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This September, The Flea goes literary in support of Cleveland Book Week. In addition to hosting an on-site popup bookshop and literary cafe, seven local authors will share our stage for short readings of their works on the half hour. We recommend grabbing a drink at the bar and getting cozy under the tent before readings start. Select authors will have work for sale during their performances, so don't forget to bring a bit of cash!
Cleveland Book Week, which runs September 10–16, is a production of The Cleveland Foundation. A full list of the week's activities can be found on the organization's website. Follow the hashtags #CBW2016 and #ReadTheFlea on social media for event photos and updates!
9:30am–David Giffels
David Giffels is the author of The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches From the Rust Belt (Scribner 2014), nominated for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvoget Award for the Art of the Essay, and the memoir All the Way Home (William Morrow/HarperCollins 2008), winner of the Ohioana Book Award. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, Parade, the Wall Street Journal, Esquire.com, Grantland.com, Redbook, and many other publications. He also was a writer for the MTV series Beavis and Butt-Head. He is an associate professor of English at University of Akron, where he teaches creative nonfiction in the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program.
10:30am–Eva Barrett
Eva Barrett is a poet and playwright from Cleveland, OH. She is a 2014 graduate of the Cleveland School of the Arts and is currently studying History and German at Case Western Reserve University. Eva's primary artistic focus is studying discourse as power in dialogue and public space, and translating the nuances of human interactions into written and spoken word. She has facilitated classes and workshops in playwriting, poetry, and the historical analysis of poetry, centered around the intersections of postcolonial studies and erotic subjectivity. Eva was the 2016 recipient of the Rocks Experiential Learning Fellowship, with which she travelled to participate in the James Madison University Undergraduate Writing Conference. She is currently an artist in residence at the Cleveland School of the Arts.
11:30am–Dave Lucas
Dave Lucas is the author of Weather (Georgia, 2011), which received the 2012 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. The same year, Rita Dove named him as one of thirteen "young poets to watch." He has also been awarded a "Discovery"/The Nation Prize, a Creative Workforce Fellowship from the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture, and a 2016 Cleveland Arts Prize. A co-founder of Brews + Prose at Market Garden Brewery and Cleveland Book Week, he teaches at Case Western Reserve University and serves as the inaugural Cuyahoga County Public Library Writer in Residence at the William N. Skirball Writers' Center.
12:30pm–Ali McClain
Ali McClain is a poet, educator, consultant and youth advocate. She directs one of the City's most successful after school and summer program for girls ages 10-18 at West Side Community House (WSCH). WSCH is a nonprofit social service agency on Cleveland's West Side. Literacy is the heart of the Sisterhood program as it prepares girls for womanhood and their life beyond. Ali has been writing and performing poetry for over 15 years. She believes that art is her power tool for healing and she is determined to heal others through language. She has taught and performed at Playhouse Square, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, various schools throughout Cuyahoga County and elsewhere. She is also the co-founder of acerbic, an arts collective dedicated to providing a safe and resourceful home for artists of color. She is currently working on her first collection of poetry and is a current graduate student for poetry at Cleveland State University's NEOMFA program.
1:30pm–Michael Clune
Michael W. Clune's White Out was chosen as a "Best Book of 2013" by The New Yorker, NPR, and other venues. Gamelife appeared in 2015 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. His most recent critical book is Writing Against Time (Stanford University Press, 2013). He is a professor of English at Case Western Reserve University.
2:30pm–Aubrey Hirsch
Aubrey Hirsch is the author of a short story collection, Why We Never Talk About Sugar, and a flash fiction chapbook, This Will Be His Legacy. Her work has appeared in Third Coast, American Short Fiction, Hobart, The Los Angeles Review and The New York Times, among others. She currently teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Oberlin College.
3:30pm–RA Washington
RA Washington is the author of over 25 books, including The Paris Notebooks (NightBallet Press, 2015) and the novel CITI (Red Giant Books, 2015). In 2014, Washington was awarded a Creative Workforce Fellowship from Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, and a retrospective containing more than 100 of his multi-media projects, music and writing was organized for Fact/co in Montreal, Quebec through Constellation Records. In 2013 Washington Co-founded Guide To Kulchur: Text, Art & News, a bookstore, publishing imprint and show space located in Cleveland's Historic Detroit Shoreway Neighborhood.
Having a great time and want to share with friends? Use the hashtags #CBW2016 and #ReadTheFlea on social media.


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Zoetis, the world's largest seller of medicines and vaccinations for animals, has been approached by Canadian drugmaker Valeant Pharma for a possible takeover.
The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that Valeant has made a preliminary approach for the US-based company. Nevertheless, it was not clear if Zoetis is open to a sale.
Following the news, shares of Zoetis surged and closed 11% higher on 25 June.
The deal would be one of the biggest in the global health-care industry. Zoetis, which was spun off from drug major Pfizer in 2013, had a market capitalisation of about $25bn (£15.9bn, €22.3bn), before the surge in share prices.
In May, Zoetis said it was planning to cut up to 25% of its workforce and exit nearly 40% of its manufacturing plants as part of a cost-cutting initiative.
The decision comes after activist investor Bill Ackman's Pershing Square bought an 8% stake in the company in November 2014, and secured a board seat. Pershing Square also owns 5.7% of Valeant.
Ackman is currently the biggest shareholder in Zoetis and was expected to push the company to consider buyout offers, as he teamed up with another hedge fund, Sachem Head Capital Management LP.
In addition to Valeant, analysts have speculated that others including German drug maker Bayer AG could be interested in Zoetis.
The world-wide market for animal medicines is currently worth $23bn and is steadily growing in line with increasing pet ownership due to the rise of middle class around the world.

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I'll start this post with EASTER SWEETS!! :-)
A pretty mix of flower cookies, butterfly cookies, Easter egg cookies, cross cookies – and an assortment of what I like to call "sugar scripture" cookies…
This cake was for little Sadie's 3rd birthday – a "Frozen" themed cake covered in blue fondant, embellished with scroll work, sugar snowflakes and a gold crown topper. The flavor was chocolate cake with fresh strawberry jam and strawberry buttercream filling.
This batman themed cake was for Haley's 18th birthday. The flavor was vanilla bean cake with vanilla bean buttercream.
Next up, some fun daisy cookie favors on sticks! They were for a baby shower – the new baby girl's name will be daisy :-) How cute!
This M&M cake was ordered by a nice lady named Sam for her mom – the design was inspired by a cake she found on Pinterest! The flavor of the cake was chocolate with vanilla bean buttercream filling and finish. The M&M figurines and the M&M bag were handmade but the cascade of M&M's were real candy (of course!) ;)
These cupcakes and cookie favors were for an office party bridal shower. Cupcake flavors were cinnamon swirl, berry swirl and lemon – all topped with vanilla bean buttercream.
Lastly, we have Emma's 6th birthday – the theme was Willy Wonka's factory so the sheet cake had a chocolate ganache river running down the cetner, fondant "grass" finish and lots of handmade fondant "candy" – lolipops, mushrooms, candy canes, gumdrops and stones! The cupcakes were topped with green buttercream to resemble grass and embellished with more "candy"! This was such a fun order!
