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This sounds okay, but not as good as Tina Fey's book. Why isn't this more like Tina Fey's book?I can't tell if my version is updated to include this in the intro after the book came out, or if Kaling heard this so often when the book was in the early stages that it's been in here since the beginning. But really, it's unfair to try to go up against Tina Fey. But I was impressed because Kaling does a good job. Maybe because it's been years since I first read Bossypants so I didn't spend the whole time comparing them.
I know, man. Tina's awesome...Unfortunately I can't be Tina, because it's very difficult to lure her into a Freaky Friday-type situation where we could switch bodies, even though in the movies they make it look so easy. Believe me, I've tried.
Just like Fey's book, Kaling's is a memoir about her life growing up and when she eventually became a writer/actor/director(!) on The Office. It's what you expect in a memoir: she talks about growing up and being close with her parents, no matter how nerdy that made her, going to college ("I went to Dartmouth to pursue my love of white people and North Face parkas"), living in NYC and later LA, and throughout how much she looooooooooooves comedy.
Kaling is hilarious and I found myself thinking "Kaling, be my FRIEEEEEEND" a lot while reading this. Which I didn't expect just because Kaling is a lot peppier than I see myself. Even when I was reading about how much she loves romantic comedies, which are generally not my jam, I was thinking that she made some good points and I would be all for it hanging out and watching rom coms with her, even if I spent a large portion of the time making snarky remarks. But then she reveals how terrible she is with children and YUP, I hear you.
I think my favorite parts came from when she was living in NYC, after college and before she started on The Office. I loved her talking about her friends, and the apartment they had ("The staircase in our third-floor walk-up was the steepest, hardest, metal-est staircase I have ever encountered in my life. It was a staircase for killing someone and making it seem like an accident"), and her trying to break into showbiz. She talks about when she tried out for a Broadway show called Bombay Dreams. Since she's Indian-American she fit their very-narrow demographic they were looking for. Except for the "can dance" part. She sums up the dancing part of her audition: "It remains the single most embarrassing performance of my life, and it's on tape somewhere. I like to think Andrew Lloyd Webber watches it whenever he's feeling down." Plus the NYC section provides hilarious lines, like what it was like for her to live in the city in October 2001where you're torn between 9/11 and Sex and the City anxiety:
Should I keep a gas mask in my kitchen? Am I supposed to be able to afford Manolo Blahnik shoes? What is Barneys New York? You're trying to tell me a place called "Barneys" is fancy? Where are the fabulous gay friends I was promised? Gay guys hate me! Is t his anthrax or powdered sugar? Help! Help!I really enjoyed this book more than I was expecting to. I mean, I was assuming I'd like it but I didn't think I'd laugh so much. I knew she was funny but I'd really only see Kaling on The Office. I wish I could see her stage show and Ben Affleck and Matt Damon (where she and her friend played Matt and Ben and YES, DON'T YOU WANT TO SEE THAT?) This was a really funny, light, quick read. If I had to compare them, I still like Bossypants more but this isn't far behind.
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Kaling, Mindy. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns). Three Rivers Press, 2011. Kindle edition.


