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About Laura
A bride-to-be looks in the mirror and sees the glowing results of the skin care regimen she's been following. A teen or young adult client calls me to report that her skin is clearer and more luminous from customized acne treatments. Or a client finds himself transported during a full body massage from the busyness of daily life to a place of comfort, care, relaxation, and relief from pain.
These personal transformations are when I feel most rewarded as a skin treatment and massage therapy specialist. This is why I've dedicated my career to wellness and beauty, and why I created Melt Body and Skin studio.
My Specialties
My approach, honed through years of study and practice, is unique to you — today, in this moment. I don't only work from a set menu of services; instead, you can choose a session length, and I combine elements of different practices and modalities to customize a treatment that works for you. I offer personalized services in:
Acne treatment. I'm a certified acne specialist, and have successfully helped clients manage their acne and gain newfound confidence.
Hair removal, including lip, leg, bikini or Brazilian waxing, and sugaring (using organic hair removal products).
Facial treatments, from a 30-minute express version and a full European facial to LED light therapy and dermaplaning.
Body scrubs, for a relaxing, full-body experience and smooth, healthy skin.
Lash lift, to make your eyes appear youthful and more awake.
Eyebrow waxing and shaping — a 30-minute session where I map and trim the brows, wax excess hair, and soothe and protect the treated area. I then fill in with makeup so you can see the perfect shape we'll be working toward.
Massage, including Swedish massage, scalp treatments, myofascial release, and Ayurvedic massage.
Although I carry a selection of top-quality skin care products and makeup, my practice isn't about selling; it's about listening to and learning what works best for you. So if you're already using something that gives you positive results, we'll incorporate it into your long-term routine. For some situations, using my products is necessary so that we have full control over what is applied to your skin and can better achieve the results that you're looking for.
As we work together, you'll find that you no longer need a medicine cabinet full of "experiments," because we're able to target the best products for you. This saves you time and money, and allows you to trust in the consistency of your results.
For my acne clients, I also provide advice for diet, lifestyle, and supplements. My treatments are not one-and-done; they're an ongoing conversation — through appointments, texts or e-mail, and extra tips on social media — with a compassionate, holistic skin care coach.
My Background
My first introduction to the beauty industry came in the 1980s, when I worked as a model but felt more drawn to the behind-the-scenes work. I was captivated with the idea that you could achieve beauty through proper skin care and professional makeup application, and that taking better care of yourself could lead to such extraordinary — and visible — results.
After earning my cosmetology, massage therapy, and esthetics licenses, I began to practice a variety of modalities. I also studied extensively with John F. Barnes, a pioneer in myofascial release, and advanced my skills by working alongside physical therapists in his wellness center to treat chronic injuries. At Kripalu, I studied Ayurvedic body treatments, which are nourishing to the skin as well as the muscles and the senses. I currently work in collaboration with skin care experts on the West Coast, who have developed the amazing products for acne that I carry, and their support is an e-mail away. If I don't know the answer to a question about acne, they do! So even though you only see me, you'll be working with a team of professionals.
Ever the curious student, I frequently seek out a wide variety of continuing-education courses, and have earned certifications in nearly a dozen specialties.
Let Me Develop a Treatment for You
The Melt Body and Skin studio is located in the heart of Chatham, a charming and sophisticated town in Columbia County, New York. In addition to being just steps away from some of the area's best restaurants and shopping, the studio is a short drive from Hudson, Ghent, Spencertown, Claverack, and New Lebanon, as well as the Berkshire border. Call me today at 518-929-5600 or use my online appointment scheduler to book a facial, acne treatment, eyebrow waxing, sugaring session, and more.


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Sharp and spirited as the master storyteller who inspired them, the first collaboration between seasoned children's authors Carmen Agra Deedy and Randall Wright takes young readers back to 1859 London for a delightful new twist on the age-old conflict among cats, mice and men.
Here, Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, the venerated Fleet Street public house renowned for counting literati like Dickens among its patrons, houses this microcosm of the Victorian world where Skilley, a vegetarian alley cat and the eponymous Cheshire Cheese Cat, teams up with Pip, a literate mouse, to outwit nefarious forces threatening the balance of power in the inn and beyond.
Deedy, who lives in Atlanta, and Wright, a Utah resident, taught at a Brigham Young writers' workshop in 2005, where their partnership was conceived. For four years they met two to three times a year for a few days at a time before the novel was completed. Both were thrilled when Barry Moser signed on, providing his trademark nuanced drawings, and they were ready to mix it up again when we got them on the phone.
Find more great books about the arts among our 2011 Best Books for Children.
Must admit I was a little frightened when you warned me what happens when you two start talking...
Carmen Agra Deedy: You should be. We're on our best behavior now, but it's like a 3-year-old: You can only take one to a Chinese restaurant for so long before the chopsticks go up the nose.
Randall Wright: And it would be Carmen doing the up-the-nose thing.
CAD: Oh yeah. We're a good pair actually. We loved working together.
So whose idea was this?
RW: It was Carmen's.
CAD: Yes, but…OK, truncated 30-second version: The idea for the book was inspired by a visit to Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese with my daughters in 2002. It was a wonderful, eerie night that works on suggestible people, and we were walking along the Thames when we found this lovely place. It was incredible on the inside, and there was a picture at least a couple centuries old of cats sitting around a table at the inn.
In talking with the girls about what the cats would be doing there, they said the cats had come for the mice, who had come for the cheese. And then I thought about one of the cats having a hidden life he kept from the other cats: that he was a secret cheese eater. And of course, this is where my girls started to groan.
Randall knows, and certainly my family knows, that living with a writer can be exhausting. On the plane home, I wrote the arc of the story. I knew I wanted Dickens to be there and some other details. So what I came up with was the arc of the story, but what we created together was a full-fledged novel.
What is it with famous leading rodents? Frederick was my childhood hero, and now there's Ratatouille. Here Pip is not only literate but talented enough to feed Dickens the opening lines to A Tale of Two Cities.
CAD: Tell me, what do you not love about a mouse?
RW: They're so innocent…
CAD: …And oppressed. That's the thing with being a mouse—you're just too small to defend yourself or those you love, and I think children love that. Children love disenfranchised, oppressed characters—that's their life. They spend their lives in the gulag. They're told when to eat, when to sleep, what to wear, to be quiet, where to sit—I'm not saying they necessarily obey all these instructions, but…
When we tell children stories, when I have a very small character who is beleaguered or in any way repressed, that's their hero. Children love those little characters, whether it's a mouse or a cockroach, or if the voice is small in an oral story, it's the same with a small character in a written story. The smallness does have to be there. I do think children connect with all things little.
RW: Pip's such a kindhearted character. He's so small but capable and erudite. We just fell in love with his character, and I think it developed more quickly than any other perhaps because we felt a connection to that type of character. I think many writers do. The solitary work of a writer is especially true of children's writers, who I think are somewhat stunted in their growth. Characters get frozen for me at about 12 years old. Whenever I write, my novels are usually about 12-year-old characters. For whatever reason, a children's writer tends to get stuck at a certain level of development, but it's not emotional.
CAD: I'm 10. If you ask me, I'm totally 10 years old. And if it's disgusting, if it's vile and mentions bodily functions, I think it's hysterical. As an adult person, I think I would call my own children or grandchild to task, but my inward 10-year-old snort would still be there. That's interesting to hear Randall say that. I agree.
Can you describe more of your writing process?
CAD: Because we're both editors, we found it was easier to clean up as we went back and forth.
RW: It's more work that way because often you have to go back and rip out some of the plumbing and define and narrate. But by doing it that way, I feel we were able to set the consistent voice that we wanted. Every word we would argue over…
CAD: We would have knock-down-drag-outs over a word—it was awesome.
RW: A lot of this stemmed from Carmen being a picture-book writer, where every word matters, so working with Carmen that way was a change for me. As a novelist, I look at the big picture, and I'm concerned with the scene sequence. Combined with Carmen's attention to word detail, we were able to develop a voice that was consistent throughout.
CAD: It's the most fun we—I—'ve ever had writing.
RW: I would agree with that.


