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Gangplank Build
Ability Sequence
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Hello and welcome to my 3 v 3 Twisted Treeline Gangplank guide. This guide is for the champion when in this game mode, not for the Twisted Treeline itself. For information about Twisted Treeline, check out Calisto's guide here.
This is my first guide, I hope that it is helpful for you, I will go through as much detail as I think I can give. If there is anything that people think needs adding. I will read it, and if it fits in, is needed or I have missed out, I will add it to the guide and give you the credit for it. I will not take the credit for myself.
Please note that if you are looking for a 5 v 5 guide. This is NOT the right place for you. Though saying that, I would be happy for you to carry on reading as it may gives tips and advice on playing Gangplank as a champion alone.
There may be still be bits missing, please be patient or help if you can.
Pros / Cons
+ Great farmer.
+ Takes out carries very quick.
+ AoE Ultimate anywhere.
+ Great lane dominance.
+ Can prevent CC.
- Focused a lot.
- Melee based.
- Relies on crits.
- Can be squishy.
- Low mana pool.
I use a 21/9/0 mastery set-up mostly for offensive purposes.
The main purpose of going offensive is to be offensive. Unlike in a 5 v 5 game, you're really time limited to what you can do. Usually you'll be passive on a top lane in a 5 v 5, usually in a 1 v 1 against a brusier or an offtank and you can farm up without a real struggle. As for 3 v 3, it's similiar apart from it is a faster paced gameplay.
I suppose going 9/21/0 or 21/0/9 would also work, but I haven't really tried these myself so I couldn't tell you how well it would work.
- Greater Mark of Desolation: Take away a lot of the enemies base armour at early levels.
- Greater Seal of Armor: These along with Veteran Scars mastery stops you being squishy.
- Greater Glyph of Magic Resist: If the enemy has an AP caster, this takes away a lot of their early damage.
- Greater Quintessence of Critical Chance: After crit chance was taken away from masteries, these are a great way to get it back. Helps with lane dominance early game.
Summoner Spells - What works best and why.
Flash is a great escape tool and great for jumping into a fight.
Ignite is great against enemies like Vladimir, Dr. Mundo or Tryndamere. This will block a lot of the healing along with damaging them. Igniting Tryndamere just after he ults will most of the time kill him instantly before he can heal and escape.
Ghost is a nice way to get around and to escape along with Remove Scurvy to block out CC.
Abilities + Ability Sequence
Grog Soaked Blade: This gives a great early game slow as well as that extra bit of damage over time. This skill will also trigger when you use Parrrley. Overall it is a rather good passive when you play offensive.
Parrrley: This is great for harrassment. It does decent damage alone, it has the possibility of doing crit damage and it also applies on hit effects, including your passive. Grab that red buff and harrass constantly and you'll have quick dominance over the lane.
Remove Scurvy: Really self explained. It's a great heal but as a bonus, it stops all current CC that you have inflicted upon you. This isn't just a great way to stay in your lane, it will help you get away and survive.
Raise Morale: Once again, no need to go into too much detail. Gives you a small AD and Movement speed boost. This is also given to your team, so if they aren't quite fast enough to get away and you're in range, pop it off, save a team member. Don't just save it for yourself.
Cannon Barrage: A great ult. You can rain cannonballs at anyone, anywhere you are. This also slows them down so they are sure to take some damage. This can secure a kill, allow your team to catch up or just add some more damage into a team fight.
Ability Sequence:
Parrrley is your main damage dealer, especially once you have your Sheen. It scales with sheens proc, meaning you will be dealing extra damage. Because Parrrley also applies on hit effects and crit damage, this makes the ability very strong anywhere throughout the game. You will want to max Parrrley first, as it is the only big damage dealer from your abilities.
Remove Scurvy is your survivability skill, this is why I max it second. Not only does it heal, but it also removes all current CC you have on you. This is great for when you need to escape. On the other hand, you can max this last if you don't need it as much, at level 2 this will heal 190 health + 100% of the AP you might have. That is enough to survive with until you get around to level it more.
The problem I see with newer players on Gangplank is that they will only use this to heal, or use it close to the CC ending. Remember that it's not just a heal, it is your saviour. If you get stunned or slowed and need to get away, use it without fail and you should be fine. It also scales at around 0.9 AP so you'll be healing close to 400 HP after your Trinity Force.
Cannon Barrage is good for a lot of things. You can initiate with it to slow the enemy down, so your team can all be there at once. You ultimate should always be maxed by level 16 on almost all champions. This can be a great tool to win team fights if used correctly.
Raise Morale isn't the best of abilities at first glance. It does give you a small amount of extra AD and Movement speed, which can help more than you think. When activated, the passive doubles for you and when maxed, this gives you a free B. F. Sword. It is also given to friendly champions, but they only receive half of it. This is great for catching up or escaping, best used just after you remove CC with Remove Scurvy to speed up your getaway slightly. It is best to max this second as it can improve your early damage. Don't underestimate this ability, it can save you and your team.
Build items
Before you read through the item choices, remember that in Twisted Treeline you a limited. Most games will last between 15-30 mins. It is rare to see a 50+ min game. So you have to base your items around cost and effectiveness. You should average 11-14k gold. My two builds are between 12,300-13,500 gold which may be pushing the upper limits. Though with that in mind, the order I buy them in gives the effectiveness when you should need it.
Remember that builds should never be exact unless it works for the situation. Situational items are usually penetration or survivability items. Learning what you need and when you need it will help you throughout any game you play.
Trinity Force: This item gives you a lot. The problem is it can be expensive, but the items that build it up will give you the needed damage you need for the early game. You should manage to build a full Trinity Force by the mid game. Once you have this main item, you can start to decimate the enemy, especially while still laning. This item gives great early survivability along with your Remove Scurvy.
Infinity Edge: This item is amazing. Not only does it give the best flat AD for an item, it gives you 25% crit chance as well as making your crits do 250% damage compared to 200%. If you don't think that extra 50% damage is good, then just do the math. This will combine with the effect of Trinity Force and give you 'tons of damage'.
Atma's Impaler: You may be thinking why have an atma's when you only have 2.2k HP? Well, it may not be the biggest HP pool to get this item with, but it works well in this scenario. You will ofcourse be needing a way to get around an AD carry from doing too much damage, this is where the armour it gives comes in handy which will also scale up with your Greater Seal of Armor runes. This gives you a decent amount of armour to play with, without having to risk less damage to go tankier. You will still manage an extra 44~ AD along with 18% crit chance, giving you more crits and damage. This item is great value for it's cost compared to what you get from it.
The Bloodthirster: This item gives the biggest AD boost when you max out the stacks. A whopping 100 AD without going through the trouble of the Sword of the Occult. Not only does it give AD, it will give you 12-20% lifesteal, depending on the stacks. All of this scales with your Parrrley giving you health back per hit, which when you're dealing a lot of damage, can keep you alive under extreme odds. This can be a great item.
