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Aug. 20, 2008
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Santa Clara junior standouts Stephen McCarthy and Kiki Bosio were each selected to the Missouri Athletic Club's Hermann Trophy watch list by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) it was announced Tuesday. McCarthy is one of 48 players on the men's watch list, while Bosio is one of 47 players on the women's list.
McCarthy (Colleyville, Texas) scored six goals for the Broncos in 2007, helping Santa Clara to its second straight West Coast Conference title with an unbeaten 10-0-2 record. Three of his goals were game-winning performances, including lifting the Broncos to a 3-1 victory over UCLA in the second round of the 2007 NCAA Tournament. For his efforts, McCarthy earned All-WCC second team honors and was named to the NSCAA's All-Far West Region second team. He also received Team of the Season third team accolades from Top Drawer Soccer.
"I'm so honored to be a part of the Missouri Athletic Club's Hermann Trophy watch list and to represent Santa Clara University," said McCarthy. " There are a lot of amazing players on that list and it's great to be included among them. It's more incentive to work harder and step up my game this year to help Santa Clara be the best."
Bosio (Mission Viejo, Calif.) led SCU in scoring and assists in 2007, netting seven goals and dishing out six assists. With Bosio's help, the Broncos earned their 19th consecutive berth to the NCAA Tournament with a 12-6-3 overall record. She received NSCAA All-West Region second team honors and was named to the All-WCC first team as she finished the season ranked third in the league in shots, fifth in points, fifth in assists and sixth in goals.
The Santa Clara women's program has had one M.A.C Hermann Trophy winner and a number of national players of the year during its illustrious history. Aly Wagner captured the M.A.C. Hermann Trophy in 2002. Prior to the M.A.C. Trophy and Hermann Trophy's being merged, Mandy Clemens won both the M.A.C. award and the Hermann Trophy in 1999. Wagner was also Soccer America and Soccer Buzz's Player of the Year in 2001, while Brandi Chastain was the ISAA Player of the Year in 1990.
Players are selected to the MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List by a committee of Division I coaches who are NSCAA members. In November, the list will be narrowed to 15 semifinalists. Three finalists will be named in early December in conjunction with the NCAA Division I College Cup and will be invited to the Missouri Athletic Club on Friday, January 9, 2009, where the 2008 winning will be announced, with a presentation banquet following.
The women's soccer team opens the 2008 season on Friday, Aug. 22 with the Sixth Annual Rivalry Series contest against San Jose State. Kick off is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Spartan Stadium in San Jose.
The 2008 men's squad begins its season on the road on Saturday, Aug. 30 against Loyola University Chicago. Game time is slated for 5 p.m.


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The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 was reauthorized in 2002 as the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act.
In May 2012, North Carolina was granted flexibility waivers from many of the NCLB provisions. This flexibility, granted by the U.S. Department of Education, makes significant changes to North Carolina's implementation of ESEA's requirements especially in the areas of Adequate Yearly Progress, parent notifications, public school choice and Supplemental Educational Services. These waivers will allow North Carolina's public school system to move forward with strengthened College- and Career-Ready expectations for all students, new ways to hold Title I schools accountable for students' academic proficiency, and new initiatives to support effective instruction and leadership.
Many of the former strict federal requirements regarding Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) and sanctions for schools that do not make AYP are no longer required statewide and are now local school district decisions.
While schools will still be measured against annual measurable objectives (AMOs) calculated and reported under NCLB, the new standards will recognize growth in performance and will no longer be the "all or nothing" targets of the past. North Carolina's goal is to provide more and stronger support to enable all students to graduate from high school career and college ready. Information about how the federal ESEA program is implemented is available on the Federal Program Monitoring's ESEA website at www.ncpublicschools.org/program-monitoring/esea/.

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I've given two presentations recently on conferences I attended in 2011. While I talk about what I've learned, what presentations are available, what great speakers I heard, etc. I'm trying to encourage the chapter members who attend to continue to go to chapter meetings. After all, that's where we learn about new ideas, new web sites, and perhaps something that would help us break down our brick walls.
So, for all of you who are only on the internet; who feel that you don't need genealogy societies, I'm trying to reach you. Think about a genealogy meeting as a single session of a conference. No, you don't have choices like you do at conferences, but you may find one piece of information that you didn't know and it helps you solve one of your long-time problems. AND, if you think you can never learn anything at these meetings, please volunteer to present programs. A basic powerpoint presentation is, just that, basic. But even those can pass along great information to those who can benefit from them.


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After that unintentionally ambiguous Damart advertisement, I was interesting to discover that an emporium once noted for its refined and conservative taste and (in the Gents Department) unquestioned machismo...
...was unwittingly pushing at the closet door back in the 1950s!
Monday, 6 February 2012
Posted by Brian Sibley at 00:01
Labels: advertising, gay
3 comments:
- scb said...
That is delightful. The couple on the right seem perfect for each other.
I'm having a lovely time imagining the artist and copywriter fully intending the reference, and the higher-ups not catching on. That's probably not what happened, but it's fun to think about!
(I'm ashamed to admit I missed the pun in the title until I got to the comments page! It's perfect!)
- Monday, February 06, 2012
Great ad though there's an awful lot of starch in those shorts....
- Friday, February 17, 2012
- Brian Sibley said...
There probably needs to be!
- Friday, February 17, 2012
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Student conducts research abroad with grant support
December 12, 2012
Jordan Buysse '13 recently shared reflections on overseas experiences made possible by the Dixon Award, an annual honor granted to a junior English major.
Buysse, who conducted archival research on James Joyce in Trieste, Italy last summer, presented his findings in the Manor House on November 28.
"I've been fascinated with Joyce in particular for a number of years now," Buysse said of his research topic. "I came out of the project with a more nuanced understanding of the context in which Joyce's works were written."
Though the trip may be over, Buysse is still reaping the benefits of what he learned while attending the 15th Annual James Joyce School in Trieste.
"The Joyce school gave me ideas and new avenues of research for my senior seminar paper on Virginia Woolf," Buysse, a member of the Pamplin Society, said. "It gave me the chance to pursue an academic project that really felt like my own."
The Dixon Award was established in 2002 by the Dixon Family Foundation, thanks to the generous efforts of alumni Hillary Dixon B.A. '99 and Adam Dixon B.A. '01. Each year a junior English major is awarded a $2,500 research and travel grant to enrich his or her current studies in preparation for senior year.
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In 1937 a co-operative company was established to provide employment in a small town called Ballinasloe, in the heart of Galway on Ireland's glorious West Coast.
The company was named Dubarry, after a famous French courtesan. Dubarry of Ireland's beginnings were in the design and manufacturing of fine leather shoes. The business was fortunate to be able to draw on a local population of hard working craftsmen and women, and Dubarry soon developed a reputation for excellent workmanship and quality.
But we don't rest on our laurels, Dubarry takes much design inspiration from the wild West Coast and Galway's great sailing heritage to motivate and create superb deck shoes. Then by using the finest performance materials available, The Shamrock boot was created, Dubarry's first dedicated sailing boot.
Dubarry then journeyed from the sea to the country, and created the most famous boot of all – The Signature Dubarry Galway Boot.
And the rest is history!
Dubarry's range has expanded to include clothing and accessories, and over the year's Dubarry has grown an international sourcing network, working closely with carefully selected partners who share the same high standards and desire to work with the best of components, raw materials and unique designs. Dubarry of Ireland have achieved great success and plaudits, but have never lost sight of the company's heritage, of which we are immensely proud. Dubarry footwear and clothing is admired, desired and enjoyed around the world, but it is to our magnificent homeland, people and landscapes that we look to for inspiration.
And we always will.
In 1937, the owners of a newly formed footwear company were looking to differentiate themselves from other Irish brands, the owners of the newly formed company decided they needed a continental European flavour for the enterprise, and after some research decided upon the name Dubarry, after Madame du Barry.
Jeanne Bécu was born in Lorraine, France, the illegitimate daughter of Anne Bécu, a woman of enticing beauty, whose occupation was as a seamstress. Jeanne was a remarkably attractive woman who used her looks to briefly take several aristocrats as lovers. In 1768 Jeanne married Comte Guillaume du Barry, thus becoming Madame du Barry. In the same year she attracted the attention of Louis XV while she was on an errand at Versailles.
Madame du Barry went on to become one of France's most well-known courtesans as well as the mistress of Louis XV. Due to her association with the King of France, Madame du Barry enjoyed high status and privilege within the French court for many years.


