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As the largest and most comprehensive resource of its kind, the journey initiated long ago by Baron and Lambert continues…. Many of the intimate structural processes that Ives developed … can be isolated.
(PRWEB) April 26, 2016
One of the most comprehensive technical analysis of Charles Ives's musicality is revealed in Charles Ives's Musical Universe—Unlocking the Code … Reassessing his Provenance," a new book by Antony Cooke, who has been studying the musician for nearly fifty years now. A former associate professor of music at Northwestern University and an acclaimed solo cellist, Cooke scrutinizes Ives's works for tangible systematic processes—the structural "code"—that have eluded or have been lacking in previous scholarly studies. Finally, Cooke's research has unravelled with technical precision the genius of Ives. The book is regarded a ground-breaking academic resource on Ives's works from Variations on America to the Universe Symphony.
Charles Ives is a unique talent in the annals of music, emphasizes the author, who is also a major Hollywood studio musician and a published composer. The landmark book takes off from previous scholarly successes of Carol K. Baron and Philip Lambert who identified some of the systematic methodologies in Ives's compositional language, as well as from the author's previous book, Charles Ives and His Road to the Stars, where the reader is introduced to Ives's music.
In this second volume, the author identifies the detailed structural processes that Ives developed throughout his career, from his early works to his masterpieces, and assumes the reader has intimate understanding—and appreciation—of Ives's musical genius.
Some of the highlights of the book include:
- Musical analyses specific to an Ives composition
- A discussion on Ives's borrowed melodic quotes
- Personal versus cosmic emotional influences in Ives's music
- Biography of the musician
The book takes a contrarian view to Bernard Herrmann's assumption forty years ago that Ives's musical methodology is a mystery. It isn't, said Cooke, and he proceeds with precision analyses of Ives's musical works that previous scholarly studies have left untouched or approached with indifference by other musicians, unable to grasp the genius's real musical talent. For decades Ives's compositional methodology is taken as a type of rhapsodic improvisatory facility because of their complex and free spirit leanings, but the author reveals the tangible creative skills underlying the genius's compositions, including his ability to control musical sounds with systematic consistency in their structural foundation to elicit a wide range of emotions. Not necessarily personal, the emotions in Ives's music, the author says, dwells in an infinite cosmic realm. It's a unique talent throughout the history of music, Cooke emphasizes, a feat he wants readers to take to heart.
Title: Charles Ives's Musical Universe—Unlocking the Code… Reassessing his Provenance
Author: Antony Cooke
Genre: Music/History & Criticism/General
eISBN: 978-1-4958-0681-0
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Getting tired of the same ol' kind of rock show? Well, Badass Band The Shakers cooked up quite the new concert experience for you. If you know The Shakers (Shame on you if you don't!) you know that they put on an intense, high energy, radical show on their own. Recently though, they've teamed up with a team of aerialists to create the Shapeshifter experience, a rock show with aerial acrobatics. The best part is, The Shakers have not modified their tunes, you aren't going to see them performing something totally out of their realm, its their album Rescue Team PLUS fucking radical aerial acrobatics being used to tell the story of a journey from darkness to light. HOW COOL IS THAT?! As much as I love many of the shows I go to, you cannot deny the need to see something new and exciting, and this definitely fits that bill. The show will currently run for 4 dates (MORE INFO BELOW): May 23, 24, 30 and 31, but the hopes of the whole team is that people dig on this experience so much that they get funded to extend the show's run. I doubt that will be hard to do, LA needs more fusion of artistry and people pushing the boundaries of their mediums, this union does just that.
Recently, I had a short chat with the radical front woman of The Shakers, Jodie Schell, about the whole experience and how it came to be:
How did you get involved?'
Jordann Baker is the mastermind behind Shapeshifter, which was already hatching in her mind when she saw our full-throttle album release show for RESCUE TEAM at Troubadour in August. Two months later, she invited Chris Lee and I over to her home, sat us down, and handed us the show proposal packet. As we opened the first page, she clicked *play* on our RESCUE TEAM cd and took us through the entire show; track-by-track, character by character. Everything had been mapped out, and it was breathtaking.
So this is all Shakers music, and they created the routine to match?
Exactly. Jordann wanted a live band to emphasize the adrenaline rush she intended for Shapeshifter's acrobatic feats. Now, it IS an ethereal and mystical show, but it's also a very human story. Four souls have their own crosses-to-bare as well as a villain (Kali) to battle in order to be transformed into something better (uniting with the Lightbearer). I think that's why the story matched so well with our album RESCUE TEAM. Jordann found all the elements of struggle, menace, vulnerability, passion, and triumph in that album and just brought it to life! I think together, (The Shakers and "the movers" which is our nickname for all the aerialists in this show), we can really hit home the notion that the best rescue team is inside yourself.
How long do you all hope to have this continue (beyond the 4 nights)?
I watched "the movers" top-secret rehearsal this weekend, and as I was sitting there with my head tilted back and my jaw on the floor, I thought to myself there is NO WAY anyone will be content to see this show once. I think anyone who experiences this show will spread word so fast, and the demand for more will be overwhelming. But we're ready. This is our baby, and the coolest thing we've ever had the chance to do!!!
What about a tour of this show? Would that be possible?
This Shapeshifter team raised over 10k to make this show happen, so I don't think there's anything we CAN'T do. I'm crossing my fingers for a Movers & Shakers WORLD TOUR.
Who: LA based aerialists including Jordann Baker and The Shakers
What: A 360 Degree immersive performance where breathtaking Aerial Circus infiltrates the thrashing music of LA rock outfit, The Shakers.
Why: To bring you a show unlike anything you've ever seen – employing professional artists who feed life and vitality into our Los Angeles Arts community. This hybrid performance takes the audience on a thrill ride of Acrobatic Feats and Live Music – following several SOULS as they journey "From Darkness Into The Light" led by the high powered vocals of a SHAMAN – Shakers front-woman JODIE SCHELL.
Where: Way 2 Much Entertainment Studio-1910 West Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026
When: May 23, 24, 30, 31
Tickets: http://shapeshifter.brownpapertickets.com/
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpdq5Oiw5r4
IndieGoGo Campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/shapeshifter–2 (LAST DAY TO HELP VIA IGG!)
For those of you that didn't make it out to see The Shakers' Shapeshifter experience over the last couple of weekends, you really missed out on something special. I walked in thinking that I was going to see a show where The Shakers were going to be playing their tunes but the aerial acrobatics were going to be the star, this was not so. The band was truly part of the show and the balance of focus between art forms was perfect. I went in just knowing what I was told about it, and the experience was much more intimate than I expected, it was truly a 360 degree show, that kept you guessing what and where something would be happening next. I made sure to stand in the very back so I could take in everything at once, from the band, to the floating carousel, to the ribbon work, to dance numbers, as you can see in the photos below. The story from The Shakers' Rescue Team was told beautifully through dance and acrobatics and I am sure that everyone that walked out of the show felt like they witnessed something very special. I don't think I could write anything about this show will do it justice, the pictures speak much more powerfully, so take a look below.


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Got my purple badge today
It's official, I've been nominated and accepted by Microsoft as a Virtual Technology Specialist (vTSP) in Azure! I'm extremely excited to be considered among the elite in the Microsoft Partner Community, and I look forward to learning more about the program and helping businesses find value using Microsoft Azure.
One of the first questions I had during this process was "What is a VTS?"
