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The Top 75: MedThink Communications
What does MedThink consider its biggest achievement during the recession? "Making it through 2009," quips Clarke. And, then, quick to cover his jest, he explains with sincerity: "We joke about that, but a lot of agencies in Raleigh went under in 2009."Though Clarke maintains agency business began at a slow pace last year, he reported revenue of $13.4 million for 2009, and commented, "We actually ended the year up a little over $1 million [a 14% increase] from the year before."
Established in 2004, MedThink was awarded seven new accounts last year. It took on promotional business for United Therapeutics, including pulmonary arterial hypertension drugs Adcirca and Remodulin, in addition to supporting the launch of Salix's Metozolv ODT—indicated for diabetic gastroparesis and refractory GERD—in October 2009. The shop currently serves as AOR for Salix, working in the areas of promotional and medical communications programming.Additional wins include new business with Shinogi Pharma (Clonidine HCL), Inspire Pharmaceuticals (Denufosol), and Abbott Laboratories (Zemplar).
Coping with the developing needs of his business and the industry as a whole, Clarke notes that the evolution of digital sparked numerous new hires in MedThink's interactive division, which nearly doubled in size during 2009. "I think our business has changed in the past 18 months, where maybe 24 months ago we really didn't have a digital capability, and now we've got probably close to 25 people in our digital group," he explains.The agency responded to the developing needs of the industry by increasing the number of upper-management staff. MedThink recently welcomed Joe Conwell, SVP, executive creative director, Michael Szumera, VP, public relations, Todd Parker, PhD, scientific director, and Ed Leon, account director, medical communications, to its core leadership team. The number of employees dropped from 59 in 2008 to 56 in 2009. However, 2010 has brought the number of employees up to 62, with 14 additional new hires slated so far for this year.
Forecasting the year ahead, Clarke expects business to increase steadily—"hopefully by 25-to-30%," he says. In Q2 2010, MedThink will be launching a suite of custom business solutions, including MedThink Connect (an interactive tool and online community that enables a rapid exchange of information between companies and their customers), and MedThink Align (a hosted site that allows companies and external partners to stay up-to-date on key activities) to help clients improve ongoing communications, strengthen relationships and optimize client engagement.Clarke cites impending FDA regulations as foreseen challenges for 2010, especially concerning social media guidelines. "We're obviously on top of the discussion around social media, and what our clients can say," he attests. "But, without any kind of guidance, we can only steer our clients in a very conservative direction… They kind of look to us to stay current and make recommendations to them, then they take that into consideration and make the decisions."


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Many people with dementia will need help with tasks that are called "Instrumental Activities of Daily Living," or IADLs. IADLs are activities that we perform from day to day that add to our quality of life, but are not as basic to self-care as ADLs or activities of daily living. The following tasks are considered to be IADLs:
Persons with dementia may be able to perform these tasks independently, with some difficulty, or with additional assistance. However, their performance might change over time as well. It is a good idea to take notes on the abilities of your loved ones and how they change. In this way, when you go to the physician, you can supply information that can help him or her better understand the progress of the disease.


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Date: 8/5/2015
The Planning Inspectorate has apologised for delays in validating planning and householder appeals. POS has expressed concern over these delays.
Bob Bennett, Chair of the POS Development Management Network, said that validation delays will affect council planning teams. "Local authorities need to manage their resources and plan for inquiries. If they don't know when planning inquiries will take place, this is not possible" he said.
David Evans, POS President, told Planning magazine that PINS should be properly resourced so that inspectors do not face excessive demands to progress inquiries without sufficient scrutiny. "Bad decisions could be made that would open the way for legal challenges," he warned.
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Zoe Kravitz, 24, Admits To Flirting With Jaden Smith, 14, On The Set Of After Earth
Zoe Kravtiz always knew she'd follow in the footsteps of her famous parents Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz. But she wasn't quite sure she'd be a household name. In the May 2013 issue of V Magazine, the 24-year-old actress goes topless and talks about her road to Hollywood.
"My mom's whole thing was that she wanted me to wait until I knew what I really wanted. She'd always say, 'Once you step into the spotlight, you can't take it back.' I definitely always saw myself as a theater or an indie film actress, because those were the things I was always drawn to," confessed the actress, who wore jewelry from her Swarovski collection for the magazine shoot. "I just kind of assumed that those were the types of projects that were drawn to me too."
Jaden Smith stars opposite Zoe Kravitz in After Earth.
But after roles in big budget flicks like The Brave One (opposite Jodie Foster and Terrance Howard) and X Men: First Class (starring Jennifer Lawrence), Zoe's star continued to rise, culminating in a role in M. Night Shyamalan's upcoming summer sci-fi action flick After Earth. "The role was originally written for someone much younger than me, so I said I couldn't do it," Kravitz told V of her character, Senshi, the daughter and sister to the characters played by Will Smith and his youngest son Jaden Smith. "The whole movie takes place after Earth has become uninhabitable. It's pretty awesome."
Even more awesome for Zoe was spending time with the Smith clan when the cameras weren't rolling. "There were moments that I was hanging out with Jaden and thinking, 'I can't believe you're 14, I have to check myself, like what I say to you,'" she laughs. "He has so much personality and so much swag, he is so much cooler than I am. And he's so handsome, I was always like, 'When you're older, you know, we'll hang out…Nope, that's inappropriate, you're 14.'"
