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- Seabirds possible from ferry (large, comfortable vessel) include Sooty, Pink-footed and Short-tailed shearwaters, Pomarine and Parasitic jaegers, Northern Fulmar, Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel, Cassin's Auklet and Yellow-billed Loon.
- A number of 'island endemic' subspecies can be found on Haida Gwaii including Hairy Woodpecker, Steller's Jay and the Northern Saw-whet Owl.
- Waterfowl including all three species of scoters, Long-tailed Duck, and the stunning Harlequin Duck all likely.
- The islands have attracted a mouth-watering list of rarities over the years such as Spotted Redshank, Curlew Sandpiper, Common Cuckoo, Brambling and Rustic Bunting, just to name a few.
- In addition to birds, mammals we may see include Humpback Whale, Orca, Steller's Sea-Lions, Harbour Seals and Black-tailed Deer. With luck, perhaps we'll see one of North America's largest Black Bears.


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Dawn phenomenon is the phenomenon which causes a rapid rise or fall in body blood sugar during early morning hours. Dawn phenomenon of diabetes is a common experience seen among diabetics as a result of insulin resisting hormones induced at night time. Let's go deep into the cause of this dawn phenomenon or liver dump effect. Researchers found that the cause of rise and fall in blood glucose level during early morning hours is mainly due to the release of insulin resisting hormones from liver.
Sugar is the primary culprit in the development of hypoglycemia and diabetes. While sugar does provide a temporary boost of energy, eating it too frequently puts tremendous stress on the organs and glands that regulate blood-sugar levels.If you don't have hypoglycemia or diabetes or if you rarely indulge in sugar, your pancreas can handle occasional sugary treats. But if you frequently eat sugar, your pancreas can become hypersensitive to sugar and overreact, flooding your body with insulin, which causes blood-sugar levels to plummet. This triggers your adrenal glands into action, and they notify your liver to release the glucose that it has stored as emergency fuel, which once again floods your bloodstream with sugar. If this happens too many times, your pancreas can finally give up and stop producing insulin or your cells may become resistant to insulin, and hypoglycemia can slip into diabetes.
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Extra Day Update
Near the beginning of 2016, I blogged about this year being a Leap Year. I suggested that with planning, I would be able to leverage that extra day to review the trajectory of my year and do any course correction needed to meet my yearly goals. To do this, I need to know what my goals for the year are and what my plan to get there looks like. The key areas I mentioned in the blog post were day-to-day time management, work back schedule, goal construction, and milestones. I'm reporting back on how I did with those areas and how I did with my extra day.
In the blog piece, I suggested that having tasks to complete each day is important. Having a list of tasks helps me move toward a goal and to have a feeling of accomplishment at the end of the day. It also helps lower my stress level. I don't have to think or worry about what I need to do because I have a list. I can think about the list coming from some pretend boss so when there is something I do not want to do, I still do it. Without my pretend boss, I may convince myself not to complete the task. My time management is pretty good, but if I do not follow a pretty strict regimen then I'll slip into bad habits, just as I do with my exercise regimen. My approach is to use a Day-Timer (Similar to Franklin or Day At-a-Glance) paper calendars, along with Outlook's electronic calendar, email, and task list. At the end of the week, I make sure and add any meetings the following week to my paper calendar. This helps me remember what I have coming up, what I need to do for each meeting, and what tasks I need to add to what part of the week. Each night just before bed and each morning when I rise, I look at the list and if there is anything I need to add specific to the day, I add it. This helps me know what I need to do and frees my mind to wander. With all of these in place, my stress level lowers and I do not worry about what I need to do and what I am forgetting, so my stress level goes down. Throughout the day, as I finish a task, I put a satisfying line through it. I focus on knocking out the tasks as quick as I can so if something comes up or I want to quit early, I can and not stress about what I am not getting done. For my extra day, February 29th happened to fall on a Monday. I had scheduled a meeting for 7:00 AM (What was I thinking?) and shifted tasks so they would be listed on Tuesday or Wednesday. Then I blocked most of the day for reflecting. I knocked out the meeting and the few tasks as quick as I could so I would have time to review my goals, milestones, and work back schedule. I then looked at progress-to-date, new insights and made a few adjustments to the plan.
In the blog piece, I suggested that daily task management is great, but if I didn't have a goal or roadmap to achieve the goal then the tasks I accomplish might not move me where I want to go. I looked at quite a lot of goals for the year and had to prioritize and select one as THE goal for the year. For my extra day, I reviewed the goal, the milestones needed to achieve the goal, and the metrics and indicators I could measure and review to check progress. I made some slight adjustments to the metrics and indicators based on new information that arose as part of my daily tasks. I made a fairly significant shift in milestones based on the velocity we are able to achieve currently and the new (happy) events coming up this year. I kept the same milestones but did move them on the timeline.
In the blog piece, I suggested that goal construction was critical. I did create THE goal, but how, and why only one? Having more than one goal would be great. If we had tons of staff and did not maintain a hungry, startup attitude we could have set more. With more goals we would not have focused on nailing one thing because we would be thinking about a number of things. In the end, most of the other goals are enablers for THE goal so I worked to refine the goal to one easy-to-remember sentence. Each week, each day, and each task I start I can consider whether what I am doing is relevant to attaining the goal, or is more like chasing a squirrel up a tree. Having that one goal make decision making easier and lowers stress and work on things that really don't matter. For my extra day, I reflected on the goal to determine if the goal was still relevant and worthy of our efforts. In the end, the goal did not change.
In the blog piece, I suggested that setting milestones based on the outcome is a very sound approach. As I looked at our goal for the year, I used a mind mapping tool to capture the first 5-6 milestones that came to mind. I wasn't worried about the order or if they were all the same level (task versus delivery of something versus adoption, etc.). By committing something to paper (or laptop in this case) I had placed a stake in the ground. For two hours I adjusted, moved, wrote and rewrote the milestones until I could tell a two-minute story about how achieving the milestones would accomplish the goals. Once I was happy with that, I forgot about the milestones and revisited them a few days later. With my fresh eyes, I looked at the tasks that would help achieve the milestones, the milestones themselves, and the goal. I then told the story about tasks, milestones, and goal achievement. I tweaked the entire structure and adjusted the dates on the milestones. Then committed. For my extra day, I reviewed the tasks and milestones. I modified a few tasks, but the biggest changes came to the milestones. I feel we are doing the right things, but based on velocity and what we have coming up this year, I modified the milestones to something inspiring, yet most likely achievable.
By having a plan and following a somewhat strict time management process, I was prepared for my extra day. With the upfront work on setting goals and milestones, I set clear direction and was able to give the team the freedom and autonomy to work in whatever manner they want. For my extra day, I was able to look up, review and reflect, and make adjustments. The biggest win for me? Less stress because all I need to focus on each day is what is in front of me. Nirvana!
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Matatu saccos have agreed to increase fares in Nairobi by Sh20 and 20% for long distances outside the city.
This follows Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich 's decision to effect 16% VAT on petroleum products from September 1.
During a meeting in Nairobi on Monday, leaders of at least 100 matatu saccos said they will not go to court to challenge the new fuel prices.
Some members had suggested that matatus hold strikes until the government reduces fuel prices.
