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As a Republican, I'm embarrassed by John Kelly's defense of Trump
General Kelly crossed the line
I'm a registered Republican voter who is disgusted by General John Kelly defending Donald Trump's rude, ignorant remarks about the soldiers killed in the Niger operation.
Kelly turned his back on the military he served so well by attacking any who questioned the president's actions as being unpatriotic. He sought to elevate those who serve (including himself) as being superior to the rest of Americans. And he showed that there is no lie that Trump can say that won't be rigorously promoted as gospel truth by this administration's members.
Michael A. Clark,
Why should we believe Trump?
In response to "What happened to benefit of the doubt?" (Oct. 24 Forum):
Benefit of the doubt? One earns this in either of two ways. One is to be an unknown entity so that the alleged transgression may be an anomaly. The other is to have demonstrated by proven character and deed to be unlikely to have intended the slight.
In the case of the president, he lies constantly, and about virtually anything. He has furthermore shown a penchant for belittling anyone who has a critical comment. He has specifically attacked Gold Star families, military POW, people of color, and has shown disregard for women in general. There is nothing in his character or actions to lead anyone to believe that his accounting is the one we should believe.
George Anderson, Charlotte
Thank you for telling their stories
In response "'We are heartbroken.' The stories of Charlotte's 73 homicide victims this year." (Oct. 21 charlotteobserver.com):
Thank you for the story featuring each of the people murdered in Charlotte this year. In a world of "thoughts and prayers" for mass shooting victims and "you knew what you signed up for," it was one of the most human things I've seen lately. The story put before the reader the dignity of each of those people and how they were important to someone who feels their loss greatly.
Laura Williams-Tracy, Charlotte
GOP, act like real conservatives
I am conservative. The Republican Party and our Republican representatives are not. I was an actuary by profession, and I learned to follow these sound, conservative principles:
Take care of what you have, improve it where you can, and build on it for the future. Weigh potential rewards against potential risks. Consider ways to reduce risks. Listen to experts. Pay attention to data and facts, especially if they challenge preconceived notions. Act in the short term to increase the likelihood of achieving your long term goals. Build in a margin for error; you will need it because stuff happens all the time.
Republicans no longer follow these strategies, actions, or principles. They are taking unnecessary risks with the environment, health care, education, tax reform, election integrity, and nuclear war.
John Muehl, Asheville
I can't avoid Confederate statue
In response to "Monuments are no different than books" (Oct. 24 Forum):
When I drive down Innes Street past the Confederate monument and up Confederate Avenue en route to Country Club of Salisbury to play tennis, it annoys me every single time! But, I play more inspired tennis because of it.
Unlike a book, which you can choose to read or not, I have no choice as to whether I drive past the Confederate soldier monument centrally located in downtown Salisbury if I want to get to the tennis courts. So, books and monuments are not the same. I don't know of one black person who would forget that slavery, and the Confederate soldiers who fought to preserve it, existed without monuments. After all, it's ingrained in our dark American history. This black woman doesn't need the unnecessary reminders!
Sham Ostapko, Huntersville
City shouldn't burden businesses
In response to "Streetcar construction blamed for closure of seafood store" (Oct. 24):
It was sad to read about Catch on Seafood closing due to road construction, but this appears to be typical in this city. They seem indifferent when their decisions cause a business to fail. The city officials' jobs are secure. Maybe it should be their jobs and benefits on the line before they make these decisions. The city's capital budget motto ought to be "Overestimate Benefits, Underestimate Costs."
Tom Payne, Charlotte


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80,000+ sign petition to charge those who overdose in Erie County
SANDUSKY, Ohio– A petition on Change.org is gaining support in one Northeast Ohio community.
Thousands signed a petition to criminally charge people who overdose on heroin and required paramedics to respond in Erie County. More than 83,000 people pledged their support as of 11 a.m. Thursday. That number continues to grow by the minute.
"Where are the adult consequences for abusing, possession etc that any other drug user gets when caught with such things? It's time to start making these people own up to what they are doing, it's time to take away everything they own and give them a dose of reality while they sit in a cell and think about what it is they are doing," the petition description says.
"Let's not wait until it's too late and the cemetery continues to fill up unnecessarily."
The goal is 150,000 signatures, then it will be submitted to Erie County Commissioner Bill Monaghan.
The opioid crisis in Ohio has officials from across the state searching for solutions. County morgues have been overwhelmed by overdose victims, forcing some to bring in mobile units to house the bodies.
In May, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine filed suit against five major drug companies. He said they downplayed the risks of opioids like Oxycontin and Percocet, leading to heroin addiction.
In Stark County, the sheriff's office is distributing Narcan, an opioid antidote, to at-risk inmates who are released from jail. Meanwhile, those on the front lines, from police to nurses to K-9s, are in danger of accidental overdoses.


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For one of the top food instagrammers, it wasn't all cupcakes and cappuccinos
Recently named one of Refinery29's Top 10 NYC "Food Instagrams to Follow" and Zagat's "Top 100 Food Instagrammers in the U.S." Marisel Salazar, a New York-based writer, social media/content strategist and photographer, it wasn't always cupcakes and cappuccinos. In a world where social media and online access has leveled the playing field for writers, bloggers and photographers, how does one overcome their own fear of failure, make themselves standout, and establish a financially stable career doing what they love doing?
Marisel not only had to make her career work, she had to overcome her own personal fear-based limitations. Through her journey she discovered that fear can also be a great motivator. That a life worth living is a life lived to the fullest with high risk and high reward - forget safe, routine and ordinary - And sometimes failing hard is a better life lived than not following your passions of doing what you love.
marisel salazar: There is no roadmap for being a food writer, much less a successful and financially stable one. I'm still figuring it out! I come from a very traditional and safe career minded family - everyone works for the federal government, which has lots of security and cozy benefits. I used to be a web analyst in fact. I was terrified I would eat through all my carefully earned savings and not make any income. Fear, however, can be a great motivator. I wasn't afraid of going broke I realized - I was more afraid of resigning myself to a mediocre, safe, and ordinary life of a 9-5. So I made up my mind: No matter how scared I am of how I would be able to support myself as a food writer and content strategist, that I would figure it out, because the alternative (boredom, not living life to the fullest I could) is far worse.
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marisel: I fail every day. It's not a once and a while thing - it's the norm. Pitches don't get accepted, proposals rejected, stories killed, passed over for partnerships, etc. It becomes a familiar feeling. At first, I was crushed, crestfallen - I didn't feel good enough. Now, it serves as a spark. I get angry, defiant - which spurs me to try even harder, do better. I also had a great support system and many words of encouragement from my friends, family, and partner. It is essential to have a cheerleader(s).
The Hustle + keeping your end goal in focus = mental toughness, success and life well lived!
marisel: I went through a rough patch last year where I had several retainer contracts abruptly end at once. I found myself cobbling together one-off projects to get by. I thought it would only last a month or two. That turned to three. Then four. My budget was tighter than ever - not a single morsel was wasted. Anything spent beyond the bare essentials was a luxury. Going in-house constantly invaded my thoughts. The consistency! The benefits! The bi-weekly paycheck! But that was playing it safe to me and seemed like a cop out when things got tough - going back to a salaried job, working for a single company, working for their dreams - not mine. The risk was sticking it out and clearing this rough patch. And I did. There was never a guarantee that this rough patch would end. So I had to work really hard beyond it to make sure did everything in my power to be proactive about making it through and not wait for a miracle or a lucky break.
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Volume 2014, Article ID 809103, 6 pages
Clonotypic Analysis of Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Sequences in Patients with Waldenström's Macroglobulinemia: Correlation with MYD88 L265P Somatic Mutation Status, Clinical Features, and Outcome
Hematology Section of First Department of Propaedeutic Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Laikon Hospital, Agiou Thoma 17, 11527 Athens, Greece
Received 18 April 2014; Accepted 12 July 2014; Published 14 August 2014
Academic Editor: Gerassimos Pangalis
Copyright © 2014 Loizos Petrikkos et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
We performed IGH clonotypic sequence analysis in WM in order to determine whether a preferential IGH gene rearrangement was observed and to assess IGHV mutational status in blood and/or bone marrow samples from 36 WM patients. In addition we investigated the presence of MYD88 L265P somatic mutation. After IGH VDJ locus amplification, monoclonal VDJ rearranged fragments were sequenced and analyzed. MYD88 L265P mutation was detected by AS-PCR. The most frequent family usage was IGHV3 (74%); IGHV3-23 and IGHV3-74 segments were used in 26% and 17%, respectively. Somatic hypermutation was seen in 91% of cases. MYD88 L265P mutation was found in 65,5% of patients and absent in the 3 unmutated. These findings did not correlate with clinical findings and outcome. Conclusion. IGH genes' repertoire differed in WM from those observed in other B-cell disorders with a recurrent IGHV3-23 and IGHV3-74 usage; monoclonal IGHV was mutated in most cases, and a high but not omnipresent prevalence of MYD88 L265P mutation was observed. In addition, the identification of 3 patients with unmutated IGHV gene segments, negative for the MYD88 L265P mutation, could support the hypothesis that an extra-germinal B-cell may represent the originating malignant cell in this minority of WM patients.


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Shebana Coelho is originally from India, now based in New Mexico.
She works in the genres of documentary, fiction, theater, poetry and most recently, performance.
She has written about and traveled in India, Mexico, Mongolia and Palestine, among others.
Awards include a Fiction Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), a Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist's Fellowship and a Fulbright grant to Mongolia to experience and record life in nomadic communities.
Her documentary work has been broadcast on American Public Television, National Public Radio, The Discovery Channel, Noggin/Nickelodeon and BBC Radio Four and has received a Telly award and a South Asian Journalists' Association (SAJA) Best Documentary Award TV projects include: producer/director of Desi, a documentary for PBS Channel 13 about the South Asian community in New York, story-editor of four episodes of On the Team, (Noggin/Nickelodeon) and co-producer of The Empire State Building (Discovery Channel.) Radio projects include Bollywood Goes Borscht, on the nostalgia for Indian films within the Russian emigré community and Calling Home, on pay phone centers, both for NPR's On the Media and Blyton in Bombay, a 30-minute BBC Radio Four program about the impact of British children's writer, Enid Blyton on generations of Indians. She has also edited pieces for NPR's Weekend Edition. Along with Shashwati Talukdar, she received the James T. Yee Mentorship Award from the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) for the short fiction feature, Ghosts, based on her short story.
Her poems and prose pieces have been published in Chronogram magazine, Word Riot, Sukoon, Lummox, Slice, Juked, Tinderbox Review, Santa Fe Review, Malpais Review, Entropy, Mizna, the Madcap Review, the Nottingham Review, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Wildness, Yes Poetry, New Mexico Mercury, NPR's On Being blog, the anthology, Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer's Disease (Kent University Press, foreword Tess Gallagher), Sin Fronteras journal and The Rag. She has written for Al Jazeera America, Howl Round, Theatre Communications Group's Blog, Vela, Time Out Mumbai and The O&P Edge.
Her essay, Snow in Mongolia, appears in the Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 10 (editor, Lavinia Spalding).
It was translated into Swedish for the anthology, Gränslös (Limitless).
Other grants include a fiction award from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, and an Archie D. & Bertha Walker Scholarship from the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA. She has received artists' residency awards at Hedgebrook Colony, Jentel, Hall Center for the Arts, the New York Mills Cultural Center and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico.
She produced, shot and edited a multimedia documentation project for the Santa Fe-based Institute of American Indian Arts' Center for Lifelong Education (CLE), edited a short documentary for Rivers Run Through Us and co-produced/edited a story video for Hamaatsa, an indigenous learning center and several short videos for non-profits and events (see Work for samples).
A half-hour radio documentary about Mongolian women, On the Move in Mongolia which she produced and edited, had its world radio premiere on KUNM (89.9 fm, Albuquerque) program Women's Hour in October 2012. The documentary was produced for Outer Voices with Story Consultant/Executive Producer, Stephanie Guyer-Stevens.
She completed a feature-length screenplay, Hogan Góó - Homeward with Diné storyteller, Sunny Dooley.
Her plays include: Undo, a one-act (The Players Club in NYC, April 2014), Greenland (part of an evening of staged readings at the Santa Fe Playhouse in November 2013), and the full length plays: When the Stars Trembled in Río Puerco, an oral history play, adapted from the work of Nasario García about life in four now ghost towns in Rio Puerco, New Mexico (April 2014, Teatro Paraguas, September 2014, National Hispanic Cultural Center), The Tree
(reading July 2013 at Teatro Paraguas) and Bless Me Father.
She received a CEC ArtsLink Project award to collaborate with ASHTAR Theater in Ramallah, Palestine on the multimedia project Land Out Loud which excavates creative expressions about land in different genres.
Most recently, she directed and produced, Nasario remembers the Rio Puerco, a profile of New Mexico folklorist Nasario García, as h e encounters landscape and memory in the abandoned villages of the Rio Puerco valley where he grew up. The film was broadcast on New Mexico PBS in October 2017 and was selected to the Golden Door International and Taos Environmental Film Festivals.
She is currently developing and touring The Good Manners of Colonized Subjects, a solo play featuring poetry and dance.
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Drop Anchor With Kin Shriner!
If you are a GENERAL HOSPITAL fan who would love to take a humorous and very candid peek back in time and behind-the-scenes of your favorite soap, then have we got a party for you! Kin Shriner...
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Meet Scotty In Person!
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Is Blackie Coming Back?
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Great Scott! Shriner Returns To GH!
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Great Scott On GH?
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Ger van Langen
CEO of Wagenborg Passenger Service
CEO of Wagenborg Passenger Service
Today, as an Executive Vice President, Peder Gellert Pedersen leads the DFDS Group's Shipping Division, including Passenger Shipping and operation of Ro-Ro and Ro-Pax vessels in the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, the Channel and the Mediterranean Sea.
The shipping activities include both shipping routes and operations of large Ro-Ro terminals. The Shipping Division employs approximately 5,000 people and has a turnover of more than DKK 9.5 billion.
EVP of DFDS Group
I have been active in all industries within logistics, except for railway. I think this is the world's most exciting industry, especially now with the environmental focus!
CEO of HH FERRIES GROUP
Tanja joined KfW in 2006 and held different positions in key sectors of KfW IPEX-Bank, the export and project financing arm of KfW.
KfW is wholly owned by the Federal Republic of Germany and has been awarded the title 'world's safest bank' by Global Finance Magazine for the 6th time in a row in 2017. KfW IPEX-Bank is a 100% subsidiary and one of the largest financiers of the Maritime Sector. As one of the most experienced supporters of the maritime industry worldwide, the Maritime Industries department of KfW IPEX Bank provides financing for European vessel owners, newbuildings from European shipyards and vessels with a substantial part of European content. Contributing to the development of transport infrastructure, KfW IPEX-Bank is also engaged in financings for seaports around the world.
Previously working in the business sectors Shipping, Ports and PPPs, Tanja joined the Maritime Industries department in 2010. Her customer base comprises a wide array of customers from all shipping subsectors, including passenger, oil- and gas as well as bulkers, container and tankers. In her many years of experience in ship financing, Tanja has been responsible for the customer relationships to numerous ferry companies around the globe.
Tanja holds a degree in economics from the Universities of Marburg and Giessen.
AVP Maritime Industries, KfW IPEX-Bank GmbH, Frankfurt
In co-founding Adonis, Kviteberg saw the need among maritime organizations for more efficient ways of addressing their highly specific HR and operational challenges – from managing multinational workforces to simplifying MLC compliance.
Currently serving as Adonis's Sales Director, Kviteberg has held a variety of senior marketing and sales positions over the years, which has given him a unique perspective on industry developments, emerging trends, and the ever-changing needs of labor-intensive maritime organizations looking to leverage every edge in improving efficiencies and meeting their business goals.
Today, he's leading Adonis's efforts to meet growing market demand for web-based employee self service tools, allowing HR administrators and senior staff more time to attend to more strategic tasks and responsibilities.
CEO of Adonis AS
His career within shipping began when he, just 14 years young, commenced his first summer job as docker for Scandinavian Ferry Lines route Helsingborg-Elsinore. The experience was so intensive that Björn kept on working within the shipping industry in companies like Saga Line (Helsingborg/Malmö-Travemünde), DFDS and Lion Ferry (Helsingborg-Grenå), DSØ A/S (inter alia The Hydrofoils Copenhagen-Malmö) for ten years and for 12 years Ven-Trafiken AB (domestic route Landskrona-Isle of Ven) before he took position at Port of Ystad. He has a broad experience of ferry operations and has worked as Sales Representative, Sales- and Marketing Manager, Route Manager and Managing Director. Björn has also been deputy board member in SWEREF – Swedish Ship Owners Association for smaller passenger vessels and is now member of Ports of Sweden's Branch Committee as well as chairman of the Comprehensive Ports working Group within Baltic Ports Organisation.
In 2008, at the same time Björn commenced at Port of Ystad, the economic crisis struck the world with substantial impact on the shipping business. However, Port of Ystad has regardless strengthened its position as Sweden's third largest ferry passenger port. The volumes still increase, and the port now undergoes a major development as two new ferry berths, for vessels up to 240 meters, will be built, ready for service early 2020. Today, Port of Ystad is market leader for daily ferry connections to Poland and the island of Bornholm.
CEO at Port of Ystad
reservation services for the world's largest ferry and cruise lines, resorts and
transportation companies. As its system - Seaware - developed, Versonix pioneered the use of real-time Yield & Revenue Management capabilities to boost revenue for its global clients. With this patented technology,
Versonix became a recognized leader in the cloud-based reservation system field. To this day, Versonix customers around the world report substantial improvement and operational efficiency following Seaware implementation.
Prior to co-founding the company, Victor worked as a Systems Analyst for Salomon Brothers
investment bank in New York City, and then as Director of Management Information Systems for a financial real estate and management consultancy in California. With an initial background in computer science and applied mathematics, Victor went on to obtain an MBA from Santa Clara University in the heart of Silicon Valley.
President at Versonix Corporation
Michael Guldmann Petersen came from a position as Port, Rail & Marine Manager for an iron mine in Sierra Leone, where his main task was to build an organisation with local labour to operate the port and railway and to reconstruct the company.
Prior to this, Michael Guldmann Petersen held various positions in the maritime business such as Operations Manager and General Manager in the Netherlands, Nigeria and Italy. In Denmark, Michael Guldmann Petersen has worked for the shipping companies Maersk, TORM and Norden.
Michael Guldmann Petersen is born in 1967. He holds a master's license from Copenhagen and has completed various management courses
SVP Route Management & Operations
In addition to his work heading the Eckerö Group, Mr Blomqvist is also active in the boards of the Finnish Shipowners' Association and the Swedish Maritime Employers' Association as well as in the board of the marine insurer Alandia.
Mr Blomqvist lives in Mariehamn, Aaland Islands, with his wife and two children.
The Eckerö Group is active in ferry, roro and cruise shipping in the Baltic under the brands Eckerö Linjen, Eckerö Line, Eckerö Shipping and Birka Cruises. Group turnover in 2017 was 233 M€ and number of employees 1140.
CEO of Eckerö Group
Robbie has a keen interest in supporting business, particularly community based, and is Chair of Stramash (an outdoor social enterprise business) and he is a Member of the SCDI's Highlands and Islands Committee.
CEO of Calmac Ferries Limited
Partner, Head of Digital Transformation Advisory
KPMG in the Netherlands
Bent has more than 20 years of management experience in various companies, ranging from service companies, food processing, aqua culture, logistics, ware housing and search & selection Bent entered the consultancy world in 2000. First four years with an US based global consultancy firm focusing on operational excellence. Since 2004 sales executive and part of the management team of Mantec International AB.
Having worked within management consultancy for more than 15 years, Bent have developed a very broad network amongst top executives, as well as board members all over Europe. This network combined with a relentless delivery of successful implementation programs in large and medium sized companies, is the foundation for the continued development of Mantec.
Partner & EVP Sales at
Mantec International AB
Secretary General of the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO)
Prior to this, Luca was Trading Director at Dafiti (Latin America's largest online fashion destination) and a Consultant at global management consulting firm Bain & Company.
Luca holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Commercial Director, Direct Ferries
Managing director of CORSICA linea
On July 2015 Mr. Achille Onorato has become the Vice Executive Chairman of Moby SpA and subsequently on April, 2016 he became the Chief Executive Officer and in the same time he still keeps the position of Vice Executive Chairman of the company. In addition to the Ship - owner's family tradition, just like his father, he has also the passion for sailing on regattas.
Summary of Current Position in the Company:
* Moby CEO and Vice Executive Chairman
* Member of the BoD of Tirrenia – CIN
* Executive Member of the BoD of Toremar
* BoD Member of San Cataldo
* Chairman of Agemar and Renzo Conti sr
CEO of Moby Line
Head of Sales MAN Energy Solutions.
Director and senior partner MTI Networks. Media training international.
Federico is an Industrial Engineer, summa cum laude from University of Bologna, with an MBA from IE Business School.
He joined ACT in 2012, after working as renewable energy analyst in Italy and as commodities derivatives broker in London.
In ACT he has been one of the most successful trader and manager, initially leading the activities in Southern Europe and then expanding his responsibility to all the new business development of the Group. As of March 2017 he became the director of ACT Financial Solutions, obtaining the license of Investment Firm by the Dutch financial authority.
Managing Director & Managing Partner of
ACT Financial Solutions
Why are we going to the Ferry Shipping Summit 2019?
To share our experience on working with ferries and shipping companies throughout Europe and how our position as an innovative and well-positioned global player provides our clients with a clear view on upcoming regulations, market developments, and hedging solutions.
Product manager at ACT Financial Solution
General Manager of C-Jobs
Business Development & Strategy Director at DFDS
MEP Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (VVD)
Sales Manager MAN Energy Solutions
CEO of Irish Sea operator Seatruck Ferries
Head of Corporate Affairs at P&O Ferries
The key to Hogia TOS's success is using data from the system in a smart way: to increase efficiency which in turn allows for increased capacity at the terminal and ports, to help provide a higher quality of service to freight carriers, to reduce manual tasks and the margin for error, to decrease radio time and paperwork, and to have a better overview of what is in the terminal at any one point, and control opportunities for revenue. Lars is confident that within the next ten years all terminal operations will be handled digitally, "The pre-advice of units before arrival at the port, and an automated gate process are already happening at some terminals, and more will follow."
Hogia has over 30 years of experience in developing and delivering software and IT systems for the transport sector, and offers integrated solutions for ferries, port terminals, road transport and public transport. Hogia has 22 ferry operators using the reservation system BOOKIT across 6 continents, and there are several ports in Scandinavia, the UK and Canada using Hogia's Terminal Operation System.
Lars Tingström
CEO of Hogia Terminal and Logistics
Hans Björkborg
MD FerryGateway Association
Port Operation and Marketing Advisor at the Port of Kristiansand.
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This past weekend was the 115th Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament, lovingly referred to by many as "The Ojai," a yearly tradition in which the town of Ojai and the surrounding areas are taken over by the best college tennis players in the Pac 12 Conference, along with extremely competitive high school and open divisions. Over the course of four days during the last full week of April, approximately 1500 players compete on nearly 100 courts, from schools to public courts and even private residences. The tournament runs smoothly with the help of over 500 volunteers who do everything from report scores, check tickets, pour orange juice and tea, and more!
My family has been long connected with the tournament. There are five trophies in honor of members of my family (some have since been retired). My dad has volunteered in multiple capacities and board positions, just having passed 50 years since the first year he participated in the tournament. He presents two of our family awards.
As for me, this was the 23rd year since the first time I "volunteered" at the Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament. In 1992, I was an integral part of the trophy ceremony for the highly competitive "Girls Doubles Sixteen and Under" (see picture). My grandmother, Patricia Wash Norris, was elegantly dressed (as usual) in her flowing pink dress and matching hat. I kept it real in a white polo and some checkered shorts. So Nantucket. Five years later, I gave out the award with my dad and… well, I was eleven at the time, so the picture just isn't that cute. Drop it already.
Anyone who's seen a tennis match on television knows about Ball Boys and Ball Girls (collectively "Ball People"), you know, the runners scurrying about the court collecting tennis balls after each point? Historically speaking, The Thacher School has always provided their freshmen as the Ball People for later rounds of the Ojai. I was a team leader, and that started my volunteering in an "official capacity."
While at Thacher, I continued to volunteer for the tournament, mostly working with my dad in the Media Department, handling Public Relations, and Posting Scores. We quickly became fast friends with the Pac 12 organizers and Ventura Starr reporters. We grew highly proficient in reading draws and giving directions to desperate players looking for private courts. Over those four years, I watched the Bryan brothers dominate their competition before going on to become the Grand Slam winners they are today. I watched my friends compete and my old coach win the Open Division! By the end of high school, I was managing other students in running scores, fielding phone calls, and handling media requests. Like father, like son.
Unfortunately, I was only able to work the tournament twice during college. It conveniently overlapped with my Spring Break, and the thought of sunny Ojai will always trump New England in the last weekend in April. When I came back, I continued to work in the Media Department with my dad, posting scores and handling customer complaints.
Starting in 2009, I started volunteering at the tournament every year (except one when my brother was getting married at our house in Ojai). Sure, I enjoy watching the tennis. It makes me want to play again (oh, and I will!). But perhaps more importantly, as of lately, I've really enjoyed getting to know the longstanding volunteers that have crafted this tournament, year after year. Some have spent as many as 50 years behind the scenes, putting up the sun shades and the picture boards. Blowing off the damp tennis courts and at the end of the weekend, breaking down the tents and draw boards. Selfless. Committed.
I love the fact that Ojai, a tiny town of approximately 8,000 residences can host the Pac 12 Team Championship with a team of 500 volunteers at the helm. It's like an aging, tennis version of The 300. The camaraderie amongst the volunteers is one of a battle worn unit, standing strong against the thousands of players and spectators converging on Libbey Park to watch young, fit people hit around green fuzzy balls.
I have been volunteering active behind the scenes of "The Ojai" for 13 years now and I don't imagine I will be stopping any time soon. I'm pretty sure dad is somewhere near 25 years now. And as I've already mentioned, some of the oldest volunteers are nearing 50 years of volunteering for the tournament. Needless to say, we'll both be back next year, posting scores.
Quite frankly, it doesn't really matter who's playing, I just can't wait to catch up with the other volunteers, reporters, and some of the usual, smiling faces of "The Ojai."


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Check back often - I'm always writing something new about Fell Ponies!
Observations - Past and Present
My first set of observations on the Fell Pony breed ended up in my book Fell Ponies: Observations on the Breed, the Breed Standard, and Breeding, available internationally by clicking here or by clicking on the cover image. A video about the book is available by clicking here.
The observations shared here are new since that book and will eventually appear in Volume 2.
Just as in my first Observations book, I divide my writings into three sections below:
About the Breed
About the Breed Standard and
About Breeding.
If you have a question, please fill out the form at right!
About the Breed
Click on the title to learn more.
Footing Sense 4 and Footing Sense 5
A Cautionary Tale for Fell Pony Stewards from the Thoroughbred
Dynamic Tension 2 (Market forces vs. type)
Fells on the fells (and how they're endangered there)
About the Breed Standard
About Breeding
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MediaTakeOut.com just received word that Lil Wayne may have ANOTHER child on the way. A Los Angeles exotic dancer is reportedly telling her co-workers that she's knocked up by the platinum selling rapper.
The woman, who is of East Indian descent and works at the popular L.A. men's club Spearmint Rhino, told her co-workers that she just learned of the pregnancy. And that she's discussed the baby with Lil Wayne – who wants her too keep it.
We're working on getting images of the soon-to-be mom now. But we're told she's drop dead gorgeous …
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Lil Wayne Has Another Woman Prego?
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5.7-magnitude quake hits Central East Pacific Rise
New York, Dec 12: An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale jolted Central East Pacific Rise at 14:33:12 GMT on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said.
The epicentre, with a depth of 10 km, was initially determined to be at 9.1306 degrees south latitude and 109.846 degrees west longitude.
Till now, no damage to property or injury to any individual has been reported.
Officials and residents remain on alert as the region is likely to be hit by another earthquake soon, say reports.


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Happy Thanksgiving, all! Since I'm working, I won't be celebrating until tomorrow, but I'll be thinking of all of you friends and family in the U.S. eating turkey and watching football!
For today, I thought I'd highlight a couple of fun centerpieces — both of which are pretty easy. The first is made up of pumpkin-colored mums with a bit of "garnish".
The second idea is even simpler — just take a bag of cranberries and some candles and float them in a bowl of water — simple and beautiful.


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We have been loving rich earthy fabric colours lately so this week on the blog we made up a pair of Megan Neilsen's Flint Pants in a beautiful brick coloured cotton sateen. With super cute details and easy to follow instructions, the Flint Pants would be an easy addition to your new season wardrobe.
Pattern | The Flint Pants by Megan Nielsen were very thorough and the instructions were very easy to follow. We really loved how the pattern had tips after each step to help you get a tidier and more professional finish. The method for sewing the pocket was super cool and the tie detail adds a little something extra. They were extremely quick to sew and were finished in just one evening!
Fabric | We love how this slightly stiffer fabric gives the pants quite a dramatic look. Next time we would make these up in a linen or chambray for a more relaxed fit. For fuller thighed ladies we suggest omitting the tucks at the front and gathering the fabric instead so that it doesn't cling.
How cool are the Flint Pants? We think they would be perfect with heeled sandals and a slinky top for a dressier evening look but they also look amazing paired up with a comfy tee.
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This year I organized a panel, titled "Bodies and their Materials: Creating and critiquing "good" care" with Chelsea Wentworth. I am also giving a paper on the panel, "Chronic disaster: Reimagining Diet-Related Disease As Structural Violence" organized by Megan Carney and Emily Yates-Doerr. Finally, I will serve as a discussant for the panel titled: "Resisting Biomedicine: Politics, Practices, and Logics of Care," organized by Zakea Boeger.
Bodies and their Materials: Creating and critiquing "good" care
At the intersection of the study of food, nutrition, and medicine, this panel examines how "good" care is reflected and evaluated by community members and health care professionals through embodied social experiences. Anthropology's engagement with embodiment offers a reminder to the discipline that experience is materially grounded; humans create culture through and with their bodies. We revisit this to ask how change is tracked by people through their bodies and the materials that mediate bodies such as food, medication, or other substances consumed to promote health. We explore how embodied experiences reflect patterns of resistance, resilience and adaptation over time, either through the lifecourse, or in relation to shifting political, social, and environmental contexts. As a foundation of social relationships, these embodied critiques inform moral notions of "good" care, "good" clinical encounters, and "good" kinship practices. An abstract concept, the idea of "good" care signals particular practices, institutions, and people while simultaneously indexing embodied experiences of places and feelings. To feel cared for, or to feel one is appropriately caring for the self, references a specific set of practices that articulate moral values. At the intersection of the moral notion of "good" care and the materiality of consuming food and medicine, physical bodies are displayed, critiqued, and evaluated through a variety of social experiences. Bodies then become the sites through which communities, health care workers, and kin evaluate the quality of care the body receives from others and from the self. This panel explores how particular embodied experiences--around eating, sickness, and health---are translated into knowledge, and how this knowledge is used to reflect ideas of health. Papers in this panel address concepts of identity creation through food consumption, fusion foodways, the embodied practice of preparing food and feeding others, embodied motherhood, and mothering with chronic illness. With regional expertise from the Pacific Islands, Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean, the papers presented here place ideas of embodied care in cross-cultural conversation. Bodily signs can serve as evidence of resistance, resilience and adaptation, thus creating an embodied grounding for social critique. We ask how do embodied experiences shape people's understandings of social change? In what ways are embodied signs, or biomedical symptoms, central to how people articulate social transformation or stasis? How do individuals and communities express their resiliency in the face of external pressures or stressors? What methods are individuals and communities using to adapt to social and/or ecological changes, and how are these experiences expressed in bodily form? Using our anthropological imagination, this set of papers illustrate how individuals and communities are responding to changes in the embodied expression of "good" care.
Problems of Faith: Vegetables, Healthy Diets and Pentecostal Healing
In the Samoan islands there has been a steady rise of cardiometabolic disorders since the 1950s and has been a site of over 30 years of epidemiological research, which have led to public interventions developed from this research base. Health promotion materials are ubiquitous, encouraging eating less and exercising more, stressing the importance of eating a vegetable-based diet and embracing planation labor as a form of fitness. All of these messages locate responsibility in a choice-model of health. Samoan public health, in an effort develop community-engagement, positions churches as partners or sites for "culturally appropriate" health promotion. However, Pentecostal churches are not considered 'culturally appropriate" sites for this delivery, and yet, Pentecostals have a critical position on the so-called NCD epidemic. Drawing attention to the relationship between the social world and the spirit, Pentecostals brings into focus multiple and flexible etiologies derived from the basic logic that environments and relationships permeate the body in ways that create sickness and health. Instead of blaming individuals, Pentecostals talked about social barriers to health, in turn transforming the problem of food, fat, and fitness into a problem of faith. Through Pentecostal healing, Pentecostals came to identify their source of suffering in the social world where relationships—social, structural, economic—penetrated the body. Bringing together distinct anthropological ways of approaching illness—from the anthropology of Christianity and medical anthropology—shows the creative ways that structural limitations are negotiated by those living with cardiometabolic disorders.


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An oocyte, a single cell, can ultimately yield a complex organism that contains many distinct cell types with specialized functions, be it a cow or a human. Within a relatively short time after fertilization, this single cell must divide and multiply into an embryo capable of interacting with the mother and establishing a pregnancy. Each embryonic cell must pass through critical developmental checkpoints that are involved in determining whether to become an interior cell (contributing to the formation of the fetus) or an outer cell (contributing to the placenta). These early decision points are just the first of many yet to come. Without this decision-making process, the plants and animals that surround us would not exist. We would not exist. Yet, despite the importance of these decision checkpoints, we do not fully understand the processes involved. The Keefer lab uses cellular and molecular approaches to study the network of transcription factors that are involved in the maintenance of pluripotency and cell lineage determination in preimplantation embryos and embryonic stem cells. Our research will provide new insights into the basis of embryonic loss and provide schemes for improving reproductive efficiencies in livestock following traditional and assisted (cloning/transgenics) reproduction.
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Developing a new paradigm of gamete and embryo nutrition
July 2012-June 2013 [PIs: B. Bequette, C. Keefer, and N. Songsasen]
MAES Competitive Grant
Elucidating spermatozoal energy metabolism and metabolic dysfunction in felids and teratospermic species
July 2013-June 2014 [PIs: C. Keefer, A. Crosier]
University of Maryland-Smithsonian Institution Seed Grant
Alternate Approaches to Produce Pluripotent Stem Cells for Conservation Biology Applications
August 2014-July 2015 [PIs: C. Keefer, P, Comizzoli]
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Day 402 - Antigua, Guatemala - 7808 km
Antigua is the former capital of Guatemala, and known for its well preserved Spanish-baroque architecture. Its character is so well maintained that the McDonald's is not visible from outside, you have to go past the thick colonial walls to discover the M. There are strict rules for advertising and branding, to preserve its timeless look.
I am sitting on an old square near my hostel. There's a dry fountain in the middle, pigeons fly over and Mayan women in traditional dress selling handcrafts. A young couple sits against a house, kissing each other. An old lady drives by in the most rusty Toyata pick-up I have ever seen, carrying flowers in the back. There seems to be charm in every detail that crosses my eye. In front of me I have a map. I'm figuring out which places to visit in Guatemala. I'm mainly here for the volcanos. I even didn't know about Antigua before crossing the border a few days ago. It's a town from many paintings I've seen in local hotels on the way, Volcán de Agua, towering high in faded green behind the orange rooftops. Most houses are just one floor, painted in warm pastel colours, with old crackly tiles on the roof and detailed wood work on the doors and ceilings. The streets are paved with rounded cobblestones, so bumpy, that it make every car rattle.
Through the years Antigua has been tested by the forces of nature. It seems like around every corner there is a ruin of an old church, which didn't survive the earthquakes. Some are restored and given a new purpose, while many of them are ruins overgrown with purple flowers. There are restaurants that employs chefs from all over the world, chocolate makers, french bistro's and coffee places. Maybe the best coffee comes from here? A perfect place to unwind and plan some excursions to the nearby destinations. I also finally got my derailleur properly fixed at a bike mechanic.
I'm folding up my map and spend some more time on the square reading. The girl and the boy are still kissing. I think it's his first kiss, not hers. She 's in charge. A 'chicken' bus rides by with its flamboyant colours, making a lot of noise and smelling badly. Then the quietness returns, the sun sets and dips the old town in yellow colours.


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We all make mistakes on social media every once and a while, and that's totally normal. But sometimes, you may not know that you're making a mistake.
LinkedIn is one of the most important social media sites for marketers, so making a mistake on this network isn't in your best interest. Whether you're looking for a job or trying to widen your circle of connections for potential clients, your profile on LinkedIn is a very crucial component to your personal brand.
When crafting your profile, the biggest mistake that professionals make is having a generic summary. With over 414 million members on LinkedIn, how are employers and potential customers going to remember who you are if your profile is similar to every other professional in your industry? Filling your summary with common buzzwords is a very easy way to drive prospects away.
Here is a list of 15 overused words that will not make your profile stand out:
- Leadership
- Motivated
- Creative
- Enthusiastic
- Responsible
- Passionate
- Strategic
- Successful
- Driven
- Organization
- Dedicated
- Extensive experience
- Patient
- Innovative
- Analytical
How can you clean up your profile and remove all of these buzzwords?
Tip #1: Stand out from everyone else
The summary on your LinkedIn profile is the first thing prospects see after your profile picture. Maybe you know that you exert leadership qualities, but too many of these overused words in your summary are going to make it hard for you to seem superior to your competitor. Rather, trying using concrete examples of how you have exhibited these buzzwords with specific examples.
Tip #2: Start featuring your work!
Don't just say you're creative, prove it! Each section on your LinkedIn profile allows you to upload some form of media. Whether you upload a photo, a link or even a video; prove to your prospects that you truly are creative.
The same advice goes for all of the listed buzzwords. Prove your leadership skills by showing a photo of you at a speaking event or even a photo of you helping a co-worker. These skills can be showcased in many different ways but it is important that you show your reader rather than expecting them to believe it based on a few words.
Tip #3 Share relevant information and communicate effectively
You might have the best communication skills in your office. You may even influence others based on your views and skills. But, how will a new prospect know that you have great communication skills unless you have concrete examples?
Continually publishing posts and offering your opinion in industry related groups is a way to position yourself as not only a thought leader but also a way to showcase all those buzzwords that you have taken out of your profile. If people see you participating in groups on LinkedIn, they will already know that you are a leader just based on your presence in your industry related groups.
Tip #4 Connect with industry related professionals
Showcasing your motivation is very obvious if you are connected and communicating with other professionals in your industry. Sharing your opinion on news or commentaries truly shows your prospects that you care about your profile, your industry and how you are perceived.
Tip #5 Try using a simple synonym
In some instances, using an uncommonly used synonym can be a great way to stand out from the crowd. For example, for motivated try using ambitious, determined, compelled or for responsible use conscientious, accountable or reliable.
Instead of falling back on empty terminology, it's important that you cut these buzzwords from your LinkedIn profile and begin adding some great work examples instead.
Do you have any buzzwords not listed that you hate seeing on LinkedIn profiles?


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Annamaria has two earlier poetry collections, The Roof Milkers (Sunline Press 2008) and Ropes of Sand (Associated News, Malta 1984). Her publications include creative non-fiction, reviews and short stories. Credits for prose and poetry include the inaugural Nature Conservancy Australia Essay Prize 2010, the Tom Collins Poetry Prize 2011 and the Peter Porter Poetry Prize shortlist 2012.
Her work has been published in literary journals, broadcast on ABC programs Poetica and Short Story, anthologised (most recently in Purple Prose, Fremantle Press 2015), recorded for schools and adapted for multi-disciplinary collaborations in art galleries and on stage.


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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) - Telecommunications stocks slumped again Tuesday amid a raft of poor U.S. economic data and the revelation of job cuts at a major equipment supplier.
At day end, the American Stock Exchange's Networking Index, which represents large manufacturers, fell 5.9 percent
The Nasdaq Telecommunications Index, which tracks younger equipment manufacturers, gave up 6.0 percent.
Phone stocks were the only bright spot. The group, as measured by Standard & Poor's Communications Services Index, rose 0.8 percent.
Large equipment makers headed south after JDS Uniphase JDSU, a key maker of components for optical networks, announced that it will cut 10 percent of its workforce to compensate for slowing sales. See story. Shares fell 15 percent to $27.81
Declines for other equipment makers were milder, ranging from 1 percent 4 percent. Losses might have been larger after fresh U.S. data showed the U.S. economy slowed further, but that news boosted market hopes for an immediate Federal Reserve interest-rate cut. Lower rates increase the attractiveness of stocks.
Smaller equipment makers also posted sharp losses. The most active decliner were Broadcom BRCM, Conexant CNXT, +0.69%, Juniper Networks JNPR, +1.17% and Sycamore Networks SCMR. Losses ranged from 11 percent to 15 percent.
In the phone sector, Verizon VZ, +0.01%, SBC Communications SBC, -2.55% and BellSouth BLS, +1.32%, ended narrowly mixed.
Long-distance stocks fared less well, with AT&T T, -0.19% the only gainer. Still, Ma Bell's 5 percent increase was enough to pull the whole group higher. Sprint FON, -3.80% slipped 1.1 percent and WorldCom WCOM, -0.09% 2.5 percent.
The midsized-carrier group pulled back even further. Broadwing BRW, +0.54% decreased 4.8 percent, Williams Communications WCG, +1.56% 5.8 percent and Level 3 Communications LVLT 7.6 percent.
Elsewhere, satellite and wireless stocks retreated.


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Chairman PAIB Committee Message
Evolving Mental Models - Sustaining Competitive Edge
Leadership effectiveness is strongly connected with the ability and capability to learn and change and by thus challenge our own mental models. We can change and create our future different than the past after discovering our internal assumptions. If we want to create something new, we have to invert our thinking towards learning.
"Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement." ̶ Peter Drucker, Austrian-born American management consultant, educator.
Managing mental models involves identifying, clarifying, and changing one's mental model and its component assumptions. Mental models are the frameworks for the interpretation of ideas and activities, assist in restructuring existing information and aid in the inculcation of new information. In today's globalized world, economic and socio-political climate needs a new approach that demands leaders to think differently and strategically about how change occurs and how professionals develop themselves and work with each other to gain efficient results. Effective leaders, being a change agent, are challenging their own mental models to bring modification in oraginsations' assumptions and strategies.
Organisations today are frequently facing challenges and opportunities that cannot be adequately addressed by reflecting on the past. Organisations require altering their own mental models to establish a new understanding that will ensure the development of innovative, but possible strategies to deal with an unfolding reality. Today forward thinking organisations as well as professionals are shifting their management strategies to focus on sustaining their competitive advantage in businesses by promoting and facilitating learning for employees to continually expand their capabilities to understand complexity, clarify vision, and improve shared mental models.
Our fragmented worldview needs to be replaced with an integrated whole systems mental model. The only irreplaceable capital an organisation owns is the ability and knowledge of its individuals. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively individuals share their competence with those who can use it.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan is an active and important member of International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) and IFAC Professional Accountants in Business (PAIB) Committee. The Institute also formed ICAP PAIB Committee to bring the professional accountants in business and industry closer. The PAIB committee aims to provide avenues to professionals to grow, learn and evolve largely through conferences, and other activities. The PAIB Committee initiated the CFO conference as a measure to bring together the business professionals in 2010 and the encouragement and appreciation from the members and business professionals made it a regular feature in ICAP.
The CFO Conference, on Evolving Mental Models - Sustaining Competitive Edge, aims to provide a forum to better understand the changing business approaches and dynamism of accountants' roles and their responsibilities. I feel in the emerging global world, an ideal avenue is the exporting of services by our professionals in view of the international recognition of our professional's expertise. We should not be confined to the traditional role rather embrace the change and seize the opportunities ahead.
Your presence will help us to make this event a great success. I hope that our members will find the conference informative and worthwhile.
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Atlanta Chiropractic Stroke Lawyers
Do not be fooled by the chiropractic industry. Chiropractic strokes are real, and the damage these strokes cause can be devastating. But you've come to the right place. We can help.
What is a chiropractic stroke, and how is it caused?
The most serious type of chiropractic malpractice occurs when a cervical manipulation causes an artery to stretch and/or dissect, leading to a stroke. A poorly performed or non-indicated cervical adjustment (often involving extreme rotation in which the chiropractor's hands are placed on the patient's head to rotate the cervical spine by rotating the head) by a chiropractor can result in a tear to the carotid or vertebral arteries leading to the brain. The vertebral artery is particularly vulnerable because it winds around the topmost cervical vertebra to enter the skull, so that any sudden rotation may stretch the artery and tear its delicate lining. This arterial tear can bleed, which turns into a blood clot, or thrombus, which will then cut off blood flow to the brain and cause a stroke.
A chiropractic stroke may not become evident for days or weeks following the cervical manipulation. In other cases, the patient may actually suffer a stroke while still in the chiropractor's office, just seconds after the cervical manipulation.
Chiropractors, and their malpractice insurance corporations, generally deny any link between cervical manipulations and stroke—a position ridiculed by the mainstream medical community given the prevalence of stroke following this dangerous procedure. Thus, chiropractic stroke cases must be pursued aggressively by an attorney experienced in evaluating these cases and communicating with stroke victims' treating neurologists and neurosurgeons.
What is the statute of limitation for chiropractic stroke?
Generally, the statute of limitation for medical malpractice in Georgia is two years from the date of the negligent care. For children, the statute of limitation is typically tolled (or paused) until the child's 5th birthday, which means that the statute runs (or expires) on the child's 7th birthday.
However, certain circumstances can extend the statute of limitation (for example, when a doctor conceals negligent care that's later discovered). Other scenarios can involve shorter time periods within which a case must be pursued (for example, when the negligent provider is employed by a government entity, which can trigger claim notification deadlines as short as six months from the date of the negligent care). Further, some specific types of malpractice, such as when a foreign object is left inside a patient after a surgery, have unique statutes of limitation (for foreign objects, it's one year from the date the object is discovered).
And to make matters more confusing, medical malpractice cases are also subject to a five-year statute of repose. This is intended to be a "final deadline," beyond which a medical malpractice claim cannot be filed for any reason. But it doesn't always work that way; their are some exceptions.
So, the best answer: it depends. And our best guidance: don't try to determine the statute of limitation on your own; contact us and we'll be more than happy to collect and analyze the facts needed to provide you with the correct answer.
Read what one chiropractic stroke client has to say.
"I walked into my chiropractor's office expecting a simple neck adjustment. I left on a stretcher, by ambulance, having suffered a massive chiropractic stroke. Life as I knew it was over. I never was able to return to my job. I'm permanently disabled. I wish the chiropractor had warned me about chiropractic stroke. Thankfully Jess and Chad got every penny of his malpractice policy for me. If you find yourself needing a lawyer for this type of case, you've come to the right website."
H.G. of Alpharetta, GA
Our medical malpractice lawyers are chiropractic stroke experts.
Tens of millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements validate our commitment to doing medical malpractice litigation—and doing it better than any other law firm. We are immersed in medical negligence litigation every day, quickly spotting trends in chiropractic stroke litigation as they develop, pioneering new legal strategies and tactics to combat the ever-changing insurance defense industry, and constantly discussing our clients' cases with leading medical experts around the country. We are always honing our skills as chiropractic stroke attorneys. Nobody does it better.
Our reputation for handling chiropractic stroke cases adds value to your case.
Insurance company lawyers who defend chiropractic stroke cases know us. In fact, most all of the major players in the insurance defense industry in Georgia know who we are, and what we're capable of doing in a courtroom. They know about our results, because they have seen us in action. And they know that when we pursue a case, we will never settle for anything less than fair treatment for our client in the form of full financial compensation. Choosing Davis Adams means leveraging our years of experience, and our reputation for excellence, to help maximize your recovery.
Having an experienced chiropractic stroke lawyer matters.
Jess Davis and Chad Adams cut their teeth handling the most complex, high-stakes medical malpractice cases, typically regarded as among the most complicated of all personal injury matters. Routinely getting extraordinary results for their clients in cases other medical malpractice lawyers were turning down, they quickly became the "go-to" attorneys to whom other Georgia lawyers refer tough cases.
How does this tangibly help our clients? We have the unique ability to quickly read and digest volumes of chiropractic records, to pick up the telephone and speak confidently to our clients' treating physicians about their diagnoses and prognoses, and to instantly reach the top chiropractic experts at the best hospitals and universities in the world to consult on our clients' cases. This rare expertise is a game changer for our chiropractic stroke clients, and sets us apart from other personal injury firms who merely dabble in medical negligence cases without really knowing what they're doing.
We can handle your chiropractic stroke malpractice case wherever you live.
Davis Adams is headquartered in metro Atlanta, but our reach is statewide. We routinely represent Georgia medical malpractice victims, including those harmed by chiropractic stroke, in all parts of Georgia, including Macon, Savannah, Columbus, and Albany. Indeed, our geographic reach is evidenced by the fact that our firm's largest settlement ($17,000,000) came in Fulton County, while our largest verdict ($10,000,000) came in rural Jefferson County. So, wherever you reside in Georgia, selecting the best lawyer is more important than hiring the closest lawyer. As a client, you have just one opportunity to obtain justice, and we are always honored when that chance it entrusted to us, wherever you happen to be located.
How much is my chiropractic stroke case worth?
Most people who contact our firm do so reluctantly. They aren't excited about the possibility of having to sue their chiropractor for malpractice, and they understand that money won't solve all of their problems—and certainly can't heal their injury. But financial compensation is the only remedy available through the civil justice system; it's the only form of justice the law allows under these circumstances. We can only provide our clients with guidance as to the fair value of their cases after the case has been fully investigated. The factors we will consider include:
Economic damages, including:
- past medical bills;
- future/projected medical expenses, including life-care plans;
- past lost income; and
- future lost income.
Non-economic damages, including:
- physical pain and suffering;
- mental or emotional pain and suffering;
- loss of consortium (companionship); and
- the full value of a life (in wrongful death cases).
Often chiropractic stroke cases in Georgia are settled at mediation, which allows our clients to avoid the risk and emotional toll associated with trial, and to end their case with certainty. Other times, mediation is unsuccessful, and we proceed to trial and ask a jury to determine our client's compensation. A significant percentage of our $75 million in recovered funds for our clients is the result of trial verdicts, meaning that the attorneys hired to defend negligent parties know we are fully prepared to meet them in a courtroom if the case cannot otherwise be resolved to our clients' satisfaction.
Fewer cases, more personal attention, better results.
Davis Adams declines to accept the vast majority of cases presented to our firm. The fit has to be just right: the right client with the right type of case, where we feel like our firm can have the maximum positive impact. And while it may seem counterintuitive to turn down revenue-generating business, we are committed to doing outstanding, hands-on work for a limited number of catastrophically injured clients instead of employing a team of less experienced associate attorneys to churn through a high-volume workload.
We simply refuse to become one of those law firms at which the experienced trial lawyers only get involved in the later stages of the case, if at all. From day one, our clients have the collective time, attention, energy, and experience of the seasoned medical malpractice attorneys who will be handling their case at trial, which translates to better representation, and better financial recoveries.
Other lawyers often ask, "Wouldn't it just be easier to hire some young associate attorneys to handle the unimportant parts of your cases?" That question represents a fundamental misunderstanding of how medical malpractice cases are won or lost, and emphasizes the importance of hiring an experienced medical negligence attorney. There are no unimportant tasks in the cases we handle; victory is always in the details and is never achieved at the maximum level without bringing to bear the full weight of our firm's substantial experience, dogged determination and blatant refusal to settle for less than our clients deserve.
We do not accept any payment for our work on your chiropractic stroke case unless you win.
Davis Adams only represents chiropractic stroke victims on a contingency basis, which means that if we do not recover money for our clients, we refuse to accept payment for our services, or even reimbursement for the money we've spent. Additionally, our contingency fee, while reflective of our firm's quality and success, is nonetheless lower than the fee charged by some firms.


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Beyond the Basics
Beyond the Basics is a project started by the QDF in collaboration with Canadian Parents for French (CPF) and the Government of Canada in 2009.
Its aim is to teach French to young children (ages 3-5) using theatre games and techniques. Taught by actors and with the help of the educators in the classroom, the first experience has been quite successful. The program is twelve weeks long (as well as an extra week just to meet the kids and play with them), about forty-five minutes to an hour per session, with a different theme each week and a list of about ten French words or more to teach.
The idea was not to get the children to be able to speak French fluently, but to give them a fun start to speaking the language before entering a Francophone kindergarten. Some already spoke some French, some spoke little English and some barely spoke at all, but overall, the project was a lot of fun and had a great impact on the children at the schools. They looked forward to the weekly visits, to putting on shows for the class and eventually for their parents as well. At the beginning of each class, everyone did the "Réchauffement" in which all the body parts and numbers were always repeated to remind them, and the class usually ended with "Poulet chaud" or just "Poulet" where a small stuffed animal chicken was passed around the circle and everyone told Poulet something they learned that day in French. They also went on treasure hunts in the classrooms and adventures in the jungle, got to go outside, sing songs, made sock puppets, and even helped to write their own scenes, all while learning French words that they would be able to use every day.
Megan Bradley and Jade Hassouné (both graduates of John Abbott College's Prof Theatre Program in Acting) began teaching at four different schools in January of 2010. As this was a pilot project, the number of schools was more than was initially planned. Then the word started getting around about the success of this new project and teh result was that the school boards wanted the two instructors to go to multiple schools! The first schools in the Pilot Project were Coronation School in Côte-des-Neiges, Centre de la Petite Enfance des Bois-Verts in D.D.O., Sunnyside Elementary in Stanstead and Greendale school in Pierrefonds. Each group was a little family on their own, and Jade and Megan were welcome to join each one. They were all so different, and yet fundamentally the same – every child wanted to help, every child was participating in the activities and almost every child wanted to share; there was a special bond between the instructors, educators and students that will not be forgotten.
Prospects for the future are promising. Everyone had an amazing time growing, learning and sharing. Jade and Megan are looking forward to another year of more groups and more children to play with, as well as some of their professionally trained friends to help them out.


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After six years of planetary observations, scientists at NASA say they have found convincing new evidence that ancient Mars had an ocean.
It was probably the size of the Arctic Ocean, larger than previously estimated, the researchers reported on Thursday. The body of water spread across the low-lying plain of the planet's northern hemisphere for millions of years, they said.
If confirmed, the findings would add significantly to scientists' understanding of the planet's history and lend new weight to the view that ancient Mars had everything needed for life to emerge.
"The existence of a northern ocean has been debated for decades, but this is the first time we have such a strong collection of data from around the globe," said Michael Mumma, principal investigator at NASA's Goddard Center for Astrobiology and an author of the report, published in the journal Science. "Our results tell us there had to be a northern ocean."
But other experts said the question was hardly resolved. The ocean remains "a hypothesis," said Ashwin Vasavada, project scientist of the Curiosity rover mission at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
Dr. Mumma and Geronimo Villanueva, a planetary scientist at NASA, measured two slightly different forms of water in Mars' atmosphere. One is the familiar H2O, which consists of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.
The other is a slightly "heavier" version of water, HDO, in which the nucleus of one hydrogen atom contains a neutron. The atom is called deuterium.
The two forms exist in predictable ratios on Earth, and both have been found in meteorites from Mars. A high level of heavier water today would indicate that there was once a lot more of the "lighter" water, somehow lost as the planet changed.
The scientists found eight times as much deuterium in the Martian atmosphere than is found in water on Earth. Dr. Villanueva said the findings "provide a solid estimate of how much water Mars once had by determining how much water was lost to space."
He said the measurements pointed to an ancient Mars that had enough water to cover the planet to a depth of at least 137 meters, or about 450 feet. Except for assessments based on the size of the northern basin, this is the highest estimate of the amount of water on early Mars that scientists have ever made.
The water on Mars mostly would have pooled in the northern hemisphere, which lies one to three kilometers — 0.6 to 1.8 miles — below the bedrock surface of the south, the scientists said.
At one time, the researchers estimated, a northern ocean would have covered about 19 percent of the Martian surface. In comparison, the Atlantic Ocean covers about 17 percent of Earth's surface.
The new findings come at a time when the possibility of a northern ocean on Mars has gained renewed attention.
The Curiosity rover measured lighter and heavier water molecules in the Gale Crater, and the data also indicated that Mars once had substantial amounts of water, although not as much as Dr. Mumma and Dr. Villanueva suggest.
"The more water was present — and especially if it was a large body of water that lasted for a longer period of time — the better the chances are for life to emerge and to be sustained," said Paul Mahaffy, chief of the atmospheric experiments laboratory at the Goddard Space Flight Center.
Just last month, the science team running the Curiosity rover held its first formal discussion about the possibility of such an ocean and what it would have meant for the rest of Mars.
Scientists generally agree that lakes must have existed for millions of years in Gale Crater and elsewhere. But it is not clear how they were sustained and replenished.
"For open lakes to remain relatively stable for millions of years — it's hard to figure how to do that without an ocean," Dr. Vasavada said. "Unless there was a large body of water supplying humidity to the planet, the water in an open lake would quickly evaporate and be carried to the polar caps or frozen out."
Yet climate modelers have had difficulty understanding how Mars could have been warm enough in its early days to keep water from freezing. Greenhouse gases could have made the planet much warmer at some point, but byproducts of those gases have yet to be found on the surface.
James Head, a professor of geological sciences at Brown University, said in an email that the new paper had "profound implications for the total volume of water" on ancient Mars.
But, he added, "climate models have great difficulty in reconstructing an early Mars with temperatures high enough to permit surface melting and liquid water."
Also missing are clear signs of the topographic and geological features associated with large bodies of water on Earth, such as sea cliffs and shorelines.
Based on low-resolution images sent back by the Viking landers, the geologist Timothy Parker and his colleagues at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab reported in 1989 the discovery of ancient shorelines. But later high-resolution images undermined their conclusions.
Still, Dr. Parker and his colleagues have kept looking for — and finding, they say — some visible signs of a northern ocean. The new data "certainly encourages me to do more," he said in an interview.
Other researchers have also been looking for signs of an ancient ocean.
In 2013, Roman DiBiase, then a postdoctoral student at the California Institute of Technology, and Michael Lamb, an assistant professor of geology there, identified what might have been a system of channels on Mars that originated in the southern hemisphere and emptied steeply into the northern basin — perhaps, they said, water flowing through a delta to an ocean.