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There's something about a master degree in Barcelona that you have not been told and you will love to know… There are student residences for you to live your university time in all its glory! Although you do not believe living in Barcelona with your colleagues, friends, doing what you like, studying with support groups, escaping with the leisure in Barcelona, gyms, shopping, excursions, is something that you have not been told about and that you have to live. Why?
- Your university years are yours: What do we mean? You are studying what you like, what you have already chosen, it is not compulsory education and you begin to build your future: leaving the family circle is a first step toward personal growth. It is time that you started to pack to leave the nest.
- Friends from the the residence will be friends for life: social and even loving relationships are going to be created in these years so special for you, maybe the love of your life is close and you have to live, feel and enjoy. With the activities in The Lofttown you will be able to enjoy everything: leisure, excursions, walks, gastronomy, shopping… do know that you can visit the farms where the food we serve at our buffet comes from?
- Nights behind the scenes: of course there are moments for everything, time to study, time to eat, time to go out with your friends and… fun nights! Barcelona awakes to light your nights of entertainment, theatres, dinner, drinks; leave the pressure from your master degree in Barcelona on one side and… fun mode on!
Don't miss the opportunity to enjoy 100% The Lofttown experience in your master degree in Barcelona years. We know that these years are difficult because of the distance away from the family and can be scary, but we are here 🙂
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Martin Gilbert, co-founder and CEO of Aberdeen Asset Management, said Monday the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing bond purchases succeeded in reviving the U.S. economy.
But a similar QE program recently launched by the European Central Bank is unlikely to yield similar results, he said in a CNBC "Squawk Box" interview. "It's not as flexible an economy as the U.S. It doesn't have that ability to cut labor."
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RAF Case Study | The Artist in Residence - Shepp Train Project
'The Artist in Residence – Shepp Train Project' was a three-week practice based arts residency that created a transient space for the participating artists on the V/Line train service from Shepparton to Southern Cross Station in Melbourne. Artists were in residence on board the train and on train station platforms at either end of the line. The project was presented as part of the 2016 Shepparton Festival.
Local artists Serana Hunt, Mini Leug, Bruce Hughes and ten members of the Shepparton Textiles Artist Group were invited to explore the social and cultural conditions of place through their chosen media, documenting individual memories and personal experiences.
At least one artist travelled on the V/Line train daily during the 17 days of the Festival, 13 artists made over 50 journeys. Installation plinths were installed at both Shepparton Station and Southern Cross Station and work was changed daily.
Cultural and Economic Impacts:
- Artistic excellence was achieved in a two-fold way – the artists themselves produced high quality work; and were supported through a mentorship by festival staff and a residency mentor
- Employment opportunities were created in that the artists were financially supported to be in residence for three weeks
- A new partnership was formed in Melbourne, signifying the first time that the festival had engaged with a metropolitan audience
- Increased cultural participation by a broad cross-section of the community was achieved through gentle presence of the artists in public spaces
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- Broadened exposure to and engagement with the arts by showcasing contemporary multi-arts in a public space to a broad cross-section of the community including those who do not usually attend arts events.
- The festival is designed to embrace all that is Greater Shepparton and invites audiences to look at their region differently; to be consumed during the festival experience. It encourages connections to the environment, challenges artists, community groups and organisations to engage with local industries, to be consumed by process and practice and share their outcomes. This project achieved this outcome on a daily basis during the festival.
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Brian and I went to see the new Muppets movie. It was cute. I felt the first part dragged a little, but when they got into the "show" part, it was a lot of fun. Funny, too, in parts. But some parts were just really, really cheesy, and I really felt they could have gone a little smarter with it. It kind of reminds me of Enchanted, in that Disney is totally poking fun at themselves, but also brings in little homages to other Disney films. And, I have to say, the songs were really good in that one! (I sing along to them on occasion in the car.) But, the Muppets songs were ... not as memorable. Mostly.
The original show was on just shortly after I was born, but I do remember watching many in reruns. It was cute and funny, then. There were some characters in this movie that I don't even remember though!
All in all, it was nice to get out and have some fun. Because Brian had off on Friday, and I got off early on Friday, all chores and whatnot were done by Friday, so we were able to enjoy Saturday completely for ourselves.
Thankfully, it seems I am on the mend, which is nice -- means this never turned into a full-blown whatever. And, the cough I had developing has mostly subsided. (I think it's because I'm not draining as much. I know, TMI. Sorry. ^_^)
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Scripps Cancer Center's 39th Annual Conference: Clinical Hematology and Oncology 2019, is designed for hematologists, oncologists, surgeons, radiation oncologists, internists, and others desiring an update in these specialty areas. The primary objective of this course is to bring together clinicians and leading experts in diverse areas of hematology and oncology, affording them an intimate environment in which to discuss new clinical developments and significant advances.
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- Select and apply the changing approaches to hematologic malignancies, particularly as they relate to evidence-based standards of care, including innovations in diagnosis and treatment.
- Choose new therapeutic options for the treatment of a number of common malignancies; understanding appropriate indications and contraindications to these therapeutic approaches.
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Payne Hosts Liberian National Immigration Conference
Washington, D.C. – Rep. Donald M. Payne, Jr. hosted the Liberian National Immigration Conference in conjunction with the Liberian Pastors Association to express support for Liberians in the U.S. and to highlight the need for an immediate extension of the Deferred Enforced Departure (DED). Extension of DED for the approximately 3,600 eligible Liberians living in the United States was announced by Denise Vanison, DHS Chief, Office of Policy and Strategy [pictured top left], at the conference.
The extension provides an additional 18 months of temporary legal status for the thousands of Liberian refugees living in the United States. The extension of DED was critical to the economy of many metropolitan areas that are now home to a large Liberian population. Additionally, Liberia is not equipped to handle the return of thousands of Liberians who have lived in the U.S. for over a decade. Liberians living in the U.S. remit more than $6 million a month to Liberia, and the deportation of Liberians would devastate the Liberian economy.
The Conference connected the issue of DED to the greater issue of a broken and malfunctioning patchwork of immigration policies that need to be fixed. Recently, Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island and Rep. Keith Ellison (MN-5) introduced legislation, S. 656 and H.R. 1087 respectively, titled the Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act that would provide permanent residency to eligible Liberian immigrants.
"Today's conference was an enormous success, and I was thrilled that Obama Administration official, Denise Vanison, announced the Administration's decision to extend DED status at the conference," said Rep. Payne, Jr. "This is a joyous day and a great step forward for Liberian immigrants. Nevertheless, our conference drew attention to the fact that DED remains a flawed policy as Liberian immigrants wait in limbo every 18 months wondering whether they will be deported. Providing permanent residency for Liberian immigrants must be incorporated into the larger conversation surrounding comprehensive immigration reform, and I will continue to be an outspoken advocate on this issue."
Many Liberian immigrants fled to our nation from a brutal civil war in pursuit of the American Dream, just like so many of our parents, grandparents, and ancestors before us. Many Liberian refugees have been here for more than 20 years and are second generation immigrants. They have painstakingly rebuilt their lives following the trauma of war. They are part of our social and economic fabric. They are our pastors, teachers, professors, community leaders, and deporting a large number of them could economically hurt cities and communities where a large number of Liberian immigrants have settled.
Liberian Ambassador Jeremiah C. Sulunteh said, "Liberia is a small America. We are proud to live that way. Liberia is not prepared for the deportation of thousands of Liberian-American immigrants. We don't have the resources, the infrastructure, or the capability. I commend Representative Donald Payne, Jr. for hosting the conference and adding your voice to the many voices speaking out for the Liberian community."
Members of Congress and experts in the field of Liberian Immigration will gave remarks regarding the concerns surrounding Liberian Immigration as well as the need for comprehensive immigration reform.
Rep. Bass, Chair of Subcommittee on Africa, Committee on Foreign Affairs said, "Today's discussion is important to elevating the status of Africa in Congress. I commend Congressman Payne for spearheading this dialogue and offer my support for the Obama Administration's decision to extend Deferred Enforced Departure for Liberians for 18 months. Today's discussion is an important step to continue raising awareness about the plight of Liberians both here and abroad, and I look forward to learning more about this issue and what assistance we as Members of Congress can provide."
"Our immigration system should never cruelly uproot families who have come here from Liberia and are contributing to our economy and culture," said Rep. Cicilline. "I was delighted to attend today's conference and will continue working to ensure that Rhode Island's Liberian-American community has a strong voice in Washington."
"Liberian-Americans are a vital part of Minnesota's communities," said Rep. Ellison. "They pay taxes, send their children to our schools, and own or work at businesses throughout the state. Each year, thousands of Liberian-Americans fear they will be forced to leave their home and their family. The 30,000 Liberian-Americans in Minnesota deserve the security of knowing they will be allowed to remain in the United States. They deserve a path to citizenship."
"Liberians residing in Rhode Island and throughout the country fled to the United States in search of a safe haven from political persecution – the same journey that has drawn millions of people to American shores," said Rep. Langevin. "The protection from deportation they received has allowed them to become valued members of our communities. They should no longer have to face the uncertainty of waiting for the Attorney General to renew these protections. We can and will work together to make sure that the United States maintains its principles of religious and political tolerance and ensure that they will have a permanent home in America."
"The United States has a historical connection to all Liberians, but we also have a moral responsibility to end the killings and mass displacement of innocent citizens," said Rep. Jackson Lee. "The termination of TPS designation of Liberia would place many Liberians that fled to our country for refuge at risk of being deployed back prematurely. The Liberian people living in our country deserve better treatment and protection than the current Immigration and Nationality Act can afford. Congress needs to permit the extension of section 244 which enables the people to re—register for temporary protection status and work authorization. Let us give the Liberian people the respect and protection they need by supporting H.R. 3123."
Congresswoman Norton said, "I am delighted and grateful that the President has extended Deferred Enforced Departure status for Liberians in the U.S. before it expired at the end of this month."