Thank you to all of my customers – "new" customers, "returning" customers, "regular" customers – I appreciate each and every one of you :-)


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Can foot reflexology help ringing in the ears - What is the Spiritual Significance of Right-Sided Body Pain?
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Basic reflexology video
Can Foot Reflexology Help Inner Ear Pain?
Question on health care and healing: I suffer with chronic debilitating tinnitus in my left ear. Can reflexology help me? I also am having problems with my right arm and shoulder and wondered, is it the right foot that corresponds with the right shoulder? Would I rub the pressure point on my right foot to help my right shoulder or is it the opposite?
Healing facilitation response: I will begin with a medical definition of tinnitis and a resource for exploring the current treatments offered by the medical community. However, since I believe most tinnitis is at least partially the result of spiritual acceleration, I'll also address that further down in my response.
What is tinnitis?
The literal translation for the word tinnitis is Latin and it means to tinkle or ring like a bell. The condition of tinnitis involves hearing sound when no sound should be present, and the person with tinnitus is the only one who can hear the sound that should not be present. Although typically summed up as a ringing in the ears, tinnitis actually sounds different to each person. One person with tinnitis may hear a sound like crickets while another may hear buzzing, an actual ringing sound, tones that seem to come in intervals, or even music.
Whenever I am experiencing symptoms I suspect the medical community might diagnose as tinnitus, I personally hear specific tones that are quite loud and also sounds that are a lot like music. I can't tell you how many times I've gotten up and walked through the house, certain there was a radio on. I've even checked outside to see if someone in a parked car was listening to a radio. Other times, I hear a deep bass vibration that I have learned is probably the result of ELF waves
Natural Tinnitus Remedy
Tinnarex Formula
addresses causes and
symtoms of tinnitus Treatments for Tinnitus:
The treatments currently offered by the medical community, for addressing the condition of tinnitis include:
* The use of hearing aids
* Electrical stimulation thru the use of cochlear implants
* Drug therapy
* Masking
* TMJ treatment
* Cognitive Therapy
* Tinnitis retraining therapy
Alternative Healing approaches to ringing in the ears include adding certain supplements to the diet, such as zinc, magnesium, or homeopathics, herbals or nutritional combinations that are targeted toward relieving tinnitis symptoms. In addition, there are many alternative therapies that have helped some people suffering with ringing in the ears. These include craniosacral work (I think this is wonderful work, in general, and highly recommend it for general health maintenance) and accupuncture. For more information on the current approach to treatment of tinnitis, (sometimes spelled tinnitus) as well as information on tinnitis prevention, diagnosis and research, please visit The American Tinnitis Association
The Spiritual Implications of Tinnitis: Skip this section if you are not metaphysically minded.
The left ear, spiritually speaking, corresponds to the right side of the body. The right side of the brain controls the left side of the body so in my energetic awareness, anything above the neck reverses. The ears are literally about how we hear. However, there's an entirely different factor that may be involved. We are capable of hearing so very much more than we know, on a conscious level, we are hearing.
Those with spiritual awareness that includes sixth sense abilities, it is pretty common knowledge that tinnitus-like symptoms are not always a physical problem but a spiritual by-product. Additional Spiritual Messages of Tinnitis
Reflexology approach for Tinnitis: Foot Reflexology is such a simple holistic wellbeing modality that most underestimate it's potential. I've seen reflexology help stress, constipation, menstrual cramps, indigestion, and yes, even ear pain. I would not go so far as to call foot reflexology a natural tinnitus remedy on it's own yet I certainly believe regular reflexology sessions might help someone with ringing in the ears.
How to locate and work the foot reflexes corresponding to the ear: The reflex for the ears and eyes are at the base of the smaller toes. If you take your thumb and press into that area across the place where the toe ends and the fleshy ball of the foot starts, that's the approximate area. I haven't found it too easy to give myself reflexology treatments so I'd suggest seeing a reflexologist for easer, and more effective treatment.
To address the right shoulder pain, you would reflex the points on the right foot. For the shoulder, the reflex is near on the back of the foot, near the top of the foot and goes from the base of the next to littlest toe, down in a circle around that bone on the outside of the bottom of your foot. Hard to visualize, I know. There are lots of charts online. Anyway, I always work from the bottom of that groove to the base of the next to littlest toe for the shoulder.
Right Side Body Pain, Spiritually speaking: The right side of the body is male and often, trouble with the shoulder has to do with responsibility (usually taking on too much) while trouble with hand and arm have to do with balance between giving and receiving, helping and allowing others to help you.
Health Care Disclaimer: This holistic wellbeing information on ringing in the ear is not intended to replace medical attention. Please rule out infection of the ear and other medical situations.


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The Lyme Alliance of the Berkshires will be holding our monthly meeting on Thursday, September 29th starting at 6 pm at the Berkshire Athenaeum on 1 Wendell Avenue in Pittsfield, MA. We meet in the ground floor auditorium. Our featured speaker will be local practitioner Kelly Clady with her presentation "Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine in the Treatment of Lyme Disease". We look forward to learning the ways that other healing modalities like acupuncture and Chinese medicine can benefit those with Lyme disease and chronic illness. We will be handing out lots of free information! Bring a list of questions! The presentation will be followed by facilitated open discussion. We look forward to seeing you there!
Berkshire Athenaeum
Ground Floor Auditorium
1 Wendell Avenue
Pittsfield, MA 01201
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Prof. Katherine Mooney will use the Edith and Richard French Fellowship from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University to study the movement of women into male-dominated professions between the Civil War and World War II. Read more at Arts & Science News.
FSU News wrote about Prof. Annika Culver's new course on North Korea. Read the story here.
The department is proud to congratulate Sarah Patterson, winner of the Martin-Vegue Dissertation fellowship, and Zachary Stolzfus, winner of the Walbolt Dissertation Fellowship for Fall 2018. Each will receive funding for a semester to support research and/or the writing of their dissertations.
Congratulations to Sarah and Zachary!
Professor Emeritus William Warren Rogers passed away on October 7, 2017 at age 88. Professor Rogers taught at FSU from 1961 until his retirement in 1996. He published widely on the 19th Century American South. A remembrance by Gerald Ensley, published in the Tallahassee Democrat, can be read here.
Rafe Blaufarb's The Great Demarcation: The French Revolution and the Invention of Modern Property (Oxford University Press, 2016) has been awarded the J Russell Major Prize by the American Historical Association. The prize is awarded annually for the best work in English on any aspect of French history. Congratulations, Rafe!
Will Hanley's new book Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria has been published by Columbia University Press. From the publisher: "Nationality is the most important legal mechanism sorting and classifying the world's population today. An individual's place of birth or naturalization determines where he or she can and cannot be and what he or she can and cannot do. Although this system may appear universal, even natural, Will Hanley shows that it arose just a century ago. In Identifying with Nationality, he uses the Mediterranean city of Alexandria to develop a genealogy of the nation and the formation of the modern national subject. Identifying with Nationality traces the advent of modern citizenship to multinational, transimperial settings such as turn-of-the-century colonial Alexandria, where ordinary people abandoned old identifiers and grasped nationality as the best means to access the protections promised by expanding states. The result was a system that continues to define and divide people through status, mobility, and residency." Congratulations Will!
