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The training goal of Massachusetts General Hospital Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship is to prepare and nurture innovators in cardiovascular medicine and science who are committed to scholarship and proud of their clinical acumen. The fellows are an essential part of the division, and our faculty is firmly committed to training the academic leaders of tomorrow.
The first two years of fellowship training are devoted to full-time clinical activities. This typically occurs during PGY4 and PGY5. During this time, with close staff mentoring, fellows serve as cardiology consultants for acutely ill medical and surgical patients, provide ongoing, outpatient care for their own patients and perform and interpret both invasive and noninvasive diagnostic procedures. Fellows participate in didactic sessions, some of which are designed for them as a core curriculum. Other conferences are division-wide and are designed for clinical care review or as a forum for invited external experts.
Research begins with the development of a focused plan during the first year in concert with an identified mentor. Although only one full-time research year is required, typically during PGY6, we believe this to be insufficient preparation to propel a subsequent career in academic cardiology. Therefore, we encourage fellows to commit two to four years to their research training. The expectation is that this training will be at Massachusetts General Hospital and under the supervision of a member of Mass General staff, although short components might be taken elsewhere. It is also expected that fellows complete one year of research training prior to pursuing advanced subspecialty training in such areas as interventional cardiology, echocardiography and electrophysiology.
Beginning in July 2000, the clinical training programs in cardiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Mass General formed a partnership, with four rotations at sister institutions during the first year and two during the second year. This has increased the breadth of experiences for the fellows by exposing them to the best clinical training experiences at the two institutions.
Requirements for the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program include:
- Completion and passing of all three USMLE steps
- ABIM board certified or board eligible
- The accepted applicant must obtain a full Massachusetts license (limited license if on visa)
- A valid ECFMG certificate for all foreign medical graduates
- Completion of a prior internal medicine residency is required
The curriculum for the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program is a three-year ACGME training program that includes:
- Two years of clinical training and one year of research
- Six out of 24 months of clinical training spent between the Brigham and Women's Hospital and the West Roxbury VA
- Time spent seeing patients at the Yawkey 5 Paul Dudley White Outpatient Clinic every Friday during the entire three-year training
First Year
- Cardiac consultation: three months
- Cardiac catheterization: one month at Mass General, one month at Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Echocardiography laboratory: one month at Mass General and one month at Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Nuclear cardiology laboratory: one month
- Advanced cardiac imaging: one month
- Levine coronary care unit at Brigham and Women's Hospital: one month
- West Roxbury Veterans' Administration Hospital: one month
- Prevention & Genetics/Elective: one month
Second Year
- Heart failure and transplant: one month
- Adult congenital disease: one month
- Vascular medicine: one month
- Cardiac electrophysiology: one month at Mass General, one month at Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Cardiac surgical intensive care: one month
- Echocardiography laboratory: one month
- Cardiac catheterization: two months
- Nuclear cardiology laboratory: one month
- Coronary care unit: one month
- Elective: one month
Clinical Experience
Description of Rotations
Cardiac Consult Service
This rotation forms a core portion of learning during the first year. One of the strengths of clinical training at Massachusetts General Hospital is the remarkable variety and complexity of patients seen during this rotation. Fellows serve as the primary cardiologists on new hospital-wide cardiology consultations and admissions to the dedicated cardiac step-down unit. Although senior staff supervise through daily rounds, the fellow is the main provider and decision maker for patient care. The patients seen while on service are followed as outpatients and form the bulk of each fellow's practice in the Paul Dudley White associates clinic.
Echocardiography Laboratory
In the first year, fellows develop a proficiency in the performance of diagnostic ultrasound, understanding of basic principles and competence in study interpretation. A particular strength is the direct instruction fellows receive from senior sonographers in the performance of the echocardiographic examination during their first rotation. In addition to performing and interpreting their own studies, fellows also attend daily reading sessions in the laboratory. For second-year fellows, emphasis is placed on interpretive skills and advanced procedures, such as stress echo studies and transesophageal echocardiography. Fellows developing interest in the research aspects of diagnostic cardiac ultrasound are encouraged to pursue projects under supervision of the laboratory staff.
Nuclear Cardiology
Nuclear cardiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital Corrigan Minehan Heart Center is a joint effort between the cardiology and radiology departments and provides various types of cardiac stress tests that help to identify and diagnose heart disease. The laboratory has six SPECT cameras and two PET cameras and performs over 7,500 imaging procedures per year. Fellows learn the integral role of cardiac stress testing in the practice of clinical cardiology, as well as its limitations, by performing and interpreting studies. From a research perspective, the laboratory is involved in several multi- and single-center trials, including, for example, the evaluation of new myocardial tracers, the usage of PET for quantitative coronary physiology and nuclear studies of peripheral vascular disease and plaque inflammation.
Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Fellows are lead operators on diagnostic procedures in the Knight Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, a state-of-the-art suite of six rooms with high-resolution digital fluoroscopy units. A wide variety of diagnostic and interventional procedures are performed, with approximately 6,000 cases done per year, approximately 1,400 of which are coronary interventions. Since Mass General serves as the primary hospital for the local neighborhood as well as a tertiary referral center for high-risk patients from state, nation and worldwide health centers, cases are varied and challenging. Fellows gain a strong foundation in appropriateness and indications for catheterization, protocols for venous and arterial access, the hemodynamic assessment of cardiac, valvular and coronary function, angiography of coronary and bypass vessels, and post-procedural management. Furthermore, the laboratory is academically-based and has approximately 20 active research protocols. This provides ample opportunity for fellows to pursue their research interests.
Advanced Cardiac Imaging
Fellows spend a month rotating through the cardiac CT and cardiac MRI facilities at Mass General. Two new features have been recently added to this rotation. One is a full day of cardiac imaging teaching by Dr. Marcelo DiCarli at Brigham and Women's Hospital. The second is a half day in the vascular laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital with Dr. Marie Gerhard-Herman.
Coronary Care Unit
This is a 16-bed unit serving critically-ill patients requiring acute care for advanced heart failure (including those awaiting transplant), periprocedural management of high-risk coronary disease, malignant arrhythmias and cardiac arrest and mechanical ventricular support. Due to the complexity of the cases and the strong leadership role they play, Fellows are assigned to this rotation only during their second year.
Preventive Cardiology and Cardiac Rehabilitation
Preventive cardiology and cardiac rehabilitation was an innovation at Mass General in 2002. The primary goal of the Preventive Cardiology rotation is to provide the knowledge and skills necessary to successfully initiate and maintain long-term preventive therapies, characterize the inherited basis of cardiovascular disease, and recognize cardiovascular genetic conditions in general clinical cardiology practiceFellows participate in intake sessions, exercise sessions, nutrition visits and team meetings.
Heart Failure and Transplant
The management of patients with advanced heart failure at Mass General is a multidisciplinary effort with input from physicians and non-physicians alike. Fellows are integrated into a team consisting of members of the heart failure, electrophysiology and cardiac surgery services by caring for patients with advanced disease and participating in meetings discussing transplant status. Fellows should gain a solid grasp of management of chronic severe heart failure and pulmonary hypertension, assessment of candidates for transplantation and left ventricular mechanical circulatory support.
Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program
In this rotation fellows will become familiar with the anatomy and physiology and current therapies of patients with congenital heart disease or pulmonary hypertension. The multidisciplinary group at Mass General is dedicated to the advancement of care for adolescents and adults born with heart disease.
Peripheral Vascular Interventional
Second-year fellows spend one month becoming familiar with the evaluation and management of patients with peripheral vascular disease, including cerebrovascular disease, peripheral arterial disease, renal artery stenosis, complications of venous thromboembolism, and others.
The Mass General Cardiac Arrhythmia Service was founded in 1978 and was one of the first clinical subspecialty services in United States specifically dedicated to the care of patients with cardiac arrhythmias. The cardiac electrophysiology laboratory comprises a state-of-the-art facility constructed in 2000 and is currently undergoing an expansion and renovation to keep with the newest technologies, needs and volume. It's equipped with new X-ray imaging, mapping systems and a robotic catheter navigation system. Second-year fellows on the electrophysiology rotation gain competence in the interpretation of commonly performed electrophysiology studies, manage inpatients with arrhythmias or dyssynchrony, learn indications for pacemaker and ICD implementation and become experienced in programming and interrogation of devices.
Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care
Fellows rotating on the cardiac surgical intensive care unit gain further experience in the postoperative care of cardiac surgical patients. Patients on the surgical service often undergo complex procedures with significant comorbidities, so fellows learn the ramifications of the technical and anatomic problems tackled during the operation. Fellows participate in daily morning rounds, working with the surgical intensivist, Dr. Hoffman. There is also the opportunity to attend surgical cases in the operating room, to gain an appreciation of the complexity of cardiac bypass pump physiology and intraoperative management.
One month of the second year may be spent on, either at Mass General or Brigham and Women's Hospital. These have proven to be popular and educationally valuable experiences for fellows in past years.
Additional Responsibilities
Paul Dudley White Associates Clinic
One of the most valuable aspects of the cardiology program is the opportunity to be the primary outpatient cardiologist for patients across the three years of training. Many of the first encounters a fellow has with these patients will be during their initial inpatient stay, after which they are enrolled in the fellow's clinic. It is an opportunity to learn the fine points of the longitudinal management of a range of cardiac problems in ambulatory patients. Added to this is the challenge of evaluating new patients referred to the clinic by other providers.
EKG Reading
The first-year fellows are responsible for the interpretation of all tracings performed on clinic patients and on Bigelow service patients. These are taken on the patient-care floors and processed in the laboratory.
|8 am - 9 am morning report
|8 am - 9 am cardiac cath conference
|7:15 am - 8:15 am
cath didactic conference
8 am - 9 am
EP didactic lecture
|7 am - 8 am core curriculum
8 am - 9 am morning report
Noon - 1 pm Monthly Journal Club
|Noon - 1 pm
EKG didactics
Noon - 1 pm
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm – Cardiology Grand Rounds
Noon - 1 pm
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - Echo Clinical Conference
The following are descriptions of conferences geared towards or of particular interest to cardiology fellows. Additional conferences focused on particular subspecialties, such as echocardiography, electrophysiology, cardiac imaging and cardiac catheterization, also occur throughout the week and are open to interested Fellows.
Orientation Lectures
This series of introductory lectures, covering various areas of clinical cardiology, is given during the first few weeks of the fellowship. It is designed to provide a basis for dealing with the more common clinical problems and frequent on-call consult questions.
Morning Report
This series is consistently viewed as one of the most rewarding. First-year Fellows currently on the Consultation Rotation present one or two interesting cases to five senior staff members, Drs. DeSanctis, Hutter, Isselbacher, Januzzi and Dec. Management is discussed in detail from a diagnostic and therapeutic perspective, with particular focus on physical exam and EKG findings, as well as the appropriateness, timing, and interpretation of ancillary invasive and non-invasive studies. Attendance is restricted to cardiology fellows to encourage a frank and insightful discussion.
Core Curriculum
A didactic lecture series devoted to general cardiologic topics designed specifically for the cardiology fellows. The goal of this series is to focus on basic areas of cardiology, emphasizing physiology, pathophysiology, clinical practice and the supporting literature. This series is intended to be similar to a cardiology board review course, and is required for fellows in their first year.
Dr. Dec's Conference and Dr. Fifer's Conference
One monthly case-based conference is led by Dr. Dec, Emeritus Chief of Cardiology. It is an opportunity to explore the tools for diagnosis and management of critically-ill patients with rare diseases or unusual presentations. The second-year fellow on the CCU rotation selects and presents the case.
Another monthly case-based conference is led by Dr. Fifer, Director of the Catheterization Laboratory. It is an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the invasive and non-invasive hemodynamics in the assessment of cardiac function. The first-year fellow on the cardiac catheterization rotation selects and presents the case.
Electrocardiography Teaching Conference
Weekly EKG Sessions present a series of lectures on electrocardiographic interpretation and the understanding of cardiac arrhythmias. These sessions are lead by Dr. Philip Podrid who leads EKG-interpretation, drawing on his extensive collection of abnormal cardiograms to quiz each fellow, as well as by other staff members at MGH.
Fellows Research Conference
Once a month, a speaker is invited to discuss her or his ongoing research activities and career path. The conference is helpful for fellows seeking out mentors for their research years, and also serves as a forum to obtain career advice in an informal setting.
Fellows Journal Club
Once a month, one of the fellows presents a brief outline of a major recent publication of general interest. This presentation serves as a starting point for a lively discussion, with input from the fellows, Dr. Dec, Dr. Drachman, and an invited senior staff member with expertise in that area.
Cardiac Catheterization Conference
Selected cases demonstrating exemplary or unusual angiographic or hemodynamic findings established at cardiac catheterization are presented by and discussed by members of the laboratory. These conferences are frequently multidisciplinary, establishing correlations between invasive and noninvasive modalities, and are attended by members of programs in interventional cardiology, peripheral vascular disease, cardiac imaging, cardiac electrophysiology and cardiac surgery.
Grand Rounds
This conference is a department-wide presentation by an invited speaker, often a nationally-recognized leader in their field. Speakers often survey the current state and latest research in their topic of interest. Grand Rounds is held every Wednesday from 12:30 – 1:30.
Research Experience
Goals of the Cardiovascular Fellowship Research
Research training is a critical element of the cardiology fellowship at Mass General and usually is completed in the third year of cardiovascular fellowship training. All fellows are required to undertake research training for at least 12 months in order to be eligible for subspecialty board certification in cardiology by the American Board of Internal Medicine. The Cardiology Division also encourages its fellows to undertake longer periods of research training because it is generally agreed upon that 24 or more months of training are required for a successful career in academic cardiology.
There is a broad spectrum of research opportunities available at Mass General and across the Harvard and MIT community. Opportunities at Mass General are broadly grouped into three areas - the Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC), the Cardiology Laboratory for Integrative Physiology and Imaging (CLIPI) and the Cardiovascular Clinical Research Program.
Early in their first year, fellows will meet individually with Dr. DeFaria Yeh, Fellowship Program Director to begin to plan research programs tailored to the interests of each fellow. Dr. DeFaria Yeh assists fellows with identifying outstanding mentors and excellent research programs. In addition, a monthly fellows research conference is geared towards allowing Fellows to interact with potential mentors.
It is critically important that research training plans be finalized in the early fall of the second fellowship year. Each fellow will be strongly encouraged to prepare applications for extramural funding for their training program. Research mentors will assist trainees in the preparation of these grant applications. Senior investigators in the Cardiology Division are available for advice and assistance.
How to Apply
How to Apply
Applicants interested in a position starting in July 2020 need to apply through ERAS. Completed applications must be submitted by August 1, 2019. Interviews will be held in September and October. We require the following information via ERAS:
- ERAS application
- Personal statement
- USMLE transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
- Photo
- Valid ECFMG certificate (international medical graduates only)
- NRMP match number: Cardiovascular Disease 141-24-11-079
Contact Us
Fellowship Program
Lisa DeFabritiis
- Phone: 617-643-3238
- Email Us
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Clouds will respond to climate change in ways that further heat the planet, a new study suggests.
The research, published yesterday in the journal Science, appears to solve one of of the biggest remaining mysteries in climate science: How well do computer climate models predict the behavior of clouds?
That's important because clouds can work to cool or heat the Earth, depending on the type of cloud and where it sits in the atmosphere. Clouds cool the planet by reflecting incoming radiation from the sun. They heat it by trapping outgoing radiation from the planet's surface. The question scientists have been struggling to answer is which of these two effects will dominate as climate change intensifies.
"Clouds are really, I would say, the biggest uncertainty in understanding how much warming we're going to get in the future," said study author Andrew Dessler, an atmospheric scientist at Texas A&M University. "And up until my paper, all we really had were the models. We had no idea if the models were completely wrong."
Computerized climate models vary widely in their predictions of how clouds will respond to long-term climate change. A few models predict clouds will be neutral players, neither compounding warming nor counteracting it, while others predict clouds will exacerbate warming.
Some climate skeptics have alleged that models "got clouds completely wrong," Dessler said. He believes that his paper, which suggests long-term climate change will create a positive feedback from clouds that produces additional heating of the planet, "shows that models are doing a reasonable job as a group."
A bolt from Cancun
One of those skeptics is Roy Spencer, a climatologist at the University of Alabama, Huntsville. He issued a statement yesterday attacking Dessler's study, calling its "central evidence weak at best, misleading at worst."
Spencer has published a paper arguing that clouds will cool the planet and counteract warming. He drew on that work to argue that Dessler's study confuses the cause and effect of warming by failing to take into account the idea that changes in clouds drive temperature, rather than temperature changes driving cloud behavior.
Dennis Hartmann, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington, agreed with Dessler.
"I do think it's very significant that this analysis shows that a strongly negative, short-term cloud feedback is very unlikely, based upon the evidence, and that positive cloud feedback is more likely," said Hartmann, who did not contribute to the new study. "Current climate models vary widely on their assessments of cloud feedback. But if you were forced to draw consensus on what models are saying so far, they're saying that cloud feedback is moderately positive."
The new analysis is based on the first 10 years of data collected by an instrument flying aboard NASA's Terra satellite that monitors how much radiation is entering and leaving Earth's atmosphere. The instrument, known as CERES (short for "Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System"), began collecting information in March 2000.
Dessler used the data to determine how the El Niño-Southern Oscillation weather cycle affected the amount of radiation leaving the atmosphere over a 10-year period -- an indirect measurement of cloud behavior and the ensuing climate response.
A 10-year glimpse of cloud behavior
That's not a precise analogue for cloud behavior in response to long-term climate change, he said.
The latter "is really what we care about," Dessler added. "In order to understand how clouds are going to respond to long-term warming, you have to wait until there is long-term warming. That will take decades. Looking at the short-term is the best we can do right now."
Hartmann noted that the warming observed during an El Niño cycle of a year or two is different than the long-term climate change prompted by human activities that produce greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.
El Niño warms the tropics, whereas climate change driven by greenhouse gases warms the planet up everywhere, Hartmann said. But the scientist said he thought Dessler's approach still amounted to a "useful diagnostic tool" for trying to understand whether climate models' representation of clouds is on the right track.
Meanwhile, Dessler said his next step is aimed at identifying how well individual climate models do predicting cloud behavior, by examining their output for different regions of the globe -- such as land versus ocean, or high latitudes versus low latitudes.
"This is a significantly harder problem, and it's a tougher test of the models," he said. "My hope is that looking at the spatial distribution will allow me to say, 'These models are doing a good job. These models are doing a terrible job.'"
Interfering with skeptics' 'negative impact'?
In his statement attacking Dessler's study, Spencer also said he suspected, but had no proof, "that Dessler was under pressure to get this paper published to blunt the negative impact our work has had on the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]'s efforts."
Spencer appeared in Cancun accompanied by Marc Morano, founder of Climate Depot, which regularly attacks mainstream climate change science, and Lord Christopher Monckton, a British skeptic who asserted the Kyoto Protocol threatens national sovereignty and individual freedom.
In a response posted yesterday afternoon on the blog "RealClimate," Dessler said his disagreement with Spencer stemmed from their very different views about the cause of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), quoting an e-mail exchange with Spencer.
"My position is the mainstream one, backed up by decades of research," Dessler wrote on the blog. "This mainstream theory is quite successful at simulating almost all of the aspects of ENSO. Dr. Spencer, on the other hand, is as far out of the mainstream when it comes to ENSO as he is when it comes to climate change. He is advancing here a completely new and untested theory of ENSO -- based on just one figure in one of his papers (and, as I told him in one of our e-mails, there are other interpretations of those data that do not agree with his interpretation)."
He added: "And as far as my interest in influencing the policy debate goes, I'll just say that I'm in College Station this week, while Dr. Spencer is in Cancun."
Reprinted from Climatewire with permission from Environment & Energy Publishing, LLC. www.eenews.net, 202-628-6500

