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As part of In-Flight Maintenance training at SPACEHAB, in Cape Canaveral, Fla., members of the STS-107 crew learn about Biological Research in Canisters (BRIC) experiments that will be on their mission. Gathered around the table are (from left) Mission Specialist Kalpana Chawla, Pilot William C. "Willie" McCool, Mission Specialists Laurel Clark and Michael Anderson, Roberteen McCray of Bionetics, Commander Rick D. Husband, Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon of Israel and Mission Specialist David M. Brown. STS-107 will carry a broad collection of experiments ranging from material science to life science. It is scheduled to launch July 19, 2001 (Photo Release Date: 12/07/2000 )
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So I've played around with screenprinting a bit at college before and really liked it. I read a couple of articles on how you can do it at home and things but it all looked too complicated / I haven't got the space etc. I'd heard the word 'gocco' floating around on illustration blogs and things but just assumed it was something you'd get done professionally, like taking images to the printers or whatever. But I just stumbled across THIS:
(ignore the Valentines part, ugh)
Oh my word, I'm not going out until I've saved up for one of these (I'm so lame).

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I hope it will work correctly.Here's the link: http://www.questionwritertracker.com/index.php/quiz/display?id=11787&token=8BYTGZM2
Hope you enjoy it!
Cool quiz!
Perhaps you need to check the last question, I could not really find out what should match with "furniture".... ?!
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Thank you. I know that there are some possibilities, for example Gabriel matches with pale eyes and newchild. But I thought that it would get clear that Gabriel must match with newchild, because newchild can not match with other words. To your question: The Giver has to match with luxurious furniture. He could be connected with pale eyes, too, but then luxurious furniture would stay alone. Hope you will understand my explantation...?! (Didn't appear the word "luxurious" in your quiz?)ReplyDelete
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This kitchen remodeling project in Sharonville is finished. A large patterned porcelain tile floor was installed in the kitchen, front foyer, half bath and laundry room. The soffits were removed and the lighting was upgraded to include many recessed lights and undercabinet lighting below all wall cabinets. All lighting is conveniently controlled by new digital dimmers. A great looking subway tile backsplash provides a perfect finishing touch.
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Attention New Scouts
Hello new incoming scouts. If you are joining Troop 815 starting in 2018, here is some information about the upcoming rock climbing event. Troop 815 has already received and filled all of our 2018 new scout openings. We limit the number of scouts to manage and ensure our new scouts have a good positive experience.
Event: Rock Climbing NightDiablo Rock Gym
1220 Diamond Way, #140
Concord, CA
Saturday, December 9, 2017, 6:30 PM
This rock climbing event is specifically designed to allow incoming scouts to meet Troop 815 Boy Scouts.
This is a favorite event among incoming Scouts. New members will have an opportunity to do some indoor rock climbing with the help of older, trained Boy Scouts. Parents get an opportunity to see Boy Scouts in action and meet some of the Adult leaders.
Please contact us if you have any questions: membership (at) troop815 net
Using their skills at lashing, Scouts enjoy the time at Pinnacles
Shredding the ice rink in a game of broomball, having a great challenge and some fun with the troop, thanks to the SPL who made this happen!
Yosemite Service Project
Great job for all of your hard work shoveling ash from the fire pits on a beautiful day in Yosemite, serving the National Park Service with good Scout spirit!
American River
The venture crew tears through the rapids of the American River, soaked and ready to face their next challenge!


