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Vaccinations & Immunizations in West Haven, CT
The dependable board-certified doctors at DOCS Urgent Care in West Haven, CT are here to provide you with your vaccinations and immunizations. We strive to deliver top-notch care to the community at affordable prices. Our clinic accepts most health insurance policies and takes walk-ins daily.
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ROUTINE VACCINATIONS in West Haven, CT
Experts highly suggest that you get proper immunizations throughout your life. Babies and adolescents have a fixed schedule to follow. For children who don't get their immunizations on time, talk with your doctor about make-up vaccinations. Adults should receive boosters unless differently instructed by your doctor. Vaccinations can easily be given at the next appointment if missed.
- Hepatitis A (HEP A)
- Hepatitis B (HEP B)
- TD (Tetanus-Diphtheria)
- TDAP (Whooping Cough)
- Flu (Influenza)
- HPV (Human Papillomavirus)
- Shingles (Herpes Zoster)
- Pneumonia (Pneumococcal)
- Meningitis (Meningococcal)
- Hepatitis A (Adult)
- Hepatitis A (Pediatric)
- Hepatitis B (Adult)
- Hepatitis B (Pediatric)
- Japanese Encephalitis
- Menactra
- Zostavax (Shingles)
- Polio (IPV)
- Pneumococcal
- Rabies Vaccination
- Tetanus Diphtheria (TD)
- Tetanus Diphtheria Pertussis (TDAP)
- Typhoid
- Twinrix (Hep A & B Combination)
- Typhoid
- Varicella
- yellow Fever
- Gardasil
- Ceftriaxone
- Kenalog-10
- Phenergan
- Solu-Medrol
- Toradol
- Benadryl
Adolescent Vaccinations
Upon birth, you receive your initial immunization. At each check-up that follows, you are given immunizations depending on the vaccination schedule. The US Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Academy of Family Physicians support this schedule for the general public.
Required Vaccinations Include:
- TD (Tetanus-Diphtheria)
- Meningitis (Meningococcal)
- HPV (Human Papillomavirus)
- TDAP (Whooping Cough)
- FLU (Influenza)
- MMR (Measles, Mumps, and Rubella)
- Chickenpox (Varicella)
- Pneumonia (Pneumococcal)
- Hepatitis A (HEP A)
- Hepatitis B (HEP B)
Elderly Vaccinations
It's no secret that as we get older, our body doesn't work like it used to. This includes our immune system, which isn't as efficient at protecting us from diseases like the flu. If you're over 65 then your first line of defense is by maintaining your immunizations. Adequate immunization is crucial notably for the elderly. For a checkup and vaccinations, visit our clinic in West Haven, CT.
Common Vaccinations Include:
- Flu (Influenza)
- Shingles (Herpes Zoster)
- Pneumonia (Pneumococcal)
- TD (Tetanus-Diphtheria)
- TDAP (Whooping Cough)
- Hepatitis A (HEP A)
- Hepatitis B (HEP B)
- MMR (Measles, Mumps, and Rubella)
Travel Vaccinations
Various countries require certain immunizations you need before you're allowed to visit. As you're planning for your international trip, visit our West Haven, CT clinic to make sure you're well and your vaccinations are current.
Not sure where to start? Visit the CDC Health Travel Site for additional details. Also, if you still feel a little lost or have concerns, we're more than glad to help you as you prepare for your trip. Visit us during business hours at our West Haven, CT clinic.
Common Vaccinations Include:
- Yellow Fever
- Meningitis (Meningococcal)
- Japanese Encephalitis
- Typhoid
- Rabies
- Polio
- Hepatitis A (HEP A)
- Hepatitis B (HEP B)
- Hepatitis A/ Hepatitis B Combination
What to Know About Vaccinations & Immunizations
How Vaccinations Work
When your body is exposed to bacteria or a virus, it's seen as an invader and your immune system fights it off by creating antibodies that stay in your system. You might still come down with the illness but if you catch it again, your body is better able to defend itself.
Once you have the antibodies you need, you're unlikely to catch the disease again. After the exposure to a virus, your body forms the immunity. This is the purpose of vaccines. It gives individuals a weakened or dead form of a disease so their bodies can build immunity safely.
Measles is a good example of a vaccination that is given to children in order to help them build immunity. It is not nearly as dangerous as the actual virus. If you would like more information about how vaccines work, let us know when you come by our West Haven, CT office for your immunizations.
Why Are Vaccinations Important?
In our West Haven, CT office, our experts usually provide vaccines by injection but some can be administered orally. These are given efficiently, although it should be understood that vaccinations don't promise 100 percent immunity against diseases. Individuals who haven't been vaccinated can infect vaccinated individuals. However, the infection will not be as serious if they had been exposed without having been vaccinated.
It's proven that when the larger portion of the population gets vaccinated, it lowers instances of preventative diseases. Statistics show that more than 95 percent of illnesses have been decreased as a result of vaccinations.