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SRINAGAR, India Indian-controlled Kashmir imposed a curfew on Friday and blocked mobile phone services to stop people from gathering in the streets and stage violent protests over the killing of a young separatist commander by security forces.
At least 34 people have been killed and 3,100 wounded, most of them in police firing, in the worst outbreak of violence in six years in the disputed territory.
Security forces were deployed in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir state, to enforce the curfew as well as Anantnag district in the south where Burhan Wani, idolised by some Kashmir youth, was killed in a security operation.
Only people involved in medical emergencies would be allowed to travel, the state government said in a statement to head off protests after Friday prayers.
On Thursday, a mob set fire to a house in Anantnag in which Wani and his associates were killed after a gun battle with government forces, a government spokesman said.
An orchard was also attacked on suspicion that some people in the area had given Indian forces information about Wani's whereabouts.
Militant attacks in Kashmir, which Pakistan also lays claims to, have fallen and are nowhere near the levels of the 1990s when Pakistan-backed militants as well as local groups such as the Hizbul Mujahideen targeted security forces with blasts and gun battles.
But separatist leaders say Kashmiris remain alienated and have repeatedly called for three-way talks, including Pakistan, to address grievances.
(Additional reporting by Rupam Jain; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani and Nick Macfie)
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Lucky for Rich and all of us, Ellsberg outed Nixon's plan for the Nuclear attack which would have radiated all Asia and ultimately the whole planet.
Guest Dr. Sasha Lessin relates how President Johnson falsified an American ship firing on a North Vietmamese gunboat into a lie about the Viet ship firing on ours; this was his excuse for the war he wanted.
Guest Janet Kira Lessin warned of the impending extinction of humanity as a result of the ongoing leaks of radiation from the Fukashima disaster, with radioactive water seeping into the Pacific, steaming up into our atmosphere through fissures in the Earth, killing the sardines, spreading radiation poisoning throughout globe, killing fish and giving us cancers. Prolong your life a bit by avoiding eating fish from the Pacific.
THE NUKES OF OCTOBER: RICHARD NIXON'S SECRET PLAN TO BRING PEACE TO VIETNAM by Jeremi Suri in Wired
On the morning of October 27, 1969, a squadron of 18 B-52s — massive bombers with eight turbo engines and 185-foot wingspans — began racing from the western US toward the eastern border of the Soviet Union. The pilots flew for 18 hours without rest, hurtling toward their targets at more than 500 miles per hour. Each plane was loaded with nuclear weapons hundreds of times more powerful than the ones that had obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The B-52s, known as Stratofortresses, slowed only once, along the coast of Canada near the polar ice cap. Here, KC-135 planes — essentially 707s filled with jet fuel — carefully approached the bombers. They inched into place for a delicate in-flight connection, transferring thousands of gallons from aircraft to aircraft through a long, thin tube. One unfortunate shift in the wind, or twitch of the controls, and a plane filled with up to 150 tons of fuel could crash into a plane filled with nuclear ordnance.
The aircraft were pointed toward Moscow, but the real goal was to change the war in Vietnam. During his campaign for the presidency the year before, Richard Nixon had vowed to end that conflict. But more than 4,500 Americans had died there in the first six months of 1969, including 84 soldiers at the debacle of Hamburger Hill. Meanwhile, the peace negotiations in Paris, which many people hoped would end the conflict, had broken down. The Vietnamese had declared that they would just sit there, conceding nothing, "until the chairs rot." Frustrated, Nixon decided to try something new: threaten the Soviet Union with a massive nuclear strike and make its leaders think he was crazy enough to go through with it. His hope was that the Soviets would be so frightened of events spinning out of control that they would strong-arm Hanoi, telling the North Vietnamese to start making concessions at the negotiating table or risk losing Soviet military support.
Codenamed Giant Lance, Nixon's plan was the culmination of a strategy of premeditated madness he had developed with national security adviser Henry Kissinger. The details of this episode remained secret for 35 years and have never been fully told. Now, thanks to documents released through the Freedom of Information Act, it's clear that Giant Lance was the leading example of what historians came to call the "madman theory": Nixon's notion that faked, finger-on-the-button rage could bring the Soviets to heel.
Nixon and Kissinger put the plan in motion on October 10, sending the US military's Strategic Air Command an urgent order to prepare for a possible confrontation: They wanted the most powerful thermonuclear weapons in the US arsenal readied for immediate use against the Soviet Union. The mission was so secretive that even senior military officers following the orders — including the SAC commander himself — were not informed of its true purpose.
Two weeks later, the plans were set and teams of workers at Air Force bases in Washington state and Southern California began to prepare for battle — loading the heavy and cumbersome weapons in a frenetic fashion. The workers were pushed beyond their training, and there could have been an accidental explosion. There had been near-disasters before. Just a year earlier, a Stratofortress had crashed in Greenland and released radioactive material.
After their launch, the B-52s pressed against Soviet airspace for three days. They skirted enemy territory, challenging defenses and taunting Soviet aircraft. The pilots remained on alert, prepared to drop their bombs if ordered. The Soviets likely knew about the threat as it was unfolding: Their radar picked up the planes early in their flight paths, and their spies monitored American bases. They knew the bombers were armed with nuclear weapons, because they could determine their weight from takeoff patterns and fuel use. In past years, the US had kept nuclear-armed planes in the air as a possible deterrent (if the Soviets blew up all of our air bases in a surprise attack, we'd still be able to respond). But in 1968, the Pentagon publicly banned that practice — so the Soviets wouldn't have thought the 18 planes were part of a patrol. Secretary of defense Melvin Laird, who opposed the operation, worried that the Soviets would either interpret Giant Lance as an attack, causing catastrophe, or as a bluff, making Washington look weak.
The US had come perilously close to nuclear war before: During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the nation's nuclear forces were poised for imminent use in response to Soviet actions. And on several occasions, aircraft carrying nuclear weapons had crashed; other times, radar operators had misinterpreted flocks of migrating birds as a Soviet first strike. October 1969, however, was different. This was the only moment we know of when a president decided that it made strategic sense to pretend to launch World War III.
Nixon's madman pose and Giant Lance were based on game theory, a branch of mathematics that uses simple calculations and rigorous logic to help understand how people make choices — like whether to surge ahead in traffic or whether to respond to a military provocation with a strike of one's own. The most famous example in the field is the Prisoner's Dilemma: If two criminal suspects are held in separate cells, should they keep mum or rat each other out? (Answer: They should keep quiet, but as self-interested actors, what they will do is betray each other and both go to jail.) In the Cold War, the "games" were much more complicated simulations of war and bargaining: Would the Soviets be more likely to attack Western Europe if we kept missiles there or if we didn't?
Kissinger had studied game theory as a young academic and strategic theorist at Harvard. In the early '60s, he was part of a group of World War II veterans who became the oracles or "whiz kids" of the nuclear age. Working at newly formed institutes and think tanks, like the RAND Corporation, they preached that the proper way to deal with the existence of nuclear weapons wasn't to act as if the situation was so grave that one couldn't even discuss using them; it was to figure out how to use them most effectively. This was the attitude mocked by Stanley Kubrik in Dr. Strangelove, in which RAND appears thinly disguised as the Bland Corporation.
One of the starting points for Cold War game theory was President Eisenhower's proposed doctrine of "massive retaliation": Washington would respond viciously to any attack on the US or its allies. This, the thinking went, would create enough fear to deter enemy aggression. But Kissinger believed this policy could actually encourage our enemies and limit our power. Would the US really nuke Moscow if the Soviets funded some communist insurgents in Angola or took over a corner of Iran? Of course not. As a result, enemies would engage in "salami tactics," slicing away at American interests, confident that the US would not respond.
Cluster bombs, designed with "submunition" ordnance to set off a chain-reaction of explosions, became an important part of the US conventional military arsenal in the 1960s. In Southeast Asia, cluster bombs allowed the US military to inflict widespread damage on the enemy from the air, without resorting to nuclear weapons.
The White House needed a wider range of military options. More choices, the thinking went, would allow us to prevent some conflicts from starting, gain bargaining leverage in others, and stop still others from escalating. This game-theory logic was the foundation for what became in the '60s and '70s the doctrine of "flexible response": Washington would respond to small threats in small ways and big threats in big ways.
The madman theory was an extension of that doctrine. If you're going to rely on the leverage you gain from being able to respond in flexible ways — from quiet nighttime assassinations to nuclear reprisals — you need to convince your opponents that even the most extreme option is really on the table. And one way to do that is to make them think you are crazy.
Consider a game that theorist Thomas Schelling described to his students at Harvard in the '60s: You're standing at the edge of a cliff, chained by the ankle to another person. As soon as one of you cries uncle, you'll both be released, and whoever remained silent will get a large prize. What do you do? You can't push the other person off the cliff, because then you'll die, too. But you can dance and walk closer and closer to the edge. If you're willing to show that you'll brave a certain amount of risk, your partner may concede — and you might win the prize. But if you convince your adversary that you're crazy and liable to hop off in any direction at any moment, he'll probably cry uncle immediately. If the US appeared reckless, impatient, even insane, rivals might accept bargains they would have rejected under normal conditions. In terms of game theory, a new equilibrium would emerge as leaders in Moscow, Hanoi, and Havana contemplated how terrible things could become if they provoked an out-of-control president to experiment with the awful weapons at his disposal.
The nuclear-armed B-52 flights near Soviet territory appeared to be a direct application of this kind of game theory. H. R. Haldeman, Nixon's chief of staff, wrote in his diary that Kissinger believed evidence of US irrationality would "jar the Soviets and North Vietnam." Nixon encouraged Kissinger to expand this approach. "If the Vietnam thing is raised" in conversations with Moscow, Nixon advised, Kissinger should "shake his head and say, 'I am sorry, Mr. Ambassador, but[the president]is out of control." Nixon told Haldeman: "I want the North Vietnamese to believe that I've reached the point that I might do anything to stop the war. We'll just slip the word to them that for God's sake, you know Nixon is obsessed about Communism. We can't restrain him when he is angry — and he has his hand on the nuclear button' — and Ho Chi Minh himself will be in Paris in two days begging for peace."