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I've never considered myself a cold or hard person. Actually, it probably would be fair to say I can be overly emotional at times. In the wise words of Kristen Bell, "if I'm not between a 3 and a 7 on the emotional scale, I'm crying". The person I truly am adheres to the above quote daily, which is probably why it's my favorite.Tears tend to be my natural reaction to things, whether it be beauty or pain, happiness or hurt. I am the definition of an empath, and I actually love getting to feel everything. I like to think I've traveled far from the girl with no boundaries at all, and that I live my life in a healthy balance between open & tender, and safe & smart.
But after enough blows to the heart with a metaphorical baseball bat, even the softest person can learn to be hard. Coldness is learned. Detachment is developed. Enough people hurt you, and you learn to answer it with "whatever. it's fine." You get to a point at which you're too tired to fight anymore. You're so beaten down you don't have the energy to feel it all. You know what I mean? Everyone's been right where I'm talking about.
I just have two simple points that I want to get across.
1. Everyone is fighting a battle of some kind. You have no idea. None. Even if you think you do, you probably don't. Please don't be the metaphorical baseball bat in someone's life. They don't need the help. Attempt to live your life in a way that is filled with grace & understanding. Be a safe place. Don't steal others' tenderness. Don't let your own crap overflow into everyone around you's lives and tarnish them. Learn to process, learn to deal, learn to let people you trust walk through life with you. But don't use your own personal battle to drag everyone down with you.
2. Everyone is fighting a battle of some kind. You have no idea. None. So don't let the fact that they can't control themselves or deal with it healthily change who you are. Don't let them make you cold. Don't let the blows over the head make you stay down. Don't let them make your answers to things become whatever, it's fine. Be strong enough to be tender and open, because it takes a special kind of strength to choose to live that way. Please don't ever stop being affected by the things of this life. It's a beautiful thing. Feel it. Let it in. LIVE, for crying out loud. Don't pass through this life like a robot in armor, unaffected by the beauty of relationships and change and the simple things.
That's all I have to say about that. I think most of us at times adhere to both of those categories of people, the baseball bats & the wounded. I know I do.
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In my previous post on Shoulder Impingement I discussed anatomy and causes of shoulder impingement. In this post we will discuss treatment and prevention.
We can treat the symptoms all we want but they will come back if we do not address the real cause of the problem. The shoulder really isn't the problem. The shoulder pain/impingement is always a symptom of a larger issue. A more global look at the climber, their posture, muscle imbalances, and movement dysfunction are all important for better long-term outcomes.
1. Alignment
By now you've heard of Climber Posture. Do you know any climbers that stand like this? Maybe you stand like this? Most of my climbers with shoulder impingement stand like this.
I know, I know. Talking about posture isn't sexy but just incase you think it doesn't matter that much consider the following:
According to a 2014 study in the European Spine Journal a slouched posture reduced shoulder flexion and abduction.
Another study in 2005 in the Manual Therapy Journal found that a slouched posture reduced shoulder flexion by 18 degrees.
According to a 1999 study in the Archives of Physical Medicine a slouched posture reduced shoulder strength in abduction by 16.2%
This means that your posture could mean the difference between sending and not sending. It could even mean the difference between being able to a climb a V7 vs. V9/10 or V10 vs. V12/13.
That's huge! Want to improve your climbing by 2 grades or more? Fix your posture!
With that said, the first thing I address in my climbers is posture and alignment. The alignment of the scapula will determine how much subacromial space we have. We also must realize that scapula position depends on rib position, rib position depends on spine position, spine position depends on pelvic position. It's all connected.
The first thing we need to do for someone with this posture is assess thoracic spine mobility. The "back to wall shoulder flexion test" or the "wall angle test" can give us clues about how stiff someone's thoracic spine is.
The thoracic spine is normally pretty stiff in climbers because we use so much of the muscle in that area of our back. 13-15 degrees of thoracic extension is needed for full overhead elevation of the arms.
When I see climbers with impingement I always manipulate (adjust) the thoracic spine and ribs. Thoracic spine manipulation decreases sympoms of shoulder impingement by realigning the spine and rib position.
According to a 2009 study in the Journal of Manipulative Therapy thoracic manipulation resulted in 51% reduction in pain and 30 degree increase in shoulder elevation.
Bench T-spine Mobilization is a mobility drill I like to teach my climbers so that they can keep the thoracic mobility we gained from the thoracic manipulation.
Rock Back Quadruped Extension Rotation is another mobility drill I like that works on thoracic mobility.
Another more aggressive way to mobilize the thoracic spine is using a double lacrosse ball as shown here:
Thoracic mobility with double tennis ball or lacrosse ball.
2. Tissue Quality
The next thing I look at is tissue quality. Tight muscles can pull the scapula out of alignment and can prevent other muscles like the lower trap and posterior rotator cuff from doing their job.
Tightness in the upper traps, levator scapulae and pec minor can affect scapula position.
Tightness in lats and teres major and pec major will affect the alignment of the humerus causing it to internally rotate.
Tissue and mobility work need to be done everyday.
"When it comes to mobility there are no off days." -Dr. Kelly Starret, Becoming a Supple Leopard
To make change in the affected tissues consistent work must be done. It doesn't have to take a lot of time. Fifteen minutes a day is enough.
Thoracic Mobility with a double tennis ball or lacrosse ball
Side Lying Windmill for Thoracic Mobility
Teres and Lat Self Myofascial Release
Pec minor Self Myofascial Release
3. Rehab Exercises
The point of rehab exercise is to reinforce correct movement patterns and climbing technique and address muscle imbalances. These exercises improve neuromuscular signaling and increase blood flow to the injured area which helps the muscles recovery after injury and reminds your brain to fire those muscles during climbing.
With that said these exercises are not the end of your strength training. Once we balance your cuff and lower traps we have to start doing strengthening exercises that incorporate these muscles into larger movement patterns. A post on this coming in the near future.
Here are some exercises I recommend:
A) We all love push ups for training opposition climbing muscles but it's important to also do other pressing movements that more closely mimic climbing. Push ups are a good choice but landmine presses are better. They train the rotator cuff and they are in the same plane (overhead) that we typically do all of our pulling in climbing. Also, the half kneeling position gets the core involved.
B) Rotator cuff Exercises
"Doing rotator cuff exercises is like cleaning your gutters; it's not sexy or fun, but you need to do it or else bad things will happen. " -Eric Cressey
You heard that, right? Bad things will happen, like having to cancel your bishop trip cause your shoulder is hurting. No one wants that. Especially six of your friends who you were planning to split gas and a hotel with.
"JUST DO IT!" -Nike
Half-kneeling Cable External Rotation (more advanced, only do this one if it is non-painful and non-pinchy)
C) Rows
Everyone knows it's important to do rows for scapular stability in your training program. However, many people don't realize that you only get the benefits of all these rowing exercises if you actually perform them with correct technique!
Check out this detailed video on all the common mistakes we see with my favorite variation, the standing 1-arm cable row:
And lastly…
4. Overuse syndrome
Rest and recovery are probably the least planned and underutilized ways to enhance performance.
In 16 years of climbing and dealing with my own injuries, 3+ years of working with athletes' broken bodies and 2 years of barbell training I have learned one thing:
This is a hard fact for many athletes to face. We all want to push our bodies to the limit and we think that more is better. This really isn't the case. I currently spend 5 days a week fixing athletes who train this way and spend a lot of time begging them to take some rest days.
If you don't rest and recover your body won't adapt to the stress of your training—you won't get stronger. Neglect it for too long, and you will start to lose strength. You'll sink into the black hole known as overtraining. First, your sleep patterns and energy levels will feel the effects. Eventually, your immune system crashes, and you lose your appetite. It's like burning out your engine. Then you become at high risk for injury if you don't have one already by that point.
I wrote an entire post about this topic so to read more about it go HERE.
As I mentioned previously, there are many reasons why someone might have shoulder pain and that's why it is important to seek professional help to get an accurate diagnosis.
If you have any questions feel free to comment below.
If you think you have shoulder impingement syndrome come see me now at Motus Clinic and we can get you diagnosed properly, start the rehab process and get you back to climbing fast!


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Not your little sisters Vampires February 12, 2011 - December 12, 2011
Reading and Deliberating
Okay, this fiction contest is to see who can write the most original and interesting vampire short story. This is your chance to show that you can be creative and think outside of the box. No Fan Fics.
This" story" needs to be all "you." It does not have to be romantic or sweet, it can be scary as hell or morally strange, it is up to you.
1. Vampires do not sparkle; sunlight will surely hurt them.
2. They are not aliens.
3. They drink blood or energy in some way.
4. Vampires are not easy to kill.
5. Please, check grammar, spelling and punctuation before submitting. If there are excessive errors, your story will not be considered.
6. Have a non-anime picture with it. The picture counts as well so be creative and tasteful.
That's it, six easy rules. Now, go forth into the night, and write!
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Right now my entire family is extremely worried about my mother, who's been ill for several years.
She is in her late forties, a stay-at-home mother with three kids, the youngest of whom (my brother) is fifteen. Five years ago, she lost her voice after a bad cold/flu. Her doctor told her to try speech therapy, which had little to no effect. After a year/year and a half, she had fat injected into her throat to push her vocal cords together. This improved her voice for several years.
Ever since the first vocal cord problem, my mother has suffered fatigue and what has been diagnosed as Restless Leg Syndrome, which is severe enough that she can't sleep more than an hour at a time if she doesn't take the medication for it. She was diagnosed with a paralyzed vocal cord, spasmodic dysphonia, bowed vocal cords and vocal cord paresis. None of the doctors can agree which is correct.
This September, she started losing her voice again. Her problems began to be accompanied by pain in the left side of her neck, which sent her to the emergency room twice. The doctors there checked her heart and brain functions and found them normal. No one has yet scanned her neck beyond an ultrasound to determine that she didn't have plaque in her carotid artery.
Now my mother suffers from a lost voice similar to what she had before, neck pain, a worsening of the RLS, plus extreme fatigue, though she's cut out many of her usual activities. She has a medical history of migraines, epileptic seizures (both of which run in her family), hypothyroidism, and partial strokes. Her mother and her younger brother suffer from the same type of fatigue and migraine headaches.
No doctor has been able to offer a satisfactory diagnosis. They all want to treat the symptoms even though they've said there is probably an underlying condition. Any suggestions or help anyone can give will be highly appreciated.