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So, if you don't mind, let's go back right at the beginning… You are originally from the East Coast, is it true that you were born in the Bronx?
This is true! I'm from New York.
How was it like when you grew up?
When I lived in the Bronx, well… growing up there was kind of interesting. It is New York and it is one of the most interesting places on the planet. There's so much to do and see and I was an avid sports fan so I could go to see the New York Yankees play. I played a lot of sports myself. There were a lot of outlets for that and also for music. I used to go downtown to Manhattan with friends and we'd go to Birdland and other jazz places and watch the really great musicians play. I think that people who come from New York, if they take advantage of it, are around some of the greatest situations in the world, best musicians and artists. Because people from other places, other states, other countries go to New York to act and play, to study music and study writing. So you have the advantage of people coming to your city, bringing their talent with them and you don't have to travel very much. It's a melting pot. So, I think that was really cool. I mean, you've got great stuff like museums, the Natural History, the New York Public Library on 2nd Avenue. You've got the zoo; the best zoo in the world is in the Bronx… the Bronx Zoo. You've got all kind of places that you can go and take advantage of for educational purposes and just to broaden your views of the world.
I feel that was the greatest part about growing up in New York… It had its disadvantages. In my neighborhood it started to get tough! There were a lot of gangs started to come up in the late '50s. That's when it was starting to get downright dangerous. That was the disadvantage of being a teenager in a dangerous neighborhood, you really had to watch yourself. But you know, it makes you street smart!
Do you come from a musical background or are you the only artist in the family?
The only person in the family who had any musical ability was my dad, he could sing really well. And he could play the drums, same as me.
Well, actually my next question was about your discovery of the drums, where it came from, what attracted you to that particular instrument. So it came from your dad?
Yeah! I think if you have a talent, at least me at a very early age – I was maybe seven or eight years old – you just naturally gravitate towards it. I watched drummers on television. My uncle was a musicologist and a copyist for the army band at West Point. He bought me my first snare drum and sticks and brushes when I was nine. He was also a kind of saxophone player and even in our first little jam session in my house, my uncle pulled out his saxophone and we started playing old swing stuff. He noticed and said that I had an unusual gift for it. So even at an early age, it was just totally natural for me to be able to play the drums. I couldn't understand why everybody couldn't do it!
So, before you joined the Knickerbockers, you were in a New York band called the Castle Kings. What sort of music did you play?
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Apart from being an amazing drummer, you also sing… Is it true you that you joined the Knickerbockers because of that extra talent and why were they looking for a drummer who could sing?
They were looking for a drummer and the first time I saw the Knickerbockers was in a neighborhood venue. It was a supermarket that had been emptied, sold-out and it was reopened to do a little party on Memorial Day. I was walking down the street and I heard this music so I went back and they were set up playing as a trio. Buddy, the saxophone player was playing the drums, really well, and I thought, boy this is a band I'd love to play with! A couple of weeks or months later, they called me up because they'd heard I was a drummer and that I was looking for work. So I went and set up in John and Beau's house and we played, but my drumming skills were a little bit on the amateur side because I was still young. Then they asked me to sing, I sang some rock 'n' roll stuff and John and Beau's mum heard me sing and she said "Hire that guy, he does sound good"! So my skills with drumming didn't get me the work, it was the singing. Then I improved as a drummer because you get to play a lot. Also, Buddy taught me a lot of stuff on the drums that he got from other good drummers. But it was actually my voice that got me the job.
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By Mike Stax
In the autumn months of 2014, the future of the Pretty Things hung in the balance. Phil May was in a London hospital having been diagnosed with COPD and emphysema. Doctors warned him that if he didn't make drastic changes to his lifestyle he'd be dead within a few months.
That was then. This is now. One year later, in the autumn of 2015, Phil has turned his life around and is in fighting form again. Not only is he back onstage and on the road with the Pretty Things, this summer the band released one of the best albums of their more than half-century career. A huge part of this miraculous turnaround is down to the support of his band mates, friends, family, and you Pretty Things fans, many of whom wrote to Phil personally via UT with words of encouragement and support, and some tough love. When I saw Phil in London earlier this year, he told me how moved he was by all of your letters, how he read and re-read them and found sustenance in them. He appreciated how many of you didn't pull any punches. He quoted one from memory: "Don't you dare die on us, you fucker, we need you around." Yes we do.
If you needed another reminder why, look no further than The Sweet Pretty Things (are in bed now, of course…), their new album on Repertoire Records. (The title quotes the opening line of Bob Dylan's "Tombstone Blues," a song his Royal Bobness wrote and recorded shortly after the famous 1965 UK tour during which he hung out with members of the Pretty Things.)
The album was recorded quickly and simply, on analogue equipment, using vintage instruments and amps, and with only minimal overdubs. Even some of the lead vocals were cut live along with the basic tracks. The result is a collection of songs that sounds warm, organic, and at times almost effortless. It's also very much a collaborative effort. All of the band members as well as manager/producer Mark St John contribute to the songwriting, including the two junior members, bass player George Woosey (who co-wrote three songs) and drummer Jack Greenwood, whose skills are showcased on the instrumental jam "Greenwood Tree."
"The Same Sun," written by Dick Taylor and Mark St John, opens the album, and in another, kinder era would've also been the hit single that preceded it. Taylor's winding guitar melody, mirrored by the vocals, soon imprints itself into your cranial hard drive, along with a great chorus hook: "The sun / The sun is in the sky / The same sun / But seen through different eyes." With its strong SF Sorrow vibe, this one has all the makings of a new Pretty Things classic, and has already become a favorite in their live shows.
"And I Do"—written by Woosey, May, and St John—is archetypal modern-day Pretties. Phil spits out the lyrics with a vinegary vehemence on the verses, propelled by a wiry blues guitar riff, giving way to a more resigned tone on the melodic, harmonized choruses. A pair of cover versions follows. First they revisit the Byrds' "Renaissance Fair," a staple of their live set in 1968-69, highlighted here by some chiming guitar work by Taylor and Frank Holland, then they ambush with a storming version of the late-period Seeds obscurity, "You Took Me By Surprise." Phil's lascivious howl elevates the song tremendously, and the band rocks out with a hard rock ferocity reminiscent of the Harvest-era favorite "Cold Stone." This is followed by a spirited take on "Turn My Head," a song first written and recorded in 1967, but passed over for release at the time.
"Dark Days"—written by Phil May and Frankie Holland—is one of the album's highlights. A tense, foreboding monolith of a song, cloaked in all kinds of doomy atmospherics, it's underpinned by a dense, menacing riff of the kind Led Zeppelin once specialized in. Phil digs deep, getting right inside the lyrics and conjuring an especially powerful and affecting vocal performance, supported by some strong harmonies, beautiful interweaving guitars and swirling Mellotron.
It's followed by "Greenwood Tree," which I mentioned earlier, a psychedelic instrumental jam that had originally segued out of "Renaissance Fair." Dick and Frankie lay down some searing lead guitar work before it breaks off into an extended drum solo that manages not to overstay its welcome (the whole track clocks in at 4:16). This clears a path for the excellent "Hell, Here and Nowhere," written by George Woosey, an acoustic-based piece with some wonderful three- and four-part harmonies, harking back to the some of the more mellow tracks on Parachute and Freeway Madness.
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The combination of an unbearable mainstream and inadequate underground made the '80s the worst decade of the rock 'n' roll era. Hardcore, postpunk and thrash metal played out quickly as MTV, radio and major labels spattered the manure of crass, overproduced corporate music awash in synthesizers and obnoxious loud drums. Worse, conformity that rejected the '60s counterculture pervaded throughout society, giving rise to religious fanatics and other ignoramuses (e.g., the PMRC) who sought to censor what little truly alternative sounds were out there.
If you didn't fancy derivative, wimpy college rock that rocked only slightly more than Peter, Paul and Mary, there wasn't much — and by the late '80s, there was virtually nothing. Punk and metal were mostly clichés, the garage revival was going nowhere, and rock 'n' roll in general lay dormant. Into this late '80s void came a louder, noisier underground as heard on new labels like Sub Pop and Amphetamine Reptile.
The story of Sub Pop is well known, but Amphetamine Reptile went undocumented — until now. The Color of Noise tells the story of a label that was essentially Sub Pop's evil twin: rawer, ruder, darker and more provocative — yet almost as influential in making the 1990s better than the 1980s and helping lay the groundwork for the future.
Amphetamine Reptile (named after a slight mishearing of Motörhead's "Love Me Like a Reptile") reflected the ambitions of its owner, Tom Hazelmyer, a guitarist and veteran of such Minneapolis bands as Todlachen and Otto's Chemical Lounge — not to mention the US Marines — who founded the label to put out records by his noise rock combo, Halo of Flies.
Like Sub Pop after its humble beginnings, Hazelmyer soon found an audience of dissatisfied youth ready to embrace his iconoclasm. His label signed more likeminded noise rockers like the Cows, God Bullies, Unsane, Boss Hog and the band that put AmRep on the map, Helmet. As the releases and European tours for AmRep acts mushroomed, so did the imprint's rep for provocative artwork (by renowned artists like Frank Kozik, Coop and Derek Hess) and uncompromising DIY ethos. If the ugliness and outrage of AmRep bands reflected distaste for the '80s itself, who could blame them?
Hazelmyer himself and every AmRep band of significance is interviewed, as are sleeve artists, label employees and outside observers like Jello Biafra. The Color of Noise serves as much as a bio of Hazelmyer — also a restaurateur and print artist — as it does the story of his label, but that makes sense, as the two are inextricably linked. The cinematography is first-rate, interspersing quality old clips of AmRep bands in various clubs worldwide with colorful presentations of flyers and sleeves and, of course, interviews with the provocateurs who shared Hazelmyer's vision.
The parallels to Sub Pop are striking. Both hailed from cities — Seattle and Minneapolis — that produced some of the greatest local rock scenes of the '60s. The labels not only did joint releases, but saw overlap in bands that recorded for both. And just as Sub Pop went big with the rise of Nirvana, Helmet's ascent to platinum status with Meantime in 1992 ensured that AmRep (which then sold Interscope Helmet's debut, Strap It On) would be a viable business proposition for years to come.
Or at least until 1998, when Amphetamine Reptile went dormant — with only sporadic releases since. But even if it didn't last as long as Sub Pop, which continues to this day, its influence is almost as significant. The 1991 revolution that turned many heads in the direction of alternative sounds was mostly spurred by Nirvana, but Helmet — and therefore AmRep — was also part of the mix. Doom metal, stoner metal, garage rock and the psychedelic revival all existed before then, but undoubtedly got a boost when, yes, the alternative briefly became the mainstream and told impressionable teens that there was something else out there.
Today's mainstream might be worse than ever, but the underground is healthy. We owe Amphetamine Reptile and other vintage indie labels gratitude for laying — or at least strengthening — the groundwork when bands didn't have the reach and immediacy of the Internet. And we have The Color of Noise to thank for preserving an interesting piece of rock 'n' roll history in this fine documentary.