Matatu Welfare Association Dickson Mbugua, who chaired the meeting, said they will engage their members to ensure fares are not exaggerated.
"Touts should not be mischevious and raise fares beyond the recommended prices," Mbugua said.
Chairman of the Association of Matatus in Nairobi Jamal Mohammed said saccos have adjusted fares.
"We cannot fight the government for increasing the price of fuel. We will raise fares for us to meet expenses," Jamal said
Members of the Matatu Owners Association said they increased fares last week by between Sh10 and Sh30. However, they will adjust the amount to the agreed Sh20.
A spot check by the Star on Monday morning revealed matatus had increased fare by Sh10 on Buruburu's route 58.
However, Embassava, Metro and City Shuttle charged normal fares. They told the Star they were waiting for direction from their saccos.


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Wayne Bennett seemed irked in his post-match interview after England's 29-10 win against Lebanon.
Some took to social media to criticise the Australian boss for giving one-word replies to questions from the BBC's Dave Woods.
But he did explain the late call-up to Warriors' George Williams.
"I just wanted to give George Williams a game, so (Roby) missed the game for that," said Bennett, who also brought in Wiganer Stefan Ratchford for injured Jonny Lomax.
"(Jonny) hurt his calf muscle in training through the week," the England head coach said on BBC Two. "He'll probably miss next week and should be back after that."
On whether the match official was to blame for the scoreline and performance not being as emphatic as expected, he said: "Can't blame the referee. A lower margin went against us. We got a couple that went for us, so..."
Leeds winger Ryan Hall was among the try-scorers, taking his record tally for his country to 33 in 34 Tests on a cool, wet night in Sydney.
England were far from impressive, however, and the match was marred by an allegation of biting levelled by Lebanon captain Robbie Farah against winger Jermaine McGillvary, another of the try-scorers.
Referee Ben Thaler did not punish the Huddersfield player but put the incident on report and it will be scrutinised by the tournament's match-review panel on Monday.
St Helens prop Alex Walmsley made a solid debut and Warrington second-rower Ben Currie scored his first try for his country.
At 6-6, the large Lebanese contingent among the 10,237 crowd began to sense an upset but reality quickly set in as England demonstrated the necessary patience to keep their opponents at jabbing distance away.
Wigan's Sean O'Loughlin and John Bateman also figured.
Earlier, Scotland coach Steve McCormack could not hide his disappointment after his side were crushed 74-6 by New Zealand in their latest World Cup match.
The Bravehearts conceded 14 tries to the rampant Kiwis in Christchurch and have now leaked 124 points in their first two games, but will still reach the quarter-finals if they beat Samoa in their final group game in Cairns next weekend.
The Scots, hammered 50-4 by Tonga in Cairns, trailed 28-0 at half-time and were 64-0 down when half-back Oscar Thomas scored their only try.
"It was a tough night," said McCormack, a Wiganer who has a role at the Warriors. "It was always a danger that, if we didn't turn up and be at our best, something like that could happen.
"I'm really disappointed in that performance, although I thought New Zealand were really good. In the first half they had 21 or 22 offloads and they played a good brand of football."
Scrum-half Shaun Johnson scored a try and kicked nine goals for a personal haul of 22 points that took him past Matthew Ridge's all-time New Zealand record of 168, while winger Peta Hiku and stand-off Te Maire Martin both grabbed hat-tricks.
Wigan's Thomas Leuluai was one of several Kiwi players rested.
Tonga set up a mouthwatering clash with New Zealand by overpowering Pacific rivals Samoa 32-18 in Hamilton.
Street violence involving opposing fans marred the build-up to the eagerly anticipated showdown but the rival players embraced and came together for a prayer just before kick-off in a show of unity.
Peni Terepo and Warrington-bound Ben Murdoch-Masila appeared to put Tonga out of sight but they needed a late try from Manu Ma'u to settle it after Castleford half-back Ben Roberts and Timoteo Lafai had cut the deficit to eight points.
Tonga will return to Waikato Stadium next Saturday to take on New Zealand in a battle to secure top spot in Group B.
Samoa will face Scotland, with the winners securing the third quarter-final spot from their group.


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Ray Bradbury is known to have said the following about his fellow writers: "The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies."
The good writers live a full life worth writing about. Below we've curated 25 of the best writers from the twentieth century, showing incredibly rare photos revealing a glimpse of how they lived their lives.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
"The trouble with fiction… is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense." – Author of The Doors of Perception
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
"For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones." – Author of Warning to the West
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
"All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain." – Author of A Clockwork Orange
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
"At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion." Author of Tender is the Night
Harper Lee (1926-2016)
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." – Author of To Kill a Mockingbird
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
"There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny." – Author of The Age of Innocence
Djuna Barnes (1892-1982)
"A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same." – Author of Nightwood
Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
"Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever." — Author of Things Fall Apart
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
"People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living." – Author of The Maltese Falcon
Henry James (1843-1916)
"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance… and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process." – Author of Portrait of a Lady
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges." – Author of The Old Man and the Sea
Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)
"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self." – Author of The Black Prince
James Baldwin (1924-1987)
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"To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread." –Author of Go Tell It on the Mountain
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
"I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life." – Author of On the Road
Joseph Heller (1923-1999)
"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them." – Author of Catch-22
Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)
"Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae." – Author of Cat's Cradle
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-1914)
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. – Author of One Hundred Years of Solitude
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have." – Author of Being and Nothingness
Julian Barnes (1946-present)
"It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others." – Author of The Sense of an Ending
John Galsworthy (1867-1933)
"Life calls the tune, we dance." – Author of The Forsyte Saga
Milan Kundera (1929-present)
"We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come." – Author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Truman Capote (1924-1984)
"I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true." – Author of Breakfast at Tiffany's
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
"Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that – I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much – so very much to learn." – Author of The Bell Jar
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
"Our imagination flies — we are its shadow on the earth." – Author of Pale Fire
William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)
"Language is a virus from outer space" – Author of Naked Lunch
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bonus shot: sinful mushroom bourguignon
YUM. Photographed with Nikon D300, 60mm micro lens.
In our house, Marcus does most of the cooking. I mean, I cook, but I'm one of those people who can read a recipe, and know a couple of tricks to make it taste a bit better; Marcus, however, can take an old peach, a strip of bacon and a match, and make cuisine. He is a cooking MacGyver, that man.
So, some time ago, while I was on an online quest for good vegetarian food, I was surfing one of my new favourite reads, Smitten Kitchen. I came upon their recipe for mushroom bourgignon, and immediately my mouth started watering. It looked amazing. I printed it out, and gave it to Marcus. "Dude, you have got to make this," I said breathlessly, "but make it your own."
Since that time, Marcus has made this dish on several occasions, and he has finally has come up with a version that he loves (and one that Alex and I positively crave). I love this recipe, because it's one of those dishes that can make a carnivore forget they're eating vegetarian -- not that it tastes like meat (because it doesn't), but because it's so rich and full-bodied, you can totally forgive the absence of meat.
And so, with all due and well-deserved respect to Smitten Kitchen (because let me tell you, Deb and Alex over there are positive culinary artists), the following is Marcus' version. Instead of egg noodles, Marcus serves his with his famous roasted potatoes, for a bit of a different stick-to-your-rib-ocity.
