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In Frankenstein, how does Victor characterize the interests and characters of Clerval, Elizabeth, and himself?
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In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Victor characterizes both Elizabeth and Clerval by contrasting them with himself.
In chapter two, Victor characterizes Elizabeth by setting her against himself.
Elizabeth was of a calmer and more concentrated disposition; but, with all my ardour, I was capable of a more intense application and was more deeply smitten with the thirst for knowledge.
This shows Elizabeth to be far more concerned with the nature of the world over the science of the world. This idea is supported by the following.
While my companion contemplated with a serious and satisfied spirit the magnificent appearances of things, I delighted in investigating their causes.
Therefore, Victor contrasts Elizabeth's love for the natural with his own love for science. This, therefore, sets Elizabeth as a foil to Victor given her love of the natural exists as a polar opposite of science.
Henry Clerval is much like Elizabeth. This again sets Clerval in contrast to Victor.
He was a boy of singular talent and fancy. He loved enterprise, hardship, and even danger, for its own sake. He was deeply read in books of chivalry and romance. He composed heroic songs, and began to write many a tale of enchantment and knightly adventure.
Here, Victor shows Clerval's love of adventure and fantasy. Here though, one can see a link between Clerval and Victor--they both love creation. Contrastingly, Clerval loves to create stories of fantasy while Victor's desire to create lies in actual creation of a being.
Essentially, Victor sets to describe both Elizabeth and Clerval as being opposites of himself. While both Elizabeth and Clerval love the romantic side of life, Victor finds more pleasure in the scientific aspects of life. Therefore, Elizabeth and Clerval seem to love what could be, Victor loves what he can make happen.


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Samantha Wren, currently chief commercial officer for NEX Markets, will take over the role and will also take Bridges's place on the board, effective immediately.
Bridges has been CFO since September 2015, and was appointed to the board in February 2016. He is credited with playing a key role in NEX's merger with TP ICAP.
Michael Spencer, CEO of NEX Group, said: "I would like to personally thank Stuart Bridges for the significant role he played in securing the transaction with TP ICAP. I have enjoyed working with [him] and, with the rest of the board, wish him the very best for the future."
Wren joined ICAP in 2009, before it was rebranded as NEX. She has held several roles including CFO and COO in the global broking decision, and was made chief commercial officer in March last year.
She is also a non-executive director of City of London Investment Trust, where she is chair of the audit committee.
Spencer said: "Samantha Wren's varied financial, operational and commercial experience positions her ideally for this role. Since joining us in 2009 she has consistently impressed the board and executive management with her capabilities and talents and this has been recognised today with her appointment as Group CFO."
In addition to these changes, Ken Pigaga, global COO of NEX, is joining the board as a director, also with immediate effect.
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As an Undercover Patient, I begin my assessment in the lobby of a hospital or a practice using all my senses. Since this is the ENT issue of Med Monthly, I'll narrow my observations down to those three senses.
I understand the reason we have two ears and only one mouth, therefore I am reminded to listen twice as much as I speak. Unfortunately, patients overhear the bad as well as the good. Imagine being a patient and hearing screams from the room across the hall followed by a conversation that a child was accidentally given ears drops in her eyes! This happened as I sat in an exam room, waiting to see a physician. Would YOU want to continue waiting for your turn? While in the exam room or lobby, I would much rather hear conversations about new in-house procedures, what physicians are doing for the community and why the employee of the month was nominated.
After 34+ years in a health care career, I tend to be a bit "nosey" as an "Undercover Patient" asking questions and finding out all sorts of things the hospital or practice may or may not know about physicians, employees and more. Once I asked about a particular procedure and the appointment scheduler told me the physician was new to this procedure, only returning recently from a seminar on it. The scheduler continued, telling me they had just hired a new nurse to assist him with this procedure and had turned an exam room into the procedure room. Although I enjoy hearing about the continuing education, I became a little reluctant to be scheduled as the first patient. (Nosey, yes: guinea pig, no) Employees should be kept informed and educated on what's new, but should be educated about what is appropriate and inappropriate to share with the patient. It's helpful to provide your staff with a script to guide them in explaining topics to patients.
"What does he think he is doing? He made me so mad I could SCREAM! I hate working with him!" It seems that "Voice Art" has become a lost art. We should always choose our words carefully. When patients overhear comments such as these spoken while they wait for their appointment, their imagination will conclude the remarks must be about their physician. As humans, we will continue to make mistakes, however words spoken by us are our choice.
Communication, both verbal and non-verbal in health care is very important in how the public perceives your practice.
Healthcare professionals allow their heart to guide them by listening to each patient with a desire to hear their story, looking them in the eye and connecting the dots before choosing their words. Using these senses will help to build patient / physician relationships even stronger. These are windows to a heart filled with compassion. When kind, positive and encouraging words become the normal spoken throughout the facility, you become part of creating an environment in which your patients will be happy, employees will have more of a team approach and physicians will be able to take care of their patients.
We may not always know what others are hearing around us. Perhaps we should come back to our senses:
We can use our EARS to hear what is being said throughout our facility. It's much easier to prevent problems than to correct them. Listen for good news and acknowledge it when we hear it.
We should be "NOSEY" and ask our patients their opinion of our facility. KNOW what their perception is and always have a plan of action and a desire to improve.
Start each day off right. Acknowledge every person in a cheerful and professional tone. Speaking kind and encouraging words to those around us helps to create a most positive working environment.
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"In the battle against scientific ignorance, graphic novels may be the only thing that can save us . . . What's the solution to America's crisis in science education? More comic books. In December comes "The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA," a remarkably thorough explanation of the science of genetics, from Mendel to Venter, with a strand of social urgency spliced in." --Barry Harbaugh, "Wired" "
"The Stuff of Life" is a beautifully written and lavishly illustrated example of the power of comics to communicate the wonders of the natural world. Mark Schultz's words combine with Zander Cannon and Kevin Cannon's pictures in a dynamic enzymatic reaction that gives readers a glimpse at how life works. Ambitious, expansive, and completely successful, the story in "The Stuff of Life" starts on the invisible rungs of DNA and climbs without a misstep across the millennia of organic evolution. With the help of Bloort, an alien exploring the wonders of earthly genetics, we get to see our evolutionary and genetic heritage in a new light. Often funny and always engrossing, "The Stuff of Life" provides an exciting point of entry for anyone interested in how life on earth shapes and reshapes itself in the face of ever-changing conditions. Learning genetics just got a whole lot more fun."