Phantom Dancer: Now, a lot of people will be thinking, why attack speed if your Parrrley is your damage dealer? Well, while that is on cooldown and you're in a teamfight, you'll be wanting to get as much out of your items as possible. With attack speed on my crit build, you'll be dealing a lot more damage while waiting for that cooldown. Add that to a little lifesteal and Remove Scurvy and you should manage to survive very well. The 30% crit chance will also allow you to crit more often, the movement speed will aid chases/escapes.
Avarice Blade: This item is a good early item if you are building a crit strike build. Not only does it give you 12% crit chance, it gives you 5 gold per 10 seconds, which will slowly add up and pay for itself later on in the game. Once the later game comes, this item won't seem to be as good. You can trade this in for some more damage or lifesteal or even some armour pen if needed. Don't forget, this item is paying for itself and more.
Quicksilver Sash: This is a great item but I never see many people use it. It is great for carries that rely on abilities, being able to block a silence or just simply blocking out CC and other debuffs. This is basically a 3rd summoner spell, giving you a cleanse every 90 seconds. The magic resistance is pretty nice too. This item can be underestimated, but you just need quick reactions for it's active.
Wit's End: This item can will boost your attack speed by a lot, allowing you to play with it's passive more. Not only will it give you more magic resistance per attack/stack, it will also help stack Grog Soaked Blade's poison damage. If that wasn't enough, it gives you extra magic damage on top of that. This is a rather cheap way to get attack speed and magic resistance that can work so well in the right circumstances.
Other items
Hexdrinker: This item now has an upgrade, but it is expensive to upgrade it. This can be a great item against an AP caster that can nuke you down in seconds. It also gives a little more AD along with it.
Maw of Malmortius: Ok, so this is a new item that has never failed me so far. It probably isn't going to be needed as much as I use it on other champions. But the shield is great against AP carries/nukers. This can allow you to survive huge damage from the AP caster and fight back without being slaughtered instantly. The other part of the passive is awesome too, when in team fights, it can change a lot. It's basically the opposite to Atma's Impaler but scales similiar. The more health lost, the more AD you gain. This can give you a big AD boost when low health, which with your Parrrley and the rest of the damage boosters you have, you can usually take out a carry with 1 hit. Then heal up and help ace the team.
Last Whisper: If your armour pen from Weapon Expertise , Greater Mark of Desolation and The Brutalizer isn't piercing through the enemies armour enough, this item will make sure it does. It has 40% armour pen along with an extra 40 AD for only 2290 gold. This is yet another amazing item for Gangplank as well as AD carries. Don't forget to get this, you'll soon see the results. Swap The Brutalizer for this item if you need more armour pen.
Banshee's Veil: This item is great against an AP caster/nuke, it can prevent a huge amount of damage and it gives nice health/mana as well as magic resistance. This can be used instead of Maw of Malmortius. They are rather similiar but Banshee's Veil has more magic resistance. The choice really comes down to your preference.
Guardian Angel: This can replace either Maw of Malmortius or Atma's Impaler. Once again it's on personal preference. If you think you need it over one of the other items, then go for it. The resistances are nice and the Unique passive is great, but your reactions might have to be fast if you're the only one left to 1 v 1 the remaining enemy team member.
An expensive build for those long games
|Item Sequence
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Trinity Force
Infinity Edge
Atma's Impaler
Maw of Malmortius
Last Whisper
This was my original build for this guide, though the cost of it was close to 17,000 gold. In the Twisted Treeline, that amount of gold is hard to get in the average game. Though if the game drags on it is possible. This build is amazingly strong once you get the hang of it. You can always keep it in mind for those longer games.
As for the explantions on all of these items, they are all above for you to read about. As for it being possible for a Summoners' Rift build, I wouldn't know, I have never used it there. If anyone wants to try it for me and post the results, I would be very greatful, Thanks.
Boots and Explanations
Ionian Boots of Lucidity: 15% cooldown reduction, Enhanced movement 2. These boots allow you to spam short cooldown abilities quicker. They are great on Gangplank as his Parrrley will be close to a 3 second cooldown. Ever had a team fight where you could of won, only if that ability came off cooldown a second earlier? These boots can change that.
Ninja Tabi: 25 Armour, Enhanced movement 2, non-turret basic attacks damage reduced by 10%. These boots are great against those auto attackers. If that 10% doesn't seem much, then let's say Xin Zhao is auto attacking you and he has 400 AD. That 10% is taking away the damage of a B. F. Sword which in theory, is wasting 1650 gold of his he used. Also that 25 armour also adds up eventually too, blocking out a little more damage.
Mercury's Treads: 25 Magic resistance, 35 Tenacity, Enhanced movement 2. These boots are a Ninja Tabi that counters AP and CC. The 25 magic resist will prevent some of the damage of an AP caster and lower the time the CC lasts on your character. The tenacity can help when your Remove Scurvy is on cooldown.
Berserker's Greaves: 25 attack speed, Enhanced movement 2. I personally don't think these boots help with Gangplank, especially the way I usually build him. That being said, with the second build in this guide, they can help to do more DPS. Other than that, they're not worth it on Gangplank.
Boots of Swiftness: Enhanced movement 3. I don't like these boots at all. Sure they give you a lot more movement speed than the other boots, but they don't give anything other than that. They might be good for chases or getaways though. But they are not needed, especially if you get a Trinity Force as that along with Raise Morale will give you more movement speed overall.
Boots of Mobility: Enhanced movement 2, when not in combat, Enhanced movement 5.
Never really seen these used in Twisted Treeline. A lot of junglers will use these boots in Summoners' Rift to run between lanes and the jungle at a faster rate, but in Twisted Treeline, the lanes are so close together, they aren't needed. The only other use I have seen for them, is when a stealth champion such as Twitch will get them to roam about with. I wouldn't use them on Gangplank.
Sorcerer's Shoes: 20 Magic Pen, Enhanced movement 2. Plain and simple in this case. You aren't an AP caster, there is no need for these boots.
Gangplank can be played many ways. The way I am showing you in this guide is to play really offensive. The first thing that anyone needs to learn is that the start of Twisted Treeline is different to Summoners' Rift.
What people tend to aim for is first blood straight away, the way they do this is that they buy their starting items ASAP. They then rush down the the bottom lane brush that is next to the edge of the map, in the middle of the lane. The first players to get inside the brush usually have the advantage. Once the enemy steps into the brush, the first person is focused down and first blood is usually gained. Sometimes you can even see a team being aced around the 1:00 mark. This is important to know, do it well and get some first bloods. The starting item I use can produce a powerful early crit, this will help you get those kills before the enemy does.
In Summoners' Rift, you would usually play as a solo top or a jungler. Either way, you still do a nice amount of damage but you're also rather beefy, so to speak. But in Twisted Treeline, people hardly play like the usual solo top. The top laner is usually a damage dealer, looking to level up more quickly to the bottom lanes 2 v 2.