I've located this text, which explains the VTS Program: The Microsoft Virtual Technology Specialist Program (VTSP) is a select group chosen from the elite in Microsoft's partner community, whose focus is to augment Microsoft's internal Technology Specialist team. Their primary role is to communicate the value of Microsoft Solutions to customers and to provide architectural guidance for Enterprise Integration solutions. The Microsoft VTSP program was designed to create a deeper relationship with Microsoft Partners, the Product Teams at Microsoft Corporate, and Regional Microsoft Offices, in order to provide highly skilled solution specialists to Microsoft customers. It is designed to enable a high performance team of partner-based resources to deliver pre-sale activities and resources to empower customers and help them meet their solution and integration needs.
Great, so now we know what the VTS program is about, but what's also really cool is I now get access to information on the Microsoft corporate network such as knowledge bases, technical articles, training materials, and other resources. I also get guest access to Microsoft facilities, and priority for participating in Microsoft marketing events.
Overall this is a great opportunity for me as well as for Clear Measure, who now has 3 Virtual Technology Specialists in its ranks, many more MVP's, and even more ASP and C# Insiders. I'm proud to be a part of this elite community, and I look forward to all that comes from it.
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Frank has 25 years of experience in the Loss Control Arena. He began his career in Ottawa in 1989 with the former IAO (Insurer's Advisory Organization) as a Field Inspector specializing in High Valued dwellings. During this time he was also involved under contract with OPAC (Ontario Property Assessment Corporation), where he lead the field inspectors for the Ottawa Carleton Region.
Frank has consulted for a number of insurance companies and lending his expertise on loss prevention, code compliance and replacement cost evaluation systems.
He also held various Management positions in the Residential, Commercial and Adjusting sectors within Western Canada. Frank is presently the Business Development Manager with Mennonite Mutual Insurance. His years of property inspections and evaluations experience are nicely aligned with the numerous and varied loss scenarios he adjusts.


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Roaneden CKC Registered Retrievers is a family run breeding kennel. We are the home to Canada's Top Winning Tollers!
We have been active in competitive dogsports for a combined 30 + years. We have trained and successfully titled dogs in Agility, Flyball, Obedience, Field and Conformation. We do all our own training and handling of all our Roaneden dogs. Rob is a CKC Master Hunt Test Judge and Working Certificate Excellet Judge. Rob is also the head Pro Dog Trainer at Country Club for Pets
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Usually my companion poems and drawings are created very close to each other in time, whichever comes first. In the following instance however, the poem "Nectar" (which appears in my book BLACK BUTTERFLY: Poems For A Muse) dates from over three and a half years earlier than its companion drawing, "The Music From On High." I can't explain why in this case it took so long for the drawing to join its companion poem.
To hear the music falling from on high,
you must climb alone, without a lifeline,
to the highest place. There is no other way.
And this ascent will cost you everything.
To sip the nectar of the gods, you can't
still be what once you were--self-obsessed,
walled up behind the ego's armor, terrified.
Only nakedness and emptiness will serve.
At first, there's silence--serene, immense,
profound. Listen. Every wind has stopped.
Breathless beneath that dome of solitude,
you no longer doubt. Finally, you know.
Words cannot describe this music. Even
thought is pointless now. You've become
the melody--it inspires every part of you.
Soaring free, nothing remains but praise!
"The Music From On High"
Last year I did a series of eight co-created collages with a friend, four of which we then supplemented with co-created companion poems. It was one of the most amazing creative experiences of my life! Sadly however, shortly after this we had a falling out and she chose to make that estrangement permanent, abruptly severing all contact between us. This left me stuck in grieving and struggling for closure. Thankfully, another friend suggested I create one final collage by myself as way of finding both personal and artistic closure to this intense collaborative communion of souls. This I did with the collage "Finding The Final Frontier" below, then quickly followed it up with a companion poem with the same title. The poem is dedicated to my friend Cara, who understood what I needed to do to heal.
"Finding The Final Frontier"
(for Cara)
when the pain suddenly erupts and you're splashed
with its fiery lava you stand stunned for a while in shock
disoriented not even realizing your soul's on fire
till your own shadow points to the blaze of the wound
then you grieve so hard your face feels like it's cracking
as your hands grope helplessly among the wreckage
but they don't really look like your hands anymore
just occult symbols splayed on some prehistoric wall
eventually though a kind of hushed formal dance begins
cooling your cindered brain spreading its healing balm
soothing the still-scorched synapses out of nowhere
a face-painted shaman chants a prayer and casts a spell
now a violet anemone blooms from drowned ashes
that exotic bird with bright blue beak squawks its news
surely there's welcoming haven somehwere in the world
a primal hearth waiting its dooryard swept clean
when a woman presses her cheek against a pony's neck
she's saying "I love you" in language deeper than words
when a panda smiles with a stalk of bamboo in his mouth
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Significance: Family members of patients dying in the ICU are faced with agonizing dilemmas, the consequences of which may haunt them for a lifetime. Providing these family members with meaningful support and information is imperative. Nurses, by virtue of the time spent at the bedside and knowledge of patient and family needs, are in a unique position to support family members. The literature provides ample studies of how nurses perceive they are involved in EOL decision-making and several studies describing what family members perceive that they need from health care professionals in general. What is lacking is literature that describes the family members perceptions of the specific strategies that nurses use to support their decision-making and how family members respond to these strategies. Because nurses may act on instinct, the strategies they use may or may not be helpful to family members. The proposed study will build on prior work by exploring in greater depth the specific strategies that family members perceive nurses using and how family members respond to these strategies. Purpose: This study aims to explore how family members respond to nursing strategies to support EOL decision-making, including family members perceptions of the strategies nurses use, how these strategies change over the trajectory of decision-making, and how these strategies affect their ability to make decisions consistent with the goals of the patient and their ability to cope with the stress of making EOL decisions. Methods: In this prospective, longitudinal, qualitative descriptive study, I will identify ICU patients who are likely to need complex decision-making and use narrative style interviewing techniques to explore the family members'perceptions of the strategies nurses use and the effectiveness of these strategies. Participants will be recruited from a 16 bed adult medical ICU at Duke Hospital, a tertiary care university hospital system. Summary: Knowledge from this study will pave the way for spreading expert nursing practices by leading to interventions targeting the areas identified as important by family members, most likely to improve their well being, and feasible in ICU environment. With this knowledge, nurses will be able to interact with families based on empirical data, rather than on instinct, and to help family members to make decisions that are consistent with the patient's goals and to cope with the burden of EOL decision-making.
When patients in the ICU are dying, their family members may be faced with hard choices, such as whether or not to stop life support or put in a feeding tube. In order to promote the emotional health of these family members, it is important to identify nursing actions that are helpful to them so that all nurses can be trained in how to help family members making these choices.
|Adams, Judith A; Anderson, Ruth A; Docherty, Sharron L et al. (2014) Nursing strategies to support family members of ICU patients at high risk of dying. Heart Lung 43:406-15
|Adams, Judith A; Bailey Jr, Donald E; Anderson, Ruth A et al. (2013) Finding your way through EOL challenges in the ICU using Adaptive Leadership behaviours: A qualitative descriptive case study. Intensive Crit Care Nurs 29:329-36
|Adams, Judith; Bailey Jr, Donald E; Anderson, Ruth A et al. (2013) Adaptive leadership: a novel approach for family decision making. J Palliat Med 16:326-9
|Bailey Jr, Donald E; Docherty, Sharron L; Adams, Judith A et al. (2012) Studying the clinical encounter with the Adaptive Leadership framework. J Healthc Leadersh 2012:


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ARLINGTON, Texas -- Derek Jeter had choked, simple as that. That was the easy angle, anyway. In his first playoff game in 1996, against these same Texas Rangers, Jeter popped up with the bases loaded and left six men stranded across a lost night in the Bronx.
