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Dr. Castellanos is a Senior Lecturer and the Undergraduate Program Director in the Department of Chemical, Biochemical & Environmental Engineering (CBEE). She was nominated for this award by Mr. Jeremy Drew (CBEE Alum, BS 2017), who gathered narratives from over 30 CBEE alumni demonstrating Dr. C's effectiveness in motivating students in ways that have a lasting influence on their lives, and a number of faculty describing Dr. C's service to the UMBC community.
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Fear Factory has always been recognized for their illustrious fusion of heavy metal and industrial rock. Having released an impressive discography of albums that have cemented them as pioneers of their unique musical hybrid, their latest release was highly anticipated.
As revealed by vocalist Burton C. Bell, The Industrialist would be a concept album focusing on the imminent encroachment of humanity by technology. Sonically, the album captures this technological usurpation through mechanical bursts of sound. As the album moves from "The Industrialist" to "New Messiah" the unique industrial fusions add an engaging element and do well to emphasize the album's dystopic auditory atmosphere.
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Arguably the most disappointing part of this release was the replacement of drummer Gene Hoglan with a drum machine. In the past, Fear Factory's reputation has been undoubtedly enhanced by Hoglan's technical prowess. While the band has assumed the industrial metal identity in their own right, it is a shame that they could not record this release with a worthy replacement. While the drums are undisputedly sharp on this album and they add some fantastic elements to each song, it is a little disappointing that it was all composed on a computer. Perhaps an addition to Bell's concept of humankind's replacement by machines?
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A couple of years ago, I took an improv course at Second City. During one of the first classes, we did an exercise where the teacher asked us all to pretend we were animals. Along with the animalistic movements, we were to add noises - grunts, growls and such. I thought to myself, I feel so stupid doing this. I looked out over the class, at all these grown adults making animal noises and learned something. We were in a closed classroom, the teacher encouraged us to go as far as we could and everyone there was acting like idiots. It wasn't the teacher or anyone else in that room stopping me from acting like an animal, it was me. There was a voice in my head that told me how stupid I looked, how stupid I was for signing up for this class, how ridiculous the entire endeavour was and that I should just leave.
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One of the most culturally rich countries in Europe, Italy is a nation of historical legend and geological distinction. With the romantic Venice, the rolling hills of Tuscany, and the bustling tourist hotspot that is Rome, it's no wonder this is a must-see corner of the world for many people. Here are a few tips so you know what to expect when planning your trip.
Take a nap
Italians like to take it easy, especially during the summer months when temperatures can get scorching during the middle of the day, which is why you'll find places off the usual tourist grid almost deserted until evening hits. But don't be fooled (or made to feel uneasy by the eerie stillness), because these sleepy towns liven up once the sun begins to set. If you don't want to advertise yourself as a tourist, the best way to blend in is to have a siesta and a good lunch someplace where there's air con, and venture out when it's a little more bearable.
Don't make an itinerary
As mentioned, Italians are pretty chilled, and if you want to get a real taste of the country, you should try to be too. There is so much to see and do in Italy, it's true, but the best way to make the most of a trip is to tone it down and try not to make a to-do list for each day. Sure, have a loose idea of what you want to do but give yourself a couple of extra days with no plans so that you can pace yourself, especially if it's a summer visit.
Be prepared for expenses
Italy is a pretty expensive place to visit, especially the big cities and popular destinations. From accommodation to food, expect to pay a little more than you normally would. The one thing that does seem to be fairly cheap is the public transport, the only problem being that it isn't always the most convenient way to get around – for example, if you're used to the London Underground taking you pretty much everywhere you could possibly wish to go, you may be surprised to find that Rome's Metro only has two lines that don't really even cover half the city.
Speak Italian
This really is a tip for anywhere you may be travelling to: try to speak the language of the country. That doesn't mean you have to go on a four week intensive course the month before your week-long holiday, but it does mean that you should do some googling and get to grips with some basic words and phrases – 'hello', 'good morning', 'goodbye', 'thank you' and 'excuse me' are always good places to start. By saying a few words in the native language, you are saying you respect the people, and locals will always appreciate the fact that you made a little effort. Don't be that arrogant tourist who loudly wonders what is wrong with everyone because they don't speak English.
Expect a late dinner
Be aware that most restaurants won't open until 7pm at the earliest, and they generally won't get really busy until around 9pm. Another thing to note is that portions are big in Italian restaurants, and even though there are about five different courses listed on most menus, you probably won't be able to finish more than one starter and one main, so, tempting as it all is, try not to let your eyes get bigger than your stomach…
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Keys handed over to 21 new affordable homes in Roughton
North Norfolk's biggest social landlord has received the keys to 21 new affordable homes in Roughton. Victory Housing Trust chief executive John Archibald received the keys to the new homes from Chris Dove of constructor Dove Jeffery at the site on Chapel Road in the village.
Twelve new homes are now being allocated for affordable rent to people with a strong local connection to Roughton, with the remaining nine new homes being released for Low Cost Home Ownership.
Victory has invested £2.8 million in the new homes, with a further £649,000 contributed by the Homes & Communities Agency.
"We are really pleased to receive the keys to this important new development of affordable homes," said Mr Archibald. "Villages like Roughton need more affordable homes so that local people can remain in their home community.
"This investment means that a piece of derelict and unused land has been reclaimed and used to provide high quality, energy-efficient homes."
Mr Dove, director of new business at Dove Jeffery, added, "We are delighted to be handing over the new homes on this site. It presented us with a complex planning challenge, and we have enjoyed a fruitful partnership with Victory as we have progressed the project from initial idea through to completion."
The new homes at Roughton bring the number of new affordable homes delivered by Victory to 843; a further 169 are currently being built.


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Archive for November, 2010
Where were you when Nothing Happened today?
Nov 16th
Unbelievable; Apple hyped an iTunes announcement targeting today for the past few days.
Everyone was hoping for ITunes in the Cloud. But what do we get instead?
You can buy the Beatles Music Catalog on iTunes. Yawn.