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Did you know you could have afternoon tea at the British Museum? A couple of friends celebrated their birthdays in very civilised style here last weekend. I was previously unaware that upstairs at the Court Restaurant between three o'clock and five thirty they serve afternoon tea daily - cream tea with scones and jam, petit fours, afternoon blend, beautiful chinaware, pretty cake caddies... the works! Even vegans and the gluten intolerant were catered for with a fruit platter and chocolate fondue option as well as a selection of vegan and gluten free cakes.
I have to say that I was very impressed with the food and service. The last time I went to afternoon tea in London was at the Wolsely where we were surprised to find that we were not permitted to take photographs. No such stuffiness at the Court Restaurant! The charming waiter obliging took photos of our group and I could snap away at my food to my heart's content.
In addition when we were kept waiting too long for our scones we were given a graceful apology and free top ups of our teapots. When our chocolate fondue had become cold and solid (it was minus one degree outside!) it was replaced on request without quibbling. While at the Wolsely I found the petit fours selection extremely sweet, the Court Restaurant got the balance of sugar in their selection just right for me, just sweet enough without being cloying. The chocolate fondue in particular was amazing!
The tea party participants had expressed an intention that they would get dressed up for the event so I was determined to wear a dress. It was however an extremely cold day and snowing quite heavily in London so my determination to wear a dress was briefly threatened by the sub zero temperature outside. But wear a dress I did, albeit over some serious layers of wool in the form of a turtle neck and tights. I just couldn't bear the thought of bare arms and legs in this kind of weather. It was that or let the snow defeat me back into sensible but dull wool trousers!
This is a dress by Carven which I have been stalking all season and which, lucky for me, I managed to find on sale at eighty percent off! The Carven Autumn/Winter collection was one of my favourites this season. This dress is made out of navy lace overlaying a nude lining and the design was apparently inspired by the intricate designs of stained glass windows. I might have the central keyhole split stitched up a little more as this detail makes the dress very revealing and far less wearable otherwise.
The pattern of the lace reminded me of the spectacular design of the glass ceiling in the British Museum entrance with it's grand spirals of triangular glass panes, so it was only fitting I wore it to tea there. However I am looking forward to warmer weather so I can wear this dress without butchering it's aesthetics by wearing all those layers of wool underneath! We have definite plans to return to have afternoon tea at the Court Restaurant. Maybe in the Spring!


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Daniel Tozser intends to sign permanently for Watford, as long as the Hornets can agree a deal with Genoa.
28-year old Daniel Tozser signed for Watford on a short-term loan in the January transfer window and has impressed in the 20 appearances made since then.
The holding-player helped secure survival in the Sky Bet Championship following the appointment of current head coach Beppe Sannino, who claimed that Tozser was the most important member of his side. The Italian coach suggested that Tozser is 'the only player who knows in advance that he will play'.
Considering the praise that has been lavished on the Hungarian, comments made by the player concerning a permanent move have come as no surprise.
In an interview with Hungarian media outlet NSO TV, Tozser spoke of his enjoyment at Vicarage Road:
"Of course it is nice to hear kind words.
"I haven't missed a single minute since I have been here, I feel good and I have the trust of the manager, so I think I signed to a good place where I can play for an ambitious club.
"Here everyone knows what his job is and I think we have a very good squad."
This positive opinion of his current employers may be the reason for Tozser's desire to stay in England, although he is aware that a deal must be agreed between Watford and his parent club Genoa.
"I am here on loan until June 30, but the club have indicated that they have started to have talks with Genoa about staying on.
"But it's not that simple because the two clubs have to agree about me and also with me. I'd like to stay because the club's aim is to gain promotion to the Premier League."
The desire to play in the Premier League is one which many players have, and Tozser is willing to take a step down to reach that goal - both for himself, and for his new teammates.