Kristine Harper's new book Make It Rain: State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth-Century America has been published by The University of Chicago Press. From the publisher: "In Make It Rain, Kristine C. Harper tells the long and somewhat ludicrous history of state-funded attempts to manage, manipulate, and deploy the weather in America. Harper shows that governments from the federal to the local became helplessly captivated by the idea that weather control could promote agriculture, health, industrial output, and economic growth at home, or even be used as a military weapon and diplomatic tool abroad. Clear fog for landing aircraft? There's a project for that. Gentle rain for strawberries? Let's do it! Enhanced snowpacks for hydroelectric utilities? Check. The heyday of these weather control programs came during the Cold War, as the atmosphere came to be seen as something to be defended, weaponized, and manipulated. Yet Harper demonstrates that today there are clear implications for our attempts to solve the problems of climate change." Congratulations Kristine!
Andrew Frank's new book Before the Pioneers: Indians, Settlers, Slaves, and the Founding of Miami has been published by The University Press of Florida. From the publisher: "Before the Pioneers takes readers back through forgotten eras to the stories of the people who shaped the land along the Miami River long before most modern histories of the city begin. Andrew Frank begins the chronicle of the Magic City's long history 4,000 years ago when Tequesta Indians settled at the mouth of the river, erecting burial mounds, ceremonial centers, and villages. They created a network of constructed and natural waterways through the Everglades and trade routes to the distant Calusa on the west coast. Centuries later, the area became a stopover for Spanish colonists on their way to Havana, a haven where they could shelter from storms and obtain freshwater, lumber, and other supplies. Frank brings to life the vibrant colonies of fugitives and seafarers that formed on the shores of Biscayne Bay in the eighteenth century. He tells of the emergence of the tropical fruit plantations and the accompanying enslaved communities, as well as the military occupation during the Seminole Wars. Eventually, the small seaport town flourished with the coming of "pioneers" like Julia Tuttle and Henry Flagler who promoted the city as a place of luxury and brought new waves of residents from the North.
Also joining the History Department and the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution is Cathy McClive, a social and cultural historian of medicine, gender, embodiment and expertise in ancien regime France. Dr. McClive has published widely in French and English on masculinities, legal medicine, pregnancy, puberty and menstruation in early modern France. Her articles appear in History Workshop Journal, Social History of Medicine, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Eighteenth-Century Studies and Annales de Demographie Historique.
The History Department and the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution are happy to welcome Elizabeth Cross, a historian of eighteenth-century France and its empire whose work emphasizes the history of political economy and capitalism. Dr. Cross received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2017. Her current book manuscript, "The French East India Company and the Politics of Commerce in the Revolutionary Era," argues that the circumstances surrounding the creation and dissolution of the last French East India Company further our understanding of the roles played by globalization and economic institutions in revolutionary political transformations. Her publications include "The Myth of the Foreign Enemy?


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How to disassociate (delete) a user in Silent Manager
In a large organization, users will come and users will go but thanks to Silent Manager, the licenses stay. The admin may want to remove a user and then re-assign the license to a different user. This is easily accomplished by the admin.
Once the admin logs in to Silent Manager, they should view the "Users" list. At the end of each user row is a small garbage can. By clicking this icon, that user is disassociated from that Silent Manager. The license is retained and placed back into the license pool for that Silent Manager.
This action only removes the account from that Silent Manager but the account is not deleted from Silent Circle. The disassociated account now becomes a consumer account and the user can use the account although the user now becomes responsible for payments for services if they wish to continue.


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By Peter A. Sutters Jr.
I&M Staff Writer
Nantucket Island Resorts on Tuesday filed a plan with the Historic District Commission to radically change the look of a cluster of cottages on Easton Street. If approved, some will be demolished, others moved to different locations on the site and some new dwellings erected.
The property, on the south side of the White Elephant Hotel, is currently home to 10 buildings. NIR hopes to move three of those buildings on the site, demolish or move off-site five and construct four new buildings.
The final layout, if approved by the HDC, would have eight dwellings.
The HDC made a motion to view the location and did not comment on it at Tuesday�s meeting.
The Historic structures Advisory Board did not have a problem with the demolition applications because the buildings are not considered historic.
The properties, listed as 60 and 64 Easton St., are a combined six-tenths of an acre, are on both town water and sewer and are in the Limited-Commercial district, which has a minimum lot size of 5,000 square feet with a maximum 50 percent ground cover. The footprints of the new dwellings range in size from 900 to 1,500 square feet and are two stories tall, with a maximum height of 20 feet.
The current buildings are rented out through the White Elephant as family cottages, but a representative from NIR could not be reached before press time to provide details for the future of the lot.
In other news from the HDC Tuesday:
The owners of property at 105 Main Street were denied permission to put a cap on the chimney of their home because commission members did not feel it was appropriate.
Members seemed puzzled that the owner, Ed DeSeta, needed a cap when it was not a working chimney but a rebuilt faux chimney attached to the top of the home.
�I�m disappointed this is a fake chimney construction,� said HDC chairman Dirk Roggeveen. �It looks the same on the outside but it�s totally phony.�
Members also said, despite examples from nearby houses provided by DeSeta, that houses from that era did not have caps.
�It needs to look exactly how it did previously,� said HDC member Valerie Norton.
Commission member John McLaughlin made a motion to approve the cap, but it died for lack of a second.
McLaughlin was the only member of the commission to vote against the motion to deny the cap.
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A Dangerous Obsession/
If you think about it, you really shouldn't let people with an obsessive nature anywhere near computers. When I was much younger I knew a chap called John. Actually, now I am older I still know a chap called John, but it is a different John, and not important right now. Anyhoo, John had one of the first microcomputers, a Nascom. It had a 25 lines of 40 characters display. And 8 KBytes of RAM. And he could write Basic programs on it and store them on a cassette tape. What power. I was dead jealous. One Monday he came in to work looking even more haggard and disheveled than ever, which for John was saying something. We asked him if he had enjoyed a pleasant weekend.
"Not really" he replied "I wanted to see the robots feet and it took ages to get it to work".
Turns out that the Nascom had a display character set which contained graphical images, including little robots. Snag was that these were not displayed completely, because the screen hardware skipped some lines when it drew the raster. The feet were missed off. For John this was a bad thing. So he spent an entire weekend rewiring the hardware so that all the scan lines were drawn. And he could see his robots feet. We thought this was silly, and could hardly see the difference extra pixels made.
I was reminded of this during my attempts to get Vista Aero Glass to work on my Toshiba M200 this weekend. For those that don't know, Glass gives you a funky effect around each window, so you can sort of see through to the one beneath it. This adds very little to the usability of your computer, but it is very cute, particularly if you understand how fiendishly hard it is to draw this kind of thing. And my rather elderly Tosh machine can just about do it. But only if you download a special driver, customise the initialisation file and then throw in a registry hack. And it only sort of works, in that every now and then it runs out of display memory and drops back to boring old opaque window edges.
But getting glass on my desktop became very important to me, and I spent far too much time trying and failing to make it work. Finally I had a glass display running and I showed number one wife the finished result.
