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This has got to be the best creamiest but lightweight feeling conditioner I have ever used, I actually don't think I can put into words how much I really do like this. It doesn't feel tacky or clumpy like some other conditioners can feel like but instead just creamy, light and luxurious. My hair feels instantly softer on just applying it and when you wash it out your hair feels so baby soft that I had to rinse it for longer as I thought it was impossible for it to feel like that without having product left in there.
After using both of them and drying my hair I was left with the most beautifully soft hair and my colour seemed revived, there was no sign of my straggly ends that need cutting and my scalp didn't have that tight feeling that it can sometimes get when I am having one of these bad sensitive stages.
I've been using both of these for the last 3-4 weeks and I can say my hair is feeling in much better condition than it was and my scalp hasn't had a flair up of sensitivity since which I think is absolutely great.
I also had a little nose online and saw that because Schwarzkopt do Igora salon dyes they have brought out the Igora Senea Permanent Haircolour which should be available in salons that stock Schwarzkopt, so for all of us that can get that itchy scalp feeling when getting our hair dyed this could be the new way forward. Its even been recommended by Dermatologists, is fragrance free and has no ammonia – This is something I am definitely going to look into trying next time I want to dye my hair.
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Now that the my grandmother's death has fell upon my family...there's an uncomfortable stress and eeriness in the air. Denial. Abrupt outlashes. Loud silence. I never seen my family so united on the day of, yet so broken apart. My mom phoned me. Took it out on me -- vented. And hanged up.
I've reflected a lot this week about how these sad, cruel moments are a part of life. How we react to life changing, permanent, events... with denial, tears, and acceptance. How people get older... to the point where outspoken personalities can't even cover up the aging lines. How the future looms in front of me... and the decisions of its outcome depends on the immediate steps i choose to take. How life continues, not slowing, and doesn't care where you are and how you are.
I've cried. Just did. And I hope that's the last of it. Right now it's best to move on and make the best of it.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
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A stirring dwarf we do allowance give
Before a sleeping giant.
What you have said
I will consider; what you have to say
I will with patience hear, and find a time
Both meet to hear and answer such high things.
Yea, at that very moment
Consideration like an angel came
And whipped th' offending Adam out of him,
Leaving his body as a paradise
T' envelop and contain celestial spirits.
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Midday SLT on Tuesday May 20th marks the closing of applications for all aspects of participation in the SL11B Community Celebration.
If you want to be a part of things, be it as an exhibitor, performer, volunteer or as the host of an event or activity in the SL11BCC auditorium, and you've not already submitted your application, now is the time to do so. You can find the relevant forms on-line as follows:
- Performers (for any of the event's main stages) should apply here
- Speakers and performance artists wishing to use the auditorium should apply here
- Volunteers ready, will and able to help keep SL11BCC ticking along should apply here (training will be given!)
- Exhibitors seeking a parcel of land on one of the 11 regions should apply here.
Pallina60 Loon offers a few words of advice and encouragement to all who are thinking about applying in any capacity.
Similarly, if you have any questions about participating in the event, you'll likely find your answers in the SL11B Community Celebration website.
With applications set to close at midday SLT on Tuesday May 20th, here's how the rest of the celebration's timeline shapes up (all times, SLT):
- Friday, May 30th, noon: Sims open for builders
- Wednesday, June 18th, noon: Sims close to builders
- Saturday, June 21st, noon: Press day
- Sunday, June 22nd, noon SLT: SL11BCC opens!
- Monday, June 23rd: Second Life's Official 11th Birthday!
- Sunday, June 29th: final day of celebrations
- Monday, June 30th to Saturday, July 5th: Sims will remain open for viewing. No performances.
- Sunday, July 6th to Tuesday, July 8th: Breakdown
- Wednesday, July 9th: Sims go offline
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Sunday, March 27, 2011
100 Followers!
Thank you all for being so supportive of my musings/ideas, and I promise that there will be more to come!
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Illinois Journal of Education, v59 n3 p31-34 Mar 1968
Recommendations that can be instituted immediately to improve articulation of foreign language programs are outlined in this article. The suggestions cover such topics as uniform curriculum for elementary and for secondary schools, student placement in college according to language proficiency, better communication between teachers and administrators, uniform foreign language entrance and degree requirements for colleges and universities, and stronger teacher training programs. (SS)
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Articulation (Education), College Language Programs, Coordination, Educational Cooperation, FLES, Interschool Communication, Language Programs, Program Development, Program Evaluation, Program Improvement, Second Language Programs, Secondary Schools, Teacher Education
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(11-22-2016, 01:45 AM)Restless soul Wrote: Whoooaa. How did I miss this. I appreciate the time you took for that very thought out and insightful reply. I missed it because i dont get notified for every posting and I just try to be as active as possibe with my threads. But thanks. And why have I not seen you around latley??You're welcome I haven't been around much because I usually don't speak until and unless I have something (I think is) useful to say. I've actually been on one of my other forums - Eckhart Tolle discussion community, more than I have been here.
(11-22-2016, 01:53 AM)Forsaken-Knight Wrote: There are no UGLY people...ONLY LAZY ONES!!!
Hehe ... right there is a Golden nugget of wisdom ! I agree ... anyone can look "good" if they take care of themselves, working with their constraints, of course.
Restless, you will love this ! ...
Once, a woman in a Walgreens came up to me, in the condom aisle (of all places). She told me I look like I could be in Hollywood, BUT, my nose was too big, and my hair needed to be a bit longer.
For the next whole week, I kept checking my nose in the mirrors. I even asked the woman I was then dating, about it. My nose is one of my constraints.


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In their impossibly good book Money, Markets, and Sovereignty (2009), Benn Steil and Manuel Hinds make the point that over the last four thousand years, the only period in which humanity has not consistently based its currency in metal, specifically gold, is the last forty. That's right. Ever since President Richard M. Nixon announced forty years ago today, on August 15, 1971, that the U.S. would no longer officially trade dollars for gold, we have been enjoying a new era of human history.
Enjoying not being the mot juste. Out of the gate, we got the 1970s, what with their stagflation, a real stock market performance worse than that of the 1930s, and a crisis of confidence such had never bedeviled the American people before. There were go-go years in the 1980s and 1990s, to be sure, when stocks increased 15-fold and the tech revolution changed the world. But now we have our woebegotten 2000s, where stocks lose ground against the price level year after year, 9% unemployment is the new normal, and explosive government spending and Federal Reserve blowouts can't create a job.
Since 1971, that is, we've had two completely unacceptable periods of economic performance bounding one highly salient one. The control being the price of gold. The stuff went from $35 at Nixon's announcement to $800 by 1980. On the implementation of Ronald Reagan's economic plan in the early 1980s, gold promptly settled to ten times the Nixon level, or $350, and parked there for two decades. As the George W. Bush presidency came into its own in the early 2000s, gold started a classic curve of acceleration such that it went from the $350 par to today's $1700 in almost perfect exponential fashion.
You wonder why people don't just say, OK, stabilize the price of gold. Conduct monetary and fiscal policy such that the gold markets are content to sit tight, and marvel at the economic results. Do otherwise, and have a rendezvous with the 1970s/our own day. Rarely in the history of political economy are choices so stark, so obvious. You start to think you're being had.
Nixon, for one, thought gold-price stability was bogus. It's clear as a bell why he went off gold. We have the White House tape recordings from the previous week to let us know. (These culminate, as they must, on Friday the 13th, 1971, as choppers take the administration economic crew to a secret location…Camp David.) Nixon thought that gold would go through the roof on being de-linked, in that the Federal Reserve would print money like crazy now that the currency was not collateralized, and this overprinting would effect jobs, jobs, jobs.
