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Students may declare the major in Communication at any time.
To remain in the major, students must earn a grade of B or higher in at least two of three introductory communication core courses (COMM 101, COMM 102, COMM 103) and subsequently maintain a minimum major GPA of 2.5 throughout the course of the major.
Students who fail to earn a grade of B or higher in at least two of the three introductory communication core courses will be dropped from the major.
Students who make this requirement but subsequently fail to maintain a minimum major GPA of 2.5 will be placed on probation. If, after one probationary semester, the student has not increased the major GPA to a minimum of 2.5, the student will be dropped from the major.
All notifications will be made through UIC email.
To declare communication as either a major or a minor, students should declare in the LAS Social Sciences Advising located in University Hall on the third floor.
Upon meeting and maintaining these performance standards and declaring the major, students should schedule an appointment with Christina Zimmerman for internship, career, or graduate school advice.
Each semester, some COMM classes at the 200 level and above require department or course of study approval before registration. Note: Approvals are subject to course prerequisites, department policies and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences polices. Receiving department approval does not guarantee a seat in the course. For general advising students should make an appointment with LAS Advising once a year in 809 UH. In addition, LAS Advising can assist students with declaring the major, minor and planning an appropriate course of study toward gradation with a major in Communciaton. Interested students should schedule an appointment with an LAS Academic Advisor who specializes in Communication. Students can
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The Department Advisor, Christina Zimmerman, is available by appointment only to discuss internships, career advising, and graduate school application/preparation. Please call (312) 996-3187 to schedule an appointment.
Each semester, Communication faculty post and hold regular office hours. They are also available for informal advising by appointment about:
The Communication major emphasizes communication theory and research. Students have the opportunity to develop analytical skills that will render them more critical consumers of media. Potential majors should note that the program does not focus on production.
The Communication program has among the highest admissions standards of any program in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (LAS).


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How do we educate our children to take their place in the economies given that we cant anticipate how the economy is going to look next week? We are trying to meet the future by doing what they did in the past. We are alienating our kids by using this ancient education system built for the industrial revolution. Public education was a revolutionary idea. It was driven by an economic imperative at the time. Real intelligence consists nothing of academic activity! Many brilliant children think they are not because they are being judged by this model. They suffer the modern epidemic – ADHD! These kids are being medicated as routinely as we have our tonsils taken out. Our children are being bombarded with information from computers, from iphones from advertising from hundreds of tv channels. They are getting distracted from what? BORING stuff – school! These kids are being given drugs to get them to concentrate! What is going on????!?!?! This is a fictitious epidemic. We need change. We shouldn't be putting our children to sleep to get them through the education. We should be waking them up to what is inside of themselves.
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I just finished reading this articleover at Yahoo! Finance that the FOMC has moved to increase both the frequency and long-term outlook of the Fed's publicly released economic forecasts. All this, Chairman Bernanke says, will make it easier for the Fed to do its job by increasing the lines of communication between the central bank, investors, and consumers.
So to a certain extent I can buy that greater transparency on the part of the Fed is good. When markets are able to make more reliable predictions of interest rate activity, firms and consumers can adjust their investment and spending decisions accordingly. This will decrease the intensity of a policy shock on the economy, insofar as the latter can impose growth-mitigating volatility on the economy. It should also increase accountability, which I'm sure makes some people quite happy.
However, I think there are some important drawbacks to still greater transparency on the part of the monetary authority. For one thing, when the Fed does not act as expected, the adjustments that markets will make will be far more drastic as participants – firms and governments (both international and domestic) and consumers – will have likely developed more unflexible forecasts – explicit or implicit – of interest rates; that is, greater transparency may reduce the flexibility of market participants thereby creating the risk of high degrees of volatility when the Fed does not act as suspected.
The other problem, which I think is less understood and perhaps therefore more insidious, is that as the Fed increases transparency it risks its position a source of nominal changes in the economy and instead becomes nothing more than an instrumental variable in market decisions. In econometric-speak, Fed actions may lose their causal link to economic activity and instead become only highly correlated with it. To the extent then that households now rely, with justification, on changes in Fed policy to make investment and spending decisions, they will become unmoored from this bastion of economic stabilization. Might the federal funds rate go the way of the yield curve as those who have come to rely on it to make safe bets on the economy will at some point in the future find themselves suffering huge losses due to their suddenly-unfounded faith? I think it's possible.
Greater transparency is a victory for the free-marketeers at Cato (which is where, incidentally, Bernanke announced this decision), but it may have unintended consequences the magnitude of which we can only begin to guesstimate. One I can think of off the bat is that more impetus may fall on government to affect the economy through fiscal policy. That's not going to make Cato, Bernanke, or any other free-market advocate, very happy.


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2018 Distribution Calendar & Brand Updates
TAMPA, FL – Cigar City Brewing Company Unveils Refreshed Logo Set & 2018 Distribution Calendar
After months of collaboration with North Carolina agency The Brandit, Cigar City Brewing begins the rollout of their refreshed identity system today beginning with their social media and ecommerce platforms.
Crafted to celebrate and modernize their previous mark, the new logo will begin being seen in the marketplace in coming weeks and can be found on their latest 22 oz. release, Café con Leche. The full identity system can be viewed at BrandFolder.com/CigarCity
The new identity system launch is one of the multiple exciting developments slated for Cigar City Brewing in the coming months. Other exciting changes can be seen on their 2018 Distribution Calendar, which includes the addition of a new year-round beer, Guayabera Citra Pale Ale.
The calendar includes Cores, Special Releases, and a Nitro Series, poised to hit CCB's entire distribution footprint.
Cigar City Brewing is excited to introduce its 2017 Distribution Portfolio filled with CCB fan favorites and exciting new additions. The calendar includes: Cores, a Nitro Series, and Special Releases poised to hit CCB's entire distribution footprint. This new line-up launches in January with the Nitro Series release of El Coco Coconut Flan Ale and the Special Series release of White Oak Jai Alai.
Cigar City Brewing's beer, including award-winning Jai Alai IPA, is now available in ten states encompassing Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Colorado. Cigar City Brewing's ales and lagers are also exported to Denmark.
Cigar City Brewing's Amended 2018 Distribution Portfolio
Jai Alai IPA [Year-Round]
Maduro Brown Ale [Year-Round]
Invasion Tropical Pale Ale [Year-Round]
Florida Cracker Belgian-style White Ale [Year-Round]
Tampa-style Lager [Year-Round]
Guayabera Citra Pale Ale [Year-Round]
Tocobaga Red India Pale Ale [Year-Round in the Southeastern US]
Nitro Series:
Porter [January & February]
Minaret English Pub Ale [March & April]
Invasion Tropical Pale Ale [May & June]
Xenu Honey Cream Ale [July & August]
Maduro Brown Ale [September & October]
Cafe Con Leche Sweet Stout [November & December]
Special Releases:
White Oak Jai Alai [January, February, March, July, August & September]
Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Brown Ale [April, May & June]
Cubano Espresso-style Brown Ale [October, November & December]
Summer Beer [June & July]
Oktoberfest [August]
Good Gourd Imperial Pumpkin Ale [September]
Marshal Zhukov's Imperial Stout [November]
Cigar City Brewing's beer, including award-winning Jai Alai IPA, is now available in twelve states encompassing Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Colorado and Utah. Cigar City Brewing's ales and lagers are also exported to Denmark.
Visit Cigar City Brewing's website [www.cigarcitybrewing.com] for full beer information and to find CCB beer closest to you.
About Cigar City Brewing:
Cigar City Brewing, makers of Jai Alai and Hunahpu's Imperial Stout, was founded in 2009 by Joey Redner with the goal of creating quality beer that reflected the flavors and history of the Tampa region. This unique perspective resonated with local and national markets and the brewery has quickly grown from 1,000 barrels of beer in 2009 to 65,000 barrels produced in 2016. The 2016 partnership with Oskar Blues of Lyons, Colorado ushered in a new era of growth for this Florida-based organization, with new markets and technologies on the horizon.