1-1/2 pounds fresh whole mushrooms, each mushroom cut in half
3 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 large carrots, diced coarsely
1 large onion, finely chopped
14 oz petite whole onions (thaw if frozen)
2 cups vegetable broth (once, in a pinch, Marcus used a packet of onion soup mix dissolved in 2 cups hot water, and that worked beautifully as well)
1 tablespoon fresh thyme, chopped
4 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 bottle of full-bodied red wine
1 tablespoon flour
a dash of Worcestershire sauce (we use Annie's Vegan Worcestershire sauce, to make it fully vegetarian)
2 tablespoons tomato paste
salt & pepper to taste
1. Saute mushrooms in 1-1/2 tablespoon of butter and 1 tablespoon of oil on high heat. Add salt and pepper to taste. Once the mushrooms have begun to water and have browned, remove to a dish, and set aside.
2. In original pot, add remaining tablespoon of olive oil. Saute large onion and carrots on medium heat, until the onion carmelizes (about 10 minutes). Add thyme and garlic, mix well.
3. Increase to high heat. Add wine. Once the mixture begins to boil, reduce heat to simmer. Simmer until mixture is reduced by half (about 10 minutes or so).
4. While wine mixture is simmering, melt remaining 1-1/2 teaspoons of butter in a separate dish, and add flour. Mix well into a thick paste. Set aside.
5. Once wine mixture has been reduced, add mushrooms. Add vegetable broth. Return to boil; once boiling, reduce heat to simmer for about 15 minutes.
6. Add the Worcestershire sauce, petite whole onions and tomato paste. Simmer for 10 more minutes.
7. Add flour/butter mixture, and simmer for 5 more minutes.
Enjoy! This serves about 4 people.


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100 musicians perform 'One' at Today FM to mark launch of Whole Lotta Live CD in memory of Tony Fenton
Today FM is staging the biggest live performance on Irish radio today.
One hundred musicians have gathered in Today FM to perform a live version of U2's 'One' to mark the launch of 'Whole Lotta Live: The Best of Today FM sessions'.
The compilation album, which goes on sale today is in aid of the Irish Cancer Society, was made in memory of Today FM's Tony Fenton who passed away in March of this year.
The performance will include Graham Hopkins from The Frames, a 40 piece choir, and bands including The Academic, Hudson Taylor, The Minutes, Delorentos, Róisín O, Hamsandwich and more.
There's a #WholeLottaLive here @todayfm #irishcancersociety pic.twitter.com/O16YK3n55x— Glenda gilson (@Glendagilson) November 27, 2015
The 100 strong group also includes a group of Today FM listeners who were selected to take part in the live event.
The album was produced by Tony's friend and former producer Pamela Blake and her husband, Gavin, Today FM's sound engineer.
WATCH: Whole Lotta Dad Dancing @IanDempsey #WholeLottaLive pic.twitter.com/gOEvT7bHUp— Today FM News (@TodayFMNews) November 27, 2015
Speaking about the album, Pamela said: "Tony was a genuine, soulful lover of music. He supported all of the artists on this record and relished having bands and singers live in studio for a chat and a song or two.
"You could hear the excitement in his voice over the radio when he was about to witness a live performance – and we'll never forget that grin and sparkle in his eye of pure enjoyment and love for his work".
Serious Band Aid vibes here lads #WholeLottaLive #onelove #thedude pic.twitter.com/vFJg5ntK6Y— Lenny TodayFM (@MarkLennyskillz) November 27, 2015
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Cyber War Thingy..../
Cyberwarfare has been at the top of the list of speculative "adds." in the forthcoming Strategic Arms Review, which is due to be announced in October. Commentators have been discussing for months, if not years, the possibility of a new branch of one of the services to conduct these operations, although I'm not sure what these commentators think our brave boys down at the digital farm at CVHQ currently do.
Anyway, I'm not going to make any cheap jokes about spotty adolescents lurking in dark rooms, eating cold pizza's and drinking flat coke who haven't seen daylight since Ninetendo was invented. We may be a wee bit late anyway......... take at look at this,
Probably some geeky joke but not one I'm laughing at just in case.
Guess we're going to have to learn a whole lot of new buzz words.


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The Ramayana, Index
A scene From the Ramayana, Rama with his brother and an army of monkeys and generals
The Ramayana - Book I - The Bridal of Sita
The Ramayana - Book II - The Banishment
The Ramayana - Book III - The Death of the King
The Ramayana - Book IV - The Meeting of the Princes
The Ramayana - Book V - On the Banks of the Godavari
The Ramayana - Book VI - Sita Lost
The Ramayana - Book VII - In the Nilgiri Mountains
The Ramayana - Book VIII - Sita Discovered
The Ramayana - Book IX - The Council of War
The Ramayana - Book X - The War in Ceylon
The Ramayana - Book XI - Rama's Return and Consecration
The Ramayana - Book XII - Sacrifice of the Horse
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Suggestions for Further Reading
- The Ramayana Translated by Romesh Dutt, Index
- The Mahabharata, the Epic of the Bharatas
- Indian Idylls from the Mahabharata and Ramayana
- Tao Te Ching by Lao-tzu
- What is Tantra?
- The Gospel of the Buddha
- The Historical Context of The Bhagavadgita
- The Sankhya Sutras of Kapila, Index page
- The Hungry Stones and Other Stories
- The Autobiography of a Yogi by Swami Yogananda, Index
Source: The Ramayana And The Mahabharata Condensed Into English Verse By Romesh C. Dutt (1899) Dedicated To The Right Hon. Professor F. Max M ller.
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The term "regulatory science," which FDA defines as the "science of developing new tools, standards and approaches to assess the safety, efficacy, quality and performance of all FDA-regulated products," has been central to many of FDA's efforts in the last three years.
In issue after issue and appearance after appearance, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg has touted the approach, saying it's one way for regulators to better accomplish their jobs and avoid the scrutiny of skeptical politicians.
"Frankly, these days, at least in Washington, you are far more likely to hear the word "regulatory" linked to the phrase "job-killing" than to "science," quipped Hamburg in an April 2012 appearance before a New England Healthcare Institute (NEHI) conference . "But believe me, this is a short-sighted view."
Efforts to advance public understanding of the term has taken center stage in the last two years at FDA, with FDA going as far as to launch a campaign in November 2012 intended to promote regulatory science to the public in plain terms. Elsewhere, FDA has made a point of partnering with industry and academic groups to advance regulatory science, such as with LifeScience Alley and the Brookings Institute.
In all, FDA says it wants to spend as much as $50 million on regulatory science-related activities during the current fiscal year.
But how does these efforts benefit the public? FDA is glad you asked. In August 2013, for example, FDA touted the role of regulatory science in helping it to assess new medical countermeasures to guard against radiation sickness in the event of a nuclear or radiological attack or disaster in the US.
Countermeasures, though, are unlikely-thankfully-to ever be used by the majority of the American public. What they are likely to use are medications for various ailments, such as cancer or cystic fibrosis.
In its 29 October 2013 report, Paving the Way for Personalized Medicine: FDA's Role in a New Era of Medical Product Development, FDA said its efforts to recognize cutting-edge regulatory science have allowed highly-targeted medicines to benefit patients in new ways, giving them access to treatments that might not have been approved in years past.
