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News Archive for December 2014
Dr Junyan (Jerry) Li wins iMechE 2014 Tribology Trust Bronze Medal
December 4, 2014
The Tribology Trust have confirmed that Dr Junyan (Jerry) Li, a MeDe Innovation researcher based at the University of Leeds, has been named as the recipient of the 2014 Tribology Trust Bronze Medal. The Tribology Bronze Medal is an encouragement award for engineers and scientists working in the fields of friction, lubrication and wear, ie […]
Translational Proof of Concept Awards to accelerate the fight against musculoskeletal disorders
November 3, 2014
A partnership between a leading medical research charity and a national centre for innovation is launching a new fund to accelerate the commercial development of treatments and prevention of musculoskeletal disorders. Arthritis Research UK, the biggest funder of research into the cause, treatment and cure of all forms of arthritis in the UK, and the […]
Attenborough Dental joins the new knowledge revolution with KTP
October 21, 2014
This November the first ever National KTP Week will take place across the UK with over 100 universities and businesses participating in one of the largest collaborations between the business world, and academic institutions in the UK. The Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) programme, delivered by Innovate UK, the UK's innovation agency, is a three-way project […]
Vacancy: Research Associate, UCL Centre for Nanotechnology & Regenerative Medicine
October 13, 2014
Our academic partner, UCL Centre for Nanotechnology & Regenerative Medicine, is seeking a Research Associate to carry out research in field of bone and tendon regeneration using 3D printing of POSS-nanocomposite biomaterial, and carry out biological testing with stem cells. This will include designing and running experiments, recording, analysing, presenting and writing up the results. […]
£440,000 to identify key research challenges in Medical Device Manufacturing
September 18, 2014
The EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Medical Devices (MeDe Innovation) today launched a funding initiative to grow the national research platform in innovative Class III, musculoskeletal medical device manufacturing. The £440,000 'Fresh Ideas Fund', launched at MeDe Innovation's Biological and Biomimetic Materials research workshop, will provide small grants to develop short or small projects […]
Manufacturing the Future: Call for Investigator-Led Research Projects
September 15, 2014
The EPSRC Manufacturing the Future challenge theme invites investigator-led proposals which address key research challenges facing manufacturing in the UK today and in the future. Although there is officially no closing date and proposals can be submitted at any time, batching dates have been identified at roughly six-month intervals in order to manage the assessment […]
EPSRC Call: Design the Future
September 2, 2014
EPSRC would like to invite applicants to participate in a funding initiative to explore the potential for "Design the Future". This call aims to encourage adventurous research addressing future design challenges, researching the effect of new science and engineering on the designers and the design process, leading to the development of future products and processes. […]
Vacancy: Research Scientist, JRI Orthopaedics Ltd, UK
August 27, 2014
Our industrial partner, JRI Orthopaedics Ltd, is seeking a Research Scientist to work on an exciting new R&D project funded by the Technology Strategy Board. The project will involve the development of new sintering process for bioactive glasses which have significant aspects of bioengineering design and project management. The position is based on a 12 […]
Vacancy: Research Bioengineer, JRI Orthopaedics Ltd, UK
Our industrial partner, JRI Orthopaedics Ltd, is seeking a Research Bioengineer to support all activities relating to the European-funded RESTORATION project on which JRI collaborates. The project is coordinated by Professor Kenny Dalgarno (Newcastle University) and has 12 partners across Europe. The Research Bioengineer will be responsible for maintaining the project plan including all project […]
University's new partnership will boost life science businesses in the North
July 25, 2014
The University of Leeds and Bionow have agreed a formal collaboration to support the UK life science sector in the North. The partnership will see the development of a series of initiatives designed to help northern biomedical companies drive the growth and competitiveness of their business. Built around the University's world-class strength in interdisciplinary biomedical […]
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Unconfirmed rumors from Libertarian insider sources recount the following incident during President Xi's recent visit to America.
President Obama invited Xi to tour the White House, showing him the various rooms, and expounding on the democratic virtues of the many Presidents portrayed on its walls. They were reportedly accompanied on this tour by leading members of the Democratic National Committee, who were there advising the President on various party issues.
At the end of the tour, President Xi, duly impressed by what he had seen, said to Obama, "Mr. President, I understand your term expires in January 2017, and you will not be allowed to run again. I think it is a great shame that such a great leader should not be allowed to rule unimpeded and in perpetuity, and, if you will kindly permit me, I want to tell you how to seize power."
It is reported that President Obama was duly shocked by this statement, and sternly chastised President Xi, telling him, "Mr. President, that's not how we do things in America."
Whereupon the members of the DNC admonished the President, and told him to "Keep your mouth shut and listen to this guy!"
Of course, this is merely an unsubstantiated rumor.

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I have posted before about "podcast marathons," days where I listen to many hours of podcasts episodes. But recently, some of my favorite shows have themselves released "marathon" episodes, individual shows well over three hours long each.
The Doctor's Companion, episode #200. Scott Carelli and his co-hosts Cassandra and Nick prepare for the start of the Peter Capaldi run on Doctor Who by talking about every episode of the Matt Smith era. There are a lot of episodes in that run, so this terrific episode clocked in at over 4 hours, 18 minutes.
The Tony Kornheiser Show, Best of May 2014. During Mr. Tony's annual summer break, the unofficial same-day podcast feed releases "best of" episodes every week or so, summarizing each of the prior 10 months of episodes. This one was more than 3 1/2 hours long. And very well worth it.
Geek Brunch Retro-Cast, episode #39. Regular hosts Mike & Chris were joined by Darrell Taylor, explaining how this one went 3 hours, 16 minutes.As usual, the hosts talked about comics from the seventies and eighties, as well as dissected an episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.
No Agenda. This twice-a-week show is one of my favorite podcasts, and often runs over three hours, when there is enough news to discuss and media to analyze.