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Students, educators laud SRU's online masters' degree programs
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. - Nick DeWitt, a student in the Slippery Rock University online master's degree program in history who teaches civics in Brookville, wasn't surprised to learn SRU's online graduate history program has been named fourth best in the nation in the 2015 Best Online Master's Program by OnlineMastersPrograms.org.
SRU's criminal justice and special education programs were also ranked nationally.
"The history program is good because of the people and because they've worked hard to create an online environment that still allows for the same kind of debate and discussion that is key to historical study," DeWitt said. "The professors are some of the most knowledgeable historians I've know and some of the finest educators I've worked with."
The online group ranked SRU's masters in criminal justice as the 10th best in the country and online masters in special education as 11th best.
SRU is one of five Pennsylvania schools to receive multiple awards.
OnlineMastersProgram.org used government and intuitional data to evaluate thousands of online graduate programs in a wide range of fields. SRU's offers 30 graduate and two doctorate programs, with 25 offered online.
The ranking organization said SRU excels at showing dedication to online education, a
commitment to graduate-level education and provides academic and career services. It applauded SRU's Desire2Learn course management system that connects students to discussion boards, class syllabi and educational multimedia.
"I was excited and proud to learn that SRU's graduate online programs in criminal justice, history, and special education were recognized by onlinemastersprograms.org as among the nation's best, but not surprised. SRU's graduate programs offer high-quality education and our faculty are dedicated to helping students and committed to teaching excellence," said Brandi Weber-Mortimer, SRU director of graduate admissions.
DeWitt, who teaches seven classes of eighth grade civics at Brookville Area Junior-Senior High School, described SRU's history curriculum as engaging, interesting and educational. He said the education has made him a better teacher.
"It is everything an online program should be because it still retains the interaction of a regular class while allowing me to work from home largely at times of day that fit my schedule," he said. The other thing that makes this program exceptional is that the faculty and the department are constantly asking for and utilizing feedback, both to improve courses on the fly and to make the program more acceptable to specific needs."
DeWitt said he plans to pursue a doctorate in history so that he can teach history and conduct Civil War research.
The ranking organization ranked 22 history programs in the nation, noting SRU's 30-credit, master of arts emphasizes world, European and U.S. history. The organization said masters-degree history graduates could find work as historians, government researchers, writers and editors, and in media and communication.
"The history department is very pleased that the quality of its online master's degree has been recognized," Lia Paradis, SRU associate professor of history and department chair, said. "Our graduate director, Dr. Paula Rieder, and all of the graduate faculty are dedicated to providing an online experience that encourages intellectual engagement. SRU's online history program was designed to help a wide variety of students pursue their educational goals. We're gratified that our program and two other programs at SRU have been noticed in this way."
Robert Imbrogno of Johnsonburg, said he enrolled in SRU's history program in the fall.
"SRU truly helps students with any needs or issues that may arise," he said. "Even though the courses are online, the course load is definitely graduate level work. And though the scholarly work is still graduate level work, having online courses allows for more freedom for work as well as time for studying, reading and writing.
"I am planning on working toward a doctorate in my life and feel the knowledge I am gaining and have already gained from SRU master's in history online degree program is preparing me to take on that monumental task," Imbrogno said.
The SRU criminology program was one of 49 cited. The ranking organization said SRU's program is organized, easy to access and comparable to on-campus programs.
SRU's master of arts in criminal justice is a 30-credit program that can be completed in 15 to 18 months. With thesis and non-thesis options, students study criminal justice theory and other topics pertaining to the field.
"We are pleased to be among the SRU online graduate programs to be recognized for this honor," said David Champion, SRU assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice. "Distance education provides its own challenges but also its own rewards for both our students and faculty. We strive to offer quality education in a flexible format to allow our students, many of whom work part-or full-time in the field, the tools and opportunities to enhance their careers and further their education at the graduate level.
Champion said department faculty work to provide online learning in a clear, rigorous, and student-centered manner, using the best practices from the evidence-based principles and standards of distance education and the criminal justice field.
Forty-five programs in the nation made the special education ranking. SRU's program received accolades for offering a master of education in special education with concentration of birth through eighth grade, grades 7-12 and autism. The 36-credit program emphasizes teaching children with disabilities age birth to grade eight in school environments. The program will be offered to students that already have an Instructional I or II Certification in special education, early childhood Education or elementary education from Pennsylvania or other states.
"Being named one of the top online master's programs in the country is quite an honor," said Joseph Merhaut, SRU associate professor of special education and department chair. "I owe this to our dedicated faculty who have worked endless hours to not only develop, but to continuously improve, the program. I would be remiss also if I did not mention the outstanding students we select and who participate in our programs. The vision of Dr. Dennis Fair, professor emeritus, is what led us to where we are today."
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World-renowned French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier is visiting South Korea for the first time to attend an exhibition in his honor opening in Seoul on Saturday.
The exhibition titled "The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier" took two years to prepare. It is a collaboration between the Gaultier house and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in Canada.
The exhibition has toured eleven cities in eight countries over the past five years, recording over two-point-two million visitors.
In a news conference Friday at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul where the exhibition is taking place, the French designer said that South Korea is full of energy, and added that he wants to encourage French people to visit Korea.
The exhibition will showcase 140 Gaultier garments displayed on mannequins, 72 two dimensional displays such as photos and eight objects.