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|Defenses & predators
Defenses of limpets include attachment strength, shell, escape crawling, and camouflage (both visual and chemical). Chief predators are crabs, fishes, and sea stars when the tide is in, and birds when the tide is out. There is overlap between defenses and predators. For example, attachment strength is useful against predation by both sea stars and birds, and shells provide protection against both crabs and fishes. For this reason, defenses and predators are intermixed in this overall section.
|The topic of defenses of keyhole limpets is considered in this section, and topics of ATTACHMENT-STRENGTH PROTECTION, SHELL PROTECTION, ESCAPE-CRAWLING FROM SEA STARS, PREDATION BY BIRDS, and DEFENSIVE CHEMICALS, CAMOUFLAGE, are considered in other sections. Defenses of keyhole limpets include camouflage, mantle response, and (sometimes) aggressive defensive activities of a symbiotic polychaete.
Research study 1
Keyhole limpets Diodora aspera are often richly adorned with growths of colonial tunicates, sponges, and bryozoans. Whether this is for visual or chemical camouflage is not known. The individual in the photo on the Right seems visually camouflaged (to our eyes), but not the one on the Left.
|Here are 3 more examples of Diodora aspera with possibly camouflaging growths. All photos are of specimens living on current-swept promontories on islands in Barkley Sound, British Columbia. Diodora grows to sizes in excess of 6cm shell length:
With growths of colonial tunicates, mostly Distaplia occidentalis
With tunicates, sponges (at the anterior end; Right), and sea anemones
With miscellaneous growths, but mostly bryozoans, possibly Hippodiplosia insculpta
Research study 1
A unique defensive response is employed by keyhole limpets Diodora aspera against attack by sea stars. Within moments after contact with a predatory sea star the limpet rises to twice its normal height and extends part of its mantle up and over the shell and another part downwards to curtain the side of the foot. Additionally, the limpet extends its siphon up and out of the hole. Probing tube feet of the sea stars appear to be unable to gain a hold on the mantle tissue and may even be chemically repelled by it. About 20min after being stimulated the limpet recovers and the mantle is withdrawn. Contact is not required to initiate the behaviour, suggesting the involvement of some kind of water-soluble substance.
NOTE as seen in the sequence of images above, the rising-up response is not always so obvious as described here
A Diodora aspera has initiated its mantle response without
Some views of the mantle response of Diodora aspera:
Mantle response beginning. Note the siphon protruding out of the hole at the top 0.6X
Mantle response nearing completion. The anterior end of the snail is at the Left 0.6X
Close view of the extended mantle showing how it is drawn out into sensory "fingers" 4X
Research study 2
Studies at Friday Harbor Laboratories, Washington show that 9 of 17 species of sea stars tested induce a mantle response in Diodora aspera. Is there a "commonality" to these species, perhaps phylogenetic, or dietary, or habitat? The 17 species are arranged in the first 2 columns below in colour-coded taxonomic categories of ORDERS, separated as to whether they induce a response (POSITIVE) or not (NEGATIVE):
Pisaster ochraceus
Pisaster brevispinus
Pisaster giganteus
Leptasterias aequalis
Evasterias troschelii
Orthasterias koehleri
Pycnopodia helianthoides
Hippasteria spinosa
Asterina miniata
Mediaster aequalis
Dermasterias imbricata
Luidia foliata
Solaster stimpsoni
Solaster dawsoni
Pteraster tesselatus
Crossaster papposus
Henricia leviuscula
NOTE of the 7 commonly recognised Orders of asteroids, the Forcipulatida is one of the largest and includes many common west-coast representatives. Approximate numbers of species in each of the 4 main Orders are as follows:
Forcipulatida: about 300 species in 68 genera, distinguished by their forcipulate (i.e., forceps-like) pedicellariae
Valvatida: about 400 species in 165 genera, often distinguishable by the presence of marginal ossicles, but the Order is quite diverse morphologically
Velatida: about 200 species in 25 genera, often characterised by thick bodies and large central discs
Spinulosida: about 120 species in 9 genera
|What about DIETARY AFFINITY? This seems promising, as all of the spinulosids in the "POSITIVE" column (with the exception of Pisaster brevispinus) would be expected to prey on keyhole limpets. However, of the 2 valvatid "POSITIVES", Hippasteria spinosa eats sea pens and Asterina miniata is an omnivorous scavenger of plant and animal matter (although it is recorded as preying on sea urchins Lytechinus anamesus and bryozoans in south- and mid-California, respectively). Of the species in the "NEGATIVE" column above, only Crossaster papposus is recorded as consuming snails, and then only a minor dietary component of populations in Alaska. The other velatids are fairly specialised on holothurians (Solaster stimpsoni), sea stars (Solaster dawsoni), and sponges/anemones/ascidians (Pteraster tesselatus). The spinulosid Henricia leviuscula is a ciliary plankton feeder that may also eat sponges/bryozoans. So, other than the odd-ball valvatids in the "POSITIVE" column, dietary affinity seems promising and may be deserving of closer scrutiny.
|Finally, what about HABITAT AFFINITY? The premise here is that keyhole limpets are more likely to respond to sea stars that they normally encounter in their day-to-day activities. There is actually so much overlap between habitats of Diodora aspera and these sea stars that only the sea stars NOT usually found sympatric with the keyhole limpet are highlighted ( light blue) in the columns below:
Pisaster ochraceus
Pisaster brevispinus
Pisaster giganteus
Leptasterias aequalis
Evasterias troschelii
Orthasterias koehleri
Pycnopodia helianthoides
Hippasteria spinosa
Asterina miniata
Mediaster aequalis
Dermasterias imbricata
Luidia foliata
Solaster stimpsoni
Solaster dawsoni
Pteraster tesselatus
Crossaster papposus
Henricia leviuscula
The separation is somewhat arbitrary, and varies depending upon location, but it does show that there is little support for the "habitat affinity" idea. Species highlighted are ones that generally live on sand or mud, or that are found deeper tha Diodora.
One would expect habitat affinity to accord with dietary affinity, as it is unlikely that a particular sea star would evolve a "taste" for species never, or only rarely, encountered.
TAKE-HOME MESSAGE: strongest support for the options offered comes from the "phylogenetic affinity" idea. Clarification of this will benefit from identification of the chemical factor(s) produced by sea stars that induce the mantle response, and of the factor(s) produced by Diodora that repel the predators.
Research study 1
Keyhole limpets Diodora aspera often carry a polychaete worm Arctonoe vittata within the mantle cavity between the foot and the outer shell margin. It is commonly termed a "commensal" (i.e., gains benefit without harming the host) but, because its presence must incur costs to the host (occlusion of ctenidial gas-exchange surfaces, extra mass to carry, excretory and fecal contamination, possible food-robbing, etc.), it could also be thought of as a parasite. However, the observation that the worm comes out to bite at tube feet of potential sea-star predators (with positive effect), its designation as a "mutual" might be more correct. Photograph courtesy Dave Cowles, Walla Walla University, Washington rosario.wallawalla.edu.
Scalelworm Arctonoe vittata peeking out of the
Research study 2
The first published account of Arctonoe's unusual behaviour in coming to the defense of its host keyhole limpet appears to be from work done at Friday Harbor Laboratories, Washington. On contact with tube feet of 3 sea-star species Pisaster ochraceus, Evasterias troschelii, and Pycnopodia helianthoides the limpet raises its mantle within 15sec, and the worm soon appears. The worm inspects a tube foot for a moment, then bites at it. A sea star usually responds to being bitten by withdrawing its tube feet and bending its arm away from the worm. Interestingly, when isolated from its Diodora host and in the presence of a sea star, the worm does not bite at the tube feet. The response does not seem to be a feeding one, because the tube feet are not bitten off, and when offered an isolated tube foot in a feeding experiment, Arctonoe does not eat it. The fidelity of the biting response is species specific. Thus, in 10 tests with P. ochraceus, the worm appears and bites 8 times; however, in 10 tests with each of E. troschelii and P. helianthoides, the worm appears and bites only 2 times at each predator. The authors suggest that an identifying chemical may be be involved, possibly one associated with the mantle response. They also raise the question that if the behaviour is truly defensive and mutualistic, then why is there not a more "vigorous" response by the worm to attacks by Pycnopodia helianthoides which, of the 3 species tested, is the one most able to catch and eat a keyhole limpet? Of the 3 species tested, it is also the one most likely to contact a keyhole limpet in its sublittoral habitat. Clearly further work is needed on this interesting subject.
Close view of Diodora aspera in the process of raising its mantle
Research study 3
The worm is an obligatory symbiont with Diodora aspera, as well as with numerous other mollusc and echinoderm hosts. Thus, it is the worm that is likely to be the one that seeks out a suitable host and not vice versa. An account of the relationship, done in Puget Sound, Washington, includes experiments to determine the organs of chemical perception being used by Arctonoe vittata to find its host. In Y-tube choice experiments with Diodora aspera in one arm of the tube and Arctonoë vittata in the stem (see diagram), the worm is able to select the host-containing arm of the Y-tube with 100% fidelity (host arm: 20 vs. empty arm: 0, in 20 trials; see Table on lower Right). It is therefore obvious that some part of the worm is perceptive to a chemical1 emanation from Diodora, but which one? The head bears 3 antennae, 2 pairs of tentacles, a pair of palps, and 2 pairs of eyes (see drawing upper Right). The protocol involves removing2 each set of organs in turn, followed by removing combinations, then testing in the Y-tube.
First is a check on effects of removal of the prostomial scales, which overlap some of the other sensory parts and therefore must be removed first to get access to these other organs. As shown in the Table above, the results are 20:0*, indicating highly significant3 selection of the host-containing arm of the Y-tube. Thus, the prostomial scales appear NOT to be involved in host selection. Removal of either palps or tentacles also does not significantly affect a worm's ability to find its host. However, removal of the antennae leads to a loss of this ability. To be sure, the researchers now remove combinations of sensory parts, including the antennae in each case. Note that removal of palps, tentacles in combination with the antennae, and removal of all 3 sets of organs, leads uniformly to a loss in ability of the worm to find the keyhole limpet. The antennae, therefore, are the most likely candidates to be the organs of chemical perception. Perhaps some mock extirpations could have been done as controls, but the data appear to support the author's conclusion that the antennae are the organs responsible for perception of its host.
NOTE1 vision is not likely to be involved, as the eyes are only light-sensing – still, they should probably have been tested, just to be sure
NOTE2 after parts are extirpated, the worms are left alone for 8h to recover before being tested
NOTE3 significant Chi-square ratio for this sample size is 15:5 and greater (i.e., values closer to 20:0), indicated by * in the Table


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Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Ming the Merciless has a son named Clas. He teaches at the Berghs School of Communication in Stockholm. Last night he called me and offered me a speaking gig. So next week, I'm going to lecture Clas's students on cyber culture. Yay!
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- Karen said...
How very interesting. But you didn't say why you think he's Ming's son? Wouldn't you rather have been speaking with a young Ornella Muti?
By the way, Flash was my all time favourite movie when I was growing up. Still a fav.
- Martin said...
Hint: google the Swedish actor who played Ming in the 80s movie and check the names of his kids.
- Karen said...
Well, yes I know von Sydow played Ming but I didn't realize you meant his ACTUAL child. I thought maybe it was just that this Clas person was the embodiement of evil.


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The Glocks are out for a revenge-fuelled return of the Neapolitan mob fest
★★★★ Sky Atlantic, Wednesdays, 9pm
ALONG WITH the Renaissance and tragic opera, another great Italian art form is the blood feud. And the Neapolitan Camorra has explored the dark side of the human condition through internecine vendettas as well as anyone.
The gruesome finale of the first season of Gomorrah, which is based on Roberto Saviano's non-fiction bestseller about the Neapolitan mob, was spectacularly bloody, with Imma, matriarch of the Savastano clan, murdered, her son Genny betrayed and shot by Ciro at his own daughter's recital, and generations of soldiers on both sides wiped out.
Series two plunges us straight back into the mayhem. Wounded Genny on a gurney, his father Don Pietro busted out of prison looking for revenge, Ciro's wife terrified of assassination and Ciro now desperately forming an alliance with Don Pietro's old enemy Salvatore Conte.
Got it? Basically, no one trusts anyone.
Marco D'Amore as Ciro
Part of the fascination of this gritty, grimy series is why anyone bothers with the Camorra way of life. Yes, there are riches to be had, but you can't turn your back on your best friend for a minute. Get to the top and you'll probably end up living in an underground hovel hiding from every law enforcement agency in Italy.
This is a fictionalised take on Saviano's eye-opening book, which is shocking in its depiction of the industrial scale of the mob's operations. The series reduces the narrative to gang level, but it is still a fascinating portrait of depraved morals and warped loyalties.
The backdrop to events is once again the concrete housing hell of Vele di Scampia, a fortress of deprivation and criminality, and the series has an air of authenticity, with characters speaking the Neapolitan dialect barely understood by the rest of Italy.
Marco D'Amore once again leads the story as Ciro, but there seems to be an attempt to thrust some female characters into proceedings, with Ciro's wife Debora featuring more prominently, among others.
Episodes 5 and 6 are coming up this week. Hang onto your armchairs…


