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One of the essential tools for the modern college student is a laptop. In fact, a student can get by with no other educational tool, pen and paper included, but a trusty laptop. The landscape for education has changed drastically thanks to the availability information in a digital format and the Internet.
However, college students should not just get themselves any laptop that they can get their hands on. It's extremely easy to lose track of buying a laptop that's appropriate for school use, especially with so many options available. Most people simply can't resist adding up their listed specifications just to squeeze in more room for their favorite games, not realizing that they're losing track of their intended purpose for the device. Here's a handy guide to what makes a laptop one that is ideal for college use.
- The weigh-in
Laptops come in different forms, which mean they also have varying sizes. Extremely heavy gaming laptops are out of the question. It's only good for classroom use for pranking. And even so, it's a tiring prank that's not really that funny and would only make people think the owner wants to show off their expensive slab of gaming laptop. The ideal weight is subjective. But relative to the student who would be using it, obviously. Students with large frames can help themselves with more hefty laptops. Conversely, people who have small frames and overall size should shoot for lighter options.
- Size
While size and weight is almost always proportional, there are actually plenty of instances in laptops where this isn't the case. Some manufacturers are actually forced into a corner when creating larger laptops that they opt to use materials that are extremely lightweight. They end up with laptops that are a few grams lighter than smaller ones. The screen size should be one that can provide comfort as well as sufficient screen real estate for commonly used programs to be used side-by-side. Using a small screen with a word processor and a website open vis-a-vis is going to negatively affect productivity.
- Ample juice to get through the day
One of the most important qualities of a college laptop is battery life. College students are always on the move. Whether from one class to the next or from the dorm to the nearest coffee shop, being mobile goes hand-in-hand with college life. This is why laptops for students have to have enough battery life for reasonable use throughout the day without needing to be connected to the wall. On the other hand, you need to know that unlike other specifications for laptops, battery life is still largely subjective. Manufacturers advertise battery life hours without indicating what type of testing they did to squeeze out that much. This is why it's important to check a reputable review site and read their college laptop reviews. These reviews help a lot in providing an educated advice on some of the best options that are currently available in the market.


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Woman caught smuggling vodka into sporting event inside salami sandwich
(FoxNews.com) - A sporting fan in the U.K. was recently forced to go without the liquor sandwich she so thoughtfully prepared for a day at the races.
On Sunday, authorities at the Southwell horse track in Nottinghamshire, England, reportedly caught an attendee trying to smuggle a 350-milliliter bottle of vodka into the venue by way of a large sandwich filled with salami and tomato. According to the Telegraph, security guards were tipped off by the weight of the "sandwich," and asked the woman to open it for inspection.
"This was spotted by security yesterday," wrote Southwell's social media team on Twitter, alongside a photo of the Glen's Vodka bottle nestled inside a submarine roll.
A spokesman for Southwell added to Fox News that security took the sandwich from the woman, but didn't dispose of it out of respect for her inventiveness.
"We usually confiscate the alcohol and destroy it, but on this occasion, impressed by the lady's ingenuity, we decided she could collect it after racing had finished," said the spokesperson. "Needless to say, she didn't collect the bottle and it is still sat in the racecourse office.
Clearly having a bit of fun with their find, the track also asked Twitter users to submit any witty one-liners that came to mind — and followers didn't disappoint.
This was spotted by security yesterday, you hide it, we find it! Let us know your witty strapline suggestions and you could win a prize!! pic.twitter.com/2bXVdIIHJa— Southwell Racecourse (@Southwell_Races) August 21, 2017
"Half In The Baguette"— jOMG (@josefoshea) August 21, 2017
Caught bread-handed!!— Henacre Racing Club (@henacreracing) August 21, 2017
A strange thing to Putin your sandwich.— Danny Harrison (@dannyaharrison) August 21, 2017
Job done!!! pic.twitter.com/kHXt0JdZTx— Daniel Kilcoyne (@djkilcoyne) August 21, 2017
A representative for Southwell, however, claims that the track has already seen its fair share of sneaky attendees, but the sandwich trick was altogether new to them.
"It was a bit of an unusual one for us," the spokesperson told the Nottingham Post.
Southwell's spokesperson added to Fox News that they plan on giving out a prize for the best comment to their Twitter post, but they haven't yet decided what it is.
"The prize is to be determined, but I can confirm it will not be either a salami [sandwich] or the confiscated bottle of vodka," he said.

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Posted by Autism Speaks Vice President for Clinical Programs Clara Lajonchere. Dr. Lajonchere was the chair of the organizing committee for Autism Speaks' 2013 National Conference for Families and Professionals, held in Columbus, Ohio, this past weekend.
Even while I'm recovering from the jetlag, it's a pleasure to reflect on the enthusiastic response to this past weekend's national conference. First, we were thrilled to be welcoming more than 400 parents, professionals and self-advocates – all of them hungry for information and discussion.
As I was facilitating sessions from morning till night, some of my best opportunities to talk with participants came after the conference – at the Columbus airport. There, one person after another approached me to say "this was the most amazing conference I've been to in my life." And I know how many conferences many of these parents and professionals attend!
I talked with families that were beyond grateful for the practical tools they gained from our hands-on workshops. This year, they said, even the science sessions stood out in their practicality. Among their favorites was David Miller's science session "Genetics for the Real World," which included an extended question and answer period.
For the first time, many parents said, they understood how genetic testing can help guide their children's treatment. You can imagine how happy I was to hear the same thing from doctors. After all, this is the mission of the Autism Speaks Autism Treatment Network (AS-ATN) – to raise the standard of autism care beyond its 17 centers across North America.
I knew we had hit a sweet spot when I heard doctors say they were "riveted" by the same presentations that were such a hit with parents.
This was particularly true about the sessions and workshops that reflected this year's emphasis on the transition to adulthood. On the medical side, we had physician Susan Conners, of Boston's Lurie Center for Autism, discussing the key steps to planning adolescent and adult care. On the psycho-social side, developmental psychologist Julie Taylor led a science session on preparing for a successful adulthood. (Also see Dr. Taylor's video blog here.)
I particularly appreciated the self-advocates who approached me with offers to help craft and design transition and adult medical services. They want to be involved, and we want their input. One young woman, for example, wants to help improve the emergency room experience for those with autism. It's awesome to have this engagement.
In integrating feedback from last year's conference, we also had many more booths and exhibitors at this year's conference. They included local Ohio organizations as well as groups from across country. The founder of Talking About Curing Autism (TACA), for example, traveled from California to join us. In addition to being an exhibitor, she became an engaging part of many question and answer sessions.
In closing, I want to extend my personal thanks to all the parents, providers and self-advocates who talked with me during and after the conference. More kudos go to the tremendous team of people who've been working for a full year to make this conference a success.
We hope many more of you can join us next year!
Editor's note: Complete coverage of Autism Speaks 2013 National Conference for Families and Professionals – including video blogs by presenters and parents – can be found here.
The Autism Speaks National Conference for Families and Professionals was made possible by the passion of Autism Speaks' community of families, volunteers and donors. It received additional support through the AS-ATN's role as the Autism Intervention Research Network on Physical Health (AIR-P), a federally funded program of the Health Resources and Services Administration.


