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Maria Bodin
Letter to the Editor
Does the Örebro Prevention Programme Prevent Youth Drinking? A Response to Özdemir & Stattin
Version of Record online: 2 AUG 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2012.03959.x
© 2012 Society for the Study of Addiction
Volume 107, Issue 9, pages 1706–1708, September 2012
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Bodin, M. (2012), Does the Örebro Prevention Programme Prevent Youth Drinking? A Response to Özdemir & Stattin. Addiction, 107: 1706–1708. doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2012.03959.x
Publication History
- Issue online: 2 AUG 2012
- Version of Record online: 2 AUG 2012
- Abstract
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- Örebro prevention programme;
- outcome evaluation;
- youth drinking
During 2007–10, my co-author Anna Strandberg and myself performed an independent effectiveness trial of the Örebro prevention programme (ÖPP) [1]. ÖPP is a Swedish programme at the universal prevention level, which aims to delay and reduce drunkenness in 13–16-year-old youth using brief presentations to parents during six termly regular teacher–parent meetings. It was first evaluated by the developers Koutakis & Stattin in 1999–2001, with scientific reporting of results in 2008 [2]. Özdemir & Stattin's [3] first criticism concerns the fact that the number of presentations in our trial was lower than stipulated, and that this might be a reason why the programme did not work as intended. We clearly agree with this statement, which at the same time needs to be contextualized. As a trial of programme effectiveness, the research question in our study is not whether the programme works under optimal research conditions when delivered by the programme developers, but if it works when delivered by multiple programme presenters under regular practice conditions. The fact that fidelity and dosage tend to decrease when programmes go into wide dissemination has been pointed out as one of the major challenges of current prevention research [4]. Current standards also note that '… a program that produces significant effects in an efficacy trial may or may not yield similar effects under real-world conditions' ([5], p. 3). Thus, the implementation issue is one important reason for conducting effectiveness trials in the first place. In our opinion, the fact that we ended up with a mean of 4.7 (standard deviation = 0.9) presentations rather than six, in spite of extensive efforts to coordinate and facilitate for participating schools, is one significant finding from this trial. The main reasons were that termly parent meetings were not part of regular practice for all schools, and that some teachers and/or parents found the programme presentations too repetitive. As these observations speak of hindrances for schools to carry out the programme as intended, we consider them noteworthy and important. In a Swedish report we have elaborated further the basis of our conclusion that, overall, implementation levels in our trial fall somewhat below those than in the original study, but at the same time exceed those in regular practice [6].
The second criticism by Özdemir & Stattin concerns the reduction of variance resulting from dichotomization of the outcome variables. Dichotomization is not uncommon in prevention research, and presumably often conducted for the same reasons that we describe in our trial, i.e. severely skewed data distributions that do not respond well to transformations due to large numbers of zeros, and with few events in categories indicating higher drinking and drunkenness frequencies. For outcome variables such as life-time prevalence of drunkenness (debut), the binary form is necessary for other and obvious reasons. Our first and more general comment to this is that while acknowledging the difficulties of power and sample size estimation in general, and in cluster-randomized trials in particular, we have judged the sample size of 1750 participants as sufficient to detect a small-to-moderate effect size. Although this guess could probably have been better educated than ours, we note that this is twice the sample size and five times the number of schools of the original ÖPP trial, where small-to-moderate effect sizes were found (using a continuous outcome measure, however). Our second comment to this critique is more important, and pertaining specifically to our trial and data. Özdemir & Stattin applied a latent growth modelling approach to the original metric of the drunkenness and consumption variables. Their description of these analyses is not very detailed, but as latent growth models require and benefit from multiple time-points, we assume that they used data from all three measurements (T1, T2 and T3). The major problem with the model that yielded the significant finding (i.e. that of life-time drunkenness) is that it includes data flawed by differential attrition at the second measurement occasion (T2). As reported in our paper, data at T2 showed significantly higher dropout rates in the control group (9.4 versus 6.5%, χ2 = 5.16, P < 0.05), but with a more selective attrition in the intervention group. That is, youth in the ÖPP condition who were lost to follow-up at T2 were significantly more likely than their completing counterparts to have reported life-time drunkenness at baseline (P = 0.01), while a corresponding difference was not present in the control group (P = 0.17). Such pre-test differences on the outcome of interest have been suggested to provide the best available estimate of the spurious effect that can be expected at post-test [7]. Thus, we assume that the life-time drunkenness variable at T2 is most probably biased in favour of the ÖPP group. Because the observed group differences in attrition rates and pre-test drunkenness status were not present at T3, we believe that for any analysis to produce reliable estimates of programme effects on the drunkenness variables, it should be based on T1 and T3 (9th grade) data only. T3 also has other benefits, such as greater sensitivity due to higher drunkenness frequencies than at T2 (in fact, significant programme effects were not observed until the 9th grade in the initial study of ÖPP). Against this background, we do not consider the re-analyses by Özdemir & Stattin to be a solid ground for rejecting the null hypothesis and changing our conclusion about programme effectiveness.
With regard to the third criticism, we agree strongly that the test of mediating mechanisms is an important issue for trials of intervention effects. The encouraging results of these analyses suggest that our null findings are not due to an erroneous programme theory, but to other factors. As mentioned, one of these may be that national media campaigns have led to elevated levels of restrictiveness in Swedish parents in general. Finally, rather than adopting a one-sided search for reasons why this trial failed to replicate the effects identified in the first study, we point to the need for an independent evaluation which takes into account the total evidence base of all three studies. Meta-analytical procedures and the thorough assessment of risk of bias in the initial study, as well as in the two subsequent trials [1, 8] would improve the basis for the effect estimates, and provide guidance on the degree of confidence to place in them.
Declarations of interest
National Board of Health and Welfare, Stockholm, Sweden. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
- 1The Örebro Prevention Programme revisited: a cluster-randomized effectiveness trial of programme effects on youth drinking. Addiction 2011; 106: 2134–2143.,
- 2Reducing youth alcohol drinking through a parent-targeted intervention: the Örebro Prevention Programme. Addiction 2008; 103: 1629–1637., ,
- 3Does the Örebro Prevention Programme prevent youth drinking? Addiction 2012; 107: 1705–1706.,
- 4Advancing prevention science and practice: challenges, critical issues and future directions. Prev Sci 2004; 5: 69–72.
- 5Standards of evidence: criteria for efficacy, effectiveness and dissemination. Prev Sci 2005; 6: 151–175., , , , , et al.
- 6Effektutvärdering av Örebro preventionsprogram (ÖPP). [Effectiveness trial of the Örebro prevention programme]. Report no 44. Stockholm: STAD, Centre for Psychiatry Research Stockholm; 2011. Available at: http://www.stad.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/stadrapport-44.pdf (Archived by Webcite® at; http://www.webcitation.org/67JQlGEBG) (accessed 2 May 2012).,
- 7Practical problems 2: treatment implementation and attrition. In: Shadish W. R. , Cook T. D. , Campbell D. T. , editors. Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning; 2002, p. 314–340., ,
- 8Preventing heavy alcohol use in adolescents (PAS): cluster randomized trial of a parent and student intervention offered separately and simultaneously. Addiction 2009; 104: 1669–1678., , , , et al.


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Ezra Pound and the Symbolist Inheritance
By Scott Hamilton
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESSCopyright © 1992 Princeton University Press
All rights reserved.