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BALTIMORE – UMBC junior goalkeeper Brian McCullough (Garden City, N.Y.) returned to the UMBC nets and made 13 saves, leading the Retrievers to a 9-7 victory over Quinnipiac in a non-conference match-up at UMBC Stadium.
The Retrievers snapped a four-game slide, while the Bobcats dropped their second consecutive contest, both to America East squads. Both teams are now 2-4 on the campaign.
UMBC was led offensively by sophomore attackman Scott Jones (Port Coquitlam, B.C.) who scored a pair of goals and added an assist. Sophomore midfielder Scott Hopmann (Annapolis, Md./St. Mary's) added two goals, while junior attackman Rob Grimm (Black River, N.Y.) chipped in with three assists.
Quinnipiac was led by senior attackman Jack Oppenheimer, who scored a pair of goals and added a helper.
UMBC tied the score at 5-all, 6-all and 7-all in the fourth quarter, forging the last tie on a high, hard shot by sophomore midfielder Dave Brown (Coopersburg, Pa.) with 7:19 remaining. Ten seconds later, Quinnipiac midfielder Matt Minor was flagged for an illegal body check, giving UMBC its third man-up opportunity of the game. Jones made an excellent skip pass to the weak side and Hopmann hard bounce shot beat QU netminder Kevin Benzing at the 6:23 mark, giving the Retrievers their first lead since 1-0 in the first 74 seconds of play.
Jones then became the first Retriever to hit the 10-goal mark on the season, giving UMBC an insurance marker as he made an acrobatic catch of a Grimm pass and fired in a shot from close range with 3:16 to play.
McCullough then came up with two saves in the final minute to seal the victory for the Retrievers. He started the first three games for UMBC, but suffered a broken thumb during his 14-save effort in a 13-9 loss at North Carolina. Sophomore Adam Cohen (Arnold, Md./The Severn School) started in losses to Johns Hopkins and Maryland, but McCullough got the nod and evened his season mark at 2-2 with the victory.
The Retrievers had to come from four goals down to prevail in the contest. Jones scored on a quick shot inside off a Grimm feed just 1:14 into the contest, but the Bobcats won the ensuing draw and equalized the score on a goal by Christian Haggerty six seconds later. That started a 5-0 run by the visitors, which was capped by an Oppenheimer score at the 6:50 mark of the second quarter.
UMBC trimmed the gap to 5-3 at halftime and came within a goal after 45 minutes as Hopmann broke an 18-minute scoring drought by both teams with an unassisted score with 1:05 to play in the stanza.
The Retrievers matched their season high for goals in a quarter with five in the final stanza.
Quinnipiac outshot UMBC, 34-25 and had a 31-28 edge in ground balls. UMBC was sparked by the efforts of freshman midfielder Phil Poe (Harwood, Md./DeMatha), who won seven of 11 face-offs and led UMBC to an 11-8 advantage on draws.
UMBC also snapped a seven-game home losing streak, which came on the heels on a 29-5 advantage at UMBC Stadium from 2006-09.
Sophomore midfielder Neill Lewnes (Arnold, Md./St. Mary's) added a goal and an assist for UMBC, while junior defender Tim Shaeffer (Annapolis, Md./Annapolis) scored his first collegiate goal in the second quarter.
Benzing, who attended Mt. St. Joseph HS, made a pair of saves in a return to the area.
UMBC opens America East Conference play on Friday, April 1 when they travel to Stony Brook to take on the 2010 NCAA quarterfinalist Stony Brook Seawolves. The opening draw is set for 7:00 p.m.


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The Glorya Kaufman Dancer Theater, the main presentation venue for the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, the Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater provides an intimate setting for performances and presentations. This theater features a sprung hard wood dance floor, telescopic seating, moveable truss and seating for 274 in the standard end-stage configuration.
Amber Dance Studio/Theater
The Amber Dance Studio seats 89 in a black box theater configuration. The telescopic seating system may be retracted to allow for use as a 50' X 30' dance studio with full length mirrors, sprung hard wood dance floor, sound system and baby grand piano.
Kaufman Family Garden Theater
The Kaufman Family Garden Theater is a studio pavilion with glass skylights, glass paneled doors and a finished wood sprung dance floor. This unique, trapezoidal shaped studio offers approximately 2300 square feet of space.
Crystal Dance Studio
The Crystal Dance Studio is approximately 44' x 34' and features a sprung hard wood dance floor, a high ceiling, a rosette window, grand piano and sound system. The tall, operable windows open to views of UCLA campus, including Royce Hall, Powell Library and the Fowler Museum.
Phoenix Conference Room
The Phoenix Conference Room is located in the administration suite. The room can accommodate up to 16 people seated around the large conference table.
Additional Dance Studios
Kaufman Hall houses three additional dance studios which serve as dressing rooms for the performance spaces. These studios feature Harlequin Cascade vinyl floors installed over the sprung wood floors.
Video Lab
The video lab is a fully supported, self-service video editing/dubbing facility that also provides short-term video camera loans to approved World Arts and Cultures/Dance students for research, experimentation and study within the department's scope. The video lab and its resources are not intended for commercial or interdepartmental use.