--Jay Hosler, Associate Professor of Biology at Juniata College and author and illustrator of "Clan Apis "and" The Sandwalk Adventures"
"Mark Schultz's brilliant, whacky "The Stuff of Life" could hardly have arrived at a better time, with advances in genetics transforming the biological sciences--from microbiology to medicine. This is serious fun." -Jessica Snyder Sachs, author of "Good Germs, BadGerms: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World"""
"Drawn with panache and great good humor by Zander Cannon and Kevin Cannon, and scripted with exceptional clarity by Schultz, this is pretty much the best educational graphic novel in Hill and Wang's new line of them, good enough for interested nonscientists to keep handy for whenever they need a refresher on its subject. It even has a happy--well, promising--ending." --Ray Olson, "Booklist" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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The error of optimism dies in the crisis, but in dying it gives birth to an error of pessimism. This new error is born not an infant, but a giant.
- English economist Arthur C. Pigou
I know that this will be heresy in the world of CAPS, where bears roam wild and people like Karl Denninger are worshiped, but those two bloggers (and despite the fact that I enjoy blogging it's not exactly at the top of the pyramid in terms of success in life) can't hold a candle in terms of their resume to Jim Grant.
Immediately before the "Great Recession" as many are calling it now, Denninger was saying things like this in his blog:
There is new data out today showing that home prices are rebounding - up 6% in every market in the nation. 20 tranches of mortgage debt were priced today above par - the lenders are cheering - and their stock prices look to be go to the moon tomorrow morning.This is going to hurt bigtime - I've got a lot of short positions, and they'll all be underwater. Maybe the quick covers I've placed for the market tomorrow will save me - if not, I'm sure I can find a refrigerator box somewhere to live in...
DOW 20,000! Nasdaq 10,000! S&P 2500! The new BULL RUN starts tomorrow morning!See 'yall on my new Yacht!
At the same time, Jim Grant was warning others about the massive problems that the economy was about to run into. He called the recession and now he's calling for a recovery.
Whose opinion on where the economy is headed should we believe, a well-respected, author and economist with a proven track record that goes all the way back to 1983 who gets paid for his opinion OR a blogger with a short, spotty track record of predicting what will happen and no real background in economics. I'll let you decide. Author's note...I love that Grant's newsletter touts itself as "Without bragging, we like to think that we are the financial-information medium that least resembles CNBC." HA.
Denninger does make some good points from time to time, but in terms of where the economy is headed I'm going to side with Jim Grant myself. This brings me to the Op-Ed piece that he wrote recently for the Wall street Journal, From Bear to Bull. It is a very optimistic piece that talks about how we are in the midst of a massive, rapid economic recovery. I wouldn't personally go that far, but Mr. Grand makes some good points...particularly when he compares our current situation with what happened during the disaster that was the Great Depression:
At the business trough in 1933, the unemployment rate stood at 25% (if there had been a 'U6' version of labor underutilization then, it likely would have been about 44% vs. 16.8% today. . . ). At the same time, the consumption share of GDP was above 80% in 1933 and the household savings rate was negative. Yet, in the four years that followed, the economy expanded at a 9.5% annual average rate while the unemployment rate dropped 10.6 percentage points. Not even this mighty leap restored the 27% of 1929 GNP that the Depression had devoured. But the economy's lurch to the upside in the politically inhospitable mid-1930s should serve to blunt the force of the line of argument that the 2009-10 recovery is doomed because private enterprise is no longer practiced in the 50 states.
Grant's contention is that the economy eventually recovered from the Great Depression and things are no where near as bad today as they were back then and the government's response was much more timely and aggressive this time around (a combined monetary and fiscal stimulus of an estimated 19.5% of GDP which dwarfs the average combined stimulus of 2.9% for post WWII recessions) that a recovery is inevitable.
Here's an excellent quote from the article on how the Federal Reserve's current policy is impacting the economy.
The Fed may be worried about something else. By sitting on interest rates, it is distorting every business and investment decision. If mispriced debt was the root cause of the narrowly-averted destruction of global finance, the Fed is well on its way to setting the stage for some distant (let us hope) Act II. In the meantime, ultra-low interest rates have lit a fire under the stock and debt markets.
By rallying, equities and corporate bonds not only anticipate recovery, but they also help to bring it to fruition. By opening their arms wide to such previously unfinanceable businesses as AMR Corp., parent of American Airlines, and Delta Air Lines Inc., the newly confident credit markets are implementing their own stimulus program. "Reflexivity" is the three-dollar word coined by the speculator George Soros to describe the dual effect of market oscillations. Not only does the rise and fall of the averages reflect economic reality, but it also changes it. One year ago, the Wall Street liquidation stopped world commerce in its tracks. Today's bull markets are helping to revive it.
There's no doubt that our nation faces tremendous challenges that we will have to deal with in the years to come, including an aging population and a high level of debt. Denninger touches upon a number of these in his posts and speeches, but keep in mind that Denninger has a motive. His blog was originally centered around politics. It is in his best interest to make people believe the economy is as terrible as possible to win them over to his side of the political game.
I personally am not as optimistic that the recovery will be nearly as "V" shaped as Mr. Grant is. However, I a much more optimistic than the perma-bers out there like Denninger and Mish. As a result, I have positioned my portfolio to benefit if stocks increase, but to pay me...in the form of high dividends and interest... if economic growth is not robust going forward.
Well, that's all the time that I have for now, but I'm sure that this post should spark and interesting debate. I'll check back later. Talk to you then.
Well, I saw a clip with James Grant about 2 months ago and I was quite impressed with him. He was a bear then, talking about bad fudamentals, unsustainable debt in such. And then suddenly he turns aroun180 degrees and tells us there is going to be a recovery on technical basis, because when you fall so far the receovery is usually very sharp.
However, I would like to hear how he arrived to this bullish position of 2 months ago to this bullish position of today, other than looking at statistics and technicals and being tired of waiting for the market to correct? To me it looks more like he gave up and tries to explain his position but not very successfully. I gave up to, but at least I know exactly what my reasons are. As for his reasons, we still have no idea.
This is exactly what scares me about the government's response:
"Grant's contention is that the economy eventually recovered from the Great Depression and things are no where near as bad today as they were back then and the government's response was much more timely and aggressive this time around (a combined monetary and fiscal stimulus of an estimated 19.5% of GDP which dwarfs the average combined stimulus of 2.9% for post WWII recessions) that a recovery is inevitable."
We don't have a $14 trillion economy. How long will it take consumer spending to increase enough to plug the hole that's been filled by deficit spending? It could take years, and to avoid the appearance of a "depression", the gov't could double the national debt in a few short years. If gov't balances the budget, we have an instant depression. If gov't keeps spending to make it look like we have a $14 trillion GDP, we double the national debt...but the Fed will quickly become the only buyer of long-term treasuries.