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Yeah you, the sprayer. I don't know what it is with some of you women, but for chrissakes, if you are going to do the ol' hover move in a public restroom, you either: 1. Better have that maneuver LOCKED down - you aren't hosing down the effing patio
2. WIPE.IT.UP. News Flash: Toilet paper exists!
For some reason, some ladies assume that just cause they're at the ghetto movie theatre, Dodger Stadium, -- whichever somewhat classless establishment -- that they can spray their whiz all over the toilet seat (by avoiding actually sitting on it), and pass it on for the next person. Are you afraid of catching the HIV? Betch, VD exists because of you!
In this case, it's the inconsiderate she-beast who works on the 9th Floor of 4929 Wilshire. Fuck that! You are RUINING the 1.5 minutes of solitude that I cherish every damn time I take a seat on that fucker. Really, there are many other things that I prefer to worry about in that short time span - one NOT being the fact that your sticky DNA is now stamped all over my ass until I have to subject my hand/wrist to wiping it off.
Ladies do everyone a favor and look out for the next girl.
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My husband hunts. I hunt. I actually started hunting a few years before I met my husband. I was not raised in a hunting family, but I was blessed with some amazing friends who did hunt and welcomed me into their hunting family. The more I learned about hunting, the more it became a passion for me.
I want to pass on the hunting tradition to our son. Believe it or not, we already started planting the seeds that I believe will spark a love of hunting in our son. I would never force my son to go hunting, but I have a feeling he'll be begging to go with his daddy some day in the near future.
Before our son was born, I imagined we would introduce our child to hunting around six to eight years old. However, since our son arrived, I've found that hunting is already being introduced to him in subtle ways. It's part of our lifestyle and hard to avoid.
If you're interested in teaching your child about hunting, I have a few ideas to get you started. AND, get this, you can start as early as you want!
Take your child shed hunting-This spring, I packed our son into our ergo baby 360 carrier and spent several days hiking around the local woods looking for deer antlers (sheds). Unfortunately, we didn't find any, but it is the experience that matters. Our son seemed to enjoy being able to look around at the trees, river, and wildlife as I hunted for those elusive sheds. I can't wait for the day where he says "There's one mom!".
Point out geese and other wildlife-This is an easy one for us. We have waterfowl landing in our back yard, so we don't need to go far to teach him about the birds. My husband often points out the geese and ducks to our son. He quickly picked up on following the birds in the sky as they pass over head.
Attend hunting related conferences or banquets-We attended the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) Convention in February at the Opryland hotel in Nashville, TN. Our son was about eight months old and did well at the event. He actually fell asleep while in the carrier with turkey call sounds surrounding him.
Bring them with on hunting trips-We went to Kansas this year for a turkey hunt. We were blessed to be able to hunt private land and actually had some time where our friends babysat our son. It was an amazing opportunity to hunt and share the experience as a family. Obviously he was too young to join on the hunt, but he was close by and involved with the photo session after I filled two tags. I can't wait to tell him all about his first hunting trip!
I'm going to start a hunting journal for our son. The memories we are making will be treasured for years to come…


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The application is a process automation system for enterprises and governmental organizations that allows to identify an incident, classify it and choose the right resolution scenario. The system allows to allocate employees to resolve the incident, manage their responsibilities and monitor the incident resolution progress.
Project type: web based incident management system.
InToSoft team: 5 specialists
Team structure: architect, 3 senior and mid- developers, QA engineer
Project duration: 24 months.
Technologies: .Net Framework 3.5, Asp.Net, MVC, MS SQL server 2005/2008, WCF, Javascript, AJAX
Platform: Web
About the client
The client is a major Dutch transport company.
Taking into account the client's business domain, InToSoft was to create a flexible and intellectual incident management system that would help to achieve exceptional workflow stability. The idea was not only to develop a system that responds to the needs of transport service companies, but can also be applied to any organization, e.g. big enterprises, or crisis centers and even correctional facilities thus assisting organizations with their daily tasks.
InToSoft developed a web based application that is at the same time compatible with tablets and smartphones. To forecast possible incidents, the system constantly monitors the state of the company's resources and analyzes their status. The system is able to determine and activate scenarios of possible incidents, allows to edit and change them at any time. The system can give the full picture of resources' involvement, costs and time required for the resolution and other factors.
Incident management system presents the following features:
- User-friendly native interface with icon based navigation and drag and drop functionality
- Full freedom in the call flows via: Analogue, ISDN and VoIP
- Open connectivity with a number of available solutions: on premise, hosting and SaaS
- Ability to manage few problems simultaneously with 1 window needed for all functions
- Flexibility in managing scenarios: pre-configured scenarios based on past calls together with the ability to make up new intuitive scenarios
- Intelligent reporting
- Geo Alerting functionality
As a result, InToSoft managed to develop an intellegent system that allows to take full control over crisis communication. It represents the new generation of Intelligence Notifications systems (INS) that supports managing (crisis) communication. New technologies that were applied make it one of the smartest, most enhanced and flexible call engine.
Choosing Agile for this project allowed us to set clear goals and quickly implement new featues. Thereby, as technologies change constantly, it allowed us to anticipate any change in the requirements.


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The Shadow of the Eagle (1932)
Directed by Ford Beebe / B. Reeves EasonGenres - Action | Sub-Genres - Detective Film | Run Time - 18 min. | Countries - United States |
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Synopsis by Hans J. Wollstein
Mascot produced their serials fast and furious with little concern for believability, acting prowess, or technical niceties. Shadow of the Eagle is neither the best nor worst of the bunch, but rather typical of the company's hit-and-miss methods. The acting is occasionally downright embarrassing -- and that includes a very young John Wayne in the starring role -- but the fisticuffs are fast and plentiful, and the plot, such as it is, moves forward at a fast clip. The Mascot writers once again turn to trickery in order to conceal the identity of the mystery villain -- including having a different actor providing a voice-over -- but that is just par for the serial course. Comedy is provided by the carnival performers, but it quickly becomes grating, especially a running joke which has the circus midget (Little Billy) constantly mistaken for a child by the typically bone-headed cops, whom the circus performer refers to as "flatfooted palookas."
airborne, bad-guy, barnstorming, good-guy, inventor, kidnapping, scheme, scientist, threat


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On opening weekend, off-screen deals and drama7 min read . Updated: 19 Aug 2013, 12:22 PM IST
Why OUATIMD couldn't open on more screens on Independence Day
Why OUATIMD couldn't open on more screens on Independence Day
Mumbai: Once Upon ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara! seems to be tailor-made for single-screen cinemas, but if it hasn't opened in as many of them as its producer would have liked, blame it on the dream run of Chennai Express and backroom manoeuvres that are worthy of firing the imagination of enterprising filmmakers and writers.
OUATIMD, a gangster movie and love triangle starring Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha and Imran Khan, opened on Independence Day at approximately 1,700 cinemas across the country. More screens will be added only on Friday, which means that the production won't be able to take advantage of the increased footfalls generated by the national holiday. One reason is the blockbuster earnings of Chennai Express—the 9 August release, starring Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone, posted an unconfirmed net box office collection of ₹ 137 crore as of Thursday. Another is an alleged commitment by cinemas, especially those with single screens, to keeping the Shah Rukh Khan release running for one whole week.
Tanuj Garg, chief operating officer of Balaji Motion Pictures, which has produced and distributed OUATIMD, said, "Pan-India occupancy is between 95% and 100%, and the movie has opened to a flying start in all centres country-wide." Disney UTV, which has co-produced and distributed Chennai Express, didn't comment on whether they had locked cinemas into screening their movie.
