saturday morning's semifinals, but Ashford warned that the team wouldn't get any further unless it got its act together.
It did that Saturday.


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Delta Air Lines is under fire for deaf discrimination after Melissa Elmira Yingst and her girlfriend Socorro Garcia shared a post on Facebook that has since gone viral, documenting an incident they experienced while they prepared to fly back home together.
Since it was published on Sunday, the video has been viewed over 238,000 times with over 3,000 reactions, 3,000 shares, and 1,000 comments. According to Yahoo Lifestyle, the couple discovered they would not be sitting together on the flight during the preparations. They, however, had an airline employee assured them the seating issue would be fixed.
When the women arrived at the gate, however, what was promised to them was not the case. Moreover, the gate agent also denied the couple's request to communicate by writing things down.
"At the gate, we communicated our request through iPhone and she kept talking to us without writing anything down," Garcia said, as she recalled the troubling incident.
Garcia added her own recollections as she continued to explain what happened.
"I wanted to continue to communicate and decided to try and write on that same paper but instead of giving us the paper we asked for, she crumbled it in front of us and threw it in the trash."
According to Garcia, her girlfriend Melissa had made several requests – which were ignored – for the gate agent to write down what she was saying, instead of continuing to speak to them as they could not hear her. She also recalled asking the gate agent why they had previously been told they would get to sit together, only for the airline employee to respond by rolling her eyes at the couple.
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According to Yahoo Lifestyle, Delta has issued an official statement regarding the incident. The airline, however, tells a different story about what happened.
Delta revealed they are "in contact" with the couple and reviewing the situation to understand exactly what happened during the exchange.
"We take situations like these very seriously and as part of our culture of continuous improvement, we are using this as an opportunity to learn."
While the airline made the decision to refund the couple for the flight, they insisted it was Garcia "pushing" the gate agent that was the reason the duo were barred.
Deaf women claim Delta agent wouldn't accommodate disability https://t.co/h5kNCI9Fug— Eric Sanders, Esq. (@SandersFirmPC) January 31, 2019
Delta did acknowledge there were communication issues during the incident and plan on working to resolve those.
Melissa and Socorro claim that Delta's account of what happened is not accurate, as Garcia never got physical with any of the airline employees during the altercation. According to Yingst, the couple's bigger issue with the whole ordeal was not that they couldn't sit together. It was that they were denied basic communication accommodations by the Delta employee.


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Scinde Railway
The Scinde Railway (reporting mark SR) was one of the pioneering railway companies that operated in Sind during the British Raj between 1855 and 1885.
Area served
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The Scinde Railway was first established by deed of settlement in March 1855 and incorporated by the 'Scinde Railway Act' of Parliament in July 1855. The company contracted with the government to construct a line between Karachi and Kotri. The company was granted a 5% return on investment up to a maximum of £1 million in order to build the 120-mile line.[1][2] The Karachi-Kotri Railway Line work commenced in April 1858 and on 13 May 1861 succeeded in connecting Karachi to Kotri. This was the first railway line for public use between Karachi and Kotri, a distance of 108 miles (174 km).[3] The company was involved in a number of additional railway line projects, as well as the establishment of the Indus Steam Flotilla along the Indus River and Chenab River. The 'Scinde Railway Act' of 1857 [1] granted it the opportunity to extend its operations. In 1870, the Scinde Railway Company was amalgamated with the Punjab Railway and Delhi Railway companies and renamed as the Scinde, Punjab & Delhi Railway company. This was covered by the 'Scinde Railway Company's Amalgamation Act' of 1869.[1]
- John Brunton: (1857), appointed chief resident engineer of Scinde Railway,[4] (1858–62) supervised the construction of the 108 miles (174 kilometers) Scinde Railway line between Karachi and Kotri until its completion in 1862. His detailed "Description of the line and works of the Scinde Railway"[5] itemise the problems of building the line.
- William Arthur Brunton, (son of John Brunton): (1857) at age 17, assistant engineer and later area surveyor on the Scinde Railway and Indus Valley State Railway, (1859-1961) responsible for the erection of the thirty-two 45 foot (13.7 meter) span of Bahrun Valley Viaduct.[4] This is the longest bridge on the Karachi-Kotri section and is a viaduct across the Bahrun River. Construction on this bridge was started on 5 March 1859 and completed on 26 January 1861.[6]
- Willoughby Charles Furnivall: (c.1860-70), district engineer in charge of construction under John Brunton[7]
See alsoEdit
- ^ a b c H.M. Government "Statute Law Repeals: Nineteenth Report : Draft Statute Law (Repeals) Bill; April 2012"; pages 134-135, paragraphs 3.78-3.83 Retrieved on 2 January 2016
- ^ "Money Market and City Intelligence", "The Times", Wednesday, 15 June 1859, #23333, 7a.