For more on Zoe, visit Vmagazine.com and check out the trailer for After Earth, which will be in theaters on May 31.


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the oklahoma innocence project
The Oklahoma Innocence Project is dedicated to identifying and remedying cases of wrongful convictions in Oklahoma. Bringing together Oklahoma City University School of Law students to work with the legal director, OKIP pursues only cases in which there is credible evidence of factual innocence.
Prior to OKIP's opening in August 2011, there were already numerous cases in Oklahoma where innocent people were exonerated. While imprisoned for a crime they did not commit, Oklahoma exonerees spent from four to twenty years behind bars. Oklahoma ranks in the top 10 in the nation in terms of the number of known wrongful convictions of innocent people.
Our criminal justice system is among the finest in the world, but it is not immune to human error. Studies show a 1.6% error rate nationwide for capital cases and a 3-4% error rate for other cases. No one wants to see the wrong person convicted for a crime they did not commit. We all have an interest in correcting wrongful convictions when they occur, and pursuing the actual guilty party.
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Vicki zemp Behenna
Vicki Behenna, a graduate of Oklahoma City University School of Law, spent more than 25 years as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Oklahoma. During her tenure, she tried fraud cases and was responsible for the prosecution of complex public corruption cases. Behenna was selected to participate in the Oklahoma City bombing case against Timothy McVeigh as a special attorney to then U.S. Attorney Janet Reno.
In 2015, Behenna was named Executive Director of the Oklahoma Innocence Project. Her tenacious efforts on behalf of the wrongly convicted give her unique insight into the complex issues in this field and the ability to not only manage the clinic, but also the talent and experience to serve as an advocate in court for the clinic's clients.
Juris Doctor, 1984
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Trial Advocacy Award given by the Association of Government Lawyers in Capitol Litigation
Distinguished Service Award from the U.S. Attorney Janet Reno
Integrity Award presented by the Department of Health and Human Services Office
Outstanding Assistant U.S. Attorney recognition by the Western District of Oklahoma in 2012
Distinguished Law Alumna by Oklahoma City University School of Law in 2013
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Joyce Mayer joined the Oklahoma Innocence Project in the fall of 2011 as the project's Legal Assistant. She came to Oklahoma City University School of Law from the University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC) School of Law where she worked as an Administrative Assistant Bookkeeper for the law school and the UMKC Law Foundation.
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A new adult expo and party is coming to Chicago and pulling out all the stops for patrons to have a good time.
There will be everything from porn stars to DJs to sex toys at Carnival of Sin, which is coming to Castle nightclub for its inaugural show thanks to its founders Josh Kerbis, 44, and Tim Himmelman, 45. The pair hopes to make the expo an annual event, so they're going big for the first year. Lisa Ann, Riley Reid and Jayden James will all be on hand for the festivities, which include DJ sets and booths from many of the area's adult entertainment companies, among other events. Tables will be from toy stores, film stores, lingerie stores and a host of other adult ware.


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We are also distributors for SEPCO packing and gasketing
Contact us on (08) 9093 0700
Located in the City of Kalgoorlie - Boulder , Western Australia. Goldfields Pressure Cleaners provides sales and service of high pressure cleaning equipment, vacuums, sweepers and scrubbers, to the mining industry and it's contractors, engineering and service businesses and the public.
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Section 9: Conclusions and a Look Ahead
Macroscopic quantum fluids, or superfluids, can be formed from cold bosons. Many types of composite entities fulfill the basic bosonic requirement of integral spin. So, the gaseous quantum superfluid can consist of bosonic atoms, and quite newly bosonic molecules, all of which contain an even overall number of spin-1/2 fermions, be they electrons, protons, or neutrons. All are uncharged superfluids. In the dilute gaseous superfluid phase, they display fully quantum properties, such as interference on the length scale of around a millimeter, which are visible to the naked eye. So, they are certainly macroscopic. Dense liquid superfluids such as 4He, of course, contain many more atoms than gaseous BECs in laboratory traps, and have a myriad of unusual properties. But, they do not directly display their fundamental quantum nature quite so directly, even though it underlies their superfluid behavior.
Figure 32: A fountain of superfluid 4He
Source: © Peter Taborek, Low Temperature Materials Laboratory, University of California, Irvine. More info
Two fermions can pair to make a boson: This allows fermionic 3He to become a superfluid, albeit at a much lower temperature than its bosonic neighbor 4He. The pair interaction between these 3He atoms is far too weak to allow formation of molecules in the liquid, so the pair formed is rather ephemeral, and is best described in analogy to what happens to electrons in a superconductor rather than atoms in 4He.
Famously, and unexpectedly, even two electrons can pair in a metallic free-electron "sea" to make a composite boson inside a superconductor. This seems odd at first, as these electrons have like charges and thus repel each other. Thus, their pairing is not at all like making bosonic 6Li2 from fermionic 6Li, as those atoms actually attract and form molecules in physical space. The pairing of electrons to make bosonic pairs of electrons, called "Cooper pairs," is indeed more complex. It does not even take place in the three-dimensional coordinate space in which we live. Rather, the pairing occurs in a more abstract "momentum" space. We leave that description to Unit 8, simply noting that it is yet another example of the pairing concepts that we have introduced here. And, because a bosonic pair of electrons carries two units of negative electrical charge, the Bose condensate of such paired electrons is not only a superfluid, but also a superconductor.


