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I have a mini-tutorial using Craft Attitude to share with you today! It is a bit of a 'twist' on the regular 'pastel themed' decorated eggs and bunny. My muse decided to fashion a lovely little cherub with bunny ears and feathered wings, who is painting stipes on rose petals (I think Alice in Wonderland jumped into her mind along the way!) amidst a cluster of jeweled Easter eggs.
Here's everything you will need:
Supply List
1 sheet of embossed paper
Embroidery thread
Two tiny feathers (optional) - you can buy these by the bag at Michael's
Seed beads
UHU glue
Sewing Machine
and of course, a printer and a digital image to print out www.deviantscrap.com is a great place to find millions of images at an affordable price)
1. Print your digital artwork out on to Craft Attitude.
2. Coat the shiny side of your printed piece with a generous coating of UHU glue (don't worry, it dries clear) and smooth the two combined layers with your fingers, or iron it flat.
3. Trim the edges and then, using your sewing machine, single stitch around the outside of the rectangle.
4. Single stitch around areas in the composition you would like to define, using a variety of different threads.
5. I originally machine stitched several areas and then went back and hand embroidered areas that I wanted to highlight.
6. The cherub's hair is just a cluster of french knots, wrapped five times around the needle for more texture.
7. I then embroidered a blanket stitch around the outside of the rectangle followed by adding little gold seed beads .
8. Wanting more dimension, I attached the two feathers over the cherub's wings - you could also experiment with bits of lace or tatting.
9. I finished it off with decorating the eggs and adding a few stitches to define the cherub's paint brush.
A big thank you to Itkupilli and Tumble Fish Studio for the digital images (you can find them here) I used to create the composition and to Craft Attitude for inviting me to participate in their Spring/Easter Celebration over on their Facebook page here
For more information on Craft Attitude visit www.craftattitude.com
Happy Easter to you and yours!


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Stephen Meyer has already made year-end lists with Signature in the Cell, an Amazon bestselling science book and one of Times Literary Supplement's books of the year for 2009, but the latest news go far beyond that: Stephen Meyer has been named World Magazine's "Daniel of the Year" for 2009:
This fall Meyer came out with a full account of what science has learned in recent decades: Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design (Harper One, 2009) shows that the cell is incredibly complex and the code that directs its functions wonderfully designed. His argument undercuts macroevolution, the theory that one kind of animal over time evolves into a very different kind. Meyer thus garners media scorn for raining on this year's huge celebration of the birth of Charles Darwin 200 years ago and the publication of On the Origin of Species 150 years ago.
The cover story is what should become the essential profile of Meyer, following what World's Marvin Olasky describes as "the four-stage pattern that is common among intellectual Daniels: Questioning, discernment, courage, and perseverance."
Meyer says, "You ask how someone gets the moxie to take something like this on. Part of the answer is that I didn't know any better when I was young. I was just so seized with this idea and these questions: 'Was it possible to develop a scientific case? Were we looking at evidence that could revive and resuscitate the classical argument from design, which had been understood from the time of Hume and certainly the time of Darwin to be defunct?' If that was the case, that's a major scientific revolution."
Courage becomes a determinant once we count the cost and see that it's great. Meyer's first inkling came when "talking about my ideas to people at Cambridge High Table settings, and getting that sudden social pall." But the cost was and is more than conversational ease: San Francisco State University in 1992 expelled a professor, Dean Kenyon, who espoused ID, and other job losses have come since. Meyer and other ID proponents saw "that this would be very controversial. One of the things that emboldened all of us who were in the early days of this movement was meeting each other. In 1993 we had a little private conference [with] 10 or 12 very sharp, mostly younger scientists going through top-of-the-world programs in their respective fields who were all skeptical. I think the congealing of this group gave everyone the sense that this was going to be an exciting adventure: Let's rumble."
Rumble, indeed — Meyer just returned from schooling Michael Shermer (listen to the audio here).
The article, as the title indicates, is a profile in courage worth reading, particularly this bit:
Many who enter the courage stage at first think that the war in which they find themselves will end in a few years. There comes a time in many lives, though, when a hard realization sinks in: It will not be over in my lifetime. That's when some give in while others proceed to the perseverance stage. That's where Meyer is: Signature in the Cell ends with a long list of testable predictions concerning the direction of science over the next several decades. Meyer predicts that further study will reveal the importance of "junk DNA" and the reasons for what seem to be "poorly designed" structures: They will reveal either a hidden functional logic or evidence of decay from originally good designs.
Read the whole article here.

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Saturday, October 19, 2013
New Mutants by Bob McLeod
Posted by Jason Shayer at 12:10 AM
Labels: Bob McLeod, Cannonball, Karma, Marvel Comics, Mirage, New Mutants, Sunspot, Wolfsbane
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McLeod doesn't seem to get the due he deserves. I always liked to see his name in the credits, and, as evidenced here, his New Mutants were classic, iconic, and cool looking.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 19, 2013 at 5:09 PM
I guess sooner or later they had to get their own style (ala the original X-men) but those original New Mutants black&yellows will always have a special place in my heart.ReplyDelete
McLeod's style is underrated. His work has a sense of motion and his New Mutants are indeed Iconic. I always love and appreciate that his characters looked like teens, each looked unqiue without over exagerating their features and had a fluidity to them. I wish I had these works in my personal collection.ReplyDelete
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In an instance of borrowed creativity, we looked at 2013 in Holy Sh*t. Let's do it again as that changing of the calendar beget twelve whole months of shouts, jumps, stranger grabbing, seat switching, gasps, yelps, jubilation, and otherwise. At more than one moment, you probably yelled, "HOLY SHIT." 2015 will be no different.
When I looked back at 2014, there were some pretty shitty instances of holy shit. Sometimes it isn't always the fondest of instances that yields this exult. But maybe that's what makes the great moments even greater. Highs and lows.
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Topic Overview
Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) happens when the left side of your heart doesn't pump blood out to the body as well as normal.
It's sometimes called systolic heart failure. This is because your left ventricle doesn't squeeze forcefully enough during systole, which is the phase of your heartbeat when your heart pumps blood.
What does reduced ejection fraction mean?
The types of heart failure are based on a measurement called the ejection fraction. The ejection fraction measures how much blood inside the ventricle is pumped out with each contraction. The left ventricle squeezes and pumps some (but not all) of the blood in the ventricle out to your body. A normal ejection fraction is more than 55%. This means that 55% of the total blood in the left ventricle is pumped out with each heartbeat.
Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction happens when the muscle of the left ventricle is not pumping as well as normal. The ejection fraction is 40% or less.footnote 1
The amount of blood being pumped out of the heart is less than the body needs. A reduced ejection fraction can happen because the left ventricle is enlarged and cannot pump normally.
Examples of ejection fractions of a healthy heart and a heart with reduced ejection fraction:
- A healthy heart with a total blood volume of 100 mL that pumps 60 mL has an ejection fraction of 60%.
- A heart with an enlarged left ventricle that has a total blood volume of 140 mL and pumps 60 mL has an ejection fraction of 43%.
What causes it?
There are many different problems that can cause heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.
What is it?
How it causes heart failure
Coronary artery disease or heart attack
Blockages in your coronary arteries that limit blood flow to your heart muscle
It weakens or damages heart muscle and impairs the muscle's ability to pump.