Unemployment, you see, had just gone from 4% to 6% – quaint numbers, no? – and Nixon was "not about to be a hero" (his words) on inflation at the expense of unemployment. Money must be printed, and if gold was a bar to this, gold must go. At any rate, Nixon was confident he could take care of any resultant inflation by outlawing it.
No kidding. The real energy exerted that fateful week was devoted not to the gold question per se, but to what extraordinary, untoward, and secret means the administration could devise to prevent the general price inflation which surely was to follow the elimination of convertibility. A rigorous regime of wage and price controls was settled on. The enforcement mechanism was to be IRS audits and getting shut out of federal contracts for those who raised prices after August 15.
The secrecy? It was to prevent prices from going up before the announcement of going off gold and the wage-price controls, an announcement cleverly made on Sunday night (the 15th) to a comatose nation. These guys were on the cusp of one of the most momentous monetary decisions in world history, and the major worry was what groceries were going to cost for a few days. In case anyone's wondering, double-digit inflation was another scourge of the 1970s.


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Thursday is bin day, where our responsibility is to put the correct bin at the edge of our property for the dear old bin men to come and empty in to their big truck. By correct, I mean either rubbish or recycling. Black for rubbish, crimson for recycling plus, because we pay £35 per year for the privilege, on bin day we also put out the green garden waste bin as well. Today is a recycling day.
When it comes to bin men, we have a theory, one which we continue to service, even though we do not have any hard evidence to suggest it works, hence why it remains, for now, a theory. Our theory is that we give them a card with a tenner in it every year on the last collection before Christmas, so they can "get themselves a little drink". We believe that this ensures that any of the little transgressions are handled without grumble; late putting it out, over filled bins, bit extra to the side, all the things that someone is County Hall is currently working out how to ban. The only evidence we have that this works is tenuous, based on LO's mother, who gives neither a card, and certainly not money, every year on the last collection before Christmas, and her bins are rather badly dumped back in to the middle of her drive each week, so every time she pulls in to her house, she needs to get out and move it before she can park.
Now, a chap needs his foibles, and maybe this is one of mine, and I also agree that it is akin to, say, a football player who wins a game with one of his socks down, and so plays for the rest of his career with one sock up, one sock down. Now, I have not done the maths, but I doubt he has won every game that he has played in since, however, would you risk it? Regardless of that, we will continue to give the card and the tenner, and continue to get the good service to which we have become accustomed.
My only other bin story is from my student days; to be precise, my just after I was a student days. One of the peripheral characters in my local was a Scouser who in common parlance would probably be described as a rough diamond, but the salt of the earth. That is to say, once you get past his brash exterior, he was actually a pretty regular chap, at least as regular as anyone coming from Liverpool can be. Sure, he mentioned The Beatles and Bill Shankly once in a while, but then you can take the man out of Liverpool....
Anyway, this guy spent some of his misspent youth as a bin man, and his round included some of the wealthier properties in Liverpool. When approaching a bin in one such property, he noticed the curtains twitching and a "posh bird" peeking out at him, a woman whose nose was already wrinkling slightly. Just to punctuate the cultural differences, he secretly took his half eaten Mars Bar from his pocket, and as he lifted the bin lid he pretended to withdraw something from the bin, and subsequently took a bit from his Mars. There was a split second of extra nose-wrinkling before the curtains firmly closed, and doubtless a call was being made to her therapist for some much needed trauma counselling.
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Pretty much the first thing that happened when we bought the boat was that the skipper taking us to our new mooring drove us into a low bridge, ripping the mast out of the deck. Since that slightly terrifying introduction to the world of barge ownership we have never got round to repairing it, partly because it wasn't a very good mast, and was bolted into the 8mm steel plate of the deck, rather than the huge, sturdy, formed-of-40mm-steel-plate, massive pillar clearly designed to be the base of a loading crane/mast. One day we will have a new mast built, and it will be lovely, and the mounting for it will be attached to this pillar, but in the meantime, ever since we've owned the boat there have been 8 little 10mm holes in the front deck where the bolts ripped out. We had plugged them with silicone but over time this had perished and dropped out, and having taken out the ceiling in the bathroom we could see the sunshine through the holes (and occasionally the rain too). It was time to plug the holes properly.
We bought some 10mmm diameter steel bolts
and then when Lorna had set up all her welding gear on the deck
i poked the bolts through from below, and held them in place while she spot welded them (i did this with a piece of wood, i like having skin on my fingers! The wood was smoking impressively while she welded).
She then added more welds to get the bolts securely attached to the deck
before i cut off the bolts as close as possible to the deck and ground them down a little
then we repeated the procedure, welding up any holes that were still there and finally grinding everything smooth
From above it's now a nice, smooth, waterproof, seamless piece of metal
and from below you can see the heads of bolts protruding, shortly to be covered up with insulation. Only took us 2 years!
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Today we made the hour long trek to Children's Mercy Hospital, just as we did a little over a year ago. But this time we made remembered MJ and his fight, instead of sitting beside him, holding his hand and praying for God to spare his life. Children's Mercy has their annual Memorial Service for all of the children and babies that have lost their battles. There was even a butterfly release:
As we were leaving I realized that I have a love/hate relationship with things like this. On one hand, I am so thankful for an opportunity like this to remember MJ and experience something so beautiful. The pain I felt today, was a good pain, it was a pain that allowed me to grieve. So many days things are so busy in my life, that I just never have time to cry and just grieve. Or I put off my feelings attempting to protect my heart. But today was different, I could cry and grieve and it was all okay. It was so beautiful, being with so many parents that have gone through what we went through, and being able to remember our babies.
But at the same time I hate it. I hate that we have to participate in a Memorial Ceremony instead of having bliss with both of our babies. I was sitting there today and just thinking, oh beautiful it was, and how much I really didn't want to be there at the same time.
Throughout the continuous tears during the ceremony Will was just so awesome. It was like he knew when I just needed him to cuddle, and when I needed him to make me laugh. He is not normally very cuddly lately, as it seems like all he wants to do it run around - he has a ton of energy! But as soon as the service started he just wanted to cuddle in my lap. That hour or so was really a reflection of the past year. Having Will, MJ's twin, to raise in the aftermath of MJ's death did not make losing MJ any easier (as so many people like to point out that I have Will, so I should be happy with him). What Will has done for me is make me smile through my tears and my heartache. He lifts me up when I am down, and makes me laugh when I need it. He gives me a reason to not just get up and out of bed each day, but to live and enjoy life.
My sweet little Monkey Man
During the ceremony today there was a beautiful song played called Godspeed, (Sweet Dreams). I find great comfort in the lyrics of so many songs and poems, and this is another one to add to my list. It is written by the Dixie Chicks, and part of the song goes:
Godspeed, little one
Sweet dreams, little one
Oh, my love will fly
to you each night
on angels wings
Godspeed, sweet dreams.
Part of the ceremony included a quilt dedication. Throughout the halls of the hospital quilts are hung , each with a square for a child that passed away at Chilren's Mercy. We made a square for MJ and submitted it today. It will be dedicated next year at the Memorial Service, but here is a picture of it:


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A short break from my Kauai vacay to update in bullet form. In the past 3 days, we have:
- Visited the emergency room once.
- Driven around the island twice.
- Eaten some amazing meals, including taro hummus (!) sandwiches and Brazilian food.
- Gotten really, really drunk.
- Gotten really, really drunk within 10 feet of Pierce Brosnan.
- Been woken up by roosters crowing.
- Met two young siblings named Phoenix and Dayton (yes, really.)
