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The Dalmatian Paragliding Open will be held at Hrvace, Croatia, from 24-27 May 2018.
The FAI cat 2 competition will be meet-directed by Igor Eržen. The entry fee is just €40 up until 15 April, after which it rises to €50. It includes lunch, transport to launch and a free T-shirt.
More information can be found on the event's website, here.
The second round of the 2018 Bordairrace hike-and-fly series takes place at Schöckl, Austria, from 26-27 May 2018.
2018 Series
21-24 April: Kampenwand/Chiemsee, Germany
26-27 May: Schöckl, Austria
7-8 July: Kössen, Austria (Austrian hike-and-fly championship)
More information, and registration, at Bordairrace.com
Bordairrace's Facebook page
Romania's Skytribe Paragliding Club host the Skytribe XC FAI cat 2 competition in Clopotiva from 29 May – 3 June 2018.
They say it was such a success in 2017 that they have made it a six-day event this year, instead of five.
"Clopotiva is part of the Retezat National Park, one of the highest and most beautiful mountain ranges in Romania. The highest peak is Peleaga, at 2,509m. It's a peak that can be reached fairly easy, crossing from Pelegii meadow. On the way you will pass Bucura lake (the largest glacial lake in Romania, with a surface of almost 90 000m²) which can be admired in all its splendour from the top of Peleaga.
The event's details can be found on Airtribune.com, where you can also register. Contact the Skytribe paragliding club
The tenth Kössen Paragliding Testival is on from 31 May to 3 June 2018.
Last year saw record crowds at the Austrian event, with 4,300 pilots and 7,500 flights flown over four days. It's rapidly becoming a must-attend for everyone in the paragliding industry.
The idea of the festival is that pilots can turn up, drop off their passport in exchange for a demo wing, and then use the cablecar to swiftly head up for a test fly. Dedicated pilots can fly lots of wings.
El Yelmo International Festival of the Air is back in Segura de la Sierra, Andalucia, Spain, on 1-3 June 2018. Now in its 19th edition, the free-flying festival promises three days of fun in the Spanish sun, with airshows, a trade fair, conferences, a competition and the International Festival of Air Cinema.
Hundreds of paraglider and paramotor pilots are expected, with 20,000 spectators over the weekend.
A second French Pre-PWC for 2018 is to be held in the Pyrenees in June 2018, hosted by Pôle Espoir Vol Libre.
The site of Targassonne, near Font-Romeu, is where a host of top French pilots (Charles Cazaux, Laurie Genovese, Jérémie Lager, Maxime Pinot, Méryl Delferrière, Simon Pellissier … ) learned to fly.
Base camp will be L'enclave campsite in the town of Estavar.
More information and registration on Airtribune
The sixth edition of the Airtour hike-and-fly competition will take place from 9-17 June 2018, starting as always at St Hilaire du Touvet in the French Alps.
This year for the first time pilots can choose to fly in Adventure or Competition categories, tackling three different tasks of increasing difficulty, graded green, blue and red, like ski pistes. In all, the course covers over 300km through the Alps.
Adventure category
Pilots taking part in the Adventure category are not ranked, though they are tracked and their positions displayed on the website as with the competition pilots. They follow the green, blue and red courses in order. Adventure-category pilots can race alone or teams, and pilot and supporter can alternate. Pilots need an IPPI 5 rating and some cross-country experience.
Race category
In the Race category, pilots follow the green, blue and red courses in order, and first to goal wins the race. Pilots need an IPPI 5 rating and either competition experience or proof of significant cross-country flights in order to be selected.
The courses
Green: small Chatreuse tour with optional turnpoint la Sure
Blue: loop to the south around Trieves, Devoluy, Le Buech, le Vercors and an optional turnpoint at Aspres sur Buech
Red: loop in the heart of the French Alps with Mont Blanc as an optional turnpoint
Pre-registration is open on the Airtour website, and closes on 31 January 2018.
The Applegate Open is a USHPA sanctioned paragliding race-to-goal competition.
It is run by the Rogue Valley Hang Gliding and paragliding Association and will take place at Woodrat Mountain, Oregon from 9-16 June 2018.
During the week of 2-8 June 2018, the British Paragliding Cup team are running a training week in Krushevo, Macedonia, in preparation for round 2 of the BPCup the following week.
Organisers write:
"The BP Cup is an entry-level paragliding competition for Pilot rated pilots. No previous competition experience is necessary but you do need to be confident thermalling. Our aims are – flying, fun and learning – in that order! The intention is to provide a friendly, supportive environment to facilitate pilots' development, pushing PB boundaries and achieving competition goals".
The Krushevo round HQ will be the Hotel Montana Palace, just above the town of Krushevo, Macedonia.


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Last week when I finally went to make some, though, I was dismayed to see the massive amounts of milk in the recipe.
Sad day.
I'm casein-intolerant so I can't have dairy. It's horrible. I love ice cream. Every single kind. And don't get me started on cheese. It's a food tragedy. However, I discovered that you can completely remove the yogurt aspect and sub in the milk of your choice. In my case that alternates between almond + coconut. Soy + rice would work as well! I've made this a few different times and wanted to share some of the recipes. Ready? Let's go.
To make it, you just need a one-to-one ratio of milk to oats. After that you can add in anything you'd like. For the step by step I used chocolate-peanut butter-coconut, so we'll move through that and then have alternate recipes at the bottom.
Peanut butter chox coconut:
3/4 c. oats
3/4 c. milk of choice
1 tbs peanut butter
1 tbs chocolate powder
2 tbs shredded coconut
1/4 tsp cinnamon
Sweetness to taste (I went without, but you may want 1 tsp of honey or raw sugar)
** optional** add sliced bananas the day of.
3/4 c. oats
3/4 c. milk of choice
2 tbs jam or preserves of choice
1 piece cut up fruit of choice (or handful of berries)
Try blueberry, raspberry, strawberry, mixed... any jam you like! Add in mangoes, peaches, fresh berries, bananas... anything! I like this because the natural sugar in the fruit is enough to sweeten without any excess sugar added.
Apple Pie:
3/4 c. oats
3/4 c. milk of choice
1/2 to 1 tsp cinnamon
1 chopped apple
1/4 tsp vanilla or almond extract
1/2 tsp sweetener of choice (honey, raw sugar)
Maple Cinnamon:
3/4 c. oats
3/4 c. milk of choice
1/2- 1 tsp cinnamon
1 tbs maple syrup
Week: Over. I can't believe how quickly it has gone by! Nearly makes me want to cry. I hope your week was good to you. I have a lot of free time next week, so I plan to take on some bigger projects that I haven't been able to conquer yet. And I want to organize my home. And I'm getting a tattoo touched up. And I want to go to the beach. And, and, and. That's how you take an empty week and make it full, people! Have a great weekend, see you next week and as always, thanks for reading!

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Looking at a number of websites over the last week many, even the ones that get healthy traffic, seem to have a short term project focus.
There was nothing on the websites that provided a reader with any hint that they want to do business with their customers over a longer period of time. Or that their services extend beyond one offs.
The Problem with Project Thinking
It leads you into the trap of continually needing new customers to have a healthy business. It can also mean that you get swamped with work for a time and then nothing, so you need to attract more customers.
Sure there will be times when customers just want you do a one off project. However if you change the way you think about your services and how you offer them you could be surprised at the additional solutions you can actually offer your customers.
To help with this you can use mind maps such as MindMeister and FreeMind.
How to Use The Mind Maps
Type in one of your services and then just think of the different ways you can extend this service with your current customers.
One way is to think of what is the next stage for your customer's business.
In the past that may have been the end of the relationship unless the customer calls with a new project. However if you mind map or set out the next stages of the work your customers would want or need you will be able to come up with idea and services.
For example a website is not a one off. After the initial stages, customers may want to add ways to interact more with their customers such as a newsletter, or they many want to add offers for example.
Of course the easiest way to do this is actually with your customers, but if you have new relationships and do not feel comfortable doing this, then at least in the early stages you can do it alone.
If you think through the stages and importantly keep in touch and be proactive then you make it easier for the customer to keep using your services rather than be tempted by a competitor.