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WASHINGTON — Online retail sales were jumping for "Cyber Monday," the key Web shopping day following the US Thanksgiving holiday weekend, a survey showed.
IBM said its cloud-based digital analytics platform, tracking shopping in real time, showed sales up 26 percent from last year as of 2000 GMT.
"All signs point to Cyber Monday being a banner year," IBM said on its Digital Analytics Benchmark blog.
"The multiscreen shopper is out in full force this year."
The number of consumers using a mobile device to visit a retailer's site was 21 percent, and 11 percent of consumers were using their mobile device to make a purchase, according to IBM.
"Apple continue to be a big winner with the iPhone driving more retail shopping than any other device with traffic reaching 8.3 percent versus 6.7 percent and 5.9 percent for iPad and Android respectively," the blog post said.
The company based its data on "the industry's only cloud-based Web analytics platform that tracks more than a million e-commerce transactions a day."
The hot Monday sales came after surveys showed heavy online spending for Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving.
Online shoppers spent a record of $1.042 billion on Friday, surpassing last year's Black Friday haul by 26 percent, according to the consulting firm comScore.
A total of 57.3 million Americans visited online retail sites on Black Friday, representing an increase of 18 percent versus a year ago, the firm said.


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HOTEL EL GANZO Los Cabos
Los Cabos may be one of Mexico's biggest tourism destinations, but at Hotel El Ganzo Los Cabos, you'll feel like you've arrived someplace special, someplace different. It's a hotel that prizes creativity, originality and service — not to mention style and comfort.
Located less than 20 minutes from San Jose International Airport, Hotel El Ganzo exudes a cool vibe, from the tip of its rooftop sushi bar to the edge of the dramatic infinity pool, and right down into the underground recording studio, where resident artists and visiting performers work their magic.
One of the first things you might notice about Hotel El Ganzo Los Cabos is the style. The name itself ("El Ganzo" means "The Goose") is a nod to the property's long, white, sinewy exterior —the eye-catching work of a collaborative heterogeneus mix of different architects led by Pablo Sanchez-Navarro who created a space that blends modernist style with rustic elements, with clean white architecture juxtaposing in eye-catching ways with warm wood tones and bright accents.
We've topped it off with luxurious amenities to create a hotel that's cool yet comfortable, pristine yet welcoming.
Hotel El Ganzo Los Cabos provides plenty of opportunities for rest, rejuvenation and pampering — but you'll also be able to indulge as much as you like, with our well-crafted menus of gourmet cuisine and artisan cocktails. We also give you the chance to expand your mind, with a host of curated arts and music programs, where you'll be able to see live performances and perhaps chat with artists about their work. And its location at the base of the Puerto Los Cabos marina means that you'll never be far from an array enticing Los Cabos activities.
This is Los Cabos like you've never seen it before. Step inside, and you'll be stepping away from the ordinary.


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Seeing that the weather has such a huge impact on climbing, canyoning and other outdoor activities, we have now included some additional weather forecasting and reporting resources to help you plan your activities. For more weather reporting information go to our weather page.
|Kids ClimbingIt's great to see the "little people" out there having fun on rock or plastic, it's bad when they show you up. It often amazes me when toddlers climb up onto kitchen bench tops or other high places only to be chastised by their parents who know all too well how much damaged may result if the toddler should fall.Rob Drummond took this photo of his son Alec (4yrs 10months) indoor climbing. Rob showed him a roof problem and that's nearly all he did all day.
The photo was taken at the Hangout in Perth.
Great work Alec
|Monique climbs into the record booksThe newspaper article told us how Monique Forestier of Mt Victoria has become only the second Australian woman ever to climb a grade 30 climb.The grade 30 climb that they speak of is a three star climb at Bowens Creek called "Pigs in Space". [more]
New Owners for Rocksports
Rocksports, the well known outdoor store has new owners and a new name. The new owners Ian Cross and Karen Rickard reported in a Blue Mountains Gazette article (28th May 03) that they now have an improved ranges of services and products and are attracting greater numbers of tourists.They are now trading as Blue Mountains Outdoor Pty Ltd and can be contacted on 47393152, they are operating from the same address at 1A Ross St, Glenbrook.[more]
|Monique Forestieron fireOn Friday 11th July 03, Monique became Australia's hardest female climber when she put up a new grade 31 route. Garth Miller climbed Monique's new route confirming its grade. [more]
Out of Reach
When aid climbing, it's often necessary to "top step" in your aiders or etriers in order to reach the next placement [more]
On this site you will find anything you need to know about Rock Climbing.


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Lewisville, Texas (PRWEB) August 21, 2015
First Choice Emergency Room opened its new Conroe facility at 7am today. The new facility is located 3840 West Davis Street, Conroe, Texas and is open 24-7.
"We are pleased to join the Conroe community and look forward to delivering the highest quality emergency medical care here," said Dr. Smaistrla, Facility Medical Director of First Choice Emergency Room Conroe.
To celebrate the opening, First Choice Emergency Room made a donation to Conroe High School at First Choice Emergency Room's ribbon cutting with the Conroe Chamber of Commerce. Following the ribbon cutting, First Choice Emergency Room hosted a medical community open house.
On Saturday from 10a-12p, First Choice Emergency Room will host a community event and the Conroe High School band will perform. Sunny 99.1 will be on-site from 10am-12pm giving away concert tickets. WoodlandsHits.com will also be at the event.
First Choice Emergency Room facilities are equipped with a full radiology suite, including CT scanner, Digital X-ray, Ultrasound, as well as on-site laboratories certified by the Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments (CLIA) and accredited by the Commission on Office Laboratories Accreditation (COLA). The facilities are staffed exclusively with board-certified physicians and emergency trained registered nurses.
To learn more about First Choice Emergency Room and the new Conroe facility, please visit http://www.fcer.com/locations/houston-map/conroe/.
About First Choice Emergency Room
First Choice Emergency Room (FCER.com) is the nation's leading network of independent freestanding emergency rooms; it is both the largest and the oldest. First Choice Emergency Room is revolutionizing the delivery of emergency medical services for adult and pediatric emergencies by offering patients convenient, neighborhood access to emergency medical care. First Choice Emergency Room facilities are innovative, freestanding, and fully equipped emergency rooms with a complete radiology suite of diagnostic technology (CT scanner, Ultrasound, and Digital X-ray) and on-site laboratory. All First Choice Emergency Room locations are staffed with board-certified physicians and emergency trained registered nurses. First Choice Emergency Room has facilities in Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. According to patient feedback collected by Press Ganey Associates Inc., First Choice Emergency Room provides the highest quality emergency medical care and received the 2013 and 2014 Press Ganey Guardian of Excellence Award for exceeding the 95th percentile in patient satisfaction nationwide. First Choice Emergency Room is an Adeptus Health (NYSE:ADPT) company.


