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Salome is a woman possessed - she is determined to kiss John the Baptist's severed head. The final scene of Strauss's opera delivers everything this implies and more. It's a thrilling moment, almost too much to bear. But what's going on in the score?
When Richard Strauss composed Salome (1903), he was emerging from a period of intense orchestral writing. He had created a great stream of tone poems – including Don Juan (1889), Also sprach Zarathustra (1896), and Don Quixote (1897) – and Strauss brought that symphonic understanding to his new stage work.
The Bavarian-born composer's scores are replete with motifs and signifiers that help us understand the unfolding drama. Over the course of Salome's final 15-minute scene, all of the themes we have heard during the opera – particularly in the famous Dance of the Seven Veils – come home to roost.
This last scene begins with a huge outburst, as the executioner appears with the severed head of John the Baptist (known in the opera as Jochanaan). The orchestra screams out a theme from the opening bars of the opera: clearly the whole drama is predestined and Salome greets her prize in ecstasy. Salome gradually draws the orchestra from a minor key into the warmer tonality of C sharp minor/major, showing the strength of her will through the shift.
After such gory glory, the music settles down into something more amorous and creepy as Salome toys with Jochanaan's head. She delays her much-desired kiss, but we know it is coming and, having established the key centre of C sharp, Strauss' music dances, with sprightly harp and pizzicato strings.
The Princess's vocal line and the underlying harmonic language become more extreme, throwing the scene into jeopardy. But as soon as Salome says 'Ah! Ah! Jochanaan, du warst Schön' [Oh, Jochanaan, you were beautiful] the music settles back into C sharp major. A jangle of celesta announces Salome's swooping love theme, with kitschy percussion, harp and strings making the whole scene even sicklier.
Something more troubling, however, sits at the heart of this monologue. Salome sings that 'wenn ich dich ansah, hörte ich geheimnisvolle Musik!' [when I looked at you, I heard the strains of sweet music!], but she has misinterpreted those strains. The theme that reappears in the woodwind previously accompanied Jochanaan's assertion that she was accursed.
Even the degenerate Herod is by appalled (while Herodias gloats at the horror on display). Fractured motifs appear in the orchestra, with Herod braying like a hysterical ape. Glowering chords, grinding C sharp minor against elements of E flat major, create a sinister backdrop to Salome's final moments. She has kissed Jochanaan's mouth.
Salome glories in her conquest, but Herod will have none of it. After a fiercely iridescent cadence in C sharp major, Herod commands the soldiers to kill his stepdaughter. The music snaps back into minor key and the wilful tragedy of the Princess of Judea comes to a dark end.
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The Challenges of Bible Translation: Part 2 of 2
Announcer:The last century has seen a drastic increase in number and style of Bible translations resulting in considerable debate over the benefits of literal versus non-literal translations. Thanks for joining us as we discuss the unique challenges facing Bible translators as they wrestle with the task of transferring words and ideas from one language to another. Part 2.
Dr. Darrell Bock: So what's the difference between formal and dynamic and what are you trying to decide. Audience is one factor. What else?
Dr. Robert Chisholm:Well to me, audience is everything. The purpose of translation is to communicate God's word to people who are unable to read Greek, Hebrew and a little bit of Aramaic and so we want them to be able to read God's word and understand it as it was intended to be understood so to me, audience is the key factor. Then you have to decide well, what age level are we shooting for?
I remember when I was in journalism school they told us to assume in writing news articles that the average reader out there is not at that high a level of understanding and so I think you have to make a conscious decision what age level are we shooting for and I would think junior high. I would like someone to be able to understand the translation if they are in seventh or eighth grade. I would like them to be able to understand clearly what the Bible is saying and not be confused and so that is one of the reasons why we do translations and I think it is impossible to do a purely formal or literal translation and I can illustrate that.
Darrell:We'll come back to that in a second because I think that's an interesting point. So that means then when you come to do your translation, you face the choice of the audience. The second choice that you face is, is this formal dynamic difference between am I going to stay, if I can say it this way, stay as close to the expression of the original language as I can which is formal equivalence or am I really going to try and put it in the most natural sense, in the target language and bring out the meaning, the ambiguities of the text, what the text really means which pushes us more in the direction of dynamic equivalence. So you really have got, to think of a grid, you've got your audience concern here, you have got your formal and dynamic equivalence level here, so when you actually go to choose a word in a particular passage, you've got to decide is that word too complex for my audience? Is that word a good reflection of the original or is there a better word that actually brings out the sense of the passage. All those things happen in any single choice. It makes translation work very difficult, doesn't it?
Robert:Yes and you are not dealing just with words, that's not the way language words, words in isolation. A lot of those who promote formal or very wooden, I say literal translations, they are just dealing with language at a word-for-word level end with really if you do that you will end up with an inner linear, something of that nature. You are not dealing with words. You are dealing with phrases, sentences, discourse structures. English is different than Hebrew.
Darrell: Yeah.
Robert: And so I am looking at Hebrew and I'm trying to figure out what these words mean, what these phrases mean in their context.
Darrell: Idioms.
Robert:Idioms and then trying to figure out what is the best way to say that in my target language to my target audience which in my way of thinking would probably be junior high level.
Darrell:Now you've suggested this already but let's press it a little bit. No one is a complete formalist in translation. Is that a fair statement?
Robert: No way. Would you like me to illustrate what a pure formal translation would look like?
Darrell: You look so you are so ready to do this so if I delay it any longer we might have problems so I don't want any issues.
Robert: I am going to give you a purely formal word-for-word translation of Psalm 16:3 in the Hebrew text.
Darrell: OK.
Robert:"To the holy ones who are in the land they and the mighty ones of all my desire in them" and that's an especially difficult passage in Psalm 16 but there are others like it. Psalm 73:9 and 10, this is an interesting one and when you read the translations of these texts in any translation, it's going to look like it is understandable. That's because the translator has made many, many decisions in order to bring some kind of sense out of it, but when you look at what actually is there in the text. Here is Psalm 73 nine and 10 in the Hebrew text, "They set in the heavens their mouth and their tongue walks in the earth." We've got walking tongues here.
Robert: Verse 10.
Therefore, he will return or he will bring back [there's ancient Jewish scribal variation there) his people here and waters of fullness will be sucked up by them." Okay.
As a translator I have to really get into all the words and phrases find out what idioms will be involved and I might even have to go with some textual decisions where I will go with some alternate readings that are represented in the Septuigiant. In difficult poetic passages in the Old Testament sometimes I need to reconstruct what the original meaning may have looked like so it's a very difficult task especially in poetry but even in prose you can't go according to a purely format word-for-word type of translation. Here is Ruth 4:11 and 12 literal, wooden, formal, "and they said all the people who were in the gate and the elders witnesses may the Lord give the women the one coming to your house like Rachel and like Leah who built the two of them the house of Israel and do strength in Ephrathah and call a name in Bethlehem and may your house be like the house of Perez whom she bore Tamar to Judah from the seed which he will give the Lord to you from a young woman the this."