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Dear Manager of the Sheraton Mirage Port Douglas Resort,
Recently my husband and I came to stay at your resort. We were aware of your ongoing renovations, but we had been informed that since it was a big resort, the matter wouldn't really affect us. We ended up upgrading to one of the new rooms and paid for the privilege.
Our holiday was meant for R&R. The biggest decisions we wanted to make were, do we go to the beach or to the pool, and what will we be having for lunch/dinner? I had been filled with excitement and apprehension coming to your resort. Yes, I am a fussy traveller who wants and expects to have an incredible experience. Why pay good money to go on holidays to a lesser standard? I guess I also had faith in the Sheraton name.
Everyone who welcomed us when we arrived was lovely. Since our room was not ready, we changed and headed to the pool area. We did ignore the fit out throughout the reception area with its opulent and outdated 80s style since we knew it was all being renovated, though we weren't sure why it had taken so long to make these changes.
Despite our satisfaction with our room, we were a little disappointed with the visual signs of renovations that we had to walk through to get there: scaffolding, empty pools, etc.
Even on holidays I don't take off my customer service expert hat. For me it's all about the overall experience. Even if a company is renovating, all the staff and management should go out of their way to give the customer exceptional service. As the days progressed, I observed many areas where improvements were needed as the Sheraton standard was not met.
- Staff should be attentive around the pool, offering to take orders for food and drink whilst guests are lounging on the chairs. Humans are inherently lazy, so if someone comes around asking whether you would like food or drink, we suddenly become thirsty and hungry (so much money being left on the table).
- Coconut trees are all over the beach. Why not sell coconut milk/water in the coconut shell? You can even add alcohol at an extra cost.
- Plastic throwaway cups around the pool are cheap. Why not have nice plastic cups to serve your $16 cocktails?
- At the end of the day, the chairs around the pool should be set up in some sort of order as specified by the Sheraton standard, not in some random fashion as the guests had left them.
- All staff should be properly trained in table setting and serving. Because we decided to sit outside for breakfast every day, our table still needed to be set properly with salt & pepper shakers and knives and forks set in place, not just dumped on the table.
- New seat cushions on the beach chairs around the pool would be nice to replace the torn ones.
- Lanterns around the pool should be lit at night. It adds such a romantic feel.
- Set yourself apart from the rest of the hotel operators on the four-mile stretch of beach and put beach chairs on the beach. You promote this, so why not capitalise on it?
I could keep going. These renovations have been a long time coming. With challenging times, unhappy customers, bad reviews, and a hotel under renovation, your staff does not fit Sheraton's high standards. The staff was not rude, and if you asked them to get something done, they would oblige. However, certainty and passion were lacking. It must be difficult for the staff not to give their guests the experience they deserve, though they can. Too near enough is not good enough; the attention to detail was missing.
A few staff members did stand out and obviously took pride in their work. It is time for management to be out and about, talking to the guests, ensuring them that the hotel is running at the highest standards as a Sheraton should. All staff must be trained in every aspect of service to give the guests the most memorable experience.
I am sure once your hotel is renovated, it will be back to its former glory. I look forward to that day. Always remember: it's the little things that make the difference when it comes to customer service.
Kind Regards
Penny Votzourakis
The lesson for the Sheraton Mirage Port Douglas Resort and all businesses is that it's the small things that matter – the attention to detail. It is at the most challenging times that management needs to be visible to offer support to the staff, to ensure the standards are being met and exceeded, and to seek new ways to improve and do things better. Never take the customer for granted, in any circumstance.


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In oncology, treatment clinical trials have traditionally been
done in three successive phases (see Figure 9, p. 52). This
approach has yielded numerous advances in patient care.
However, the multiphase clinical testing process requires a
large number of patients and takes many years to complete,
making it extremely costly and one of the biggest barriers
to rapid translation of scientific knowledge into clinical
advances. Other challenges include low participation in
clinical trials by adolescents and adults with cancer and
a lack of diversity among clinical trial participants, in
particular adult clinical trial participants ( 102–105) (see
sidebar on Disparities in Clinical Trial Participation, p. 53).
Over the past three decades, the FDA has implemented
several changes that have altered how clinical trials can
be conducted and reviewed in an effort to reduce the
length of time it takes to obtain a clear result from a
clinical trial, including developing four evidence-based
strategies to expedite assessment of therapeutics for life-threatening diseases such as cancer. An increasing number
of therapeutics are being approved by the FDA using these
review strategies ( 108). For example, eight of the new
anticancer therapeutics approved by the FDA during the
12 months spanning this report were approved using one
or more of the expedited review strategies.
In addition, research-driven advances in our understanding
of cancer biology, in particular the genetic mutations
that underpin cancer initiation and growth (see Cancer
Development: Influences inside the Cell, p. 18), are enabling
researchers, regulators, and the pharmaceutical industry
to develop new ways of designing and conducting clinical
trials, including the emergence of adaptive and seamless
clinical trial designs ( 109, 110). The new approaches
aim to streamline the development of new anticancer
therapeutics by matching the right therapeutics with the
right patients earlier. These approaches can reduce the
number of patients who need to be enrolled in clinical trials
before it is determined whether or not the therapeutic being
evaluated is safe and effective. They can also decrease the
length of time it takes for a new anticancer therapeutic to
be tested and made available to patients.
In some clinical trials, the cancer-driving genomic
alterations and not the anatomic site of the original cancer
are being used to identify the patients most likely to benefit
from an investigational anticancer therapeutic. If successful,
these clinical trials, which are called "basket" trials, have the
potential to lead to FDA approvals that are agnostic of the
site of cancer origin (see Figure 10, p. 52). The first such FDA
Results from any type of research can fuel biomedical
research by providing observations relevant to the
practice of medicine, which lead to questions, or
hypotheses, that are tested in experiments during
the discovery phase of research. During the discovery
phase, traits unique to a disease may be uncovered,
leading to the development of a potential therapeutic
(see sidebar on Therapeutic Development, p. 51).
Before entering clinical testing, potential therapeutics
are subjected to preclinical testing to identify
any toxicities and help determine initial dosing.
Clinical testing is a multiphase process aimed at
demonstrating the safety and efficacy of a potential
therapeutic (see Figure 9, p. 52). If a therapeutic is
safe and effective and is approved for use by the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it will enter into
clinical practice, where it can transform the lives of
patients. Importantly, observations made during the
routine use of a new therapeutic can feed back into
the biomedical research cycle and further enhance the
use of that therapeutic or the development of others
like it. If, however, a therapeutic is not safe or effective
and fails to gain FDA approval, the observations from
the clinical testing still feed back into the biomedical
research cycle to spur future research efforts. Because
the cycle is iterative, it is constantly building on prior
knowledge, and research undertaken during any part
of the cycle continually powers new observations.
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Ermenegildo Zegna learns the hard way about Australian farming
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When Italian luxury label Ermenegildo Zegna purchased a stake in the historic Achill Farm in Armidale, New South Wales, no one could have guessed how hard the subsequent three years would be.
Zegna learnt the harsh truth about Australian farming. Its 6300-acre property was hit by a debilitating drought, forcing a decision to "tighten the belts", according to Chairman Paolo Zegna, and test every hope he and sixth-generation wool grower Charlie Coventry had for the property.
But it seems that things are finally taking a turn for the pair. Whether by providence or luck, our arrival at the property Saturday morning happened to coincide with the region's single biggest rain event in four years.
"As farmers, this is really exciting for us," says Coventry. "It's really put a smile on our faces. Especially over the past four years, we have really been dogged sideways. What we started with in this joint venture has really been a challenge but we continued with our investment."
While this may have prevented the farm from hitting the ground running, according to Zegna it did allow for three solid years of preparation and auditing of process.
"We started to buy new rams, better quality rams, to know what kind of wool we wanted to get for the property," Zegna says. "We worked on the genetics, on the breeding, taking care of the welfare of the animal and increasing water reserves, a new paddock for cattle – all things which we believed would put us in a much better situation, when the drought ends.
Achill is home to some 10,000 sheep (and 1000 cattle), and the property, which the Coventry family has been involved in since the town's early beginnings, is now looking to become ground zero in the reinvigoration of the wool industry and finding new and improved methods of wool farming in Australia.
"A small test," Zegna says.
"A lovely jewel, hopefully, in the entire organisation of the company. It will be a place to improve our learning curve and experiment, grow better fibres. It's to find the right mix of animals, particularly sheep, and always find the right wool."
Currently, wool being produced at Achill is weighing about 16 microns, which, while still in the top ranges of wool quality in Australia, is not quite fine enough to make it into the coveted top 10 of the annual Zegna Wool Awards (which were held in Melbourne on Friday) that earns a guaranteed spot within the Zegna storehouse of merino wool.
But aside from guaranteeing that Zegna would have local access to what the company declares is the best wool in the world, the decision to purchase Achill was to "close the circle" as it were.
"The idea was to become the only fashion company to become fully integrated from sheep to shop," says Zegna.
Although Zegna points out that while Achill will supply some of the company's demand, the intention was never for it to become a sole supplier. Demand for product is too high – overall consumption of Zegna products in wool is equivalent to half a million kilograms and at Achill the average yield is up to 20,000 kilos. But he hopes that, after seeing what he and Coventry do at Achill, their relationship could inspire other farmers and goad the improvement of Australian wool.
But will it be enough to reinvigorate the industry, which has seen an increasing number of farmers walk away from the land due to lack of funding, support or crippling environmental conditions?
"I think having Achill is more about being here in front of a lot of wool growers," Zegna muses. "It is to show that through a careful management of the company, we can demonstrate that the industry is still viable and can be continued for generations. Many people were compelled to abandon [the industry] and we would like Achill to strike a balance where we can be an example to others."
Benjamen is a lifestyle reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, covering men's fashion, grooming, and fitness.