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For many married couples in Massachusetts, it is difficult enough to make big decisions even when it is just the two of them. Adding children to the mix can create even more major decision-making. Whether it is about where they live, which school they attend and how to raise their children, these common decisions are complicated, especially when a couple divorces. Making big decisions about children and following a split can cause serious divorce issues for everyone involved.
A recent report discusses the impact of divorce on children. It was discovered that many parents and even children are in denial and hide the affects of the divorce process. Some parents might not even be aware of how their older children are taking the split. In fact, a recent survey reported that one in twenty children turn to drugs in order to cope with the divorce, even though parents are often unaware of the drug use.
Moreover, 10 percent of parents stated that they thought their children were hiding their true feelings about the divorce while in fact, 39 percent of the children polled in the study sated that their true feelings were left unspoken.
Various contributing factors cause the children to endure more stress than the parents imagine. This is often because of the disputes and ongoing spousal strife that the parents endure. Often the children, specifically the older ones, have to step up and feel forced to care for their parent during this time. Others feel pressured to go against one parent to benefit the other parent. In addition, some children feel that the divorce was their fault. Any and all of these factors could complicate the divorce process as well as cause further issues down the road.
Those dealing with divorce issues surrounding their children should understand that child custody and major decision-making could be completed amicably or with less adverse affects. If everyone comes together in a collaborative approach whenever it is practical to do so, the family could devise an agreement that is not only rational but could be beneficial. Those struggling with divorce issues should consider speaking with a family law attorney.
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DuckTales: Remastered
I never played the original back on the NES. Most of the "Disney Afternoon" games passed me by; the only one I actually managed to get my adolescent hands on was Chip 'n Dale's Rescue Rangers. So playing this game was less about rekindling my childhood, and more about seeing if the game itself was any good.
What this iteration had going for it was that it was a "shot for shot" remake of the original, all the items would be in the same places, all the maps were the same, enemies, that sort of thing. What was added was updated graphics reminiscent of the cartoon, as well as spoken dialog from the original cartoon's castmembers, and both a tutorial and new final level. The new version also bothered with adding a story to the game, giving actual reasons why Scrooge would be in the various levels and how connected they are with one another and other side characters (and villains). And there's Achievements now, because why not.
Anyway, the game is a pretty straightforward side-scrolling platformer where you generally Never Stop Pogoing Ever (except the last level), and it's pretty fun. There definitely was some nostalgia there hearing the voices from the cartoon, but Scrooge was the one doing most of the talking, so if he wasn't your favorite character, then you didn't get much. Regardless though, I enjoyed playing it (unless I was getting frustrated with something specific like the endgame boss), but I think it works in limited doses better than trying to barrel through the game in one fell swoop.
So yeah, pick it up if you haven't yet, and if you have, play it already. And ignore the Achievements, those are silly.
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Should you invest or put it in your mortgage?
My husband and I are looking for a house, instead of using our current home sales as a down payment, and we're thinking about investing. Or would it be wiser to use our extra cash to lower our new mortgage? It is worth noting that we are relatively young (considered millennials). This will make our economy better: invest in excess cash or put it into houses, mortgage balances low and interest savings?
Most of us think that if you have some cash savings and you want to buy a family, you should always keep the cash on your down payment to reduce the loan, right?
Many traditional financial experts, such as Dave Ramsey, have pushed for the elimination of debt as the quickest and safest way of financial freedom. After all, without debt, you are free to take your money, but the job you want. Avoid at all costs, however, the debt of a single key may not be suitable for all people, especially young millennials, they can benefit from into the house, at the same time can also establish a retirement portfolio.
When you are on the whole to consider your financial situation, consider short-term advantages that the loan will not be repaid (cash) and in other ways to use the long-term advantages may be more meaningful investment funds it more than you can actually save interest).
If you are buying a home, consider several issues when deciding how to deal with "extra" cash. At first glance, the obvious answer is to pay off as much of the mortgage as possible. But first, ask yourself a few questions:
Can you put more money away?
'answering this question really depends on you,' says Kyle Tank, 24, a financial adviser at Ameriprise financial services in Troy, mich. For example, compare how much money you spend on the entire life cycle of your loan (based on the speed you plan to pay) and the average return on market investment.
The tank adds that paying your debts in your home may have other economic advantages, especially if you consider tax breaks and interest rates.
"Mortgage rates tend to be more reasonable than other types of credit and may be deducted," the tank explained. In other words, it's better to take out a mortgage and have extra cash on hand instead of putting too much money on your house and eventually settling your balance on your credit card. Mortgage rates are significantly cheaper than credit card rates. In addition, in addition to tax advantages, housing is a value-added asset.
What kind of return can I get on my investment?
There are great advantages to being young here. If you are looking for a house, the millennial generation not only do you have time to repay your mortgage loan (currently at historically low levels), and your house will also have plenty of time. At the same time, you can increase your wealth through an investment account.
In addition, if you put money into the market at a young age, these investments have a lot of time to develop into a fairly large nest egg. Another thing to consider is that you don't have to choose high-risk stocks like older investors because the investment growth is short.
"Millennials are likely to start investing because they have time," the tank commented. "The sooner you start investing, the sooner you start using compound interest."
For financial coach Juliana Valverde, there is no question what route is best for a young millennial to invest in retirement. She points out that the benefits of compound interest should not be underestimated and far exceed the debt of mortgage loans.
She explained: "if you delay the pension investment, until your mortgage payments, you will lose valuable time, you will not be able to make up – even though increased contributions to your retirement account."
Although millennials have time, investment does not deliver guaranteed returns. As the tank points out, your return on investment will depend on market conditions, risk tolerance and financial conditions. A 30-year-old couple living in the country with several children will have different needs and different results than a 30-year-old professional in the city plans to remain single.
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Mark's retirement savings employer matches.
If you meet the criteria, or accumulate other tax deferred savings in your 401 (k), IRA, 529 college savings, then contribute to your Roth IRA.
From there, ford pointed out that deciding how to deal with excess cash flow depended on personal goals and tolerable debt. "Before I save to a joint brokerage account, I often tend to take on additional mortgages," she says. "Even with cheap loans, faster repayment of debt creates more opportunities and flexibility for customers. This is a guaranteed return compared to the unpredictability of market returns. "
Can you separate the differences?
If you are still unsure, consider compromise. Can you invest in some cash flow and pay extra for your loan? Can you fill an emergency fund with your savings?
According to the type of mortgage you get, you probably don't have to invest more funds according to their own idea, and the remaining cash investment rather than automatically converts it to a mortgage may be meaningful. Talking to a financial adviser, he can help you figure out what you can expect to earn, not the interest you save.
Options are always good, and in this case, more options at your fingertips may end up costing you more in your pocket.


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Five Privilege Pitfalls Employees and In-House Counsel Should AVOID
The attorney-client privilege continues to cause issues for in-house counsel who frequently play different roles at different times, and for employees involved in legal communications. The basic elements of the privilege are equally applicable to individual clients as they are to corporate clients, but tend to be far more problematic in the corporate setting.
The basic elements of the privilege include:
A confidential communication between a lawyer and a client,
Related to legal advice, or with the expectation of legal advice,
Without waiving the privilege.
Counsel must consider whether those basic elements have been met for each communication.
Whether a particular communication is protected by the privilege depends, in part, on the role in-house counsel is playing at the time they are engaged in the communication. In the simplest context, when in-house counsel wears their "legal hat" and provides clear legal advice, the likelihood a communication will be deemed privileged is high. But often in-house counsel serve as business advisors as well. When in-house counsel provides business advice, as opposed to legal advice, communications with others within the business is far less likely to be considered privileged. Complicating matters further, in-house counsel often serves as both a business and a legal advisor simultaneously. In such situations, sending an email to multiple recipients about issues that involve both legal and business advice, as but one example, may not be deemed privileged.
It is also important to train employees to ensure that privileged communications remain protected. In the age of email and electronic information exchange, the privilege is easily waived. For example, an employee may waive the privilege by forwarding a privileged communication to recipients whose duties are not impacted by the legal advice and/or are not within the protection of the privilege. Then there are employees who wrongly assume that if they label something "privileged," it will automatically become or remain privileged.
Here is a list of five privilege pitfalls that employees and in-house counsel should remember:
If you do not involve legal counsel on a legal issue, asserting a claim of privilege later will be virtually impossible.
Being Loose Lipped! Discussing privileged communications with someone outside the protections of the privilege – including other coworkers – can waive the privilege.
Assuming that if Legal Counsel is copied on the email, the communication will be privileged. It is not that simple: the communication must involve legal advice or pending or threatened litigation.
Labeling everything with the header or footer "Privileged & Confidential," even when it should not be, undermines the credibility and jeopardizes the treatment of communications that should be privileged.
E-carelessness! Too often a privileged communication is waived when an email is sent to individuals who are not directly involved or impacted by the legal advice. Or if legal advice is provided in a Reply All to more individuals than should be included.
The overall rule is that attorney thoughts and analysis are protected, but not when they are shared improperly. Remind employees that sharing legal advice with third parties ("our lawyers don't think your non-compete is enforceable….") or attributing business decisions to the legal team ("we hate to do this, but we talked to legal and we have to let you go…") may jeopardize attorney work product that would otherwise be protected by the attorney-client privilege.