People were calling the shortstop a lot of things back then, and Mr. November sure wasn't one of them.
The 22-year-old kid was surrounded at his postgame locker, his interrogators ditching their cameras and notebooks for pitchforks and torches. They wanted to know why Jeter had just let down more than 57,000 firsthand witnesses.
On Oct. 1, they wanted to know if the Rookie of the Year planned on being the Bum of the Month.
"All I can do is forget about it," Jeter said that night. "You can't sit here and dwell on it. ... You've got to let it go."
Joe Torre was a rookie, too, at least as a Yankee. He knew Jeter had batted .314 in the regular season, and he knew the rookie had carried himself from April through September with the dignity and poise of a 12-year vet.
But Torre didn't know if the big-city burdens of October would suddenly make his shortstop wish he was back playing Wiffle ball in Kalamazoo. Until the manager heard a familiar voice at his office door.
"Make sure you get your sleep tonight," Jeter told him. "Tomorrow is the most important game of your life."
Yes, the kid was going to be all right.
Jeter gave Torre three hits in Game 2 and scored the winning run on a throwing error in the 12th. When the AL Division Series moved to The Ballpark in Arlington, an arena known as Arlington Cemetery to the Yankees teams that couldn't win there, Torre promoted Jeter from ninth in the order to leadoff.
The shortstop honored that faith with a huge ninth-inning hit in Game 3, leading the Yankees to a breathless comeback victory. Jeter finished with a .412 batting average and his first of a staggering 21 postseason series victories in his career, a number expected to grow to 22 against a Texas franchise hoping against hope to win its second.
Jeter 21, Rangers 1 demands the application of the mercy rule. It's a long Texas mile from Jeter 1, Rangers 0 of 14 years ago.
"I can't even remember the late '90s," Jeter said Thursday. He was asked if he at least recalled his Game 1 struggles and the comic overreaction to them.
"What did I do?" he asked.
Popped up with the bases loaded and left six runners stranded, he was told.
"Really?" he said. "Well, I still do that now. If you do it in your first playoff series, they say you're struggling and you put too much pressure on yourself. I don't really pay any attention to that."
Just as he's never paid any attention to the high postseason stakes that often leave the mightiest of summertime sluggers cowering in their cleats.
"The greatest thing about Jeter," Alex Rodriguez said Thursday, "is he treats Game 7 of the World Series the same way as the first game of spring training, literally. I've never seen a player quite like that.
"He's Mr. Simplicity. He keeps it as simple as possible. All players can learn something from Jeter, because he's a master at it."
The master is 36 now, working on his sixth championship and still believing -- somewhere in the back of his beautiful baseball mind -- that he has a shot to match Yogi Berra's record of 10.
Jeter wants to play into his 40s, but he's got a new contract to score first. A big October/November -- and he's off to a decent start -- won't hurt him in the negotiating room, not after his regular-season numbers did him no financial favors.
But Jeter is the ultimate money player who doesn't play for money. That's why the Yankees would jump into a hot tub time machine and sign the 10-year, $189 million deal all over again.
Why has Jeter saved so many of his best moments for the biggest stages and the brightest lights? "I've always tried to treat playoff games like they're regular-season games," the shortstop said.
Texas manager Ron Washington understands. The Rangers don't have a single player who was around for Jeter's first postseason victory here in '96, but Washington played a pivotal role in Jeter's most famous October play of all.
The flip play in Oakland, Game 3, 2001 ALDS, Yanks on the brink of elimination. Washington was the unfortunate third-base coach who waved Jeremy Giambi home.
"I made the right decision sending him, too," Washington said.
Giambi didn't slide, and Jeter and Jorge Posada didn't flinch. Washington shouted a profanity at Giambi in the dugout, and the A's lost in five.
Nine years later, Jeter can still win a postseason game with his intangible grace, and with his spectacular talent for treating the American League Championship Series like a split-squad scrimmage in March.
"This is fun," Jeter said of the postseason. "This is why you play."
The shortstop was so concerned about the identity of his opponent in this ALCS, so concerned about the specter of Cliff Lee, that he didn't even bother to watch the Game 5 between Texas and Tampa Bay.
Jeter was out eating dinner at the time, and that's OK. Experience tells him his Yankees will eat the Texas Rangers for lunch.
Ian O'Connor is a columnist for ESPNNewYork.com. You can follow him on Twitter.


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I got a tip the other day that Canpages was being shuttered and that "95% of its staff" were being canned, so to speak. I was unsuccessful in my effort to speak directly with YPG (which acquired Canpages in 2010 for $225 million), mainly because of scheduling challenges in getting on the phone with them.
Luckily the designated spokesperson for this issue, Yellow Media Treasurer Anne-Sophie Roy, has spoken publicly about what's going to happen. There will be layoffs (though not at the levels cited above). This goes toward redundant personnel.
Canpages itself will be integrated with YPG and its organization. The infrastructure and the advertising products will be the same, so will the reps. However there will be a different consumer UI/UX when the Canpages product relaunches later in the year.
According to Roy (quoted in the Globe and Mail):
[The] Canpages offering will be integrated with 360 and Canpages advertisers will be offered 360 in the same way the YPG advertisers are being offered 360.
[W]e'll relaunch it so it has a different focus and a different user experience than YPG . . . It's a different user experience, a different way to push the content.
Essentially the database both sites crawl will be the same, but how we push results and the structure of the search functionality at the sites.
Yellow Media is under enormous pressure because the market has dramatically discounted the value of the business (unfairly). This is large part because it sees company revenues heavily tied to print, which investors regard as on the way out.
Yellow Media has impressed me by being much more progressive than most other publishers and aggressively diversifying its business through acquisitions of digital media agencies and assets.
What should YPG/Yellow Media do with Canpages? What would you do in their situation?
- Create a much more socially focused directory experience?
- Try different functionality (e.g., online scheduling) or business models (e.g., more lead-based)?
- Take a "demographic approach" (i.e., targeting younger users or moms)?


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Research grants
Every year, the Dr Henri Dubois-Ferrière Dinu Lipatti Foundation awards grants to researchers working in French-speaking Switzerland based on recommendations made by the Science Steering Committee. The aim of these grants is to encourage early-stage research leading to preliminary findings necessary for researchers to apply for longer-term funding from other institutions.
The grants process is managed by the Science Steering Committee. Applications are generally sourced from researchers in the relevant fields. The Committee then presents a shortlist to the Board, which makes the final selection.
The Geneva Cancer League and the Foundation have a joint scholarship programme for young researchers in onco-haematology who wish to pursue specialised training in a particular area.
Grants for established researchers
Larger grants are awarded for ambitious research projects led by established researchers and for infrastructure development at the Geneva University Hospitals.


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My heart broke for the babies and families in extreme poverty. The devastating reality of extreme poverty is that every day 1,500 women die from complications in pregnancy or childbirth that could have been prevented. Each day 10,000 newborns die within a month of birth, and daily the same number of babies are also born dead. And, more than 9 million children under age 5 die each year. Two-thirds of these deaths — more than 6 million every year — are preventable.
My husband and I sponsor a mom and baby in Haiti, but it doesn't seem like enough.
It hit me…this is who I need to help; this is a project that my company needs to take on!
In 2012, we founded A Giving Chance. An online drawing that is celebrated with a Dream Team Business Makeover from 15 brilliant and successful entrepreneurs that will give the winner a brand new website, copy, social media campaigns, PR and more with 100% of drawing donations going to Compassion International's Child Survival Program to fight extreme poverty and rescue moms and babies. This program gave 25,000 moms and babies the life saving support they needed in 2011.