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Sequester Deal Looks Unlikely
A last-minute deal to avert Friday's scheduled 'sequester' budget cuts totaling $85 billion looks unlikely as President Obama and congressional leaders do not plan to meet until during the day on Friday. WSJ's Peter Nicholas has details. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... the the ... the Street to Washington works the necklaces and joining us this morning with more on the back sequester cuts that are all but certain to kick and Peter's outright ... I that traders will look like there's any way to avoid them on the White House side is such that the media and present Obama will meet Russian leaders on Friday ... as the first face-to-face meeting that God didn't happen this standoff ... but there's no song really or no real optimism on either side ... the meeting will produce a breakthrough ... both sides are making a calculation that politically ... well my favorite shows is that these cuts to kick in and take the fact that my they improve their negotiating position ... in Intel me mention that their meeting Friday for the first time ... face to face I think a lot of Americans ... who might not even following this closely day-to-day and in the inside and out will find that shocking that that that the of the enormity of this is happening in these two sides have not even yet sat down ... at a table face-to-face to discuss that ... I think that's right um what what it does happen the reason that it happened that this this out there is reason for that mess that President Obama is ... to literally run in and outside ... outside the Beltway strategy we're trying to put pressure on ... grass Republicans ... are taking this message ... out to the country but trying to ... change public opinion by trying to convince people that that ought to be so devastating ... that it should call their elected officials called members of Congress and demand a solution ... the president had deals he's been burned in previous Up budget ... standoff where he's tried to essentially play the inside game ... negotiate directly with John Binner and its McConnell tough ... he's got nowhere but that strategy ... so he's thinking he's trying to exert pressure from the outside was super works right now the deadline is ticking down ... the kitchen tomorrow and there's really no deal in sight ... I know that that they didn't meet yesterday at the Rosa Parks their money present Obama was there was some congressional leaders were looking at them the Standing NAMA look like they're getting along perfectly well that they discuss the sequester ... what actually did come off the job is about sixty seconds talking about the sequester were told ... and um do ... Republicans are Republican wrestle they say ... that the decision not to know more then well we'll see you Friday Dell will be there so ... the White House sexy described this as a meeting of some sort or at least some sort of pop ... yet yet there are discussion about sequester but it didn't seem like there was very much substance to it so what happens now with the cuts kick kicking in ... if grilled pain is felt ... in the short term ... who gets blamed for that it's it's not something that really people can see happening in the long term and that that's what's to like it leave this to me what what is the jockeying going on now in terms of the blame game enemy ... well when Dave is important actually to both sides and whether ... President disorder banking on is the sequester will have to be real the real world repercussions people be waiting hours at the airport ... our children will be kicked off a head start ... on defense contractors will be furloughed ... teachers will lose their jobs ... and you know that as the pain of the triples to the economy ... I if military readiness is jeopardized ... um then what will happen is to be more pressure on Republicans to come to cable ... and reach a deal with they accept some tax revenue increases ... that's our guess is the White House strategy so after he kicks in right away to summer grade of my work into White House's paper ... if however ... that a Texas couple months for the sequester to play out that the pain isn't all right away Republicans argue that the White House cried Wolf here ... they promise to reveal the big predicted that the oldest ... all this pain in all these consequences net haven't ... they haven't shown up so that when when Republicans favor ... so the next few weeks will be very important in this debate ... could go a long way to the ... two resolving our citing essentially who will open them on this ... president or congressional Republicans ... I'd be here thank you so much a dining us not Sara and prevail might be she alerted him telling anyone comes out on top on this that will have to wait and see thank so much for joining us from Washington this morning and people can read much more about this on WS J dot com


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Chinatown walking tours: Hawaii Heritage Center offers a historic and cultural tour 9:30 a.m. to noon Fridays. Costs $4. Call 521-2749.
Chinatown Historical Society tours are 10 a.m. Mondays through Fridays. Costs $5. Call 521-3045.
Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii tours are 9:30 a.m. to noon Tuesdays. Costs $5. Call 533-3181.
Foster Botanical Garden: 1 p.m. weekdays. General admission $5. Call 522-7066.
Hawaii Ghost Tours: three-hour, mini circle, evening bus tour of Oahu's haunted spots, 6:30 p.m. every Saturday. Narrated tour stops at cemeteries, restaurants, hotels, an ancient temple, Morgan's Corner, and the Royal Mausoleum. Fee. Reservations at 596-2052.
Halawa Xeriscape Garden: Free admission to garden of dry-land plants at Halawa Industrial Park 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays and Wednesdays. Guided tours are free on Thursdays and the last Saturday of each month; call 527-6113 for an appointment.
Hawaii Ghost Tours: See haunted spots on a three-hour bus tour 6:30 p.m. Saturdays. Narrated tour includes stops at cemeteries, hotels, an ancient temple, the Royal Mausoleum and the Pali Lookout. Costs $22. Call 596-2052.
Hawaiian Railway: Train departs for 90-minute ride through Ewa 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. Sundays from 91-1001 Renton Road. Passengers should arrive a half hour before departure time. Costs $8 general, $5 seniors and children. Reserve at 681-5461.
Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden, 233-7323: Learn about rain forest plants 10 a.m. Saturdays and 1 p.m. Sundays. Free. Bring walking shoes, bug repellent, rain gear and a picnic.
Urban Garden Center: 9 a.m. to noon Tuesdays, 962 Second St., Pearl City. Call 453-6050. Gardens at the educational center also open on the first Saturday of each month.


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Perhaps you are now finding yourself in a relationship that is tense. Whether you are an intern or a supervisor, there are very real challenges when the visions of two people called to preach the Gospel of Christ do not match up. What do we do with the dissonance and hurt that comes with a shattering of expectations of a year in ministry together?
My supervisor left just after the mid-point of my internship. He prepared me for this and I learned a lot from him and respect him and his call away from the congregation that he was serving. I was then the lone "pastoral" figure in the office for over a month. When we got an interim, that's when my internship really started to be get challenging.Rather than going into all the details of my relationship to the interim, let me just say: we were two people called to (short-term) ministry who did not share a vision of what it means to serve a church and proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ.There were many times in the first couple weeks that clued me in that we were going to have a challenging relationship. I attempted to articulate the conflict to the interim (my new supervisor) and work with him. However, one Sunday I felt I needed to be fully direct and clear about my own emotions and perception of his actions. I spoke with him after the activities of Sunday morning were over, owned my feelings (and mistakes). His response to my plea was very disappointing.By the grace of God, I was able to leave the congregation for a few days after the incident and go to my spring intern cluster retreat without my new supervisor. I talked with other interns and internship directors about the new challenges I was facing and we vented and prayed. While I was out, my intern committee became aware of the situation and truly did more than enough to see that I and my wife and son had all the support we needed to finish the internship.Through my committee's support and the wonderful congregation (which had little or no knowledge our tensions on staff) I was able to make and live into a critical distinction: I had a bad relationship with my supervisor; I did not have a bad internship. There were some very difficult days, but to quote a line given to me by Region 1 Internship Coordinator Julie Josund, "I learned more than I ever imagined."Perhaps you are now finding yourself in a relationship that is tense. Whether you are an intern or a supervisor, there are very real challenges when the visions of two people called to preach the Gospel of Christ do not match up. What do we do with the dissonance and hurt that comes with a shattering of expectations of a year in ministry together? There were many places in Scripture that began speaking to me last year in the midst of my hurt and confusion but I'd like to offer two of my favorites: Mark 9:2-8 and Romans 8:26-27.At the transfiguration Peter was confused and terrified. He did not know what to do with his experience but in the midst of the cloud that encircled him he said to Jesus, "It is good for us to be here". By the peace that passes understanding I was able to serve God in newness of life each day. I didn't and couldn't accomplish this; this was the forgiveness of sins that is created by the Holy Spirit. It was the Holy Spirit praying for me "with sighs too deep words" that allowed me to not just survive or tolerate the rest of my internship but truly learn what it means to be the body of Christ even in the presence of real conflict and hurt. It caused me to confess my sins of wanting to justify my own behavior and not accepting blame for my mistakes. The Holy Spirit called me to be bold and speak up for the sake of the congregation, for the sake of the Gospel.There were days when it certainly felt like it was a battle: Supervisor vs. Intern. But out of the cloud of my own sins of pride and arrogance I am called to hear the good news that I am forgiven and that it is truly good to be here!
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New products and changes introduced over the last week include an ETF from Calamos and ETNs from Barclays listed by NASDAQ OMX, the adoption of three Cushing funds by MainStay Investments, the introduction of a practice acquisition group by Pensionmark Retirement Group and a fixed target annuity from Guardian.
Also, Franklin Templeton introduced preferred pricing for Canadian investors, HuaAn Asset Management Co. Ltd. launched an ETF in China based on the DAX index and Envestnet completed the acquisition of Klein Decisions Inc.
Here are the latest developments of interest to advisors:
1) NASDAQ OMX Lists Calamos ETF, Barclays ETNs
NASDAQ OMX announced that it has listed the Calamos Focused Growth ETF (CFGE) and Barclays Inverse U.S. Treasury Composite ETNs (TAPR).
CFGE features a portfolio consisting of stocks in which Calamos has the greatest confidence of sustained growth. The portfolio selection process stresses company fundamentals, including a global presence, strong revenue and earnings growth, solid returns on invested capital and lower debt-to-capital levels. The fund also utilizes active management, blending investment themes with fundamental research.
The TAPR ETNs are designed to help investors position for rising U.S. dollar Treasury yields by tracking the Barclays Inverse U.S. Treasury Futures Composite Index, which tracks the sum of the returns of periodically rebalanced synthetic short positions in equal face values of each of the 2-year, 5-year, 10-year, long-bond and ultra-long U.S. Treasury futures contracts.
2) MainStay Adopts Three Cushing Funds
MainStay Investments, a New York Life company, has announced that it has finalized the adoption of three Cushing funds.
The MainStay Cushing MLP Premier Fund (CSHAX) invests primarily in MLPs focused on the midstream energy sector, which generally includes businesses engaged in the transportation and storage of natural resources.
The MainStay Cushing Royalty Energy Income Fund (CURAX) invests primarily in U.S. and Canadian royalty trusts and exploration and production MLPs.
Both CSHAX and CURAX seek current income and capital appreciation utilizing proprietary research to seek to identify investments with the most attractive distribution yields and distribution growth prospects.
The MainStay Cushing Renaissance Advantage Fund (CRZAX) invests thematically in energy, industrial, manufacturing and transportation companies positioned to benefit from increasing U.S. production of crude oil and natural gas and lower relative domestic energy costs.
(One of Cushing's SMA strategies, the MLP Alpha Total Return Strategy, won Investment Advisor/Envestnet PMC's SMA Manager of the Year award in the Specialty Category this year. Read the extended profile of Cushing's Alpha Total Return Strategy, focusing on Cushing's president, Libby Toudouze.)
3) Guardian Adds Fixed Target Annuity
The Guardian Insurance & Annuity Company, Inc. (GIAC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, has announced the introduction of the Guardian Fixed Target Annuity. This single-premium fixed deferred annuity offers customers the ability to select from multiple guaranteed interest periods and provides flexible renewal and withdrawal options to help generate income for retirement.
The new annuity does not have any market value adjustments on withdrawals made before maturity. In addition, a client will know the end value of his or her investments based on the interest rate applied and the time until maturity.
4) Franklin Templeton Adds Preferred Pricing for Canadian Investors
Franklin Templeton Investments Corp. has announced the introduction of Series M, which offers Canadian investors a new option for high-net-worth pricing in a fee-based model. This new fee-for-service series offers preferred pricing for a selection of mutual funds across a range of asset classes.
Series M allows advisors and investors to build a portfolio from 13 different investment options, covering a variety of asset classes, as well as competitive management fees and a fixed rate administration fee.
6) Pensionmark Retirement Group Introduces Practice Acquisition Group
Pensionmark Retirement Group has introduced its practice acquisition group (PAG), which addresses the needs of retirement-focused advisors who are interested in selling all or a portion of their practice today or in creating a formal intention to buy at a later predefined target date and price.
In addition to practice acquisitions and letters of intent, PAG has also defined strategies for business succession planning and for partial buyouts, where an advisor may want to just transition the retirement or other portion of their practice.
7) HuaAn, STOXX Announce ETF in China Modeled on DAX
HuaAn Asset Management Co. Ltd. and STOXX Limited have announced the HuaAn Germany DAX 30 ETF, which has as its underlying index the German DAX and is listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
The DAX measures the development of the 30 largest and most liquid companies on the German equities market and represents around 80% of the market capitalization authorized in Germany.
7) Envestnet Announces Acquisition of Klein Decisions
Envestnet Retirement Solutions (ERS), a majority-owned subsidiary of Envestnet, Inc., announced that it has completed the acquisition of Klein Decisions Inc.
Klein's behavioral and financial analysis-based participant advice solutions strengthen ERS's product and service offerings for retirement advisors.
Read the July 11 Portfolio Products Roundup at ThinkAdvisor.