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And now it's time for another Sunday Scoop! Thanks Teaching Trio for this fun linky! Click the button below to check out other Sunday Scoops. If you've been reading my blog for a while, you'll know that this is my favorite weekly link-up!
Here we go!
- I absolutely have to finish packing up my room. If you don't know, I've been in an old portable this year. It hasn't been too bad really. I just don't have any storage. Oh, and it has tried to KILL me 8 times! First, some of the wooden planks on the walkway right outside my door broke which means there was a literal hole in the floor. Then my AC broke (did I mention I live in Florida?) FIVE times. And now there are literally millions of ants in my room. I'm afraid they're going to eat the children. It looks like my floor is moving! But I will be moving to a new grade level and a new classroom (in the main building with a Smart Board and a closet the size of my house!) so I gotta get a move-on!
-Sundays is always errand day! I've got a few things to grab, specifically gift bags.
- I was able to get a GREAT deal on an end of the year gift for my kiddos from Scholastic! Their $1 book for May was:
How perfect, right??
- I'm addicted to adult coloring books. Get one. Now. I hope to do another one today. They are so calming and relaxing and super fun!
- My school gives us a pretty hefty print/copy limit and since there's only 3 half days of school for the entire month of June... I need to figure out what more I want to print for next year and get it started. If you have any suggestions of 2nd grade things for me, send them to me! I'm scouting out new blogs to follow and new stores to buy from!
- My husband and I are headed to a mini family reunion of sorts. Ryan's favorite cousin is in town so he is super excited! I am, too... and did I mention there will be pizza? It's gonna be a good day!
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Dashboard camera footage captured the moment an unexpected vehicle raced through a red light at a busy junction.
Filmed from a lorry, it shows the vehicle pulling out at the crossroads at Locke Park, in Redcar, North Yorkshire.
As the truck headed over the crossroads, it suddenly slammed on its brakes.
Then the vehicle jumps the red light, racing across the traffic lights.
YouTube link. LiveLeak link.
Cars also brake suddenly. Miraculously, there were no collisions.
According to the timestamp on the video, the incident took place just before 2pm on Sunday.


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I haven't had time to post on what is the bigg buzz around the Buffalo blogosphere today, but my good friend Lenny sent me a video clip from his cell via email showing his outrage over WBEN's decision to drop the "Know Nothing Gang" of local bloggers from Kevin Hardwick's show.
From Lenny's email…
Can you believe this crap?
I was so enraged with what WBEN did that I actually went down to 500 Corporate Parkway to complain.
The doors were locked.
A security guard told me I would have to come back during normal business hours.
I was ready dude to go all buffalo chip on Wenger.
You can read more about the controversy here, here, here, here, here, here, here, or here.
I will post my own personal take on this later…


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New Orleans Pelicans vs. Miami Heat game preview.
Cavs acquire Deng in a trade for Bynum, writes Marc J. Spears of Yahoo.com.
Bulls look ahead in trade of Deng for picks, writes Sean Highkin of USA Today.
Clippers looking at free agents to help fill void left by the injured Chris Paul, writes ESPN.com.
Former NBA player feels remorse for playing in N. Korea game, according to the Associated Press.


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Bryce Canyon National Park Superintendent Eddie Lopez has announced that the Environmental Assessments (EA's) for the park's Tropic Canyon Highway Stabilization Project and Mossy Cave Trail Rehabilitation and Resource Protection project have been completed and are available for public review and comment.
Tropic Canyon Highway Stabilization Project
The Tropic Canyon EA evaluates the beneficial and/or adverse impacts that highway stabilization activities may have on the natural and cultural resources located in the area of the proposed project. By focusing on the effects of highway stabilization activities on park resources, this evaluation provides information which will allow the park to better protect and conserve the existing natural and cultural resources for the enjoyment of present and future generations.
In February 2006, the park solicited help from the public in identifying issues with existing conditions along UT highway 12 and in developing alternate stabilization approaches. The NPS used information gathered from the public; Federal, State and local agencies; universities; and data generated by the NPS to complete the EA. The EA analyzes a no action alternative (Alternative A), the agency's preferred alternative as submitted by Utah Department of Transportation (Alternative B), and a modified version of Utah Department of Transportation plans (Alternative C).
Mossy Cave Trail Rehabilitation and Resource Protection
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This is the ramune scented polish, yes I did wind up getting it. This is not a shimmer like cotton candy, it is a light purple cream. It is essentially the same color as gumdrop (they even used the same cap.. lazy Revlon) and same ole qualityRevlon formula, lol, but in a Japanese package (JP limited bottle, sticker that says ramune.) It does smell a lot like ramune, but I really want to smell both US and JP versions to make sure they didn't fib a little. This one came with a free Revlon nail buffer, which was a nice bonus.
Revlon Scented Ramune/Gumdrop, a photo by KitaRei on Flickr.


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Gregory A. Larsen is a DBA at Washington State Department of Health (DOH). Greg is responsible for maintaining SQL Server and other database management software. Greg works with customers and developers to design and implement database changes, and solve database/application related problems. Greg builds homegrown solutions to simplify and streamline common database management tasks, such as capacity management.
Greg has been working with computers since the late 1970's and has a Bachelors of Science Degree in Computer Science, with a minor area of study in Mathematics. Greg's background in DBA work goes back to the mid 1980's. Gregory has been a DBA for a number of different organizations within the State of Washington. This has given him a broad perspective on how organizations manage databases and applications. During Greg's DBA career, he has managed databases on Windows, UNIX, and IBM mainframes. Greg remembers the days when DBAs frequently had to recover from hard disk crashes, as the normal course of business. Greg is currently a PASS chapter leader.
Prior to becoming a DBA, Greg developed and maintained applications. Greg has written a number of articles for different web publishing sites, as well as SQL Server Magazine. Greg also maintains a website (http://www.sqlserverexamples.com) that contains a number of SQL Server examples to common DBA and SQL developer issues. Greg currently holds a MCTS: SQL Server 2005 certification and is one test away from getting his MCITP: Database Administrator certificate.
Greg reviewed the uCertify 70-444 PrepKit and wrote a review at Database Journal. He found it easy to download, install and use. He was convinced that it is helpful for the DBAs taking the MCITP: Database Administrator certification exam. Read Greg's review at DatabaseJournal.com.