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- Two-sided tape for mounting of the poster on the poster board will be provided.
- Limited number of tables (upon request from the symposium coordinator) are available for presenters that like to use additional materials such a laptop, samples, lab notebooks, handouts, etc. during the poster presentation.
- A poster must be related to the research materials covered in the submitted abstract.
- The presenters are encouraged to submit a PDF version of their posters for publication on the VSU symposium website a few days after the symposium (deadline posted on the Call for Proposals). Therefore, it is recommended that the posters are prepared digitally using a computer program (e.g., PowerPoint or Publisher).
- Posters can be printed at the VSU Media Services located at Odum Library. The Undergraduate Research Council will cover the cost of the printing done at Media Services. Note that it will be fine if Media services prints your poster smaller than the dimensions of the poster board (e.g., smaller than 48"x36").
- Posters will be judged and monetary awards are given to the best posters in various fields.
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- You have complete freedom in displaying your research materials in various forms of text, figures, charts, schematics, and photographs. However, the text/graphs must be readable/visible from 6 feet (2 meters) away.
- The poster should provide enough materials to explain the research without an oral presentation. The materials should stimulate discussion and initiate questions.
- Poster sections should include an abstract, methodology, results, discussion, and conclusions. If appropriate, an introduction section can be placed after the abstract.
- In general, posters are read from left to right and from top to bottom.
- Make an initial rough layout, keeping in mind proportions of figures, tables and text. Text should cover less than 40% of the poster area.
- You can use different font sizes and colors to draw attention. For example, one can use the font types of "Helvetica" for headers and "Times" of the main text of the poster.
- Use high resolution photographs.
- Avoid overwhelming viewers with too much information.
- Be clear and concise in all statements.
Print your poster at least two days before the symposium.
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- Title should be in an easy to read font, such as Verdana, font size should be 80, bold type, written in all upper case.
- Instead of the VSU Logo, a picture of the author(s) can be placed here.
- The abstract should be the same abstract that you submitted in your proposal and is in the Symposium Program.
- You are not limited to the section headings shown on this template and can use other section titles that are appropriate for your research. Change section subheadings as appropriate for your research.
- You can use as many high resolution pictures, tables, or graphs that you like and can place them anywhere on your poster with an appropriate margin. However, the font size used on the graphs, pictures or tables should be at least 28, so that all words and numbers are still readable after the poster is printed on an 8.5 X 11 sheet of paper. Figures and tables should have numbers and legends.
- You can use any background color that you like for your poster. It is suggested that you use simple background to avoid distraction. Dark colors on white background or bright colors on white background make it easier to read your poster.
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With warmer temps in full swing and shorter hemlines on the horizon, here are a few of my personal tips for getting your stems summer ready.
- Exfoliate, exfoliate! I recommend Fresh's Brown Sugar Body Polish or making your own. A great scrub will slough away dead skin cells, leaving your legs polished and primed for increased moisturizer absorption.
- Moisturize. Twice a day–once in the morning (after you shower) and once at night before bed.
- Be mindful. Especially with what you put in your body! Before a big event and during the summer season I aim to really cut down my intake of salt and refined sugars. Staying hydrated is also really important if you want to reduce bloating and water retention.
- Lunge, lift and squat. To keep your legs lovely year round, get in the habit of squeezing in a few sets of lunges, leg lifts and squats every day. This will totally pay off come summertime.
- Keep it tan. Nothing slims your legs more than a great tan! While I suggest opting for sunless options, a little Vitamin D is never a bad idea.
Speaking of sunless tanners, what's your go-to sunless tanning product?
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Various dining options are available for Good Shepherd's patients, families and visitors.
Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital-Allentown
Patients at Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital-Allentown are offered diverse dining options. Menus are posted daily on the units, and special menus (e.g., soft menus) are available upon request.
Patient meal service is provided at the following times:
|8 to 8:45 a.m.
|12:15 - 1 p.m.
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Families and visitors are welcome to join patients for meals.
Visitor meal certificates can be purchased at the front desk/main reception area of Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital-Allentown (breakfast vouchers are $5, lunch and dinner vouchers are $6). Breakfast orders must be placed by 7:30 a.m., lunch orders must be placed by 10:30 a.m. and dinner orders must be placed by 4 p.m.
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The Shepherd's Table Cafe is available on the middle level of the Good Shepherd Health & Technology Center. The cafe offers hot and cold breakfast and lunch selections, including daily specials. The Shepherd's Table is open 8:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. and 2 - 2:30 p.m., Monday - Friday.
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Poor people 'cannot afford to die'
The poorest people in society cannot afford to die because of the rising cost of funerals, a report has revealed.
Researchers said the average cost of dying - including funeral, burial or cremation and state administration - stands at £7,622, having risen by 7.1% in the past year.
They estimate that over 100,000 people will struggle to pay for a funeral this year alone.
The authors of the study at the University of Bath's Institute for Policy Research have called on the Government to review the current system of state support for funeral costs.
In spite of the lowest-ever recorded mortality rates for England and Wales, the cost of dying has steadily increased over recent years.
The average cost of a funeral in fact rose by 80% between 2004 and 2013 and the costs of dying are expected to continue to increase over the next five years.
On average, the price of a typical funeral, including non-discretionary fees and a burial or cremation, is £3,456.
The average amount spent on extras such as a memorial, flowers and catering is £2,006 and discretionary estate administration costs have increased significantly to £2,160.
For families on low incomes, the Social Fund Funeral Payment, first introduced in 1988, is intended to support those who struggle to find the money to pay for a funeral.
However, the report challenges the effectiveness and availability of this provision. By highlighting an average shortfall of £1,277 that many face, the report suggests that 'funeral poverty' today is some 50% higher than three years ago.
The report had challenged the Government to rethink the Department for Work and Pensions-administered payment, which is highlighted as 'outdated', 'overly complex' and 'insufficient' at meeting the needs of the poorest in society.
It also found that local authorities have experienced a small but notable increase in demand for public health funerals, on the grounds that individuals are not prepared to organise or pay for the funeral of a family member.
Through interviews with claimants and key stakeholders, the researchers identified flaws with the current system, including how eligible claimants are obliged to commit to funeral costs before submitting their claim for funeral payment.
By doing this they are making poorly informed financial decisions which risks debt for close family members.
Dr Kate Woodthorpe, from the university's Centre for Death and Society, said: "Medical advancement has made significant improvements to death rates.
"As a result people are living longer, which requires larger incomes and pension pots to ensure these extra years can be afforded. Whether or not these will stretch to cover funeral costs is unclear.
"At the same time, the younger generations have less ready cash to call on, so they cannot necessarily be relied on to pick up the bill either.
"We know that the long-term decline in death rates is about to reverse, with a projected rise in the number of deaths around 15 to 20% in the next two decades.
"We also know that right now, with some of the lowest death rates ever recorded, the safety nets provided by the state via the Social Fund Funeral Payment and local authority public health funerals are under pressure.
"Their sustainability into the future is debatable."
The report, Funeral poverty in the UK: issues for policy, was co-organised and hosted by the International Longevity Centre-UK and launched at an event in Westminster.
Baroness Sally Greengross, chief executive of the International Longevity Centre - UK, said: "Modern medicine and advances in public health have led to falls in the number of deaths over many decades.
"But the pattern of falling death numbers is about to turn around and start to increase.
"With growing funeral costs, quite simply, growing numbers of people might find they can't afford to die.
"Government must act now before the current issue of funeral poverty becomes an even more significant future crisis.
"As a society we don't talk enough about dying. But nor do public policy makers. We must find a way to open a debate about dying early and ensure that we and our families are as prepared as we possibly can be."
A spokeswoman for the Department for Work and Pensions said: "The Funeral Payment scheme continues to cover the necessary costs of burial or cremation in full, because we know that these costs may vary widely across the country.
"A significant contribution is also made towards the fee levied by funeral directors which is currently set at £700.
"Other costs are also met in full, for example the cost of any doctors' certificates and certain travel expenses.
"To put this into context, the average social fund funeral payment last year was £1,225.
"In addition to the Funeral Payment scheme, Social Fund Budgeting Loans have been extended to cover costs relating to funeral expenses."
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Soooooo I was on task yesterday to find a blacksmith to make new braziers for the temple grounds when I ran into another slave and we started talking, then a free man came up and asked where the Tavern was, so I pointed to the front of the city directing him, then another free man came up behind me and when I turned to point I saw him and a free women so I greeted them. The first free man moved on, the second one pointed to his feet...which I then went to and kneel before. He Promptly accused me of not kneeling before a free...I looked down at my knees on the ground and up at him like..."Wtf?"...and he broke out cuffs and chains and chained my wrists to my ankles with only enough room to crawl. Mind you, he is not of this city, not my owner, and I am a high caste slave.
Then he put a sign around my neck that had a quote from Players of Gor. I can't find the exact quote, and don't feel like logging on to get it, but basically it sounds like this one from Dancers.
"It is almost universal, as far as I know, that a slave kneels in one fashion or another when entering her master's presence, or if she should find herself in his presence. She commonly kneels when spoken to by any free person. This is simply a matter of respect. To be sure, she can be slain if she does not do so. The kneeling position, of course, which the master's, or free person's, permission, either tacit or explicit, is usually required to break, is commonly an initial position. For example, after its deferential assumption, she may be dismissed from it, to other duties, such as cleaning, shopping or cooking."
Dancer of Gor, p. 114
So, drop to your knees on the street every time a free stops you to ask something....(which there is another quote of a girl being stopped by Tarl and she answers his question and moves on without kneeling)...orrr stand and answer the questions unless told to kneel, or if the "service" to a free is longer then expect...more then one question, etc, then kneel in the street?...
I assume the gorean streets are probably pretty damn messy. Bosk dung, Kaiila dung, tarn droppings, dirt, mud, garbage possibly. People constantly bustling about. Would it be realistic to have all these kneeling slave girls taking up room in the streets, at risk of being trampled or run over?