The Beatles simply aren't relevant anymore. So what if a few people who are living in the past want to download this music from iTunes. It's ridiculous.
Most likely these people will have bought these albums in all of the prior formats including:
- 45's
- LP's
- 8 Track
- Audio Cassette
- Laser Disk
- Mini Compact Disk
- Compact Disk or CDs
Now the last one is the kicker.
This is just being hyped because the only one who will really benefit is Apple.
They have had a long running intellectual property battle with the Beatles Related company of Apple Corps Ltd. And being able to bring all of that to and end while potentially making even more money, is big news for Apple Inc.
It's in Apple's best interest to get the News Press excited with Hype like "Where were you when you heard…" that we were going to make more money today?


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We all know how busy families are these days and kids are always on the move! With busy schedules and tons of activities, these 5 Snack Ideas for Kids That Are Super Easy will help to keep them healthy and filled up! Who doesn't want to spend more time together instead of constantly making food and snacks for the kids?!
1. Veggie Cups
It doesn't get much easier than this! Grab some disposable cups and fill them with about 2-3 tablespoons of ranch or blue cheese dressing. Next, fill it up with lots of yummy veggies! Things like sticks of celery, carrots, or anything else your kids may like will be perfect! And with the ability to quickly make individual servings, nobody will be fighting for "sharing" a snack bowl!
2. English-Muffin Pizzas
Cut the English Muffins in half and toast until golden brown. Next, add sauce, cheese and toppings and heat back up in toaster until the cheese is melted. Now, all you have to do is place the muffins on a plate, cover with another and tape close. Bam! You have an easy, portable snack that the kids can help to make, too!
3. Fruit Parfaits
Scoop 2-3 tablespoons of yogurt into a paper cup. Slide a bunch of apples and pears and toss them with lemon juice to keep them from browning. Place them in the cup along with the yogurt and you have a delicious fruit parfait that the kids will be asking for over and over again! Change it up with raspberries, strawberries or blueberries and it will never be the same!
4. Mini Sundaes
Create a buffet-style mini-sundae bar and the kids will absolutely love it! For a quick movie night snack, or a hot, mid-summer day delight. Who doesn't love an ice cream sundae? Pre-scoop ice cream into disposable cups and fill other cups with a variety of toppings. Let the kids get creative and they are going to have fun memories of summer!
5. Smoothie Creamsicles
Whisk together two 5.3-ounce containers of vanilla-flavored Greek yogurt and 1 cup orange juice. Divide between six 3-ounce disposable cups and freeze for 30 minutes. Insert popsicle sticks and put them back in the freezer until they are fully solid. Peel off the cups and they are ready to go!
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Andrew Thomas, MD
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About MeWhen I was younger, I spent a great deal of time with my grandparents and saw how much they respected their own physician—that inspired me. Add in my interest in science and a few medical shows from the 1970s, like M.A.S.H. and Emergency, and I was sold on becoming a doctor. After getting my bachelor's degree in history and science from Harvard in 1991, I came to medical school at Ohio State. I've spent some of the best years of my adult life at Ohio State and in Columbus, with my wife, Lisa Wilkins Doran, and our three kids.
As Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, my role includes oversight of inpatient, outpatient and Emergency Department services at our five hospitals, outpatient clinics and specialized care facilities. Some of my key responsibilities include facilitating care between our specialties and coordinating collaboration between departments; guiding organizational strategy and representing physicians around the business table; enforcing rules when necessary and—perhaps my favorite part of the job—mentoring students, residents and younger physicians.
In addition, even after moving into an administrative role, I've always maintained my connection to patient care and still see patients a couple times a week. It is a crucial part of not only my own personal job satisfaction, but my role as CMO. It's what keeps me focused on helping everyone at Ohio State deliver the best possible care and allows me to see the impact of organizational decisions.
- Rated in the top 10 percent of physicians in the nation for patient satisfaction, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
- Member of the Chief Medical Officers Group Steering Committee for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
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Persona Bones
June 29, 2016
Persona Stories
Last Saturday was Persona Day in the Jemez Valley. Two of my favorite poets, Leslie Ullman and Veronica Golos came to support the Friends of the Library. Veronica is excited about her new book Rootworks. Leslie has a new volume Oblique Strategies in galleys. It was the type of casual weekend that only English teachers imagine might be part of their vacations. Bright, skilled writers talking about their experiences writing as other people, everyone on their better behavior, cookies in abundance and literary discourse without having to call on that person who wasn't paying attention. Genuine poets and home baked cookies I don't expect much more from life.
Both poets were insightful and responded with the kind of spontaneous interplay that make these type of discussions worth preparing for and having. Veronica and Leslie discussed the complicated ethics, individual techniques, and their personal experiences inhabiting other voices. Then there was snack break and the listeners wanted a writing exercise. It fell to me to provide one. As I gave directions and allowed time for responses, a momentary blank came, and then I heard a voice say "Write down what you want to leave behind." The voice was mine. It was the kind of unconscious burble that happens under social pressure. You adjust and deal with it, it's a writing exercise, some disorientation is expected. Forty minutes later we were at a buffet dinner. By noon on Sunday everyone had dispersed. Carol and I had an appointment with a traveling shaman for an afternoon of Ka Ta See, Peruvian bone reading, and soaking in the pools at Giggling Springs.
Growing up Roman Catholic visiting a fortune teller was regarded as a Mortal Sin. It was demonic, Satanic and, the priest added, probably a con. We weren't even supposed to put coins in the Madame Fortuna machine in the Penny Arcade at the amusement park. I felt guilty if I read the fortune in my cookie. There were some gypsies in town, but they didn't act like Maria Ouspenskia in the werewolf movies. Religion seemed determined to prevent any contact with spiritualism. However, when I was twelve my grandfather got lost driving the family to visit the shrine of St. Anne Beaupre. Unexpectedly I had a waxy vision and told my grandparents and cousins in a few minutes we would see a man on a tractor wearing a green shirt and red hat who would give us directions in French, but we would understand them. It happened; everyone shut up about it immediately. After all it was a religious pilgrimage, visions were appropriate for saints, but apparently not as a backseat activity. Silence was my Grandmother's default setting for children, especially on car drives. She had had experience from the end of the Golden Age of Spiritualism at the beginning of the Twentieth Century.