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Chris Gralapp is intimately familiar with a world she can never visit. She has followed the path of the Eustachian tube, navigated the spirals of the cochlea.
Her colored pencils fuel her travels, flying her into the landscape of the inner ear, through the miniature universe inside the skull. It's as if she were a tiny person standing inside, marveling at the curves and canals.
As a longtime medical illustrator, Gralapp has collaborated with many physicians. One of the most frequent copilots on her journeys is surgeon Robert K. Jackler, chair of the Department of Otolaryngology -- Head and Neck Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine. The pair has been a most productive team, creating illustrations that bring viewers inside complex procedures, such as treating hearing loss by placing an infinitesimal prosthesis inside the ear.
Jackler is married to an artist, Laurie Jackler, but he admits he can't draw too well. He relies on Gralapp's hand to help make what he sees during surgery clear and vivid to others. Their illustrations, CD-ROMs and books -- including the "Atlas of Skull Base Surgery and Neurotology" -- serve as valuable aids for doctors honing their techniques, residents learning to be fully fledged surgeons, and patients yearning to understand the work that will be done inside their own bodies.
"On the face of it, you really don't see art and science being a marriage," Gralapp says recently in Jackler's Stanford office. "But we're doing the same thing, just in different ways. We're trying to explain the world."
As an educator, Jackler clearly sees merit in endeavoring to explain the world to as many people as possible.
"As a doctor, you can help thousands of patients," he says. "If you can create an educational tool to help doctors all around the world, you can help millions."
The pair has put hundreds of their illustrations online, which means a surgeon on the other side of the world could be consulting one in an operating room right now.
Gralapp and Jackler are also continuing a tradition that exists in many lands and goes back countless years, Gralapp says. "The great anatomists of the Renaissance all had an illustrator by their side."
This contemporary collaboration takes place surrounded by ears.
Gralapp, who lives in Marin County, regularly comes to Jackler's Stanford workplace. She's so familiar with human anatomy that she doesn't need to observe in the operating room anymore, so the pair work in the office, in the company of antique medical drawings of ears. Curving like seashells, the ears watch from wooden frames on the wall.
The theme continues, sort of, behind Jackler's desk. Parody prints depict various paintings of (who else?) van Gogh.
On a low table, colored pencils fill a white School of Medicine mug. Pieces of tracing paper show two key parts of the collaboration process: two rather ragged preliminary sketches by Jackler, next to a more finished version by Gralapp.
"Any sketch I do is dead flat," Jackler says affably. "She can create that dimensionality."
This is a now-familiar process. Jackler comes in with an idea and his sketches, often along with MRI or CT images, and Gralapp works with him to create a formal, colorful incarnation. Her drawings are scanned into the computer, and the two refine the illustrations there. (In years past, Gralapp used watercolor, but the computer has replaced that.)
The illustrations are often bright with false colors. While some hues are standard (arteries are red, veins are blue), it's not uncommon to see a fetching green or purple.
"We try to maintain consistency ... but we sometimes use different colors to show adjacent structures with different purposes," Jackler says.
Jackler and Gralapp seem to have a friendly working rapport and speak each other's artistic language. It helps that Gralapp knows her anatomy.
"She's become a master of head and neck, which is the most Byzantinely complex area," Jackler says. "She now knows the ear any which way you can imagine."
From time to time, other physicians who do projects with Gralapp will come in to watch her work with Jackler, to learn from their process, Jackler says.
Peter Hwang, who also works in otolaryngology at Stanford, echoes Jackler's praise. He recently finished a textbook on sinus surgery, with Gralapp doing 100 illustrations.
"The process of creating new art with Chris was collaborative and organic," Hwang said. "For example, Chris was trying to get the shading just right on a complex anatomic perspective, so she went home and cut an apple to study how light and shadow fell on the cut fruit. Needless to say, she brought this insight into her drawing, and nailed it."
Hwang also sees Gralapp as an excellent educator. "She recognizes that her drawings are created to teach, and she knows how to distill the essence of the teaching points into a natural, clear and accurate depiction of the human anatomy. So the collaboration extends beyond the lines and colors of the drawing towards something bigger -- allowing us as educators to be more effective teachers through her beautiful work."
There is, of course, something to be said for creating beauty for beauty's own sake. Gralapp clearly pays attention to aesthetics in the elegant simplicity of her lines.
But attractive anatomical drawings have been made many times over the centuries. Jackler is more interested in illustrating new, complex procedures.
"We specialize in taking on these things that other people don't," he says.
One focus has been cranial-base surgery, as seen in Jackler's "Atlas of Skull Base Surgery and Neurotology," published in 2008 with 700 color illustrations by Gralapp. The book details what the tumors are and how they grow, as well as methods to remove them, many of which had not been developed as recently as 30 years ago.
"Now we can make tunnels through the ear and other places to get to intercranial tumors that were previously unreachable," Jackler says.
Another project is the pair's work with the Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss. Researchers have been focusing on trying to cure deafness through regenerative methods, such as stem-cell therapy using the patient's own skin cells.
Jackler cites hair-cell regeneration as an example: Hearing loss often takes place when hair cells in the cochlea are damaged. Jackler flips through illustrations depicting the damaged sensory epithelium, and how stem cells from the patient's skin or fat might be placed in the cochlea to fuse with the structures and then develop as hair cells.
Gralapp's drawings depict the process in a straightforward way, with economical use of lines and color. It's just as important to leave out what is not needed, she notes.
Since the procedure is not yet done on patients, this illustration process is aimed at a different audience: potential donors.
"It's an exciting project, but it needs money," Jackler says.
The pair chats about a recent donors' meeting where they presented their illustrations.
"Do you think they got it?" Gralapp asks.
Jackler smiles. "Definitely."
How does it feel for this artist to be involved with what could be a major treatment for hearing loss?
"It's so exciting," Gralapp says. "I feel very honored and humbled to be a part of it."
In some cases, the pair does create purely anatomical drawings. With the ear, they felt compelled to correct the record.
For years, many people relied on an intricate drawing of the ear done by the pioneering medical illustrator Max Brodel (1870-1941). But it wasn't completely accurate, Jackler says: It has the wrong number of turns in the cochlea, for example, and the anvil is reversed.
"Although it was brilliant at the time, it has huge errors," Jackler says. So he and Gralapp made a new one with the aid of modern imaging systems. "We created drafts and circulated them around the world and asked for feedback."
Now the finished product is prominently displayed on Gralapp's laptop, the cochlea glowing pale green and the external ear a vivid, healthy pink.
Gralapp and Jackler started collaborating in the '80s at the University of California at San Francisco, where she earned her master's degree in medical and biological illustration and he was a resident. Jackler was at UCSF for 20 years and has now been at Stanford for eight.
Gralapp has built her own biomedical-visualization business, focusing on matters of the head and neck and facial plastic surgery, for academic, legal and industry clients such as Genentech, Scientific American, and various UC campuses.
She has also done animal illustrations for the Smithsonian Institution, depicted bariatric surgery for World Book and created artwork for a series of children's games about the brain. Outdoors, she draws rock art for national, state and local parks.
Gralapp says one of the most rewarding aspects of her job is feeling that she's easing the anxiety and fear of medical patients.
"Patients are a vulnerable population. I want to show them something nonthreatening," she says. "You can't scare them with surgical photographs. They'd turn and run."
Gralapp breaks into a gentle smile as she recalls a recent presentation she gave about her work to a group of about 30 patients. They had been through the illustrated medical procedures and were there to give input to Gralapp for improving her work.
"The gratifying thing is, they got what I was showing," she says. "They helped keep me on track. It was wonderful."
Meanwhile, Jackler continues to pursue a favorite side project: a Stanford research group studying the effects of tobacco advertising. It grew out of his collection of thousands of vintage cigarette ads, and a traveling exhibition of them, curated by his wife.
Jackler has donated his collection to the Smithsonian, but several reproductions of the images decorate his office. A poster from Canada's Tobacco Fund is prominently displayed. A soldier lights up beneath the slogan "Our Boys Want Smokes."
"It's been an interesting process for an ear doctor to become a tobacco guy," Jackler says.
He's also taught at Stanford Continuing Studies on making sense of the human senses. Right in line with his illustration work, he's got another idea for a class up his sleeve: "I want to do a glimpse into surgery for non-medical people."
Info: Several of Chris Gralapp's illustrations of skull-base surgery and neurotology are posted at med.stanford.edu/ohns/atlas_sb/. The artist's own website is chrisgralapp.com. Information about the Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss is at hearinglosscure.stanford.edu.


