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What I Ate During Yoga Teacher Training
Ah, teacher training. What a magical month. So many lessons, opening experiences, new friends, and new ways of looking at things. I can't believe it's over!
I completed my 200 hour teacher training on Friday at Yogaworks. People had told me that teacher training was a life changing experience, but I don't think I really understood how intense it would be until it was over.
This past weekend I was able to sit back and reflect on the past month. It was such an amazing experience, but it was not all easy! Nothing worth it in life is. There were some early mornings, traffic jams commuting back to the East side at peak traffic hours, the sometimes stressful amounts of homework, the sore wrists on my 2nd week, the moments of tears in the middle of a pose, my grandfather's death in the middle of the month, and then those moments of clarity, where I'd look around and brim with happiness for where I was in the training. The overwhelming feeling of gratitude and how worth it it was. And then there were the best savasanas of my life. Never had I felt so present and focused in my entire life.
The Yogaworks Program was so thorough, and I cannot praise it enough. We learned so much about yoga- the anatomy, the philosophy, and how to find your own voice teaching yoga. Anybody who thinks that teacher training is a "vacation" or a "retreat" is fooling themselves. Through Yogaworks, they give you 5 manuals, and guide you through an extremely organize program that ensures full understanding of each concept before moving onto the next. We had an in class final, a teaching final, and a take home final as well. They really make sure you know your stuff before graduating.
I am really glad I chose the one month intensive versus the longer, more drawn out programs. This way, I was able to immerse myself fully into the program with little time to focus on anything else. I am definitely an immersive type of learner. I get the most of out things when I fully dive in head first. I grew so close with all 10 of my classmates in such a short period of time. We were all on such a special journey together, learning so much. Our last day was very emotional for us all. We sat in a circle and went around to say said our parting words, and reflected on what was an incredibly life changing month for us all, and we cried. I jokingly called it waterworks instead of Yogaworks. One resounding theme for all of us was our gratefulness for our amazing teacher trainer, Charlie Samos.
If you live in LA, I definitely recommend taking one of Charlie's classes through Yogaworks. He is an amazing instructor with the kindest heart and most genuine soul! Also, his classes are on point.
What I Ate During Yoga Teacher Training
Now to the fun stuff! Eating healthy is really important to me and teacher training was no excuse. I was very adamant about bringing nutrient-dense foods with me during the long days of practicing and learning. Sometimes we would practice for 3 hours in the morning and for another 2 hours in the afternoon. That's a lot of asanas! Snacks were my best friend during this training. Because we practiced so often and always had to be ready to plank, I found that eating smaller, more frequent meals worked best for me and my body.
Packed Lunches
I did my best to bring a packed lunch 3-4 days a week. How did I find the time? Well, I guess you can say prioritizing. It's incredibly important to me to feed my body with good stuff- and the only way I can ensure I am eating the best of the best is if I am making it myself. On Sundays, I would go to the market and then go home to spend roughly 2 hours prepping food for the week ahead. I'd wash and cut my greens, steam my vegetables, roast up some tofu, and boil some beans for endless amounts of salad creations. This also came in handy for dinners, too, as often I would be studying at the library late, and if I didn't have the energy to whip up a healthy dinner, I'd have all the fixings already ready for me in the refrigerator.
Here we have an example of a homemade lunch that I would bring with me to teacher training.
- Salad of romaine, topped with butternut squash, avocado, edamame, and "creamy" broccoli (broccoli leaves tossed in homemade cashew dressing)
- Spirulina Chia pudding with strawberries (basic chia pudding with 1 tsp of spirulina added in!)
- Orange (citrus season, hey hey!)
- Apple (sometimes I'd bring 2)
- Medjool dates
Other times when I had less time to prep my food, I'd simply bring in a roasted sweet potato and some almond butter and eat that for lunch. So yummy!
Eating Out
On days that I didn't bring my own lunch, I opted to eat out! I'm not a huge eat-outer, so when I do dine out, it better be good. Not only good, but I want it clean, green, and VEGGIE heavy! Luckily, my training took place in Santa Monica, California, which I have dubbed one of the most vegan-friendly places to live, ever. There are so many options for veg-heads like me (I've been eating vegan all month long and it's going great) that I felt spoiled! Here are some of my favorite places that I ate out while at teacher training.
Whole Foods Salad Bar
Can you ever go wrong at the Whole Foods salad bar? I don't think so! The one is Santa Monica had tons of veg-friendly options to make my salad both satisfying and beautiful. This one had curried tofu, marinated mushrooms, cabbage, edamame, beets, black eyed peas, cinnamon roasted squash, avocado (which I added myself!), and some herbs.
Lifefood Organic
Lifefood Organic was another great option for lunches for me. However, I only ate there twice over the month since their prices are a little bit higher for a girl on a budget like me. Both of these wraps were $14.00, but I knew I was getting the best- 100% organic, raw, and carefully sourced ingredients. The Sea Wrap, below, was my favorite- it had kelp, avocado, coconut meat, tomato, pickled veggies, and romaine all wrapped inside nori (seaweed). It was so tasty and satisfying, I'm still dreaming about it to this day.
And last, but definitely not least, was Sweetgreen. Sweetgreen was my go-to dine out lunch spot over the past month. It was fast, easy, and absolutely delicious. Pictured below is the Portobello Wild Rice Salad, their vegan salad with beets and butternut squash served with a miso ginger sesame dressing. I kid you not, I think I ate this salad every week at least once. It was that good. The portobello mushrooms are marinated and grilled so perfectly and play off with the raw beets super well.
Healthy Snacks
Because we practiced asana for 3 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the afternoon, I normally opted to eat lighter meals more often. I would grazing throughout the day, eating when I was hungry and stopping when I was satisfied. Before entering training, I had this silly idea in my head that I shouldn't eat anything 2 hours before a yoga class, but this training taught me that I can and should eat before yoga, but something healthy and light, and only if I am hungry. Teacher training taught me a lot about intuitive eating, that's for sure.
Go Macro Bars
Hands down my favorite protein bar, Go Macro. If you attended my workshop you know these are the best bars for sustaining energy. They contain 11 grams of protein and are really low on the sugar content level. Lots of bars these days are loaded with excess syrups and sugars to make them chewy and sweet, but this bar isn't fooling around. The best flavor is peanut butter chocolate chip because peanut butter chocolate chip.
bliss balls
Find the recipe for my bliss balls here - and top them with any superfood you want!
Nuts and Dried Fruit
One of the cheapest and easiest ways to snack healthy and eat on the go is to combine your favorite nuts with your favorite dried fruit. Think customizable trail mix! My favorite combos are golden raisins and pumpkin seeds, mulberries and almonds, and medjool dates with pecans. Below is a medjool dates stuffed with pecans- a heavenly combo to be savored and enjoyed. Medjool dates are nature's candy and should be treated as so. :)
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To the consternation of British Commonwealth writers, the Man Booker Prize administrators have announced that the annual literary prize for the year's best full-length novel will be awarded to any author writing in English whose book has been published in the United Kingdom beginning next year. Up until now, eligible authors had to hail from the Commonwealth; thus, Nigerians and New Zealanders had as much of a fighting chance as Indians or Canadians. With the new inclusion of just about every author from the United States, the Man Booker risks becoming another American-dominated prize.
Or does it? I decided to look at the last 10 years of the Man Booker and offer up my thoughts on which books would have won had the prize's new rules already been in effect.
2003 Winner: DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little
In a year of outstanding candidates (Shirley Hazzard's The Great Fire, Toni Morrison's Love, Damon Galgut's The Good Doctor), DBC Pierre's debut had healthy competition, but it's my guess that the Australian-born author would have lost out to an American's masterpiece: Norman Rush's Mortals.
Would Have Won: Norman Rush's Mortals
Commonwealth: 0
United States: 1
2004 Winner: Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty
This one was a slam dunk: Alan Hollinghurst's crisply Jamesian The Line of Beauty steamrolled its competition, even its British competitor Cloud Atlas and its American rival, Marilynne Robinson's Gilead. Go read Hollinghurst; the Man Booker chose well.
Would Have Won: Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty
Commonwealth: 1
United States: 1
2005 Winner: John Banville's The Sea
The year that saw E. L. Doctorow's The March and Zadie Smith's On Beauty also saw Cormac McCarthy's blisteringly violent and poetic No Country for Old Men, an American novel that puts its navel-gazing Irish cousin to shame. 2005 would have gone to the American contingent.
Would Have Won: Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men
Commonwealth: 1
United States: 2
2006 Winner: Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss
The American offerings in 2006 — such as Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan — was a bit of a weak one compared to Kiran Desai's brilliant and deservedly popular The Inheritance of Loss.
Would Have Won: Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss
Commonwealth: 2
United States: 2
2007 Winner: Anne Enright's The Gathering
The cosmopolitan titles of 2007, like the Mediterranean haze of André Aciman's Call Me by Your Name, overshadowed Anne Enright's tautly Irish novel — but they all paled in comparison to the Dominican-infused America of Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
Would Have Won: Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Commonwealth: 2
United States: 3
2008 Winner: Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger
Many critics seemed surprised by the Indian author's success, but Aleksandar Hemon's The Lazarus Project stood head and shoulders over any other Anglophone candidate.Would Have Won: Aleksandar Hemon's The Lazarus Project
Commonwealth: 2
United States: 4
2009 Winner: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall
It's an odd year when a historical novel captures so many hearts on both sides of the Atlantic, but South-African-born Hilary Mantel's deeply absorbing Wolf Hall had readers enthralled in every city around the globe.
Would Have Won: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall
Commonwealth: 3United States: 4
2010 Winner: Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question
Jacobson's novel received polite applause, but had its American competitors been eligible, Jonathan Franzen's juggernaut, Freedom, would have been the winner.
Would Have Won: Jonathan Franzen's Freedom
Commonwealth: 3
United States: 5
2011 Winner: Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending
The new decade ushered in a bevy of books circling around memories: Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending, Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife, Michael Ondaatje's The Cat's Table — all of which could simply be forgotten in light of Teju Cole's bedazzling debut, Open City.
Would Have Won: Teju Cole's Open City
Commonwealth: 3
United States: 6
2012 Winner: Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies
What about Zadie Smith's NW? And Chris Ware's Building Stories? It doesn't matter; Hilary Mantel's riveting sequel, Bring Up the Bodies, swept the awards as it should have.
Would Have Won: Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies
Commonwealth: 4
United States: 6
It seems critics of the Man Booker Prize's expansion weren't entirely off base to voice concerns about the United States's looming influence. But an unsurprisingly large range of writers seem up to the challenge of competing on a wider playing field — and the Commonwealth can rest easy knowing that Hilary Mantel has another book (or three) up her sleeve.
But what do you think? Will the expansion of the Man Booker Prize reduce the significance of the award? Will it more accurately reflect the field of English-language novels? Do you agree with the estimations above about past prize winners? Leave your thoughts in the comments below, and we'll highlight some of the most insightful on The Airship's social media feeds (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr).