"From the colour the nature & by the nature the sign!" —(90/619)
Manier savamment une langue, c'est pratiquer une espèce de sorcellerie évocatoire. C'est alors que la couleur parle, comme une voix profonde et vibrante; que Ies monuments se dressent et font saillie sur l'espace profond; que Ies animaux et les plantes, représentants du laid et du mal, articulent leur grimace non équivoque; que le parfum provoque la pensée et le souvenir correspondants; que la passion murmure ou rugit son langage éternellement semblable. —Charles Baudelaire, "Théophile Gautier," Oeuvres
Gautier soon became Pound's miglior fabbro, serving both as a personal inspiration and as a germinal master anticipating his own version of modernism. Gautier's influence begins to be felt as early as 1912 and continues unabated throughout the twenties. In the 1913 letter to Harriet Monroe where Pound criticizes Baudelaire and Verlaine, he continues by saying that "Gautier and de Gourmont carry forward the art itself' (SL, 23). Later, in a 1920 letter to James Joyce, Pound writes, "I cling to the rock of Gautier, deluding myself perhaps with the idea that he did journalism for years without becoming an absolute shit" (P/J, 174). And as late as 1928, Pound could still say, "Gautier j'ai étudié et je le révère" (SL, 218). According to Pound, Gautier's poetry of the thirties "did in France very much what remained for the men of 'the nineties' to accomplish in England. An examination of what Gautier wrote in 'the thirties' will show a similar beauty, a similar sort of technique" (LE, 285). Put simply, "Théophile Gautier is, I suppose, the next man who can write" (SL, 89). Pound's insistence that Gautier was sixty years ahead of his time is crucial to his vision of modernism, for if Émaux et Camées constitutes yet another advance, Gautier becomes a "modernist" by default, and Pound can truly go back to the future.
However, as Ford Madox Ford's dramatic criticism of Canzoni made abundantly clear to Pound, modern poetry could no longer sustain itself by taking the highroad of l'art pour l'art because it was now competing with the prose realism practiced so well by Ford. As Pound would later argue, "During the last century or century and a half, prose has, perhaps for the first time, perhaps for the second or third time, arisen to challenge the poetic pre-eminence. That is to say, Coeur Simple, by Flaubert, is probably more important than Théophile Gautier's Carmen, etc." (LE, 26). But the equivocation in this statement—that is, "Coeur Simple" is probably more important than "Carmen"—insists less on the works' differences than it does on the close proximity of Gautier's poetic to what Pound would later define as "prose constatation." Pound believed that he had found in Gautier a poet who had bridged the gap between poetry and prose: "Perfectly plain statements like his 'Carmen est maigre' should teach one a number of things" (SL, 89).
Pound's unshakeable belief in Gautier's "perfectly plain statements" indicates a close relationship between Gautier's poetic and Pound's own Imagist doctrine of 1912, and both Pound's and Eliot's homages to "Carmen" help to substantiate his later claim that "la technique des poètes frangais était certainement en dtat de servir d'éducation aux poètes de ma langue—de temps de Gautier, jusqu'à 1912" [the technique of the French poets was certainly available as a means to educate poets writing in my language from the time of Gautier until 1912] (SL, 217). Without attempting to adjudicate between the respective literary merits of Flaubert's "Coeur simple" and Gautier's "Carmen," I think it would be safe to say that what Pound values in "Carmen" is the direct subject-verb syntax comprised of weighted substantives and the minimal use of poetically descriptive adjectives. The poem opens with a flat constatation worthy of Catullus and is governed by the simple copula:
Carmen est maigre,—un trait de bistre
Cerne son oeil de gitana.
Ses cheveux sont d'un noir sinistre,
Sa peau, le diable la tanna.
Les femmes disent qu'elle est laide,
Mais tous Ies hommes en sont fous
[Carmen is thin,—charcoal eyeliner
Rings her gypsy eye.
A sinister black her hair
And the devil tanned her skin.
The women say she's ugly,
But all the men are crazy about her]
Gautier's chiseled style highlights the phrase, the "perfectly plain statement," and gains in density with his emphasis on substantives and his use of a realistic and often highly technical vocabulary. Even Baudelaire adopts almost Flaubertian terms to describe Gautier as "ce magnifique dictionnaire dont Ies feuillets, remués par un souffle divin, s'ouvrent tout juste pour laisser jaillir le mot propre, le mot unique" [this magnificent dictionary whose pages are turned by a divine breath and open to the exact word, the only word]. And when images and metaphors are employed, they are more frequently descriptive than they are a means of access to an imaginary realm. As David Kelley has suggested, Gautier's poetry contains "gammes d'images évocatrices dont l'effet est d'éblouir Le lecteur et de l'empêcher d'en approfondir les possibilités de signification" [a whole set of evocative images that work to dazzle and blind the reader and to prevent him or her from getting to the bottom of their meaning]. Gautier's "angoisse provoquée par la profondeur métaphysique," says Kelley, results in "une forme de superficialité, celle d'une vie païenne, faite de sensations et de surfaces" [Gautier's anxiety provoked by a metaphysical depth (results in) a form of superficiality, that of a pagan sensibility made up of sensations and of surfaces]. This description of Gautier's poetry is suggestive of Pound's as it begins to evolve into his later style: despite Pound's emphasis on the verbal nature of language, his poems also begin to acquire a real density with his imagistic juxtaposition of image on image, particularly with his use of kennings that intensify the substantive weight of his diction.
Once again, however, we begin to see that peculiar bipolarity at the center of Gautier's poetic and his role in the evolution of modern French poetry. Marcel Voisin has argued that Gautier constitutes an essential link between French poetry of the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning with a stock romanticism and a markedly neoclassical diction, Gautier soon originated an individual style that would have a profound influence on subsequent Symbolist poets. But it is Baudelaire who perhaps best describes Gautier's complex admixture of a prose realism and a nascent symbolism when he immediately qualifies his discussion of "ce magnifique dictionnaire":
Si l'on réfléchit qu'à cette merveilleuse faculté Gautier unit une immense intelligence innée de la correspondance et du symbolisme universels, ce répertoire de toute métaphore, on comprendra qu'il puisse sans cesse, sans fatigue comme sans faute, définir l'attitude mystérieuse que les objets de la création tiennent devant le regard de l'homme. Il y a dans le mot, dans le verbe, quelque chose de sacré qui nous défend d'en faire un jeu de hasard.
[If one considers that Gautier adds to this marvelous faculty an immense and innate knowledge of correspondences and of universal symbolism, this catalog of every metaphor, one will come to understand that he can, without cease, without tiring and without fault, define that mysterious attitude that the objects of creation hold before the eyes of man. There is in the word, in the logos, something sacred that prohibits us from making of it a game of chance.]
Enlisting Gautier's uncanny knack for finding "le mot juste" in the Symbolists' quest for "le Verbe sacré" and their attempt to "définir l'attitude mystérieuse que Ies objets de la creation tiennent devant le regard de l'homme," Baudelaire captures here that "sorcellerie évocatoire" that makes Gautier such an important transitional figure in the history of modern French poetry.