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Imax vs. DLP vs. Anaglyph
IMAX has provided for a guaranteed way to keep 3-D movies playing for a long period of time, creating more money and more word-of-mouth advertisement for these films and their directors. By creating the process of DMR, films shot of 35MM and HD can be blown up to IMAX size. So this means that a producer looking to generate more money from his film will happily go IMAX and ideally go 3-D. People like James Cameron and George Lucas who can take financial risks are willing to try out this different distribution model and film their next project in 3-D. Indeed, had 'Aliens of the Deep' for example not been in 3-D IMAX, it would not have had a very warm welcome in regular cinemas. The upcoming conversion of Star Wars to 3-D will most likely go the IMAX 3-D route, with a detour in the few 3-D enabled DLP cinemas in America. Strangely, the existing and perfectly working 3-D systems of the 1983 craze are not even considered for these releases. If it is the 3-D that counts, Lucas & co should be suggesting these much cheaper and readily available systems to theatres and distributors and not use the films as an excuse to make cinemas purchase or rent 3-D DLP projectors. Or release anaglyphically.
The frantic search for a technical breakthrough in 3-D display, which has been going on for more than 100 years now, is fuelled by the promise of an evolutionary step in visual entertainment. But most of the current audio-visual industry perceives 3-D as a means to re-sell old product in a new shell and moreover, being able to charge more for the same product but with the added 3rd dimension. This statement can be backed up by the observation that there are no real plans to develop a new visual language once the 3-D revolution happens – nobody is being educated or trained in 3-D filming, there is no literature on 3-D cinematography other than technical manuals and even those are mostly unread by the handful of present day 3-D filmmakers.
Recent examples of this failure to do research on the technicalities of 3-D are Robert Rodriguez' films 'Spy Kids 3-D' and 'The Adventures of Shark Boy & Lava Girl in 3-D'. The wish to display all colours whilst still using anaglyphic glasses is an obvious mistake because reds and blues should not be visible through both lenses. It is very basic knowledge but simply ignored, consciously or unconsciously. There are simple ways to show colours through anaglyphic glasses whilst not destroying the 3-D encoding – not just by omitting reds and blues but by simulating them in the end result as seen through the glasses - but these technologies are sadly ignored and the visually painful experience is used as ammunition for the argument of 3-D DLP projection even though these are two separate issues. And strangely, Rodriguez is in the DLP promoting club, whilst releasing his 3-D films using anaglyphics.


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If there is a project that could wake a producer in the dead of night drenched in a cold sweat, it could be one that places the fate of a campaign for a major client, its website and more than one human being in the hands of the online public. For Lean Mean Fighting Machine head of production Rachel Bishop, this was Samsung's recent "Adventures of Nick Turpin."
The project sent street photographer Turpin on the road for 28 days with just a Samsung Pixon phone and destinations voted on by online users as his guide. For Bishop—who got her start in design and multimedia at Virgin Net, then worked as a producer at Glue London until 2007 on projects for Bacardi and Mini, including Mini's award-winning Clubman R55 campaign—the Pixon job represented the best type of production challenge. From choosing Turpin as the roving photographer to making sure there were people on call for 24 hours a day for all 28 days, it was a high risk endeavor that would test the mettle of any producer.
"Anything involving risk is worth doing," Bishop says. "You need a bit of excitement and fear. Otherwise, why bother? We had a plan in place to allow us to react in the most beneficial way to any potential situation."
Indeed, flexibility is a key part of being a good producer, Bishop says. "Ideas grow and often change direction throughout a project lifecycle, so it's important to know how to manage and adapt effectively to bring the project in on time and budget without compromising the creative idea." That, along with openness to collaboration, solid planning skills and a strong team are other elements that go into great production.
Bishop says that she "fell into the role" of a producer, but clearly relishes where she is now. "I was never going to be a great designer or a developer, but I understood the process and got a kick out of seeing an idea on a scrap of paper and helping make it come to life," she says. "If I could be a part of making that happen and seeing people enjoy the finished product, then it had to be a good way to spend your working life."