It's also important to make sure you get the immunizations you need because these diseases might possibly be able to come back as time passes. Not only does it guard your family but also it benefits and gives protection to those who cannot get immunizations. This is called herd immunity. Visit our West Haven, CT clinic any day of the week to protect your health.
Do Adults Need VAccinations?
Adults unquestionably need to make sure their vaccinations are current to preserve their health. Vaccines aren't as effective over time. Some vaccines, like the flu shot, should be taken each year. Some like the tetanus booster need to be given every 10 years. Then there are diseases like shingles that affects adults later in life. Get your immunizations in our West Haven, CT office, today.
The Care When You Need It in West Haven
DOCS Urgent Care – West Haven, is part of the larger DOCS Urgent Care network. A network of professional Urgent Care clinics run by board-certified health care providers. Our goal is to give the highest quality care to our patients while providing affordable care.


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Stars of the past and present from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home will be enjoying their moment in the spotlight at the charity's Annual Reunion on Sunday 4 September.
Now in its 17th year, the highlight in the Home's calendar regularly attracts around 4,000 people to Battersea Park to celebrate the happy tales of the dogs who have found new owners thanks to the charity.
Families and their four-legged friends are invited along for the all day event which will include dog shows, competitions including the popular fancy dress contest, games for children and dogs and lots of stalls to browse.
For the first time the Annual Reunion will also host an advisory area for owners with dogs that suffer from canine osteoarthritis called 'A Walk in the Park'.
'A Walk in the Park', a new website focusing on OA set to launch in September, will be on hand to give pet owners an opportunity to discuss the condition with veterinary professionals and learn how to implement a controlled care programme to encourage an effective management of canine osteoarthritis.
The event, sponsored by Churchill Pet Insurance, is open to all dog lovers to come down and enjoy the day. Battersea Dogs & Cats Home flagship site is also just around the corner where visitors are welcome to meet the cats and dogs currently looking for new owners.
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home events manager Natalie Phillips said: "We're all really looking forward to this year's Annual Reunion. We really love seeing all our old friends come back to spend the day with us and it's great to make some new friends too.
"It's a great day of family fun and we hope lots of people will come down and get involved this year."
The event is free and doors are open from 11.30am until 4.30pm. For more information log onto www.battersea.org.uk
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German nongovernmental organizations operating in Russia are facing bureaucratic troubles because their foreign staff is now required to obtain work permits.
In 2006, Germany reached an agreement with Russia to allow the heads of NGOs to perform their duties in the country without a work permit.
The NGOs became aware of the new permit requirement only when some of them applied for new visas this summer, said Jens Siegert, who heads the Moscow office of the BЪll Foundation, a German pro-democracy group.
Some German NGO workers may be forced to leave the country because they won't get work permits before their current visas expire, said Siegert, whose own visa expires in December.
Work permits for foreigners from outside the Commonwealth of Independent States typically take three months to obtain from the Federal Migration Service.
Another NGO director who might have to leave is Marcus Ehm of the Hanns-Seidel Foundation, Siegert said.
Ehm was on an official visit to Germany this week, and a spokesman for the Bavaria-based organization said by telephone from Munich that he would not comment on the issue.
The German Embassy also declined to comment. A spokeswoman merely said, "Talks are ongoing with relevant authorities."
The heads of other foreign NGOs have been required to obtain work permits since 2006. At that time, the Kremlin was imposing stricter rules for foreign NGOs, and Berlin insisted that an exception be made.
The agreement stipulated that German nationals who head their NGO's office can get their work visas without work permits. German NGOs are still not required to obtain work permit quotas.
In Moscow, there are currently six German NGOs affiliated with political parties.
The Konrad-Adenauer Foundation belongs to Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, while the Hanns-Seidel Foundation is from her Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union.
The Free Democrats run the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, while the Social Democrats have the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. The BЪll foundation belongs to the Green party, and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation is run by the Left Party.
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Hudson's Bay Point Blankets
I have been on the lookout for the perfect Hudson's Bay Point blanket for some time now. I first saw one in an amazingly unique furniture and art boutique. It was nestled around a perfectly rustic, distressed leather chair next to an ashtray fashioned out of a real deer's hoof and a framed artistic display of peacock feathers. I loved everything in that store, but especially that vintage wool blanket.
A Hudson's Bay point blanket, AKA Hudson Bay blanket, is an old-school style wool blanket made by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in Canada since the 1800's. Fur trappers brought these as one of the most coveted items to trade with the Native tribes in exchange for furs (yes, just like you saw in The Revenant). Somehow, they company and style of blankets are still around and going strong. They are sold daily on their website, although they are most definitely now a luxury item, as they sell new for about $350 or more. Vintage blankets can be found everywhere from flea markets and Etsy sellers to fancy vintage boutiques across the web from about $75 - $400, depending.
They are called point blankets because of little black lines sewn into the wool that indicate the finished overall size of a blanket and allow a blanket's size to be easily determined while remaining folded.