In his Ripostes, Pound too attempts to express this "attitude mysterieuse," or, to use Pound's terms, this "Marvel and Wonder" (CEP, 58). Moreover, Pound's important transitional volume manifests this same wavering between a visionary realm and a realistic modern surface, between a quasi-symbolist "poésie pure" and a modern spoken idiom. Pound's "Alchemist: Chant for the Transmutation of Metals" (1912), for example, derives from both Gourmont's symbolist invocation in "Litanie de la rose" of the woman-rose "absente de tout bouquet" and, I would argue, Gautier's "Symphonie en blanc majeur." In "The Alchemist," Pound transforms both nature and language into a mysterious "alembic" (CEP, 226) wherein things undergo a metamorphosis and become what P. E. Tennant, referring to Gautier, describes as "a jewel-case to be plundered by the artist-connoisseur":
Sail of Claustra, Aelis, Azalais,
As you move among the bright trees;
As your voices, under the larches of Paradise
Make a clear sound,
Sail of Claustra, Aelis, Azalais,
Raimona, Tibors, Berangfèrë,
'Neath the dark gleam of the sky;
Under night, the peacock-throated,
Bring the saffron-coloured shell,
Bring the red gold of the maple,
Bring the light of the birch tree in autumn
Mirals, Cembelins, Audiarda,
Remember this fire.
Elain, Tireis, Alcmena
'Mid the silver rusding of wheat,
Agradiva, Anhes, Ardenca,
From the plum-coloured lake, in stillness,
From the molten dyes of the water
Bring the burnished nature of fire;
Briseis, Lianor, Loica,
From the wide earth and the olive,
From the poplars weeping their amber,
By the bright flame of the fishing torch
Remember this fire.
Pound's "Alchemist" is a "Symphonie en or majeur," and the purifying fire described therein is a mere transposition into another key of Gautier's northern landscape and vision of absolute beauty. And just as Gautier sets forth a play of correspondences between Parian marble, mica, ivory, alabaster, "l'argent mat, la laiteuse opale," Pound uses his mineral imagery (gold, copper, amber, bronze, the "pallor of silver," the "milk-white bodies of agate") to much the same effect. Both Gautier and Pound are "luminous" poets whose characteristic mineral imagery and images of reflecting light and water invariably suggest the existence of, and a pathway to, a crystalline world of the Hellenic gods.
But even in this most patently symbolic and artificial of Pound's poems, his natural descriptions nevertheless contain a Gautieresque specificity that anticipates much of his later poetry. Pound greatly extends his range of floral and mineral imagery in this particular poem, and the variegated landscape and mellifluous alchimie du verbe are always securely anchored by the extended catalog of trees ("larches of Paradise," "the red gold of the maple," "the light of the birch tree in autumn," "the poplars weeping their amber") and the vivid description of the natural setting: "the plum-coloured lake," "the molten dyes of the water," "Rain flakes of gold on the water, / Azure and flaking silver of water." Thus, despite the residue of a Gautieresque symbolism, Pound shows that he has learned his lesson well, and that he can successfully integrate Gautier's "realism" into his own verse.
For the first time, Pound manages in Ripostes to avoid the patently decorative, where colors and flowers, for example, are mere stage props for a secondhand literary vision. In lieu of Pound's early roses, willows, and "bright white drops upon a leaden sea ... Evan'scent mirrors every opal one" (CEP, 7), a precise and less interchangeable diction begins to appear in poems like "Effects of Music Upon a Company of People":
A soul curls back,
Their souls like petals,
Thin, long, spiral,
Like those of a chrysanthemum curl
Smoke-like up and back from the
Vavicel, the calyx,
Pale green, pale gold, transparent,
Green of plasma, rose-white,
Spirate like smoke,
Slowly, waving slowly.
O Flower animate!
O calyx!
O crowd of foolish people!
Reminiscent of H. D.'s, the floral imagery here is much more specific than the generic roses of his early poetry, and the botanical terms anticipate Pound's later use of them in the Cantos. Moreover, Pound's use of color is so qualified that the description paradoxically becomes both extremely concrete and extremely ephemeral. Moving from the pale green of the calyx to the pale gold of the chrysanthemum (literally, golden flower), Pound establishes a vivid contrast or dissociation held together by a qualifying "paleness" that transforms the flower into an ethereally transparent thing: "Vavicel, the calyx,/Pale green, pale gold, transparent." Pound then modifies this color opposition, developing the suggested translucence in the previous line by conjoining a hard crystalline substance, a translucent variety of chalcedony, with a gaseous one: "Green of plasma, rose-white." The pale gold has now become "rose-white,/Spirate like smoke," enabling Pound to return to his initial analogy between the soul and the "chrysanthemum curl / Smoke-like up and back from the / Vavicel." Because Pound is now able to interrelate successfully his various descriptive elements and analogies, the golden color does not escape the bounds of the poem to become just another one of the blazons that plagued his early poetry.
This newfound control is even more readily apparent in " Apparuit." Although it is often singled out by critics as a last manifestation of Pound's Rossettian diction, "Apparuit" can also be seen as another instance of Gautier's influence, adopting as it does the rose-white, crimson-alabaster contrast so evident in Gautier's "'sculpture' of rhyme" (P, 186):
Golden rose the house, in the portal 1 saw
thee, a marvel, carven in subtle stuff, a
portent. Life died down in the lamp and flickered,
caught at the wonder.
Crimson, frosty with dew, the roses bend where
thou afar, moving in the glamorous sun,
drinkst in life of earth, of the air, the tissue
golden about thee.
Green the ways, the breath of the fields is thine there,
open lies the land, yet the steely going
darkly hast thou dared and the dreaded aether
parted before thee.
Swift at courage thou in the shell of gold, casting
a-loose the cloak of the body, earnest
straight, then shone thine oriel and the stunned light
faded about thee.
Half the graven shoulder, the throat aflash with
strands of light inwoven about it, loveliest
of all things, frail alabaster, ah me!
swift in departing.
Clothed in goldish weft, delicately perfect,
gone as wind! The cloth of the magical hands!
Thou a slight thing, thou in access of cunning
dar'dst to assume this?
Like Gautier's "À une robe rose," "Apparuit" objectifies the poet's fleeting vision in a painterly fashion through the play of color, light, and a virtual arabesque of line and movement. The opening stanza situates the vision and establishes the governing color scheme as well as the fulgurant light which permits the apparition: "Life died down in the lamp and flickered,/Caught at the wonder." Containing a curious echo of the concluding quatrain of Baudelaire's "Les Bijoux," "Apparuit" moves from the darkness of the portal to the radiant, sunlit world of the woman. The poem enacts a progressive idealization and etherealization of the woman whereby she "cast[s] a-loose the cloak of the body," loses all solidity, becoming a fragile, airy, "slight thing."
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text: Vintage Disneyland character costumes were the fabric of nightmaresCyriaque Lamar5/21/12 4:45pmFiled to: Holy crap wtfDisneyCosplayMickey MouseTopFbPhotography751EditInvite manuallyPromoteDismissUndismissHideShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink There's something immensely jarring about pictures of retro Disneyland character costumes. Between the blank soulless eyes, rumpled fabric, and yellowing photographs, every one of these snapshots would not be out of place in a scrapbook bound with human bones. The park looks not unlike the underworld for fursuit enthusiasts.Here's a sampling of Disneyland scenes snapped between the 1950s and 1970s. I'm pretty sure the only reason Disneyland ever caught on is because our parents secretly have Stockholm Syndrome. And for more old school Disney horror, see 1930s Serbian Donald Duck cosplay and the Mickey Mouse gas mask of World War II. The Wizard of Oz pre-Judy Garland was no cakewalk either. BONUS: This vintage Donald Duck costume, which was likely used for acts unspeakable. Advertisement [Via Miehana's Flickr, LoopDeLoop, The Maggot Prince, The Pie Shops, 08jo, Isle of Lucy, Fred Wolfie, Cartoon Brew, Vintage Disneyland, and Daveland]Reply75 repliesLeave a reply


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Jenna, the psychic/astrologer--"her" site AboutAstro.com abandoned in late 2014 thanks to bad reviews--tells me in a new email, the first I've received from "her" in months, that my next three months of 2016 will really matter, and for $29--a new low in terms of pricing--she'll guide me and tell me my lucky days.