A Giving Chance has been a wonderful success and we continue to donate to the child survival program.


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Watkins Publishing, publishers of the Chakra Wisdom Oracle Cards, asked if I was willing to review their new oracle deck, which is scheduled to be released June 17.
The Chakra Wisdom Oracle Cards deck is comprised of 49 cards and a guidebook. The 49 cards are divided into seven sets of seven cards each. The seven sets of cards are based on the chakras. If you're not familiar with chakras, according to yoga philosophy, they are any of several points (usually seven) of physical or spiritual energy in the human body. You can learn more about chakras here.
In order to learn more about the cards I contacted the deck's creator, Tori Harman.
Me: What are the chakra and why do you think people need to know about them?
Tori Hartman: The chakra as we know them are depicted by the colors of the rainbow. They are the seven energy centers that reside in our body. There are actually many more chakra than just the seven that we commonly refer to, but I believe that the basic seven will give us all the information we need to intuitively know about ourselves and others.
Me: "The door you enter through will not be the door from which you exit". I like this quote. What exactly does it mean?
Tori Hartman: I think this quote came to me from the Emerald Stone Fable. It is the card of Perception. The idea is that if we go into any situation with one perspective, and by going in I mean intuitively, then we will come out from a different door that magically appears. In essence our intuition has grown and we travel to a new level of understanding.
Me: How can the cards be used to hone one's intuition? As a creative writer, intuition is a trait I believe is very important for writer or any creative person.
Tori Hartman: I couldn't agree with you more. When a writer works on the character, in a sense they become that character's energy. When the energy joins at this level, a professional fiction writer will let the character tell the story, and follow what the character does; especially at this intuitive level. The tools (I consider each fable part of a Spiritual Toolkit) that are presented here offer different ways in which one character, or person, may respond in a given situation.
I like to call this Darkness, Dawn, and Light. Therefore there are actually no bad cards. In the Darkness is what is hidden in our psyche, in the Dawn it is what is coming into our awareness, or if you will "dawning on us", and finally in the Light it is the heroes conclusion. It is the highest calling or the best choice possible.
So if we look at each card as a journey we can see Darkness, Dawn and Light as a beginning middle end and of the characters' journey.
But your question was actually about intuition, which ultimately is all about following where we are led energetically. I have never met a published author who does not already trust this process. Any successful artist is already working with their intuition, even if they don't know what to call it. So when we become conscious of using our intuition and following it, that's when we become the artist.
Me: I love the imagery on the back of the cards of the woman setting out on a journey. Can you explain the imagery in more detail?
Tori Hartman: The back of the card depicts the true journey that these cards represent through our chakra. From where we source our energy in the red cards, to how we work with our emotions in orange to planning and our thought process in the yellow cards.
In green we discover for heart is in "it" and these cards represent the matters of the heart; the blue cards represent how you communicate, and express yourself . And in the 6th Chakra of purple/indigo our intuition resides and of ten represents family issues. In the Neutrals we learn our gifts. This journey is an internal one\ that will transform someone's life as they work with it.
Most card decks have a neutral back so that you can't tell if a card is upside down. Because reversals in the Chakra Wisdom Oracle represent breakthroughs – reversals are very important. In terms of the story arc, it could show a dip or challenge or even a victory f or the character.
Thanks to Ms. Hartman for taking the time to answer my questions!
The cards come with a 95 page guide book, fully illustrated in color. The box was very sturdy and can be used for storing the cards after you've opened them. I did have some problem removing the cards from the box. Some of them got stuck at the bottom, and I was fearful of bending the cards as I tried to take them out. But, fortunately, I was able to do so without any damage.
The cards themselves are of very durable stock and large enough that the images are clear on the card, but not too large which makes the cards easy to shuffle.
The back of each card has the image of a sojourner, traveling along a path towards the horizon. She holds a lantern and carries a staff, which indicates that she has a long journey ahead. Seven crystals, each representing one of the chakras, float in the air around her. The back of the cards are indicative of the journey each of us, reader, querent, searcher, questioner, must take in our search for answers.
The cards are very colorful and the images have a fairy-tale aspect to them I found very inviting. The guidebook that accompanies the cards gives insight to the concept of each chakra, then a brief summary of the seven cards within that chakra along with a detailed explanation of each of the cards. A legend or story is associated with each card, in addition to key words and key ideas. The guidebook is very helpful, as it also contains layouts specific to the Chakra Wisdom Oracle Cards.
Because my blog mainly talks about tarot and oracle cards and how they can be used for creative writing, I decided to lay out the cards in a spread I use for my writing.
The spread is The Character Circle Card spread and you can download a pdf here for your own personal use.
This is a layout I use when I want to get a snapshot of a character. As I've mentioned in prior posts, I like to have a genre in mind when I lay out cards for a story. I'm going with a fantasy dystopian as my genre.
I start with the center card, which represents the character. This card is titled Confusion. I usually like to look at the card first before using the guidebook. What I like about this deck is that the images are very evocative.
My character, who is female, is confused about something. She's not sure what to do or how to do it or whether or not she should. I don't know what she's confused about yet, but I'm sure the other cards will help me narrow that down.
The two cards above the Confusion card are Joy and Discovery and they represent in the spread the character's goal and the basis of that goal respectively. The Joy cards shows a woman dancing wearing a sunflower dress. Her hands are uplifted. My character wants happiness in her life. Perhaps she's suffering and wants to be happier or she's recalling a time when she was happy and she wants to be so again.
The basis of her goal is the card called Discovery. Discovery shows a pink figure, standing in front of what could be an angel or some kind of deity. Since this card is the basis of my character's goal, which is Joy, it could be that she must go on a journey in order to find this joy and happiness she wants so badly.
Let's look at the other cards. To the right and just above the center card is Self-Worth. That represents in the spread the Outer Obstacles to the characters goal. A figure stands in a snowy landscape facing a throne-like chair bathed in red light. Maybe the reason my character doesn't have the joy or happiness she seeks is because she has no sense of self-worth due to the way others have treated her. Since this is a fantasy dystopian, perhaps she or the people she comes from are looked down upon by some other class or race or group. This lack of self-worth, which is most likely brought about by the opinions of others, is something she's going to have to overcome in order to achieve her goal.
Below that card is Wisdom. This position in the layout represents what the character will have to do to overcome her outer obstacles, In this case my character will have to achieve the knowledge she needs in order to see her own self-worth, despite what others may say or think of her and that, perhaps, it will be a woman who will help her with this. Perhaps a mentor or a female member of her family.
To the upper left is the card Mysticism. This represents the inner obstacles the character must overcome. My character is confused so, perhaps, she's confused about whether or not she should take a certain path. Perhaps this path involves her becoming an initiate or an acolyte or embracing a certain belief or religion. Since it's an inner obstacle, she will have to deal with this confusion before she can achieve her goal.
The card below it is Isolation and in the layout it represents the action she must take to overcome her inner obstacle. It tells me she might have to delve deep within herself to find the answers she needs. That she can't let herself be swayed by the opinions of others. If you look at the Confusion card, you'll see a ghostly figure who seems to be trying to whisper admonitions or suggestions in her ear.
The final two cards in the layout, which lie below the central character card, are Instinct and Service and they represent, respectively, the character's fear and the basis for that fear. If my character fears Instinct, she could be fearing her ability to make her own choices or make those choices based purely on instinct as opposed to logic or the opinions of others.