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Hisorai Taplaya, the 30-year-old woman who was stabbed Sunday morning in a terror attack in Jerusalem, recalled the incident from her point of view, recalling how she was extremely scared but could not find anyone around to help her.
The foreign worker from Nepal, who will be celebrating her 31st birthday on Monday, described how she was waiting for a bus on the capital's Yermiyahu Street, listening to music with headphones. There were not many people on the street at the time of the attack, she recounted.
"He passed by me, a young guy, and he put a knife or something in me," Taplaya said. "He ran away and I couldn't find anyone to help me, so I had to cross the street where there was a bus."
"I was very scared. First and foremost, I wanted someone to help me," she said. A bus driver assisted Taplaya as she was bleeding heavily from the stab wound to her back, calling police and and paramedics to the scene.
"I sat on the bus and lost a lot of blood," she said.
Taplaya said that she knew immediately the stabbing was a terror attack based on the recent slew of similar incidents.
She sustained moderate wounds from the attack and was evacuated to Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Medical Center in for medical treatment.
Following the stabbing, a manhunt ensued in the area until the suspect, a 17-year-old Palestinian resident of the West Bank, was found and admitted that he was connected to the incident, according to Israel Police.
Nepalese Woman Stabbed In Jerusalem Attack: 'Nobody was around to help me'
Posted by Women Against Shariah on Monday, November 30, 2015
Labels: Jihad, Militant Islam, Palestinians, Terror, Violence
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Specifications and features:
Browning Citori Grade VII Lightning Blued over/under shotgun
28 gauge
28" backbored, vent rib barrels
2-3/4" chambers
2 round capacity
Manual top tang thumb safety
Barrel selector mechanism
Steel receiver, blued finish
Grade VII walnut Lightning style stock & forearm
Gloss finish
Blued barrel
Gold enhanced, full coverage, high relief engraving
Three Invector Plus choke tubes - Full, Modified, and Improved Cylinder
1-1/2" drop at comb
2-3/8" drop at heel
14-1/4" length of pull
1/4" rib width
45" overall length
6 lbs 9 oz unloaded
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The Citori utilizes a transverse-mounted, full-width tapered locking bolt. The tapered locking bolt engages a full-width tapered recess in the rear barrel lugs. The taper allows the bolt to seat deeper over the years. The hinge pin extends from one side of the receiver to the other for maximum strength. It's the reason people say a Citori wears in, not out.
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Career Strategies for Librarians
Meet Me at the Placement Center
by Joy Weese Moll
The Placement Center at the American Library Association conference is a physical space in the
convention center where employers and job seekers can meet. There are five activity spaces within the
Placement Center:
A greeting area where a job seeker can find out which interview table a particular employer has been
assigned at a particular time. The greeter will be able to tell you that, for example, Blue Skies University
is interviewing at Table K at 2:00 this afternoon.
A resume review area where a job seeker can make an appointment to have his or her resume reviewed
by an experienced librarian.
A room with tables where interviews between employers and job seekers take place.
A computer area where job seekers can check email or the Placement Center website for messages.
Booths for employers where job seekers can casually discuss employment opportunities and, in some
cases, arrange on the spot interviews.
To take full advantage of the Placement Center, sign up on the ALA website about a month before the
conference. Peruse the database of job opportunities. Send polite messages through the Placement
Center system requesting interviews for any jobs that interest you. Many employers will contact you
before the conference to schedule Placement Center appointments. Others may prefer to meet with you
informally at the reception the night before the Placement Center opens. A few will want you to make
appointments after the conference starts—in most cases, this will still be through the Placement Center
website, which is the default homepage for the computers in the Placement Center.
The only employers who make interview appointments without using the Placement Center website are
the ones who have booths. At the June 2005 conference, these were mostly large public library
systems. One job seeker, who was looking for employment in the Midwest, noted that most of these
were on the coasts. Many of these public library systems were interviewing anyone who expressed an
interest. Some were making job offers at the conference.
Academic libraries, on the other hand, did something more akin to a recruitment interview. It was not
uncommon for the job seeker to learn more about the job than the employer learned about the job
seeker. Presumably, a successful interview at the Placement Center would increase the chances of
being called for an on-campus interview.
Expect the unexpected. Employers who are using the Placement Center for the first time are no more
knowledgeable about the process than job seekers. I waited nearly an hour for an employer who turned
out to be at the wrong interview table. While I waited, I stood with another woman whose scheduled
interview was delayed while the previous interview went over the time allotted. There were tables in the
area near the interview room—convenient for pulling a resume or portfolio out of a bag—but the few
chairs in the vicinity were always taken.
Some job seekers arrived in suits appropriate for a formal interview. Most, however, wore the kind of
business casual clothes and sensible shoes that work well for a hot summer day of walking at a
Resume Review Service
Don't miss the Resume Review Service sponsored by ALA's New Members Round Table (NMRT). My
experience was excellent. Several people had already offered helpful suggestions for my resume. My
reviewer was able to confirm that my resume was in good shape and to offer a couple of suggestions for
polishing it further.
The reviewer was also willing and able to answer questions about the job seeking process. I could ask
him questions that I wished I could ask a potential employer and he was able to give advice geared to
my specific circumstances.
Is It Worth It?
On the NEWLIB-L email discussion list, someone occasionally asks if it is worth going to the ALA
Conference just for the Placement Center. For a librarian seeking a job in a public library system and
willing to move, it may well be. Others will want to consider the Placement Center in context as one of
many opportunities at the conference. Will attendance at the conference present evidence that you are
committed to professional development? Would careful exploration of the exhibit hall give you an edge
on familiarity with library vendors? Are there conference programs that will increase your job skills and
The experience is relatively low-key, at least compared to the typical all-day academic library interview.
The interviews gave me confidence that I can indeed have an intelligent conversation with a library
The Placement Center offers an efficient way to make initial connections with hiring libraries. The job
seeker can learn about a number of different libraries and openings in just a few days. Discussing
library jobs with employers at the Placement Center can be an excellent way to begin a job search. The
job seeker gains some practice with interviews, learns what kind of positions are available, and hears
about what employers want.
About the Author:
Joy Weese Moll will graduate from the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the
University of Missouri in December 2005. She wants to employ her writing, research, and technology
skills in an academic library. Read her blog, Wanderings of a Student Librarian, at http://joy.mollprojects.
Article published Sept 2005
Disclaimer: The ideas expressed in LIScareer articles are those of their respective authors and do not
necessarily represent the views of the LIScareer editors.


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What you'll find here
We're starting with a selection of podcasts. To begin with, the pre-existing The Nudge podcast will have a new home with Hookturn.
It has been joined by two new podcasts: Devil's Avocado and Last Stop to Nowhere. Each of these are about looking at Australian culture in new ways. More recent additions are Twenty Seventy and Literary Punk.
The idea seems pretty simple. We wanted to create a place where nothing was blurted out but everything was thought through. We wanted to create a label that could release media that helps us understand more about where we live and what we do.
Hookturn is made in Melbourne by people who care. That's probably all you need to know.
If you'd like to help support us please become a member or purchase a 'Ding Ding', Or just get in touch to tell us what you think.


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This holographic polish is way too cool for words!! Its easily my favorite nail polish of all time and I actually couldn't believe my eyes when I walked into my local Superdrug and strolled past the Gosh counters and suddenly caught sight of this amazing beauty!!! This polish has been discontinued and sold out all over the country...about a year ago! And so why our Superdrug was still stocking it like a whole year later is beyond me...but thank God they were!! =D
Yayayayayayayayayayayayayaay!!!! Im soo glad I managed to find it! Where I live is not actually the best place to buy nail polishes....there's limited choice of Sally Hansens and if your willing to pay the overly high prices you might just find a bottle of OPI (I'v never seen one though but my friend told me she bought a bottle from a nail salon). I don't own any China Glaze, Zoya's, Orly's, OPI's Essie's....lol cos theres no way for me to buy them!! So I stick to drugstore brands like Rimmel, L'oreal, Maybelline, Barry M etc. !
Perhaps if someone would like to have a swap with me and own this amazing polish (a brand new bottle of it) and/or the very hard to find Barry M black crackle Instant Nail Effects polish..i'd be very happy to do so =) I can also include some other British brands too =) If your interested please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com =) The polishes that I would love to swap these for would ideally be Nfu Oh's clear flakie polish, Nfu Oh's any other flakie polish, OPI/China Glaze holo polishes, any magnetic polish and Colour Clubs Wild at Heart/Fashion. If you don't have any of these but maybe some other cool polish that you think i would be interested in... definitely let me know =)
Anyway...back to this awesome polish....it shines brilliantly and I know that chipping is a real issue....however I'v found a way to make to polish last much longer =) Wanna know how???!!!
Well...you 'sandwich' layers of the holographic polish in between thin coats of top coat. The order I did it was: holo polish --> topcoat --> holo polish --> topcoat --> holo polish --> topcoat --> holo polish =) It made it much more resistant and unlike the first time I put it on without this method...it didn't chip for 2 days! (which is actually amazing for this polish!!)
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We know it's completely insane to think about Christmas while the sun is blazing away outside, but tickets for Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People at the Bloomsbury Theatre in December are now on sale and they're always popular.
Robin Ince's annual Yuletide series of shows with comedians and scientists has sold out since it started in 2008. Ince was prompted by appearing on a show that ended up as one of those 'who do councils think they are, banning Christmas' things. In a 2008 article for New Humanist, he explained his thinking further:
I said, "Actually I think Christmas is good, it's nice to have some time for reflection," and Stephen Green [of Christian Voice], who was in the audience, sat there saying, "I don't think he does like Christmas, I don't think he is happy with there being Christmas." So that was why I decided I would get together a 20-piece orchestra and a choir, and assorted atheist and agnostic comedians... and some scientists.
Already people are annoyed, saying, "Oh, typical, you're just having a go at Christians." Well we're not. When we say we're having a Godless celebration, that means no god at all, from any religion.
And here we are, in its sixth year, with 10 nights scheduled. Guests confirmed so far include Alexei Sayle, Darren Hayman, Lee Mack, Josie Long, Helen Arney, Matt Parker, Steve Mould (these three being collectively Festival of the Spoken Nerd, but appearing separately), Jim al Khalili, Marcus du Sautoy, John Hegley, Joanna Neary, Grace Petrie, Mark Watson and many others – and Robin Ince being Robin Ince, we know he'll continue working to add guests right up til they go on stage.
Nine Lessons and Carols is at the Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street WC1 on 10, 11, 15-22 December 2013. Tickets are £25 / £15 + booking fee. For more information see the Bloomsbury Theatre website.