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Here's a nice piece of work! How about showing this to the entire general public for a change.
The zionist lie machine, Times of Israel, has been caught in the act of trying to erase all traces that could lead awake citizens to uncover that indeed there was foreknowledge in the ranks of the zionists about their own Paris false flag attacks that were not carried out by ISIS.
Times of Israel, November 14, 2015:
"Just Friday morning [the day of the attacks], security officials in France's Jewish community were informed of the very real possibility of an impending large terrorist attack in the country, according to Jonathan-Simon Sellem, a freelance journalist and a representative of French citizens in Israel."
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So Where Has Nate Been?
Sometimes, I go through writer's block and nothing in the news catches my ire enough to inspire me to produce a new blog post. In general though, I figure I'm good for 5 a week. That number has fallen well off despite this being a banner week for stupid people doing stupid things. So what gives? What's so important. The only answer I can give is to go to my other blog. Things should return to normal by Saturday. Please keep visiting. I still read the responses.
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Issue 53 (2016)
Aleksandr Kott: Insight (2015)
reviewed by José Alaniz© 2016
As demonstrated by the recent dust-up in the US and UK over Me Before You (dir. Thea Sharrock, UK, 2016), the representation of people with disabilities may be entering a new, post-ableist phase in 21st-century global cinema. (And none too soon.) The film, a tearjerker about a quadriplegic man romancing his caregiver, then choosing to end his life rather than "burden" her, sparked protests on both sides of the Atlantic from Disability Rights groups such as Not Dead Yet. Their main issue with the movie: what they consider its unexamined assumption that a disabled life is not worth living (Quinn 2016).
Not all those protesting have disabilities. The last decade has brought a remarkable development: as the disabled's profile in Western society grows, the brand of critique they've long leveled at Hollywood ventures beyond their community and into the wider culture. It's not just that messages like that of Me Before You seem increasingly offensive, not unlike those of Million Dollar Baby (dir. Clint Eastwood, USA, 2004): it's better to commit assisted suicide than continue on as a quadriplegic; Rain Man (directed by Barry Levinson, USA, 1988): autistics are adorable savants who cannot live independently; and Scent of a Woman (dir. Martin Brest, USA, 1992): the blind loathe themselves and are hell-bent on self-slaughter, until saved by a well-meaning assistant. Beyond the egregiously inaccurate and dehumanizing portraits, all of these disability-themed films feature able-bodied actors in disabled roles—an utter and absolute marginalization of actual disabled people from the field of representation.[1] As Martin Norden concludes in his book Cinema of Isolation, "[t]he history of physical disability images in the movies has mostly been a history of distortion in the name of maintaining an ableist society" (Norden 1994: 314). But as the furor over Me Before You shows, we may look back on this era as the breakthrough moment when mainstream acceptance of such depictions started giving way to more inclusive and collaborative visions. (Hit Western television series of the last few years, including Breaking Bad, American Horror Story: Freakshow and Game of Thrones all feature disabled characters in disabled roles.)
If all that comes to pass, viewers of the future (to say nothing of cinema historians, Slavists and Disability Studies scholars) will most likely remember Insight, a film released in Russia in 2015, as a particularly blatant, retrograde vestige of the past. Indeed, what other than "retrograde" can we call a film in which a man goes blind, falls in love with his nurse, gets tricked by her into believing they have gotten married and honeymooned in Moscow after traveling there by train from their provincial town, then finds himself abandoned after she successfully conceives a child, leaving him to commit suicide by automobile? "Retrograde" seems among the milder possibilities.
Writer/director Aleksandr Kott apparently has in mind some sort of Petrushevskaya-style fairy tale for grown-ups,[2] but his crass and dehumanizing work only shows how mind-numbingly banal a bluntly literalist approach to cinema can be. A demeaning plot better suited to black comedy (along the lines of Heathers' [dir. Michael Lehmann, USA, 1988] treatment of teen suicide, perhaps) instead gets pressganged into a stultifyingly sullen and hollow drama which in any case tells us almost nothing about the actual lives of Russian blind people. This seems particularly repugnant in an era when centers for the real, flesh-and-blood blind are closing throughout the country due to "budget problems" (Bessarabova 2016).
"They Live Normally"
Pavel Zuev (Aleksandr Iatsenko), a blank slate with no family, friends or profession other than playing solo table tennis, already appears visionless and rootless as he rides a tram.[3] After exiting it in long shot, he suddenly (and unconvincingly) stumbles and falls. I would imagine Kott is striving for some sort of tiresome metaphor at the outset here, but the effect seems heavy-handed and no more effective than the oddly barren bus stops, city squares, medical facilities, indeed the whole setting; as my viewing companion noted, "It looks like only four people live in all of Russia."
Soon Zuev finds himself in a near-empty hospital of some sort, cared for by the nurse Nadezhda (Agrippina Steklova) and an avuncular doctor (caricaturist Andrei Bil'zho, whose presence only makes the proceedings even more absurd).[4] With the bandages off, Zuev learns his sudden blindness—of "unknown etiology"—will most likely remain. In short order, the patient attempts suicide for the first time, jumping out a window fortunately only a couple of yards off the ground. Nadezhda had lied and told him they were on an upper floor; in fact, their relationship develops wholly out of her falsehoods: she tells him "everyone's watching" in the hospital cafeteria when they're actually alone (Zuev doesn't question why all those prying diners make no noise).
Out of hospital, our hero adjusts to his new circumstances as he can, returning to his old apartment, where he takes up a job assembling clothespins. Scenes of Zuev at work; visiting a center for the blind (again, a strangely empty one); and interacting with a young courier (Filipp Avdeev)[5] who picks up his finished pieces tells us all this film will reveal about the life of blind people in Russia: we learn—through Kott's excruciating pauses between lines of dialogue—that they make light switches as well as clothespins; that the men have access to "wives" (blind as well), provided by the center; that "they live normally." Somewhere offscreen.
All the same, Insight does contain hints of what a disabled lived reality, even a blind Weltanschauung, might encompass: several close-ups show Zuev's hands and fingers on a tree trunk, on family photos he can no longer see, and on his lover's body;[6] an out-of-focus shot steadily resolves into her face, standing before him in the rain. Yet these tantalizing dribs and drabs of a better movie melt away in scenes like the one in which Zuev refuses a service dog because he is "not alone anymore."
What Did the Blind Man See?
About that "not alone anymore": Insight's cluelessness about the lives of disabled people meets its rival in the film's degrading portrait of women as monstrous liars and baby-crazed opportunists.[7] Nadezhda (yes, "Hope") embarks on her loathsome swindle of Zuev because, as her doctor colleague tells her, "Nadia, you need to have a child." Her blind former patient, he adds, would make a good "sperm donor." Not quite "be but sworn my love, /And I'll no longer be a Capulet," but his friendly advice has the desired effect.[8]
And so, in a reversal of Lady Chatterley's Lover, Nadezhda temporarily abandons her passionless able-bodied husband to tryst with a disabled breeding stud. The bedroom scenes that follow—their mood varies from soft porn gauziness to puerility inspired by Chaif's rock number 17 in the diegesis—cheerily extend the film's theme of distorting blind people's lived reality beyond recognition. Kott too cannot resist the infantilizing, de-sexed image of disability which persists in popular culture—even when depicting sex! Insight, a film marketed through its "scandalous" intimate plot, shows an abled-bodied woman undressing first herself, then her disabled lover. Because, you know, the blind can't undress themselves.
Despite such pitfalls, Insight does deserve some credit for not participating in the long cinematic tradition of simply denying the disabled a sexuality. As noted by the pioneering sociologists Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova and Pavel Romanov, for most of the 20th century such a topic was considered taboo. Even in the more liberated post-Soviet era, such a depiction—in popular discourses including film—remains fraught:
The sexual identity of the disabled appears as an additional means for constructing [able-bodied] gendered identity and falls still more closely under the society's control. This manifests in the medicalization of the sexual experience of the disabled (with the most attention paid to men), whose sexuality is considered problematic, as well as in the representations of their hyper-masculine sexuality. Meanwhile, the real heterosexual lives of disabled people are presented as the experience of some foreign culture, thereby somewhat exoticizing them, while a homosexual disabled identity goes virtually without any discussion at all (Iarskaia-Smirnova and Romanov 2006: 142).
In practice, such attitudes produced the 20th-century cinematic figure of the blind "sweet innocent"—a sexless, treacly bundle of defenseless virtue (Norden 1994: 228). This global image persists into the present day; as Benjamin Fraser has recently written, "[N]arratives of disability—filmed or otherwise—rarely incorporate sexuality, preferring a sanitized image of platonic or amorous love instead" (Fraser 2016: 6).