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TOKYO — A former employee of the Japan unit of Novartis was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of manipulating data to promote the Swiss drug maker's blood pressure drug Diovan, officials said.
The former employee, Nobuo Shiraishi, 63, was arrested on suspicion of violating Japan's pharmaceutical laws by providing false data to researchers, whose work was intended for use in advertising the best-selling drug, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office said in a news release. Novartis Pharma K.K., the local Novartis unit, said it would cooperate with the investigation.
"Regarding the arrest of our former employee, we take this seriously," the company said in a news release. "We will continue to cooperate completely with the investigating authorities, and we again apologize deeply for the concern and difficulties this has caused."
Anyone found guilty of exaggerated advertising of drugs in Japan can be punished with up to two years in prison or a fine of as much as 2 million yen, about $19,600, or both.


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SELF Run Club is back through the fall!
Grab your friends and meet up at Brookfield Place every other Wednesday, at 6:30pm. Each week, SELF will have a coach lead a warm up, workout and then cool down. The run could be anything from intervals or drills to a 3-5 mile run. All paces are welcome. Visit SELF.com for more information. We look forward to seeing you there!
- October 5: Coach Chris Heusler from Westin + Stance
- October 19: Katherine Greiner and Athleta
- November 2: Outdoor Voices and Newton Shoes