The tussle for screen space between the two movies made it difficult for Shringar Films to release the new Paul Walker action movie Vehicle 19 on 9 August and for PVR Pictures to release the Steve Jobs biopic Jobs on 16 August.
"We weren't getting good showcasing from exhibitors, but I believe that in a week such as this, if there was another smaller and good film, it could be easily be programmed along with a big movie," said Aditya Shroff, executive director at Shringar Films Ltd. "It gives the audience some choice rather than sending all of them for one film."
The kind of cinema people want to watch, and what the film industry orders them to see, are often two different things. In the El Dorado that Bollywood sometimes resembles, the hunt for golden rewards is cutthroat, volatile and relentless.
The key players of the 'Is My Box Office Bigger Than Yours' game include reputed family banners, star-led production companies, studios and multiplex chains.
The usual operatics that accompany releases—mainly over profit-sharing terms (typically split halfway between the distributor and the exhibitor in the case of a big-budget movie), the number of screens when the hall is a multiplex, and show timings—become much more shrill in the case of a multi-crore project involving big-name filmmakers and actors. Hence the pre-release scrimmages, the frantic toing and froing between interested parties and the bitter complaints (often voiced off the record), about arm-twisting producers, over-ambitious distributors and money-minded cinema programmers.
The stakes have been clambering upwards over the last few years because of an expansion in the film business, said a senior-ranking employee with a multiplex chain, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The number of screens has multiplied across India, and several of these screens are inside shopping malls in tier-II cities and rapidly growing small towns where movie-going is the topmost leisure activity, the employee added.
More screens equal more shows equal higher ticket prices equal a minimum of ₹ 100 crore business—that unshakeable logic means that a movie release is an extended event that ends only when it's the turn of the next blockbuster. The rules of this game change depending on who is at the top of the heap—Yash Raj Films yesterday, Disney UTV today, somebody else tomorrow —and how smartly they can market the release as a rare planetary occurrence that can be witnessed only during its first three days.
"Everybody wants to watch a blockbuster on the opening weekend," said Neeraj Goswamy, associate vice-president of distribution at Viacom18 Motion Pictures.
"An estimated ₹ 35 crore worth (of) tickets get sold every weekend, and you need to split that as little as possible," he said.
"Programmers know what clocks footfalls on an opening weekend, so they tend to frontload the cinemas. I remember when Titanic opened in Mumbai in 1998—it was released with two prints. We used to open advance booking on a Monday and be sold out by 6pm. Now, even Hollywood movies open on 1,000 screens across India," Goswamy said.
Where does the pressure to carpet-bomb cinemas with a single movie come from? The answer depends on whom you talk to. Some producers feel that there simply aren't enough theatres in India to absorb the English and Hindi releases, let alone regional language titles. "There is a glut of content in the market, and surplus content requires surplus room, but our infrastructure is less than our appetite," said Garg of Balaji Motion Pictures.
Another leading producer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that both his peers and exhibitors are to blame for flooding the market in a manner that makes it impossible for weaker competitors to survive.
"Exhibitors are buckling under pressure from producers and distributors at the time of release," he said.
Exhibitors, especially multiplexes with halls to fill, sometimes get so desperate for content that they take short-term and short-sighted decisions, the producer added. At the time of negotiating for a prestige picture, an influential producer or distributor might extract a promise that the next few, not-so-prestigious films from the same banner also need to be adequately showcased.
"No exhibitor should encourage that as a practice," the producer said. "Producers cannot do without multiplexes, especially the national chains. But somewhere, the exhibitor needs to be able to say, we will do what we think is right. Even a bad film has the right to travel in the box office to a point."
But it's not like exhibitors and producers are glaring at each other from different corners of the ring. Rivals can also be allies in the ₹ 100-crore game. Earlier, programming was about letting a movie have a long run, but that has now changed, said a senior programmer at a multiplex chain on condition of anonymity.
"The producer and the star—and sometimes, they are the same person—want to do better than the others," he said. "They want to break records within the first three days itself, since they know that hype evaporates."
Cinemas benefit vastly from the gargantuan ambition of filmmakers—they can raise their ticket prices and ensure full houses.
The timing of a release has everything to do with reading the tea leaves—or, in this case, the traces left on the box office by the previous week's fare. Chennai Express rolled into cinemas even as older releases like Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, The Conjuring and BA Pass were still going strong, which is why OUATIMD faced severe challenges, the programmer said.
"Ultimately, producers take the call to either move or clash with the rest," he said.
Previous examples of head-to-head confrontations include Saawariya versus Om Shanti Om, Don versus Jaan-e-Mann, and Son of Sardaar versus Jab Tak Hai Jaan.
In Hollywood, competition works perfectly for exhibitors and audiences—but only if the films are different, said Gitesh Pandya, founder of the Hollywood box office tracking website Box Office Guru.
"Bigger multiplexes often have 20 to 30 screens and can accommodate several big films letting audiences decide for themselves what is most popular," Pandya said. "And on holiday weekends, the marketplace tends to expand allowing for many films to sell."
For the Memorial Day holiday over the last weekend of May, the action movie Fast & Furious 6 and the comedy The Hangover Part III opened on the same day, while during the American Independence Day weekend, the animated movie Despicable Me 2 came along with the fantasy adventure The Lone Ranger.
"So the screens are there for multiple films to release, what matters more is consumer demand." Pandya said. "You can have screens in every major city, but if people don't want your movie then your cash register will be empty."
The only way to know is to actually enter the cinema—if you are allowed to. The Fridays preceding the 9 August weekend were packed with modestly-budgeted movies. One of them that didn't make the date was Ashish Shukla's Prague, which is finally opening on 6 September.
"If you are making 20 films in a year, you have more muscle and control," said Prague's producer, Rohit Khaitan. "There is a gap between what consumers like and what is being given to them. Films like Prague will find their audience, but market forces don't find them lucrative because they don't see the business on paper."
The best recent example is Ajay Bahl's erotic neo-noir BA Pass, which opened on 2 August with at least five other movies, and which is still holding strong because of a combination of box-office boldness within and without.


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Nautical P - Fifth in a series
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One day I was driving through a neighborhood and spotted a few desk drawers on the curb. I picked them up and made a couple of coffee table trays out of the shallow drawers and turned this one into another container. It's inspired by the nautical alphabet.
Art Deco knob was found at a flea market a few years ago and finally found a home on this drawer. This piece is on consignment... wish I had better shots to share with you!
I used homemade chalk paint and put one coat on it. Sanded and distressed it to give it a worn beachy feel.
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A 24-year veteran officer with the Aitken County Sheriff's Office was shot and killed while guarding a prisoner at a local hospital in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
Inspector Steven Sandberg, 60, was guarding Danny Leroy Hammond, 50, a suspect in a domestic violence incident who was being treated for an unidentified ailment, when Hammond assaulted Sandberg and wrestled the his gun away from him. Hammond then shot and killed Inspector Sandberg.
Another deputy managed to subdue Hammond and take him into custody; however, Hammond subsequently died. An autopsy is pending.
Inspector Sandberg was the 100th officer killed in the line of duty this year.


