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HOW great is New York. Even amid uncertainty, a stroller in midtown can walk through the door of, say, the Royal Athena Galleries on East 57th Street and fall back into the mythology of the ancient Mediterranean world.
They call the merchandise here ancient art, but in fact it is ancient religion. Freud, who collected statuettes like those displayed at Royal Athena, called them ''my dirty gods.'' The phrase was a double entendre. Some of the miniatures had been unearthed on archaeological digs and were stained by age and filth. For Freud, they also represented society's capacity to manage the most primitive human drives by incorporating them into daily cultural practice. Psychoanalysis aimed to be a new management system -- a new religion, if you like -- for modern, scientific times. Society had buffed up the little gods and called them classical antiquities. Freud showed how the tiny terrors keep popping up in our psyches.
It's shocking to be reminded how new modern times are. Power goes down, phones are cut out, elevators stop running, music stops and the rescue of a modern city begins to resemble the excavation of an ancient one. One half expects figures of Persephone, Osiris and Dionysus to be uncovered with the remains of the terrorists' victims. Actually, they're already here. Now called death, regeneration, separation and continuity, they're circulating inside grief-stricken minds.
Power, power, who's got the power. Since the terrorist attack, groups of architects and planners have been working on concepts for rebuilding Lower Manhattan and for other projects, like improved regional transportation, from which the financial district would benefit. But the groups have been operating in a void. At this writing, no city or state agency has been named to oversee a rebuilding effort. The groups hope to be ready when the politics are sorted out.
Even if their efforts come to nothing, they are already an important part of cultural history. The last six weeks have witnessed the rapid formation of an archaeological record: this is how some New York architects responded to a local and global crisis. If the desire to rebuild the financial district becomes a political reality, this record should be taken into account.Continue reading the main story
Less than two weeks after the disaster, a coalition was formed by three private professional organizations: the New York City Partnership, the Real Estate Board of New York and the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Now called the NYC Infrastructure Task Force, the coalition is directed by a committee that includes executives from leading real estate companies and corporate architecture firms familiar to readers of real estate news.
The Infrastructure Task Force can be reached at www.nycrebuild.org. It has been fascinating to follow the evolution of this Web site. Public relations filters have been in heavy use since the site went up. ''Infrastructure'' is an addition, and possibly a diversion. Nobody doesn't love infrastructure. There is also a new disclaimer: ''It is not the intention of the task force to propose specific designs.'' Perhaps the intention is to be seated at the table later, when design commissions are passed around?
The composition of the group's executive committee is a drastically shortened version of the list that appeared only a week ago. At that time, the committee was a Who's Who of major real estate developers and corporate architecture firms. The architecture firms included Fox & Fowle, Hellmuth, Okata & Kassabaum, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, and Kohn Pederson Fox. Even in its pared-down form, the committee recalls an Egyptian tomb painting. It is a hierarchical power structure whose members anticipate the arrival of the Ka or other magical intervention -- some turn of political and economic events -- that will throw the switch and allow the current to flow.
JEAN GARDNER, a historian and theorist at Parsons School of Design, has lately been urging students and colleagues to go back to the history of medieval Florence, when the city's population had been decimated by plague. Survivors didn't know where to turn for authority. They had to make things up as they went along. They were very good at making things up. Before long, they made up the Renaissance.
''They'' were mainly two groups of people: artists and politicians. I urge upon readers Lauro Martines's book ''Power and the Imagination.'' If you can't obtain the book, just keep the title in mind. The interaction between these two groups establishes a good framework for evaluating the Infrastructure Task Force.
The original Web site revealed that the imagination has no place in this power structure. The group's executive committee, for example, broke down into two groups: developers and architects. Superficially, these groups might be taken to represent, respectively, power and the imagination. If you set our imagineers next to Florence's, however, the New York lineup was pure stand-up tragedy.
Florence team: Brunelleschi (the Duomo, Spedale degli Innocenti; Santo Spirito), Vasari (the Uffizi), Michelozzo (San Marco); Michelangelo (Laurentian Library), Alberti (Palazzo Rucellai), etc., etc.
New York team: Skidmore Owings & Merrill (Worldwide Plaza); Fox & Fowle (Conde Nast Building); Kohn Pedersen Fox (U.S. Courthouse, Foley Square ); Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum (Federal Office Building, Foley Square), etc., etc.
It would be cruel to tax the New York team with a 21st-century renaissance.
Initially, the task force Web site spoke of the need for ''the city's architecture and planning community to speak with one voice.'' This has been rephrased. The revised goal of the task force is to ''establish the framework that will allow planning, design and construction to move forward while allowing concerned constituencies to have a voice.'' (An early, unposted Statement of Purpose recommends ''pragmatic implementation strategies that engage concerned parties before they coalesce into opposition.'') These are political, not cultural, concepts. People of creative temperament don't think this way.
There is no such thing as an architecture and planning community in New York. There are some leading architecture schools here. There are museums that regularly present architecture exhibitions; nonprofit groups that sponsor shows, lectures and panels; hundreds of small architecture studios where good work is being done; and major outlets of the design press. Not least, there is a large public audience for contemporary architecture that has grown in size and sophistication in recent years. The architectural culture centered in New York has begun to rival that of many other cities around the world.
Yet the corporate firms who want to speak for the city's architecture and planning community are not part of that culture. They belong to corporate culture. In business terms, they are ''professional service producers.'' With an average 300 to 450 employees, a corporate firm typically provides planning, design and construction documents, and in some cases engineering and interiors, for large-scale office buildings. None of these firms can claim credit for enlarging the public's interest in contemporary design. At best their work is out of touch. Architecture has moved light years away from the retrogressive focus-group sensibility embraced by corporate firms.
The Sept. 11 attack threw into stark relief the chasm that exists between contemporary architecture and the corporate firms listed at the top of the task force hierarchy. Over here, we've got this messy, fragmented, all-over-the-place architectural culture. Over there, we've got these folks who want to speak, in one voice, for New York's architecture and planning community. Over here, Imagination. Over there, Power. Never in the city's history have these forces been so far apart. This is the crisis the city's architects now face.
In the past, it was possible to defend retrogressive architecture by asserting that the public found it pleasing. Architects should try harder to accommodate popular taste, it was believed. People were bored with International-style glass boxes. This line of thinking was exhausted some time ago. There is a growing public appetite for work with the energy to lead popular taste, not meekly follow it. Last summer, people were not breaking down doors to get into the Congress for the New Urbanism's weekend gathering in New York. They were lining up to see the show on Frank Gehry's work at the Guggenheim Museum. They were aroused by work that, like Wright's, or Brunelleschi's, found a way out of the box.
Why should this public, which takes pride in New York's image as the world's cultural beacon, be compelled to settle for cast-stone boxes? Because developers are comfortable with them? Because politicians, who depend on developers' financial support, are comfortable with them? Because corporate architects, who are dependent on developers' good graces, have fooled themselves into thinking that their work is not inferior to products of the imagination but simply different from them? Over here, developers, politicians, corporate architects and their clients. Over there, the public. That's another way to state the crisis.
We mustn't let fundamentalists scare us away from the metaphysics of urban space. They're not the only people who are entitled to talk about protective forces, angels, saints, benign interventions, duendes, dirty gods and clean ones. These entities are our neighbors. They're familiar faces to all of us who live down in Lower Manhattan.
The best thing about the financial district is that the New York Stock Exchange is housed in a pagan temple. Look up. The skyline is as packed as Freud's cabinet with ancient religious icons. There, atop the J. P. Morgan building, at 23 Wall Street, is a reproduction of the Mausoleum in Halicarnassus (what is now Bodrum in southwest Turkey), one of the Wonders of the Ancient World. The Cities Service building, at 70 Pine Street, bears aloft a quartz crystal cube. A gold pyramid caps the summit of 40 Wall, the former Bank of the Manhattan Company. A Roman brazier once flamed atop the Standard Oil Building, at 26 Broadway. The Gothic arches of the Brooklyn Bridge rival those of Chartres. If we want to talk about rebuilding downtown, let's start by putting the golden Spirit of Communication back atop the old AT&T Building, at 195 Broadway.