The traditional blanket was striped with green red yellow and black, since those dyes were easy to obtain at the time. This four-color version is still awesome today, and styled perfectly with this boho-rustic decor as seen on www.honestlywtf.com.
For my own home, I prefer slighted more muted colors. I would probably end up getting the grey version you see below, which has been added to the repertoire since those first fur-trapping days.
Photo as seen on Desiretodecorate.com
If neither of those tickle your fancy, there's plenty more colors and styles to choose from
OH! Annnnnnnd you can even find coats with the same fabric and patterns. In the 1800's they were hand-made from blankets into large coats and are still being made into all kinds of amazing outerwear. You can find vintage coats for men and women with the classic four color stripe at basically all of your favorite online vintage retailers, like this 1960's beauty seen on Etsy.


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What you'll learn Master the essential Angular concepts Learn all about Template-Driven Forms…
Angular,Eduonix - Free Online Courses,Tech and Progrmming
A small app or website is easy to handle, major problem arises when the app or website gets bigger and more complex. As more features are added to the website, the codes get more and more complex.
However, you cannot keep rewriting the entire codes, which is why you need to add, modify, tweak and even remove some bits and pieces of codes. But what if this bits and pieces of coding break your website? This is where testing plays an important part on your growing website.
Testing is the fine line that ensures that the code you write or add plays well with the code already present. And in case they don't, testing will let you know that the codes don't work well together and may require you making some changes.
While Java is one of the most popular languages to use for testing, Angular is rising up to the challenge as well. While writing manual codes are good when the program you are testing is is small, writing more and more codes for bigger cases isn't easy and is definitely time consuming. So, test-driven development allows you to build a codebase that can conduct automatic testing for you.
Angular Testing further simplifies the process of testing by making it even easier. Using TypeScript, Angular offers a much richer development ecosystem. It allows an environment for testing multiple scenarios, as well as simulation of server-side requests and abstraction of the Document Object Model (DOM).
So, if you want to stop having to worry about testing and your app breaking, then we've got the course for you! In this course, we will take a look the Angular Test-Driven Development environment and how you can use it make your developing life easier.
The course uses a practical approach with detailed theory that backs it up to ensure you get a holistic learning experience. The course will cover a number of different segments including the different testing components, forms, tests, and so on before moving on to the useful libraries that significantly lower the number of hours you set up designing the environment.
At the end of this course, you will no longer have to worry about having to test your apps and website, while being able to test multiple scenarios to build a faster and a better app.
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Imperial Classic Pomade
Imperial Classic Pomade is a thick water soluble pomade with heavy molding power. With so many pomades on the market today, the question always comes up, "What is so different about THIS pomade aside from the scent and the packaging?". To the pomade connoisseur the answer is, "a lot"... Read the full review here


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Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) is a worldwide spiritual organization founded by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1920 and legally incorporated as a non-profit religious organization in 1935, to serve as Yogananda's instrument for the preservation and worldwide dissemination of his writings and teachings, including Kriya Yoga. Yogananda wrote in God Talks With Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita that the science of Kriya Yoga was given to Manu, the original Adam, and through him to Janaka and other royal sages.
Self-Realization Fellowship continues to disseminate Paramahansa Yogananda's teachings following his stated Aims and Ideals. SRF publishes Yogananda teachings of home-study lessons, writings including Autobiography of a Yogi, lectures, and recorded talks; oversees temples, retreats, meditation centers, and monastic communities bearing the name Self-Realization Order. It also coordinates the Worldwide Prayer Circle, which it describes as a network of groups and individuals who pray for those in need of physical, mental, or spiritual aid, and who also pray for world peace and harmony.
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Source: Geophysical Research Letters
In recent years, the breakdown of the "polar vortex" has often made the evening news, to explain unusually cold snaps over North America. The vortex is a climatological feature of the atmospheric circulation that is associated with the temperature gradient, or difference, between the tropics (low latitudes) and the pole (high latitudes): in winter, when this temperature difference is largest, it makes for a strong mid-latitude jet, of winds blowing west to east, which corral the cold air near the pole.
Warming of the atmosphere can affect the jet in two contrasting ways, hence the reference to a "tug-of-war". As the tropics warm and expand, they push the jet poleward. But because the Arctic is warming more than the rest of the hemisphere, a phenomenon known as "Arctic amplification", the equator-to-pole temperature difference is overall reduced, weakening the jet.
Up until now, modelling studies were marred by a lack in consistency, both in terms of their experimental design and the responses identified. Peings et al. [2019] explore an important factor resolving this lack of consistency, which typically results in the "tug-of-war": the polar stratosphere. With this key component appropriately represented in a climate model, they find that in fact, in wintertime, upper tropospheric tropical warming and Arctic amplification do not oppose each other, but rather, concur to weaken the jet.