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Open Car & Truck Show 2014
The 8th Annual Open Car & Truck Show features Top 40 Best of Show Awards for Cars and Trucks; Top 40 Best of Show Awards for Corvettes and a host of other awards and events. For more information visit www.renegadecorvetteclub.com
Date: 12 January 2014
Venue: Renegade Corvette Club
City: Sunrise
State: Florida
Country: United States
Custom Rides Car Show & Expo 2014
This family-fun event features classic cars, muscle cars, race cars, hot rods, custom cars, bikes and more. Plenty of entertainment for kiddies and adults, giveaways, food stalls and more. Local charities will benefit from this event. For more information visit www.customridescarshow.com
Dates: 4 January 2014
Venue: Tinley Park Convention Center
City: Mokena
State: Illinois
Country: United States
Downtown Longwood Car Show
The Historic Downtown Longwood Car, Truck and Bike Cruise takes place every second Saturday of the month between 4pm and 7pm. Entrance is free and entertainment includes music by DJ Don from the Orlando Bowtie Club. For more information visit www.orlandobowtieclub.com
Date: 12 January 2012
Time: 4pm-7pm
Venue: Downtown Longwood
City: Longwood
State: Florida
Country: United States
The All New Jersey Show 2013
With cash prizes and awards to be won, auto fans are invited to enter their cars and bikes – one free admission per entry. For more information visit www.harleyrendezvous.com
Dates: 12-13 January 2013
Times: 10am-4pm
Venue: Garden State Exhibit Center
City: Somerset
State: New Jersey
Country: United States
Classic Ford Show
The Classic Ford Show is a day filled with thrills, entertainment and revving engines. Sunday will be a full day with a schedule that includes Run What Ya Brung, 1 500 Classic Fords on display, Ultimate Classic Ford competition, Retail Village, Autojumble, FireForce Jet Car, live bands, DJs, quizzes, and children's entertainment. Don't forget to also pick up a copy of Classic Ford Magazine.
Date: 5 June 2011
Time: 9 am
Venue: Santa Pod Raceway
Location: Podington
County: Northamptonshire
Country: United Kingdom


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Enabling mission and Christian living
What's the latest from across the Association - click here for more info & click here for the latest Home Mission Focus
For more information on SEBA's training - click here to go to the training page
We are currently advertising for a Company Secretary, please click here for more information
The South Eastern Baptist Association exists to help and support around 150 churches which form our membership and they are divided into smaller "networks" for easier collaboration and fellowship. Everything we do is geared towards our strapline "enabling mission and Christian living".
Thank you for visiting – see you again soon!
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Steph Tidy (Administrator)
Tel: 01444 233431
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Looking for information, flyers and posters for events being held in the region? Helpful information and guides? Please click here, and it'll take you to the correct page (or type the detail in the search bar at the top of this page) - any problems, contact the SEBA Administrator (see above)
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BACK COVER EXCERPT: 'I was happy to take out the frilly ribbons of fantastical thought. In the North I had gotten used to sparseness as a way of life. Think before you speak; otherwise excess will speak out like the devil's palaver. A penny earned is a penny saved and such like. I was sympathetic to this as I was born with frugal habits. Also I was a scholar. In the old days of libraries I spent even sun-drenched days in the dusky corners where a wooden desk let me read and write.' - from 'The Old Turk.
FIRST SENTENCE {The Old Turk}: Old stones are forever whispering.
MEMORABLE MOMENT {Page 45}: Now, purple is a serious ink.The fade in its tint speaks of decorum. Modesty becomes the feminine. This ink wears long skirts above court shoes. I can hear the swish of it as I put pen to paper. Purple is not flirtatious ink. But it might shade crimson to lavender and then the ink invites the fantastic.
SOURCE: Received for review from PublishingPush
READ FOR: Not applicable.
MY THOUGHTS: Not so much a selection of tales as what I thought of as a stroll through someone's dreams.
Such a beautiful book. A hard back copy with an in-built ribbon book mark. Printed on shiny paper (not something always to my taste I admit but here it somehow fit), the full colour illustrations, many of them abstract, vibrant and delightful.
It wasn't so long ago that I would have dismissed this selection of tales as something I simply 'didn't get' and though still slightly intimidated (nothing to do with the author and her work and everything to do with me and my preconceptions) I found myself really enjoying the stories, especially that of The Old Turk
With a more flowery prose than I'm used to, it took a while to get accustomed to the ebb and flow of the author's narrative but once I did I lost myself in the beautifully hypnotic words.


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On License and Title
Is there any comparison between this model and the purchase of books? (or by extension, music, movies, and other media?) This might go nowhere, but let me try to draw some comparisons.
If I buy a paper-based book at a bookstore, I own the book. No one believes that they own the ideas in the book or the words that were written anymore than they own the patents on their automobile or the logo that identifies its manufacturer. So, as a physical object, I have title to the book. I can do just about anything to that physical copy I want to. I can read it, loan it to friends, cut it up and paste it together as a work of art, give it away, sell it, or burn it. I don't need any additional license to the book or as a reader to use or abuse the physical object in any way I want to. (Though that has some interesting implications. Perhaps we should consider issuing reading licenses that authorize people to read??? Another topic at another time.) What I can't do is deprive the author/publisher of their right to the creative work and their right to profit from it. No big deal since the cost of copying the book, printing it, and selling it is generally prohibitive anyway.
Somehow we are expected to believe, however, that buying an eBook gives us a different set of rights. We are told by those who hold that eBooks are software and subject to the rules of software publishing (which really don't make sense in the first place) that we do not have title to the eBook we have purchased. We have a license to read the eBook. We cannot loan it to friends, cut it up and paste it together as a work of art, give it away, sell it. I suppose we can destroy it, erase it, but that simply amounts to a revocation of license. In one way or another, the entity of the eBook is not supposed to be the same as the entity of a paper book because this will cause the boogeyman to descend upon all creation and western civilization will collapse.
I believe differently. I was told by a reader of my paper book For Blood or Money, that the copy he had purchased had been read by four other people. I'm pleased. Everyone had enjoyed the book. But I only made one sale. Have they cheated me? No. They didn't steal my words, make copies, sell them, or cheat me out of revenue. They did what was completely legal for them to do. I expect the book will one day end up in a garage sale and if I'm lucky someone will pay fifty cents for it and five more people will read it before it is too tattered and worn to give away again. One of my goals is that individual sale of a copy of my book will represent five readers.
Take the next situation. Another reader, this time of the eBook version, put a copy on both her eReader and her husband's. According to the industry standard, I am supposed to be incensed because she only paid for one copy! She was only supposed to be licensed to read it on her reader. She should have loaned her reader to her husband because that is the only road it was licensed to be driven on.
That same reader returned and bought 8 copies of the paper book to give as gifts! I'm hoping she lets three more people read her eBook version.
We should have exactly the same rights to an eBook as we have to a paper book. No, you can't just keep copying it and selling or giving it away. But you should be able to read it, loan it, tear it apart or tear it up, sell it, or destroy it. Civilization will not end. My royalties won't suffer. I sell books, not licenses. And I sincerely hope that my books are of high enough quality both in content and construction that they average five readers per every copy sold.