There are totems down here on the street, too: Palm Pilots, laptops, reflections in shop windows, ticker-tape parades, press conferences on City Hall steps, eyeglass frames at Lenscrafters, factory-fresh digital cameras, still in the box, designer suits at Century 21. Why come here if not in search of glamour, glory and gold? There is nothing shameful about such fantasies. In ancient times, temples were built to them. The contemporary imagination can barely function without them.
In certain fields, like product design and advertising, corporations can be as imaginative as you like. Corporate architecture, however, is seldom one of those areas. This has not always been the case. In 1954, Gordon Bunshaft and Henry Dreyfuss stuck a safe in the window of Manufacturer's Bank. The result was one of the most striking images in 20th-century architecture: a glass temple dedicated not to money but to the desire for whatever lies just out of reach. It has been a long time, however, since corporate architects were capable of such brilliant gestures.
This is what we're reminded of when we look at the lineup of firms on the Infrastructure Task Force Web site. It's a class portrait of architects who've put corporate marketing strategy where imagination ought to be. They are at most a production system waiting for the idea people to show up.
Just thinking about architecture in relation to the events of Sept. 11 is a major imaginative challenge. People died on that site. Even if their bodies are removed to Staten Island, this is where 6,000 people lost their lives. Corporate culture has no way of dealing with this. In corporate culture, no one ever dies. Everyone is young and glowing. The older we get, the younger we look. The fear of death is thus forestalled. Yet here is death.
Corporate America has encountered similar problems in the past: product recalls; class action suits; structural failures; hazardous wastes. It will find ways to deal with this, too. Time and space will be found to organize a competition to design a memorial. The making of memorials, in fact, has lately become an industry itself. Consultants will be enlisted from Hiroshima, Vienna and Oklahoma City. The memorial and new office towers will be artfully combined. There will be something for everyone. Everything will have been thought about, except thought itself.
There is something comforting, therapeutic, perhaps even divine about the determination to carry on. Only maniacs want the economy to fall apart. Only nut cases want cities to crumble, modernity to shrivel up, dreams to die. Even with the smoke still heavy in the air, it's desirable to live inside the world's most powerful economic engine. That desire is intrinsically healthy.
But the terrorist attack did not just create a crisis; it also exposed one. There is a cultural contradiction between the aims of corporate architects and the needs of the city they claim to represent. Here is money, here is death. Carrying on can be traumatic, even violent, as well as healing. The imagination thrives on such contradictions. The inclination of the status quo is to deny their existence, or to trivialize them into problems of design.
The Florentines embraced the contradictions of their day. The result was humanism. Through learning, the powerful undertook to support the imaginative. Arts formerly considered satanic were allowed free expression. Creativity was back. Life was affirmed. Princes didn't pretend to be artists. They hired artists. And artists didn't have to wear suits. To paraphrase Iris Murdoch, artists had the dirty, Orphic job of venturing down into the dark, hellish regions where ideas and images are formed. They came back with flawless beauty.
A sophisticated local and international audience is prepared to see how a great modern city could possibly wrap its imagination around money and death, ice cream and fate, success and terror. That audience is willing to wait. There is no rush to satisfy its expectations, certainly not while the world is still at war. The city is not a video game. Eros and Thanatos are in the air, along with heroism, connection to others, sacrifice, self-deception, grandiosity, paranoia and greed. At this early date, why should we think that any of these drives are ready to be contained?Continue reading the main story


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According to creator Alexandr Kravtsov, one broken camera, one lost flash drive, 100 subway rides, 24,000 photographs totaling a whopping 480 GB, and many hours of post-production and rendering went into the making of this 5-minute long time lapse tour of Barcelona. You can really tell how much work went into it – the final result is absolutely stunning.
If you want to shoot a similar video of your own city, all you'll need is a Canon 7D, a Tokina 11-16, a Canon EF 24-105 4L, a Canon EF 70-200 2.8L and a heck of a lot of time and dedication.
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|Subject: Mahabalipuram's sculpture
This is the first article I wrote in a series about
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Mahabalipuram: Working the Stone for 1400 Years by George Panaghi October 20, 2000
The East Coast of the Indian subcontinent is littered with small communities that depend on fishing for their sustenance. At first glance, Mahabalipuram, or Mamallapuram, appears to be another such village.
The 15000 inhabitants of this small town on the coast of Tamil Nadu, however, live a very different life to that of the people in the neighboring villages. Mahabalipuram's men are not only fishermen, but also highly skilled artisans. They are some of India's most ingenious sculptors.
Their art is a longstanding tradition in Mahabalipuram. The shore temple and the other monuments of the Pallava dynasty date from the 7th and 8th centuries CE. However, what makes Mahabalipuram special is neither the romantic site of the shore temple complex, nor the spectacular panel of Arjuna's penance, carved on the face of a huge rock.
Sculpture in Mahabalipuram is a living art. For most households, it is the main source of income and fishing is only used to supplement the family's diet.
Boys begin to study the craft at a very young age, and it is inherited from father to son, in the tradition of the Hindu caste system. Nowadays, however there is a big, modern school of sculpture, where many of Mahabalipuram's native artists perfect their skills. The site where the school was previously located has been turned into a museum of contemporary local sculpture.
The sound of the chisels, always at work from the early morning, is a testimony to the village's industry Â# though it soon becomes irritating to visitors, the locals somehow seem to have got used to it.
Though they mostly work with traditional themes and motifs, the artists of Mahabalipuram have been commissioned for large-scale projects by many architects in India and abroad. Traditionally committed to the construction and decoration of Hindu temples, they now produce secular art, for Indian customers as well as for export.
Combined with the wide beach and the spectacular sites of Pallava architecture and stone masonry, Mahabalipuram's reputation as the home of accomplished sculptors makes it very popular with visitors. The tourist industry is growing parallel to sculpture, and there are many good places to stay. Mahabapalipuram is 56 km from Madras (or Chennai) and there are regular buses several times a day (2 hours, 12 rupees).


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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] Film of Ken Castellano. Introduced in movie theaters in 2008, with a production coming from USA. You can watch Close to Midnight online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2008.
Rating: 5 by 5 users./
Runtime: 86 minutes
Michael Anthony Bianco, Jennifer Somers Kipley, Eric D'Entrone, Louise Flory, Heather Leonard, David Wesley Cooper, Daniel Petitt, Diane Hoppmann, Anna Marie Vanderzee, Matt Cheplic, Effie Drimonis, Kim Caamano, Brian Moscaritolo and Lauren Ferretti.
86-minute film (full movie) directed by Ken Castellano.
The original audio of Close to Midnight has dialogues in Dolby Digital, it was produced in USA.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2008.
Screenplay written by Ken Castellano.
Nicholas Laskowski.
Rob Ryan, Keith Bailey and Patricia Wittek Caffrey.
This film was produced and / or financed by 908 Media.
Composed by Mark Bronzino.
Without commercial breaks, the full movie Close to Midnight has a duration of 86 minutes; the official trailer can be watched in streaming on the Internet. You can watch this full movie free in EnglishDolby Digital in movie TV channels, renting the DVD or with VoD services (Video On Demand player, Hulu) and PPV (Pay Per View, Netflix).
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If it's not easy, I don't cook it!
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- Bring broth, salt, pepper, garlic, and thyme to boil. Add roast beef to boiling broth. Saute sliced green pepper, mushrooms, butter, and garlic. When the roast beef is "wrinkled" it is ready. Remove roast beef from the broth and place on an open hoagie bun. Cover with cheese and place in broiler until lightly toasted. Remove, add sauteed mixture, close hoagie bun, and place in broiler to toast top. (This only takes a few seconds) Dip the hoagie sandwiches in the beef broth and enjoy!