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SUGAR LAND,TX--(Marketwire - Feb 4, 2013) - Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- When measuring the 2013 project pipeline using Industrial Info's capital and maintenance project database, spending is expected to be down about 9% and project activity is expected to be down about 2%. But the U.S. Energy Information Administration said it expects ethanol to rebound in 2014.
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Right to Appeal Order / Decision of Hearings Officer FAQs
1. Question: Is the final Order/Decision I received appealable?
- Yes.
- Any Order/Decision that contains this or similar language is appealable:
"This Order may be appealed to a court of competent jurisdiction pursuant to ORS 34.010 et seq."
2. Question: Do I appeal an Order/Decision of the Hearings Officer at the Hearings Office?
- No. We cannot review our own cases.
- A Hearings Officer's Order/Decision involving: Exclusions, Towing, and Code Violations may be appealed to the Multnomah County Circuit Court.
- This appeal process is called a Writ of Review.
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3. Question: Can the Hearings Office answer questions on the appeal process or help me file an appeal with the Multnomah County Circuit Court?
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- The Hearings Office cannot provide any further information, advice or legal assistance. You may wish to seek the counsel of an attorney.


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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid meets with Moms Demand Action in his Capitol Hill Office on Thursday, August 1 2013. Photo by George Zornick
After the Senate was unable to muster enough votes in April and pass a comprehensive gun control package, reformers immediately set to work pushing for another bill, particularly one that deals with universal background checks.
It was unclear when—or even if—this would happen, but this morning Senate majority leader Harry Reid provided a huge clue. During a private meeting late Thursday morning with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense In America, which The Nation was allowed to observe, Reid predicted a vote on background checks would happen again in the Senate before the midterm elections, though no sooner than 2014.
Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts asked Reid directly if there would be a background check vote before voters head to the polls in November 2014.
"I think sometime next year we'll revisit that issue," Reid said. "I'm almost certain of it." He noted it couldn't be this fall, due to the complicated spending issues Congress has to tackle involving bills to fund the government and lift the debt ceiling.
Though some House Democrats said in the immediate aftermath of a vote that Reid had told them a vote would happen this year, it's nothing he said publicly nor that his office confirmed—instead, Reid was decidedly vague about the timing. He told the Newtown Action Alliance in June, for example, that "Background checks will pass the United States Senate. It's only a question of when." He also predicted in May that background checks would get "a couple more" votes now, whenever the second vote was held.
Reid's prediction now of a pre-midterm election vote on gun control is crucial, because it means senators who oppose background checks will have to declare their opposition in the heat of a campaign cycle.
Universal background checks maintain sky-high public support—and grassroots organizers and outside groups are leaning into the issue hard.
For example, before meeting with Reid, Moms Demand Action held a two-hour "lemonade sale" outside Congress on Thursday morning, and invited lawmakers to come by and speak to the assembled mothers about gun control. Several members of the House and Senate did, and urged the group to keep pushing. "I beg of you, keep doing what you're doing and keep asking for action to take place," Representative Mike Quigley told the group.


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Westgate is Australia's leading booklist supplier with over 35 years experience servicing primary and secondary school booklist across NSW.Ordering and home delivery is all available online for all our products.
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I think the advantage of coming to the program at Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC is the multidisciplinary care that is provided at our institution. We've assembled a team of physicians, nurses, geneticists, nutritionists, and social workers to help us in that process.
And as a result of the collegial interaction amongst all these different specialties a comprehensive mode of treatment can be developed.
Ovarian cancer is often suspected, but the diagnosis is truly not made until the surgery is performed. Those patients are referred in from our colleagues in the community who recognize the individual has an issue, seeks us out, and refers the patient to us. As a group we try to see all patients within 48 to 72 hours to improve access to care.
Minimally invasive surgery offers a patient a less traumatic experience. Smaller incisions are used, telescope like devices are placed into the abdomen, and these devices actually allow the physician to see better because it allows magnification of the surgical field, improves our dexterity, and then allows the patient to recover in a quicker fashion. It is absolutely equivalent with regards to outcomes or survival from cancers compared to conventional therapy.
We often use intraperitoneal therapy and there is are two forms. There is what we would consider a standard form and then we also use a hyperthermic or heated form of chemotherapy.
Heated chemotherapy, which is a newer form of intraperitoneal therapy, involves delivering the chemotherapy at the time of the surgical intervention as much of the tumor is removed and two devices are placed into the abdomen. The abdomen is closed and then heated. Chemotherapy is infused into the abdominal cavity over a period of 60 to 90 minutes.
One of the advantages of coming to UPMC, which is a large, comprehensive medical center, is that there are multiple disciplines, multiple specialists who have high levels of expertise that can participate in one's care.
The exchange of information amongst all the individuals involved in a patient's care only enhances their care.
I believe for patients who are diagnosed with a gynecologic malignancy this is the institution to be treated at within the region.
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Karama Lodge, Arusha
This charmingly rustic Karama Lodge is perched on the eastern face of one of the foothills of Mount Meru, and has views of Kilimanjaro on clear days. The secluded rooms have their own balconies, and there are lots of stairs to contend with, making this lodge unsuitable for those with restricted mobility.