Citation: Peings, Y., Cattiaux, J., & Magnusdottir, G. [2019]. The polar stratosphere as an arbiter of the projected tropical versus polar tug of war. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 9261– 9270. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082463
—Alessandra Giannini, Editor, Geophysical Research Letters
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Why Do We Need Wine Bottle Racks?
There are wine lovers all over the world, and the number is growing every day. This beverage is one of the very few alcoholic drinks that when had in moderation actually makes you healthy and better looking. There are sufficient reports and studies which show that people in France (the country where wine is drank as a tradition every day with meals) have negligible cholesterol and look at least ten years younger that their actual age.
So, wine lovers take advantage of this and enjoy a glass of wine anytime you feel you are in the mood for it. However, in order to be able to enjoy wine when you choose, you need to be able to store it correctly. Wine should not be stored upright; rather it should be kept in a reclined position over a wine bottle rack. This will keep it 'healthy' and ready to age to as long as you would like it.
Though the aging period of wine has definitely come down from a few decades long (there are wines which needed to be aged some 25 years before becoming mature enough to be consumed) to only a few years, people still find the wine bottle rack a very important part of their homes. This is because you cannot store a wine bottle anywhere else than on a wine bottle rack.
Why a Unique Wine Rack is a Must-Have
Wine lovers know that wine should not be stored in or on the refrigerator as both spoil its taste and aging time. The one over the fridge can get 'spoiled' by the high temperature in the room, and the one in the fridge, will stop aging because of the low temperature it is exposed to.
Wine bottle racks come in great variety of shapes and materials. Some of them are just ordinary, meant to fulfill the purpose they have been made for. These can be hidden in low cabinets, closets, or in the basement. You will also find some exquisite wine bottle racks and these can be placed on tabletops, or hung on the wall to give a good effect. These types of wine bottle racks will tremendously add to the internal décor of your home, because it does not only show your ingenuity to showcase your wine, it also showcases the wine itself.
Depending upon your taste, your choice of storage space, and number of bottles you want to store, wine bottle racks can be of wood, iron, steel, chrome and so on. You have a great choice to enjoy your wine and show it off too with the help of these lovely wine bottle racks.


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Researchers claim that people who constantly point out grammar mistakes are jerks
Do you have friends who are super-sensitive to typo or grammatical errors online? According to a new research from the University of Michigan titled "If You're House Is Still Available, Send Me an Email," that was published earlier this month indicates that people who constantly get bothered by grammatical errors online have "less agreeable" personalities than those who just let them pass. In other words, these people are more likely judging you for your mistakes than everyone else.
In the study carried out by the researchers, 83 participants were asked to read email responses to an ad for a housemate with typos and judge the person who'd written the email based on their perceived intelligence, friendliness, and other attributes, such as how good they would be as housemates. The participants were also asked at the end of the experiment whether or not they had spotted any grammatical errors or typos in the emails, and, if so, how much it had bothered them.
Finally, they were asked to evaluate the writer's personality and level of intelligence, and then evaluate themselves on the 5 Big Personality Traits: extraversion, agreeability, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness. In all likelihood, grammar police tend to be disagreeable, close-minded, and painstaking introverts.
"This is the first study to show that the personality traits of listeners/readers have an effect on the interpretation of language," said lead researcher Julie Boland from the University of Michigan. "In this experiment, we examined the social judgments that readers made about the writers."
On a whole, everybody rated the fictional housemate applicants with typos and grammatical errors in their emails as worse than those with perfect spelling and grammar. But there were absolutely certain personality types that judged the typo-riddled applicants more harshly.
The researchers who assessed the participants based on their subjects, age, and socio-economic status, came to some conclusions. They write:
Both typos and grammos had a negative impact on the evaluation scale. This negative impact was not modulated by age, education, electronic communication frequency, or pleasure reading time. In contrast, personality traits did modulate assessments, and did so in distinct ways for grammos and typos.
For example, the team reported that extroverts were more likely to wave off spelling and grammar errors, whereas introverts were more likely to judge the applicants negatively because of them.
People tested as being more careful but less open were more sensitive to typos, while those with less agreeable personalities got more upset by grammatical errors. "Perhaps because less agreeable people are less tolerant of deviations from convention," the researchers write.
The research has been published in PLOS One.


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the difference between Bridged Ethernet and PPP?
PPP and Bridged Ethernet are both protocols or agreed upon
method of communication between points or networks.
PPP or point-to-point protocol, is used to create a virtual circuit between two
computers or routers and information is routed between the two
computers or networks.
Bridging is used to connect two networks together to act
as if they are both on the same local network.
PacInfo subscribers can use either ppp or bridged
ethernet, with ppp as the preferred protocol since it
is more efficient. PPP also allows you to use more security
features in the router.
If you are still unsure, you can contact a PacInfo
representative at 541.344.5006.
do I transfer my Qwest® DSL ISP to PacInfo?
If you have MSN use the Qwest DSL Online Ordering
Tool to switch your DSL ISP service. Go to the
bottom of the page and click on the button labeled
"Change Existing Service". You will
be directed through several steps to change your
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Sermon: What is happiness?