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NightVision - Using frame control as well as the push pull technique is for me the best way to quickly build attraction and is an integral part of my game. They can give you shit tests. They can give you bitchy comebacks. Whatever obstacles they present to you, as long as you have strong frame control, it backfires on THEM and they can't help but LOVE you for it! The good news is that it complements cocky and funny very well. Heres are good article that introducing the meaning of frames by Swinggcat .
A while back someone emailed me a great success story. I saved it on my computer and forgot about it. Last week I was going through my computer and found it.
I thought, "Wow! - this is a really great story," and was planning on using it in my last newsletter. But, then, as I was reading through it, I thought to myself, "there is so much good stuff going on here, I could do a whole newsletter on it." And that's exactly what I'm doing. Enjoy!
"Hey Swinggcat! There once was a time when I would walk into a bar, look at all the beautiful women having fun with guys who were NOT me, and get depressed. So I'd start drinking, and that would only make me more depressed. Eventually I'd go home alone, hating the world, hating women, and most of all, hating myself for not even TRYING to have fun.
Bars and clubs can be an intimidating environment. Until recently, it wasn't in my reality to believe that I could actually make out with a girl in either location. Sure, I'd seen guys do it before, but to think that *I* could was just beyond any logical reasoning my mind could grasp.
But in reading through Swinggcat's book, there was a chapter that really stuck out at me. That was the chapter on FRAMES. As Swinggcat defines it, a frame determines the underlying meaning of behaviors and actions.
I've found this is a *key* concept in understanding any interaction with women.
When you enter a situation you may feel uncomfortable with, the natural inclination is to be overwhelmed by the FRAME your environment presents. If you allow this to happen, you effectively give up any control over your behaviors and actions. This is the worst possible thing you can do if you are hoping to meet the girl of your dreams. Controlling your FRAME, and setting the right FRAME, as opposed to adopting the FRAMES presented to you, is the most powerful tool there is in getting a woman.
Allow me to demonstrate what I mean.
I was recently in a very trendy club in Los Angeles. It was the kind with some low level celebrities, some incredibly beautiful women, some incredibly rich men, sexy go-go dancers swinging around on poles, trendy techno music, and tastefully pornographic movies projected on the walls. In short: IT WAS THE MOST INTIMIDATING ENVIRONMENT KNOWN TO MAN!
So there I am, a guy who's about 50 lbs. overweight, who's bald, and who makes $30 Grand a year, hob-knobbing with models and porno stars. And wouldn't you know it, the same feeling I got when I went to a bar in the past began to creep up on me. But because I was able to understand the concept of controlling my FRAME, I was able to do something amazing.
I set the frame that I'm having a good time, that all the girls in the club liked me, and that I was going to have fun with them. Before long, I found myself in a conversation with a beautiful girl who is a model. In fact, she told me she's going to be on the next season of "America's Next Top Model." Because I approached her with a strong frame of having fun and that I was the PRIZE, she was very responsive to me. She eventually got dragged away by some friends (as is apt to happen in clubs). But later on, I saw her talking to a group of guys who were obviously trying to hit on her.
But because my frame was so strong, I walked up to the group, took her by the hand, and literally LEAD her onto the dance floor, away from all the moes she was talking to, who watched in stunned silence and a poor, bald, fat guy grinded away with this amazing girl in front of them. And not only that - SHE WAS INTO IT!
So there I am, body pressed up against this girl, having the best time in the world, and I think to myself "I should make out with her!"
So I did. I grabbed her and planted one right on her lips. And not only did she react well, but she reciprocated! Before long, our tongues were in a fencing match with each other, and I was the envy of about 78% of the club. It was a reality shattering experience for me, because until that point, the only place I'd ever made out with a girl was either in my car or in the bedroom after about 3 or 4 dates.
So what was different? The answer: My Frame! I set the frame where I was the PRIZE, where she was trying to win ME over, and where she wants me so bad that she WANTED to make-out with me. And because I set the strong frame, the model I was with WENT ALONG WITH IT! Now, I can now go into a club without that sinking feeling of depression dragging me down, because I know it is possible to not only have fun, but to meet any girl I want and make-out with her! You just gotta have the right frame.
Thanks Swinggcat!" - M from Pasadena
My response:
Damn! - talk about a geek to sheik story. This guy went from "classified gimp" to "certified pimp." What was is it that allowed him to do this? The sole enabling factor was this: He understood the power of ESTABLISHING himself as the PRIZE when interacting with women. In my book I call this PRIZABILITY.
As those of you who have been following my newsletters and have read my book know: ATTRACTION is not what a woman prefers. ATTRACTION is creating the emotion inside a woman of wanting, reaching for more of you. The art of creating this emotion inside women is what call PRIZING.
You cannot, however, create the emotion in a woman of her wanting and reaching for more of you if she does not perceive you as being the PRIZE. Put in other words, before you can ATTRACT her, you need to set the groundwork that you are the PRIZE. You can't make a woman want more of you if she does not view you as having any perceived value.
Even having good looks and lots of money, in and of themselves, doesn't necessarily suffice in establishing that you are the PRIZE with women.
A more efficient way of ESTABLISHING yourself as the PRIZE is through developing specific social skills. Learning to, for example, tell stories, cold read, be intriguing, develop your sense of humor...and so on. I do all of these things, and, in fact, I teach them in my book.
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The most powerful way, however, to establish PRIZABILITY is to ALWAYS define the underlying meaning of your interactions with women as you being the one who is the PRIZE. In my book I call this the META-FRAME.
In fact, all of the other methods for establishing PRIZABILITY - such as, telling stories, cold reading, being intriguing, saying something funny...and so on - only work in conjunction with you defining the META-FRAME as you being the PRIZE.
If you are doing a bunch of things to try to ESTABLISH your PRIZABILITY with a woman - such as, story telling and acting funny - but you are not defining the underlying meaning of your interaction with her as you being the one who is the PRIZE, you will, unknowingly, establish negative PRIZABILITY.
Put in other words, doing or saying things to increase your PRIZABILTY within the context - or META-FRAME - of you not being the PRIZE will inevitably make you look needy, pathetic, and desperate.
Before learning anything else about dating or ATTRACTING women, you need to know how to ESTABLISH the META-FRAME that you are the PRIZE in the interaction. Even if you have all of the social skills in the world, without knowing how to set the META-FRAME your skills are worthless when comes to ATTRACTING women. If you do not yet have a handle on this, you need to read my book:
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When you are fat, bald, and broke, like M from Pasadena, a woman's default assumption is probably going to be that you are not the PRIZE. To make matters worse, your default assumption about yourself might be that you aren't the PRIZE.
As M from Pasadena tells us: "When you enter a situation you may feel uncomfortable with, the natural inclination is to be overwhelmed by the FRAME your environment presents. If you allow this to happen, you effectively give up any control over your behaviors and actions. This is the worst possible thing you can do if you are hoping to meet the girl of your dreams. Controlling your FRAME, and setting the right FRAME, as opposed to adopting the FRAMES presented to you, is the most powerful tool there is in getting a woman."
M refuses to allow society, his environment, and the people he is around to dictate his FRAME and META-FRAME.
Just doing this can establish PRIZABILITY because it conveys to women that you are in control of your power, have a strong sense of self, and have an unswayable REALITY. These are all qualities women find PRIZABLE in men.
M continues: "I set the frame where I was the PRIZE, where she was trying to win ME over, and where she wants me so bad that she WANTED to make-out with me. And because I set the strong frame, the model I was with WENT ALONG WITH IT! Now, I can now go into a club without that sinking feeling of depression dragging me down, because I know it is possible to not only have fun, but to meet any girl I want and make-out with her! You just gotta have the right frame."
Let's remember, he didn't play tonsil hockey with just any girl, he did it with a woman who is going to be on the next season of "America's Next Top Model." And he was able to do this in spite of being fat, bald, and broke - all because he established the META-FRAME that he is the PRIZE.
When you ASSUME that you have perceived value, and KNOW how to establish the META-FRAME that you are the PRIZE, women will see you as a PRIZE they want to win over - and it doesn't matter if you're fat, or bald or broke...or whatever. If, however, you are good looking and rich yet do not have the skill set for establishing the META-FRAME that you are the PRIZE, your success with women will be mediocre at best. That's how important the META-FRAME is. With some guys, it almost seems like they were born with it. Not me. I had to learn how to establish the META-FRAME through a lot of experimenting and hard work. If you want to save yourself truck loads of time, come check out my book and learn how to establish the META-FRAME within a few hours:
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Many people think that home ceiling fans are a thing of the past and that using air conditioning systems are now the best way to cool the house. But the truth is: having these pieces around the house can give you a number of benefits that you can never find in air conditioning cooling systems. Ceiling fans in general have the ability to lower the temperature of the room by 8 degrees. When they are used together with air conditioners, you can afford to raise the thermostat and save up on electricity in the process without compromising on comfort.
But technically, home ceiling fans do not really cool the room per se. But instead, it creates movement in the air which gives out a cooling effect on to your skin. Because of this, you can lessen the workload on your air conditioners without ever sacrificing on comfort.
One of the best things about having these kinds of cooling systems around is that they are energy efficient. Obviously, these things use up a relatively smaller amount of energy compared to air conditioners. To put it simply, they keep you comfortably cool at a lesser cost. But if you still want to save up even more, you also have the choice of picking Energy-star rated ceiling fans which have been especially designed to use the least amounts of energy during operation. These home ceiling fans are made specifically to help lower your electricity bills and decrease the amount of carbon that you give out to the environment. Energy Star rated fans have been known to help you save up as much as $165 for the fan's entire lifetime - which is already quite a lot.
As mentioned before, fans do not really cool that air but rather create more air movement within the room. With this said, it is very important that you get the right fan size to be able to cool a certain space efficiently. Consider the diameter of your fan blade and the speed that it can operate. It is ideal to find a fan that can efficiently cool the air with lesser revolutions per minute. The bigger the fan diameter, the lesser revolutions it takes to cool the room to a certain degree.
Remember, size diameter is a more important factor in cooling the room than the number of fan blades. So when you go out shopping for these kinds of appliance, find the largest fan diameter that could possibly fit your space. If your area is 75 square feet or less, a 36 inch diameter fan or smaller can do you fine. Between an area of 75 and 114 square feet, you should have a 36-42 inch diameter fan for sufficient cooling. And for room areas with more than 144 square feet, pick home ceiling fans with a diameter of 50-54 inches.
Remember, prices for these fans can vary depending on a lot of factors- from fan size, design, brand and many others. So learn to weigh comfort over cost. A basic home ceiling fan can range from $20-100 while the fancier designs and varieties can go up to $3,000 to $12,000.
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Wedding Tips
Wedding Tips
Wedding details are just as important as anything else in your wedding planning. It's tricky because some of the small things can be easily forgotten when you have other things to remember, and they can cause unnecessary panic. it's important to envision, step by step, how your wedding day will go so that you know what you're going to need. Also, don't take on all the tasks by yourself, share them with your bridesmaids and groomsmen because at the end of the day, they are your best friends and are there to help.
After capturing so many weddings, we're sharing our experience with you about some of the important wedding details you absolutely don't want to forget. Having a successful wedding is all about planning everything right. From staying on schedule to the smallest details that'll ensure your day to go smoothly and stress-free.
- Hair – start early with getting ready. Allow extra time before the ceremony to change or re-do your hair if you don't like it. You can also avoid competing for bathroom time with your bridesmaids if you start early. This will allow plenty of time for bridal party photos as well.
- Wedding emergency kit – include the following (optional) items in case of wardrobe malfunction.
- bobby pins, safety pins
- brush, hair spray, curling iron, and dryer
- mini sewing kit
- mouthwash
- breath mints
- pack of tissue
- deodorant
- band aids
- duct tape
- Hanger for your wedding dress – you've spent a fortune on your wedding dress and we are going to capture it before you put it on for sure. Make sure your hanger is photogenic. Having your fiance and your names coiled on the metal wire is definitely a way to be personal.
- Food for the bridal party – from the moment you start getting ready in the morning to the reception at night, you're going to be hungry in between at some point. Prepare some snacks so you don't starve yourself.
- Directions/signs – put up road directions near your venue so your guests won't get lost; it's also a good idea to put up a sign especially when your venue has multiple entrances.
- Vendor meals – check with your venue to see if they provide vendor meals for your photographer, cinematographer, DJ, planner, etc. Some venues do and some don't, make sure your photographers, and cinematographers eat at the same time as you do so they won't miss important moments (cake cutting, bouquet tossing, etc.)
- Comfy shoes – unless you don't mind dancing in your 3-inch heels at the reception, have comfortable flats ready under your table for easy access when you're ready to kick off those heels.
It really matters to us that you have a successful wedding because the smoother your day goes = the happier you are, which translates into us delivery a better product.


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Boston and Skegness MP Matt Warman has defended his use of the word 'gamble' and vowed to continue to work towards the 'best deal for Boston and Skegness' following the results of the referendum.
Following the result Mr Warman posted a statement on Facebook that began 'Britain has decided to gamble on Brexit' – which a number of Facebook users disagreed with.
Mr Warman told The Standard: "Everyone who was paying close attention to the debate realised there were risks and rewards of both staying and leaving. I took the view that people would weigh up those risks and make an informed choice."
He said he would now continue working towards the best deal for Boston and Skegness, and even raised a question in the House of Commons on Monday asking Prime Minister David Cameron if Government would act on promises to reform immigration and increase spending on the NHS.
Mr Warman said Prime Minister David Cameron's decision to stand down now will provide 'sensibile stability in what wil be a tumultous time'.
He added: "We have to make sure the process of coming out is as beneficial as possible and negate the risks as much as possible."
Mr Warman added he was 'heartened' by the fact there were no incidents of disorder in the town on polling day and praised Boston Stump for organising an 'important' service to bring people together.
A joint statement from Leader of Boston Borough Council Coun Peter Bedford and its chief executive Phil Drury called on peopleto 'come together' now that the vote had taken place.
It said: "The referendum question has brought about passionate debate and argument on all sides and we respect the people's decision.
"What is important is that we come together to ensure that our communities, the economy and the future are both bright and positive.
"This applies throughout the UK but nowhere more so than this great borough."
St Botolph's Church will be holding its Service of Friendship on Sunday, July 3, at 4pm. It will be followed by afternoon tea.