- ^ Grace's Guide "Scinde Railway" Retrieved on 2 January 2016
- ^ a b Google Books "The Archaeology of an Early Railway System: The Brecon Forest Tramroads" by Stephen Hughes, page 126; Retrieved 14 Jun 2016
- ^ Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 22, January 1863, pages 451-"Description of the line and works of the Scinde Railway" by John Brunton; Retrieved 14 Jun 2016
- ^ "Karachi to Kotri: The First Railways in Pakistan" by Owais Mughal, 2009; Retrieved 14 Jun 2016
- ^ Institution of Civil Engineers "Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland - Furnivall, Willoughby Charles"; Retrieved on 21 Jul 2016
External linksEdit
- "Karachi to Kotri: The First Railways in Pakistan". 17/09/2009. All things Pakistan, now an archived website
- "The Scinde railway, and its relations to the Euphrates valley, and other routes to India" by W P Andrews, Chairman of the Scinde Railway Company 1856 Google Books
- "Report of proceedings of an extraordinary general meeting of the Scinde Railway Company, held on Friday the 24th July, 1857" Google Books
- Brunton, John, "Description of the Line and Works of the Scinde Railway". 1863. Available in Full View Google Books or pdf from Panhwar.com
- "British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue" - Search; Retrieved 8 Apr 2016


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At the most recent NCC meeting on 19 June with the company, the ASU was told about plans to launch "Care Crew", a novel approach to managing mental health issues at Virgin Australia.
As it was presented to us, we heard that "Care Crew" would be a volunteer peer support programme launching in Ground Operations by September 2019. Following an interview process with management, employees would get 2 days training to perform 'Mental Health First Aid' in the workplace. This would be in a strictly unpaid, volunteer capacity and may not be on work time.
ASU delegates raised immediate concerns about the importance of managing confidentiality for all types of health issues at work. The union also raised concerns and queries that remain unanswered.
What we don't know
• Is this programme suitable for the work that you do? Virgin Australia already offers employees a referral to a psychologist through the company's Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
• What are the risks? We asked Virgin Australia to provide their detailed risk assessment for the proposal, as well as the training requirements developed for successful "Care Crew" volunteers. We haven't received this information and will write to the company to make the request more formal.
• What's the context? A low cost programme like this shouldn't be implemented in place of properly addressing occupational health and safety risks in your workplace.
There could be better ways to ensure that Virgin Australia meets all their occupational health and safety obligations. A peer support programme may not be the best way to manage psychological injury and illness at work. Other responses might incur a greater cost but be more effective responses that ensure that you are safe at work.
The ASU believes Virgin Australia should consider all options.
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A collection of occult fiction stories. Dr. Taverner runs a nursing home -- but it is not by any means a conventional one. It is a hospital for all manner of unorthodox mental disturbances, ranging from psychic attack and disruptions in group minds to vampirism. These are cases that conventional psychology cannot cure. Only the secret knowledge of Taverner, based on esoteric training, is enough to unravel the solutions.Each story in this collection is a complete case.
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I have never been able to make up my mind whether Dr. Taverner should be the hero or the villain of these histories. That he was a man of the most selfless ideals could not be questioned, but in his methods of putting these ideals into practice he was absolutely unscrupulous. He did not evade the law, he merely ignored it, and though the exquisite tenderness with which he handled his cases was an education in itself, yet he would use that wonderful psychological method of his to break a soul to pieces, going to work as quietly and methodically and benevolently as if bent upon the cure of his patient.
The manner of my meeting with this strange man was quite simple. After being gazetted out of the R.A.M.C. I went to a medical agency and inquired what posts were available. I said: "I have come out of the Army with my nerves shattered. I want some quiet place till I can pull myself together."
"So does everybody else," said the clerk.
He looked at me thoughtfully. "I wonder whether you would care to try a place we have had on our books for some time. We have sent several men down to it but none of them would stop."
He sent me round to one of the tributaries of Harley Street, and there I made the acquaintance of the man who, whether he was good or bad, I have always regarded as the greatest mind I ever met.