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Vegan Broccoli and Cauliflower salad
Joan Hunt1
This is what I am making to pick nick with on our road trip to Ohio. It is my own version of one my mom used to make for cookouts when I was a kid.
- 1 bunch
- cauliflower, cut up into small flourets
- 1 bunch
- briccoli, cut into small flourets
- 1 can(s)
- black olives, sliced
- 1 jar(s)
- green olives, with pimentoes sliced
- 1 pt
- cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 pkg
- vegan mozzarella cheese
- 1/2 c
- bacos bits, bacos chips(they are vegan)
- 1 c
- italian dressing (your choice)
How to Make Vegan Broccoli and Cauliflower salad
- 1I like to blanch my broccoli and cauliflower for about 3 minutes in boiling salted water, and then shock in ice water. You can leave it raw, but blanching it gives it a nice vibrant color.
- 2put all ingredients into a large bowl and toss.
- 3let marinade in the fridge for 30 minutes or over night. this is one of those dishes that is better made the night before.
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Android Vs. iOS: Things Uniquely Android
In this article we will take a look at some of the features that are unique to the Android operating system when compared to Apple's iOS operating system. These features may perhaps sway you into choosing Android if you were not really sure which OS you should opt for.
Custom Home Launchers
Once an iOS user has jailbroken his or her phone, they can to some extent customize their home screen but the extent to which this can be done on an iOS device is nowhere compared to what can be done with an Android device. Third party software can add lots of new and neat features to your actual phone like new kinds of gestures or different types of icons for shortcuts and other such neat little things. The same cannot be said for iOS.
Removable Storage and Batteries
Android's open nature allows for quite a few advantages on the hardware aspect of things. On phones that do have a memory card slot, you can expand the storage on the phone quite considerably. If you max out the storage on your iOS device or if somehow the battery is damaged you are pretty much out of luck, but with most Android devices, you can replace the battery with a new one, a higher capacity one or perhaps even carry one as a spare.
Custom ROMs
There are quite a number of third party apps on Android but one of the best things is that since the whole OS is really open source, someone can take it and tweak it in their own way in order to make their own unique version and install it on their phone. An example of this is CyanogenMod. There really isn't much of a ceiling as to how far you can alter the Android OS but with iOS you're pretty much stuck with what's there. Whether it's tweaks like speeding up your phone, or getting radio on your phone, you can't go wrong with an Android.
Control Your Phone From Your Computer
With quite a number of apps on the Android platform you can control your phone from your computer. You can send texts from Chrome or access some of its other functions from your computer browser.
Make Use of Flash From Your Phone
Hate it or love it, there is going to come a time when you're on your phone and want to use flash. Whether you want to watch a live stream using flash, play a video game or anything that just uses flash in general, it's pretty handy to have it on your phone so when you need it you have it. The same cannot be said for the iPhone though and this maybe one reason to really go with Android instead of iOS.
Do you think these are legit reasons to go with Android? Please leave us your comments if you have anything to add and we will get back to you.
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For whatever reason, the iSheep at my school like comparing their 5s to my LG Spirit and proclaiming Apples superiority. I have a 300 dollar phone you have a 500 dollar phone -.- and I still show you up in all but speed
Android has way to many things to list over iOS, its just a much better OS just in the tweaks alone not including the custom roms or the useability and how easy it is to use compared to apples OS.
Android has come along way since the beginning and has surpassed apple in more ways.
I for one will never have an apple OS phone not even an ipod.........Android all the way and won't look back.
my dad wanted to change his old nokia, and btw he doesnt use the internet yet! he loves the iphone's elegant..but he buy sgs3 mini..he could work offline and imagine how complicated if he use iphone about the moving application and contact offline.. so yes android is best os ever
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Just starting taking this meal replacement a couple days ago, I'm obsessed! I always used to have a problem of never feeling full enough. It fills me right up and I don't feel the need to keep eating.
Meilleur shake au monde! Tres bon goût. Avec ce regime on pert du poid sans avoir faim
For weight management useful in weight reduction only as à part of a energy reduce diet. Usually i skip breakfast so a friend recommand me this meal replacement . Omg mine is cafe latte flavor : so so good / im a cofee addict . Helps me to have energy stabilise my weight.
Have to say this meal replacement product is full of fillers, fructose and nothing that resembles food! Stay away from this product - there are many other products much better for you on the market
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Here's a video I made in support of House Bill 14 in the state of Ohio: UPDATE: House Bill 14 PASSED — but still enforced on a local level.
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Tim Conway Jr. is a very fascinating broadcaster in Los Angeles. First and foremost his talk show is amazing. But there's a few things that he does that really speaks to me. I've become fascinated by the way he treats … Continue reading
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Grant to help Berkshire Medical Center, other providers share electronic records
PITTSFIELD >> Berkshire Medical Center is among seven state medical organizations that have each received $434,000 grants to enhance coordination among community healthcare providers and improve patient care.
The Massachusetts eHealth Institute (MeHI) at the Mass Tech Collaborative granted a total of $3.03 million to the seven organizations. The other entities are located in Brockton, Hyannis, Lowell, Newburyport, Springfield and Worcester.
In the Berkshires, the funding will be used to establish the Berkshire Connected Communities Project, which will allow BMC and seven local project partners to share patient's electronic medical records when and where it is legally appropriate.
"The grant will help support connectivity between our multiple electronic health records across Berkshire County, facilitating between communication between care givers at various transition of care touch points," said Mark Snowise, medical director for physician practices at Berkshire Health Systems.
The seven partner organizations, chosen for the project because they represent a good cross-section of the health care practices in the Berkshires, are Family Practice Associates, Berkshire Medical Group, Berkshire Healthcare Systems Inc., Community Health Programs, Berkshire Orthopedic Associates Inc., The Brien Center, and Eastern Mountain Medical Associates.
Like BMC, Berkshire Healthcare Systems is a subsidiary of Berkshire Health Systems, the county's largest employer. The six other organizations are not directly affiliated with BHS. Great Barrington-based CHP is a federally qualified health center.
The project's goal is to achieve the alignment of collaborative care practice models with supporting health IT to create new opportunities for patient care and quality improvement.
It will create tools that allow clinicians to electronically receive timely hospital admission notifications and discharge summaries, and exchange services notes and care plans.
William Young, chief information officer for BHS, said health care organizations have made great strides in switching their records from paper to electronic communications, but they still have difficulty providing that information between agencies when a patient visits another health care organization.
"All of those groups independently have done a great job with electronic medical records," Young said, referring to the agencies involved in the Berkshire Connected Communities Project. "But the data is still locked up almost like a paper record. The next step is to move that record with the patient so that we can share the data.
"The goal of the grant is to help us, Berkshire Health Systems, connect with all of these other partners out there," Young said. "It will help us share the data in a bidirectional way as patients move out to different areas."
The grant provides a two-year window for BMC to establish the Berkshire Connected Communities project with its seven project partners, Young said.
"Berkshire Health Systems has already made major investments in this," said Young, referring to the technology needed to set up the project. "Most of the money is going to help the other practices connect to the technology that we've already invested in."
Collaborations such as this one have been occurring in health care for some time now, said CHP's interim executive director Lia Spiliotes. She is also a partner and senior advisor at Cambridge Management Group in Boston with 25 years of experience in the health care field.
"It helps everybody who is part of the collaboration," she said. "It basically means that when we book our patients they can move relatively seamlessly through the different organizations.
"Healthcare has always been one of the lagging industries with technology and integrating it into care," she said. "With this money we all benefit. It lifts all the boats."
Contact Tony Dobrowolski at 413-496-6224.