Mediums and the Spiritualism Movement were as popular in the Modernist Period following The Great War as "Game of Thrones" is today. In the world just before radio and movies, performance was the only kinetic art form. Magicians like Harry Houdini were the equivalents of rock stars. Vaudeville, tent shows, circuses, carnivals and even riverboats were still the vehicles that brought entertainment to cities and towns. Even simple acts (or complicated ones like Houdini's) had to be 'put over' in person. The actors and musicians may have been bored, but their performances were regarded as genuine by those who watched. For the most part Houdini only pretended to struggle in order to manipulate his audience. He could get away with this because there were no recordings of his act other than gossip, still photographs, newspapers and advance publicity. Each new town was allowed to believe what they were seeing was death defied in their presence. It was harmlessly exploiting the naiveté of the age. Mediums fell into that category of symbiosis, but not perhaps as harmless.
For one preternaturally hot summer I was involved a married woman. The romance was ending badly in final sweaty assignations and denial. She took me to visit a psychic she knew who lived in Kentucky. Not backwoods Kentucky, but a trailer park, a little north of Independence. By night he was a short order cook at the truck stop off the Interstate, by day he would swipe at flies and have visions for $15. He put three small black stones on his head and kept them in place with a stocking cap. He fluttered his eyelids and talked about giant yellow winged Venusian angel creatures whom we would soon contact, he saw a desert where life could breathe ammonia. He didn't answer my friend's question about leaving her husband. Opening his eyes, he looked at me as if he knew me. "You're an only child. You're the only male heir. You are the last of your line." Nothing he should have known, nothing I wanted to hear. She asked about my future, looking to see if she were there. "I see arc carbon." was his reply.
We stopped seeing one another. The following summer, I had a job managing an old cinema. One night I was visiting with the projectionist up in the soundproof, fireproof booth. In a tray next to one of the projectors I asked about the bronze lined stubs the size of bullets. "They make the light…electricity arcs through carbon."
Sensitives speak things they shouldn't know into a world that might understand them. It's an old tradition in nearly every culture. People want to converse with spirits and get their advice about the future. Both literally and figuratively it's a marginal world. I've made a long sporadic study of seeking out practices, seers, healers, spiritualists, card readers and sacred locations. I found it ran in my family. I'm respectful but skeptical, one never knows where lightning will strike.
So Sunday afternoon I sat on the grass beneath an enormous cottonwood and watched a woman toss a double handful of bones onto the woven rug of the world. She held an owl's wing and walked around in and out of the shade. She began, "This is about what you want to leave behind."
What You See Is What You Get
June 18, 2016
Time Enough At Last
Part Two
In the last hour I've reached for my glasses five times. They're not there. I'm feeling nervous as a racehorse that has to wear blinders. Spooked is the equine parlance for that sense of needing to pull back from something in your periphery that isn't there. My vision seems clearer if I keep moving my focus, chair to cabinet to wall to my arm then hand then around the room again. Sustaining that initial clarity demands a conscious effort, an effort I can maintain about long enough to identify letters on a Snellen chart during an eye exam. But currently without my glasses I'm at a higher state of subconscious alert. Even though I'm in my favorite chair, alone in a sunny morning in a familiar house, I'm vaguely alarmed, called to vigilance by something near-visible. Sometimes you can see a similar expression exaggerated on men who wait by the freeway exit.
In photographs and in general my expression appears solemn or severe. People often think I'm more serious than I feel. What they regard as deep thought is my struggle to keep things clear. Binocularity and depth perception have always provided a questionable quality to my vision life. I'm astigmatic in one eye and myopic in the other. I perceive detail probably better than motion and distance. That anomaly made it easier for me to draw things than judge fly balls. Drawing is the illusion of deciding where a line should travel, catching is calculating a fixed point. I became better at anticipating than sustaining. Measured in those diopters was the frustration that shaped my early education. It's in those minute levels of perception that we effect the habituation of our mental processes.
We construct reality because of what we expect to we see, not what we actually see. Our sensorium is wondrously flexible. We can feel terrified by a wasp buzzing on the other side of a window, yet delight to a lion's roar on the other side of a glass barrier. We make our own sense. We transform the light reflecting off objects into what we expect to see. Consider the last time you were looking for someone in a crowd. You are going to meet a friend on the mezzanine.
You search faces, scanning for the features you identify as theirs. The other faces constantly disappear; their bodies don't register as immediate motion. Nearly every object quickly goes out of focus except for the object that isn't there, your friend. That kind of perception requires conscious, trained effort. When people meet in these situations they generally respond in one of two ways, glee (You're here!) or dismay (Where have you been?). It's the response we learned as infants waiting for our mothers. We recognize our mothers first by smell, then develop vision to add meaningful detail to the relationship. We teach ourselves to see.
Over time vision becomes our dominant source of information. Homo Sapiens are constantly attending information in front of them (as opposed to horse's lateral vision). Without a specific task our other senses tend to diminish in the same way the crowd on the mezzanine diminished. They are present, but we disregard the information they present. Learning to accomplish that is a primary lesson of school, to concentrate on visual focus. A child must first be taught to ignore their instinctive impulses to wander and explore, and then taught to sit in close proximity to other children and focus on symbols. It's the technological miracle and operatic tragedy of our educational system.
Books and economics were the machines that brought us to this perceptual form. Public Education as a trope was essentially a construct to socialize children into workers as traditional economies gave way to urban industrialization. As Huckleberry Finn reminds us the disciplines demanded of a schoolboy are fundamentally different from those of a school aged boy. In prior centuries children physically followed their parents around and learned how to survive in the world, parents had to be respected not because of any moral dictum, but because they were the fountainhead of knowledge and survival. Life made immediate sense.