Tall and thin, with a parchment-like countenance, he might have been any age from thirty-five to sixty-five. I have seen him look both ages within the hour. He lost no time in coming to the point.
"I want a medical superintendent for my nursing home," he told me. "I understand that you have specialized, as far as the Army permitted you to, in mental cases. I am afraid you will find my methods very different from the orthodox ones. However, as I sometimes succeed where others fail, I consider I am justified in continuing to experiment, which I think, Dr. Rhodes, is all any of my colleagues can claim to do."
The man's cynical manner annoyed me, though I could not deny that mental treatment is not an exact science at the present moment. As if in answer to my thought he continued: "My chief interest lies in those regions of psychology which orthodox science has not as yet ventured to explore. If you will work with me you will see some queer things, but all I ask of you is, that you should keep an open mind and a shut mouth."
This I undertook to do, for, although I shrank instinctively from the man, yet there was about him such a curious attraction, such a sense of power and adventurous research, that I determined at least to give him the benefit of the doubt and see what it might lead to. His extraordinarily stimulating personality, which seemed to key my brain to concert pitch, made me feel that he might be a good tonic for a man who had lost his grip on life for the I time being.
"Unless you have elaborate packing to do," he said, "I can motor you down to my place. If you will walk over with me to the garage I will drive you round to your lodgings, pick up your things, and we shall get in before dark."
We drove at a pretty high speed down the Portsmouth road till we came to Thursley, and, then, to my surprise, my companion turned off to the right and took the big car by a cart track over the heather.
"This is Thor's Ley or field," he said, as the blighted country unrolled before us. "The old worship is still kept up about here."
"The Catholic faith?" I inquired.
"The Catholic faith, my dear sir, is an innovation. I was referring to the pagan worship. The peasants about here still retain bits of the old ritual; they think that it brings them luck, or some such superstition. They have no knowledge of its inner meaning." He paused a moment, and then turned to me and said with extraordinary emphasis: "Have you ever thought what it would mean if a man who had the Knowledge could piece that ritual together?"
I admitted I had not. I was frankly out of my depth, but he had certainly brought me to the most unchristian spot I had ever been in my life.
His nursing home, however, was in delightful contrast to the wild and barren country that surrounded it. The garden was a mass of colour, and the house, old and rambling and covered with creepers, as charming within as without; it reminded me of the East, it reminded me of the Renaissance, and yet it had no style save that of warm rich colouring and comfort.
I soon settled down to my job, which I found exceedingly interesting. As I have already said, Taverner's work began where ordinary medicine ended, and I have under my care cases such as the ordinary doctor would have referred to the safe keeping of an asylum, as being nothing else but mad. Yet Taverner, by his peculiar methods of work, laid bare causes operating both within the soul and in the shadowy realm where the soul has its dwelling, that threw an entirely new light upon the problem, and often enabled him to rescue a man from the dark influences that were closing in upon him. The affair of the sheep-killing was an interesting example of his methods.
One showery afternoon at the nursing home we had a call from a neighbor—not a very common occurrence, for Taverner and his ways were regarded somewhat askance. Our visitor shed her dripping mackintosh, but declined to loosen the scarf which, warm as the day was, she had twisted tightly round her neck.
"I believe you specialize in mental cases," she said to my colleague. "I should very much like to talk over with you a matter that is troubling me."
Taverner nodded, his keen eyes watching her for symptoms.
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Ink Review #355: Robert Oster Aussie Gold/
Let's tackle another new release, Robert Oster Aussie Gold. I purchased my sample of ink from Anderson Pens.
The color:
Aussie Gold is a dark yellow, it reminds me of 70's yellow.
In large swabs there is some shading, and it turns almost black when super concentrated.
Writing samples:
Let's take a look at how the ink behaves on fountain pen friendly papers: Rhodia, Tomoe River, and Leuchtturm.
Dry time: 50 seconds
Water resistance: Low
Feathering: None
Show through: Medium
Bleeding: None
Other properties: medium shading, no sheen, and no shimmer.
On Staples 24 lb copy paper there was a little bit of feathering, but not bad, and no bleeding.
Comparison Swabs:
Ink swabs for comparison, left to right (top to bottom for mobile RSS): Robert Oster African Gold, Robert Oster Aussie Gold, and Robert Oster Green Olive. Green Olive is a bit brighter than Aussie Gold, and African Gold is much darker. Click here to see the Robert Oster inks together.