Rooms at Karama Lodge
The large beds are comfortable, and are supplied with mosquito nets, power points for recharging phones and cameras, as well as umbrellas for when it rains. There are no hair-
The Restaurant at Karama Lodge
The restaurant and bar over look the pool, and are furnished in a rustic farmhouse style. Indian, Italian, Mexican, Thai and African dishes complete the menu. The service times can be 20-
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I find myself playing the game less and less these days, but it has taken me years to get to this point. One thing that brought some understanding was to know the psychology of addiction and the mechanics of how the game takes its hold over me. An article on http://www.cracked.com helped to open my eyes and I want to help others bring that balance to he lives of others too, but first allow me to explain that psychology of addiction. more…
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I used to play WoW every chance I got. Either at home, at work, or whether I had anything else to do that day or not. It just didn't matter. I remember sitting and playing for huge stretches of time and not even noticing. 3pm came around, and I still hadn't eaten breakfast. When I did recognize that I was playing way too much, it was something I got defensive about with anyone who brought it up.
For me, WoW was filling the void left behind by my daughter. It was a way to escape the pain of everyday life. It was a way to banish the tedium of responsibility that got lost in my depression-fueled haze. I'd rather stay inside and WoW, than to go outside and be reminded everywhere I turned that I no longer had a daughter. Seeing little children reminded me. Seeing parents reminded me. Looking at my rearview mirror and seeing an empty car seat reminded me. more…
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Over the next few months, I manically tried to rebuild my life. I met a wonderful man who accepted that I was still a work in progress, and as far as I'd come I still had a long ways to go. I did eventually return to WoW when we moved back to Los Angeles. My life finally seemed to be somewhat stable again. And when I found out I was pregnant, I had to find low-impact activities to keep me occupied. So one night when I was bored and my son was asleep I decided to dust off the laptop. I seized every moment I had to spend with my son and my boyfriend and only played while my son was asleep or at school. WoW wasn't my lifeline anymore; it was just a game.
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Installing WoW on our work computers was a big mistake. I ran a small office with my brother and he WoWed too. Maybe we thought that if we played at work more, we'd play at home less. I was trying to take a step toward not being glued to the computer every moment I was home, but it was definitely a step in the wrong direction.
(This is Part 2 of a series. Click here for Part 1).
Outside of the game, my husband and I were sleeping in separate beds. Divorce became the next logical step, instead of something we never thought we'd consider. And I didn't realize it at the time, but it was painful to be with my son. Every time I looked at him, I just felt empty, reminded of the fact that he used to have a sister. I couldn't take him to the park because the three of us had gone to the park, together. The sight of other young children was like a knife twisted in my chest. I couldn't even walk by a Starbucks without remembering her asking, "Mommy, want coffee?"
This is what grief does. It carves a hole inside of you; a treacherous cavern that you know will cave in with just the slightest touch. But I didn't want to face grief. I thought I could outpace it, and even if I was just one step ahead, it would be okay.
I never imagined I would need an escape from my day to day life.
At the age of 30 I was married, successful in my career, and mother to two beautiful children. But that year, my world came crashing down. My daughter – just two years old – was forced to fight a devastating bone marrow disorder called Aplastic Anemia. Her bone marrow was unable to produce new blood cells. My husband and I were left helpless and we agonized as our baby girl fought for her life.


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On Thursday, August 16, two of my friends and fellow prospective seniors, Jesse Boland and Madison "Madie" Dean, stood before 30 or so of their closest friends on Toronto Island's idyllic beach to exchange what could only be considered the most unusual set of vows. Yes, a wedding between two whimsical 17-year-olds is worrisome, however, this isn't a typical story with kids blinded by love. Our two unlikely protagonists proclaimed a strong passionate and strictly platonic love for each other at the altar, and here's the best part: While our blushing bride, Madie, is certainly attracted to the opposite sex, our groom, Jesse, is gay.
Though this is definitely not the first time a gay man and straight woman have wed, but it may be the first time a gay man and straight woman haven't married for a green card or their religion or other reasons of convenience. "That's what makes it original," according to Madie. So, is this a protest against the constitution of marriage? A simple ceremony cementing their hopeful lifelong friendship? Yes and yes.
Jesse and Madie have only been friends for a little more than year but felt that a pseudo-wedding was a necessary way to display their special relationship to everyone close to them. When they first told their friends they were getting hitched, most people, including myself, assumed it was a joke or just an excuse for a party. No one but Madie and Jesse believed they would really say "I do" until good friend Madeleine Staikos became ordained to marry them via the Internet. "We knew a real minister wouldn't take us seriously," Madie explained. So this is real, then? This is actually going to happen. Apparently so, because sometime during the summer haze where no one knows what day it is, my good friend asked me, "Are you going to the wedding on Thursday?"
And Thursday came in all its glory, along with 30 or so excited teenagers on a ferry to Ward's Island (the groom's home). Some people wore button-down shirts or dresses while others just brought things they could swim in. The bride was getting ready for her big walk down the aisle while the minister was jumping up and down from nerves at the altar and most of us sat anxiously on the sand with our phones out, filming. Their DJ, close friend Stuart Norton had a few malfunctions with the docking system ("Yo, hold up! It's buffering"), but eventually flower girl Corby Patterson, best man Jamie Boland (the groom's brother), maid of honor Brett Gorski, and the blushing bride all walked down the aisle to Penny and The Quarters' "You and Me."
During their vows, we were reminded of their shared love for cats and Will and Grace, but were also convinced of a deeper connection that somehow made the ceremony more important and more legitimate.