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Children may be born with a tear duct system that hasn't fully developed and this can lead to blockage, excessive tearing and infection. Nemours pediatric ophthalmologists are trained to diagnose and treat blocked tear ducts with a variety of methods. And they have the skill necessary to perform pediatric eye surgery when it's needed.
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Faith stories, fine dining, and moving music were topped with an announcement from Tabor College President Jules Glanzer on Friday at the President's Dinner that the college was in a "leadership" phase of building a performing arts extension to the Wolgemuth Music Education Center.
"It is time we reclaim the arts for Christ," Glanzer said. "They need a home on our campus."
Glanzer showed those in attendance a preliminary blueprint of plans for two additional levels to be built on top of the current Wolgemuth building. The plans included an auditorium, vocal and instrumental practice rooms, classroom space, and an extensive lobby that could also be used for performances.
"We will be starting a signature campaign to finance this project," Glanzer said. "Yes, we need a lot of signatures, but God is smiling down on us."
Glanzer indicated that Tabor College would be expanding use of online classes in the future, creating community particularly in theological and ministry quest programming.
"We are growing in curb appeal," Glanzer said. "We've had record enrollment in the past two years and we have 175 students graduating this year. We have never had anything close to that before."
Glanzer said Tabor staff and faculty members were committed to helping their students succeed.
"Tabor graduates want to make the world a better place," he said. "Y'all come — we'll help."
Special guests at the President's Dinner, catered by Pioneer Food Service and served by softball team members, included Presidential Scholars, retiring teachers Judy Harder and Doc Kyle, Wilmer H. Harms, and many donors and supporters of the college.