If I ask an Econ student at a community college to define the world. She may describe it in a language of terms beginning with capital, Industrialization, mention choices at the margin, express a curve model, game theory, or any of a number of meaningful perceptual tools. For approximately 80% of families in the world, their economic definition of the world is a little under $10, a few days of food, shelter and tentative safety. For most of that world, siblings are day care and the relationship with your daughter-in-law is your long term care insurance. Family traditions were crucial to survival before religion, culture, or politics. Religion follows food; economic culture follows abundance. The more fundamental difference is some are allowed to consider what they'll eat for dinner, and others if they can have dinner.
Anyone reading this blog functions in a physically removed yet subtly interdependent world. Collectively we can be effected by the stock market in China, an erratic router, the price of a barrel of oil, the last cell phone message of a deranged murderer, or in my case, if I can negotiate a replacement for my glasses between my doctor 1,000 miles away and a stranger following the policies of an invisible bureaucracy. And all of strands of this web are credited to an unseen economy no one can explain, but everyone believes exists. This symbolic world is a world of perceived abundance and physical disengagement.
My father and grandfathers lived their lives in a small industrial city where nearly everyone still labored to produce products. Their work was physically demanding and required skill and experience they delivered through their bodies. At the end of their work days they could look out on a flat car of steel bars, a two ton milled part, or a rack filled with baked goods. They came home worn, and I don't recall any of them having difficulty falling asleep watching television. Grampa Hetner could fall asleep standing up "like a horse" he said. I loved and admired their lives, but I can't live that life, except in a romanticized fantasy.
The city we shared disappeared. The children of the steelworkers who used to go to Waterford Park bet on futures in Texas and Florida. The next generation of family members suddenly saw themselves as visitors. We became economic migrants, nowhere as tragic as the nomadic existence facing millions of our fellow human beings, but genuinely distressing. In the shift of the economy from manufacture to information we fell into the category of unintended consequence. Capital was redirected, labor became superfluous. But my vision of myself never included a life in a steel mill. The world my astigmatism envisioned was going to be filled with formal language and poetic transformations, and include level of predictable quiet. We perceive what we desire.
Now I'm an at will worker for a second chance charter high school. The tools I carry to work are a pen, a magnetized photo ID, and sometimes a jump-drive which I carry in a company branded briefcase with a book or some poems to read after lunch. I read at two computer screens, go to meetings, answer my cell phone, occasionally use the land line intercom, walk through classrooms, compile reports, plan out details for educational programs and once a month participate in an Internet conference. Any complaints I have are minor or broadly existential. I'm treated well, my work is engaging and useful, and I enjoy the people I share my days with. The reports I conscientiously compile are randomly audited, otherwise seldom read, in three years they're archived, and then in five destroyed. My year's records of meeting notes and observations will be shredded, the dividers will be saved, and the notebook will be refilled. At the end of my day I try to make my office space to look as exactly as it did at the beginning of the day.
My tasks get completed, if I have to come in early or stay late, but I still have a time clock. Many days after work I'd like to go out to drink, but I'm too old for that, so I go to the gym or run (where I may be too old as well). There was only one person older than me who set foot on my campus, mostly I work advising smart, younger teachers and students with hanging thin thread stories. The skills I possess and sell are invisible and conceptual. I'm useful because I can manipulate landscape visions of information into complicated action. When I do it right, I believe the world is a better place. My success has been in part because I am like a racehorse in one other way, I've been over-engineered to one task.
I admire racehorses. That I type badly is a tribute to that affection. As a youth I cut Intro to Typing in night school to sneak off to Waterford Park in time to make the Daily Double. After a brief luckless career as a tout, I abandoned the betting windows, but never the rail. Thoroughbreds are aptly named. They're born to do very little else than eat well and run on a racetrack. The accumulation of their physical characteristics and hard training that make them a race horse, also makes them worthless in nearly any other equine endeavor. Injuries, falls, collisions, the long term effects of being forced to run dangerously close to other horses, and factor in the now common extension of racing careers, long term side effects of drugs and travel, when they're through at the track, if they're lucky, they're pasture ready. Every May before I sign next my year's contract I run a slow, serious lap around Memorial Park and ask myself how close I am to being pasture ready.
Having my lenses ruined reminded me how I have been delicately constructed by an extended dialectic that includes the genetics of my birth, refracted light, the class values of a disappearing city, the corporate policies of businesses I do my best to avoid, my learned capacity for enduring sitting still, vague skills in making discrete adjustments to a changing real and symbolic landscapes, my ability to remember and manipulate language…and that my body is on its downward trajectory.
It's not uncommon for me to wake up on the couch wondering what the outcome of whatever I was watching was. Physical tasks are harder, my joints and ligaments are giving way; HIPA prohibits me from listing all of my nagging ailments. The metrics might be less organized than The Daily Racing Form, but my obituary wouldn't read much differently from that of a midlevel race horse. Game.
Happily, my optometrist friend sent contact lenses through the mail. I found a place on the Internet that will make me a pair of glasses for $65,no questions asked. In the meantime, I bought a pair of pristine readers at Family Dollar that my wife said make me look European. "What you see" sang The Dramatics "is what you get."
Time Enough at Last
June 14, 2016
I had my vacation reading packed for travel, the last Umberto Eco, the newest Murakami, several volumes of poems I wanted to reread without distraction, and my new travel companion, Wittgenstein's Mistress, a novel I read only in places other than my home. Literature has developed specialized contexts for me. When I think of myself, I think of myself as 'the reader', one writers imagine, engaged, articulate, and active. In spite of my handicap of reading slowly, I am patient and willing to stay in a literary relationship. I'm a cash customer, I purchase the books I read. I ask no mercy from my authors and in turn demand they deliver sophisticated thoughts and ideas, not merely kill time or invent thrills. Beach reads and murder mysteries annoy me. The farthest I've gone down that path was Sherlock Holmes, but only as self-required reading in my Victorian period. A fascination that actually started as a teaching project when I was working in Galveston Alternative Center for Education. I wanted to connect the curriculum with preparing students to visit and participate "Dickens On the Strand".