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Easier French Buttercream
Every week, baking expert Alice Medrich is going rogue on Food52 -- with shortcuts, hacks, and game-changing recipes.
Today: Master classic French buttercream without the mess, thanks to Alice's reinvented recipe.
Real French buttercream -- which involves pouring a small quantity of 242° F syrup over a couple of eggs or egg yolks, while beating them, and without scrambling the eggs -- is no picnic for home cooks. Maybe you've tried it and ended up with most of the hot syrup congealed on the sides of the mixer bowl instead of incorporated into the eggs. It happens. Home cooks are at a disadvantage because (ironically?) it's actually easier to succeed with large quantities than small ones.
Here's a streamlined recipe that produces results identical to the classic recipe, but with fewer, less tricky steps. This new method also ensures that the eggs are heated to a safe 160° F (which was never true of the syrup method, even if you heard otherwise!).
Makes 3 cups, more than enough for one 8- or 9-inch layer cake
4 large egg yolks or 2 whole large eggs, at room temperature
Large pinch of salt
1/4 cup water
2/3 cups sugar
3/4 pound unsalted butter, slightly softened but not too squishy
See the full recipe (and save it and print it) here.
Get excited about Alice's forthcoming book Flavor Flours: nearly 125 recipes -- from Double Oatmeal Cookies to Buckwheat Gingerbread -- made with wheat flour alternatives like rice flour, oat flour, corn flour, sorghum flour, and teff (not only because they're gluten-free, but for an extra dimension of flavor, too).
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Ariadna 2011/01 Call for Proposals
ESA's Advanced Concepts Team (www.esa.int/act) just released the first Call for Proposals in 2011 on four advanced research topics, open to all universities and research institutes. Ariadna studies (www.esa.int/ariadna) are particularly well suited for PECS universities since they are deliberately targeting research communities not necessarily yet linked to space or ESA in any way.
This specific call (www.esa.int/gsp/ACT/ariadna/OpenCalls.htm) is targeting university researchers interested to join the ACT for some months of collaborative joint research on the following four topics:
- Analytical perturbative theories of motion in highly inhomogeneous gravitational fields
- Probabilistic Computing for Efficient Robotic Vision in Space
- 'Scent of Science': Autonomous Source Localization for Exploration
- 'Analogue Transformational Acoustic': An alternative theoretical framework for acoustic metamaterials
Universities are not required to have in depths knowledge of space science and technology, which will be provided by the team where needed.
The deadline for submitting (short) proposals is June, 30 2011 ! To download the full Invitation to Tender (ITT) you need to register under EMITS (http://emits.esa.int/emits/owa/emits.main) and then search for the tender number AO6790 under "Open Invitations".
Ariadna is a scheme developed for collaborative research with universities on advanced research topics which is administratively streamlined so that the focus is almost entirely only on the specific topics.
In case of interest, it might be useful to consult the final reports of past Ariadna studies on the ACT website to better understand the type and scope of Ariadna studies.


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UK Stigma Index 2015
People living with HIV in the UK are invited to participate in this study.
The study aims to identify how people living with HIV in the UK experience HIV-related stigma and discrimination, and to describe the ways in which this stigma affects them.
Your participation will provide valuable insights into the experiences of people living with HIV in the UK and provide specific information on the situations in which HIV-related stigma is experienced to inform interventions to reduce stigma for people living with HIV.
Your individual responses will remain strictly anonymous and confidential.
It is an online survey that takes between 20 and 30 minutes to complete.
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S1 E13 The Interview
Mike finds a dinosaur bone at the quarry. Pretty cool, right? You bet Jurassic it is! Unfortunately, the amazing discovery leads to a four-month shutdown of his workspace so paleontologists can dig for more prehistoric keepsakes. This means Mike has to find a new gig. So, he and Axl head out to the Orson Job Fair.
When they arrive, Axl says, "No funnel cake. No rides. Uhh, this fair sucks." Turns out he's right. The booths at the fair are filled with scam artists looking to sell the jobless a bunch of stuff they can't afford. Still, we did kind of want to hear what the Resume Whisperer had to say.
After taking his search for work online, Mike scores an interview which he promptly bombs. He just doesn't like answering a bunch of stupid questions. Frankie tells him he has to play the game the right way if he wants to land a job. So Mike doles out a bunch of stock answers during his next interview with a septic tank company. But the prospective employer didn't feel he had a genuine passion for septic waste. Hard to believe, right?
Brick is running for school historian. The problem is that whenever he signs up for something at school, Frankie ends up doing all the work. Brick promises that this time she won't have to do a thing…except make a bunch of fliers and recruit everyone down at the car dealership to make a bunch of "Vote for Brick" posters. Bob makes Frankie realize that the only way to get Brick to do things on his own is to stop doing everything for him. If he fails he fails. It looks like Brick will be writing his campaign speech solo.
As the day of the election arrives, Frankie and Mike sit in the audience as the school historian candidates give their speeches. Brick is the last to take center stage. For his opening line, he says, "Hi, I'm Brick Heck. Or as most of you know me…Nerd." This gets a laugh from the crowd. In fact, Brick gets many laughs from his fellow students. They are putty in his hands.
Brick brings it all home in his closing. He says, "The main reason you should vote for me is because I suck at basketball. And if I'm not elected, I will try out for the team. Do you really want that on your conscience? I don't think so." The auditorium erupts with applause. Frankie and Mike are beyond proud. Brick's rousing speech was just pick-me-up they needed after dealing with Mike's job woes.
Brick wins the election by a landslide. Everyone is thrilled, except for maybe Sue. We're thinking it has something to do with her 17 non-winning campaigns for various school activities. But Brick has inspired Mike to tackle his job search with renewed enthusiasm. As for Frankie, well she already has a job. Make that two jobs. She becomes a door-to-door photographer after Brick declares he needs a picture of every member of the student council by tomorrow. Say cheese!
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It has a to-die-for light moussy texture and the tangy red raspberries contrast so well with it's creaminess. It's heaven on a plate that I could just keep eating and eating if given the opportunity. Hubby loves his slice with a big dollop of clotted cream but I prefer mine with a drizzle of tart raspberry coulis. I'm salivating just thinking about it.
It's worth saying that it freezes really well too, so I always have one stashed away in the freezer that I can pull out for hastily arranged get-togethers and parties (if you're hosting or going to a New Years Eve party on Saturday then I guarantee if you make this people will be asking you for the recipe). To be honest it's just comforting knowing you're not too far from a slice! Who doesn't love a cheesecake after all?!
- Make sure all of your ingredients for the cheesecake filling are at room temperature before mixing.
- Swap the raspberries for blueberries or blackberries.
- Instead of using digestive biscuits for the base try using ginger nut biscuits or shortbread.
- The cheesecake can be made, baked and then stashed in your freezer until needed.
- Serve with fresh raspberries, raspberry coulis or clotted cream.
- Chocolate Honeycomb Salted Caramel Cheesecake from Jam and Clotted Cream
- Caramel Amaretti Cheesecake Cups from Jam and Clotted Cream
- No Bake Lemon Curd and White Chocolate Cheesecake from A Mummy Too
- Chocolate Marzipan Cheesecake from fellow Cornish food blogger Choclette
- Snickers Cheesecake Loaf from Tinned Tomatoes
An easy baked raspberry cheesecake recipe served with fresh raspberries and raspberry coulis. The cheesecake can be made ahead and frozen until needed.
- For the base:
- 8 Digestive Biscuits, crushed
- 50g Melted Butter
- For the Cheesecake Filling:
- 600g Full Fat Cream Cheese
- 2 TBSP Plain Flour
- 175g Caster Sugar
- 2 Eggs, plus 1 yolk
- 142ml Sour Cream
- 125g Raspberries, plus extra for serving
Step 1: Preheat the oven to 180°c (160°c fan) and line a 20cm round springform tin with baking paper.Step 2: Mix the crushed digestives with the melted butter and press into the base of the tin. Bake for 5 minutes.Step 3: In a standing mixer (or by hand) beat together the cream cheese, flour, eggs, sour cream and sugar for 5 minutes until smooth and creamy. Fold in the raspberries then pour into the tin.Step 4: Bake for 40 minutes (it should still be a little bit wobbly in the tin) then take out to cool. The cheesecake can be frozen at this point if required.Step 5: When ready to serve release the cheesecake from the tin and serve with fresh raspberries and clotted cream.
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Human Wrongs Watch
Between 7 July and 26 August 2014, the Gaza Strip experienced the deadliest and most devastating round of hostilities since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967; two years on, most people and institutions are still struggling to cope with their immense losses, reports the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Besides the massive damage to the enclave's infrastructure – including hospitals, water and electricity networks, and streets – some 12,500 housing units were totally destroyed and around 6,500 homes were severely damaged; over 19,000 housing units were rendered uninhabitable, states OCHA.
Osama al-Sirsawi grew up in Shujaiya in eastern Gaza City. Located near the perimeter fence with Israel, it was one of the most heavily shelled and destroyed areas of Gaza, and images of its severely damaged neighbourhoods flooded local and international news and shocked the world.
Yet Shujaiya is also where Osama went to school, where he got married, and where he lived together with his wife and their children until the summer 2014 conflict broke out and Osama's home became one of thousands that was totally destroyed.
Luckily, shortly before the hit, he and his family managed to flee to an UNRWA school to seek shelter and safety together with hundreds of thousands of other persons across Gaza.
Half a million people – 28 per cent of Gaza's population – were displaced due to the conflict, and even as hostilities subsided, over 18,000 families – 100,000 people – were unable to return as their homes had been heavily damaged or completely destroyed.
To this day, 65,000 persons remain displaced, states OCHA in its In the Spotlight report, published earlier this year; approximately 70 per cent of them are Palestine refugees.
Soon after the ceasefire, UNRWA provided Osama with financial support to move out of the UNRWA Collective Centre and rent a temporary home for his family.
"In Shujaiya, we lived in one house together with my brothers, uncles and aunts. When the house was destroyed, we were all scattered, forced to go and live in different places and neighbourhoods. Before, we always supported each other and helped each other out; now this has become impossible," he explained.
For internally displaced persons, besides the destruction of their homes, the loss of social support networks and community relations is a key issue of concern, making the displacement even harder to cope with.
Due to severe damage to many neighbourhoods and the scarcity of rental space as a result of the high demand, many families were forced to move to new neighbourhoods; some extended families were divided and many support systems broke down.
For Osama and his family, it was impossible to find an affordable place to rent in Shujaiya, and ultimately they moved to a different neighbourhood in Gaza City. It was difficult for all of them to adapt to this new reality.
While they thought it would just be for a short period of time, they have been waiting for two years to reconstruct their family home.
"It was really not easy to move to a different neighbourhood; for the children, the main problem was that they could not go to their original school and see their friends anymore. We also don't have money to pay for transport to go and visit regularly. This was very difficult for them – beside the loss of their home, they also lost their friends," Osama explained.
A few months ago, Osama's family received their first payment from UNRWA to start reconstructing their home. Yet, because they lived on the third floor of a multistorey family home, he needed to wait until his extended family members completed the first two floors to start the reconstruction works for his apartment.
Finally, however, he made progress, and now he will be able to finish all the works with the last UNRWA instalment: "I think in around three months we will be able to go home, finally," Osama said.
"All we want, really, is to go home. I hope there will not be another conflict in the future. I don't think I will be able to cope with seeing our home damaged again – not to mention how this would impact our children," he added.
The UN Special Coordinator Office to the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) stated in a recent report to the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee for development assistance to the Palestinian people that while significant progress has been made on the physical reconstruction of damaged energy and water facilities – repairs of almost all water, wastewater and energy networks and facilities that were damaged in 2014 have either been completed or are underway – the repair and reconstruction of uninhabitable homes has been slow and only really started in 2016 following preparatory work, including rubble removal, documentation, and establishment of land and property rights.
The first-place photo from the 2015 EU-UNRWA Photo Competition portrays the tragic situation of people in the Gaza Strip after the 2014 conflict. Abraham, a young child from a family of five, lives at Nada Towers in Beit Hanoun, which was bombed during the recent conflict. This photo was taken a few months after the hostilities and shows Abraham playing amid the rubble. © 2015 Photo by Hassan Hosni al-Jadi |UNRWA
Thirty per cent of these houses are now completed, while work is ongoing on another 30 percent.
According to UNSCO, reconstruction has been delayed due to import restrictions for construction materials as a result of the blockade, complex documentation requirements related to proving title to land, processing times to obtain building and municipal permits, and funding shortages: only 40 per cent of the US$ 3.5 billion pledged for Gaza's reconstruction has been disbursed by donors as of mid-2016.
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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) provides assistance and protection for some 5 million registered Palestine refugees to help them achieve their full potential in human development.