Being solo means that you have the ease of getting the minions to yourself. Never think of it as an easy task though. You're prone to ganks at any time, just like you are on Summoners' Rift, and the distance between lanes isn't much. They could reach you within seconds and end what you thought you would win. The best way to play pre-6 is to play defensive and count up the creep score.
Now I know this seems weird because I have been saying that you should play more aggressive. Well the pre-6 aggressiveness comes from pushing back the enemy champion with your Parrrley to try and deny them creeps. When you are managing to dominate the lane, you can start to use Parrrley to start getting extra gold on creeps by last hitting them with it. Always try to save enough mana for Remove Scurvy to get away/survive unless you know that you'll be fine. You never know when it can save your life.
With Parrrley's extra gold gain, you can get your items rather quick. Those small amounts of gold eventually add up. Once you hit level 6-11, you can start either roaming, gaining creep score or even go in for kills without much worry. This part of the game is usually where the team fights begin. Just keep an eye on the map while you farm and help when you're needed.
Once you start coming into the late game, usually 1-2 turrets on the map have been pushed down and you're starting your push to win the game. You should have a nice amount of damage and survivability. Here is where you start pushing as a team. Stay close together, focus the damage dealers first and win the game.
Important notice:
Kills vs. Creep Score: Ok, so first blood is worth 400G, kills after that are worth 300G and start lowering as that person dies more. Eventually the kills are worth less than creeps. The best thing to do is to farm over kills unless you know you can secure a kill. A full creep wave is close to the same amount of gold gained as a kill. Keep this in mind.
Credit given where credit is due.
I would like to say a big thanks to JhoiJhoi, her guide creation guide was an amazing help to me. You can view it here: Making a guide - by JhoiJhoi
tehAsian - Gave the idea for the cheaper builds and more insight into Raise Morale and starting items.
A Chubby Baby - Gave an idea of lifesteal, tried to implement it how I see it will work.
Fulundry - Reminded me about Last Whisper being viable if enemy has 113+ armour, nothing less.
Also, I'd like to say a thank you for reading my first guide. I hope it helped you.
~ Jei ~
Change Log
- Added boots explanation chapter.
- Changed the build to be cheaper, took 3-4k gold off the price.
- Added another build that focuses on critical strike.
- Kept the old build, made a seperate chapter on it.


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|Urvashi Butalia
Urvashi Butalia in 2011
1952 (age 65–66)
Ambala, Haryana
co-founder Kali for Women (1984),
founder Zubaan Books(2003)
Urvashi Butalia (born 1952) is an Indian feminist and publisher. Along with Ritu Menon, she co-founded Kali for Women, India's first exclusively feminist publishing house, in 1984. In 2003, following the closure of Kali for Women, she founded Zubaan Books.[1]
Early life and education[edit]
Butalia was born in Ambala, Haryana, into a very rich, progressive and atheist family of Punjabi heritage. She is the third of the four children of Joginder Singh Butalia and his wife Subhadra. Her mother, Subhadra Butalia, was a feminist who ran a counselling centre for women. Butalia has one [elder] sister, Bela, and two brothers, Pankaj and Rahul.[ [Pankaj Butalia]] is a left-wing documentary filmmaker best known for a documentary on the miserable conditions of widows living in Vrindavan.
Butalia earned a BA in literature from Miranda House, Delhi University, in 1971, a master's degree in literature from Delhi University in 1973, and a master's in South Asian Studies from the University of London in 1977.[2]
Butalia started her career working with Oxford University Press in Delhi. She later worked for a year at their Oxford headquarters,[2] before moving briefly to London-based Zed Books as an editor in 1982. She then returned to India and, along with Ritu Menon, set up a feminist publishing house, Kali for Women, in 1984, .[3]
Butalia's main areas of interest are partition and oral histories from a feminist and left-wing perspective. She has written on gender, communalism, fundamentalism and media. Her writings have appeared in several newspapers and magazines publications including The Guardian, the New Internationalist, The Statesman, The Times of India, Outlook and India Today. She has been a regular columnist for the left-wing Tehelka and for Indian Printer and publisher, a B2B publication dealing with the print and publishing industry.
Butalia is a consultant for Oxfam India and she holds the position of Reader at the College of Vocational Studies at the University of Delhi.[2]
Kali for Women and Zubaan Books[edit]
Kali for Women, India's first exclusively feminist publishing house, which Butalia co-founded with and Ritu Menon, was set up in 1984 as a trust to increase the body of knowledge on women in the Third World, to give voice to such knowledge as already exists, and to provide a forum for women writers, creative and academics.[4]
In 2003, co-founders Urvashi Butalia and Ritu Menon parted ways due to unresolvable differences. Thereafter, Butalia started Zubaan Books, which besides feminist books also published fiction, general interest books and children's titles, while Menon started Women Unlimited.[3]
In 2011, Butalia and Menon were jointly conferred the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award, by the Government of India.[5][6]
The Other Side of Silence[edit]
Apart from several newspaper articles and op-ed pieces dealing with feminist issues, Butalia has authored or co-authored seven books, listed below. Of these, The Other Side of Silence (1998) is being used as a text in some Indian universities. The book is the product of more than seventy interviews that Butalia conducted with survivors of the Partition, and emphasises particularly the role of violence against women in the collective experience of the tragedy.
Butalia points out that the Partition is, like the holocaust, still very much a "living history", in the sense that many survivors are still around and can be interviewed. In contrast to the many projects that have undertaken to document the oral histories of the Holocaust, few comparable initiatives have been undertaken in India. This is one of them.
Butalia is an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP).[7]
- Urvashi Butalia; Ritu Menon; Kali for Women (1992). In Other Words: New Writing by Indian Women. Kali for Women. ISBN 978-81-85107-48-6.
- Urvashi Butalia; Ritu Menon (1995). Making a Difference: Feminist Publishing in the South. Bellagio Pub. Network.
- Tanika Sarkar; Urvashi Butalia (1995). Women and the Hindu Right: A Collection of Essays. Kali For Women. ISBN 978-81-85107-66-0.
- Tanika Sarkar; Urvashi Butalia (1995). Women and Right Wing Movements: Indian Experiences. Zed Books, London. ISBN 978-1-85649-289-8.
- Urvashi Butalia (1998). The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. Penguin Books India. ISBN 978-0-14-027171-3.
- Urvashi Butalia (2002). Speaking Peace: Women's Voices from Kashmir. Kali for Women. ISBN 978-81-86706-43-5.
- Urvashi Butalia (ed.) (2006). Inner Line: The Zubaan Book of Stories by Indian Women. Zubaan. ISBN 978-81-89013-77-6.
- ^ Daftuar, Swati (28 October 2010). "Identity matters". The Hindu. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
- ^ a b c "Bio – Butalia". Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
- ^ a b Ghoshal, Somak (14 June 2013). "Urvashi Butalia: I want to prove that feminist publishing can survive commercially". Livemint. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
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The patent wars are completely and utterly out of control. That pretty much everyone can agree on.