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"Dark Days at Newspaper" is a headline that could run on the front page of almost any daily paper in America. Advertising, circulation and relevance are heading downward, and with rounds of layoffs and spending cuts, the cranky, daylight-deprived souls who toil away in newspaper offices are understandably gloomy. The blogosphere churns around the clock with portrayals of newspapers as conservative and out of touch, while feeding like maggots on the content those newspapers provide. Right-wing radio bashes newspapers as too liberal. Far worse than all the criticism is the cold reality that there is simply no stopping the technological and generational shift from print to digital in the news business. The old model printing news and advertising on large pages of disposable paper is sinking steadily toward the basement.
So the dark underground caverns of a prestigious New York newspaper are the right setting for the murder at the outset of Black and White and Dead All Over (Knopf; 368 pages) by John Darnton, the author of biology-fiction thrillers Neanderthal and The Darwin Conspiracy. A 30-year veteran of the New York Times, Darnton delivers a knowing, insider's portrait of the newspaper with great sympathy and humor, and successfully captures the intense human drama and daunting business imperatives in the world of newspapering. A sense of impending doom hovers over the enterprise, a sense that its greatness is slipping away.
Black and White is really a novel about the Times (where I once worked as a reporter and foreign correspondent), thinly disguised as a murder mystery. What elevates it to the top of any beach-reading pile is its dead-on depiction of the idiosyncratic life of a big-time newsroom, way more chaotic and disorganized than outsiders can imagine. The adolescent jockeying between ambitious editors, the unpredictable twists of a news-driven day, the rush of deadline pressure, the bickering over how to package incomplete information, the prevalent workaholism and utter abandonment of personal lives, the nightly repairing to a neighborhood bar: These are all elements of an exhausting daily odyssey that yields a remarkably readable, authoritative-sounding version of world events. Newspaper people are romantic and nostalgic about their craft, with its flashes of brilliance and its glaring shortcomings, and with the wry world-weariness that only the brethren can fully appreciate.
The plot of Black and White is engrossing from the get-go. The first murder victim is a much-hated editor who supervised the newspaper's standards of word choice, and who personifies the tyrannical, pretentious side of the Times. (The inside joke here is that the victim, Theodore Ratnoff, is portrayed as a tall and handsome strapping blond, while the real editor of standards, Allan Siegal, was short and heroically rotund.) His body is discovered with a telling item stuck into his chest: a newspaper spike, the symbol of days gone by, when an editor rejecting copy would spike it on a metal spire atop one's desk. The smart-alecky reporter assigned to cover the crime teams up with a dark and attractive (if implausibly aristocratic) female police detective. In their relationship, Darnton skillfully plays with the touchy alliance/competition/mistrust between reporters and cops, mirroring the larger association between the media and government. Surveying the thicket of potential murderers, Darnton can offer a kaleidoscopic view of the characters who populate the newspaper. ("Any suspects?" the editor is asked. He answers: "Let's see. How many people are in editorial? I'd say about twelve hundred.")
The publisher (modeled on the current Times publisher, Arthur Sulzberger) frets about the stock price and drags senior staff to time-wasting group retreats. "Thinking was not his forte, but he had a certain cunning," writes Darnton. The executive editor (modeled on the current executive editor, Bill Keller) is too shy to talk to his staff and constantly reminisces about his days as a foreign correspondent in Russia and Africa. The reporter without a moral compass (Judith Miller, of WMD fame) gets caught plagiarizing Tolstoy. There is even a hard-driving and swashbuckling rival publisher named Lester Moloch (modeled on Rupert Murdoch). There are countless reporters and editors with their own bizarre tics or traits. The murder was clearly a clever inside job. More, I will not give away.
Darnton relies on gentle satire to evoke the many ironies in newspapering and even his seemingly throwaway descriptions of news situations ring utterly true. The ancient pressroom at City Hall looks like "a crowded Mayan ruin littered with the detritus of tourists." The relentless questions rained on a journalist writing a page-one story on deadline is an experience "like getting nibbled to death by ducks."
Darnton, a talented correspondent and editor, excelled at the Times but never won promotion to the highest ranks, allowing him a bitingly accurate perspective on how things really work at the paper. Only now, after his recent retirement, could he write what amounts to a tell-all about the newspaper he clearly loved and gave much of his life to. His novel may lose him a few friends, but it will win him many new admirers.


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Growing together
Respect for all
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Together we will create a school/community culture based on positive interactions and mutual respect. We will change each other to achieve the highest standards in our personal and academic lives.
-Every moment matters!
--For all new students to our district, please make sure you bring proper documentation: shot record, birth certificate and proof of residency (current lease agreement and/or a utilities statement).
**If you are transferring from another
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As an extension the District Advisory Council (DAC), each school has a "School Advisory Council" (SAC) that meets to review the topics presented in the DAC meetings as well as to discuss topics relevant and specific to our school operation. This group works in conjunction with the Parent Teacher Organization (PTO). If you are interested in joining University Hills' School Advisory Council and/or serving as a representative for University Hills in the District Advisory Council, please email Kelly Mahres, Principal as soon possible.
Thank you so much for your interest and investment in University Hills!
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Thank-you for your understanding and cooperation.
Upcoming Events at University Hills
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When women talk about a man's bad behavior they'll often say he's thinking with his Dick. This is precisely how I feel about our new president's intention to "dismantle Planned Parenthood." In response, I am suggesting to all my patients and friends that it is time for women to start thinking with their Lady Parts, or shall I say, to quote our president, our Pussies. Gals, it's time for our Pussie's to work on our behalf and what better issue could there be for them to champion than access to contraception and sexual health care?
The idea of eliminating Title 10 funding feels disturbingly sinister, at the very least. Approximately 75% of patients who rely on Planned Parenthood for care are low-income people. And while a few of Planned Parenthood sites do provide abortion services, many do not. In fact, Planned Parenthood reports that 97% of the care they provide is not specific to abortion. Actually, they offer life-saving services like PAP smears, HIV prevention and screening, contraception, and basic GYN care. Our president and vice president's Throwing-the-Baby-out-With-Bath-Water approach based on their "Pro-Life" stance has raised my index of suspicion of one or all of the following motives: a war on low-income Americans, a poorly informed effort to reduce the abortion rate below its current lowest rate ever, a desire for involvement in people's sex lives (Yuck, what a thought!) or all of the above. Should Planned Parenthood funding end then millions of low income people will not have access to reproductive and sexual health care at all. The outcome will be catastrophic and the impact of that catastrophe will largely be shouldered by poor women and their kids.
At present it is estimated that over 45% of all pregnancies in the US are unintended. These are the result of either a method failure or because of not having contraception in the first place. In either case, pregnancy can be both expensive and risky to a woman. This is especially true for low-income women who are more likely to be in poor health when starting a pregnancy than wealthier ones. My experience has shown me that poor women often end up bearing the burden of pregnancy complications and then caring for their kids with little physical or financial support from anyone. With few social programs being funded and low-income men having little money themselves, poor women are often left on their own to make ends meet. In order to stop this from recurring, access to affordable and effective contraception is paramount. And men, RARELY IF EVER assume responsibility for this. This includes choosing to have a vasectomy when they themselves don't even want more children. Men across class lines are so squeamish and protective of their penises that they refuse sterilization repeatedly. Despite the fact that most father's today have witnessed their partner's vagina performing extraordinary feats of accommodation in childbirth and are at least momentarily awestruck by the capacity and the pain it must cause, they still find the idea of a small snip and ice pack on their Dick's just too risky or potentially uncomfortable to take on; more Dick thinking getting in the way of common sense, if you ask me. This leads to further reproductive burden landing on women's shoulders.
I cannot count the number of times that a weary, exhausted, doing-her-best woman presents for a post-partum exam at 6 weeks after delivery and is pregnant. Why? In the words of one such patient: I just couldn't argue with him anymore. He just wouldn't give up! I had sex with him to get him off my back. Many of you reading this will immediately jump to the conclusion that this woman should show her he-man bully the door and never open it for him again. Trust me though, this happens to women who aren't poor but they're much more likely to have adequate contraception on board when it does. When my higher class patients present for a post-partum exam and sheepishly admit to having succumbed to their partners' hassling them, despite my advice to the contrary, their far less likely to be pregnant. The reality in medicine is that women with more money are on the receiving end of more and better care which translates into more effective contraception. Health care providers, by and large, prefer caring for wealthier white women and earn more money doing so. Compare the salaries of clinicians who work for Planned Parenthood to those who work in a private or hospital-based practice and you'll see what I mean. Folks that are on the front lines in a Title 10 clinic are activists who understand and deeply sympathize with what can and does happen to the poor if they don't have access to care. Should the president succeed in "Dismantling Planned Parenthood" he will create greater disadvantages to the very constituents he appealed to during his campaign. This is just too weird!
I encourage you to let your Lady Parts help you think about what a poor woman faces when it comes to childbearing and parenting. Think about how burdensome it must be to face an unintended pregnancy simply because you couldn't access effective contraception or your personal values don't allow for a termination of pregnancy. Then, imagine what could happen to you should you be in the position of having lost your job and health insurance at the same time that your prescription for the pill is about to run out. My guess is if you do, you'll better understand the importance of not dismantling Planned Parenthood, at least not before you get to the one closest to you.
Copyright E. Resh, 2017.


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Whenever I have a question of, "can I compost this?" There's usually two people I turn to, one of whom is Laura Rosenshine, founder of Common Ground Compost. I was curious to know whether those compostable cups, plates and cutlery that I'm seeing in more earth-conscious restaurants, are in fact compostable in NYC, especially since they aren't accepted by our GrowNYC compost drop-offs. Here's what she says::
Compostable serviceware can be tricky because not all compost sites can process the material. Some facilities choose not to, whereas others don't because their type of compost processing prohibits it.
But there are many different composting systems, so knowing where your compost is going and what material that system can accept is really important and will dictate what can be sent to the compost facility. The challenge is that each hauler has their own relationships with the compost sites so there is no consistency. As far as Common Ground Compost knows, as of early 2017 there is only one commercial hauler that has a relationship with a compost site that can process this material, and they only go there when they know they have this type of material to process.
For residential compostable serviceware, Earth Matter, a non profit organization on Governors Island can also process compostable serviceware. Earth Matter primarily processes material collected at GrowNYC Green Markets and waste generated on the island, encouraging island vendors to purchase compostable serviceware since they are working towards being a Zero Waste Island.