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#Dysturb takes part in the fight against all type of violence against women
After 3 years doing paste-up operations in city streets and in schools, #Dysturb is releasing a new printed journal in order to reach a new, wider and younger audience
We've been #Dysturb-ing the streets of Couthures-Sur-Garonne in Aquitaine from July 27 - July 30!
#Dysturb returns to Melbourne to install large-scale photojournalism in its streets with a parallel exhibition at Hillvale Gallery featuring eleven stories from around the world from May 18-31.
When a 2013 United Nations report found that over ninety-nine percent of Egyptian women have experienced some form of gender-based abuse, photographer Eman Helal decided to produce a visual essay that depicted the harassment and the escalation of violence women face in Egypt.
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Derek Jeter won't be back at shortstop until Tuesday at the earliest, and Yankees manager Joe Girardi put Eduardo Nunez back there yesterday despite Nunez making a costly error in the ninth inning of Friday's loss to the Rays.
"We can focus on the error, but I tend to focus on the good plays he's made," said Girardi, who spoke to Nunez before putting him at short, one of several pep talks he received.
Nunez responded with a solid game defensively, and he also hit a solo home run — his first since Sept. 21 of last year, both off James Shields — in a 5-3 victory. He said he appreciated Girardi seeking him out.
"It's a good feeling when a manager gives you confidence," Nunez said.
Alex Rodriguez said Nunez can help the Yankees down the stretch.
"Nunez is a difference-maker," he said. "He's one of the finest offensive players on this team, without a doubt. The one thing about Nunez that's very special is that he can hit really, really good pitching. That's rare. … He really has the potential to kick-start our offense."
Nunez has been a mess on defense this season after the Yankees tried to make him a utility player, placing him all over the infield as well as in left. He was sent down to the minors to play shortstop exclusively.
"You have to learn from your mistakes," said Robinson Cano, who along with Jeter also talked to Nunez. "He always listens, but we're in a crazy race and that makes it harder."
Jeter (left ankle bone bruise) had an RBI single as the designated hitter. Girardi said he thought the Yankees captain looked better.
* Brett Gardner ran the bases and bunted for the first time since undergoing elbow surgery in July. Girardi said Gardner could return in a limited role soon — pinch-running and possibly playing some left field.
"This is a guy we don't expect to be able to hit for us, but it is possible he'd be able do other things," Girardi said. "He's taken some fly balls. Our concern is if he were to dive and tuck again."
Gardner, who has been limited to nine games all season, originally hurt himself diving for a ball April 17. Yesterday, he said he felt "100 percent."
"I think I'm a couple of days away from being able to possibly be in a game," Gardner said. "Obviously, that would be up to them."
Gardner said he won't know whether he is fully healed until he takes batting practice.
"I feel back to my old self," Girardi said. "Diving for a ball, I don't have any reservations about that."
The base-stealing threat plans to practice diving today or tomorrow to get his timing back.
"I'm not going to count myself out of anything," Gardner said.
* Girardi said there still is no timetable for Mark Teixeira (strained left calf) to get in the batting cage: "He's still sore."
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GM Throws More Chips Into Chevy Camaro ZL1 Bet
GM have revealed today that they there is going to be 220 new jobs at the Romulus Powertrain Plant with the new employees building the 10 speed automatic transmission for the Chevrolet ZL1 along with other models in the future.
President Donald Trump paid a visit to Detroit and of course he is pushing for more manufacturing jobs in the US. GM said that they would add or keep 900 jobs in Michigan. Many of the 900 jobs are going to be retained, however there is going to be 220 new ones available.
The Romulus Powertrain Plant is where GM is going to build the 10 speed automatic transmission that is going in the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 and future vehicles from GM.
The 2017 Chevrolet Camaro will be the first of the vehicles to come with the new 10 speed transmission, at the moment it is used in the low volume ZL1 but GM have plans to include it in a bigger selection of their vehicles in the future, so demand is going to be higher.
GM also announced two other manpower moves and this is retaining the current positions at the Lansing Delta Plant. The plant had announced they were dropping the third shift when production of the GMC Acadia moves to Spring Hills in Tennessee. However so that the newest Buick Enclave and Chevrolet Traverse can be built, 500 jobs that had been in jeopardy have now been saved. 180 workers at the Lansing plant are going to be moved to the Flint Assembly Plant and they will build the GMC Sierra HD truck and the Chevrolet Silverado HD.