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Only three NFL quarterbacks have been sacked as often as Kyle Orton so far this season. Two of them — Jay Cutler and Michael Vick — have been knocked out of games with injuries already.
This is the main risk associated with the Broncos' failure to establish any sort of running game through the first four weeks of the season. Orton, the league's leading passer, is all that stands between his team and the dreaded r-word. Take him out of action and the Broncos are in rebuilding mode whether they like it or not.
But that's not the only risk. The Broncos' inability to run the ball has created an inverse relationship between their offensive effectiveness and the length of field they have to work with.
This explains more than their red-zone struggles. Sunday, against Tennessee, the Broncos ran 41 plays in plus territory — on the Titans' side of the 50 — for 101 yards, or slightly less than 2 1/2 yards per play.
That's because the field gets more crowded as it gets smaller, making it harder for receivers to get open in the passing game.
No one knows this better than Josh McDaniels, which is why you won't hear the Broncos coach using new- age NFL jargon to defend an offense so unbalanced that it ranks first in passing and last in rushing.
Which he could. In the age of Peyton Manning, it has become fashionable to argue that sophisticated modern passing schemes have rendered the ground game obsolete. After all, a bubble screen or quick hitch basically is a running play, isn't it?
"No, I don't agree with that," said Orton, expressing not only his opinion, but also his survival instinct.
"You lose a lot in terms of play action. You lose a lot just in terms of allowing your offensive line to come off the ball and actually hit them. A lot of times, you become passive up front . . . I think you saw that a little bit last game. We were pass-protecting 50 times and when the defensive line doesn't really have to honor the run, they're in full pass mode the whole game."
Orton has been sacked 11 times in four games, six of them at Tennessee. Passing 50 times at Baltimore this weekend could produce similar results. McDaniels is no more eager to face this prospect than Orton.
"I think (lack of) balance ultimately will catch up to you," McDaniels said. "You can play some games and kind of lean more toward the passing game than the running game, but I think over the long haul if you play a season like that you're going to ask for trouble down the road. You're going to get your quarterback hit and you're certainly going to get played differently."
Heading for a get-together with Ray Lewis and friends, this is a pretty big concern. You may recall that Jarret Johnson sacked Orton on the Broncos' first offensive play at Baltimore a year ago.
"You need a traditional running game because you need to have the threat," receiver Brandon Lloyd said. "You have the position of running back for a reason and you have to be able to run the ball, period. The short passing game won't make up for that."
So why have the Broncos been unable to get anything going on the ground? The blame is generally divided between indecisive backs and a young offensive line, but there also is the matter of scheme.
Under Mike Shanahan, the Broncos drafted smallish, athletic linemen to operate a zone-blocking scheme. When McDaniels arrived, he made it clear he preferred one-on-one power blocking, which requires bigger linemen. But with the running game foundering, he has tried both. Against the Colts, for example, the Broncos ran all zone- blocking in the running game to combat line stunts.
"We're still trying to get an identity," tight end Daniel Graham said. "Right now we can't even run the ball, so we don't have an identity."
As productive as the passing game has been, the Broncos don't need big numbers out of the running game. They do need it to be effective enough to give pass rushers pause.
Whether it is theoretically possible to succeed without a running game is academic. The Broncos need one to protect their meal ticket.
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Men's Rights Groups' Lawsuits Against Battered Women's Shelters - TeleconferenceMen's Rights Groups' Lawsuits Against Battered Women's Shelters
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You may not be aware that there have been multiple lawsuits brought by anti-feminist "men's rights" groups against battered women's shelters and the state agencies that fund them in the United States. Each of these lawsuits essentially claims "reverse discrimination" in services tailored to battered women, alongside the often-repeated assertion that women are as violent as men.
Although most of these cases have failed completely, one recent case in California was partly successful. Whether successful or not, these lawsuits drain time and money from service providers and states.
This teleconference will explain the history and nature of the lawsuits and the legal concept of Equal Protection at their core. You will learn how to protect yourself against such lawsuits without compromising the quality and integrity of services you already provide, and which resources you can draw upon in the event of a lawsuit in your state.
Overview of the problem
Understanding the Equal Protection Clause
American Law Suits brought by Men's Rights Groups
California (2)
West Virginia (in process)
Implications, how to protect yourselves, resources
Leading the discussion:
Dr. Molly Dragiewicz is Assistant Professor of Criminology, Justice & Policy Studies at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Canada. She has published articles about the anti-feminist fathers' rights movement and the California equal protection lawsuit. Dr. Dragiewicz is currently writing a book about the first equal protection lawsuit against battered women's shelters in Minnesota.
Here's some background on this Victim Feminist Advocate who is a self-proclaimed watchdog on Fathers Rights Groups and she has her own website also linked below:
Dr. Molly Dragiewicz
Title: Assistant Professor
Research interests: Violence and gender, anti-feminist fathers' rights groups, battering and child custody, and human trafficking
Dr. Molly Dragiewicz received her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from George Mason University. She joined the faculty of Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies in 2006. She teaches qualitative methods courses, Domestic Violence, an Advanced Justice Studies course on human trafficking, and Policy Analysis in Justice Studies.
In addition, Dr. Dragiewicz supervises students with an interest in violence and gender for honours, independent study, and practicum placement.
Links of interest
Dr. Molly Dragiewicz's website is www.mollydragiewicz.com.
For Dr. Dragiewicz's current research projects, click here.
Nancy Lemon, J.D., is a UC Berkeley Law lecturer, and leading authority on domestic violence for more than 20 years. She is an advocate and practicing attorney working with victims, police, public agencies and community organizations. She has drafted legislation for victims of domestic violence their children and immigrant women. Ms Lemon wrote the first textbook on Domestic Violence and the Law. She was recently selected to receive an Outstanding Women of Berkeley Award.
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Effective Ways To Monetize Your Blog Or Online Publication
With the job market becoming diverse, many young people now make money from home. If you are internet savvy, there are a few avenues you might want to explore. Blogging and writing online can be a stable career for people, but it will take hard work. When you are planning for your financial future, you need to ensure that you are always in control of your finances. That means that you will need to be a master accountant if you hope to make a decent living. Blogging is an art form. If you have a voice and can engage with the audience, your power is limitless. Huge companies need to engage with their demographic. If you can act like a bridge between companies and their audience, you can make a lot of money out of it.
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Before you start your blog, let's talk about the basic principles of writing. Attempting to talk about a subject you don't understand is an awful idea. You might want to blog about a certain issue because it is trendy. You might think that doing so will get you loads of readers. It won't. People can tell when authors are just regurgitating old content, and they don't like it. Instead, choose a subject that you understand to focus on when you write.
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When you are attempting to make money online, social media platforms are your strongest tools. You need to become an expert in the social media marketing field. Use various streams, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, to market your blog. Think about your readership. What social media platform do they prefer to use? For example, if you are blogging about fashion, you might want to use an image heavy platform like Pinterest to market your blog. If you are blogging about business, you can use LinkedIn to market yourself. People often make the mistake of thinking that they need to cover all bases when it comes to social media. You don't. Instead, target your social media activity so that it is specific to your demographic.
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Join an affiliate scheme online
When you write posts, you can make money from them by linking to other company's websites. People call this an affiliate scheme or an affiliate program. You don't have to write specific promotional posts; you can just link to businesses within the posts you already write. Be aware that having too many links on your website could annoy your readers. People don't like to feel as though they are reading promotional blogs, and why should they? Make sure that your content is still genuine so that you don't lose your audience.
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Modeling steel fiber reinforced concrete: numerical immersed boundary approach and a phenomenological mesomodel for concrete-fiber interaction
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Data publicació2012-04
EditorJohn Wiley & Sons
Condicions d'accésAccés obert
Steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) allows overcoming brittleness and weakness under tension, the main drawbacks of plain concrete. The influence of the fibers on the behavior of SFRC depends on their shape, length, slenderness, and also on their orientation and distribution into the plain concrete. The goal of this paper is to develop an ad hoc numerical strategy to account for the contribution of the fibers in the simulation of the mechanical response of SFRC. In the model presented, the individual fibers immersed in the concrete bulk are accounted for in their actual location and orientation. The selected approach is based on the ideas introduced in the immersed boundary (IB) methods. These methods were developed to account for 1D (or 2D) solids immersed in 2D (or 3D) fluids. Here, the concrete bulk is playing the role of the fluid and the cloud of steel fibers is acting as the immerse boundary (that is, a 1D structure in a 2D or 3D continuous). Thus, the philosophy of the IB methodology is used to couple the behavior of the two systems, the concrete bulk and fiber cloud, precluding the need of matching finite element meshes. Note that, considering the different size scales and the intricate geometry of the fiber cloud, the conformal matching of the meshes would be a restriction resulting in a practically unaffordable mesh. In the proposed approach, the meshes of the concrete bulk and fiber cloud are independent, and the models are coupled imposing displacement compatibility and equilibrium of the two systems. In the applications presented here, the concrete bulk is modeled using a standard nonlinear damage model. The constitutive model for the fibers is designed to account for the complex interaction between fibers and concrete. The fiber models are based on the previous investigations describing the concrete-fiber interaction and its dependence on the factors identified to be relevant: shape of the fiber (straight or hooked) and angle between the fiber and crack plane.
This is the accepted version of the following article: [Pros, A., Diez, P. and Molins, C. (2012), Modeling steel fiber reinforced concrete: numerical immersed boundary approach and a phenomenological mesomodel for concrete-fiber interaction. Int. J. Numer. Meth. Engng, 90: 65–86. doi:10.1002/nme.3312], which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/nme.3312/abstract
CitacióPros, A., Diez, P., Molins, C. Modeling steel fiber reinforced concrete: numerical immersed boundary approach and a phenomenological mesomodel for concrete-fiber interaction. "International journal for numerical methods in engineering", Abril 2012, vol. 90, núm. 1, p. 65-86.
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AVIcode, Inc., was a highly successful spinout of VIAcode Consulting. Very early on, VIAcode's founders realized that there was a large and untapped opportunity for an application that monitor .Net applications in operation. The Company's founders formed a separate company called AVIcode, Inc., to manage, sell, and support the VIAcode-developed product, Intercept Studio.
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VIAcode Consulting continually enhanced Intercept Studio on behalf of AVIcode from 2002 to 2010 – creating deep integrations into both Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager and Microsoft Visual Studio. In addition, Quest Software and AVIcode, Inc., executed an OEM agreement, where Quest would repackage and sell Intercept Studio as the .Net version of its Foglight Application Monitoring software suite. To this day, no other Performance Management solution for .Net is as functionally complete.
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Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) has just unleashed his latest endorsement for re-election. It comes from former Gov. Mike Huckabee.
Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and 2008 presidential candidate, has a strong following of social conservatives and activists drawn to his populist political message.
"He'sbeen your governor, university president, America's secretary ofeducation. He brought the automobile industry to Tennessee," Huckabee explains in the ad. "LamarAlexander is now a remarkable senator that Tennessee needs to return tooffice."
Alexander has released a series of endorsements in recent days, including that of country music star Kix Brooks and former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
His primary opponent, Joe Carr, continues to gain name recognition, including a favorable mention from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at a Tea Party event on Thursday.
"We need to be pretty discerning here of what kind of 'Carr' we send toD.C.," she said during the event. Although Palin's camp has had conversations with Carr, she has not officially endorsed him.
Carr was quick to dismiss Huckabee's endorsement of Alexander, reminding Tennesseans that Huckabee supported David Dewhurst over Ted Cruz in the contentious Texas primary. "This is the same person who said that Dewhurst was 'the only proven conservative' in that race," Carr said in a statement reacting to the news. "It just shows how desperate things are getting for Lamar Alexander when he has to promote someone who didn't even think Ted Cruz was 'a proven conservative.'"