After leaving her AboutAstro.com clients suddenly stranded, "Jenna" moved to the site "the-astrology.com," but, surprise, she's no longer there; a "Mary" has replaced her. Links in the recent email led me to Jenna's next new website, "astrology-jenna.com," a site that has only a homepage at this time. Links in the email took me to a drawing of the "Energizing Crystal Grid" which "Jenna" asserts she made specifically for me.
In the email, "Jenna" claimed the planet Venus will be retrograde much of the year. In fact, the planet Venus will not retrograde at all during 2016. Whoever wrote "Jenna's" letter could simply have Googled "Venus retrograde" and learned that. But they're too--lazy? Dumb?--in any case, you still don't want to pay Jenna to give you readings or grids of any kind, astrological, numerological, crystallogical,, or psychic.
There is much more astrological misinformation in the email, but I think one big, blatant instance is enough to convince us that this new site--which the owner opened in February 2016--isn't going to revive the once-popular false astrologer "Jenna." She won't have clients until she offers real readings, and it doesn't seem as if there's any chance of that.
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Find the online horoscopes and psychics you can trust. By Sylvia Sky.
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Adrian Ross Duncan, Astrologer: Real or Fake?
I emailed astrologer Adrian Ross Duncan because so many were asking me "Is he real or fake?" Here is the full email he sent me on January 19, 2016, clarifying his relationship with AstrologyAnswers.com, and discussing his own sites where you can buy reports directly from him. I asked if he had parted ways with AstrologyAnswers.com, which barrages customers with very cheesey emails signed "Adrian Ross Duncan."
Dear Sylvia:
… and thanks for writing. I get a lot of people writing in connection with AstrologyAnswers, so please excuse me if this mail does not exactly address your mail specifically. In answer to your specific questions, I don't think Astrology Answers has parted ways with me. They are always doing something strange, but basically I supply the reports they sell, and they are permitted to use my name to promote them.
As regards my own sites, www.astrowow.com is the most advanced and has a lot of free stuff. But within about 3 months my old site and new site will merge into a really beautifully designed new site. People will get redirected to www.astrowow.com
As you may know I have many astrological services… articles, my own websites astrowow.com and world-of-wisdom.com, I write books and even daily, weekly and monthly sun signs. It's part of the busy life of working with astrology full time. I have also developed the World of Wisdom software programs, and recently I wrote and designed a really good prediction report – The Year Report. The reports I have developed are sent to customers in real time, and I have 3 to 4 companies who sell these reports, either anonymously or under my name. In my opinion these reports are amongst the best available on the market today, particularly the Year Report, which combines transits, progressions, planetary and age cycles and the solar return in amazing detail.
By far the most successful of the companies selling my reports is AstrologyAnswers.com, which is affiliated to a marketing company called New Peak Media. I get a fixed monthly fee from this company, and they sell thousands of reports a month.
Early last year, AstrologyAnswers asked me if I would help them promote the reports. As I believe in my reports, I am happy to promote them, which I have done with videos. However, the emails used by AstrologyAnswers were absolutely awful. So there is a stipulation in my contract that any mails using my name may be edited by me. This process of editing lasted from May 2014 to December 2014, as their copywriters test the results of every edited mail. Unfortunately my name has been associated with some crappy emails in the process, which is regrettable. They keep writing new mails, so it is hard to keep track.
Currently people who sign up get a free report, which has actually inaccurate (in the calculation of the Ascendant). This is an old system they were using before dealing with me. I have now redesigned this so that users will get a mini-report based on their birthdate. This report actually calculates a solar chart, scans it for the strongest aspect between personal planets and outer planets, and composes an interpretation. Furthermore it scans currents transits, finds the strongest outer planet transit, and adds that to the interpretation. That is what users will get – for free – so it is an excellent deal. But even this they keep changing. Also Astrology Answers sells 6 teaching videos which I designed, wrote and filmed, and these are doing very well on their site.
In the end I think they give good service, more personalized and better than anything else offered for free on the net. AstrologyAnswers otherwise conforms to industry standards, you can unsubscribe from their emails if you don't like them, you can get refunds, and they give a lot for free.
As I mentioned in the beginning, I do get a lot of people writing to me – hence this mail, which explains things in detail. But please note, my affiliation with AstrologyAnswers is just a small part of my work and I cannot address their support issues. For this you need to go to the support channels of Astrology Answers. Their email is:
Best Regards - Adrian
Sunday, January 10, 2016
What to Expect from a Tarot Reading
Is it scary? Is it a trick, a sham? How much will it cost, how long will a reading take--and can the reader tell me about my soulmate and my fate? What if I don't like what the Tarot cards say? Is the reader a witch? What if the Death card comes up? Will she let me cut the cards? Read about what to expect when you meet, in person, with a professional Tarot reader, here.
Sunday, September 20, 2015
Forced off the Net: "Norah" at PremiumAstrology.com
You reap what you sow: The fake psychic readings by "Norah" at PremiumAstrology.com, plus increasing unhappiness among customers unable to obtain refunds, forced the site off the Net. The shutoff occured suddenly and left customers hanging and googling until their eyes bled to hunt down "Norah's" new URL, Norahguide.com, and try to find a way to request a refund. I'll save you the hunt: The phone number is 1-866-
This is the second major fake Internet psychic advertiser, after Jenna, who's been forced to abandon a profitable longtime URL and get another because of bad customer reviews and notoriety. They're both owned by the same company in France.
This is the second major fake Internet psychic advertiser, after Jenna, who's been forced to abandon a profitable longtime URL and get another because of bad customer reviews and notoriety. They're both owned by the same company in France.
Saturday, July 18, 2015
Maria Medium: Can She Contact the Other Side?
Several readers asked whether they could trust Maria Medium, or "Maria the Medium," at the-medium-maria.com, so I requested her free three-card Tarot readings and am sharing the results, and outing her outrageous price of $79 for a seven-card Tarot reading. I don't know any real Tarot reader who charges that much. Click here for my findings about Maria Medium, who delivers a blend of astrology, lucky numbers, and very limited Tarot.
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Horoscope Review: "Padre," Your Guardian Angel's Middleman
"Padre," a new online fortuneteller, says he has the power to talk personally with your guardian angel. He says your angel wants you to to listen to him and pay him $106. "Padre" is not a priest, just happens to look like one. Clever programming on this site dealt me a new guardian angel each time, despite my entering identical information. Full review is here.
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Astro-Readings.com: Just Say "Norah"
You'll see ads around for Astro-Readings.com, and looking into this firm I found it's another of those "guy-based-in-France" spinoffs, his main mealticket being the notorious "Norah" fake astrologer of premiumastrology.com. So don't be fooled. By the way, purchased reports from Astro-Readings.com are final after 6 days. That's right, no refund after 6 days (far different from Norah's 6 months). Buyer beware. And golly, the English on the FAQ page is awful!
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The Political Quarterly is delighted to announce Dave Richards from the University of Manchester and Martin Smith from the University of York as worthy winners of the Bernard Crick Prize for Best Piece 2015. The winning article is entitled 'In Defence of British Politics Against the British Political Tradition' (86, 1: 41-51)
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The smell of cigarette smoke is strong, pervasive, and often lingers in a home. This guide is about removing cigarette smoke ordors from a house.
I use to smoke in my house and company did as well. I have cleaned all my walls, curtains, and carpets, and I still smell cigarette smoke. I use wall deodorant plugs, and wall sprays and candles. I also got a crock pot and put hot water and potpourri oils in it. I still smell it, but no really heavy smell. My house smells.