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The ToT is intended to improve participants' knowledge, attitude and skills in facilitating learning by farmers, in non-formal education processes, the management of quality FFS and follow-up activities, and helping communities to organize and manage farmer-led IPM programmes. The participatory training process is based on the four IPM principles of growing a healthy crop, conserving natural enemies, visiting fields regularly and regarding farmers as experts. The season-long ToT is conducted in a training center with a relatively vast area for conducting field studies.
The ToT curriculum is designed to prepare participants for the responsibility of managing Field Schools and related activities. It includes regular ecosystem observation and analysis, field studies on relevant problems, activities on crop development, insect zoo studies, health and environmental risks of pesticides, management and decision-making, organization and planning, and exercises on facilitation, leadership, problem solving, team building, etc. ToT participants are divided into smaller teams that work in practice-FFS located in nearby villages.
The practice-FFS are attached to the ToT and serve as a laboratory, for which participants plan, evaluate and share their team experience every week in a big group setting. Each group experiences a process of curriculum development and evaluation. Successful field days at the end of the season demonstrate what practice-FFS farmers learn and mirror the quality of the ToT process.
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Become An Official VoIP Reseller With Talking Platforms
The hosted VoIP Solution market has grown dramatically in the last few years. This is great news for the industry and those reselling VoIP services selling directly to end customers, but what about the channel, service providers, managed IT providers, ISP's, carriers, and the everyday entrepreneur that wants to break into this market?
Talking Platforms can help you with becoming an official VoIP reseller with ease.
The choices are either limited or problematic. Let's take a closer look at these choices and the issues surrounding them:
• Build a Platform – Who would not want to try and build their own solution with the current state of technology. The truth and facts are clear, it's not easy. In fact, it is fraught with hurdles and problems. Do you really want to experiment with your customers? Will your solution eventually scale? Will your solution provide integrated billing? Will it be reliable and stable? Do you have the in house talent to support it? Most do not.
• Buy a Soft Switch – Why not leverage the expertise of a manufacturer who makes the very equipment that runs telephone companies? Be prepared to spend six figures or more. This will not be an option for the majority of this potential market.
• Partnership – There are many leaders in the marketplace providing Hosted VoIP Services directly to businesses and consumers. Recently they have reached out to the channel with reseller programs. This is the majority solution as of today, but consider that most provide a hybrid approach with options for handing over your customers in return for a small recurring commission. Some may even give you a portal with limited branding options, but in the end, you would be funding your competition. That is where our VoIP reseller program stands out.
• Wholesalers and DID Providers – These organizations are very good at providing the essentials at low cost, but when it comes to providing all the tools you need to be a Hosted PBX reseller, you will quickly find the platform is not there.
So what is the smart solution? That choice is a 100% cloud-based, white label hosted VoIP Platform Company that only works with organizations desiring to sell hosted VoIP services. This type of hosted service allows you to be an official VoIP reseller and provide VoIP products and services by focusing on your customers and not the platform. They would never sell directly to an end user.
They would need to provide:
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• Full PBX functionality including IVR, Ring Group, ACD, and Conference Rooms
• Call recording and Web Fax
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• Profit margins averaging 65%
• Ability to sell generic or self-provided products on the same invoice
• Support per minute charge or packaged/pooled minutes
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• Advanced auto provisioning for phones and devices
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• No monthly minimum revenue requirement
• No data bandwidth charges
• No contract or exit penalties
• No expensive onsite training
• An optional end-user white label support
• Fully redundant infrastructure, disaster recovery with backup data center
By searching the current marketplace it may appear no hosted or cloud-based provider could deliver on these requirements, but there is a company delivering this type of private label VoIP reseller program for over 10 years. Talking Platforms began in 2005 with its mission to provide a hosted VoIP platform specializing in white label branding to the reseller community and helping other companies become an official VoIP reseller.
Some Talking Platforms highlights:
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Information, resources, and community building for all the members of the Deacon Community of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sioux City. Thoughts, Catholic commentary, and occasional homilies from Deacon David.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Holy Father in Germany
The Vatican website has collected the texts, and some video, of the Holy Father's visit last week to Germany. His talks are, as usual, outstanding. I especially recommend his last talk, in Freiberg, in which he talks with great clarity about the mission of the Church, the good of apostolic poverty (i.e., not being politicized but being able to critique politics and culture from the outside), and the need for interior conversion. May God bless and strengthen His servant, Benedict, for the ministry of Peter!
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Hill Street Church has traditionally been, and continues to be, a Bible believing church. We believe that God speaks to us through the Bible.
During both the Sunday morning and evening services the Bible is explained and taught through the preaching of the Word. We believe that the teaching of the Bible can both teach believers in Christ and speak to those who have not yet come to faith.
If you'd like more information about what Hill Street is like click here.
8.30am - Morning Prayer Meeting
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- "Consumers Don
- A stimulus package for consumers is not necessarily a great idea when it comes to their spending because consumers are traumatized and not very confident at the moment. So any money that is thrown their way will probably go into savings or paying down their huge debts, not into purchases.
Where stimulus and arm twisting should be directed is at the financial community where trust and confidence is at their lowest in memory. Trust and confidence restored in financial institutions will slowly develop consumer trust and confidence.
At the core of the financial meltdown is bad real estate investments. That should be cleared up before any confidence is restored, with lenders and consumers alike.
- Keynesianism is back! But Brewton has not kept up.
- "Like Keynes, he has been consistently wrong in his predictions, most notably in proclaiming that tax cuts in the first term of the present Bush administration would not revive the economy and, in any event, would not lead to creation of new jobs. Only government spending can revive the economy, according to liberal-Progressive orthodoxy."
Keynes would not have agreed with Bush's tax cuts because it was given to the wrong people and based on a supply-side economics that was debunked years ago. Keynes certainly would not have agreed on waging a war while having tax cuts for the wealthiest Americas.
On top of that, in comparison with the Clinton administration, not enough jobs were created by Bush's tax cuts to keep up with the population growth. The tax cuts, as well as other Bush cuts - regulations and good government, also stoked the artificial bubble that led to the present financial crisis.
- Keynes supplied the perfect rationale for political irresponsibility. Deficit spending is Keynesianism. The problem comes from the simple fact that once given the rationale politicians can't stop. Deficits in good times and bad. That was not a recommendation of Keynes. Consumption is not a wealth builder. Savings,capital formation and investment are the most important factors. Your interpretation of Keynes is simply wrong. Keynes would not consider himself a Keynesian today. It's too easy to be irresponsible when one has a pseudo-scietific economic theory to justify the irresponsibility.
- ".....pseudo-scietific economic theory...."
That means nothing, nothing!!!!
- Is economics a science? is keynesianism a theory? Does it emphasize consumption or capital formation? Has it been used as a justification for institutionalized deficit spending? Do other economists differ? Those social sciences which posit theories that are non-falsifiable and immune to the rigors of the scientific method are pseudo-science.
- Well, then, I think you should included the pseudo-scientific economic theory that was perpetrated during the Bush years, both by his administration and its cohorts on Wall St.
Cheney once famously announced that deficits don't matter anymore. Republicans thought they could cut the size of government by strangling it with a lack of funds and tax cuts, while waging War. That voodoo economics didn't work but backfired instead, as seen by the carnage on Main St. On Wall St., which was enabled by Bush&Co;., there were those who concocted derivatives, credit-default-swaps and predatory lending devises that belonged in fantasy land.
- The derivatives markets have a longer history than you seem to realize. Artificially low interest rates, reaching for yield among fed supervised banks, government policies regarding lending standards and the growth of securitization originated by Fannie Mae and imitated by fed supervised banks and primary dealers created this mess. The president and his misguided 'ownership society' gimmick regarding home ownership in particular encouraged this debacle but did not create it. Who benefitted from the 15 year credit explosion until the music stopped? 1) The supervised banks 2)The political class charged with regulating the financial system 3)The government which generates revenue from economic activity regardless of the soundness of that activity. This is a systemic failure directly connected to defective policy grounded in an unworkable ideology that predates the current administration.
- Your ideological, partisan slip is showing.
The systematic failure does predate this administration for sure, like civilization does. But this administration milked the system for all it could, encouraging abuses never before seen, which finally pushed it over the hill. It's momentous. Bush&Co;. didn't even try to fix the wrongs in the system from before; it just added to them. Moreover, it can take credit for the debacle, for it happening during its watch and nobody else's.
- My ideological slip? Only the left fantasies about it's non-partisanship. "Agree with me or your a divider" is the refrain. Can you see the totalitarian implications? I'll bet you now that the systemic failure will not be addressed and all that will be offered is more of the same market distorting, self-serving policies that got us here.
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Four years ago, I was working as a relief lighthouse keeper for the Canadian Coast Guard. I'd taken a year off teaching to explore and destress and try something new.
Between March 27 and May 23, I stayed at Nootka and recorded my adventures, and misadventures, in a journal and a blog. This was my house for eight weeks.
I've been thinking about that time a lot lately. This summer, I am planning to take the Uchuck III day cruise from Gold River to Friendly Cove, so I can walk those beaches and trails once again. I had hoped to visit with Mark, the lighthouse keeper I worked with at that time, but apparently Mark and Joanne retired last September. So, all I can say is "Congratulations!" from afar.
People often ask me what I did there. This video and article written and recorded last August with Mark and Joanne brings it all back to me. It is a beautiful landscape, rife with history—some of which is tragic—and I feel blessed that I was able to spend some quality time there.
This is my post from April 22, 2014.
And this is the pebble beach—one of my favourite places in the world. I can't wait to walk here again this summer.