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J. Lo cuts the mustard in thigh-split dress with beau Casper Smart at the Globes
Jennifer Lopez never ceases to stun!
The "Shades of Blue" star chose a Giambattista Valli mustard yellow gown for the 2016 Golden Globes, and she managed to look as sexy as ever in what was one of her more demure looks.
The mustard gown appeared to be a covered up look with a little cape and a small train, a look that did not show off any skin on top. But in true J-Lo style, there was a thigh-high slit, and she showed off her legs for days.
Joining in the mustard yellow trend, America Ferrera shined bright like Jennifer in a Jenny Packham dress.
Meanwhile, Jennifer also made a statement with her beau Casper Smart on her arm. The on and off again couple are very on as she recently confirmed to Ellen DeGeneres that they are dating.
"We were down in Miami together for New Years," she said on Jan. 5, 2016. "He was working. I didn't have to work - I had literally two days off. We we were hanging out."
Although she said "there's no wedding," Jennifer has a residency in Las Vegas for her upcoming concerts that begin on Jan. 20, 2016, and some may say that's a perfect location to elope.
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So I've been texting this guy I had a crush on for like a year. and now he finally asked me out! I was so happy! and so yesterday he came over to watch a movie (our first time as a couple), we sat next to each other, but didn't actually cuddle or anything. it was kind of uncomfortable but I've never really had a boyfriend so I was too shy to make the first move. he's shy as well, but after that I just feel like stupid cause you could feel the awkwardness (if that makes sense?) so I need advice on how to break the touching barrier! another thing what should I do to be a good girlfriend? like call him cute names, examples? need help ASAP :)
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I usually don't have problems with touch barriers, but depending on what kind of person he is, you could start a poke war. Or just ask for a hug. Or lean on his shoulder. Something. He's your boyfriend, you're allowed to touch him, be the one to break the touch barrier- if has a problem, recognize it, and take it slow. But things should be fine as long as you do them confidently, naturally. if you're sitting next to him, slip your hand into his and squeeze it. When you touch him it needs to be as if it's the most natural thing in the world. If you feel awkward about it, then it'll be hard for either of you to touch each other, so at least one of you needs to be open.11|00|0


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Astronaut Karen Nyberg arrived at the International Space Station on May 28. On Sunday, she'll leave for home. In the five months she's been up there, she's worked on studies of the human microbiome and how combustion works in zero gravity. She's helped move a Soyuz capsule from one dock to another and worked on a leaky space suit.
She's also made a nine-by-nine-inch quilt square.
NASA put out a press release last week inviting people to join her by making their own star-themed quilt squares and submitting them for a display at next year's International Quilt Festival in Houston.
Quilting. In space. Could the manly test pilots of the 1950s have imagined such a future? But there she is, blonde and Minnesotan and explaining how she manipulated fabric in zero gravity.
"You can't lay things down and measure and cut," Nyberg says in a video sent down from the space station. Instead, she cut out a square and traced the shape on the fabric.
When she cut out the pieces, she added a bit extra, the seam allowance that you turn that under to keep the edges from fraying. Since she couldn't measure properly, she had to eyeball it, cutting a border that looked about right. "When I start piecing the pieces together, it becomes very tricky when the pieces do not have the quarter-inch seam allowance that you really had hoped for," she says, her hair flying as she holds up the partly-finished square. "It's less than perfect."
The sewing itself was tricky, too, and not just because of weightlessness. "I don't hand-sew all that much on Earth. I usually use a sewing machine," she says. And she had no iron to make the turned-under edge crisp. There were no pins to hold the pieces together, either; she tried tape.
Her explanation of the challenges reminded me of a piece published in the Guardian last month, provocatively titled "The view that computers are technology but sewing isn't is a sexist stitch-up." Technology is intrinsic to sewing, knitting, and other work that is traditionally done by women. As the article's author, Helen Czerski, says, "Men don't have a monopoly on working out how to use the available tools to do something practical."
As a mechanical engineer, Nyberg is used to trouble-shooting, using specialized tools, and being familiar with the properties of materials. In space, with no sewing machine and no gravity, she improvised and problem-solved and turned her fabric into a finished product.
One of the ways for a woman to exist in a man's world—and a world that you can only get to by strapping yourself on top of a rocket is most definitely a man's world—is to act like the stereotype of the men. Spit, swear, ignore your kids (or don't have any). Certainly don't admit to any girly hobbies.
Nyberg is one of six members of our species who are currently not on Earth. It's thrilling to see her being an astronaut while being herself.
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Associate professor
Department of Economics and Business Economics
Fuglesangs Allé 4
building 2621, 124
8210 Aarhus V
Phone: +4587165054
Teaching interests
Operations Research/Logistics, also in combination eith sustainability
Research interests
Combinatorial optimization problems in routing and networks
Operations Research problems with an environmental or geographical component
Selected publications
M. Turkensteen, G. Sierksma, J.E. Wieringa, "Balancing the Fit and the Logistics Costs of Segmentations", European Journal of Operational Research, In Press, Corrected Proof.
R. Germs, B. Goldengorin, M. Turkensteen, "Lower Tolerance-Based Branch and Bound Algorithms for the ATSP", Computers & Operations Research 39 (2), 2012, 291-298.
M. Turkensteen, D. Ghosh, B. Goldengorin, G. Sierksma. "Tolerance-Based Branch and Bound Algorithms for the ATSP". European Journal of Operational Research, 2008, 183(3), page 775-788.
M. Turkensteen, D. Ghosh, B. Goldengorin, G. Sierksma. "Iterative Patching and the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem". Discrete Optimization 2006, 3(1), 63 - 77.
Associate Professor
Member of the Logistics Section
Research Secretaries: Ingrid Lautrup and Betina Sørensen
PhD in Economics and Business at the University of Groningen, 2002-2006
MSc in Econometrics & OR at the University of Groningen, 1997-2002
Marcel Turkensteen's research is within the field of Operations Research and Logistics. His field of interest is broad and contains interdisciplinary research.
The main areas of interest are:
- Network problems in routing and location. This includes the improvement of algorithms for difficult combinatorial problems, such as the Traveling Salesman Problem. Examples of this are the publications on the use of tolerances in optimization.
- The development of models and solution approach for problems with a geographical dimension. This dimension may be due to the spread of locations over a geographical area, or the influence of management decisions on the environment. A prime example of this is the paper on balancing the fit and logistics costs of market segmentations.
Research output: Research - peer-review › Journal article
Research output: Research - peer-review › Journal article
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Happy Wednesday! This week I'm catching up on my Wanderlust Wednesdays because I've missed a couple of weeks, so this edition is dedicated to travel journaling. I love to journal and collect little things along the way when I travel. I am a basic journaler, I just write about my day, and if I have little pamphlets or tickets, I staple those to the pages of my journal. However, when I see how other people journal about their travels, I get insanely jealous of the organization, the sketches and how beautiful some of these journals are. It always inspires me to try something new, so I thought I would share a few examples of these really beautiful and creative ways to journal those special moments while you wander.
^^ This is the inside and outside of this travel journal! Beautiful, huh? ^^
I love the idea of sketching (but I'm not very artistic) and I love putting little memories of your trip in them, like your favorite beer label, pictures and maps. These all look much more exciting than my travel journals! I would love to hear how you guys preserve your memories while on the road, and even send pictures for me to see!


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cook books totally intimidate me. i know, it sounds crazy… on one hand i love cook books. the possibility of a new recipe, the promise of good food… but then, on the other hand, they totally scare me. i'm not very good at reading cook books & actually picking out recipes, it's just too much for me to handle!
in an effort to get a better grip on life, i thought it might helpful to come up with 6 weeks worth of menus. maybe i'm crazy? but this way i know what were eating, i don't have to put much thought into it & i know we are going to like it (because i'm purposely picking recipes i know). but, i'm only planning 4 meals a week, that way i can leave room to try new recipes… hence, my trolling through cook books. but let me tell you, i'm not having much success in that department. as i said before, cooks books intimidate me. they makes me nervous, trying out a recipe that i've never tasted previously, or had someone tell me to make? yikes! i really got to get over this fear. but in the mean time, anyone have a good recipe for me?