"I never thought I would meet anyone as f*cked up as me, but if that person had to exist, I'm glad that it's you. I am so excited to spend the rest of my life with you," Madie improvised during her vows, which she fully credits to drama class. Jesse, on the other hand, in his more organized style, had a prepared, rehearsed and clearly memorized speech.
"When I first told people that I was getting married to you, people didn't understand why... for obvious reasons. But... what matters to me is that you have my heart."
They exchanged rings and shared a kiss, and the rest of the night began. The legal age to marry in Ontario is 18, so this isn't legitimate yet. However, on their one-year anniversary, when Jesse and Madie are both 18, the pair plan on taking a trip to City Hall and making It official.
So, on August 16 (intentionally on Madonna's birthday), I was reminded of how love for a close friend is just as, if not more important, than love for your romantic partner. Most surprisingly, I was convinced of the purpose for this kind of ceremony. These people love each other, clearly need each other and intend to closely spend the rest of their lives together. So why can't they share the same benefits of similar people in love?
Even if most people don't hold the same opinion as me, it has to be said that this type of "wedding" is reflective of how many kids of my generation view marriage. Without generalizing, it's not uncommon for unreligious modern North American middle-class teenagers such as myself to not be opposed to marriage, but certainly not see a necessity for it, at least in a traditional sense.
With that in mind, is it not possible that various unconventional weddings like this might appear in the future? Is it possible that Madie and Jesse are a part of a much bigger wave of turning marriage on its head? Maybe this was a one-time kind of event that can't be redone. Madie and Jesse are pretty content, either way.


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Palmyre Greenhouse
Andrew Louis Glatigny was born in Paris, France, May 9, 1844 to Andrew and Louise Palmyre Glatigny. Details gleaned from newspapers are confusing. He was one of a number of French who came to Sleepy Eye. Andrew came to U.S. 1854 and to Brown County - 1862 after Uprising was quelled. He farmed and was said to have one near neighbor, French Cap.
Mrs. George Carroll was a Glatigny. After Mrs. Glatigny's death Andrew married Emily Beliveau on Nov. 9, 1880. They had a daughter, Clemence. Glatigny built a house in 1899 on southwest corner of Linden and Second Avenue West - a total size of six lots. Added greenhouse in 1900. Tripled Green House in 1901. Property extended full block over to dirt road which became Highway Four. A grove was at the west end. Matthias Hillesheim farm was to the west side of road. The Glatigny Family were members of All Souls Episcopal Church. Clemence married Oscar Werring, a dentist. They had a daughter, Palmyre. Oscar died young of TB, as did several of his friends. Clemence and her child then went to California and became involved with Christian Science.
Andrew sold Palmyre Greenhouse in1917 to Anton Heymans. Four lots to the west of the home were sold to make space for more homes. The barn was moved to an empty lot west and remolded by William Schwartz.
Census 1880 - Michel Glatigny age 69, farmer, wife Palmyre age 68. They evidently are parents of men above. Children are listed as Andrew 34, farmer, August 33, farmer. Also in household: Emily, daughter-in-law to Michal, and Helen granddaughter. Figures do not all jibe with those above. Also on farm were Andy Lautz, 21, laborer.
History of Glatigny Family:
Adele Lucille Glatigny - Age 21 - Died of Consumption Jan 15 - 1906
Palmyre Glatigny - Age 9 - Died of a brain tumor - April 13 - 1905
L. August Glatigny -Age 72 - Died of heart trouble - Oct 21 - 1916


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That was the thinking of Owen Eastwood, a Yorkshire-based inventor now aged 75, who came up with the idea 20 years ago.
Trying out the Mojo this spring in the Spanish resort of Baqueira-Beret, my main problem – aside from the faff factor of assembling it and putting it on – was making it to the boot room without revealing my secret weapon. In my trousers were a pair of plastic pistons running parallel to my legs, connected by a rubber sling behind my thighs.
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At first, the pressure of the Mojo feels weird, but after a couple of turns it proves a force to be reckoned with. My gadget is also a great improvement on the previous model, which tended to force my skis outward, leaving me looking more like Austin Powers than James Bond.
Intrigued, the same friend asks if the Mojo makes me a better skier, so we decide to put it to the test, and I switch it off to repeat a run we have just done.
This is easily done by pushing two buttons through my ski pants, which I do every time I glide on and off chairlifts.
Sure enough, he observes that I am smoother with the Mojo.
The Mojo's makers argue that it improves technique by pushing your hips forward, and I do feel a bit lost with my Mojo switched off, particularly when carving my turns.
One of the greatest charms of Baqueira-Beret is that there are so few skiers you can carve your turns with impunity, and racing down deserted slopes I feel I can hold a tuck forever.
However the Mojo is very much for intermediate skiers. When I am on steep red and black runs or off-piste, I find the Mojo hinders me as it slows down my jump turns. And it is not for beginners either as it is hard to snowplough in, even when switched off.
On day two I surprise the rest of the group by "outing" myself as a Mojo user.
"Isn't that the thing old codgers use?" asks one.
But the joke is on him when I am angling to catch the last lift for one more run.
"Oh no, Mojo here wants to keep going," he moans, peeling off early, while I stay on to watch a spectacular sunset over the Pyrenees.
So will Mojo-enhanced skiing catch on or will the cost, faff factor and pride get in the way?
The market is certainly there: your intermediate skier who might not be as fit as he once was and may be carrying a few too many pounds, but is still hell-bent on skiing all day. He will be powered through a midlife crisis.