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After discovering an element on the moon that, when used to create a nuclear reaction, would power the Earth for the next 1,000 years, the leaders of sixteen countries declared that their space programs would be combined into the International Space Agency (ISA) – and fifteen nuclear reactors would be built on the moon by the year 2023. Lostman and Goro are two young climbers who have conquered the highest point on Earth – Mt. Everest – and now look to the skies for their next challenge: to become astronauts and explore the stars. While Goro becomes a construction specialist, Lostman joins the air force; both will work their hardest to make their way into space, by whatever means necessary.
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Moonlight Mile, at first glance, appears to be a ripoff of the realistic slice-of-life space drama Planetes; but at its core, it's much more. At first, Moonlight Mile is reminiscent of Twin Spica - two men have a lofty aspiration of becoming astronauts, in an era when mankind is finally looking to extend its reach into space. As the series goes on, we follow both Goro and Lostman as they become... read more
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
Sesame Street!
I get to go to Sesame Street next week! I can't wait.
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
2-7-09: New York Comic Con
I went to the New York Comic Con the previous weekend and had a blast. There are so many talented artist there. There is also a bunch of weird people walking around and it was fun to people watch. I finally purchased the "How to Make Web Comics" from the Web Comics Weekly crew and got a sketch in the book from Scott Kurtz and Brad Guigar. The only problem is with the sketchs in the book I'm afraid to mess the book up by reading it.
The highlight of the Con for me was seeing Joe Bluhm work. I first was introduced to Joe Bluhm online. He's a illustrator and caricature artist out of the New York city area. I think I found out about him by listening to Stephen Silver's podcasts. His youtube videos are great and super educational. I bought his book Sketch Infectus and watched him do caricatures of con attendees. He worked in pen and colored pencil sticks. As he worked I noticed that he always did a quick gesture drawing on a separate piece of paper before starting in with the ink pens. The gesture drawings were really amazing and I was interested in what he was going to do with them. When I asked him he said he was planing to throw them away so I asked him if I could have them. He seemed to be a little puzzled as to why I would want them but gave them to me anyways. SCORE!
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This post is so NOT teaching related but I have to share! My little guy (who is really not that little anymore ) wanted a Lego Movie themed birthday party! I thought that shouldn't be too hard considering Legos are all the rage these days...well I was WRONG! I had SUCH a hard time finding "Lego Movie" things! So thanks to Pinterest and Etsy I was able to pull it off! My printables came from E &L Designs! They did SUCH a great job! And included a LOT of printables! I was able to print everything I needed!
My little guy and his friends all LOVED it! My husband even joined in on the "Pinterest Fun" creating a "Lego Toss" game!
He used a foam presentation board and just cut the circles out. My favorite part was that he hot glued Legos (Duplo Size) together to create six different pieces for the kids to toss. They loved it!
It was a simple and easy game to create. He also hot glued the sides to be sure they would stand up :)
My sister is known for amazing cakes. She said this wasn't her best "work" and that it's my fault because I bought the wrong materials...haha! Seeing as I called her FROM the cake isle, I will hardly take the blame haha!! But they were delicious none the less! I always wanted to be the mom that had all the homemade treats--execpt--I'm the world's WORST baker! I mean it! I stink at it!!! So my little sister has made just about every birthday cake for my children! She is amazing! She comes to where ever we are just to essentially bake a cake...and be there for the celebration of course!!
My neighbor made the fabulous cake pops! I just printed the labels from E & L Designs
These were SO easy! Construction paper, circles and Lego stickers! Boom! Cheap and EASY Decorations!
Not the best pictures--my camera went wacky on me :) But you get the idea! Lego candy was a HUGE HIT!!
My next favorite thing was the Homemade PHOTO BOOTH! I'm totally taking this to school to use for parties and fun Friday!!
I can't explain this picture. But it sure is funny!
He refused to take a normal picture haha!! I loved my "Lego Movie" Shirt find at Target!
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Eras Journal – Barrer, P: Review of "History and National Destiny: Ethnosymbolism and its Critics", Montserrat Guibernau and John Hutchinson (eds)
Montserrat Guibernau and John Hutchinson (eds), History and National Destiny: Ethnosymbolism and its Critics,
Blackwell, Oxford, 2004
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Since the so-called 'Age of Nationalism' in Europe, the 'nation' has become one of the primary bases of social structure, political mobilisation and identity formation in the contemporary world. Yet the term is a polemical one for academic purposes and a universally accepted definition remains elusive. Students of nationalism are presented with contrasting approaches claiming validity and relevance in the era of globalisation. National identity certainly no longer lends itself to the rigid labelling of the past: a British-born, French-speaking Indian or an American-educated Russian-born New Zealander, may after all feel a part of multiple national communities, or indeed of none. A scholarly approach to contemporary national identity thus requires flexibility within its definitions and the acknowledgment that the 'nation', however one wishes to define it, is an abstract and mutable form of identity.
As presented in the seminal works of Anthony D. Smith, ethnosymbolism is an approach attempting to bridge past and present by arguing that modern nations have a social and cultural core centred upon the myths, memories, symbols and traditions of pre-national ethnies : "named human populations with shared ancestry, myths, histories and cultures, having an association with a specific territory and a sense of solidarity" (p.125). This approach places itself in the middle of preceding the debate between starkly opposed modernist and perennialist paradigms. The book under review,History and National Destiny: Ethnosymbolism and its Critics, edited by Monserrat Guibernau and John Hutchinson, examines ethnosymbolism in a collection of thirteen articles which tackle the theoretical considerations and ramifications of ethnosymbolism within applied contexts, submitting the approach to both praise and open criticism in the process.
The profuse usage of flattering adjectives, such as:"groundbreaking", "path-breaking", "enlightening", "illuminating","thought-provoking" and "extraordinary" illustrate quite clearly the esteem in which Smith is held by his peers. Yet despite all this academic back slapping, there is plenty of criticism. One of the most critical assessments of Smith's approach unsurprisingly comes from his long-standing opponent, Walker Connor, who, in his chapter entitled "The Timelessness of Nations " , takes issue with Smith's definition of the nation as "a named human population occupying an historic territory, and sharing myths, memories, a single public culture and common rights and duties for all members" (p.37). For Connor, Smith's nation is too supple – a criticism which also forms the centrepiece of Monserrat Guibernau's contribution. Yet Connor's own essentialist definition of the nation as "a group of people sharing a myth of common ancestry and the largest grouping that can be mobilised by appeals to a common blood" (p.39), is surely far too rigid for the present day and is entirely dismissive of the symbolic bonds, common allegiances and collective cultural practices that members of a non-homogenous society (such as Australia) collectively engage in. In short, Connor is unconvincing.
While recognising the ethnie as an antecedent of the nation, John Armstrong's contribution "Definitions, Periodization, and Prospects for the longue durée", questions whether the ethnie is necessary to nation formation. One cogent argument he offers highlights the 'new-world' nations of Australia, Canada and Brazil as cases where political nations were formed prior to the ethnies which now form these nations' overarching cultural identity. Engaging in a theme touched upon by Armstrong, Thomas Hylland Eriksen's " Place, Kinship and the Case for Non-ethnic Nations" examines the potential for 'non-ethnic' nations and builds upon Smith's six dimensions of ethnie (a collective name, a common myth of descent, a shared history, a distinctive shared culture, an association with a specific territory and a sense of solidarity), by adding two more –interpersonal networks and contrast – in an effort to make Smith's approach less reliant upon historical phenomena and more inclusive of contemporary imagined communities.
Bruce Cauthen's "Covenant and Continuity: Ethnosymbolism and the Myth of Divine Election" focuses on the aspects of myth within the ethnosymbolic model and places great weight upon the role of religion within contemporary nationalisms. Through a lucid case study of American political rhetoric and foreign policy, Cauthen enforces the point that religion is a significant part of the contemporary ideological nation. Given the current global political climate, this article is one of acute relevance.
Joshua A. Fishman's "Ethnicity and Supra-ethnicity in Corpus Planning: The Hidden Status Agenda in Corpus Planning" is an examination of the ideological nation within language and is one of the less accessible contributions due to its theoretical complexity. Nonetheless, Fishman skilfully displays the linguistic dimensions of contemporary nationalism through the manipulation of status language planning by cultural and political elites in times of crisis and change. Particularly interesting are the Einbau and Ausbau processes – the latter referring to the intentional 'building away' of one language from a dominant Other, such as in the cases of Urdu from Hindi and Croatian from Serbian, as a means of legitimising a contested nationhood.
Central Europe is a favourite stomping ground of ethnosymbolism and Miroslav Hroch's "From Ethnic Group toward the Modern Nation: The Czech Case", which outlines the Czech national movement's expansion from intellectual circles to political agitation in the 19th century, would read more or less the same for other national contexts in the region. John Hutchinson similarly tackles the movement towards political agitation in "Myth against Myth: The Nation as Ethnic Overlay" and illustrates how mythmaking processes are overlaid with existing ethnic identities within contested terrains to create reinforced, combative and potentially explosive perceptions of 'national' difference. Hutchinson effectively argues for the currency of ethnosymbolism in the present day and stresses that while contemporary nationalism draws significantly from the past, it is not necessarily stuck there.
Mary Kaldor ("Nationalism and Globalisation") and Stein Tønneson ("Globalising National States") both consider ethnosymbolism within the context of globalisation. Kaldor vigorously defends the modernist paradigm (as represented by Ernest Gellner's functionalist perception of the nation as a purely political project) and raises doubts about the historical dimensions of ethnosymbolism (la longue durée). Kaldor effectively inverts Smith's assertion of there being a willingness to sacrifice oneself for the nation because of affiliation to a 'sacred community' and suggests instead that it is war itself which constructs nationalism – a point demonstrated most effectively through her brief analyses of post-Cold War developments in the former Yugoslavia, Palestine, India and the United States. Tønneson's article looks at the emergence of 'market nationalism' as a contemporary survival strategy for national identity, whereby myths of nationhood are made into something resembling the 'brand essences' of commercial advertising. In the concluding "History and National Destiny: Responses and Clarifications", Smith reaffirms his own stance before dealing with the various criticisms, especially those of Connor and Guibernau.
Being the first book dedicated to a critical evaluation of the ethnosymbolic approach, History and National Destiny: Ethnosymbolism and its Critics is useful reading for students interested in the theories of nationalism. However, the increasingly complicated attempts by contributors to develop universally acceptable definitions does little more than betray the hidden complexity of such a task. While the nations of Europe are easily explained through the ethnosymbolic approach, African and South Asian notions of national identity are perhaps better served by the modernist paradigm. There really is no 'one size fits all' definition of the nation – human society is far too complex for that. Who would have thought one little word could cause so much chatter. The debates will no doubt continue.