As Giant Lance unfolded, Soviet general secretary Leonid Brezhnev had no way of knowing whether this was an exercise, a bluff, or the attack that would end it all (and to which he needed to respond in kind immediately). Brezhnev's ambassador to the US, Anatoly Dobrynin, urgently set up a meeting with Nixon and Kissinger.
Dobrynin began the conversation by expressing alarm about White House actions. The president then lashed out at the Soviet ambassador, demanding that Moscow help the US in Vietnam. Nixon declared that if help wasn't given, "the United States reserves the right to go its own way and to use its own methods to end the war."
Dobrynin explained that the Soviet leadership understood Nixon and Kissinger's threat that "the United States may resort to some 'other measures' to resolve the Vietnam issue." But in that case, Dobrynin continued, "Moscow would like to tell the president bluntly that the policy of settling the Vietnam issue through military force is not only futile but extremely dangerous."
Dobrynin recounted Nixon's threatening words in his report to the Kremlin: The president said "he will never (Nixon twice emphasized that word) accept a humiliating defeat or humiliating terms. The US, like the Soviet Union, is a great nation, and he is its president. The Soviet leaders are determined persons, but he, the president, is the same."
Cockpit of Boeing B-52D (S/N 56-0665), which is on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. Photo: US Air Force
Dobrynin warned Soviet leaders that "Nixon is unable to control himself even in a conversation with a foreign ambassador." He also commented on the president's "growing emotionalism" and "lack of balance."
This was exactly the impression that Nixon and Kissinger had sought to cultivate. After the meeting, Kissinger reveled in their success. He wrote the president: "I suspect Dobrynin's basic mission was to test the seriousness of the threat." Nixon had, according to Kissinger,
December 26, 1973: Soviet ambassador to "played it very cold with Dobrynin, giving him one back for each he dished out." Kissinger counseled the White House to "continue backing up our verbal warnings with our present military moves." the US Anatoly Dobrynin (right) meets with President Richard Nixon at the Oval Office in Washington, DC.
On October 30, Nixon and Kissinger ordered an end to Giant Lance, and the B-52s turned and headed back home. The sudden conclusion reinforced the madman pose. Nixon and Kissinger may have been trying to show the Soviets that they could initiate threatening actions without warning and then restore "normal" operations in similarly unpredictable ways. This would keep the Kremlin guessing about what was coming next, wondering whether the US would soon send both countries off the cliff.
On the most obvious level, the mission failed. It may have scared the Soviets, but it did not compel them to end their support for Hanoi, and the North Vietnamese certainly didn't dash to Paris to beg for peace. Nixon and Kissinger believed, though, that their threats opened the door to the arms-control deals of the early '70s. According to this argument, leaders in Moscow recognized after October 1969 that they had better negotiate with Washington, on terms amenable to American interests.
More than 35 years after Giant Lance, I asked Kissinger about it during a long lunch at the Four Seasons Grill in New York. Why, I asked, did they risk nuclear war back in October 1969? He paused over his salad, surprised that I knew so much about this episode, and measured his words carefully. "Something had to be done," he explained, to back up threats the US had made and to push the Soviets for help in Vietnam. Kissinger had suggested the nuclear maneuvers to give the president more leverage in negotiations. It was an articulation of the game theory he had studied before coming to power. "What were [the Soviets] going to do?" Kissinger said dismissively.
But what if things had gone terribly wrong — if the Soviets had overreacted, if a B-52 had crashed, if one of the hastily loaded warheads had exploded? Kissinger demurred. Denying that there was ever a madman theory in operation, he emphasized that Giant Lance was designed to be a warning, not a provocation to war. The operation was designed to be safe. And in any case, he said, firm resolve is essential to policymaking.
The following documents offer additional proof of the plan hatched by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger to end the conflict in Vietnam by pretending to launch a nuclear strike on the USSR.
· Memorandum for the President
· Memorandum for Colonel Haig
· Notes on Increased Readiness Posture of October 1969
ARE WE ALL GOING TO DIE SOON? Carpe Diem In Any Case
RADIATION LEVELS NEAR FUKUSHIMA REACTOR HIT 2-YEAR High -Reuters
Last week, Tepco said 430 litres (113 gallons) of contaminated water had spilled out of a storage tank at Fukushima and probably flowed to the ocean.
Cesium readings further out in the Pacific Ocean remain non-detectable and officials say there is no environmental threat to other countries as radiation will be diluted by the sea.
In September, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe promised the International Olympic Committee that radioactive water problems at Fukushima were "under control" and any contamination is limited to the harbour next to the Fukushima plant.
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority last week ordered Tepco to draft in additional workers and report within a week on its measures to tackle the hazardous clean-up.
West Coast of North America to Be Hit Hard by Fukushima Radiation Posted on August 20, 2013 by WashingtonsBlog
Radiation Levels Will Concentrate in Pockets In Baja California and Other West Coast Locations
An ocean current called the North Pacific Gyre is bringing Japanese radiation to the West Coast of North America:
The leg of the Gyre closest to Japan – the Kuroshio current – begins right next to Fukushima:
While many people assume that the ocean will dilute the Fukushima radiation, a previously-secret 1955 U.S. government report concluded that the ocean may not adequately dilute radiation from nuclear accidents, and there could be "pockets" and "streams" of highly-concentrated radiation.
The University of Hawaii's International Pacific Research Center created a graphic showing the projected dispersion of debris from Japan:
Last year, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and 3 scientists from the GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences showed that radiation on the West Coast of North America could end up being 10 times higher than in Japan:
After 10 years the concentrations become nearly homogeneous over the whole Pacific, with higher values in the east, extending along the North American coast with a maximum (~1 × 10?4) off Baja California.
With caution given to the various idealizations (unknown actual oceanic state during release, unknown release area, no biological effects included, see section 3.4), the following conclusions may be drawn. (i) Dilution due to swift horizontal and vertical dispersion in the vicinity of the energetic Kuroshio regime leads to a rapid decrease of radioactivity levels during the first 2 years, with a decline of near-surface peak concentrations to values around 10 Bq m?3 (based on a total input of 10 PBq). The strong lateral dispersion, related to the vigorous eddy fields in the mid-latitude western Pacific, appears significantly under-estimated in the non-eddying (0.5°) model version. (ii) The subsequent pace of dilution is strongly reduced, owing to the eastward advection of the main tracer cloud towards the much less energetic areas of the central and eastern North Pacific. (iii) The magnitude of additional peak radioactivity should drop to values comparable to the pre-Fukushima levels after 6–9 years (i.e. total peak concentrations would then have declined below twice pre-Fukushima levels). (iv) By then the tracer cloud will span almost the entire North Pacific, with peak concentrations off the North American coast an order-of-magnitude higher than in the western Pacific.
("Order-of-magnitude" is a scientific term which means 10 times higher. The "Western Pacific" means Japan's East Coast.)
In May, a team of scientists from Spain, Australia and France concluded that the radioactive cesium would look more like this:
And a team of top Chinese scientists has just published a study in the Science China Earth Sciences journal showing that the radioactive plume crosses the ocean in a nearly straight line toward North America, and that it appears to stay together with little dispersion:
On March 30, 2011, the Japan Central News Agency reported the monitored radioactive pollutions that were 4000 times higher than the standard level. Whether or not these nuclear pollutants will be transported to the Pacific-neighboring countries through oceanic circulations becomes a world-wide concern.
The time scale of the nuclear pollutants reaching the west coast of America is 3.2 years if it is estimated using the surface drifting buoys and 3.9 years if it is estimated using the nuclear pollutant particulate tracers.
The half life of cesium-137 is so long that it produces more damage to human. Figure 4 gives the examples of the distribution of the impact strength of Cesium-137 at year 1.5 (panel (a)), year 3.5 (panel (b)), and year 4 (panel (c)).
It is worth noting that due to the current near the shore cannot be well reconstructed by the global ocean reanalysis, some nuclear pollutant particulate tracers may come to rest in near shore area, which may result in additional uncertainty in the estimation of the impact strength.
Since the major transport mechanism of nuclear pollutants for the west coast of America is the Kuroshio-extension currents, after four years, the impact strength of Cesium-137 in the west coast area of America is as high as 4%.
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Fukushima radioactive cesium has been found in phytoplankton, the enabler of all life: In fact, whole colonies of phytoplankton the size of CA are already "dead". We are killing our oceans, we are killing ourselves and it is much worse then you realize. Phytoplankton provides as much as 80% of our oxygen supply. Three molecules of oxygen bond to form the ozone layer which protects the earth from the sun's deadly UVB radiation. Marine phytoplankton is the smallest organism on the earth. It's the bases of the entire food chain. It grows in the ocean and produces more oxygen than all the forests combined times three. It's the basis of countless medicines used to treat both animal and human disease. Think about the repercussions of losing half of the phytoplankton. A reduction of 40% of life giving oxygen to every living thing on earth. Shortage of critical medicines. Thinning of the ozone layer. When the human brain is deprived of oxygen a condition called cerebral hypoxia ensues: Difficulties with complex learning tasks and reductions in short-term memory begin to emerge. If oxygen deprivation continues, cognitive disturbances and decreased motor control will occur. Continued oxygen deprivation results in fainting, long term loss of consciousness, coma, seizures, cessation of brain stem reflexes, and brain death.
WHAT CAN YOU DO? 1. Write to, call, email your reps and the White House. Demand that the truth be told. Demand that our government Marshall all of its power to help Japan address the catastrophe and treat this as the very real extinction event that it is. 2. PLANT TREES! Anonymous will be launching a global initiative to plant 100,000 trees from saplings. Look for the notification. Join the effort. Share it with everyone you know. Trees will produce oxygen to help compensate for the inevitable devastation of phytoplankton.