A disease of the heart muscle
The heart muscle is weakened, which affects its ability to pump properly.
High blood pressure
Elevated pressure in your arteries
The heart works harder to pump against increased pressure, which weakens the muscle.
Aortic stenosis
Opening of aortic valve is narrowed, impairing blood flow
The heart works harder to pump blood through the narrowed valve, weakening the muscle.
Mitral regurgitation
Mitral valve doesn't close properly, causing leakage on left side of the heart
Increased blood volume stretches and weakens heart muscle.
Viral myocarditis
Viral infection of your heart muscle
Inflammation in the heart muscle affects the heart's ability to pump.
Irregular heart rhythm
Irregular rhythm reduces the pumping effectiveness of the heart.
Gradual heart damage
Coronary artery disease causes gradual heart damage over time. Ischemia is the medical term for what happens when your heart muscle doesn't get enough oxygen. Ischemia may happen only once in a while, such as when you are exercising and your heart muscle needs more oxygen than it normally does. Ischemia can also be ongoing (chronic) if your coronary arteries are so narrowed that they limit blood flow to your heart all the time. This chronic lack of oxygen can gradually damage portions of your heart muscle. Your heart can slowly lose its ability to pump blood to your body.
Chronic ischemia can allow your heart muscle to get just enough oxygen to stay alive but not enough oxygen to work normally. Ongoing poor blood flow to the heart muscle reduces the heart's ability to contract and causes it to pump less blood during each beat. The less blood your heart pumps out to your body, the less blood it is actually pumping back to itself through the coronary arteries. The end result is that heart failure makes ischemia worse, which in turn makes heart failure worse.
Mitral valve regurgitation can gradually lead to heart failure. With this problem, the mitral valve doesn't close properly, and blood leaks back into the left atrium when the left ventricle contracts. Over time, the left ventricle pumps harder to move the extra blood that has returned to it from the left atrium. The ventricle stretches and gets bigger to hold the larger volume of blood. Gradual weakening of the left ventricle may cause heart failure.
High blood pressure can also gradually lead to heart failure. To pump against your high blood pressure, your heart has to increase the pressure inside your left ventricle when it pumps. After years of working harder to pump blood, your ventricle may begin to weaken. When this happens, the pressure inside the weakened left ventricle will cause the ventricle to expand, stretching out the heart muscle. This damaging process is called dilation, and it impairs your heart's ability to squeeze forcefully. The result is heart failure.
Sudden heart damage
A heart attack damages heart muscle suddenly. A heart attack can cut off the flow of blood to your heart muscle so that your heart muscle doesn't get any oxygen. If your heart muscle goes without oxygen for long enough, heart muscle can die. If a heart attack damages a very large area of heart muscle, it is possible that the ability of your heart to pump blood will be suddenly limited to such a degree that you develop heart failure. But this sudden complication isn't common.
If you have a substantial heart attack that injures a large area of the heart muscle, you may eventually develop heart failure, even if it doesn't occur suddenly. This happens most commonly after you have had a heart attack involving the anterior wall of the heart. After a large area of the anterior wall is destroyed, the percentage of blood pumped with each beat (ejection fraction) can be significantly less. As a result, the heart attempts to change its shape to maximize its pumping efficiency, a process referred to as left ventricular remodelling. Initially, the changes made to the heart wall (myocardium) are beneficial. Over time though, the left ventricle dilates and increases in size, which makes the heart less able to pump.
Related Information
- Yancy CW, et al. (2013). 2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the management of heart failure: A report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 62(16): e147–e239.
Other Works Consulted
- Mann DL (2015). Management of patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. In DL Mann et al., eds., Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 10th ed., vol. 1, pp. 512–546. Philadelphia: Saunders.
- Yancy CW, et al. (2013). 2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the management of heart failure: A report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 62(16): e147–e239.
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
Pamper me (and other fantasies)
Before I had kids I'd do spa nights at home—bath, face scrub and mask, mani, pedi, the works. Tonight, I managed to find time to put on a mask and freaked out Max and Sabrina. "MOMMY!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOUR FACE?" Sabrina asked.
I've become so low-maintenance, it's scary. Typically in the morning I'll take 20 minutes to shower, get dressed, show my hair some love (it's naturally curly, so I just slick in Be Curly and let it air dry) and put on makeup (powder, mascara, blush, lipstick). Minus two minutes if Sabrina ropes me into deciding which Princess underwear to wear—Jasmine? Cinderella? Belle? Ariel?—and minus two more minutes if Max wants a drink of water (I have to hold the cup for him, he has trouble gripping it). At night, I spend about 5 minutes washing my face, tweezing elusive brow hairs and putting on moisturizer.
What's your beauty routine like? What kind of pampering do you crave? I'd like a pro facial, please! And a hot-stone massage. And to lie on the couch while Dave feeds me grapes, one by one, and the kids clean up all their toys. But that's just crazy talk.
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- AnonymousNovember 20, 2008 at 6:41 AM
I am getting pampered at 8:30 am today...hair cut...major one. I have been a little funky lately, dyed my hair pink and such (well, Tony did it, and it was the underside and a big chunk up front...totally cool, but I now know what it feels like to be "different"). Everyone keeps telling me the cut I am getting is screaming 'Mommy Hair'...gee, I thought the mini van with 3 car seats, a baby hanging off my boob, drool on my shoulder and 2 crazy screaming boys gave me away...I guess not!ReplyDelete
I do try and get to the spa once a year for a full body treatment. I love a good facial, and a deep tissue massage...yummy.
Forget the grapes, if Tony picked up his socks and underwear and put them in the clothes hamper I would feel pampered!
I couldn't live without mani/pedis. The grapes sound good but my husband prefers to feed me Ben and Jerry's on the sofa while we watch the Biggest Loser. It's a weekly tradition...ReplyDelete
I'd like pretty much any kind of pampering. I remember getting a pedicure while Charlie was still in ICU and sadly there's been little pampering since then. I have gift certificates for a massage and pedicure that are now over a year old. Bah!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2008 at 4:11 PM
I don't even hope for pampering anymore...Five uninterrupted minutes in the shower would be a dream come true.ReplyDelete


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New Zealand's capital to host the premiere of Peter Jackson's adaptation of "The Hobbit"
Even Air New Zealand has gotten into the spirit, with a Hobbit-inspired "elf n safety" video
Other Hollywood blockbusters filmed there include "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, "King Kong"
Jackson has warned that the country will have to do more to attract future big productions
Perhaps the most nervous people ahead of Wednesday night's world premiere of Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" in Wellington will be the weather forecasters.
As the wind whipped through New Zealand's capital city with customary spring ferocity, they would have been praying for more lenient treatment than the average Italian seismologist if their forecast for fine weather on the big day turns out to be wrong.
Wellington is stunning on a beautiful day, but only the brave plan outdoor events, and the red carpet parade of Hobbit stars and crew through the city before the premiere is both a genuine moment of national celebration and a chance to impress the visitors.
Read: Wellywood and World prepare for 'The Hobbit'
International media are here in droves, almost never seen in this far-flung place which, while sometimes dubbed Middle Earth, is really at the end of the Earth.
Arriving by air, they will already have seen the rather amusing Air New Zealand safety briefing video in which Orcs turn off bony iPads, and Hobbits push luggage under the seat with their furry feet. They may have even flown in on the Boeing-777 decked out in Hobbit livery.