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Voicing concern about their impact over stadiums and other large venues, the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday asked the Los Angeles Police Commission to expedite its recommendations on the use of drones to limit them to specific areas.
Councilman Tom LaBonge said he is concerned with how the crafts could impact the public.
"We need to pay attention to these flying saucers or drones and the effect they will have at large stadiums," LaBonge said. "They will have an effect on the people gathered at these events."
The Police Commission is in the process of developing an overall policy for drone use by the department, as well as recommendations regarding their use around the city by private firms.
The city received two drones as gifts from the City of Seattle despite protests by community activists calling on Mayor Eric Garcetti and the Los Angeles Police Department to reject the donations. They have been grounded for now and placed under the authority of the Inspector General until a final policy is adopted.
In September, the Federal Aviation Administration granted exemptions to the ban to six film companies, allowing them to use drones in movie and television production. They were able to assure the FAA that their exception from regulations governing general flight rules, pilot certification and maintenance would not impact public safety.


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Who Am I?: Letting Go and Identity
It is no secret that Just Be Yoga changed my life. When I walked through the doors of Just Be for the first time, I was fourteen, anorexic, anxious, and completely devoid of excitement. Getting out of bed in the morning was a struggle- not just because my body was weak, but because there was nothing I was living for. I had no passion, no driving force behind anything that I did and nothing that made me grateful to be alive. It was less than a year since my release from the hospital for my disorder, and around the same time that Just Be was opening its doors to the community. On a random Sunday where a free class at the new studio just happened to be offered, I walked into the room that would, unbeknownst to me at the time, become the cocoon I needed to house my transformation over the next two years.
It was during that first class, drenched in sweat and overwhelmed by the music and the language and the energy of the room, that I first began to believe that there was something more to life- something I was missing out on and something that I desperately wanted to find.
For Christmas that year, my mom bought me the "New Student Special," which got me 30 days of unlimited yoga classes for 30 dollars. For a month straight, I showed up on my mat- which had been gifted to me by the studio owner on the day of that first fateful class- every day without fail. Some days I was the only one in class. Other days there were "big classes" with five or six of us. The studio was just beginning to blossom, and I began to feel myself grow with it. I got a job working there the summer after my sophomore year of high school; checking people in at the front desk, sweeping the floors, cleaning the mats. More than being a job or a way to earn some extra money, I felt as though I owed some kind of debt to the studio for keeping me safe as I navigated a new chapter of my life, one where I was always seeking something more, something to light me up the same way my first taste of yoga had lit me up. I wanted to take care of it the way it had taken care of me, and more than that, I wanted to be there as much as I possibly could.
Just before I began my junior year, my teacher, mentor, and inspiration Jenni offered me the opportunity to participate in Just Be's first ever teacher training program. I was astounded, grateful, and, above all else completely terrified. I was scared that I wasn't ready, or that I wasn't old enough, or that I wouldn't be a good teacher. I was scared that I would disappoint Jenni, or that I wouldn't be able to balance my schoolwork and my yoga training and lose my identity as an academic. But it was this fear that made me realize that I had to do it: nothing would scare me this much if it wouldn't change me in some way, and I desperately wanted to change.
Throughout the training and in the summer immediately following, I allowed yoga to seep into my identity. I wasn't just Maris anymore, I was Yoga Maris. I was the teenage yoga teacher, I was the high schooler who was weirdly flexible and uncharacteristically zen, I was the ever-present caretaker of the studio who got to work early and stayed late. Just Be, the practice, and the community became a part of who I was. It was in my fibers now, it filled my bones. It became such a large part of my life that I couldn't remember who I was before I found yoga- and if we're being truly honest, I don't know that there was much of me there before I found it, anyway.
And throughout this whole journey, one thought has lingered in the back of my mind: This is all impermanent.
I knew, from that first month at Just Be, that in less than three years I'd be heading off to college. I didn't know where, but I knew it wouldn't be in Walnut Creek. The idea of having to leave the community I was falling in love with over and over again was a nagging thought I persistently pushed into the back of my mind- it was something to address later, when things felt more real and more tangible. It always felt like a "later" issue, something that was always just out of reach and didn't require your attention just yet, the way you feel about dentist appointments and getting enough fiber. It's important, sure, but you perpetually don't have to think about it just yet.
I move to Santa Cruz in 72 days.
Suddenly, I'm becoming aware of the fact that I need to begin to let go, and letting go is one of the hardest things for us to do. No longer will I be waking up and heading straight to the studio to teach an early morning Vinyasa, or laying my mat down next to a friend during a special event class, or helping run check in during a busy morning. No longer will I be emptying the water bucket from the hallway, or unlocking the bathrooms and double checking that the string lights are on, or sweeping the floors and smudging the room with sage after a particularly heavy class. More than that, no longer will I be able to practice under the guidance of the very teachers who have shaped my life, or see the smiling faces of community members who I now consider my friends and family, or teach in the room that has become the backdrop to some of the most important moments of my life.
I'm sitting down and being forced to evaluate just how much yoga, and the Just Be Yoga community in particular, has seeped into my identity. Without Just Be, who am I? Without being a yoga teacher, who people know and have a connection with, who am I? Without the sense of purpose I have serving my studio and serving my community, who am I?
This question is arising again and again- when I strip away the factors of my environment and community right now, who am I?
I was in Berkeley this past weekend when someone I didn't know said, "Hey, I think I follow you on Instagram, I read your blog!" This has happened before, especially right around the time of the release of the CNN article or the Strength Summit, but every time it surprises me and, admittedly, makes me feel kinda good. It's a sense of validation that I think we all get when we are recognized for something we love and are proud of, especially when it's work that comes straight from our heart and we feel represents us in an authentic way. But this time, my first thought was, "This isn't going to happen in Santa Cruz."
No one is going to know me there. I'm not going to be known as the yoga teacher, or the Just Be helper, or the writer. No one will have any preconceptions about who I am, and there, at least for awhile, I won't be Yoga Maris. I'll just be Maris. College Maris. Student Maris. It's simultaneously terrifying and exhilarating- before me is an opportunity to either carry over my identity and reshape it to fit a new environment, or recreate myself entirely. Next year is the blankest canvas I've had in a long time, and I'm struggling to take that leap from the familiar and beloved to the unknown and uncomfortable.
Because no one likes letting go. No one likes saying goodbye to the things, people, and places they love. No one finds joy in losing what they know. As humans, we're creatures of habit. We're not nomads, we find a home and a community and we settle there, build ourselves and our families (by blood or otherwise) there. When we're thrown out of routine, or thrown into new opportunity, we often cling on hard to what we know, and, even more so, try to squeeze our current lives into our future lives.
At first, I wanted to essentially take my current life and relocate it to Santa Cruz. I wanted to find a studio just like Just Be, and keep teaching as much as I could, and eat the same foods I eat at home, and stick to the same schedule I have now. I just wanted to do it in Santa Cruz. But the closer I get to move-in day, the more I'm becoming aware of the fact that the point of change is the release that comes before: the letting go of how we presently live our lives in the hopes that we will find something that lights us up in a different way, challenges us in a different way, and explores us in a different way. Not clinging so desperately to the life we used to live that we're blinded to the new opportunities and way of life in front of us.
Not only do I have to face what is before me, I have to wonder what the life I leave behind will be like without me.