"The concept of personalized medicine is not new: clinicians have long observed that patients with similar symptoms may have different illnesses, with different causes; and similarly, that medical interventions may work well in some patients with a disease but not in others with apparently the same disease," wrote Hamburg. "What is new is that advances in a wide range of fields from genomics to medical imaging to regenerative medicine, along with increased computational power and the advent of mobile and wireless capability and other technologies, are allowing patients to be treated and monitored more precisely and effectively and in ways that better meet their individual needs."
The report highlights several high-profile approvals, including Vertex Pharmaceutical's Kalydeco (ivacaftor), a treatment for cystic fibrosis that specifically targets the G551D gene associated with an even rarer subset (4% of patients) of the rare disease, treating its underlying cause instead of just its symptoms. For FDA, the drug's approval was notable for several reasons. First, it was approved in just three months, an incredibly short time period for any drug. Second, it was co-developed with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF), a patient group who has been pivotal in gathering patient genetic information to build a robust patient registry. It was this same genetic data that permitted FDA and Vertex to approve the drug in record time.
Similar success stories have been common in the oncology space, with FDA highlighting the approvals of crizotinib, vemurafinib, dabrafenic and tremetinib, all of which were approved based on patients' unique genetic characteristics.
An evolution in FDA's understanding of how to "bridge" its regulatory processes to meet these scientific developments-pharmacogenomic-related advances, mostly-has permitted those same products to be approved, ushering in a new era of personalized medicine, regulators wrote.
The intent of the report, Hamburg added, is to serve as a "compendium of FDA's many recent efforts to advance regulatory standards, methods and tools in support of personalized medicine and to further refine critical regulatory processes and policies in order to bring about personalized medical product development."
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Regreening Bali: One Bamboo at a Time
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On a field trip last week to recycling centers and one of the island's most eco-conscious businesses, 30 high-school kids from Dawan, their principal and teachers learned how their school's recycling efforts fit into the larger picture of cleaning up plastic pollution to Keep Bali Beautiful. And we had a lot of fun. SMA1's… Read More
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Competition Isn't Always About Finishing
Every year around February the CrossFit Open starts. It is 5 weeks of competing against any and every CrossFitter in the world who wants to compete. The reason they do it is to find the best athletes to go to the CrossFit Games that you see on TV where they compete for the title of "Fittest on Earth." I do it just to see how I do compared to the year before, gauge my personal progress and to see how I stack up against my friends at my box (gym). I cannot believe that this year is my 5th CF Open competition. When I first did it I had no idea what it even was but my coach said I should do it, and he believed in me so I did too.
This past Friday was the second week of 5 workouts, and it was a TOUGH one. I thought the week before was bad because I had to snatch a 35-lbs. dumbbell over my head with 1 arm but this past week I had to do lunges with two 35-lbs. dumbbells and that was just the beginning. Here is a picture of the workout:
CrossFit Open 17.2 workout
Sure the lunges were enough to make me want to throw up a little in my mouth but I felt quite confident that I could use pure will and determination to get through them. I even thought that I might be able to do them quickly so I wouldn't have to hold the dumbbells on my shoulders as long. I had visions of giving my brothers piggy back rides up the stairs and knew my short legs could take it. Next exercise… toes-to-bar… I could do that too. If I needed to break it up into smaller sets to preserve my grip strength then that is how I would approach them. Cleans with the dumbbells, ok, I can do those. Don't get me wrong they sucked. My strategy here was to get all 8 as soon as possible and jot down my time for the tie breaker. MORE lunges next, fine! Toes-to-bar and cleans – check!
Now this is where I knew I was going to be in trouble both mentally and physically. To go into a workout where I am pretty confident I can do everything is great but when I go into a workout facing a movement that I did for 1 rep a year ago in the CF Open and haven't even attempted since is a whole other ball game. Let me restate that… going into a workout when I know deep down in my soul that I am not going to get a bar muscle up this year. Not even one, not even close. That can mess with your head and crush you before the clock even starts.
So what did I do? I had 2 choices. I could stop trying and proceed to cheer on my friends in the same heat, basically quit OR I could keep on going to see what happened. This is the point in the workout where my plan fell into place. You see, I knew on this night that it wasn't going to happen for me. Not only was I NOT going to finish but I was going to get to the point where I couldn't continue because I couldn't do the movement. It sucks to be all pumped up with adrenaline, the crowd cheering and to look at the clock with 6 more minutes and 22 seconds left and know all you have left in you is failed attempts.
Remember that plan I mentioned? Since I knew this would happen I pushed as hard as I could and went as fast as I could on the first part of the workout without draining my tank down to empty just in case. I didn't put the weights down on rep 6 or 7 to rest like suggested so I wouldn't have to do an extra rep when I picked them back up. I sucked it up and did all 8 reps in a row because I knew the only thing that would save me in this workout was that tie breaker time. In the event two or more athletes tie with the same number of reps completed they would look at who got to this part of the workout the fastest and that person would get more points. I kept going for the rest of the workout, and I got some chest-to-bar pull-ups while trying to get a bar muscle up. When I got done I was happy with my performance. For me this was about not losing it half way through the workout or feeling bad about myself. I was healthy, I did my best and worked my butt off. My plan worked for this week. Let's see what next week brings.
Here is the video of my first round of lunges with the 35-lbs dumbbells and the toes-to-bar.
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I just finished watching the latest Christmas episode of Warehouse 13. If you haven't seen it, it's a quirky Syfy channel show with a bunch of cool characters, fun mysteries and a bit of steampunky(am I making up this word?) flare.
It's basically a sci-fi/fantasy show and therefore as the title states: speculative fiction.
The episode reminded me of one the best things about speculative fiction.
Ok, I'll admit there are many things I like about speculative fiction; the rich and compelling worlds, the fascinatingly flawed and damaged characters(who usually end up doing the right thing), opportunity for really high stakes(it's not unusual for the stakes in spec fic to be on world or even universe ending level–Dr. Who anyone?)
But one of the most enjoyable parts of a story for me is when the characters first meet each other. I get giddy watching the pieces of a team come together, anticipating how these disparate characters will interact and handle where the story takes them.
However, at this point in the story, I usually don't know the characters very well. I don't know that Mika is estranged from her father or that Artie was betrayed by his old partner.
Here's were the true beauty of speculative fiction comes in. In sci-fi and fantasy, it's possible to create a situation where these characters we know and love have the opportunity to come together as a team for the first time — again.
The warehouse 13 episode I just watched was centered on an artifact from the writer of the short story on which the movie "It's a Wonderful Life" is based.
Pete touches this brush and it's like he's never been born.
He doesn't realize what has happened at first. All he knows is that an old enemy is now in charge of the warehouse and everyone else is gone.
He escapes and tracks the rest of the team down. They don't even know who he is, but he manages to convince them to help him.
It's so delicious to watch them fall into (old for us) patterns and know the reasons for how and why the characters react the way they do.
If you haven't watched Warehouse 13, I hope you'll give it a chance.
What about you? Do you love it when this happens or (gasp) hate it*g*?
Do you have a favorite show or book that has had episode or installment when something like this happened?