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Vosipenko needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 54 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
Dioscouri Design
About us - We are a boutique, Manhattan-based design firm specializing in PHP and MySQL, with a particular emphasis on the open source PHP package, Joomla!
We aim to create useful, intuitive software for our community of users, as well as productive websites for our clients, while providing a high level of personalized attention and customer support. We believe in Open Source, which means we will not encrypt our software, nor will we prevent you from modifying them for your own purposes, whether it is for a client of your own or for your own personal use.
Our goals include establishing ourselves as a premier Joomla! consultancy with high-quality software packages and top-notch customer support. We hope to be able to assist the community in transitioning from Joomla! 1.0.x to 1.5.x by becoming recognized experts in both packages.
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This t-shirt will be worn by our team members to various web & software design and tech conferences. The audience at these conferences is usually other software developers, as well as small to medium size business executives, not-for-profit organizations, boutique web designers, and end users who are interested in purchasing our products. They are overwhelmingly male and fall in the 20-50 age range. Many are ardent supporters of open source software - just like us.
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* Incorporate our existing emblem or logo
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* We'd prefer a business in front, party in the back approach - a creative but professional design for the front of the shirt, with possibility of a more creative and fun, casual design for the back of the shirt
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Drugs, but No Intruder in Sioux Falls Garage
In the end, a Sioux Falls man may have regretted calling police. Officer Sam Clemens says William Michael Reed called police at around 1 a.m. Tuesday because he thought someone was in his garage in the 1800 block of East 29th Street North.
Clemens says when police searched the garage, they didn't find anyone. What they did find were drugs, some of them in plain sight, and he says they found more in the house.
Clemens says a pipe with white residue was found in the garage-shop area, as well as a baggie with meth in it. Meth and marijuana were also found in the house.
Clemens says Reed, 56, and his wife Stephanie Ray Willard, 22, were both arrested and charged with possession of a controlled drug, possession of paraphernalia and maintaining a place where drugs are kept. Willard was also charged with marijuana possession.
Their children, ages three, two and eight months, were taken into protective custody when the parents were arrested.