I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit that a large fear of mine is that I will be somehow forgotten back home. That I will come back to Just Be to visit and no one will want me anymore, that they will move on and not need me, or even want me. A nagging, insecure part of my brain wonders if there will be a "new Maris," someone else to take the pictures and run the social media and teach the kind of classes I teach and bring what it is I currently bring to the community and somehow more. I have to admit that I receive a certain kind of self-worth from the place I've found at the studio, where I feel loved, accepted, understood, and helpful- and I'm struggling with the idea that that kind of validation will be lacking in my future away at college.
I have to remind myself that this is the ego talking: of course someone else will have to take on my responsibilities at the studio. Of course someone will have to teach my classes. Of course someone will step up to fill the shoes I wear at Just Be. The yoga practice was here long before I was teaching it, and the teacher in the room is only a medium through which it is communicated. As a teacher, I definitely have a certain level of responsibility and creativity I can bring to the practice, but it is ultimately the yoga that does the work. I need to have respect for the fact that, despite how important we might feel as the stars of our own lives, life goes on without us present- and it should.
So who I am without all of this?
There are some things about myself that I will carry with me no matter where I go:
I am a teacher, in some context, for the rest of my life. I share what is important to me and what is on my heart one hundred percent of the time, and lead by example by living a life of authenticity and not being afraid to share my failures along with my successes. I will seek out opportunities to share my love of yoga, whether that means volunteering my time for sports teams or teaching impromptu classes out on the grass for whoever is interested, because it is important to me and fills me up, and it is so much more than a job to me.
I am a writer. It is how I share my thoughts and how I learn about myself. It is how I am able to have my thoughts be heard and how I am able to spread ideas that I think are important. It is how I start conversations I wish were started long ago and maybe, just maybe, change the way people think in some way.
I am a yogi. My asana practice requires no studio and no teacher other than life itself. The tools I've learned of meditation, mindfulness, and journaling are ones I will carry with me and use every single day for the rest of my life in some form. As long as I am breathing, as long as I am trying my best to be present and seek growth, I am practicing yoga. Just Be was only the first home of many for this practice.
I am a being of love. I have love and respect for all beings on this earth. I will do my best to support others no matter where I go or who they are. Being compassionate is a part of who I am now, and as long as I put love into this world, it will come back to me. I have learned how to be caring and kind towards myself as well as others, and will do my best to take care of myself throughout the journey ahead. One of my most beloved teachers from high school told me, "The specifics of what you do don't matter. It doesn't matter what major you choose or what job you have or what college you go to. It matters that you try your best and you are kind. If you are a good person, things will work themselves out."
I am resilient. I can withstand change, and more than that, embrace it. If it weren't for vast life changes and struggles in my life, I wouldn't be the person I am today, and I feel more authentically myself than ever before. Whatever new challenges present themselves to me in this new chapter of life, I will be ready to accept them as tools of change, not burdens of pain.
This is who I am. This is who I will always be.


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It's finally here!Posted in Uncategorized on December 27, 2014 by Author Jennifer Quail
Book 2: The Demon That is Dreaming is LIVE for Amazon Kindle! Paperback version coming soon from CreateSpace/Amazon.
Ask The Character!Posted in Uncategorized on April 5, 2013 by Author Jennifer Quail
Have a question for a character from Strange Roads? In honor of 51 likes for our Facebook Page, introducing the Ask a Character feature. Post your here as a comment, and receive an answer–just don't expect certain characters to hold back tart opinions!
And Now, A Sneak Preview from "The Demon That Is Dreaming": Elaine Makes a New FriendPosted in Uncategorized on April 1, 2013 by Author Jennifer Quail
"Not a party person?"
Elaine jumped, and then mentally kicked herself for it. Even with the noise of the party (mercifully muffled by the stairs) she should have heard someone coming, sulking or not. At least the voice wasn't anyone she knew. Turning around, nor was the face. The man who'd spoken was a stranger–sandy-brown hair, friendly smile, not too tall (though possibly Alan was skewing her perception there), a slightly crooked nose that kept his face from seeming too boyish, and hazel eyes that crinkled at the corners with the grin. The obligatory tuxedo he wore looked like another rental with some hasty tailoring, and someone had tied his tie just barely lopsided. Somehow, on him it worked.
"Not really, no." She kept her back close to the wall, not that she'd be able to run if she had to, but she couldn't quite imagine a would-be kidnapper, rapist, or other opportunistic criminal would have paid the ticket prices just to troll for victims. She noted the two wine glasses, not champagne flutes, he was holding, both filled with something red. "Lose someone, or are you a two-fisted drinker?"
"Neither." The smile was, if anything, more charming. "Hoping to find someone thirsty so I wouldn't have to drink alone." He held one out. "You strike me as woman who could use a drink."
That was almost too uncannily accurate to be a coincidence. Still, she took the glass, not taking a sip. "You appear to think I'm stupidly trusting, too."
"There's nothing in the wine, I promise." He took a sip of his own, not that that was reassuring. "Including much in the way of quality grapes, but then I suppose one can't be too picky."
"It can't be as bad as the champagne they're serving." She didn't try it.
"I can't imagine you're hiding up here with red eyes because of bad champagne." There was just the faintest softening of his voice. He was still smiling, but that had a gentler edge now, too.
All of which cut off her instinctive response, which was to tell him to go and do something obscene with himself. "No. I just . . . this isn't my sort of crowd. And I think I've put my foot in it with someone whose good opinion I value, no matter how much that annoys me."
"Annoys you that you stepped in it, or that you value his opinion? I assume it's a he we're talking about." From Val, that gently teasing tone would have been irksome, and she couldn't imagine Alan teasing her at all, but somehow she couldn't read this as malicious. "I'm sure he'll forgive you."
"Really? I'm not. And it's my own stupid fault for thinking I knew someone when we've really never spent that much time together." The irony of that statement, made to a total stranger, wasn't lost on her, but even without touching the wine she felt uncharacteristically like purging. "Of course it's all more complicated than just bad personal judgement, so I can't really walk away, either."
"Always is, isn't it?" Something in the stranger's tone said he knew from experience. "Still, we all make mistakes when getting to know someone. I'm sure if he's at all a worthwhile sort of person, he'll forgive you. Though you do seem like you need that drink." He obviously could see what she was thinking, and took the glass back and took a healthy sip before handing it back. "See? Not poisoned, not drugged. And I can promise you, I don't have anything catching."
In spite of herself, Elaine felt a giggle creeping up her throat. "You are pretty damn confident you're charming, aren't you?"
"You're laughing, aren't you?" He raised his glass in salute, and she caved, returning the gesture and taking a sip. All things considered, if he was playing her, being drugged might be the highlight of her evening.
Gods Above, I'm Getting Too Old For ThisPosted in On Guard, Private Thoughts on December 2, 2012 by Author Jennifer Quail
Physically, I am only slightly older than I'll admit. By the standards of my day and my then-chosen profession, I'm certainly getting up there. Of course I'll never face the further degeneration of the body and mind I would have, the increased weakness of the bones and muscles with the decreased sight, hearing, all the drives that make life worth living. Instead I'll remain the specimen I was the moment it all nearly stopped (and in some ways it did). Until one day when I finally am too slow, not quite ruthless enough, or simply not paying attention, and then it will end quickly.