The only reason things are so much better today is that in the 30s...government ran a balanced budget. If government was forced to balance the budget....either by choice or destruction of the value of the dollar.....100,000,000 million Americans dependent and spending $2 trillion dollars per year would be forced to stop immediately.
Imagine the impact of a balanced budget on our economy while tax receipts are evaporating. We are screwed either way, if we keep spending, our money is worthless and we are all broke since we are consumption based with few exports, if we start saving and stop spending, our economy contracts massively.
Right now we are doing both setting the stage for an inflationary depression....and in a leveraged consumer based economy where wages are constrained....the results will be devastating.
Hawaii Teachers Agree to 17 Furlough Days - 7.9% Pay Cut
You can only cut pay and fire workers for so long before there is nothing left to cut and few left to fire and cash flow to families, business and government evaporates.
And right now we are cutting and slashing like never before...especially with government and health care.
Mayor of Anchorage Expects Major Layoffs Next Year
Waupaca County - No Layoffs but 480 Workers get Furlough
City of Baltimore Plans 27 Layoffs
BF Goodrich - 350
Pinellas County - Possible Hundreds of Job Cuts
Pierce County Washington - Proposed 285 Job Cuts
Update: Genie Industries - 400
"The only reason things are so much better today is that in the 30s...government ran a balanced budget."
This observation is very much at the core of the current recovery (notice: no quotation marks here) as compared to what happened following the 1929 crash. It acknowledges that the current Keynesian policies are working, and that a balanced budget (or gold standard) would have led to a repeat of the Great Depression!
Thank you alstry for pointing out these facts. Going forward, it remains to be seen if the stimulus indeed jump started the economy, or that the economy will fall back into recession or even worse. We can discuss that here at length, but that is a matter of opinion...
Now the only thing to be seen is if we continue with the same policies will the dollar be worthless creating a situation much worse than The Great Depression.
As a matter of fact, I would not talk of a balanced budget in 1930. Rather, there was almost NO BUDGET AT ALL! They cut taxes in half or so... and they ended up paying 10-20 US$ *PER YEAR*!!!!
Learn this: the social welfare state is the anti-cyclic policy tool we use today.
However, since margin speculation has retraced to a normal level and most probably won't advance the next 3 years or so, and since Mutual Funds are all in now, I just see no upwards pressure in the US markets now. The fundamentals will erode them constantly over the next years, I guess.
And refinancing the previously bankrupt corporations... well... what sense does that make? To extend the agony and prevent a reduction of overcapacity for another few years? Sounds pretty deflationary to me.
Here's what I find ingteresting...
At the business trough in 1933, the unemployment rate stood at 25% (if there had been a 'U6' version of labor underutilization then, it likely would have been about 44% vs. 16.8% today. . . ). At the same time, the consumption share of GDP was above 80% in 1933 and the household savings rate was negative. Yet, in the four years that followed, the economy expanded at a 9.5% annual average rate while the unemployment rate dropped 10.6 percentage points.
Grant is talking about the trough in 1933, 4 years after the crash in 1929. In other words, it took 4 years to find the bottom after the initial crash. I have no doubt that at some point we will experience a substainable recovery. I just think we have a long way to go before we find the true bottom. All the government intervention is just pumping up the bubble
Alstry is right. The alternative coming down our road is the USD will be worth much much less or may become worthless.
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Former Government advisor and Burnley fan Alastair Campbell is joining forces with Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson by hosting a dinner to raise badly needed finance for the club.
In the circumstances, this hard-earned point was welcome but Burnley should have capitalised when West Brom were reduced to 10 men after only 27 minutes when Rob Hulse was sent off for elbowing Mark McGregor.
West Brom defended with such determination and discipline that it was a surprise when Burnley took the lead, Robbie Blake twisting and before hitting a left-foot shot through a crowded penalty area into the far corner. It was his 15th goal of the season.
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Building up layers, colours and shapes by over-laying semi-transparent hazard warning tape.
Hazard warning tape on board. 23.5 x 19cm
Hazard warning tape on board. 23.5 x 19cm
Hazard warning tape, canvas. 13x13x4cm
Hazard warning tape and neon tape on canvas. 13x13x4cm
These works represent the data captured from my cycling activity during a one year period. The works are either encodings of the data or inspired by cycling equipment and reflective gear.
Cycle Life Cycle
The culmination of a years cycling represented in a spiral of knitting. 10 rows of knitting represent 1 mile cycled. The two colours delineate each journey. Exhibited in Blurred Boundaries exhibtion at Sevenoaks and Chatham (November 2017)
Distance 1 and 2 (9 months - 90 cycle rides - 900 miles)
10 rows of black knitting represent 1 mile cycled. The 3 different colours delineate each journey and indicate which bike was used.
Each row of knitting represents one calorie burnt during the cycle study period - a total of 26,663 calories. The 3 colours indicate the 3 different bikes used and the black delineates the journeys.
The work was exhibited in a joint exhibition with Shirley-Ann Galbraith at the Pie Factory, Margate between 27/4/17 to 1/5/17.
Vertical arrangement of wheel spokes depicted with pink refleactive thread. Various crochet circles suspended in bicycle rims.
Machine knitted yarn.
Machine kntted yarn, bicycle wheel rim
Machine knitted yarn, bicycle wheel rim
Crochet, refleactive thread.
Crochet, reflective thread, wheel rim
Machine knitted yarn, bicycle wheel rims
Mono prints - 15 journeys per print.
Original one-of-a-kind collages made from jigsaw puzzle pieces and images sourced from vintage magazines/books.
Selected works area available to purchase via my Shop.
Jigsaw butterfly on 1930s L'Illustration magazine (30 x 25cm)
Unique jigsaw collage, part of the Conversation series.
Jigsaw pieces on 1910s L'Illustration magazine
Jigsaw piece on 1910s L'Illustration miniature
Jigsaw puzzle piece on 1930s L'Illustration magazine
Jigsaw pieces on 1910s L'Illustration miniature
Creating patterns of order out of chaos using charity shop, found jigsaw puzzles. Sorting by shape, by colour or any other way to find the perfect 'arrangement'. Look closely and you may glimpse a tiny detail of the original image - a cat's whisker, a pair of spectacles, a face...
If you are interested in purchasing any of these works, please email me at email@example.com
A1 size (white frame)
50 x 50cm
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55 x 55cm (black frame)
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A1 size, black frame
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Sleep Pattern – December 2015
Foam earplugs, galvanised steel mesh
Plotting my sleep pattern using data extracted from a wearable device.
Data was captured between the hours of 10pm and 10am for the month of December and broken down into 5 minute intervals. Each 5-minute interval is depicted using a disposable foam earplug which are often used to block out noise when sleeping.