But just about every major technology company feels the need to participate in some way. After all, even if you're not going around suing other companies for patent infringement, chances are you're filing for patents just in case.
Yesterday, however, Twitter took an unprecedented step that it hopes will change the game in unveiling an Innovator's Patent Agreement (IPA). What is the IPA? On the Twitter blog, the company's VP of Engineering, Adam Messinger, explained:
The IPA is a new way to do patent assignment that keeps control in the hands of engineers and designers. It is a commitment from Twitter to our employees that patents can only be used for defensive purposes. We will not use the patents from employees' inventions in offensive litigation without their permission. What's more, this control flows with the patents, so if we sold them to others, they could only use them as the inventor intended.
In addition to restricting a patent's use to "defensive" purposes, the IPA grants employees a "perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, no-charge, irrevocable license" with a limited right to sublicense the patent, subject to terms that would deter an employee from using the patent in an offensive purpose himself.
Twitter hopes that the IPA will be a hit and that other technology companies will adopt it themselves. If enough do, the thinking goes, we might be able to start to clean up the patent mess without the involvement of the US Congress.
But just how big a deal is the IPA? To be sure, there's plenty to like about Twitter's IPA, which is being praised in many corners of the tech industry and blogosphere. But questions remain. One patent attorney, Leonid Kravets, calls the IPA a "PR and recruiting win" for Twitter, but points out that Twitter's definition of "defensive" is so broad that Twitter could "interpret almost anything as a defensive use."
Kravets also suggests that the IPA could create tension between management and employees. "The reality is that while an inventor remains an employee of the company, management has significant control over the actions of the employee, especially if the employee is looking to advance their career. It appears unlikely that employees would be able to deny the use of the assets if management feels it is in the best interests of the company to do so," he writes.
This hints at perhaps the biggest problem with the IPA: large loophole around what "defensive" really means aside, the IPA model may prevent companies from acting in their best interests, which would hurt shareholders and stakeholders, including, of course, the very employees Twitter is trying to empower.
There are plenty of problems with the patent system. Non-practicing entities (also know as patent trolls) are a big one that the IPA won't impact, but the biggest is the fact that so many questionable patents are issued. In short, an overloaded USPTO is issuing patents for "inventions" that arguably aren't even patentable.
Patent itself is a good concept, designed to encourage innovation and protect innovators, and when a company develops something that is legitimately patentable, there's a strong argument to be made that it should feel free to use that patent offensively. After all, that's part of the purpose of patent: to give inventors exclusive use of their inventions for some period of time.
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Whilst on your holidays you may fancy a bit of down time. A trip to the cinema can be the perfect way to relax on holiday. Throughout Barcelona there are "Version Original" cinemas or VO cines, as they are known locally. These cinemas show films in the language they were originally produced in - often times that is English, however other languages are also available e.g. French and German. If you are in search of the latest blockbuster, the Yelmo Icària cinema (see below) is the place that you are most likely to find it. In general the version original language cinemas tend to offer a mixture of new releases and art house favourites.
This page will provide listing for original language cinemas in Barcelona. You can see exactly were each cinema is located on the map we have provided. You can click on the link for each Barcelona VO cine and for a more in-depth page showing the exact location of the cinema on a Barcelona map, opening times, the sorts of films on offer and how to purchase tickets.
In Barcelona original language cinemas are called V.O. This stands for "Version Original". So look out for the symbol "V.O." on the film posters.
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In Barcelona, many cinemas offer half price ticket deals on a Monday night. This is subject to change and depends on the individual cinema. If you are looking for the half price deals it is best to check the website of the cinema that you are heading to and see if they offer the Monday deal.
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Miriam Horn, a clean technology specialist, manages the smart grid initiative at Environmental Defense Fund. She is a project leader on Austins Pecan Street Project, which recently won a $10m stimulus grant for a fully integrated smart-grid demonstration in a green-built neighborhood; the project will combine advanced metering and communications with distributed generation (including coop-owned solar and building integrated PV), storage, plug-in hybrid cars, smart appliances, smart water and sophisticated consumer controls. Project goals include maximizing and monetizing the full suite of environmental benefits, and developing new business models and an open platform to maximize participation by entrepreneurs and innovators. With Environmental Defense Fund president Fred Krupp, Horn co-authored the New York Times bestseller Earth: The Sequel, The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Norton, 2008). Earth: The Sequel was chosen a best book of the year by Fast Company; a Discovery Channel documentary based on the book aired in March 2009. Horn is a frequent public speaker; recent appearances include the keynote at the Solartech-CALSEIA Inaugural Summit and talks at the United Nations, ABA, Monterey Institute for International Studies, New York University, University of Michigan Law School and Tsinghua University, Beijing. She was a panelist with deputy energy secretary Cathy Zoi at a recent New Enterprise Associates forum and was a finals judge for MITs 2009 Ignite Clean Energy (ICE) prize. Horn has worked for the U.S. Forest Service and written for numerous newspapers and magazines, including Vanity Fair, The New Republic, and the New York Times. She is the author of Rebels in White Gloves; Coming of Age with Hillarys ClassWellesley 69 (Times Books, 1999). A graduate of Harvard University, Horn studied environmental science at Columbia University and lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.
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Moontrug's primary school years were dominated by two things: unicorns and forming clubs with complicated passwords. BULC ('club' backwards) was the most memorable club. Details below:
Members (from left to right): Abi (Moontrug), Lucy, Georgie, Eleanor (the Angus girls)
Meeting Place: the girls' loos
Password: so complicated Moontrug has forgotten it
Secret handshake: involved a starjump
Day-to-day activities: building dens, investigating our teachers, making potions
Just when Moontrug thought she'd try to be a bit more grown up (host dinner-parties instead of den-making sessions and make Jamie Oliver meals instead of brewing potions), she stumbled across a hilarious book which brought BULC memories flooding back… Pamela Butchart's Baby Aliens Got My Teacher.
Izzy and her friends are really surprised when Miss Jones starts being nice to them. After all, this is the teacher who secretly smiled when Maisie Miller fell off her chair that time. And then a teddy bear appears on her desk with 'You're Great' written on its tummy. Miss Jones isn't a teddy bear kind of person. She's more of a hates-puppies-and-thinks-kittens-are-ugly kind of person. And that's when they know – Miss Jones has been taken over by aliens. And now she's trying to turn them all into aliens, too. RUN!!!