I say he advisedly. The first 100 Mojos were sold to men, although a sixth to a quarter are now sold to women.
I thought this low take-up was because ladies were far too sensible to ski until they drop, plus it's a bit more difficult for them to go to the loo. But the Mojo's promoters reckon it is due to the "does-my-bum-look-big-in-this?" fear.
It's true that I was convinced I looked like I had thunder thighs when I first put the Mojo on, although wearing fashionably baggy ski trousers nobody had been any the wiser.
The Mojo's inventor is currently looking at further developments which would get over this problem, so we are likely to see the Mojo evolve still further.
This season he has introduced a new strap to hold it in place when your boots are off, which proved my biggest problem.
Some snowboarders have even started to use it to hold that typical bent-knee pose.
But perhaps an important selling point is still to come. The Mojo's backers believe it has a role in preventing injuries to the anterior cruciate ligaments (ACLs), the most common knee injury for skiers, and particularly those over 50. Not to mention those with weak legs.
The Mojo's makers believe it creates enough tension to make the ski binding release where it wouldn't otherwise.
If that hypothesis proves correct then there is twice the reason to believe that, when the time comes, the Mojo has probably added 20 years to my skiing life.
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The development of the modal and discourse marker uses of (there/it is/I have) no doubt
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- In this paper, we reconstruct the emergence of the modal and discourse marker uses of adverbial and clausal expressions with no doubt. Their history contrasts in a number of surprising ways with typical grammaticalization hypotheses. Existential expressions with no doubt emerged directly with grammatical modal meaning and developed lexicalized idiomatic uses later on. We account for this in terms of Boye and Harder's discourse approach to grammaticalization and lexicalization, according to which the former involves coded discourse secondariness whereas the latter expresses a primary point of the discourse. Like adverbial no doubt, I have/make no doubt acquired uses not only as a modal but also as a discourse marker. Invoking the principles of Kaltenböck, Heine and Kuteva's Thetical Grammar, we explain this development in terms of the positional and scopal flexibility, and the discourse functionality of these expressions.
Grammaticalization or pragmaticalization of discourse markers?: More than a terminological issue
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"The reader is desired to observe…": Metacomments in the prefaces to English school grammars of the eighteenth century
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I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability
to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it,
to imagine how it would feel. It's like this......
When you're going to have a baby,
it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy.
You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans.
The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice.
You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.
After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives.
You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands.
The stewardess comes in and says,"Welcome to Holland."
"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy!
I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy.
"But there's been a change in the flight plan.
They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.
The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting,
filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease.It's just a different place.
So you must go out and buy new guide books.And you must learn
a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people
you would never have met.
It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy,
less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while
and you catch your breath, you look around....
and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland
has tulips.Holland even has Rembrandt's.
But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy...
and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time
they had there. And for the rest of your life,
you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go.
That's what I had planned." And the pain of that will
never, ever, ever, ever go away...
because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss.
But... if you spend your life mourning the fact
that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free
to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ...about Holland.
Yes.... I live in Holland.
I have for the last 9.5 years.
And I am having a hard time with it today!!!
Most days it's fine, most days I am happy to do the bidding that the Lord has given me. Most days I can say strongly and proudly, "I am the mom of a special child, and that is just who we are!"
But right now?
Right now I am so tired of struggling against people who don't understand my son.
Right now I am so tired of the blame, that somehow it is all my fault that he is how he is (and yes, I am getting a LOT of that recently from ignorant people).
Right now I want to scream "Welcome to MY world!!" to all of those who are having a difficult time with my son.
Right now I am tired and would love a trip to Italy, or England, or Australia, or Thailand, or New Zealand.... anywhere but Holland!
I know my peace will come back, that this is just a time of trail and transition, but seriously... so tired today!
And why you ask... why today are you tired?
It's been a rough few months, but it seems to be getting rougher and rougher. I am ready for this trial to be over and to start building health again, at least the kind of health that Holland has. But I don't get to control that timing, I just have to ride the current of people who have never read a single book on Holland! And that ignorance is more frustrating than ANYTHING. I am smart. I am educated. I know all about our Holland. But I am not being heard or respected and that hurts.
This morning Nathaniel had a HUGE rage over, of all things, brushing his teeth. Now part of my world with Nathaniel is STRICT ROUTINE. He has to have things in the same order day after day. But while he has been staying at my parent's that has not been happening. This morning I went to get him ready for the day (which had already started poorly with him and my mom) and I knew he has been sick. Now I am a little odd myself when it comes to brushing teeth, and especially when I am sick. I like to brush my teeth three times a day on a normal day, but when i am sick it's more like 5 or 6 times a day.... something about yucky germs in my mouth making me feel yuckier... weird, I know. So anyways, this morning I grabbed Nat's toothbrush and went to brush teeth with him. He went into a HUGE rage, so much so that I set the toothbrush down and said we would try again in 5 minutes when we were all in better moods. Nat STORMED off into the other room, and I just let him go to cool down. Just 2 or 3 minutes latter he was screaming that his teeth were falling out. Sure enough, when I went in there, he had tantrumed to the point that he knocked out one of his molars! Some days I just don't know what to do with this boy! So we are off to the dentist soon to see if it was a baby tooth or a permanent one.... praying for baby!
Things are a little better right now... but I am walking on egg shells in Holland today... wanna join me????