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HOUND welcomes Klasfeld and Pellington to roster
HOUND will rep Klasfeld for exclusive commercial and music video representation in the U.S. and Pellington for exclusive music video representation in the U.S.
Los Angeles based production company HOUND is pleased to welcome Marc Klasfeld and Mark Pellington to its director roster.
HOUND will rep Klasfeld for exclusive commercial and music video representation in the U.S. and Pellington for exclusive music video representation in the U.S.
A graduate of NYU film school, Marc Klasfeld is an award-winning director whose ground-breaking music videos for artists including Katy Perry, Jay-Z, Britney Spear, Sia, and Aerosmith have been viewed by billions. His video for Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth's See You Again is currently the third most-watched music video on YouTube. Klasfeld's commercial work similarly engages with culture and breaks boundaries, attracting clients including Target, Nike, NFL and Reebok.
Says Marc Klasfeld: "Missy and I have known each other for years, she's good people. I'm impressed with what they're created with HOUND and thrilled to join their team. Looking forward to making memorable work together."
Mark Pellington is a filmmaker who started his career working at MTV's award-winning On-Air Promotions Department, creating the landmark show Buzz. His extensive videography includes music videos for artists including U2, Pearl Jam, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, The Dave Matthews Band, Demi Lovato, and Imagine Dragons. He has also directed documentaries and television programs including Cold Case, Blindspot, and The Enemy Within, and has several notable feature films, including The Mothman Prophecies, Arlington Road, U2 3D, and Nostalgia. He is currently in production on several projects, including two shorts for the Star Trek franchise, and a short sci-fi music film, Nightwalkers, starring Alfie Allen (Game of Thrones) and Madeline Petsch (Riverdale).
Says Mark Pellington: "My work has always been about diversity and I'm glad to join a fearless global progressive company that welcomes my experience and my unbridled enthusiasm. I'm a big fan of Missy Galanida and Isaac Rice and I'm very excited to move into this next creative realm with my new partners at HOUND."
"Marc Klasfeld and Mark Pellington are both huge talents who fit perfectly into the community we've built here," says HOUND co-founder Missy Galanida. "We're working at the intersection of brands and culture, bringing a fresh perspective to both our brand and our music collaborations. Their addition to our roster expands our offering in an exciting and meaningful way."


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Hollis Chase is an exceptional leader, entrepreneur, business development strategist and coach with more than 30 years of diverse business experience in the professional services, manufacturing, and education markets. Beginning in July 2017, Hollis has become an Executive Fellow for The Art Connection in Boston, MA.
In her role at The Art Connection, Hollis and the Board of Directors will work together to: create an actionable business development strategy with an eye toward earned revenue opportunities; re-frame the fundraising strategy; and begin to set up a short-term strategic plan. At the conclusion of her Fellowship, the plan will be handed off to more permanent leadership. The Art Connection has a proven mission placing original works of art in under-served communities by introducing the beauty of art to hundreds of our neighbors through the generous donations of artists and supporters.
At this life stage, Hollis has chosen to reinvent herself and spend more time devoted to her "portfolio life." Hollis, who is an avid fused glass artist and photographer, says, "I particularly love working with the arts and have become more engaged and involved in this arena. I am passionate about sharing my business expertise coupled with my personal interest in art to make a difference for the arts and arts organizations in the community."


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East Haven Boat Taken Back to Dock
"Once on scene, the Coast Guard rescue crew observed that the 24-foot sailing vessel's electrical system was not operating properly, the radio was inoperable and the bilge pumps were not functioning. The mariner was able to call for help on his cell phone. Weather conditions on scene were reported as 4- to 6-foot waves with wind at 15 to 30 knots and poor visibility."
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"… the man was hit from about 10 feet away with 27 pellets of birdshot. He says the man wasn't seriously injured, in part because he was wearing waders…."


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Husch Blackwell Senior Counsel Jim Hoecker and other panelists discuss the energy and environmental regulations that have potential to stress the transmission grid in the short run and require more interconnection projects in the long run. They examine the significant opportunities and challenges that are redefining the transmission business and investment potential in the U.S.
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Kabul: A Hazara Comedian, Sharif Watandost, became 'Khanda Salaar' of the Year in a comedy competition run by Tolo Tv, Afghanistan's most watched TV channel.
Similar to Afghan Star, Khanda Bazaar, the competition, was based on SMS voting. After a tough competition with his final rival, Riaz Ahmad Sher, from Nangarhar, Sharif was able to convince the public and the judges through some of his best comedy skits to vote him Khanda Salaar.
Khanda Bazaar ('laughter bazaar') started last year, and visited all the provinces across the country to select aspiring comedians. The judges of Khanda Bazaar's season two competition were the hosts of the Zang-e-Khatar program on Tolo TV.
Sharif Watandost, son of Muhammad, was born 1980. He is a baker ('naan-bai') from Behsud. Sharif now lives in Kabul.
Due to decades of war and financial problems, Sharif could not continue his studies after finishing fifth grade. Sharif is interested in acting in comedy movies.
Aria Production, a media production company, announced a reward of Afg.75,000 (approximately US$1,600) for Sharif.