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To use a dynamic resource reference, you must be setting to a dependency property, so it is specifically the dynamic resource reference usage that is enabled by the WPF property system. A dependency property can reference a value through data binding.In addition, a dependency property can be implemented to provide self-contained validation, default values, callbacks that monitor changes to other properties, and a system that can coerce property values based on potentially runtime information.


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21 Feb Wine Wednesday – Wine of the Month February 2015: Balletto Estate Pinot Noir 2012 ($25)
THEGRAPE Wine of the Month (Feb/Mar 2015) & Grape Certified Gold Wine Rating
"There's a luxurious quality to this wine, shockingly fair priced, amid enviable structure and balance." – Wine Enthusiast
Wine Ratings & Awards
Grape Certified Gold Medal – 2015
THEGRAPE Wine of the Month – February 2015
Best Pinot Noir Wines of the Year – 2014, 2105
Best Wines of the Year – 2015
Best Red Wines of the Year – 2015
Best Wines Under $25– 2015
Balleto Estate Pinot Noir Wine Review
The 2012 Balletto Russian River Valley Estate Pinot Noir is an affordable ($24.99), award winning red wine under $25, from Balletto Vineyard's Russian River Valley, CA Estate. We've chosen this as our February/March wine of the month because the Pinot Noir grape varietal makes a versatile red wine that is light enough to appeal to those wine drinkers who prefer lighter bodied red wines, while possessing enough flavor to appeal to full-bodied wine drinkers. We think you'll agree once you have the chance to taste it and pair it with your favorite foods.
To make our Russian River Valley Pinot Noir, we ferment each lot of grapes separately in 3 to 6 ton batches. We do not add commercial yeast to the tanks and instead rely on the natural yeasts found on the grapes and throughout the winery to ferment the juice. This process tends to increase the length of the fermentation and add an additional layer of complexity to the finished wine. During fermentation and barrel aging, we treat the new wine as gently as possible in an effort to preserve its aroma. The separate wine lots were racked from barrel with minimal oxygen contact for blending in early April, then sent back to barrel for three months before bottling.
The ruby-colored 2012 Balleto Estate Pinot Noir has an intense aromatic profile that begins with equal parts bright fruit (dark cherry, tart rhubarb, floral violets) and savory elements of cola, cardamom and coffee. Then, there's a touch of dark toast and forest-floor earthliness that round out the aromas and give it extra depth. The smells are complex and ever-changing in the glass over time.
2012 Balletto Estate Pinot Noir – Awards & Recognition
91 Points, Wine Enthusiast 2014
92 Points & Gold Medal, 2014 LA International Wine Competition
Gold Medal 2014, San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
Food & Wine Pairing: Seared Ahi Tuna And Strawberry Salad – View Recipe
Feb 2015 Wine of the Month
Aroma & Flavor
Grape Certified Gold
The 2012 Balletto Russian River Valley Estate Pinot Noir is an affordable ($24.99), award winning red wine under $25, which is why we've chosen it as our Feb Wine of the Month. Drink Up!