At Wellington airport, they'll have seen the staff wearing jokey "Elfin Safety" vests, and a giant Gollum poised disconcertingly over the snack bars. What they won't have seen as they landed at the hair-raising local aerodrome, set close among suburban houses, is a sign saying "Wellywood."
Watch: Sneak preview of The Hobbit
Too many locals thought that idea was just a bit too craven, notwithstanding the fact that Jackson's stunning success has pumped millions of dollars and a great lump of creative industries into an otherwise remote, government town.
A string of productions including the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, "King Kong," "TinTin," "Avatar," and "The Lovely Bones" have built a globally credible film facility in what used to be a quiet corner of town best known for its garden center and some second-hand shops.
People down here are a bit like J.R.R. Tolkien's dwarves, you see; fine when you get to know them, but with noses easily put out of joint. When "Avatar" director James Cameron bought a spread over the hill from Wellington, as many complained about farmland sales to foreigners as thought it might be good for the place.
Jackson himself is known to entertain occasional despair at the small-mindedness of his countryfolk. He remains loyal to the industry he's built here but he's also had to be ruthless about it.
A campaign orchestrated by Hollywood trade unions saw Warner Brothers threaten to take the project to Scotland rather than agree to bind New Zealand actors and crew into the kinds of contracts they're fleeing the United States to avoid.
Stars, fans turn out for 'Hobbit' premiere
In the process, the New Zealand Prime Minister, John Key, earned a reputation as a huge suck-up to Warners, and political opponents wondered just how much principle was for sale to get a movie made here.
Echoes of that bitter campaign have re-emerged to spoil the film's global publicity. There have been late-surfacing claims, hotly denied, of animal cruelty on set and ham-fisted handling by local media seeking to tell more than the fairy story.
The Hobbit has also been used as a political weapon in local political sparring over the country's economic direction. If it's really so pure, the critics fairly ask, how come New Zealand's environmental halo has slipped so badly of late?
Local media breathlessly pick apart reports on the issue from the New York Times with all the parochial angst you'd expect from a place unused to attracting attention and desperate to be well-regarded.
Still, no one ever said a Tolkien plot was subtle.
Meanwhile, in a country where manufacturers and farmers have expected neither tax breaks nor protective tariffs for a generation, New Zealanders seem as placid as Hobbiton burghers about nearly half a billion Kiwi dollars in tax breaks that have secured every production since the Lord of the Rings.
Perhaps with his next trilogy in mind, Jackson was this week warning there would need to be more where that came from if New Zealand is to compete with the many other countries that know blockbuster movies do more for national self-belief than a million widgets ever will.
Still, the gods appear to be smiling on the enterprise.
How else to explain the eruption on cue of the volcano that plays Mount Doom – a central landscape for Hobbit shenanigans – mere days before the premiere? Given the Hobbit-mania gripping the country, it's just a wonder that when authorities closed the area to tourists, they didn't put signs saying: "You Shall Not Pass."


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Picture the scene… it is late in the night on May 1st, 2011. You and a group of friends are sitting around, watching groundbreaking news unfold. Osama Bin Laden has been killed. It is a historic moment, most likely not to be forgotten during your lifetime.
Deep in conversation, you are all expressing your gratitude for our US Soldiers. Some are expressing concerns over the safety of our troops and the retaliation that is certain to come from Bin Laden's death. Additionally, many are aghast at the celebrations taking place in the streets, remembering back to 9/11 when "they" were celebrating in the face of our tragedy. The conversations are deep, meaningful, thought provoking. Then, all of a sudden, one of the friends present says "Hey… look at these cookies I made for Mother's Day. Pretty awesome aren't they?"
Everyone looks at the person like they are insane. Did they just talk about Mother's Day cookies in a time like this? Do they not know what just happened?
This is basically the scene last night. Twitter and Facebook were a buzz with the news of Osama Bin Laden's death. Among the news, tweets that were previously scheduled (or at least I hope they were pre-scheduled tweets) were interrupting this historic moment in awkward abundance. Scheduled tweets, my friends, were seen as irreverent and completely out of place and frankly, a bit ridiculous. As Stefania tweeted "Beyond strange, it's a social media fail."
I know this type of event doesn't happen everyday… it is a brief moment in history, but consider the moments your scheduled tweets might be interrupting and decide for yourself if it is truly worth that extra few seconds you gain by scheduling your blog post tweets.
Just something to think about… do you want to be talking about your latest unrelated blog post when groundbreaking history is made?


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The most recent edition of the Crime Stoppers television program "Hawaiʻi Island's Most Wanted" highlights a 22-year-old man wanted in a murder investigation, a 51-year-old man wanted on a bench warrant related to drug charges, and an 18-year-old man wanted for a robbery at a beach park.
The new episode began airing Friday.
In it, police ask for help in locating 22-year-old Boaz David Johnson. His girlfriend's body was found in the ocean off the Kalapana coast on May 28. The medical examiner ruled that the 25-year-old woman, Brittany Jane Royal, died from strangulation. Johnson is described as Caucasian, about 5-foot-7, about 150 pounds with a slim build and a fair complexion. He was last seen unshaven and with medium-length brown hair. He has a tattoo of the upper body of a horse near the right side of his abdomen. He is considered dangerous.
The television program also asks for help in locating a 51-year-old Arthur Clayton of Keaʻau, who is wanted on a $40,000 bench warrant related to drug charges. He is also wanted for questioning in a theft investigation. He is described as 5-foot-5, 180 pounds with brown eyes and a bald or shaved head. He has a tattoo of a lion on his right shoulder.
In this latest edition of "Hawaiʻi Island's Most Wanted," Officer Patrick Menino also asks for help in locating an 18-year-old man wanted on a Grand Jury indictment related to a robbery at Kolekole Beach Park on February 6. Tyler Taylor is described as 5-foot-6, 150 pounds with short black hair. He has no permanent address but frequents the Puna District.
Police ask that anyone with information about any of these men call the Police Department's non-emergency line at 935-3311 or Crime Stoppers at 961-8300 in Hilo or 329-8181 in Kona. All Crime Stoppers information is kept confidential. Crime Stoppers does not tape record phone calls or subscribe to caller ID.
"Hawaiʻi Island's Most Wanted" is a project of Crime Stoppers Hilo, Inc., which is a partnership of the business community, the media and the police. It was inspired by the national TV show, "America's Most Wanted." The program airs on Na Leo O Hawaiʻi Community Television Channel 54 on Sundays at 5 p.m. and Fridays at 5:30 p.m. It also airs intermittently on Channel 53.


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Jennifer Lawrence dealt with 'fat' tagOct 3, 2013 IANS
Los Angeles, Oct 3 (IANS) Oscar winning actress Jennifer Lawrence says it was not easy for her to find a foothold in Hollywood, thanks to her weight.
The 23-year-old, who won an Academy Award for her work in "Silver Linings Playbook", talks about her initial struggle in the November issue of Britain's Harper's Bazaar, reports aceshowbiz.com.
"I was young. It was just the kind of s**t that actresses have to go through. Somebody told me I was fat, that I was going to get fired if I didn't lose a certain amount of weight," Lawrence said.