- Hiked 1/2 a mile of sandy beach at midday.
- and I have gotten 2nd degree burns on my feet.
Tomorrow: a short trip to a lovely nearby beach, a farmer's market (and hopefully liliko'i), shave ice, and a sunset dinner with drinks. And if we see Pierce again, all the better.


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Tony Abbott is sending his immigration minister to Geneva to talk to the UN's refugee agency on what more Australia can do to help with the growing crisis in Syria.
"We are disposed to take more people from that troubled region under our refugee humanitarian program and we are open to providing more financial assistance," the prime minister told reporters in Canberra on Sunday.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton will fly to Geneva on Sunday evening.
Mr Abbott said the scale of the dislocation of people in Syria and northern Iraq and the unfolding crisis in the Mediterranean requires further international response.
"Our focus will be on families and women and children, especially of persecuted minorities, who have sought refuge in camps neighbouring Syria and Iraq," Mr Abbott said.
He said as a result of the government's success in stopping illegal boat arrivals to Australia, it is now in a position to take more refugees from offshore refugee camps.
"The government is also considering further funding for humanitarian assistance to those seeking refuge in refugee camps," he said.
This will add to the $155 million already provided in response to the Syria crisis since 2011.
Last financial year Australia settled more than 4400 people from Syria and Iraq, accounting for 30 per cent of the 13,750 places under the Humanitarian Program, he said.
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Everybody knows that the two greatest tales of friendship of our time are The Fox and the Hound and Tango & Cash. The third greatest tale of friendship of our time, though, was Floyd Mayweather and 50 Cent.
The operative word, however, appears to be "was."
Fiddy's beefs have a life of their own, and have run the gamut from Nas to Diddy to The Game to Rick Ross and Lil Wayne. This might be the only one that doesn't have its own diss track yet, having taken place entirely, so far, on Twitter.
First, Fiddy announced on Nov. 1 that The Money Team Promotions was a thing of the past, then accused Mayweather of ducking fights with Yuriorkis Gamboa and Manny Pacquiao. Mayweather counterpunched by calling Señor Cent a "male boxing groupie" and that he respects "the shooter, not the one who got shot."
So, that sounds personal then. Fiddy also threw in some halfhearted mentions of Mayweather's domestic-violence conviction. But he also said the beef was "nonsense" that Mayweather wanted to use to drum up attention and that "I know some [of the things] we do in hip-hop for shock value are wrong. He just wanted some attention. Floyd is like a brother to me."
Now, now, fellas. Why don't you sit down and talk this out over a nice Vitamin Water?


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Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Professional Profiles: Expert Perspectives
Therefore, I have set out within my small but diverse inner circle and selected a small group of professionals with diverse skills, experiences, and expertise to begin this process of examining the various perspectives on professional development, social interaction, ethics, and a host of other relevant topics. Although the theme of this blog revolves around the health sciences, the group of professionals come from varied sources and trades...this is done intentionally because, although professions / jobs / responsibilities vary, there is always the common thread of human interaction and professional conduct. This is perhaps the most effective "spring" of knowledge all professionals can access and actually translate into more effective practice. In addition to the traditional "professional" in the conventional sense, I will also endeavour to engage those who bring a more personal perspective...those who may not have specific professional viewpoints, but who can certainly bring a valued perspective into the discussion.
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"There's a point in your life when you know who stays forever and who's just around for a while. People change, but so do you. Sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. Bad things happen to everyone, you're not in it alone. People lie and some people just don't care how you feel. Your heart beats no matter how much pain you're in. Everything will be okay eventually. There are always people in your life that just make your day no matter the miles. I'd rather stay in touch with the people I love than just drop it and forget about it. You don't forget about the ones you love, it doesn't work like that. Give it all you got, and live your life to the fullest. People would kill to have what you have. Someone always has it worse off than you, but that doesn't mean your pain doesn't count. That's okay. "
- Samuel Effron -
"Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is."
- Marianne Williamson -
"If you're living a full life, pain is one of the colors on the palette... It's one of the things that makes you remember you can feel. One of the things. Humor's another thing. They all work together. When you negate any of these emotions then you're not working with a very complex palette, you're just working with a couple of colors."
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It is going to be one of those days, those days that are full of high expectations and long to do lists, one of those days that the littles are going to smell their mothers weakness as she stresses out. We are all getting ready to head out to Butterfly's doctor appointment this morning... I am anxious to see how big she has gotten. Today I prayed that I would be given the eyes to see His blessings and the heart to feel their presence. I know that they are not going to just stand out to me through out this day. I am going to have a lot of moments that are on the surface going to be difficult... Superman and T-Rex are going to test me and their sins are going to irritate me even more than usual because it is just going to be one of those days. I pray that in each of these challenges, I will beable to view them as wonderful opportunities to train them in His righteousness and not fall under my own sin. These are blessings in disguise these opportunities to train them... to lead them closer to the cross.
1. Today I am grateful for the opportunities that I am given to train my children not in my own
stupidity wisdom but in His true wisdom and righteousness.
May this day bring you great blessings and may you beable to capture them and store them in your heart producing in you a truly grateful heart.


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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
SEAHAWKS: 2011 schedule released
Posted byNathan Parsons at5:02 PM
WEEK 1: at San Fransisco 49ers, 1:15 PM, FOX
WEEK 2: at Pittsburgh Steelers, 10:00 AM, FOX
To Continue...
WEEK 3: vs. Arizona Cardinals, 1:15 PM, FOX
WEEK 4: vs. Atlanta Falcons, 1:05 PM, FOX
WEEK 5: at NY Giants, 10:00 AM, FOX
WEEK 6: Bye week
WEEK 7: at Cleveland Browns, 10:00 PM, FOX
WEEK 8: vs. Cincinnati Bengals, 1:15 PM, CBS
WEEK 9: at Dallas Cowboys, 10:00 AM, FOX
WEEK 10: vs. Baltimore Ravens, 1:05 PM, CBS
WEEK 11: at St. Louis Rams, 1:05 PM, FOX
WEEK 12: vs. Washington Redskins, 1:05 PM, FOX
WEEK 13: vs. Philadelphia Eagles, 5:20, NFLN
WEEK 14: vs. St. Louis Rams, 5:30 PM, ESPN
WEEK 15: at Chicago Bears, 10:10 AM, FOX
WEEK 16: vs. San Francisco 49ers, 1:15 PM, FOX
WEEK 17: at Arizona Cardinals, 1:15 PM, FOX
After a couple years absent, the Hawks are finally back on Monday Night Football, facing their rivals, the St. Louis Rams. Oh, and we're also playing on a Thursday night on NFL Network against Micheal Vick and the Philadelphia Eagles. The great thing about these two games is they're both at HOME, so we will get a rare opportunity to show how loud and extraordinary Quest Field can be.
As for the schedule overall, it looks rough. Starting out the season on the road is never an easy task, and it doesn't help it's against the 49ers. The only real easy games I see the Hawks having is the Bengals and Cardinals at home, but that's about it.
There are a total of five 10:00 AM games scheduled, with the Seahawks having to play the entire NFC East this year.
And just to add to the pain, the Hawks will have to play 4 of their first 6 games on the road. Ouch.