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THE POLITICAL horse-trading may be done, but the election race is about to start in earnest for the borough's 14 City Council seats.
The Queens Democratic Party voted Tuesday to back a slate of citywide and local candidates, including every incumbent Council member running for their seats.
In a borough dominated by Democrats, few candidates win without the party nod.
The party also hopes to knock out Eric Ulrich, the GOP's lone representative from Queens in the Council. It voted unanimously to endorse district leader Frank Gulluscio to run against Ulrich in the 32nd District.
"I'm glad the party came around, and now we can take back that seat," said Gulluscio, a former teacher and current Community Board 6 district manager.
The party voted to back incumbent Helen Sears for her Jackson Heights seat, despite a whisper campaign and published reports saying that county leaders were going to support Danny Dromm, the district leader.
"There was nearly unanimous support" for Sears, said Queens Democratic Party Executive Secretary Michael Reich. "If term limits had not changed, Danny would have been our candidate."
Lawyer and district leader Deirdre Feerick handily won the party nod for the 26th District over Jimmy Van Bramer, who works for the Queens Public Library.
Wu is still planning to run for the seat, sources said, but didn't respond to a call for comment about his vote.
James Sanders Jr., who fell out of grace with party leaders in 2005, received the county endorsement in a crowded field of as many as a dozen competitors.
"Sanders has come a long way in the last year to repair his image in the district," Reich said.
James Gennaro, who voted to preserve term limits, is running for his seat and received party support.
Deputy borough president and former City Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz got the party's endorsement in a crowded field for the Forest Hills seat.
Bayside civic leader Jerry Iannece received party backing over attorney Paul Vallone for 19th District.
Incumbent Tony Avella, who is running for mayor, is backing lawyer Steve Behar for the seat.
Assemblyman Mark Weprin received the nod for his older brother David's seat representing Queens Village and surrounding neighborhoods.
The party backed incumbent candidates Julissa Ferreras, Peter Vallone, Leroy Comrie, Thomas White and Elizabeth Crowley.
None of the openly gay candidates vying for county support received an endorsement.


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There are many people in the world who I see through eyes of green, envy overpowering my sight because they have something I do not.
There is a little boy who is being taught how to throw a baseball. There are kids being taught how to skip stones because only one person can truly teach them how. How lucky they are to learn things that cannot be taught in any other way by any other person.
There are so many little girls being called princess while being bounced on a knee, or sitting in a lap. How sweet that they are for receiving the love they deserve from someone whose life it is to give it to them.
Then there is a girl complaining in the school corridor about her strict curfew and a speech about boys not being good enough for her. How blind she is to the safety being provided to her by someone who will build innumerable walls to safeguard the apple of their eye.
There is a young woman who found the love of her life and on her wedding day she was walked down the aisle by the man who had stood by her for her entire life. How grateful she ought to be that he has been there time and time again and will forever continue to be.
So I am envious of your fortune, deaf to your complaints, angered by your ingratitude, bitter for my twisted fate and most of all, sad for my loss because only I can grieve for it. I have lost the invaluable. I have a hole in my heart. I think I am broken but the parts have been taken far away from me.
Because while all of you have fathers…
I do not.
(My father died when I was 10 years old and I remember saying to my mother, "But all my friends have dads and I don't anymore." Sometimes it still feels that way but it doesn't have to.
In honour of my father S.P.D, I love you so much that it really hurts.)