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Thursday, July 26, 2007
learning to fall
One of the uniquely difficult aspects of raising twins (once you get past the tandem feedings and gazillions of diapers) is helping each of them to form their own identity apart from their twin. We are blessed with boys who are best friends, and while I want to nurture the special bond they share, I am also aware of their innate differences. I want to help each of them grow to their full potential and find God's purposes for their lives. We work hard to not compare them to eachother, but as they get older, that's not enough. They compare themselves to eachother, which makes it difficult to encourage one without discouraging the other. It's a constant balancing act.
Twin B. doesn't want to keep practicing on two wheels. He wants to give up. He's afraid of falling. He feels dumb fumbling along next to his brother, who is zooming around our court effortlessly.
As I reflected on this today, the Parable of the Talents came to mind (Matthew 25:14-30). In the story, the master gives out different sums of money to his servants, and expects them each to use what they've been given, whether the gift was small or large. And his response to the servants at the end of the story tells me that the point is not really what they produced, it's that they tried at all. The servant that was held back by fear was chastised—fear is no excuse.
As I watch Twin B. and his struggle to ride a bike, I think of my own struggle to use the gifts God has given me. Often I am held back by fear or a sense of inadequacy. I compare myself to the people around me and feel like giving up. And yet just as I know Twin B. will fall and struggle as he learns to ride his bike, my Heavenly Father is well aware of my weaknesses and struggles. He knows that as I venture out into new territory, using the gifts He's given me, I'll make mistakes. I'll feel dumb. But I believe He is pleased with our efforts. He wants to teach us. He's delighted with the unique way He made each of us, even me, and as we take risks in spite of our fears, He runs alongside of us, cheering us on.
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- 23 degrees said...
What a great perspective on fear. We learn so much about the heart of God by loving and raising our children.
Thanks for sharing, it really moved me.
- July 26, 2007 at 11:11:00 PM GMT-4
- Jenn said...
Wow. Thanks for this. SO apropos to my life right now.
- July 27, 2007 at 5:05:00 PM GMT-4
- Ted Gossard said...
LM, You're right. And parents can so much help their children in this according to the bent each has.
I tagged you over at my blog.
- July 28, 2007 at 9:58:00 AM GMT-4
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- July 28, 2007 at 12:30:00 PM GMT-4
- MamaToo said...
wonderful perspective, LM. That parable is such an encouragement - God gives to each "according to his ability," (abilities He knows perfectly) :)
I'm curious about how (if) you encourage Twin B through your insight?
- July 28, 2007 at 9:16:00 PM GMT-4
- Family of 5x5 said...
Love the reflections..
I learn more about God from my kids than any other place...
I hope they learn as much from me.
Thanks for sharing.
- July 30, 2007 at 6:00:00 AM GMT-4
- Llama Momma said...
mamatoo -- Great question. We've talked a lot about how God makes us each different, and we all learn things at our own pace. This weekend, I've really tried to celebrate HIS accomplishments -- doing his chores without being asked, doing the monkey bars by himself, being a responsible big brother to baby b., helping me in the kitchen.
I've shared that God wants us to do our best, even when we're afraid, and shared some stories about times that I've been afraid. He listened, but doesn't really apply it to the bike situation.
For now, the training wheels are back on and that's okay. We'll try again another time.
- July 30, 2007 at 7:40:00 AM GMT-4
- Llama Momma said...
family of 5 -- thanks for stopping by!
And thanks, all, for your comments and reflections.
- July 30, 2007 at 7:41:00 AM GMT-4


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À l'abri du temps
Josiane Roberge / 2018 / 10 min.
In this short film, the director gently puts her camera in the house that has seen her grow up. She caresses the daily life of her parents in a series of paintings showing us, through still shots, the wealth of simple moments spent together. She shares with us her difficulty to accept time passing by and her keen desire to enjoy it, while paying tribute to these two dear ones.
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I had the chance to try a 12-case of alcohol-free beers from Spain, Portugal, Czech, Germany and Belgium, which arrived promptly and well-packed. The choice and variety on offer were fantastic, and I had a lot of fun working my way through the case! You can even tailor your purchase to only include your favourite beer styles, such as cases of wheat beers, gluten-free, porters and stouts or fruit.
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Super Bock stout (0.5% ABV) – 5/5
The Super Bock stout is a fantastic stout with plenty of taste and a good bite to it! Black in colour with a small head, it gave off a faintly sweet aroma of nuts, coffee and chocolate. Overall it is a very inviting beer and is actually quite strong and bitter to the taste. Toast, coffee and earthy hop flavours come through, and it is nicely carbonated with a puckering sensation in the mouth. The blast of flavour is quite intense and the aftertaste is relatively short, but it leaves you wanting more. This beer is both fresh and thirst-quenching, and a great one to sample.
Super Bock pilsner (0.5% ABV) – 5/5
The Super Bock pilsner is another favourite of mine. Gold in appearance with brilliant clarity, this has a relatively thin head that disappears quite quickly. It packs a punch with an aroma and flavour of toffee, apples and citrus. At the same time, it maintains a hint of a bitter taste, which makes it very refreshing and well-balanced. With a full mouth-feel and lively carbonation, this is an excellent beer with plenty of flavour with a short, refreshing finish.
Maisel's Weisse (0.5% ABV) – 5/5
This is another example of how German brewers have perfected the non-alcoholic beer. Amber and cloudy in appearance, it boasts a lot of head when poured and has a faint aroma of sweet wheat and grains with some floral and herbal undertones. The flavour isn't overwhelming or too powerful, but incredibly well-balanced with all of the makings of your traditional wheat beer. Creamy and warming in the mouth with some lively carbonation, you wouldn't be able to tell this brew as non-alcoholic. Fresh, flavourful with a strong finish, the craftsmanship is excellent.
Cheers Preta (0.5%) – 5/5
Finally, a non-alcoholic stout with some character! This Portuguese brew is black and clear in appearance with a faint aroma of blackberry, chocolate and coffee. Sharp and bitter in taste, it's sweet fruit undertones provide a good balance. The lively carbonation and decent finish made this beer really stand out. An excellent brew, all around.
Jupiler (0% ABV) – 4/5
Jupiler hails from Belgium and is straw-gold in appearance with little to no head when poured. It offers a faintly malty aroma on the nose and is both sweet and refreshing with grain, citrus and apple flavours coming through. It leaves a warm lasting taste in the mouth which is slightly cloying but overall very enjoyable. A full mouth-feel and lively carbonation make this an excellent choice to try.
Gräfliches Brauhaus Arcobräu Urfass (0.5%) – 4/5
This is a really tasty lager that is packed full of flavour. Gold in colour with brilliant clarity and a good head when poured, I wasn't overwhelmed by the aroma, which boasted notes of grain, bread and nut. However, the flavour is well-balanced and relatively strong, and it is excellent when served cold. Carbonation is lively and the mouth-feel is full, I definitely didn't feel like I'm missing out with this brew.
Ambar (0% ABV) – 4/5
This Ambar lager is unsurprisingly amber in appearance, with a good head on it and brilliant clarity. It has a strong aroma of caramel and fruit, coming off almost like a sweet cider. The actual flavour is well balanced, boasting both floral and apple hops and a sweet toffee malt flavour. The finish is relatively bitter, which helps keep the sweetness at bay. It has a nice mouthfeel with plenty of carbonation, so overall a very enjoyable beer.