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College Football 2011: 10 Coaches Who Made a Mistake Switching JobsMay 4, 2011
College Football 2011: 10 Coaches Who Made a Mistake Switching Jobs
Rich Rodriguez has a huge ego.
So when he recently admitted he made a mistake by leaving his alma mater West Virginia for what he thought was a better opportunity at Michigan, it was a shock to many.
The shock wasn't that he regretted the move, but rather that he actually admitted it.
Will Rich Rodriguez coach again? Of course he will. He has a good enough track record of success for someone to not give him another shot.
But his legacy will always include the mistake he made of leaving WVU for Michigan.
Rodriguez is not the only coach who made a questionable coaching change. In the past 30 years, here are the coaches who had a serious lapse of judgment.
10. Randy Edsall
OK, this may seem a bit premature, but this is an early prediction.
Randy Edsall was the face of UConn football and led the Huskies to their first BCS Bowl Game.
So how does he follow it up?
He bolts for Maryland and the ACC. Not really much of an upgrade.
9. Nick Saban
Anyone who knows anything about football will tell you Nick Saban is one of the best coaches in the game.
Saban also has one of the sweetest jobs also. It doesn't get much better than winning at Alabama.
Seriously, does this guy ever pay for a meal or drink in Tuscaloosa?
However, Saban should have never bolted for the NFL's Miami Dolphins after the outstanding work he did at LSU.
Of course you could say he wouldn't be at Alabama right now if he didn't go to Miami, and of course he collected some pretty hefty pay checks for two years.
But Saban is a college football coach. He doesn't need the NFL to validate anything.
8. Bobby Petrino
This is similar to Nick Saban's dalliance with the pros, but an even worse outcome.
Bobby Petrino was itching to get out of Louisville and when the Atlanta Falcons came calling—with another boatload of cash—he just couldn't say no.
Like Saban again, Petrino is doing just fine at Arkansas. But he didn't need to go the NFL route first.
Petrino was and still remains one of the top names in college football. He would have found his way to the SEC eventually.
7. Butch Davis
Butch Davis had a rough go of it last year at North Carolina, but nothing compares to when he tried to run the show with the Cleveland Browns.
The year after he left the Miami for the NFL, the Hurricanes rolled to a BCS Championship under Larry Coker. That's Bill Stewart before anyone knew Bill Stewart.
If Davis had remained in Coral Gables he would have racked up a few national championships and would be even more legendary than Jimmy Johnson.
Instead, he's a great coach with an average team.
6. Urban Meyer
You don't leave Florida when everyone in Gainesville still wants you around.
Ron Zook is forced out, but Urban Meyer could have coached there until he was Joe Paterno's age.
Now Meyer says he was burned out and he needed more time with his family. So he proceeded to leave his family to cover spring games for ESPN.
Now he's rumored to be the next coach at Ohio State (if and when Jim Tressel is fired).
That wouldn't be a bad move, but quitting the Gators when you don't have to is not recommended.
5. Steve Spurrier
Here we go again. Steve Spurrier was Urban Meyer before Meyer was ever a head coach.
Spurrier was Florida Gators football. A Heisman Trophy winner who loved to poke fun at the Gators' rival Florida State.
For some reason, Spurrier couldn't turn down Daniel Snyder and Washington Redskins. Apparently $5 million a year is tough to pass on, even for Spurrier.
His NFL coaching run was miserable and now he's at a second-rate SEC program.
OK, the Gamecocks won the SEC East last year, but no one ever confuses South Carolina with Florida.
4. Tyrone Willingham
There was a time when Tyrone Willingham was considered one of the finest college coaches.
As the coach at Stanford from 1995-2001, Willingham guided the Cardinal to a 44-36-1 record. Stanford also played in the 2000 Rose Bowl.
After a 9-3 season in 2001 and a misfire by Notre Dame on George O'Leary, the Fighting Irish turned to Willingham.
Willingham delivered a 10-3 record the first season, but from there it went down hill with a 5-7 and 6-5 marks his final two years.
It's hard to blame anyone for taking the Notre Dame job, but Willingham's reputation never recovered.
3. Dan Hawkins
In 2005, Dan Hawkins was one of the hottest names in coaching.
At Boise State, Hawkins amassed a 53-11 record from 2001-05, while going 2-2 in bowl games.
So when Colorado came calling in late 2005, Hawkins couldn't turn down a shot at a big-time program.
Now Hawkins is the butt of many jokes as he led the once proud Buffaloes to a 19-39 record from 2006 until he was fired in 2010.
His replacement at Boise, Chris Petersen, has resisted the urge to go elsewhere and it has paid off handsomely.
2. Rich Rodriguez
Moving from West Virginia to Michigan seems like a no-brainer.
Take a closer look and you'll see Rich Rodriguez had struck oil in them thar hills of West Virginia.
Rodriguez was born and raised in the state and was coaching his alma mater. He had them on the verge of playing in a BCS Championship Game and had become a perennial Top 10 program.
But he got greedy. He kept asking for more and more from the WVU administration and finally they said no.
Backed into a corner, Rodriguez flinched and the rest is history.
Don't be surprised if one day he returns to WVU, but it may take another five to seven years for enough fans to forgive.
1. Howard Schnellenberger
What the hell was Howard Schnellenberger thinking?
He turned around the Miami Hurricanes from a laughingstock program that was almost shut down by university officials into the 1984 National Champions.
Schnellenberger was almost as big as Don Shula in South Florida.
So what did he decide to do after getting to the top?
He thought bolting for the USFL was the right move instead of continuing to recruit the State of Miami and winning championships.
Sorry Howard, but that's the ultimate failure.


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- Coffee mugs with cats on them
- My cat
- Leaving work a minimum of one minute earlier than usual
- Seeing a wild Aston Martin out in its natural habitat, almost crashing my decidedly less-awesome Honda Civic, and living to tell the tale.
- Dave Grohl
- Dave Grohl dressed as a woman
I spent the better part of two days weeding out my favorite designs and putting them side by side in a file for comparison purposes. I started out with about ten designs, chipped away at them until I had four, and then made the big grand-daddy of decisions from there. Now, not only did I take a long and perilous journey of self-discovery, but I found a new artist to adore and add to my apartment décor pinboard on Pinterest.
This is going on my wall as soon as I move, along with my hand-drawn map of Middle Earth.*** The artist's name is Valentina. Her art is everywhere. As prints, more prints, on clothing, bedding, iPhone cases, fabric, wall murals, pillowcases, probably on cakes or some shit, who knows. All I know is I want to plaster my walls with it. And sleep on it. And wear it. And eat it. Two more favorites:
One of Valentina's designs is going to be on my forthcoming new iPhone case which my pops offered to buy me for Christmas. I don't feel like telling you which, and chances are it isn't even one of the ones I featured, so you know, use your imagination. Now if you'll excuse me I have to back to pinning things on my pinboards for the apartment that hovers, torturously, just out of my grasp.
* - this put nothing into perspective, and looking back, served no purpose whatsoever
** - should be on a t-shirt in Helvetica font
*** - accomplishes the simultaneous feats of being the dumbest thing I have ever bought as well as one of the most awesome things I own.