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* 在研究論文和技術文件中使用條形圖
* 助研究思考及寫作的背景音樂 (172)
* 描述學歷背景及已獲成就 (科技求職英文 – 有效撰寫英文職涯經歷) (線上聽力測驗) (6 of 6)
* 工程英文假設描述 (12) (下)
Academic publishing news 學術出版新聞
* 一個表的最左側的垂直列列出不同的標題。
* 如果你希望讀者看到一個表中的任何項目之間的比較,應把這些項目放在彼此接近位置。
* 如果表或數字取自另一個文獻來源,應在下方附註。
* 如何在論文及技術文件中使用表格例子可以在以下發現:
The Mayfield Handbook of Technical & Scientific Writing by Leslie C. Perleman, James Paradis and Edward Barrett
* 條形由不同長度的垂直或水平的長條顯示數據之間的關係。
* 條形代表其在整個數量的百分比,類似餅圖。
* 單個條形圖(single bar graphs)在一個特定的研究對象顯示各種條件的影響。
* 多個條形圖(multiple bar graphs)顯示在同一個條件下不同的研究對象間比較。
* 堆積條形圖(stacked bar graphs)顯示各種項目在整個數量的百分比用來比較和對比數據,。
* 這三種條形圖的例子,可以在以下發現:http://www.mhhe.com/mayfieldpub/tsw/grf-bar.htm
The Mayfield Handbook of Technical & Scientific Writing by Leslie C. Perleman, James Paradis and Edward Barrett
助研究思考及寫作的背景音樂 (172)
Ross Daly 居住在希臘克里特島的愛爾蘭音樂家,40年專心於地中海音樂與中世紀冥想音樂
描述學歷背景及已獲成就 (科技求職英文 – 有效撰寫英文職涯經歷) (線上聽力測驗) (6 of 6)
Laura's interest in biotechnology can be traced back to her first exposure to physiology. She thus completed a master's degree with an emphasis on biotechnology. In the laboratory, she accumulated much bio-informatics-related knowledge. While pursuing a Master's degree in Medical Imagery at Yuanpei University of Science and Technology, she conducted biotechnology-related research at the Animal Technology Institute of Taiwan (ATIT). Graduate-level research prepared her for the rigorous demands of generating experimental results and publishing those findings in domestic and international journals. She has acquired fundamental and advanced research capabilities. She has not only nurtured a talent in biotechnology through a multidisciplinary approach, but also widened her field of interest to grasp fully the latest biotechnology-related concepts. Moreover, her participation in research projects that encompassed other seemingly unrelated fields reflects her willingness to absorb tremendous amounts of information and manage her time efficiently. Working at ABC Company would provide Laura with an excellent environment not only to realize fully her career aspirations, but also to apply theoretical knowledge management concepts taught in graduate school, in a practical work setting.
工程英文假設描述 (12) (下)
* 工程目標 : 工程提案的目標 ?
* 達成目標的方法 : 你的計劃中達成目標的步驟?
* 希望的結果 : 希望的結果你希望達成的結果?
* 領域的貢獻 : 你的提案對相關工程領域的貢獻?
工程計劃目標 An analytical geometry method can be devised, capable of accurately predicting the geometric parameters of practical C4 type solder joint in flip chip technology after a reflow process. 達成目標的方法 To do so, the differential equation of curvature can be derived from the well-known Laplace-Young equation. Additionally, the contact angle between the solder and substrate and the surface tension of the solder can be measured. The free surface energy of the substrate and the interfacial tension between the solder and the substrate can then be obtained from Young's equation. Next, the differential equation of curvature can be numerically solved to obtain the geometric parameters. Moreover, the geometric data of the solder joint can be used as an input in the finite element model to analyze the stress/strain distribution, thermal fatigue life and reliability of the electronic packages. 希望的結果 As anticipated, the proposed methodology can calculate the effect of gravity on the buried high-lead solder bump instead of on the semi-spherical one. Furthermore, the analytical geometry method proposed herein can predict geometric parameters of a C4 type solder joint to within 5% of those obtained by a specific method found in the literature. 領域的貢獻 While considering all of the design factors used to investigate how those factors affect the final shape of a C4 type solder joint, the proposed method provides further insight into how design factors affect the reliability of flip chip technology. The proposed method can also be used to design geometric parameters of a C4 type solder joint, capable of enhancing the reliability of a flip chip package and reducing its stress concentration. Additionally, the results of this study can enhance the reliability and fatigue life of a flip chip package under thermodynamic loading. (NOTE : Add 2-3 more sentences that describe more thoroughly how the proposed method contributes to a particular field or sector)
Source: 有效撰寫英文工作提案 柯泰德
密集課程 (柯泰德): Organizing Technical Research Papers(科技研究論文組織寫作)
密集課程 (柯泰德):Developing Copyediting Skills(英文編修訓練)


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Jenae at SFTH (www.sfth.typepad.com) gave me some of the new Daisy Bucket to play with and some Green Tara paper string. I must admit to sitting and looking at this string and wondering what on earth I was going to do with it (other than sew of course!). Anyway I had a piece in my hand and was rolling it trying to come up with something when I realized I had rolled it around and it looked like a flower centre. So this happened!
The textured green cardstock that is peeking out from the blue paper is the Bazzill Swiss Dots - so much fun to use. Now for a close up...
Now your eyes are not deceiving you - the layout does look crooked but it's the photo I took not the actual layout I promise!
This is the other layout with Daisy Bucket - the colours are just so fresh and the paper has a beautiful texture to it.
and the close up...
Flowers and butterflies sighhh - it doesn't take much to keep me happy!
The reason I took the photos of the layouts in such a hurry was that I was taking a class at SFTH today with Maxine and Audrey (see post below for blog links) and I needed to quickly snap a shot before they left my hands. As always their class was fabulous as well as a lot of fun! Max and Audrey know how to enjoy themselves and take everyone around them along for the ride. They absolutely love what they do and you can see they also love teaching people to create the masterpieces that they come up with. They said it was OK for me to show a picture of the canvas we made on the blog so here it is:
Now I have to say the pictures don't do the canvas justice as the lighting wasn't that great when I got home and there is so much texture on this piece that just doesn't show up. This was done, start to finish in a 2 1/2 hour class with explanations and demonstrations along the way. If you want to have a look at their upcoming classes at Scrapbooks from the Heart go to the blog here www.sfth.typepad.com and you'll see a link for the class timetable for April on the top left hand side. I really want to do the gorgeous Mother's Day album but it coincides with hubby's golf eekk! I'm sure a deal can be reached!
On another topic completely, I've recently had a few people come up to me when I'm out and about and start chatting and commenting on my work and as I'm so new to blogland, it takes me a while to realize how they know about some of my layouts and news! So if you are one of those people (such as Debbie today!) I'm sorry if I look like a startled rabbit when you're first talking to me but I love hearing your feedback and it's a great compliment that you take time out of your day to come and visit me here! So thank you very much and please keep visiting!
See you later in the week
Sonia x


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In the hours between 10am and 2pm today...we got snow! After that it turned to rain (and mush), but for four hours there it was really pretty.
In between wandering around the house and eating, I managed to finish knitting the teal cardigan. I kept going around and around the edges.
Adding a neckline and some button bands:
...and lengthening the hem by this much.
It is now being spun out in the washing machine (after a soaking) prior to being wet blocked. Final pictures will be coming when dry. I'm not thrilled with it, but the idea that it's done is a weight off my shoulders.


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Hi Folks. well here we are again back with our wee snippets of info about our mum and 3 sisters who emigrated to Australia.