Pink earplugs represent periods when I am awake, green show periods of light sleep and blue deep sleep. Each row represents one night of sleep.
The gaps within the work have been deliberately left blank to show periods where no data is available. These gaps act as a visual punctuation as well as referencing the imperfections present in both humans and technology. Human error on my part in forgetting to upload the data more frequently, and limited storage space on the device.
Earplugs donated by Uvex and Swedsafe.
Cotton baby grow, thread, wire
'…she both sustains the baby's life and transmits to the infant, through her own particular idiom of mothering, an aesthetic of being that becomes a feature of the infant's self.' (Bollas, 1987)
Mothers Operating System (MOS) explores the profound relationship between mother and child and is influenced by my interest in the intersection of technology and textiles, in particular the relationship between textiles, wo(man) and machine.
The actions associated with a mother raising her child (love, cuddle, protect …) are translated into the 0s and 1s of binary code – the programming language used to give instructions to computers – and stitched onto a new-born baby suit.
Exhibited in The Unthought Known at Below65 gallery, Maidstone, Kent, UK
All images © Linda Simon
knitted yarn, punch cards, cable ties
Dimensions: variable
Ctrl representsthe Internet as information repository - it shows data being produced, encoded, transformed, transferred and stored. Employing a similar mechanism to the earliest computers a domestic knitting machine is used to reproduce punch cards as knitted panels representing data in its rawest form. A series of cards are reconfigured into an 'evil cat head', an omnipresent mythical figure that serves as a reminder of the more sinister aspects of online presence.
Selected for group exhibition 'Tension' at Kaleidoscope Gallery in Sevenoaks, Jan/Feb 2014
Selected for display at Turner Contemporary between 9 October - 10 November 2013 as part of the Platform Graduate Showcase
is it a cat, is it a rabbit?
is it me online, is it someone else?
boundaries of space and time have disappeared
it takes a second to communicate via the Internet
it takes an age to knit a small part of the Internet
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we exist in multiple planes
we are constantly connected
our smartphone is our best friend
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hubs, switches, routers, cables
Knitted acrylic yarn, polyester fill
This piece was made for the exhibition Response at Maidstone Museum in November 2014.
In response to: Carcharias Hopei (Sheppey Shark)
In 1991 Damian Hirst exhibited his iconic, formaldehyde shark in a vitrine; a piece designed to shock and bring us face to face with death. Commonly referred to as the 'shark in a box' it is an image embedded in popular culture attracting audiences more for curiosity than artistic value becoming a symbol of the capitalist fine art market.
Soft, cosy using common materials and techniques of low worth and defying conventional display methods, this large knitted shark stuffed in a box is both anarchic and absurd.
These works are based on QR barcodes.
Thread, cotton fabric, 25cm x 70cm (approx)
26 cross-stitched QR codes, each representing a letter of the alphabet and arranged in the format of a standard qwerty keyboard.
All QR codes function when scanned with a smartphone.
Selected for the QR-3D exhibition held at the Cornerhouse as part of Manchester science festival in 2011.
Equivalent VIII
Sugar cubes, mdf board, 8 panels each measures 57cm x 57cm
Each QR code is a different configuration but each will scan to read the same text - "Equivalent VIII". All of them are functional QR codes and work when scanned with a smartphone.
This artwork is a homage to Carl Andre's Equivalent VIII, the final and most famous piece from his series of minimalist 'brick' sculptures. Each consisted of 8 different rectangular configurations formed from 120 fire bricks. In 1972 the Tate purchased Equivalent VIII and caused a outcry amongst the general public who declared it a waste of taxpayers money.
Machine knitted yarn over stretched canvas, 80cm x 26cm
The knitted QR codes can be read by scanning with your smartphone. The code translates to a passage contained in Charles Dickens 'A Tale of Two Cities' which describes the activities of the revolutionary knitter Madame Defarge who encoded within knitting the names of those condemned to the guillotine during the French Revolution.
Expandable foam, sequins and pins, 20cm x 53cm x 30cm
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New Mexico's home loss to UNLV highlights issues the Lobos must fix
With four starters returning from a team that won 29 games and swept the Mountain West regular season and tournament titles, New Mexico entered the season confident it could sustain last year's momentum
So far that has proven harder than expected.
A 76-73 home loss to UNLV on Wednesday night highlighted flaws New Mexico must correct if it's going to challenge San Diego State for the Mountain West crown this winter. Not only did the Lobos place too great a burden on their starters because of their lack of bench production, they also again failed to defend at anywhere near the level they did a year ago.
A UNLV team better known for its frontcourt than its guards torched New Mexico's perimeter defense, either getting to the rim with ease off the dribble or generating open jump shots at will. The Rebels shot 50 percent from the field overall and knocked down 7 of 13 threes, with Bryce Dejean-Jones scoring a game-high 23 points and Deville Smith, Kevin Olekaibe and Jelan Kendrick combining for 38 more.
One bad defensive night would be excusable if UNLV was a juggernaut this season, but the underachieving Rebels (11-6, 2-2) are scrambling to recover from bad home losses to Nevada, Air Force and UC Santa Barbara. More importantly, defensive issues have become an unlikely recurring issue for New Mexico.
The 1.08 points per possession the Lobos had allowed entering Wednesday's game were just fifth-best in the Mountain West and well behind last year's pace. The departure of last year's perimeter stopper Tony Snell and fellow standout defender Chad Adams is surely a factor, as may be the transition from defense-oriented Steve Alford to first-year head coach Craig Neal.
New Mexico has been able to overcome mediocre defense more often than not thanks to a potent offense powered by reigning Mountain West player of the year Kendall Williams and standout big men Cameron Bairstow and Alex Kirk. That trio is averaging 52.5 points per game, more than two-thirds of New Mexico's points this season. They rallied the Lobos back from a 16-point first-half deficit but could never get their team quite over the hump.
What's concerning for the Lobos is how reliant they are on that trio.
Since New Mexico lacks either a reliable backup big man or a proven backup point guard, Bairstow, Kirk and Williams have averaged 35.5, 37 and 37.8 minutes, respectively, in four Mountain West games so far this season. The Lobos bench logged a total of 31 minutes on Wednesday yet attempted only four shots and scored only three points.
For all New Mexico's issues, it's not like the season has been a collapse. The Lobos (12-4, 3-1) boast non-league victories over Cincinnati and Marquette and trail Mountain West-leading San Diego State by just a game.
Still, this was a New Mexico team that began the season with a top 20 ranking and high expectations. Those goals are still attainable, but only if the Lobos recommit defensively and find some bench scoring first.