It was an edgy, complicated social and literary endeavor. Thestudents were 'alternative' to being thrown out on the streets for the greater good of their high school, but still required by law to have a school placement. "Dickens On the Strand" is the traditional celebration of Charles Dickens imaginary visit to Galveston. Nine blocks of the old historical district fit themselves out for hand bells, charming parades and an open street costumed party. It's the beginning of Christmas. Quaint shops, twinkling lights, buskers and carolers. It was less racist than Victorian England, but it was de facto segregated (as much of Galveston was). Although the majority of the students I taught lived no more than ten blocks from the Strand district, none of them had ever attended. To my belief they were far more Dickensian than the folks who rented gowns, capes and canes to stroll the fantasy laid out in Galveston's historical district.
My students believed they lived in G-town and they were G4Life.
When fantasies collide they best one often hopes for is irony.
Sherlock Holmes, even in film version, was incapable of holding our collective attention. The dialog was too overwrought, the restraint of the English class system too condescending, and Sherlock himself was just too annoying for us to battle through, and any essay topic from a Sherlock Holmes story is constantly doomed to explanation rather than interpretation. Dickens we could bring to life, a bowdlerized version of Jekyll & Hyde and by way of Internet "Jack the Ripper" these fired synapses and made connections. I made the same bargain with my students that I make with the books I read. I won't waste precious reading effort with foolish practice exercises. If they're going to work hard, they're going to get paid. Freshman read A Christmas Carol, sophomores took on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde and Juniors and Seniors combined to work through Oliver Twist. As we wrote we explored Dickens' works and life, life during Queen Victoria reign, websites in England, the US and Japan, and the wonderful Brown University Victorian Web. They wanted the real literature, the same as other students. We all swam in Victorian literature and history. As the Strand date approached they knew more about our reading than anyone in the school that expelled them. They knew why gentlemen didn't button the bottom button on the waistcoats, why ladies walked on the inside of gentlemen, where treadmills came from and what the staves in "Christmas Carol" were. On the day we attended "Dickens On the Strand" they recognized what was portrayed and they in turn were recognized as apropos portraits. It's the type of genuine relationship more and more frequently denied students and teachers. It was one of the possiblitites teaching literature can provide. Reading was life changing.
In spite of burgeoning MFA Writing programs, there is a painful decline in the appreciation of capital L literature. There are many inter-related explanations for this, increasingly moderated curricula, focus of standardized testing, social media hive mind, loss of program funding, CAI lessons, the decline of libraries, anti-intellectualism, data driven values, and like philosophy, there's not much money in reading literature. Beyond these cultural forces reading faces much more competition than it did when I was young. As I grew up it was books, senseless TV, family movies, church,sports or go to your room and build models. But now television and movies have transformed their forms from a half an hour or forty-five minutes of instantaneous gratification into long, brooding, completive inventions.
In spite of my predilection for bound books, I try at least, to remain neutral and open about the current and future states of reading. Consider the classic "The Untouchables" versus "The Sopranos" or "The Wire", or the brilliant use of real time aging and realized fiction of the Harry Potter film/book franchise, or compare Batman as he appeared in Detective Stories #27 with Batman: Year One, Alan Moore's Batman: The Killing Joke , or the variant toned film versions. I laud the collective genius of modern forms. I can divert myself to a binge of series, excellent graphic novels, thoughtful blog communities, complex multiplayer video games, Netflix, Tennis Channel, Hulu, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, e-mails and e-versions of magazines and newspapers, and constant texting to distract me from my chosen struggle to enforce my attention on a device that is a remnant of the end of the Middle Ages.
On vacation I can read or watch any of this without leaving my favorite chair…unless.
Unless something happens to my glasses. I'd been meaning to visit Dr.K., my longtime friend and Optometrist to have an exam and adjustment. It seemed my glasses weren't clear no matter how often I cleaned them. But the school year and domestic events unexpectedly demanded days and suddenly I was gratefully driving to New Mexico. Except my eyes bothered me. They watered. They ached. Something seemed to be on my lenses. It was overcast and breezy on the drive, generally a blessing driving across west Texas, which in summer can be like driving on a brilliant griddle. Instead it was twelve hours of driving through sharp, gray glare. By the time we arrived in Amarillo I had a headache, a short temper and was an hour too late to get to the gym. The motel I used to have an ugly dog affection for had taken a few steps deeper into the surreality that makes a good story but a terrible night's sleep.
It took fully twenty minutes of grimacing for the computer to yield a room number, a key and a registration to sign. Our room had been selected by the manager to be a recently renovated one, with wood floors, a queen bed and a flat screen television. The door was the first one at the end of makeshift stone pathway near the empty swimming pool. After changing the air conditioner setting from frigid din to din, I looked up and noticed the smoke detector near the ceiling had been skillfully covered with a towel. When I attempted to call the desk to inquire about this anomaly, I noticed there wasn't a phone. Fortunately, I didn't sit down in the room's single chair to make my non-call. It had been sloppily employed for other things, fluid things, terrifically non-hygienic things. The flat screen television the manager had proudly promised had indeed been recently screwed into the wall. Judging by the residue, patch and spackle work, it had put up a struggle. After multiple trips to the lobby, it was clear the Internet was free, but didn't work. I stood in line at the desk behind a dazed tourist from Germany whose room was flooded by the air conditioner and a man on his way to Missouri who had just spent two hours traveingl two miles on I-40 because a wreck closed the freeway. Waiting in line I recognized my situation could have been worse, and there was nowhere else to go. Cheerfully I mentioned to my wife that the dishabille of the room reminded me of our honeymoon room at The Chelsea Hotel; some things are better left… So I took an aspirin and sang myself to sleep trying to remember all of the lyrics to "King of the Road".