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Mayor Andrew Jakubeit
Born in Toronto, Andrew and his family moved to Kelowna where he grew up, graduated from KLO Secondary and attended Okanagan College. He started his own wholesale company distributing CD's which is how he met his wife, LeAnne 26 years ago. Together they have raised two children, Dustin and Ronni and have a dog named Floyd.
Andrew moved his business to Penticton 26 years ago and together with his wife they operate the Grooveyard record store in Downtown Penticton. Andrew also started a video production company (Groove-V Productions) that specializes in web streaming of sporting events, plus business and product promotional videos.
Past accomplishments include being President of the Downtown Penticton Association where he lobbied for the 1 hour free parking and championed the Community Market in the 200 block of Main Street. Andrew is the organizer of the Vancouver Canucks Young Stars Classic. He also helped to negotiate the deal to bring Axel Merckx Gran Fondo to Penticton. Andrew has 23 years volunteering with Minor Hockey with the last 7 of those years on the BC Hockey Executive Board. Andrew currently is a board member of the Okanagan Film Commission and the organizer of the Reel Peach Fest film festival. Andrew was first elected to council in 2008 and in 2014 was elected Mayor of Penticton.
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Building in Booming China18 Aug, 2006 By: Michelle Nicolson
Chinese construction industry benefits from joint venture to introduce native-language project management software for capital projects.
China is the world's fastest-growing country in terms of construction, and there's no end in sight. China's economic growth is driving a variety of capital works projects including residential and commercial property, transportation, environmental protection and energy -- not to mention projects surrounding the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2010 Shanghai Expo that will put the country in the world's spotlight.p>
The Chinese government has mandated that the country's AEC companies incorporate modernization and standardization in all construction processes. After China entered the World Trade Organization in 2001, Chinese AEC firms needed to complete construction projects using the same international project management practices that other countries employ.
All these factors have created an opportunity for AEC software developers. One such company, Meridian Systems, took advantage of this growth environment by jointly developing a Chinese version of its enterprise project management software with ProjectAIMS, its authorized reseller in Shanghai. Launched in December 2002, the Chinese version of Meridian Systems' Prolog project management software is designed to optimize capital projects, programs and facilities for AEC firms by automating day-to-day tasks and processes from project design to close-out.
"Without question, more organizations in China realize that IT [information technology] is an essential accelerator in evolving project management practices from good to great," comments T.S. Wong, CEO of ProjectAIMS. Read more >>
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- akirasan
- 4 years ago
- Wedding: August 2015
So I took my ring into a Verragio dealer to get it plated in yellow gold. I went today to pick it up and man the job the jeweler did was horrible! Even the woman who sold the ring to me said the jeweler screwed up big time.
Instead of a high polish like normal, the ring is pretty much matte gold now, almost like brass. It's dirty in the little grooves at the bottom, the plating is very thin (I can see the white gold underneath), and none of the scratches have been buffed out (I was told they would have to buff out scratches before plating).
The thing that makes me the saddest however is that the ring head was tilted to the right somehow, and the two closest side stones on the right look like they've been pushed in. 🙁 One of the sapphires in the bezel setting is also pushed out a little bit but that's not too much of a worry. I asked the jeweler if it would be safe to wear and she says no because the head may snap off!
I'm going out of the city for the weekend so I told them I'd keep the ring until their jeweler arrived next week and get them to fix it then. Womp womp.
Jeweler bees, or bees familiar with rings. Do you think they can fix it without having to remake it? The sales rep is afraid they may have to get Verragio to remake the ring. They would have to fix the two side stones that have been pushed down, tilt the head back to make it straight, and possibly replace the sapphire in the bezel.
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PHENIX CITY, AL (WTVM) - The honorable Michael J. Bellamy was appointed by Governor Robert Bentley as a circuit court judge in Russell County.
He will be sworn in Tuesday Dec. 10 as the first African-American to serve in that capacity.
He has served the people of east Alabama for almost 30 years. For 14 of those years he served as a municipal court judge in Phenix City and in 1998 became a district court judge.
He says he is glad the governor chose him based on his qualifications.
"I think that's the important thing that he did it based on my qualifications not my race," he said. "But, I hope it inspires some other young person who very well may be a minority to realize that all things are possible if you prepare yourself."
Judge Bellamy is a native of Phenix City.
He says this is a great opportunity for him to continue serving the community and provide service and leadership.
The swearing in ceremony was at the Central Activity Center in Phenix City.
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From Cooking With My Kid blog
- Yield
- 6 Doughnuts
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- pinch of salt
- 1 egg (lightly beaten)
- 1 6 oz container of non fat organic vanilla bean yogurt
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 2 1/2 tablespoons real maple syrup
- 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons butter (melted)
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Toss the cinnamon and sugar together and set aside. In a large bowl whisk together all the dry ingredients. In another bowl stir together oil, lemon juice, maple syrup, egg and yogurt. Make a hole in the center of the dry ingredients and pour the wet ingredients into the hole. Gently fold everything together until combined. Divide batter evenly into a greased donut pan. (I used the cooking spray that has flour in it but I think any kind would work.) The batter will be pretty thick and airy. We found it was easier to scoop it into the donut pan with our hands. Before baking be sure to clean off any stray dough around the circle so there's a hole in the middle of the donut. Bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool for a few moments and then flip over onto a cooling rack while still warm. Use a pastry brush to butter your donuts and then dip each donut in the cinnamon sugar mixture to coat.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories246
- Carbohydrates40 g(13%)
- Fat8 g(12%)
- Protein4 g(8%)
- Saturated Fat3 g(17%)
- Sodium228 mg(10%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat1 g
- Fiber1 g(4%)
- Monounsaturated Fat3 g
- Cholesterol41 mg(14%)


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text: Roland Piquepaille emailed to tell us about his most recent blog entry in which he talks about Pearl, a robot designed to care for the elderly. In additional Roland's weblog entry, you can read about Pearl in a recent Pittsburgh Post Gazette article, a Washington Post article, a Slashdot article, and the press release from the University of Michigan which prompted the recent articles. Want to know more about the Pearl robot? Check out the paper (PDF format) on the robot written by the robot's creators as part of the CMU Nursebot project. It has details on the robot's processors, sensors, navigation algorithms, and control archtitecture. You can find lots additional photos of Pearl and the other Nursebot robots in Nursebot image gallery.


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Image Reference
Illustration by David D. Moore (North Carolina Maritime Museum).
Moore's reconstruction of a large copper cauldron recovered from the site of the English slave ship, Henrietta Marie (ca. 1697-1700). This cauldron was undoubtedly used for preparing meals for the ship's captive Africans; it had a capacity of approximately 85 gallons. The Henrietta Marie transported about 200 slaves from the Bight of Biafra to Jamaica. For details, see David Moore, Site Report: Historical and Archaeological Investigation of the Shipwreck Henrietta Marie (Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society, 1997). Olaudah Equiano, kidnapped from his natal village around 1757 was transported from the Bight of Biafra to Barbados. He describes "a large furnace of copper boiling" aboard the ship which took him across the Atlantic (The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African. Written by Himself [London, 1789 ]). Illustration courtesy of David D. Moore.