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DAF XF Euro 6 + Extras
This mod adds variety to the DAF XF Euro 6, so now you can choose from color parts and plastic parts, such as mask, fenders, etc. Also made a few extra tweaks. More to come in the next version, but for now, hope you all enjoy this one :)
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Course ListingAdvertising
Bachelor of Science
Published June 1, 2016
Published June 2016 This program can be completed on ground, blended (plus) or online.
Student Learning Outcomes
See ge.artinstitutes.edu/programoffering/364 for program duration, tuition, fees, and other costs, median debt, salary data, alumni success, and other important info.
Upon successful completion of the program, graduates will have the opportunity to:
- Apply industry knowledge and critical thinking skills to analyze, develop, and implement effective advertising solutions that meet professional standards.
- Develop concepts as well as analyze and incorporate aesthetics and layout in the design process for advertising campaigns and marketing communications.
- Demonstrate proficiency with the tools and graphic techniques of the profession to plan and implement production of advertising media such as print collateral, audio and video spots, and Web-interactive materials.
- Articulate the vision behind their creative work and explain and promote their solutions to design and marketing problems with professional standards.
- Demonstrate professional presentation skills, articulation of knowledge of visual problem solving, and mastery of industry standards, professional practices and ethics.
Program Courses
RS092 College Success
ADVA101 Fundamentals of Advertising
ADVA201Fundamentals of Marketing
ADVA204 Consumer Behavior & Persuasive Sales Techniques
ADVA205 History of Advertising
ADVA207Creative & Strategic Planning
ADVA208 Principles of Marketing Research
ADVA209 Portfolio I
ADVA214 Advertising Copywriting
ADVA215 Advertising Storyboarding & Scriptwriting
ADVA302 Introduction to Ad Campaigns
ADVA303 Interactive Advertising
ADVA307 Brand Strategy
ADVA308 Account Planning
ADVA328 Public Relations
ADVA332 Intermediate Ad Campaigns
ADVA338 Media Planning
ADVA406 Internship or Elective 2*
ADVA409 Portfolio Presentation
ADVA412 Advanced Advertising Campaigns
ADVA419 Portfolio II
FND105 Design Fundamentals
FND110 Observational Drawing
FND135 Image Manipulation
FND150 Digital Color Theory
GWDA101 Applications & Industry
GWDA102 Rapid Visualization
GWDA103 Digital Illustration
GWDA105 Concept Design
GWDA111 Introduction to Layout Design
GWDA112 Typography–Traditional
GWDA133 Fundamentals of Web Design
GWDA222 Intermediate Layout Design
GWDA305 Art Direction
GWDA308 Business of Graphic Design
PHOA101 Principles of Photography
HU110 College English
HU111 Effective Speaking
HU130 Visual Language & Culture
HU430 General Education Capstone
Humanities Art Requirement – Upper-Division
Humanities Requirement – Upper-Division
Humanities Writing Requirement – Upper-Division
General Education Requirement
General Education Requirement – Upper-Division
General Education Requirement – Upper-Division
Mathematics Requirement
Mathematics & Sciences Requirement – Upper-Division
Social & Behavioral Sciences Requirement
Social & Behavioral Sciences Requirement
Social & Behavioral Sciences Requirement– Upper-Division
Elective Track Course 1 ADVA312 Emerging Media in Advertising
Elective Track Course 2 ADVA304 Writing for Interactive Media
Elective Track Course 3 GWDA392 User Experience Design: Prototyping
Elective Track Course 4 GWDA382 Design for Mobile Devices
Elective Track Course 1 ADVA348 Leadership & Organizational Behavior
Elective Track Course 2 ADVA318 Budgeting & Financial Management
Elective Track Course 3 ADVA407 E-Commerce Strategies & Analytics
Elective Track Course 4 ADVA408 Advanced Account Planning
Elective Track Course 1 ADVA322 Digital Media Campaigns
Elective Track Course 2 ADVA304 Writing for Interactive Media
Elective Track Course 3 ADVA402 Online Community Management
Elective Track Course 4 ADVA407 E-Commerce Strategies & Analytics
Program ElectivesElective*
Elective Track Course 1
Elective Track Course 2
Elective Track Course 3
Elective Track Course 4
Note: The Art Institute of California—San Diego (a campus of Argosy University) reserves the right to alter the sequencing of classes. Some courses are offered on a rotating basis. Students should consult their Academic Advisors and/or Department Chair when creating their course schedules to ensure they are following the recommended sequence. Students must meet all co/prerequisites for courses.