KWZ El Dorado, Montblanc Golden Yellow, and Robert Oster Aussie Liquid Gold. I think Aussie Liquid Gold is the shimmer version of Aussie Gold. Click here to see the yellow inks together.
Longer writing:
I used a medium Pelikan M605 White Transparent on Tomoe River paper. The ink had an average flow.
Overall, it really reminds me of 70's yellow. It's pretty well behaved, but the dry time is on the longer side at 50 seconds. The color is very close to Robert Oster Green Olive, so you probably don't need both.
Disclaimer: I purchased this ink myself, and all photos and opinions are my own. This page does not contain affiliate links.


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This One-Man Crimewave in Sunderland Is a Lesson in Getting Shit Done
In two hours, one man managed to steal a car, break into two houses, stick up a Post Office and two shops and then burn the car. What have you done this morning?
I Grew Up with Makina, The Geordie Youth Culture Phenomenon That's Been Slept On For A Decade
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Here is your spoiler-free wrestling update for Tuesday, June 25th, 2019.
Site Updates:
Wrestling News:
Seth Rollins vs Will Ospreay
Seth Rollins and Will Ospreay have been debating who is the best wrestler in the world and where the best wrestling in the world takes place. Previously, their debate was limited to Twitter but today an interview with Rollins appeared on SI.com and Will Ospreay spoke to Wrestling Observer Radio.
Here is a rundown of everything these two have been saying low the last few days:
Doubling down. Best pro wrestling on the planet. See that Cruiserweight Triple Threat? And that's just one night, one match amongst the many. Find anyone else alive who does what I do as well as I do it as often as I do it. Ya can't. #WWEStompingGrounds #UniversalChampion @WWE
— Seth Rollins (@WWERollins) June 23, 2019
I'm alive. https://t.co/l7zxy5yHY9
— ᵂⁱˡˡ ᴼˢᵖʳᵉᵃʸ • ウィル・オスプレイ (@WillOspreay) June 24, 2019
Ahhhh I'm sorry little guy. We already have a better version of you here and he just won his first US Title tonight (Congrats @KingRicochet). Keep working hard though buddy! https://t.co/JwB36iWaIg
— Seth Rollins (@WWERollins) June 24, 2019
Fact of the day:
Will Ospreay wrestled more matches in 2019 THAN @WWERollins
Catch up little guy 😘 pic.twitter.com/GH9ywGGGlm
— ᵂⁱˡˡ ᴼˢᵖʳᵉᵃʸ • ウィル・オスプレイ (@WillOspreay) June 25, 2019
You love adding stuff don't ya. I mean the original question was
"Find anyone else alive who does what I do as well as I do it as often as I do it"
No talk of money. No talk of Ricochet. You said anyone.
Here I am.
Just as consistent, just as good.
Hope the back heals up. https://t.co/dfwkKVlyR4
— ᵂⁱˡˡ ᴼˢᵖʳᵉᵃʸ • ウィル・オスプレイ (@WillOspreay) June 25, 2019
More important fact Baron Corbin has wrestled more matches in 2019 THAN Will Ospreay.
Another fact I don't actually know who you are I just wanted to be apart of the convo. https://t.co/GE2ZVKCbg5 pic.twitter.com/koiNEf1ljO
— Baron Corbin (@BaronCorbinWWE) June 25, 2019
No wonder Raw sucks. https://t.co/WwBqvSpwdF
— ᵂⁱˡˡ ᴼˢᵖʳᵉᵃʸ • ウィル・オスプレイ (@WillOspreay) June 25, 2019
Umm…. He's actually taller and bigger than you. Just sayin. #devilsadvocate https://t.co/IMKdSwz8kM
— Chris Jericho (@IAmJericho) June 25, 2019
Seth Rollins SI.com Interview
Seth Rollins then took part in an interview with SI.com which was published today. He spoke about comments Jon Moxley made on Talk is Jericho and other comments made by WWE critics as of late.
"Ambrose can do what he wants. He's a big boy. He's got his big boy pants on, he can go out there and say whatever he wants, but the bottom line is not everyone is equipped to handle the riggers of the WWE and the schedule and how it affects you mentally and emotionally," Rollins continued. "Ambrose gave everything he had to the company for the entire time he was here. He put his heart and soul into the travel and the schedule and the injuries and the work in the ring and all that stuff, but at the end of the day, he took his ball and he went home or he went elsewhere, at least."