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To be played on Saturday 11th January 2014 at 17:30. Venue: Old Trafford, Manchester.
Odds: Manchester United 1/2, Draw 7/2, Swansea City 13/2
Last season: 2-1
Preview & injury news
It has not been the happiest of starts to 2014 for David Moyes as his side has suffered three consecutive 2-1 defeats in three different competitions - one of them coming against this weekend's opponents in the FA Cup. United's last league outing was against Tottenham Hotspur where defeat has left them in 7th place, five points adrift of the Champions League places. Moyes will be hoping for no more slips up at home this season as no less than four sides have left Old Trafford with all three points this season.
Despite their triumph in the FA Cup the previous week, Swansea's league form isn't exactly the best and they could do with the points just as much as the home side. Having not won in their last six league games, they currently sit in 13th place, four points above the relegation zone. A loss here, and the Swans could be looking over their shoulders rather anxiously.
On the injury front, it probably hasn't been too kind for David Moyes given that his two most influential figures in the form of Robin Van Persie and Wayne Rooney have been struggling with thigh and groin injuries respectively. There is a chance that one, or even both of the duo could return to action this weekend which will be a welcome sight for United fans. Phil Jones could return to the side after a knee problem, which will also be a welcome return for Moyes given that both Jonny Evans and Rio Ferdinand are sidelined with back and knee injuries respectively. Wingers Ashley Young and Nani are still sidelined with their respective shoulder and hamstring problems whilst Marouane Fellaini is still absent with a wrist injury.
Swansea also have a number of high profile figures on the sidelines. Goalkeeper Michel Vorm isn't due back until the end of the month as he has a knee problem, Pablo Hernandez is due back at around the same time, as is Roland Lamah. They have hamstring and groin problems. Nathan Dyer is still recovering from an ankle problem and should be back at the start of next month, whilst Michu could be back a week after Dyer having suffered a similar injury. Jonathan De Guzman is still struggling with a calf problem, whilst Dwight Tiendalli has a hamstring problem with both players set to return to action next week.
Key stats
Wayne Rooney is Manchester United's top scorer in the league this season with nine goals.
Wilfried Bony is Swansea City's top scorer in the league this season with six goals.
Manchester United had 61% possession in their last league match, a 2-1 home defeat against Tottenham Hotspur.
Swansea City had 52% possession in their last league match, a 3-2 home defeat against Manchester City.
5 players to watch
Darren Fletcher - Is it a compliment to him, or a sign of how poor United have been? But ever since his return to the side after illness, Fletcher has looked one of the Champions' better performers in the middle of the park. If he plays on Saturday evening, a good performance from him could be just what's required in order for the home side to control the game.
Wilfried Bony - Bony has really started to find his feet in a Swansea shirt of late, and is looking a bigger threat as each game goes by. Having scored the winner for the Swans in the FA Cup at Old Trafford, could he haunt United on their own patch again?
Danny Welbeck - If the absence of both Van Persie and Rooney has done one thing, then it has given Welbeck the chance to shine in his natural position - where he has popped up with some important goals during that spell. Welbeck will probably feel a little hard done by too if he doesn't keep his place in the side.
Jonjo Shelvey - Middle of the park is going to be key if Swansea want to win this game, and given Shelvey is a former Liverpool player, he is going to be up for this game. What the Swans are going to need is a performance full of intent, but also for the midfielder to keep a cool head. If he manages to perform both against United's midfield they may get some joy.
Nemanja Vidic - There is a lot of speculation surrounding the Serb defender's future with reports indicating that he won't sign a new contract at Old Trafford. However, his commitment can't be questioned as he will be at the heart of a United defence that looks to stop leaking goals. Vidic has a lot of responsibility on his shoulders to help address that problem.
Earlier on in the season
Swansea 1-4 Manchester United
It seemed as if was the same old story for Manchester United as they expertly dispatched Swansea City in David Moyes' first league game in charge as life began properly on the field without Sir Alex Ferguson. It was a tight opening half hour but Robin Van Persie put the Champions ahead after latching onto Ryan Giggs' lofted ball before Danny Welbeck doubled the visitors lead within two minutes after tapping in Antonio Valencia's cross from close range. Van Persie scored a wonderful second in the second half with a left-footed strike into the roof of the net before Wilfried Bony pulled one back for Swansea on his league debut. But Danny Welbeck rounded off the scoring in the last minute with a wonderful chip to give United the best possible start to the season.


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Here's a great video on what it takes to teach the concept of the 'team' to young students, as well as basic drills to set a great foundation for a youth team.
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Philosophy of Coaching Basketball
Basketball coaching lends itself to many different philosophies. Coaches have many different ways to coach a team, and each has a varying level of success.
So what's the best coaching philosophy for basketball? There may not be a definitive answer to that question. However, successful coaches have many traits in common.
If you are a basketball coach trying to develop your coaching philosophy, it may be best to try to capture the best of many successful coaches, and use what works for you. Here are some intelligent basketball coaching philosophies from great coaches:
Team Dynamics: How To Coach A Team To Work Hard
Whether your team is a sports team, a group of people at work, or the most important team your family, there is something you can learn from this. Managing a team can sometimes feel like being given a jig-saw puzzle without the vital ingredients; a picture of what it should look like, having all the pieces, and knowing where to start, but the success of your business or organization depends largely on the people that make up your team.
Whether they are salespeople, customer service representatives, executive managers or service providers, your team can make or break the success of your organization or business.
Therefore, motivating your team to continually meet and exceed goals and expectations is essential to the overall success of your organization. Now here is where the aspect of coaching comes in.
Useful Coaching Tools
Here are seven useful coaching tips that will help you keep your team motivated and working hard to achieve your organization's goals.
- Set clear and realistic goals. The first essential step towards meeting your team's goals and inspiring your team to participate and achieve, is to set clear and realistic goals. Set both short-term and long-term goals and build on each success as a goal is achieved.
- Clearly communicate goals and expectations. In order for your team to meet and exceed goals and expectations, they must have a solid understanding of what they are working to obtain. Clearly communicate the goals and expectations that have been established in order to set your team up for success.
- Provide all necessary tools. Morale and motivation can only get your team so far. To maintain a happy team that is motivated to work hard to achieve their goals, ensure that they have the proper tools for the job. This may include equipment, training, supplies, support or coaching.
- Use work plans. Work plans are incredibly effective tools that act both as to do lists complete with goals and deadlines, and well-organized agendas for follow up meetings and check-ins.
- Stay connected and follow up. Schedule regular check-ins with each team member, as well as the whole team. This is a great way to help team members maintain accountability to the team, as well as an easy way to immediately discover if anyone is falling behind on their responsibilities or facing challenges that need to be addressed.
- Involve your team setting goals and creating work plans. There is no better way to establish ownership of goals and expectations than to involve your team in setting the goals and establishing the expectations that they will then work together to meet.
- Celebrate successes and use incentives. Celebrate both individual and team successes whenever goals are met or exceeded. Incentives can range from small gifts or public praise, to workplace perks and recognition. Incentives don't have to be expensive to show your team that you appreciate them and that their efforts are noticed.
- An excellent outline of coaching effectively can be found in this video:
With these simple tips you are sure to find that keeping your team inspired and motivated is an easy and worthwhile endeavor to achieving any set goals, Coaches are there not to make your work a little difficult just because you have either an attitude problem or not much a performer. They're the guides who will help you perform as hard as you can possibly can. You'll do them proud one of these days, as well as yourself.
The Philosophy Of Team Sport – Putting The Group First
Extraordinary collaboration happens when those in the group have a rationality of being the best individual for the group as opposed to the best individual in the group. Frequently competitors contend fiercely against each other keeping in mind the end goal to be chosen from the group and afterward once they are in the group, they are relied upon to put the group first.
This is a significant takeoff from their past deduction when they needed to battle for themselves. In any case, if their reasoning does not change, then we wind up with a non-joined group. A group of people. A group that without inquiry, will neglect to deliver their best when it makes a difference the most.
A coach may have a part in selecting the group. Some do and some don't. Notwithstanding this, each mentor must comprehend the exchange of behavioral styles/identities that exist within their group. This interaction is called Team Dynamics and just by watching a group, it can be a significant test to precisely comprehend the differing blend of these styles.
To completely and precisely comprehend, mentors can swing to the Athlete DISC and the Team Dynamics Profiling. All things considered, most groups fall flat because of conflicts of conduct examples. Conflicts that could have been overseen had the mentor and group known about them.
Making Great Teams
Some mentors accept any gathering can consequently be a group. One of the greatest single reasons that group failure to fire is that identity contrasts are overlooked. To put it plainly, who's chosen for the group will influence the result. For best results, we should be vital about the competitors in the group, what their behavioral style is and what the result of these behavioral styles is in making the Team Dynamics Profile in sports.
With this information, mentors can start to see likely group practices and the best approach to mentor the general group. Mentors can likewise see where holes are in the group's assorted qualities and can, where capable, initiate competitors of specific profiles to fill those holes. See this fantastic youth team coaching philosophy from a youth baseball coach. And this one from Joe Torre:
At the point when mentors make a brandishing group and utilize their insight into the four Athlete DISC behavioral styles, they can incredibly enhance the group's odds for achievement.
Mentors/coaches should check that there are regular partners and rivals among the styles furthermore that every style capacities best at an alternate stage in the life cycle of a group. For data on Team Development Stages, stay tuned as an article is turning out soon on this point.