I'm simply trying to illustrate the Hebrew idiom, word order all of these things are different and so we have to figure out okay what's happening lexically, syntactically, what's going on here in the target text and then bring it over to the target language in a way that it is understandable so that everyone engages in interpretation at some level in order to be able to translate.
Darrell:Even after you've done that, once you decide what all the pieces are to make the thing fit together in that sense then you have got the choice within the English language of which particular words you are going to render and it makes all the difference in the world whether you are talking about trying to do a Bible for an under 12 audience or a regular translation because you are going to have multiple synonyms which you can choose from potentially in the target language and you have to ask yourself which one of these does the best job of telling us what the passage is really saying.
Mark Yarbrough:And from one language to another, you are talking about basic issues of verbs and nouns and the placement of those because as you are reading those and you are listening to a very static rendering of the text, as you relay that into English, it slaughters the English language.
Robert: Yes I always tell my students the NASB and I am not picking on it.
Mark: Sure. Sure.
Robert:That really does not reflect English the way anyone speaks English. It is an attempt to be rather wooden. No one speaks that way. There is a lot of jargon, religious jargon that comes in, in translations, but we struggle with some basic issues and the English language changes so quickly and there are other issues that come up. Very often, when someone wants to champion a literal translation what that often means is they are taking the primary meaning of the word that is listed in the dictionary and they are insisting on translating that word that way, every time.
A good example is Genesis 4:13 where Cain, after the Lord told him what his punishment would be he said "My sin is too great for me to bear." He uses the Hebrew word "avon" the primary meaning of which is sin in equity. But, when you go to a dictionary and you study the use of that Hebrew word, you discover that that word can sometimes mean guilt. There is a clear connection there. We can it metonymy. There is a substitution. Sin produces guilt. So, sometimes when they really mean guilt, our concept of guilt, they'll still use that word, "avon", for sin. The word can also mean punishment.
So, if you sin, that makes you guilty. While if you're guilty, sometimes you get punished. And, so that word can have any of those nuances depending on the context. So, sometimes, someone who is proposing a literal translation, would say, well, I think it should be translated "My sin is too much for me to bear." What does that mean? Think about what is sin? Is sin some kind of a burden that you are carrying? It is too heavy for you to bear? The statement doesn't really mean anything.
If you look at in context, he is using the word "avon" in the sense of punishment. The Lord has just dished out his punishment, and he doesn't like it. He thinks it is too severe. So why not translate it in a way that communicates that? My punishment is too much for me to bear.
You get into the same problem with metaphors. For the Psalmist, he might say "The Lord is my shield." No problem. We are familiar with shields. We know what a shield's function is, to protect one. But what about when he says, "The Lord is my rock." He uses the Hebrew word "tsur". The Lord is my rock. Ok. What does that mean? The Lord is like something I can pick up and throw at somebody? The Lord is like a boulder who is in my way. What does that mean? What idea does it convey?
Well, if you study the use of the term in the Old Testament, I think what the Psalmist is saying is "The Lord is my rock cliff." Well, for an English reader, that would maybe suggest that He is something I have to climb. He is inaccessible. Or what does that mean? Dangerous. I don't want to be on a rocky cliff. What it is reflecting, He is a rock cliff in the sense that He is a place where you can go to get away from your enemies. You'll be relatively safe. You'll be up high and inaccessible.
So, to just translate "The Lord is my rock" and not interpret the metaphor, I think is not going to communicate to an English reader. Because there is a potential for all kinds of misunderstandings of rock means. So, at that point as a translator, I think you almost have to interpret the metaphor and just say "The Lord is my protector." Or something like that, unless you have a study bible with a lot of notes where you can translate the metaphor "The Lord is my rocky cliff." Then, in the note explain what that means.
Darrell:And so, what you've done is to defend why we have slightly more dynamic kinds of translations which are really bringing out the force of the expression. As opposed to the literal, let's say it this way, lexical term that you might more naturally translate a particular word as being.
Dr. Hall Harris:But, there is an underlying issue here that we ought to underscore for the benefit of people who don't work in translation. Anybody who knows a second language, any modern language as a second language, realizes that when you go from one language to another, you are always making these kinds of decisions. It is not a one for one substitution, where this word gets substituted for this word in the other language. And so the idea that you can simply take a Hebrew or Greek word and look it up in a Hebrew-English or Greek-English dictionary and perform a substitution with an English word is really a misunderstanding of the process of translation. Because even if you going to say my goal is to produce a literal or word for word translation, you might run into the problem, and in fact will all over the place, that this Hebrew word when you look it up in the Hebrew-English dictionary, has three or four or 10 or 15 different English equivalents. So, which one of those are you going to pick? That is where it becomes really difficult.
To give another example, the Greek word, "logos," which is one of the more well-known Greek words in The New Testament, which is often translated "word." As in John's Gospel, which opens, "In the beginning was the logos." "In the beginning was the word." If you look that up in the unabridged Greek-English lexicon, Liddel Scott, Jones McKenzie, you will find that there are over 50 English equivalents for that one Greek word. Message, report, thing, matter, situation, word, speech. You know, I could go on and on. That is the problem. So, even saying I am going to do a very literal translation doesn't get you out of the woods. You actually still have all these issues you have to contend with.
Mark:You have an issue also of the types of languages. When I taught Greek, I use to use this one just as a model, and say, you have languages that are built on inflection. In one word in English, you have to use two words because person is implied in the verb. And, you would use that and so you can't do word for word because you would totally miss what is being used there.
Let me ask you another question about this issue of a literal interpretation. In defense of many folks who constantly throw that type of terminology around. There are philosophy issues at stake here. And I'm not being totally stereotypical here, I don't think. But what is often at stake when someone is wanting to defend a literal interpretation, I think there is something more that is going on here. We would all, sitting at this table here, want to defend the truth of the Word of God. And, that The Word of God does not change. Is that a little bit of what is going on with some folks that would talk about a literal interpretation. Is that an issue that they are trying to defend?
Darrell:And along side that, I think I would ask, what is the value of the more formal equivalent? I mean, part of what we are talking about here is a spectrum. You have a spectrum for reason. So what is the value of a more formal equivalent interpretation?
Robert:Well, I think in the communication process, people are afraid of the human interpretive factor. Translators have to interpret, and I think some feel they need to limit that interpretive element as much as possible to stay closer to what God really said. But, I think fundamentally, that's a misunderstanding of how communication works, and what God intends to accomplish through communication. If you just try to translate, I wouldn't even call it translation, the Greek or Hebrew text at a very wooden or literal level, then there is not any interpretation involved in that.
So, in other words, people are going to read an interpretation and leave the interpretation up to the preacher or the commentary writer or someone like that. Just give me the Word of God, pure and simple. But, I think that is what they are afraid of.
Hall:But that goes back to my earlier comment about the problem you have even at that level is that when you look up a Hebrew or Greek word in a dictionary and you find you have to pick between two, three, four, five, or 50 different English equivalents. There is interpretation going on even at that level.
Mark: So, by the very definition of communication, interpretation is implied.
Hall: It's implied in the process.
Robert:You can't run from it. The receiver the receptor is always going to have to interpret what someone else says. It is the nature of communication.