Sermon delivered on the last day of 2017.
In the Name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, One God. Amen.
Happy upcoming New Year!
There is a tradition, as the last seconds of the old year are ticking down, to make a wish, as if asking the unknown and mysterious future to grant our wishes, and expecting from the coming year something that we desire the most.
This is a trait of human beings – we never stop dreaming, wishing, hoping. New Year is here again. And what do we wish everyone? What do we hope for?
We wish, we ask, we hope for happiness in our own life. But what does happiness mean? What does being happy mean? When are we truly and finally happy?
Humanity has existed on earth for a long time now. We have studied ourselves extensively. We know a lot about ourselves. And we know that happiness can't be attached to one thing, especially one external thing, like money, health, success, career.
All these things might bring only external well-being. Yet we spend most of our time tending to these external, physical matters, hoping that if we succeed in them, then we'll be happy.
And yes, we can achieve some happiness with the external well-being. But this happiness is never complete, never satisfies, no matter how hard we try, and no matter what we tell ourselves.
Yes, money can bring happiness, but it also brings hardships because the more we have, the more we desire. Physical health can bring happiness, but no matter how healthy we are, we still die. Success can bring happiness, but it also comes with fear, fear of never-ending keeping up.
And the greater this external happiness is, the more fragile it is, the more we are afraid to lose it. Maybe that's why we wish a new happiness for the New Year because the old happiness was not fully achieved.
Year in and year out we hope and wish that the happiness we desired in the passing year will finally come to us in the new year.
Just a few weeks ago we read a parable about a rich fool, who had a great harvest. Harvest so big that he had to take down his old barns and build new, bigger barns. After doing so, he told himself – my life is set, I am finally happy, this is the life, I have enough harvest to last me a lifetime. I can relax now, party, drink and have a good time.
Yes, he was rich and he was happy. But he was a fool because he died the very night he finished building his new barns. By now it's a well established fact that no matter what we build here, no matter how great our wealth is, all of it will be for nothing once we die.
This knowledge, this realization that there is an end to everything, poisons our little, limited happiness that we have.
Maybe that's why, when the clock is ticking down towards the New Year, people begin making noise, shouting and filling the world with crazy uproar. And all of it because we are afraid to be in silence and solitude.
We are scared because we know that just as the clock is ticking down, so is our life, and we can't do anything about it. A mighty and knowledgeable race – the human beings, but our own helplessness scares us more than we would like to admit.
These are the two poles of our consciousness – fear and happiness, horror and dreaming. The new happiness that we dream and hope for each New Year is the happiness that we will conquer our fears, happiness that will free us from horror.
But happiness never comes from noise and crazy shouting and partying on the New Year's Eve, and definitely not from wishing and dreaming. Happiness comes only from within, from deep inside our soul.
It comes when we courageously look at our life, removing the veils of lies, and self-deception, and self-conceit, when we look straight into the face of fear, when we learn that authentic and undying happiness does exist, and it lies in the encounter with truth and love, with something that we have forever called God.
As the Evangelist John says, "In Him was life, and the life was the light of men" (John 1:4). He is referring to Christ of course. Christ is life, and in this life there is only light. And darkness can't overcome this light, darkness can't comprehend, nor fill the light.
"And your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you," (John 16:22) proclaims St John again. We dream and wish exactly for this sort of joy and happiness, the one that can't be taken away from us.
God created us for happiness. He didn't create us for pain and suffering, that's the choice we make, we choose pain and suffering over happiness.
When we kept choosing the wrong kind of happiness, God came and restored us back to the right happiness. Someone had to suffer for everyone else to be happy. Christ became man, suffered and died so that we may be happy.
He doesn't force happiness upon us, it's still our choice, but now, at least, we have a choice.
On this last day of 2017 I wish you to find true happiness in our Lord Jesus Christ. "Seek and you will find" (Matthew 7:7). May we all find it this year, or at least figure out where to look for it.
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Fish Crow Photo Gallery
Entirely black bird with a heavy bill and sturdy legs. Very slightly smaller than an American Crow.© Nathan Dubrow | Macaulay LibraryMassachusetts, June 11, 2016
Often seen walking or skip-hopping along the ground while foraging.© Mike Schanbacher | Macaulay LibraryMassachusetts, December 24, 2013
When calling from the ground, it often leans forward and fluffs up its neck feathers.© Timothy Barksdale | Macaulay LibraryNorth Carolina, January 01, 1994Not all videos have sound
In addition to eating fish and other plant and animal foods, they frequently raid nests, eating eggs and nestlings of colonial nesting waterbirds, terns, and gulls.© S. K. Jones | Macaulay LibraryTennessee, May 25, 2017
Often walks along the ground. A unique wing tag and leg bands mark this individual, which allows researchers to track and monitor its behavior.© Jay McGowan | Macaulay LibraryNew York, December 11, 2015Not all videos have sound
Found along the coast and inland along major freshwater rivers and lakes. They use a wide variety of habitats often near water, including towns and cities near parks, docks, and landfills.© Tristan Lowery | Macaulay LibraryNew York, April 09, 2017
Often found eating food scraps at garbage or compost piles. This individual has a wing tag and leg bands to help researchers monitor its behavior.© Jay McGowan | Macaulay LibraryNew York, December 11, 2015Not all videos have sound
Similar to American Crows, it flies with rowing wingbeats, but note longer tail.© Timothy Barksdale | Macaulay LibraryArkansas, April 08, 2005Not all videos have sound
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Are you a professional working in visual art, interactive design, science communication, digital storytelling, software engineering, data visualisation or games design?