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Oversee and manage all aspects of $1.8M teen fashion apparel store. Implemented new training tools to ensure proper training and motivation of staff leading to higher retention rates and increased sales. One of few store managers with ability to consistently create functional schedules while still adhering to company's challenging payroll matrix.
- Implemented new daily procedures for more efficient management communication and productivity
- Improved comp sales from -14% to +7% within 6 months of taking over store
- Developed interactive relationships with leaders both inside and outside the four walls of my store
- Recognized for exceeding goals as well as establishing, conveying, and implementing vision to improve store performance
- Promoted four team members to positions of higher management over the past year


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Our Business Development Directors are spread across the country and will be able to find the right advisor for you and your company.
Speak with the Director in your area to learn more about Maximum Benefit and get you started.
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- Steve Dumas
- Phone: 604-541-2490
- Fax: 1 604-541-1249
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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- Sheldon Pasichnyk
- Phone: 780-470-2450
- Fax: 780-460-2477
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- Darren Scott
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- Email: email@example.com
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Jane Bawtenheimer
Jane Bawtenheimer
Phone: 905-881-5959 ext 301
Fax: 1 877-666-9658
Email: email@example.com
Jane joined Johnston Group early in 2016, taking on the role of Business Development Director in Ontario. Jane has spent the bulk of her career in the Group Insurance industry. For over 20 years she has worked on the carrier side as a group insurance client, and most recently with the speciality carriers. Jane is a seasoned professional with strong business acumen and a clear sensitivity to people. As an employee benefits professional, Jane is both a customer advocate and a source of up to date information pertaining to plan design, legislative updates and day to day administration.
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Maguette Dia
Phone: 204-774-6677 ext. 210
Fax: 1-877-526-2515
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Maguette joined Johnston Group in 2012 and is currently a member of our underwriting team. Prior to Johnston Group, Maguette worked as a bilingual project manager in market research for Ipsos Reid. With Ipsos Reid, Maguette ran qualitative research projects for global companies such as Ford, Chase and Coca Cola. Maguette acted as an internal liaison with data collection, data processing and Client Service teams. He received his BBA from the University of Manitoba in 2007 and is currently in the process of obtaining his GBA. Maguette is fluent in French, English and Spanish.
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Sheldon Pasichnyk
Sheldon Pasichnyk
Phone: 780-470-2450
Fax: 780-460-2477
Email: email@example.com
Sheldon is new to Maximum Benefit as of 2015. Sheldon has 18 years' experience and has had the opportunity to work for a number of reputable companies in the industry. Most recently, Sheldon worked for ENCON Group in Edmonton as a Licensed Group Benefits Account Manager. There Sheldon provided presentations to brokers and group clients, was in charge of claims management, provided technical assistance with web based applications, provided consultation and customer service, and completed initial risk assessments, as well as ongoing research of market risk exposure and competition. Prior to Encon Group, Sheldon worked for Sun Life Assurance for five years, Alberta Blue Cross for five years, and he worked with Best Direct Insurance for two years prior to that. Sheldon's interests include sports such as downhill skiing, mountain biking and hockey, and he has a keen interest in restoring classic automobiles.
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Keri Sheppard
Keri Sheppard
Phone: 204-774-6677 ext. 274
Fax: 1 877-526-2515
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Keri has been a member of the Johnston Group team since 2009. Keri is Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Maximum Benefit. Based out of our head office in Winnipeg, he also acts as Business Development Director for the province of Manitoba. Prior to joining Johnston Group, Keri worked as a pharmaceutical sales account representative for Proctor and Gamble in Manitoba. This was a big shift from his previous employment as a Canadian Alpine Women's Ski Team coach from 1999-2006. Before he joined Team Canada's coaching staff, Keri coached ski racing programs in Ontario, Manitoba, and B.C., as well as Australia. Keri studied at University of Guelph where he received a BA for political science and philosophy in 1993. Keri makes his home in Oakbank, MB, where he's active in a number of community development organizations.
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Francis Gauthier
Francis Gauthier
Phone: 514-298-7112
Fax: 1 877-526-2515
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Francis joined Maximum Benefit in August, 2016. Based in Montreal, he brings 30 years of industry experience in group insurance, as well as disability insurance. He has worked with major insurers, both national and provincial, mainly as Director, Account Manager and Sales Team Leader. He has been recognized with various distinctions for his work throughout his career, especially at The Great-West Life Assurance Company and Assumption Life, developing strong relationships across Quebec and outside the province. Francis has been involved in various industry organizations, enjoys traveling, playing golf, and, above all, spending time with his family and friends.
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Steve Dumas
Steve Dumas
Phone: 604-541-2490
Fax: 1 604-541-1249
Email: email@example.com
Steve joined Johnston Group in 2009. He has over fifteen years' experience working as an employee benefit specialist, and has been involved in over 600 employee benefit accounts ranging in size from three to 500+ employees. Prior to Johnston Group, Steve was an independent Benefit Specialist and Advisor Consultant. He was responsible for prospecting, presenting and implementing benefit programs for firms in the Greater Vancouver area. Steve has worked as an Account Executive at Desjardins Financial and also a Benefits Specialist/Regional Manager for Great-West Life. Steve was born and raised in Vancouver, and attended Simon Fraser University receiving a Bachelors of Business Administration in 1998. He works out of our BC office and in his spare time, Steve enjoys playing hockey, baseball, and golf and enjoys snowboarding as well.
Contact Steve Dumas
Darren Scott
Darren Scott
Phone: 709-221-1880
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It is Day 16 of the 30 Day Journal Project hosted by Lisa Sonora Beam.
I like the discipline of doing a page a day in my sketchbook/journal. Some days I follow her prompt literally, some days I make my own interpretations and some days I just pencil something in so I can come back to it later. But it gives me a chance to experiment with images & ideas while providing some structure for a body of work that will be finished when the 30 days are up.
There is also the benefit of being part of a group of participants who are willing to be brave enough to face the blank page and see what comes of it. Sometimes we share our work on social media.
It's not too late to begin your 30 days of journaling and discovery! Click here.


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Weekly Download: Netomat
The download for this week is a unique title that really does its own thing. It's similar to a small website, but with a very simple interface and editing tools. The program allows you to import pictures, text, sounds, links, slide shows, even make a recording of your own voice to put onto the page, and basically post it on the web.
The features don't end there Netomat also allows you to send invitations to friends via email including the link out to your page. Once there your guests can chat with you in a traditional messenger fashion, but also allows them to view and edit the page on their own PC, adding notes, pictures or whatever to the page.
Best of all, you don't need all of your friends and family to download the client software in order for them to view or edit the pages since it works with any Internet browser.You only need the actual program to create the page. All changes are saved in a history list so at any time you can revert to a previous page or jump up to the most current entries.
One can also transfer large files through Netomat—up to 500mb—which is a really good size to be able to move across the Internet. You can integrate this with something like a messenger service (Yahoo, or ICQ ), hook up a web cam and have a complete interactive multi media experience anywhere in the world. If you have someone distant that you would like to have a little more interaction with, or would like to post your pages out at Netomat for just anybody to view like a small website, then you'll do yourself good by trying this little number out.
After all, isn't just chatting online so 1990's—why not have the whole multimedia enchilada.
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Interview w/ John Lilly and Mitchell Baker
Fragment of a discussion from Talk:Task force/Financial SustainabilityJump to navigation Jump to search
I wanted to provide this TF with a quick summary of the points that seemed most relevant to this team's work:
- Mitchell and John noted that business partnerships that Mozilla has entered into (e.g., Google) have been successful and acceptable to the community largely because they have chosen partners closely aligned with Mozilla's mission.
- John also noted that Mozilla's business deals do not impose a large number of obligations on the Foundation.
- Both also noted that many of the business agreements that arose came out of community desires. (For example, the community asked for a Russian search engine, and now, that search engine is the default instead of Google in Russian language builds.)
Please take a look at the notes for additional details, and let me know if you have any questions.