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There's been a lot of hubbub over Captain Planet's upcoming debut on the silver screen. With tons of rumors flying about over the last few months as to who will played the environment's green avenger, studios finally settled on Mad Men's Jon Hamm. While we can certainly see Hamm suiting up to save the Earth, we've got to say that Funny or Die just might have hit gold when they penned Don Cheadle for the lead role. Hit jump to see Cheadle's take on the sustainably minded superhero, which we're sure will frighten you into recycling – because hell, no want wants to be turned into a "mutha-f$&*ing tree!" [NSFW]
Funny or Die's Video also features a slew of familiar faces, including "Community" actress Gillian Jacobs, "The Social Network" star Brenda Song, "The Chronicles of Narnia's" William Moseley, "Napoleon Dynamite" leading man Efren Ramirez and actor James Davis. They play the Planeteers who summon Captain Planet to save Earth from some men cutting down trees nearby. Captain Planet stops the men by turning them into trees, but then gets just a little too power hungry and goes postal.
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DeChambeau rolls to 4-stroke win at Northern Trust
PARAMUS, N.J.—Bryson DeChambeau carded a stress-free, final-round 69 on Sunday, Aug. 26, to post a four-stroke win at The Northern Trust at Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, N.J., in the first of the PGA Tour's four FedEx Cup Playoff events.
DeChambeau finished at 18-under 268 after 72 holes to move from ninth place to first in the playoff standings after a four-birdie, two-bogey round on Sunday.
Tony Finau, vying with DeChambeau for one of the four captain's picks for the United States Ryder Cup team, fired a 68 in the final round and ended up in second at 14 under.
Billy Horschel (who shot a bogey-free 68) and Canada's Cameron Smith (70) tied for third another shot back of DeChambeau. Ryan Palmer shot a 65 on Sunday to move up 21 spots into a tie for fifth at 12 under along with Aaron Wise (67) and Australia's Adam Scott (71).
The win was the second of the season for the 24-year-old DeChambeau—he won the Memorial Tournament on June 3—and the third victory of his PGA Tour career. He has recorded eight top-10 finishes this year on the PGA Tour, including a second, third, fourth, fifth and seventh.
DeChambeau, who ended up in ninth place in the U.S. Ryder Cup standings and the best player not guaranteed a spot on the team, likely locked up his invitation from captain Jim Fuyrk, who will choose the final four players for his squad following the next two tournaments.
It was the ninth win this season on the PGA Tour by players 25 years old or under.
Justin Thomas (who had a 68 in the final round), reigning U.S. Open and PGA Championship winner Brooks Koepka (69) and Patrick Cantlay (69) shared eighth place at 11 under.
Four players tied for 11th at 10 under, including Bronson Burgoon (66), World No. 1 Dustin Johnson (68), Nick Watney (69), and Canada's Adam Hadwin (70).
Phil Mickelson managed only an even-par round on Sunday and finished tied for 15th, while Tyrrell Hatton of England (a round-low 64) and Jason Day of Australia (71) finished in a group tied for 20th.
Keegan Bradley, who played with DeChambeau in the final group Sunday after beginning the day in second place and four shots off the lead, ballooned to a 78 in the final round, 16 shots worse than his course record-tying 62 on Saturday, Aug. 25.
Tiger Woods also mostly struggled over his final 18 holes, finishing at 4 under after a 70 on Sunday. A day after recording his first bogey-free round since 2013, Woods had two birdies and a bogey and never made a run.
The top 100 players in the FedEx Cup points standings will advance to next week's Dell Technologies Championship outside Boston.
Among those players who moved up the standings to inside the top 100 from this week's event were Burgoon, who moved from 111th to 73rd, Jhonattan Vegas of Venezuela (from 123rd to 87th), Watney (from 102nd to 67th), Scott Stallings (107th to 94th) and Danny Lee of Australia (103rd to 98th).
Those players falling out of the top 100 included Charl Schwartzel of South Africa (96th to 105th) and Rory Sabbatini of South Africa (97th to 109th), both of whom missed the cut this week.


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Monday, May 27, 2013 - 11:00am
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The neuron, the structural and functional unit of the nervous system, is the key cell-type of nervous tissue. An individual neuron consists of a perikaryon (cell body) and cell processes, typically one axon and a number of dendrites. The cell body consists of the cell nucleus and cytoplasm immediately surrounding the nucleus.
Three major categories of neurons are recognized:
Unipolar (pseudo-unipolar) neurons are sensory neurons with cell bodies in spinal and cranial nerve ganglia. (Note: unipolar neurons are sometimes called Òpseudo-unipolarÓ because they originate embryologically as bipolar neurons.)
Bipolar neurons are relatively rare. They are sensory neurons found in olfactory epithelium, the retina of the eye, and ganglia of the vestibulocochlear nerve.
Multipolar neurons are the most common type of neuron. They are located in the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and in autonomic ganglia. Multipolar neurons have more than two processes emanating from the neuron cell body.
Multipolar neurons:
Search for multipolar neurons in glass slide 48 in your Histology slide box, cerebellar cortex of pig (Golgi stain).
Note: Three layers are recognized in the cerebellar cortex (superficial gray matter of the
(1) an outer molecular layer composed of few cells and many nonmyelinated fibers,
(2) an intermediate layer comprised of flask-like cell bodies called Purkinje cells,
which are multipolar neurons, and
(3) an inner granular layer composed of tightly-packed cells and fibers.
On glass slide 48, find a section similar to that shown below.
Question: Why is the Purkinje cell considered a multipolar neuron?
All multipolar neurons have two characteristics:
-- more than two processes emanate from the cell body, and
-- the cell body receives synaptic input just like the dendrites