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This is a particularly exciting week as we launch the brand new Summer 2018 issue of Asymptote, which is full of beautiful, thought-provoking, and daring writing from around the world. In particular, we encourage you to check out the multilingual special feature and to share your new literary discoveries with your friends and family!
Today, however, is Friday and that means it is time for another round of international literary news. To kick things off, Editor-at-Large Norman Erikson Pasaribu discusses recent publications and translations of Indonesian literature, including a Vietnamese translation of Khairani Barokka's Indigenous Species. One of our brand new Assistant Blog Editors, Ilker Hepkaner, reports from the launch event of One Hand Clapping, a new exhibit at the Guggenheim in New York City that brings together poetry and visual imaginations of our future. Happily soaking in the Portuguese sunshine, Editor-at-Large Lindsay Semel tells us about two recent literary events—DISQUIET International Literary Program and the Braga Book Fair—that celebrate both local and international writing. Finally, Editor-at-Large Jessie Stoolman shares her experience at Manarat, a film festival celebrating the Mediterranean film industry that took place along the Tunisian coast.
Norman Erikson Pasaribu, Editor-at-Large, reporting from Indonesia:
Loài bản địa, the Vietnamese translation by Red (Yen Hai) of Khairani Barokka's first book Indigenous Species was launched on July 14 at the Tổ Chim Xanh cafe in Hanoi. Narrating the kidnapping of a young girl and her blindfolded experience down a river in environmentally wrecked Kalimantan, Indigenous Species was nominated for a Goldsmiths Public Engagement Award. Read Barokka's essay about the translation process in Diacritics and an interview with her in Electric Literature about the book.


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Illinois mother stabbed son 100 times, police say
NAPERVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Neighbors heard the couple shouting at each other, but they never saw it get physical. Artur Plackowska said his wife recently told him she loved him.
But beneath that ordinary domestic facade lay far more violent resentments between the husband and wife, prosecutors say, eventually leading Elzbieta Plackowska to kill her own 7-year-old son, stabbing him 100 times Tuesday, all out of anger at her often-absent, truck driver husband. She then fatally and repeatedly stabbed a 5-year-old girl she was babysitting.
"She felt he truly did not appreciate how fine a wife and mother she was," DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin said. "She told the detectives that she thought by killing (her son) Justin she would make her husband hurt the way she hurt in their relationship."
The gruesome slayings have shocked this vibrant, populous suburb 25 miles west of Chicago, leaving prosecutors, neighbors and relatives at a loss. Berlin said the 40-year-old Polish immigrant told investigators that her husband used to bring her flowers and gifts, but she resented him being home only on weekends and that she had to work as a maid, which she felt was beneath her.
For some in Naperville, it brought back painful memories of a similar horror, when Marilyn Lemak fed her three children peanut butter laced with antidepressants and suffocated them 13 years ago as revenge on her estranged husband.
"I don't understand anything that's going on," said Tim Hooper, 28, who lives in the same condominium complex as the Plackowska family and would sometimes work out with Plackowska's older son. "This is so out of the blue."
The Naperville police chief said the crime scene was the most gruesome sight he'd seen in three decades on the job.
Officials said Thursday that Plackowska ordered her son Justin and a kindergartner she was babysitting, 5-year-old Olivia Dworakowski, to kneel on a bedroom floor and pray, then stabbed them both dozens of times as they begged for their lives, striking again and again as she told her son he was going to heaven.
Plackowska killed Olivia because she had witnessed the attack on Justin, Berlin said.
Officers who forced their way inside the locked apartment hours later found blood-spattered walls and the children's bodies in a master bedroom where moments before the killings they had been happily jumping on a bed, prosecutors said.
Olivia's body was found on the bed, and Justin's was found on the floor beside it. He had stab wounds on his head, face, neck and back. Both appeared to have had their throats slit.
The slayings took place at the home of Olivia's mother, who works nights as a nurse and had left her daughter in Plackowska's care before. Plackowska also stabbed the two family dogs.
Investigators found two blood-stained knives: a steak knife in the kitchen sink and another in Plackowska's car, Berlin said.
Still covered in blood and with scratches on her hands, Plackowska drove to a Catholic church. Finding it closed, she called the church and left a message saying she had "done something bad" and needed help, Berlin said. She then went to a friend's home where her adult son was staying and said she had been robbed.
About the same time, Olivia's mother, Marta Dworakowski, returned home to discover her door locked and the babysitter's car gone. She called police to report her daughter was missing, and officers forced their way into the home.
Police took Plackowska into custody at her friend's home, and prosecutors charged her with first-degree murder late Wednesday.
Plackowska initially told investigators that an intruder had broken into the home and killed the children while she was outside smoking a cigarette. She then told investigators she was battling the devil and trying to get evil out of the children. Finally, Berlin said, she admitted she had lashed out in anger at her husband.
Plackowska's husband, Artur, denied the two were having problems.
"The day before (the killings) she told me that she loves me," he said in a brief interview with The Associated Press, before hanging up because he said he wanted to focus on giving his son a proper funeral.
However, a neighbor said he frequently heard the couple shouting at each other. "It happened once every other month," Victor Tuckenberry said.
There also were money troubles. Public records show the couple filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2009; a foreclosure in her name only was filed in 2007.
Still, Tuckenberry said Plackowska doted on her sons and he was shocked by the slayings. Plackowska and Justin "were together all the time," he said.
Plackowska arrived in the United States from her native Poland on a tourist visa 12 years ago, Berlin said. She is not a U.S. citizen and authorities were trying to verify her immigration status. Berlin said she has no prior history of violence, although she had a misdemeanor DUI about 10 years ago.
Plackowska didn't speak during Thursday's bond hearing other than to indicate she could not afford an attorney. The judge appointed a public defender.


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Below is a list of Foundation Onda's current Partners, including Narciso Rodriguez, Cynthia Rowley, Derek Lam, Ralph Rucci, Donna Karan, Christine Alcalay, Libertine, Honor and Emerson—to name just a few—and next season we hope to have even more designers, beauty brands and PR firms on board.
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The Desktop in Windows 8's Release Preview
Microsoft clearly created Windows 8's new Start screen and its ecosystem of apps as the heart of Windows 8. Changing Windows 8 so drastically would have alienated millions of Windows users worldwide, however. So, the traditional Windows desktop lives on in Windows 8's Release Preview. And, in keeping with Windows 8's new app-based approach, the desktop is simply another app.
When you're ready for work, click or tap the Desktop app from the Start screen, and Windows 8's desktop fills the screen), looking much like the desktop in Windows 7.
Windows 8 desktop changes
In the biggest change by far, the desktop lacks a Start button. Pointing in that lower, left corner now brings a pop-up icon for the Start screen. Click the Start screen icon, and the desktop disappears, leaving you at the Start screen to launch programs or apps. To return to the desktop, click or tap the Start screen's Desktop tile.
But other than the missing Start button, the desktop in the Windows 8 Release Preview looks and behaves almost identically to the desktop in Windows 7. Most of the menus are also the same, so Windows 7 upgraders should feel fairly comfortable.
Windows 8 New Ribbon menu
Several Windows 8 programs, including Windows Explorer, now sport a Ribbon menu – a thick, icon-stuffed menu across the windows' top edge. Click a tab atop the ribbon, and the entire ribbon's contents change to show a new group of icons. Click View tab, for example, and the Ribbon changes to show different ways to view a folder's contents.
Microsoft Office suite of programs has featured the Ribbon menu for several years, so Office users will recognize the menu immediately. For others, the large ribbon and its tabs may require some practice.
Up-Arrow button in Windows Explorer
A perk tossed in for file management fans, the Up Arrow icon returns in Windows 8's Windows Explorer. A click of the Up Arrow icon moves your view up one folder, just as it did in Windows XP. Keep clicking the Up Arrow icon, and you end up with a folder showing your desktop's contents, as well as your libraries.
Since clicking the Up Arrow always brings you back to home base, you can drill deeply into folders without fear of getting lost.
Windows 8 compatibility with older programs
The desktop in the Windows 8 Release Preview will run Windows 7 and Windows Vista programs. It runs some Windows XP programs, as well, but Microsoft is vague about the level of support. For example, Windows 7's Compatibility Mode helps you run programs written for Windows versions going back to Windows 95. The Compatibility Mode in the Windows 8 Release Preview only offers help for Windows Vista-era and newer programs.
By cutting back on compatibility settings, many are wondering how committed Microsoft may be to supporting Windows XP programs.
Note: At the time of this writing, Microsoft hadn't yet completed Windows 8. Some of these details could change when Microsoft releases Windows 8 later this year.