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When I go about my daily routines as a student in London, or when I'm back home in Toronto, I often forget where I am in time and space—I grow uncritical and complacent, and allow myself to be coddled by the cloud of security that is Canadian Middle Class Life. I let it convince me that the things I have seen throughout summers abroad are not just as urgent as my academic assignments, filial duties, and period cravings. One of our AH 2200: Creativity in Action guest speakers, the eloquent Julie Young-Marcellin, gave me a wake-up call with her thoroughly inspiring presentation on "Architects of Change" and the steps we can take to make change happen on all levels.
Julie's entire presentation was dotted with engaging anecdotes and instances of her cute "ex-bank manager humour," but one story of hers particularly resonated with me. She told our class of her very first volunteer trip, during which she helped out in a Honduran community with a group of women from her own neighbourhood. She recounted how mealtime became an internal dilemma for her—she sat among the group of white women as the only black woman in their exclusive dining area, while the workers always ate in their kitchen quarters. Julie expressed her discomfort with the situation: as a person of mixed racial heritage, she identified with the black Honduran individuals who worked at the facility. However, as a Canadian woman who was raised with privilege, who was living a relatively comfortable life at the time, and who was in the Honduras with the group to "do good," she didn't know where the boundaries between herself and the workers lay—she felt stuck.
I know all too well how it feels to float in that space in the middle. I am Chinese-Canadian. Personally, I've never felt wholly "Chinese," nor wholly "Canadian". When I visit China, I am often perceived as "not Chinese enough" because of the country in which I was raised, and the customs with which I was raised. When I'm in Canada, the place I consider my home, I sometimes feel that I'm "not Canadian enough" because of my Chinese roots. Wherever I am, I am always something foreign: too queer among my straight friends; too immature among my "truly adult" friends; too Canadian in China; too Chinese in Canada.
It may seem unlikely (and perhaps impossible) for me to fully know you, or to be touched by your history, or, in turn, to reach out and touch some part of your soul. My biggest takeaway from Julie's presentation, though, is that anecdote breeds familiarity. Familiarity goes on to breed compassion. Through our compassion for others, selfishness can wane. Others' problems, problems that seemingly do not involve us at all, become ever so urgent when we listen to people's stories with equality, equity, and humanity in mind.


text: Publication The Future of Public Health Released: January 1, 1988 This book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled. An update to this report was released in 2002, The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century.


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AKIRA SATAKE | Clay
Akira Satake was born in Osaka, Japan and has been living in the U.S. since 1983. In 2003 he relocated from Brooklyn, New York to Swannanoa, North Carolina.
The Philadelphia Museum awarded him the National Award for Excellence in Contemporary Clay. A Craftsman's Legacy - a national weekly television series on PBS, featured his life and work.
Akira is widely sought after for workshops, lectures and exhibitions and has been invited to France, Belgium, Israel, Australia, Spain and Bali.
He has work in the permanent collections at The Mint Museum and The Phillips Collection.


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It is with sad and heavy hearts that we pay tribute to our friend and mentor, Ray Manzarek. -X- - Ray Manzarek is an integral part of X's history. The band's debut album, Los Angeles was released on April 26, 1980 and produced by Ray. The album includes a cover of the 1967 Doors song "Soul Kitchen" and was the bands most successful release. It ranked # 16 for the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop Critics Poll. Subsequently in 1989, it was ranked number 24 on Rolling Stone's list of 100 best albums of the 80s and Pitchfork ranked it 91st on their top 100 albums of the 1980s. The title track is included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll and again in 2003, the album was ranked number 286 on the Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Ray went on to produce the next three studio albums for the band, Wild Gift in 1981 (also on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 greatest albums of all time at #334), Under the Big Black Sun in 1982 and 1983's More Fun in the New World.
In late 2010, X celebrated the 30th Anniversary of Los Angeles by playing the entire album, start to finish. Ray joined the band during their two shows in San Francisco, just after Christmas. In August of 2012, Ray again joined the band for the entire show at the famed Roxy Theatre during the Sunset Strip Music Festival, playing Los Angeles in its entirety. In 2013, Rhino released The Doors/X Side by Side: Soul Kitchen, a split white vinyl 7".
"Ray led by example, from The Doors to Carmine Burana and beyond. He is and will always be a spirit being, adept at expanding perception. And once those doors of perception are opened, they never close. He taught me that we are the keys, that we can unlock all doors, everywhere, to create magic, to transform ourselves and power the world, through joy and love and imagination and art and, above all through music." - Exene
"Ray was a mentor to X in our early days and a something of a father figure to Exene & me. He was brilliant & soulful. If Bob Dylan brought poetry & folk to popular music; Ray & the Doors brought the blues & poetry to rock music. The Doors are rock royalty. It has been a privilege & honor to call Ray a friend and share the stage w/ him. " - John Doe
"Ray always believed in us. We'll miss him. My heart goes out to Dorothy and Pablo." - Billy Zoom
"I am so sorry to hear about Ray's passing. Not only was he an integral part of X's history, he was a smart, funny, and kind friend. I will miss him." - DJ Bonebrake
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LOS ANGELES — With "Avatar," 3-D conquered the world.
With "The Great Gatsby," it may finally grow up.
In a daring test of both himself and the movie audience, Baz Luhrmann — the Australian director of films like "Australia" and "Moulin Rouge!" — is planning to release a star-packed, high-budget version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's much-admired novel of the Jazz Age next Christmas.
In it Leonardo DiCaprio plays Jay Gatsby, Carey Mulligan is Daisy Buchanan and Tobey Maguire is the narrator, Nick Carraway.
In 3-D.
Mr. Luhrmann's film will come three years after "Avatar," a science-fiction epic directed by James Cameron, became the biggest hit in movie history, with $2.8 billion in worldwide ticket sales. "Avatar" proved that a new generation of 3-D technology could immerse viewers in a credible fantasy world, the fictional planet Pandora.
But "The Great Gatsby," written by Mr. Luhrmann with his long-time collaborator Craig Pearce, will tell whether 3-D can actually serve actors as they struggle through a complex story set squarely inside the natural world.Continue reading the main story
If "The Great Gatsby" succeeds, it may open the door to a new generation of sophisticated movie dramas that will match the spectacle value of the animations ("Happy Feet Two"), action films ("Underworld: Awakening") and elaborate fables ("Hugo," "The Adventures of Tintin") that now fill Hollywood's 3-D release schedule.
It might also supply what has been missing in the Oscar season — the heat of a film that decisively breaks a barrier, like "Gone With the Wind," the first all-color best picture, or "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," perhaps the first Oscar winner to be anchored in its make-up and fantasy effects.
"The 'special effect' in this movie is seeing fine actors in the prime of their acting careers tearing each other apart," Mr. Luhrmann explained in a telephone interview this week.
He spoke of using 3-D not to create thrilling vistas or coming-at-you threats, but rather to find a new intimacy in film. He referred particularly to a climactic scene in which Daisy's husband, Tom Buchanan (played by Joel Edgerton), confronts Mr. DiCaprio's Gatsby in a suite at the Plaza hotel, all in three dimensions.
"How do you make it feel like you're inside the room?" he asked.
Mr. Luhrmann's experiment will have to overcome the ambivalence of viewers who have yet to fully embrace 3-D technology, especially in North America. The success of "Avatar" notwithstanding, 3-D has faltered somewhat in high-profile efforts like "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" and "Green Lantern," and studios have had to work hard to convince consumers that there is a real reason for it beyond Hollywood's desire to charge higher prices. ("Tintin" and "Hugo" have done well in their 3-D versions.)
As a result, audiences have become increasingly picky about 3-D, although moviegoers overseas — where films can now make up to 70 percent of their profits — have been more enamored of the technique because it is newer to them.
Mr. Luhrmann said that the idea of filming "Gatsby," which he will release along with Warner Brothers and Village Roadshow, occurred to him about a decade ago. He had finished "Moulin Rouge!," a flamboyant mash-up of musical cultures, and was traveling from Asia to Europe on the Trans-Siberian Railway with, by his description, "some bottles of red Australian wine" and earphones.
On the earphones, Mr. Luhrmann said, were two recorded books. One was "The Great Gatsby." After listening for a day or two, he began to wonder why Fitzgerald's novel, which he said he found "exquisite," had seemed to elude filmmakers, one after another.
Mr. Luhrmann had seen the 1974 version directed by Jack Clayton, in which Robert Redford played the lead. Mr. Redford "was the coolest thing in the world," he recalled. But the film, he said, didn't really tell him "who Gatsby was."
In 1949 Alan Ladd played Gatsby, the socialite-ruffian, in a version directed by Elliott Nugent. Reviewing it in The New York Times, Bosley Crowther said its problems were a "weak script," direction that seemed "completely artificial and stiff," and Mr. Ladd's reversion to "that stock character he usually plays."
Mr. Luhrmann looked in vain for a print of the first cinematic "Gatsby," a silent film directed by Herbert Brenon, with Warner Baxter as Gatsby. It was released in 1926, just a year after the novel was first published.
Motion Picture News was impressed. "It's a sophisticated story, told with first-rate lights and shadows," wrote its reviewer, Laurence Reid.
Still, it has been left for Mr. Luhrmann to unlock the movie potential in a small book whose themes — social climbing, Prohibition thuggery, faithless marriage and the self-conscious modernism of almost a century ago — are squeezed into a compressed yet strangely operatic plot. (An opera there was, too, in 1999, commission by the Metropolitan Opera and composed by John Harbison.)
It was a lecture by Mr. Cameron, then working on "Avatar," that persuaded Mr. Luhrmann 3-D might help him find what had been missing in "Gatsby." To examine the potential of actors in 3-D without the gimmickry of contemporary action sequences, Mr. Luhrmann turned to Alfred Hitchcock's 3-D version of "Dial M for Murder," from 1954. It wasn't easy. He found only two projectors, one in New York, one in Burbank, Calif., that could still play that film.
The sensation of moving through it with Ray Milland, Grace Kelly and Robert Cummings sealed the deal — both for himself and for Mr. DiCaprio and the troupe, who also studied the Hitchcock film. "It was like theater," Mr. Luhrmann said.
Michael Lewis, chief executive of the 3-D technology provider RealD, said, "This is the final stage in the maturing of the medium." Mr. Lewis spoke from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week.
Other filmmakers are pushing forward with grown-up dramas in three dimensions, but fewer than might be supposed, given the hoopla that surrounded "Avatar" when it was released in December 2009.
Steven Soderbergh almost shot "Contagion" in 3-D, but pulled back when it proved difficult in tests to get close-ups and other critical shots. Mr. Cameron's "Titanic," a drama with considerably more action than "Gatsby," will be rereleased in 3-D in April.
RealD, which collaborated with the Royal Opera House on a 3-D version of "Carmen," will follow up with "Madama Butterfly" in the next few months, Mr. Lewis said.
Adult interest in 3-D has "settled into a very, very good place," Dan Fellman, Warner's president of domestic distribution, said. Mr. Fellman said he became sold on the potential of Mr. Luhrmann's film — which was shot in Australia, with a budget of roughly $125 million before government rebates — after viewing scenes that took what he called an almost "subliminal" approach to the medium.
"You were immersed in the lifestyle of Gatsby," Mr. Fellman said. "You were in his world, moving from room to room."
(The producers of "Gatsby," along with the Luhrmann regulars Catherine Martin and Catherine Knapman, include Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher, whose Red Wagon Productions made the technologically adventurous "Stuart Little" series.)
Some will fear, Mr. Luhrmann acknowledged, that he is violating a sacred text. After all, he is the director who in 1996 cast Mr. DiCaprio and Claire Danes in an MTV-style adaptation of Shakespeare, "Romeo + Juliet."
"Everyone has strong, and generally opposing, opinions, when you mention 3-D, or 'The Great Gatsby,' or Baz Luhrmann," he said.
But Fitzgerald, he insisted, would have approved.
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I want Louisa Clark to be my new best friend forever! I seriously cannot wait for this author to write the next book in this series, for surely there will be another. I simply enjoyed watching Louisa grow into a full-fledged adult, watching her character morph from a young woman with no ambition, no dreams, into a woman who will take risks, fall in love, reunite with her family, show compassion and courage, and manage to keep all things in perspective, much to her own surprise. I liked the way the author used flashbacks in the narrative to help those who read the first book "Me Before You", to recall the basic story, and to also introduce it to those who had not. I want to have another window into Louisa's next stage of life.
Many months after the suicide of Will Traynor, the man for whom Louisa was a caregiver, she still mourns the loss. She loved him and her grief has overwhelmed her. She moved to London with the help of the money he left her, but has not, as he had wished, begun to "live life". She tried to travel, but she gave up quickly. She did not return to school. She works in an airport bar, pretty much a dead end path forward. After she falls from the roof of her building in a freak accident, she requires weeks of healing. Many suspect that she was so despondent that she jumped. She returns home to her family and begins to enjoy the safety of their company and concern. Her sister, Treena, kept encouraging Lou to return to school, to get a better job, to stop living at home if she didn't have to, because Treena felt that her own life was truly a dead end and she wanted more for her sister. What hope did she have as an unmarried mother with a good university degree but no job prospects?
When Louisa returns to her own apartment, flat as it is called in the book, to try and return to her life and job, she discovers the 16-year daughter of Will Traynor. Her first shock is that he never told her about Lily, and her second is that this young girl had been on her fire escape once before, the fire escape leading to her roof and her accident. The two of them develop a relationship which is sometimes fiery as well as loving, sometimes combative and dysfunctional as Lily experiences teenage angst and feelings of insecurity and isolation.
When she begins grief counseling, she meets Jake, a 16 year old teenager. Walking with him, she meets the man who came to pick him up from the session. She recognizes him. He is Sam, the ambulance driver who held her hand after she was seriously wounded in her traumatic fall from the roof. He kept encouraging her to stay alive. Soon, a relationship begins to flower between them.
The character, Louisa, is defined by her compassion, her sense of responsibility for others, her genuine feeling for their welfare and her quirkiness. Lily's character is at first defined by lying, stealing, inappropriate comments and angry outbursts. Her need to feel wanted and loved has made her a manipulator who acts out inappropriately when she feels threatened. With Louisa's help, she grows into a more responsible teenager who can function quite well in the new world in which she begins to live.
I loved this fairytale. It introduced so many interesting threads, feminism, juvenile delinquency, pedophilia, alcoholism and recovery from grief. It does veer off in many extraneous directions, but all of the twists and turns come together and are resolved in a satisfying conclusion. Josie, Lou's mom, discovers women's rights, her sister Treena loses her spoiled attitude and acknowledges her own failures, Georgiana, Will's sister becomes less self-centered and more interested in her extended family, the Traynors embrace their newfound grandchild, and Louisa begins life anew at the same time that Lily begins to follow a more positive path.
Yes, this novel is like an adult fairytale, but it is one that I thoroughly enjoyed. Jojo Moyes writes in a clear style with a touch of humor that is so well balanced that even the most traumatic scenes are tolerable. The narrator was excellent. She invited me into the story and held me there, thoroughly engaged as she brought each character to life.