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Hi! Tam here from Sew Dang Cute. I've got a fun Easter/Spring dress for you today using the bright, lovely colors from Lauren and Jessi Jung's latest line, Botany. Love it!!
– 1 Botany Jelly Roll by Lauren and Jessi Jung
– 1/4 yd five different coordinating fabrics
– Coordinating thread(s)
– Elastic thread
*All seams are 1/4″ unless otherwise noted.
Note: I made two different dresses at the same time, so pictures are from both dresses.
1. First we need to get some measurements. Measure child's chest/waist. Use whichever measurement is bigger and add 6″. My daughter's was 22″, so my measurement is 28″. Next decide the desired length of the dress. For my 4T dress, I wanted it 27″ long. Select 5 strips from the jelly roll. Next we need to do a little math.
Here's the formula: Desired length – 10″ + 3.5″ / 6.
Explanation:Each jelly roll strip is 2.5″, so with seam allowances and five strips, we will get 10″ of our desired length (27″), leaving 17″ we need to get from our five coordinating fabrics. We need to add in hem and seam allowances of the coordinating strips, so add another 3.5″. I used my top color twice, so divide by 6. ex: 27 – 10 + 3.5 /6 = 3.416. I rounded to 3.5″. Did you make it? Now we are ready to cut.
2. Cut your top piece 3.5″" x 28″". (28 from chest/waist measurement, 3.5″ from above formula). Cut your first jelly roll strip so it is 28″ long. Cut 3.5″ strips from all 5 coordinating fabrics. Cut two strap pieces 2.5″ x 10″. Lay out all your pieces in the desired pattern.
3. Take the two top pieces (the shorter ones: 28″). Sew right sides together (RST).
Finish seam with either a zig-zag stitch or serger.
Press, making sure to press the bulk of the seam towards the topmost piece.
4. Fold in half RST, lining up the two short raw end sides. Mark in 1/4″ from the raw edges where your seam will be with pins, then line the pins up at 0″ on a ruler. Find halfway and mark with pin. Mine was 13.5″, so I marked 6.75″ with a red pin. Go left 1/2″ mark with a pin (mine is white), then add 3″ from there and mark with pin (mine is another white pin). Draw a scoop between the white pins. Click on image to enlarge.
Cut out the scoop. Unfold and you should have two cut-outs.
These are for the arms. Now we need to hem the top. Make a few small clips in the arm holes (this will make it easier to fold for the hem).
Fold the top raw edge (the one with the scoops), down 1/4″ towards the wrong side of the fabric and press. Fold down another 1/4″ and press. Stitch down. Set top piece aside.
5. Grab your very bottom piece and hem it with a 1/4″ hem like we used above.
6. Stitch remaining pieces (all the 44″ length jelly roll strips and coordinating fabrics) together in desired order. Finish seams. Press and topstitch, switching threads as necessary if doing multiple colors. You should now have a top and bottom piece.
7. Fold bottom piece in half RST, lining up the seams and pinning in place.
Stitch. Finish seam. Do the same with the top piece.
8. Sew a gathering stitch along the raw edge of your bottom piece. Divide both the top and bottom pieces into 1/4's and mark with pins. Place the top piece inside the bottom piece RST, and raw edges lining up, and match up the pins.
Pulling on the bobbin thread, gather the fabric between pins and pin frequently to hold the gathers in place.
Make sure to change your stitchlength back to a regular stitch and stitch. Finish seam. Press and topstitch.
9. Next we are going to do some shirring. Lay your dress facedown. Mark about 1 1/2″ in from each side with pins.
Handwind a bobbin with elastic thread. You don't want to stretch it as you are winding or it will be too tight. Load the elastic thread in your bobbin and keep regular thread in the top. Starting 1/4″ down from the hem stitching, sew between the two pins, making sure to backstitch really well at the start and stop. Continue the next row 1/4″ down from the row you just made. Sew about 10 rows or so, just enough that you have sewn down the top two strips of the dress. Press those rows and watch the fabric shrink up to create the smocking.
10. Let's get those straps done. Fold in half lengthwise and sew RST. Turn inside out and press with the seam in the middle of the strap.
Topstitch the long sides of the straps. To figure out where to attach the straps, I grabbed my daughters and slipped the dresses on them, then pinned the straps in place.
Stitch the straps in place by going right over the hem stitching. Trim excess fabric on straps, if necessary, and finish the raw edges.
Guess what?! You are ALL DONE!!!
Back view:
Add a cute matching fabric flower using this tutorial and you have one springy, happy, little lady (or in my case two)!
One jelly roll will be enough for multiple dresses, you will just need to buy extra yardage of the solid coordinating fabrics. I was able to make two dresses with the amounts listed.


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Xero was a fanzine published by Patricia Lupoff and Richard Lupoff.
In 1960, Pat and Dick Lupoff started Xero, a mimeographed science fiction fanzine that also included general interest subjects, pop culture, and commentary on comics as well. After 10 issues it had become so successful it became too much work for the couple and they ceased publication in 1963. It won a Hugo Award for 'Best Fanzine' in 1963.
Because of its coverage of comics, Xero is considered to be the direct antecedent of later fanzines devoted to comics and featured a flip book supplement with a series of articles on comics called "All In Color For A Dime by Richard Lupoff.
Artists contributing to Xero include Dan Adkins, ATom, Cathy Bell, Lin Carter, Larry Ivie, Eddie Jones, Roy G. Krenkel, bhob Stewart, Steve Stiles and Maggie Thompson.
Comics were contributed by Landon Chesney, Gary Deindorfer, Henry Mazzeo, Andy Reiss, bhob Stewart, and Steve Stiles.
Contributors included Otto Binder, Bill Blackbeard, James Blish, Bob Briney, L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter, Norm Clarke (Queebshots), Buck Coulson, Avran Davison, Roger Ebert, Richard Ellington, Harlan Ellison, Tom Fagan, Roy Goulart, Larry Jarris, Richard Kyle, Ethel Lindsay, H. P. Norton, Frederik Pohl (The International Observer of Science and Science Fiction), Bill Schelly, Chris Steinbrenner, Roy Thomas, Don Thompson, Bob Tucker (Le Zombie), Donald Westlake, Ted White, Walt Willis and Donald Wollheim.
The fanzine included a review of Psycho by Harlan Ellison, a review of Kingsley Amis' study of SF, New Maps of Hell by James Blish, and Donald Westlakes's farewell to SF.


text: The purpose of the Eaton County Youth Facility Community Based Treatment Program is to provide rehabilitative services for youth who have been adjudicated delinquent and deemed in need of services by the Juvenile Division of the Eaton County Family Court. It is the goal of the Community Based Treatment Program to rehabilitate each youth that participates in the program to such an extent that they develop the skills necessary to lead more productive and positive lives. The Eaton County Youth Facility Community Based Treatment Program services up to eight youth at any given time in a nonsecure, structured setting. Treatment approaches assist youth in building skills, techniques, and interventions that address and protect against further court involvement. Individual, group, and family therapy are provided along with educational programming and recreational activities.


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Jim has video (2:35) of RHP Nevin Griffith from a game last month. Here's Jim's scouting report.
Griffith's line from the game's boxscore:
Player IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA Griffith, N (L, 2-4) 5.0 9 5 5 3 2 0 4.24
BTW, here's what John Sickels and FutureSox had to say about Nevin Griffith back in July.


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NEW YORK -- Richard Pyle, chief financial officer at Town Sports International (TSI), New York, will resign from that position effective March 31. Daniel Gallagher, senior vice president of finance, will assume the CFO role at that time.
This resignation comes just a week after the resignation of Randall Stephen, former COO at TSI. Stephen's resignation was effective immediately. In a three-sentence announcement from the company, no reason was given for Stephen's resignation.
Pyle is resigning to pursue other interests, according to the company's statement, but he will continue working as a consultant for the company.
"Richard, Dan and I have worked together to ensure that this transition is seamless operationally," Alex Alimanestianu, CEO since the October resignation of Bob Giardina, who left for personal and health reasons.
TSI is a publicly traded health club company doing business under the brand names New York Sports Clubs, Boston Sports Clubs, Washington Sports Clubs and Philadelphia Sports Clubs.