Hall:And, I want to throw out, Darrell, you asked the question a moment ago. What good is there in the more formal translations? There are a few things in their favor. Not to make it sound as if it's one sided. One of the things is, traditionally, these things are viewed as more helpful for study bibles. You have a little bit better chance of tracing through a topic or a concept if you are staying a little bit closer to the word-for-word rendering than if you're being a little bit more paraphrastic. Because those similarities may be completely obscured. That is what some people will say about the advantage of this more.
The other advantage, if it is an advantage, and I happen to think that what we are striving for here is a balance to be truthful. If you go all the way to the other end of the scale and do a dynamic equivalent or paraphrase, you end up with a translation that sounds as if everybody in the Bible from Adam to Moses to Abraham to Isaiah to Jesus to Paul-they all speak the same language. It's as if they are all speaking contemporary English. And so you kind of smooth over some of the individual style of the individual biblical authors.
You even everything out on the same playing field and you also lose this sense of what I guess I will call for lack of a better term, because there is no technical term for this, a sense of "otherness" or "foreignness" that I am dealing with a foreign language. I am dealing with a foreign culture. This culture is not the same, this 21st century Western culture and so, I personally feel to hit that balance, you need to have a little bit of the individual author's style and unique expression and a little bit of the "otherness" but not so much that you can't understand clearly what's going on.
Now a few years back, I was on a translation panel in Toronto, Canada, that discussed several of these options and ranges and I made a famous illustration which I am going to repeat here and that is the character Yoda from Star Wars.
"Understand Yoda perfectly well you can even if natural English speak he does not." [laughter] Now didn't all of you understand what I said? But that's not standard normal English.
Mark: Right.
Hall:That's not the way you or I would speak English to one other. We can understand it because there is a little bit of shifting going on. They moved the subjects and verbs and direct objects around. It's a word order thing and the human mind some languages work like that. Greek has different word order. Hebrew has different. German and French have different word order than English. The human mind can process all of it. So, you've got a little bit of otherness and foreignness in there just to remind you this is not 21st century American culture I am dealing with but not so much that it becomes a hindrance to the average reader understanding what's going on. I will tell you in all the experience that I have that is an extremely difficult and hard task to get that balance right and that is one of the reasons why I think we have this huge range of English translations because there are different takes on this by lots of other people and they are aiming at lots of different audiences and all other sorts of things..
Mark: Whoever would have thought that Yoda would have brought such clarity.
Darrell:I think another way to think about this as you think about translations they really are a benefit to a person who is more technically trained to deal with the ambiguities that a translation produces, if you render it more formally. For example, your idioms, your rock example is a good one. Okay, this translates and if you were giving a quiz on how to translate, you say God is a rock you wouldn't flunk the student for translating it that way.
It would be a perfectly good translation. But if you are asking what does it mean, then the next step is to go through the interpretive process of determining what does "rock" mean when it is used in this kind of a context. You took us through that process. Dynamic equivalence will render it in such a way that, that ambiguity is lost and a choice is made and the danger that can sometimes happen in that is if the translators have not made the right choice, you've lost the ability to determine what the text is really saying and a lot of debates about I think dynamic equivalence are really complaints about the choices that the translator at the dynamic equivalent level has made.
Hall:I agree completely the more dynamic you get, the more paraphrased you get, the more decisions you are letting the translate make and you are raising that level for some people of ambiguity and the fact that the translator may or may not have gotten it right in this particular instance.
Darrell:So a dynamic equivalence will be of some help to someone who-"just tell me what it means. I just want to know what it means." But in that process you have obscured more decisions that have been made by the translator and so the benefit on the one hand is to the person who may not have a lot of background. I think this explains why The Living Bible was so popular when it first came out. People could understand it. I can understand the Bible now. I know what it says. It left the impression that you knew what it was saying, with that the danger in the move it might not actually be saying that.
Whereas, the problem with the formal equivalence is you might be getting an acceptable translation but people were reading it and going I still don't know what it means so you are hung. So by getting a balance, the translator takes on the burden of rendering the text but trying to remove enough ambiguity so that the target reader in the target language, the target audience is able to really appreciate what the word of God is saying. I think that is the ultimate goal of translation.
Hall:Let me add an important note here for the benefit of people who are listening who are trained in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek and are reading the originals. "What do I make of all of this and how do I deal with it," I think there are a couple of things that can be said. There are basically a couple of approaches. One, don't lock yourself into one translation. Read several different English translations and at least you are getting the spectrum or range of some of these decisions the translators are making for you. The other way to handle it is to have a Bible that as extensive notes that explain to you it takes one translation in some cases perhaps more formal and in other cases perhaps more paraphrased or dynamic but it give you in the notes the range of options that are actually out there and shows you the process by which the translators made their choices and decisions. Now that's the tact the NET Bible has taken is to have an understandable, readable translation but include in the extensive notes, the other alternatives and options so that you are not locked into only one.
Mark: Wouldn't you say that is the feature of the Net Bible?
Hall: Absolutely.
Mark:Not just the accuracy of the translation itself but to walk through the mind as best as possible of the translator and many of the decisions that were in the backdrop of why those decisions are made.
Hall:It's like you are able to look over the translators shoulder as he or she is working on the text and see what is going through their mind as they make those decisions.
Mark:In most English translations you might have a couple of options may have a box saying, "may also be translated," and you look at that and you see it, "Okay." In the NET Bible you are saying with the extensive notes you are seeing some of that backdrop.
Hall:Yes, for many of the difficult passages, you are laying out actual different alternatives that are effected by all sorts of decisions, including the grammar, the context and other issues and looking at what led the translators and editors to make their choices the way they did. So those are two ways of handling it. I think they both are effective. You can read one of these parallel column translations or you can look at the NET Bible or look at the notes and see.
Darrell:This is helpful because I think we have generated a lot of discussion. I am talking about the Church community at large on these issues and to actually get into the guts if I can say it that way of what translation work evolves I hope leaves an impression with people of how complex translation work is. This is paraphrase of the saying I think I heard it somewhere that every translator is both a liar and a truth teller and that's dealing with the ambiguities that a translator is always having to dealing with and the judgments they are having to make.
I thank you all for being with us today and for taking the time to do this and Mark why don't you close us.
Mark:Lord, thank you so much for today and we thank you for your great cause. Thank you for you word that is transforming our lives through the power of your Son, Jesus. It's a great privilege to be students of your words and to be recipients of that and to take it to those that need to hear your word faithfully. We ask that you would help us to do that. Again, we just thank you for this time together and ask that it will benefit many in the midst of a wonderful discussion. We thank you for this in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
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Arsène Wenger believes experience will be vital in helping his side recover from their Capital One Cup quarter-final defeat to Bradford.
The League Two side caused a major shock when they beat Arsenal in a penalty shoot-out at the Coral Windows Stadium on Tuesday night.
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"If I sit here, it is because I have really shown how much I love this Club. We have gone through difficult periods before and you know how to turn it around.