Do you want to push the boundaries of your practice and develop an innovative project on one of the world's largest interactive display spaces?
If answered 'yes' to the above – it is time to start your application for The Cube's 2018 Artist in Residence program!
Located within QUT's Science and Engineering Centre, The Cube is a hub for scientific and digital exploration, and is one of the world's largest interactive learning and display spaces.
Applicants are invited to submit project proposals for an innovative digital project and to utilise The Cube's technology and opportunities as a dedicated large-scale interactive environment.
Working from The Cube Studio, this immersive program aims to provide a unique professional development opportunity for the resident to design, develop and deliver a new work that pushes the boundaries of their practice.
Now in its fifth year, The Cube's Artist in Residence Program aims to generate transdisciplinary dialogue between creative practice, technology, and science.
In 2017, multimedia artist Georgie Pinn developed an immersive, interactive project that used facial tracking technology, animation and sound to explore notions of empathy and shared identity. The installation was a virtual mirror, investigating myopic self-obsessed tendencies and used a new emotive language that connected a diverse group of people. View Georgie's video of Echo.
Well regarded in her field, artist and programmer Lauren McCarthy explored the potential of The Cube as a "smart social environment" and the areas around The Cube were transformed into "smart social environments". The Changing Room used custom software and analysed the data collected through The Cube's built-in sensors to display social instructions based on the needs of those in the areas surrounding the wall. View Lauren's video of The Changing Room.
Read more about our past Artist In Residents in Cube Chat.
If you are interested in pushing the boundaries of your practice and developing an innovative digital project at The Cube, be sure to submit an EOI before applications close on Friday 1 June 2018.
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Cosplay Closet Essentials: What's Old Is New Again
So, are you interested in cosplay? Want to start out, but not sure how? You ever see a cosplayer with an amazing cosplay and wonder how much it cost to make or how it was made? I'm sure you're often left wondering how many countless hours were spent on the stunningly detailed costumes making their way through the con crowds. And if you haven't cosplayed before and don't know any cosplayers, you might be left with the impression that it takes a lot of time, money, and skill to cosplay. Then again, when a lot of people think "cosplay" they think of the elaborate, larger-than-life cosplays that more often than not do take a lot of time, money, and skill.
What if I told you that anybody could cosplay, regardless of tight budgets or non-existent sewing skills? Sounds crazy, right?
Okay, so I'll admit, not every cosplay can be done on the cheap with little to no garment/prop construction experience. That doesn't mean that you can't cosplay without pouring over dozens of Pinterest and YouTube tutorials and practically become a costume designer slash engineer slash rocket scientist. You just have to think outside the box. Outside the fabric retailers, outside the department stores, outside the home improvement warehouse. Think bigger, but smaller.
Think thrift.
That's right, for my first installment of this "reboot" of the Cosplay Closet Essentials series (because everything's getting rebooted these days, and who am I to fight the trend?), the cosplay essential I'm going to discuss is thrifting.
"But AJ, how can someone's old crap turn into a badass cosplay?" Well, I'll tell you how. By opening your eyes–and your mind–to the potential that each thrift store or yard sale piece has. See that old denim jacket? I bet if you gave it just a little bit of thought you could easily come up with half a dozen cosplays it would work with. Okay, so the coat might not "fit" the character's look 100%…so what? Can you pair it up with a pair of old jeans, some ratty gloves with the fingers cut off, a flannel shirt, and some used combat boots and be recognizable as John Bender from The Breakfast Club? You sure can. Bam. Cosplay on the cheap.
With thrifting and yard sales, you can find great cosplay pieces for nearly literally pennies on the dollar. You might not get all the parts you want at once, and it may take some digging through disorganized stacks and miscellaneous tchotchkes, but you can do it.
Thrifting is also an excellent way to ease into cosplaying. You don't have to build a seven-foot suit of armor for your first cosplay. Start slow if you have to, and learn as you go. For my first cosplay, I wasn't hip to thrifting; I purchased all of my stuff brand spanking new, and probably spent two or three times as much on clothing as I would have if I had just gone to any of the numerous thrift stores in my area and done some down and dirty hunting. Heck, probably more than three times as much. Granted, the wig I bought (I honestly have like zero hairstyling skills) was kind of expensive for as simple as my cosplay was, but even with no sewing experience and no knowledge of props I made a recognizable cosplay–and had a lot of fun with it!