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Whether it's ice cream, chocolate, pickles, or pizza, most of us know the feeling of a food craving. But some people think it's more than that – they think we can be addicted … to food.
"Addiction" is a strong word. It implies a certain loss of control, and a change in brain chemistry. That's why the notion of food addiction is debated among California scientists who study obesity and addiction.
Rebecca Wolfson joined Anders Lammers and Anja Strejcek from the News21 program at the UC Berkeley Journalism School in trying to better understand the inner struggle of self-described food addicts – through their stories and through science.
(Note: The subjects in this story have altered names to protect their identities)
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REBECCA WOLFSON: This summer, Jill started an audio diary of the moments she comes face to face with what she calls her food addiction.
JILL: It's about midnight. I ate ice cream, am watching TV, zoning out… I really just wanted to keep eating – I wanted to go back in the kitchen and eat all the yogurt I bought. I had this really crazy moment of just wishing I could go back to the store and get the cake, and just eat the whole cake…
Jill is 47 years old. She lives in Oakland, and rides her bike everywhere. She's average-sized, moderately overweight. She describes herself as a compulsive overeater, and a sugar addict.
JILL: It's June 23rd, about 11:15 a.m. I got the idea in my head last night that I wanted to have sugar, and bought some really gross sugar that I would normally never eat, and I bought like twice as much…
I just made myself sick, and I wonder if it is ever going to end. I feel really hopeless right now about it, and I'm scared, actually.
Addiction runs in Jill's family. Her father and her grandmother were both alcoholics. Her mother is obese.
JILL: It's early afternoon, and I went to a 12-step meeting, and I cried and cried. I want to go get some sugar, but I'm going to eat dinner first, and then maybe I won't go and get some sugar.
So, is Jill really addicted to sugar? There's no scientific consensus on how the term "food addiction" should be defined, or whether the medical community should consider food an addictive substance at all. Robert Lustig thinks it should be.
ROBERT LUSTIG: You're all familiar with the basic concept of the first law of thermodynamics…
Lustig is a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at UCSF. He researches the causes of obesity, and thinks that sugar is one of the biggest culprits.
LUSTIG: In human terms, the standard interpretation of this law is the following: If you eat it, you better burn it, or you're going to store it. Who believes that? Oh come on, you all do. (laughs) I used to believe that. I don't anymore. I think that's a mistake.
While society generally blames rising obesity rates on people's lifestyle choices, Lustig says these behaviors are secondary to a biochemical process in the brain. Lustig thinks that food – specifically sugar – should be considered an addictive substance. Sugar, especially fructose, the sweet part of it, will cause four phenomena, all of which are necessary for the diagnosis of addiction in animals. According the American Medical Association guidelines, first comes craving; second, binging; third, withdrawal; and fourth, a greater likelihood of becoming addicted to other substances.
LUSTIG: There's something wrong with our biochemical negative feedback system that normally controls energy balance. And we have to figure out what caused it, and how to reverse it.
ELIZA: I used to have fantasies that the only way I would be able to lose weight, and stop binging, would be to be put in jail. My name is Eliza. I'm 64. And I'm a compulsive overeater. And I have been that way probably all my life.
The white powder that you sniff up your nose or the white powder that you put in your throat – it alters your mood, it makes you a different person. It's definitely a drug.
Eliza lives in San Francisco, and attends Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous, or FA, meetings. This support group is a 12-step program, modeled after Alcoholics Anonymous, and it's one of the stricter food addiction groups.
FA emphasizes abstinence from trigger foods, and requires members to adopt an eating plan with a former food addict sponsor. Like many of the self-described food addicts we talked to, Eliza described her binges as a chance to zone out.
ELIZA: There's something about the repetitive motion in eating a lot of food that puts you in a place – it's kinda like you kind of leave your body a little bit. If anyone tries to interrupt me, like on the phone or at the door, I get really angry, because I do not want to be disturbed.
As the medical community debates whether to consider food possibly addictive, studies have surfaced examining brain scans of people who've ingested sugar.
One study, published in April by Yale's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, found that alleged food addicts exhibited neural activity similar to drug addicts.
Researchers at the University of Bordeaux in France found that cocaine-addicted rats worked harder for sugar than they did for cocaine. Given a choice between sugar and cocaine, rats almost invariably chose the sugar – even when faced with increasing doses of cocaine.
The thing about comparing sugar and cocaine is that, if you're addicted to drugs, at least you can avoid the corner, or the dealer. When it comes to sugar, it really is everywhere.
WOLFSON: Right now I'm at Safeway in Berkeley. I'm going to start off in the cereal aisle. There are lots and lots of options and possibilities… With lots of colorful boxes. Now I'm going to go look at something that's supposedly pretty healthy, like Raisin Bran, a generic Raisin Bran, listed under pantry essentials. It's only a $1.29. And in this box there are four servings. A serving size is one cup. And there's 18 grams of sugar.
I looked at a diverse sample of cereals that day. I was surprised to see that serving of organic, supposedly heart-healthy cereal has the same amount of sugar as a serving of Oreo cookies. Food companies add sugar to hamburger buns, ketchup, bread – nearly everything.
In his book, The End of Overeating, former FDA Commissioner David Kessler points his finger at food companies, which market and engineer sweet, salty, and fattening foods, in order to hook people, and to keep them coming back for more. Kessler estimates that there are more than 70 million food-addicted adults in the U.S.
Human genetic research, animal studies, brain imaging, and biochemical studies of the digestive processes all indicate that some people could experience addictions to food. But skeptics say that none of these findings are conclusive. The American Psychiatric Association doesn't currently list food addiction in its manual for mental disorders, even though it's set to add "binge eating disorder" to its next edition.
RONNA KABATZNICK: Some people can look at a piece of food and think it's disgusting, but somebody else could think it's the most desirable and delicious food. So it's not in the food. It's really in the behavior, and how we relate to it.
Ronna Kabatznick is a psychiatrist and professor at UCSF who specializes in overeating, and doesn't believe in food addiction. By calling food addictive, she says it strips people of the power to control their eating. As a psychiatrist, she teaches patients to be mindful eaters.
KABATZNICK: With alcohol or drugs, of course, it's all or nothing. I mean when you're addicted, it's hard to be moderate with alcohol, it's hard to be moderate with drugs. Those kind of treatments require complete abstinence. With food and eating, you have to eat … I mean, that's part of how we survive.
For self-described food addicts like Eliza, it doesn't matter what you call her condition. She loses control, and it interferes with her daily life.
ELIZA: After I binge, it takes about five days to get back to normal. I know that, for five days after I binge, if I feel suddenly uncomfortable, angry or moody, I don't know if that's how I really feel, or if it's because of the food. It plays with my emotions for about five days. That's a pretty big price to pay for a 20-minute binge.
For those 20 minutes, Eliza says that the sugar takes over. And even though "addiction" is just a word, it raises questions that could help us all better understand our relationship with food.
For Crosscurrents, I'm Rebecca Wolfson.
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MIG members discuss product development, integration, standardization at M2M Forum
PITTSBURGH—May 29, 2012—MEMS Industry Group® (MIG) engaged technology leaders attending its annual technical conference for members, Member to Member (M2M) Forum, on the most pressing challenges affecting the micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) industry. Held May 8-10, 2012 in Pittsburgh, M2M Forum® began with a tour of Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU's) microsystems labs, offering a rare opportunity to engage with engineers at one of the world's top R&D institutions. Through interactive working group sessions, presentations and panels, M2M attendees discussed critical issues influencing new MEMS product development, to advance the commercialization of MEMS through a fertile information exchange.
"MEMS Industry Group is focused on building the business of MEMS, and that includes exploring technical challenges, product innovation, commercial successes and emerging trends," said Karen Lightman, managing director, MEMS Industry Group. "Our ability to cover so much ground in just two days of M2M Forum—from the CMU labs' tour and Qualcomm CDMA Technologies' Len Sheynblat's call for sensor-integration standardization to heated discussions around product-development strategies—validates MIG's position as a neutral organization that fosters the exchange of ideas, for the betterment of the MEMS industry as a whole."
Highlights of M2M Forum
- Site visit to CMU's microsystems labs with demonstrations on microfluidics, micro/nanofabrication, MEMS testing in controlled environments, soft robotics, multi-scale manufacturing, electrical characterization, and more. The event concluded with a poster session featuring current research of CMU professors and graduate students.
- Evening Keynote Speaker Mary Ann Maher, CEO, SoftMEMS, LLC, addressed "Co-design Strategies for MEMS-based Products." As winner of the MIG Technology Advisory Committee's first white-paper competition, Maher addressed the intersection of co-design and standards.
- General Session Keynote Speaker Len Sheynblat, vice president of technology, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, exhorted attendees to work toward standardization in "Sensor Systems Integration Challenges."
- In "Successful MEMS Commercialization: Lessons Learned," Panelists Matt Apanius, director, SMART Commercialization Center for Microsystems; Stefan Finkbeiner, PhD, CEO, Akustica; Anne M. Schneiderman, PhD, partner, Harris Beach LLP; and Ivo Stivoric, co-founder and CTO, BodyMedia, discussed their views on successful and not-so-successful examples of MEMS-based applications.
- MEMS Technology Development Working Group Co-moderators Valerie Marty, MEMS Integration, HP, and Jason Tauscher, manager, MEMS Subsystem, MicroVision, led the conversation on development process and its relationship to the product life cycle of MEMS.
- New Product Development Working Group Co-moderators Mike Mignardi, PhD, manager, MEMS Component Development, Texas Instruments, and Jim Knutti, PhD, president/CEO, Acuity, Inc., examined market-pull VS technology-push success factors affecting commercialization of MEMS products.
- Site visit to ACUTRONIC, a developer of precision motion simulators used for the testing and calibration of inertial sensors, Inertial Navigation Systems, stabilized electro-optical systems and Electronic Stability Control systems.
Attendees of M2M Forum, as well as other MIG members, may access MIG's pre-M2M Forum research, including survey results on new product development and interviews with members of the MEMS supply chain, from device manufacturers and foundries to end-users. MIG also provides presentations, white papers, market analysis, and relevant Webinars as part of M2M Forum.
"If we are to continue to grow MEMS at the current pace, we must come together now to address the challenges affecting us collectively," added Lightman. "As a neutral forum for discussion, M2M provides the platform that uniquely fulfills this need."
About MEMS Industry Group
MEMS Industry Group (MIG) is the trade association advancing MEMS across global markets. More than 140 companies and industry partners comprise MIG, including Analog Devices, Applied Materials, BodyMedia, Robert Bosch GmbH, Freescale Semiconductor, GE, Hillcrest Labs, HARTING AG, Honeywell, HP, Intel, InvenSense, Kionix, n&k Technology, OMRON Electronic Components, Qualcomm, Silicon Resources, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, VTI Technologies and WiSpry. For more information, visit www.memsindustrygroup.org.
Karen Lightman, MEMS Industry Group
Phone: +1 412/390-1644
Email: klightman[at]memsindustrygroup.org
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For more information on M2M Forum, please read Karen Lightman's blog: MEMS Isn't New