"Experience is vital. Having said that, in 16 years, it's the first time we have gone out against [a team from] a lower division. It is one time too many, but our record still shows we have been consistently focused on the competition.
"We prepared for the game seriously and I don't believe there is much more to say about that. We have to swallow that and take care of what's important - the future.
"Our season will not be judged on how well we do in the Capital One Cup, but how well we do in the Premier League, the Champions League and the FA Cup."
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Today's unemployment statistics continue to produce dismal numbers–disheartening figures especially for the nearly 14 million unemployed workers out there, some of whom have been out of work and searching for a job for over two years, as well as for those overworked and underpaid in their current job situations.
Often underestimated and overlooked is the mental health impact and toll this intractable job crisis has had on people suffering from the effects of unemployment. In conjunction with PBS's Need to Know, a 30-minute PBS weekly news magazine, and its airing of a series of special broadcasts devoted exclusively to America's job crisis, The Local Show is shining a light on local resources available for those who are struggling to get through this difficult time. Maureen Reintjes, a longtime area job club facilitator and founder of the Kansas City Metro Networking Job Club, and Dr. Mohsen Amiri, a psychiatrist with the Center of Behavioral Medicine, faculty at UMKC, a private practice, and part-time staff member at the KC Free Health Clinic, sit down with Nick Haines to discuss this crisis, what they are seeing first-hand, and what support resources are out there. Please join us for this important conversation.
As mental health resources become scarce and costly, and jobs continue to be elusive, it is vital that people know they are not alone in their struggles, that their worth is not diminished, and that there are places they can turn to for help during these tough times, and people to celebrate with when the statistics improve.
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Windows Phone Central App Roundup: Photo Apps
When I sift through all the apps on my Windows Phone, photo apps seem to be the dominant app of choice. Everything from Instagraph to Soviet Kam to Photo360 seems to have found its way onto my phone.
But what about the seldom seen Windows Phone photo apps? For this week's roundup, we went all the way to the last page of the "best rated" photo app listing in the Windows Phone Store. We picked out four of the dozen or so photo apps that were on the back page to highlight.
Most are fairly simple photo editing/enhancement apps but simple isn't necessarily bad.


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Spain youth international Jon Toral has signed professional terms with the Club.
The Catalan-born attacking midfielder, who recently turned 17, has impressed since joining the Gunners' academy from Barcelona last summer as a scholar.
Toral's three goals in 12 appearances for the Under-18s so far this term have earned him a place in Neil Banfield's Reserves set-up in recent weeks, for whom he made his debut in a 1-1 draw with Aston Villa in January.
Everyone at Arsenal would like to congratulate Jon on his first professional contract and look forward to his continued progression with the Club.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Here is a link to a site that shows you how to measure your hand for a glove. It lists both in "Large, Medium, Small" nomencleture, and numerical sizes. Please list your numerical size, as these are being custom made, there's no "large" to purchase, :).
And, Boba Leo...the gloves will be accurate to the pictures from the Paris Exhibit, if you need a CD, there's a link on the main page. If you just want to see a picture of the gloves, let me know and I'll post one of the pictures.


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I've just had an email from Sue Light who is the person behind Military Nurses Records now available on Find My Past. She said she hadn't been called a genealogical hero before, but I think anyone who offers their many hours of hard work to the public is a hero!
What I didn't know was that Sue is also the author of a website called http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/. Having had a look at this well designed website I feel quite cheated that I don't seem to have any military nurses on my family tree. There is so much to read on this site, Ware Diaries, Medals, Hospitals, different nursing services, book list and also a page about researching a nurse.
I think I will have to borrow some one else nursing ancestor and graft them onto my tree !


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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by roscoe36, Jun 25, 2009.
OMG............Slippy I agree with 100% of EVERYTHING you wrote............
Better to agree with Slippy than Darth Tutu.
Summers' turn to fall
Apparently Joe doesn't. Gordon and Villanueva are ok signings...maybe they blossom here. Either Daye or Sharpe makes Joe look like a monkey genuis or we'll be in desparate need of a lottery pick or windfall trade.
In these new stories. If the author likes Day then he is 6'11" and still may grow more. If they don't then he is 6'10" flat. Kind of funny in a way.
LEAVE DAYE ALONE,HE'S A HUMAN.It's to early to say something about Daye,becouse a lot of players look diffrent when they are on the court.I only agree for one that Daye will be a great pick or a bust.
Ok Word is Daye's nickname is the "HUMAN Eraser"... Dice will be using him to sign his next contract
Here is a thought on Sharpe. It seems like it would be money well spent to hire a $100K per year person to get him to practice, the bus, the plane, and wherever else on time. They would wake up, go over to his house, unlock his door with their own key, wake him up, drag him to the limo, and drop him off at the Palace. No more tardiness. And we wouldn't be throwing away his $600K/year... or whatever it is.
Is Sharpe still out of it?
I don't get this post. Is Sharpe's condition cured, active, arrested or insignificant? From your emphasis it is active. This medical problem can be dealt with and has no bearing on his talent level. It could be a positive element knowing that selective fans think this challenge to great to overcome. He is an NBA player...yes?...or do I need to be corrected on this?
Curry mentioned that Sharpe was basically in the dog house last year because of tardiness and oversleeping, etc. SF backup was just about our biggest need last year and we forced Prince to be our highest played player yet again. Sharpe didn't even get any action in blowout situations. I just find it frustrating because the sleeping issue was the reason why he fell to us in the draft. So we were fully aware of it and then we seem to consider it a character flaw and a strike against him when he still struggles with it a year later. So, my point is that we can eliminate the reliance on him to overcome his condition (or worst case, his laziness), with a personal assistant. Then the organization would never have to worry about him showing up late. I mean, jeez, we draft 3 small forwards this year and also sign Washington from last year's draft while we have Sharpe on the team and have never even taken him for a test drive? What a waste so far.
you described pretty well ordinary fate of late 2nd rounders. they are late 2nd rounders not without a reason, i guess.
I'm no expert, but I don't think oversleeping and subsequent tardiness are necessarily symptoms of narcolepsy. Narcolepsy is characterized most by dropping off during the day, even after a full night's sleep. Oversleeping might just come from staying up too late the night before, which would also be cured by a PA (who you ought to be able to land for less than $100k).
Austin's interview with NBADraft.net Austin Daye Interview | NBADraft.net
He idolizes a guy that we want to get rid of? That's not a good sign.
Maybe Tay will show him how to palm the ball for 20 seconds of the shot clock and dribble until he can drive to the left and chuck up a jump shot, or pass to your teammate as the shot clock expires. :D
moves as those are not hard to learn, but here comes the catch: everything has to happen in slow motion. That's the trick
I like how he's gained 6 lbs already. Kinda reminds me of how Darko grew a couple of inches after draft night.
I can gain six pounds by looking at a bag of cookies. What's the big deal?
He grew a couple inches when he saw his first pay check.