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I am in the process of interviewing with Merrill. Does any know what I can expect on the "tests". Could you shed some light on the entire interview proceess. Thanks
look in the rookies section. I have a few "stupid" questions I posted? I got a great number of respones. The posters on this forum are wonderful and usually provide excellent answers to a "rookies" question.
This will be a lengthy reply so please "Bear" with me:
The Merrill exam reminded me of the GRE or GMAT (aptitude tests for getting into graduate school). Way back when 20 some years ago I was a almost newly minted graduate student and JMO seeking to make my way in the world as my Army time was almost over. I wanted a position with a Fortune 100 firm which offered good starting salary and an oppportunity to be CEO in 20 to 25 years. Merrill was one of perhaps 20 (can't recall exactly) firms that liked my CV and granted me an interview. Had gotten past the 2nd interview (round of tests) and decided to accept an offer with Miller Brewing (then a wholly owned subsidiary of what's now known as Altria).
There's a good article in today's NY Times about newly minted MBA's entering the workforce and what's hot and what's not in financial services. I think quite a few of the rookies who read this thread and/or post on it may find it of interest:
http://www.nytimes.com (go to the Deal Book section)
FD: no position in the New York Times (NYT:NYSE)
no position in Merrill Lynch (MER:NYSE)
No comment on Altria (MO:NYSE)
How 'bout them Trojans! Rah, rah, rah Marshall School of Business and Rajin' Cajun John David Booty.
Merrill Lynch does have (I am told) an excellent (maybe the best) training program for those seeking to be financial advisors aka financial consultants aka brokers aka whatever the next buzzword is.
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Leeds Barroll. Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2001. 226pp. ISBN 0 8122 3574 6.
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Andrea, Bernadette. "Review of Leeds Barroll. Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2001." Early Modern Literary Studies 8.2 (September, 2002):12.1-3 <URL: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/08-2/barrrev.html>.
The title of Barroll's study signals the concerns he will amplify and complicate. Anna of Denmark, Queen of England stresses this otherwise slighted historical figure's regal genealogy as a daughter and wife respectively of powerful Northern European kings. Barroll's central thesis, however, goes beyond such affiliations to propose Queen Anna (incorrectly known as "Anne") as an innovative and influential force in the cultural politics of the era that customarily has been labelled "Jacobean." Barroll challenges the reduction of the Jacobean era to the "monolithic, hegemonic power" promoted by the ideology of monarchical absolutism (2), a critical fallacy that resulted in the infamous subversion/containment debate within the new historicist camp. Rather, he follows such political theorists as Fernand Braudel, François Chabaud, and John Guy in arguing for "a polymorphic body politic, comprising not one but a number of constituencies" (3). In particular, the queen consort's feminocentric court (which Barroll specifies was defined by her person rather than by a specific place), functioned as a significant site of cultural politics, which in her era were inextricable from the administrative, dynastic and diplomatic concerns that critics have inaccurately limited to James's patriarchal court. Barroll insists, moreover, that Anna's political career must not be located in England only, as she was first a princess of Denmark and subsequently Queen of Scotland. Indeed, the recently calendared Scottish records indicate that Anna was "engaged in startling vigorous political activity" from 1590 to 1603. Such evidence runs counter to the truncated examination of Anna's career in England from 1603 until her death in 1619, which critics have used to argue for her "triviality" (9). As Barroll establishes, though Anna's political circumstances shifted radically after she moved to England in 1603, her political engagement remained constant. Indeed, her savviness as "one of the Stuart court's wiliest 'courtiers'" (143) is demonstrated by the facility with which she appropriated the cultural sphere, which includes but is not limited to patronage and masque production, to advance her political agenda. Barroll nevertheless provides the salutary reminder that artistic production was not the highest end to which Anna (or any other politically oriented figure) might aspire, an imperative that the culturalist bias of literary criticism tends to efface. Hence, Anna's movement away from masque production in her later years falsely has been seen as a failure of her creative energies, which in fact were directed in the more efficacious direction of bolstering her "regnal identity" as mother of the heir apparent (35).
While the first three chapters in Barroll's study establish Anna as a formidable political player in the Scottish and English courts, the last two chapters explore her "invention" of the Jacobean court masque. More particularly, as Barroll argues, in inventing the Jacobean masque Anna was re-inventing herself as she moved from the volatile Scottish to the relatively less factionalized English court. This provocative thesis goes against the grain of much masque criticism - including the influential studies of Roy Strong - which for the most part has parroted the notion that Anna was an insignificant and ridiculous figure. While Barroll slights the contribution of feminist scholars to the reconsideration of Anna as a significant cultural agent - for instance, his comment that early modern women's studies has focused on non-aristocratic women over elite women reverses the actual development of the field (14) - his meticulously documented study of the masque in England from the Elizabethan through the Jacobean era represents a radical shift in conceptualizing the genre. The critical emphasis on Ben Jonson's role as a masque writer, he notes, has dramatically skewed our understanding not only of Queen Anna's role in instituting the Jacobean masque but also of the prominence of writers such as Samuel Daniel in its development. Barroll further corrects the faulty focus on "the written script" (or even "the lavish scenery, or the dancing, or the music in the masque" [81]) in literary and cultural studies of the genre by establishing that the most meaningful aspect of the masques for contemporaries was the arrangements of the dancers as the masque moved from the initial display of its primary participants to the dances that strategically involved the audience members. Cultural commentators such as Dudley Carleton and John Chamberlain, for instance, interpreted the masque primarily in terms of "the identity of the participants" and the political significance of their presentation" (83).