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It Takes Courage To Engage Bigots
(I am working at a fast food restaurant. I am a gay male and am wearing my engagement ring to my boyfriend.)
Me: *ringing up customer's order* "Will that be all today, sir?"
Customer: "Yes, also I'd like to congratulate you on your engagement." *looks at my ring* "Who is the lucky girl?"
Me: "Uh, well, it's not exactly a girl."
Customer: "Pardon?"
Me: "My boyfriend gave me this engagement ring."
Customer: "Your boyfriend?"
Me: "Yes."
Customer: "I want your manager right now."
(At this point, I'm a bit worried, since my manager is a known homophobe around the restaurant. I get him to the customer.)
Manager: "What seems to be the problem?"
Customer: "I want you to fire this f***** right now!"
Manager: "Why?"
Customer: "He's a sinful f**! This restaurant hates them doesn't it? So I want him fired right now!"
Manager: "No."
Customer: "What!?"
Manager: "I'm not going to fire him just because of that. I may not like what he is either, but he's a valued employee. So, kindly get out of my restaurant right now!"
Customer: "You can't do this! I'm the customer and I'm right! Fire him right now!"
Manager: "No. Now leave before I call the police!"
(The customer leaves the store, furious. I thanked my manager for his support. Unfortunately the customer reported him and he was fired a month later. I quit in protest immediately afterwards, as did most of the staff!)


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Saint Agatha has been honored since ancient times, and her name is included in the canon of the Mass. We have little reliable information about her, except that she was a martyr. The following is according to her Latin Acts which is from around the sixth century.
Saint Agatha was a young, wealthy and beautiful woman who lived a life consecrated to God. When the Roman Emperor Decius (Caius Messius Quintus Trajanus Decius 249-251) announced his edicts against Christians, the Roman magistrate Quinctianus tried to profit by Agatha's sanctity; he planned to blackmail her into sex in exchange for not charging her.
Saint Agatha was handed over to a brothel, but she refused to accept customers. After rejecting Quinctianus' advances, she was beaten, imprisoned, tortured, her breasts were crushed and cut off. One version says that Saint Peter appeared to her and healed her. She was imprisoned further and rolled onto live coals. She was near death when an earthquake struck. In the earthquake the magistrate's friend was crushed, and the magistrate fled. Agatha thanked God for an end to her pain, and died. Her death occurred around 250 A.D.
Legend says that carrying her veil, taken from her tomb in Catania, in procession has averted eruptions of Mount Etna. Her intercession is also reported to have saved Malta from Turkish invasion in 1551. Her popular veneration is of a very early date; her name occurs in the prayer, "Nobis quoque peccatoribus," in the Canon of the Mass, and in some places bread is blessed after the Consecration of the Mass on her feast and called Agatha bread.


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AfriGeneas Free Persons of Color Forum
Hughes FPOC Census Lookup
I need help. I am looking for census documentation for the existence (birth date and parents) of a Delilah Hughes before and after the 1880 census. I would like to know her birh date, her madien name and her parent's name, when and where she died. It is critical that I find out this information and that I am able have documentation. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I know that she was married to Rueben Hughes and lived in South River (Augusta County) Virginia in the 1880 census. She her husband and children were listed as mulattoes. After 1880 she seems to just disappear. Her daughter Mildred my greatgrandmother marries and dies in Nelson County and her son Charles marries and dies in Amherst County.