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Grunbacher alkoholfreie weisse (0.5% ABV) – 3/5
Grunbacher's weifbeer looks and smells like your traditional hefeweizen beer. It is straw coloured in appearance with a cloudy, persistent head and boasts a nice aroma of lemon zest, orange peel and wheat. The flavour, however, is a bit too sour for the style – it is quite tangy with some fruit tones. It is also a bit watery with faint carbonation. The finish is quite long and smooth, but the initial taste is a bit too sharp for me.
Bernard Amber (0.5%) – 3/5
I'm not overly enamoured by this amber ale – while it boasts a full body, it is quite cloying and very malty, and therefore not very refreshing. It has a small head when poured which disappears quite quickly, and the overall flavour is very sweet and full of caramel malts. A very creamy mouthfeel and long finish marked this brew.
Schneider Weiss (0.5%) – 3/5
Expectations were high for this wheat beer, but unfortunately, it fell a bit far from the mark for me. Cloudy amber in colour with a good head, it has a promising aroma of sweet, caramel grains. The taste, however, is thinner than expected, giving it the impression of 'trying' to be a wheat beer with all the right characteristics – including a lemon aftertaste – but showing it's true colours as a non-alcoholic option.
Jever Fun pilsner (0.3%) – 3/5
This German pilsner is not my favourite style but it has a nice carbonation and bitter aftertaste. A good head when poured and straw in colour, it boasts an apple fruity nose and the lager taste gives way to a bitter finish. It is a decent brew but not the top of my list.
Sagres (0.5% ABV) – 2/5
I found Sagres to be quite a middle-of-the-road lager. Gold and clear in appearance, it has a good head when poured but became thin quite quickly. With a faint aroma of spent grain, I found the taste to be a bit watery on the palate. It is a bit sticky and not that refreshing for a lager. Probably not one that I'd go for again!
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It's been a long while since the story section last had any attention. A while back, I gave up on the idea of ever finishing my Star Wars stories, so instead have typed out a rough outline as to what may have happened during the rest of the saga. I've also expanded the names & characters section with images where possible.
Did some work behind the scenes of the game blog page so that the game filters now work much better.
A couple of months back I found loads of old notes about all the old Epic Space Marine games we played, starting from back when I was in high school. I thought it would be a good idea to type them all up as best I could, and upload them all. While I was at it, I also converted the Epic-S and 40K battle reports from their PDF state to HTML, and they can be found on the Warhammer 40K page.
This is where you can read any of my irregular wafflings about computer gaming. The whole point of this blog is to help motivate me to properly finish games, whether they be recent ones or older ones I played when I was younger that I never managed to beat.
2016 has been a bit of a slow year for completing games, so recently I sat down to rush through two shorter games from a couple of years back that have quite a good reputation out there on the t'interwebs.
Up first was Transistor, a game by the same people who made Bastion. I could certainly feel a bit of a Bastion-like influence in this, but for the most part it was a very different game, especially the combat.
Battles can be fought in real time, or you can pause and plan out your attacks using something called Turn(). Using Turn() lets all your planned actions activate before the enemy can react, but then puts your skills on a cooldown until Turn() is ready to go again, leaving you very open to attack. I struggled quite a lot to get used to either form of combat, until later in the game when I had unlocked a nice selection of functions which allowed me to use Turn() to plan out some very powerful combos. Though I had struggled with the earlier bosses, by the time of the end boss fight I was so ready that I smacked him around with barely a scratch in return.
The story was a weird one. A lot of the lore was hidden in text files and messages that get unlocked as the game progresses, and as I was blitzing through the game I didn't care for any of that, and am not really sure about many things. The general gist was that some bad guys called the Camerata (who may have actually been good guys?) were trying to use a special sword called the Transistor to help rebuild the city, but lost control of it, and it ended up spreading something called The Process: machine-like things that are now taking over the city and killing everyone they can find.
You play as Red, a famous singer who has been rendered mute, I assume psychologically, after an attack on her life instead claimed that of her lover, whose essence was then sucked into the Transistor. Red now has control of the Transistor, from which her lover still speaks to her, and together they set out to try and destroy the Camerata and The Process.
Yes, as I said, it's a weird one.
I had quite a few issues with the game to be honest. Firstly, I couldn't get it running smoothly. Even forcing vsync on in the nvidia control panel, or trying some weird command line option I found online, couldn't stop this from stuttering around all over the place. Made me feel a bit sick.
Real time combat was pretty much unplayable for me. Red's abilities are not supposed to have a cooldown in this mode, to make it a viable option in addition to the Turn() system. However, all the attacks I tried had massive wind-up times, or a good second or two afterwards where Red wouldn't do anything, and I kept getting hit by return fire.
Very often during Turn(), the game would indicate I could do enough damage to kill an enemy, but when I unpaused and unleashed the planned combo, the enemy would be left with quite a lot of health left. Either I was missing something, or there was some strange shit going on there.
Using the jaunt function was also frustrating. This is like a dash or blink move, but sometimes it would only jump to maximum distance while other times it would let me dash a shorter distance. Sometimes it would let me dash over walls, and sometimes it wouldn't. It was a pain.
I can't really write about this game without talking about its music, especially after Bastion's was so good. Unfortunately, while it suits the game and is perfectly adequate, I just didn't find it as "cool" sounding as Bastion's music. While I would be quite happy to listen to any of Bastion's songs, there are only a couple of the lyrical pieces from this one that I have imported into my library.
Red poster
Red thinks she's She-Ra
Planning to take out the Jerk
The Camerata
There's always time for pizza
The fight against The Spine was the hardest one
Good riddance
WTF is going on right now?
Spanking the end boss good and proper


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Client Benefit Cosmetics
Brief Design and produce a pop-up charity shop that can visit 4 key cities, to raise awareness and money for the Bold Is Beautiful charitable program.
Delivery The Persuaders designed and created the all-pink charity shops. An incredible 'Aladdin's Cave' of pinkness. We took our inspiration from classic charity shops that are full to the brim with knick-knacks of all types from clothes to toys to books and records... and of course plenty of make-up including a brow bar where shoppers could have brow treatments - all for charity of course!
We opened the pop-up for a weekend in Covent Garden in London and travelled to Dublin, Manchester and Glasgow, contributing to the full fundraising total of £280K!


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Why you need valuation services in order to secure insurance for your business
If you want to protect your business, you need to make sure that it is insured properly. This is why you need valuation services in order to secure insurance for your business. Professional valuation services can enlighten you to with regard to how much your business, as well as its assets, is worth. With this knowledge you will be able to get the correct insurance for your business.
Every valuation company will be home to a few valuers. These valuer consultants should be able to give you an accurate valuation of your business or company. Many valuation companies focus on both corporate and industrial sectors, regardless of what business you own, they should be able to provide you with the knowledge and expertise that you require. Your business is an investment – which is why it is extremely important for you to insure it properly. If you were to encounter theft or damage of any description, you will want to make sure that your business insurance will cover you. If you have owned a business for many years, it may be time to schedule another valuation. Your assets and your business can decrease and increase over time and although you may believe that your business insurance is accurate, you may be mistaken.