Will Ospreay on Wrestling Observer Radio
Ospreay was then on Wrestling Observer Radio (taped last night, published today).
"I don't care about being the best in the world, I just care about doing the best of my abilities," Ospreay said when asked if he thought he was the best wrestler in the world. "If you ask me my genuine opinion who the best wrestler in the world is, I genuinely think it's a toss-up between Okada and AJ Styles."
"There is a list of guys that you could probably call the best in the world," Ospreay said.
"I just want to wrestle and I want to prove that I do belong there in that list of guys," he concluded.
On the G1:
"This is going to be different for me but I'm willing to take the challenge," Ospreay said regarding entering the G1. "I'm excited, I'm actually looking forward to getting in the ring with some of these guys."
Smackdown Tonight
WWE Smackdown/205 Live
June 25th, 2019
Moda Center
Portland, Oregon
- How will Kofi Kingston respond to Samoa Joe's attack?
- Who will Bayley's next challenger be?
- No announced matches.
205 Live:
- No announced matches but Drew Gulak will seemingly be on the show.
Abby The Witch and Mercy the Buzzard Appear on RAW Last Night
Abby the Witch and Mercy the Buzzard briefly appeared in the background of 2 RAW scenes last night:
Bray Wyatt also posted the following on Twitter today:
This year I'm gonna finish everything I started so long ago.
It's me.
It's always been me.
Yowie Wowie to the people
— Bray Wyatt (@WWEBrayWyatt) June 25, 2019
Eli Drake – Chris Van Vliet Interview
Eli Drake sat down with Chris Van Vliet in a recently published interview. You can watch the interview in its entirety in the player below, or read the highlights below that.
On his departure from Impact Wrestling:
Back in January, I basically just let them know like 'hey, I'm not intending to stay this year.' I kind of let them know my intentions that I wasn't planning to stay this year. I really thought about it last year and I almost left. I know they thought I was leaving, I thought I was leaving at one point and I ultimately decided to stay. I kind of came to the decision that there are a lot of options now. I wasn't happy with how the first half of the last year went for me but I will say, the last part of the year was a lot of fun. Even though it was Ellsworth or whatever. Just doing what we did in New York, that play I had with the audience there and with him. It was so much fun. From then on it was a great time.
Drake addressed the issues he had with the intergender match with Tessa Blanchard:
So they announced the match and I had no prior knowledge of it. Nobody had said anything. I find out about it on Twitter. That's not terribly abnormal, I don't think. I think that it's a more special situation though only because I know that somebody else had already turned that match down because of his own discomfort with it. I understand that they have pressure to announce events and get it out there. I completely understand that. I completely empathize with that … When I saw the announcement, I immediately emailed the necessary outlets and said 'hey guys, I'm not comfortable doing this. I will wrestle anybody else on the roster, I'm just not very comfortable doing an intergender match.' … I have amazing respect for Tessa Blanchard. I've told many people that she is easily the best female wrestler in the world. She's so intense with everything she does and her facials and moves.
On the 12-month non-compete that Impact was going to enforce:
I don't think that Ed Nordholm actually truly intended to uphold that. I only say that because he and I never had any kind of issues. Never had a cross word. We were always very cordial. I would almost say downright friendly in our interactions. I think it was just a matter of communications from other upper voices, so to speak. Who knows?
Has he heard from WWE?
I have friends there that I talk to but there haven't been any formal offers made or anything. They're probably sick of me by this point. We talked for the last 3 years and they made me some offers but the offer to stay at Impact was just better.


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Lexical Complexities In The St. Louis Dialect Island, 2020 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Lexical Complexities In The St. Louis Dialect Island, Larry Lafond, Kenneth Moffett
SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
The Greater St. Louis "dialect island" poses interesting problems for dialect documentation, partly because Greater St. Louis is a transitional area where many overlapping linguistic influences have left their mark, and also because is an area with new immigrant communities, racial divides, and an aging population.Using a sample from survey and interview data from 815 participants over a seven-year period, we examine lexical diversity in Greater St. Louis, comprising counties both in Missouri and Illinois. We discover that both age and place are robust indicators of lexical selection in Southern Illinois and St. Louis. Our findings provide a concurring ...