"They brought in pictures of me where I was basically naked and told me to use them as motivation for my diet. It was just that," she added.
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Grades 6 - 8 Reading
Glossary of Terms
Appropriate – correct or suitable for a particular time, situation or purpose
Captions – words printed above or below a picture in a book or newspaper or on a television screen to explain what the picture is showing
Clarifying – to make a statement or situation less confusing and more clearly comprehensible
Compare/Contrast – to identify the likenesses or differences
Comparison – the process of comparing two or more peopleor ideas
Complex Written Materials – reading materials that are challenging for many reasons: high level vocabulary words, meaning is unclear, the reader needs to make inferences to understand the text, the way it is organized is different from what students are used to, or relationships in the text are complicated
Compound Word – a word composed of two or more words; specifically, two or more words joined together (sometimes by a hyphen)
Conclusion – something you decide after considering all the information you have available
Context Clues – words or phrases in a text that help a reader to figure out the meaning of an unknown word
Convince – to persuade someone to do something
Credible – accurate and reliable
Definitions – An exact statement or description of the nature, scope or meaning of something
Determine – to find out the facts about something
Dialogue – a conversation in a book, play or film
Distinguish – to recognize or treat (someone or something) as different
Drawing conclusions – using what you know in your head and what you read in the story to make meaning of the text/story
Editing and revising – editing refers to proofreading a piece of writing to check for correct punctuation, capitalization, spelling and grammar usage. Revising refers to proofreading a piece of writing to check for development, organization and style.
Effortlessly – something that is effortless is done in a very skillful way that makes it seem easy
Emphasize – to give special importance to something
Engaging conversations – large and small group discussions where students actively share their knowledge and expertise about a subject
Evaluate – to judge how good, useful or successful something is
Evidence – facts or signs that show clearly that something exists or is true
Examine – to look at something carefully and thoroughly because you want to find out more about it
Experiences – something that happens to you or something you do, especially when this has an effect on what you feel or think
Figurative, Connotative, Technical word meaning – writers use words in different ways depending on their purpose. Authors might use words with a figurative meaning which is different from their literal, or usual, meaning ("She is as slow as molasses."). Authors might use words with a technical meaning, when writing about a specific subject area (use of the word "kindling" when referring to making a campfire). Sometimes writers choose words with a positive, negative or neutral connotative meaning to show how they feel about the topic (use of the word "plan" has neutral connotation; the word "scheme" has a negative connotation). You can figure out the author's intended meaning by thinking about the word's context, or the text that comes before or after it.
Figures of speech – hyperbole: an exaggeration that is so dramatic that no one would believe it is true ("I've told you a million times."). Paradox: a statement that seems contradictory or against common sense, yet is perhaps true (a wise fool)
Glossary – an alphabetical list of terms or words found in or relating to a specific subject, text, or dialect, with explanations; a brief dictionary
Graphics – something such as a picture that you can see, as opposed to the parts that you hear or read
Graphic Organizers – visual templates/forms that help children organize information and it make it easier to understand how ideas connect together
Header (Headings) – bold or single words at the beginning of a section of text
Inference – a conclusion reached based on evidence and reasoning. For example: "The student wore mittens, a wool coat and a cap as he walked to school." You can infer that it was cold outside.
Informational text – non-fiction information (biographies, autobiographies, personal essays, speeches, memoirs, historical documents, books about history, social studies, science, and the arts)
Informative – providing many useful facts or information
Intimidating – making you feel worried and not confident
Italics – a type of printed letters that lean to the right, often used to emphasize particular words
Literacy – skills that involve reading, writing, speaking, or listening
Main idea – the big idea about a story
Media – all the organizations, such as television, radio and newspapers that provide news and information for the public; the people who do this work
Misleading – likely to make someone believe something that is not true
Multi-syllable word – a word that is made up of smaller parts and each part has a vowel sound (con/tes/tant = contestant)
Narrative – an account of connected events presented to a reader
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Provides new insights into type 1 diabetes pathology
Joslin researchers have identified immune cells that promote growth of beta cells in type 1 diabetes. This study provides further evidence of a changed role for immune cells in type 1 diabetes pathology. The study will be published online today and will appear in the January issue of Diabetes.
"In type 1 diabetes, the immune system infiltrates pancreatic islets and destroys insulin-producing beta cells. While infiltrating immune cells are traditionally considered to negatively impact beta cells, recent studies in non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice have suggested that immune cells can also contribute to preserving beta cells, " says lead author Ercument Dirice, Ph.D., research fellow in the Kulkarni Lab in the Section on Islet Cell and Regenerative Biology at Joslin Diabetes Center.
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This finding is strengthened by the observation by Joslin researchers who reported that members of the Center's 50-Year Medalist Study, who have lived with type 1 diabetes for 50 years or more, retain some beta cells and produce insulin.
"The traditional view of type 1 diabetes was that immune cells killed all beta cells and people with the disease would have to take insulin for life. But we know that some beta cells do survive and secrete insulin even when the patients have had type 1 diabetes for 50 years," says senior author Rohit N. Kulkarni, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the principle investigator of the project at Joslin. In this study, Joslin researchers were interested in learning exactly how immune cells could promote beta cell growth and identifying the type of cell and the mechanisms underlying this effect.
In a series of experiments, the researchers injected NOD mice with immune cells from the pancreatic islets of donor NOD mice and assessed their effects on beta cells. The immune cells tested included subtypes of B or T immune cells.
Dirice, the lead author of the study, found that it is T cells not B cells that are associated with beta cell proliferation. Mice that received B cells showed no difference in beta cell growth. Mice that received the T cell subtypes CD4+ and CD8+ showed an elevation in all markers of beta cell proliferation compared to mice that did not receive them. The researchers also found that beta cell growth happens after islets are infiltrated by immune cells and is independent of the effects of glucose and insulin.
Further experiments with cell cultures showed that CD4+ and CD8+ cells secrete inflammatory cytokines and chemokines (Interleukin 2, Interleukin 6, Interleukin 10, MIP-1α and RANTES), which together enhanced beta cell proliferation. This is the first study to report that this group of "soluble factors" is involved in promoting beta cell growth.
"This gives us new insights into what is happening in the pathology of type 1 diabetes. The immune cells we identified send signals which appear to protect and promote growth of beta cells. This opens up an exciting new area that scientists have thought about; now we have the hard data to substantiate it," says Dr. Kulkarni.
The next step is to investigate the effects of immune cells on human beta cell growth. The factors secreted from CD4+ and CD8+ cells are potential therapeutic candidates to enhance beta cell growth to prevent or delay the onset of type 1 diabetes.
"We need to learn more about the relationship of beta cell death and proliferation to determine if we can harness these soluble substances to encourage beta cell proliferation rather than destruction," says Dr. Kulkarni.
This study was funded by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, National Institutes of Health and the Turkish Diabetes, Obesity and Nutrition Association.
- The above story is reprinted from materials provided by Joslin Diabetes Center.
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- Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of The Endocrinology MD or its staff.