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Of all colours black is the most complex. Often regarded as a pigment devoid of colour, black is rather a conglomeration of all colours across the spectrum of light. Artist Maximilian Daniels uses this statement as an entry point to investigate the variants in the spectrum of black and the artistic processes of painting, gesture, form and colour.
Exhibition Dates: 15 – 25 March 2017
Opening Drinks: Wednesday 15 March, 6 – 8pm at Piermarq
Installation view, courtesy @docqment
The act of mixing paint is an intrinsic part of the painting process. To mix black; warm and cool primary pigments; blue, red and yellow, are combined in exact quantities. Hidden by its dark saturated pigment, spectral variations in hand-mixed black are not perceived as easily as in other colours.
The paintings in Variants are composed of layers of black paint at various stages of the mixing process that have been tinted with white to test their spectral variation. Uncorrected after testing, each black layer holds a tint towards the strongest colour present. The gestural application of each transparent layer creates an undulating surface that has both depth and flatness.
Maximilian Daniels forged each component of the process-based paintings from scratch. He selected and primed the canvas by hand, and hand-made all of the individual stretchers and frames to precision. The resulting body of work has a dramatic presence and a delicate, tactile quality.
Variants was an ambitious and challenging exhibition that brings the process of painting back to its essence.
Variants opened on 15 March 2017, and formed part of Art Month Sydney's Paddington Art at Night. The exhibition ran until 25 March 2017.
Installation view, courtesy @docqment
View the online exhibition catalogue here
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2 Tablespoons olive oil
2 small onions, chopped
1/4 pound bulk Italian sausage
1 pound ground beef
1 teaspoon dried Italian herb seasoning
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon dried marjoram
1 (29-ounce) can tomato sauce
1 (6-ounce) can tomato paste
1 (14.5-ounce) can Italian-style diced tomatoes
1 (14.5-ounce) can Italian-style stewed tomatoes
1/4 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
1/4 teaspoon dried basil
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
2 teaspoons garlic powder
1 Tablespoon white sugar
Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat; cook and stir onions and Italian sausage until the sausage is browned, about 10 minutes.
Transfer the sausage and onions to a slow cooker.
In the same skillet, cook and stir the ground beef, Italian seasoning, 1 teaspoon of garlic powder, and marjoram, breaking the meat up as it cooks, until the meat is browned, about 10 minutes.
Transfer the ground beef into the slow cooker.
Stir in the tomato sauce, tomato paste, diced tomatoes, stewed tomatoes, thyme, basil, oregano, and 2 teaspoons of garlic powder.
Set the cooker on Low, and cook the sauce for 8 hours.
About 15 minutes before serving, stir in the sugar.
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Kim Kardashian took in the Sixers-Heat game the other day with some other raven-haired babe that I can't identify. And go figure that Kim opted to go for some cotton candy. Pure sugar for her, baby. (Yeah, that's the best I got. It's Friday and all I want to do is get home and watch some basketball. Sorry.)
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2010 NFL Draft: Will Cleveland, Cincinnati Gamble On Iowa TE Tony Moeaki?January 25, 2010
Iowa tight end Tony Moeaki reminds a lot of Hawkeye fans of Samuel L. Jackson's character in the movie Unbreakable .
In Unbreakable , Jackson plays Mr. Glass, a guy with a rare disease that causes his bones to be as brittle as eggshells. At one point, Mr. Glass takes a tumble down a flight of stairs and breaks about 12 of his bones.
That was Moeaki in 2007, when he dislocated his elbow and broke his hand on the same play in a game against Wisconsin, an injury that eventually forced him to take a medical red-shirt that year.
During the 2008 season, he dealt with foot, hamstring, and calf issues, and only saw limited action in nine games. In the second game of the 2009 season, he suffered an ankle injury that forced him to miss three more games.
Can you see how fitting the nickname is?
Yet, despite his seeming calcium deficiency , Moeaki overcame the adversity of the injury bug to become one of Ricky Stanzi's favorite targets in the clutch.
In a Big Ten game against Michigan, he caught two touchdown passes of over 30 yards to help secure the victory.
In the fourth quarter of the Ohio State game, Moeaki made a key catch off a tipped pass to give Iowa a first down, helping them force the game into overtime.
The injuries aside, this kid can play some football.
Moeaki is a complete tight end. At 6'4'', 250 lbs, he has the size it takes to make it in the NFL. And that size doesn't slow the kid down at all, either.
To go along with the great size and speed, he also has great hands, as demonstrated against Wisconsin when he made a ninja-like touchdown catch in the back of the end zone to tie the game.
Perhaps his greatest, and most overlooked skill, is his ability to run block. Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz hasn't overlooked it, and thinks the senior from the Island of Tonga is one of the most talented tight ends he has ever coached.
When someone like Ferentz says that about a player, NFL teams take notice.
With four months left before the 2010 draft, it is still anyone's guess as to which NFL teams will target Moeaki. The injuries might have diminished his stock a little, but there is plenty of time for him to prove himself.
So, which NFL teams need help the most from a player like Moeaki?
More Google searches for mock drafts won't help much. Moeaki is anywhere from the fourth- to 13th-best tight end in the draft. Some mock draft sites have him as high as the late second round, others have him late in the sixth.
The Cleveland Browns might be a logical prediction at this point. With the No. 93 and the No. 104 pick in the draft, Cleveland has a few picks to use on a new tight end for Brady Quinn (or a new quarterback) to target.
Moeaki would help the Browns' passing game, as well as their running game because of his superior blocking ability.
The Cincinnati Bengals also have a need for a tight end, specifically a blocking tight end who can catch well. That's Tony to a T.
Eleven-year pro Reggie Kelly is in his seventh season with the Bengals, but was lost for the season to a ruptured Achilles tendon suffered in practice. The reward in getting an all-around tight end to help fill in for Kelly could outweigh the risk.
There are several other teams rumored to be interested, too. The Kansas City Chiefs and Arizona Cardinals also seem to have a need for a tight end and seem like logical options, but they might end up selecting a tight end sooner in the draft.
The only thing that is for sure is there are almost four months until the draft, and anything can happen.
The 2010 NFL Draft will kick off on Thursday, April 22.
That's when Moeaki will find out which team is willing to take a chance on him.


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OK So I kinda feel like I went through a sewing tornado the last three days at the Expo but it was amazing. Most of my classes were great and I can definitely say I learned something in all of them that will be useful. I did some damage in the vendor shopping area but I'll post about that later. For now lets just bond over the experience.
All the teachers were super nice in my classes and I have to say the hands on ones were of course the most fun. I didn't take any pics of my silk screening class but it was taught by a super nice lady named June Colburn. She also gave me some great advice for printing up a new idea that I have for my home based business that I'm relaunching this spring. Stay tuned for details. ;) I learned alot about silk and that it's not as scary to work with as everyone thinks. Thanks June, for all your knowledge and fun stories!
My other hands on class came yesturday morning and the chick teaching this class was awesome. Mind you the class was at 8:30 in the morning and she was as perky as a whole pot of starbucks. I however was not, so her energy really helped. Most of you don't know that I work nights so getting up the last three days before 9 in the morning was a big stretch but it was worth it every day. This was my Great things in small projects class taught by the longarm quilter Ms. Lisa Sipes. You can check out her blog, That Crazy Quilty Girl to get a good idea of what she's all about. My fave thing though....she has pink hair and was nice enough to take a picture with me & my finished pillow case that we made.
Other highlights included getting great resource tips for supplies from vendors and teachers along with a ton of support. There were some select older gals at the expo that were really happy to see a young fresh face and they had lots of info to share. I love the crafting world for that reason. In addition there was a fun raffle at the end of each day. They gave away 5 sewing machines over the course of the weekend along with a bunch of other amazing tools and fabrics. I wasn't a winner this time but maybe next year.
So to recap, it was awesome but I'm totally exhausted. I can really understand why people travel to come and I'm so thankful I only had to drive about 20 minutes to get there. I now have a whole notepad full of scribbles that I'm sure will come in handy. I can't say enough about taking at least one class at one of these type of events if you're able. It made the whole thing even more exciting. Stay tuned for my next post about all the amazing quilts I saw.
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I have a few projects I'm kicking off on my blog and one of them is The Rural Decay Project. I've been interested in this topic for a while now, and have made some loose attempts at photographically capturing these images but until recently without much cohesiveness that one needs to tell a story.
One of the things about photography that took me a while to learn is you can't always be thinking about that exotic locale that you might get to visit some day to finally make some great images. To be a photographer is more than vacation or travel, you have to photograph what is around you all the time in your daily routine of life. That can sound quite boring for some of us that don't live in some beside resort community, but it works, and it's unique to you.


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The Heart of Couples Therapy: Knowing What to Do and How to Do It
Ellen Wachtel, JD, PhD, will focus on the various methods therapists can use to help couples reconnect and break out of patterns that have lead to frustration and despair. Topics covered will include how to motivate couples not only to make the changes that will get them "unstuck" but which will also lead to truly gratifying relationships; how to use "choice points" to keep sessions focused and productive; how to build on whatever positives in their relationship might still exist; and how to address the individual "legacy" issues that each person brings to the relationship. The workshop will address in detail the most common and difficult challenges that therapists face in their day to day work with couples.
Ellen Wachtel, JD, PhD, has a Ph.D in clinical psychology from New York University and a law degree from Harvard Law School. She is the author of Treating Troubled Children and their Families; We Love Each Other But…Simple Secrets to Strengthen Your Relationship and Make Love Last; Family Dynamics in Individual Psychotherapy (with Paul Wachtel); and a soon to be published book on how to do couples therapy, The Heart of Couple Therapy: Knowing What to Do and How to Do It. Her books have been translated into a number of languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Arabic. She has taught in the clinical psychology Ph.D. programs of both New York University and City College of New York and at the Ackerman Institute for the Family.
Date: Friday, December 2, 2016
Time: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Tuition: $135
Contact Hours (CEU's) for NYS: 6
CE Credits for NASW: 5
The Ackerman Institute for the Family SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0052.
If you would like to apply online, click below.
If you would like to mail or fax in your application form, download a printable application here.
If you are an Ackerman alumni or current Ackerman student, please contact the Training Department directly to register.
Damaly Ferreira
Phone: 212-879-4900 ext. 111