All 4 went from Glasgow on 11. 2. 201o.they had another to plane to Perth australia. they had a good flight but near the end of the Perth flight it got a wee bit bumpy.They were met at the airport and were taken to a a hotel where they were to live there for 2 weeks swimming pool was a must as Erin and Jaye just loved the water as it was so hot!.
so there time in Perth was sight seeing and B B Q galore. mum Had to buy us new beds so off to IKEA they went , the beds got sent on with lots of other things to there new home.When they arrived at there destination they had another week in another hotel before they could move into the house .At last the day came they moved in a place at last to call home !!. Erin and Jaye got there new uniforms a lovely blue with matching t-shirt skorts look like half shorts have skirt and a sun hat . when Erin saw the hat she was upset she didnt want to wear a hat poor lass. rule is no hat no play!!as for Jaye she was pleased as punch !! as blue is her football team she loves .They now in scool 3 weeks and mummy is in the same school as them doing primary 5. well thats all for now but will write again cheerio for now god bless you all that read this
love from nancybrownowl fergus and minnie woof!!!! woof !!!!


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United States District Court, N.D. California, Eureka Division
May 5, 2015
JAMES ALLEN TATE, Plaintiff,v.CAROLYN W. COLVIN, Defendant.
ORDER RE PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR ATTORNEY FEES Re: Dkt. No. 22
NANDOR J. VADAS, Magistrate Judge.
Before the court is Plaintiff's Motion for Attorney's Fees (Doc. 22), filed pursuant to the Equal Access to Justice Act ("EAJA"), 28 U.S.C. § 2412. Defendant has filed a Response (Doc. 23) in partial opposition to the Motion, to which Plaintiff filed a Reply (Doc. 24). For the reasons that follow, the Motion for Attorney's Fees (Doc. 22) is GRANTED, with a reduction in the award.
Plaintiff filed his Complaint (Doc. 1) on January 15, 2014, seeking review of an administrative law judge decision denying his application for disability benefits pursuant to Title II of the Social Security Act and for supplemental security income benefits under Title XVI of the Social Security Act. On July 3, 2014, Plaintiff filed a Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 14) in support of his claims. Defendant filed a Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment on September 2, 2014. (Doc. 17). Plaintiff filed a Reply on September 15, 2014. (Doc. 18.) On January 13, 2015, the undersigned entered an order granting in part and denying in part Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment and granting in part and denying in part Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment. (Doc. 19.) Plaintiff now seeks attorney's fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2412 (d). (Doc. 22.)
Order to Show Cause
On April 15, 2015, the court issued an Order to Show Cause, asking Plaintiff to address the timeliness of his motion and whether Plaintiff's Counsel had complied with the requirements of Civil Local Rule 54-5 governing motions for attorney's fees. Plaintiff filed a response to the court's order on April 17, 2015 (Doc. 26) and Defendant filed a response on April 24, 2015 (Doc. 27). Plaintiff argues in his response that his motion is timely. Plaintiff, however, concedes that he did not comply with the requirements of subsection (b) of Civil Local Rule 54-5 that a motion for attorney's fees must be supported by declarations or affidavits containing a statement that counsel have met and conferred in an attempt to resolve disputed issues. Plaintiff's counsel now provides the appropriate declaration, stating that he sent a letter to opposing counsel but received no response. (Doc. 26.) Defense Counsel does not dispute that such a letter was sent, but denies having received it. (Doc. 27.)
Based on the parties' responses, the court finds that Plaintiff's motion for attorney's fees is timely. See Akopyan v. Barnhart, 296 F.3d 852, 854 (9th Cir. 2002) ("A sentence four remand becomes a final judgment, for purposes of attorneys' fees claims brought pursuant to the EAJA, 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d), upon expiration of the time for appeal."); Fed.R.App.P 4(a) (in a civil case to which the government is a party, the time for appeal does not end until 60 days after the entry of judgment). Here, the court entered judgment on January 13, 2015. (Doc. 20.) Plaintiff had 60 days thereafter to file his notice of appeal, and then an additional 30 days to file his motion for attorney's fees with this court. Plaintiff filed his motion for attorney's fees on March 16, 2015, well within the allowed ninety days. (Doc. 22.)
Based on the foregoing, the Order to Show Cause issued by the court on April 15, 2015, is HEREBY DISCHARGED.
Motion for Attorney's Fees
Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d)(1)(A) "a court shall award to a prevailing party other than the United States fees and other expenses, in addition to any costs... incurred by that party in any civil action (other than cases sounding in tort), including proceedings for judicial review of agency action... unless the court finds that the position of the United States was substantially justified or that circumstances make an award unjust." A party that has obtained a remand under sentence four of 42 U.S.C. § 405(g) is a prevailing party. See Shalala v. Schaefer, 509 U.S. 292, 302 (1993). Plaintiff has the burden of proving he is entitled to EAJA fees. See Hensley v. Eckerhart, 461 U.S. 424, 437 (1983).
Defendant contends that Plaintiff has not shown that he is entitled to EAJA attorney's fees, because he has not met his burden of showing that his net worth does not exceed $2, 000, 000.00 at the time that this civil action was filed. See 28 U.S.C. Section 2412(d)(2)(B)(i). The court finds this contention meritless. As Plaintiff argues, the record shows that when he applied for Title XVI Supplemental Security Income, he reported in the "Resources" section of his application that his Bank of the West account balance was $0.50 and that he did not own other resources. (Tr. 193.) Plaintiff was found to have met the Supplemental Security Income eligibility resource prerequisite of not having more than $2, 000, 000.00 in combined resources in order to have the merits of his Title XVI disability claim reviewed. The court agrees with Plaintiff that based on this undisputed and uncontradicted information, he has met the financial prerequisite to be eligible for attorney's fees under the EAJA.
Plaintiff seeks fees for Counsel's time of 53 hours at $186 per hour for total of $9, 858.00. See 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d)(2)(A)(ii) (defining "fees"). This consists of 1 hour for drafting the complaint, 38 hours for Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment, 8 hours for the reply brief, and 6 hours for Plaintiff's motion for attorney's fees. Defendant does not assert that her position was substantially justified and concedes that Plaintiff is entitled to fees. Defendant, however, contends that Plaintiff's request for attorney's fees is unreasonable, arguing that the court should reduce Plaintiff's requested 53 hours of attorney time to a total of 25 hours. Defendant argues that the briefing in this action consisted of four "fairly standard" disability issues and that Plaintiff's substantive briefing amounted to only about 10 pages of argument. Defendant submits that 15 hours would therefore adequately compensate Plaintiff's counsel for drafting Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment. Defendant further submits that 6 hours would adequately compensate Plaintiff's counsel for drafting Plaintiff's Reply brief, which contains about 6 and a half pages of argument.
Plaintiff's Counsel contends that the number of hours claimed is reasonable because he did not represent Plaintiff at the prior administrative hearing and had to take extra time to review and analyze the 694 page Certified Transcript of Administrative Proceedings. The court does not dispute Counsel's assertion that time was needed to review and analyze the lengthy transcript in this case. The court finds, however, that under the facts of this case, the hours sought by Plaintiff are excessive and therefore unreasonable. The court notes that the issues raised were neither novel nor complex, and that several were meritless. The court finds that 27 hours would reasonably compensate Plaintiff's Counsel for drafting the Motion for Summary Judgment, and that 7 hours would reasonably compensate Plaintiff's Counsel for drafting the Reply. Thus, the court will award a total of 35 ...
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text: I have only had to replace 1 MFTS. When I did it I got a new rubber boot and new wires with new connectors from SJM. It was very low cost and helped a electrical idiot like myself immensely as I just had to splice the new color coded wires in. I also cut holes in the bottom of the new boot for coolant to leak. I have the 4 pin VDO and it has lasted a couple of years now. The first was the original VDO which lasted for 104,000. I have replaced 2 afterrun temp sensors and am getting ready to replace a third one. The wiring checks out but the switch is bad. How easy is it to short this switch out and fry it? The next time I install it I am going to disconnect the battery and then isolate the connectors and wrap them in electrical tape. Its a cheap switch and easy to replace but is a hassle.