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Before I begin I would like to thank all the staff at Lambeth and around the NCIs, and at Bishopthorpe and the Anglican Communion Office, who have been so effective and kind in dealing with the frightening and unsettling impact of a new Archbishop. Transitions are always very complex, and taking on a new Archbishop is as demanding as it gets. But there's invariably been a warm welcome and extremely hard work, for which I am extremely grateful. Chief amongst those who have led the way through the process is Chris Smith, the Chief of Staff at Lambeth. After more than ten years of faithful service, working night and day and every weekend - he's the biggest menace to my capacity to have a quiet evening in on a Saturday night because I get an email from him - after more than ten years of never stopping he is moving on to other things later this year. His contribution has been largely behind the scenes, but he has served the Church of England and the Anglican Communion - not only for a long time but with huge effect - and our debt to him is more than we can imagine. So on your behalf I would like to thank him.
As you know too from public announcements, Bishop Nigel Stock, Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, has with great generosity and considerable sacrifice, I'd imagine, agreed to become the Bishop at Lambeth, in a new configuration for the role, working alongside the new Chief of Staff. I could not be more grateful to have such a wise and experienced person, who will enable my many weaknesses to be compensated for more than adequately.
One of the things about this job is you tend to carry a lot of baggage - physical, metaphorical; probably more than I know. We arrived yesterday, the car having broken down en route - there's a nasty metaphor there. But we did arrive - and we found ourselves with a ton of baggage to carry from one end of what seemed to be a much bigger campus than last year, to the other. And it reminded me - as I was staggering along with what seemed to be enough robes to rival Wippell's - that we come to this session of Synod with a certain amount of baggage; and it's good to find ways of getting rid of it. A friend of ours - of my wife and mine, from our days when we lived in Paris - worked for many years for an American company but living in Paris. We went to stay with them about six of seven years ago - he's now ordained; there's no connection - and he was still laughing about an experience at Kennedy airport the day before. It was a February and the weather in New York had been very bad, and he'd arrived and everyone was in a grump and the flights were late. And when he got one from the front of the check-in, the person in front of him was incredibly rude to the poor check-in operator. And John, our friend, is always gracious and polite, and when he got to the front he said, 'I'm embarrassed to be a passenger when people treat you like that. I don't know how you were so patient.' And she said, 'Well, sir. I shouldn't really tell you this. There's sort of bad news and good news. The bad news is he's sitting next to you on the flight to New York. But the good news is I've sent his luggage to Tokyo.'
There are a number of obvious applications to that, one of which is we could do with some people like that at the beginning of a Synod session - for the baggage to go somewhere else.
You don't want a lot of baggage in a revolution. And we live in a time of revolutions. And the trouble with revolutions is once they start no-one knows where they will go. Of the most serious type, the physical type, the practical type… Bishop Angaelos, Head of the Coptic Church in the UK, whom I met in Egypt last week, and who is sitting with us today, knows exactly about revolutions. While we were in Egypt, we heard much talk of what would happen this week - and we've seen. And the grace and leadership of Christians in that country is something to behold.
But we live also in a time of many revolutions in this country. And as the Synod meets today, we are custodians of the gospel that transforms individuals, nations and societies. We are called by God to respond radically and imaginatively to new contexts - contexts that are set up by revolutions. I want to thank you, and to say what a privilege it is to share with you, in the ministry of shouldering the heavy burden of facing these changing contexts, and grappling with them in this Synod, now and over the years to come, and to thank you for your commitment in your work here you show to Jesus Christ and to His church. It is genuinely a privilege to be among you.
The revolutions are huge. The economic context and position of our country has changed, dramatically. With all parties committed to austerity for the foreseeable future, we have to recognise that the profound challenges of social need, food banks, credit injustice, gross differentiation of income - even in many areas of opportunity - pressure on all forms of state provision and spending: all these are here to stay. In and through the church we have the call and potentially the means to be the answer that God provides. As Pope Francis recalled so memorably, we are to be a poor church for the poor, however and wherever poverty is seen, materially or spiritually. That is a revolution. Being a poor church for the poor means both provision and also prophetic challenge in a country that is still able and has the resources to reduce inequality - especially inequality of opportunity and life expectancy. If you travel north from parts of Liverpool to Southport, you gain almost a year in life expectancy for every mile you travel. We are debating these questions in this Synod. But prophetic challenge needs reality as its foundation, or it is mere wishful thinking; and it needs provision as its companion, or it is merely shifting responsibility.
The social context is changing radically. There is a revolution. It may be, it was, that 59% of the population called themselves Christian at the last census, with 25% saying they had no faith. But the YouGov poll a couple of weeks back was the reverse, almost exactly, for those under 25. If we are not shaken by that, we are not listening.
The cultural and political ground is changing. There is a revolution. Anyone who listened, as I did, to much of the Same Sex Marriage Bill Second Reading Debate in the House of Lords could not fail to be struck by the overwhelming change of cultural hinterland. Predictable attitudes were no longer there. The opposition to the Bill, which included me and many other bishops, was utterly overwhelmed, with amongst the largest attendance in the House and participation in the debate, and majority, since 1945. There was noticeable hostility to the view of the churches. I am not proposing new policy, but what I felt then and feel now is that some of what was said by those supporting the bill was uncomfortably close to the bone. Lord Alli said that 97% of gay teenagers in this country report homophobic bullying. In the USA suicide as a result of such bullying is the principle cause of death of gay adolescents. One cannot sit and listen to that sort of reality without being appalled. We may or may not like it, but we must accept that there is a revolution in the area of sexuality, and we have not fully heard it.
The majority of the population rightly detests homophobic behaviour or anything that looks like it. And sometimes they look at us and see what they don't like. I don't like saying that. I've resisted that thought. But in that debate I heard it, and I could not walk away from it. We all know that it is utterly horrifying. to hear, as we did this week, of gay people executed in Iran for being gay, or equivalents elsewhere. With nearly a million children educated in our schools we not only must demonstrate a profound commitment to stamp out such stereotyping and bullying; but we must also take action. We are therefore developing a programme for use in our schools, taking the best advice we can find anywhere, that specifically targets such bullying. More than that, we need also to ensure that what we do and say in this Synod, as we debate these issues, demonstrates above all the lavish love of God to all of us, who are all without exception sinners. Again this requires radical and prophetic words which lavish gracious truth.
The three Quinquennial Goals of growing the church, contributing to the common good and reimagining ministry, are utterly suited to a time of revolution. They express confidence in the gospel. They force us to look afresh at all our structures, to reimagine ministry, whether it be the ministry of General Synod, or the parish church, or a great cathedral, or anything between all of those three. For that reimagination to be more than surface deep, we need a renewal of prayer and the Religious Life. That is the most essential emphasis in what I am hoping to do in my time in this role. And if you forget everything else I say, which you may well do - probably will do - please remember that. There has never been a renewal of church life in western Christianity without a renewal of prayer and Religious Communities, in some form or another, often different. It has been said that we can only imagine what is already in our minds as a possibility; and it is in prayer, individually and together, that God puts into our minds new possibilities of what the Church can be.
The Quinquennial Goals challenge our natural tendency to be inward looking, calling on us to serve the common good. That covers many areas, and between us all, not singly, we are able to face the challenge. May Synod rise to that. But the second of my personal emphases, within that goal, is reconciliation, within the church but most of all fulfilling our particular Anglican charism to be reconcilers in the world, in our communities, in families, even, dare I say it, amongst ourselves. Even if we do sometimes conduct our arguments at high volume and in public, to be reconcilers means enabling diversity to be lived out in love, resisting hatred of the other, demonisation of our opponents.