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A Study of Cabozantinib (XL184) vs Everolimus in Subjects With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma (METEOR)
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of Cabozantinib (XL184) compared with Everolimus (Afinitor) on progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) in subjects with advanced renal cell cancer that has progressed after prior VEGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy.
|Renal Cell Carcinoma
|Drug: Cabozantinib tablets Drug: Everolimus (Afinitor) tablets
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|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
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|A Phase 3, Randomized, Controlled Study of Cabozantinib (XL184) vs Everolimus in Subjects With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma That Has Progressed After Prior VEGFR Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor Therapy
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Progression-free survival (PFS) [ Time Frame: up to 17 months ]PFS is measured from the date of randomization until the date of first documented disease progression or date of death from any cause, whichever comes first, assessed for up to 17 months.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Overall Survival (OS) [ Time Frame: up to 36 months ]OS is measured from the time of randomization until death due to any cause assessed up to 36 months.
- Objective Response Rate (ORR) [ Time Frame: up to 17 months ]ORR is the proportion of subjects, assessed up to 17 months, who have measurable disease at baseline and who have complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) at data cut off.
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|Study Start Date:
|June 2013
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|February 2017
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|May 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Experimental: Cabozantinib (XL184)
Cabozantinib (XL184) 60 mg tablet once daily.
Drug: Cabozantinib tablets
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Everolimus (Afinitor) 10 mg tablet once daily.
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- Documented histological or cytological diagnosis of renal cell cancer with a clear-cell component.
- Measurable disease as determined by the investigator.
- Must have received at least one VEGFR-targeting TKI (eg, sorafenib, sunitinib, axitinib, pazopanib or tivozanib).
- Recovery from toxicities related to any prior treatments, unless AE(s) are clinically nonsignificant and/or stable on supportive therapy.
- Adequate organ and marrow function.
- Sexually active fertile subjects(male and female)must agree to use medically accepted methods of contraception during the course of the study and for 4 months after the last dose of study treatment.
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- Prior treatment with everolimus, or any other specific or selective TORC1/PI3K/AKT inhibitor (eg, temsirolimus), or cabozantinib.
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- Receipt of any type of anticancer antibody (including investigational antibody) within 4 weeks before randomization.
- Radiation therapy for bone metastasis within 2 weeks, any other external radiation therapy within 4 weeks before randomization. Systemic treatment with radionuclides within 6 weeks before randomization. Subjects with clinically relevant ongoing complications from prior radiation therapy are not eligible.
- Known brain metastases or cranial epidural disease unless adequately treated with radiotherapy and/or surgery and stable for at least 3 months before randomization.
- Concomitant anticoagulation at therapeutic doses with oral anticoagulants or platelet inhibitors.
- Chronic treatment with corticosteroids or other immunosuppressive agents.
- Serious illness other than cancer.
- Major surgery within 3 months before randomization. Complete wound healing from major surgery must have occurred 1 month before randomization and from minor surgery at least 10 days before randomization.
- Pregnant or lactating females.
- Diagnosis of another malignancy within 2 years before randomization, except for superficial skin cancers, or localized, low grade tumors.
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Choueiri TK, Escudier B, Powles T, Tannir NM, Mainwaring PN, Rini BI, Hammers HJ, Donskov F, Roth BJ, Peltola K, Lee JL, Heng DY, Schmidinger M, Agarwal N, Sternberg CN, McDermott DF, Aftab DT, Hessel C, Scheffold C, Schwab G, Hutson TE, Pal S, Motzer RJ; METEOR investigators. Cabozantinib versus everolimus in advanced renal cell carcinoma (METEOR): final results from a randomised, open-label, phase 3 trial. Lancet Oncol. 2016 Jul;17(7):917-27. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(16)30107-3. Epub 2016 Jun 5.
Choueiri TK, Escudier B, Powles T, Mainwaring PN, Rini BI, Donskov F, Hammers H, Hutson TE, Lee JL, Peltola K, Roth BJ, Bjarnason GA, Géczi L, Keam B, Maroto P, Heng DY, Schmidinger M, Kantoff PW, Borgman-Hagey A, Hessel C, Scheffold C, Schwab GM, Tannir NM, Motzer RJ; METEOR Investigators. Cabozantinib versus Everolimus in Advanced Renal-Cell Carcinoma. N Engl J Med. 2015 Nov 5;373(19):1814-23. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1510016. Epub 2015 Sep 25.
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|Student Involvement Leads to Internship with Alum
|Networking steps taken by a business student lead to a surprise internship with the world's largest chemical management services company.
For several summers, Haas Group International, the world's largest chemical management services company, has taken on at least one intern from the School of Business.
Last fall, after a meeting of the School of Business Advisory Council, Caitlyn Reinecker '11, approached Thad Fortin '81, the Haas Group chief executive officer, for advice on how to conduct a job search.
That conversation – another of the many networking steps Reinecker has taken since she was a freshman – led to a surprise offer, the first winter internship Haas Group has provided. Reinecker spent two weeks of winter break as an intern in sales at Haas headquarters in West Chester, Pa.
"I have had my eye on Caitlyn since she was a freshman. She has impressed since then, and I think she can be a candidate for employment here at Haas," said Fortin, who's also BAC chairman. The Business Advisory Council assists the dean on issues of strategic planning, curriculum design, mentoring of students, and internships and externships. Its 14 members include 11 business school graduates.
"I have always been a strong believer in the power of networking, which is why I have been doing it since I first learned its meaning four years ago as a freshman," said Reinecker, a business administration concentrating in marketing and management. She holds two jobs on campus and has been a leader of seven organizations, among them the Deans' Hosts, Business Link, Peer Advisors, and the Dean's Student Advisory Council.
That activity impresses potential employers.
"I was very impressed by her presence and maturity even as a freshman," said Fortin. "She's active in many things, and I liked the way she made presentations."
Many of those presentations came two years ago when, as a sophomore, Reinecker was a co-founder of Business Link, a student initiative that connects current students with alumni to help students network and develop their professional skills.
"To get Business Link off the ground I had the responsibility of meeting and talking with several alumni, to introduce them to the concept of Business Link and receive their support and backing," she said. The presentations included several before the BAC.
She was talking with Chris LaCroix '79, another BAC member, last fall. He suggested she speak with Fortin, who put her in touch with the Haas executive vice president of global sales and marketing. After two phone interviews she received the internship offer.
Reinecker was assigned to modify a capabilities presentation Haas would use in presentations to prospective clients. Haas Group International provides traditional chemical management services, product distribution, logistics/warehousing and hazardous communication services to customers in 25 countries.
The first intern in a department other than accounting, she also created a framework for Haas to utilize for future interns. She met with several managers and upper-level executives to understand their role in the company. And she soaked up the leadership style of Thad Fortin, who started working at Haas, a family-owned business the year he graduated from Ithaca.
His father, John J. Fortin, had acquired Charles J. Haas Inc., a specialty chemical manufacturer in 1975, and the company has been transformed into a chemical manager. In 1982, it expanded from the metalworking and specialty chemicals markets to the automotive market, introducing a new product to clean up the shops where new cars were painted. Thad Fortin convinced General Motors to sign its first contract with Haas in 1994, for chemical management of a minivan plant in Baltimore. Next came a contract for management of the GM truck plant in Flint, Mich., in 1996, followed later that year by a contract for the Oshawa, Ontario, plant, at the time GM's largest, producing 800,000 cars and trucks a year.