Accurate valuation information is extremely important. This information should be captured in a report that states, in detail, exactly what your business or company is worth. You will then be able to get in contact with your insurance company and make the necessary adjustments to your business insurance. Knowledge is power, and the more that you know with regard to the inner workings of your business, the better – which is why it is important to get valuations done regularly. If you need to make sure that your business insurance is covering all of your assets, you should enlist the professional services of a valuation company today.
Why is it important to do valuations regularly?
Apart from insurance purposes, it is important to do valuations regularly for other reasons. One of these reasons is due to tax purposes. As much as you need to make sure that your insurance is up to date, you also need to make sure that you can account for everything within your business. Were you to get audited, you would need to provide as much information as possible. When you get a valuation, you will be provided with the following information:
- Open Market/Fair Value – disposal/acquisition of assets/ asset finance
- Forced Sale Value – auction sale values
- Residual Values – for accounting purposes
- Remaining Lives – for accounting/depreciation purposes
- Depreciated Replacement Value – for accounting and balance sheet purposes
- Existing Use Value – transfer of assets in a going concern business.
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Families Feel Generation Gap In Work and Family Issues
I N HER YOUTH in the 1950s, Diana Goldstein's family talked around the dinner table about how more women needed to finish college and find an occupation in case their husbands died young.
Today, the buzz around her family dinner table is on a new topic, says Ms. Goldstein, who is 56 years old: how to combine work and family. Last Thanksgiving, nearly a dozen relatives from three generations sat around her table over dessert, discussing when and how parents should return to work after childbirth.
The conversation between generations about work-family conflict is heating up -- based on my mail and interviews with workers in their 20s and early 30s. Families are tackling subjects that weren't discussed much in the past.
Sue Shellenbarger discusses work-life issues on her weekly radio show. Send her your questions or comments by calling 800-WSJ-TALK, faxing 503-636-6951 or e-mailing email@example.com .
Many Generation X-ers are laying plans for combining work and family further in advance than their parents. They face more financial hurdles to child rearing, and more choices about how to blend work and family, than any generation before them. Many are working much longer hours straight out of college than the generation before them.
As the media and politicians seize on child-care problems as a social issue, work-family conflict has become fair game for family discussions. Many Gen-Xers "are having strong debates" with relatives "about what to do when they decide to start a family," Ms. Goldstein's daughter, Lisa D. Bauer, 27, writes in a letter to me.
In some families, the discussions crash and burn in the generation gap. Some older people fail to grasp the heavy responsibility many young women feel for paying household expenses. One 28-year-old secretary at a suburban Chicago bank pays half her modest household's bills, and is delaying having children while she looks for flexible work. She wants to avoid putting her baby in child care for the long office hours her current job demands.
BUT WHEN her dilemma came up over dinner at her sister's house, her mother, trying to help, suggested she take a secretarial job in her brother-in-law's business -- a position that pays less than her current job, too little even to cover child-care bills. "My mom said, 'If you worked for family, it would be so much easier for you to take [time] off with the kids,' " the secretary recalls. "I said, 'No, Mom, you don't understand. It would be worse.' "
For men, too, the crumbling of gender-role boundaries has been too swift for some families to navigate. Peter Scott, an avionics technician, and his wife, an accountant, decided early that whoever made less money would stay home with the kids. So child care falls to Mr. Scott, who loves being a full-time dad.
But some of his relatives, though supportive, were worried when they heard the decision. His mother feared the consequences of his jumping off the career ladder. Some men in the family lapsed into awkward silence. Work-family roles are changing so fast, says Stephanie Coontz, an author and family-studies professor at Evergreen State College, Olympia, Wash., that "we're in this transition with a kind of chasm between each generation."
Still, many parents find a way to play a strong supporting role. Ms. Bauer credits her mother with consistently encouraging her to coin her own work-family solutions. After five years in fast-track jobs on Wall Street, Ms. Bauer quit to become a financial planner, a career she hopes will provide both the income and control over her time she needs to raise a family.
Jennifer Prosek, 28, co-owner of a marketing firm, talks often with her parents, with whom she is close, about her long-term plans to marry and raise children. Like a growing number of young adults, she hopes to live near her parents and involve them in child care.
OVER DINNER together, Ms. Prosek's mother, 52, a teacher, told of a dream she had about life in retirement: "We were in your apartment. I was taking your two kids to the park and you were going off to work," Ms. Prosek says her mother told her. Both took pleasure in the image.
As my three Generation X stepchildren near the life stage where work-family conflict cuts deep, I fight the impulse to spout advice about child care, overload and so on. They're far savvier already about work and family than I was at their age, and I haven't uttered a word yet. I'd probably help them more by honing the example I set, than by forcing on them any 3-D map of the rough seas that lie behind me.
A better intergenerational model took shape around Ms. Goldstein's dinner table last Thanksgiving. As relatives, ranging from at-home moms to career-focused dual earners without kids, relaxed over coffee, one new mother, a speech pathologist with a two-month-old son, wrestled aloud with plans to return to work. Ms. Goldstein, a teacher who put her work on temporary hold to raise children, saw her ambivalence.
But Ms. Goldstein and the others refrained from giving advice, offering encouragement instead, and asking questions to help the mother sort her own values and responsibilities from the expectations of others. (She later decided to stay home.)
In complex times, no parent can afford to be "opinionated and dogmatic," Ms. Goldstein notes. For young people wrestling with unique personal imperatives, "it is hard" to blend work and family, she adds. "This is an ongoing dilemma."
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New acquisitions in Portuguese language at the University Library are not limited to material published in Brazil or Portugal. The Library also aims to actively collect books published elsewhere in the Portuguese-speaking world. With a population of little more than 500.000 people, print runs from Cape Verde are bound to be short. Therefore, buying material from these remote islands is not an easy task, as is also the case with acquisitions from the Francophone areas (see our post on acquisitions from Haiti for example).
Despite the infinite advantages that the internet offers to librarians today, it is often not really straightforward to know who publishes what, let alone to be able to get a copy of it. So one can understand why in the past the Library purchased very few imprints from Cape Verde. The earliest book in our holdings is Antologia temática de poesia africana: Cabo Verde, São Tomé e Príncipe, Guiné, Angola, Moçambique, published in Praia in 1980 (classmark: 745:23.d.95.111-112).
With time, the growing interest in Lusophone literatures led the searches for titles related to Cape Verde elsewhere and of course the first place to turn to was the metropolis. The publication of books by Cape Verdean authors in Portugal is quite prolific, as our holdings by Germano de Almeida show. One of the head figures in contemporary Cape Verdean literature, Germano de Almeida published 15 books, of which we have 12 (see a list here). All of them were published in Lisbon by Caminho.
A few titles on literary subjects were also bought from Brazil:
- Literaturas de língua portuguesa : marcos e marcas. Cabo Verde : ilhas do Atlântico, em prosa e verso (classmark: C201.d.7317),
- Palavra de poeta: Cabo Verde e Angola: entrevistas, antologias, biobibliografias dos maiores poetas de Cabo Verde e Angola (classmark: 745:24.c.95.158),
- Inquietos olhares : a construção do processo de identidade nacional nas obras de Lídia Jorge e Orlanda Amarílis (classmark: 9003.d.6308).