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At the corner of Carrollton Avenue and Earhart Boulevard an enormous oak tree, unmoored from the ground by the wind from Hurricane Isaac, lays draped over the power lines. Just down the street, pooling rainwater under the I-10 overpass has left the road impassable. Along the nearby offramp an SUV sits stranded in waist-deep water.
The day's great drama is playing out further south in Plaquemines Parish, where officials are plotting the rescue of flood-stranded stalwarts in Braithwaite, but with Isaac hovering overhead, residents across the area woke up to what looks like a full day of listening to wind bang against the shutters.
Streets are already half-covered with debris and water is gathering on roadbeds where it typically backs up during flash floods. Mayor Mitch Landrieu has taken to the airwaves pleading with would-be daredevils to remain indoors. In St. Bernard Parish, police are shooing motorists off the highways.
Like most of the city's homes, intersections have lost power; most traffic lights are blank. New Orleans Police patrols, lights flashing, are just about the only traffic, along with a National Guard humvee here and there.


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this is not bigotry this is the raw thrth gays dont like to hear
by gays infiltrating the classrooms of grade school kids teaching there filthy needs to innocent and pure minds is not only a shame its endangering the morrels of children which happends to be a crime
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Skitsofrenia and insanity
is strange sex fantisys such as man and man. or GAY. or homo. with no respect to the wrong of it because insanity is being unable to tell right from wrong.. a homo is just a sane dirt bag that dont care as long as he gets his needs. gay is just the cover of the book on the later while hideing whats in the padges. and no mater what you think or what your status is or your education is. the normal part of the world will never accept gay as part of there normal life no mater how much the law leegalizes it. that are just ignored. till somones kid is forced to learn gay in the class room. it stops there
if you dont agree with that then yoiu scandelized kids in classrooms just as much as they are trying to do and if you dont think its wrong what there trying to do then you are just a thing i ignore and walk around
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Topic: Meaningful Use as a catalyst for Enterprise Performance Management
Date: October 21, Thursday, 2010
Time: 13:00-14:00 EDT
Speakers: Shishir Kumar, Lead Consultant, Healthcare Consulting, Infosys Technologies
Charles Podesta, SVP & CIO, Fletcher Allen Health Care
The stimulus dollars in ARRA have encouraged healthcare providers to plan EMR implementation and seek eligibility for that money under Meaningful Use (MU) incentives. However, achieving MU and its objectives of better clinical outcomes and reduced healthcare costs is just the beginning. The real journey to a data-driven high performance healthcare organization starts with enterprise-level integrated management of clinical, operational and financial performance which will maximize the ROI for healthcare IT projects and bring providers in line with the goals that have been set for the next few years under wide-ranging healthcare reforms in the U.S. MU is the trigger for these massive changes to come-not the destination.
On Thursday, Oct. 21, Infosys Technologies and Healthcare Informatics will bring you a live presentation that looks at the world of MU and beyond. Expert speakers will discuss success strategies for using ARRA MU mandates as catalyst for implementing EHR technology that achieve high levels of clinician buy in while laying the groundwork for the next steps toward high performance healthcare delivery.
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Shishir Kumar Lead Consultant, Healthcare Consulting, Infosys Technologies.
Shishir Kumar has over 10 years of experience in the Healthcare IT industry, delivering business and IT process improvement programs for care delivery organizations. Shishir is a subject matter expert in Hospital Operations, EHR/HIS Implementation, business process transformation and performance management initiatives. He currently focuses on Regulatory challenges like ARRA Meaningful Use, ICD 10 and the core impacts on providers and their performance management initiatives.
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Charles Podesta has over 28 years of experience in IT for Healthcare. He is Senior Vice-President & CIO of Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, VT for the last two years. At Fletcher Allen, Podesta is responsible for all aspects of IT Strategic Planning, Implementations and Operations. Beginning in 2007, Fletcher Allen embarked on a five year, $57 million IT plan, implementing an E.H.R. strategy utilizing EPIC. Over the years, Podesta has made numerous presentations at national conferences and is quoted widely in healthcare publications on a variety of IT topics.
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The Diabetes EpidemicDecember 2000
By Angela Pirisi
Blaming the obesity epidemic
Researchers see a causal link between Type II diabetes and the obesity epidemic, and the latter's prevalence is growing at an equally alarming rate. According to the latest national statistics, over 50% of US adults are overweight (body mass index of 25 and up)3 and approximately one fifth of the population is considered obese (body mass index of 30 and up).4 Obesity trends have marked an increase from 12% in 1991 to 17.9% in 1998.5 The trouble with these growing numbers is that obesity is the strongest environmental risk factor for non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Obesity threatens with health risks of its own, including the predisposition to diabetes. A 1999 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report suggests that overweight and inactivity were to blame for 300,000 premature deaths in the US, second only to tobacco-related deaths.6 Data collected from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey demonstrates that people under age 55 with a body mass index of at least 40 are most likely to have Type II diabetes and gall bladder disease, and that the prevalence ratios are higher among younger than older adults.7
So what's the connection between fat and blood-glucose levels? Excess weight increases the body's demand on insulin, putting pressure on pancreatic beta cells to produce more of the hormone, until basically the supply can't meet the demand and the body becomes insensitive to insulin. Studies have also shown that obesity increases levels of free fatty acids in the body, which may impede the body's insulin metabolic clearance. Obesity has also been related to hormonal abnormalities, namely elevated cortisol and estrogens and waning androgens, both of which act to regulate fat when operating at proper levels.
Practicing prevention
The most disheartening part about diabetes is that it isn't a disease that one can merely blame on chance, or even genetics. By the same token, the fact that diabetes is preventable through a number of modifiable lifestyle lends hope to what otherwise could be depicted as the 21s century plague. Changes to eating and exercise habits, and modest weight loss (under 10 pounds) have all been shown to dramatically reduce the risk of diabetes. Finnish research results were recently presented at the American Diabetes' Association's 60th Annual Scientific Session in June 2000, which showed that intensive lifestyle modification reduced the incidence of Type II diabetes by 58% in people at high risk of developing the disease.
The Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study was conducted at five clinics, and tracked 523 adults over a five-year period (1993-1998), whose average age was 55, and on the verge of developing diabetes (measured by impaired glucose tolerance, which is an early warning sign of diabetes). The subjects were divided into two groups: 265 of them received frequent and consistent dietary advice, individual exercise assessment and program plan, and supervised exercise at least three times per week; the control group had a yearly meeting with a nutritionist and physician, and was encouraged to do more exercise of their own volition. Results showed that 22% of the control group developed diabetes after four years in the study, but only 10% of the intervention group got it. The latter also lost an average of 4.2 kilograms (9.24 pounds) within the first study year, while the controls lost only 0.8 kilograms (1.76 pounds).
Another study carried out by investigators at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis found that postmenopausal women who exercise regularly (moderately to vigorously over four times per week) cut their risk of diabetes in half.8 The research involved a questionnaire mailed out to 41,000 women, ages 55-69, to assess their risk of diabetes relative to exercise habits over the next 12 years.
Likewise, research from Yale University illustrated that the benefits of exercise can never come too late. They showed how moderate-intensity aerobic exercise (e.g. walking) improves glucose tolerance in older, healthy adults, even without any weight or fat loss.9 Investigators put a group of 16 men and women over 60 on a four-month exercise program. Nine of them were instructed to exercise on a mini-trampoline for 60-minute periods four times per week. The remaining seven participants, who served as controls, were given a less intensive physical program comprising supervised stretching and yoga. Researchers took measurements, before and after the study, of abdominal fat, plasma glucose and fasting concentrations of free fatty acids, as well as administering an oral glucose tolerance test. The cardiovascular training caused a 24% drop in free fatty acid in the nine participants, irrespective of adipose fat measurements remaining unchanged. The control group, however, didn't show any changes or benefits in terms of improved glucose tolerance. Biological age, coupled with increased body fat, and decreased physical activity, can lead gradually to increased glucose intolerance. Besides the training having a significant effect on free fatty acid levels, the researchers also found that the exercise effects weren't short-lived, as there was still an evident improvement three days after the training period.
The answer seems almost too simple, and it's the health message conveyed for dodging most chronic diseases: eat less, lose weight and exercise. But that has been a huge challenge for most people and much easier said than done, as any dieter will attest. Dieting is an equivocal act with a backlash effect, in that once you cease a controlled eating and exercising regimen, there is a looming risk of gaining all the weight back again, and then some. The catch about low-calorie diets is that they prompt your body to reserve more of its fat energy for fear of not getting enough through food consumption. It does so by slowing down the basal metabolic rate—which is the rate at which your body burns calories when at rest. A slowed basal metabolic rate is one of the main reasons why some strict dieters seem to plateau in their weight loss efforts and can't shed any more pounds despite remaining on a fat-restricted diet. The aftermath of this change is that, once the diet is over, and normal calorie consumption resumes, the body continues to burn off energy at the newly established sluggish metabolic rate. And because, as physics would have it, every action has an equal and opposite reaction, now that it's burning off fewer calories, it means that pounds are regained at a higher rate.
In the following article, we present some natural ways to help prevent and treat adult-onset (Type II) diabetes.
- Diabetes Care 23:1278-1283.
- Newsweek 2000;9: 40-47.
- Int J Obesity 1998;22:39-47.
- Amer J Pub Hlth 2000;90:134-138.
- J Am Geriatr Soc 1998 Jul;46(7):875-879.