The company's annual revenue doubled, from $7 million in 1995 to $15 million in 1996. That same year, Thad Fortin was named president that year, succeeding his father, who remains board chairman.
In 2009, the company's revenue reached $475 million.
"Thad Fortin is very down to earth and genuinely cares about his company and the people that work for him," said Reinecker. "Everyone sees him every day and he makes sure to strike up conversations with all of his employees throughout the week.
"He made it a point on my first day to see that I was comfortable and everything the company had set up for me was OK. He took me out to lunch the next day to get to know me better too.
"We had a very nice conversation about Ithaca. It was made clear to me that he has a strong passion for Ithaca College and wants nothing but the best for it and everyone there, similar to the passion he has for his company."
What qualities did Fortin identify in Reinecker that made her a good candidate for an internship?
"She got involved as a freshman. She continued to make presentations in front of the BAC, and always had a positive outlook," he said.
He views the role of alumni as crucial for students in today's challenging job market. It's their duty to Ithaca College, he says:
"Jobs are now harder to come by now than at any time in my experience. If each BAC member or alum can mentor an IC business student, then the world gets a lot bigger to the student and with more opportunities."
Reinecker says she still talks with people she met on her internship.
"I left Haas Group International with the recommendations from my team to enjoy the rest of my senior year and to make sure that I remember these days because before I know it, it will be over. I really enjoyed my time at Haas and am excited about the possibility of working there in the future as well."
And she looks forward to continuing as an enthusiastic participant in the School of Business network long after she graduates.
"I advocate the importance of networking to other students as well, perform workshops on how to network and offer endless opportunities and events to students to network as well.
It never ceases to amaze me the amount of help Ithaca College alumni continue to lend to students, and I cannot wait until I can do the same for the school as well."


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Google Maps adds bike routes
From Green Right Now Reports
If you're one of the 57 million Americans who ride a bike, mapping your daily commute, exploring new trails, and planning recreational rides should be easier with a new online tool from Google, which has added biking directions in the U.S. to Google Maps.
Google says the feature, announced at this week's National Bike Summit in Washington, D.C., has been the most requested addition for Google Maps. The service includes step-by-step bicycling directions, bike trails outlined directly on the map and a new "bicycling" layer that indicates bike trails, bike lanes, and bike-friendly roads.
The new bicycling layer for Google Maps, accessible from a drop down menu at the top of the map, will display an overlay of the various bike-friendly roads and trails around town. Google says the layer is color-coded to show three different types of paths:
- Dark green indicates a dedicated bike-only trail;
- Light green indicates a dedicated bike lane along a road;
- Dotted green indicates roads without bike lanes but are more appropriate for biking, based on factors such as terrain, traffic, and intersections.
Google says it has partnered with the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, a nonprofit that creates networks of trails from former rail lines, to provide information on bike trails in more than 150 cities. The company says thousands of miles of trails in the U.S. have been added directly onto the map to help cyclists better plan their routes.
"The demand for trail maps and information has never been higher, especially as more people recognize biking as a viable, inexpensive and healthy alternative to driving," Rails-to-Trails President Keith Laughlin said in a statement. "Sharing our trail data is an exceptional way to introduce the world to what 150,000 RTC members and supporters already know—biking is the ideal way to get where you're going. The addition of biking directions to Google Maps makes life easier for bikers, whether they are commuting to work or biking for fun, and it can introduce our network of trails to a whole new audience of cyclists-to-be."
Google says the biking directions feature is available on desktop versions of Google Maps. A mobile version is being planned.
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[2010-02-09] What do healthcare providers think of patients who use the Internet?: An exploratory study The Internet is a technology that is influencing multiple human factors (i.e. cognitive and social). Adults who seek information on the Internet about their health conditions are becoming more common. Providers have been ...


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Teens & Eating Habits
During our summer vacation, which happened to be overseas, I began to notice a recurring theme. Teenagers from around the world often behave in a similar way. That is, maybe it really is something in a teen's nature that affects behavior and attitudes .
I saw many parents on family vacations sightseeing with tweens and teens in tow. While it certainly is hard to travel with little ones in strollers, or those a bit older who don't really understand where they are, there are some things that are easier about little ones than teens. (If you don't have teens yet you are saying, NO WAY.)
But what I often noticed about teens on vacation is that universal facial expression of why am I here, when I would rather be with my friends? In some cases it wasn't just the facial expressions either. While standing in lines to get into a museum or sitting at closely spaced tables over a meal I often heard teenagers complaining to their parents. I don't want to go to another museum, church or monument, or how many more days until we go home?. I didn't only hear English either, there were teens from other countries who were also complaining in their own language or dialect. The parent's also had that look of why did we spend all of this hard earned vacation time and money to have our children act like this?
I also saw many a teen spending a lot of line standing or restaurant sitting with their faces glued to their smartphones. Again, they all seemed to have them. They were often so busy not paying attention to the line moving or the guide talking that their parents literally had to take the phones away - again more universal facial expressions!
Food choices were another area of teen angst. While sitting in one restaurant quite close to a a father and his two teen daughters we noticed they seemed to be having a heated discussion in Dutch. They were all looking at the menu and the father looked exasperated. When the waiter arrived, the father spoke in English and told the waiter that his daughters wanted plain meat, no sauces, and only the french fries, and not the salads or vegetables that came with the meal. The waiter replied in both French and English (I guess making sure he covered all bases) that there were several options for salad dressing, sauces and vegetables. The father replied again, NO they will not eat it. I had to laugh, it made me remember those days of ordering a hamburger for my boys (no matter where we were) when I would say, just meat and bread!.
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Notable Oregonians: Don Schollander - Athlete (Swimmer)
Don Schollander was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on April 30, 1946 and raised in Lake Oswego, Oregon. He developed into a leading swimmer as a teenager and won the 1962 United States outdoor national title in the 200-meter freestyle event while he was still in high school. The next year Schollander broke the 200-meter freestyle world record, becoming the first swimmer to finish the distance in less than two minutes. He later improved the time for this distance in nine record-breaking swims between July 1963 and August 1968.
Although Schollander's best event, the 200-meter freestyle, was not part of the 1964 Olympics, he still won four gold medals. In so doing, he became the first person to win four gold medals in swimming in a single Olympiad. He placed first in both the 100-meter freestyle, setting an Olympic record, and the 400-meter freestyle, setting a world record. He was also a member of the winning 4 x 100-meter and 4 x 200-meter world record setting freestyle relay teams. In honor of his Olympic performance, Schollander won the 1964 James E. Sullivan Memorial Award, given annually by the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States to the outstanding amateur athlete in the country. He was also inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an Honor Swimmer in 1965.
After the Olympics Schollander attended Yale University, where he also competed as a swimmer. At the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City he was a member of the winning 4 x 200-meter relay team and finished second in the 200-meter freestyle race. During his career he won numerous U.S. national titles in various events and set several U.S. and world records.