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So I used an Elzybells stamp, coloured with PMs natch and layered with a nestie, and the giant snowflake is a Cuttlebug cut and emboss folder, which I covered with Glamour Dust. The silver sparkly mesh ribbon, which is absolutely gorgeous in real life - you cannot tell properly from this picture - I got from a wholesale warehouse near here.
The little gem, in the centre of the snowflake is a Swarovski crystal (it really is I promise you!!) which I got from Craftwork Cards, but the other bling is just cheapo stuff which I had in my stash. The chunky snow is Cosmic Shimmer Glitter Jewels. And last but by no means least, and just by way of a change, my very fave and very gorgeous MSBP. Oh I know I am getting a bit boring with it but I can't help it - it's sat there looking at me and practically begging to be used lol xxx
Here's a different angle so you can see the faux snow a bit better!!! Unusually for me, there is not a scrap of patterned paper in sight. A very rare thing, but I think it is better without in this case - I wanted the glitz to do the talking lol xxx!!!!
Can't wait to see your fabulous and sparkly work. Check out the other DT girls fabulous stuff as well cos it is just fabulous.
Have a great evening - while you are reading this, me and my cold (thanks Richard - not) will be hard at it at card club so I am going to schedule this - hope it works.
BFN and love and hugs xxxxxx


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Is refinancing right for me?
There are many potential benefits to refinancing your federal and private student loans. Read on to evaluate whether a student loan refinance is right for you.
Am I eligible to refinance my student loans?
You may be eligible1 to refinance private and federal student loans if:
- You're no longer enrolled in school.
- You must have at least $10,000 in student loans to refinance, which can include private loans from other lenders and/or your federal loans like Direct PLUS or Stafford loans.
- You have a history of paying your current student loans on time.
- You have proof of income.
How much can I borrow?
Loans from $10,000 to $300,000 depending on your level of education.
Maximum aggregate loan amount:
- $90,000 Bachelor's degree and below
- $225,000 graduate and doctoral degrees, including MBA
- $300,000 professional degrees such as dental, medical, and law
What is student loan refinancing?
Refinancing a student loan is the process of replacing an existing loan with a new loan that has a new interest rate, repayment length, monthly payment, and benefits. Student loan refinancing is offered by private lenders, and approval is typically based on the applicant's creditworthiness. Borrowers may be able to lower their monthly payment and/or interest rate, remove a cosigner from a loan, or add a cosigner to potentially receive a lower rate. It's important to compare the benefits and features of your existing loans before deciding to refinance.
What is student loan consolidation?
Consolidating is the process of combining multiple student loans into one loan with a single monthly payment, repayment length and interest rate. Federal loans can be combined using Direct Loan Consolidation, but recently private lenders have started offering former students the ability to consolidate their federal and private student loans together. Much like refinancing, consolidating student loans replaces the terms and benefits of the existing loans for a new loan with a new rate and repayment terms. Especially with federal student loans, it's important to compare the benefits and features of the existing loans before deciding to consolidate with a private lender.
Is there a difference between consolidating and refinancing?
Consolidating through the federal Direct Loan program allows borrowers to combine only their federal Direct Loans into a single loan, and the resulting interest rate is based on the weighted average of the rates on the existing loans. Refinancing allows borrowers to exchange the terms and benefits of a single loan for a new loan, and is only offered by private lenders. When refinancing student loans, interest rates are based on credit scores and most lenders allow cosigners to apply. With the Citizens Bank Education Refinance Loan®, borrowers can refinance a single loan or choose to consolidate federal and private student loans into one monthly payment.
What are the benefits of refinancing student loans?
Borrowers may be able to receive a lower interest rate and lower monthly payments, combine multiple loans into one monthly payment, extend the length of repayment, lock in a fixed rate, or relieve a cosigner of their responsibilities. You can also estimate your potential savings with our online calculator and check out our "Should I Refinance?" guide to learn more about these benefits.
What do I need to consider before refinancing student loans?
It's important to keep in mind that refinancing student loans replaces the current and future benefits of your existing loans with the benefits of the new loan. This is especially important for federal student loans, which offer some repayment benefits and features that private lenders do not. This includes income-based repayment, certain loan forgiveness programs, and the ability to consolidate loans at their existing rate with the Direct Consolidation Loan. Check out our "Should I Refinance?" guide to learn more about the important factors to consider before refinancing federal student loans.
Should I apply with a cosigner to refinance student loans?
Most private lenders make loan decisions based on credit worthiness. So depending on your credit score and debt-to-income ratio, applying with a cosigner may increase your chances for approval and receiving a lower interest rate. Some lenders also offer the ability to release a cosigner from their responsibilities after a certain number of payments have been made.
When can I refinance my student loans?
Most private lenders allow you to apply to refinance once you are no longer enrolled in school and have started making payments on your student loans. Typically the existing student loans must not be delinquent, and you may be required to have made a number of payments toward those loans before applying to refinance. Click here for eligibility details and more information about managing your student loans with the Citizens Bank Education Refinance Loan.
Do I have to have a degree to refinance my student loans?
Every lender has its own policies concerning graduation status, but there are options to refinance your student loans if you have not received a degree. Keep in mind there may be eligibility requirements related to your level of degree. For example, Citizens Bank Education Refinance Loan borrowers without a degree can apply after making 12 consecutive on-time payments towards their loans. Click here for more details on eligibility.
How do I apply?
Applying to refinance/consolidate your student loans is easy:
- Complete the application: You, and if applicable your co-signer, can apply either online or via phone.
- Provide Existing Student Loan Info: You will need current student loan billing statements, with payment address, for the loans you wish to refinance.
- Income & Expense Info: You will need to provide details regarding your monthly housing payments, as well as a recent paystub (no more than 60 days old) or other proof of income.
Will this loan application impact my credit score?
The Citizens Bank Education Refinance Loan is a credit-based loan which will be seen as an inquiry on your credit report.
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Now you can find out your interest rate and potential monthly savings in under 2 minutes. Simply click "Get My Rate" and enter in a few pieces of information. Once submitted, you will be presented with your interest rate options, without affecting your credit score. You can then go on to complete the online application. Your final interest rate and loan terms will be based on the verified information entered in your loan application.
Will getting my rate have an impact on my credit score?
Selecting "Get My Rate" only requires a "soft credit pull" which does not affect your credit score. Submitting a full application results in an inquiry on your credit report.
What information will I need to get my rate?
You will need the following personal information in order to find out your rate and savings:
- Name
- Address
- Date of Birth
- Social Security Number
- Email Address
- Phone Number
- Highest Degree Attained
- Total Amount to Refinance
- Total Current Monthly Payments
How long are the rates offered available to me?
The interest rates offered are what you will receive based on the verified information you enter if you continue and apply for an Education Refinance Loan in session by selecting "Apply Now" from the rate quote results page. If you come back at a later time, the initial rate offer may no longer be available to you. You may return at any time to request a new rate quote.
Can a cosigner find out their rate?
Yes. The primary borrower and cosigner can each find out their rate and savings. When you submit an Education Refinance Loan application, the final interest rates and loan terms offered will be based on the higher of the two FICO scores.