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The bar scene in Chicago, like in other large cities, is eclectic. It's also huge. No matter what your taste, you're sure to find a bar you like here. Bars with regular liquor licenses are open until 2am, while those with late licenses are open until 4am. All bars are open one hour later than these times on the Fridays and Saturdays (ie. until 3am or 5am). Chicago bars are now non-smoking venues.
Sources of information
The Chicago Bar Project http://www.chicagobarproject.com/ The Chicago Bar Project offers up reviews and descriptions of bars located throughout Chicago, with the greatest number of entries for the Lakeview and Lincoln Park neighborhoods. You can browse the lists of bars by neighborhood, or select a specific bar from their Quick List dropdown menu. Posts are updated regularly, and recent additions are labeled "New!".
Yelp http://www.yelp.com/c/chicago/bars The Chicago Bars section of Yelp's website contains a large number of descriptive reviews for Chicago area bars. You can browse bar listings by common categories such as neighborhood and bar type (dives, wine bars, gay bars, etc.) as well perform keyword searches. Bar reviews include location, hours, prices, photos, contact info and ratings. The site also features "Recently Reviewed" bars. When reading reviews, try clicking through the reviewer's profiles to get a sense of what they like and how their opinions compare to yours.
Metromix http://chicago.metromix.com/bars-and-clubs The Metromix Chicago site offers up descriptions on the majority of bars in Chicago. Operated by the Chicago Tribune and Gannett, Metromix has online articles and a calendar of current and upcoming events in addition to their bar reviews. The reviews can be browsed by bar type, music genre, neighborhood, suburb, features, games (eg. darts and flipcup), and overall rating. You can also do keyword searches. Reviews include location, contact information, web addresses, menus, transport directions, prices, hours, and payment options.
Time Out Chicago (TOC) http://www.timeout.com/chicago/section/restaurants-bars Time Out is available in print and online. In print it is a weekly magazine, and contains weekly reviews of bars in its "Restaurants and Bars" section. Online, TOC has a large database of bars and clubs. Bars can be browsed by style, features, and neighborhood, in the city as well as the suburbs. The site also features a tag cloud of the most popular bar and restaurant reviews (though the restaurants nudge the bars out of the cloud most often). The reviews include a short description as well as web address, hours, prices, and location. Rather than features user generated reviews, the site offers the option of leaving a comment.


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Current Student: Ed.D. Sports Management
U.S. Navy Cmdr. David "Pete" Peterson first developed his interest in health and fitness as a competitive power lifter.
That interest has carried over into his Navy career where Peterson, who is currently earning his doctorate in Sports Management from the Academy, works as a Naval Aerospace/Operational Physiologist and serves as the director of the Aviation Survival Training Center in Paxtuxent River, Md.
During his more than 15 years of service, Peterson has served as a fitness leader and program manager and conducted several research studies in support of the Navy's Physical Readiness Test (PRT) and Body Composition Analysis (BCA) programs.
One of those studies was recently published in Military Medicine and he had another article published in this month's edition of the Strength and Conditioning Journal, which is published by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA).
His work and research has led to presenting at the National Strength and Conditioning Association's (NSCA) Tactical Strength and Conditioning (TSAC) conference the past two years, as well as participating in the first and second annual NSCA's Blue Ribbon Panel on Military Fitness.
Peterson's bachelor's from Truman State University and master's from University of Louisiana-Monroe are both in Exercise Physiology. He recently took a breather to talk to the Alumni Network about some of his research, his recent NSCA journal article and advice to others wanting to get into the health and fitness field.
Alumni Network: Tell us about some of the other research that you have been involved in.
Pete Peterson: While at OPNAV N135, I partnered with the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) in San Diego, Calif., and the U.S. Naval Academy to validate new elliptical trainers and stationary bikes for use in the PRT. Additionally, we drafted a research proposal to incorporate a waist circumference measurement (at the umbilicus) requirement to the Navy's BCA program in addition to the height/weight charts and 3-site circumference measurements to more accurately calculate a service member's percent body fat. The proposal was meant to identify men and women with a waist circumference exceeding 40 in. and 36 in. (i.e., individuals that according to the National Institutes for Health are at the greatest risk for all-cause mortality) respectively that are currently 'passing' the Navy BCA program via the circumference measurement method.
AN: What was the impetus behind your recent article in the Strength and Conditioning Journal?
PP: The article was in response to the Mil Med article referenced previously. In short, in 2011 I partnered with the University of Memphis to conduct a beta test on nine different exercise modalities in an attempt to 'modernize' the current PRT. One of the exercises that we evaluated was the single-leg plank. However, due to concerns with the test-retest reliability, the plank was not recommended at that time as a viable replacement option for the curl-up. The article published in the Strength and Conditioning Journal addresses these concerns and provides recommendations for how the plank could effectively be implemented into the PRT.
AN: What advice would you give to anyone wanting to follow in your footsteps in the health and fitness field?
PP: Take the time to visit different schools and talk with current students and potential professors. Before enrolling in the Sports Academy doctoral program, I contacted several current and previous Academy students and asked them about their experience with the Academy and the program. In addition, I also drove to Daphne, Ala., and visited the Academy's campus and met with several of the professors and faculty. I also did this with several other schools as well. This allowed me to make an informed decision as to which school and program was right for me.
AN: As a current student of the doctoral program, what is your favorite thing about the Academy so far?
PP: The flexibility. My desire is to teach undergraduate Exercise Physiology. Even though I am enrolled in a Sports Management program, several of the professors have allowed me to submit work (i.e., course projects and/or papers) that is geared more towards my specific area of interest. In fact, the article recently published in the Strength and Conditioning Journal was part of my class paper I submitted for my directed individualized study under the guidance and direction of Academy Distance Faculty Member and Former Chair of Sports Exercise Science Dr. Jordan Moon.
AN: Would you recommend the Academy to others?
PP: Absolutely. As I mentioned before, I looked into several other doctoral programs before enrolling into the Sport Management program at the Academy. Because I am still on active duty, I receive permanent change of station (PCS) orders every three years. As a result, the traditional 'brick and mortar' programs were not a viable option for me. Although the transition to a new duty station and job has been challenging, the process has been easy and seamless in regards to my experience at the Academy. Overall, I am extremely impressed and pleased with the education experience I have received thus far from the Academy.


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(a version of this appeared in my ongoing diary of recession living over at shareable.net)
And then there's the foraging we are able to do when we're communing so close to the neighborhood flora. Blackberry bramble grows wild all over our town, and many consider it a menace. It's invasive, and it will choke everything out and take your fence down in the process. It's easy to identify, with spreading thorn-covered vines and broad elliptical leaves. Sometime in the late spring, it's covered with white blossoms that eventually turn into tight, chartreuse clusters that mature until they become soft, darkly purple berries by July or August. It's hard to buy blackberries: they're fragile, and so expensive. You pay a king's ransom for a half-pint container, and by the time you get home, the bottom layer has burst and run with juice, and maybe you'll find one with a faint moldy fur that quickly overtakes the rest.
I'm not sure why more people don't pick them. It's true, you have to keep your eye on them so you don't miss the window of time after they're no longer too sour and before the summer sun has finally had its way with them and they've become hard, shriveled black husks. There are micro-climates, like the broad swath of shade underneath the highway where they ripen more slowly but in far larger numbers, you need to notice that. You also have to be prepared to wrangle with the thorns. It's not like roses (to which they're related,) where you can clearly identify the spikes and avoid them if you're careful: blackberry bramble has those big visible spines too, but they also have a more insidious, fine and imperceptible brand of prickles that seem soft until they've covered your forearms with itchy misery.
So what I'm saying is, you have to be observant and you have to protect yourself. We kept watch on them every time we'd pass a patch on foot or on our bikes. Over and over, we'd come across new thickets of them hidden along roadsides or beside the trails. You can really get good at spotting them if you know what you're looking for, and in the spring when they're blanketed with blossoms, it's like a patch of melted snow where the sun hasn't quite reached. We watched, made note, and shouted to each other about what we saw: there's more here, we need to remember this spot. There's some pink on the berries now. When the time had come, we piled the kids into the big orange gardening wagon and set off for some of the closer thickets, just to start. We brought jelly jars, but not big ones—big ones would mean too much weight on the bottom layers. Larry and I traded wagon-pulling duty with Rainer, who moaned and complained. It was hot, and we were wearing long-sleeved shirts as armor against the thorns.
When we got to the best, most abundant spot, we propped a long wide plank up against the bramble to give access to the higher areas. Everyone had a jar, and we wore layers of latex surgical gloves and stripped them off as they became shredded. We worked quietly, some happy buzzing but mostly just commenting on finding a good one or avoiding a bee. Molly worked too. Everyone ate about one for every three picked, which was the tax we exacted for our labor. We talked a little about what we'd do with them: Rainer wanted to freeze a few quart bags for smoothies. Molly does most of the chicken chores, so she wanted them to have the ones that weren't quite ready. "Dan's got peaches ripening," Larry said. "I'll bring a few jars to trade."
Some teenage boys passed us on the other side of the busy street. They asked us what we were picking, and then if they could come join us. I glanced over at Rainer to search for embarrassment and found none, so I handed them some gloves and a jar. I asked them, "Did you grow up here?" and was surprised when one said yes, they had. I wondered: do their parents not care about blackberries? Because you'd have to actively not care. Here were blackberries! So cherished that they cost about the same as caviar. They're available for such a short time, and specific to this part of the country. There aren't many places on earth where something so succulent comes at such low cost: the only price you pay is in scratched up hands and stained fingertips. The new pickers took awhile to get the appropriate technique down, and Molly warned them against the ones that have "too many red bubbles," as they are too tart and not yet sweet and juicy.
We worked for a few hours, long enough that the teens who joined us eventually mounted their skateboards, leaned back, and rolled off with lackadaisical efficiency. They didn't say goodbye, but it was a benevolent parting, and it was clear we had earned a little of their admiration. After that, we got quieter and more focused as it became harder to find worthy berries. Rainer looked up at me and said something after awhile; I was busy and lost in thought, and I couldn't be sure I heard her right. I had her repeat it: "I love our life," she said. "I'm so glad we're doing this." And I am glad that she won't have to grow up in northern California without ever having learned about picking blackberries.