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A USDA report out Wednesday examined the severity and prevalence of food insecurity in the U.S., as well as the participation in food assistance programs among the insecure, finding that almost 15% of U.S. households have difficulty providing enough food for all their members.
Though the report explains that this figure, which is based on data compiled from 2011 survey results, is not much different from 2010 estimates, the number of households that are rated as having very low food security is – returning to 2008 and 2009 recession levels.
USDA notes that 57% of food-insecure survey respondents indicated they had participated in at least one of the three largest federal food assistance programs.
Nutrition benefits, which are provided by funding in the 2008 Farm Bill, are scheduled for cuts in both the proposed Senate Farm Bill and the committee-passed House Farm Bill. Cuts to the nutrition programs total about $4.5 billion in the Senate version and a significant $16 billion in the House Ag Committee version.
Nutrition savings have been a source of contention among leaders in both the House and the Senate, and while the future of a new farm bill is uncertain, nutrition benefits still comprise roughly three-quarters of the total spending by the current bill.
The USDA survey notes, "SNAP [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] provided assistance to 40.1 percent of food-insecure households, children in 32.2% received free or reduced-price school lunches, and women or children in 11.2% received WIC [Special Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for Women, Infants and Children] food vouchers."
However, the USDA report does indicate that for households receiving free or reduced-cost school lunches (a federal nutrition program), the prevalence of very low food security was "more than twice that of nonparticipating households with school-age children in the same income range."
Among households with children, approximately 10% of them were unable to provide adequate food.
Groups most commonly experiencing food insecurity, the USDA reports, are households with children headed by single women or men, and Black and Hispanic households. The report also notes that food insecurity is more likely in cities and rural areas rather than suburban areas.
The survey, which was conducted at the end of 2011, was comprised of a sample of U.S. households totaling 43,770 responding households.


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New Study Shows Significant Reduction in Opioids, Length of Hospital Stay and Cost of Care for Patients Receiving EXPAREL® as the Foundation of a Multimodal Postsurgical Pain Regimen
Multicenter study in patients undergoing ileostomy reversal reinforces results from first IMPROVE study in open colectomy
All study patients underwent ileostomy reversal, a surgery performed to reconnect a section of small intestine. Compared to patients in the standard opioid-based treatment arm, patients undergoing the same procedure and receiving an EXPAREL-based multimodal regimen had:
- A 2.1 day reduction in median length of hospital stay (3.0 days in the EXPAREL group compared to 5.1 days in the IV opioid-based PCA group, respectively; P<0.05)
$2,800reduction in mean hospitalization costs ( $6,482in the EXPAREL group compared with $9,282in the IV opioid-based PCA group, respectively; P<0.05)
- A 92 mg reduction in mean opioid consumption (20 mg in the EXPAREL group compared with 112 mg in the IV opioid-based PCA group, respectively; P<0.05)
"Gastrointestinal motility complications such as intestinal blockages
are common following ileostomy reversal, and can be triggered or
exacerbated by the use of opioids during and after surgery," said
The study evaluated 27 adult patients who underwent planned ileostomy reversal procedures at three U.S. sites. Sixteen patients were enrolled in the EXPAREL-based multimodal group; 11 patients were enrolled in the opioid-based group.
The current study is the second in a series of open-label Phase 4
studies known as IMPROVE. In
"Continuing to demonstrate clinically meaningful benefits of EXPAREL,
such as shorter length of stay and lower hospital costs, is critical to
reinforcing the value of the product to the surgical community and
hospital administrators," said
The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems
(HCAHPS) survey is the first national, standardized, publicly reported
survey measuring and comparing patients' perceptions of their hospital
experiences, including satisfaction with pain control. Since
The full IMPROVE ileostomy reversal study publication is available online here: http://www.dovepress.com/an-extended-pain-relief-trial-utilizing-the-infiltration-of-a-long-act-peer-reviewed-article-JPR
EXPAREL is indicated for single-dose administration into the surgical site to produce postsurgical analgesia.
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EXPAREL (bupivacaine liposome injectable suspension) is indicated for single-dose infiltration into the surgical site to produce postsurgical analgesia. The product combines bupivacaine with DepoFoam, a proven product delivery technology that delivers medication over a desired time period. EXPAREL represents the first and only multivesicular liposome local anesthetic that can be utilized in the peri- or postsurgical setting in the same fashion as current local anesthetics. By utilizing the DepoFoam platform, a single dose of EXPAREL delivers bupivacaine over time, providing analgesia with reduced opioid requirements for up to 72 hours. Pivotal studies have demonstrated the safety and efficacy of EXPAREL in patients undergoing bunionectomy or hemorrhoidectomy procedures and additional studies are underway to further demonstrate the safety and efficacy in other procedures. Additional information is available at www.EXPAREL.com.
Important Safety Information
EXPAREL is contraindicated in obstetrical paracervical block anesthesia. EXPAREL has not been studied for use in patients younger than 18 years of age. Non-bupivacaine-based local anesthetics, including lidocaine, may cause an immediate release of bupivacaine from EXPAREL if administered together locally. The administration of EXPAREL may follow the administration of lidocaine after a delay of 20 minutes or more. Other formulations of bupivacaine should not be administered within 96 hours following administration of EXPAREL. Monitoring of cardiovascular and neurological status, as well as vital signs should be performed during and after injection of EXPAREL as with other local anesthetic products. Because amide-type local anesthetics, such as bupivacaine, are metabolized by the liver, EXPAREL should be used cautiously in patients with hepatic disease. Patients with severe hepatic disease, because of their inability to metabolize local anesthetics normally, are at a greater risk of developing toxic plasma concentrations. In clinical trials, the most common adverse reactions (incidence greater-than or equal to 10%) following EXPAREL administration were nausea, constipation, and vomiting.
Please see the full Prescribing Information for more details available at http://www.exparel.com/pdf/EXPAREL_Prescribing_Information.pdf.
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Any statements in this press release about our future expectations,
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statements as a result of various important factors, including risks
relating to: the success of our sales and manufacturing efforts in
support of the commercialization of EXPAREL; the rate and degree of
market acceptance of EXPAREL; the size and growth of the potential
markets for EXPAREL and our ability to serve those markets; our plans to
expand the indications of EXPAREL to include nerve block; our plans to
continue to manufacture and provide support services for our commercial
partners who have licensed DepoCyt(e); our commercialization and
marketing capabilities; and other factors discussed in the "Risk
Factors" of our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
year ended
1. HCAHPS Fact Sheet; updated
Pacira Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Jessica Cho, 973-254-3574
Pure Communications, Inc.
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Home | News & Events | Events | 2010 Events | Oct. 13: Metadata Quality | Questions & Answers
NISO Two-Part Webinar: Measuring Use, Assessing Success
It's Only as Good as the Metadata:
Improving OpenURL and Knowledge Base Quality
October 13, 2010
Below are listed questions that were submitted during NISO's October 13, 2010 webinar, "It's Only as Good as the Metadata: Improving OpenURL and Knowledge Base Quality." Answers from the presenters will be added when available. Not all the questions could be responded to during the live webinar, so those that could not be addressed at the time are also included below.
- IOTA: Improving OpenURLs Through Analytics
Elizabeth Winter, Electronic Resources Coordinator, Georgia Tech Library (Member, IOTA Working Group)
Adam Chandler, Database Management and E- Resources Librarian, Cornell University Library (Chair, IOTA Working Group) will join Elizabeth during the Q&A portion of this event.
- KBART: Knowledge Bases and Related Tools
Andreas Biedenbach, eProduct Operations Manager (Americas), Springer Science+Business Media (Co-chair, NISO/UKSG KBART Working Group)
Sarah Pearson, E-Resources & Serials Coordinator at the University of Birmingham (Co-chair, NISO/UKSG KBART Working Group), will join Andreas during the Q&A portion of this event.
- OpenURLs and Knowledge Base Quality: Collecting and Improving Knowledge Base Data
Maria Stanton, Director of Content Operations, Serials Solutions
Feel free to contact us if you have any additional questions about library, publishing, and technical services standards, standards development, or if you have have suggestions for new standards, recommended practices, or areas where NISO should be engaged.
NISO Metadata Quality Webinar Questions and Answers
- Is the Iota project using a statistician to help analyze the data?
- What agencies create the DOI? Where are the DOIs registered?
- Since ProQuest is affiliated with Serials Solutions, can we assume that all ProQuest databases are KBART compliant? (No need to ask for "usable holdings list" before we purchase new database?)
- Please define the term "target source."
- You polled us to see how big we thought the problem was, how big a problem does Serials Solutions think this is? Is there any hope that Lexis Nexis will ever standardized?
- How can librarians learn which knowledge bases are best?
- The DOI alone is not enough since the CrossRef database doesn't have very complete metadata which could be used by other services (document delivery ). Is Iota looking at the quality of the DOI database? With full text at multiple sites the DOI doesn't always lead to the appropriate copy.
- How cooperative are content providers re adopting standards?