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We stayed "HOTEL SHUPARO (ゆうばりホテルシューパロ)" located in Yubari, serving "all-you-can-eat-Yubari melons" service from June to August!
(*Shuparo means the main stream of Yubari river in Ainu language.)
Look at the melon spirit with soda at a local convenience store! Yes! Yubari is a melon city.
Don't expect too much about the rooms. We came here to eat Yubari melons. Hahaha!
Before eating dinner, I enjoyed the hot spring.
It's not big, but I was so happy to occupy this space alone for a while!
This alkali natural hot spring relieved my fatigue, and made me really relax!
This is a buffet venue!
I selected only what I wanted to eat this time! Hahaha!
These are pink shrimps caught off Hokkaido! Yummy x 2!!
How about queen crabs! We ate crabs as many as possible!!
Are you ready?
Here come Yubari melons!!!
At the first auction this year, two Yubari melons fetched one million yen!! The melons are unbelievably delicious!!
Actually I ate 24 pieces of Yubari melons, and my tour guests called me the "TV champion"! I felt like I ate up all Yubari melons of my life!
Next morning, I walked along the street near the hotel. I love this peaceful atmosphere!
This street is named "Cinema Street". Yubari is not only a melon city, but also a movie city. Actually, this city is a location for filming "Yellow Handkerchief (幸せの黄色いハンカチ)", a big hit movie in Japan, and has held the "Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival (ゆうばり国際ファンタスティック映画祭『ゆうばりファンタ』)" every year since 1990.
Buildings on the street have panels of famous movies. For example, this camera shop has a panel of "River of No Return (帰らざる河)".
This izakaya restaurant has a panel of "Cleopatra (クレオパトラ)".
This normal house has a panel of "Rashomon (羅生門)" directored by Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明). Amazing, isn't it?
We really enjoyed this country town!!
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May 11, 2017
More than fifty women, including Community Foundation fundholders, senior executives, elected officials, corporate and nonprofit board members, and "communitarians" – people who have a passion for local volunteerism – came together to hear from keynote speaker Karen Peetz.
Karen Peetz has had a remarkable career in business and leadership, and is renowned for her ability to guide large organizations through major crisis events. She led BNY Mellon through the September 11th attacks and guided it through an outside software malfunction that threatened key business functions, became chair of the board of the United Way of New York City after the organization's president was fired for theft, led the Penn State University Board of Trustees to right the ship in the wake of the school's sexual abuse scandal, and was recruited to join the board of Wells Fargo to set the bank on a new course.
From these high pressure, high stakes leadership experiences, Peetz has developed a list of ten things any board must do before, during, and after a crisis event. She shared the following with our attendees:
- Take responsibility for the problem even if you did not know about it.
- Apologize and actually say the words, "I am sorry."
- Consider what the man or the woman on the street would think about the issues and address them head on.
- Do the right thing from the beginning and forget the legal advice if you have to.
- Create and practice a crisis management plan and playbook. Most organizations eventually get to the right place but it can take too long.
- Identify the key risks to your organization and practice different crisis scenarios. Cyber attacks are a question of "when" – not "if".
- Know who you would assemble from the inside and the outside of your organization during a crisis. Outside help can lend perspective and unique experience.
Trust but verify management's actions. Depending on the problem, boards may have to fire members of the management team. Don't be conflicted about this.
- Keep the objective of what is best for the institution for the long-term at the forefront of all that you do. It is your "duty of care."
- Ensure that everyone's values align with the organization's best interests. The people and leaders involved in your organization should have integrity, humility, compassion, courage, and self discipline.
We are enormously grateful to Karen Peetz for sharing these lessons and engaging in an illuminating conversation with our fundholders and invited guests.


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The Teapot is a lovely whimsical & quirky pendant light, and would make a great centrepiece above a kitchen table or hung in a series with two or three other Teapot designs over a counter. It's sure to be a talking point!
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The Pattern for Authentic Spirituality
What is spirituality? We live in a culture that claims to be highly spiritual. For many, spirituality is an inward quest for God. Or, it is an attempt to find oneness with the life force of the universe. But for Christians, what does it mean that we are spiritual? For disciples of Jesus, spirituality is not rooted in some esoteric existential experience. Rather, it is to be found in unity with Christ. Robert Webber taught that we must "ponder and participate" in the salvific narrative of Christ. Becoming immersed in Christ means that we are taken up into HIStory - the Gospel. Further, as we are united to Christ we share in the divine nature of God (2 Peter 1:4). The Scriptures give no clearer image of this than baptism.
Spirituality centered in the concept of baptism focuses our attention not on water alone (even though there are many typologies of water and God's saving work), but on the cross and the empty tomb. Expressed simply, our spirituality may be seen in terms of "creation, fall and recreation." Obviously, God made humanity in His image at the creation. This image was broken by the sin of Adam and Eve. The subsequent curse infected all of humanity. Jesus came, as representative head of humanity, to recreate or restore us to the Edenic ideal. His sacrificial death on the cross and subsequent resurrection defeated sin, death and hell - thereby offering an antidote to the Adamic curse. Eugene Peterson said, "The Christian life...is a recovery of what was lost at the fall." Ranald McCaulay wrote similarly, "The whole purpose of the Christian life is the recovery of the original image of God." Baptismal images are evident in the creation as the spirit hovers over the waters. This typology springs to life at Jesus' baptism – when the Spirit descended upon God's Son in that watery scene. Jesus' baptism served to identify Him with fallen humanity, and prefigure His death and resurrection.
Baptism is commended to US. Like the Eucharist, baptism is commanded by the Lord Himself which means IT IS VERY IMPORTANT. In fact, in the "Great Commission" baptism is one of two main tasks given to the Apostles as they were sent out to the world. Why is it so important? In Romans 5 and 6, Paul teaches an amazing mystery. He uses this same idea of "creation, fall, and recreation." Paul speaks of Adam's curse coming to all men and how Jesus reverses the curse. How does Paul say that we receive this restoration from Adam's rebellion? Our recreation, he declares, is found in connecting with the cross and empty tomb through baptism. In baptism we are united to Christ's death and resurrection. Webber claimed that baptism is a performative symbol. That is, it enacts what it signifies. Without Jesus' death and resurrection offered to us as we are united with Him in baptism, we would most assuredly perish under Adam's curse.
How does baptism, a one time rite, express and enact our ongoing spiritual lives rooted in Christ. We are baptized into Christ once - but we must die to self daily. Therefore the Scriptural mandate of "living out ones' baptism." This may be the easiest yet most profound way to communicate the essential truths of "creation, fall and recreation." Martin Luther concurred that the pattern of creation, fall and recreation in Christ is a worthy one by which to live. He said, "...in Baptism, every Christian has enough to study and to practice all his life. He always has enough to do to believe firmly what baptism promises and brings -- victory over death and the devil, forgiveness of sin, God's grace, the entire Christ, and the Holy Spirit with his gifts." Luther also said that baptism is to become..."the daily garment which the disciple is to wear all the time,...every day suppressing the old person and growing up in the new."
In an era when spirituality is suffering under the corrupting influences of man-made traditions and pseudo spiritual systems, we would do well to return to the ancient pattern of spirituality laid out for us in the Scriptures. Jesus said, "If you want to be my disciple you must deny yourself, take up your cross daily and follow me." This pattern is perfectly pictured in death, burial and resurrection - at Calvary and in a watery tomb.