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Omak Suicide Race
It's been called "The Deadliest Horse Race in the World" and it's right here in Washington!
Each year in mid summer, a small town in Eastern Washington State, called Omak, proudly promotes an event named "The World-Famous Suicide Race." Town officials claim this event (created to as a draw for the town's annual rodeo) is a celebration of history and tradition. In reality, it's murder on horses. The race seriously injures riders and routinely kills horses.
Over a span of four days and nights, riders repeatedly run their horses off Suicide Hill with a 120-foot galloping start. Horses blindly plunge more than 210 feet down a slope that event organizer's often boast as an "almost vertical... 62-degree angle." At breakneck speed, the horses then meet the Okanogan River. Entry into the river is narrow, causing bottlenecks and horrendous multiple-horse spills. If rider and horse do make it to the, they face a treacherous and often panicked swim about the length of a football field. The final grueling sprint is a 500-foot uphill climb to the finish line.
The horses—many 'on-loan' for the event—have suffered heart attacks from over exertion, broken bones from shocking collisions and tumbles, and even horrifying death by drowning.
It is unclear how many horses or people have died in the race since its inception in 1935. Since 1983, at least 22 horse deaths have been documented. In 2004, three horses were killed in the first heat alone.
Marketing gimmick or tradition?
First run in 1935, the Suicide Race was the brainchild of Claire Pentz, publicity chairman for the Stampede, after failing to attract big crowds with boxing, trained zebras and stock car racing.
Stampede organizers currently contend that the Suicide Race has roots in Native American tradition but in fact, an Anglo conceived the race as a publicity stunt. Race organizers claim it is a customary rite-of-passage. This can be negated by two facts:
- The races that used to occur among Native tribes of the area were longer-distance, cross-country races on horses bred to thrive on the hard, rocky, desert terrain of Eastern Washington. This is not comparable to flinging a long-legged thoroughbred or quarter horse down a 62-degree slope in the dark of night.
- A native rite-of-passage traditionally refers to a ritual or ceremony indicating the transition from adolescence to adulthood. Historically, Suicide Race rider's ages range from 18 to well into the 30's. Many have ridden in the race year after year seeking cash and popularity, not cultural fulfillment.
Native American traditions teach respect not exploitation
The 12 bands that compose the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation are the Chelan, the Colville, the Entiat, the Lake, the Methow, the Moses-Columbia, the Nespelem, the Nez Perce of Chief Joseph's band, the Okanogan, the Palus, the San Poil and the Wenatchee. These tribes came from across the Western United States and their histories and customs teach of the reverence and respect given to the animals of our land, from salmon and whales to horses, wolves and bears, which are central to the Native American belief system.
"Of all the animals the horse is the best friend of the Indian, for without it he could not go on long journeys. A horse is the Indian's most valuable piece of property. If an Indian wishes to gain something, he promises that if the horse will help him he will paint it with native dye, that all may see that help has come to him through the aid of his horse." - Brave Buffalo (late 19th century) Teton Sioux medicine man
"The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the Earth. Man does not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family." - Chief Sealth (Seattle)
"The four-leggeds and the wings of the air and the mother earth were supposed to be relative-like... The first thing an Indian learns is to love each other and that they should be relative-like to the four-leggeds" - Black Elk, Lakota medicine man
Contemporary leaders such as Winona LaDuke tell us that "Native American teachings describe the relations all around-animals, fish, trees and rocks-as our brothers, sisters, uncles and grandpas...These relations are honored in ceremony, song, story and life that keep relations close-to buffalo, sturgeon, salmon, turtles, bears, wolves, and panthers. These are our older relatives-the ones who came before and taught us how to live."
With this information, who can really believe the claim that this race is tradition? It may have been based on an idea of an old tradition, but in its current form is nothing more than abuse and exploitation.
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A Nagging Heartache: How to Fight Heart Disease
Gail O'Connor's mother was only 46 when she died of a heart attack, leaving behind two young children. Gail doesn't want history to repeat itself. Here's how she's fighting heart disease head on and how you can too.
A Nagging Heartache
I should feel happy, having the morning free to chaperone my son's class trip to the nearby children's museum. Instead I'm uneasy. I can't help thinking back to the time my mother went along with my fifth-grade class to a children's museum. It was also the day she died.
I remember that after our class toured the exhibits we sat at long tables and molded animals from clay. I turned and made eye contact with Mom, a few rows behind me. She held up a rabbit, with long front teeth. She was smiling.
The half-mile walk back to school was uneventful—carefree kids, an autumn wind blowing on our faces—until pandemonium erupted. The adults hovered in an intersection, toward the back of the line. I couldn't see my mother. A boy said she'd fallen. I wanted to move, or speak, but I stood frozen and dumbstruck. The principal arrived and my classmates and I were quickly ushered back to our classroom. What is happening to my mother? I desperately wanted to know, but no one would meet my gaze. Outside, an ambulance passed, its siren wailing.
After an interminable wait that afternoon at my grandmother's, my father finally came through the kitchen door, his shoulders slumped, his face drawn. He brought my 6-year-old brother and me into the living room, dropped into a chair and pulled us close. He hesitated for what seemed like forever, before barely whispering, "Mommy's in the heavens now." I broke free and ran, ran up the stairs, threw myself on a bed and screamed.
I've been running ever since: from the memory of that painful day and from delving too deeply into the mysteries that struck down my seemingly healthy mother at 46. At 37, I'm still young, but then so was Mom. I've got her blue eyes and thin legs—as well as some of the attributes that likely put her at risk, like a predisposition to harbor excess weight in the midsection. Whether by nature or nurture, I'm carrying on her weakness for cheese and, despite having run one marathon in my life, her on-again-off-again relationship with exercise. Like her, I have two young children. I know that damage to the heart is cumulative, that the choices I make right now will better or worsen my odds for a long life with my kids (and—knock wood—their children). Yet I've been too busy, too afraid, or maybe just too lazy to calculate my own risk for heart disease, which every year kills more women than all kinds of cancers combined.
Facing Facts
Recently my extended family gathered at my house for dinner. The subject of my mom came up. My aunt said, "I always thought, Thank God Eileen didn't have the heart attack while driving you two kids to school that morning." I looked at my son, who's 5, and my daughter, 2, running the length of the house with their cousins. That night, I sat alone in my kitchen, peered into my computer screen, made a few clicks, jotted down a number. The next morning I'd call a cardiologist.
After ignoring my fears for so long, I found myself sleepless with questions. What if my mother had some genetic risk factor, perhaps the same thing that brought on her father's fatal heart attack, at 60, that I've inherited and can't do anything to change? Do I really want to know? Or, what if it's within my control, and I've been clogging my arteries one fatty meal at a time for years, sealing my own fate?
Still, I thought, as uncomfortable as it may be to dig into the past, or face the ways in which I've been coming up short taking care of myself, isn't doing everything possible better than leaving my children without a mother, my husband without a wife?
I knew it was, of course. And in a few short weeks I'd learn a ton about what I, and women like me, could do to win the fight of our lives.
Silent Killer
You no doubt know someone with heart disease. Eight million American women are currently living with it. Every year 435,000 women have a heart attack. And it's not just older women—and nearly a quarter of those heart-attack victims are under the age of 65. Even more troubling, women are much more likely than men to die of a first heart attack—women under 50 three times more likely. Part of the problem is that women—and doctors—may fail to recognize it's happening.
But while the very words "heart attack" give the impression of sudden onslaught, an episode is typically years in the making. "Heart disease starts early, with the earliest building blocks of a heart attack forming in your teens and early 20s," says Nieca Goldberg, MD, a cardiologist and a spokesperson for the American Heart Association.
So now I'm sitting across from Dr. Goldberg in her Manhattan office, answering her list of questions about my health history. No, I don't smoke and never have. (Mom didn't smoke either.) Yes, I try to eat healthy most of the time, but long hours on the job have me grabbing pretzels or candy on my commute home, then speed-dialing the local takeout joint for a late-night dinner, usually fried. What about exercise, Dr. Goldberg asks? I tell her I'm hitting the elliptical machine at the gym three days a week. I fess up that I dusted off my sneakers right after I made my appointment to see her, but I'm now up to 40 minutes each session. "This is great!" she says. Phew.
Weight and Diet
I'm not in the clear yet. We talk about my body mass index, the relationship of weight to height. (To calculate yours, go to familycircle.com/bmi.) A healthy BMI is between 18 and 24.9. A BMI between 25 and 29.9 means you're overweight. Obesity's defined as a BMI equal to or greater than 30 and is strongly associated with a sharp increase in heart disease. Dr. Goldberg informs me my BMI is 31. In other words, I am obese. Not merely overweight, as I'd hoped. My face grows hot. It's not like I hadn't noticed I've grown from a size 8 to a size 14 over five years and two children. But obese?
Dr. Goldberg quickly points out I'm making a smart move with the aerobic exercise, crucial to burn off the excess abdominal fat that's correlated with heart disease. "But you have to organize your diet a little better," she says. She suggests I decrease my simple-carbohydrate intake (white bread and pasta) and eat more whole grains, fish, and grilled chicken. I might not be personally satisfied until I'm in a single-digit dress size again, but even a modest weight loss would help: Dropping just 10% of body weight if you're overweight or obese significantly reduces the risk of heart disease.
As we wrap up our appointment I'm instructed to come back for blood work—and to take small steps to improve my diet, such as reducing my salt intake and planning a week's worth of meals ahead of time.
After I get my blood drawn and while I wait for my next appointment, I read more research on my own. I learn I ought to cut out the fat—but not too much. Low-fat diets are typically recommended to improve heart health, but a moderate-fat diet may be even better. In a 2004 study from the University of Buffalo, overweight or obese participants who followed a moderate-fat (33% of calories from fat) diet had healthier cholesterol numbers and lowered their cardiovascular risk by 14%, compared with people who followed a low-fat (18% of calories from fat) diet, who reduced their risk by only 9%. Of course, not all fats are created equal: Saturated fat, which raises bad cholesterol, should make up no more than 7% of anyone's diet. And trans fat should be avoided whenever possible, since it not only raises bad cholesterol but also may lower good cholesterol.
Risk Assessment
When I return to Dr. Goldberg's office, she gets right down to my lab results. We sit in front of her computer screen. My levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) are high, which means my thyroid is underactive. We'll do more testing to determine whether I have mild hypothyroidism, which frequently goes undiagnosed in women and might help explain why I've been feeling sluggish lately. In my case it has nothing to do with my heart. Can I partly blame my weight on a poky thyroid? "It can contribute, but at your levels probably not much," says Dr. Goldberg. So much for excuses.
Next, she shows me the Framingham Heart Study online risk-assessment tool (go to americanheart.org/riskassessment). Those who know their blood pressure and cholesterol numbers can plug them in and do a quick check of how likely they are to have a heart attack within the next 10 years. Experts recommend that everyone find out her risk score by age 20, and reassess every five years after that. Dr. Goldberg plugs in my gender, age, nonsmoker status, and my blood pressure, which at 118/64 is normal. Then she gets to my cholesterol counts, which are all safe, if not optimal: My total is 195; my HDL is 59; my LDL is 118. My non-HDL cholesterol—that's the total minus the HDL—is 136 (normal is less than 160). More good news: I don't have diabetes, despite a history on my maternal grandmother's side. Diabetes raises the risk of heart disease by 20%. In seconds, the tool calculates my 10-year risk. "So here you are: less than 1%," says Dr. Goldberg. Before I get too euphoric, she adds, "But this doesn't mean it's a license to just stay the way you are." While useful, the Framingham tool has notable limitations, points out the doctor. "It doesn't include whether you exercise, or anything about your weight or weight distribution, and it doesn't account for family history."
With a few more clicks, Dr. Goldberg pulls up a newer risk-assessment tool, the Reynolds Risk Score (www.reynoldsriskscore.org), developed by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "I risk-score all of my patients on both," says Dr. Goldberg, "but then I also have to integrate other things going on with their health. If patients do these online, they should bring the results to their doctor." Unlike the Framingham online tool, the Reynolds risk assessor asks whether my mother (or father) had a heart attack before age 60. Even with the additional info, my risk in the next decade is still less than 1%.
My job now is to keep it that way. A test of my cholesterol particles reveals they're the light, fluffy kind that are associated with a lower risk of coronary disease, says Dr. Goldberg, though my HDL particles are a little tighter than they could be. To keep them from becoming the dense, artery-clogging kind, I need to do more aerobic exercise. "I wish I could tell my patients that if they dieted and exercised and did everything right, I could give them a 100% guarantee that they're going to be totally risk free," says Dr. Goldberg. "We can't, but it is a big reduction in risk."
Push a Little Further
Despite the mostly positive news, my labs turn up one black mark. I brace myself. Is this the genetic, can't-control-it factor I'd feared? Dr. Goldberg explains that my Lipoprotein(a) cholesterol "was a little out of range." Lp(a) is a blood protein that causes cholesterol to stick to the walls of arteries, and high levels are associated with an increased risk of heart attack and stroke. Since scientists are still working to understand Lp(a) as a factor in heart disease, doctors don't routinely measure it. Given my family history, Dr. Goldberg decided to check mine. "Unfortunately, there's little you can do to change that number," she says. What's more, no studies show that treating Lp(a) actually reduces risk. There is one study, though, that shows that if I lower my LDL cholesterol to less than 100, I may be able to negate the potential damage somewhat and lower my overall risk.
When I leave her office, I think about what the doctor said. It's true I may not be able to completely change my fate, but there is so much I haven't been doing—or doing enough. A few days later I'm pushing my daughter, asleep in her stroller, through a park, not far from the cemetery where my mother is buried. I'd been thinking about wrapping up our walk a little early, to get home to take care of some school paperwork and to respond to a few work-related e-mails. But as I pass the place where my mother rests, I think of the health benefits of walking just a little farther. I feel the sun on my face, push the stroller a little faster and keep going.
Know the Signs of a Heart Attack
The most common symptom of a heart attack is the same for women and men: chest pain or discomfort. But women are slightly more likely to have subtler warning signs:
- Upper-body pain, in the arms, back, neck, jaw, or stomach
- Shortness of breath
- Breaking out in a cold sweat
- Nausea or vomiting
- Light-headedness
How Much Exercise Do You Need? (Hint: Not Much)
You can't change your genes. But anyone can start moving. For a healthier heart, strive for 30 minutes or more of moderate activity—like walking, cycling, or swimming—at least five days a week. You don't need a half-hour at once—even three 10-minute brisk walks a day count. Besides helping to manage your weight, boost your mood, and get your heart working more efficiently, you'll also lower your LDL cholesterol ("bad") and pump up the heart-healthy HDL kind.
Learn Your Numbers
Starting at age 20—but it's never too late—you should get a lipid panel (a lipoprotein profile if you are at increased risk for heart disease) every five years. If you get an iffy report back, the good news is that you and your doctor can develop a plan (usually involving diet and exercise) to improve your score. Below are the numbers you're striving to attain.
Total cholesterol: People with a total cholesterol level of 240 mg/dL or more typically have twice the risk of heart disease as people whose cholesterol level is normal, according to the American Heart Association. Healthy target: less than 200 mg/dL.
LDL ("bad") cholesterol: Too much low-density lipoprotein can slowly build up and eventually form a thick plaque that narrows and hardens the arteries, also known as atherosclerosis. Healthy target: less than 100 mg/dL.
HDL ("good") cholesterol: High levels of high-density lipoprotein protect against heart attack by carrying cholesterol away from the arteries. Having low levels (less than 40 mg/dL) of HDL increases your risk of heart attack. Healthy target: above 50 mg/dL.
Triglycerides: High amounts of these fats are associated with a high cholesterol count and heart disease. Triglycerides may be elevated if you're overweight, obese, or physically inactive, or if you smoke, drink too much alcohol, or eat a diet very high in carbohydrates (60% or more of your total calories). High triglycerides also signal excess levels of glucose in diabetics. Healthy target: less than 150 mg/dL.
Blood pressure: Blood pressure that's greater than or equal to 140/90 directly increases your chances of suffering from heart disease and stroke. Healthy target: below 120/80.
Copyright © 2008. Used with permission from the February 2008 issue of Family Circle magazine.