Izzy's narration is brilliantly funny and perfectly captures the wild imaginings of 7/8 year-olds. By page 2, Butchart already had me in giggles. Izzy finds a crisp that looks exactly like her neighbour Mrs Cunningham: 'I obviously did NOT eat it. I put it in an envelope and carefully posted it through Mrs Cunningham's letter box. Because that's what I would want someone to do if they found a crisp shaped exactly like me (also called a crisp twin.') Izzy's humour is SO SO well done – and you feel yourself carried away with her hilarious interpretations of events. Her friends are equally great (pea-phobic Zach, mega-tantrum Jodie and faint-a-lot Maisie) – and Moontrug would have LOVED to have been in their gang…
Jodie's thoughts on why Miss Jones might be acting strangely are the kind of things Moontrug would have come up with: 'So me and Jodie sat together and tried to find out why Miss Jones was being so weird. Jodie said that one time her aunty started doing lots of weird things, like saying: "Good morning, Jeffrey!" to an orange and pouring milk on her violin. The doctor had said that is was STRESS.' And Izzy's excitement about attending a 'meeting' outside the den is awesome: 'I didn't know what to bring so I just brought a bag of crisps, four biscuits from the cupboard, my good pens and Dad's torch.' Essential meeting equipment – Moontrug would have also added: one balaclava (in case robberies were intended).
Butchart's humour is partly due to the fantastic absurdities in her plot (aliens, teddies, classroom meditation) but also because she captures exactly the way children think and speak. Check out possibly the BEST late-for-school excuse ever from Izzy: 'So I told her about the terrapin… but I couldn't tell her about the other [late] because it was Dad's fault and he had said not to tell Mum. So I said that the other one was a terrapin too and then she sent me to my room.' Similarly, Zach's melodramatic goodbye text to his mother as the alien invasion reaches its peak, is priceless: 'I love you Mum. Goodbye. P.S. I'm sorry I didn't change the cat litter.' Baby Aliens Got My Teacher is a laugh-out-loud book for 6-8-year-olds, full of imaginative twists, boundless energy and lots of rule-breaking. So to celebrate its alien wonderfulness, Moontrug is offering up a copy of Pamela Butchart's latest book, The Spy Who Loved School Dinners, to the person who can draw an extraordinary alien and write a few sentences about it. Entries should be sent to: email@example.com before September 1st.


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Curiosity is a curious thing, according to Laura Schulz, class of 1943 career development associate professor of cognitive sciences. In MIT's Early Childhood Cognition Lab, she and her colleagues have gone beyond the obvious (yes, all babies are curious) to explore the conditions that turn off—or turn on—curiosity and, thus, creativity. Several of her findings can be applied to education at many levels.
In a Huffington Post article, Schulz explains:
"I think there are two different things that can provoke curiosity. The simplest one is a violation of your prior beliefs. You go [into an experience] with a certain expectation that 'this is the way the world is,' and then you see some evidence that's inconsistent with that."
…. The other time you might be curious is if you see evidence that fails to distinguish [among] competing beliefs. There are many things that might be true, and the evidence just doesn't determine which one is the case."This second example, which she calls confounded information, is a clear curiosity driver. In one experiment, a child and a researcher each pulled down a lever on a toy jack-in-the-box, which produced two 'jacks' emerging from the top. Because the child could not tell if she caused the action or the researcher did, the information was confounded. If a new toy was introduced, the child would return to the familiar toy to keep working on the problem. In contrast, if a child was the only one to pull down the lever to produce the double jacks, the cause and response was clear. When a new toy was introduced, this child would go for the novel new toy. The first child, who persisted with the first toy, was more likely to find new features on the original toy and develop a deeper understanding of its functions.
The impact on education is clear: Explicit instruction makes children less likely to engage in spontaneous exploration and discovery. At experiments at the Children's Museum and the Museum of Science, both in Boston, Schultz and her team introduced a novel toy in four different ways. Children introduced to the toy in the most explicit way failed to discover any new functions; children who received less instruction or supervision tended to find one or two new functions on their own.
In another study, Schultz and her team showed that 16-month-old infants can, based on very little information, make accurate judgments of whether a failed action is due their own mistake or to circumstances beyond their control.
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Vincent – Collateral
Before playing Vincent, the cold-blooded, stone-hearted hitman facing off against Jamie Foxx's cab driver, Tom Cruise had rarely played any role which wasn't crammed with likeability and heroism. But as the blockbuster opportunities quietened and age began to rear its head, Cruise cleverly changed his career path onto a treacherous route of playing a character that is a polar opposite to his usual typecast.
Undoubtedly a gamble, but one that paid off. Cruise brought a steely, uncompromising magnetism to his silver haired, sharp suited killer. In any other film from the genre, the main character would always be the good guy, but in Michael Mann's Collateral, Tom Cruise steals the show.
Les Grossman – Tropic Thunder
There are great cameo performances and then there is Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder. He is unrecognisable at first. Partly due to the costume of an overweight, balding, gorilla-handed mogul, but also due to Cruise's extremely energetic body grinds and sporadic screaming fits when faced with the slightest of inconveniences from his soppy assistant.
Cruise as Grossman is grimy, hilarious and profoundly shocking in the performance that proved he can do funny just as well as he can do serious.
Charlie Babbitt – Rain Man
Essentially a road movie, Rain Man see's Cruise in a profoundly emotional drama. After a string of testosterone fuelled action films, he was at the stage in his career where he could have easily slipped into only obtaining roles similar to his previous efforts, as many actors do. Fortunately, Barry Levinson's Rain Man was the perfect role for Cruise to express his diversity and show us that he can perform alongside the best – in this case Dustin Hoffman as his estranged autistic brother Raymond.
All eyes are on Hoffman and rightly so for his outstanding performance, but Cruise supports him with a mature and refined subtlety. Pacino-esque at times with his outbursts and uncontrollable frustration as the ill-advised brother, but where other actors may have challenged Hoffman for the spotlight, instead Cruise understands the importance of strong support.
Ray Ferrier – War of the Worlds
War of the Worlds is not Steven Spielberg's most applauded work, but if you give it a chance it has a lot to offer. Take away the invading Martians (and their skin crawling, alien fog horns of terror) and you are left with a heartfelt family drama, headed by Cruise in one of the finest and most realistic acting performances ever committed to film.
Through Spielberg's immaculate direction and Cruise's convincing display – supported maturely by Dakota Fanning and Justin Chatwin – War of the Worlds becomes a compelling story, and much like Orson Welles's radio broadcast, one that engrosses you completely due to the magic of the acting and storytelling.
Frank T.J. Mackey – Magnolia
Magnolia is Paul Thomas Anderson's signature film: a four hour long masterpiece which not only informed all of his later works but influenced many other filmmakers too. The story revolves around a number of seemingly unrelated individuals all at crossroads in their lives. The umbrella above them all is one of coincidence as they all gradually meet or cross paths as their problems unfold.
Tom Cruise as Frank T.J. Mackey is just one of the many great actors who put in the performance of a lifetime, but his is especially memorable. Although given less screen time than others, his impact is instant and lasts long in the memory.
Starting out as a slick haired, leather clad motivational speaker, Mackey is promoting his self-help programme which demands that his room full of hopeless disciples "Respect the cock and tame the cunt".
Oozing confidence and completely lacking in morals and respect, it is only until a curious reporter questions his upbringing and relationship with his father that Mackey begins to show signs of insecurity.