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Chicken, Corn, Edamame and Farro Salad with Goat Cheese (Adapted from Bon Appétit)
1/2 cup dry semi-pearled farro
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
8 ounces (1/2 pound) boneless, skinless chicken breasts
salt and fresh ground black pepper
2 cups yellow corn kernels (thawed if frozen)
1 cup frozen shelled cooked edamame, thawed
1/2 cup thinly sliced green onions
1 tablespoon minced fresh marjoram
2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
2 tablespoons minced shallot
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
4 ounces (about 1 cup) crumbled goat cheese
In a medium saucepan of boiling, salted water, cook farro until just tender, about 20 to 25 minutes. Drain well and set aside to cool.
Meanwhile, in a medium skillet, heat 1 tablespoon oil over medium-high. Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper - add to the skillet and cook Add chicken to skillet - heat until golden and cooked through, about 6 to 8 minutes per side. Transfer chicken to a cutting board and let rest for 5 to 10 minutes. Slice chicken into 1/2" cubes.
In a large bowl, toss together farro, chicken, corn, edamame and green onions.
In a small bowl, whisk together remaining 2 tablespoons oil, marjoram and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Whisk in vinegar, shallot and mustard. Drizzle mixture over salad, tossing well to coat. Season with salt and fresh ground black pepper. Serve at room temperature or chilled.
Makes about 4 servings.
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President Abraham Lincoln Springfield, a DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, is looking to add a key member to its housekeeping management team! This property has 310 rooms, 13,000 square feet of banquet space, and 2 food and beverage outlets.
In this role, you will oversee the entire housekeeping and laundry operations managing a team of 20+ team members. The ideal candidate will be an excellent leader with a keen eye for detail and a talent for developing others. At least 3 years of housekeeping management experience is required.
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As an Executive Housekeeper, you would be responsible for the direction and administration of all Housekeeping operations to ensure the overall cleanliness and product quality of the hotel in the hotel's continuing effort to deliver outstanding guest service and financial profitability. Specifically, you would be responsible for performing the following tasks to the highest standards:
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Clinton's hardest words: I was wrong
Hillary Clinton's out-of-the-gate stumbles in interviews this week reflect an issue she's faced repeatedly during her political career – defensiveness with the media, and difficulty acknowledging a mistake.
By most measures, Clinton handled her hour-long interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer well – she was tonally on-point about Monica Lewinsky and effectively handled a question about her age. She gently mocked Karl Rove for insinuations about her health.
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But in the current media environment, it's the gaffes that stand out. And her clunky response on why she and her husband have made exorbitant amounts in speaking fees – and her tense exchange with an NPR radio host Terry Gross over her changed stance on gay marriage – have dominated the coverage.
( PHOTOS: Hillary Clinton starts her book tour)
Her allies fault a rapacious, gaffe-obsessed media. Clinton insiders argue this is the unchained version of the former Secretary of State the press has urged on for decades.
"Be careful what you ask for because you might get it," said one Clinton insider, pointing to the coverage of the cautious Clinton and saying this is what happens when a politician is candid. "Well, here you go, people. Buckle up."
Still, this is hardly the first time Clinton has flashed irritation when confronted by unwelcome queries — it has happened frequently throughout her political career. Clinton has also shown some rustiness in the past after coming back from a hiatus from the media glare; her return to the public stage this week came after a year of very little questioning from the press.
"I'm someone who thinks that she's very qualified to be president of the United States, in any number of ways, based on her experience. But at the same time … she's got to be able to win the trust and admiration of all kinds of voters," said Carl Bernstein, the ex-Washington Post reporter of Watergate fame who wrote a biography of Clinton called "A Woman in Charge."
( Also on POLITICO: Clinton: 'Liberating' to speak my mind)
"Part of her problem goes to her mistrust, justified in significant measure, of the press, and its difficulty in handling complexity and ambiguity in context," he added, saying she receives more scrutiny than any other prospective candidate.
"But there's also the element that she is averse to unequivocally acknowledging real error and she has trouble, understandably, as anyone would…with damaging or hurtful facts," he said.
Clinton's gaffe about being "dead broke" came from a place, several Clinton insiders said, of hardened and understandable anger over the source of her and her husband's debt at the end of the 1990s – legal bills racked up fighting the GOP-driven investigations into Whitewater and the Monica Lewinsky episode.
Even with the newfound freedom of expression she told Sawyer and an audience in Washington D.C. on Friday that she's discovered – "I'm totally done" worrying about offending people, Clinton said — she recognized that her "dead broke" comment sounded out of touch to people suffering through a sluggish economy. She spent two days clarifying it.
( Also on POLITICO: Anatomy of a Clinton book tour stop)
Her response to questions about her handling of the Benghazi terror attacks —she was ultimately responsible as secretary of State, but with the caveat that she not the person making decisions about the security of American outposts — was also slammed in some quarters.
Some of Clinton's most notable episodes of defensiveness came soon after the Lewinsky scandal, when she was a first-time candidate running for a Senate seat from New York.
In Nov. 1999, she was ripped by the press when she kissed Yasser Arafat's wife, Suha, then nodded as Mrs. Arafat, in a speech she was giving with the then-first lady on hand, accused Israelis of using poisonous gas on Palestinian women and children. Instead of quickly saying she'd erred, she blamed a faulty simultaneous translation that was playing over headphones in her ears.
When she caught heat in 2000 for neglecting to tip a waitress in an upstate New York restaurant, she took longer than necessary to call the woman and apologize.
Seven years later, she took months to acknowledge her account of escaping sniper fire in Bosnia was exaggerated. She spent that race declining, after conducting focus groups and internal polls, to declare her vote authorizing the Iraq war "wrong."
That stand only came in her book "Hard Choices," in which Clinton said she made a mistake, "plain and simple."
During the NPR interview, Gross pressed Clinton on whether she changed her view of gay marriage for political expedience – a charge that has followed Clinton on any number of issues over the years.


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Hard, strong building material made by mixing Portland cement, sand, gravel, and water. It is an important building material. Embedded steel rods can reinforce concrete. Pre-stressed concrete contains piano wires instead of steel. Its modern use dates from the early 19th century, although the Romans made extensive use of concrete.
structural masonry material made by mixing broken stone or gravel with sand, cement, and water and allowing the mixture to harden into a solid mass. The cement is the chemically active element, or matrix; the sand and stone are the inert elements, or aggregate. Concrete is adaptable to widely varied structural needs, is available practically anywhere, is fire resistant, and can be used by semiskilled workers.
The use of artificial masonry similar to modern concrete dates from a remote period but did not become a standard technique of construction until the Romans adopted it (after the 2d cent. B.C.) for roads, immense buildings, and engineering works. The concrete of the Romans, formed by combining pozzuolana (a volcanic earth) with lime, broken stones, bricks, and tuff, was easily produced and had great durability (the Pantheon of Rome and the Baths of Caracalla were built with it). Enormous spaces could be roofed without lateral thrusts by vaults cast in the rigid homogeneous material.
Scientifically proportioned concrete formed with cement is an invention of modern times; the name did not appear until c.1830. Modern portland cement has revolutionized the production and potentialities of concrete and has superseded the natural cements, to which it is vastly superior. The component materials of concrete are mixed in varying proportions, according to the strength required and the function to be fulfilled; the proportions were first worked out by Duff Abrams in 1918. The ideal mixture is that which solidifies with the minimum of voids, the mortar and small particles of aggregate filling all interstices. A typical proportioning is 1:2:5, i.e., one part of cement, two parts of sand, and five parts of broken stone or gravel, with the proper amount of water for a pouring consistency. A simple test called a "slump test" is used to confirm the proportions and consistency of the mixture, and it is then poured into wood or steel molds, called forms. Concrete usually takes about five days to cure, or reach acceptable hardness, but a technique called steam saturation can shorten that curing time to less than 18 hours. A wide variety of additives allow the concrete to harden faster or slower, resist scaling, have increased strength, or adopt the final shape more easily.
Concrete used without strengthening is termed mass, or plain, concrete and has the structural properties of stone—great strength under compressive forces and almost none under tensile ones. F. Joseph Monier, a French inventor, found that the tensile weakness could be overcome if steel rods were embedded in a concrete member. The new composite material was called reinforced concrete, or ferroconcrete. It was patented in 1857, and a private house in Port Chester, N.Y., first demonstrated (1857) its use in the United States. It is now rivaled in popularity as a structural material only by steel. Concrete reinforced with polypropylene fibers instead of steel yields equivalent strength with a fraction of the thickness. Reinforced concrete was improved by the development of prestressed concrete—that is, concrete containing cables that are placed under tension opposite to the expected compression load before or after the concrete hardens. Another improvement, thin-shell construction, takes advantage of the inherent structural strength of certain geometric shapes, such as hemispherical and elliptical domes; in thin-shell construction great distances are spanned with very little material. The perfecting of reinforced concrete has profoundly influenced structural building techniques and architectural forms.
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In the year 2066, 50 years hence, the history books of England might read something like this:
The second decade of the 21st century saw Scottish prosperity really blossom. The turning points were the Scottish independence referendum of 2021 and the European referendum of 2016. It was the triumph in England of the far right isolationist parties at the 2020 general election that pushed the referendum in Scotland decisively in favour of independence. The UKIP/Conservative coalition that was elected in 2020 led the UK out of the EU and Scottish re-entry was easily and seamlessly effected following its 2021 independence referendum. As England became more and more isolated, and before the much vaunted trade treaties could be negotiated with the rest of the world, Edinburgh and Frankfurt had taken all the business from the financial houses of the City of London that were frozen out of the European Union as it then was. Canary Wharf was deserted and full of squatters, and the royal parks were being turned into allotments by the poorer residents who could no longer afford food with their ever increasing rents. The Toyota car plant in Derby had closed, and the business was moved to Renault north of Paris. Nissan in Sunderland had been bought and closed by Mercedes of Stuttgart. Rolls-Royce in Derby had moved all its research to Germany as they were unable to recruit qualified engineers from the barely literate school leavers coming out of the reformed education system. Plans were afoot to close the Channel Tunnel as too many foreigners were using it. Ultimately, by 2035, England's decline became terminal. By 2030, the Unionists had been marginalised in Ulster, and Ireland was reunited inside the EU for the first time in 120 years. It was another five years before the riots at the English refugee camps in Dumfries forced the Scots to annex Northumberland and to close and fortify their border against English asylum seekers. The Scottish education system, long superior to the English, was producing scientists and technologists to compete successfully with the best in the world. Scotland had in fact done to the United Kingdom just what the Conservative/UKIP coalition had done to the European Union. Scotland prospered, England languished. The United Nations Refugee Council today stepped in to help Scotland cope with the ever increasing difficulties with its English refugee camps in Dumfries. Help came from the European Federation overseas aid fund. The riots of the last few weeks have quietened down a bit, and are said to be under control. This is perhaps not so far from the truth when mainstream politicians ignore local views and let the right wing politicians take the high ground. Finally, don't blame me, I voted remain.
Alan Craw
Old Whittington, Chesterfield