The common good goes much further than that. Our unique presence across the country enables us to speak with authority both in parliament and here, and in every church and cathedral and synod and gathering place across the country. Our extraordinary presence across the world as Anglicans enables us to speak with intelligence from around the world. As Anglicans we are called to reconcile incredible differences of culture in over 150 countries. What an extraordinary heritage we have under God. So we seek to be renewed here and across the Communion, and to find the reconciling presence of God. This Synod meets in an era of revolution, but we have together the means and the courage to seize the opportunities that revolution brings.
The Quinquennial goals aim at spiritual and numerical growth in the church. That includes evangelism, the third of my emphases. The lead has been set by the Archbishop of York. Here again we need new imagination in evangelism through prayer, and a fierce determination not to let evangelism be squeezed off our agendas. At times I feel it's rather like me when I have to write a difficult letter, or make an awkward phone call: even things like ironing my socks become more attractive. We treat evangelism too often in the same way. We will talk about anything, especially miscellaneous provisions measures after lunch on Sunday; and we struggle to fit in the call to be the good news in our times through Jesus Christ. The gospel of Jesus Christ is indeed THE good news for our times. God is always good news; we are the ones who make ourselves irrelevant when we are not good news. And when we are good news, God's people see growing churches.
Attitudes to hierarchy and authority have changed, and continue to change; there's nothing new in that. And the more they do, the more we are perceived, often wrongly - but genuinely - to say one thing, about grace, community and inclusion, and do another.
And yet with all these revolutions, which raise such huge challenges to us in our lives as the Church, we see clearly that God is working a wonderful and marvelous revolution through the Church in the wind of the Spirit, blowing through our structures and ideas and imagination.
There is a new energy in ecumenism, not least shown by Pope Francis. There is a hunger for visible unity. Many churches across England are growing in depth and numbers. People are looking for answers in a time of hardship and when we show holy hospitality and the outflow of grace, we are full of people seeking us. There is every cause for hope. This Synod had a shock, depending on your view, good or bad, last November; but there is here assembled, in weakness or confidence, in all sorts of fear and lack of trust, people with the faith and wisdom who in grace will seek the way to the greater glory of God.
In some things we change course and recognise the new context. Revolutions change culture. In others we stand firm because truth is not set by culture, nor morals by fashion. But let us be clear, pretending that nothing has changed is absurd and impossible. In times of revolution we too in the church, in the Church of England, must have a revolution which enables us to live for the greater glory of God in the freedom which is the gift of Christ. We need not fear. The eternal God is our refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms.
There have been many times where the Church of England felt that change was in the air or this was a moment of crisis. Because we are not an organisation, let alone a business, or even an institution, but in reality the people of God gathered by the Holy Spirit to walk together in a way that leads to the greater glory of God, there are bound to be many crises and turning points.
So let us not imagine for one moment that because we are in revolutionary times what we are going through currently is either more dangerous, more difficult or more complicated than anything faced by the generations before us. We are in the hands of God; the eternal God is our refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. We need not worry, but we must give all that we have and we are, for the uniquely great cause of the service of Jesus Christ.
So how we journey here is essential, and that is why during these next few days, certain things are being reimagined: not least what we do tomorrow. What is clear to all of us is that there exists, as we gather - and let's be honest about it - a very significant absence of trust between different groups; and, it must be said - and the evidence of this is clear, though sad - an absence of trust towards the Bishops collectively.
One thing I am sure of is that trust is rebuilt and reconciliation happens when whatever we say, we do. For example, if, while doing what we believe is right for the full inclusion of women in the life of the church, we say that all are welcome whatever their views on that, all must be welcome in deed as well as in word. If we don't mean it, please let us not say it. On the one hand there are horrendous accounts from women priests whose very humanity has sometimes seemed to be challenged. On the other side I recently heard a well-attested account of a meeting between a Diocesan Director of Ordinands and a candidate, who was told that if the DDO had known of the candidate's views against the ordination of women earlier in the process he would never have been allowed to get as far as he did.
Both attitudes contradict the stated policy of the Church of England, of what we say, and are completely unacceptable. If the General Synod, if we decide, that we are not to be hospitable to some diversity of views, we need to say so bluntly and not mislead. If we say we will ordain women as priests and Bishops we must do so in exactly the same way as we ordain men. If we say that all are welcome even when they disagree, they must be welcome in spirit, in deed, as well as in word.
Lack of integrity and transparency poisons any hope of rebuilding trust, and rebuilding trust in the best of circumstances is going to be the work of years and even decades. There are no magic bullets.
So how we travel, and our capacity to differ without hating each other and to debate without dividing from each other, is crucial to the progress we make.
Integrity and transparency depend utterly on a corporate integrity and transparency before God, above all in our prayer and liturgy. I sometimes wonder if one of the drivers of our lack of trust is that we have lost from our experience and our expectation two of the great moods of liturgy: of lament and of celebration. The ability truly to lament, to rage at circumstances, at loss, at decline, at injustice, at our own sin or the problems we face, is one that enables us to find afresh the mercy and grace of God. Lament is a liturgical mood that builds our capacity to trust God in the face of change, and then we trust each other. Encountering the face of Jesus Christ in pain, grief or anger transforms us.
Equally the capacity to celebrate, to lift our hearts and voices in true and passionate praise and thanksgiving because the presence of God is known among, restores our perspective. Not only does it renew our faith and strengthen weary limbs in the long journey we are undertaking, but also the act of celebrating that which we share together cuts across our great barriers and difficulties. We celebrate because who can not be overwhelmed by the love of God?
Take for example the two Anglican Dioceses I saw a week ago in the Middle East, in Jerusalem and in Egypt. In the midst of terrible and confused situations, with unspeakable human suffering, tension and fear, they shine with brilliant light. And they are part of us. In each of them there is a profound commitment to the common good of the populations in which they live as a minority - populations of whatever faith and ethnicity. In each of them there are more schools, hospitals and clinics than there are churches. In each of them the Bishops have established confident and effective relationships with other churches, with Muslim leaders and with governments that enable them to speak frankly and truly and with great courage. And we need to remember that as what they do there affects us, lifts our hearts, shows us the grace and glory and power of God, even more so what we do here affects them and every other church in the Anglican Communion. We have great responsibilities.
We should do no less, be no less effective, no less bold than our brothers and sisters in Christ in those Dioceses; in Nigeria, in Pakistan, in places of persecution and suffering, of revolution, change and disruption. The eternal God is our refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.
Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your people and kindle in them the fire of your love. AMEN.


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Ram Narayan Kumar, former director of SAFHR's South Asian Orientation Course in Human Rights and Peace Studies, was the full time Director of the Understanding Impunity project.Kumar had been involved with human rights and democracy issues in the region since 1975 when he was imprisoned for 19 months for his vocal opposition to Indira Gandhi's Emergency regime that lasted till March 1977. Kumar's work for justice and accountability in Punjab is widely recognized. A founder member of the Committee for Information and Initiative on Punjab, which petitioned the Supreme Court in April 1995 for a comprehensive investigation on the matter of police abductions resulting in the secret cremations in Punjab, Kumar is the lead author of Reduced to Ashes
For almost a quarter of a century, he championed Sikh rights in Punjab through investigative journalism, historical research and uncompromising fight for State accountability. His landmark publication, Reduced to Ashes : TheInsurgency and Human Rights in Punjab, (SAFHR, 2003), which he co-author dwith colleagues on the Coordination Committee for Disappearances in Punjab (CCDP), of whihc I was a part as well for a year, is a meticulous documentation of over 600 cases of human rights abuse in Punjab. It led to charges being filed against police officials, but more importantly, it raised awareness of abuses in Punjab across the world. He is also the author of Sikh Unrest and the Indian State: Politics, personalities and historical retrospective (Ajanta Publications, New Delhi, 1997); The Sikh Struggle: Origin, Evolution and Present Phase (Chanakya Publications, Delhi, 1991) and [Terror in Punjab] Terror in Punjab : Narratives, Knowledge and Truth (Shipra Publications, Delhi, 2008).