In the morning I felt much better as I was the only person in the lobby who seemed to know how the waffle maker worked. Any day that starts with a waffle shaped to resemble the State of Texas is bound to get better. In New Mexico it did. Miraculously there was an Optical Shop in a warehouse store open on Sunday afternoon. I took a number and surveyed the unfortunate selection of frames. In the past twenty-five years I've only had two pair of frames, number three was not going to come from their collection. I'm obsessive and my prescription is complicated and easy to get wrong. With the exception of sleeping I do everything with my glasses on. It's been that way as long as I can remember. I feel about my glasses the way Vikings did about their swords. I want to be cremated with my glasses.
When Maggie called "#95" she looked around and hoped I wasn't there. She was already tired out by the previous ninety-four. She straightened my wife's frames and told her not to use the soft needlepointed case. We agreed on something; I liked Maggie already. She took my glasses, surveyed them and looked at me.
"I can't get them clean."
Immediately she seemed to know what that meant.
"The coating is coming off. What kind of coating do you have on these?"
None I knew I had paid for, but coatings are already applied to most lenses, so I had no genuinely useful information. I did however; possess a copy of the prescription. Presenting my prescription, I asked if she could use it to make me a pair of contact lenses without my reading correction so I could drive. We still say "make" in a nostalgic sense. No shop "makes" lenses in that they manufacture or grind them anymore. It's too expensive to fight the economy of scale. I can buy glasses on the Internet from e-businesses that already know who I am, what I want and sells cheaper than Walmart. Most optometric offices examine your eyes, order your lenses and frames, and make sure they're correct. They provide expertise and relationships. It's why I visit Mark, both because he's careful and competent, and because his father was my optometrist and we've know each other longer than my last two sets of frames. We call each other by our first names. In Maggie's world I was the ninety-fifth person she'd seen on a Sunday afternoon in a crowded store that was still grabbing numbers. She wouldn't even unfold the prescription. But about the coating…
"Dawn." She said handing back my glasses. "Clean them with Dawn. It will take a long time and then they'll get cloudy, but Dawn."
I know I have Dawn at the place in New Mexico. I love Dawn.
So I'm in the mountains of New Mexico slowly, gently washing my glasses, coating them with Dawn, soaking them, waiting and repeating. Little by little they're getting clearer. Mark called back. He didn't know about Dawn. I asked him about an Internet hack I read of using SP30 sunscreen as a cleaning solution. It took over twenty years of building our relationship for him to be able not to sound like he thought I was vacationing next door to a meth lab. He's sending me an emergency set of contact lenses. When I return we'll make a new set of glasses. Neither of us want to think about finding new frames.


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Cureline, Inc., is one of about a hundred U.S. companies and organizations participated at the Southeast Europe for the U.S. Department of Commerce-led Trade Winds trade mission and business forum October 16-20, 2017. Trade Winds—Southeast Europe featured a three-day business forum in Bucharest, Romania, and several trade mission stops, including Croatia and Serbia, where Cureline CEO, Dr. Olga Potapova, among other participants, held meetings directly with government leaders, market experts, and potential business partners. "It is great to see such a strong delegation of companies and organizations targeting Southeast Europe," said U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Global Markets and Director General of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service Erin Walsh. "The companies joining Trade Winds are truly ahead of the business curve, targeting a region that is poised for rapid growth and expansion."
Cureline is a Precision and Translational Medicine CRO with headquarters located in the San Francisco Bay area (CA, USA). It features a clinical network of 120+ centers in 18 global markets and USA-based laboratories providing biospecimen processing, treatment and analysis using the most innovative and advanced technologies. Cureline is a global leader in commercial biobanking working with pharma, biotech, medical device and diagnostics companies, major academic centers, US government and international scientific consortia supporting their biomarker, therapeutics and diagnostics development in complex human disease. We specialize in Oncology, AID/inflammation, infectious diseases, metabolic and cardiovascular conditions, maternal health, etc. with an emphasis on tissue research (IHC, FISH, HD tissue slide scan) and glycoproteomics.
Dr. Potapova is very optimistic about this mission: "Southeast Europe presents a great opportunity for Cureline and we are excited about joining this mission and finding partners and collaborators in the region." This is the tenth year the Department of Commerce's U.S. Commercial Service has led Trade Winds, and the program has directly supported more than $240 million in U.S. exports in six global regions. Cureline has participated in similar missions to Mexico and Turkey in the past.


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You'll know from earlier posts that I have great plans for our garden and that we plan to shape our lawn into a series of connecting circles, and that we've been thinking about that for a while. Well now - or in the next month or so - that's actually going to happen. And now that it's on the horizon I have an even bigger plan so we can sequence the work and make the best use of the time off we have at the start of August.
I think the bigger plan scares MOH but I guess he also knows that's how I work, so that's how it is. My even bigger plan is broken down into areas such as lawn circles, a new bike shed, the old vegetable beds, sleepers - that's a new addition - and the long awaited skip. Having the skip means it's a good chance to clear out both the shed and the greenhouse, as I've got that other challenge on my mind too. The plan is dependant on the weather though, as once we've cut where the circles will be we'll be carrying trugs of unwanted earth through the house, so keep your fingers crossed for dry weather!
This weekend we started to prepare where our old vegetable beds used to be. The beds themselves were rotting and redundant as we finally have an allotment. It was only when we dismantled them that we realised how large this area was. And how much extra space we'd have here for our new flower bed. Maybe I'll finally get a much-longed for hydrangea, who knows?
It's in the part of the garden where last year we installed some trellis for the jasmine to clamber upon, to help the rhubarb. Now the rhubarb is at the allotment and doing well, although we're not picking any this year to allow it to recover from the move. We added some flat roof slates in front of the trellis posts, so they and the fence behind them aren't sat in soil. The roof slates were only £1.18 each from our local builders yard and were a cheap, and we hope effective way to protect the wood.
With the roof slates in place and the higher soil level evened out, we were finally able to plant out our little Christmas tree. Which is actually less little than it used to be. It's roots were growing through the pot and so I hope it's happy in its new unrestricted position. I also planted some other plants I'd been collecting - some sedum from another part of the garden, a white berry-ed plant and some lavender which I picked up from the sale bin at the garden centre and a yellow flowering plant from my dad. So this is what that area currently looks like.
With the bigger plan coming to life we need to put more details into the sleepers part of the plan. Even before this weekend we knew that we'd need something to edge the beds and retain the soil. The half brick solution we have nearer the house wasn't going to work. We also wanted to add something bolder in the area under our laurel tree, and so after much searching for inspiration on the internet we settled on of using sleepers.
And of course I don't just want them to lay flat and square. That would be far too easy - although in my defence there will be some that are laid flat, but I can't promise square. The plan is to use the sleepers in front of the Christmas tree and other new plants in the photo above, and in front of the lilac which is to the left and under the small cherry tree, which is on the right of the jasmine trellis.
That's the bit with the sleepers laid mostly flat.
Under the laurel tree I want to have a curve of upturned sleepers. High enough in the middle to perch on, but low enough so it's not hard work to get the bikes over, as the new bike shed will be on the higher level.
So with MOH on board, this weekend we've started doing some practical research. We've been online looking at sleepers and how to install them and at the garden centre we got up close to a sleeper to see just how heavy it was, and more importantly if we could lift one between us. We think we could, just about...
We know for our plans we'll need to cut the sleepers to the lengths - and heights for the upturned ones - we want. And for that we'll need a pretty decent saw, and preferably not the manual sort. We'll also need to secure the sleepers to each other so they stay where we want them, so we've also been looking at which power tools we'll need. We definitely need the right kind of saw and most likely an electric screwdriver too.
With so many sleepers - the current estimate is more than ten, but less than twenty - having them pre-cut won't be cost effective, especially as we'll be fine tuning the plan as we go, which makes it even more important to have the right tools to hand. Hopefully that will help make sure things go smoothly.
One thing I did learn this weekend though - mentioning needing new power tools is the sure fire way to spark MOH's interest in a project! I fully expect when the sleeper project starts, despite being the master planner, to be demoted to 'gofer' when the power tools come out. Which is fine by me. I'll let you know how we get on!


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We have contributed in the field of cooperative tasks with mobile robots using a hierarchical control scheme. This approach consists of carrying out cooperative tasks with different priority and also at a specific time. The main contributions are as follows: 1) to impose a desired time convergence of tasks and 2) to avoid discontinuous task transitions occurred when a task is inserted or removed in the hierarchical structure.
Every human, including yourself, uses this approach every day without realizing they do. For example, if you leave your home and want to get the door of the car, intuitively you walk straight until you reach your goal. However, if an obstacle appears in front of you such as another car parked in front of yours, you will most likely surround it. But this not implies turn 180° and walk in the opposite direction to your target. What you most likely will be doing is walking around the outline of your obstacle, trying to shorten the distance to your goal in every step. Moreover you'll also be avoiding the obstacle simultaneously. It needs to be mentioned that, on top of that, you should reach your target at a specific time. That is to say, if your car is 20m away from you, then it is feasible to reach its goal within 30 seconds. For example, considering that you may find or not an obstacle. This is a hierarchical task approach, your initial priority is to arrive to your car, but once the obstacle is in front of you, you main priority is to avoid the obstacle and as a second priority to reach your car. You're doing both tasks at the same time but in a different priority scheme as needed. This basic idea is used in our work.
This approach was implemented on the cinematic of a set of mobile robots, by using positions, velocity and accelerations of each robot to calculate a desired trajectory depending on the tasks desired to be performed, the convergence time and the number of robots. Once the prioritized tasks provides the desired trajectory, a nonlinear control is responsible for generating speed commands to robots' engines in order to execution the control action previously calculated.
The proposed approach in our work was validated with several experiments using three mobile robots "iRobot" and a fixed camera at a certain height for reading the position of robots. (watch video).


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Those fighting in the British Armed Forces often put themselves in the path of extreme danger. As a result, many come home with emotional and physical scars from the experience. For those with disabilities, trying to return to civilian life can be immensely difficult, but the same is often true for those leaving their Armed Forces career behind them in an attempt to move onto something new.
If you're in a position where you need financial help having left the Armed Forces, there are many national and regional schemes that offer grants and other services. These might be the support needed to get a business venture up and running, or could provide life-changing funds to help you with a disability. One of the most important things to remember is that help does exist and you shouldn't be shy in asking for it.
National Charities
There are several major charities that operate throughout Britain and provide British legion grants and other services for those who've served the UK. The Armed Forces Compensation Scheme, run by the government, provides grants for disabled veterans who may have experienced an illness or injury during their service. Money is also provided for families of those who've been killed in action.
Meanwhile, the Royal British Legion offers a variety of financial support for serving people and their families. An Immediate Needs Scheme provides small grants for emergency circumstances such as the requirement of mobility vehicles or new furniture, for example. The organisation can also pay for short getaways, both for service personnel and their family. British legion holidays are provided at one of the charity's four holiday Break Centres in the UK. There's also the chance for children of those in service to enjoy an adventure break.
Finally, if you're looking to start a business after leaving the Armed Forces, the government fund a British Legion scheme called 'Be the Boss'. The grant is open to anyone who's left the service, and the fund is particularly interested in applications from those with a disability, injury or long-term health problems. Up to £7,500 can be granted to help set up a company, whilst £30,000 is available to develop existing businesses further.
Army Injury Compensation
If you've been injured whilst on duty, there are a number of charities in the UK that cater towards specific conditions. BLESMA provides financial support to people who've lost limbs or limb function, or who may have been blinded in action. Grants can help make everyday life a little easier, from paying for stair-lifts and wheelchairs, to helping fund any necessary car adaptations so you can get around more easily.
Elsewhere, Combat Stress can be of invaluable support to those suffering with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or other mental health conditions. Though actual financial support isn't provided, all of Combat Stress's services are free for veterans to use, including residential clinical treatments, community outreach programmes and a six week treatment and rehabilitation course.
Service and Regimental Grants and Support
Depending which regiment you serve with, various means of support is likely to be available. The majority of services have their own financial aid schemes in place, allowing you to find help from the very organisation you've served with.