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Tammi to leave the Islamic Party due to terrorism dispute
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Abdullah Tammi, spokesman for the Finnish Islamic Party that he founded, announced on Saturday that he resigned from the party chair. There was a dispute between Tammi and other party leaders over the position Tammi took against terrorism.
Tammi was in news conference in early December where he stressed the non-violent nature of Islam and condemned terrorism in the strongest of terms. In particular, he focused on speaking of the situation in Chechnya. In addition to the press conference, Tammi presented their views in online videos on YouTube.
Party member of the board, Sauli Ingman, confirms Tammi's resignation due to the dispute was linked to the news conference.
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This weekend Solange faced every married woman's worst nightmare – she lost her wedding ring!
While throwing Mardi Gras beads off a float during the Krewe of Muses parade on Thursday night, her wedding ring, from her 2014 wedding to Alan Ferguson, flew from her finger just as easily as the beads flew from her hands.
But there is a God and he wasn't gonna let Solange go down like that. That same week, New Orleans, the city where she has lived since 2013, gifted the singer a key to the city. Solange took to social media to display her excitement and to let us know how she would be celebrating, by playing Cash Money and No Limit all day. Its only right.
Check out Solange's tweets as well as a video of her from the the float below.
My son said, mom I'm just happy YOU didn't fly off the float, & that your safe, & that you still get to have the love you have.
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— solange knowles (@solangeknowles) February 5, 2016
Also, I can't put into words how grateful I am to be given the Key to the City! NEW ORLEANS, from the bottom of my soul, I am so thankful. — solange knowles (@solangeknowles) February 5, 2016
Hoping this key gets me into Leah Chase's kitchen at least 3 times a week❤❤
Truly an honor. Thanks Mayor Landrieu! pic.twitter.com/rc4GIBg5Gm
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Gameloft 2018 - Gameloft Presents its Development Strategy and its Mid-term Financial Targets
Mar 22, 2016, 02:00 ET from Gameloft
PARIS, March 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
Gameloft, a leading digital and social game publisher, presents its strategic and financial objectives for 2018.
- Since its creation Gameloft has been a unique player in the mobile gaming industry:
- A global leader with its 21 studios and 6,000 employees.
- Over 200 billing and distribution partners in more than 100 countries.
- A unique portfolio of mobile games including strong in-house franchises.
- An audience of 166 million Monthly Active Users.
- A strong organic, profitable and self-funded growth: over 30% sales CAGR and a 7% operating margin on average since 2003.
- Since 2014 Gameloft has anticipated the industry's next stage transition:
- Opening of an in-house agency with direct connection to programmatic partners.
- Implementation of strategic partnerships for the distribution of its games in Asia-Pacific.
- Implementation of integrated development studios focused on a lean and high potential product line: global reorganisation of its creative, sales and online teams in 2015.
- Closing of 10 non-profitable studios representing run-rate gross savings of c. €35 million.
- A reorganised and well-positioned structure, poised to capture the boom of the programmatic advertising mobile market.
- 2016-2018: Gameloft enters a new phase of profitable growth
- 2018 sales target of more than €350 million of which c. 30% from advertising.
- Current operating profit target of more than €65 million in 2018.
- Cumulative free cash flow target of more than €85 million over 2016-2018.
Gameloft will be hosting an investor day in its London offices today at 2.30p.m. GMT during which the management team will detail its strategic plan and 2018 targets for the company. The supporting presentation will be made available on the company's website.
About Gameloft
A leading digital and social game publisher, Gameloft® has established itself as one of the top innovators in its field since 2000. Gameloft creates games for all digital platforms and with an audience of 166 million monthly users offers via Gameloft Advertising Solutions a unique level of visibility and involvement to advertisers. Gameloft operates its own established franchises such as Asphalt®, Order & Chaos, Modern Combat and Dungeon Hunter and also partners with major rights holders including Universal, Illumination Entertainment, Disney®, Marvel®, Hasbro®, Fox Digital Entertainment, Mattel® and Ferrari®. Gameloft distributes its games in over 100 countries and employs 6,000 people worldwide.
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The Great Smoky Mountains area is in full bloom and we couldn't be more excited. The month of April brings with it great opportunities for families to get outside, have some fun, and make lifelong Spring Break memories.
Although the official first day of spring was March 20, our Springfest began March 9 with area businesses taking full advantage of the beautiful weather by putting away all things winter, planting flower beds, and hanging flower and plant baskets. The city is now a lovely sight to see with a colorful array of Pansies, Daffodils, and Geraniums and the National Park has come alive with spring's first glimpse of its rare wildflowers.
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Spring Smoky Mountain Trout Tournament
This bi-annual event brings locals and visitors together for two days of outdoor adventure! Adults and children are invited to participate in this weekend of fishing that has grown to be the largest trout tournament in the Smokies April 7-8. Prizes are awarded in multiple categories. Contact Rocky Top Outfitter at 865.661.3474 for full details.
Mountain Man Memorial March
Now in its 5th year, this 26.2-mile march takes place April 20-21 as a tribute to men and women in uniform. A Friday night ceremony at Ripley's Aquarium will honor East Tennessee Gold Star Mother's and the march will begin at 8:30 a.m. in front of Hard Rock Café.
Music of the Mountains
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is holding its 8th annual mountain music celebration April 20-22. Concerts are planned for Friday at the Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center in Townsend and on Sunday at Cosby Visitor Center. Friday brings a full day for free music to the Sugarlands Visitor Center with six programs between 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. including traditional mountain music from Boogertown Gap, Tony Thomas, Lost Mill, Brian Fain, Mountain Strings and the East Tennessee State University old-time string band.
62nd Annual Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage
What would spring be without a walk in the woods? From April 25 through 29, novices to experts can enjoy educational seminars, leisure hikes, auto tours, and photography classes throughout the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and venues in Gatlinburg. You'll want to visit the Wildflower Pilgrimage website so that you don't miss a single detail about all the things you and your family can do to enhance your relationship with Mother Nature.
Ribfest, Wings & BBQ
After your whitewater rafting trip, wrap up your April vacation in the Smokies with scrumptious barbecue wings and ribs at this evening event in downtown Gatlinburg on April 26 from 5-9 p.m. The purchase of an armband allows sampling of ribs and wings as long as they last! There will be hot wings and ice cream eating contests, an opportunity to cast your vote for the best BBQ vendor, and live entertainment.
We're looking forward to welcoming you to the Smokies this April for excellent events and excellent outdoor fun with Rafting in the Smokies!


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Bogen Tripod Parts
Parts List
Bogen 3046 version 5
Bogen 3046 silver leg version
Also called 3246 for black leg version
All parts supplied are for the silver tripods unless otherwise noted. USED parts are marked as USED, parts not marked as USED are new.