Perhaps this explains why, ultimately, and despite his courage in at least broaching the topic of able-bodied/disabled sex, Kott falls back to a familiar Russian cinema trope: the spiritually pure blind person wronged by a dissolute world. "I made everything up," a tearful Nadezhda tells Zuev. "You're good. I'm not." "I don't believe you, "Zuev answers. "We were there. I saw it all."
What did the blind man see? Not the false "wedding" in the store room of a food shop, with triumphant music on boombox, the role of officiator played by Nadezhda's friend/accomplice Mariasha (Ekaterina Filippova); not Moscow, with its "Pushkin Monument" (actually a statue of Lenin), "Bolshoi Theater" with its grand pillars (Vladimir Lenin House of Metallurgists) and "Old Arbat" (the outdoor market of some provincial town). Muslim Magomaev's 1964 ode to Moscow, The Best City in the World, on the soundtrack only makes the situation more pathetic and mocking—at Zuev's expense.[9]
And yet, the blind's capacity to see beyond the material world (because of their guilelessness) has too congealed into a common subtheme in post-Soviet Russian cinema:[10] the narrator calls a blind woman an "angel" in Aleksandr Sokurov's Russian Ark (Russkii kovcheg, 2002) and the blind residents at a boarding school for the disabled receive similar treatment in The Night is Bright (Noch' svetla, dir. Roman Balayan, 2004). We can compare such "spiritual" depictions with the self-sacrificial portraits of the Soviet era, e.g. The Fighter Pilots (Istrebiteli, dir. Eduard Pentslin, 1939), in which the hero loses his sight to save the life of a child.
Insight crystallizes the contemporary "blind who see beyond our world" theme in a top-down medium shot showing a post-coital Zuev and Nadezhda in bed: a shaft of light falls on his eyes, while hers remain in darkness.
Conclusion: "Us" Before "Them"?
Insight's writer-director says he conceived of the film's story after a friend lost his vision. During a visit, Kott surreptitiously filmed his sightless acquaintance, who appeared to him "as if from another planet."[11] As he told an interviewer, he learned that "a blind man starts to believe everything and everybody."
The anecdote—and Kott's conclusion—argues strongly for turning over all the sooner the means of cinematic production to disabled people, so they may represent themselves. It also reflects, as I have argued, some entrenched presumptions about the disabled that shape their filmic representations—which in turn affect how the disabled themselves are perceived in contemporary Russian culture. And the cycle persists. As argued by Fraser, the cinematic depiction of disability forms "a visible counterpart to the less-often visible social representations that mediate the way disability is conceived, perceived and lived" (Fraser 2016: 2).
These entrenched presumptions are evidently shared by some of Kott's reviewers, who found Zuev's deception not only plausible but dramatically satisfying: "a cruel illusion which, indeed, only a blind man could believe" (Iuriev 2015). And yet the plot of Insight goes beyond the mere preference for an imaginary world over a dreary reality. In order to believe Zuev could fall for such an obvious fraud, one would have to already think of blind people as credulous, dovelike fools at the mercy of society – in other words, as martyrs to able-bodied wickedness. (And in this case, female able-bodied wickedness.)
The other common move involves metaphorization of the disabled, such that their "plight" becomes our own. As reviewer Denis Iuriev puts it: "Looking at Zuev, you start thinking, maybe there are a lot more such blind people around us than at first seems apparent? And lack of vision in this context is absolutely not important" (Iuriev 2015). Yes, because we can readily compare the sort of "blindness" (moral, or whatever) of the able-bodied to the job discrimination, lack of services, and social stigma which the, you know, blind blind have to sort through everyday. There is no difference, really. All in all, I prefer Katerina Tarkhanova's more cynical verdict on Kott's work: "[S]o that we may finish the film and not get bored, we have to look upon blindness as a symbol of insight" (Tarkhanova 2015).
It is of course not Kott's job to present a cinéma vérité documentary masterpiece on the real lives of blind people in Russia. But neither should it be his task to distort those lives to such an extent as to perpetuate harmful stereotypes of them as helpless, gullible and desperate to kill themselves. Insight, after all, is a movie in which a heartbroken blind man wanders in traffic to Dieter Meier's tune Loveblind ("An unexpected smile,/the blink of her eyes/he's acting stupid,/losing the Cupid") before the inevitable end. Kott insisted on tragedy; as he said in an interview: "[W]e understood the film had to have exactly this ending" (Sychev 2015).
The auteur's work and words pose a critical choice for Russian filmmakers: will cinema about the disabled always bear that burden of ineluctable pity, grotesquerie and doom? Will they hover towards grand elaborations on the duped blind woman's plight from On Freaks and People (Pro urodov i liudei, dir. Aleksei Balabanov, 1998)? (Though when Balabanov did it, at least it worked as épater la bourgeoisie.) To put it bluntly: in a 21st century of expanding horizons for the disabled and disability rights, will films about these human beings continue to look like Insight, the Russian Me Before You?
1] In what has become a grim joke in the disability community, able-bodied actors eager to win an Academy Award tend to do very well by starring as disabled people in the movies; 2015 proved a banner year, with the Best Actress Oscar going to Julianne Moore for playing a woman with Alzheimer's in Still Alice (dir. Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, USA, 2014), while Eddie Redmayne won Best Actor for his interpretation of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (dir. James Marsh, UK, 2014).
2] It even contains the line: "You found in me some kind of princess?"
3] Katerina Tarkhanova (2015) describes Zuev as an abstract figure, "without a past or a family".
4] As interviewer Sergei Sychev (2015) points out, whenever Bil'zho appears on screen, "the viewer will, at the very least, smile".
5] Avdeev had a prominent role in a much better film about disability in Russia, Corrections Class (Klass korrektsii, dir. Ivan Tverdovskii, 2014).
6] These close-ups evoke the tactile, unmediated impressions which constitute the phenomenological world of the deaf-blind, as described by Irina Sandomirskaia: "'Immediate' presupposes touching the world skin-to-skin, not reflecting on it through a linguistic metaphor" (2008: 330). See Sandomirskaia's article for a fascinating account of early Soviet pedagogical approaches to the deaf-blind.
7] Kott lurches toward Chekhovian marital despair when he has Nadezhda's feckless husband (Dmitrii Muliar) recall a moment from their youth. "You kept yelling that you're a bird!" he sputters, in laughter. And indeed, the stage actress Steklova played the role of Nina in a 2010 Satirikon production of The Seagull.
8] Kott's alternate titles for Insight, including Blind Love and, originally, The Call of Hope, provide a window into how he regards Zuev and Nadezhda's coupling(Sychev 2015).
9] Tarkhanova (2015) reads both the deception scenes and those with Nadezhda's couch potato husband as referencing the masculine existentialist statism of contemporary Russia, where everything equals everything else: "It makes no difference where you drink vodka with no chaser – in a blind alley or the square in front of the Bolshoi Theater".
10] And not only in cinema: Tatyana Tolstaya's short story "See the Other Side"(1999) features a blind man who seems privy to things unseen, and contains this passage: "Because we are just as blind—no, a thousand times blinder than that old man in the wheelchair. We hear whispers but we plug our ears; we are shown but we turn away. We have no faith: we're afraid to believe, because we're afraid that we'll be deceived". The sentimentalized, vaguely supernatural image of the blind of course has a long pedigree in Russian literature, going back to Vladimir Korolenko's The Blind Musician (1886), through Alexander Pushkin's Mozart and Salieri (1832) and beyond.
11] Perhaps from the world described by blind author Stephen Kuusisto in his 1998 memoir, Planet of the Blind.
José Alaniz
University of Washington, Seattle
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Bessarabova, Anna (2016). "Nevidimaia beda: 1 aprelia strana ostanetsia bez tsentrov reabilitatsii slepykh." Pravmir.ru (March 28).
Fraser, Benjamin (2016). "Introduction: Disability Studies, World Cinema and the Cognitive Code of Reality." In Cultures of Representation: Disability in World Cinema Contexts, edited by Fraser, 1–17. London: Wallflower Press.
Iarskaia-Smirnova, Elena and Pavel Romanov (2006). Politika invalidnosti: sotsial'noe grazhdanstvo invalidov v sovremmenoi Rossii. Saratov: Nauchnaia kniga.
Iuriev, Denis. (2015). "Obychnie, nichem ne prinimatel'nye den'ki." KinoPoisk (June 25).
Norden, Martin F. (1994). The Cinema of Isolation : A History of Physical Disability in the Movies. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
Quinn, Ben (2016). "Disability Rights Campaigners Protest at Premiere of Me Before You." The Guardian (May 25).
Sandomirskaia, Irina (2008). "Skin to Skin: Language in the Soviet Education of Deaf-Blind Children, The 1920s and 1930s." Studies in East European Thought 60.4: 321–337.
Sychev, Sergei (2015). "Aleksandr Kott: slepoi chelovek nachinaet verit' vsemu i vsem." Film Pro.
Tarkhanova, Katerina (2015). "Seraia bolezn'. Insayt, rezhisser Aleksandr Kott." Iskusstvo Kino. 6.
Tolstaya, Tatyana (2007). "See the Other Side." Trans. Jamey Gambrell. The New Yorker (March 12).
Insight, Russia, 2015
90 minutes, DCP, color
Director Aleksandr Kott
Scriptwriter Aleksandr Kott
Director of Photography Petr Dukhovskoi
Production Design Sergei Avstrievskikh
Costume Design Alana Snetkova
Music Andrei Kurchenko, Anna Kalinicheva
Sound Vladimir Priamov, Aleksandr Fedenev
Editing Vadim Kranitskii
Cast Aleksandr Iatsenko, Agrippina Steklova, Andrei Bil'zho, Filipp Avdeev
Producer Ekaterina Filippova
Production Atlantic Film Company, Pan-Atlantic Studio
Aleksandr Kott: Insight (2015)
reviewed by José Alaniz© 2016