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A Blog of Unfortunate Events
Monday, October 15, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Back to the Start
Contests. I'm ready to enter some, and hopefully win feedback and advice on my current project. After doing a bit of scouring, I found some good ones, but this is my favorite:
Lori is a writer and she has a brand new fan named Jesplin (that's me, btw). Go check out her blog. I promise, you'll be hooked!
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Wicked Plants: A Book Review
Who knew plants could be so wicked? This book contains the terrors of the plant world. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
My favorite plant was the dangerous Jimsom weed, which causes all sorts of annoying symptoms when ingested. The Jamestown settlers fed it to some British soldiers, to get the upper hand on 'em during a scuffle. Clever colonists. Also interesting was the caster bean, whose poisonous extract was used to kill a communist in the 1970s. And how 'bout those crazy poisonous ordeal beans, used to determine guilt within the West African criminal justice system?
That's what I liked about this book. It's not a dry encyclopedia of wicked plants. Every plant has its own wicked story.
Did you know there are male plants and female plants, and male plants are the ones responsible for all our allergy problems? Are we really surprised, ladies?
Did you know atropine (extracted from plants like Deadly Nightshade), which causes various horrible symptoms when ingested, is sometimes added to addictive painkillers to keep patients from getting hooked? Well done, laboratory chemists! But I can't help but wonder if there's a better way…
Anyhow, the plants in "Wicked Plants" are organized alphabetically, but I would have preferred if they had been organized categorically first, like Destructive, Illegal, Intoxicating, Offensive, Painful, Dangerous, Deadly… and then organized alphabetically within those categories. I like to read about my plants categorically. And an index at the end would have been helpful. Also, it contains lots of cool drawings and etchings, but I still found myself Googling real pictures of the plants to get a better idea.
On that note, I Googled this offensive plant called "slobber weed," which, when ingested, causes a person to drool two or more pints of saliva, and Google gave me a bunch of pictures of hippies "drooling" over their marijuana. Slobber weed. It's frustrating, not knowing what this slobber weed looks like.
Yes, this was a swell read. And I had no prior interest in plants. I just picked it up on a whim. Recommend you do the same.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
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Writing a book is awesome. Trying to get that book published is a series of discouraging, gut-wrenching, self-doubting, hopeless, unfortunate events. I'll write about it here, on this depressing blog. Plus I'll occasionally post YouTube videos so that'll be fun.
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At church this morning we talked about suffering and submission to God. I keep hearing this theme of submission or surrendering and I am trying to see what I need to surrender to God. I guess I need to surrender this entire situation and quit worrying about it. Easier said than done, but I am going to try. In the car on the way home Dan and I discussed again what we should do about coming to a decision regarding surgery. We thought maybe we should schedule surgery at Stanford, but still ask questions as we think of them.
When we got home I had an email from Dr. Mainwaring, a pediatric heart surgeon at Sutter, waiting in my inbox. Is that an answer to prayer or what? I have only met this man a few times, but I really love him! We sent him an email through a friend with a few questions we had and he took the time to write out a thoughtful and loving response, even though he has absolutely no obligation to do so. Here's a bit of what he said:
It is evident that you love your son very much and want to make the very best decision for him. It is a paradox, because it is the love for your son that makes this decision so difficult—it is an indication that you are great parents and care so much, and you should always view this as a virtue (and not a liability). If you didn't care so much, then all these decisions would be much easier.He answered some other questions and closed with this:
I think it is great that you have turned to your faith in God to help you through these difficult times. The scripture that you quoted from Proverbs suggests that if you have faith in God then he will make your pathways straighter—no doubt confusing in light of the fact that you have been presented with no less than three potential paths. Which one should you take? Unfortunately, the Bible makes no comment about Drs. Hanley, Raff, or Azakie. But I do believe that your faith will ultimately assist you not only in making a good decision for your son but also give you the strength to negotiate that event.
Finally, as far as what I would do, and what I can advise you to do, I know Dr. Hanley quite well and have a tremendous amount of respect for his sound judgment and his surgical abilities. He is considered one of the premier congenital heart surgeons in the world for a reason. I don't know either Dr. Azakie or Dr. Raff, and therefore cannot comment on their qualifications either in a positive or negative manner. So if I had to make this decision for my own child I would choose Dr. Hanley, and would trust his judgment as far as what operation would be best for my child.I am so thankful to Dr. Mainwaring for taking the time to really consider our situation and write such caring words to us. Especially since it really helped us come to a conclusion. After we read this email, Dan said he thinks we should go to Stanford. The fact that we keep hearing from cardiologists and surgeons with 30+ years in this field that they would trust Dr. Hanley with their own children means a lot to me. So tomorrow I am going to call Stanford and see about scheduling surgery. I feel a tremendous burden has been lifted and I am looking forward to moving closer toward surgery.


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Lecturer in Psychology
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- 27 Aug 2017
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- Academic Discipline
- Social Sciences, Psychology
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School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences
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- $93,336to $110,619 per annum (Level B)
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The University of New England in Armidale, Australia is a unique university, in the enviable position of boasting an excellent international reputation as well as being a leader in research and academic innovation. We aim to foster a constructive and engaged culture where creative ideas and innovation thrive.
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The Psychology Program at UNE has 25 full-time equivalent academic staff members and has received an ERA research rating of 4 (above world standard) by the Australian Research Council. We offer a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Psychology. For more information please visit: http://www.une.edu.au/about-une/academic-schools/bcss/study-areas/psychology.
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The discipline of Psychology is seeking three enthusiastic and qualified academics to strengthen and expand the University's research and teaching capacity. The area of expertise within Psychology is open. The incumbents will be expected to pursue an active research program in Psychology, supervise student research projects (including fourth-year level projects that involve group data collection), fulfill relevant administrative roles, and work as a member of different teams in providing instruction. Initial teaching duties will be to coordinate and deliver a unit in our fourth-year program, and teach into team-taught undergraduate psychology units that are delivered in both on-line and face-to-face formats.One of the incumbents is needed to coordinate and deliver a fourth-year professional skills unit.
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The successful applicants will have a PhD in Psychology. Applicants should also have a strong research profile in psychology relative to their stage of career, evidence of teaching ability, ability to supervise psychology honours students, excellent communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to collaborate and perform effectively within teams, and willingness to perform administrative/service roles within the discipline and the University.
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To find out more about the School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences,visit www.une.edu.au/bcss
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Living in Armidale you will experience the best of both city and rural living. Enjoy a healthy and active lifestyle with access to shopping, gourmet food, top sporting facilities and cultural delights. You can live in the heart of Armidale or experience the tranquillity of the New England on a rural property.
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Closing Date: 27 August 2017
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Justice For Emma Marie BaldwinRecently I became acquainted with Benjamin Baldwin. He asked to join Justice For Ayla on Facebook and that was how I became aware of how great of an advocate he is for abused and murdered children everywhere, even Ayla and how I became aware of his daughter Emma's story. The 22nd of October marks the one year anniversary that Emma became an angel so it was only fitting to get her story out there so more become aware of her and her father's fight for justice.I will give a short synopsis about what happened to Emma but I think her father's own words tell it much better.On Oct. 19th, 2012 police responded to the report of a child not breathing. Emma was left in the care of Juwan Moore, 31 who was the boyfriend of her mother Brandie Baldwin, 30. They claimed she had choked and was not breathing. She was rushed to the hospital where she died a few short days later. Doctors said there was no way she had choked. They found injuries on Emma including bruises on her face and chin and on her back, buttocks, and both arms. Her right arm was broken and she had trauma to her head.Police arrested Juwan Moore and charged him with capital murder as well as two counts of felony child abuse for the other two children ages six and nine who also lived with them. Brandie Baldwin was charged with second degree murder and three counts of felony child abuse and neglect. She is currently on bail. They are both due in court in November. When police searched the house they found synthetic drugs, pills, needles, and other drug paraphernalia. Brandie is active on Facebook and websites dedicated to Emma. She takes no responsibility for what she has done.~ Emma's Story ~ Through her father's testimony ~ 11/03/12
Emma was severely physically injured on Friday, October 19th, 2012
On 10/19 around 4pm, an ambulance had come to the home on Pole Bridge Road in Wise, VA. I am still unaware who made the call to the paramedics.