The basis of her fear, Service, suggests that perhaps she was taking care of someone or making a decision for someone and she based that decision on instinct and it went horribly wrong. She'll have to overcome her fear, however, if she hopes to achieve her goal of happiness.
I shared that character creation layout with you to give you a sense of how useful I found the cards for my creative endeavors. I would imagine that you will find the cards just as useful for self-development and self-empowerment.
The Wisdom Oracle Cards will be released June 17, 2014. You can learn more at the cards and their creator, Tori Hartman, at the Chakra Wisdom Oracle website


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A Plano congregation has decided to secede from the Episcopal church. It is a strong statement regarding the recent events surrounding the church, but it is a statement that must be made. It is my prayer that this congregation will be one of many who decide to side with God instead of satan. The Episcopal church (and I use the term "church" loosely) can approve of homosexuality and all other forms of sin if they so choose, but ultimately God will not be mocked no matter what the bishops decide.
PLANO — Christ Church Episcopal has announced that it will leave the denomination because it can no longer abide by the national church's decisions.
Leaders of the conservative Plano congregation announced their plan Monday, a week after the Episcopal Church elected Nevada Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori as its first female presiding bishop.
Jefferts Schori supported the 2003 consecration of V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop. She also supported the creation of locally authorized blessings for gay unions.
"The mission of Christ Church is to make disciples and teach them to obey the commands of Christ," said a statement approved by Christ Church's leaders this weekend. "The direction of the leadership of the Episcopal Church is different and we regret their departure from biblical truth and the historic faith of the Anglican Communion. … We declare our intention to disassociate from ECUSA as soon as possible."


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Domaine Serene Winery cordially invites Alliance Française de Portland members to their St. Vincent celebration Friday, Jan. 22.
Domaine Serene will be presenting Château de la Crée wines for the first time (other than a club member event.) Owners Ken & Grace Evenstad purchased the Santenay, Burgundy winery in the late spring of last year. This is the first time that many of these wines have been presented stateside.
Roman Candle Baking Company will provide hors d'oeuvres and also a "market" with provisions available for purchase by guests for the upcoming weekend. And Ian Clemons will add to the festivities with lively French accordian music.
St. Vincent is the patron saint of wine-growers and winemakers. Celebrated each winter on January 22nd, St. Vincent's Day marks the mid-point between the onset of dormancy and bud-break in the vine's growing cycle.


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An Open Letter from Seyfarth's New Chief Strategy Officer
On July 1, I become Seyfarth Shaw's Chief Strategy Officer. This is a new role for the firm and a new role for me. Entering this role, I join an exceptional team of law firm and legal industry leaders, with a distinguished record of accomplishment. Our mission is to create unparalleled value by designing real answers to the right problems — the problems that matter most to our clients — and to deliver those solutions through a unique client experience.
Why Strategy Now? To Address the Mid-term Emerging and Evolving Needs of our Clients
In recent decades, firms in the AmLaw200 have become chained to the short-term. They think, plan, and make choices with this fiscal year in mind, narrowly focusing on inorganic pathways to growth such as lateral recruitment, acquisitions, and mergers.
One way in which Seyfarth has differentiated itself, particularly in the last decade — since the inception of its efforts to apply Lean principles to the practice of law — is to look further out into the future.
The firm has made, and continues to make, deep investments in proactive response to the fundamental, structural shifts we see coming to the legal services marketplace. This commitment underpins all of our work on SeyfarthLean and our focus on driving real change and improvement in the practice, and of key importance, the business of law.
All of us at Seyfarth are proud of our efforts in innovation because we believe our body of work in this area represents living proof of our commitment to do the right thing for our clients — for the long haul and not just this fiscal year.
But as the pace of change accelerates, there is a need for us to focus more intently on the mid-term. Our clients increasingly need us to see clearly and think creatively to prepare our own teams and their legal departments for a future that is just around the corner — a period of about 1 to 3 years out. To enhance our ability to solve for the emerging and evolving needs of our clients, I've been charged as the designated scout and keeper of this critical time frame. As CSO, I will help the organization survey the short-, mid- and long-term views as appropriate — so that we can best align and drive our innovation efforts with unrelenting focus on the client.
We hope our efforts will spur others in the industry to seek meaningful change — knowing that ultimately, our clients will benefit most from this competition.
My Core Mandate: Improve the Client Journey
A commitment to a client-centric view of the world is something that I share with Seyfarth — something that I think is in the firm's DNA as well as mine. This is, of course, part of why I accepted the role and why I already feel at home. We believe that accolades, rankings, lateral hires, acquisitions are all secondary to the client experience we deliver every day. We believe that if we can continue to provide measurable outcomes and a meaningfully unique experience to our clients, our firm-centered measurements of revenue and profits will be better served.
The client journey is a critical challenge for even the best service businesses. The insights and ideas that feed strategic thinking are scattered throughout different geographies and functional areas within an organization. As CSO, I will unify these efforts and translate them into actionable and meaningful elements — so that each and every person throughout the firm clearly understands their role and contribution to the execution of our strategy and the delivery of the client experience we aim to provide.
Building 4 Key Competencies
In recent months, I've been working with Seyfarth on a series of strategic projects. Based heavily on those experiences and refined further through a series of conversations with firm leadership, we sketched out a vision and structure for the CSO role together. I have been charged with supporting, and in some cases building, teams and processes around these four key competencies.
- Insights: Centralized competencies around business, market, and competitive intelligence will develop deep and meaningful insights about our clients, our markets and our competitors (both incumbent and emerging).
- Strategy: We'll synthesize insights and ideas to identify organic growth opportunities and drive cross-business units/practice group initiatives that nurture and deliver on our brand promise.
- Innovation: Through business model innovation and new business incubation, we'll focus on market-driven development, identify new market segments and analyze market subtleties.
- Engagement: The traditional roles of marketing, business development and practice management will be transformed into an integrated, high-performance team that introduces, communicates and sustains the Seyfarth client journey.
One of the key traits that has set Seyfarth apart for many years is our commitment to meaningful dialogue with our clients: the enduring promise to listen to the voice of the client — and to take action. While many of these functions exist in our competitor firms, I believe they will look and feel different at our firm, particularly when they are integrated into one cohesive unit — and our commitment to client-driven action will be a key differentiator in how we approach these competencies.
Why Me? Because Design Matters to Seyfarth
Seyfarth's choice in hiring me as its CSO is an unconventional one — but then again, Seyfarth has always been an unconventional firm. The firm and I are both believers in making courageous and proactive choices in anticipating change, and I think that is the part of Seyfarth's DNA that has always resonated most for me. Change is stressful and hard — and no firm in the AmLaw200 knows those lessons better than Seyfarth Shaw.
For the last 15 years, my work has focused on changing how legal services are designed, delivered, bought and sold. Whether as a founder and leader of captive startups within established companies or as an external consultant to legal organizations of every size, I've practiced and lived intrapreneurship in its many forms. For the past decade, I've been an energetic student of and advocate for (and recently a professor of) the application of design thinking to the business as well as the practice of law. During this time, I have been applying and iterating upon business design through my company, the Legal Transformation Institute, working throughout the entire spectrum of legal services and technology.
Like Seyfarth, I put an emphasis on "doing" rather than just "talking." I have always focused on delivering actual solutions to client problems — problems they often could or would not see themselves. Often I eschewed the label "consultant" as I operated up and down the organizational chart — defining the solution and then sticking around to execute it wherever that happened to be — in the crevices of a far flung business unit to the polished labyrinth of executive offices and ego. I desired to be not at the other side of the table, nor on the same side of the table with my client. I wanted to be in the garage working with them building what would better help them"win" in changing markets.