Building An Effective Learning Environment For Chinese Language Learners, 2019 Utah State University
Building An Effective Learning Environment For Chinese Language Learners, Wen-Yu Chang
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports
This portfolio is a compilation of papers that the author originally wrote during her study in the program of Master of Second Language Teaching at Utah State University. While pursuing the Master's degree, the author also served as an instructor, teaching assistant, and research assistant in the Chinese program. Thus, this work is framed by the author's personal reflection accumulated from her day-to-day teaching experiences and class observations.
The portfolio consists of three major sections: (1) teaching perspectives, (2) research perspectives, and (3) an annotated bibliography. With the aim to identify the elements of an effective and communicative ...
Imitation And Creation: Bing Xin'S Fanxing (A Maze Of Stars) 繁星And Chunshui (Spring Water) 春水, 2019 Butler University
Imitation And Creation: Bing Xin'S Fanxing (A Maze Of Stars) 繁星And Chunshui (Spring Water) 春水, Xiaoqing Liu
Xiaoqing Liu
Fanxing (A Maze of Stars) and Chunshui (Spring Water) are two poetry collections of modern Chinese woman writer Bing Xin (1900–1999). Because they stand at the beginning of a new genre, xiaoshi (short poetry), and are commonly regarded as representative works of this genre, people use the epithets "Bing Xin style," "Fanxing style," or "Chunshui style" to refer to xiaoshi writing. Nevertheless, viewed from their intimate relationship with Rabindranath Tagore's Stray Birds, I argue that Fanxing and Chunshui are products of both imitation and creation. Imitation is not plagiarism. Dryden defines imitation as a form of translation, which ...
Wounds, Remembrance, Sutures: Performing Existence In Times Of Gore Capitalism, 2019 University of Dayton
Wounds, Remembrance, Sutures: Performing Existence In Times Of Gore Capitalism, Christina Baker
Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights
Since 2006, the initiation of Mexico's "War on Drugs," the nation has experienced horrific violence despite increased militarization of its streets. As cartels have deepened their networks, controlling the northern border states and beyond, (random) acts of violence have become an endemic crisis. In this Mexico, one where a new daily vernacular constantly evolves to articulate brutal acts and the state has routinely espoused a rhetoric of ignorance, performer-activists have turned to creative initiatives to combat efforts that invisibilize and derealize victims. From her work, Gore Capitalism, in which she explores the human body as commodity and casualty in ...
Petro-Texts, Plants, And People In The Anthropocene: The Dark Green, 2019 Trinity University
Petro-Texts, Plants, And People In The Anthropocene: The Dark Green, Heather I. Sullivan
Heather I Sullivan
The 'dark green' refers to the green plant-human relationships that undergird human cultures as well as the darkly petroleum-fueled industrialization, mass species extinctions, and strange new ecosystems in the Anthropocene. I consider briefly three petro-culture novels based on various 'road trips' that explicitly address both the long-term and massive, albeit oft-ignored, ecological power of plants whether in living vegetal form or in their rotted, processed form of petroleum products: Frank Herbert's Dune, portraying worm 'spice' as a stand-in for oil; Cormac McCarthy's The Road, eliminating all energy and plant life leaving only hungry humans; and Paolo Bacigalupi's ...
Still Writing At The Master'S Table: Decolonizing Rhetoric In Legal Writing For A "Woke" Legal Academy, 2019 Mercer University
Still Writing At The Master'S Table: Decolonizing Rhetoric In Legal Writing For A "Woke" Legal Academy, Teri A. Mcmurtry-Chubb
The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice
When the author wrote Writing At the Master's Table: Reflections on Theft, Criminality, and Otherness in the Legal Writing Profession almost 10 years ago, her aim was to bring a Critical Race Theory/Feminism (CRTF) analysis to scholarship about the marginalization of White women law professors of legal writing. She focused on the convergence of race, gender, and status to highlight the distinct inequities women of color face in entering their ranks. The author's concern was that barriers to entry for women of color made it less likely that the existing legal writing professorate, predominantly White and female ...