A1 USED Center Column
A2 USED Center Column Cap
A2 Center Column Cap
A3 Center Column Grub Screw
A3 Center Column Grub Screw - 5 Pack
B1 USED Main Casting
B2 USED Main Casting Cover
B3 USED Center Column Lock Knob
B3 Center Column Lock Knob
B4 Bubble Level
B5 USED Center Column Crank
B5 Center Column Crank
C1 USED Leg Axle
C2 USED Upper Leg Assembly
C3 USED Leg Locking Knob & Key
C3 Leg Locking Knob & Key
C4 USED Middle Extension Tube
C5 Single Tube End Cap
C5 5 Pack - Tube End Caps
C6 USED Extension Leg Lock Collar
C7 USED Lower Leg Tube with Foot
C8 Spike Foot Only
C8 USED Spike Foot Only
D1 USED Leg Spider
D2 USED Center Column Guide Tube
D3 USED Tube Bezel
Editors Notes:
The main casting parts and leg braces are NOT interchangeable with later models. The upper leg assembly has variants where the axle bolts are hidden: these parts are not interchangeable between models. Center Column crank is only compatible with the older model.


text: I still don't see any mecanical reason for the boost to stop when in neutral, or when there is no load. Try to put your hand at the output of the exhaust when you are accelerating in neutral (I know, you should have a really long arm, or a friend to help you). You will feel a big increase of the gas flow. This flow is supposed to generate, through the turbo, the boost. I guess the reason is electronic : both wastegate valves and diverter valves are controled by the Motronic system. Quoting the "internal-use-only 2.7t self-study program", : "The charge pressure of both exhaust gas turbochargers is controlled via the common charge pressure control valve N75 (...). The Motronic ME 7.1 activates the solenoid valve for charge pressure control N75 and regulates the charge pressure via the wastegate". Actually I do remember that when I had boost problems a few months ago, my ABT tuner in Paris told me to have the N75 checked (and many other things, of course). And about the diverter valves, the manual says : "Divert air control in overrun : The Motronic ME 7.1 activates the electric divert air valve for the turbocharger and open the pneumatic divert air valves using this vacuum". Doesn't it sound more realistic ? David. 1999 S4 Avant ABT Barcelona - Spain. -----Mensaje original----- De: biturbos4-admin at audifans.com [mailto:biturbos4-admin at audifans.com]En nombre de Edwards, Dave Enviado el: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 10:44 AM Para: 'biturbos4 at audifans.com' Asunto: [BiturboS4] RE: boost & engine load Further to what Phil has written, if you rev the engine whilst in neutral there is no boost. Also, I have the Defi HUD gauge which as well as a digital readout has an analogue display which is effectively a set of lights in an oval line around the outside of the gauge. This is quite effective in showing the magnitude of boost change. When I am accelerating hard, getting over 1bar boost, this line is near its end. Then when I change up a gear and shove the gas pedal again, I see the line rapidly disappear to vacuum and then grow all the way back to above 1bar. I admit that this surprised me the first time I saw it. I had thought that when the throttle is closed when changing gear, all that happened was that the DVs opened. This can't be the case. If it were then as soon as I opened the throttle again, the pressure would build up much more quickly than it does. I assume that when the engine is not loaded, the wastegates are opened? Anyway its changed my driving style when I want to go fast: Firstly I try to stay in a lower gear (I have a bad habit of lazily driving around in 5th and 6th), and secondly I try to avoid changing gear. Cheers, Dave --__--__-- Message: 11 Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 08:16:25 -0800 (PST) From: Philip Pace <pjpace at yahoo.com> Subject: RE: [BiturboS4] no siren To: David <goodson at menta.net>, Michael Kuriger <michael at isuzu-mods.com>, Bill Neilsen <wneils at hotmail.com> Cc: biturbos4 at audifans.com I'll confirm it. I have a digital boost gauge and when you hit the throttle out of gear, it will go all the way to 0bar (no boost, no vacuum). I've done this a lot, as it's fun to see the car get perfectly to 0 and then drop back down (ok - I sit in traffic a lot). philPACE P.S. Were you going to do some S4 website in Spain/Spanish? If so, how's that plan going? If not, you know who that was? --- David <goodson at menta.net> wrote: > Really ? I don't understand that. Could someone with a boost gauge > confirm that "there is no boost without load" ?. I thought there was, > because in the workshop when they check boost pressure, they don't use > any rolling-road. David. 1999 S4 Avant ABT - Barcelona, Spain. _______________________________________________ BiturboS4 mailing list BiturboS4 at audifans.com http://www.audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/biturbos4


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The new footage obtained by UsWeekly shows Jackson from behind: the first scene shows Jackson performing the first take for the commercial and the pyrotechnics being fired safely. The second scene shows the fateful sixth take with the pyrotechnics going off early and Jackson's hair catching fire, and the delay between the fire starting and being put out.
Images of Michael Jackson hair on fire is startling and graphic. I am speechless….
When Michael Jackson's Hair Caught Fire: A Legendary Ad Man's Story
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The first story I really remember writing was about a unicorn who was uplifted by aliens at the end of the world. Actually, it's kinda worrying to think about how much it has in common with basically everything I've written since. I'm still obsessed with writing about the apocalypse, for example, although thankfully there are fewer unicorn-kidnapping flying saucers these days.
Ever since I wrote that damned thing, fantastical stories have been a crutch, a comfort, and a wonder to me. Making them up is the only thing that I've ever really wanted to do–or been any good at, for that matter. And this year I have the chance to get on a plane for the first time since I was a teenager and fly all the way to the other side of the frikkin' planet to learn how to do it better. It's like I can't fit it all inside my head at once.
All that said: never being much good at anything else is a problem. It means I've spent the last fifteen years bouncing between jobs. That I've been in debt to the point of being afraid to pick up the phone or answer the door, and that savings something that happen other people. All of which makes leaving my job for six weeks to fly around the world and learn how to make up better stories kinda difficult. Without Clarion West's awesome scholarship program there is no way I would be able to do this at all.
I'm blessed to have the full support of a partner prepared to scrimp and save and even go into debt so that I can seize this chance to do the thing I love. But it turns out that getting a loan at anywhere near decent interest was the first fatality in our war against our credit ratings. And, if you'd like, that's where you come in.