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- 2 lbs ground beef
- 1/3 cup dried chopped onions
- 2 pkgs. refrigerated biscuits, the big ones, like Grands
- 8 American cheese slices
- Heat oven to tempurature according to packaged biscuit directions. Brown ground beef and onions. Drain. On a floured surface, roll out biscuits flat, and put half a slice of american cheese on biscuit, top with 1/2 to 3/4 cup beef mixture, fold biscuit around cheese and beef mixture, and place each stuffed biscuit fold side down onto baking sheet. Bake according to package directions. Serve with a brown gravy, mashed potatoes, and corn.
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- Fiber2 g(10%)
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All girls whose have dark and dull complexion lips feeling not good about their appearance and beauty. They always try to avoid the beautiful colors in lipstick with some complex in their personality. This problem is very common, but very rare tips and recommendations you will get on the internet or in your daily life. With the dark lips usually girls are looking not good because darkness ruins the accurate shades of the lipstick.
Girls having dark lips required more care and attitude in the selection of the shades and brands of the lipsticks. So, it is not much difficult. Just need to take a look on your skin tone with lip colors. I will guide you completely that which colors and brands of the lipstick to be used.
1. Be Confident About Your Personality:
It is very important and the first thing that you should have confidence about your personality and your beauty. You are unique and only in the world so no one have a match in this universe including you. You are the best creation of the God. You have all blessings and beauties in your life that gives you a unique identity for yourself. If you have dark lips, no worry definitely you also have other beautiful features. You have the combination of all stuff on your face and your beauty. So it's yours, plus factor about your personality that you have good and bad but you are unique.
2. Selection Of Right Color Lipstick:
Selection of right color according to your skin tone is very important, but it's not focus factor basically. Basic tips going to tell you, but this thing also have its own importance. Select the light colors, especially pinkish colors in your collection of lipstick. Focus on glowing natural foundation with the combination of that shade of lipsticks. It will give you a glowing look with natural pinkish lips. Light pink color will be in dark pinkish colors due to the reflection of lips. It will give you fresh and beautiful look.
3. Regular Use Of Chap Stick:
If you are not happy with your lip colors and also you can't use lipstick daily so don't worry. You should have the Chap Stick in your bag with fresh and great flavors. You should try the chap sticks with the flavors of strawberry, grapes and many others. Chap Stick will give the softness and much better color combinations with your facial features.
4. Consultation With Makeup Artists:
You should have the regular contact with your beauticians and makeup artists if you are beautiful lovers. You are beautiful and you can occupy the some bad features by other dominant beautiful features. So you are beautiful and you can prove it. I hope you will love my suggestions when you will show the confidence. It will give you more beauty by inner.
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- Use light pinkish colors.
- Use exact match and suitable color in the foundation.
- Use foundation according to your skin tone.
- Use some foundation on your lips before applying lipstick.
- Not excessive use of foundation on skin.
- Use a little quantity of foundation on your lips also not too much.
- After applying foundation on lips remove it slightly.
- Always use fingers to mix the foundation color with your skin tone.
All points will give you attractive look if you follow them carefully. One thing keep in mind that everything should be used in proper quantity. Excessive use of everything can have the ability to ruin the beauty of anything. So use proper and exact quantity by proper and recommended methods. You will feel good and better than earlier.


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While most Smith College professors no doubt have extensive resumes, Massimo Salvadori's includes over six pages of publications and exemplifies a life filled with intrigue, hard work, and a desire to fight for liberty in the face of any oppressive force. (See Figures 1-7 of Salvadori's CV for list of publications) This life would later be mirrored in the classes he would teach at Smith College. Over the course of 26 years, Salvadori (See Figure 8) taught a variety of topics within the sociology and history departments at Smith. Between 1962 and 1973, he held the Dwight W. Morrow Professorship of History. For two years during his teaching years, Salvadori directed the JYA Geneva program for Smith students. Today, within the Smith College Archives, the personal papers, publications, and course materials of Massimo Salvadori provide a detailed glimpse into the classes he taught and how his personal life was interconnected to those classes. Letters and documents in the Archives show how his upbringing and early life provided him with the examples that enlivened his classes with observations from personal experiences. In three of the classes that he taught, "Africa South of the Sahara", "Elements of the Impact Made Beyond Its Borders After WWII by the U.S.", and "Modern European History", Salvadori's personal experiences enriched the student's learning because their professor had lived through what was being taught from a textbook.
Salvadori was born in 1908 of Italian and British descent, giving him dual citizenship. His parents were both anti-fascist activists who opposed the widely popular political beliefs promoted under the reign of Mussolini. Unafraid of the oppressive atmosphere and inspired by his parents, Salvadori spoke his mind in school and praised anti-fascism. This blatant sign of dissent to the political norm ultimately resulted in Salvadori receiving a beating from a group of fascists in 1924. A year later, after publishing two anti-fascist articles, his father was beaten bloody by fascist officers.[1] With his intervention and help, Massimo and his father were able to survive and later fled to Switzerland. In Switzerland, Salvadori studied sociology and economics while maintaining contact with other exiles. Those contacts would help him over time mature his liberal political thoughts.
A few years later, Salvadori returned to Italy, enrolled in the University of Rome, and received a doctorate in political science. His life during the pre-war years highlights the political tensions at that time. While in Rome, he joined a resistance group called Justice and Liberty and "served as [a] liaison between its clandestine operations in central Italy and anti-fascist exiles in France."[2] In 1930, he was arrested with 40 other Resistance members for "anti-fascist work at the university and at officers' training school"[3] and was sentenced to five years in a deportation camp on the penal island of Ponza. But "after 1 year of prison the British government intervened and Salvadori was released. He was placed under house arrest but he escaped and returned to Switzerland."[4]
After his deportation camp sentence was cut short, Salvadori spent three years in Kenya, managing a plantation. This personal experience of colonial rule would later prove useful for his teaching. While maintaining the farmland, he performed sociological research across British East Africa.[5] Salvadori's real-life experiences enriched the class he would later teach at Smith, "Africa and the Sahara," allowing his students to understand African colonization directly rather than through an antiquated textbook. (See Figure 9 for the first page of a revised lecture for the class.)
In much the same way, Salvadori's subsequent participation in WWII would inform his course , "Modern European History." In 1939, Salvadori volunteered for British service but was not accepted due to complications over his dual citizenship. Not deterred by this denial from active duty, Salvadori found other ways to participate. For the next three years, he cooperated with antifascist Italian exiles and Italian-Americans and "worked [within] Mexico with European exiles intent on counteracting fascist and Nazi activities in Central America."[6] In 1943, Salvadori was finally accepted into the British army and was involved in the military landings in Salerno and Anzio, Italy in 1943 and 1944. In 1945, Salvadori was "appointed Allied Liaison officer of the committee of National Liberation in Northern Italy." As an officer, he parachuted into Italy with the main objective of reaching "Milan in order to coordinate the efforts of civilian and military resistance group struggling to liberate Northern Italy."[7] At the end of the war, Salvadori received the Military Cross for the organization of an important person's evacuation from occupied Salerno and the repeated crossing of enemy lines to infiltrate agents. In addition, his work in Milan toward the war's end earned him the Distinguished Service Order.[8] After victory was declared, Salvadori resigned from his position and was granted an honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Army. Massimo Salvadori's extensive and varied experience during WWII provided him with invaluable insight into modern European history and in the inner workings of governmental systems within Europe and their social implications. He later applied his unique perspective within the classroom setting to provide his students with a better understanding of modern Europe. (See Figures 10-13 for an introduction and breakdown of the course) Although Salvadori recognized that "a certain bias is inevitable in teaching as well as in writing," and that his own experience could exemplify such a bias, he trusted that students would "be able to discount it."[9]
Massimo Salvadori's postwar activism played just as crucial a role in his teaching as his pre-war and war experience did. After the war, Salvadori continued to fight against totalitarian regimes in the hope of educating students on the dangers of joining such regimes and stressing the interconnectivity of nations. His class, "Elements of the Impact Made Beyond Its Borders after WWII by the U.S," emphasized these points. (See Figure 14 for the first page of the syllabus) In 1947, he began to teach sociology and history as a professor at Smith College. His first class at Smith focused on discussing democracy and what would constitute effective American foreign policy. In addition to his commitment to teaching, Salvadori continued to be actively engaged in policy making. In 1948, he took a leave of absence "to work as Director of the Division of Political Science, UNESCO in Paris and as a political analyst in the NATO Secretariat, Paris." From 1955-1967, he directed eight summer seminars of the School for Freedom, which promoted political literacy and national awareness of interconnectivity.[10] Again, Salvadori brought a unique and practical perspective to the classroom from his work with NATO, UNESCO, and American foreign policy.