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The Nails Inc. Gel Effect Polishes are my recent favorites because they "deliver a plumping gel effect for glossy, salon-quality nails." Unlike regular polishes, the Gel Effect polishes "provides a high-shine, superglossy finish without the need of a UV lamp or professional removal process." They "contain the same plumping technology as a salon gel manicure and lets you create the same look at home with ease. Formulated with revolutionary plasticiser technology, Gel Effect polish[es] create a gloss like you have never experienced before with standard nail polish."
These gel polishes contains "very high level[s] of solid pigment to create flawless application with no streaking or dragging. The gel formula glides on effortlessly and the extra wide brush ensures easy application."
The Gel Effect Polishes formula is truly one of a kind. It's just thick enough to maneuver around the nail and thin enough to not look thick and gloopy. I still apply two coats on each nail, even though one coat would probably be sufficient. The finish is super glossy and shiny even without a top coat; and, these babies really do look like a gel manicure. The pigment adheres to the nails well with minimal chipping. Even with the removal process, it doesn't come off as easily as a regular polish — but the removal process isn't as ridiculous as removing glitter polishes.
The colors in the range thus far aren't super unique — and, I feel that the colors are very dupe-able. However, the formula and texture of these polishes are unique and that's the reason why I'd recommend purchasing them.
For the price, the Gel Effect Polishes are a bit on the pricey side at $14.00 a piece — since Essie and OPI polishes are under $10. However, these are a few bucks cheaper than Butter London and Deborah Lippmann polishes. In my opinion, the formula doesn't dry as quickly so that's a bit inconvenient, but overall, I think they're worth purchasing especially if you're into the gel nails look!
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Electronics recycler Sims Recycling Solutions (SRS) in Dubai has moved to a larger site due to what it describes as 'overwhelming demand' for its services in the UAE. The new facility, located at the Jebel Ali industrial park in south Dubai, is four times larger.
'We had outgrown our previous facility,' says Stephen Phelan, managing director for SRS Middle East and North Africa. 'Material was arriving faster than we could process it. The new larger facility enables us to enhance our service portfolio, cut lead times, and better positions us for the growing demand of e-scrap recycling and IT asset disposition services in the region.'
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Besides the recycling of electronic products, SRS offers digital data destruction services, including serial number capturing and complete reporting. According to Phelan, this will benefit their customer's sustainability and data security goals, and provide 'better cost-saving opportunities as some of the devices can be refurbished and given a second life: the best of both worlds.'
The new site is some five kilometres from the former location and can be found at Warehouses LIU10 BB01-BB03, Jebel Ali Free Zone South, Dubai, UAE.
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By David Blyweiss, M.D., Advanced Natural Wellness
June 24, 2016
- Why does this class of antacids harm your health?
- PPIs are now linked to cellular aging
- Toss those antacids and youthify your cells
Taking heartburn drugs like Prilosec, Nexium and Pepcid sounds harmless enough. So my new patients who take these kinds of antacids are always surprised when I make it a top priority to get them off of these drugs.
These fall into a class of antacids called proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). And they have a terrible effect on your body.
They boost your chances of heart disease, dementia, kidney dysfunction and bone fractures. They impair your body's ability to absorb vitamin B12, which can lead to deficiency.
They also contribute to an imbalance of healthy gut microbiota that can lead to an antibiotic resistant diarrheal infection called c. difficile.
Until recently, nobody really knew WHY these drugs have such an unhealthy impact on your health. But we may be getting a little closer to developing a better understanding of it.
Are Heartburn Drugs Aging Your Cells?
There's absolutely no question about how PPIs work. They switch off the mechanism that pumps acid into your stomach.
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Well, your body is loaded with tiny cellular organs called lysosomes. They work in way that's very similar to how your stomach works, but on a cellular level.
Basically, their inner membranes contain acids and enzymes that break down cellular debris for recycling. This rids your body of things like misfolded proteins, damaged mitochondria and intracellular bacteria that can damage your cells. It's part of a process called autophagy.
But here's the problem…
Lysosomes have an internal proton pump that helps them maintain exactly the right amount of acid they need to do their job. When you shut that pump down, they can't churn out enough acid to produce the enzymes necessary to "take out the trash".
This is exactly what happens to human cells treated with Nexium. They simply can't generate enough acid to clear out all of that cellular rubbish. As that waste accumulates, it causes the cells to age more rapidly.
This is the same thing that happens when autophagy can't occur. And simply put, when cellular damage exceeds the rate of repair it's going to result in accelerated aging.
More importantly, when this system goes awry it can lead to mitochondrial dysfunction, heart disease and neurological disorders, like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
So let's take a look at some ways to get rid of your heartburn… and clear out all of that cellular rubbish.
Toss those Antacids and Youthify Your Cells
One of the first things you should be aware of is this: In my experience, most patients with acid reflux are suffering from too little acid, not too much.
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That's right. If you suffer from heartburn, acid reflux, sour stomach and other digestive complaints, you might not have enough stomach acid. The symptoms are pretty much identical whether you have too much or too little.
To find out if low stomach acid is the source of your woes, take a tablespoon of apple vinegar the next time heartburn strikes. If the pain disappears, it's a pretty good indication that your body isn't producing enough hydrochloric acid. This is an issue for many of us over 60 years old.
In this case, restoring your body's natural production of stomach acid is at the top of your priority list. And it's easy enough to do. Just take 325mg-650 mg of HCL betaine with pepsin at the beginning of each meal. If you experience a slight burning sensation in the pit of your stomach then decrease the amount taken next time.
You can also restore a natural acid balance in your digestive system by taking digestive enzymes. Taking a mixed blend of amylase, lipase and other digestive enzymes helps break down food in your digestive tract and reduce gastric upset. And the simplest thing to do is to chew your food well; digestion begins in your mouth, that's where the salivary enyzmes are to prepare your chewed meal for the next steps in absorbing the nutrients you need from the food you eat.
Adding a high quality probiotic is another good idea. Look for one that contains multiple strains of lactobacillus and bifobacterium. The more strains and the higher the colony count, the better your results will be.
(If you do occasionally experience indigestion, try some licorice. There's a chewable form called DGL. And it's just as effective as the acid-blocking drug Tagamet for heartburn symptoms.)
And what about getting your lysosomes working properly to get rid of all that cellular waste that's aging your body?
Well, forcing your body into autophagy can upregulate the function of your lysosomes.
The best way to trigger this process is by restricting calories. However, cutting calories regularly is something that the average person has a hard time accomplishing.
That's why I often recommend something called daily intermittent fasting. It doesn't require you to slash your caloric intake. You simply need to limit the time window during which you eat them to eight hours or less each day.
Then fast for the remaining 18 or so hours. During this fasting period, your body will automatically initiate autophagy. This, in turn, will rid your cells of waste and make them work more efficiently.
You can also supplement with resveratrol (50 mg) and pterostilbene (25 mg) daily. These nutrients act as calorie restriction mimics. They activate your Sirt1 gene, which plays a role in the regulation of autophagy and helps protect your mitochondria.
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Tips for Choosing the Best Air Duct Cleaning.
Over the past few years, the indoor air quality at home and in the business places has been a concern and is very vital. The pollutants that are collected and harbored by the air ducts and the ventilation systems are capable of affecting the air quality and causing health complications. The health risks ranges from the triggering of allergic reactions to the more chronic ailments. It is therefore important that you get professionals services when you think it is time, and the best there is because how effectively the job is done will depend on the one that you chose. Like any other industry, there will be a good number of companies in the market, and that means therefore that you need to know what to look for.
It is not hard to get a legitimate and honest company out there, but that doesn't mean that all of them are good. This is why it is important to look at their certifications, documents, experience and even the kind of resources that they have. More importantly, you should make sure that the company is licensed and insured to avoid complications and under par services. There are a lot of things that they learn along the way, and this is what makes the kind of experience that they have very important.
The prices are among the first things that people look at. Those very low bids an prices usually increase as they offer the services, and you may end up either paying even more or even with poor quality, which is why you should stay away from them. The best thing, therefore, is to look for a veteran company with the professionals and the resources needed to offer a great quality at a reasonable amount like the Austin Air Duct Cleaning.
There is so much more to the services than the actual cleaning, information that you can only get from the people that they have served. This is because these are just happy or disappointed clients that have nothing to lose or gain from telling the information, unlike the company. There are the online reviews and the ones from people around you, and you can also get dome from the company's references list. The search should start with the companies in town for convenience during and after the services, not to mention the fact that getting the reputation information will be easy. The air duct cleaning companies in Austin and the dryer vent cleaning Austin are the best choices for the people in and around Austin.


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Question 24: If a person offers food for the poor in fulfillment of his vow, is it permissible for him to eat from that food?
Answer: The basic ruling is that if the thing that is offered in fulfillment of a vow is permissible, it will be a must to spend it on the channels specified by the person who made the vow. If he did not specify a channel, it should be considered as Sadaqah (voluntary charity) that is to be spent on the poor and needy... read more here.