If you're reading this, we probably know each other at least a bit. You probably already know at least some of this stuff, and you almost certainly support and care about me more than I know. Like, seriously. Writing this little blurb has been difficult. The truth is that I don't really know how to ask for help. I've always worked on the default assumption that I'm a bit of a loner. That the best thing that I can do for other people is stay out of their way. But holy hell have I been proved wrong these past few weeks. Seriously? The support I've had since I told the world that I was doing this thing has just been incredible. I've had people who I haven't spoken to since I was a kid get in touch to tell me how proud they are of me. You folks, I can't even.
Since it looks like I have more awesome people all around me than I ever realised, I figured maybe I'd give this a go. Covering a six-week gap in my income is possible, but it's going to be tough. If you happen have a spare fiver, and you want to use it to help me chase my dreams, then I'd love to send you an email when I come back and let you know how I get on. And if you've got a little more? Then I'll also send you a copy of the 'zine you can see me holding in the picture at the top here–with apocalypse stories (minus the unicorn-kidnapping aliens) by me, Dylan Fox, and John Reppion.
Either way, I'd want you to know that you folks all blow my mind, I love you to bits, and I'm damned glad to have you on this scary-awesome journey <3
Spare Fiver?
Chip in below and you'll be sworn into the Band of Heroes(tm) who are helping me do something just bloody awesome.
When I get back from Seattle, I'll send the whole Band an email to let them know how this wild adventure goes. The highs, the lows, the jetlag, the secret photos that no one else gets to see, you'll get it all 🙂
Spare Tenner?
You'll likewise be initiated in to the Band of Heroes, and I'll send you the update email when I get back from the flipside of the Earth to let you know what it was like.
I'll also send you a copy of "Journeys in the Winterlands" which I made with John and Dylan years ago, and which you can't get from anywhere apart from the cardboard box that's sitting in my living room.
Just make sure you put a shipping address in the special notes at the checkout so I know who to send it to. I guess that's also a good place to let me know if you'd like me to sign it for you or anything.


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For the last few years, a very small group of pro-choice activists has showed up at the March for Life, in front of the Bell Building on Elgin Street. This year, their numbers were down considerably from last year.
The picture below captures the entire group from behind. It's a high-def photo, click to enlarge. You can literally count the people. I counted 43, but there may be a few hidden behind others. So we're looking at 60 people tops.
I guess that when you abort your offspring, your numbers don't grow as much as those who are open to life.


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5 celebrity couples you never knew dated
Who knew these celebs dated? We really like the idea of some of them, others, not so much.
1. Ryan Reynolds and Alanis Morissette
Long before Scarlett and Blake, Ryan went out with Alanis from 2002-2007 and the two were actually engaged.
2. Vanessa Hudgens and Josh Hutcherson
The Hunger Games star and Vanessa gave it a go for a while and Josh has said that Vanessa "broke my heart", aww! Poor Peta.
3. Macaulay Culkin and Mila Kunis
Before Jackie and Kelso finally got it together, this unlikely couple dated for a lengthy 11 years from 2002-2011.
4. Sandra Bullock and Ryan Gosling
Sandra and Ryan dated from 2002-2003. We really like these two together!
5. Lisa Kudrow and Conan O'Brien
This couple remained good friends (sorry) after their romance fizzled out.


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Perhaps the greatest advantage Cardiac MRI offers is the ability to acquire several different data sets within the time frame of a single examination. Stress perfusion, functional and viability (infarct) imaging can all be performed within a one hour exam.
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Recent advances in hardware and software allow rapid dynamic MR imaging of the heart. By acquiring one image every heartbeat while performing pharmacologic vasodilation (adenosine) enables one to perform MR perfusion imaging of the heart.
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Cardiac MR imaging excels at functional imaging. In fact, Cardiac MR is the gold standard for imaging ventricular function. Cardiac MR can provide much of the information currently acquired by echocardiography. However, unlike echocardiography, the exam is not operator dependent and not limited by body habitus (ie. COPD or elevated body mass index). Valvular stenosis or regurgitation and cardiac shunts are just a few of the pathologies well assessed by Cardiac MR.
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By administering intravenous contrast and acquiring special imaging sequences, Cardiac MRI can evaluate the myocardium for any evidence acute or chronic myocardial infarction. Because Cardiac MRI has 60 fold greater spatial resolution compared to Cardiac Nuclear SPECT imaging, Cardiac MR can detect subendocardial infarcts that are invisible to Nuclear SPECT imaging.
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- Heart disease is by far the number one killer of both men and women in the United States.
- Over one million people in the U.S. will have a heart attack this year.
- Half of all heart attacks are fatal.
- Every 60 seconds, an American suffers a fatal heart attack.
- Two out of every three first-time heart attack victims have no previous warning.
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Bath toy organizer   This is one of my favorite bathroom organizers. Bath toys are great, unless you're stepping on them first thing in the morning! This frog attaches to your bath tub stall and has a detachable scoop to house bath toys. My kids love using the scoop to fish out their toys when bath time is over.


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HONORING PATRICK RYAN ON HIS RETIREMENT FROM THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' AFFAIRS -- (Extensions of Remarks - November 20, 2004)
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, as Patrick Ryan, Chief Counsel and Staff Director for the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, retires from government service, I rise today to pay tribute to his extraordinary career and accomplishments. After more than two decades working for the Committee, and a decade before that working for the Veterans Administration, Patrick is ending his public service career to pursue new personal and professional challenges.
Mr. Speaker, one of the first actions I took when I was elected chairman 4 years ago was to name Pat the chief counsel and staff director for the committee. Having been a member of the committee for 20 years, I was already familiar with the expertise, knowledge, judgment, compassion, and devotion that Patrick had displayed throughout his career.
A graduate of the University of Maryland, Pat went to work for the Veterans Administration in 1974 as a benefits counselor at the D.C. regional office. In this job, Pat learned firsthand about the challenges facing our Nation's veterans, especially those returning from the conflict in Vietnam. He also learned in detail about the programs and services that VA provided to help improve their lives. Among those Pat worked with at that time was a DAV benefits representative named Jesse Brown, who later became Secretary of Veterans Affairs in the 1990s.
Shortly after Pat went to work for VA, he also enrolled in the evening program at Georgetown University Law School. Over the next 4 years, he continued to work at VA, moving up to the position of budget analyst, while attending law school at night, earning his law degree in 1978. He then moved to a new position in VA's Office of General Counsel, where he worked for the next 5 years.
In 1983, Pat Ryan began working for the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, serving as counsel for the Subcommittee on Hospitals and Health Care. He later served as counsel for the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, as well as for the full committee. Over the years, Pat was promoted to serve as both deputy chief counsel and finally, as chief counsel and staff director.