I was informed that Emma was not breathing when they arrived and they had to "work on her" to support her breathing.
She was then taken to Norton Community Hospital into the ER.
Brandie did not tell them that I was her father. Emma's right arm was broken. They did a cat scan on her head and it revealed a slight bleeding on her brain and her brain was still in a somewhat regular brain shape.
At that point, under the circumstances, the choice was made to fly her to UT Medical Hospital in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Brandie let with Juwan and the other kids back to a friends house. Sometime during this point they were coached into a fabricated story to tell the investigators.
Social Services arrived at some point and took Emergency Custody of all 3 children because Brandie did not declare that I had joint legal custody. Then at some point, Brandie and Juwan made statements to investigators.
I received a call 5 hours later from a special agent of the Virginia State Police. He told me that Emma was very sick and that they were "working on her" Her arm was broken, she had significant bruising, and they were breathing for her.
I packed my stuff and hauled as fast as I could to Knoxville, TN.
When I arrived at UT Medical, they kept telling me that they did not have a patient there by that name. I freaked out and said that you have got be kidding me. I though they may have took her to Holsten Valley instead. I called the Special Agent and I called the Wise County Sheriff's office and after an hour, I received my clearance to see Emma.
Emma was on a ventilator. They had performed another cat scan on her head when she arrived at UT Medical. Her brain had swollen to the capacity of her skull. She had severe bleeding in the brain. She had major bruising all over her body and her little right arm had been broken. She had an issue with her kidneys putting out too much water, so they had to give her hormones. They also had to give her blood pressure medicine for her heart.
Now I had left to go to the hotel briefly to get a room around 4am, I think. When I came back 30 minutes later, Brandie was there and I waited in the PICU lounge.
After she left 30 minutes later, I went back with Emma. I continued to hold her hand and talk to her and tell her everything was going to be okay.
Shortly I met with the forensic doctor who would be doing Emma's examination, I think around 6-7am. I had an interview with her and when we were done, I went with her to Emma's bedside for the examination. She perfomed the examination as I watched. Let me tell you when I say it was the most horrific thing I have had to do in my entire life and I never wish that upon anybody.
Emma's eyes had completely hemoraged with blood. The only way that it can happen is either if there is a family-related bleeding problem or from physical trauma. They concluded that Emma DID NOT have a hereditary bleeding problem.
At this point, I am beside myself. What had they sdone to my baby girl? I was angry, upset, sad, and everything in between.
So then, the forensic doctor had to call Brandie several times to tell her to come back in around 8AM on saturday morning. Brandie finally showed up an hour later and they sat me in another room in the PICU while she did her interview with the forensic doctor. After the interview, Brandie made a choice.
Brandie chose, instead of going to Emma's bedside, she walked right out of the PICU without even seeing her. She tried to get back to her car to leave.
She had brought Juwan to the hospital with her. He tried to get a visitor pass to go see Emma. After security told him they would make his badge in the office, they held him until the police arrived.
Brandie and Juwan were both taken into custody for FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE WARRANTS for his violation of probation and her violation of protection order due to after what happened to Emma, they executed a search warrant on the home and found drugs and/or paraphernalia.
I didn't even know this until Sunday.
So I stayed up with Emma all day saturday by her side, holding her hand, laying with her, talking to her, telling her it was going to be okay.
I had to leave around 11pm because I had to sleep. Emma was going to have her first EEG brain scan the next morning on Sunday.
After waking up Sunday morning, I go back to UT Medical Center to be with Emma. They are finishing up with her first EEG Brain Scan.
I don't know how to tell you this but Emma had absolutely zero brain activity. I wanted to puke. I couldn't believe this was happening. The neurologist told me that basically Emma was deceased already.
So for instances where people can only die by two ways, either your heart stops or your brain stops. Well Emma's brain had stopped. But they have to run 2 independent SAME tests with different neurologists, and if both tests are conclusive, then the patient is officially pronounced deceased.
Needless to say, I was beside myself all day long talking with the doctors and wondering what should I do and I stayed with Emma by her side.
I tried to lay down that night by her side in a recliner but that didn't happen. SO I sat in a chair throughout the entire night talking with the nurses and doctors, while being there for Emma. I continued to hold her hands and kiss her head. Telling her it was going to be okay.
I didn't sleep all Sunday night. Monday morning finaly came. The 2nd neurologist came in to perfom the 2nd EEG Brain scan. I left while they did it. When I came back to the PICU, they showed me parts beside the digital EEG that they do. They performed a LIVE demonstration on how Emma's natural instictive reflexes from her spinal cord were not even working properly when they would pick up her limbs and then let them go. Which usually in a situation of brain damage, there is still some natural instinctive reflexes which Emma did not have.
Emma was pronounced dead at 1:05 PM on Monday, October 22nd, 2012 in the UT Medical Hospital PICU.
I stayed with her as her precious little heart kept beating as she was being supplied with oxygen from a machine.
They made the decision to get Brandie in from Knoxville County Jail to see Emma before the withdrawl of care would take place.
Well Brandie came in and visited around 6 for 30 minutes to 60 minutes. After that, her mother and step-father were allowed to see Emma for 15 minutes. After all that, it was just Emma and me.
After being there with her for so long, they picked Emma up off the bed and laid her into my arms. I held her for as long as she needed me to. I sung to her, I told her how much I loved her, and if she felt anything at all, in her little brain, she knew she was with her Daddy. She knew she was safe and she most certainly knew that she was loved.
Now I pray that you never have to go through anything like this in your life, EVER!!!
But I held my baby girl in my arms because I was proud to be her father and she was proud that I was her Daddy.
Shortly after, they stopped the machines. I held my baby Emma Marie Baldwin tight as can be and I didn't let go. Emma's heart had stopped. I continued to hold her in my arms. I didn't want to let her go.
I stood up and placed her on the bed and then they put her blanket on her. I composed myself and after a short while, I had to leave.
They gave me a lock of her hair. I keep it in my pocket.
Emma is my guardian angel. I would do anything for this little girl because she was half of a family that supposed to be later in life. Now our family was cut in half.
The next day on Tuesday, Emma was transported to Roanoke, Virginia so they could perform the autopsy. After the autopsy was conclusive with what the results were at the hospital, Emma's body was released to the funeral home that I had chosen for her final services.
Emma was picked up and taken to Northern Kentucky to be with my family.
Emma's services were Tuesday, October 30th, 2012.
They were beautiful. It is what she deserved.
Now she is laid to rest with a large number of my family members at a cemetary in Taylor Mill, Kentucky. A long line of fine humans who loved eachother and some were veterans.
Now, the events that took place before Emma's tragic fate...
That is a whole other story onto itself.
But let me tell you something and make it real clear to you.
Emma received very serious physical traumas.
She passed away as a result of that. THAT IS A FACT.
Take a good long look at my baby girl.
Only then will you know my pain for my daughter.