The RAF has a Disabled Holiday Trust that any ex-service personnel and their family can take advantage of if they have a disability. Most conditions qualify, and they don't even have to have occurred during active service. Self-catering holidays, both in the UK and abroad, are offered, with the Trust paying all expenses.The organisation also provides a benevolent fund which could offer invaluable financial support. If you're experiencing difficulties with money, the fund can help pay for property repairs, housing and educational costs, disability equipment and modifications, carers and services for dependents with special needs.
- The Royal Marines
The Royal Marines Charitable Trust Fund (RMCTF) can help both serving and retired Royal Marines and their family members. Support is offered for disabled and wounded veterans moving into civilian life, whilst homecoming events and memorials can be funded.
- The Royal Navy
The Royal Navy run several grant schemes for veterans to take advantage of. Both serving and former veterans can gain financial help to pay for furniture, essential household goods, funeral expenses, respite breaks and specialist equipment, such as a mobility scooter.
- Soldiers' Charity
For any soldier, including those in the Reserve Army (TA), the Soldiers' Charity offers a wide variety of help. Firstly, annuities can be provided to help older veterans and widows who are trying to live on a basic state pension. Meanwhile, care home fees can also be covered, whilst bursaries are available for disabled soldiers who want to cover the cost of retraining. These bursaries are also available for ex-soldiers who want to go into higher education, or the children of service men or women who've died or been disabled in action, and who's education needs to be funded.The Soldiers' Charity can also pay for holiday schemes to provide much needed breaks, and essential needs such as mobility aids.
Finally, the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association (SSAFA) offers grants to a wide range of personnel, both those currently serving as well as ex-veterans. Service men and women can gain funding for rehabilitation, accommodation costs for relatives visiting injured personnel and the expense of modifying a home to suit a disability.
If you're currently served in the armed forces, or have already left the service but need help, there are many grants and compensation schemes available across the UK. The list above is not exhaustive, so don't worry if your service isn't listed. In the first instance, it's best to contact the regiment you served with as they'll have the best knowledge of the schemes on offer. Failing that, many charities also provide emotional and financial support, helping you to transition back into civilian life.


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Jacob Kruse asks:
I've been a big fan of your work since your time at In-depth Outdoors and have enjoyed your latest videos with Tony Roach. I always love watching you catch big gills.
What are your thoughts on time of day, weather, barometric pressure and lunar phase affecting fishing or when you should be looking at getting out? Particularly relating to bluegill and other panfish. With young children my fishing time is limited, so I figure why not try to optimize when you can get out.
It's funny, the exact moment I read this I was eating lunch at Hunter's Point on Mille Lacs with Tony and I showed it to him. His response?
"Go fishing anytime and every-time you can. You may get hit by a train tomorrow."
My thoughts these days are much the same as his, but I fully understand when you're coming from. More and more often, the pressure to catch fish surpasses the idea of just going fishing. So to maximize your time on the water, I've found that 60% of the time the following works everytime:
- Fish pre-frontal conditions - These are signified by any change in the weather, typically for the worse, where calm stable weather gives way to precip, winds, or other storms.
- A stable barometer provides the best long-term fishing as fish settle into more predictable locations and patterns, while the hottest or fastest fishing is in the hours when the barometer has reached the "shoulder" of the slope and is starting to decline. Continual peaks and valleys make for yo-yo-like fishing patterns and inconsistent action.
- Use a site like Weather Underground to show the graph of relative barometric conditions.
- Lunar phases tend to affect predatory fish more from the research that's out there, and bluegills don't feed after dark in "most" lakes. There are clear water bodies and lakes with active night-time invertebrates that are the exception to that rule.
- Early and late is always the best, but it's better to find them during the day and move with them if you can.
Per Tony's advice, don't look for reasons not to fish, but if you get the choice you're usually best served by heeding the above advice. That said, I've had incredible days in bluebird conditions with pressure high enough to give every fish in the lake a headache, but they didn't mind. All the more reason to hit it when you can!


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Latest Thinking Regarding Naming Opportunities
Naming opportunities are a key component in fundraising for major gifts. Organizations associate donor names with campus-based spaces, programs, funds and faculty positions. The science of using naming opportunities to motivate giving — and using strategy and policy to manage possible risks — is evolving. Heurista has been studying advances in cross-departmental coordination, recognition policy, and design guidelines. We've gained valuable perspective by working with different types of institutions all across North America.
Here are a few highlights from what we've learned:
- The return on investment for permanent public donor recognition (plaques and displays) lies more with the institution than with the donor
- Organizations offer naming opportunities for physical spaces as well as virtual assets such as funds, programs and faculty/staff positions; there is a marked disparity in how these namings are recognized and how the donors are stewarded that can be corrected by providing public recognition for all naming opportunities
- Planning for change through large format print, electronic media or other means brings renewed life to facility-based recognition; these elements are infrequently used in conjunction with naming opportunities resulting in a necessarily "static" outcome that is less engaging for frequent viewers
- Better storytelling makes the resulting outcomes more meaningful for all audiences
- Documented policies, procedures and design standards expedite the workload and make the outcome more brand-specific
- Most institutions have substantial gaps in their policies and procedures for setting naming opportunity values, negotiating design and record-keeping regarding gift and recognition agreements
In recent years, several institutions have faced the need to remove a donor name from a campus facility. The renaming of a residential college at Yale is one of the most well-documented instances. Yale has provided a great service to all donor relations and stewardship professionals by sharing the report resulting from their analysis of the situation. It outlines specific principles to guide the renaming process and is definitely worth the read.
For a deeper dive into strategic donor recognition practices you may also want to read Anne's full-length article in the Journal of Donor Relations and Stewardship, "A Call for Donor Recognition Strategy". The article addresses the broad array of activities that fall under the heading "donor recognition" and suggests how the categories of donor recognition best align with organizational goals.
Naming opportunities will be covered at several presentations Anne will give in 2017. You can find the Stewardship Closeup: Naming Opportunity slides from this presentation on our Publications page on the website.
Posted By ANNE MANNER MCLARTY · MAY 30, 2017