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Photographer's Note
Builders March
Were neither stokers nor are carpenters we
But we never bitterly regret
But we are ironworker-spidermen, yeah
And from above we say privet!
Privet is Hello in Russian
Не кочегары мы, не плотники,
И сожалений горьких нет (как нет!)
А мы монтажники-высотники (да)
И с высоты вам шлем привет!
This is a nearly word-for-word translation of a popular Soviet song about builders who work at the top of high buildings. I was amused to learn, that these people are called spidermen in English.
If youd like, you may find the lyrics in Russian and download the song from www.sovmusic.ru
Taken with an amateur Canon Power Shot A430 and then cropped and resized. No color corrections or any other adjustments. I was attracted by the lacework of the construction (and I always am). After cropping i noticed that the cylindrical building looks higher than it really is cuz the ground is invisible. It also contrasts the lacework by its shape and completeness.
Im wondering if this shot needs adjustment in terms of light/colour etc. The compos ok, I think :) The banner in the corner spoils the shot a bit, I think :( I wont be able to re-take this shot, cuz the construction is over.
On Wikimapia
* Avtogradbank is the cylindrical building. Shot taken from nearest crossing on the east (your right). The two laceworks are a few meters to the west (your left)
* Street view on maps.ayndex.ru
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serp2000 (47063) 2010-12-12 21:20
Ïðèâåò, Èëüãèç,
ÿ ïðîñòî îáÿçàí ýòî îöåíèòü.))èíòåðåñíûé òåêñò è õîðîøàÿ óðáàíèñòè÷åñêàÿ êîìïîçèöèÿ. Êîíöåïòóàëüíî.
Õîðîøèé ãðàôèçì. ÌÍÎÃÎ ñêèäêè, îäíàêî)))
Óñïåøíîé íåäåëè!
xinzhou06 (41) 2011-08-05 20:33
Hi Ilgiz,
I like the color tone of this photo. It would be even better if the bottom of the photo could be cropped a bit more.
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- Copyright: Ilgiz Galeev (ilghiz) (708)
- Genre: Lugares
- Medium: Cor
- Date Taken: 2008-10-02
- Categories: Arquitectura
- Camera: Canon PowerShot A430
- Exposição: f/5.8, 1/400 segundos
- More Photo Info: view
- Versão da Foto: Versão Original
- Tema(s): Naberezhnie Chelny [view contributor(s)]
- Date Submitted: 2010-11-28 12:39
- To serp2000: I wanted to delete (1)
by ilghiz, last updated 2010-12-18 12:41