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7 comments:
What a horrific story, how can people do this to children? Why is that woman out on bail?ReplyDelete
So sad :-(
- AnonymousOctober 21, 2013 at 7:19 AM
Omg how heartbreaking.ReplyDelete
Thoughts and prayers to Benjamin.
Rest in peace, Emma, in the arms of the angela. ♡♡♡
Sadly, this is the first time I'm hearing of Emma. :( I know you get busy, Tori, but maybe you could cover Emma's story a bit, provide updates, maybe? Unless, are there other websites, besides the facebook, for Emma? I'd like to know why the mother isn't in jail? That's horrible! What about the boyfriend, is he in jail? I wonder if Benjamin could update as to what happened with the court proceedings (only if he's allowed to, as I see in the picture he's pushing for justice for Emma)?
- Anonymous 1October 21, 2013 at 1:27 PM
Thank you for sharing Emma's story Tori.ReplyDelete
Extremely heartbreaking. I feel awful because I know this sort of thing happens all to often.
My heart and prayers go out to Benjamin.
- ChickenLittleOctober 21, 2013 at 6:26 PM
This is horrible!!! So sad. So heartbreaking. I rreally have no words. My heart aches for this beautiful, little girl!ReplyDelete
Why is there so much evil in the world!
To Benjamin - I am so sorry. So very sorry. God bless you.
I am familiar with Emma's story and Benjamin's fight for her. He is a true advocate for his daughter and for other children also.ReplyDelete
I'm very sorry for the loss of your Emma, Benjamin. Stay strong and while you continue to fight for Emma, thank you for thinking of other children who need voices also.
- mountain mamaOctober 21, 2013 at 9:36 PM
Bless you little Emma and Ben. I can find no other words.ReplyDelete
God bless you sweetheart xxxReplyDelete


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Some residents of Hyannis could soon have new neighbors. The Barnstable County Sheriff's Department is looking to open a half-way house program downtown. As Chloe Shelford reports, the plan could be controversial because Hyannis is a draw for tourists, and the village has received complaints about its large and visible homeless population.
The program would take place in the Pilot House on School Street. The building used to be a CHAMP Homes program for newly sober men, and it's currently being renovated. In a phone conversation, Special Sheriff Jeff Perry said the program at Pilot House would be an important part of the jail's re-entry program.
Safe and healthy housing for the formerly homeless and newly sober is hard to find, Perry said, and what the Sheriff's department doesn't want to do is drop a newly released inmate off at a homeless shelter.
CHAMP Homes Executive Director Beth Wade said her organization has been re-evaluating how to best meet its mission and is looking at several options for the property.
"In the course of some conversations with the community, I met with Jeff Perry from the Sheriff's Department and it sounded like perhaps CHAMP Homes would be able to partner with the Sheriff's Department to provide to meet a real need in the community," Wade said. "That's how this all came about."
The project has not been debated publicly because the Sheriff does not need approval from the town, even though some Hyannis officials are trying to move these sort of programs out of the downtown tourist area. Town Councilor Jen Cullum said that in this situation, Hyannis residents really don't have a say.
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Cullum is critical of the halfway house idea. She said Hyannis is already overburdened with numerous social services programs.
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Once the finished image exists in Photoshop, it is still in Tif form. Then what? My version of Photoshop, the old CS3 does not give an option to save the Tif as a jpg. What do I do with the Tif file?
SX50 – Shooting RAW – Development and Processing
In this segment we share some further descriptions of our method for processing the RAW images we've taken with the SX50. The examples illustrated here were converted with Digital Photo Professional, which is the Canonware editor included with the camera on CD. We have also made some conversions with the DXO Optics Pro 8 trial, and hope to explore Lightroom 4 as well shortly. We may have more to say about these other software editors also in a future article.
First, let me say that just as we prefer to shoot in Manual mode, we also always process each image individually and manually rather than use any scripted, batched, or automated processing. Every image is different, and if we select any given capture for processing, it will be processed based on its own individual characteristics. So you won't find any prescribed settings or processing recipes here. I will however, outline our workflow and share the reasoning for the steps and methods used.
Converting RAW to TIFF
We begin by bringing the chosen RAW (.CR2) file into Digital Photo Professional, and selecting "Before/after compare" in the View menu.This allows continuous judgements to be made as we develop the image. The available adjustment tools under the RAW tab are arranged in a logical sequence from top to bottom in the tool pallette. In this example the Brightness adjustment slider is reduced to correct for the somewhat harsh lighting in the shot… (note the recovery of highlight detail this provides).
Several options are then provided to correct White Balance. The drop down menu defaults to "Shot settings", which is the WB selected in the camera when the image was taken. We usually set the in-camera WB to either Daylight or Cloudy depending on weather conditions, because Auto-WB can change unpredictably based on the specific light and color within the focus area while shooting. In this image however, I found the Auto WB menu choice provided more natural color for this scene, and so the Daylight setting in the camera was over-ridden. Alternatively, an eye-dropper tool allows selection of the white point by clicking within the image, or the Tune button can be used to fine-tune WB based on a standard color temperature wheel. Customized settings are saveable as presets for future selection, but we don't really use this feature.
The next section provides a drop-down menu of preset Picture Styles which automatically set all of the individual settings below the histogram to a variety of predetermined "styles". We use this selector to choose a best starting point for each image (in this case "Faithful") and then further fine tune the settings as needed. Clicking the image toggles the view scale between "fit to window" and 100% views (we recommend using high resolution views when adjusting sharpness settings), … and additional viewing scale choices are available both in the View menu and by way of cntl-key shortcuts.
Noise Reduction, RGB tone curves, Chromatic Abberation, and Lens Distortion controls are provided under the RGB, NR/ALO, and Lens tabs. We are not currently using DPP for these corrections however, preferring to transfer minimally developed TIFF files into Photoshop for finishing. The File menu offers several options for saving and converting your developed RAW files into various formats, either for further editing or as fully developed images.
Processing the TIFF in Photoshop
After loading the converted TIFF image into Photoshop, our first step is cropping. Many and most of our finished images are cropped to some degree, even those taken at close range and full-reach. It is indeed rare (for us) that a chosen frame was composed perfectly in camera… so I'll usually crop a little for balance and/or to remove unlovely elements from the edges and so on. This also makes further editing faster and more efficient.
Next we adjust levels. Photoshop allows finer adjustments of Highlights, Mid-tones, and Shadows (than can be done in DPP) via the histogram and slider controls in the Levels tool. Overall exposure adjustments are always best done on the cropped frame, disregarding any unused portions of the original capture.
Sharpening and Noise Reduction are both key aspects of post-processing, but unfortunately these are generally not compatible processes. The problem inevitably arises that NR will tend to reduce fine details, and Sharpening increases the visibility of noise. There are noise reduction products which go a long way toward eliminating this natural conflict, but when applied universally to the entire image some compromise is still unavoidable. So we apply these processes selectively whenever possible. Careful selection and masking allows noise reduction to be applied to the oof backgrounds separately. And then by inverting the selection, sharpening can be applied to the in-focus foreground only. Thus avoiding the sharpening of background noise, and the loss of detail in the subject. This method has the secondary benefit of subtly enhancing the perceived focus… which is sometimes seen as a kind of 3D effect.
Many photographers perform sharpening as the last process before saving the finished image btw. But we do a very slight "pre-sharpen" at full size prior to resizing for web presentation, and another "finish sharpen" pass at screen resolution.
So here then is the finished image from the conversion sample at the beginning of this article:
Processing should usually be subtle, but the effect it has on our images can often be profound. Here are a couple more "before and after" slides illustrating the processing of RAW images from the SX50:
Additional sample images and further discussions on processing RAW SX50 images can be found here: