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This ruling will discourage employers from substituting California employees with lower-paid workers from other states, while preventing the possibility of untrained workers putting residents at risk.
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The California personal injury attorneys of BISNAR | CHASE (BestAttorney.com) say a recent ruling designed to prevent California companies from skirting wage laws by bringing in temporary out-of-state workers not only helps to protect jobs in this state, it promotes on-the-job safety too.
In a unanimous decision late last week, the California Supreme Court ruled that non-state residents employed by California companies are protected by California overtime laws when they travel here for work [Sullivan v. Oracle Corp. Case # CV-05-00392-AHS].
Because the existing guidelines were relatively unclear, most California companies paid employees based on the labor laws of their resident states.
Opponents of the controversial ruling feared hundreds of lawsuits against California companies would arise, while business travel to California would diminish. Proponents of the ruling, like Jerusalem Beligan, an employment law expert and personal injury attorney at BISNAR | CHASE, says both jobs and lives could very well be saved.
"Not only will this ruling discourage employers from substituting California employees with lower-paid workers from other states, it helps to prevent the possibility of untrained workers putting California residents at risk," said Beligan. "I view this as an issue of public safety and I applaud the ruling."
Beligan believes cheap labor often comes in the form of lesser-skilled labor, which can lead to accidents on the job, mistakes in the workplace and ultimately, dangers to the public. Those dangers can lead to increased employer and taxpayer costs in California for injuries, medical costs, litigation and more.
The ruling came from a class action lawsuit against Oracle Corp., a San Francisco-area software company, by workers from Arizona and Colorado who were temporarily brought into California to train Oracle's customers on how to use its products.
California workers are paid for overtime while Arizona has no overtime law. What's more, Colorado's law doesn't extend beyond the state's borders. The case against Oracle involved claims that could wind up costing the company tens of millions of dollars, according to news reports1.
According to Beligan, the upsides of this ruling far outweigh the downsides.
"It's a win for everyone, really," said Beligan. "It's a victory against outsourcing which impacts local jobs. It's a victory against unfair treatment of workers, no matter where they reside. And it enhances public safety by making California companies accountable to trained, safety conscious California workers."
As for the fear of a rise in lawsuits against California companies, Beligan says companies in violation of fair labor standards are subject to lawsuits under federal regulations anyway.
"If a company misclassifies employees and does not pay them for overtime for hours worked in excess of 40 hours per week, it would have been subject to a class action suit prior to last week's ruling. What the ruling did, however, is make the guidelines very clear, while expanding legal remedies available to non-resident employees for things such as daily overtime violations, paycheck stub violations and meal-and-rest violations."
1 Los Angeles Times, Maura Dolan, California overtime-pay laws protect nonresidents too, court rules, July 1, 2011, http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-california-overtime-20110701,0,5271758.story
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Recipe for the ultimate green veggie soup with Courgette, Broccoli and Kale
For the Soup:
1 Tbsp olive oil
1 Tbsp butter
1 onion, roughly chopped
2-3 medium leeks, chopped
1 clove garlic, chopped
2 sprigs fresh thyme
300g courgettes or asparagus, roughly chopped
300g broccoli, roughly chopped
2.5 cups chicken or vegetable stock
100g roughly chopped fresh kale (or baby spinach leaves)
salt and freshly ground black pepper
1–2 Tbsp lemon juice
For the Seed 'Croutons' and to Garnish:
2 Tbsp sunflower seeds
2 Tbsp pumpkin seeds
1 Tbsp roughly chopped fresh parsley or basil
100 g feta or goat's cheese, crumbled (optional)
Drizzle of olive oil
How to
In a large heavy-based saucepan, heat the olive oil and butter on medium-high heat. When the butter starts to foam, add the onion and leeks and cook for 3–4 minutes, or until starting to soften. Add the garlic and thyme and cook for another minute, or until fragrant, then add the asparagus/courgettes and broccoli.
Pour in the stock and a good pinch of salt and freshly ground black pepper and leave to simmer for 15 minutes. Remove from the heat, stir through the kale/baby spinach and allow to cool.
Blend and then check for seasoning, adding lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste.
Just before serving, toast the seeds in a dry pan until just golden and fragrant. Serve the soup in warmed bowls and sprinkle over the seeds and roughly chopped fresh herbs (and cheese if using) just before serving.
Note: This soup freezes well for up to two months.
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Not far from neon-lit Shibuya in Tokyo, the boutique Trunk Hotel, located just an 11-minute walk from JR Shibuya Station, is like a contemporary piece of art with each of its 14 rooms providing a one-of-a-kind atmosphere.
The single, studio-style rooms cost around $400/night and offers a beautiful taste of designer living in downtown Tokyo. Meanwhile, the Living Suite is your chance to experience the loft-conversion dream at about $1,334/night (sleeps six).
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Every time I see kamote (otherwise known as sweet potato), I remember my good friend, Seul Ki, who ate kamote almost every day. I think it's a popular food in Korea. She used to microwave her newspaper-covered sweet potato. I would like to quote some health benefits of sweet potato and corn from a news article I read in Inquirer.
Several weeks ago, I had a recurring very bad headache. As I do not really like taking pills for aches and pains, I asked a herbalist, Boy Fajardo, if he had any suggestions. He said it could be due to acidity and suggested I should include kamote in every meal.
I am happy to report that although the root crop, unlike chemical preparations, did not bring instant "cure," the problem has gradually disappeared. I suspect what the root crop did was sop up the acid in my system.
Now I have just learned that the lowly kamote is indeed far more valuable than many Filipinos think. The kamote has long been dismissed by many Pinoys as food suitable only for those in the poorest of the poor. In fact, even the less affluent would not be caught eating it, if they have other options. The root crop also has a bad rap as causing a major gas problem.
But, in a recent study, the Department of Science and Technology's Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DOST-FNRI) found that kamote is far more versatile—health wise—than we give it credit.
As reported in "Inside STII" (Science and Technology Information Institute) by Framelia Anonas, kamote and other root crops could keep bad cholesterol levels down. The DOST-FNRI research team, headed by Dr. Trinidad Trinidad, found that daily intake of root crops reduced bad cholesterols in the body because of their dietary fiber or roughage content, that part of a vegetable or fruit the human digestive tract was unable to digest.
As explained by Trinidad, "Dietary fibers come from a family of carbohydrates that ferments in the colon, turning into short-chain fatty acids that release energy…. These fatty acids…(lower) the risk of colon cancer, (among others)."
Root crops were also found to contain vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus and iron.
Aside from kamote, the team used other root crops like gabi (taro), tugi (lesser or Chinese yam), ube (purple yam) and kamoteng kahoy (cassava).
The team found that all the root crops studied, especially cassava and kamote, decreased the level of bad cholesterol. It was also discovered that tugi, a root crop abundant in the north, increased good cholesterol.
Another DOST-FNRI study found that corn was good for the heart because it contained folate that lowered the level of homocysteine, an amino acid that damaged the lining of arteries and could make blood clot more easily than normal. High homocysteine levels could lead to heart attack.
Corn also has thiamin and pantothenic acid that help produce energy and reduce stress.
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I keep wondering when full-body transplants will be available. My body is confusing itself with an 80 year-old woman. But before you stare at me with that glazed-over look, let me start at the beginning.
My headaches started when I was 15. I was healthy and in good shape, playing both basketball and softball for my small school's (terrible) teams. I don't remember the first time I realized that my sometimes-headaches were happening more often, and then they were coming every day. They weren't migraines and they weren't even that bad in terms of headaches. Eventually, though, it became bad enough that I brought my issue to my parents, and the adventure began.
15 years later, I now know what is "wrong" with me. But over those 15 years, I've seen four neurologists, one orthopedic doctor, one rheumatologist, and several physical therapists. I've had two CAT scans and four MRIs. I learned I have a benign Rathke's Cleft cyst on my pituitary gland, but it allegedly is asymptomatic. I've tried countless prescription medications, most of which made me feel worse. I cut out dairy, caffeine, peanut butter. Some things helped, but nothing was enough.
It wasn't until a conversation with a friend that I started to get a clue. She said, "You know, you sound a lot like my friend who has fibromyalgia. You should talk to your doctor." I immediately ran to Google, and when I read the list of symptoms and the stories from other patients, it was like reading my life story. I found a rheumatologist who diagnosed me and started treating me, and that was 5 years ago.
According to the Mayo Clinic's website, Fibromyalgia (FMS) is described as "a disorder characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain accompanied by fatigue, sleep, memory and mood issues. Researchers believe that fibromyalgia amplifies painful sensations by affecting the way your brain processes pain signals." There is no definitive cause, and some speculate that it can manifest after an injury, stress, infections or no reason at all. There is no blood test or screening that can determine if one has it, and a very large portion of the medical community doesn't even think it's real. Only a physical exam of 18 tender "pain points" on the body can get you a diagnosis.
I originally had pain in almost all of those points. 5 years later, after medication, exercise, healthier eating, etc, I've narrowed it down to 11. You need to have 11 of the 18 to be diagnosed, so I would be considered a "mild" case. I know others with this illness that can't get out of bed, can't work, can't function. I am thankful every day that I have never been that bad.
But that being said, there are good days and bad days. No two people with FMS will feel the same way. One thing that is consistent is I have pain every single day. There are mornings when, if I wake before the alarm clock starts shrieking, I am aware of the pain before I open my eyes.
My head, neck and shoulders are the worst. My doctor told me that since most of my pain points are in the upper half of my body, it's no wonder I suffer with so many headaches. There isn't a minute of the day that I'm not aware of my right shoulder. If someone hugs me too hard, it hurts. If someone playfully punches me, it hurts. It may not hurt enough to be worth mentioning, and it's certainly not going to ruin my day, but the hurt is always there.
Sometimes the pain is good, like in the wonderful times I've been blessed to have a massage. I always tell the therapist that I have FMS so I don't end up feeling worse when I leave. Sometimes I've asked them to "go rough" on a certain spot until I can't tolerate it anymore, because when that point has been released, there are a few precious moments of no pain. Even as I type this, my head is resting back against my chair and I'm struggling to keep my eyes open. And I went to bed at 8:45 last night. *Sigh*
The hardest thing has always been to stay positive. I'm not an optimistic person by nature, and the moment I finally accepted that, I began to learn to not be so negative. But imagine how you feel when you have the flu; the ache, the stiffness, the pain when you stand, the pain when you lay down, the pain. Take away the crappy-cold-symptoms-part of the flu, and you have FMS. And I have it every day. (So when I actually get the flu, just stay away). 🙂
Some of you may have heard of FMS and some of you may not, but the real point of this blog is to make people aware. There are so many illnesses/diseases that don't "look" like anything serious. Chronic fatigue syndrome, myofascial pain syndrome, celiac disease, endometriosis, lupus, hypothyroidism and more. There are millions of people suffering with illnesses that have no cure, and constantly get comments like "Well, you don't look sick."
As someone with FMS, the part that feels the worst is knowing I'm living my life with something that will never go away, because it's not even really a disease. It's hard to find a doctor that can talk about it without rolling his eyes. I am thankful to God every day that what I deal with is not life-threatening, and that makes me try a little harder to be a happy person.
But there's good days, and there's bad days. My hope rests on the fact that the bad days make the good ones that much better. I can thank my Lord every day that I am able to get out of bed, I work a full-time job, I can still walk my dogs even when it brings me to tears, and I will live a happy life. There are so many that can't say that.
Still, I better be pretty high on that full-body transplant list.


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Hailing from the redwooded Santa Cruz mountains Hans Vermy earned his PhD in Theater and Performance Studies from Brown University in 2014. His dissertation is about theater and cartoons. His plays often pull from toonish worlds, finding the physically absurd alive onstage. He has been fortunate to labor across two fields with his work falling between celluloid and stage and the cut and the page; a film editor, a theater writer and maker and performer and fan.


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Students seldom wrong, and Clinton gets nod
Mon., Jan. 28, 2008
LEXINGTON, Va. – As Democratic voters went to the polls in South Carolina over the weekend, strange things were happening here: Hard-core Republicans stood and cheered for Jesse L. Jackson, and Barack Obama supporters cast votes for Hillary Rodham Clinton.
It's the 100th year of Washington and Lee University's mock convention, an event that has featured elephants, speakers such as Harry S. Truman and Jimmy Carter, more than a few epic parties and one dramatic death.
The convention predicts the nominee of the party not currently in the White House. It is meticulously researched and not infrequently giddy. And it has a remarkable record for accurate picks – only once in 60 years has it chosen the wrong nominee.
The delegates gathered Saturday to make this year's call – a toughie. Nothing like decades of pressure and having a national spotlight on you.
Leaders of the student-run convention, who worked on it for 2 1/2 years, have had their share of sleepless nights. Not only are there 100 years of tradition to uphold and the sense that this year's election will make history, but the field is more unpredictable than it has been for years.
"It's pretty amazing to have all that on your shoulders," said political director Wesley Little, a senior from Texas. He said he was sure he would be sweating at the roll call.
Organizers don't rely on polls but on grass-roots research, said Richard Friedman, a pre-med senior who served as general chairman.
More than 90 percent of the student body participates, about 1,700 people. Each state's delegation conducts local research – reading newspapers, learning caucus rules and calling campaign staffers, district party leaders, reporters, professors and anyone else they can think of to help them gauge how their delegates are likely to vote.
The accuracy of the predictions doesn't matter as much as the research, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and one of the project's advisers for decades. "This is the best system of civic education at any college in the United States. That's what's important – these young people will stay active and involved in politics their entire lives because of this."
The last wrong pick was in 1972, when students deadlocked and then chose Edward M. Kennedy.
By now, the students have the research, the hundreds of thousands of dollars in fundraising and the logistics of the convention nailed.
A gym at the school was transformed into a convention hall with state signs on poles, a forest of TV cameras, huge video screens and about 3,000 people, many waving "Hillary" and "Obama" signs. Student delegates wore jackets and ties or dresses and heels and, not infrequently, boater hats.
This year's lineup of speakers was impressive: Jackson; Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine; Sen. James Webb, of Virginia; former Sens. Max Cleland, of Georgia, and Carol Moseley Braun, of Illinois; former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro; rising Democratic star Harold Ford Jr.; and Charlie Wilson, the former representative whose support of Afghan rebels fighting Soviet troops in the 1980s is the subject of a current film.
After speeches, the roll-call vote was held.
When the final vote was cast, red, white and blue balloons dropped to the floor, and the crowd chanted, "Hillary! Hillary!"
Then Bill Clinton called, his raspy voice echoing through speakers as he thanked voters for nominating his wife.
In the end, the tally was not that close. With 2,025 votes needed for the nomination, Clinton had the backing of 2,117 delegates; Obama, 1,642; former Sen. John Edwards, 288; Sen. Mike Gravel, 2.
"In the opinion of the mock convention, it's not going to be over on Super Tuesday," said Southern regional chairman William Waller, a senior from Georgia. "It's going to be months."


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I didn't get an opportunity to see this movie in theaters, but got a chance to check it out the day it came out on Redbox. I didn't really know what to expect before watching it. I knew it was a Christmas/Holiday movie, but it looked dark as well. As I try to do with each movie that I watch, I went in with an open mind and was pleasantly surprised. The movie, although boasting some comedic actors was surprisingly dramatic, eerie and deep. All of the actors in the movie performed wonderfully.
The basic synopsis is: When his dysfunctional family clashes over the holidays, young Max is disillusioned and turns his back on Christmas. Little does he know, this lack of festive spirit has unleashed the wrath of Krampus: a demonic force of ancient evil intent on punishing non-believers.
The story is well thought out. You get to know the family that the film focuses on and realize that some of the relatives in the film closely mimic those in your life as well. Very relatable characters in general. The story doesn't waste too much time with its set up or its message. It really gets right to the point that we take the holidays and the meaning of the holidays in a different direction than we're supposed to. So we better be careful, otherwise Krampus may come.
The movie has an overall authentic, class holiday movie feel. It also tackles issues with faith, relationships and of course with the horror of Krampus and his minions. The movie has a creepy feel and you keep holding your breath to see that Krampus creature. The ending was surprising and different. The movie has a clear mission and message for the viewer and I enjoyed the way they shared it. Definitely worth a watch in my opinion. My husband asked if it would be in my yearly Christmas movie watch list, I said it just might be.
Considering the acting, the story and the overall feel, I would give this film a 9/10. I gave it a little higher rating because there are very few current horror/thriller movies that actually creep me out like this one.


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Yes, I know that death-related subjects like life insurance are not cheery and uplifting to read about. But, they are incredibly important for the people you leave behind and important for you to know about when your loved ones pass away, so today's legal discussion topic is probate.
Probate is the process whereby a court appoints a representative for a deceased person's estate, and that representative gathers the decedent's assets, pays his debts and then distributes any remaining assets to the beneficiaries of the estate. Probate processes vary between states, and some states offer simplified versions of probate that require little court intervention. Often, representatives for decedents who had little property can complete the probate process without hiring an attorney.
Usually, the first step of probate is to open the probate case by filing an application with the court and providing the court with the original will, if the decedent had one. This is why it's important for you to let your family know whether you have a will and, if you have one, where you keep it. Even if you give your family copies of your will, they still need to access the original.
Next, the court appoints a representative to act on behalf of the deceased person's estate, called an executor or personal representative. If the decedent left a will, the court usually appoints the person nominated in the will. Once the representative is officially appointed, he may have to post a bond or take an oath to represent the estate, and the court provides "Letters Testamentary," which is a document that proves the representative has authority to act for the estate.
Every state has some process for the representative to notify the decedent's creditors. The representative must make these notifications and pay any legitimate creditors from the money in the decedent's estate. The representative is not legally required to pay debts from his own personal funds; debts are paid from the estate's assets. Paying these debts may require the representative to sell some of the estate's assets.
Finally, if the estate has any remaining assets, the representative distributes those to the remaining assets to the beneficiaries named in the will. If the decedent did not leave a will, the representative uses the hierarchy of distribution in state law to distribute property to the decedent's relatives.
Depending on the case, probate can be complicated and time-consuming, but don't be intimidated by it. In most cases, it's a relatively simple process, and you can make it easier on your family by keeping your important documents and financial records in one place and letting your family know where you put them.
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Robert Shotwell
Robert Shotwell is presently the CAL Project Manager and the Chief Engineer of the NASA/JPL Astronomy, Physics and Space Technology Directorate. From 2014 through 2016, he was the Chief Engineer for the Mars Program at JPL. In the Fall of 2013 Robert consulted at SpaceX at their McGregor propulsion test facility assisting Acceptance Test rate increases for the Merlin and Mvac engines. Prior to that, for 6 years he served as the Program Engineer of the Advanced Optical Systems Program Office at JPL. From 2003 through 2008, he was the Project Systems Engineer for the Phoenix Lander which successfully landed on the North Pole of Mars in 2008. Robert has held critical roles at JPL since 1993. He is the recipient of JPL Magellan Award, the NASA Exceptional Achievement Award, NASA-JPL Group Achievement Awards (5x), JPL Team Bonus Awards (3x), and the Commitment to Excellence Award (3x).
Kamal Oudrhiri
Kamal Oudrhiri is the CAL deputy Project Manager and the Planetary Radar & Radio Sciences group supervisor at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His research focuses on planetary atmospheric characterization, gravity science, and bistatic radar. Over the last two decades, Oudrhiri has served in key roles on multiple NASA missions: the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER), the international Cassini mission to Saturn, the GRAIL lunar mission, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), the Juno mission to Jupiter, and the New Horizons mission to Pluto. He has received three NASA's JPL Mariner & Voyager Honor Awards and multiple NASA Group Achievement Awards. Oudrhiri is the recipient of the People Leadership Award, which recognizes exceptional people-leadership skills critical to the ongoing success of the NASA exploration missions.
Dr. Robert Thompson
Dr. Rob Thompson is the CAL Project Scientist. He has over twenty years of research experience and numerous publications in atomic and molecular physics,laser physics, and cavity quantum electrodynamics. His current research interests include studies of degenerate quantum gases in microgravity; space-based quantum sensors; and optical clocks. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Dana Anderson
Dr. Dana Anderson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr. Anderson is a member of the CAL engineering team and responsible for the design of the atom chip. His research interests include Real-time holographic systems, optical sensing and precision measurement, and atom optics. He received his Ph.D. From the University of Arizona. For more information, visit his website.
Dr. David Aveline
Dr. David Aveline is the Ground Testbed Lead. He received a NASA Group Achievement award for his work producing the first Bose-Einstein Condensation at JPL in 2006. He also led the development of the Atomic Physics Package for the Quantum Gravity Gradiometer. His research includes atom chip technology, optical micro-resonators, and photonics. He received his bachelor of science from Cornell University in applied and engineering physics and his masters and Ph.D in physics from University of Southern California.
Dr. Ethan Elliott
Dr. Ethan Elliott is a member of the quantum sciences and technology group at JPL and a member of CAL's Ground Testbed team. He has a decade of experience in the design, assembly, and operation of cold atom experiments that range from applied instruments and interferometers while a civilian engineer for the Navy to basic research investigating the fundamental properties of strongly interacting atomic vapors. He received his masters and Ph.D. in physics from Duke University for studies of quantum transport and scale invariance in ultra-cold Fermi gases.
James Kellogg
James Kellogg is the CAL Launch Vehicle & ISS Integration Lead in addition to being a Laser & Optics System Cognizant Engineer. He has extensive research experience in atomic physics systems development for laboratory and space applications. He received a NASA Group Achievement award as the Technical Lead in the development of the Integrated Micro Primary Atomic Clock Technology (IMPACT) physics package. James also received NASA Group Achievement awards for his contributions to the Atom-Wave Gravity Gradiometer, and for the GRAIL Flight Payload Development team. He received a B.S. in Physics with a Minor in Astrophysics from The University of Colorado, and an M.S. in Physics from the University of California at Irvine.
Dr. James Kohel
Dr. James Kohel, the CAL Laser & Optics Technical Lead, has over twenty years of research experience in laser, atomic and molecular physics, including the development of cold atom interferometers for inertial sensing. He has also worked to develop a multi-line UV Raman spectrometer for the detection of biological molecules, and was a member of the GRAIL Mission Payload & Integration Test Team. He received a B.S. in Physics from Texas A&M University and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin.
Jun Liu
Jun Liu has been working in the field of mechanical engineering both at JPL and private industries for more than 20 years. Prior to CAL, he was a cognizant engineer for Phoenix, MSL and a few other missions, and participated JPL frontier proposal and numerous instrument proposals as the mechanical lead. He holds Ph.D. in Tribology (a branch of mechanical engineering) from The University of Leeds, UK.
Dr. Jason Williams
Dr. Jason Williams is a CAL PI and a member of the CAL Ground Testbed. He specializes in developing light pulse atom interferometers and optical atomic clocks, and their applications to both fundamental and applied physics in space. He received his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University studying ultracold Fermi gases and held a NIST NRC Postdoctoral RA at JILA and the University of Colorado developing high-precision optical lattice clocks.
Carlo Abesamis
Carlo Abesamis is the CAL Mission Assurance Manager (MAM) in the Office of Safety and Mission Success. He is responsible for managing Safety and Mission Assurance activities on other Type II missions at JPL. He leads the Packaging, Qualification and Verification (PQV) effort on the Mars 2020. Carlo was the acting group supervisor for the JPL Procurement Quality Assurance (PQA) group before becoming a MAM. During his time in PQA, he led the implementation team in developing the JPL Supplier Corrective Action system into a comprehensive web-based system. He is also an experienced auditor and has facilitated numerous Process Audits and Quality Management Systems Audits at key JPL suppliers. Prior to joining JPL, Carlo was the Quality Engineer on the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Turbo machinery group at Rocketdyne in Canoga Park, CA.
John Trager
John Trager is the CAL Flight Software Lead, has been working in test and systems engineering for 20 years, but CAL is the coolest project in his portfolio. He is a proud alumnus of Harvey Mudd College.


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Alexa Chung turns sixties siren for Maje
It's like Christmas come early as we hear that one of our fav models, Alexa Chung, is the new face of one of our fav brands, Maje – and its AW12 campaign to be exact.
Alexa is doing what she does best- looking amazing and slightly brooding in a 1960s way. These amazing shots by Glen Luchford (down a Metro station in Paris) remind me of a Rolling Stones cover and are rather different to Alexa's recent bright and breezy Superga campaign.
Maje said: "Elegant yet edgy, her attitude reflects a personality that is both glamorous and rock 'n' roll."
We say: "We agree and we love it."
Pics: Glen Luchford via The Telegraph


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I'm not necessarily one who embarrasses easily. Unless it involves me tripping over my own feet or saying something incredibly, incredibly stupid. But make a fool of myself? Laugh at myself? Sure! No problem!
But that was before I became a mom. Since becoming a mom all shame, humility and human decency has gone right out the window.
We began taking Riley to Kindermusik classes a few weeks ago. He absolutely loves it. And I love that it teaches him about music, dynamics, different sounds and even a little sign language. But if we ever thought that we'd get to sit and read a magazine for 45 minutes while he participates in class, we were sorely mistaken.
They say "parent participation" and they mean "parent participation."
However, I've discovered something – they don't just mean that the parents are participating by singing the goofy songs, or clapping along, they mean the parents are the ones who are skipping, hopping and frolicking around the classroom like complete idiots.
Seriously, at class tonight, I pretended some silk scarves were butterfly wings and flapped them as I danced around the room. Seriously. And I was not drunk.
But it is no secret at all that kids friggen love when you act like a complete and utter moron. When we're at home and I sing stupid songs to Riley about poop or Thomas the Tank Engine or something, he laughs his perfect little infectious laugh and all is right with the world.
But here's the thing, at class, in public, when I act like an idiot for my son's entertainment, and while all the other parents are acting like idiots for their children's enjoyment, my son, my adorable, sweet, hilarious son, stares at me blankly. Unmoving. Unblinking. And I can read the judgment in his eyes.
"I can't believe I'm related to her."
"She thinks I would find this funny? Seriously? Me?"
"What the hell is this woman doing?"
But I know something he doesn't – that pregnancy, childbirth and parenthood have robbed me of all my shame. I dance and frolick and flap my fake butterfly wings even faster and harder to show him that I'm really feeling the music and silently encouraging him to do the same.
And it hardly ever works. I'm there, in public, a grown ass woman, frolicking around a classroom while my son stares at me blankly.
And that, boys and girls, is parenthood. That and sleep deprivation.


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The whole idea behind starting the line was the fact that people are always telling me that I'm not really scary. And I suppose that's true. But I wanted to have something in my shop that fit the same "ScaryWhiteGirl." So the first thing I made was a LARGE version of what has become the Decapitated Dollies. This was going to be my new mascot. Jerome was sufficiently creeped out by the fact that I made a crocheted head that vaguely resembles me, so I declared myself accomplished at my goal.
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Obama makes pledge to Muslim world
US president Barack Obama said Israel and the Palestinians should resume peace negotiations, and he praised Saudi King Abdullah for putting forward an Arab plan for peace in the Middle East.
Obama, in his first interview with Arab television since becoming U.S. president, told al-Arabiya his administration would adopt a more comprehensive approach in its relations with the Muslim world.
"It is impossible for us to think only in terms of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and not think in terms of what's happening with Syria or Iran or Lebanon or Afghanistan and Pakistan," Obama told the Dubai-based Arabic cable channel. "These things are interrelated."
The new U.S. president, who took office last Tuesday, said he had begun to fulfill his campaign promises by naming former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell as Mideast peace envoy and sending him to the region within days of becoming president. Mitchell was traveling to the region on Monday evening.
"Sending George Mitchell to the Middle East is fulfilling my campaign promise that we're not going to wait until the end of my administration to deal with Palestinian and Israeli peace. We're going to start now," Obama said.
He said his administration wanted to begin by listening and talking to those involved in the conflict without prejudging their concerns.
"Ultimately we cannot tell either the Israelis or the Palestinians what is best for them," Obama said. "They are going to have to make some decisions."
"But I do believe that the moment is ripe for both sides to realise that the path that they are on is one that is not going to result in prosperity and security for their people. And that instead, it's time to return to the negotiating table."
He praised Saudi King Abdullah for the peace initiative he put forward, which calls for Arab peace with Israel in exchange for withdrawal for territories occupied since 1967.
"I might not agree with every aspect of the proposal, but it took great courage to put forward something that is as significant as that," Obama said.
"I think that there are ideas across the region of how we might pursue peace."
Noting that he has lived in Muslim countries and has Muslim family members, Obama said: "My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy."
He urged people in the Muslim world to judge him by his actions, pointing to the decision to close the U.S. prison in Guantanamo, Cuba, where detainees in the U.S. war on terror are being held.
He said he also would begin to follow through on his pledge to draw down U.S. troops in Iraq. Asked about the sharp verbal attacks on him by al-Qaeda leaders responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States in 2001, Obama said: "What that tells me is that their ideas are bankrupt."
"In my inauguration speech, I spoke about: You will be judged on what you've built, not what you've destroyed. And what they've been doing is destroying things," he said.
"I think the Muslim world has recognised that that path is leading no place, except more death and destruction."
On Iran, Obama said he believed it was important to use all the tools of U.S. power with Tehran, including diplomacy.
"It is important for us to be willing to talk to Iran, to express very clearly where our differences are, but (also) where there are potential avenues for progress," he said, adding that the administration would lay out its approach in the next few months.
"If countries like Iran are willing to unclench their fist, they will find an extended hand from us," he said.


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As social networking started becoming more and more integrated into our daily lives, Virgin capitalized on the moment for a piece promoting it's Helio phone.
A cheeky look at the new socialization norms, the piece takes an pseudo-scientific look at ways in which we communicate across a variety of digital devices.
The piece is filled with fun and engaging charts, infographics and copy. My favourite touch is revealed at the very end of the piece, in the legal type as a matter of fact:
I always like it when a piece rewards the reader for doing something unexpected. And what's more unexpected than someone actually reading the fine print on something.
This little trick accomplishes something pretty remarkable. It practically guarantees a positive feeling towards the piece, and by extension the brand that it's wrapped in. It speaks to the consumer on a more personal level, rather than feeling like the piece up to that point was smoke and mirrors for just another corporation. By playing with the language in the fine print, Helio instills a certain amount of trust and respect from a few simple words that they might not have gotten otherwise.


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My lovely wife Hilary beat me in her office pool by 2 games this season. We were neck and neck all year and she took advantage of my bad showing in week 16. Now we'll make our picks public for the NFL post-season and see if I can even things out. Enjoy:
Saints at Seahawks (Hilary)
Part of me wants to pick the Seahawks, just because the entire world is picking the Saints. But if I were a betting woman, which I'm not, logic tells me to pick the Saints. They have the veteran leadership, a ballsy coach, and yeah, they've done this before. I'm sure Qwest Field will be insanely loud, and weather in the Pacific Northwest can always be a factor, but the Seahawks have a new head coach, a questionable quarterback situation, and a 7-9 record, and I'm picking the Saints over the Seahawks 24-10.
Saints at Seahawks (Ross)
Sean Payton and Drew Brees. I think that says it all. Pete Carroll rallied his Seattle troops (and I'm really happy for Bill and Kenton) to take the NFC West. The Seahawks scratched and clawed their way in and won when they absolutely had to. Meanwhile, the Saints are starting to come to life just in time to make a statement and let the remaining teams know they intend to defend their title. Saints 35 – Seahawks 14.
Jets at Colts (Hilary)
The Colts screwed me several times in this year's Groove Commerce pick 'ems, but I always have a very hard time picking against Peyton Manning. And I'm not going to do it this time either. I love Rex Ryan, I miss Bart Scott, and I think the Jets will give the Colts a big scare. But I don't yet trust Sanchez and Manning is the most brilliant offensive player I've had the pleasure of watching. I don't think it's going to be a shoot-out, Colts over the Jets 20-14, OVERTIME (no going for field goals to win in this year's playoff overtime!).
Jets at Colts (Ross)
Last year I picked the Jets in this post-season match-up. Peyton Manning got me again. At this stage in his career and with a banged up offense I should feel fine going with the Jets, but I just can't go against #18 at home again. This very well could be the year where Rex Ryan's defense (Ravens or Jets) finally derails the Manning express, but I've seen it end the other way too often not to pick the Colts. I think a defensive touchdown wins this game, one way or the other. Colts 20 – Jets 14


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English 580: World Literature Spring 1998
Readings | Further Reading | Policies
Discussion Questions and Talking Points on T. Sivasankara Pillai 's Scavenger 's Son
[pagination refers to Heinemann edition, isbn 0-435-95082-7]
1. In the legal sense discrimination based on caste was outlawed in the new state of India from its inception. How does Scavenger 's Son, however, show the differences between legal definition and society 's practices?
2. Why do you suppose Chudalamutta [C] won 't answer his father [p. 4] after completing his first day of work? How do the emotions first appearing here become part of what forms C 's character later on in the novel?
3. C clearly wants to improve his lot in life. How does he go about doing this? The narrator says C learned "from his experiences of this day one" [p. 6]. What lesson has he learned here and what others does he later learn?
4. The novel was perhaps the first to dramatize the lives of the very lowest of the low in India. What does Pillai show about the people on the bottom rung of the social ladder? What are their priorities, values? What are their strengths? Weaknesses?
5. Almost from the beginning of the novel the scavengers consider "uniting." Why don 't they? Why aren 't they successful? See especially chapter 2 "The Union." What is the "difficult moral problem" C faces [p. 26]? Why does he react as he does, do what he does? What are we to make of the reported changes (re scavengers) after C 's death?
6. Be prepared to describe the relationship between C and Valli. How does it change over time? How do C 's and Valli 's ideas differ on love, happiness, childrearing, success, and so on? What do you think of C 's treatment of Valli? How does his treatment of her reveal his character?
7. How do the scavengers react to the smallpox epidemic? How do the village 's administrators? What of C 's role during this time? What creates the tension between C and the other characters during this epidemic? How does C react differently to the cholera epidemic than to the smallpox epidemic? Why?
8. Who get betrayed in the chapter "Betrayed"? Why? What is to be gained? What is revealed about the characters?
9. How do his wife 's pregnancy and birth of his son strain C 's values and ambitions? Who do these affect the relationship of C and Valli? What affect on C 's sense of self? Explain why the choice of the son 's name is important.
10. Explain how the "Childhood" chapter demonstrates the difficulties for low caste persons to achieve even fundamental change for the next generation. See p. 90, for example, where C for the first time "examined his whole life."
11. How do you read the ending of the novel? What of Mohanan 's "vengeance"--is it effective, useful, justified? What seem to be Pillai 's main points in the final chapter?


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What If . . .?
Happy Mother's Day . . .
We had some friends visit us today in celebration of Mother's Day. My usual, well ordered household was being overrun with the inexhaustible energy of young children. To return the house to some semblance of sanity, I suggested that they watch a movie.
They chose one of our family's favorite . . . Mary Poppins.
I've seen this movie an incalculable number of times. But on this particular day . . . chosen to honor women, who through their tireless efforts brought children into the world or for others, who adopted them——it was as if I was watching the movie for the very first time.
Glynis Johns . . . in the role of Mrs. Banks (dauntless crusader for women votes) was singing "Sister Suffragette" and it started me thinking . . .
What if . . .?
Hillary Clinton would have understood her role in shaping history?
She could have identified with the young college educated women of this generation——women . . . who would not allow themselves to be shackled with the rhetoric of yesteryear?
She would have ran her campaign to embrace the diversity of a nation . . . rather than covertly trying to prey on its fears and prejudices?
She would have understood that America was primed and ready to accept a "Woman" as President . . . but through her questionable statements and actions . . . has cast a disparaging cloud on whether women can be an influential voting bloc that turns elections?
Never has there been such a grandeur stage . . . for a woman to achieve immortality——all of it now——slipping from grasp . . . because of a question of character.
"The circumstances by which you live, determine your reputation . . . but the truth you believe . . . determines your character."
As the Mother's Day celebration winds down in my household . . . . I can still hear Glynis Johns singing "Sister Suffragette."
I'm left to ponder, how different things could have been for Hillary Clinton, had she simply asked . . .
What if . . .?
Bradley Booth/Freelance Commercial Writer/Author


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Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2018
Monday–Friday, March 5–9, 2018; Los Angeles, California
Session G60: Poster Session I
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
LACC Room: West Hall A
Abstract: G60.00237 : Measuring Plasmonic Dichroism with Electron Vortex Beams*
Cameron Johnson
(Department of Physics, Univ of Oregon)
Cameron Johnson
(Department of Physics, Univ of Oregon)
Tyler Harvey
(IV. Physical Institute, Georg-August-Universität )
Benjamin McMorran
(Department of Physics, Univ of Oregon)
Plasmonic circular dichroism has been demonstrated in clusters of metallic nanoparticles with chiral structure by measuring the difference in absorption spectra between right and left circularly polarized light, but is limited in the energy scales it can probe and spatial resolution it can achieve. Electron vortex beams, which carry quantized amounts of orbital angular momentum, can be realized in transmission electron microscopes. These vortex beams can probe excitation energies ranging from meV to keV and can achieve atomic resolution. Recently, simulations have shown that metallic nanoparticles with a chiral structure can exhibit a dichroic signal resolvable with electron energy loss spectroscopy when excited with right- and left-handed electron vortex beams analogous to the circular dichroism displayed with optical spectroscopies using polarized light. Here we present initial experimental results and further simulations showing intrinsic and extrinsic dichroism in chiral nanoparticle structures and their dependence on the amount of orbital angular momentum being transferred from electron vortex beams to plasmon modes.
*This material is based upon work supported by the Department of Energy under Grant No. DE-SC0010466. C. J. also acknowledges the support from the NSF GRFP.
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China's middle class surges, while India's lags behind
China and India both succeeded in slashing poverty from 2001 to 2011. But while that contributed to a rapidly growing middle class in China, it did little to increase the number of Indians who could be considered middle income.
Black child poverty rate holds steady, even as other groups see declines
The share of American children living in poverty has declined slightly since 2010 as the nation's economy has improved. But the poverty rate has changed little for black children, the group most likely to be living in poverty.
World Population by Income
How Many Live on How Much, and Where
A Global Middle Class Is More Promise than Reality
The first decade of this century witnessed an historic reduction in global poverty and a near doubling of the number of people who could be considered middle income. But the emergence of a truly global middle class is still far from fruition.
6 key takeaways about the world's emerging middle class
During the first decade of this century, the world experienced a dramatic drop in the number of people living in poverty and a significant rise in the number who could be considered middle income, but the majority of the global population remains low income.
Are Americans ready for Obama's 'middle class' populism?
Trends in public opinion are in line with Obama's agenda: The priority given to deficit reduction has slipped somewhat, while public support for rebuilding the nation's infrastructure has increased.
Public is sharply divided in views of Americans in poverty
Poverty is an issue that deeply divides the American public when it comes to how much of a role government should play in alleviating the problems of the poor.
One-in-four Native Americans and Alaska Natives are living in poverty
On his visit to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota today, President Obama is using his first stop at a Native American reservation while in office to highlight the challenges Native Americans face. In an op-ed published in Indian Country Today, Obama called the poverty and high school dropout rates among Native Americans […]
Chart of the Week: How America's poor can still be rich in stuff
While most manufactured goods are considerably cheaper than they were three decades ago, many key services are much more expensive — contributing to the paradox of greater material abundance among even poor Americans.
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The current federal minimum wage falls below the poverty threshold for most households. A new CBO report says raising the minimum will increase income for millions of low-wage workers but cost thousands their jobs.


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A Korean Aussie adoptee goes back home for the first time. Hilarity ensues?
Eat raw garlic
I love garlic. Recipes that call for only one measly clove of garlic are to be ignored and ridiculed. But eating raw garlic isn't something we do in Australia. The first person I ever saw eating raw garlic was my Umma. I thought that was pretty hardcore.
When you go to Korean BBQ nearly every week, you start creating your own style of lettuce wrap. Onions offset the rich, heavy taste of grilled meat. But I felt like there was something missing. So I threw some raw garlic in there. It's like a mid-chew palate cleanser. Now let's kiss!
Cook a meal only using chopsticks and scissors
It's all you need. Saves on washing up, too.
Make exciting ramyeon / ramen / instant noodles
In Australia, 2 minute noodles are a popular snack food for children, poor students and extremely lazy. Korea – and other Asian countries – go all out when it comes to 2 minute noodles. There are hundreds of flavours to choose from and cost under $1. Convenience stores even offer microwaves, hot water stations and tables to cater for ramyeon-lovers.
My YouTube addiction led to finding videos of people putting more things in their ramyeon. You mean there's more things you can put in there apart from those dinky sachets of MSG and salt? Amazing!
This is my favourite ramyeon combination:
1 x Shin Ramyeon
1 x chopped green onions
1 x a green leafy vegetable like bok choy. Spinach is good too.
1 x mushrooms. I like enoki mushrooms because they are delicious and ridiculously cheap in Korea.
1 x chopped meat of your choice. Pork belly (samgyeopsal) also very cheap in Korea. Korean Hanoo beef if you're feeling fancy.
1 x egg
Poach or fry the egg and set it aside. Throw all the other stuff into water and boil until it's cooked. Pour your ramyeon creation into a bowl. Plop the egg on top. Stab the egg with your chopstick so the goopy yolky bits get mixed up with the noodles. That's it!
Note: Although most people call this "ramen", Koreans call it "ramyeon". "Myeon" (면) means "noodle" in Korean, which comes from the Chinese word for noodle – "miàn" (麵)
Use bamboo salt toothpaste
After eating all that garlic and ramyeon, you gotta keep your mouth fresh, right? You can buy mint toothpaste here, but bamboo salt is a Korean favourite. It tastes exactly how it sounds. Apparently brushing your teeth with salt dates back to the Joseon Era. Ye olde fancy Korean folks would infuse the salt with bamboo to reap its medicinal benefits.
It's different, but I like it. It feels cleaner than mint toothpaste, like you've given your chompers a good old-fashioned scrub and popped one of those pine tree air fresheners in your mouth.
Be really into makeup and skincare
Korean makeup is cheap as hell and there's a cosmetic store in every neighbourhood. My usual makeup routine is powder, eyeliner and lipgloss. Now I can't leave the house without BB cream, a splash of eyeshadow and that orangey-red lip colour that is so popular with Korean women. Playing with different shades of eyeshadow is so much fun!
So why now? I think it's because when I was growing up in Australia, all the beauty magazines and ads and TV shows and whatnot show how to do makeup for Western women. Which doesn't work for me. My eyes are a different shape and my skin is a different tone (note: not yellow, btw). But now I'm surrounded by Koreans and I find myself paying attention to how they do their makeup. Oh, so THAT'S how you do it! Thanks, impeccable-looking Korean ladies! You're inspiration for my face.
Hang out at the cat cafe
Life gets stressful when your job is to communicate with about 90 shrieking Korean children all day in a language that they don't understand. So sometimes I go chill out at the cat cafe. Patting cats, or simply watching them frolic about with fluffy toys, is a great way to remind yourself that life and the world are not entirely terrible.
Hang out at the jjimjilbang
Another form of stress relief. Because taking off all of your clothes and getting into a huge, warm, bath is never a bad idea.
Use a language other than English every day
This seems obvious, but it's crazy when I think about it. Most older Koreans do not speak English. The English level of young Koreans here is much lower than the bigger cities like Seoul or Busan. So I have to speak the tiny, crappy bit of Korean I know – from ordering food to sorting out my bank account.
I get around on public transport using the Daum maps app, which is entirely in Korean. It's actually a fantastic app once you figure it out – it tells you in real time where your bus is and the estimated time it will take to arrive at your stop.
I can't change my school's computer to English, so I've just had to figure out how to use Microsoft Office in Korean.
I have to call class attendance every day using a list of names entirely in Hangul.
Sometimes I don't have a coteacher while teaching class, and resort to writing instructions in Korean on the board for the kids.
Some of the teachers at school don't speak English and I need to ask them things like "where is the printer paper?" "where are the scissors?" "where are my students?"
It's like cracking codes. The code resets when I get a word wrong or my accent comes out. Sometimes I cheat and call the Interpreter Hotline – usually about parcel deliveries. The postal service here is quite reliant on phone communication and I find talking on the phone in Korean really hard.
Plus, being ethnically Korean means that locals assume I'm fluent and chat away to me. I'm currently taking Korean language classes from a local private tutor, so even though these little conversations in Korean are painfully embarrassing, it's also the best way to practice learning a second language.
Travel 3 hours by bus to another city almost every weekend
I have taken a 3 hour bus to Seoul and back again over a weekend just to eat Mexican food. I've also visited Busan just to go to a party with unlimited wine. I book a bus ticket, trawl through hostels on Booking.com and visit to another city nearly every weekend.
In Brisbane, I rarely went out of the city – despite the fact that I live about an hour away from two beach areas, islands and loads of different towns. But when you're living in a small city in Korea, you get the feeling that you'd better use your time wisely. If I don't get out of town, I stay in my tiny apartment on the internet, buried in a pile of chocolate wrappers. Which is depressing and doesn't make for interesting blog updates.
love, love, love your (food) blog! guess crazy noshing and puttering with make up is all in our genes… Your Ajumma
Oh yes, you can do lots of stuff with the ramyeon. I've tried doing a cheese baked ramyeon with sausages and broccoli once and it was superb! 😉
I came here through Mabel's blog (I think), and I love your stories about your reunion with your birth family. Very interesting and touching to read!


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text: This ornate document is a marriage contract from the Mughal Exhibition. What struck me about it initially was the grandeur of it. It shows the importance of such a document which is certainly a contrast to the documents we see today. Contemporary documents tend to be white pieces of paper printed with blank ink and no matter how important the document, it is rare that it would be more impressive than that. In a tangible sense, it de-emphasizes the importance of what is written in the contract. It is less stirring to a person to see a regular printed piece of paper than something like this. Historically, it may have been in order to establish the importance of the emperor that his marriage contract for one wife (thought he had a few) was this grand. Perhaps because it was his favourite wife? The description on the item said it was for a 19 year old woman whom he took with him when he was exiled as she was his favourite. It bears the seal, interestingly, of his eldest son. This reflects the societal norms of the time as it shows that polygamy was perfectly normal and accepted, to the point that the son of one wife would endorse a marriage between his father and another wife. It contains a description of the amount of money etc that would be given to the wife over the course of the marriage which I also found interesting. There was a much more business-like aspect to love than perhaps exists today but this does not seem demeaning to either party involved. It merely seems like a nice gesture. But it does give a different meaning to the idea of a marriage "contract".


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Beginning early next year, the tiny titans of the Johnny DC line hit a growth spurt as creators Art Baltazar and Franco Aureliani join artist Mike Norton to launch the all-new ongoing series "Young Justice," which takes its name and characters from the upcoming animated series hitting airwaves this November on Cartoon Network.
The forthcoming comic book ands animated series focus on young heroes Robin – the Dick Grayson incarnation – Kid Flash Wally West, Superboy, Miss Martian, Aqualad and the archer Artemis. Additionally, both take place on Earth-16 as part of the DC Universe Multiverse. Although the spirit of the characters and world remains the same as regular DC continuity, there are some differences between the regular DCU and Earth-16 – mainly that super heroes are relatively new to the world of "Young Justice" and the Justice League itself has only been around roughly three or four years. The comic book partially serves as a tie-in to the show, telling further adventures of the young heroes and follows in the wake of the recent restructuring of the Johnny DC line, with certain titles seeing cancellation and others seeing re-launches.


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"The significance of Jesus' wounded body is his deliberate and conscious holding of the pain of the world and refusing to send it elsewhere." This is from Father Rohr's Daily Meditation for today.
I see this — what Jesus is described here as having done — as a step. A brave and courageous step, but a step nonetheless, one in a series.
Yes, it's a big deal not to spew out all that pain back into the world, but all that pain has to go somewhere. It needs to be discharged, albeit safely.
For that I think there are techniques — including the tried and true, "Dear God, I can't do this myself, please help me." Which can also be expressed as a request to the universe for dilution of dense negative energy or for sending it where it can be transformed and recycled into new life and positive energy. It goes not back into this world of ours but elsewhere. I suspect it is a step that requires outside help, that humans (incarnated spirit) can't do it on our own.
I think it took someone of Jesus' make-up to take the step of capturing the pain, but I am not convinced his step was the end of the process. Vacuuming all that up may have been helpful, and he may have done it as well as it could be done, but I don't think the outcome of that step was the final phase of the process. I could see it as a watershed moment, but not as an ultimate one.
I actually more often see it as a template for what more of us can learn to do ourselves, although, as I say, I see capturing pain as only a step in the process of draining our swamp. Whether we can also take the step of discharging the pain safely is another matter, and if we can't, the next athlete in the relay will take that step, the way I see what's going on.


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GACKT talks a bit about how Show Your Heart was formed and how they were able to successfully deliver over 60 tons of goods to some of the victims in the disaster areas.
Pictures included in the blog are from the staff who helped deliver the goods.
GACKT Blog 2011.03.19
Thanks to ashura_oh and amaiakuyume for translating!
ashura_oh: Blog Translation
amaiakuyume: Blog Translation
Also, here are some tweets and pics about the deliveries and the goods themselves, thanks to sakura_liz at the Dears Com.!
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It's time for a Disney addition of D&D Mixed Reviews. This time myself (Derek) and Denis will be taking a look at the live action Disney film, Tomorrowland. The review will be split into four categories; PLOT, PERFORMANCES, PRODUCTION AND OVERALL FILM QUALITY. The review will then end with a score of SEE IN THEATRES, WAIT FOR RENTAL or PASS.
But first, here's a look at the films plot.
The film follows Casey Newton (Britt Robertson) the daughter of a former NASA engineer. From an early age, Casey has had the ability to figure out technology seconds after seeing it used. With this talent she's recruited by Athena (Raffey Cassidy), a robot, who gives her a pin. Once she touches it, Casey is brought to a future world where just about anything is possible.
In hopes to go there again she and Athena track down Frank (George Clooney) an older man who spend years in the Tomorrowland. However, there are forces that don't her to get there and the two must flee from an army of robots. Once in Tomorrowland, it's up to the three try to stop David Nix (Hugh Laurie) from trying to destroy the future.
If the description above seems convoluted it's cause the plot is a little all over the place. While there are a lot of solid ideas in this film, they don't end up meshing together well. This is due, in no small part, to the cringe worthy dialogue. To say that most of the lines for this film are "on-the-nose" would be an understatement as groaner lines are soon followed by more dialogue that'll leave your face in your palms. Add on top of that a plot that does little to explain anything and a message that so broad it stops just short of "Hey humans! Don't be a bunch of A$$holes!" and this film ends up being more then a little insulting at times.
Ok. I'm gonna break some sh*t down for y'all to help emphasis how this movie is screwed up in my opinion. Again, my opinion so no fire and pitchforks! Tomorowland started strong, with it's first act introducing us the backstories of the two central characters and giving us glimpses of Tomorowland. Then the second act came, with the retro store and the endless driving, the movie started to crumble. It chugged along through set piece after set piece with tedious pacing and then when we finally get to the third act, we get more talking and talking and talking leading to a finale that it about as impactful as ghost's high five. This movie that started so strong, and felt like a great sci fi movie that embraced optimism instead boiled down to a lesson that Hugh Laurie gives about how we all get hard over our apocalypse fantasies, in a monologue that I thought at one point should have just had Hugh look directly into the camera as ask if we were listening. It's went from subtle to blunt so fast, I could barely comprehend what I watched as I walked a bit dazed out of the theatre.
With so many terrible lines of dialogue, there's little time for the cast to really shine. Clooney and Laurie do a passible job playing their respective roles, but the rest of the cast is left playing cardboard cutouts of characters. The film's young star Britt Robertson doesn't really come off poorly, but seems to lack any presence on film. Sure, she has her "what is happening?" manic moments, but past those wacky minutes she blends in with the background. The one actor who stuck out like a sour thumb was Casey's father and NASA Engineer. Try saying Tim McGraw, NASA Engineer out loud and not laugh. It's quite difficult. Overall, no one is impressive.
The cast is great, they do their best with some of the on-the-nose dialogue. Kudos goes to Clooney who actually plays a character, he's not the utterly Cloonster! Which is nice, he's embraces the craggy old man inside and that was great. It is a bit weird that he has a romanticish relationship with a robotic ten year old girl, but Clooney manages to make it fairly non creepy.
Finally, the films strong suit, overall the production is impressive. Like I said in the PLOT section, there are a lot of great ideas in Tomorrowland, but the film ends up getting in the way. From the future tech to the impressive recreation of 1960s Disneyland, the film has a sharp eye for details. That being said, much of the films second half ends up feeling like a Star Wars prequel with green screens replacing sets. While these tools are expected in a film that's supposed to take us to the future, it doesn't stop the film from looking fake and at times lame. But the practical effects and props are all impressive.
The production was great, I liked the distinctive style and prop differences between the two time periods. All the effects were quite natural and seamless. But maybe it's just me, but that little British girl sounded like all her dialogue was ADR'd. Like all of it. Maybe it's just me, or maybe it's the robot thing. But that stuck out to me.
When I first heard the premise of Tomorrowland, I was excited. There was a mystery behind it, that keep me thinking about my memories of going to Disney World when I was young. This deepened with the film's inclusion of It's a Small World and the Carousel of Progress which took me back to that time again, however the film ended up crushing my hopes. With lame dialogue and lacklustre characters, I can't recommend you leave your house to see this film, and for some reason that nearly kills the five year old version of me. This is film thats best saved for Long Flights or for instant streaming when the time comes. WAIT FOR RENTAL
Tomorowland is a new idea… poorly realized in it's later parts and promoted with a needless mystery but an original idea non the less. The intricate backstory, great sci fi style and Disney flavour seemed like an amazing setup for a timeless Disney classic. But it's bad, and you should avoid spending your hard earned dollars on a movie such as this. Take you kids to Mad Max instead, sure theres violence and language but at least they'll be watching something that makes sense and embraces it's world. And you can be referred to by your kids friends as the "cool parents". WAIT FOR RENTAL
Tomorrowland was produced Walt Disney Pictures and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.


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Security Manager's Journal: Tracking down rogue IT
We also found that a business group had contracted for the use of a SaaS knowledge base for our customers. Some very sensitive, proprietary information was being stored on that site, which offered no encryption in transit (SSL) or at rest, no proper account management and no redundancy if the site went down. Sadly, our intellectual property was potentially being put at risk of exposure in this way when we already have a very robust knowledge base. Unfortunately, this particular group knew nothing about it and set off on its own to fill its needs.
We found several other rogue IT projects that will have to be dealt with either by sanctioning them or forcing them into an early retirement in favor of more robust corporate solutions.
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Former Irish president gives personal perspective on global issues
"I was quite emotionally shaken to see these long lines of patient parents and very often the children dying in their arms because they couldn't get to a feeding station in time."
Human rights and the dignity of all people dominated Mary Robinson's Distinguished Speakers Series address March 29 in the Center for the Arts Mainstage. The former president of Ireland firmly delivered her message of global social justice with the lilting cadences of her Irish brogue. Robinson was the Student Choice Speaker of UB's Graduate Student Association.
Robinson, president of Ireland from 1990 to 1997 and the former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said she first became interested in human rights as the lone girl in a family of five siblings. Her birth order put her squarely between two groups of brothers. After earning her law degree at Trinity College in Dublin, Robinson spent a year at Harvard University where she earned a master's in law and absorbed the heady idealism of America in the late 1960s. Returning to Ireland, Robinson gradually found her way into political life and national prominence. After becoming Trinity College's youngest professor at 25, she was elected to the Irish Senate, filling one of Trinity College's traditional three seats. Whereas "elderly, male professors" had filled these seats before, Robinson was challenged by friends and admirers to seek the seat as a female contender bent on change.
At the time, Ireland was "very much dominated by the majority Catholic religion, understandably," Robinson said. "But it was also reflected in the laws of the land—no divorce, no access to family planning, etc." Indeed, she felt that Ireland needed to be "a more open and pluralist country," and so introduced legislation to legalize family planning. At that point, married women could not obtain the contraceptive pill without a doctor's attesting to the patient's difficulty in regulating menstruation. "There were a huge number of Irish women with cycling problems," Robinson remarked wryly.
To be suddenly denounced in pulpits and in Catholic newspaper editorials—even to receive hate mail—deeply affected Robinson and her husband. But she would not be deterred and resolved "to stand up to bullies."
Notwithstanding her national profile, Robinson was surprised when asked by the Irish Labour Party to seek the Irish presidency. The Irish bookmakers, she joked, gave her candidacy exceedingly low odds. Yet she prevailed, becoming Ireland's first female president and went on to make humanitarianism a hallmark of her administration.
In leading the country and devising progressive policy, Robinson said she was inspired by traditional Irish resilience both historically and while visiting many of the nation's smaller communities that lacked access to subsidies, grants or other economic resources. "What I noted going around the country was the spirit of community and voluntary involvement, and that the Gaelic word 'meitheal' was used a lot. Meitheal is a hard word to translate, but it basically means 'linked to the other,'" she said.
Both during and following her presidency, Robinson moved continually to expand her worldview by traveling to Somalia, Rwanda and other troubled lands. In 1992, Irish aid workers in Somalia requested that their president come to Somalia to draw attention to warlords' fighting and how it was preventing food getting to stations in Mogadishu and elsewhere. Realizing she would have to ensure Irish governmental support for a presidential visit there, Robinson devised a crafty solution. "We arranged that Irish television would come with the aid agencies to my official residence, knowing that at a certain point the Irish aid agencies would ask me, 'President, would you come to Somalia?' and I would say, "Yes, the Irish government will agree.'"
The Somali visit was harrowing, Robinson recalled. "I was quite emotionally shaken to see these long lines of patient parents and very often the children dying in their arms because they couldn't get to a feeding station in time." In 1994, she became the first head of state to visit Rwanda following the genocide there. These visits helped Robinson establish an especially meaningful post-presidential career wherein she could continue her humanitarian efforts and harness her visibility and world prominence. She described her role as chair of the U.N. Commission for Human Rights, a position she held from 1997 to 2002. She related how she came to revere the unyielding persistence of Eleanor Roosevelt, who chaired the commission that drew up the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted in 1948. Referring to Roosevelt's prodding of her fellow commissioners, Robinson observed that the former First Lady "was quite bossy, which is quite appropriate if you're chairing a group of lawyers."
Today, Robinson said, she carries with her a copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, noting her special admiration for two under-recognized articles that express shared values and demonstrate that "dignity comes before human rights." This is precisely what the Arab Spring revealed to the world, she said, namely, that the desire for human rights is not exclusive to Western societies.
Robinson underscored the importance of environmentalism, in particular, the need to connect issues of finite resources with poverty. She is now president of the Mary Robinson Foundation—Climate Justice, and her conversations with women in underdeveloped countries "boil down to variations on access to water and freedom from violence," she said. "Globalization must work for all of the world's countries."
Noting her membership in the Group of Elders that includes former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Robinson described how these world leaders "come together and discuss issues and country problems and more global issues. We are also trying to encourage the idea of a global village."
In closing, Robinson acknowledged social media's power to do good. "From now on, we will have more and more communication though social media. All will not be positive, but there is a great potential for positive messaging. It seems to me we've never needed so much to bridge the divide [both in the U.S. and worldwide]. There needs to be a willingness to solve problems together and even more so to solve problems globally."


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For a couple of days I was farming ressources to improve my crafting level. I have always enjoyed crafting in mmo's.
Some mmo's have better crafting system than others, but I often find, it's not even enough develloped.
The color system is always close to be the same : white items are common, green are uncommon, blue = rare, purple = very rare.
Some times we have yellow or orange for legendary and another color for ultra rare.
To be able to craft purple items is good already, but I would like sometimes to be able to make some addition to the purple. It would be great, to be able to create your own items with your own prefix or suffixes.