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Husson Men Go For a 14th Consecutive Win
The Husson men's basketball team puts its 13-0 record on the line again tonight. A home game against the Bates Bobcats. This in-state matchup has provided for some great games in recent years.
While the Eagles are off to the 13-0 start, the Bobcats are 8-6. Bates most recent loss was to the #6 in the country, Amherst, losing by 11 points.
Warren Caruso's team is coming off two NAC conference wins over the weekend. Friday's win included a school recored 17 three pointers.
Bates is led by former Hampden Bronco Grahan Safford. He's a junior for the Bobcats and is averaging 21 ppg.
While the Husson and Bates men battle at Newman Gymnasium, Kissy Walker's women's team will be in Waterville to play the Colby College Mules.


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Salvation Boulevard: Sundance Review
Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Connolly star in this lightweight farce that manages to turn even dignified Ciaran Hinds into a ham.
PARK CITY -- (Premieres) A lightweight farce involving a pious wrongdoer and the blind supporters who enable him, Salvation Boulevard doesn't have nearly as much to say about religion as it suggests. Star-stocked and goofy enough to get an audience chuckling, it might draw ticket buyers to theaters but will have short legs.
Its most biting insight comes late, and from an unexpected source, as a camcorder-toting peeping Tom notes, "When you follow a preacher, eventually you're going to get something amazing."
But the scandal in Boulevard isn't one of those inevitable results of fundamental hypocrisy -- a gay sex scandal involving an anti-gay-marriage minister, say. Instead, it springs from a dumb accident and is driven by garden-variety cowardice: When celebrity pastor Dan Day (Pierce Brosnan) accidentally kills an atheist intellectual (Ed Harris) during a friendly discussion, he tries first to make it look like suicide and then to pin it on Carl (Greg Kinnear), a dimwitted member of his congregation who, as it turns out, is no more eager to go to jail than Day is.
The action that follows is as broad and unconvincing as the characters involved: director George Ratliff manages to turn even dignified Ciaran Hinds into a ham, and can't ground the action enough to make us believe, say, the ease with which Carl's wife (Jennifer Connelly) is convinced that her husband has become a crazed killer.
The screenplay offers a couple of potentially juicy complications -- Pastor Day's delusion that Satan is contacting him, for instance, and the barely-concealed lust he feels for Carl's wife -- but fumbles with most of them, barely managing to stay coherent up to an ending that, weirdly, tosses in some divine intervention after mocking believers for an hour and a half.
Venue: Sundance Film Festival, Premieres
Production Company: Mandalay Vision
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Greg Kinnear, Marisa Tomei, Isabelle Fuhrman, Ciaran Hinds, Jim Gaffigan, Yul Vazquez
Director-Screenwriter: George Ratliff
Screenwriter: Doug Max Stone (based on the novel by Larry Beinhart)
Producers: Cathy Schulman, Celine Rattray, Peter Fruchtman
Executive producers: Gary Hamilton, Victor Syrmis, Scarlett Lacey, Andrew Sawyer, Neil Katz, Nicholas Simunek, Michael Bassick, Kirk D'Amico
Director of photography: Tim Orr
Production designer: Clark Hunter
Music: George S. Clinton
Costume designer: Lynne Falconer
Editor: Michael LaHaie
Sales: United Talent Agency
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As summer is approaching, finding the perfect sunglasses that suit you well is vital for us students, as looking the best we can is a priority. We need those sunglasses for the muddy festivals, crazy Ibiza parties and to just simply block out the shining sun whilst sunbathing!
Struggling to find a trendy looking pair?
Well, today is your lucky day as Vision Direct sell a wide range of sunglasses to choose from. I bet you are wondering if this could get any better? Well, I provide nothing but good news, it does! Vision Direct help you choose the right sunglasses for your head shape. You just simply tick a box as to whether you have a round, heart, oval or square shaped head and it will guide you in all the right directions! You can also tick a box on what specific style you prefer and will minimalise your search results. All of this can be done in the comforts of your own home too, instead of going shopping and trying on a million pairs, which can result in extreme boredom and annoyance if you struggle to find the right pair.
Vision Direct were kind enough to send me a free pair for a product review, and they'll definitely be my top summer accessory this year.
After finding out about Vision Direct, I went for the 'American Freshman' brand and was instantly drawn to the Classic Metal Aviator in Matte Dark Gun. I've always loved this style of sunglasses and held high standards when purchasing this kind. I always loved going for the Zac Efron inspired style.
Once these arrived, I instantly loved them.
The American Freshman sunglasses were definitely making me feel funky fresh! In the majority of the styles (like this one), there are plenty of different colours and options you can choose from – depending on what you fancy or what suits you.
So obviously when you purchase a new pair of sunglasses you are going to need a good healthy case so they don't get ruined. Well with your new pair of sunglasses with Vision Direct, you will get a fresh, nice looking one to keep your glasses safe. With the American Freshman brand, like the picture above, you will get a red silky case with the logo on it. The material of this case is extra soft and will prevent your glasses from scratching or marking – which is always a positive and what we all need, especially as us the messy and unorganised students that we are.
If you are looking for some cheap, stylish and strong condition sunglasses then I highly recommend you take a look at Vision Direct – Europe's largest online retailer of contact lenses and eyewear! I promise you will not be disappointed, and will definitely look the part this summer.
You can take a look on the website here.
Happy Shopping!
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Vacationers planning to do some South America travel this summer may want to organize a fabulous getaway to Buenos Aries, Argentina. The stunning city is full of wonderful sites and offers travellers a number of great destinations and places to visit, such as the National Museum of Fine Arts.
The museum opened its doors in 1895 and is home to the world's biggest collection of Argentine sculptures and paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries. Guests will have the opportunity to admire a number of pieces, such as Ernesto de la Carcova's "Without Bread or Work," "The Pig Trough" by Fernando Fader, "Portrait of Santiago Calzadilla" by Prilidiano Pueyrredon and much more.
Tourists can also explore interesting temporary exhibits, such as "Modern Papers. From Toulouse-Lautre to Picasso." Visitors who check out this display will get to view 85 beautiful paper works by the two famous artists. The exhibition will run until May 23.
The National Museum of Fine Arts is open Tuesday to Friday from 12:30 PM to 7:30 PM and on Saturday and Sunday from 9:30 AM to 7:30 PM.


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Remembering Alexis Ann
- Location: Fargo, United States
"Two things in life are for sure; you are born and you die. It's what you do in between in that small amount of time where you get to be remembered." (Taken from Lexi's Facebook page) Lexi was the mother of a beautiful son Braylen Lee when she was tragically killed in a car accident. Her blonde hair, blue eyes, and huge smile could light up any room she walked into. A beautiful person inside and out that we miss very much!


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Used Aircraft Guide
December, 2006 Issue
Socata TB-10
Without a doubt, its one of the most stylish singles flying; think of it as a French Archer. But it hasnt been a big seller in the U.S. and sales efforts have waxed and waned over the years.
It may not be fast, or carry a lot and although it hasnt been a stellar seller in the U.S., say this about the SOCATA TB-10 Tobago: Its a good looking airplane, perhaps one of the best looking ever built.
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