He eventually implodes, culminating his short lived but ferocious character arc from self-proclaimed woman-magnet to sad and lonely emotional wreck.
A masterful display in his most engaging role to date, many would struggle to attain this in the span of a career whereas Cruise does it in 30 minutes.
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The Cadbury Crunchie Bar is made from delicate honeycomb and coated in smooth milk chocolate.
It's easy to see why the Cadbury Crunchie Bar is a South African favourite. Satisfyingly crunchy – as the name suggests – it's purely indulgent.
Let's take a trip to 1824, when John Cadbury opened his Bull Street store, right here in England. Selling cocoa and drinking chocolate, it wasn't until 1831 that he opened a factory. By 1842, his range had expanded to 11 different cocoas and 16 drinking chocolates. The first chocolate bar, however, was only produced by Fry's in 1847. Nowadays, of course, Cadbury is a household name and with good reason, we say. To read the full story behind Mr Cadbury's adventures, click here.
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I'm experiencing something similar, though it's with all multi-processing. I've tried exporting with both Quicktime (ProRes, Animation, etc) and with image sequences. No dice either way.
I get an error dialog: Rendering Error: An Output module failed. The file may be damaged or corrupted. (-1610153464)".
And my Console is full of these errors:
"7/16/13 10:06:37.116 AM After Effects[590]: objc[590]: Object 0x141202d90 of class NSRunningApplication autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking - break on objc_autoreleaseNoPool() to debug"
I've tried cleaning out codecs and whatnot, with no joy. I'm on the latest version of After Effects CC (12.0.1), and it seems the error was introduced with this version. Thoughts?
> I'm on the latest version of After Effects CC (12.0.1)
There is no After Effects CC (12.0.1). Where did you get that version number? We've only released version 12.0.0.
It would be best if you joined one of the existing threads about QuickTime issues with After Effects CC (12.0), such as this one:


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New World Wonders
For explorers and colonists from Europe, North and South America were full of strange new lifeforms—stunning and surprising plants and animals, from insects to birds to sea creatures. Examine the following drawings and descriptions created by European visitors to the Americas. Can you identify what plant or animal is being described or depicted?


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Because I know that every stone placed by men has a story to tell.
Because I believe that humans can learn from the past to rise in a glorious future.
Because I believe that each piece of history or legend is our present and our future.
Because I feel that each ruin should have the opportunity to rise once again from its ashes.
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To experience luxurious grandeur in the heart of one of the world's most desirable capital cities, the Langham London – owned by Langham Hotels International – has long been one of the most sought-after addresses.
But keen to avoid resting on its laurels, the company is set to make several million pounds worth of improvements to its flagship London hotel.
The Langham has already seen £80 million pumped into an extensive refurbishment in recent years. It is now seeking to consolidate its position as one of Europe's premier hotels by upgrading its suites.
As well as upgrading the hotel's 25 existing suites, LHI have enlisted interior design experts Richmond International to design a new presidential suite to complement the hotel's flagship Infinity Suite.
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The Infinity Suite was opened in 2005 and already featured here as one of London's 4 most expensive rooms. It is popular among the well-heeled and celebrities, boasting an imposing 235 square meters of floor space.
The new Regent Suite is almost as large at 166 square metres and consists of two bedrooms – each with their own private sitting rooms – along with a third room which can be used as a boardroom.
The suite will also offer the services of a dedicated butler, naturally – as well as a fully-stocked bar and optional extras like a private chauffeur.
Overlooking Portland place from a vantage point above the hotel's grand entrance, the Regent Suite is expected to open shortly, with a princely price tag of over £5000 per night. Only the mega-rich need apply to stay there!
More than £1m has been pumped into the suite's renovation.
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The hotel's other suites are also seeing extensive refurbishment and are to be renamed after London's famous squares (e.g. "Trafalgar" and so on).
With the 2012 Olympics fast approaching, the company's bold move of investing serious money at the end of a recession is expected to pay off.
We feel that this is also related to some jostling for position among London's leading deluxe hotels like the discreetly grandiose Dorchester, the value-loving Lanesborough and Art Deco gem Claridge's.
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And this, as all of them nervously anticipate the long-awaited (and much delayed) re-opening of the remodelled Savoy later this year which will flood even more expensive hotel rooms onto the market.
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It will be absolutely fascinating to see which of London's luxury hospitality standard bearers will add enough value to thrive in an increasingly competitive environment while continuing to justify expensive room rates.
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Telephone Interview vs. In-person Interview
You might think that having your technical interview over the phone would be easier than doing it in person. After all, you don't have to worry about under- or overdressing.
In some ways, it is easier - but you also lose some of the advantages of the face-to-face interview. Most crucial is the inability to observe the interviewer's body language for clues to his/her demeanor. Remember how we said up to 80% of what is communicated is based on body language? It's difficult to gauge the response to your words when you can't see the interviewer. One result is that you must be much more careful about using humor, or deviating from the subject. You won't have the interviewer's physical reaction to signal you that it's time to get back on track.
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Another problem with the telephone interview is that it may occur unexpectedly. Many interviewers are courteous and will set up a specific time to call, but some will surprise you, phoning and wanting to do the interview right now, at a time that may not be optimum for you. This can be disorienting and even cause your mind to "go blank."
You may think that if you're interviewed by telephone, it will be easy to "cheat." You can have the books or your computer in front of you, and look up the answers to questions you don't know. You'll probably find, however, that it's very difficult to do this without the interviewer knowing. Unless you know ahead of time what the questions will be and have your books and WebPages marked and ready, it's going to take too long to look up answers for you to pretend you're not consulting a reference. And of course, if you know the questions ahead of time, you can go ahead and learn the material and not have to look it up during the interview.
Dress For Your Telephone Interview
Finally, although a telephone interview may seem less formal and less intimidating than an in-person interview, it is just as important that you prepare for it, and that you present yourself well. To hire or not to hire - it's not uncommon for that decision to be made based on a telephone interview. At the very least, the telephone interview will determine whether you advance to the next step, which is usually an in-person interview. And the first impression that you make on the phone can pave the way to make that next step smoother, or it can be a difficult obstacle to overcome.
I have attempted to give you a very insights into the technical interview process in this article. I'll provide a resource and suggestion for how you can obtain more information on this very important subject -- look for that on the next page.
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Connecting local employers with new Canadians living in Metro Vancouver.
Almost 2,000 people visited the web portal created for the first Prince George Online Job Fair held on June 4, 2013 and viewed the pages of participating employers about 12,800 times, making the event a success. Of the participants, 40 per cent were from Vancouver, 32 per cent were from other communities in Metro Vancouver and 28 per cent were from Prince George.
The Prince George Online Job Fair enabled local employers to connect with potential employees living in Metro Vancouver without the travel costs associated with participating in traditional job fairs. While promotion of the job fair was targeted at new Canadians living in Metro Vancouver who are underemployed or unemployed, local residents were also welcome to participate. Initiatives Prince George received a $60,200 grant through the Employer Innovation Fund that is overseen by Immigrant Employment Council of BC to help cover the costs of the Online Job Fair. This funding is made possible through the Government of Canada and the Province of British Columbia.