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It's been four months since I started working on this project. I just passed the mid-term evaluation so I'd like to talk about the current status of libbash.
My plan for the mid-term evaluation is to be able to parse the ebuilds that don't inherit any eclass. With a few exceptions, I achieved that more than a month ago. If you read my weekly reports, you might have noticed that we could parse about 7000+ ebuilds at some point. That's when I achieved the goal.
If you want to see what libbash can handle so far, there are several test scripts where you can find the answer.
But why are there some exceptions? The answer is due to the limitation of parser grammar. The parser grammar was supposed to be working at the end of GSoC 2010. However we found there were still many issues in the grammar while implementing the runtime of libbash. The parser grammar is quite important and I can't work on the runtime if the parser grammar does not work properly.
Then what are you doing these days? I spent most of the time fixing the problems in the parser grammar. In my GSoC application, I said if I had enough time, I would try to disable global backtracking for the parser grammar. But now this seems to be required. I started working on it from last week and it goes pretty well so far.
Some people doubt if I could completely disable backtracking. I'm not a compiler expert and I don't have the confidence to say if bash is LL(k). As far as I see, I can handle most of the syntax with LL(k) parser. But what I am really trying to do is to remove the global backtracking option of ANTLR grammar. With that option, ANTLR will automatically backtrack so there might be many places where you could have avoided backtracking. It also makes the problems in the parser grammar even more complicated. It's highly recommended not to use that option in production code. As a result, I'm trying to use left factoring, syntactic predicate and local backtracking option instead of the global one. So far the parser grammar is faster and it's much easier to fix the problems in it. I'll give the performance comparison in the next weekly report.
What I have done in the last week:
- worked on a new parser grammar without the global backtracking option
Plan for this week:
- finish the work with the new parser grammar and improve unit tests
- incorporate the new parser grammar
- fully support here document
- improve the rules for parameter expansion
- improve the rules for built-in and keyword test
- fix the problem with \newline


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Kelis surprised by rewards of motherhood
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- 28 May 2011
Singer Kelis has revealed she wasn't prepared for how rewarding motherhood could be until she gave birth to son Knight 22 months ago
Kelis didn't understand what being a mother meant.
The 31-year-old singer - who has 22-month-old son Knight with ex-husband Nas - always wanted to have children but admits she wasn't prepared for how rewarding an experience raising a family could be.
She said: "I always wanted to be a mother because that's what women do, but not because I really understood what it meant.
"Now I understand it's the most amazing thing in the world. There's nothing burdensome about it, it's just the most amazing privilege, it's a real gift from God and it's amazing.
"I don't think anyone ever explained it to me that way. You can't really prepare for it. No one can tell you how intense the love is, and how rewarding it is."
The 'Milkshake' star also spoke of how "proud" she is of her life and the decisions she has made along the way.
She added to Attitude magazine: "I'm most proud of the woman I want to be. I can't say that I'm there yet, but I'm proud of the decisions and the conscious effort I've made to be the kind of person that I want to be."


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Mexico men detained over Mexico radiation truck robbery
The authorities in Mexico have detained six men suspected of stealing a truck earlier this week carrying medical equipment including a radioactive element.
The suspects had been admitted to a hospital in Hidalgo state with possible symptoms of radiation poisoning.
The truck was stolen on Monday as the driver made an overnight stop on the outskirts of Mexico City.
It was found abandoned two days later on a nearby field.
The Mexican authorities said the protective case containing the radioactive isotope - Cobalt-60 - had been tampered with.
Anyone who came into contact with Cobalt-60 faced life-threatening levels of radiation, officials warned.
Hospitals in the area had been told to look out for people with symptoms of radiation poisoning.
The six men, aged from 16 to 38, have undergone tests at the General Hospital of Pachuca, said Hidalgo Health Secretary Pedro Luis Noble Monterrubio.
"None are showing immediate signs of radiation poisoning," said Mr Noble.
They have been discharged by doctors but have been handed over to Mexican police.
'Overnight attack'
The truck was carrying radiotherapy material from a hospital in the northern city of Tijuana for disposal.
Its driver said he had stopped on Monday night to rest at a petrol station in the town of Tepojaco, outside Mexico City, when he was attacked by two men.
He was forced out of the vehicle at gunpoint and thieves took the truck away, probably unaware of its contents.
The radioactive material was discovered on Thursday near the town of Hueypoxtla, officials from Mexico's National Nuclear Security Commission (NNSC) said.
It was barely 2km (1.4 miles) from where the lorry had been stolen.
NNSC official Mardonio Jimenez said the radioactive source had been "removed from its container and left between 500m and 700m" from the vehicle.