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Limerick councillors back motion to stop Sky Sports' exclusive game rights
Cian Lynch of Limerick celebrates his side's victory in the Munster Under-21 final Picture: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile
LIMERICK councillors have backed a motion calling on the GAA to stop Sky Sports having exclusive rights to certain matches.
This year, both of Limerick's championship hurling games were only available on the pay-tv broadcaster.
Now, councillors want that stance revisited – and are planning to make their views known to GAA headquarters.
Former mayor, Cllr Liam Galvin said RTE, TV3 and TG4 should also be allowed to screen fixtures which are carried by Sky.
"Denying households who do not subscribe to Sky TV the right to view our national games is a travesty," the Fine Gael man said.
"I am bringing this motion because of my love for the GAA and in particular football. Lots of people do not have Sky in their home, and will not see their local side playing. I have no issue with Sky television showing games. What I am asking here is that opportunity is given to free-to-air networks to also show games," Cllr Galvin added.
The motion received almost unanimous backing from councillors after Cllr Jerome Scanlan seconded it.
Sinn Fein councillor Séighin Ó Ceallaigh said: "It is absolutely disgraceful that we can watch Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid in the Champions League on Irish television, yet we cannot watch Limerick GAA on RTE. We need to take this in hand before we see a full sell-off of our national sport to foreign tv firms."
Cllr Gerald Mitchell, Fine Gael, said due to the high cost of Sky Sports subscriptions, three pubs in his village of Hospital have had to cancel.
His party colleague, Cllr Daniel Butler added: "This is our national sport. It's part of the fibre of who we are. Everyone should have access to it. At the moment, we are restricting access to a large section of society. We should not be given responsibility to sell part of our culture to Sky Sports, and depriving people in the process."
However, metropolitan district mayor Sean Lynch, father to rising star hurler Cian Lynch, 21 (pictured below), disagreed.
He believes the GAA's founder Michael Cusack would approve of Sky's efforts to promote the two codes around the world.
"Michael Cusack was a great Irish scholar, he promoted the Irish language, promoted sport, hurling and gaelic football. He was saying these are distinctive games, this is our national identity. He wanted to promote it worldwide. That was his vision back then. This is exactly what Sky Sports are doing. Bringing the games right across the world to our diaspora. Linking them with their homes and their communities," the mayor said.
Cllr Lynch also pointed out that the cost of taking out a Sky subscription over the summer pales into comparison with the price of travel to games, and the other costs involved.
The motion was passed.
Last week, GAA president Aogán Ó Fearghaíl shut down any opposition to the organisation's deal with Sky – which runs to 2021.
He said: "The media rights is about all that can go in, can go out. Do we want to go back to the day, which the GAA used to do, to pay a media provider to cover our games? Those days are all over so there is no debate. There were 30 votes at Congress against the media rights deal. The debate is over."


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We had a very late lie-in then had breakfast and did our shopping in Geant. By then it was raining😲. But it wasn't cold so we could have out hot chicken and potato dinner outside and listen to the gentle rain. I haven't quite got over how happy I am here when I thought I would be overcome with memories and sadness. It's not like that at all. It's home, it's lovely. It's a place I love to be.
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Fior Markets launched a study titled "Global Flexible Packaging Market by Material (Paper, Aluminium Foil, Plastic, Bioplastic), Application (Food and Beverages, Pharmaceutical, Others), Regions",and Global Forecast 2018-2025.
The global flexible packaging market is expected to grow from USD 252.34 Billion in 2017 to USD 370.23 Billion by 2025 at a CAGR of 4.91% during the forecast period from 2018-2025.Technological improvements in food processing sector, changing lifestyles, growth of organized retail industry, and increasing popularity of food delivery services are the major driving factors behind the growth of flexible packaging market globally.
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Bioplastic segment is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 9.14% in 2018-2025
Material segment is categorized into paper, aluminium foil, plastic and bioplastic. Increasing demand for biodegradable eco-friendly packaging materials owing to restriction on the use of plastics is expected to propel the bioplastic segment growth at a CAGR of 9.14% over the forecast period. Due to the property of taking any form or shape, the plastic segment is widely utilized in the food & beverage sector. Plastic flexible packaging material registered a market share of 72.53% in the total global volume in 2017.
Food and Beverages had a market value of USD 156.80 Billion in 2017
Application segment is divided into food and beverage, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, and others. Increasing consumption of packaged foods, frozen meat, snack, and ready to cook mix, bakery products is leading to a universal rise in demand for flexible packaging materials. Thus, food and beverages segment registered the market revenue of USD 156.80 billion in 2017. Cosmetic segment is also expected to grow at a healthy pace due to an increasing consumption led by rising income and standard of living. Demand for improved packaging materials to preserve and protect the potency of formulations has led to the growth of pharmaceutical segment at a CAGR of 7.56% over the forecast period.
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The regions analyzed for the market include North America, Europe, South America, Asia Pacific, and Middle East and Africa. Asia Pacific emerged as the leader in global market for flexible packaging with a market share of 41.19% of the total global volume in 2017. Growth of food and beverage sector as well as pharmaceutical sectors, especially in China and India is fuelling this demand. Well-developed food and beverages industry and huge demand for geriatric medicines is expected to boost the growth of the Europe region.
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Major players in the global flexible packaging market are Bemis Company Inc., Huhtamaki Group, Amcor Limited, BASF SE, Constantia Flexibles Group GmbH, Sealed Air Corporation, Coveris Holdings S.A., Sonoco Products Company, Berry Plastics Group, Inc., Mondi Group, Reynolds Group Holdings, Clondalkin Group Holdings B.V., Ampac Holdings LLC, Transcontinental Incand others.
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Nighttime and daytime photos but the same cloth. Right now I am liking the heart shape of the eastern redbud.
It has been a crazy week and next week my boys are on fall break. When I get back - let's talk about leaves again.
Such a beauty !
(looks like a four leave clover ;-) ...)
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I love how there is so much careful love & intent with each mark, stitch and colour you make SusanReplyDelete
The leaves have such gorgeous shapes and colours and the arrangement is both beautifully simple and simply beautiful.ReplyDelete
Oh aren't redbud leaves just beautiful. Heart-shaped and such lovely colors.
Ours get a leathery burgundy when first unrolling in the spring and last until early summer
where they turn this same lovely shad of chartreuse. Your depiction of them on fabric
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Public Health Emergency - Leading a Nation Prepared
Date: December 13, 2012
Company: Johns Hopkins University
Contract amount: This is a cooperative agreement for approximately $4.4 million over a 3-year period
About the contract: Under this cooperative agreement, Johns Hopkins University through the School of Medicine will coordinate clinical research with influenza diagnostic testing in emergency departments at four strategically selected medical centers: the University of California, Los Angeles (Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, Calif.), the University of Arizona (Maricopa Integrated Health System, Phoenix, Ariz., the University of Missouri Kansas City (Truman Medical Center, Kansas City Mo.), and the Johns Hopkins University (Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore Md.) All four medical departments are part of the EMERGEncy ID Net, a multi-center emergency department research network.
Johns Hopkins will also collaborate with an industry partner, Cepheid, to consolidate and aggregate GeneXpert flu test results from each of the participating emergency department sites, and sharing these data with CDC, public health partners, as well as the participating institutions and clinicians.
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Findings from this research can provide evidence for clinicians, healthcare facilities and public health officials in making decisions about using appropriate rapid influenza testing in emergency departments. Having the ability to access structured data in real-time and use other electronic tools can help healthcare providers and public health officials in controlling the spread of flu a pandemic or seasonal outbreak.
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I would venture to guess that most of you have experienced the feeling of being "in the zone" with your professional work. By that I mean feeling perfectly challenged so that you are engaged, just slightly pulled outside of your comfort zone, and also supported in your learning and risk-taking. Perhaps you felt this when you took a lead role in an area in which you were less familiar, or on a project that represented some newness or risk to you. You may have been "in the zone" after having intentionally learned and practiced a skill.
Professor and author Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi refers to this beautiful balance in the place between challenge and anxiety as being "in flow." When we can pinpoint for ourselves what kind of external and internal factors have allowed for us to be in "flow" in the past, we may be able to re-create this zone. I think I've done that, and I want to share with you what this zone is for me, as a preface to a four-part Human Capital Community of Practice blog series on brain-friendly workplaces.
Throughout my career, I have needed to understand why things worked, or didn't. It isn't comfortable—or self-respecting—to me to grab a popular teaching method or a culture change system (for example) and impose it onto learners or employees in good faith. There were times at meetings with colleagues that I know I was the oddball, having not yet started to use an approach that everyone else had incorporated into their work environments. But unless I knew that the approach was safe—that the intended and unintended outcomes of trying it out would not harm people consciously or subconsciously—I didn't feel it was in good conscience to use it.
Concern for organization and individual
Though at first blush it may seem at odds with the organizational effectiveness focus, humanness in the workplace has also been extremely important to me since I first set foot in the labor pool. The compelling central idea for me has been that workplaces and the people within them must treat each other with respect, first and foremost. With record high use of short-term disability leave and worker's compensation for anxiety and depression in the workplace, a sharp rise in workplace bullying, and mind-numbing malaise and disconnection, those in today's workforce need support.
I'd used brain science for decades in learning contexts, but when I began to integrate brain science with management theory, change theory, leadership theory, and organizational behavior, my head exploded (in a good way). Now, after working at the intersection of neuroscience, sociology, learning, and organization development for years, I can tell you with certainty that this is my "super-flow" zone. In this line of study and work, I get to apply research from connected fields of study to individuals to help them grow and change. I also am fortunate to take a whole system organization view to bring positive change to entire workplaces, which is very fulfilling. And even more broadly, from my little spot in the world, I feel that I am contributing useful ideas and practices to help the morphing shape of work and the workplace in a time when people and their organizations are struggling in many ways.
Introducing brain-friendliness
In The Brain-Friendly Workplace: Five Big Ideas From Neuroscience That Address Organizational Challenges (ASTD Press, 2014), I define brain-friendly workplaces as organizations where people are able to do their best thinking and produce great work in vibrant, healthy environments.
I'll lay out the ideas behind brain-friendliness here, and invite your comments in response. Brain-friendliness in the workplace combines tenets of good management, effective leadership, organizational health and wellbeing, positive and productive cultures, and humanity and respect. It is equal parts organization effectiveness and positive psychology. While it can start in one work group, it is ideal when the entire organizational culture has embraced the foundations of brain-friendliness and the principles are embedded at all levels.
Personal interaction habits
Though it is better to have some work groups practicing brain-friendliness than none at all, it can also be anxiety-producing to our brains to witness misalignments within an organization. Have you worked in a company where leadership touted a set of particular values, but in action, the rewards and performance management systems reinforced very different kinds of values and behaviors? This is internal contradiction, and it generates distrust. Distrust engenders disengagement. Disengagement kills productivity, and the whole organization's success metrics suffer.
Brain-friendly workplaces make practical use of the neuroscience that shows us how we make sense of information; how we interpret language; how we move toward goals; how we change and learn; and how to manage our own emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. Informed by the field of neuroleadership, brain-friendly workplaces also have a point of view about collaboration and decision-making that informs certain routines and procedures.
As we'll see in next week's blog post, brain-friendly workplaces share some characteristics with organizations that boast high employee engagement or high productivity. Stay tuned!