Plans are in the works to host a second Prince George Online Job Fair in late 2013. Businesses interested in participating can contact Economic Development Officer Melissa Barcellos at 250.564.0282 or[email protected] for more information.


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Making Prospective Customers Feel Welcome
I know you've heard it a thousand times: make your prospective customer feel welcome and safe while they're learning about your products and services, and they'll buy from you.
But when you actually see this in action, it's a miracle to behold.
This afternoon, with several hours to spare before I had to appear at a speaking engagement in New York City, I wandered into Macy's Herald Square. It's one of the busiest department stores in New York, and it didn't help that it was pouring rain and everyone wanted to get inside to dry off a bit.
So how does Macy's welcome it's customers? With the most brilliant — and inexpensive — solution that can be handed out at the door on a rainy day: Umbrella Bags. A very nice man in a very nice business suit stood at the door for hours, offering people plastic bags (with the Macy's logo on it, naturally!) so that they could tuck their wet umbrellas away while they shopped.
You might think this is no big deal, but if you've ever shopped in a crowded store, trying to figure out what to do with your web umbrella is a real distraction.
Macy's made every person who walked through the door feel welcomed and cared for. Net result: less distracted people who could focus on buying.
Now apply this to your business.
If you have an office or a place where you meet customers, how welcoming is it? What color is the decor? Do you see to their basic and common needs, like bathrooms, water, etc.?
If your business has a website, do you give them the information they're looking for, in a simple and speedy way? Are your text, graphics and colors friendly and welcoming?
When you answer the phone, how is your voice modulated? When you answer emails, what type of reply comes off your keyboard?
Make your customers feel welcomed and cared for, and they'll return again and again.
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Bluetrek has launched a new Bluetooth headset, the "SENSE", into its fashion range.
Weighing in at 8grams and measuring 5cm, the headset offers a black mirror-like finish and the boast to be the first in the Bluetrek range to offer touch-sensitive technology.
There's a dual-coloured LED display to let you know when battery levels are low while a built-in "Voice Alert" can also confirm your choice of function by saying the function, or selection, out loud via the touch sensitive button.
The SENSE can be worn with or without its slim line ear hook, which Bluetrek says it to ensure comfort for the specs-wearers among us.
The Bluetrek SENSE will be available in early 2008 for £49.99.
Technical Specifications:
* Talk Time: Up to 4 hours
* Standby time: Up to 5 days
* Weight: about 8 grams
* Size: 50 mm (L) x 15mm (W)
* Operation range: Up to 10 metres
* Voice Alert: A pre-recorded voice alerts users to low battery levels and missed calls and also confirms your choice of function such as connecting or disconnecting your headset, redialling your last number, rejecting a call or contacting favourite numbers
* Bluetooth Specification: V1.2


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Here are some observations. I hope they help anyone who is struggling to unlock their voice for greater flow of the written word.
- Get quiet to know and allow your authentic self onto the page. This seems contradictory to the impulse we might have in a loud world with so many competing interests. But in fact, if you will pause, silence the noise and tap into the uniqueness that is inside you, your voice will gain strength, because I can promise you this one thing. Voice, like a thumbprint, is unique. Your words will reflect it when they are allowed to follow the rhythm and flow of your inner thoughts about the things you care most about.
- What follows then is being the word, rather than using the word. A wise fellow writer once gave me this advice when he read a small section of my work, and I never forgot it. I had dressed up the prose of my story, preparing for it to be scrutinized in workshop. I was thinking about the judges and wanted others to admire the prose, the description, the alliteration and images. But, while those things were on the page, they were not yet connected to a deep well of caring. Of course, I cared about my subject, maybe so much that I was protecting it from criticism. Be brave fellow writers, and allow the depth of your caring to be shown vulnerable on the page. Words and story will flow then and an organic voice along with the words.
- A writer's voice is built through the techniques of character, setting, dialogue, plot and point of view.
Character: Observe people. Take your journal and yourself into the world and listen to different kinds of people talk. Hear their word choices, the cadence, the quirks and repetitions of phrases. Record your observations in a journal and know these are your working notes. Characters must be distinct from each other.
Setting: Place matters! Are your characters a product of rural or urban life, which socio-economic class and experiences related to that class. Mechanics? Yachtsmen? In a garage or on the ocean? Two different settings offering different languages, vocabularies…contributing to two uniquely different voices.
Dialogue: Listen to bus drivers, schoolteachers, farmers, talk radio hosts. Listen! Tune in to southern literature and the writing of diverse populations, and you will absorb more dialogue than you may use in a lifetime.
Plot: The action of a story, the what is happening and why lends to creating voice with its tone and urgency or anger or nostalgia or humor. Action creates feeling in the characters.
Point of View: Whether you tell a story from the first person point of view or second, or third, the vantage point of the camera fundamentally creates voice. Imagine if Daisy had told the story of The Great Gatsby, or if Moby Dick had been written from the whale's point of view.
I share in closing a story. Many years ago, I wrote a novel that won an award and came with an agent. I prayed the novel would not see the light of day because I was not ready for that story to be told, even though I had to tell the story. The agent submitted it to a small number of editors (she worked on a quick turnaround as she explained to me) and when none of those six editors took it, she told me to change the title and get another agent to keep submitting the book. Instead, I breathed a sigh of relief and put the book in a closet. I shut my voice there, and wrote stories for a while instead. I had to reckon with that ghost in order to write the next novel, and acknowledge my voice as important. Not more, not less important than anyone else's. But mine, and necessary.
As yours is necessary to the chorus of creation.
What one thing would you write if you were not afraid of the consequences?
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President Barack Obama and Congress cannot reach an agreement on the fiscal
cliff…it would likely send the country back into recession…and ultimately, it
could hurt your physical and emotional health.
Financial health and physical health can go hand-in-hand. In these
trying economic times it is important to make sure your finances are secure,
not only for the health of your bank account, but for your physical health as
This issue was recently taken up in a CNN article titled, "10 ways falling off
the fiscal cliff could hurt your health."
According to the Congressional Budget Office, if the fiscal cliff
is not avoided, the scheduled reduction in Medicare's payment rates for
physicians will lower Medicare spending by $11 billion. This overall spending
reduction results in a 2% cut in existing Medicare budgets. Consequently, these
reductions will mean a decrease of available Medicare funds to help pay for
essential healthcare needs.
In many instances, Medicare funds are used to pay for vital
services like nursing home and hospice care, which are crucial to the wellbeing
of our elderly population. Reduced Medicare funds mean reduced payments to
health care providers which, in turn, may cause hospitals and care providers to
stop accepting Medicare patients.