By Bobbie A from Jeffersonville, IN
Have you cleaned your furniture? Upholstered furniture and mattresses will hold on to that smoke smell. Even wooden furniture (be sure to clean the sides, not just the top) and cabinets need to be cleaned well to remove the tar and nicotine residue. You might not be able to see it, but it's there.
Place some pans of heated vinegar around the house for a few days. You can also place pans of charcoal (activated, if available). The vinegar smell will linger, but is very short lived. The smoke odor in fabrics might be reduced by spraying with Febreze?
Everything will need to be cleaned; smoking gets residue even inside your lights, TV, and other appliances. Clean your furniture, pillows I would toss and replace. Have you also wiped down mirrors pictures, and glass? Change your vacuum bag and air filters for your a/c and heat. It will be in your blankets, clothing, luggage, towels - everything.
It may take several years for it to totally go away. A friend of mine had her home professionally cleaned by a special smoke removal company after she quit smoking, and on damp days the smell still came out 2 years later.
Good luck!
We bought a house that had smokers living in it. We have stripped up all carpet and had the wood floors refinished. We have stripped and refinished the woodwork and painted everything else, but in the spring in the time between using the furnace and the air conditioner, we can still smell the odor. Does anyone have any suggestions?
By Betty
Did you use Kilz primer with an odor blocker before painting? Most smokers occupy kitchen, livingroom and bedroom where smoke is more prevalent. Have you scrubbed closets, cabinets, appliances that went with the home? If you use a strong fragrance when cleaning like PineSol or a citrus scent and air the house this Spring that should help in time. Does the house have floor vents? Use the long hose on your vac or shop vac and get as far into the duct as possible moving it back and forth. This will get loose debris/dust that odors cling to and then you can scrub the interior so far back with a strong disinfectant cleaner (I like Lysol in brown bottle) and set a bowl of vinegar water or crushed/bruised lemon or orange peelings on a saucer inside the vent duct.
An ozone generator will do the trick. I had a bad cooking incident in my home. I was told that I would have to repaint the whole house to remove the smell. I researched smoke removal and subsequently purchased an ozone generator from eBay for about $150. It was well worth it. I had tried everything to remove horrible smoke smell and nothing else worked. You can rent them, but I used it for several days to totally eliminate the odor, so purchasing the unit made sense. Good luck!
Before you go through the expense of having your ducts cleaned, get the furnace professionally cleaned first. Your ducts get dirty from the furnace. And, it takes more than just changing the furnace filters to clean a furnace and get it tuned up. Something the manufacturers recommend you have done once a year anyway. Then after the furnace is professionally cleaned, look at getting the ducts cleaned. Smoking and having pets all go through the furnace cycle and into the duct work. On average you will pay about $89 for a good reputable company to come out and professionally clean and tune up the furnace.
The woman who lived in the apartment before me was a chain smoker. The walls were prepped and painted. The smell seeped through after a month. The super in the building used something to bomb out the apt. and then put pellets in the vents and after that used an ionizer to clean the air. Well that didn't work either. I had to have the pellets removed because of the chemical smell. I even had to be on an inhaler for a while because of my breathing. It's hard to live here with a constant sore throat and smell. I want to wash down the walls and clean the rugs again myself. I don't want to have to paint the walls. I heard vinegar and water should do the trick.
Cigarette smoke settles everywhere, changing from second hand smoke in the air to third hand smoke, which consists of old cigarette particles that cling to literally everything. You must thoroughly clean literally everything from the ceiling down-lights, wall switches, etc. and replace rugs and wall coverings. This is why the smell lingers for years or more. In addition to the constant smoke smell, you are also constantly breathing in third hand smoke, the cigarette particles. They are as cancerous as the original cigarette and second hand smoke.
Unfortunately, the best plan for you is quickly to move out of the apartment and be certain that your next apartment has always been smoke free.
My roommate and I have been heavy smokers for years. I want to clean my entire house, walls, rugs, appliances, furniture, etc. to remove all nicotine from my home. This is why we do not have very much company at all family or friends. I need to change my lifestyle so I can also start breathing properly. Basically, I need help with everything that has to do with nicotine cleaning from my home and body. Is there any help out there?
By Sherri from Boston, MA
You didn't state if you were giving up smoking or not, but there are e-cigs that operate as a mist and you can buy vials of flavored non nicotine liquids to refill the ecigs. It's better healthwise for you than smoking cigarettes if you want to try giving them up and the best thing about ecigs is it's odorless and no nicotine building up in lungs, clothing, and home, etc.
In the future anyone who smokes should do it outdoors, so your home remains odor free of cigarette smoke and remove all temptation by getting rid of the ashtrays. To clean a lot of your heavily coated household items like sofa, chair, carpet, drapes or anything else fabric, is not going to be easy. You may look on the internet for commercial cleaning products that get down deeper than what you can get in the supermarkets.
If you can afford to replace upholstered seating, I'd do that to save a lot of effort and time. You can buy almost new sofa/chair if you look around in newspaper ads or on the 'net if you can't buy new. I feel the same way about your carpet; years of smoke buildup and nicotine stains present in fabric won't all come out.
If you need to go cheaper on cleaners w/o replacing a lot of furnishings, use these two products but not together: PineSol and Lysol in brown bottle and wear gloves as too much on hands feels like they are burning a little. You'll have to go over and over everything to totally notice a big difference. The carpet padding may also have the odor in it and that's why you may not totally remove all odors especially noticeable on rainy days.
For walls if painted, scrub thoroughly to remove buildup and then repaint using a primer that deals with odors first. The primer will state it takes care of odors.
For woodwork, wash with PineSol and a lot will lift out and change the water frequently. Try a degreaser spray too. This may help lift some of that stubborn nicotine. You can use Scots Liquid Gold or a good wood polish afterward to bring back that newer look.
Sorry there's no EZ fix getting the job done, but it'll be cleaner and you'll be in a healthier lifestyle.
TriSodiumPhosphate or TSP is a powder you mix in water. It is the best thing for all walls, cabinets, paneling, etc.
Baking soda just in tubs or in the boxes around the house will help, as will the plants. Your body will detox on it's own. Lots of water in your system will help with the sallow look and the yellow fingers. You are a champion if you are giving up smoking. If you are not, then look around your home and imagine that the inside of your body.
Good luck.
Bentonite clay will pull the nicotine and tobacco toxins from your body I would recommend taking capsules and drinking A lot of water, drink a lot of fresh juices veggie and fruit. As to cleaning walls I have had good success with a good microfiber cloth like the purple ones available from Flylady (google it) dawn and some water followed by spraying a solution of half white vinegar half water and scrubbing until everything comes clean. Have removed some nasty nicotine stains this way.
I would find a cleaner that has an ozone room for your furniture to put it in there after cleaning. You can get bentonite clay and capsules to put it in from www.thebulkherbstore.com
We painted the yellow nicotine stained walls. To take the smell away do I have to clean and repaint again?
When we moved into our house, one bedroom had been used by a smoker. We had to rip out and replace the carpet, clean the walls and ceilings with Mean Green (straight), and apply two coats of Kilz. Then we painted and laid new carpet, and finally the room was inhabitable.
Need to resolve the nicotine problem first, paint will not adhere to the surface.
How do you get cigarette smoke out of your apartment?
This works on so many surfaces like walls, ceilings and floors. Replace or have the carpet professionally cleaned. Very good stuff!