As you would expect, France also produced excellent publications, mostly in the literary and linguistic fields, of which we can highlight:
- Les îles du Cap-Vert: langues, mémoires, histoire (classmark : 649:3.c.200.7)
- Insularité et littérature aux îles du Cap-Vert (translated from the Portuguese, classmark: 9004.d.2464)
- Le cap-verdien, origines et devenir d'une langue métisse (classmark: 773.c.200.50)
- Parlons capverdien : langue et culture (classmark: 2004.8.6836)
The good news is that we now have a new vendor based in North America (Meabooks) which specialises in African publications and has recently provided the Library with some old and some recent Cape Verdean imprints that will significantly enrich our collections (see list here). We are very happy about this new collaboration and we are looking forward to the vendor's next book-buying trip to Cape Verde, which might only happen in 2015! Until then, we will still follow all other possible roads to Cape Verde's books.
Clara Panozzo


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Choose a Job You Love...
Our guest contributor this week is Elisa Jakymin, Research Project Coordinator in the Marketing team at Tourism Australia's head office in Sydney, Australia.
Most people are familiar with the famous quote by Confucius:
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
What society is less upfront about is just how challenging this can actually be in application.
These days, seemingly everyone has a university degree. It's no longer a point of difference so it's important to differentiate yourself in other ways. Gone are the days where a Master's degree guarantees a smooth transition into the workforce. Today, recruitment processes for internships and graduate programs can involve several rounds of interviews, online psychometric testing and group assessment days.
What's more, success at university does not necessarily equate to success in the workplace. Some fields are more competitive than others, with demand seeming to far outweigh supply. I have several friends who, despite excelling at high school and in university, took up to twelve months to secure a job in journalism. They typically had to accept placements in regional areas in order to eventually ensure a position in a more accessible, metropolitan destination.
What's your point of difference?
The single most important piece of advice that I would offer to myself as a former student as well as to any future graduates is to apply for any kind of work experience or internship that you can in order to start building up networks and connections in your chosen field of work. My first two employment opportunities following graduation from university were off the back of unpaid internships.
My first internship was at Australia's National Marketing Organisation – my current workplace, Tourism Australia. This was via an established internship program, through which I was able to obtain credit towards my university degree. To this day, applying for this internship was one of the best decisions I ever made. This program contributed some of the most amazing highlights to my life to date, such as participating in the finals week of 'The Best Jobs in the World.' This included climbing the Harbour Bridge alongside the finalists and being granted exclusive access to Taronga Zoo before the park was opened to the public. Of course, it also involved dedicating two days of my week to unpaid work, alongside juggling paid work and university commitments. No pain, no gain!
"As difficult as this period was at the time, the learnings from it far surpassed any learnings picked up in my working life to date. I learned the value of enjoying work, knowing your limits and making the most of each and every day."
My second internship and subsequent full-time position, in marketing at a global tour operator company, wasn't quite as glamorous. It came off the back of getting directly in touch with the Head of Marketing there, which was an incredible opportunity – you never know the possibilities unless you ask the question! The position involved working to really tight deadlines and feeling run off my feet the majority of the time, eventually triggering pre-existing chronic health conditions which led to a six-month sabbatical off work.
As difficult as this period was at the time, the learnings from it far surpassed any learnings picked up in my working life to date. I learned the value of enjoying work, knowing your limits and making the most of each and every day. I shifted my career goals from a tactical marketing role to more of a strategic one, which led me down the path of research. You might not love every job you have, but importantly, in every job is a valuable lesson and acquirable skills. Each position held also facilitates securing your next position.
Life's too short to be spending eight hours each day on a job you hate. When the position in research at Tourism Australia came up, I had a gut feeling that this position was created for me. While I still had to go through the traditional recruitment and interview process, my former internship experience helped provide me with a point of difference in order to stand out from the other hundreds of applicants.
What are my biggest learnings in the workforce since?
- Your manager and team make a big difference to how much you enjoy your job. Ensure you meet your potential future manager and team prior to accepting a position. Make an effort to collaborate positively and get along with your team! It makes a world of difference to your happiness and well-being.
- Those who speak up get noticed. As an introvert, I tend to feel more comfortable sitting on the sidelines, listening and observing rather than actively participating. Unfortunately, those who knock off tasks at their desk just don't get the recognition or the promotions! Put yourself up for every training and growth opportunity along the way. Don't just fake it 'til you make it; fake it 'til you become it!
- A big difference between university life and the working environment is that at university, students are expected to - and prided upon - doing what they're told to the best of their ability. Your time is, at least to some extent, managed for you by your lecturers and professors. In the workplace, you need to set boundaries around your time to avoid getting taken advantage of. Push back on tasks falling outside of your job description and strengthen those assertive muscles!
- Ask for what you want. If you don't love what you're doing, speak with your manager about how you would like your role to evolve and what you'd like to be doing more or less of. What you want isn't going to be served to you on a platter – you need to work hard for it and make that fact known. Try to spend each day on the tasks that are most important to the evolution of your role as opposed to the ones that are most urgent. Think big picture!
- In a world faced with increasing instability including lay-offs and redundancies, it's important to create an identity for yourself outside of your job. Make an effort to leave work at work and to build a life outside of it as well. Venture outside in your lunch breaks and take up a hobby to increase your life satisfaction outside of the workplace bubble.
"Each and every one of us is a leader, regardless of title, status or compensation."
In an increasingly competitive global landscape where it's difficult to come by an internship or work experience opportunity - let alone a job offer - I can understand why people get stuck in the rut of a dead-end job they dislike.
To those people, my advice is this: ultimately the greatest gift you have in life is now – to be the best you can be, right here, right now. Think about the life you want to lead and mould your days to that vision as closely as possible.
Each and every one of us is a leader, regardless of title, status or compensation. We often think we're immune to life's difficulties and tragedies and that we can plan for the rest of our lives. Unfortunately, one day doesn't always come so seize today and apply this advice to your job - either learn to love it or shove it!
-Elisa Jakymin
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Producers of smiles, togetherness, and "How do they do that" wonderment, the Harlem Globetrotters are bringing their "Amazing Feats of Basketball 2018 World Tour" to the southland Feb. 17 to 25. It's a great family adventure of wholesome fun that makes for special memories. We went last year and it was a blast!
As America's icons of sports entertainment, they have broken down barriers and dazzled and dunked their way into the hearts of more than 142 million fans, performing in 123 countries and territories on six continents over the past nine decades.
Their one-of-a-kind show is unrivaled in the world of family entertainment with incredible ball handling, hilarious comedy and loads of fan interaction, including a post-game autograph signing.
- Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario: 17, at 2 p.m., and 7 p.m.
- Honda Center in Anaheim 18 at 2 p.m., and Feb. 24 at 1 p.m., and 7 p.m.
- UCSB Events Cetner in Santa Barbara Feb. 22 at 7p.m.
- STAPLES Center in Los Angeles Feb. 25, at 2p.m.
- Please mention: For $7 off your tickets use the promo code: CALI when you visit: http://www.harlemglobetrotters.com/socal
We are giving away a Family 4-pack to see them at Staples Center on February 25 at 2pm. Please visit www.facebook.com/mommytrainla to enter!


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