In 1973, Salvadori retired from Smith but never gave up the liberal fight. From 1979-1981, "he served as [the] president of the Institute for the History of the Democratic and Republican Movement of the Marché".[11] His foreign policy ideas relating to the image that the United States should convey to the world led President Eisenhower to praise such ideas. The President even went as far as to say that Salvadori had 'some of the best ideas I have seen on it' and that he would 'circulate it as widely as I can'.[12]
Over the course of Massimo Salvadori's life, he wrote 20 books, thousands of articles and reviews and "chose both political and scholarly means to continue his fight" against oppressive regimes.[13] But it was through the classroom at Smith College that he fought one of his most difficult intellectual battles with the hope of trying "to get students to develop an interest in the things [he was] interested in. [Stating,] if I was any success, I have no idea. One never knows the effect of what one says or writes."[14] Through his "passion for ideas, his example of active resistance to oppression, and his inexhaustible curiosity about human history in all times and in all places,"[15] Salvadori was an influential professor who provided valuable insight into political interactions that textbooks often depict too abstractly and a humble man who was not quick to talk about himself. Posthumously honored as "Citizen of the World"[16] in the town of Porto San Georgio, Italy, the man did not belong to one country's ideals. Rather, he believed in liberty, anti-colonialism, and free institutions that would provide all people with the proper education to learn from past experiences in order to more efficiently address the problems of tomorrow. This lesson he attempted to impart on Smith College students whom he hoped would take the lessons to heart when addressing the problems of the future.
[1] Helen Cummings, "Hampshire Life: Daily Hampshire Gazette." Jan. 10-16 1986. p 7.
[2] Wolfgang Saxon. "Max W. Salvadori, 84, Professor Who Fought the Fascists in Italy." NY Times. Aug. 1992.
[3] Joan Afferica. "Memorial Minute for Max Salvadori." Presentation at Dept of History Faculty Meeting. Oct 27, 1993.
[4] Helen Cummings, "Hampshire Life: Daily Hampshire Gazette." Jan. 10-16 1986. p 43.
[5] Ibid.
[6] Joan Afferica. "Memorial Minute for Max Salvadori." Presentation at Dept of History Faculty Meeting. Oct 27, 1993.
[7] Ibid.
[8] Joan Afferica. "Memorial Minute for Max Salvadori." Presentation at Dept of History Faculty Meeting. Oct 27, 1993.
[9] Modern European History Syllabus. Smith College
[10] Ibid.
[11] Joan Afferica. "Memorial Minute for Max Salvadori." Presentation at Dept of History Faculty Meeting. Oct 27, 1993
[12] "Lecturer Impresses President as Interpreter of US Abroad." The New York Times March 22, 1956.
[13] Joan Afferica. "Memorial Minute for Max Salvadori." Presentation at Dept of History Faculty Meeting. Oct 27, 1993
[14] Helen Cummings, "Hampshire Life: Daily Hampshire Gazette." Jan. 10-16 1986. p 43.
[15] Joan Afferica. "Memorial Minute for Max Salvadori." Presentation at Dept of History Faculty Meeting. Oct 27, 1993.
[16] Ibid.


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"You've got a lot to live – and Pepsi's got a lot to give."
Time to drink up your Daily 70s Spot. Here's Pepsi Cola with an ad in their "Live!" campaign. I suppose this was Pepsi's answer to "Coke adds life," but I can't attest to the timing of the competing soft drink campaigns. Commercial aired in February of 1973.
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hi. i have been using percs recreationally all summer. Never more than 3-4 days at a time. However, The last three to four weeks, i have been using daily 30-60mg per day. I definately know i have become addicted and am trying to taper, but without much luck. What can I expect if I just flush everything and go cold turkey. I am ironically in AA and called my sponsor who is meeting me tomorrow to talk. I'm just so scared of the horror stories and not sure what to do. I would appreciate ANY advice.
Percoset withdrawal...i could really use some advice?
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Hi gg - I can only tell you what I did, and that was cold turkey, several times. And, I was using much more often and longer than you have. You will have a few uncomfortable days, but will feel fine by days 5-7. That's if you are being honest about how long you have used them for--one summer?
I've been in AA for 23 years, and suffered a nasty relapse @ 6 years. You know that we cannot taper addictive substances! HA. At least, I could never do it! I had to get rid of them. I needed pain meds. legitimately for a surgery, and had my sponsor hold them, and dole them out as they were prescribed. That was even more agony! I was craving them all the time because I had built up a tolerance. You really shouldn't have too many bad symptoms... kinda restless legs, feeling like you have a mild flu, mild hot & cold sweats, maybe some shivers, and sick to your stomach. If you can see a Dr., some blood pressure medicine would help (Clonodine patch) because it lowers the bp, and helps with the anxiety and headachey feelings. I gave myself a week of not having to do anything/be anywhere, and it was ample time the first time through it! Good Luck! Your sponsor will have advice, as well, I'm sure... just giving you my 2 cents.
Hi. Thank you so much for the advice and support. It is so strange to me because i just celebrated my 4 year anniversary in AA over the summer... and i seriously thought... wow... i found something i can use once in a while and not abuse... amazingh how insideous this disease is... although i knew something wasn't right because i didn't get my 4 year coin. I feel embarressed to go back and tell my AA friends about this. To be honest, I don't have a meeting set up with my sponsor tomorrow... i only put that because i'm new to this site and i wanted people to give me serious responses. I need to break down and tell AA people... its so shameful to me. I have very little work thursday and friday and the off the weekend. I know everyone is different, but do you think I will be able to work thursday and friday? Was planning to take last dose wednesday.
That's all okay. I still feel shame sometimes, and its 14 years later! I was so embarrassed to go back to the same mtgs. I had gone to for 5-6 years, and so full of shame. But, I noticed that I just stopped interacting with people in meetings, stopped forcing myself to go, even if or when I didn't feel like it. We are a group of people that must "fake it until we make it", even though I used to hate that saying! There are just small signs of us getting into that "relapse mode" of thinking, like you telling a lie about your sponsor, and not taking your 4 yr. chip... and, even you are aware of it! But, that's the darn denial thing that sets in, and gets stronger as we deny our "intuition". That's the "stinking thinking", telling you its okay this one time NOT to be rigorously honest!