We just had a family member move into an apartment. The person who lived there before was a heavy smoker. Does anyone have ideas on how to get the smell of smoke out of the apartment? The carpets have been shampooed and the landlord painted, but the scent is still there. Any idea would be great. Thank you!
Stacy from El Paso, IL
We went through a similar isssue. We used most of the other suggestions posted and all seemed to help but did not completely eliminate the smell. Finally, a friend suggested we cut apples in half and place them all over the apartment. Apples aren't cheap, but it worked.
We had a purchased trailer that smelled like smoke and rotten seafood - Ugh! We painted the walls, but used a primer called Bin (probably purchased at Home Depot) - the stuff seals stains and smells. It worked wonders. We did also remove all the upholstery and I'm sure this helped too.
We had a house fire a few months ago, the home were re-build - I managed to save my brand new curtains never been used, but the smell of smoke is so deep in the fabric, we've tried dry cleaning, soak in vinegar, air outside, but to no avail! The minute we iron/press the curtains you get that horrible smell again. Who can help!
How can I eleminate cigarette smoke smells from my home when someone smokes in his room daily?
There is no way to remove cigarette smell/smoke from your home if someone smokes inside as the smoke permeates the entire house. You can use very powerful (smelly) room fresheners but they do not remove the smell; they provide a different smell that only lasts a certain period of time. The smell can last for years even though the house may be repainted, curtains and carpet replaced, etc.
I'm moving into a house where a smoker has lived for 30 years. It smells like it, too. Any suggestions to get that deep down smoky smell out?
By Angela
If the walls are sheet rock, wash them down with
baking soda and water, then paint with a stain blocker mildew inhibitor, I used Kilz, Kmart and Walmart have it, there are other brands available. Make sure you do it on a day that is OK to keep your windows open because it's pretty stinky stuff. Then paint the walls with paint. Kilz is also great for water stains on walls and ceilings.
Regular barbeque charcoal is good to put around too for smells.
- Liz
We ordered some T-2 to test for our readers and it is very pricey. They double charged us for our order and what we got was a tiny little 2 oz spray bottle (supposed to be 19.95 but was charged 39.95) I've written to them about it to see. Frankly the little bottle could be water. It is odorless. It says to use it with sunlight putting the item in the sun for 2 hours because it is activated by light. Two hours of sunshine will remove the odors from many things just by itself. At present, I would not recommend this.
Susan from ThriftyFun
I burnt the pot of soup to charcoal and the house smelled really bad. I sprayed the walls with fabreez and kept the windows open and sprayed all fabrics curtains and boiled cinnamon and orange slices for the smell.


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The Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth and the Social Justice Executive Committee are currently focusing on the following issues. To gain some perspective on the focus areas, please use these resources for more information and education.
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Stop Trafficking is an anti-trafficking newsletter focused on awareness, advocacy and action. The Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth are one of the sponsors of the website and the newsletter.
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Since 2000, the Sisters of Charity have been collaborating with the nonprofit organization, Veronica's Voice, located in Kansas City, Kansas. The mission of Veronica's Voice is to end commercial sexual exploitation in the United States. The latest effort along with emergency intervention includes starting a home for women in recovery, who are attempting to escape this oppressive lifestyle.
Magdalene KC is the latest project undertaken by Veronica's Voice. This includes the purchase of a home that is being renovated to accommodate 5 women for up to 2 years.
Program considerations and planning include new job skill training, counseling, GED or vocational training, addiction counseling and courage-building experiences to help re-entry into society that is successful, healthy and whole. Please consider joining us in these efforts. To learn more, visit Veronica's Voice website.
The sisters are involved in everything from remodeling the home, to seeking collaborative agencies to fund raising.
In May 2011, after study and discussion, the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth took a community stance in support of comprehensive immigration reform. Read the SCL Immigration Stance.
You can join us in advocating for immigration reform. You can take action and learn more on these websites:
Justice for Immigrants, website of the USCCB (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops), has up-to-date info and opportunities for advocacy with members of Congress.
CLINIC -- Catholic Legal Immigration Network
NETWORK -- Catholic Social Justice Lobby
One of our SCL Chapter Actions focuses on care of the earth. It reads:
We will educate ourselves and others in the theology and sacredness of creation.
We will make ecological concerns a key factor in decisions as individuals and local houses.
As a community we will advocate for nuclear disarmament.
A Care of Creation Committee, composed of SCLs and Associates, has established a special website for education and advocacy:
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Address delivered to the UN Climate Change Summit in New York
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We strive to advocate and educate for nuclear disarmament in the United States and the world. Learn more about peace efforts we support at
National Catholic Peace Movement (Pax Christi) and the USCCB (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops).
The S(safe)C(clean)L(life-giving) Water Filter Project started in 2012 to provide Sawyer water filters for SCL Sisters doing mission work in Peru and South Sudan. Initially the Sisters in the mission fields used a limited number of filters. As they saw their effectiveness in providing clean water, a fund raising campaign took place from November 2012 to January 2013. The SCL Community, individual Sisters, Associates and friends responded generously. A grant was also received to provide additional funds.
In 2013 we sent water filters to Peru and South Sudan. Two resources are being used, the Sawyer company in Florida which makes the filters and Water With Blessings for specific community projects. The specific filter being used is the Sawyer PointZero TWO water filter.
Women in Peru with Water With Blessings filters and buckets.
The goal is to continue to respond to the need for clean water with an emphasis on the mission areas in which the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth have an active role or presence.
During 2015, 60 water filter kits were sent to Sister Pat Johannsen in South Sudan. After receiving instruction from S. Pat on the importance of drinking filtered water, each student received one of the kits that is shared with his/her family. Sister Clorinda Timana Martinez took 10 water filter kits to share with families in northern Peru. Sister Elena Mack shared eight water filter kits with families living in southern Peru.
In 1989 the SCL Community took an official stance against capital punishment. It says:
"We, Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, as a community, oppose the use of capital punishment and pledge ourselves to support efforts to abolish the death penalty."
Today we are still working to stop the death penalty in states where Sisters and Associates reside including Kansas, Montana and Colorado.
To learn more visit these advocacy sites:
Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Montana Abolition Coalition
Coloradans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Catholic Mobilizing Network
USCCB: comprehensive compilation of Catholic teaching, news releases and links to action
Death Penalty Information Center: The Death Penalty Information Center is a non-profit organization serving the public and the media with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment.
Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation: Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation (MVFR) is a national organization of family members of victims of both homicide and executions who oppose the death penalty in all cases.
Thirteen religious groups, including the SCL Council, sent a letter to Pope Francis in the fall of 2013 asking him to rescind the Papal Bulls of the 15th Century. These Bulls were known as the Doctrine of Discovery. This doctrine justified violence against the indigenous people of North America by allowing Spain and Portugal to take unclaimed lands and capture and enslave non-Christians. Title to newly discovered lands lay with the monarchs whose subjects discovered the new territory.
More information can be found at www.doctrineofdiscovery.org and
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Bread and Roses Integrated Arts High School
Our review:
JUNE 2013 UPDATE: Bread and Roses Integrated Arts High School is being phased out and replaced after years of poor performance. No new students were admitted in September 2013, and the phase-out will be completed in June 2016. The DOE has proposed to open and co-locate a new school in the building that would grow to serve grades 6-12.
JULY 2012 REVIEW: Founded in 1997 as an alternative to Harlem's traditional schools, Bread and Roses High School has undergone wrenching changes in philosophy, rapid turnover of leadership and even confusion over whether it will stay open.