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The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) administers driver competency tests, licenses drivers, takes sanctions against uninsured drivers and owners, takes sanction against unsafe drivers, and registers vehicles and vessels. Additionally DMV issues identification cards and special license plates.
To further protect the public, the California Department of Motor Vehicles regulates the vehicle industry. This is achieved by licensing and regulating the occupational groups of dealerships and salespersons, registration services, dismantlers, distributors, leasing companies that sell cars, manufacturers/remanufacturers, and transporters. This authority also extends to owners, operators, and instructors of driving schools, traffic violator schools, and all Terrain Vehicle Safety Programs and Ignition Interlocking Devices.
The DMV has 170 field offices statewide. Consumers must call the main line for offices in their area.
(800) 777-0133
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Vehicle theft, using false documents or switching vehicle ID numbers; using false ID cards or drivers licenses; unauthorized removal of parts or disposal of vehicle; illegal repossession by seller; illegal lien sale; improper operation of driving schools or illegal conduct by their employees; vehicle dismantler misconduct, or violation of any other applicable Vehicle Code sections. Consumers can download a complaint form from the DMV Web site, but must send the completed form to the Sacramento DMV address for processing.
Complaints outside jurisdiction:
Insurance problems, improperly installed safety equipment such as brakes, tires, lights, and seat belts, or smog devices; lemon law (replace-ment of defective new cars); mobile home industry and salespersons, promises not made in writing; repairs made by auto shops for items not under warranty; repair service and smog problems, recall information, safety equipment (brakes, lights, seat belts), or extended service warranty complaints.
Department of Motor Vehicles Occupational Licensing (OL) Branch
The Occupational Licensing (OL) Branch is responsible for licensing, monitoring and controlling a wide range of motor vehicle related businesses and individuals, including the following:
- Vehicle Dealers - Automobile, Commercial, Motorcycle, Recreational Vehicle, Trailer, and Snowmobile.
- Vehicle Salespersons, Lessor-Retailers, Manufacturers, Dismantlers, Distributors and their Representatives, Remanufacturers, Verifiers, and Transporters.
- Vessel Agents and Registration Services.
- Traffic Violator School - Owners, Operators, and Instructors.
- Driving School - Owners, Operators, Instructors, Independent Driving Schools, and Instructors.
- Mature Driver Improvement Course - Providers.
Motor Carrier Permit Branch
Department of Motor Vehicles
Motor Carrier Permit Branch - G875
P.O. Box 932370
Sacramento, CA 94232-3700
(916) 657-8153
The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and the California Highway Patrol (CHP) administer this program jointly. DMV is responsible for issuing the MCP, while CHP has exclusive jurisdiction for the regulation and safety of operation of motor carriers. A Motor Carrier is a person who operates a commercial motor vehicle (CMV).
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Blond Amsterdam - a name that definitely has impact.
Coming from the creative co-creation of two blond designers, brings the colorful cups, plates, bowls and many more kitchen accessories with Joie de vivre into the house.
The two Amsterdam based designers do not lack ideas in any case. This is impressively demonstrated by the numerous Blond Amsterdam collections in our online shop. Playful at times, sometimes dreamy, sometimes in love - buying Blond Amsterdam tableware is a lot of fun. Create your breakfast or afternoon tea table from the beautiful, lovingly designed pieces.
Behind the funny, sometimes even pretty cheeky Collections of Blond Amsterdam Tableware are Janneke Dröge and Femque van Geffen. In 2001, the two creative women started in their small studio in Amsterdam with the designs for the first service. The fitting name for the dishes was thanks to the blonde hair and the Studio locations quickly found - just Blond Amsterdam.
Just as loose, open and straight out of the box are the Blond Amsterdam dishes. Janneke Dröge and Femque van Geffen want to spread just joy and good humor with their bowls, plates, cups and Co. This is where the two fun-loving Amsterdam designers definitely succeeded. And that sometimes one or the other creation with a wink comes out, such as that almost legendary Dishes of Blah
Blah Blah collection , makes the products all the more sympathetic.
To buy blond Amsterdam crockery online is truly not an easy decision. After all, the collections are so diverse, that it is not easy to decide on a piece. All collections such as Blond Paradise, Blond Romance or Delfts Blond have but one thing in common: They spread pure zest for life.
Ideas for new motives or topics are defineely not lacking the designers, especially because they both want to be inspired by the Amsterdam way of life. Colorful mixed characters, warm openness, energy - that flows in the often colorful decors.
In our online shop you will find numerous collections of the varied Blond Amsterdam Tableware. Whether you are to bring heavenly states into kitchen and dining room, a cup with a clever spell or looking for something suitable for the Barbecue party - in the on line shop you can buy Blond Amsterdam tableware to fulfill almost every wish.


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- Marussia news
Glock certain of Symonds impact
- Drivers:
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- Manor
Timo Glock says being able to have Pat Symonds at races with Marussia "will definitely help" the team in 2013.
Symonds was banned from Formula One for his role in the Singapore Crashgate scandal at Renault in 2008. However, having been allowed to work as a consultant for teams - a position he took up with Marussia (then Virgin) in early 2011 - Symonds will be able to attend races again from next season.
Having won championships with Benetton and Renault, Symonds brings valuable insight to Marussia which finished 11th in the constructors' championship in 2012 having lost out to Caterham at the final race. Glock said that the team needs to find more performance in every area and is certain having Symonds on hand at grands prix will aid it.
"We know that we have to improve on-track as well," Glock told Autosport. "I think there is a lot of stuff where we need to be better. On the engineering side we need to be better everywhere. It doesn't mean we are bad at the moment, but to move on you need to improve.
"To have Pat at the races will definitely help because he has so much experience, can step back and have a look from the outside, and he's won championships. He can just get into it and we can improve it together. I hope he'll be at as many [races] as possible."