Ram played a major role in all aspects of the movement for accountability in Punjab. For example, he worked with Jaswant Singh Khalra in exposing mass cremations of victims of disappearances and killings, he spearheaded the People's Commission on Human Rights Violations as well as the Committee for Coordination on Disappearances in Punjab, and he contributed to all major litigation such as the petition to bring charges against KPS Gill for his role in Khalra's murder and the Punjab mass cremations case.
"A forthright critic of state repression in Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Northeast India, Nepal and other parts of the subcontinent, Kumar was a deeply committed fighter for human rights and accountability. Kumar's work through SAFHR on impunity in the region was based not only on meticulous research and sharp insights, but also on profound empathy, compassion and an unwavering passion for social justice."—Tapan Kumar Bose, South Asia Forum for Human Rights & Sushil Pyakurel, Accountability Watch Committee, Nepal.
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To study the Way is to study the self.
How many times have we heard or read this quote? Isnt this one of the main reasons why we start on our Way? ....
Aoyama describes how the Buddha teaches us to rely only on ourselves and the Dharma to provide our answers .to be our own refuge. This is qualified by the statement that;
A well-regulated self becomes a refuge not the world money, ambition, survival, family life. Why?
When we take refuge in the world, we take refuge in conditions that we believe act on us, determining our happiness, our success. So when things go wrong we immediately blame our losses on external things, we moan and complain.
When we take refuge in the Dharma we are taught that our conventional sense of self is delusional and that we need to practice to see this for ourselves. As we realise this through practice we become more self-regulated. We are not thrown off kilter by accidents and dramas as much. We develop a way of dealing with the world which blends not to react too much one way or the other. Thats the plan anyway!
I guess I realised how much this practice has helped me become more self-regulated when faced with repeated stressful conditions that teachers experienced every few years or so inspections. My usual reaction was to panic and over-compensate, to over-plan lessons, to over-perform during observations and as a result over-fail!
In the past few inspections I have not over-reacted at all, but I have managed these inspections completely differently. For starters my life and career are not dependent on them! Its amazing how such thoughts became a premise before I started zazen practice. How did I really think this was so? How many other hidden premises (delusions) do we carry without realising and letting go of them?
Now during inspections my work continues to be dependent on the needs I judge are a priority for the class I teach and the subject to be taught. It is an approach that blends with all external conditions (not just my perception of external conditions), not reacting against or over-compensating for them. The results are right too!
How we can look back in hindsight and see the right way!!
Q: May I ask you to share any experiences which show how you have become more
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Well so much has been written here at Treeleaf about teachers, good and bad just enter teacher in the Treeleaf search engine!
I am not sure that teachers are supposed to make Buddha statues out of us! ....But rather they know the Way so can guide and point us on our way accordingly.
Teachers can be any event that challenges our idea of our small self, but a good teacher will help us open the door to our universal self.
How can we tell a good teacher? Well we test everything that is taught; as Shakyamuni advised us and as Aoyama says they tell us things we do not like to hear!
Q: Do you have a moment when you were told a truth you didnt like to hear? Who or what
was your teacher?


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Starting Today–Trick or Treat Item Drops, An Undead Raising Weekend Event and Special Item Shop Offers–In Honor of Halloween
Wicked Interactive, a North American MMO publisher, today announced its special Halloween plans for Yedang Online's popular MMORPG, Priston Tale. Priston Tale is celebrating the spooky holiday with Pumpkin Candy item drops, an "Undead Raising" weekend event and special item shop Halloween Packages. All events start today, October 31st, and continue for one week.
Trick or Treat Pumpkin Candy Event
The "Trick or Treat: Pumpkin Candy event" in Priston Tale starts today, October 31st. Players need to be on the lookout for pumpkin candy dropped from monsters in the game. The pumpkin candies will hold special and unique items including Gold packages, Silver packages, Mana re-charging potions, Vampiric Cuspids, Sheltom Forces, Teleport Cores, Mana Potions, Skeleton, Chaos, and Inferna Crystals and more.
Undead Raising Weekend Event
The "Undead Raising" event begins today, October 31st, and will last for the whole Halloween weekend. Throughout the weekend Ghosts, Skeletons and other undead creatures will appear on irregular maps in the game. No one is safe! They can appear anywhere at any time. In high level maps starting from the Railroad of Chaos, Mini Dark Specters will wander throughout. And look out for some good loot as the Mini Dark Specters will drop lots of gold and sheltoms for high level players.
Halloween Item Shop Sales and Packages
In addition to the free events above that are open to all players, those wanting an extra boost at Halloween can go to the Priston Tale item shop for some special Halloween package offers and a sale on Costumes. All Awesome/Beautiful Party Costumes (those that last 7 days) are reduced from 2000 cash to 1000 cash and All Awesome /Beautiful Party Costumes (30 days) are reduced from 7000 cash to 5000 cash. The sale starts today and continues for one week.
In addition, a new Halloween Package will be added to the item shop starting today and will be available for one week. The package includes 5 random items and a 10% chance to receive a 6th item. It is priced at 2900 PT Cash.
The first random item the player will receive will either be a Vampiric Cuspid (Once used last for 3 hours) or Mana Recharging Potion (3 hours). The second random item will either be a Rebirth Scroll or Third Eye (1 day). The third random item: will consist of 5 of either the Chaos Crystals, or Skeleton Crystals. The fourth random item will either be 10 Firecrackersor 5 Teleport Cores and the fifth random item will include 5 of one of the following: Transporo Forces, Radient Forces, Murky Forces, or Devine Forces.
The sixth random bonus item is a 10% chance to receive either a Phoenix Pet (3 hours), or Aging Stone.


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The stink over SkiLink
Updated Nov. 6, 2012
Utah's Wasatch Range promises wintry solitude and deep chutes of fluffy powder for backcountry skiers. Its forested watershed provides more than half of Salt Lake City's drinking water. But it's far from untouched: The area also hosts 11 ski resorts that draw thousands of visitors each year for lift-served skiing and snowboarding.
A Canadian developer recently proposed connecting two of those resorts with a high-speed gondola, a plan that requires the sale of 30 acres of national forest and bypasses some environmental and jurisdictional regulations. Its backers say the SkiLink project will create a $51 million economic boost and provide 500 jobs through a "ripple effect," as well as relieving the area's notorious winter traffic jams. Last fall, four Utah Congressmen introduced a bill to enable the land sale.