I know exactly how you feel, hon, but you'll feel so much better when you get honest with yourself and all the people who have been there for you, I promise! I've been there! I would not go to work Thurs. & Friday, but I'm one that wears their emotions on their sleeve. I cannot pretend I don't feel like crud, particularly when I do. I would want to be in bed, or alone, going through the first uncomfortable days. If your symptoms of w/drawal aren't as bad, you may be able to Thurs., but Friday may be uncomfortable... just sayin' from my own experience, but you have caught it before I did. Good luck, again. We're here!
yes, we are all here for you, wow , im in na , clean 9 yrs off of ice, and i too started taking percet 10/325 for pain, what a fool to think this addict would have no problem, a drug is a drug, any mood altering substance i should have known i couldnt take, but i rationalized that it would be ok, please try and taper now, it will be harder years later like now for me, 3 yrs later dr has me on the slowest taper ever, it will probably take months for me. as long as you have a supporting dr. and come here for support you can do it, hang in there, helpmehawaii
Hey gg,
If you decide to go cold turkey rather than taper which does take determination, I would google the Thomas recipe for opiate withdrawal. It is a list of mostly over the counter remedies though it does recommend a benzodiazepine like valium for the first few days. Opiate withdrawal is no picnic but certainly doable. Just have to remember that it won't last forever and you will survive. We are her to support your efforts,
ive been taking 140-6- mg of percocet 10/325 daily for the past 2 years or little longer, my body goes into full blown withdrawl when i dont take any. i came to this site to meet people like myself and to talk to others when i need, this is the best decision you can make, my dr is involved with my taper and i was just on a taper schedule which was cutting back about 60 mg daily, after today we decided its too big a cut and too fast so he is slowing it down to cutting back about 20-30 mg per week, see how that goes, then cut out little more, im so scared also of the wds, one of the wds i suffer is restless leg and arm syndrome and my body feeling like its got the ibbyjibbys, but keep comming back and each time you cut back a small amount and stick to it, give yourself props, hang in there, i also just read that zofran used for nausea reduces the withdrawls, hope this helped
I am in the same boat as you, your not alone. I am on hour 57 or so of no pain meds. I tapered down but I just didnt have the will power. I gobble in the end.
I went to a Suboxone doc and got only 4 pills that I am trying to use to get through the wd's. If you have the ability try tramodol for your symptoms. In the past I have recieved good relief from it.
Burn the bridges of your source. Its the only thing to do, well for me it was.
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By News Division On June 11, 2011 · In News, Retail, Systems, Xbox 360
Microsoft Corp. this week said it will release new Summer of Arcade titles to the Xbox Live Arcade division of the Xbox 360.
Beginning July 20th, users can download new titles for five consecutive weeks.
Summer of Arcade titles include Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Inc.'s Bastion; Ubisoft Inc.'s From Dust, Microsoft's Fruit Ninja Kinect, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, Toy Soldiers: Cold War, Ms. Splosion Man, and Trenched.
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Pereira, D., Anderson, M., Bastias, P., Schnurrenberger, J. et al., "The Development of a Plastic Valve Cover System using Finite Element Analysis," SAE Technical Paper 2004-01-3266, 2004, https://doi.org/10.4271/2004-01-3266.
This paper presents the development of a Plastic Valve Cover System (PVCS) using Finite Element Analysis (FEA). This approach results in a shorter development period and reduced costs. The numerical methodology is divided into two steps. First, a two-dimensional analysis is of the rubber components (gasket, grommet) determines the load-deflection response and the system equilibrium for the complete range of component tolerances. These curves are utilized in a second step. Applied to a three-dimensional model of the cover, the analysis determines the valve cover optimal design. The paper describes other relevant issues related to PVCS's such as: a) influence of strain damage on elastomeric response. b) element type, size and order selection for optimum modeling. Comparisons with experimental results are presented and the appropriate conclusions are drawn.


text: Goodness, I had to take her home. Initially I wanted the Alma but it didn't look proportioned with my small frame. Then I was going to get the Jasmin but my SA brought this out for me as well and I was like, wait! . I love her! I don't see this style around at all. Is she discontinued? Regardless, wooooooo . I like the leather on this style, which is a bit more flexible (not as stiff) than on the Jasmin, I assume because of the different lining. It's also very easy to get in and out of.


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Ah yes, Valentine's Day is back. Of all the days to wallow in self-pity, Valentine's Day is by far my favorite. As if the constant flood of fluffy teddy bears and pink and red heart-shaped chocolate boxes lining the store window displays weren't enough, the shift from a regular amount of love songs (which, let me mention, is already a LOT) to a constant stream of ooey-gooey 'I'll love you till the sun dies' melodies hitting the radio usually makes me want to crawl into a Valentine's-Day-proof hole until February 15th. However, I recently discovered a trick that makes Valentine's Day a little more bearable. And that, my dear friends, is the wonder of the Single Girl Playlist.
The Single Girl Playlist, as the title suggests, is my Valentine's Day (and month) secret weapon. It' stocked with fun-loving, booty-shaking, fearless female mantras, throwbacks, and all around feel good beats. You can throw it on when you're in the car, play it as you dance through your house, plug it into your headphones on your walk to class or work, and hum it pretty much anytime you're in public until the dreaded day of love has passed. You can even throw a Galentine's Day party, a concept created by Parks and Rec's fabulous Leslie Knope, where you and your gals can enjoy the wonderful sounds of freedom on your Single Girl Playlist, as sung by Beyoncé. If you're looking to start your own Single Girl Playlist (which you should, because it rocks), then look no further than these 10 must-add songs:
1) Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Cyndi Lauper
Cheesy? Yes. Effective? YES. 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' is a classic girl power anthem that reminds us all what life is really about: having fun with or without a man in your life.
2) Feelin Myself, Nicki Minaj ft. Beyoncé
Anything featuring Beyoncé is an obvious choice, but if that is not enough to convince you, then the beat of this song should. This is the perfect song to add to your playlist if you're looking for a confidence boost, or just a fun song to shake around to.
3) Ridin Solo, Jason Derulo
As the title suggests, this song is championing being single. Jason Derulo makes riding solo this Valentine's Day sound better than having a beau, and that's really all we can ask for.
4) Since U Been Gone, Kelly Clarkson
The perfect get-back-at-your-ex song, 'Since U Been Gone' reminds us all how much better life can be when you're free.
5) No Scrubs, Destiny's Child
Another classic anthem, this song keeps our standards high and our spirits higher. This is a personal favorite of mine for jamming out in the car, but will suit your playlist pretty much anywhere, any time.
6) Run the World (Girls), Beyoncé
This song is perfect for your Single Girl Playlist, because it is another reminder of how kick-butt girls are. You are a strong, independent woman who don't need no man. You are Beyoncé. You run the world.
7) Miss Moving On, Fifth Harmony
If you're newly single this Valentine's Day, this is the perfect song for you. It's empowering and rejuvenating, and makes you want to get up and start living the single life— And it receives some bonus points for being sung by a girl band too.
8) Put Your Records On, Corrine Bailey Rae
'You're gonna find yourself somewhere, somehow…' This catchy melody will have you humming all month long, and the lyrics will inspire you to keep on keepin' on (at least until V Day has passed).
9) Wannabe, Spice Girls
As if this song needs an explanation! 'Wannabe' is a super fun, super upbeat reminder to all the boys out there that girls come first. This is the perfect song to play while getting ready or while hanging with your girls, and will keep you feeling happy for hours after hearing it, since it will inevitably get stuck in your head. Sisters before Misters, right Mel B?
10) Single Ladies (Put a Ring on it), Beyoncé
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Rick Struse and Cullen O'Grady of Vanguard Realty Group have been hired by a National lender to sell 2 REO properties (48 Total Units) in Takoma Park, MD: 115-123 Lee Avenue (37 Units) and 8213 Roanoke Avenue (11 Units). Last year, Rick and Cullen represented the same lender for the sale of Clarkview Apartments, a 34 unit garden style apartment property located in the UpperParkHeightsregion of BaltimoreCity. Currently for the same lender, they have 2 properties (60 Total Units) under contract in Baltimore: Groveland Apartments (18 units) and Belvieu Garden Apartments (42 Units).
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I don't know about you, but today, I was in search of a little levity as I trolled the interwebs. Lo.
Now, I'm with lots of Huffington Post commenters — this isn't a flashmob, it's an advertisement. But boy, is it clever, and it certainly brought a smile to my face. If it had gone down on the street corner I can see from my DC office, you can bet everyone in the building who could've would've rushed to the windows. Enjoy.


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This caulk is a chocolate brown color. I have never seen a tube of it myself while he is working, so I am not sure what it is he is using.
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