As we prepare for the possible approach of the fiscal cliff, a
consultation with an experienced elder law attorney can ensure that your access
to healthcare is protected. An experienced elder law attorney also may help
file an appeal in the event your health care provider denies your Medicare
Reference: CNN (November 30, 2012) "10 ways falling off
the fiscal cliff could hurt your health"
Congressional Budget
(May 30, 2012) "Economic Effects of
Reducing the Fiscal Restraint That Is Scheduled to Occur in 2013"
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Dubai developer Nakheel is on the lookout for young UAE architects to join its workforce.
The company is holding a national recruitment drive as part of its expansion and diversification plans and is encouraging fresh Emirati graduates to join.
Nakheel is particularly interested in candidates with degrees in architecture and civil engineering.
Abdulla Ali Bin Zayed, managing director of Nakheel human resources, said: "We are reaching out to young, talented UAE nationals who can help us deliver a range of new, innovative projects in line with our growth targets. Many of those projects – such as Deira Islands, new attractions on Palm Jumeirah and a range of hotels – will contribute to the Dubai Government's vision for 2020.
"This is an exciting time for Dubai and Nakheel, and we look forward to welcoming a team of new recruits whose skills and knowledge will play a key role in our future growth."


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The July Edit
Join us as we head to Scotland, to Carskiey House on the Mull of Kintyre. Over 500 years old and bordered by breathtaking coastline, this beautiful location is where we bring our AW18 collection to life.
Whether you're sending the little ones back to school, the not-so-little ones off to uni or heading back to work, we have all you need to start the new season in style. Discover crisp new stationery and accessories that will guarantee classroom credentials for the kids, as well as backpacks that are perfect for field trip fun. You'll also find everything you need to make halls a home, from bedding to homeware, mugs and more. We haven't forgotten fresh fashion either – with pretty dresses, exquisite embroidery and characterful knits, our latest offering will see you stylishly through autumn's arrival.
Inspired by a piece of vintage wallpaper alongside some of our archive florals, Grove Bunch was originally sketched by hand before being drawn up on the computer. The result is a new mid-scale floral print with a classic Cath Kidston feel.
Our beloved home city is a constant source of inspiration for us – from its iconic landmarks to big red buses, we love to celebrate our heritage through special London prints.
Winter Wildlife
This season, we pay homage to the rulers of autumn's animal kingdom. Carskiey Estate is home to a huge variety of wildlife, so you'll find cheeky otters and woodland creatures such as badgers, foxes and squirrels across bags, accessories and pretty, painterly homeware.
The New Balance X Cath Kidston collection combines our iconic British print design with New Balance's classic 415 trainer to bring you a fresh take on heritage style that will look good no matter where your feet take you.
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A new study shows that the rising rate of AIDS infections in some Muslim nations is being "driven by men having sex with other men in secret because of homophobia, religious intolerance and fear of being jailed or executed." Homosexuality is almost universally condemned in Muslim countries and punished brutally in most parts of the Middle East. The report, published in the journal PLoS Medicine, found:
About 2 to 3 percent of men in the region have sex with other men, consistent with global averages, the study found. But condom use is low, gay and bisexual prostitution is common, and many married men hide their bisexuality and risk infecting their wives. In some countries, even male prostitutes often marry for appearances' sake.
Truck drivers, prisoners and street children often have high rates of H.I.V. infection; in Pakistan, infection rates are rising rapidly among transgender prostitutes known as hijra.
The lowest rates of condom use were reported in populous countries like Egypt and Pakistan, while they were highest in Sudan (above), Oman and Lebanon.
Research has found a similar trend in the African American community, where gay men also suffer from disproportionately high HIV/AIDS rates. One study found that "when compared to white adults, a higher number of African Americans believe that homosexuality is 'always wrong'" and "twice as many black MSM than white MSM share the sentiment." That kind of prejudice can result in isolation, harassment and lead gay men to engage in risky or underground sexual behaviors.
In some nations, men don't even know how the virus can be transmitted. According to one activist in Africa — where homophobia is contributing to higher infection rates — men understand "that you can get HIV/AIDS from having sex with a woman, but not from a man."


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"I completed the Birth Embodiment class this past evening and I must say that this course is a refreshment! So many types of birth or birth healing education leave out the application of information. How can we meet ourselves where we are and come into a place where we can use the information we learn from the birth community, books, childbirth classes, our doula, or our care providers? How can we come to a place of healing and preparing for the next steps in regards to birth fear or trauma? How can we use our body to our advantage in birth instead of fearing how our body might fail us? This class provides tools to meet these questions head on. As a VBAC mother, I truly believe this class would be a tremendous resource for anyone planning VBAC or anyone who has experienced birth trauma and is planning to give birth again. As a birth professional, this class provides a way to be patient and attentive to our clients needs and not simply founts of overwhelming information. All of it is so applicable. I highly recommend it!" - Kelli B. Haywood MAT, LCCE founder of Birth True and the educator of Sacred Birth for the VBAC Mother classes and workshops. www.birthtrue.com
"This short class was so potent for me, there were times I needed to step away in order to have my feelings." Mom and Birthworker
"Nekole Shapiro combines an intimate understanding of the body with an education in the sciences to bring forth some of the most definitive and revolutionary information in the field of birth today. Participants in The Ecstatic Birth Foundation Series and Body Series cited her sessions as one of the most accessible and compelling in the curriculum. Soak her in-- it is a life-changing experience!" Sheila Kamara-Hay, Founder, Ecstatic Birth TeleSummit - www.ecstatic-birth.com
This MP3 audio stream is Nekole's presentation on practices to fully inhabit the body and connect to its innate wisdom. To partake in the entire Ecstatic Birth Tele-Summit Body Series click on the link.


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- Welcome to dress up games
Dress up games are very popular branch of online games. They gained their popularity because they are very similar to everyday activities girl do. Several change of clothes per day is nothing new or strange for an average girl or even woman as well. And that is a real reason these games are so loved. They give girls the opportunity to make additional change of clothes and have fun without having to make a mess in their room and without having to fold back all those pieces of clothes which end up all over the place after. So, dress up games give girls the freedom to mix and match different pieces and combine them in new and unexpected ways to get the best outfit they can think of. And, another great thing about them is that girls get to play with their favorite doll characters like Winx Club girls, Tinkerbell or Barbie. They all need help in deciding what to wear on different occasions and that why we are here at ArcadeShrine.com to help them choose the best combination for each one!
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Romantic BarbieBarbie is as beautiful as ever! This birthday party is once again her chance to shine!
Chic Bratz Dress...Bratz dress up game in all its glam! Hot latest fashion garments are waiting to be worn!
Barbie VacationEven superstars like Barbie need a vacation! Make her look cool and glamorous in her brand new clothes she took with her!
Dress up BratzDress up game with your favorite Bratz! Go crazy with those fashionable items and accessories!
Barbie RapunzelBarbie Rapunzel is princess waiting for her prince. Make her adorable so she can live happily ever after with her prince!
Winx Club Girl Dress...You think Winx are beautiful as they are?! Well, wait until you see these fashion garments!
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