But backcountry skiers and greens are furious, saying the project fragments a designated roadless forest area, threatens the watershed, and does nothing to solve year-round traffic problems. One of the most outspoken opponents is Peter Metcalf, CEO of local gear company Black Diamond, who's been pushing back on Utah's pro-development, anti-conservation policies (see our story about Metcalf and the conservation work done by his and other gear companies, "The Hardest Climb").
In late October, Black Diamond, along with about 80 other snowsport and other local businesses, plus a handful of state and local officials, sent a strongly-worded letter to Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and the representatives backing the plan.
We are asking for you to vocally assist us in stopping the legislation that can only be described as a political end run around local governments and federal land use planning processes. While the downhill ski industry is an important element of the recreation economy, so too are the many other year-round activities that are dependent upon pristine backcountry destinations that are seemingly disappearing at an alarming rate nationwide. We need your assistance in advocating for real solutions facing this region, not hastily strewn together legislation that only benefits a few at the expense of millions and would set a horrible precedent.
Neither bill will make it through Congress anytime soon, but critics of SkiLink say if the land-swap bill does pass and the project moves forward, it will set dangerous precedents. As the New York Times reported this summer:
Jeff Niermeyer, the director of Salt Lake City Public Utilities, one of the agencies responsible for watershed protection, recently stood over a map in his office showing 11 additional proposed ski area expansions beyond SkiLink. "It's the cumulative effect of expansion that we are worried about," he said. …
A similar debate over public land before the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City could offer a clue, critics of the project say, to how developers might try to break the limits that Salt Lake County, Salt Lake City and the United States Forest Service have imposed on development in the watershed.
In that controversy, Earl Holding, the owner of the Snowbasin ski area, pressed the Forest Service to privatize land at the base so he could build a lodge. Ultimately, Utah's Congressional delegation championed a bill for a land swap, arguing that the new development was needed to host the 2002 Olympics. (Note from HCN: That 1996 land swap added more than two square miles to Snowbasin's base area.)
In August, when I was attending the Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City, local gear-company owner Bob Geiger, of Geigerrigs, told me what he thought about the SkiLink proposal: "Everybody just needs to sit down together and have some give and take. The conservationists are not being reasonable."
Some of that give-and-take has been happening recently on Black Diamond's website, where people both for and against the project are marshalling their arguments, like this comment from someone named Val Miller:
Whether you oppose this project for its threat to the watershed, whether you oppose it because it will convert a beautiful fork into a utility corridor, whether you oppose it because it transforms a place that exists outside the marketplace into a teller by which money is paid out and received, or whether you oppose it simply because Talisker (the developer) has acted in bad faith, has circumscribed the public at every step and unleashed its PR Machine to silence all protest: your opposition is sound.
Another commenter, Rick S., wrote:
Sorry, but I disagree with your opposition to the SkiLink plan. ... I do believe I understand the impact, environmental and financial implications of the project. I've spent quite a bit of time in Europe, have skied and otherwise visited many interconnected ski resorts. For some reason in the U.S. this endeavor is fervently fought by special interest groups whose motivations I don't agree with. With SkiLink it will require selling a total of 30 acres for the project? Really? That's it? ... While I don't have a say due to the fact that I don't reside in UT, I am a tourist who brings tourist dollars to your state, and I do so ONLY to ski. It is a significant inconvenience to drive around to the various resorts I like to ski. ... In Europe, (riding a gondola between resorts) was a very enjoyable thing to do. It also reduced the need for vehicles which of course reduces emissions etc.
Stay tuned; the fight is just starting to ramp up, and the implications for the future of Utah's public lands are important.Jodi Peterson is HCN's Managing Editor.
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Drawing from over two decades of experience in Business, Leadership, Sales, and Team Development, Dr. Carthen is an expert on Leadership and Organizational Development. He is able to speak to various topics based upon his client relationships, business acumen and continued learning from his work with organizations and coaching clients.
Judging from hundreds of testimonials, he has been able to take his audiences to new levels of thought that people habitually choose not to think about. Your leaders, teams, students, or followers will not be the same after hearing his practical, but thought provoking messages. Take a look at what just a few of our past audiences had to share about Dr. Jason's Impact!
Dr. Jason Carthen presented to business leaders and consultants at our 1st Annual Ultimate Culture Conference in Chicago. Drawing from his personal experiences in the NFL, Jason delivered a passionate and inspiring message that drove our audience to laugh, cry, gasp, clap, stand, cheer and, most importantly, take action. I've received an overwhelming amount of positive feedback from the attendees on Dr. Carthen's presentation. As an added bonus, Jason is a positive, fun person who makes working together an absolute joy!
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From Senator Charles Grassley –
Q. What does "too big to jail" mean?
A. "Too big to jail" refers to the federal government's recent philosophy to decline to pursue criminal prosecution of Wall Street megabanks for financial fraud and other wrongdoing. The Obama administration has not sought aggressively to prosecute large financial institutions for their role in the financial crisis and other high-profile matters. Despite receiving $165 million for the prosecution of entities and individuals whose actions resulted in the financial crisis, the Justice Department still has no high-profile financial crisis criminal convictions of either companies or individuals. The phrase "too big to jail" is a play on "too big to fail," the controversial idea that government policy and tax dollars must bail out the major banks and the government must decline to prosecute the banks because their failure would be devastating to the economy. This policy encourages excessive risk-taking and misbehavior because it removes the consequences that normally would result from financial failure or criminal sanctions.
Q. Why has the Justice Department largely declined to pursue criminal cases against the major banks for wrongdoing?
A. I'm working to get answers to that question. So far, the Justice Department's top leaders say their decisions are based on a fear of disrupting the financial markets or causing "a ripple effect so that suddenly, counterparties and other financial institutions or other companies that had nothing to do with this are affected badly," in the words of outgoing Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer. Both Breuer and Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department consults outside "experts" in determining whether to prosecute banks. With Sen. Sherrod Brown, I'm pressing the Justice Department to explain who those experts are, whether they have any ulterior motives in their decision-making, and whether they're looking out for the public's best interest in advising prosecutors.
Q. Why does "too big to jail" matter?
A. Declining to prosecute either the banks themselves or individuals at the banks for financial fraud sends the message that crime pays and in the unlikely event of a financial penalty from the Justice Department in lieu of prison, that any financial penalty is just part of the cost of doing business. It enables those willing to commit crime to do it repeatedly. Meanwhile, the best deterrent to crime is to put criminals in prison. That includes those at powerful banks and corporations. No one should be above the law. If we saw some serious prosecutions, we'd see fewer instances of malfeasance, such as the recent interest rate manipulation scandal, that harm innocent bank customers and homeowners.


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Fresh off her ESPY win, Caitlyn Jenner donned a wide-brimmed hat to enjoy a day at the races at Del Mar's Opening Day, according to social media posts.
Visitors snapped pictures of Jenner dressed in a red and white wrap dress, hob-knobbing around the paddock Thursday afternoon. By her side was Joe Harper, the president and CEO of the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club.
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She was part of the pomp and circumstance that kicked off the racetrack's 76th season.
Jenner came down to San Diego County from Los Angeles, where she was honored with the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs Wednesday night.
Her emotional, 10-minute acceptance speech, urging inclusion for all transgender people, received a standing ovation from the world's biggest sports stars.
Thursday marked the beginning of the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club's horse racing season, which runs through Sept. 7. The track is about 20 minutes north of downtown San Diego.