As technology and access to information evolves to shift power from sellers to buyers everywhere, we are seeing the legal profession and the legal industry enter a period of fundamental change. Some of these changes may surprise us all, but other changes are fairly susceptible to prediction and proactive response.
To compete in this environment, I know that lawyers must (a) engage more deeply with the individuals and businesses they serve, (b) take an active role in identifying the right problem to solve, and (c) solve for a bigger proportion of the client's problem. This creates a need for firms to focus not only on the practice of law but also on the business of law — its business models that serve as the engine of value creation to both its clients and itself. Competing with design principles at the core of the organization requires a deep willingness to rethink and redesign the business model as a whole — around new value propositions that address new needs of our clients — those that are emerging as well as existing needs that are evolving. In my view, business design is one of the most powerful tools in a change advocate's arsenal, and I am excited to bring those capabilities to an organization that is truly committed to client-driven innovation.
Law Firm Strategy: No Longer an Oxymoron
Let's face it: most law firms have no real strategy at all. (In this, they are in good company — many businesses outside of legal services also struggle to articulate and execute a coherent strategy.) Amidst the unending grind of rankings, rating group submissions and the constant scrutiny on profits-per-partner and revenue-per-lawyer, law firms often forget the core mission of the business (and by extension, the raison d'état of any strategic effort): creating something of value to the customer.
So while other firms struggle with undifferentiated me-too strategies, our path is clear.
Our competitive strategy will flow directly from the market. For us, it is always about the client and the experience the organization aims to provide to the client, from the first point of contact and at every touchpoint thereafter.
But enough talking. Back to doing.


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Wills (sometimes also called testaments, and combined with a testimony) have been around for thousands of years. A will is a legal "document" that allows someone (a person also referred to as a testator, as opposed to an heir who received an inheritance) to make a declaration that one or more people is to manage his estate (which consists of his home, wealth, property, etc.). Additionally, a will makes provision for transferring that testator's property to those named people at his death.
In order for wills to be valid, they must meet the following requirements:
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*Students (parent for student) are required to sign up each month via Signup Genius
Click HERE to sign up for this month.
*Future meeting dates will be announced in the All-School Newsletters or check back here to see upcoming dates.
*Please notify the Attendance Office (firstname.lastname@example.com) of changes in your dismissal arrangements on the the day of club meetings.
*Students meet in the PEC Library at 3:00 p.m., and will be dismissed from the school's main entry (Santa Monica) at 4:00 p.m.
This club is for 3rd-5th grade students. This club will read 3 books (1 per trimester) and will culminate in a movie night in April. This club will meet 5 times (Welcome, Book #1, Book #2, Book #3, Movie Night). Each meeting, a parent's permission is required.
Attendance at all meetings is encouraged, but not required.
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Patented Medicine Prices Review Board launches first phase of major consultations to modernize its legal framework
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - June 24, 2016) - Patented Medicine Prices Review Board
The Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) today launched the first phase of a major consultation initiative that will ultimately change the way the federal government determines whether Canadian patented drug prices are excessive. The PMPRB's regulatory framework will be modernized and simplified to better protect Canadian consumers from excessive patented drug prices in today's rapidly evolving pharmaceutical market.
Through the Guidelines Modernization Discussion Paper, the PMPRB is seeking to generate an open, informed dialogue with stakeholders and members of the public on areas of the PMPRB's drug pricing guidelines in need of reform as a result of changes to the pharmaceutical environment in Canada and abroad. Feedback in response to the Guidelines Modernization Discussion Paper and the series of questions it puts forward will shape later phases of the consultation process.
Rethinking the guidelines is an important step toward ensuring the long-term sustainability of the Canadian pharmaceutical system while continuing to improve the accessibility and affordability of prescription drugs.
Comments must be submitted to the PMPRB in writing by October 24, 2016. All comments will be considered public and will be published on the PMPRB website. Written comments may be submitted by e-mail, letter mail or fax to:
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"This consultation initiative is aligned with the ongoing efforts of the federal, provincial, and territorial Ministers of Health to lower pharmaceutical prices while enhancing the affordability, accessibility, and appropriate use of prescription drugs."
Mary Catherine Lindberg
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"Canada, like many countries, is facing escalating health care costs. These consultations are a necessary first step to modernizing and simplifying the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board's regulatory framework in order to better protect Canadians from high patented drug prices."
Douglas Clark
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In the last few days I've spoken to someone about a good weather site I use (in addition to weather underground). You can find it here - http://www.tnetweather.com/wdlive.php#top. It has many different options - surely enough to satisfy most demands. Let me know what you think.
Oh, and here's another great weather site - http://weatherspark.com/#!dashboard;a=USA/AZ/Gold_Canyon
Ramblings and bits of computer trivia that may be interesting to both the novice and mature computer user. I like getting the latest computer technology, but only the affordable kind!
Friday, December 16, 2011
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Free VPN
We talked about Virtual Private Network (VPN) a few weeks ago. Here's a comparison of 7 Free VPN Services. http://goo.gl/iAqAM
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50 Free Apps
Lifehacker's "50 Free Apps We're Most Thankful For" - http://goo.gl/sG8Gt
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Everything a Computer Geek Should Know
This is quite a list. How many do you know? http://goo.gl/6nR0Q
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Friday, December 9, 2011
HTPC at Meeting
I'll try to bring my HTPC for next week's meeting - will demo some software. HTPC is a good use of an older laptop. Let's talk. Take a look at this site for a little software info - http://goo.gl/v6nC
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Monday, December 5, 2011
Santa Claus Is About to Release a Christmas Present
A few weeks ago I received my Kindle Fire. A very nice computer, but the touch screen began to fail this last Friday. Saturday morning brought a few hours of Fire-goodness, but then the screen started acting up again. A search of the web resulted any many sites complaining about the Fire's screen problem. Enough of electronics with problems - today I returned the Fire and ordered the grand-daddy of all tablets - The Asus Transformer Prime. What a machine! I hope I get it before Christmas.
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By Todd Humber
The next time an employee rolls in 30 minutes late, or just completely forgets to come to work, you may need to step back before issuing the standard discipline and ask yourself: "Is this a disability I need to accommodate?"
To my knowledge, the notion of lateness as a disease hasn't been tested on this side of the pond, but the case of 57-year-old Jim Dunbar is making plenty of ripples in the United Kingdom. Dunbar, it turns out, has been late for pretty much everything in his life.
Show him something he needs to be on time for, and he'll show you an example of when he wasn't. Work, dates, meals with friends — even funerals — are on his list.
After decades of this behaviour, Dunbar was diagnosed with chronic lateness, according to the Daily Mail. The working theory is the condition is "caused by the same part of the brain affected by those who suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and means Mr. Dunbar cannot properly gauge how long things take to complete."
Dunbar said his family thinks he's just making excuses, adding it has affected his entire life.
"The reason I want it out in the open is that there has got to be other folk out there with it, and they don't realize it's not their fault," he said. "I blamed it on myself and thought, 'Why can't I be on time? I lost a lot of jobs. I can understand people's reaction and why they don't believe me… I can't overstate how much it helped to say it was a condition."
Employers are on the hook for accommodating plenty of illnesses and diseases — for better or for worse. The list of disabilities requiring accommodation is far too long to list, but it includes physical disabilities (such as muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy) and chronic diseases (such as asthma and arthritis). And the list is growing, encompassing mental health issues (such as depression, anxiety) and addiction to drugs and alcohol.