- By contextualizing the Jacobean masque in terms of the Elizabethan precedent, Barroll further underlines Anna's radical re-making of the formerly all-male masque into a female directed performance. Other notable innovations introduced by Anna include the ensconcing of the masque as a court rather than as a peripheral event and the resultant indispensability of the masque as a tool of diplomacy. Bracketing off formalist and intentionalist approaches to the genre, Barroll meticulously explicates "the social and political court relations that these spectacles displayed and enhanced" (1) in queen's masques from The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses, Anna's first masque with Daniel, to Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly, her last masque with Jonson. As Barroll argues, these masques were not focused so much on James as the central sovereign (pace new historicist interpretations) as on Queen Anna's deliberate construction of herself as an indispensable power broker (though Jonson's role in the masque often bifurcated these two goals). In this sense, Prince Henry's coming-of-age through masques and entertainments such as Prince Henry's Barriers, Tethys' Festival, and Oberon marks not the eclipse of Anna as a formidable political force but rather confirms her ongoing agenda "to assert a meaningful royalty into the role of queen consort" (115). The factionalism that emerged after Prince Henry's death accordingly may be seen as a further opportunity for Anna to display her political and cultural acumen as she negotiated shifting circumstances. In sum, Barroll's richly documented cultural history effects a profound re-orientation of the age of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Donne (all beneficiaries of Anna and her circle's patronage) to account for a queen that critics can no longer afford to ignore.
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Dr. Reddy's Laboratories acquires UCB portfolio
HYDERABAD, India — Dr. Reddy's Laboratories on Wednesday announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a select portfolio of the established products business of UCB, in the territories of India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Maldives.
"The acquired UCB portfolio shall accelerate Dr. Reddy's presence in the high growth areas of dermatology, respiratory and pediatrics with market leading brands like Atarax, Nootropil, Zyrtec, Xyzal, Xyzal M, etc.," said Alok Sonig, SVP and India business head for Dr. Reddy's.
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The transaction is expected to be closed in the first quarter of the financial year 2015-16.
Chicago's Shedd Aquarium turns to Walgreens for animal medicine needs
CHICAGO — A testament to Walgreens' robust veterinarian medicines capacity, Shedd Aquarium on Tuesday teamed up with Walgreens to create a first-of-its-kind partnership that provides on-demand access to preventive care medicine and supplements for its 32,000 animal residents.
The A.Watson Armour III Center for Aquatic Health and Welfare at Shedd is one of the largest full-scale animal hospitals in the country, caring for the more than 1,500 species — each with significantly different physiological profiles and responses to medications and treatments. In an effort to continue to provide the best care for its animals while reducing pharmaceutical waste in line with the aquarium's sustainability initiatives, the aquarium turned to Walgreens.
"We're focused on providing the best care for our animals at Shedd, so expanding our partnership with Walgreens was a natural fit for us when looking for ways to continue to provide reliable, preventive care while furthering our mission of sustainability," said Bill Van Bonn, VP animal health for Shedd Aquarium. "We found that because our animals are healthy, stock medication often went unused and eventually expired, leading to unnecessary waste. When we presented this challenge to Walgreens, they stepped up to work with us to find a solution that would meet both the health and safety needs of our animals and our commitment to reducing environmental impact."
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"Whether drops for a baby sea otter's gassy stomach or preventive care probiotics for an aging iguana, our staff can now easily fill a prescription and have it hand-delivered by the Walgreens pharmacy at Northwestern Memorial Hospital," Van Bonn said. "Shedd offers around-the-clock care to its animals and has teams in place should an emergency occur. The few medications that we do still keep 'on-the-shelf' are there to ensure we can respond immediately if needed. So whether we are caring for an animal at the aquarium — or our rescue and rehabilitation team needs access to a critical medication hundreds of miles away — this new ability to have what we need, right when we need it is tremendous."
Diplomat Pharmacy raises some $200 million in follow-on stock offering
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Public servants are taking twice as many sick days as everyone else, data shows.
State Services Commission figures have revealed that government employees have taken an average of 7.6 sick days this year.
While official figures on sick leave aren't kept for the private sector, a survey of 472 businesses conducted this year indicates the average could be around 3.7 days a year.
The survey, done by the Employers and Manufacturers Association, also showed that the average number of private sector sick days taken last year had dropped from 5.3 in 2011.
Association employment services manager David Lowe said the high public servant average could be because of a more relaxed "workplace culture," The Dominion Post reported.
"There is an impression that the workplace culture in the public sector might not be as focused as in the private sector," he said.
The highest number of sick days taken by a government agency was the Social Development Ministry, where staff ticked up an average of 9.2 days each.
The Inland Revenue Department came in at a close second with an average of 9.1 days per staff member.
Social Development Ministry deputy chief executive Marc Warner attributed the high levels of sickness to its staffs' interaction with the public, The Dominion Post reported.
"Sick leave use in operational environments ... is typically higher than that displayed in policy and national office environments," he said.
However, State Services Commissioner Iain Rennie said the survey was not an accurate representation of the private sector as only a limited number of businesses participated.
The number of public sector sick days had remained relatively constant, he told The Dominion Post.
Employees are generally given five days' sick leave per year, but some government departments offer more.
The Pacific Islands Affairs Ministry gives its staff 10 days and Inland Revenue Department 15.
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