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On the other side of the tap room at Asbury Park Brewery, in a high-ceilinged industrial space with not a whiff of barnyard in the air, you'll find a pair of brothers cultivating a thoroughly modern farm.
It's soilless, it's vertical, it's pesticide-, herbicide-, fungicide- and insecticide-free, and its state-of-the-art LED technology lights the way to continual growth of microgreens ranging from arugula and spicy mustard to red Russian kale and amaranth.
The 2,500-square-foot space is called Good Feeling Farms, and it's where Joe and Chris Chiappetta work to supply distributors who in turn bring their nutrient-rich, flavor-intense microgreens to top restaurants in the region.
"Every week, we sell about 70 to 75 pounds of microgreens," Joe says. "Our model is that we sell to distributors only." Distributors include New Jersey-based Cuttler Produce, Driscoll Foods, AgriExotica, J. Ambrogi and FarmArt, for example—and every week they start afresh with new crops of microgreens.
The brothers, who grew up in Basking Ridge, started farming in a basement in Belvidere, in the historic Apollo House, which was a station on the Underground Railroad.
The move from Warren County to Asbury Park allowed them not only to expand into an economically viable enterprise, but be part of the kind of community in need of an employment-providing farm.
"We want to be in a depressed urban area," Chris says, "to work with (partners) like Kula," an Asbury Park urban farm with a cafe and training program that engages local residents and trains them for employment in the hospitality industries. "We want to hire people who go through the Kula program."
"'Cause that works," interjects Paul Chiappetta, father of Chris and Joe.
Paul continues: "These two guys grabbed a dream and ran with it. It's not fancy AeroFarms (a massive urban farm in Newark) here; it's boot-strapped."
Joe nods. "We still have the ability to have an impact, to make a difference," he says. "We can give back."
Meanwhile, they farm: Their process starts with sanitization, cleaning and sterilizing everything that's part of growing microgreens. Onto a layer of burlap go the seeds, which then are sprayed with water and transferred to a germination room. There's no light, just high humidity and high temperatures.
"That can be tricky in the winter," says Paul, smiling.
After two days of germination, Chris and Joe move their itty-bitty greens to "grow chambers," where they mature within days into full-fledged microgreens. Then the process begins again—every week, 52 weeks a year.
The Chiappettas continually look ahead; their idea is to bring Good Feeling Farms to many urban areas in New Jersey, to spread around not only the nutritional value of their microgreens, but to teach and to provide employment.
That'll take a bit of change in the mind-set of banks, since "there is no such thing as traditional financing for farms," Joe says.
"We own the equity in the farm," Chris adds, "but banks are so risk-averse" when it comes to agriculture.
The brothers will not be deterred. Tastes of their microgreens inspire confidence in their vision: Micro-arugula is intensely peppery and the freshness is peerless; it's crisp, ready to top pizza, stuff into tacos or sandwiches, use in an omelet or frittata, or toss with salads and set atop stir-fries.
Pop Paul notes: "These microgreens last two weeks—at least!—in the fridge."
Good Feeling Farms is located on the far side of the Asbury Park Brewery, 810 Sewall Avenue in Asbury Park, but its entrance is at 811 Monroe Avenue. It is not open to the general public. The best way to experience Good Feeling Farms' microgreens is to ask your favorite restaurant or market to acquire them through one of the distributors noted above. For information, call 908-528-3882, email [email protected], or visit www.GoodFeelingFarms.com.Click here to leave a comment