Schollander was noted for his speed, perfection of stroke, and effortless crawl. He retired from competitive swimming after the 1968 games and was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1983, as a member of the first class of inductees. His Olympic gold medals are on display to the public at a Bank of America branch location in downtown Lake Oswego, Oregon.


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Well after many many months of delay and piddling around with companies trying to get a replica made I decided to do it myself with real horse hair and ostrich feathers. I am not 100% satisfied but it was a learning experience and the next go around should go much smoother as I made up the techniques as I went and found what worked and what didn't for me.
All the hair is hand installed and glued in with hot glue (ouch, burnt the **** out of all my fingers....Many blister's were had lol). The tail is done but just not installed yet and the hair was dyed black to give it that on screen "solid" black look but in reality the hair had browns and blacks mixed it for the screen used when it was filtered out with the camera. The hair was hair sprayed up with random stuff I found at the store. Then later sprayed with a 3M tacky spray glue for a more permanent hold.
Ok shut up Tim........... here are the pictures.....Finally


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This very basic guide to filing a petition is intended as a supplement to the statutes and regulations governing the appeals process. A taxpayer has the right to challenge their property assessment. The taxpayer must also bear the responsibility of complying with the statutory requirements of filing proper petitions in a timely manner that is attached to that right to challenge. Williams Industries v. State Bd. of Tax Comm'rs, 648 N.E.2d 713, 718 (Ind. Tax Ct. 1995).
If, after receiving the Notice of Final Assessment Determination [Form 115] or Notice of Action on Exemption Application [Form 120], a taxpayer disagrees with the determination of the Property Tax Assessment Board of Appeals ("PTABOA") the taxpayer can appeal to the Indiana Board of Tax Review ("Board"). In certain specific situations a direct appeal to the Board may be available – see *Note below.
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The taxpayer must file either the Form 131 [for assessment appeals] or the Form 132 [for exemption appeals] not later than 45 days after notification of the PTABOA determination [Form 115 or Form 120].
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The taxpayer must also mail a copy of the petition to the county assessor where the property is located. Section V of both the Form 131 and Form 132 is the Certificate of Service. The taxpayer must complete this section verifying that a copy of the petition was mailed to the county. Failure to provide a copy of the petition to the county assessor and/or complete Section V will result in the petition being defective.
Multiple Parcels
The taxpayer must file a separate petition for each parcel unless the Board determines otherwise.
Attachments to the Petition
Form 131 petition – the taxpayer must attach a copy of the written request used to initiate the appeal before the PTABOA [or Form 130 petition] and a copy of the Notification of Final Assessment Determination [Form 115].
Form 132 petition – the taxpayer must attach a copy of the Application for Exemption [Form 136] and a copy of the Notice of Action on Exemption Application [Form 120].
Completing the Petition
The taxpayer must complete all sections of the petition. Section I is basic information about the property being appealed and the petitioner.
Section II of the Form 131 petition is the small claims option. The taxpayer should review the small claims rules and determine whether or not to accept small claims. The small claims rules can be found in the Indiana Administrative Code at 52 IAC 2 and 3. The rules can be accessed from the Board's website at http://www.in.gov/ibtr/ under Rules and Regulations.
Section II of the Form 132 petition is action of the PTABOA. This information comes directly from the Notification of Action on Exemption Application [Form 120] issued by the PTABOA.
Section III of the petition is the Grounds for Appeal. The taxpayer is required to explain in detail the basis for his belief that the assessment or action of the PTABOA is incorrect. The taxpayer must provide specific reasons for his belief. The taxpayer is not required to submit any evidence with the petition. The taxpayer must, however, present specific evidence supporting his beliefs at the hearing.
Section IV is the signature section. The taxpayer or his representative must sign the petition certifying that the entries are accurate.
Section V is the certificate of service. The statute requires the taxpayer mail a copy of the petition to the county assessor where the property is located. By completing this section the taxpayer swears that he mailed or provided a copy of the petition to the county assessor. Failure to provide a copy of the petition to the county assessor and/or complete Section V of the petition will result in the petition being defective.
The petition contains a checklist to assist the taxpayer in competing the petition and making sure all attachments are included. Please make use of the checklist on page 3 of the petition.
Failure to Follow Instructions
If a taxpayer does not comply with the instructions for completing the petition, the Board will return the petition to the taxpayer with a description of the defect. The taxpayer will have 30 days to correctly complete the petition and resubmit it to the Board. If the resubmitted petition does not comply with the instructions for completing the form, the Board may deny the petition.
Additional Resources
Ind. Code § 6-1.1-15 Procedures for Review and Appeal of Assessment and Correction of Errors
52 IAC 1 Tax Representatives
52 IAC 2 Procedural Rules
52 IAC 3 Small Claims Procedures
The Board's website at http://www.in.gov/ibtr/
Preparing for the hearing
Once the taxpayer has filed his petition, he should begin preparing for the hearing by labeling all exhibits and making copies for the Board and opposing party. See Small Claims Hearing Instructions and Identification of Exhibits on the Board's website at http://www.in.gov/ibtr/ under Guide to Appeals. Please note that materials submitted at the PTABOA hearing will not be made a part of the Board's record unless submitted to the Board at the hearing.
*Note: Direct Appeal to the Board
A direct appeal to the Board is available only to a taxpayer who filed his written request appealing to the PTABOA after June 30, 2007. If the PTABOA fails to hold a hearing within 180 days and/or fails to issue a determination within 120 days of its hearing, a taxpayer need not wait for the PTABOA to issue a determination; he may appeal directly to the Board.


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Quote from: Irwin on March 14, 2010, 03:47:16 PMNice pic's JP but come on let's see a video of the Swarm king at work :-DHaven't sprung for the new camera just yet, but I will be getting it soon! If you make one of you riding the pink bycycle it will definitely give me incentive.Now if you make one with beer cans stuck to your head riding the pink bycycle, I will have no choice but to go out and get one that day!...JP
Nice pic's JP but come on let's see a video of the Swarm king at work :-D
Done and done JP check out video and text chat :-D
Quote from: Irwin on March 14, 2010, 06:43:48 PMDone and done JP check out video and text chat :-DDo I have to go get the camera today or will you be so kind to allow me to get it next week?But a deal is a deal & I will keep my word albeit I will be in the doghouse with the wife, explaining to her why I had to buy it today. All because I promised Irwin if he mad a video of himself riding his grandaughter's pink bicycle (and it better have training wheels on it btw & you better be ringing the bell (although I didn't say you had to so scratch that, would be a nice bonus though) I would.Oh well, gonna look, wait, if I don't see it yet, it doesn't really exist yet to me now does it? :idunno: :cheer:...JP
I guess spring has sprung in LA. I'm jealous.
Thanks for sharing JP.So very orderly.On the couple of cutouts I've done it has been very chaotic. The pics give me a good visual of how calm and orderly it can be.Something to shoot for.John


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As UT's director of soccer operations, Jacobssen helps plan and coordinate the team's travel and meals, oversees the team managers and assists with various day-to-day responsibilities that contribute to Tennessee's status as one of the nation's top soccer programs.