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Monday, May 20, 2013
The rapid growth of San Diego's Suja Juice Inc. is testament to the trendiness of juicing — tapping raw vegetables and fruits for belly-flushing cleanses.
Refrigerators in Whole Foods and hundreds of other natural foods supermarkets across the country now showcase the spectrum of Suja's raw juices — in shades of Vanilla Cloud, Lemon Love and Green Supreme.
The private company, founded just last year, is on track for 2013 sales of $17 million. When the product was first launched at Whole Foods Market Inc. in September, sales for the month were $50,000. This April, the company brought in $1.5 million, according to co-founder and chief marketing officer James Brennan.
Priced at $8.99 for a 16-ounce bottle or up to $163 for multiday cleanses, the juice isn't cheap. But Suja's product is raw, organic, cold-pressed and from nongenetically modified organisms — health-centric buzzwords that are helping fuel revenue.
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"This space we're in — the natural cold-pressed organic juices — it's the hottest beverage market on the planet right now," Brennan said. "There's huge buzz. You can't pick up a People magazine or Us Weekly without seeing a celebrity doing a cleanse."
Indeed, the U.S. fresh juice industry is valued at between $3.4 billion to $5 billion according to various analyst reports, increasing at about 4 percent to 8 percent per year. The overwhelming consensus is that the high-end raw juice segment is its fastest growing segment.
The big beverage players are paying attention — Starbucks Corp., for instance, recently purchased San Bernardino-based juice company Evolution Fresh Inc. for $30 million. Starbucks plans to include its offerings in about 8,000 coffee shops around the country by the end of the year.
Suja largely operates on funds from private investors, who have funneled about $5 million into the company. In less than a year the employee count has grown from seven to about 45, and the company now operates two 30,000-square-foot production sites — one in Philadelphia, and the other in San Diego. Suja produces about 70,000 bottles of juice per week, Brennan said.
Much of the marketing savvy behind the brand comes from Brennan, a well-known San Diego entrepreneur. Brennan co-manages the Enlightened Hospitality Group, running the popular "fabric of social dining" restaurants like Searsucker, Herringbone, Burlap and Gabardine.
"A lot of startups aren't blessed with this kind of support," Brennan said. "Because so many of us have worked in hospitality and branding, we've really been able to get a jump-start in the industry."
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On the Stereo: "Your Hand Is Like Fire."
Morrissey – Revelation: A pretty well-done bootleg floating around of B-sides from the Viva Hate / Kill Uncle / Your Arsenal sessions, i.e. the wizardry era of Moz. "Please Help the Cause Against Loneliness" is pure Morrissey. Bonus points for nailing the classic artwork style. I haven't been feeling his last few albums.
Grouper – Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill: Liz Harris and I spent a couple summers together in the same circle of friends, usually involving swimming. Either at houses in the McDonald neighborhood or Doran Beach after lots of PBR. It took me a while to pick up her latest album. It's gorgeous.
Byard Lancaster – Sounds of Liberation: Philadelphia avant jazz from 1972. The basslines really make it. Nothing comes out of Philadelphia without a solid bass line, even after Sun Ra moved there in 1970 and distorted the groove. The first 100 copies of this LP are handmade by Byard himself, now sold out. Regular versions here.
Terry Allen – Lubbock (On Everything): The renegade Texas stoner-country movement of the 1970s should have a modern equal, but it doesn't. Allen here is incredible, singing about art, bennies, the FFA, jukeboxes, lost dreams and cocaine. Lloyd Maines all over that sucker. I'd love to see him at Studio E.
Alicia Keys – The Element of Freedom: The long, minute-and-a-half drum/piano outro to "Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart" is such an exquisite moment and yet every radio station fades it. The whole record crept up on me after nearly barfing at the quasi-empowering intro. "I'm Ready" makes me walk sideways.
Boredoms – Rebore Vol. 3: Japanese noise rock gods remixed by DJ Krush with inconsistent results. Krush is the master at setting and then adhering to a mood, but there's so many tributaries to Boredoms' music that he gets distracted and skittish. That said, seeing this band live is a religious experience.
Titus Andronicus – The Monitor: "This is a song about the Louisiana Purchase," he said, opening for No Age two years ago. I was overwhelmed with nine minutes of uncut ache and fury. Is that song on any album? I asked the singer. No, it's a new one. Two years later, finally, "Four Score and Seven" sees the light of day.
Beastie Boys – Paul's Boutique: So, I guess this was in that Dear You / Pinkerton category of 'slept on' albums, or something? According to someone who wasn't me or anyone I knew in 1989? Cause we played it to death. Those 33 1/3 books are hit and miss, but Dan Leroy did an outstanding job with this one.
Ron Carter – Uptown Conversation: The best moments in music are transcendental. I cannot explain how engrossing this record is to me. "Doom," which closes the album, grabs you like a mugger in an alley and doesn't let go for six minutes; it's "Peace Piece" meets "Myself When I Am Real" with Carter sliding through oil.
This Heat – Live: It's disappointing to draw a parallel to Throbbing Gristle only to later see Wikipedia beating you to the punch. Nevertheless. You still can't dance to Throbbing Gristle. Dying to find this band's studio albums; looking for recommendations between their debut and Deceit. Jockeying for latter.
Paten Locke – Super Ramen Rocketship: If, let's say, you're a new dad, who hasn't quite yet found the right hip-hop song that expresses your feelings for your daughter. If, let's say, you also favor triple-threat MCs/Producers/DJs who put those feelings in rhyme. If, let's say, you discover "After You." Then all is well.
John Lewis – The John Lewis Piano: The whole MJQ clan acquired this derisive "classically trained" tag that was hard to live down. That's what happens when you release Blues on Bach. But you know what? Some guy beating the shit out of a piano still sounds like some guy beating the shit out of a piano.
RKL – It's a Beautiful Feeling: Sir, are you by chance looking for a 7″ you had long ago? Have you been scouring the Earth for this hardcore gem, featuring a rapid-fire condemnation of meth addiction that you put on every mixtape you made in junior high? Sir, that record is two blocks away from your house, at a garage sale.
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, 3 Whitehall Place, Scotland Yard, by unknown sculptor. [Click on images for larger pictures.] The figure on the left of the royal arms, who holds a sickle in his right hand, rides a bull with a ring through his nose while the companion figure who holds what may be a fish in his hand, rides a dolphin.
Photographs and caption by Robert Freidus. Formatting, perspective, and color correction by George P. Landow. You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]
Ward-Jackson, Philip. Public Sculpture of the City of London. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2003.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, revised by Bridget Cherry. London Volume One. London: Penguin Books, 1989.
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Canada's commitment to sustainable forest management ensures that the country's forests remain healthy now and for generations to come.
Sustainable forest management in Canada is supported by laws, regulations and policies; a rigorous forest management planning process; and a science-based approach to decision-making, assessment and planning. Independent third-party certification of sustainable forest practices in Canada's forests is further evidence of our success in meeting internationally accepted standards for sustainable forest management.
What is sustainable forest management?
Sustainable forest management is a way of using and caring for forests so as to maintain their environmental, social and economic values and benefits over time.
In Canada, sustainable forest management decisions and activities are based on scientific research, rigorous planning processes and public consultation. To uphold these decisions and activities, Canada has developed laws, regulations and policies to enforce sustainable management standards and practices across the country.
Why Canada is so committed to sustainably managed forests
Canada's federal, provincial and territorial governments have long recognized that forests and their many resources are essential in so many ways to the long-term well-being of Canada's environment, communities and economy.
Managing forests sustainably is therefore critical for Canada, not only to balance competing uses in the short term, but to ensure we can enjoy forests' benefits for generations to come. Managing our forests sustainably is also critical from a global perspective. Canada has 9% of the world's forests, which means that keeping them healthy contributes to global ecosystem health.
In 1992, Canada acted on these responsibilities when the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers and Canada's forest sector endorsed national adoption of sustainable forest management principles. Now, more than two decades later, Canada is a world leader in sustainable forest management, applying it across the country's publicly owned forests – meaning about 94% of all Canada's forest land.
This is an important commitment to provide assurance to the international marketplace that all forest products, including those from Canada, are sourced from forests that are managed sustainably.
Laws, regulations and policies back up Canada's commitment
An extensive framework of federal, provincial and territorial laws, regulations and policies enforces and guides sustainable forest management practices in Canada. These are important tools given that 94% of the country's forests are on publicly land – that owned and managed by the provincial, territorial and federal governments.
Laws and policies are made in an open and collaborative government process in Canada, with extensive public participation and consultation. Canadians expect to be involved in decision-making and to see a balance achieved among competing interests for forest resources and benefits.
Laws, regulations, policies and enforcement are in place to:
- set aside protected areas
- protect wildlife
- respect Aboriginal and treaty rights
- specify harvesting and regeneration practices
- prevent illegal logging in Canada and the import of illegal timber products into Canada
Learn more about forestry laws in Canada.
Forest management planning underpins sustainable forest management
Forest companies wanting to harvest on public lands must develop forest management plans that comply with forest laws and are consistent with sustainable forest management principles. Companies must also consult the public, industry and experts to ensure that the plans include steps to maintain ecosystem health and to create economic opportunities for communities.
A great strength of forest management planning as a tool for achieving sustainability objectives is that it can be adapted to respond to ever-evolving situations. Scientific advances, changing public expectations and new market circumstances constantly shape the alternatives considered and the decisions made. In this way, regulators and forest managers are able to apply adaptive forest management to both long-term planning and day-to-day decision-making activities.
Read more about forest management planning in Canada.
Science-based indicators help track sustainability progress
Canada has played a leadership role in collaborating with other countries to develop a framework of criteria and indicators for monitoring and reporting on progress in sustainable forest management.
Criteria describe a set of basic social, economic and environmental values that Canadians want to sustain or conserve in forests. Indicators for each criterion are objective scientific measures that are tracked over time and used to assess change.
Canada's criteria and indicators help:
- demonstrate clearly Canada's environmental credentials
- clarify issues related to the environment and trade
- provide a common understanding of sustainable forest management
- inform the public and decision-makers about all aspects of Canada's forests
- identify where forest management policies and practices can be improved
Canada, as a founding member of the Montreal Process, has worked with other organizations and nations to promote the development of criteria and indicators, which are now used around the world.
See the criteria used to monitor Canada's forests and learn more about the science-based indicators used to measure them.
Indicators are reported on annually
The State of Canada's Forests report provides the most recent information for selected indicators of sustainable forest management, showing how Canada's forests are doing in each area. The report has been published annually since 1990.
By making the current report and previous editions openly available, Canada can demonstrate to Canadians and to the world that our forest practices are responsible and transparent.
Certification attests to the strength of forest management practices
Forest certification by independent third parties provides the added assurance that a forest company is operating legally and is complying with internationally accepted standards for sustainable forest management. As of 2015, Canada had the largest area of third-party-certified forests in the world: 166 million hectares of independently certified forest land.
Learn more about forest certification.
Read the State of Canada's Forests report
Find the latest environmental, economic and social indicators and statistical data for Canada's forests and forest sector.
- Sustainable forest management in Canada: Key facts
- Criteria and indicators used to monitor Canada's forests
- Forest land ownership in Canada
- How legislation ensures that Canada's forests are managed responsibly
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A glome is a 4 dimensional sphere, the hypersphere version of a tesseract, a hypercube.
Alternate forms of matter
A little sentient material to spice up a fantasy setting
Lightning steel is a miraculous metal formed from an alloy of iron, carbon, silver and pure captured lightning.
A mineral responsible for refrigeration, arctic landscapes, and hot springs across the world.
Part of my series on pseudo-magical world building
Not all armor is created the same, some is made from sterner stuff, others, not so much.
A thankfully rare mineral that burn's one skin as if the Devil himself had spit on you
Myths and misunderstandings swirl around this mysterious metal
"Beware those gems that adventurers try to sell you. Before you know, they turn to fools' gems"
Few things shine as bright as the jewels of Hell
"Ve'laan rust!" - Sailor slang, meaning "nonsense"
A metal with unique properties, ve'laan is prized by seafaring folk and admired by jewelers.
The Essence of Light, mined from the body of a fallen Star-Child.
Different types of fabrics in a fantasy setting
A type of silk woven from tree saps
A material similar in texture to normal silk, but woven from strands of ice
A type of silk given by a special type of larvae, much finer than conventional silk. Gowns woven from Moonsilk are not more alluring but can also give off musical sounds as breezes rustle over them.
The Writer glimpsed it in his journeys through the various hells, but he paid no heed to it. His tale was about the afterlife and the punishments therein, not the arms and armor of the Darkness.
A magical Salt, a dangerous bane against ice and snow…
Crystals have long be heralded as recepticals of magic power. Ice too, is a crystal.
A metal with the properties of ordinary gold, which has the properties of pure silver when covered with water.
The gold hoops and rings that sailors wear are to throw into the sea if there is a storm. These are bribes to the sea gods to let them live through the storm.