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This was a little creative project I did with Maddy back in the summer (Maddy creds=hair, make-up, co-shopping, co-styling and lots of emotional support. She was right there in the river beside me, taking a few of her own snaps which I hope you see later and making sure I didn't fall in. Thank goodness. As you can tell, she was the backbone of this operation.)
After much dialogue (again, thanks Maddy), we decided this shoot would be only in film, only in black and white. So 50 frames later (yep, just 50; it felt exhilarating yet weird)....
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It's taken me weeks to hand process and finally get it all scanned, but it was worth it in the end.
And a special THANKS to our gorgeous model, Steph.
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Vladimir Dubko is a Los Angeles based artist who explores oddities and subtleties of the visual world through experimentations with digitally created imagery and wall sculpture.
Dark Waters.
Staring into Deep Drying Well
Akin to prehistoric insects fossilized in amber, the seemingly recognizable scenarios of these artworks, under careful examination, dissolve into a zinging flurry of instances, eternally trapped in the hardened black sap and left to rest under still mass of murky water at the bottom of peat bog. The 'relics' reassess and skew perception of time and scale in this crude and damp setting, shrinking caves to a mole hole size and expanding flower buds to a magnitude of space explosions. The enamel features on the glassy surface sharply define a thin layer of vacuum between reality and the inhibited other side.
Humble Beginnings.
Hand Warming Endings
Taking cues from the rugged aesthetics of primitive tools and cave paintings, here comes an anachronistic riff on a single man's life. A man detached from society, consumed by inner self and surrounded by the scarce possessions of personal significance. His man cave is an anthropological body shop that carries out repairs to his damaged identity. The pieces in the collection resemble ancient artifacts unearthed from excavation site: a fire pit, hunting trophies, large ironic crest-badges.
Wooden Shapes
Within these simple shapes, cut out from processed wood, I explore relationships between the precision of digitally contrived graphic motifs and the accidental nature of hand applied finishes. Combining printing techniques with collaging, I look into mechanics of traditional pattern making, while placing these patterns and designs into abstract textural environment.


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I want to dissect the past ten years of live concert streaming online, the current state of streaming and where things will hopefully head. I believe the reason why the Coachella festival is able to sell out two weekends and over 150,000 tickets is because of the success of their stream starting two years ago (they were streaming before then but finally got it 'right').
fyi… I don't work for anyone in the fest streaming realm… just been curious about for a long time
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I have lived an adventurous life. I have walked form Mexico to Canada, rode my bike 6,000 miles cross-country and recently wrapped up a seven-year project where I traveled the country and gave away 400,000 free ice creams. I moved to Portland six months ago to find something new. I have spoke at Ignite Austin in the past, you can view that here http://www.igniteaustin.org/2011/07/2021-slinging-the-cream-living-the-dream-matt-allen-the-ice-cream-man.html


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Sales process from A to Z. Sales people minimum. New clients acquisition. Complex solution selling. Objections and argumentation… and many more.


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Just in time for National Poetry Month, this engaging workshop will inspire you to bring poetry into your writing workshop. You'll practice tried-and-true strategies for sparking poetry ideas for all ages, and study engaging mentor texts that bring beauty and meaning to your daily teaching. The workshop will include hands on practice of strategies that you can take back to your classroom the next day. Whether you are new to writing workshop, or have many years of workshop teaching experience, you are sure to leave with a few new ideas.
Chris Lehman is the keynote speaker for this daylong conference. For more information and to register for the conference, visit the Vermont Council on Reading's website.


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Constructivist Instruction: Success or Failure? brings together leading thinkers from both sides of the hotly debated controversy about constructivist approaches to instruction. Although constructivist theories and practice now dominate the fields of the learning sciences, instructional technology, curriculum and teaching, and educational psychology, they have also been the subject of sharp criticism regarding sparse research support and adverse research findings. This volume presents:
Chapters present detailed views from both sides of the controversy. A distinctive feature of the book is the dialogue built into it between the different positions. Each chapter concludes with discussions in which two authors with opposing views raise questions about the chapter, followed by the author(s)' responses to those questions; for some chapters there are several cycles of questions and answers. These discussions, and concluding chapters by the editors, clarify, and occasionally narrow the differences between positions and identify needed research.
"I highly recommend this book to everyone in the field of educational technology, regardless of their "bent" for or against constructivist learning environments."--Educational Technology
Foreword, Robert J. Sternberg
Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1. The Success or Failure of Constructivist Instruction: An Introduction
Sigmund Tobias and Timothy M. Duffy
Part II. The Evidence for Constructivism
Chapter 2. Reconciling a Human Cognitive Architecture
David Jonassen
Chapter 3. Constructivism in an Age of Non-Constructivist Assessments
Daniel L. Schwartz, Robb Lindgren, and Sarah Lewis
Chapter 4. Taking Guided Learning Theory to School: Reconciling the Cognitive, Motivational, and Social Contexts of Instruction
Phillip Herman and Louis M. Gomez
Chapter 5. Beyond More Versus Less: A Reframing of the Debate on Instructional Guidance
Alyssa Friend Wise and Kevin O'Neill
Chapter 6. Constructivism: When It's the Wrong Idea and When It's the Only Idea
Rand J. Spiro and Michael DeSchryver
Part III. Challenges to the Constructivist View
Chapter 7. What Human Cognitive Architecture Tells Us About Constructivism
John Sweller
Chapter 8. Epistemology or Pedagogy, That Is the Question
Paul A. Kirschner
Chapter 9. How Much and What Type of Guidance is Optimal for Learning?
Richard E. Clark
Chapter 10. Constructivism as a Theory of Learning Versus Constructivism as a Prescription for Instruction.
Richard E. Mayer
Chapter 11. The Empirical Support for Direct Instruction
Barak Rosenshine
Part IV. An Examination of Specific Learning and Motivational Issues
Chapter 12. Learning and Constructivism
Walter Kintsch
Chapter 13. From Behaviorism to Constructivism: A Philosophical Journey from Drill and Practice to Situated Learning
J. D. Fletcher
Chapter 14. What's Worth Knowing about Mathematics?
Melissa Sommerfeld Gresalfi and Frank Lester
Chapter 15. "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heavens" What about Direct Instruction?
David Klahr
Chapter 16. Beyond the Fringe: Building and Evaluating Scientific Knowledge Systems
Richard A. Duschl and Ravit Golan Duncan
Part V. Summing Up
Chapter 17. An Eclectic Appraisal of the Success or Failure of Constructivist Instruction
Sigmund Tobias
Chapter 18. Building Lines of Communication and a Research Agenda
Thomas M. Duffy