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The Hanna Portable Turbidity Meter is the only one of its type equipped with a High Emission Infrared LED light source. Unlike standard lamps, the infrared LED has a long life and maintains constant emission for the life of the instrument. The infrared LED produces the required intensity of diffused light in samples with low turbidity, and reduces interference from colors. To ensure accurate calibration schedules, the meter also has a unique GLP (Good Laboratory Practice) feature that automatically stores and retrieves the last calibration data with time and date. For best field accuracy, the meter measures from 0 to 50 FTU in steps of 1/100 FTU, that is 10 times better than comparable models that measure 10 to 50 in tenths. Features an easy-to-use, four-button keypad, automatic troubleshooting functions and auto shutoff after 5 min. Range: 0.00 to 50.00 FTU/50 to 1000 FTU, 1 FTU (Formazine Turbidity Unit) = 1 NTU (Nephelometric Turbidity Unit). Resolution: 0.01 FTU/1 FTU. Accuracy: 0.5 FTU or 5yLight Detector: Silicon Photocell. Portable Turbidity Meter Kit (No. 224816) includes Meter, (4) AA batteries, carrying case, calibration solutions, cleaning solutions, cleaning towels and two measurements Cuvettes (No. 224818). Measures 8.7"H x 3.2"W x 2.6"D. Weighs 18 oz. 0 FTU AMCO-EPA-1 (No. 224819) and 10 FTU AMCO-EPA-1 (No. 224820) Standard Solution available in 30mL bottles. Clean Meter and Cuvettes with Cleaning Solution (No. 224821) and Cleaning Towels (No. 224822).
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Dior Diorsnow UV Shield White Reveal BB Creme SPF 50 PA+++ Review & Swatches
Although expensive and on the sheer side, I have to admit my all time favorite BB Cream is Dior Diorsnow UV Shield White Reveal BB Creme SPF 50 PA+++.
It's not only successfully perfects and creates beautifully flawless skin but it's a foolproof BB Cream that whitens, brightens, and offers a high level of SPF.
This is what BB Cream should be about.
Originally launched in Japan, Dior Diorsnow UV Shield White Reveal BB Creme SPF 50 PA+++ was something I didn't particularly like at first use but the more I used it the more I loved it and now here I am on bottle three and still going strong.
This water based BB Cream has a creamy, rich texture that evens out the complexion and gives skin a brighter appearance. Dior uses their own complex for brightening and whitening skin over time in the form of TEC, Transparency Enhancing Complex. I've tried tons of BB Creams and most offer brightening and whitening results during wear but not after. I find White Reveal BB Creme actually treats skin so you'll notice duller skin looking brighter with constant use. Suffering from dull skin is one of my biggest burdens so anything that gives me back some sort of glow or sign of healthiness to my skin is a score and this indeed brings back that brightness associated with youth and good health (not that I'm not healthy but sometimes my skin doesn't want to corporate and looks dehydrated and blah).
For once I'm going to say the joy here is the sheerness of the formula. Although sheer it manages to effectively create a radiant complexion by evening out my skin tone, adding moisture, smoothness, and plumpness plus easing dullness. Skin just looks flawless and radiant after application. The wear time is excellent as well without oxidizing issues and a finish that doesn't fade for at least six to seven hours in so my makeup remains fresher for longer.
It is available in a single shade however I find the medium beige color is universally flattering in most cases (I tried it on a few different friends) and adjusts accordingly. I'm not an expert on the MAC range of shades but anyone up to a NC 30-35 should be able to easily use this.
Dior successfully taps into the BB Cream formula with White Reveal and tackles many of the properties we know and love about BB Creams like a high level SPF 50, moisturizing properties, shade adjusting, firming and plumping aging skin, creating a flawless finish, and most importantly allowing skin to breath easily with a lightweight formula.
It's a little expensive at $50 but worth every single penny in my opinion. This is the US version as I've used up my tube from Japan a while back ago however the formula isn't different at all in my opinion but I did take note that it seems the Asian version was a bit pinker and had a little bit more whitening power. But I think the medium beige formula works a treat for our market and avoids being too "white" for those who aren't keen on whitening benefits.
This one deserves my full Muse Approval.
I do suggest heading to a Dior counter and just dabbing a little on your hand or go all out and ask a rep to apply some. I think you'll love it as much as I do.
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Happy President's Day to all my U.S. readers- hopefully you're enjoying a day off! Today marks the day that my eating and workout regimen gets tweaked so I do have to admit I enjoyed lots and lots of awesome food this weekend. We ate out quite a bit more than we normally would, but since it was B's birthday weekend we made the exception.
Everything from prime rib to protein pancakes and it was all soooo good. We rounded out the weekend with some take-out brown rice sushi and a red box which was just what we needed after a packed couple of days.
I'll have a vlog up for you guys tomorrow with some things that I'll be changing up to get ready for bikini season. I have 10 weeks or so until we are heading down to Mexico for a little vacay, so it's definitely time to kick it in to gear! As nice as it's been to be more relaxed I'm actually pretty excited to buckle down a little- there's no better feeling than watching your body change day by day after hard work and dedication!