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George Kalogeris teaches English Literature and Classics in Translation at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the author of a book of poems based on the life of Albert Camus, Camus: Carnets (Pressed Wafer, 2006). His poems and translations have appeared in Literary Imagination, Poetry, The Oxford Gazette, Agni, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. He recently completed a collection of paired poems in translation, Dialogos.
George Kalogeris' Formative Moments:
I can't say that there was a single definitive experience that drew me to poetry, but three "formative moments" come to mind.The earliest came when I was child, in an elementary after-school Greek language program at my church. We used a text that was a collection of Homeric vignettes, adapted and vastly simplified, from The Iliad. One of the similes described the contending Argive and Trojan armies as being like stones on a seashore, washed over by a wave. In Winthrop, Massachusetts, where I grew up, the ocean was at the end of my street. Walking by the waves, as the waves raked over the stones of the shore, I could hear the clattering sound of shields, and I could see how the stones, with each successive wave, moved barely a few inches, back and forth, like armies in stalemate. Even the foam of the surf was like the manes of the horses, or the plumes of the helmets. Each time I heard the rhythm of the Atlantic's breaking current the sound washed over me, and I was reminded of the movement of the language, in the simile.
Much later I was very lucky to study with Derek Walcott, and from the first line of the first poem he discussed in class (Dylan Thomas' "Twenty-four years remind the tears of my eyes'") I knew that I heard the kind of serious, brilliantly meticulous attention to the craft that I had been thirsting for. When Derek brought Joseph Brodsky to our class for a reading, I was thrilled to hear a healthy Brodsky's spellbinding, incantatory recitation of Auden's "September, 1, 1939", and thrilled to feel how much he wanted us to hear how much was at stake, for him, in every word, which crystalized for me in the quavering pitch he gave to the lines: "The lights must never go out, / The music must always play.
Now, a series of poems by George Kalogeris:
Mandlestram: As I was washing myself in the dark. Translated by George Kalogeris
Lost in Translation
Puasanius: Daedalus. Translated by George Kalogeris
Leopardi: Saturday Night in the Village. Translated by George Kalogeris