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Well, it's been a wonderful time lately in my house because I've gotten a number of games since my last video game update and they've all been great. So blame these games on my lack of updates…
Rock Band 2 – I'm pretty ticked off because the strum bar on my guitar never even worked correctly. I can only strum up, not down. Still, it's pretty cool to have a full band set and the DLC definitely blows away anything Guitar Hero has been offering on the Wii. I'm not a big fan of the in-game set list though. Too many wimpy pop/indie rock songs.
Assassin's Creed II – Got this one for Christmas as I've already mentioned and besides a few rounds of Rock Band every now and then, this is the only game I've been playing. I was a fan of the first game, but my 360 died before I got too far into the game. This game is more interesting in terms of playability and story and it is also slightly easier. Sounds good all around! I'm just sad because I think I'm nearing the end of the game. Not many conspirators left to assassinate!
Conan – Okay, I have to be honest, I haven't played a single level of this game yet. I'm having too much fun with everything else. I know this isn't considered a great game, but for $10, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to play as Conan the Barbarian. I played the demo, and it was actually kind of hard. I've read the entire game is, that doesn't bode well for me, but I'm sure I'll still get my ten bucks worth whenever I decided to sit down and play it.
InFamous – Really great game that's be at the top of many "best of 2009" lists. Even Game Informer listed as one of the Top 200 games of all time. I wanted to be evil in this game, but I keep doing nice things. The upgrade system is really fun and so is all the jumping and climbing you get to do. Some parts get frustrating (like having to protect an item/person) but it really is one of the better games I've played in a long time.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion – I was way over my head with The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind on the original Xbox and I'm way over my head with Oblivion. These games are just way too in-depth for someone with a short-attention span, but so far for the few hours that I've played it, I like it better than Morrowind. I doubt I'll ever beat this one though. There's just too much to do.


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The New Yorker, January 4, 1936 P. 9
Possibility that Riker's Island will smoke out the the World's Fair. Also chance that rats will swim across and chew up the exhibits. Just like New York to invite the world to a big party, then set up the tables next to the finest garbage dump in town. The old, old fires of Riker's Island go deep - keep as the old, old desires of the people to come to the Fair in search of a pretty blue ribbon to tie up their bonnie brown hair.


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I had to stop to have the camper brakes worked on again. First, I had to crawl through St Louis, Missouri's traffic.
The picture above is of Interstate 270 West. It took an hour to go 3 miles. I had hoped to be much further west than I am, but, at least the brakes appear to be fixed.


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Ada's railroad park has a long history in the community. Here's one of the earliest photos of the park. This is a colorized post card from the collection of Lee Crouse. According to Jimmy Wilson, the Civil War cannon is aimed toward Fort Sumter, South Carolina, where the war erupted on April 12, 1861.
According to Crouse: "The girl on the bench at the railroad park was Alice W. Gessaman-Cotner born May 23, 1910, and died in Bluffton May 18, 2004.
Notice a couple interesting features of this photo:
• The unknown photographer took the photo when a passenger train was at the depot
• It's quite likely that the four people - two men and a woman and girl - may be models, posed for the photo
• The trees in the photo are fairly mature. Based upon known birthday of the young girl, this photo from the mid-1910 era. So, the trees could have been planted around the time that the cannon was put in place.
• Notice the top of the building on the northside of the train. It is still there today.
• The depot appear identical in the photo as it does today.


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No one has all the answers, but honest talk about tough life issues is how to move toward solutions. The Verdant Health Commission and its partners are inviting community members to start the conversation Saturday, Nov. 9 at a free, two-part event at the Edmonds Center for the Arts. Community members are invited to participate in Part I, Part II or both.
Part I, 10-11 a.m. Nov. 9 (no pre-registration required)
There's strength in taking care of yourself, as attendees will hear from Seattle Seahawks legends Jordan Babineaux and Sean Locklear, who both played for the Seahawks from 2004-10. Their NFL careers proved them to be strong. But it doesn't matter how strong you are when life goes in an unexpected direction. Learn how both men went from tackling players on the field to tackling life's challenges.
Part II, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Nov 9 (pre-registration required)
When a loved one or peer seems to be spiraling into a dark place, we sometimes worry about suicide. But we aren't sure what to say about how to act. Learn how to help that person through LEARN Save Lives — a training developed by Forefront Suicide Prevention. The five simple LEARN steps empower individuals to help others move in the direction of hope and recovery. The event will be a suicide prevention community workshop.
Pre-registration is required for the Part II event and space is limited. You can register at this website.
The Edmonds Center for the Arts is located at 410 4th Ave. N. in Edmonds.