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Wednesday Walk Series to Highlight Downtown Parking
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Syracuse, NY – The Downtown Committee of Syracuse, Inc. is partnering with SUNY Oswego Metro Center and several other health-conscious community organizations to present two incentives encouraging neighbors to lace up their sneakers and take a walk throughout Downtown as part of the lunchtime Wednesday Walk Series. The theme for this afternoon's walk – a guided tour, which steps off from the Jerry Rescue Monument in Clinton Square at 12:00 pm – is concentrated on Downtown Parking. The first 30 participants to sign in at the Information Booth will receive a free day of parking in the Trolley Lot in Downtown Syracuse. In addition, all participants will be entered into a free drawing to receive one month of free parking.
Wednesday Walks are always free. They are open to all ages and abilities - to anyone who wants to participate. Participants are encouraged to check in at the Information Booth at the corner of Clinton and Water Streets (map) prior to the start of the 12:00 pm walk. Participants will receive coupons to various businesses, and may opt to sign-up to receive an email blast with details about upcoming Wednesday Walks.
The first 30 participants to check in at the Information Booth this afternoon will receive a free parking pass to park in the Trolley Lot behind the Museum of Science and Technology (map). The free parking pass is good for one business day/weekday, Monday through Friday (Parking in the Trolley Lot traditionally costs $5 from 7:00 am to 5:00 pm Monday through Friday. Parking is free in the Trolley Lot after 5:00 pm during the week, and on the weekends.). Furthermore, all participants in this afternoon's Wednesday Walk will also be entered into a free drawing to receive one month of free parking in either the Hotel Syracuse garage, located at 600 South Warren Street (map); the Smith Lot, located at 563 East Water Street (map); or the Trolley Lot (an estimated $40 to $60 value!) The winner may choose which of the three options makes the most sense according to their parking purposes and needs.
Participants are encouraged to check in at the Information Booth between 11:30 am and 11:50 am, to ensure the walk leaves on time. The guided tour, which will be led by Downtown Committee of Syracuse, Inc. Economic Development Specialist Bethany Holbrook will highlight six Downtown parking garages and lots, and provide with tips they can use to stay alert in any public place. The guided tour will last no longer than 45-minutes, weaving a path through Clinton Square, Armory Square, the Heart of Downtown and Hanover Square neighborhoods.
Wednesday Walks step off every other Wednesday through October 14. All walks are guided tours, led by Downtown community leaders and fitness experts, depart from Clinton Square at 12:00 pm. Each 45-minute walk highlights a different theme related to progress and development throughout the Downtown community, while also encouraging fitness.
The Wednesday Walk series was designed with downtown employees, residents and visitors in mind, but anyone is encouraged to participate.
"More than 27,000 people come to work in Downtown Syracuse every day," said Merike Treier, executive director of the Downtown Committee. "We are excited to work with SUNY Oswego Metro Center and other health-driven organizations to encourage downtown employees to get a few steps in, enjoy the sunshine and experience the vibrancy Downtown Syracuse has to offer."
"We welcome anyone who wants to join us," said Dr. Kimberly Armani, director of the SUNY Oswego Metro Center, and Wednesday Walks organizer. "It's an opportunity to discover new things about Downtown Syracuse, exercise and meet new people."
If you can't join the movement today, there are still four other opportunities to participate this season.
Wednesday Walk Schedule for Remainder of Season:
September 2 Theme: Meeting Spaces
September 16 Theme: Architecture
September 30 Theme: Meeting Spaces
October 14 Theme: Fitness in the City
Wednesday Walks is a collaborative effort presented by the Downtown Committee of Syracuse, Inc., SUNY Oswego Metro Center, Cornell Cooperative Extension Onondaga County, The American Heart Association, The City of Syracuse Department of Parks and Recreation, Onondaga County Civic Department Corporation, Metro Fitness Club and the YMCA.
Please visit this website for more information about Wednesday Walks.


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Ultimate Avengers #5
- Story by
- Mark Millar
- Art by
- Carlos Pacheco, Dexter Vines, and Thomas Palmer
- Colors by
- Justin Ponsor
- Letters by
- Cory Petit
- Cover by
- Carlos Pacheco
- Publisher
- Marvel Comics
I'm sure you've heard by now: Ultimate Red Skull is the son of Ultimate Captain America. And Mark Millar probably has enough familiarity with Sophocles to know how to make that situation rife with drama.
But what we get in "Ultimate Avengers #5" is one of those difficult-to-pull-off intermediate issues. After the set up, and before the climax. This is second act material, and in superhero comics, that usually means a bit of added conflict and a race to the conclusion. A race to the final showdown between good and evil.
That's indeed what we get here, but Millar has no trouble pulling it off at all. He makes it a breathless rush toward the climax, beginning with a horrifying scene of the Red Skull's evil and ending with Steve Rogers busting out the not-ready-for-Prime-Time language. Mark Millar writes this incarnation of the Avengers not as a post-"Ultimates" superteam, though that's what it is, but as a straight-ahead slam, bang, whomp action tale. Perhaps it's the absence of Bryan Hitch, but this comic feels like a completely different take on the Ultimates Universe. Not lighter, perhaps, but swifter. Less interested in angst and betrayal and slow burn moments contrasted with epic action.
No, this one is quick bursts of energy, dark humor, and a traditional story told with an edge. It works well.
So the strange collection of Avengers — War Machine, Hawkeye, Red Wasp, Black Widow, and the as-his-name-would-suggest Nerd Hulk — zoom off to Alaska to stop the Red Skull from getting his hands on the Cosmic Cube. Steve Rogers, taken to task in France for his "Captain France" joke back in the "Ultimates" days, gets a bit of verbal abuse before busting out and heading towards his destiny: father vs. son, the fate of the world in the balance.
Carlos Pacheco's art fits the finely-tuned pace of this comic. He's an artist capable of drawing an oversized mecha-War Machine, a baby heart-breakingly flying out of a window, and a bone-crushing fight scene inside S.H.I.E.L.D. France. With Dexter Vines on inks for much of this issue, and with Pacheco giving us graceful action and harrowing confrontations, this is the best his art has looked since "Avengers Forever."
This issue has been a long time coming (issue #4 came out last fall), but it jumps right back into the action as if no time has passed at all. And that's how it should be. That's how this series operates. Full speed ahead. On the page, if not on the publishing schedule.