For the past 22 years, Pat Ryan has made tremendous contributions to many of the most important new veterans laws approved by Congress. He worked on numerous bills to expand services for aging veterans and those in need of long-term care. He was instrumental in helping to establish domiciliaries for homeless veterans and was the principal drafter of legislation to authorize VA's transitional housing guarantee program to benefit homeless veterans. Pat played a central role in helping to establish the Department of Veterans Affairs and in creating the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
Pat has been deeply involved in numerous successful committee initiatives that have expanded and strengthened the Dependency and Indemnity Compensation, DIC, program, survivor health care services, and educational assistance benefits available to surviving spouses and children of servicemembers killed in action or who later die of a service-related cause. And over the past 20 years, Pat has played a role in increasing the Montgomery GI bill benefit for qualified veterans from $300 when he joined the committee to over $1,000 today.
Using his budget expertise, Pat has been invaluable in helping Congress ensure that VA's budget has been both appropriate and sufficient. His extensive knowledge of the law and the inner workings of VA has also greatly aided the committee in its work to provide exemplary oversight of veterans programs.
From managing the committee's professional staff, to drafting legislation, to overseeing VA's programs and services, Patrick Ryan is the consummate professional. During the four years I have served as chairman, he has helped draft and guide to enactment more than a dozen new laws to benefit veterans, including legislation to modernize the GI bill, expand veterans' health care programs, strengthen benefits for disabled veterans, and aid homeless veterans. I consider him to have been a partner in all that this committee has accomplished during our time together and it has been an honor to work side-by-side with him.
Throughout his tenure in the House, Patrick has earned and retained both the respect and the trust of Members and staff on both sides of the aisle. Pat was hired by Chairman Sonny Montgomery when the Democrats controlled the committee, and he went on to serve both the late Chairman Bob Stump and me while Republicans have controlled Congress. Pat is equally respected inside the Department of Veterans Affairs and by outside leaders of veterans service organizations.
Mr. Speaker, all of us who know Pat Ryan understand that he is driven to succeed, not for his own benefit, but to benefit his fellow man. What has made Patrick Ryan such a valuable public servant are his personal qualities of faith, hope, and charity. A leader in both his community and his church, Pat is well-known for his singing in the choir and for his love of music, especially his eclectic musical tastes.
On a personal level, Pat Ryan has lived his life in a way that has truly made a difference. He has walked to the beat of our Lord's drummer when He said "whatsoever you do to the least of my brethren, you do likewise to me." For Pat, that means always looking out for the little guy. I have such respect and admiration for that character trait, and it is very strong in Patrick Ryan. What motivates Patrick first and foremost is devotion and love for his wife Kathie and their three children-Kerry, Dan, and Julia. For Pat Ryan, family comes first.
Pat is ever proud of his father who has passed, William Everest Ryan, a proud Marine who saw combat action during World War II in the South Pacific, where he was wounded and won the Purple Heart award. He later joined the Justice Department while continuing in the Marine reserves as an Officer in the JAG Corps, retiring with the rank of Colonel in 1964. After a distinguished career of government service, Pat's father retired from government service in 1977. In 1999, William Ryan died in the VA nursing home in Baltimore, 3 years after his wife, Pat's mother, Rosemary Ann Kelly Ryan, had passed away.
Pat Ryan has spent his entire career in Congress defending the same values his father defended on the battlefield and in the courtroom. These are the same values that Pat and his wife Kathie have taught their children through their words and their example.
Mr. Speaker, on behalf of his colleagues in the House, members of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs and other Members who have known and worked with him, on behalf of veterans organizations and leaders across the country, and on behalf of millions of veterans who have benefited from his work, but have never known his name, I want to thank Patrick Ryan for a distinguished career of faithful public service. It has been an honor to work with him.
I call on all of my colleagues to join with me in honoring Patrick Ryan on his retirement and to wish him good luck and Godspeed in whatever lies ahead of him.


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Anna Netrebko once again rushed to the forefront of my senses when I saw her in the title role of Donizetti's 'Anna Bolena'. I had not imagined that there could be a singer who could so easily bring me to a form of artistic ecstasy, as only the greatest of artists in the past have. Actually, as very few artists ever have. But her amazing beauty, her warm demeanor and sweet personality, and her incredible and magical talent, are instantly appealing and utterly irresistible. I was not necessarily looking for someone to fall madly in love with, but I was at once smittened by her, and she has not left my mind since. My taste for her grows in wonderful ways, and for me she cannot be gotten enough of.
"Anna Bolena"
Great Performances at the Met.
Season 6 opens with Gaetano Donizetti's "Anna Bolena" based on the last days of Anne Boleyn (Anna Netrebko), the second wife of British monarch Henry VIII (Ildar Abdrazakov).
So now I am madly in love with Anna Netrebko. What is wrong with me. Why am I so easily seduced by great beauty and incredible talent. And particularly by Anna's. Why am I so moved by this world-class artist, one so refined and masterful, so inspired and eloquent, as she. Why can I not resist the unearthly strains of her angelic voice. Her down-to-earth humanity and her towering artistry. The iridescent splendor of her irresistible beauty. How beautiful she looks in the beautiful dresses she wears. The simple beauty of her hair. The wave-like motions of her gently quivering bosom. Even as she performs the greatest roles in the greatest operas. Even as she prodigiously indulges in the highest of arts, she exudes wonderful sensuality and expresses herself in the most complete and compelling of ways. With all the elements of a great artist and all the facets of a beautiful woman. The way she embodies all of this, in female form and human spirit, is a beautiful thing, impossible to resist. And perhaps if I could resist all of this, all that she is, then I myself may not be altogether human.
Still I search to understand what it is about her that enthralls me so. About Anna Netrebko. Something specific, perhaps. One aspect of her. I follow the clues. I know I adore and am in awe of her voice. No question there. Her sexy feminine beauty, all woman and all beautiful, is again unquestionable and is a big contributing factor to this adoration I feel for her. Her world-class talents and sophisticated attitudes are deliciously enticing. Everyone loves a refined woman. One who retains her natural charm and her sweet ways. I am no different from everyone. I too am enamored of all of these things about her. But still I ponder. Is it something even more compelling?
And then it dawns on me. It becomes as clear as the pools of beauty embossed in my mind, and as the answer that I now come to realize. It is her eyes. Anna Netrebko's beautiful eyes. With their deep and longing qualities, not piercing, but insightful. Soft, really, and invitingly comforting, in a way. Warm. The warmth of her eyes. This introspection in her soul that finds its expression in her beautiful eyes. They are perhaps the aspect about Anna that is most understatedly seductive. And as I admire her beauty and revel in her artistry, they were there all along, right in front of me. This reason of adulation that eluded me was as simple as that, and as plain to see. The unbelievably beautiful eyes of beautiful Anna Netrebko.
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