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Hi, sorry if this is a beginner question.
I have a MH202 with a couple of scenarios. I'm using H4651M2 and 067553 as CEN PLUS switches. All is working great so far, but I was wondering if its possible to have the LED stay on, on the H4651M2 and 067553, during the timed scenario ? Like it does stay on if they are used in "Light control" mode ?
And then turn off again, when the scenario ends, of course.
Thanks, any help would be appropriated.


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Here at Colorado Commercial & Residential Painting we like to do our part in helping the community.
Typically you can find us spreading joy via color across all walks of commercial painting interiors and exteriors. Some of our favorite projects fall into a different realm of helping, they fall into the category of helping out those who help or objects that help.
Commercial Painting for a Bigger Cause
Soon we will be working on a commercial painting project that covers the exterior of a medical center in Denver's Sloan's Lake area.
However, before we tackle that we lent a helping hand to a smaller project that also carries with it a good cause.
Commercial Painting at Denver Schools
The small project we recently completed was painting the emergency beacons on one of the residential campuses for the University of Colorado in Denver.
These beacons received a healthy coat of Sherwin-Williams commercial industrial finish. The aptly named "Safety Red" will hopefully serve a bigger cause in keeping students safe as the school season gives way to the summer and the following academic year.
Colorado Commercial for Safety
We love the idea that one of our small projects will go a long way in keeping students in Denver safe.
If your school is looking to spread some colorful safety reminders around campus please give us a call and we can learn about your ideas.
We look forward to working more with other universities from Denver to Boulder and doing our small part in promoting a safe place for all studies!


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The Noisettes Re-Open Raffles to the Masses
Last Thursday Raffles members club unveiled its' new refurbished look with an Autumnal party. Indie rock band the Noisettes performed a sterling set to a dance floor heaving with London's finest clientele.
Guests included Television personalities Jenni Falconer, Olivia Lee, Binky Felstead, Cheska Hull and Arielle Free.
What they drank: Veuve Clicquot Pear & Cinnamon fizz along with Rose Petal Martini cocktails
What they ate: Bite size Sausage & Mash, Chicken Satay and Butternut squash Risotto
What my spys tell me: Following her set Shingai Shoniwa let her hair down and unleashed her inner party animal dancing on tables and belting out her classics in the VIP room!


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The claws are out between Sofia Vergara and Julie Bowen, causing tension on the hit show.
It's the hilarious sitcom that has viewers in fits. But we can reveal that behind the scenes on Modern Family, a vicious catfight has broken out between two fan favourites – and it's no laughing matter. Sources have revealed to Woman's Day that Julie Bowen, 42, who plays mum Claire Dunphy, is fighting a no-holds-barred war of words with her Latina co-star Sofia Vergara, 40, who plays Claire's stepmum Gloria Pritchett.
In what appears to be a brutal clash of egos, our insider says what started as petty jealousy has escalated, and is threatening to tear the hit show apart as cast members take sides. "Things have become mega-bitchy between them," a set source tells us exclusively. "They really hate each other now. It started when they dissed each other on TV a while ago, but things have gotten worse and worse since then."
In October 2009, Sofia went on US talk show Chelsea Lately, hosted by Jennifer Aniston's best pal Chelsea Handler. She accused Chelsea of being "jealous of my accent", adding, "You're like Julie Roland, the girl that works in my series." Chelsea pointed out that Julie's last name was Bowen, but Sofia simply waved it off. When Julie paid a visit to the same show a month later, she was asked how Sofia could forget her name despite them working together for almost a year.
Julie retorted, "I have never had the chance to fly Sofia [in a] private [jet] and give her jewellery, so my name has no resonance for her." She also referred to Sofia, who was born in Colombia, as "Cholo Barbie" – "cholo" being a derogatory term for Hispanic. Their war of words has intensified behind the scenes. According to our source, Julie makes fun of Sofia with insulting "impressions on set while Sofia constantly snipes, even going so far as to call Julie's post-baby body 'disgusting'".
Read more about the pair's feud in this week's Woman's Day on sale Monday October 15, 2012.


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Zelcor Webinar
Cascading conversion of ligno-cellulosic recalcitrant residues: screening for efficient biocatalysts
Broadcast date: July 4, 2019
Time: 2:00 pm, CET
Speakers and Topics
Prof. Stephanie Baumberger (AgroParisTech/INRA):
Prof. Baumberger will address the general concept of the Zelcor project. Zelcor aims at demonstrating the feasibility of transforming lignin-rich recalcitrant side streams from lignocellulose biorefinery into high added-value biobased products. Its concept is to combine chemical and enzymatic catalysis with insects-based bioconversion, within a "zero waste"cascading approach. Her presentation will explain the concept and illustrate it through some results out of the project.
Dr. Thomas Lefebvre (Ynsect)
Dr. Lefebvre will talk about termite digestomes and bioreactors for conversion of ligno-cellulosic recalcitrant residues. Termites are the most efficient animals for the bioconversion of ligno-cellulosic materials including lignin-rich substrates. Their gut could be considered as tiny bioreactor where the digestion of recalcitrant plant residues is carried out by complex interactions between the termite and its diverse microbiota. Termite digestomes are now better and better described and figure as promising reservoirs of microorganisms and molecules that could be used for applications in biotechnology. The presentation will (i) give an overview of the termite gut microbiota; (ii) summarize the strategies involved in the degradation of lignocellulose in the digestive system and (iii) provide some feedbacks on the ongoing research activities related to the Zelcor project.
Prof. Tim Bugg (The University of Warwick)
Prof. Bugg will describe the enzyme screening for lignin conversion. His talk will describe the discovery of bacterial lignin-degrading enzymes, such as Dyp-type peroxidases and manganese superoxide dismutase from Sphingobacterium sp. He will discuss the screening of these enzymes for bioconversion of different types of lignins, and analysing the products of the enzymatic conversion.
A live Q&A session will follow the presentations, offering you a chance to pose questions to our expert panelists.
Registration closed. Please check Zelcor website for further webinars and events. Thank you.


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Okay, why dosn't this work. Does JS support booleans? And I doing something wrong?
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A generalization of the Allen–Cahn equation
Document typeArticle
Defense date2015-04-01
Rights accessOpen Access
Our aim in this paper is to study generalizations of the Allen–Cahn equation based on a modification of the Ginzburg–Landau free energy proposed in S. Torabi et al. (2009, A new phase-field model for strongly anisotropic systems. Proc. R. Soc. A, 465, 1337–1359). In particular, the free energy contains an additional term called Willmore regularization. We prove the existence, uniqueness and regularity of solutions, as well as the existence of the global attractor. Furthermore, we study the convergence to the Allen–Cahn equation, when the Willmore regularization goes to zero. We finally study the spatial behaviour of solutions in a semi-infinite cylinder, assuming that such solutions exist.
This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics following peer review. The version of record: Miranville, A.; Quintanilla, R. A generalization of the Allen–Cahn equation. "IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics", 01 Abril 2015, vol. 80, núm. 2, p. 410-430 is available online at:http://imamat.oxfordjournals.org/content/80/2/410.
CitationMiranville, A.; Quintanilla, R. A generalization of the Allen–Cahn equation. "IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics", 01 Abril 2015, vol. 80, núm. 2, p. 410-430.


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