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By JUDITH H. DOBRZYNSKI
Published: February 3, 2011
WHEN the Denver Art Museum's signature American Indian art galleries reopened last week after a seven-month overhaul, the biggest change wasn't the new display cases or the dramatic lighting. Rather, it was in a less obvious place: the wall labels.
For the first time many of the works on display are attributed to individual artists instead of just their tribes. It is a revolution in museum practice that many scholars hope will spread, raising the stature of American Indian artists and elevating their work from the category of artifacts to the more exalted realm of art.
So the museum's "Wild Man of the Woods" mask, made in 1900 and previously identified only as "Kwakiutl," will be attributed to Willie Seaweed, a Canadian carver who died in 1967. In another gallery an exhibition of more than 30 pieces of pottery will celebrate the extraordinary skill of Nampeyo, a Hopi woman born around 1860. Other objects, thought to be the work of single unknown creators — like a selection of Navajo "eyedazzler" weavings dated 1885-1900 — will be grouped together with labels reading, "Artist not known."
Art museums have collected American Indian objects for decades, but, like natural history and anthropology museums, they have tended to treat them as ethnographic pieces, illustrative of the cultures they came from. Wall labels have generally steered clear even of the "anonymous" designation commonly used for Western artworks of unknown authorship and in cases where Indian artists left signature marks — as Chilkat weavers of the Pacific Northwest long have, for example — this evidence has often been ignored.
Nor did the early collectors of Indian art care much about authorship. To cite one example, George Gustav Heye, whose collections form the core of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, routinely bought pieces without noting anything other than the tribe and date. But Nancy Blomberg, the curator of native arts at the Denver Art Museum, was determined to do things differently when she reconceived the galleries, choosing nearly 700 works from the museum's world-class 18,000-piece collection. "I want to signal that there are artists on this floor," she said.
Although some museums have made scattershot efforts to identify the artists behind pre-20th-century Indian pieces, the Denver museum has now embraced attribution more completely and comprehensively than any other institution. Ms. Blomberg's message begins in the introductory panel, which celebrates the individual artists on the floor, and continues in the labels beside the artworks, for which she drew on her own work and the research of other scholars. With excitement in her voice she told of one recent discovery.
In June she was paging through a Bonhams & Butterfields auction catalog when two ink-and-watercolor paintings caught her eye. One showed the Sun Dance of the Ute people; the other, the Ute Bear Dance. The Denver museum has owned a work that was clearly by the same artist since the 1930s, but it had entered the collection with no information about its origin. Ms. Blomberg had shown it to Indian tribes in Colorado, but none could shed light on its authorship. She had also seen other paintings that were obviously by the same hand at other museums, including the Peabody Museum at Harvard.
"No one had any idea where they came from," she said. But the Bonhams catalog did.
It said both paintings were "signed upper right" with "Fenno." And it included a reference to a 1911 newspaper article about a log-cabin trading post in Myton, Utah, that was once owned by the great-great-grandfather of the paintings' seller. It said that Louis Fenno — "the greatest of Ute artists" — was shot to death in 1903 by a clerk named W. T. Muse, in murky circumstances.
Fenno now lives again in a wall label that Ms. Blomberg has written for the refurbished galleries.
"Recognizing that Native American art was made by individuals, not tribes, and labeling it accordingly, is a practice that is long overdue," said Dan L. Monroe, executive director of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., which has a large Indian collection and has made some attempts to identify individual artists since the mid-1990s. Continuing to follow past practices, he added, "perpetuates a set of ideas, values and historical practices laden with racism, ethnocentrism and tragic and destructive government policies."
Still, Mr. Monroe, who could not say how many of his museum's Indian works have so far been attributed, conceded that there are serious obstacles to the process. "The research required to identify individual historical artists is complex and time consuming," he said. "We will continue to chip away at it, as will others."
But most museums are short on money and people, and many have other priorities. Robin K. Wright, the director of the Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Coast Art at the Burke Museum, University of Washington, said that "museums are notoriously slow to change their labels" and typically wait for full-scale reinstallations.
"In some places they haven't changed in decades," she added.
At the same time Indian objects are scattered around the country yet a scholar must analyze many before reaching conclusions about authorship. And when they do, they publish their work in scholarly journals, sometimes neglecting to inform the very museums whose collections they may have studied. (Even Ms. Blomberg conceded that she has not informed the museums who own paintings by Fenno of her discovery.) Finally, while the task of rediscovering long-lost artists is enormous, "the field of people doing this is small," said Kate C. Duncan, an Arizona State University professor who heads the Native American Art Studies Association.
Even in Denver, Ms. Blomberg can attach names to fewer than 100 of the more than 600 works on view, and about 50 of them are by living artists. But, she said, identifying the artists is "a growing trend, and everyone is building on everyone else's work." (In recent years scholars have begun trying to identify the anonymous artists in African and other artworks once called primitive or folk art.)
The roots of the attribution movement go back to the 1960s and to Bill Holm, now 85 and curator emeritus of Northwest Coast Indian Art at the Burke Museum. An artist himself, he created a vocabulary for speaking about form in Northwestern Indian art, and he began to identify individual hands through their signature stylistic characteristics.
Following Renaissance art scholars, he also coined names. Just as the creator of an altarpiece in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence is called the "Saint Cecilia Master," the maker of a 19th-century Haida chief's beautifully carved chair in the Field Museum in Chicago, is the "Master of the Chicago Settee."
Soon Mr. Holm and a few others in his generation who studied the work of tribes in other parts of the continent attracted followers. In the 1970s and '80s Ms. Wright studied Haida pipe carvers of the Pacific Northwest as a student at the University of Washington and named the "Master of the Long Fingers" and "Master of the Fat Round Ovoids."
Later she focused on three 19th-century Haida artists — Simeon Stilthda, John Gwaytihl and the "Master of the Chicago Settee" — and was able to link masks, totem poles, wooden works and headdresses to them. Using Haida genealogy records and other unpublished 19th-century documents she also discovered that the "Master of the Chicago Settee" was a man named Zacherias Nicholas. Elsewhere around the country other scholars have done attribution research on other tribes.
What they do is painstakingly slow and often tedious, and often subject to revision. To identify stylistic idiosyncrasies of "lost" artists, Valerie Verzuh, a curator at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, N.M., has spent many hours assessing Southwest Indian pottery, considering the designs, kinds of paint used, brush strokes, rim finishings and even the precise thicknesses of the clay. Looking at Plains Indian beadwork, Ms. Blomberg focuses on details like the number of beads that lie between stitches.
But the advances can be exhilarating. Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, who also teaches at the University of Washington and who has looked at "thousands and thousands" of 19th-century silver works, tells of such a moment. In 2007, while speaking at a clan conference of the Tlingit, she showed a list of about 70 names of artists that she and a colleague had discovered in 19th-century documents. "People came up to me afterward and said, 'That was my great-grandfather,' or 'That was my great uncle,' " she said. Some owned works that are helping her associate the hands she has identified with names.
Label by label, matching artist to artwork is seeping into museums. The Seattle Art Museum reorganized its Northwest Coast Native American galleries in 2007 around the theme "The Artist Behind the Art," adding every attribution it knows, including a raven screen by a Tlingit named Kadyisdu.axch that dates to about 1810.
When the New York branch of the National Museum of the American Indian opened a new installation last year, two works were newly attributed, according to Ann McMullen, the curator. One is a painted drum created around 1860-70 by a Yanktonnai Nakota named Black Chicken; the other is a yarn bag made about 1900 by Ska-ba-quay Tesson, a Meskwaki Indian.
Even at history and anthropology museums change is afoot. Peter M. Whiteley, curator of the Hall of Northwest Coast Indians at the American Museum of Natural History, said he has no current plans to add artists' names. But he added, "If we are able to get to the stage of reinstalling the hall, it would certainly be good to identify the artist wherever it is salient."


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Edsell "Ed" Elliott
Funeral services for Edsell "Ed" Elliott, 87, of Giddings, were held on Saturday, May 27, 2017 at St. John Lutheran Church in Lincoln, Texas with Rev. Dale Bohm officiating. Burial, with military honors provided by the Giddings American Legion York Post 276, immediately followed in the church cemetery.
Edsell Elliott was born on October 9, 1929 in Pontotoc, Mississippi, the son of Jack & Ollie (Young) Elliott. He served in the United States Army during the Korean Conflict and received his Honorable Discharge on January 6, 1955. Ed was united in marriage to Allene (Karcher) Harrison on June 1, 1957 at St. Mark Lutheran Church in Houston by Rev. Edwin Keiper. He was also baptized and confirmed at St. Mark Lutheran Church. While living in Houston, Ed worked as a route distributor with Schlitz Beer and Borden Ice Cream. After he and Allene retired and moved back to Giddings, he worked at Josh Marshall Chevrolet and was a school bus driver at St. John Lutheran School in Lincoln. He was a member of St. John Lutheran Church in Lincoln, the Lincoln Community Club and had been a member of the American Legion. He enjoyed fishing, working in his yard, woodworking and playing the guitar and had played in a band when he was younger.
Ed passed away suddenly the evening of Monday, May 22, 2017 at his home near Giddings.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his son, Donny Harrison; his son-in-law, Randy Smith; two sisters, Christine Reeves and Delores Traywick and five brothers, Orsel Elliott, Lemoise Elliott, Vergil Elliott, Howard Elliott, Alfred Elliott and Leo Elliott.
Ed is survived by his wife of nearly 60 years, Allene Elliott of Giddings; eight children, Dan Elliott & his wife Roxanne of Joplin, MO, Mac Elliott of Nashville, TN, Lee Elliott, Glenda Curtin of Houston, Brenda Maupin & her husband, Jim of Cypress, Shelia Smith of Houston, Tammy Barna of Houston and Kathy Carrigan & her husband, Mike of Tomball; one daughter-in-law, Debbie Harrison of Temple; seven grandchildren, Jason Curtin & his wife, Marilee of Conroe, Hannah Waid & her fiancé, Zachary Schilleci of The Woodlands, Joshua Waid of Tomball, Bryan Smith & his wife, Jasmine of Houston, Blake Smith of Englewood, CO, Emily Barna of Austin and Tyler Barna of Murphy, as well as several other grandchildren and great grandchildren. He is also survived by two sisters, Dace Bockel & her husband, Bud of Houston and Betty Elliott of Tupelo, MS and one brother, Cleo Elliott & his special friend, Sarah of Willis.
Memorials may be made to St. John Lutheran Church in Lincoln, or to the charity of one's choice.


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Sambal Belacan can be made fresh daily, or made in advance and stored in the fridge. Traditionally, this spicy rocking me and you up dip is still until this day made by pounding in a mortar/batu lesung. Yes, that's how it should be I agree. I however had enough of pounding. No more, Cannot anymore. I don't want to except once a while. So, I use the blender and pulse. The dry small blender does a good job, but if you insist on the big blender, I'm not sure. Maybe you have to add a tiny bit of water for the motor to spin. Otherwise, I'm afraid motor will burn you wallet. Not worth for the sake of sambal belacan. A basic blender is around RM100 and ingredients for sambal belacan won't even cost you RM5.00.
Now, the other essential tip I must tell you is that sambal belacan can turn basi/or moulded. My experiences has spoken, though I don't know what's the secret to store bought ones, even the home made ones you can buy at neighbourhood mini markets. So, essentially, you should store sambal belacan in individual tiny containers, freeze and bring out as and when needed. Anything else I have missed out? Oh-okay, birds eye chillies in sambal belacan is not for the faint heart, think before you add. Done.


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