Look! I made my first con buddy! Here I am as River Song. No, the jacket's not exactly the same as the one she wore in "The Impossible Astronaut" episode of Doctor Who. No, I don't have the gun belt or the holster or, er, the gun. But my buddy instantly knew which character I was cosplaying. Heck, even a little eight-year-old recognized me! It was a great first cosplaying experience, and I didn't have to learn how to sew or build anything to do it.
Even if you already have some sewing or building/fabrication experience, you can still use thrifting to your cosplay advantage. Old bridesmaids' dresses, for example, can be deconstructed or harvested for fabric and remade into just what you were looking for. All it takes is looking at the thrift or yard sale goods through different eyes. Try to see what that piece of clothing, that knickknack, that old busted-up piece of furniture could potentially become, not the sad remnant of what it once was.
So there you have it: thrifting can definitely be considered a cosplay essential, even if you don't see it at first. Seek out that diamond in the rough, and have fun polishing it into a shining cosplay.
What cosplay essential would you like to see featured next? Leave a comment or throw us a tweet and let us know what cosplay material, skill, technique, etc. you'd liked to hear more about. I'll do my best to give real-life reviews and experiences with these "essentials," and if I don't personally know (because there's a lot I admittedly don't know), I'll hunt down a more experienced cosplayer who can shed some light on the need-to-knows.


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Beginning writers are always told about how important peer review, workshopping, and getting feedback is to their development. The emphasis on feedback happens for a reason–writing is a social act, and it is in understanding how it is received that we begin to see the patterns that allow us to gain better control over both the quality and exact implications of our messages. This is true whether you are engaged in creative writing, journalism, or research and practical writing.
What creative types have to deal with that sets us apart is simple: There are no clean templates or style guides for us. We can learn about genre, technique, and even story structure, but the exact shape of our plot has to be structured around the psychological reality of our characters. This magnifies the importance of audience feedback, because mere style is not enough to make sure we are understood. Narrative itself is rarely enough, and rhetoric, while it serves the needs of a story, is insufficient to make it whole.
Workshopping lets us see the balance of these elements, and to hear whether or not they are achieving the desired result. At the same time, though, feedback from an audience with little interest or investment in a particular style, technique, or topic limits the range of productive feedback we can receive. Consider seeking feedback in another form, either through a new workshop or through other kinds of channels, if you're working with any of the following:
- A workshop audience that is plainly uninterested in the genre or topic.
- One whose background readings and/or writing experience makes them ill-suited to understand the techniques you favor.
- A group of people who have reviewed this same piece in more than one previous incarnation.
- Readers who do not reflect the target audience for your piece.
Local writing groups, online meeting spaces, and even blogging platforms like Tumblr can provide you with the keys to find your next workshop space, and programs like the Prague Summer Program for Writers exist to bring writers into new communities, where their work can connect with more diverse audiences, allowing them the experience of a wider reading. This, in turn, helps build up your own confidence in your judgment as it informs your base of knowledge about the way your work will be viewed by different kinds of people.


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- From: Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN <firstname.lastname@example.com>
- Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 16:18:32 +0100
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Brian McBride wrote: > > [a nice digest of the spec] > > Can someone point out where m&s suggets or implies > that a reified statement represents a stating? I guess M&S *suggests* more that it *implies*, that is probably why we had those long discussions, and why I'm no more sure which option I prefer... I will try to point it out, and then do critics 1. the notion of stating is a useful notion, and M&S does not mention it at all, like the authors have "forgotten" it. Since the concepts of reified statement/stating are quite near, it is easy to interpret that the authors... would have written "stating" if they had made the distinction in the first place. 2. it is very easy to write a piece of RDF with two reified statements being identical, and M&S does *not* make it illegal. Since a statement is unique, it looks like a bug in the model, unless reified statements are in fact statings. 3. the example for reification (namely "Ralph says that Ora was the creator of the page") tastes just like a stating. One would like to add the date when Ralph said that, hence the problem raised by Jonas Liljegren : if I also want to state that "Pierre-Antoine said that Ora was the creator of the page, at another date", then which date applies to which stater ? st1: [Ora, creator, page] st2: [st1, saidBy, Ralph] st3: [st1, saidAt, 01/12/99] st4: [st1, saidBy, Pierre-Antoine] st5: [st1, saidAt, 01/12/00] Those are the main reasons I had to think that reified statements were in fact statings. Now, here are critics for each argument, who lead me to think maybe I was wrong : about 1. That argument is not the stronger one... Actually, I would rather stick to the spec as long as I can... So, what about 2. and 3. ? :) about 2. It is actually very easy to write a piece of RDF where any resource is duplicated, not only statements. And it is not considered a bug... although we might have troubles handling it ! Example : <rdf:Description about="http://www.w3.org/"> <as:contentQuality> Excellent </as:contentQuality> </rdf:Description> <rdf:Description about="urn:WWWConsortium"> <as:homepage> <rdf:Description id="localID"/> </as:homepage> </rdf:Description> <rdf:Descritpion about="mypage.html"> <as:pointsTo rdf:resource="#localID"/> </rdf:Description> where #localID and http://www.w3.org/ are in fact the same thing. about 3. I already submitted the idea below on the list, but I will go further : the problem raised by Jonas is not a problem ! If we do consider that the reified statement is really a statement rather than a stating, then the date should not be a property of st1, but rather of st2 and st4 ! st1: [Ora, creator, page] st2: [st1, saidBy, Ralph] st3: [st2, at, 01/12/99] st4: [st1, saidBy, Pierre-Antoine] st5: [st4, at, 01/12/00] The statements st2 and st4 are actually statings, not because *every* reified statement be a stating, but because of the particular meaning of their predicate "saidBy". Here is my belief about the statement/stating polemics just now. If I forgot some important point in the pro-stating list... let me know ! Pierre-Antoine -- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. (Bill Watterson -- Calvin & Hobbes)
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Trump has scrapped a key nuclear arms treaty with Russia and The Fifth Columns Justin King explained why it was a gift to Vladimir Putin.