Optimizing L2 Vocabulary Acquisition: Applied Linguistic Research, 2019 Purdue University
Optimizing L2 Vocabulary Acquisition: Applied Linguistic Research, George H. Borawski
Purdue Linguistics, Literature, and Second Language Studies Conference
Any acquisition in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) starts as word recognition; as such vocabulary acquisition is integral to language learning as a whole and is a precursor to fluent communication (Ellis, 1996; Moore, 1996). To maximize SLA, vocabulary acquisition must be optimized. However, vocabulary acquisition is understudied and underutilized, especially compared to other aspects of SLA (Paribakht & Wesche, 1997). Cook states, "…the vast bulk of examinations, syllabuses, and course books around the globe show little overt influence from SLA research" (1998, p.10). Courses, teachers, and students would benefit from directly addressing SLA research, rather than utilize inefficient methods (Cook, 1998; Moore, 1996). Problematic course books influence thousands of teachers and a multitude of students (Cook, 1998); this costs educational institutions billions of dollars globally. Prioritizing sound pedagogy when designing courses would alleviate the problems of inefficient acquisition in SLA and the financial cost ...
Exploring The Emotional Language In The Twilight Novel As A Literary Discourse: An Appraisal Theory Analysis, 2019 Purdue University
Exploring The Emotional Language In The Twilight Novel As A Literary Discourse: An Appraisal Theory Analysis, Susan Ataei
Purdue Linguistics, Literature, and Second Language Studies Conference
Emotions have always been a mysterious realm of human beings gaining an understanding of which requires the collaboration of scholars from multiple disciplines. This study employed the Appraisal Theory (Martin & White, 2005) of evaluations and emotions to explore the manifestation of emotions in a popular modern prose fiction, the first book of the twilight series by Stephenie Meyer (2009) - Twilight. The objective of the study was to gain a deep understanding of how a bestselling literary prose fiction, Twilight, employs human emotions, and thus "affect", to impose its "effect" on the reader. I applied the affect sub-system of the attitude ...
"A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words, And So Is An Emojis 🙂" Emojisfication Of Language: A Pragmatic Analysis Of Facebook Discourse, 2019 Purdue University
"A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words, And So Is An Emojis 🙂" Emojisfication Of Language: A Pragmatic Analysis Of Facebook Discourse, Alienna Kazmi, Arooj Rana, Uzma Anjum, Madiha Khan
Purdue Linguistics, Literature, and Second Language Studies Conference
This research study aims to examine language change occurring in written discourse due to increase in the usage of emojis and the way emojis, in comparison to words, are performing communicative functions on social media platforms such as Facebook. The study focused on Pakistani Facebook users. For the study, Facebook is one of the most authentic social media platforms because 71.75 % (Internet Word Stat) of Pakistani internet users use Facebook which is the highest statistics among all social media applications. In order to investigate the recent language change and communicative functions performed by emojis, we utilized Speech act theory ...
Linguistic Ideologies In The Performance Of Bulgarian Identity, 2019 Purdue University
Linguistic Ideologies In The Performance Of Bulgarian Identity, Chelsey Norman
Purdue Linguistics, Literature, and Second Language Studies Conference
Since the end of Communism in 1989 and joining the European Union in 2007, Bulgarians have experienced much greater mobility and access to the global community. Despite this more global perspective, Bulgarians maintain a strong sense of national identity. Given this interplay between global and national identities, Bulgaria is an apt location to conduct this ideological research. Using a combination of ethnographic observations (June-July 2018) and semi-structured interviews with bilingual Bulgarians in Sofia, this study examines how large-scale phenomena like nationalism and globalization are found in the micro-scale interactional construction of identity. Results show that a great deal of ideological ...
The Acquisition Of Diminutives In Moroccan Heritage Speakers In France, 2019 Purdue University
The Acquisition Of Diminutives In Moroccan Heritage Speakers In France, Amal El Haimeur
Purdue Linguistics, Literature, and Second Language Studies Conference
This study addresses the acquisition of diminutive forms by Moroccan heritage speakers in France. Diminutive formation depends on stem modification. 15 Moroccan-French participants took part in this study. In a production experiment, participants were asked to form diminutives for 6 types of stems, since the stem type determines the diminutive pattern. The findings of this study show that the mean percentage of source-like use of the diminutive forms is 38%. The results revealed that just two patterns that were acquired by a significant number of participants: CCiCa and CCiCjCjəC. Diminutive forms that do not require complex processes are acquired by ...
Ellipsis In Iraqi Arabic: An Analysis Of Gapping, Sluicing, And Stripping, 2019 Purdue University
Ellipsis In Iraqi Arabic: An Analysis Of Gapping, Sluicing, And Stripping, Saja Albuarabi
Purdue Linguistics, Literature, and Second Language Studies Conference
The purpose of this paper is to explore the syntax of ellipsis in Iraqi Arabic. The paper sheds light on three types of ellipsis in Arabic and English, namely: sluicing, gapping, and stripping and puts each of them in a comparison between Iraqi Arabic and English languages in addition to Arabic dialects. To the best of my knowledge, these elliptical structures have not been studied in Iraqi Arabic before. Therefore, this study offers the first description of these phenomena from a generative standpoint. The paper argues that the three types of ellipsis mentioned above can be the result of Phonological ...