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Necklace & Bracelet Set: R400
Another jewellery set created over the weekend. Libby eat your heart out!
This is another layout based on one of the designs I presented at my scrapbook day at Makaranga on 27 Jan. This was of Augrabies Waterfall where we overnighted before the start of our orange river expedition.
- Off to brave another work week without my dear friend Thanusha (the real TP) who has left AlexanderCox to do her articles at Mooney Ford. Thanusha you are truly missed - please don't forget your ex colleagues at AlexanderCox


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H = depth to invert of existing pipeline
R = radius of liner pipe
Grouting of the gap between the outside diameter of the PE liner, and the inside of the existing pipe is necessary only when the original pipe has been damaged to the extent that there is no residual external load capacity, or where manhole connections cannot be sealed off to prevent groundwater infiltration.
Where grouting is applied, the pressure should not exceed 50 kPa, and depending on the PN rating of the PE liner pipe, external collapse calculations should be carried out. Where cement based grouts are used, the temperature rise in the PE liner due to the heat of hydration must be taken into account.
The PE liner pipes may be filled with water prior to grouting to increase the external pressure resistance, and to provide additional line weight to prevent the PE liner pipe floating during grouting, and losing the final grade line.
Sliplining existing pipes using Vinidex PE pipes allows for a reduction of excavation in built up areas.
Only the excavation necessary to feed the PE liner pipe into the existing line is required and depending on the total length of the line and the location of existing manholes, a liner length of approximately 100 metres may be drawn along the line in each section. For small diameter pipes, the PE can be supplied in Vinidex pipe reels. This allows for a single run of PE to be inserted into existing pipe without the need for intermediate jointing.
Where the existing service cannot be taken out of service, or temporarily blocked off during the relining process, extra excavation may be required to allow for the installation of a temporary diversion line.
Jointing the Liner
Depending on the diameter of the pipe, a single length of PE pipe can be installed to provide a single length of seamless liner.
For larger (160mm and above) PE pipes can be butt welded above ground on site to provide a continuous length pipe which can be inspected for joint integrity before installation.
The butt weld process provides a joint which resists longitudinal load and has the same chemical resistance properties as the pipe. The external diameter weld bead sections may be mechanically removed prior to insertion to prevent any possibility of snagging on damaged sections, or protrusions, in the bore of the existing pipe to be relined. Where weld beads are removed, care must be taken not to notch the PE pipe wall. Butt welded joints must be allowed to cool to ambient temperature prior to drawing into the final position so as to prevent any damage to the joint section.


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Become a Volunteer
Volunteering can be one of the most rewarding experiences you can get involved in.
We have many volunteering opportunities across County Durham and these can be very varied; it all depends on what you would like to do.
We have two different volunteering roles within the service:
Community Health Champions:
Community Health Champions are people who are local and can commit to at least 2 hours of volunteering per week. Following a period of training and support, Community Health Champions will voluntarily transform the health and wellbeing of people in their communities. Community Health Champions are mentored by a paid member of staff within the wellbeing for life service and have access to a wide range of training and personal development opportunities. Within their role, Community Health Champions will support and motivate people to get involved in healthy social activities, create groups to meet local needs and help local people to access services in their local community.
Community Volunteers:
Community Volunteers are local people who cannot dedicate a specific amount of time each week, however would like to volunteer as and when they can. Community Volunteers may open and close the local community centre before and after activities or make cups of tea for the local dominos group, they may even want to go along and socialise with groups before and after activities.
Don't worry if being a Community Health Champion or Community Volunteer is not what you want to do… We can connect you to other volunteering opportunities in your local community.
No volunteering opportunity is too little…….. it all makes a big impact.
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Friday, 27 November 2009
Testing the real time web.
A nice way of testing that PubSubHubBub really works (and how fast it is) is to subscribe to Google Reader Shared Items feed. Google Reader exposes your shared items as a PuSH enabled Atom feed. See this blog post for more details. I use my shared list for testing, and it is available at: http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user%2F05268996354213702508%2Fstate%2Fcom.google%2Fbroadcast
Every time you share an item via Google Reader, it sends a notification to the Hub, and the Hub in turn notifies the subscribers. And in my experience, this tends to happen very fast, in few milliseconds.
Although PubSubHubBub brings the promise of the real time Web closer to reality it is a shift from the way feeds are consumed. In vanilla Atom or RSS, all a client has to do is to poll feeds at regular intervals. This may not be very efficient, but it is quite simple to implement and only requires that the client has access to the Web. PuSH is a lot different in the sense that the client that consumes feeds is now a server (more precisely a Web Service) which is accessible from the rest of the Internet. This is a bit more difficult to implement, and has some other serious implications which I have not addressed in my exercise, such as authentication and authorization.
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This is interesting stuff Guillaume. It could become the backbone to real-time event-driven web applications. A great project to show the strengths of Scala too.ReplyDelete
Cheers Alan.ReplyDelete
PuSH is very useful for the backbone (servers talking to each other) but you still have to rely on Comet hacks to reach the browser. I have been thinking of using Lift to implement a UI frontend on top of my PuSH service as Lift is pretty good at writing Comet apps. The other interesting development on the real time web front is the incoming web browser support for HTML5 WebSockets (already available in Chrome already) which allows bi-directional sockets, making two way communication a lot easier. Scala can play a role there as well, especially when using the Actor model to abstract the way clients communicate with servers.


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Monroe Harbor RentalKayak Rental
For those who are experienced paddlers looking to go it alone, this is a great option on the lakefront. Equipment offered at Monroe Harbor includes:
- Paddleboards
- Single Kayaks: Touring & Sit-on-Tops
- Tandem Kayaks: Touring & Sit-on-Tops
- $30 per hour per person. One hour minimum. Prorated after the first hour. $7.50 per 15 minutes per person.
- Closed for the 2018 Season
Important Rental Information
- Must be 18 to rent a kayak alone.
- Valid drivers license required in order to rent a kayak.
- Prior kayaking experience required at this location. Be prepared for a skills assessment.
- All kayaks are offered on a first come/ first served basis.
- We do not accept reservations or take advanced payment for kayak rentals.
- Rental hours may be interrupted due to high traffic.