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Open Thread: Friends and Family and Everyone Else
Here's a place to talk about the relationships in your life whenever you want.
During my very first year of graduate school, which also happened to be my first year teaching college, I spent a few hours a week in a class designed to teach me how to be a teacher. Our sessions—two-hour blocks of time built around semi-useful information—were radical, in that they were either very, very helpful, or very, very mundane. We went over ideas for lesson plans and threw around academic buzzwords like "pedagogy" and "curriculum," and spent only a few, blessed moments of each meeting discussing the one thing (or, depending on the week, several things) that consistently plagued each and every one of us: student problems.
Now, there are hundreds of things that fall into the category of "student problems," and most of them are, in all honesty, more like cute little nuisances than real, tough-to-tackle problems. Most of them can be solved with a simple chit chat after class: Please keep your cell phone in your backpack. Please make it more of a priority to not walk in thirty minutes late. Please do not chew tobacco during class. And, being the newbie teachers that we were, our conversations about student issues revolved around these types of problems, for the most part.
I'll confess here and now that my memory isn't the sharpest, but as I sit here now, five years into this college-teaching gig, I can only recall having one conversation in that entire class about what it meant to be in a position of authority in a young, female body. One of my colleagues voiced a concern about how it felt to have to be assertive with students not much younger than she, and in some cases, several years older. Our well-meaning male professor sighed, and admitted that in our case—that being the case of being young, female, and in a position of some authority—we may have to go to certain lengths in order to command our students' respect. We may have to dress more "professionally." We may have to be less kind.
I took both of these suggestions fairly seriously. At the very least, I made it a point to dress crisply and seriously, in order to command all of the respect. But I had a far more difficult time implementing the second part of his advice: be less kind. You see, I don't like to be an asshole. Sometimes I put on my asshole hat just for fun, just to try it out and see how it feels. But I don't like it much. It doesn't suit me, particularly in the classroom. I have no problem being an asshole to a drunk guy at a bar who's insistent on pushing the boundaries of basic consideration and taste, but I have a huge problem being an asshole to my students.
I realize, of course, that the advice was not explicitly given as if you're female, be an asshole to your students, but when it comes to general kindness, I suppose I deal in terms of all or nothing. I have an admittedly exhausting time trying to locate the middle ground between "nice" and "not nice"—I know it exists, and I know people who walk that fence gracefully—but I'm not one of them.
So at the end of my first semester, when a consistently absent male student who hadn't done a lick of work over the last fifteen weeks marched into my chair's office with his parents to complain about his bad grade, I took it personally. Like, I cried. I hadn't failed anyone in my life, much less an athlete, and I felt as though I'd done something wrong. As if his failure was somehow my fault. I heard later that his parents had demanded to know why it was that I, a "little girl," had the audacity and authority to fail their son.
Of course, this incident was a better lesson than any I'd sat through in my class on how to be a teacher. You simply can't teach that sort of thing. I'd like to say that I learned something concrete, but in hindsight, it only caused me to become hyper-aware of my students, especially the fellas.
The next semester, another male student approached me in the middle of class to ask about a tattoo on my wrist. After I explained its meaning (the Greek letter phi), he countered with, "Well, when the weather gets warmer, you'll see all of my tattoos and I'll be looking so good, you won't be able to teach." I was rendered speechless, which doesn't happen often, and unable to think of anything teacher-like to say in response. To this day I can't think of a good comeback, though I sincerely wish I'd said anything at all instead of letting him just smirk at me and walk away.
And I'd like to say that I've gotten better at this sort of thing—but I haven't. Last semester, one of my students, an older man who often "joked" with me about my age and gender, came to class one morning and told me that I looked just like his ex-wife, except that she had "bigger boobs." He even gestured circularly in the general region of his chest, as if to show me just how big her boobs were.
What do you say to that? What do you do? I know the correct answer is to reprimand in some way, but how? By kicking him out of class? For what, being an ignorant misogynist? It's college; I can't exactly send him to the principal's office, or to a corner or swatch of carpet to think about what he's done. And I can't do what I'd do as my non-teacher-self, because, well, my teacher-self can't call students douchebags, as much as she might want to. So again, I was silent, and let him smirk and walk away.
I'd also like to be able to say that this sort of thing only happens in the classroom, except that it doesn't. Three years post-graduate school, I teach philosophy and English at a local community college, and I frequent a convenience store near campus every morning for my daily act of restocking on cigarettes and coffee.
When I began my job, the cashiers would eye my attire and book bag and ask what it was that I did for a living, or where I was headed. The sad majority of the time, after I answered what it was that I did and where exactly I was headed, the dialogue followed (and still tends to follow) as such:
"You're a teacher?"
"At the college?"
"No, you don't!"
"Yes, I do."
"No, you're so young!"
"Yes, according to some."
"But are you really a teacher?"
And so forth.
At the time of this article, I have been teaching for roughly five years. Every few weeks a new incident occurs. Last week, it was a male student in my philosophy class who "corrected" a question I wrote on their exam, assuming it wasn't that he got the answer wrong — it was that I had made a mistake. The week before that, a student called me "darlin'." Some weeks before that, another male student told me I was the "prettiest teacher [he'd] ever had."
Some more weeks before that, when the semester began, several students in each of my four classes asked how old I was, and glared suspiciously in my direction as they awaited my answer. I asked my roommate, a 25-year-old guy who teaches at the same institution I do, if his students ever ask him how old he is as soon as the semester begins. Not surprisingly, his answer was "no."
I wish I knew how to solve the problem, but as of this moment, I don't have any solutions. I know, rationally, that they're out there—but I find myself spending very little time searching for a resolution, and markedly more time trying to decide which is worse: the fact that my students are adults and, in a perfect world, should understand how to talk to women as if they're real people, or the fact that five years in, I still feel the need to be nice. I still feel the need to be caring and concerned and easy-going so as not to step on any toes, the very idea of which I disagree with—hard—but can't seem to shake out of my own behavior.
The only thing I do know is this: that navigating this body in that particular space is nothing I could have learned in someone else's classroom. It's one that I have to learn in my own, over and over and over again, until I finally feel comfortable possessing any real sense of authority.


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Karlyn Hougan saved her best for last.
In her final collegiate swim meet, Hougan, a senior at the University of Wisconsin and a Tumwater graduate, was the only Badger to qualify for the 200-yard butterfly finals at the Big Ten Championships on Saturday in Bloomington, Ind.
She swam a season-best 2 minutes and 72 hundredths (2:00.72) of a second to place third in the C consolation final.
"She was happy with the way her season ended," Wisconsin coach Eric Hansen said. "She's great under water. She kicks hard under water. That's something we've worked hard on."
Hougan also placed fifth in the 100-yard butterfly in the A final with a 53.6, a lifetime best.
The last two years, Hougan swam a leg on 200- and 400-yard medley relays, earning All-American honors. But she was bumped from the relays by a freshman from Sweden.
"It's not a personal decision. It's a business decision," Hansen said. "Swimming is easy. Times don't lie."
Hansen said while Hougan was disappointed about not being on the relay teams, she didn't let that affect how she approached practice and meets.
"She's a hard worker," Hansen said. "She showed a lot of growth since coming here."
At Tumwater, Hougan was a two-time state champ. Her parents both swam in college. Her mom, Mary, swam at Washington State. Her dad, Matt, swam at the University of Puget Sound.
It didn't take Jason Monda much time to adjust to major college pitching.
In his first start for Washington State, Monda, a Capital graduate, went 3-for-3, belting two singles and triple as the Cougars' designated hitter in a 4-2 win against Cal State Bakersfield. Monda took one step toward catching his dad.
Monda's dad, Greg Monda, is WSU's career leader in average at .369.
WSU's win had another Olympia link. Junior Adam Conley, an Olympia grad, struck out a career-best nine in eight innings to pick up the win.
"Adam was a bulldog," WSU coach Donnie Marbut said. "We could have sent him out for the ninth, but we wanted to get Richie (Ochoa) into a situation where he could close a game."
In the top of the ninth inning, Monda was hit by a pitch, stole second, moved to third on an error and scored on a passed ball.
After three games, Monda is batting .455, going 5-for-11.
Saint Martin's Roni Jo Mielke's career 3-point percentage of 43.0 ranks second in Great Northwest Athletic Conference history.
She's made 83 of 193 attempts and is second to Western Washington's Stacey Miller, who shot 44.3 percent from behind the 3-point arc, making 155 of 350.
Casey Mitchell was nearly too good to be true.
The Saint Martin's senior pitched a five-hit shutout and struck out 12 in nine innings as the Saints recently blanked Linfield, 5-0.
Mitchell, a Capital graduate, did not walk a batter. That performance not only snapped the Saints' two-game skid, when SMU was outscored 10-2, it also earned Mitchell the conference's athlete of the week award.
It's over for Evergreen.
Both the men's and women's basketball teams missed the Cascade Conference postseason tournaments. But it's not easy to qualify. Four conference men's teams are ranked in the NAIA's top 25: No. 8 Oregon Tech, No. 11 Eastern Oregon, No. 18. Warner Pacific and No. 23 Northwest. Among women, Concordia is No. 22, and Corban and Northwest received votes.
The Evergreen men, after reaching the NAIA tournament two of the previous three years and winning 19 or more games, finished ninth in the conference with an 8-20 record, one spot out of the playoffs. The Geoducks lost seven of their last eight games, losing three of those by two points or fewer.
Evergreen women finished 5-20 overall, 3-15 in conference to tie Oregon Tech for ninth.