"To understand how much of a gift, you have to understand what the treaty really was," he stated. "Putin has indicated for the last decade that he wanted out of this treaty and Trump just opened the door for him."
The treaty was negotiated back in 1987. It banned short and intermediate-range missiles that were land-based.
"Our intermediate-range missiles are seaborne. They're in sibs or they're launched from the sky. The Soviet Union then and Russia today don't have that kind of infrastructure," King said. "So we don't need land-based missiles. We have no use for them whatsoever. Russia does, because as NATO expands and picks up more and more former Warsaw Pact countries, their opposition gets closer and closer to their borders."
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"This was a mistake on a grand scale and it's going to have repercussions for a very, very long time," King said.


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In its 2008 report entitled "Fighting Poverty: Utilizing Community Media in a Digital Age," the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters features a piece by Bruce Girard, a community based media expert. His essay, "Community Radio, New Technologies and Policy," lays out a brief history of community radio in relation to its growth over time thanks to both technological and policy based advancements. He laments the fact, however, that at the time of publishing, community radio stations across the globe were not doing enough to take advantage of significant innovation and interest within the ICT (information communication technology) world. The essay concludes with a number of recommended policies that will help community radio grow and help surrounding communities flourish via technology.
When reading this essay in the context of Robert Downing's "Radical Media: Rebellious Communications and Social Movements," it's important to first understand whether or not Downing would consider Girard's examples of community radio as "radical." Downing notes in chapter four that while community may have a broad range of definitions (he even cites local radio stations' use of "community"), when it comes to radical media, the term "community" works to exclude the mainstream media.
As such, it's a bit fuzzy on where Downing would place Girard's radio stations on the spectrum of radical to mainstream. On the one hand, Girard never calls his stations out as working to exclude main stream media. On the other, one of his first examples of a policy which favors community radio is that of saving the lowest 20% of the FM radio dial for non-commercial stations. He notes that if that were not the case, "the left side of the dial would have sounded pretty much like the right."
But what of community radio as a contributor to the implementation of a democratic society amongst its listening locales? In his review of radical activist media in relation to democracy, Downing calls in C. B. Macpherson's concept of "developmental power." He cites Macpherson's assertion that the public has the opportunity to improve social life via cooperation, and specifically calls out radical media's ability to expand the range of information, reflection, and exchange from the hegemonic limits of mainstream media discourse.
Fitting, then, that Girard starts his essay by telling of Malian broadcasters using the Internet to research answers to listeners' questions. Later, he calls out a Sri Lankan station building an Internet café to share its connection with the community. And finally, he proposes that community radio stations are in a position to use their Internet connectivity to act as an information "multiplier," effectively sharing their access to knowledge with the community. In this role, thus, community radio stations are certainly living up to Downing and Macphersons' visions of democratic and radical media.
Personally, I found Girard's tales of stations sharing their Internet connectivity with the community strikingly brilliant. I admit, I always scoffed at the praise that Internet radio stations garnered, particularly in poor and rural communities. After all, what good is Internet radio if your audience is not connected to the Internet. This narrow criticism, however, was rather ignorant. This isn't just about Internet radio opening channels to constituents—it's about opening channels for them. Who better to start a two way dialogue or discourse about a community than those who can both broadcast and connect?
After his review of Macpherson, Downing calls in Benjamin Barber's definition of a "strong democracy." He notes that "'Strong democratic talk' requires listening as well as uttering," and points out that Barber sees media as a channel (rather than an institution) closely tied to a locality. Girard's vision of community radio is exactly that: not simply an institution preaching or educating, but of a channel bringing knowledge to and from a locality.


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