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Tim Hall has done it again! He has just released the 2nd edition of "Max Power".Rather than get into details here, I urge you to check out this announcement post. It's a massive upgrade, and well worth checking out. -E
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The Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyalaya is also known as SCSVMV is situated at Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu Official website of Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyalaya is http://www.kanchiuniv.ac.in , you can download online SCSVMV Result 2019 marks sheet from the official website as well as our website here on this page. visit our site to get all exam result, notification and time-table of Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyalaya.
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About Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyalaya (SCSVMV):
The Maha Swamiji of Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam had cherished a desire to revive Kanchipuram to its pristine glory as a center of learning. The Viswa Mahavidyalaya at Kanchi was established with the benign Blessings of Their Holiness Pujyasri Jayendra Saraswathi Swamiji and Pujyasri Sankara Vijayendra Saraswathi Swamiji and it attained the status of Deemed University in 1993.
Name of the University: Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyalaya
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State Universities
- Alagappa University is on about 420 acres in the business town of Karaikudi in Tamil Nadu, India. It is the first university in Tamil Nadu to get A+ grading from NAAC.
- Anna University is a technical university in Tamil Nadu, India. The main university campus is located in Guindy, Chennai. It was named after C N Annadurai, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu on 4 September 1978.
- Annamalai University is one of Asia's largest public residential universities located in Annamalai Nagar, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India.
- Bharathiar University is a state university in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, South India. Named after Tamil poet Subramania Bharathiar, the university was established in February 1982 under the provision of Bharathiar University Act, 1981 (Act 1 of 1982) and was recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in 1985. It has been ranked No.1 in the State and No.14 in the nation according to the National Institutional Ranking Framework, Government of India.
- Bharathidasan University (BDU) is a university in the city of Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, India. It has affiliated colleges in the districts of Karur, Nagapattinam, Perambalur, Pudukkottai, district, Tiruvarur and Tiruchirapalli.
- The University of Madras is a public state university in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Established in 1857, it is one of the oldest and premier universities in India. The university was incorporated by an act of the Legislative Council of India.
- Madurai Kamraj University (MKU) is a public university in India located in Madurai city in southern Tamil Nadu, India. It was established in 1966 and has about 130,000 students in 18 schools comprising 72 departments, and 109 affiliated colleges.
- Manonmaniam Sundarnar University (MSU) is a university in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It was hived off the Madurai Kamaraj University on September 7, 1990. The motto of the university is "In Pursuit of Excellence".
- Mother Teresa Women's University is a public university in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India. It was established in 1984 by the enactment of Tamil Nadu Act 15. It monitors and offers consultancy services and research in Women's Studies.
- Periyar University is a university in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India. It was established by the Government of Tamil Nadu in 1997. It is named after social reformer Thanthai Periyar E. V. Ramasamy.
- The Tamil University Thanjavur, in Tamil Nadu, India, was established to provide higher research in the Tamil language and advanced study in allied branches such as linguistics, translation, lexicography, music, drama and manuscriptology.
- Tamilnadu Agricultural University (TNAU) is an agricultural university located in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
- Tamil Nadu Open University (TNOU) was established in the year 2002 by the Government of Tamil Nadu for the introduction and promotion of Open Learning and Distance Education systems in the educational pattern of the State and for the co-ordination and determination of standards in such systems. Since its inception, the University has been providing cost-effective, socially-relevant open and distance learning (ODL) to the hitherto unreached as well as the disadvantaged groups such as those living in remote and rural areas including the working people, housewives, physically handicapped and SC/ST students.
- Tamilnadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University (TNDALU) is a public state university established in 1997 at Chennai, India by the Government of Tamil Nadu under the Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University Act, 1996, which also brought all law colleges in Tamil Nadu under the control of the university. It was named after Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, an Indian jurist and member of the committee which drafted the Constitution of India. The university was inaugurated on 20 September 1997 by K. R. Narayanan, former President of India. The university started a law school on its own campus in 2002 as the School of Excellence in Law, Chennai (SOEL).
- The Tamilnadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University (TMMGRMU), or TNMGRMU for short, is a government medical university centered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
- Tamilnadu Physical Education and Sports University (TNPESU) is a university in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is the first exclusively for physical education university in India. Ymca college of physical education comes under this university.
- Tamilnadu Veterinary & Animal Sciences University (TANUVAS) is a veterinary university founded in 1989 in Madhavaram Milk Colony, Chennai, India.
- Thiruvallauvar University is a public State University in the city of Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. It was established by the Government of Tamil Nadu, under the Thiruvalluvar University Act, 2002.
- Tamil Nadu Teacher Education University (TNTEU) is a state university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, which specialises in teachers' education.
- Pondicherry University (French: Université de Pondichéry) is a central university in Puducherry, India. Founded in 1985 by the Government of India, the university is a collegiate university with a jurisdiction spread over the Union Territories of Puducherry, Lakshadweep and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Central Universities
- Central university of Tamil Nadu (CUTN) abbreviated CUTN was established by an Act of Parliament. The University was inaugurated on 30 September 2009 by Kapil Sibal who laid the foundation stone.
- Indian Maritime University (IMU) is a Central University, that was established by an Act of the Indian Parliament namely the Indian Maritime University Act 2008, on 14 November 2008.
Deemed Universities
- AMET University, formerly the Academy of Maritime Education, is an educational institute in India dedicated for maritime education and training. AMET University is situated on the outskirts of the city of Chennai.
- Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is a private university spread across India in the states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka. Its headquarters are at Ettimadai, near Coimbatore.
- Avinashilingam University is a women's Deemed University in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. It was started in 1957 by the Avinashilingam Education Trust founded by T. S.
- Bharath University, also known as Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research and Bharath Institute of Science and Technology, is a Deemed University and an Indian institute of higher education in Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, India.
- Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) is a research and education institute in Chennai, India. It was founded by the SPIC Science Foundation in 1989, and offers undergraduate as well as postgraduate programmes.
- Gandhigram Rural University, founded in 1956, is situated near Dindigul in Tamil Nadu, India. Dr.T.S.Soundaram and Dr.G.Ramachandran developed the institute.
- Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science (HITS) is a university of engineering headquartered in Chennai, India. It was founded in 1985 by K. C. G.
- Kalasalingam University is located in Krishnankoil near Madurai in Tamil Nadu, India. The campus is close to the ancient temple town of Srivilliputhur. The tower of the Srivilliputhur temple is used in the emblem of the Government of Tamil Nadu.
- Karunya University is a private university located in Coimbatore, India. It was founded as a Christian minority institution by D. G. S. Dhinakaran and his son Paul Dhinakaran, the founders of Jesus Calls Ministries, India.
- M.G.R. Educational and Research Institute (DRMGRDU) is a private Institute in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
- Meenakshi Academy of Higher Education and Research (MAHER), commonly referred to as Meenakshi University, is a medical sciences university in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
- Periyar Maniammai Institute of Science & Technology (PMU) is a deemed university in rural part of South India accredited by NAAC. The university headquarters is in the town of Vallam in Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India.
- PRIST University is a deemed university in the town of Vallam, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India.It offers Under Graduate and Post Graduate courses in Engineering, Science, Education, Management and Arts, including Research programmes.Ponnaiyah Ramajayam Institutions is a group of colleges in Tamil Nadu.
- The SRM University (SRMUNIV) formerly SRM Institute of Science and Technology, is a deemed university in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It was founded in 1985 as SRM Engineering College in Kattankulathur, under University of Madras.
- Sathyabama University is a private university at Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India, founded in 1987 as Sathyabama Engineering College by Jeppiaar. It was formerly known as Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology.
- Saveetha University is a private university located in Tamil Nadu, India.It has eight disciplines of studies: Saveetha Dental college;Saveetha School of management; Saveetha School of Law; Saveetha University.
- Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy (SASTRA), known as SASTRA University, is a private university in the town of Thirumalaisamudram, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India.
- Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi Viswa Maha Vidyalaya [ SCSVMV ] is a university at Kancheepuram in Tamil Nadu, India.
- Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, now named Sri Ramachandra University, is a deemed university declared under Section 3 of the UGC at 1956, in Porur, Chennai, India.
- Peter's Engineering College institution located in Avadi, Chennai, India. 3 km from avadi railway station
- The VELS University is a private university located in Pallavaram, a suburb of Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu, a southern state of India.
- Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) or VIT, formerly called Vellore Engineering College, is a private university in Tamil Nadu, India.
- Vinayaka Missions University formerly Vinayaka Mission's Research Foundation is a higher education institution based in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India.
- Karpagam University (KAHEDU) established under Section 3 of UGC Act 1956 is approved by Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Government of India.
- Chettinad University is a university in the outer side of Chennai Chettinad Academy of Research and Education: Chettinad Hospital & Research Institute, Chettinad Health City Chettinad College of Nursing.
- Noorul Islam University (NIUNIV) also Called as NI University, formerly Noorul Islam College of Engineering, is a private co-educational university located in Kumarakovil, Thuckalay, Kanyakumari District Tamil Nadu, India.
- Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development (RGNIYD), Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, India, is an Institute of National Importance by an Act of Parliament under the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, government of India.
- VEL Tech University Veltech believes in equipping its students to be driven by knowledge to confront the world's great challenges.
- S. Abdur Rahman University (BSAUNIV) is a private university in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Previously functioning under Madras University and Anna University as Crescent Engineering College, the institute gained deemed status in 2008–09.


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Put down that power bar and pick up a wisk. The state of the state: good eating, good cooking.
"Top Chef" announced three Colorado chefs will compete in season 10, which premieres Nov. 7 on Bravo. They are:
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Jorel Pierce; 28 years old; Chef de Cuisine, Euclid Hall, Denver, Colorado
Hometown: Denver, Colorado
Education: Johnson & Wales University, Denver, Colorado
Has Worked At: Rioja, Euclid Hall
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Eliza Gavin; 38 years old; Chef and Owner, 221 South Oak Bistro, Telluride, Colorado
Hometown: Richmond, Virginia (currently resides in Telluride, Colorado)
Education: Diplome de Culiaire, Le Cordon Bleu, Paris
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Tyler Wiard; 41 years old; Executive Chef and Culinary Director, Elway's Restaurant Group, Denver, Colorado
Hometown: Denver, Colorado
Education: Trained in restaurants — no culinary school
The competition this season will be held in Seattle with Wolfgang Puck and Emeril Lagasse on hand.


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Brian Bernardwrote a review of Revelate Tangle Bag on September 19, 2014
Rock solid, great design
The velcro attachments make putting the bag on the bike super quick and easy, and once fully attached, it's really solid --no swaying or shifting. It holds a pretty amazing amount, too. This, combined with a large-ish handlebar roll or bag, or a large seat bag (like the Revelate Viscacha) will hold everything you need to get deep into the wilderness.


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