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Study title: The Effect of Prophylactic Salpingo-oophorectomy on Markers of Health in women who carry a BRCA mutation
Purpose: Women who carry a BRCA mutation may choose to remove their ovaries and fallopian tubes to reduce their risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. Women who undergo this surgery are at risk of significant health changes, especially if they are premenopausal before surgery. The purpose of this study is to document the impact this surgery has on cardiovascular health, bone density and quality of life including menopausal symptoms and sexual health. In order to evaluate these health changes, we are collecting information from BRCA mutation carriers who are removing their ovaries and fallopian tubes. We are also testing a control population, consisting of women who are negative for a family BRCA mutation, to compare the health changes. The information gained from this study will provide us with more knowledge about how to better care for women with a hereditary predisposition to breast, ovarian and fallopian tube cancer.
Who can participate?
Case group:
More information on case group.
Control group:
More information on control group.
What will participation involve? You will attend two study visits, each approximately 2.5 hours long and consisting of the same tests each visit. You will undergo 4 measurements of cardiovascular health: blood pressure, blood draw (fasting glucose, HDL/LDL cholesterol, DNA banking, and vitamin D), an ultrasound on your arm to measure artery flow, and arterial stiffness. To measure bone health, a bone mineral density x-ray will be completed. To measure quality of life, a series of questionnaires will be completed asking questions about general health history, calcium dietary intake, menopausal symptoms, sexual functioning, general health, psychological functioning, and worry about cancer.
For more information about this study, or to sign up to participate, please contact the Research Coordinator at 416-351-3800 ext 2920 or email@example.com
This study is voluntary and you may withdraw at any time.Jump to top page
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Rachel Walker
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Women's College Research Institute
76 Grenville Street, room 6411, Toronto, ON M5S 1B1
Phone: 416-351-3800 ext 2920
Email: email@example.com
Current Studies
Risk Factor Analysis of Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer
A Study of Familial Breast Cancer in BRCA-Negative Families
A Study of Familial Cancer in Jewish Women - Follow-up


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We'd like to draw your attention to a launch event for Michel Meyer's new book, What is Rhetoric? (Oxford, 2017). The event takes place at the Maison francaise in Oxford on October 17, 2017, 2-4pm. All are welcome.
Here are the details:
In everyday life, issues are debated and questions discussed. Rhetoric refers to the way we answer questions in an interpersonal context, when we want to have an effect on those with whom we are communicating. Our interlocutors can be convinced or charmed, persuaded or influenced, and the language used can range from reasoning to the sharing of narratives, literary or otherwise. Michel Meyer's new book, What Is Rhetoric? (OUP, 2017), offers a breakthrough approach to the principles and functioning of rhetoric by providing a systematic and unified view of rhetorical language. The book combines the social aspects of rhetoric, such as the negotiation of distance between speakers, with the theory of emotions. All the principal authors from Plato and Aristotle to contemporary theorists are integrated into the book's 'problematological' conception of rhetoric, based on the primacy of questioning and answering in language and thought.This seminar will explore some of the rich questions raised by Michel Meyer's What Is Rhetoric? Following an initial presentation of the book's argument by its author, contributions from specialists in a range of fields will seek to develop and test its conclusions from an interdisciplinary perspective. The session will conclude with a question/answer and discussion session. The event is open to anyone with an interest in rhetoric, in all and any of its diverse forms.
14:00 – 14:05: Welcome (Chair, tbc)
14:05 – 14:35: "What Is Rhetoric?"; Michel Meyer (Philosophy, Brussels)
14:35 – 14:50: "Visual and Literary Rhetoric"; Jas' Elsner (Classics, Oxford)
14:50 – 15:05: "Problematology, Rhetoric and Social Science"; Nick Turnbull (Politics, Manchester)
15:05 – 15:20: "Psychoanalysis and Rhetoric"; Paul Earlie (French, Bristol)
15:20 – 16:00: Questions and discussion.