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Keepers of the Land, the Nymphs live in Silva Forest (and other areas within The Land). Symbiotically connected to the Forest, they need to be in their homeland where they can gain strength from the surrounding foliage. Also, being so intimately connected with The Land, they can hear the "Music of Creation" and feel the pain of the broken land.
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AKT2 deficiency prevents the development of AngII/HSD-induced hypertension, cardiac dysfunction and myocardial injury including oxidative stress, fibrosis and inflammation by suppressing IL-6 expression. These data reveal an important role of the AKT2-IL-6 pathway in mediating AngII/HSD-induced hypertension and cardiomyopathy.
AKT2 drives de novo lipogenesis in adipocytes by stimulating ChREBPbeta transcriptional activity and that cold induces the AKT2-ChREBP pathway in brown adipose tissue to optimize fuel storage and thermogenesis.
this study shows that over-expressed miRNA-200b ameliorates ulcerative colitis-related colorectal cancer in mice through orchestrating epithelial-mesenchymal transition and inflammatory responses by channel of AKT2
Fkbp5 knockouts are protected from high-fat diet-induced weight gain, show improved glucose tolerance and increased insulin signaling in skeletal muscle. We identify a novel association between FKBP51 and AS160, a substrate of AKT2 that is involved in glucose uptake. FKBP51 antagonism increases the phosphorylation of AS160.
IL17A promoted osteoblast differentiation and calcification in a partly AKT2dependent manner in MC3T3E1 cells in vitro, possibly reflecting compensation by other signaling pathways. The results of the present study may offer novel perspectives to guide the clinical strategy for the prevention and treatment of periodontitis
The authors find in Mus musculus, each AKT isoform has a unique expression pattern in the hippocampus. AKT1, but not AKT2 or AKT3, is required for late long term potetiation (LTD) through regulating activity-induced protein synthesis. Interestingly, AKT activity inhibits mGluR-LTD, with overlapping functions for AKT1 and AKT3.
At 3days after the first tamoxifen injection, Akt1(-/-)/iAkt2 KO hearts showed decreased expression of connexin43 (Cx43) and connexin-interacting protein zonula occludens-1 (ZO-1). Furthermore, Akt1/2 silencing significantly decreased both Cx43 and ZO-1 expression
Data (including data from studies in transgenic and mutant mice) suggest that Akt2 plays critical role in type 1 diabetes in metallothionein-mediated preservation of cardiac insulin-stimulated metabolic signaling (insulin resistance) and preservation of cardiac function; this mechanism appear to involve inhibition of cardiac Trb3. (Akt2 = protein kinase Akt-2; Trb3 = tribbles pseudokinase 3)
The data indicate that Akt2 ablation protects against cardiac aging through restored Foxo1-related autophagy and mitochondrial integrity.
AKT1 and AKT2 isoforms have opposing roles in smooth muscle cell proliferation, migration, differentiation, and rapamycin response in vitro and in vascular injury in vivo.
IRF5 and IRF5 disease-risk variants increase glycolysis and human m1 macrophage polarization by regulating proximal signaling and Akt2 activation.
Deficiency of AKT2 in myocardium results in diminished MEF2A abundance, which induced decreased size of cardiomyocytes. We additionally confirmed that EndoG, which is also regulated by AKT2, is a suppressor of MEF2A in myocardium.
Results indicate that AKT2 modulates pulmonary fibrosis through inducing TGF-beta1 and IL-13 production by macrophages, and inhibition of AKT2 may be a potential strategy for treating Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Sirt1 significantly reduced the levels of raptor and inactivated mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR)C1 signal by interacting with Akt2.
This review summarises and discusses the consequences of genetic deletions of Akt isoforms in adult mice and their implications for cancer therapy. Whereas combined Akt1 and Akt2 rapidly induced mortality, hepatic Akt inhibition induced liver injury that promotes hepatocellular carcinoma.
Rac1 activation is caused by membrane translocation of a guanine nucleotide exchange factor FLJ00068 in Akt2-mediated insulin signaling in mouse skeletal muscle.
BAY 1125976 is a potent and highly selective allosteric AKT1/2 inhibitor.
AKT2 inhibition induces a unique mitochondrial-dependent DNA degradation pathway by activating nucleus translocation of AIF and EndoG during cardiac ischemia.
Akt2 ablation may protect against paraquat toxicity-induced cardiac contractile defect and apoptosis possibly via regulation of Nrf2 activation and mitochondrial homeostasis.
Loss of Akt2 enhanced lung tumor development.
AKT2 increases the migration and invasion of ovarian cancer cells in vitro and promotes lung metastasis in nude mice in vivo through PKM2-mediated elevation of STAT3 expression and NF-kappaB activation.
Vav1, ectopically expressed in invasive breast tumors derived cells, downmodulates Akt acting at expression and/or activation levels depending on tumor subtype.
miR6255p may protect LPSinduced HBECs by targeting AKT2 and inhibiting the nuclear factorkappaB signaling pathway. Therefore, miR6255p may function as an inhibitor of asthma airway inflammation in HBECs by targeting AKT2.
MiR-92a inhibits fibroblast-like synoviocyte proliferation and migration in rheumatoid arthritis by targeting AKT2.
Data show while overexpression of AKT serine/threonine kinase 1 (AKT1) promoted local tumor growth, downregulation of AKT1 or overexpression of AKT serine/threonine kinase 2 (AKT2) promoted peritumoral invasion and lung metastasis.
AKT2 inhibition as a powerful therapeutic target against CSC.
AKT2 and XIST expression was identified as a potential biomarker participating in the effect of ATP5J in colorectal cancer
Authors present the first evidence that miR-608 behaves as a tumour suppressor in A549 and SK-LU-1 cells through the regulation of AKT2.
the present study suggested that PHB2 may promote Prostate cancer cell migration by inhibiting the expression of AKT2. These results provide information regarding the role of PHB2 in Prostate cancer migration and malignancy
Data found that S131 of Akt2 is not phosphorylated by CK2 although the consensus sequence recognized by CK2 (S/T-x-x-E/D/pS/pT) is conserved. A single sequence element, a T at position n+1, hampers phosphorylation, causing an alpha-helix structure preventing the recognition of its own consensus by CK2. Using synthetic peptides, study suggests that Akt2 S131 could be phosphorylated by kinases of the Plk family.
Findings demonstrate that DSBs trigger pro-survival autophagy in an ATM- and p53-dependent manner, which is curtailed by AKT2 signaling.
genetic association studies in population of men in Finland: Data suggest that a partial loss-of-function variant in AKT2 (p.Pro50Thr) is associated with type 2 diabetes in the population studied; this AKT2 variant is associated with reduced insulin-mediated glucose uptake in multiple insulin-sensitive tissues.
miR2965p/AKT2 axis serves important roles in Hepatocellular carcinoma carcinogenesis and progression.
miR296 is downregulated in tissue from patients with pancreatic cancer and pancreatic carcinoma cell lines. These findings suggested that it may function as a tumor suppressor via inhibiting the growth, migration and invasion of pancreatic cancer cells. AKT2 was validated as a direct target of miR296 in pancreatic cancer cells.
miR-143-3p acts as a novel tumor suppressive miRNA by regulating gastric tumor growth, migration and invasion through directly targeting AKT2 gene
Our findings suggest that Akt2 might be associated with the resistance to anti-EGFR therapies, especially the use of erlotinib against PC, and that this resistance can be overcome by combined treatment with a PI3K inhibitor. Akt2 expression could become a predictive biomarker for erlotinib resistance in PC.
Studied action of linoleic acid (LA) on cell migration and neoplasm invasiveness of breast cancer cells. Findings show Akt2 activation requires EGFR and PI3K activity, whereas migration and invasion are dependent on FFAR4, EGFR and PI3K/Akt activity.
Analysis of genomic data from TCGA demonstrated coamplification of CCNE1 and AKT2 Overexpression of Cyclin E1 and AKT isoforms, in addition to mutant TP53, imparted malignant characteristics in untransformed fallopian tube secretory cells, the dominant site of origin of high-grade serous ovarian cancer
Akt1-Akt3 activity (according to Thr308 phosphorylation) is not associated with proliferative processes in the tumor tissue of the thyroid.
Zebrafish akt2 is essential for survival, growth, bone development, and glucose homeostasis.
Study reports that Appl1 regulates the activity of Akt and, importantly, its downstream signaling specificity from an endosomal compartment, with profound implications for development.
EDN1 plays an important role in hepatocellular carcinoma progression by activating the PI3K/AKT pathway and is regulated by miR-1.
akt2 has a role in an integrative pathway directly linking glucose, Glut1 expression, and activation of apoptosis
This study showed that high levels of FSHR, AKT2, and APPL1 were expressed in the ovaries of high prolific breed pigs.
Profilin-dependent dissociation of G-actin-Tbeta4 complexes simultaneously liberates actin for filament assembly and facilitates Tbeta4 binding to integrin-linked kinase (ILK) in the lamellipodia.
This gene is a putative oncogene encoding a protein belonging to a subfamily of serine/threonine kinases containing SH2-like (Src homology 2-like) domains. The gene was shown to be amplified and overexpressed in 2 of 8 ovarian carcinoma cell lines and 2 of 15 primary ovarian tumors. Overexpression contributes to the malignant phenotype of a subset of human ductal pancreatic cancers. The encoded protein is a general protein kinase capable of phophorylating several known proteins.
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Open Enrollment This Year Is October 15th-December 7th
Deer Park Physical Therapy and Fitness Center recommends that you have your Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, and Prescription Drug Plans reviewed each year by a licensed agent that is certified to advise you on multiple plans.
Attend one of these seminars and find out what changes are coming to Medicare for 2016. A sales person will be present with information and applications for most of the HMO, PPO, H MO/POS, SNP and PFFS Medicare Advantage plans available in your area. Learn about the upcoming changes and ask any questions you may have. We hope that hosting these seminars will allow you better access to information on all of the plans available to you. We, of course, encourage you to bring your friends and neighbors.
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Retail Design Institute
Founded as the Institute of Store Planners in New York in 1961, the Retail Design Institute is a professional association of retail design specialists with over 1000 members in 15 chapters worldwide including our Sydney/Melbourne chapter, which was formed in 1992.
The Retail Design Institute is the only international professional body totally dedicated to developing and supporting retail design professionals engaged in the design and planning of retail selling environments.
ASOFIA (Australian Shop & Office Fitting Industry Association)
The principle objective of ASOFIA is to promote the shop and office fitting industry both within Australia and abroad, an industry which is estimated to be worth in excess of well over 2.5 billion dollars per annum locally. www.asofia.com.au
Scan Display Solutions
Scan Display Solutions is a South African company specialising in exhibition, display and presentation solutions.
Scan's product range extends from large custom-built stands and portable systems to banner systems, brochure holders, display cases and clip frames.
Scan also supplies the full range of exhibition services: shell scheme, carpeting, electrics and furniture and audiovisual equipment rental.
Scan's head office is in Johannesburg and it has branches and distributors in both South Africa and its neighbouring countries. Its extensive distribution network means that it is geared to run projects throughout Southern Africa.
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IFES is the International Federation of Exhibition and Event services. The federation has been active since 1984. IFES helps its members to better serve their clients who exhibit internationally. In an industry of constant change and development geographically, IFES provides professionals with a network dedicated to helping them face new challenges and acquire new business.


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2019-20 Executive Board
NUCHR's Executive Board consists of 22 individuals across 10 teams: Co-Directors, Speaker Relations, Campus Relations, Delegate Development, Experiential Learning, Marketing, Education, Logistics, Fundraising, Finance, and Trip.
To tackle the demands of operating a student organization with regular ongoing programming and weekly meetings on top of organizing a distinguished annual conference, our board is composed of highly capable, driven students from diverse backgrounds and skill sets.
Board members typically serve as general members for a year before taking on more responsibility within the organization. Applications to join the executive board are released in late-February.
In addition to working collaboratively from week to week and developing strong interpersonal connections amongst one another throughout the year, the executive board goes away to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin for an annual retreat every memorial day weekend.
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