The Department of Education twice considered closing it for poor performance—once in 2010 and again in 2012—but it managed to stay open both times. In July 2012, a judge ordered the city not to go forward with its plan to remove half the staff and rename the school—a decision that came after many teachers had been told to find work elsewhere.
The school has struggled for years to maintain order and discipline. Attendance is poor and the graduation rate is low. It has had three principals since 2009.
On the positive side, Rodney Lofton, named principal in March 2011, is an experienced educator with a degree from Columbia University. He was formerly superintendent of schools in Trenton, N J. Colleagues describe him as "soft-spoken, thoughtful and smart."
The school was founded by progressive educator Carol Foresta. Its name comes from the rallying cry of striking textile workers in Lawrence, MA, in 1911, who are reported to have said: "We want bread, but we want roses too." Over the years, the school has become more traditional, with Regents prep replacing the projects and oral exams it once had. Students wear khaki pants and a burgundy polo shirt.
Admissions: The school offers open houses in November. Admission is according to the educational option formula designed to ensure a mix of students of different abilities. Most incoming students are low-performing, although the school offers an honors progrm. (Clara Hemphill, interviews, July 2012)


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"Filled with compelling stories and reflections from residents of Poland's classic industrial town, this book provides one of the most illuminating accounts yet of changes in work and life from socialism to capitalism. Pozniak rejects the stale framework of 'nostalgia' and shows us memory as valuable sociological commentary. Her informants show a remarkable, non-ideological common sense that offers profound insights not just about transitions but about contemporary global capitalism. What a wonderful read!"—David Ost, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
"Nowa Huta is about far more than the socialist company town and the Solidarity resistance that put it on the world map. Kinga Pozniak shows, masterfully, a brick-and-mortar setting in action as it becomes the stuff of negotiated memories and identities amid sweeping political, economic, and societal change. Nowa Huta is a fascinating treatise on 'sites of memory' everywhere."—Janine R. Wedel, George Mason University
"Pozniak's richly detailed and sympathetic portrayal is worthy of a wide audience."--Choice
"This book will appeal to anyone interested in recent Polish history and culture, and has much to offer to those interested in post-socialist transitions, urban anthropology, post-industrialization, and memory. Pozniak's prose is accessible and she has a gift for concisely summarizing for the non-expert complex political and social changes in the region. As a result, her book will appeal to undergraduates. At the same time, Pozniak explores important questions about how hegemonic narratives are created and disseminated, about how they are used as tools to situate oneself vis-a-vis state projects, and about how they marginalize some and valorize others. Her explorations of these questions are subtle and profound to interest the professional scholar. And the fact that this is accomplished through the lens of Nowa Huta, a district experiencing multiple transitions, gives the book both humanity and allure."—Council for European Studies
"The story of the building of model industrial towns in the Eastern Bloc, such as Nowa Huta, Magnitogorsk, and Stalinstadt, has been richly told. But what falte befell such places when the curtain fell on state socialism? . . . Pozniak takes us on an absorbing journey through present-day Nowa Huta, interviewing its inhabitants in what turns out to be a quest for a usable past. . . . Pozniak's fascinating study sheds light on the agency of common people in defining the meaning of their experiences, on the role of broader discourses in either reaffirming or marginalizing these stories, and on the political implications of this process. . . . This study will be of interest to historians, anthropologists, and sociologists working on state socialism and postsocialism."--American Historical Review
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Saturday, July 30, 2016
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Journey To A Lost World
Pack your collecting bag, old sneakers, and lunch, and travel back in time with Museum fossil expert Paul Nascimbene for an expedition to Big Brook in Monmouth County, New Jersey. The area offers a variety of invertebrate and vertebrate fossils from the Late Cretaceous period. Plentiful fossils and diverse fauna make it an ideal spot for collecting. Feel free to bring your own collecting equipment.
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
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Astronomy Live: Grand Illusion: Celestial Motions
Explore the night sky from different perspectives with Ted Williams and discover how patterns of celestial motion appear to change depending on your location.
Friday, August 5-Saturday, August 6
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A Night at the Museum Sleepover for Grown-Ups
The American Museum of Natural History is hosting its wildly popular adults-only sleepover adventure. Built on the successful A Night at the Museum sleepover program, this version of the popular event has been designed for adults ages 21 and up.
Friday, August 5
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Summer Star Sail
Set sail in New York Harbor with astrophysicist Charles Liu and watch the Sun set while learning the science and star lore that surround the summer sky.
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
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Astronomy Live: Our Cosmic Destiny
Join Brian Abbott and Alejandro Núñez as they guide you through the history of the universe, and then discover what will happen to stars and galaxies in the future, including our ultimate fate—the "Big Freeze."
Saturday, August 13
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Hall Tour: Evolution
Tour the Halls of Biodiversity, Vertebrate Origins, Primates, and Human Origins to learn about the mechanisms of evolution. Along the way, we will review some of the major branching points in animal evolution.
Saturday, August 13-Sunday, August 14
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A Night at the Museum Sleepover
As the doors close and the lights dim, you and your group will head out with flashlights in search of a variety of adventures.
Sunday, August 14
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Nature's Gate: Microscopy with Jay Holmes
Take your family on an exploration of the microscopic world found in Central Park with Jay Holmes. Participants will learn how to study the world using microscopes and get a primer in collection techniques. Examples of microscopes from the 19th century will also be on hand.
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
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Astronomy Live: Constellations of the Zodiac
Irene Pease and Lydia Maria Petrosino share stories of ancient mythology as they guide you through the night sky to identify the constellations of the zodiac.
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
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Astronomy Live: Things That Go Bang in the Universe
Discover all the things that go BANG in the night on a tour of cosmic explosions with Jackie Faherty.
Sunday, August 28
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Hall Tour: Conservation and Extinction
Tour dioramas throughout the Museum's halls that serve as an archive of environmental change and educate researchers and visitors alike about how ecosystems have changed over time.
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
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Astronomy Live: Countdown to Totality
Get ready for the total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017 with Joe Rao and share a "sneak preview" of the experience in the immersive dome environment.
Eight Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays or Fridays, September 6 - October 28, 2016
Early-Morning Bird Walks in Central Park
Observe the exciting fall migration of birds in Central Park with ornithologists Paul Sweet and Joseph DiCostanzo.
Two Sessions of Four Tuesdays, September 6, 2016 - October 25, 2016
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Fall Lunchtime Bird Walks in Central Park
Spend your lunch in Central Park observing birds!
Saturday, September 24
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Family Bird Walks
Young explorers will learn observational skills, then head out to Central Park with Museum naturalist Noah Burg to identify bird species and habitats. Binoculars and bird guides are included. Recommended for families with children ages 4-10.
Saturday, September 24
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Hall Tour: The Art of the Diorama
The Museum is widely regarded as having the finest, most accurate wildlife dioramas in the world. Join us for a look through these "Windows on Nature" as we discover science as art and art as science. Learn about the role that these dioramas play in conservation, the big personalities behind their creation, and why they are as important today as they were fifty or more years ago.
Tuesday, September 27
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Behind the Scenes: Mammalogy
The Museum's mammal collection is among its oldest, and it is the third largest collection of recent mammals in the world. Join a Museum expert in mammalogy to see some of the highlights of this incredible record of life that are not on public display.
Eight Wednesdays, September 28 - November 16, 2016
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The celebrated dioramas, dinosaur skeletons, and other distinctive features of the Museum serve as backdrop for an intensive after-hours drawing course with illustrator and naturalist Patricia Wynne


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The last report contained information about the acquisition of 3 schools, the acquisition of Changchun Nuoya and Harbin Nuoya which were completed by the end of May 2011 for approximately $2.5 million and the Company purchased 60% of the equity interests of Tianlang for RMB 35 million (approximately $5.3 million).