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S.F. Target makes Metreon a better box
It's day one for Target, and take two for Metreon.
Wednesday's "soft opening" of the design-savvy retailer's first San Francisco store also concludes the two-year overhaul of the 13-year-old Metreon complex at Fourth and Mission streets. No longer an "entertainment retail center," the four-story block-long structure has new outdoor seating, new shops along the sidewalk, new connections to the park next door.
So far, so good. But no matter how well Target does in its second-floor perch, the redone Metreon is an upgrade rather than a transformation. An improvement, but also a reminder that you can only do so much with a box that shouldn't be there in the first place.
Much of Metreon remains the same as when it opened in 1999: a silvery shell with few windows except on the east, where a glass wall faces the green bowl of Yerba Buena Gardens. At the Fourth and Mission corner, a gray prow pushes up to conceal an Imax theater, one of 16 screens that share the third floor.
The movie house is the main holdover from the original complex, which included such novelties as virtual bowling and a short-lived Microsoft store. The main entrance was a low dark passage at the corner; stores opened in to the box, not out to the street.
Feels like anywhere
The new Target, by contrast, announces itself with a 34-foot-tall entrance on Mission Street where the interior walls and ceiling are painted the chain's distinctive brand of red. The corner passage has been replaced by a glassy Starbucks, entered from the sidewalk as well as the red foyer.
Once through the revolving doors and up the escalator, what greets you is ... Target. A long, white space that's focused and bright. There's one narrow view of Yerba Buena Gardens and a bulge alongside the escalator that's the (concealed) edge of the Imax space. Other than that, you could be anywhere.
From a retailing standpoint, this approach makes sense. The 70,000 square feet of selling space is 28 percent smaller than the suburban Target norm. But by closing off the interior space to make use of every possible revenue-producing inch, the store loses the chance to advertise its presence by playing up the visual bustle of customers upstairs, inside.
One example is the Fourth Street facade, which features a procession of second-floor windows that were papered over in the original Metreon. Target has added asymmetrical red strips and LED lighting for a shot of branded flair. Beyond that, though, it's still a blank static wall.
The best design touches provided by Target are the entrance with its vivid red depth and the store's vertical marquee. The latter is pale blue glass with circles of varied sizes and hues floating behind the corporate logo - a fog-like presence and an elegant foil to such overbearing neighbors as the 2,585-space parking garage across the street.
Or the Metreon itself.
Trying to fit in
The 360,000-square-foot container was conceived by Sony in the 1990s as a world unto itself, and the structural bones of that mistake remain. There's no sense of scale in the heavy horizontal mass. Flat metal is no match for a textured city.
Sony moved on long ago, replaced by a retail developer, Westfield, which has worked hard the last two years to tie the complex into its surroundings. The small food court once tucked deep inside the box doubled in size and now faces Yerba Buena Gardens. Six sets of doors puncture the glass wall; the line between indoors and outside is also blurred by two dozen public tables on a pair of outdoor terraces.
On Fourth Street, Westfield and its in-house architects push against the relentlessly straight ground floor with white metal canopies that jut above each shop entrance, then colorful store signs that extend a few inches more.
All these moves might sound obvious, but it's good to see them occur. Add the foot traffic and buzz that will accompany Target's official grand opening on Sunday and who knows - Metreon might become an integral part of downtown San Francisco after all.
John King is The San Francisco Chronicle's urban design critic. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @johnkingsfchron


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Funny road trip by Sugar and ketchup, s.r.o.
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June 6, 2012
Filed under App DB, Education, Games, iPhone Apps
It is an educative funny game for children so they are not bored while long trip by car or bus. We've developed the game on our personal experiences with travelling with our kids. We know they love to fulfill different tasks. This game is not about a classical "PC like playing", stearing on to a display and pushing buttons. It requiers kids to pay attention to the surroundings and also stimulates their imagination.
The principle of the game is to choose one character of a hitchhiker who gives to kids different tasks. Each hitchhiker is special with it's own sense of humor, unique tasks and also brings to children curiosities from the world he becomes from.
No need to watch the display, the game is authentic dubbed by native speakers in three language versions ( english, german and czech). While playing you can swith between the languages.
We believe that this game is somehow unique and original. Our kids love to play it and all of us enjoy it on long road trips.
Developer Website: http://www.funnyroadtrip.com