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As a discount hiking gear connoisseur, you've come to this page because you're hunting for a bargain on gear.
Or you need a new piece of gear without overpaying for it: cheap gear that will get you started as a beginner hiker.
Maybe you have to send your kids off to summer camp and they need a whole long list of hiking gear - you need budget hiking gear.
Or could it be that you just like to drool over hiking gear bargains? I'm with you on that one!
Regardless of what brought you to this page, there are a few things you should know before you make a gear purchase.
How to find great deals on hiking gear is an art (selecting quality gear over cheap gear) AND a science (knowing what quality looks like).
by Diane Spicer
Discount hiking gear searchers, heed this quote:
"You get what you pay for."
That was the bad news.
Now for a dose of good news.
As a savvy hiker, there are ways to bend that little piece of truth, if you know how to approach buying discount hiking gear in a realistic fashion.
So let's be realists, shall we?
I'll take you through my 3 Foolproof Rules of hunting for fairly priced, high quality hiking discount gear, and you can decide if they are going to work for you.
Or not.
Only three?
Yes, simplicity rules at Hiking For Her.
Know your expectations for this piece of gear. Then set your "best price" accordingly.
Here's what I mean in a nutshell:
a) Assess what level of hiking you do currently: armchair fantasizer, newbie, fair weather only, moderate, all seasons, long distance junkie, extreme, or whatever best describes you.
b) Decide how much wear and tear you'll be inflicting upon this particular piece of discount hiking gear.
c) Determine what you can afford to pay for this gear.
Research the features and benefits of the item you're seeking before you purchase, so you get exactly what you need.
In other words, don't be swayed by hype or glossy photographs, or this season's new colors.
Read through my webpages describing the gear you need.
Forget "want" right now, if you're looking to get a basic set of discount hiking gear that will keep you safe and comfortable on the trail.
Once you've got a few seasons of hiking under your backpacking belt, you can branch out into "wants" and "must haves"!
Stick to reputable sellers.
Over the years, I've generated a short "tried and true" list of discount hiking gear suppliers.
But wait! you ask: How did I come up with this list?
I ordered from them, did not receive nasty shocks or surprises in terms of when and/or what I received, and I felt the return/exchange policy was fair for the price I paid.
Plus, they stick with high quality brands that deliver the goods year after year.
Ready for a whirlwind tour of the best discount hiking gear companies?
Each of them has advantages and drawbacks, and I'll be careful to outline all of it for you.
Read on!
You don't have to be planning a trip into the backcountry to take advantage of the discounts on top brands here.
Backcountry has a continuous stream of great deals for you, year round.
Which is a good hint: visit this site during the off season, too.
Not just for climbers!!
In fact, if you're interested in outdoor activities year round, this is the place to get discounts up to 70% on top brand names and high quality offerings.
The Clymb outdoor gear changes daily, so visit often if you're stalking a particular piece of hiking gear.
Downside: They may not have what you want, which is why you should bookmark them and visit often when you're on the prowl for a specific item.
Yup, pretty much like it sounds.
Go to Steepandcheap when you're in the mood to find treasure.
They carry top brands, and if you like riding on a carousel (every second seems different), this is the discount hiking gear source for you!
Some of their discounts are absolutely eye popping - and can also make you cry if your size is unavailable.
But when you find THE perfect hiking clothing or gear, you will have a huge grin on your face!
Mountain Gear carries an impressive hodgepodge of hiking gear, as well as clothing, that you should take a few
minutes hours to look through.
When an item is discounted, a big black line goes through the original price and you can see the lower price listed in red, making it easy to spot eye popping gear bargains.
Be sure to check out the separate "sale" portion of their website as well.
If you hit a certain dollar amount, shipping will be free.
What a great name, right?
This company also covers water sports, so if you're into hiking plus kayaking, river rafting or packrafting, be sure to check them out.
REI is a member-owned gear co-op, originating in my home town, Seattle USA. I've been a member since 1977!!
Make a beeline for the REI Outlet.
Caution: Sometimes the prices are beat elsewhere (see discount hiking gear stores listed above).
But what you can't beat iREI Co-op's customer service and return policies - they always stand behind what they sell.
If you have an REI store in your town, simply walk in and return or exchange there.
And as a co-op member, you receive a rebate each year (generally around 10% in late February), tied to the amount you purchase.
Add all of those perks together, and making REI your first stop for discount hiking gear is a very smart move.
Mountain Equipment Coop is another gear co-op that takes outdoor gear seriously.
I'm a member because they carry gear I can't readily find in the U.S., and they're fun people to deal with.
They have 50% clearance events at the turn of the seasons, so don't count them out just because you have to be a member!
They also have lots of pro tips and great outdoor photos on their website.
Watch out! If you sign up for email notifications from all of these companies, your in box is going to overflow.
My advice is to be selective - only do two or three at a time until you find the ones you rely on most heavily.
Avoid being sucked in by a low, low price. If the hiking gear isn't what you really need, even a bargain won't make it useful to you on a hiking trail.
Always keep the tags from a new piece of gear.
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Find yourself a big tree to hug, or a hill to climb, or whatever says HIKING ADVENTURE to you!
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So many books, so little time. This is my blog about all things literary.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Thanks to author Tonya Cannariato for stopping by on her blog tour and for sending us this interesting character post.
Synopsis of Dementional:
Mark Inman has two loves: particle physics and Sarah. She agrees to become his wife at the same time his experiment to find the Higgs boson goes off the rails.
Journey with Mark while his existence melts and reforms in unpredictable ways as the veils between realities thin. His exploration of the minutiae of quantum physics builds a fascinating tapestry of alternate universes.
His search for survival, and the search for meaning and what is real, drive Mark as he experiences lives he never dreamed possible. His only touchstones: find Sarah and find his way home.
Book Links for Dementional:
Paperback link
eBook Link
About the Author
A voracious reader since she was a toddler, and an ordained spiritualist, Tonya
Cannariato has now presided over the marriage of her love of reading and her love of writing. She's lived a nomadic life, following first her parents in their Foreign Service career through Africa, Europe, and Asia, and then her own nose criss-crossing America as she's gotten old enough to make those choices for herself. She's currently based in Milwaukee with her three loves: her husband and two Siberian Huskies. She suspects her Huskies of mystical alchemy with their joyous liberation of her muse and other magical beings for her inspiration. She loves to sleep, to watch her interesting dreams, some of which are now finding new life in written form.
Character Post - Mark Inman
Hi, Flora, I appreciate the chance to visit a blog where the author is obviously a reader and a book-lover. I can appreciate anyone who has the intellectual curiosity to take a different perspective, though I can't say I've always enjoyed fiction, myself. I met my wife while taking what I considered a throw-away course on technology in Hollywood film. My perspective at the time was that truth is always better than fiction.
Having lived through some truly strange experiences, I wish I hadn't been so closed to the ability to appreciate an alternate perspective. It might have helped me have the mental flexibility to understand what was going on sooner.
Certainly, my wife proved an invaluable asset in adjusting to the changes we faced. I would have argued before those experiences that a scientific perspective was all that was necessary to be able to reason my way out of any trouble. I'm still not certain how we normalized our lives, but my traditional, scientific logic had very little to do with the resolution of our issue.
That's not to say that the scientific method failed me entirely. It's useful to approach problems with questions and test solutions against expectations, measuring outcomes empirically. But my story also tells me that there are things we don't have the tools to measure, and while I have a hypothesis about where my experiments went wrong, I'm not sure any more that science has all the answers.
I have a new appreciation for the balance emotions can bring to a cerebral inclination, and I'm more thankful than ever that Sarah consented to be my wife--not only in my original world, but in every world we visited together. I hope others are able to frame some of the fundamental questions they face with that dual recognition of the balance of logic and emotion; I hope that my story helps provide that framework.
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text: Finding the perfect shirt can be extremely difficult, especially for a guy like me. I'm 6'3", and most brands assume that men who wear large shirts are taller and wider. Mass market shirting doesn't take into account that there are men out there who have broad shoulders and small waists. In order to get a shirt with the appropriate sleeve length, I find myself swimming in fabric. I'd pretty much decided that the only way around this problem was to avoid wearing dress shirts altogether (very possible in my line of work) or spend a huge chunk of change and time getting my shirts tailored. Neither option seemed realistic. Custom shirting seemed like something that was aspirational-far beyond a realistic price range for this stage of my life. But after my experience with Marcella, I've found that perfectly fitted custom shirting can definitely be a part of my life. I had a part in choosing every detail of the shirt shown here from the cuff detail to the fabric and contrast color. Not only did I walk away feeling like an accomplished menswear designer (lol), I also had a shirt perfectly tailored to my body that I can truly call one of a kind. To get started with your Marcella experience, head over to www.marcellacustom.com.


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For most of us, mealtime is a heaven-send. Food cures cases of the grumps. The varieties of flavors and textures trigger positive chemical releases in the brain. Filling your stomach creates a sense of satisfaction and overall contentment. What's not to enjoy? Well, anyone who knows a picky eater, especially if you're the parent of one, you know that mealtimes can be everything but pleasant. And it goes one step past picky when you're dealing with a child that struggles with eating because of Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD).
Picky eaters usually grow out of the phase of turning their noses up at their plates. But Sensory Kids usually don't grow out of that pesky stage. Imagine someone refusing to eat anything but chicken nuggets and Mac and Cheese until they're in their twenties (true story). They tend to have a harder time with the texture of food than they do the taste. Mushy foods top the list of offenders with foods such as mashed potatoes, oatmeal, rice, beans or eggs. Children with SPD tend to gag a lot while eating or while watching others eat and bite more off than they can chew in a very literal meaning of the phrase. Whether in an attempt to minimize the discomfort by getting it all down at once or the inability to gauge their limits, they try to swallow chunks of food that are way too big. This problem is compacted with children who have low muscle tone in their cheeks and jaws, making chewing arduous and frustrating. All these cues are difficult for them to interpret so they express their feelings with difficult behavior (and by that I mean total meltdowns) at the table and refusal to eat the food prepared for them. So here are a few suggestions to help minimize mealtime meltdowns.


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TITLE: The Devil's Alphabet
AUTHOR: Daryl Gregory
From the cover face with the upside down eyes, to the not quite ending, this book is a mystery, more conjecture and theory than hard facts. Thirteen years ago, the town of Switchcreek, Tennessee was struck by a terrible and confounding disease that killed a third of the population, mutating most of the survivors into one of three physical anomalies: those who experienced enormous growth to unprecedented heights, those who lost all their hair and became seal-like, and those who became abnormally obese. Paxton, a young teen when the "Changes" hit, was a "skip," one of the few not physically affected. His mother died, however, and his father became one of the obese "charlies," and after the quarantine on the town was lifted, Pax was sent away to live with relatives. Now an adult, living a dull, unambitious life in Chicago, Pax returns to Switchcreek for the funeral of one of his two best friends. Jo Lynn, who had become a seal-like beta, had been found hanging from a tree in her yard, a supposed suicide. But Pax and Deke, his other best friend and now a grotesquely tall argo, have their doubts. Back home after so many years away, Pax quickly discovers how much he's missed as more and more effects of the Changes manifested themselves.
This isn't the story of what happened in Switchcreek or why, although those questions are posed. Rather, it's the story of coping with such profound changes, how outsiders react to people who suddenly don't look human, how far people will go to live normal lives when normal doesn't mean what it once did, and the age-old question of what it means to be human. It's also the story of Pax trying to find his place in a world when he hasn't felt comfortable in his own skin since everything changed.
And it's the sort of book that makes me want a sequel. I want to spend more time with Pax and the people of Switchcreek. Gregory made me care about all of them.


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Today our prayer is for Leydis Suarez and her baby girl. Leydis is 19 and lives in the Wayuu village of Mara. She helps Maybelin with our Help and Hope Center there. She loves how Andean Aid is helping her community and hopes that her daughter will attend the Center some day. Thank God for helpers like Leydis.
To God be the glory.