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Alicia Keys had to swallow her pride and re-record her vocals for Jay-Z's smash hit "Empire State of Mind" after the rapper raised concerns about the quality of her work.
The track has become an unofficial New York anthem since its release in 2009, but the singer/songwriter admits she was asked to do a second take for the tune after initially laying down her vocals while battling a little nasal congestion.
Keys opened up about the recording process during an episode of VH1′s Storytellers, which aired on Monday.
Recounting the meanings behind her songs and how they came about, she told fans she thought Jay-Z was calling her to congratulate her on a job well done, but instead Keys was left a little red-faced as she had to accept that she hadn't done her best on the track.
She recalled, "(He said), 'It's good, it's good, but maybe you need to hit it one more time.' I was like, 'What? Whatchu mean?'
"I honestly felt a little some kinda way (annoyed). But you know, I was like, 'You know what? I can probably hit it one more time; I was kinda congested, it's true.' So I go into the studio in L.A. and now, I'm aggressive with it, now I feel like someone's challenging me, 'Oh, I wasn't good enough? Oh, OK.' So I go in, I hit it hard… put my little swag on it, send it back, like send! Bet you ain't have nothing to say now!"


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Picky Parents BNG
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1-Posts a set of criteria that the [imaginary] parents want for the baby name.
2-Thinks of a name then posts another set of criteria.
1-The name must have connection to the sea, middle should be vintage but not old ladyish and must go with her sisters name Marina Gwendoline
2-Pearl Morwenna
The name must be less than 8 letters long, the middle should honor the grandparent [Margaret] and must not contain the letter A.
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May 6th, 2013 01:28 PM #3Madison, 14-year-old name nerd! My style is all over the place, my favorites change all the time.
Boys: David, Eric, Finlay, George, James, Jude, Lee, Michael, Paul, Richard, Rory.
Girls: Emmanuelle, Frederica, Jayne, Juliet, Lauren, Mary, Molly, Nora, Raffaela, Stella.
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Sinclair ZX80 playing Space Invaders
In June 2010, The National Museum of Computing in the UK sponsored the first British Vintage Computer Festival at Bletchley Park. At least 2,000 visitors and 32 exhibitors attended the weekend event, which showcased vintage machines from the 1970s and 1980s.
There were lots of great old machines from Sinclair, Commodore, Amstrad, Heathkit, and others. There were even a few combinations of old and new technology, such as a 28-year-old Sinclair ZX Spectrum running Twitter.
Andy Taylor, a systems analyst and retro computer enthusiast in the UK, attended the event and took more than 100 photos. This gallery is portion of his album.
Many thanks to Andy for allowing TechRepublic to republish these photos. For more information on Andy's collection of vintage computers, check out his website Retro Computers or his Flickr photostream.
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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.102 no.8 Cape Town Ago. 2012
John Leslie Eidelman
It is with great sadness that we record the passing of Dr John Eidelman (14/12/1936 - 5/11/2011), general practitioner, Magaliesberg. How does one encapsulate the life of a dedicated doctor and family man whose presence, personality and multi-talented skills touched so many? Perhaps these words penned by Angela, his loving wife, and read at his funeral on 11/11/2011 do just that:
'Today the number one appears on day and month and time
Hence it seems a special reason and purpose for this rhyme
One man in this community has served his fellows well
He did his best for fifty years ... so much that I could tell.
Not orthodox in any way, a maverick man was he
No white coats, injection trays, no fancy surgery.
Quite often when he examined folk there were no snow white sheets
But on the bed were muddy paws and dogs who lay asleep.
He was always trusted for his knowledge and his care
One man you could depend on for always being there.
One man whose diagnosis whether medical or not
Could always fix just anything - he never lost the plot.
One man who always listened and forgot to eat his meals
One man who shared in others' pain and knew how sorrow feels
One man who for thirty years gave Boys Town so much care
Whenever I looked for him I knew that he was there
He was by no means a social man, in fact he was quite shy
He'd feed the birds and build his boat and let the world go by.
We were blessed with children three, and grandchildren four
We have had our three score years and ten, so who could ask for more
He loved his children oh so much, always mindful of their needs
They have followed in his footsteps and show this by their deeds
They stood by him, were there for him until the time he died
They did their very utmost, just everything they tried.
His passion was for animals and places that were wild.
Although a complicated man, he lived life like a child
He never would have left the farm, or stopped the work he loved
So a decision made for him was from the One above.
So how can we question or ask the reason why
The one on earth we loved so much is with One on high.'
Angela Eidelman
John Eidelman followed in the footsteps of his father and graduated MB ChB from the medical school of the University of the Witwatersrand. He married Angela Knight, nursing sister and artist, on 15 November 1961 and they settled on their farm 'The Spinneys' in the Magaliesberg area. It was from here that John practised as a general practitioner and where their family grew up. For the greater part of his life, John was the honorary medical practitioner to Boys Town.
Aside from being a diagnostician of repute, John was blessed with creative talents which ranged from woodcarving to motor bike building, from photography to assembling hi-fi amplifiers; you name it - John could fix it or make it. He even built his own stethoscope. Although his hands and mind were always busy, he had time to listen and heal. He was a special man and will not be forgotten.
We extend our condolences to his loving wife Angela, daughters Sarah and Samantha, son Rory, sons-in-law Dirk and Tony, and grandchildren Meagan, John, Hannah and Olivia.
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As technology becomes more central to the activities of UW Bothell, it becomes more important that strategic decisions regarding technology are made with the informed guidance of an advisory group. UW Bothell is considering many initiatives that have a significant technology component , including new degrees in fields with technology emphases, the increased importance of hybrid teaching and learning, and a growing emphasis on information security related to institutional data, to name only a few. The Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) helps UW Bothell ensure effective and transparent decision-making related to the management and use of technology by providing advice and guidance on technology policies, strategies, directions, and priorities. Committee members should solicit input across campus in order to represent all constituents.
The TAC acts in an advisory capacity and provides recommendations to the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Information Technologies. Specifically, the Technology Advisory Committee provides:
Educause (www.educause.edu/) is the nation's leading non-profit professional organization for technology leadership in higher education. UW Bothell is an Educause member and benefits greatly from technology support networks, forums, and thought leadership for the 21st century.
The Horizon Report is an annual publication by the New Media Consortium (www.nmc.org/) that presents a data-driven analysis to spot trends in new technology adoption in higher education. Each year, the report highlights short, medium, and long-term trends to help technology leaders stay ahead of the curve.


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So That Brazilian Girl Who Filmed Justin Bieber Sleeping Is a Porn Star + Won't Shut Up About Him
Remember that creepy chick who filmed Justin Bieber sleeping? Tatiana Neves Barbosa swears she's not a hooker, which may be true. But it's also true that she got paid to have sex at least once ... on camera.
Yup, Neves starred in a porno, because apparently someone would be willing to pay to see a 6 (in good lighting) get down and dirty on film.
TMZ reports that a porn outlet shot a XXX-rated video featuring Neves a few years ago, and they plan on releasing it this week now that her Google alerts are probably blowing up. We won't go into any filthy details, but apparently a soccer field is involved. Classy!
And despite her evident wealth of sexual experience, Neves swears Biebs was one of the best men she's ever had in bed.
"There was a lot of exchange of affection," she dished to AKM-GSI (via Page Six).
"He was the way a man has to be in bed."
As for why she'd sell him out, Neves explained, "I didn't want the video leaked but now there is not much I can do. I filmed like any fan would," she said. "He is a star. He is beautiful."
Interesting. Because, well, TMZ sources swear that Biebs never even touched her. And considering the steep downgrade it would be from his past conquests, we believe them.