Companies are required to accommodate workers with disabilities to the point of undue hardship, which is appropriate. After all, accommodation is generally in the best interests of employers and employees alike. Organizations may bemoan the lengths they need to go to in order to prove "undue hardship" — the level where the accommodation just becomes too onerous and expensive — but the high bar is appropriate.
Employers that take the proper steps to accommodate workers benefit from increased productivity and loyalty, and it can have a ripple effect on morale throughout the organization — all employees like to see their employer doing the right thing.
But there has to be a limit to what is deserving of accommodation. On the cover of Sept. 23 issue of Canadian HR Reporter, we take a look at DSM-5, the newly revised bible for the psychological and psychiatric community. It covers a lot, as senior editor Sarah Dobson notes in her story.
But it doesn't include chronic lateness. Sheri Jacobson, a psychotherapist in the U.K., probably said it best when she opined that turning everyday human behaviour into a medical condition would be "unwise."
We've come a long way in recent years in recognizing mental health as a disability, but there is still a long way to go in convincing some of its legitimacy as an issue worth accommodation in the workplace. Cases like Dunbar, while we can all feel sympathy for him, aren't helping advance that cause.
Not everything can be a disease, least of all a problem that can be solved with a good wristwatch.
Todd Humber is the managing editor of Canadian HR Reporter, the national journal of human resource management. He can be reached at email@example.com or visit www.hrreporter.com for more information.


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2013 BIO International Convention will be the best yet, featuring The Academic Zone
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The 2013 BIO International Convention will be held April 22-25 in Chicago, Illinois. MRUN and the Illinois Science and Technology Coalition have partnered with BIO to bring several Midwest universities together on the show floor to help mark the 20th anniversary of the event. Please come and visit us in the Academic Zone in the Exhibit Hall. The Academic Zone opens on Monday, April 22, at Noon and concludes on Thursday, April 25, at Noon. If you were at BIO in Boston in 2013 you may have seen the beta version of the Academic Zone – check it out this year and see some big improvements.
- 1×1 partnering activity is running strong – universities are able to take advantage of the BIO partnering program in an affordable turn-key package. With university tech transfer and research collaboration people concentrated together, biotech and pharma companies can better connect with the programs they seek, but may also find unexpected solutions through serendipitous collisions as they browse in the Zone (see below to view Academic Zone layout and University Locations).
- BIO has partnered with AUTM for a "meetup" wine & cheese reception scheduled for Tuesday, April 23, at 4:00pm. Please join us and meet others from MRUN as well as from universities and venture philanthropy orgizations. For more information here's a link: http://www.meetup.com/BIO-
International-Convention- Meetup/events/109086942/
- AstraZeneca/MedImmune are generous supporters of the Academic Zone. Their senior leadership (heads of research and business development) will be in the Zone for meet & greets on Monday, April 22, at 2:00pm. Executives include MedImmune's Bahija Jallal, PhD, EVP of R&D and AstaZeneca's Mene Pangalos, PhD, EVP of Innovative Medicines. Please take advantage of this opportunity to connect with senior management of these leading pharma companies.
- AstraZeneca/MedImmune will also be hosting some interesting therapeutic sessions within their exhibit booth, which is adjacent to the Academic Zone. Their R&D leadership will present on Tuesday and Wednesday at 10am and 2pm.
- Other Midwest universities participating in the Academic Zone include University of Illinois, Northwestern University, University of Chicago, Illinois institute of Technology University of Wisconsin-Madison, Northern Illinois University, as well as Argonne National Labs.
BIO's Alliance PavilionClick to View Rendering
Alliance Reception and Welcome Desk
Academic Zone side view, meeting rooms are to the rear
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THE establishment of a fellowship in creative art at the University of Michigan was a notable event in the first year of the administration of President Marion LeRoy Burton. It was his belief that the presence of a creative artist on the campus would be stimulating to the whole college community. Even though he taught no classes, the continuation of his own work under favorable circumstances would be a great inspiration. President Burton proposed the creation of such a fellowship at a conference of the deans on December 15, 1920. On the next day the Regents gave formal approval to the plan and expressed the hope that some gift would make its establishment possible. It was also suggested that it might be possible to offer the proposed fellowship to the poet Robert Frost as the first incumbent.
A little later this was made possible through a gift of five thousand dollars from the Honorable Chase S. Osborn, of Sault Ste Marie, former Governor of the State and Regent of the University. A similar gift by an anonymous donor extended the fellowship through the following year and enabled Frost to spend a large part of the two academic years 1921-23 in Ann Arbor, where he carried on a program of informal but highly stimulating conferences with a large group of students. The response to the poet's striking personality and original and highly individual approach to the art of writing was evident in a great increase of students interested in creative writing, especially in poetry. As part of the program a number of distinguished American poets came to Ann Arbor during this period to give lectures and to meet with Frost's students.
A letter quoted in the President's Report for 1921-22 (p. 91) characterizes the experiment in these words:
… No single influence at Michigan has been … more significant or more beneficial than the presence of Robert Frost… We are very certain … that the Frost stability, the Frost honesty, the stray, quiet spirit of the man, is leaving its mark on the student body …
Robert Bridges, the English poet laureate, was invited to Ann Arbor to be the holder of the fellowship for the third year, 1923-24, funds for which were made available by a donor in Detroit. Bridges, however, because of his advanced age, was able to spend only a few months in Ann Arbor, from April through Commencement, when he returned to his home in England. During his residence in Ann Arbor he met many students, to whom he gave a new and somewhat different interpretation of the creative spirit in writing. He was given the honorary degree of doctor of laws in June, 1924.
During his two years' residence in Ann Arbor Robert Frost had not only endeared himself to the students and to friends on the faculty, but had proved a real inspiration to literary endeavor. An effort was accordingly made to bring him back to the University once more as the holder of a fellowship in letters which was to be a continuation of the fellowship in creative art. This fellowship, by action of the Regents, was supported from the University's general funds, and the appointment was for an indeterminate term rather than for a single year.
Frost's appointment to this new fellowship was announced November 20, 1924. He remained, however, for only the one year 1924-25, though he received the Page 287appointment for the year following. He resigned to accept a similar appointment at Amherst College, where he had made his permanent home for some time. The fellowship for the year 1925-26 was held by Jesse Lynch Williams, well known as a dramatist and writer of fiction. His year with the students of the University was in some respects a productive one, particularly through his effective help and suggestions in the practical details of authorship and creative writing.
No appointments were made to the fellowship in the following years, though Robert Frost returned for a short period in the spring of 1927 for lectures and consultation.
Abbot, Waldo. "Jesse Lynch Williams — an Interview."Mich. Alum., 32 (1925): 235-36.
Abbot, Waldo. "Robert Frost — Professor of English."Mich. Alum., pp. 208-9.
"An Appreciation of Robert Frost."Mich. Alum., 29 (1923): 641.
Collins, Nelson. "Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate."Mich. Alum., 30 (1923): 5-8.
Editorials. Mich. Alum., 27 (1921): 600-601; 28 (1922): 837-38, 918-19, 1033; 29 (1922): 185; 30 (1924): 817-18.
President's Report, Univ. Mich., 1920-26.
Proceedings of the Boardof Regents …, 1920-26.


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Welcome to Beech class!
Throughout the year this page will be updated with class information and pictures of all the exciting activities that the children have been doing, so remember to check back here often.
P.E. information
This half term our P.E. sessions will continue to be on Mondays. Please ensure that your child has an indoor and an outdoor P.E. kit in school and suitable shoes to change into. It would also be useful for children to have a water bottle.