Span 380: Cultural Productions Of The Borderlands, 2019 Kenyon College
Span 380: Cultural Productions Of The Borderlands, Clara Roman-Odio
Clara Roman-Odio
No abstract provided.
Walking In Ameno, 2019 College of William and Mary
Walking In Ameno, Monica Seger
Monica Seger
No abstract provided.
The Unknown New Wave: Soviet Cinema Of The Sexties, 2019 College of William & Mary
The Unknown New Wave: Soviet Cinema Of The Sexties, Alexander V. Prokhorov
Alexander Prokhorov
No abstract provided.
Infidelity As Reality: Re-Staging The Global South With Abbas Kiarostami'S Close-Up, 2019 University of Oxford/ École normale supérieure
Infidelity As Reality: Re-Staging The Global South With Abbas Kiarostami'S Close-Up, Sinan Richards
Artl@s Bulletin
In this article, we contend that, in the fields of art and visual culture, the Global South is both an elaborate lie and a radical opportunity for transformation. We investigate Kiarostami's Close-up alongside Lacan's psychoanalysis to show how Close-up's filmic narrative evokes the same 'polyvalence' and 'slipperiness' as the notion of the Global South. We argue that Kiarostami's Close-up retroactively changed Sabzian's fate, and in so doing, Kiarostami's re-staging actively overwrites History itself. We read the same narrative move in the concept of the Global South to suggest that the Global South adopts the ...
The Ends Of Plot: Rupture And Entanglement In L'Amica Geniale, 2019 The Graduate Center, City University of New York
The Ends Of Plot: Rupture And Entanglement In L'Amica Geniale, Victor X. Zarour Zarzar
All Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation employs narrative theory to contextualize Elena Ferrante's successful saga, L'amica geniale, within the larger tapestry of European novelistic discourses. It engages with conceptions of narrative structure put forth by critics like Ortega y Gasset, Brooks, and Winnett to understand how L'amica geniale offers cutting commentary on our exegetic practices and advances a geometry of narrative entanglement. I contend that Ferrante recuperates and italicizes nineteenth-century modes of storytelling, displaying a form of epistemological tension rooted in a movement away from a belief in plot's semantic potentialities and into the postulation of a poetics of smarginatura ...
Prominence In Singapore And American English: Evidence From Reading Aloud, 2019 Iowa State University
Prominence In Singapore And American English: Evidence From Reading Aloud, John M. Levis
John Levis
English has spread far beyond the boundaries of the traditional L1 varieties (eg British, American, Australian English). Not only is English a leading foreign language throughout the world, it is also a central language for many multilingual communities throughout the world. The speakers of these new Englishes are not yet fully seen as 'native speakers' by many speakers from the traditional L1 varieties but cannot be called 'non‐native speakers' in any meaningful sense of the word. Kachru (1990) calls these new varieties 'outer circle' Englishes, a contrast to the 'inner circle' native speaker varieties and the 'expanding circle' foreign ...
Untitled: Deconstruction And Reconstruction Of Identity In Le Chevalier De La Charrette And The Romance Of Tristran, 2019 University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Untitled: Deconstruction And Reconstruction Of Identity In Le Chevalier De La Charrette And The Romance Of Tristran, Devin Louise Moulton
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Questions of identity are a central source of tension within the genre of the chivalric romances. Even among the large collective that is King Arthur's court, innumerable romances recount the tales of individual knights in search of individual glory and of some way to distinguish their names among the masses of the court and the group of knights across chivalric traditions while simultaneously bound by the confines of that same group and its structures. For most, such a feat is impossible and many knights, though they may earn a name in the course of a single romance, never truly ...
Guiding Language Students To Self-Sustained Learning, 2019 Utah State University
Guiding Language Students To Self-Sustained Learning, Hyrum Boone Checketts
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This portfolio is a compilation of written pieces which express the author's beliefs about excellence in second language teaching. The views expressed here have been shaped by the author's personal experience and by his time in the Master of Second Language Teaching (MSLT) program and are supported by relevant research throughout.
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