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Journal of Materials Research and Technology
Official Publication of the Brazilian Metallurgical, Materials and Mining Association
The Journal of Materials Research and Technology is a publication of ABM - Brazilian Metallurgical, Materials and Mining Association - and publishes four issues per year also with a free version online (www.jmrt.com.br). The journal provides an international medium for the publication of theoretical and experimental studies related to Metallurgy, Materials and Minerals research and technology. Appropriate submissions to the Journal of Materials Research and Technology should include scientific and/or engineering factors which affect processes and products in the Metallurgy, Materials and Mining areas. The journal does not seek or publish non technical or scientific papers or papers on case studies concerning optimization of equipments, processes and others where the technical or scientific content on the report is not heavily present. The journal accepts manuscripts for publication in the following categories: Original Articles, Review Articles, Short Communications and Letters. The editorial board strongly recommends that prospective authors access the online version and analyze the published articles as a model for preparation of their papers.
Editor-in-Chief Marc André Meyers
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For our final festive offering, Bradley Taylor from Derby, England share his top three tips for using google+ to promote your blog. Bradley is a motoring enthusiast and loves writing about cars, everything automotive, and sharing tips on how to be the best blogger possible. You can find him on Twitter and connect with him on Google+ for more info and to read his other top writing tips. Google+ is a great social media platform and if you're not giving it the attention it deserves, your networking strategy might be heading in the wrong direction. If you own a blog, Google+ can be a great way to get it some traction and some new readers. There is a right way and a wrong way of promoting your blog with Google+, you'll want to make sure you're doing things properly.
Have a Google Plus Business Page
One of the best things that you can do to promote your blog on Google+ is to set up a Google+ business page. This is similar in nature to the kind of business pages that you would find on Facebook.In order to set up your own business page, you'll need to have a Google+ account. When you're setting up your page you can add a variety of details such as your location and some information about your blog. Your Google+ page should be an essential part of your blog's marketing strategy, as recommended by various marketing agencies.You can also customise your Google+ page with the help of some Google+ templates. You'll be able to find templates on specialist websites that are dedicated to supplying people with stylish, eye catching designs.
Share with Circles
If you don't know much about Google+ you might not know about the circles on Google+. When you add a person to one of your circles, you are following them and will receive updates from them but they will not automatically receive updates from you. They must add you back in their circles. You can control which content is delivered to each of your circles. Circles give you a great chance to be picky about who you want to target when it comes to promoting your blog.For example, if you have a blog about cars, you could promote your website to people who only like cars, by creating a circle of people based on their interest in cars. You would then promote your blog posts to this circle only, therefore allowing you to be more targeted in who you promote to.It is important to note that circles need to be created in advance. If you take the time to create circles that allow you to target people effectively, you can be sure to get great results when it comes to getting your blog attention through Google+.
Get Involved
You'll find on Google+ that there are a ton of different communities. If you can find a community that is based on your niche, you'll be able to talk to people who are interested in the same things as you. If you can answer some of the questions that people might have you'll be seen as an authority figure and people will check out your blog, to see what else you've got to say.
Start networking your blog today!
Google+ is a great way to promote your blog. By following the advice given here, you'll be able to get some great results and finally get your blog some of the attention it deserves.


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Java WebApp Platform Roadmap
Stack Links
This is a living list of features the Java Stack team is considering adding to the Java Web Application Platform in the near to long term future. Currently the links provided reference an internal issue tracker. Eventually we are planning to migrate our issue tracker to a public one.
For a detailed list of features and bugs please refer to the Stack JIRA. The Stack Team generally only plans specific issues one release in advance. The versions with 'x' in them represent a holder version for future release. If you have a need for a specific issue to make it into a sooner release please vote for the issue.
This Roadmap is meant to give a high level overview of significant new functionality the Stack team is planning to add to the Stack along with a best guess estimate of when work for such functionality will begin. Actually starting work on a feature involves several factors such as:
- Current workload of appropriate developer
- Dependency on a thirdparty feature or new release
- Organizational demand
- How well the current solution options fit into current platform/architecture
- Waiting for enterprise infrastructure to be put in place
- The Enterprise standards "Menu" process
- 1 PaaS (Platform as a Service)
- 2 Monitoring/Availability Work
- 3 QA Functional Test Automation Support
- 4 Executable Modules (STACK-3923)
- 5 Improve Service Support (STACK-3963)
- 6 Distributed Job Scheduling Support
- 7 Reporting Tools (STACK-3500)
- 8 Support AspectJ development in the Stack (STACK-2903)
- 9 Improve Unit Test Tooling
- 10 Marklogic Integration & Support
- 11 LDS Account SAML Integration
- 12 DB Migrator Evolution
PaaS (Platform as a Service)
Implement a revolutionary way to manage infrastructure, deploy, and maintain applications through all of our lanes.
Monitoring/Availability Work
Our division is placing a major emphasis on improvements in availability and monitoring. We need to do a complete review of what we provide in this space and improve where necessary. Some areas that we may address include:
- Canary Tooling
- Metrics, see STACK-3917
- Try to make applications more resilient such as not failing application startup if DB, LDS Account, or some web service is not available.
QA Functional Test Automation Support
An attempt to standardize and tool QA functional test execution. This will also involve identification of best practices and training. Will also include integration with test case management
Executable Modules (STACK-3923)
The ability to easily create complex applications that are packaged in a single jar with dependencies and executed using a simple java -jar command.
Improve Service Support (STACK-3963)
Provide a general round of improvements on making it easier to create and maintain RESTful web serivces. Some items we're looking at include:
- Improved integration with Spring Security
- Investigation of supporting Spring Data REST
- Improved Integration Testing
Distributed Job Scheduling Support
Clarify and document the use cases of the Oracle scheduler, Streams AQ, and the combination of the two. (STACK-3150)
Reporting Tools (STACK-3500)
Investigate and/or provide support for stack integration with the following reporting technologies and output generation libraries:
- Crystal Reports
- Jasper Reports (build-time compilation and rendering)
- Corda (for interactive report graphs and charts)
- XHTML Renderer (for PDF output of HTML generated documents & reports)
- Apache POI (for output to native Excel Open Office XML format)
Support AspectJ development in the Stack (STACK-2903)
We are currently investigating support for Stack development with AspectJ. AspectJ is currently working towards Java 7 support that won't be officially delivered until middle of 2012. So we'll wait for that.
Improve Unit Test Tooling
While we currently support TestNG as our primary testing library, we will be adding support for additional tools to help create and manage unit tests.
- ☑ Investigate adding a test data builder library, such as make-it-easy to the Stack's set of testing tools.
- ☑Add examples of using Mockito and Hamcrest matcher libraries to the Stack petstore.
- ☑Add examples of using Mockito and Hamcrest matcher libraries to the examples in Stack Starter.
- Investigate adding additional test data building tools to address specific pain points, such as stubbing of JDBC result sets.
- ☑Provide training on unit testing basics, best practices, and additional support libraries.
- ☑Investigate possible enhancements to functional test development
Marklogic Integration & Support
We currently provide support in Stack 3 for MarkLogic integration through the stack-marklogic module. We could potentially back-port this module into Stack 2.3 if there is a need to do so to aid MarkLogic integration into older projects.
- We will include working examples of the stack-marklogic API configuration and usage in the Pet Store UI.
- A richer set of XccSessionCallback implementations to simplify common operations against a MarkLogic database.
- A richer set of XccResultItemMapper implementations to simplify common result item unmarshaling tasks.
- Inclusion of the (beta?) MarkLogic XQuery plug-ins into the LDSTech IDE.
- A beta or (unsupported) sandbox tool to aid in developing, testing, and troubleshooting XQuery statements. (Robert Thornton currently has such a tool that he's been developing and using over the past 4 years, but it needs some clean-up to make it more friendly to the average end-user.)
- Spring transactional support
- Content preview and migration support APIs.
LDS Account SAML Integration
SAML can allow applications to participate in WAM single sign on without having to be behind the WAM proxy servers. The IAM team provides SAML support this issue would integration it with Spring Security and provide it as a regular option for Stack applications.
DB Migrator Evolution
- Open source DB Migrator
- Increase test coverage and reduce sonar violations
- Add ability for DB Migrator to run Datapump
- Oracle Text Support (STACK-3151)
- Oracle VPD Integration (STACK-887)
- GUI tool to front DB Migrator (STACK-530)


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Auditors and inspectors determine whether a driver had the ability to leave the facility when judging whether he or she could have been off duty.
You cannot log sleeper-berth time if you are not in the sleeper berth compartment of your unit. Remember to log what you do and do what you log!
On-duty time means all time from the time a driver begins to work or is required to be in readiness to work until the time the driver is relieved from work and all responsibility for performing work.
(1) All time at a plant, terminal, facility, or other property of a motor carrier or shipper, or on any public property, waiting to be dispatched, unless the driver has been relieved from duty by the motor carrier;
(2) All time inspecting, servicing, or conditioning any commercial motor vehicle at any time;
(3) All driving time as defined in the term driving time;
(4) All time in or on a commercial motor vehicle, other than:
(i) Time spent resting in or on a parked vehicle, except as otherwise provided in Part 397.5 of this subchapter;
(ii) Time spent resting in a sleeper berth; or
(iii) Up to 2 hours riding in the passenger seat of a property-carrying vehicle moving on the highway immediately before or after a period of at least 8 consecutive hours in the sleeper berth;
(5) All time loading or unloading a commercial motor vehicle, supervising, or assisting in the loading or unloading, attending a commercial motor vehicle being loaded or unloaded, remaining in readiness to operate the commercial motor vehicle, or in giving or receiving receipts for shipments loaded or unloaded;
(6) All time repairing, obtaining assistance, or remaining in attendance upon a disabled commercial motor vehicle;
(7) All time spent providing a breath sample or urine specimen, including travel time to and from the collection site, to comply with the random, reasonable suspicion, post-crash, or follow-up testing required by Part 382 of this subchapter when directed by a motor carrier;
(8) Performing any other work in the capacity, employ, or service of, a motor carrier; and
(9) Performing any compensated work for a person who is not a motor carrier.