On Wednesdays we will be going swimming. Your child needs to bring suitable swimwear, this being a full swimsuit for girls (no bikinis) and tight swim shorts for boys that are above the knee (no board shorts). Your child also needs to bring a towel and long hair needs to be tied with a hair band. Goggles and nose clips are optional.
Shower gels, shampoo, deodorants etc. are not needed.
The class will swim from Wednesday 21st February until Wednesday 21st March. Children will not swim the week before the Easter holidays. The class will then swim again from Wednesday 25th April with the final session being Wednesday 18th July.
Spellings and homework
Spellings will now be given on a Friday and the children will be tested on those spellings the following Friday. Please ensure that your child brings their planner to school with them each day.
Homework is also given out on a Friday and should be handed in by the following Wednesday. Homework club is available for those children who are unable to complete their homework at home and runs at lunchtime on Mondays and Tuesdays.
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Roman Day!
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Wow! What an interesting and exciting day it has been! Today the Romans came to Asquith as a grand finale to our topic work. We learnt about some of the key figures during the early years of the Roman invasion of Britain as well as the life of a Roman soldier.
This afternoon the children were transported back in time and became Roman soldiers and Celts, re-enacting a skirmish between the Romans and people living in Britain at the time of the Roman invasion. The children threw themselves into this activity and it looked as though they had a great time.
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By Manuela Mesco
MILAN -- French group Vivendi said Thursday it now has a 28.8% stake in Mediaset SpA, as the French media group increases its shares in the Italian broadcaster despite ongoing legal battles between the two firms.
Vivendi, led by billionaire Vincent Bolloré, previously announced it planned to reach a 30% stake in the Italian broadcaster, controlled by the family of the former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi. A 30% stake is the legal threshold before an investor is required to launch a takeover offer for all shares outstanding.
The Berlusconi family is the major shareholder in Mediaset, through holding company Fininvest, with a current stake of just over 38%. But it can't buy any more shares until April, according to Italian law.
Vivendi, has been steadily buying up shares in Mediaset. Last week, after a long-running contractual dispute over a failed partnership between the two media giants, Vivendi started buying up Mediaset shares, spending $860 million to build a 20% stake.
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I've tried to bring out to the extension language nearly every portion of Snd, both the signal-processing functions and much of the user interface.
The syntax used throughout this documentation is Scheme (a form of lisp) as implemented by s7.
You can also use Ruby or Forth, but need to make various minor changes.
I'm slowly adding parallel Forth and Ruby examples.
The easiest way to get acquainted with this aspect of Snd is to open the listener (via the View: Open listener menu option), and type experiments in its window.
Its prompt is " Another quick way to check out the extension language is to go to the Preferences dialog (in the Options menu), choose some items, then save them.
The saved file (~/.snd_prefs_s7 for example) is a text file, a program in the current extension language, that initializes Snd to use whatever items you chose.Snd is organized as a list of sounds, each with a list of channels, each channel containing lists of edits, marks, mixes, etc.There are other objects such as colors, and regions; the currently active region is called the selection.I originally presented all the functions and variables in an enormous alphabetical list, but that finally became unmanageable.In the following sections, each of the basic entities is treated in a separate section with cross-references where needed. There are many examples in examp.scm, examp.rb, examp.fs, and Extensions to Snd can be found in: Most of Snd's behavior can be customized.Tags: Adult Dating, affair dating, sex dating


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Sachin unveils 'Wall' to mark Dravid's 10,000 Test runsOctober 6th, 2008 - 8:23 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Oct 6 (IANS) Rahul Dravid's 10,000 Test runs were celebrated here at Chinnaswamy stadium with Sachin Tendulkar unveiling a wall of 10,000 bricks.It was a wall of commitment, consistency and class written all over it to describe the former India skipper.
Built by Bangalore-based realtor Skyline group, the Wall projects Dravid in metal statue playing his trademark cover-drive and features the legendary batsman's finest cricketing moments in both forms of cricket.
Dravid is popularly considered to be "the wall" of Indian batting for his impenetrable technique and diligence.
Unveiling the Wall, Tendulkar said Dravid truly deserved such recognition and would remain a testimony for all his achievements.
"It is a great credit to his family. More than a great cricketer and a great batsman, Rahul is a perfect gentleman on and off the field. The Wall will inspire every budding cricketer to emulate Rahul and his batting skills," Tendulkar said.
A live electronic unit in the top corner on the right displays Dravid's current score — 10,246 runs in Test cricket. The unit will keep ticking as Dravid scores runs in Tests played in India or overseas, Skyline group managing director Avinash Prabhu told reporters at a simple ceremony, graced by former and present cricketers.
Dravid is the brand ambassador for the Skyline group. His parents - Sharad and Pushpa - were present on the occasion.
Located strategically outside the pavilion-end, the Wall is visible from the famous M.G. Road in downtown and a few yards away from Kumble circle, christened after Indian Test skipper's 10-wicket haul in second Test against Pakistan in February 1999 in Delhi.
"The Wall is a tribute to Dravid's legendary contribution to Indian cricket and his outstanding achievements on and off the field. The tall structure will be a new landmark in India's IT hub and serve as an immortal reminder of Dravid's great feats," Prabhu, a classmate of Dravid, said in his brief address on the occasion.
In his remarks, Dravid said though he was humbled by the honour, he felt embarrassed to be present in the midst of legendary cricketers like Sachin, former off-spinner E.A.S. Prasanna, yesteryear spin bowler B.S. Chandrasekhar, former wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani and others.
"For me the greatest thing is to play for the country and be in the company of a legendary cricketer who also scored over 10,000 plus runs. I am sure this Wall will inspire budding cricketers. I am also touched that the Wall is erected where I began my cricketing career," Dravid said amidst applause.
Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) secretary and former Indian batsman Brijesh Patel said it was a momentous day for the Chinnaswamy stadium.
"Dravid is ranked along with former legendary cricket Gundappa Vishwanath and former Indian badminton champion Prakash Padukone who also hail from Karnataka. By scoring 10,000 plus runs in both forms of cricket, Dravid is counted among the world's top six legendary batsman, including Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar, Steve Waugh, Brian Lara and Allan Border," Patel said.
Having watched Dravid from his younger days, Patel said the Bangalore-born lad was level-headed, intensely focused and good student of the game.
"Dravid has an outstanding batting average in Test cricket. It is not for nothing he is considered the 'Wall' for his commitment, consistency and class," Patel said.
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Why isn't it on my plane?
There's nothing more frustrating than expecting to be able to try out the new seat on your trip, and for it not to be available, with a tired and older product there in its place.
It's a common complaint on our Letters page, specifically when details of a new onboard product are being actively marketed, but it isn't available on the route flown. In defence of the airlines, there isn't much they can do about this. It can take weeks to retro-fit a new product to a single plane (it has to be taken out of service, and normally will have other, non-seat specific, work done on it during this time), and so fitting a new product across a large fleet can take many years.
The flat-bed Club World seat took six years to fit across the British Airways fleet, and no sooner was that completed than the new Club World seat was unveiled, which is currently being rolled out. If airlines waited until all planes were fitted with the product before they advertised it, it would already be out of date (and would be confusing for those who had already encountered it), so instead they normally wait until a certain proportion of the fleet has been fitted – scant consolation if you find it's not on your plane.
In the Asia Pacific, Japanese legacy carrier JAL is one of the carriers infamous for its wide array of seat products. The business class seats range from really old and tired-looking 125-degree recliners to full-flat suites. JAL, however, plays it fair and square by listing out the seat product it flies on specific routes on its website. All you have to do is check before making a booking.