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At some point as you continue to accumulate names of ancestors, you begin to lose track of who all of these people are. This begins to get pointed out to you regularly if you put your family tree online in one of the larger databases such as MyHeritage.com or Ancestry.com. Both programs are continually suggesting that you have links with matching individuals in other users' family trees. But many times the matches are with a spouse of a distant relative and the question comes up repeatedly; who are these people?
I suppose there are those people who can remember the names of everyone in their high school class fifty years ago, but I am certainly not one of those people. I barely remember most of the names of the people I meet and have trouble remembering the names of some of my close relatives and friends. I suppose you could consider this a genealogical disability, but I am certain it does not qualify for SSDI (for those of you who are not genealogists, you know this as Social Security Disability Insurance, for those of you who are genealogists, this is the Social Security Death Index. Interesting that the Social Security Administration has an acronym that is the same for two completely different things. Sort of indicative of the state our government when there is a confusion between insurance and death). Back to the problem of remembering names.
I always figured that the main reason for having a computer was so that I didn't have to remember stuff. But it does get awkward when I forget close family member's names and the names of friends that I have known for thirty or forty years. But back to remembering names of distant relatives. You would think the solution quite simple; have a database of your family file and look up the unknown names when they pop up. Right. That works until you get into higher and theoretical math. The trouble is that some of my lines are highly convoluted.
The other day I got a whole lot of Smart Matches from MyHeritage.com for the Kartchner family. OK, so my comment was, that the family was likely in my wife's line because I had never heard of a connection with the Kartchners, who, by the way, are a prominent family in Arizona. I guess I should have realized that if they were from Arizona, they were probably related to me in some way and not related to my wife who is from Utah. So, I began looking at my lines to try and figure out where this suggested link came from.
That process turned up and interesting fact. I did not have the two lines connected. What happened was that I had a duplicate in my file that was the link between me and the Kartchners. So I merged the two individuals and voila! I had a clear link to the mainstream of the Kartchner genealogy. In fact, I had a whole line of Kartchners going back to 1788 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. So this brought up another issue; exploring your own genealogy. Somewhere over the years, I had spend considerable time researching and typing in a large number of Kartchner families. So, why didn't I remember all this? I call it CGA or Convenient Genealogical Amnesia. You really can't walk around all the time with 10,000 or so names in your head and so you conveniently forget any of them you don't see every day (or in the last five minutes).
But then, as I examined this line, there was another even more interesting question. Was I really related to the Kartchners? Notwithstanding I had a number of them in my file, how was I related, if I was?
Unfortunately, lack of familiarity with any given line in your database may create a problem. Fortunately, the genealogy programs come to your rescue. Many of them will highlight the linking individuals. In this case, I found that Marion Francetta Miller (b. 1882, d. 1968), whose mother was a Kartchner, was married to my Great-uncle Thomas William Tanner (b. 1880, d. 1965). I actually knew about these people. Their children were my father's first cousins.
But if this line was related through the spouse of one of my uncles, was I really related to these people? OK, the answer to that question is the basis for a great deal of discussion and controversy. Some would say, yes, of course. Others would say no, not at all. From a genealogical standpoint, since I actually had dealings indirectly with these people, I considered them to be relatives. But are all their ancestors my relatives? When it gets down to it, I don't really care one way or the other. As long as there is an actual connection with one of my uncles or cousins, I will include them in my genealogy.
But another question is what kind of priority will I assign to doing research on this particular branch of my family? Now that I have explored this line and realize the connection, I must admit that I will not likely put them on the top of my list of families to investigate. I have enough of a mess in my direct lines to keep me busy for the rest of my life without following the families of the spouses of my ancestors' siblings.
Of course, the question then arises as to what other surprises are lurking out their in Tanner genealogy land? Maybe I should do some more exploring.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Who are these people? -- exploring your own genealogy files
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The Smithsonian's National Zoo has closed part of its panda house because its female giant panda may be pregnant.
Spokeswoman Devin Murphy said Tuesday that Mei Xiang is starting to show some behavioral changes and sensitivity to noise, leading the zoo to close the area around her den.
The zoo said last week that Mei Xiang's hormones are rising, which indicates she may be pregnant or experiencing a false pregnancy. That phase will last for about 40 to 55 days, at which point she will either give birth to a cub, or her pseudopregnancy will end.
If there's a cub, it could be born somewhere between Sept. 4 and Sept. 19.
Mei Xiang was artificially inseminated twice in March after failing to breed naturally with male panda Tian Tian. The zoo says its panda team is monitoring Mei Xiang closely and that she has begun nest building.
Mei Xiang has given birth to two cubs. Tai Shan was born in 2005, and a week-old cub died last September.
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Jamie Singleton is Ridgeland-Hardeeville High's boys and girls soccer coach. Earlier this month he coached the girls to their first win in school history. Singleton, a social studies teacher, had not coached soccer until this season, but said he's grown to admire the sport and loves the players' enthusiasm. A 2005 Fort Mill High and 2010 Winthrop University graduate, Singleton recently discussed coaching two teams, his expectations and his rugby-playing days at Fort Mill HS.
How did playing rugby in high school help prepare you for the soccer season?
I played rugby for fun, but rugby really translates into soccer. The rules are similar. It's just as rough as well and you are constantly running, just like in soccer.
I also asked for advice from other people, fraternity brothers, and coach (Blake) Raley helped me set up the program and (Gunnery Sgt.) Anthony Cuevas set up offensive and defensive strategies.
Also, I watched the U.S. women's team at the Olympics and learned a lot more about technique and strategy. If you are in charge of something, you learn that particular thing really well.
Has it been difficult coaching both the boys and girls?
Well, I've got two assistants. For the boys it's Andrew White and LaWanda Dixon with the girls. Usually I work with the girls more; Andrew deals more with the boys. The boys have been playing since they were young; they really know the game and strategies. I knew the boys can really take care of business. I give them a sheet of paper with what I want them to do for practice and give it to Andrew and they'll run practice. I check in every 10 minutes or so.
The girls need more attention, but they have ability and knowledge. I believe a couple of girls got the word out to all their friends and said, 'Hey, this is something big we can start, we need to be a part of it.'
We've come a long way. I'm trying to make sure we outlast other teams. At practice we make sure we get our sprints in. It's like a rope-a-dope approach: wear down the other team.
Sophomore forward Martin Sotelo is a returning all-state boys player. What makes him such a talented player and who else do you expect to contribute?
He's definitely a top player. He controls the ball very, very well. It's his speed as well. He can outrun several defenders.
Adrian Morales (senior, forward) is the main captain. He has great leadership abilities, plays in rec leagues all year round and is probably our best athlete. He is probably the quickest guy out there. He just has this athletic ability that is out of this world compared to other soccer programs. Alex Morales (senior) is my most capable defender. He controls the backfield, telling the others what to do and how to get the ball out of there. He has a great ability to catch up to the person with the ball. The boys run a 4-4-2 and then a 4-1-4-1.
Which girls are you counting on?
My main captain is Selena Rodriguez (senior, forward) and Jackie Flores-Galvan (freshman, forward) and Edna Bernal (senior, midfield) provide motivation and leadership. (Sophomore) Guadalupe Peche de la Rosa is the goalkeeper.
We run a 4-1-3-2, defensive strategy. We try to cause disruption in the midfield.
What were your expectations for both teams when the season began?
I believe (the girls) will have a winning season. It was up in the air at first, this being the first season, but I do believe we will definitely have a winning season as long as we are putting in hard work and show discipline.
I told the boys we have the ability to go very far. I told them, 'It is up to you to show how far we can go.' I'm just trying to see how far those guys are willing to take us.
Are you enjoying coaching soccer?
It's been a blast. It's definitely a lot of fun out there. Just to see them working on something and the benefit of that hard work.


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