Jacobssen, who graduated from The University of Tennessee with a degree in history in 2010, joined the UT soccer staff after working for the Diocese of Knoxville for a year and a half as an associate in health services and stewardship.
Jacobssen also enjoyed a stellar collegiate swimming career and was an NCAA Division III national champion with Kenyon College in 2007. She was an NCAA All-American in 2007 and earned NCAC All-Conference honors six times. She transferred to Tennessee in the spring of 2009. The Knoxville native enjoyed a standout high school swimming career as a Scholastic All-American at Bearden High School, winning a state title and setting state records.
"We're excited to have Emily join our staff," Tennessee head soccer coach Brian Pensky said. "She's a conscientious, hard-working individual. As a past NCAA national champion in the sport of swimming, she also knows what it takes to be great. Of course we love that. And then most importantly, Emily is just a terrific person who will fit right into the fabric of our staff and soccer program."
Jacobssen also previously worked in merchant relations and redemption services for Half Off Depot, Inc., and as a donor relations and special events coordinator at the University of Tennessee Medical Center.
She replaced Hemant Sharma, who had served as the director of soccer operations the previous two years and as a member of the UT soccer staff the previous nine.


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A late surge of sign-ups pushed California's health insurance exchange beyond the original enrollment projections of the Obama administration.
Through Tuesday's end of the enrollment period, nearly 1.4 million Californians had selected a policy through the state's online marketplace, about 1 million more than the federal government had projected last fall.
Covered California, the agency that runs the exchange, released the final sign-up data on Thursday.
Still unknown is how many of those who signed up for insurance plans have paid their first month's premium, which will allow them to begin receiving health coverage.
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Almost 100 unemployed graduates have been able to benefit from the Employability Skills programme that Continuing & Professional Education has been running in partnership with the Careers Service over the last 6 months.
Recent figures show graduate unemployment at its highest level for over a decade. However, the High fliers Survey of January 2010 (based on the Times Top 100 graduate recruiters) provides a more positive view for the future, with 13 out of 14 key industries expecting a rise in graduate recruitment for 2011.
A key message from the survey was that, along with commercial awareness and work experience, employability skills such as communication skills, teamworking, analytical and problem solving skills are vitally important for success in the current job market. Candidates also needed to give evidence of where they have developed these skills – for example study, societies, work experience, hobbies and interests.
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Are the public lands here any good.
I know the other side of the state would prob be a better place to go, but was thanking on those weekends when I have a little time to get out but not time to drive across the state.


text: At Boston March 5 7:30PM tv: tv20 This is the rubber game in the 3 game seasonal matchup between the Easts leaders. Pistons won the last time in Boston on that controversial last sec foul call and the Celts won one at the Palace. So this is it. Will a win challange the Celts confidence if both teams keep pace and play each other in the ECF? We will see. Be nice to get this one. Injuries: Detroit: none Boston: Tony Allen SG - day to day Garnett returned from his abdominal strain on Sunday and put up 20 points and 16 boards. The Celtics have not played since then. ESPN Preview


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Tulip popular is dark but not mild. I am still trying to figure out my nutty flavored honey came from. I am thinking persimmons. :) d2
I am fairly certain my bees are on persimmon and that honey is coming out pretty light. The trees have flowers that look like persimmon flowers but they are much larger than what I see persimmon growing on. We live in a pecan grove and the bees never visit them. The Chinese tallow is coming in bloom now, it's a bit darker honey but I am looking for the real dark stuff. I wish I could grow buckwheat here.
All I can tell you now is most coming in now is light stuff and clover is still in bloom down south and privet too. I believe goldenrod is a dark producer but not all like the taste including me but they harvest some stuff that taste like molasses and I have folks love the stuff but am curious as to what the forage on to produce it myself.Blanc
I planted some buckwheat and also purple top turnips. I was late planting so the buckwheat will have the temps that you normally see when it finally comes up. Does the heat kill your buckwheat before the bloom appears?
isn't it a few weeks early to plant buckwheat here, or no? most people I know plant it to allow the frost to kill it off for weed control after like 6-8 weeks.


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After fire, Hollis newlyweds work to rebuild life together
By APRIL GUILMET
Union Leader Correspondent | January 14. 2014 9:30PM
Rob and Libby Masek moved into their first home in October, shortly after they eloped at Four Tree Island in Portsmouth.
The Maseks escaped the building uninjured and Hollis fire officials, who arrived on the scene shortly before 3 a.m., were able to bring their landlord's pet cat to safety.
The morning's single-digit temperatures made for additional challenges in battling the blaze, as water hoses quickly froze, though the blaze was under control within two hours.
Rob Masek's sister, Holly, said her brother and sister-in-law lost nearly all of their worldly possessions in the fire.
"The smell of water and smoke permeated into everything we might be able to recover," he said. "Most things had to be disposed of. Both of our laptops were fried."
"At the end of the day, we're alive, safe and have each other," Rob Masek said.
A number of caring friends and strangers have already been quite generous in lending a hand.
"They never bothered with wedding registry, and were pretty much content with family hand-me-downs or things they'd collected over the years," said Holly Masek. "Now just about all of that is gone."
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Today the Amplify Interactive crew took in a great a presentation from Scott Townsend, Marketing Manager for Packaged Goods at Google that was hosted by the American Marketing Association Portland chapter at the Multnomah Athletic Club.
Overall, it was a great high-level examination of why every business needs to pay attention to search engine marketing and its role in online authority and web presence. I think everyone in attendance would have agreed after the presentation that if they weren't positioning their content to gain search engine users, they should be in the near future.
Mr. Townsend gave us a some pretty stunning facts about the growth internet technologies:
- The nearly unbelievable amounts of information that has been generated and is being generated since internet usage became widespread (think more is generated every year than had been generated from the dawn of history-1998).
- The remarkable speed of which Google is seeing mobile search grow (think 8 times that of desktop).
Aside from this ridiculousness, Mr. Townsend shared some excellent thoughts, facts and takeaways with the audience:
1.) People who shop are going to, well, shop. That means those who research products online tend to spend 20% more than consumers who don't. Giving your customers incentives to review your product or service on sites like Yelp, View Points (mentioned specifically) or Trip Advisor after purchase could have a great impact on your bottom line. You know, like bringing in a customer segment that spends 20% more in your store.
2.) Think of a search engine results page as a grocery store aisle stocked full of pasta. The more store shelf space you occupy gives you even more opportunities for a sale. He even gave some killer examples of how much even branded search is influenced by this idea, as running a paid search ad with an organic listing increases CTR dramatically.
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Mr. Townsend gave everyone the big picture view of what we try to do as search marketers. He provided some great takeaways and analogies that we can use to better communicate the value of search marketing to clients, and he reinforced Amplify Interactive's position that building online authority through search is essential to succeed in today's market.
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I've been on these forums a few years back - I remember there was a specific forum where people asked for advice, general advice about their lives. Its no longer there, does that mean that kind of support is no longer given here?
EDIT: I accidentally posted this in the wrong location - it was meant to go in the lounge.