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Cobham plcDorset, England 2007-Present
Global company engaged in the development, delivery and support of leading edge aerospace and defense systems in the air, on land and at sea-13,500 employees / 5 continents. Serve in a dual capacity as:
Vice President-Mission Equipment (strategic business unit of Cobham plc)
Vice President of the $300M Mission Equipment strategic business unit which is the world market leader for auxiliary mission equipment, providing wing tip-to-wing tip solutions for aerial refueling and weapons carriage release. Operations are located in El Monte, California and Wimborne, Dorset; United Kingdom. (9 direct / 800 indirect reports).
CEO, Sargent Fletcher, Inc.(wholly-owned subsidiary of Cobham plc)
CEO of $80M subsidiary directing overall operations in El Monte California for the global manufacturing and services business of aerial refueling systems and weapons release equipment.
Mission Equipment
- Launched consolidation and integration of US operations
- Leading integration of UK and US go-to-market strategies in weapons release and refuelling.
- Leading M&A candidate identification and due diligence
Sargent Fletcher
- Restructured and consolidated overhead functions saving ~$2M annually
- Negotiated and secured positions on both Boeing and EADS/Northrop US-Tanker platforms
- Recovered production stability of market entry weapons release program with Boeing
Wicklow Associates, LLC Scottsdale, AZ 2005- 2007
Mergers and Acquisitions consultant in fluid system technology markets
Managing Partner
Consultant on mergers and acquisitions for fluid system operations and industrial properties.
- Developed acquisition and market plan for fluid mechanical technology markets.
- Established $10M in private equity, mezzanine, and senior debt financing.
Honeywell Aerospace Phoenix, AZ 1999-2005
Diversified technology and manufacturing leader of aerospace products and services with over $11 billion in sales and 40,000 employees in 97 worldwide manufacturing and service sites.
Vice President-Engine Platform Solutions (Engine Systems & Accessories) 2004-2005
General Manager of $500M engine controls product line-14 direct / 300 indirect reports, 4 sites.
- Won two major sales campaigns valued at $1B on 7E7 engine platform.
- Met and exceeded financial performance targets by ~5%
- Restructured overhead functions to customer / product focus resulting in a 10% savings.
Vice President-Sales & Marketing (Engine Systems & Accessories) 2003-2004
Strategy and growth leader of $1.2B engine controls product line-12 direct reports.
- Managed long term sales campaigns in commercial and military markets ($~3B).
- Generated short term in-period revenue beyond plan (~$200M).
- Developed technology licensing in-period revenue beyond plan (~$10M).
- Managed executive relationships at GE, Rolls-Royce and United Technologies.
Vice President-Sales & Support (Commercial Air Transport & Regional Markets) 1999-2003
Global leader of commercial sales organization in North-South America and Asia-Pacific.
- Achieved targets consistently (~$3.5B revenue) in commercial airline market.
- Managed 42 direct reports across North / South America and Asis-Pacific.
- Deployed CRM, sales targeting, revenue tracking and incentive pay globally.
- Lead GE (Aircraft Engines) / Honeywell Aerospace merger - Sales & Marketing.
Early Career History - Positions held at Allied Signal Aerospace: Director & General Manager (Global Repair & Overhaul), 1997-1999; Director-Production Programs (Commercial Auxiliary Power Units,) 1995-1997; Director-Airlines Sales (Commercial Auxiliary Power Units), 1992-1995; Manager-Sales & Marketing (Aircraft Landing Systems), 1991-1992; Manager-Sales & Marketing (Commercial Auxiliary Power), 1989-1991; Sales Engineer (Aerospace), 1986-1989; Development Engineer(Fluid Power Systems), 1984-1986.


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It's special because not only do I find myself contributing less & less (previous months' list-compiling duties have been assigned to the likes of ARP, Psychic Ills, and more, which is fantastic) but before I started working there in early 2008, I would admire these playlists and wonder if I'd ever be so lucky to have such an outlet for my own musical preferences.
It also happens to be exceptionally good all around thanks to Misters Matt + KT (big up for Meat Puppets inclusion!).


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Mio cuscino era ieri su Prima Pagina di Etsy!
How to sew Patchwork pillow cover you can read here: Katrinshine: Tutorial: sew pillow in Patchwork Spiral stile
This listing was included in an amazing treasury "Lazy Afternoon"by Arctida!
Other featured Etsy artists: MetamorphDK, dbabcock, LaTouchables, Monicaj, JuliaFelt, lanadearg, BlueberryCream, steinschmuckdesign, daimblond, TonyaUtkina


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Burlington Mardi Gras 2011
With winter hopefully ending soon, one of the most anticipated activities in this cold and often gloomy North East city is the annual Mardi Gras parade. It may be a few (or more) notches down on the craziness scale compared to the original Mardi Gras down south, but it is far more family friendly. It's great to see the colorful display of characters in the parade, not to mention the fun gathering of the Vermont populace in a party mode.
At 45 degrees F, it is definitely a little more bearable to hang out to watch the entire parade this year. Of course I'll be happy to have weather beyond freezing point nowadays.


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When checking out ClubPenguin.com today, I noticed that Club Penguin has updated their entire website with brand new graphics based on the upcoming School & Skate Party. They also even uploaded one of their login pages with the same homepage screen for you to check out when logging into the island. Check them out!
Homepage Designs:
Login Screen:
What do you think about the upcoming School & Skate Party designs? Are you excited for this party? It starts in just a couple weeks! Be sure to leave your comments and opinions below, and don't forget to check back for more Club Penguin School & Skate Party cheats, tutorials, sneak peeks, soundtracks, and more for 2014!
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Book of Dad
If your dad's a man of no fuss and few words, here's a book filled to the brim with lots of words all about how brilliant he is. Personalise his gift with your photos, messages, and memories to make your dad a keepsake he'll treasure for years. Get family and friends to record video messages for his online video gift box.
Shipping detailsBooks arrive in 4-7 working days after ordering. We offer optional express and tracked shipping, too.
Pricing details
- Deluxe: £39.99
- Hardback: £29.99
- Paperback: £23.99


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Subjects, Activities, Responsibilities
Mandarin Chinese; English for International Students, Religious Studies for International Students, World Languages Dept. Chair, Admissions, CASA Sponsor
Education and Previous Work Experience
B.A. in English: Tamkang University (Taiwan)
M.A. in English: Tamkang University (Taiwan)
Ph.D. Program of Study in Literature: Texas Christian University
M.S. in Instructional Education: Arkansas Tech University
Educational Leadership Program of Study: Harding University
Secondary Education Certification from the City of Taipei in English
Secondary Education Certification from the State of Arkansas in English, ESL, and Chinese
Professional Development in the following strands: TESOL Academy Workshop; 47th LDA Conference;48th LDA conference; UAMS Teaching with Technology Symposium; Six-Traits of Writing/Step up to Writing Workshop; Effective Strategies for Classroom Behavior Management; and HSTI conference.
Business experience as executive secretary at Textile Trading Company for four years. ESL teaching at the following schools: Joy Children English Academy, 1993-1998; Tamkang University, 1995-1996; Taipei Municipal Cheng-De Junior High School, 1999-2000; Min-Hsin University of Science and Technology, 1999-2000; and Subiaco Academy, 2004 to the present.
A Little About Me:
I am originally from Taiwan, and I also lived in Texas before moving to Arkansas. My husband Charles and I have two wonderful boys who also attend a local Catholic school. Much of my spare time is spent playing with my sons, reading, cooking new recipes for family delight. My family love to hike, swim, and enjoy outdoor activities. Trout fishing has been our new hobby this summer.