In the same report we find the following: As of March 31, 2013 and 2012, the total un-distributable net assets of ZHTC, Changchun Nuoya and Harbin Nuoya amounted to $33,829,591 and $33,169,873, respectively,
my questions are the following:
1- do we read the number $33,829,591 like 33 million$ or 33 thousand dollars?
2- is this number consolidated in the financial statements?
3- what do they mean by they are private schools not operated for reasonable returns; therefore, are not allowed to distribute dividends? what is the reason?, there are laws for example that prevent such dividends?and when they will be allowed to collect those dividends?
4-can we have the address of those schools and if they have a website we would like to have a look at it?
Sentiment: Hold
I did not read the 10Q that closely; but I did take Advance Accounting in college and if I recall; they are consolidating their books for the year end reporting. Since these acquisitions did not make any money in that current year; the acquisitions cannot issue any dividends back to the holding company is my take on it! The undistributed net assets is the total assets minus total liabilities or net worth of the company. Not sure if this helps you dealer!
Thanks a lot Harry it did help me,but the only question that remains why the assets themselves are not consolidated in the holding company's books regardless of dividends??? and another thing how come they bought those schools for about 8.5million dollars in 2011 and the year 2012 we see them amount to 33,169,873$ and then in 2013 we see this number amount to $33,829,591 ,so how come they didn't make profit ,isn't this awkward the numbers are not logical or am i wrong!!!!
Dealer, At the end of the day we need some kind of miracle. How can sales plummet as bad as they have over the last 18 months. They have lost 80% of their sales and are still heading in the wrong direction. We all hope that this new online platform is going to save the day but I'm not sure we can bet on this happening if you look at history as our guide. Tough situation and we need a Hail Mary by Doug Flutie (If your a sports fan) to save the day.
Great question and I'm not sure we will know unless Rene from Christiansen answers it for us? The other option is to have one of us or someone else ask the question on the next quarterly conference call? Cloris Li will not return e-mails as I for one have tried over 10 times with zero replies. She is a sorry excuse for a CFO and should be ashamed of herself. This is not Microsoft or Intel and it's hard to believe that a CFO of a little company such as CEAI can't get back to some of her shareholders. JDT
I already sent messages for 2 weeks now with no reply from Cloris ,all the e-mails sent to Christiansen staff gave a failure notice unfortunately.


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Book your room at Hashimi Hotel
Located in Old City, Hashimi Hotel is adjacent to Church of the Holy Sepulchre and within a 5-minute walk of other popular sights like Damascus Gate. This 45-room hotel has conveniences like a restaurant, free in-room WiFi, and a rooftop terrace. Dome of the Rock and Temple Mount are also within a short walk.
Start your day off with breakfast, available for a fee. Order from room service to satisfy your hunger without leaving your room, or enjoy a bite to eat at the onsite restaurant.
All 45 air-conditioned rooms provide safes. Guests can expect TVs with cable channels, along with free WiFi and wired Internet. Select Comfort beds grant a restful night's sleep and bathrooms offer free toiletries.
Property features
Renovated in 2015, Hashimi Hotel offers a rooftop terrace, free WiFi in public areas, and a meeting room. Airport transportation is made easy with an airport shuttle (available 24 hours). Front-desk staff can answer questions 24/7, and assist with dry cleaning/laundry, tours or tickets, and luggage storage. Additional amenities include a business center, laundry facilities, and barbecue grills.
- Walking distance to Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Damascus Gate
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- Onsite dining
- Rooftop terrace
Hashimi HotelSouq Khan El Zeit Street 73 Old City Jerusalem 91999
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The hotel offers a restaurant. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. Business-related amenities consist of a business center and a meeting room. This Jerusalem hotel also offers a rooftop terrace, tour/ticket assistance, and barbecue grills. A total renovation of this property was completed in June 2015.
Hashimi Hotel has designated areas for smoking.
- Total number of rooms - 45
- Number of floors - 3
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Elevator/lift
- Free WiFi
- 24-hour front desk
- Business center
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Laundry facilities
- Gift shops or newsstand
- One meeting room
- Rooftop terrace
- Luggage storage
- Designated smoking areas
- Airport transportation
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- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Television in common areas
- Tours/ticket assistance
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
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- Air conditioning
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- In-room safe
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- THE GREAT BRITISH BAKING SHOW: Victorian
Friday, July 29 at 9:00 p.m.
Watch a full episode devoted to the Victorian age, which gave birth to modern baking. The Signature test is game pie, a stalwart of the era. The Technical recipe, fruitcake, dates to the late 1800s. And much-loved charlotte russe is the Showstopper.
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Friday, July 29 at 10:00 p.m.
Watch the five remaining bakers work their way through patisserie. In the Signature, they're challenged to make cream horns. Then Mary sets a fiddly Technical task: mokatines. The Showstopper is a test of time and gravity: religieuse à l'ancienne.
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Saturday, July 30 at 8:00 p.m.
Enter the underground world of contraband and trafficking as the women work to thwart a terrifying plot.Read more
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Saturday, July 30 at 9:00 p.m.
Bay Area drama unfolds at San Francisco's Old Mint.Read more
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Sunday, July 31 at 8:00 p.m.
Join Stanley, Sarah and Pamela as they try to help Louis elude the police. Masterson offers a huge reward for Louis' capture. Lady Cremone, convinced of Louis' guilt, refuses to aid him. A policeman coerces Sarah into divulging damaging information.Read more
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Sunday, July 31 at 9:00 p.m.
Lewis' reputation is at risk as a new string of murders recalls an old case, now reopened.Read more
- THE TUNNEL, Part 7
July 31 at 10:30 p.m.
Police think they may finally have a lead, as the serial killer's actions escalate in his fifth and final "truth." Karl and Laura's relationship takes another turn as Laura steps up her flirtations with another man.Read more
- ANTIQUES ROADSHOW: Vintage New Orleans
Monday, August 1 at 8:00 p.m.
Travel back 15 years to see our take on treasures then and now. Highlights include a New Orleans art pottery jardinière, an 1858 map of lower Mississippi and a 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers World Series ball. Which item's value jumped to $150,000-$200,000?Read more
- ANTIQUES ROADSHOW: Vintage Atlanta
Monday, August 1 at 9:00 p.m.
Are treasures first appraised in 1997 holding their own?Read more


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Central Arizona Project (CAP) is Arizona's single largest resource for renewable water supplies. CAP is designed to bring about 1.5 million acre-feet of water from the Colorado River to Central and Southern Arizona every year. More than 5 million people, or more than 80% of the state's population, live in Maricopa, Pima and Pinal counties, where CAP water is delivered. CAP carries water from Lake Havasu near Parker to the southern boundary of the San Xavier Indian Reservation southwest of Tucson. It is a 336-mile long system of aqueducts, tunnels, pumping plants and pipelines and is the largest single resource of renewable water supplies in Arizona.
CAP Blog
Press Releases
- 07/05/2016 - CAP Announces Community Investment Grant Awards
- 03/22/2016 - Successful Colorado River Water Conservation Program Solicits Another Round of Project Proposals
- 03/17/2016 - Mark Taylor Appointed to CAP Board of Directors
- 03/15/2016 - U.S. EPA, Bureau of Reclamation Partner with Western Water Districts on Grant Program Seeking Water-Saving Devices of Tomorrow
- 03/03/2016 - Cooke named General Manager of Central Arizona Project