Mentally, I am of late feeling every single year I've actually seen and then some, and it is entirely the fault of two people I am supposed to protect. I wonder if they would accept an interpretation of 'protect' that would involve their not being permitted out without an escort. If necessary I'll enlist Nicodemus, as soon as I can find him, though my honey-sweet has that serene, smug, I-know-something-you-don't look she usually gets when the cards have told her he'll be turning up. If she or he thinks we're in for a repeat of that business in 1889, they have another think coming unless they're very persuasive. Or by some impossibility I'm very, very drunk.
There have been times of late I wish I could get drunk. I don't miss the headaches and nausea afterwards, but the blissful oblivion Bacchus can provide would make my work lately much easier. Alan is not in fact that difficult to keep an eye on, as he's distressingly predictable, but I have the very distinct impression he is not enthusiastic about the idea of having a protector, or even an adviser. Strangely enough he is less resistant to my Nadia's attempts at mothering. My poor love is feeling the emptiness of the nest more acutely, I think, now we've had these reminders around, and in fairness, besides her compulsive need to cosset the 'children', Alan does seem to rely inordinately on fast food and pre-made items from the supermarket, so letting her feed him serves a dual purpose: makes sure he doesn't die of malnutrition, and allows me to observe without him complaining. Plus it spares me loitering around his coworkers, whose latest entertainment during their weekly happy hour has been teasing Alan about his new 'girlfriend.' I can tolerate many things, but that kind of inanity is no longer one of them.
Elaine won't handle it well, either.
I'm told, via Alan, she's home safe and at the least no less sound than when she left us. That does not make me feel better about letting her go that far away. True, the odds are long that either of our surviving friends will follow her, and there are only two of them–but then again weeks ago I would have said there were none of our Mages left in the world, either. The worst part is I understand–I understand her reticence, her need to keep this compartmentalized, and I sympathize, but it also means she's not exactly helping me protect her. I don't know how much longer I can, and I don't want to waste that time, before her powers are truly developed, with her hundreds of miles away. And of course there's the possibility she will decide the simplest solution is to never come back. To ignore the call and do her best to pretend it never happened. Or even to finish the job she first came to D.C. to do. Though somehow I don't think so–Elaine was considering that route because she thought she was useless, and now she knows there's the chance, at least, she has a purpose, one no one else can do. I doubt she'll be any more amenable than Alan to my keeping a close eye on her, though without a job and living so close, she may have a harder time avoiding it. But I am increasingly sure that Elaine will come back.
First, when she left, she kept the Key.
Second, I still have her gun.
Remember This E-Mail is Subject to ReviewPosted in In Harm's Way, Notes From The Hill on June 10, 2012 by Author Jennifer Quail
From: Alan Graves, Legislative Assistant to Senator Cannon
To: Elaine Gates
Hi, Elaine,
Just wanted to make sure you got home all right. I was checking out USAJobs and saw a few positions at Dept. of the Navy that might be interesting.
Let me know when you get back.
From: Alan Graves
To: Elaine Gates
Did you get my last e-mail? I thought I'd send it from my google account since sometimes the Senate address has trouble. And you're not on Facebook?
From: Alan Graves
To: Elaine Gates
Just checking in….
From: Elaine Gates
To: Alan Graves
You sent that first one twelve hours after I left. The train wasn't even to Chicago yet. I've barely been home for five minutes. You're worse than my mother.
No, I'm not on Facebook. Or YouSpace or MyFace or Twitterbrained or any other "social-networking site." But I'm home. And no, I wasn't attacked by anyone or any thing on the way.
From: Alan Graves, Legislative Assistant to Senator Cannon
To: Elaine Gates
I'm glad. I mean I'm glad you weren't attacked. I haven't been, either, not that I could be with certain people following me all the time. I don't SEE Val but I swear I can feel him watching me. Everyone in the office is starting to think I'm paranoid the way I keep looking over my shoulder.
I checked out the jobs site again. If you want I can ask around, too. I don't know many people who work with engineers. If you want to still be an engineer. You probably qualify for veteran's education benefits. I could look into that. You could get a doctorate, even. Like I said if you stay with me you don't have to worry about rent so there's no real rush to decide or anything.
To: Alan Graves
From: Elaine Gates
You're not paranoid if there actually is a vampire following you.
From: Alan Graves, Legislative Assistant to Senator Cannon
To: Elaine Gates
If that was supposed to be reassuring, it's not.
I'm attaching links to a couple of the universities in D.C., and the ones pretty close in Maryland and Virginia. I don't know what makes a good engineering program, not that you'd have to study engineering. Like I said, you don't need to worry about rent once you get back, so if you'd rather look at schools than jobs I'd be fine.
From: Elaine Gates
To: Alan Graves
Would I not have to worry about e-mails every five minutes?
My Partner Clearly Thinks I'm An IdiotPosted in Enthralled on June 9, 2012 by Author Jennifer Quail
That's unfair, I suppose. Val doesn't think I'm stupid, he simply thinks he's just that sneaky. I know when he's been gone-even asleep, I can tell when he's there, and when he isn't. It was just the once, the night Elaine went home (temporarily, she assures us) and I know he wasn't hunting. If he had been, he'd have either bragged about finding that blond vampire and finishing him off, or he'd be going out every night. This means it was another one of those "meetings" he thinks I don't know about.
Val might be my love and my life, but I do think sometimes he just still has that Roman patriarch's take on women. You'd think someone who actually saw Livia in the flesh would know better.
Admittedly I don't know who he seems to answer to or why, but I suppose if it's ever desperately important he'll tell me. Usually Val keeps things quiet for one of two reasons: it's something he's not particularly proud of, or it's something he thinks he needs to protect me from. I'd be a bit insulted, except that things which fall into the latter category he usually keeps from Nicodemus as well, and if he shares the former with Nico, it's not as if Nico doesn't have his own list of things he'd prefer to keep to himself.
Speaking of our jack of diamonds, I wonder just how far out the cards were projecting? He's someone Val wouldn't mind taking along on a vampire hunt, although I must confess that blond one was rather sporting, all things considered. That or just a thousand times more sensible than his allies, which is perhaps more likely. Setting aside my fractured wrist (hardly worth the fuss Val made, breaking his arm like that) he fought fair, as fair goes, and he certainly knew when to retreat. I think we can credit our new Lord with that, though. After the firestorm I think even Val is giving Alan a bit more respect. Not that poor Alan appreciates it; I don't think I've ever met a Mage who's so naturally talented and so ambivalent about using it. Once he gets more practice and control, I'm sure he'll be more at ease.
Of course there's Elaine to consider, too. I don't know quite how to view her…unorthodox solution to the standoff. Or whether or not to take her word for it that she'll move back to D.C. just as soon as things are sorted with her family. Val, on the other hand, while displeased that she's going is certainly more confident than am I of her intent.
For some reason this annoys me quite a bit.


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The sea ice in northern Alaska is teeming with many species of algae. These algae form a key part of the Arctic food web, providing a valuable food source to organisms at the foundation of the food chain. During the cold, dark winter months the algae are locked in the ice. But with spring's arrival they are poised to bloom, transit out of the ice and become available to millions of sea worms, crustaceans and other micro fauna that will feast off of them.
These bloom events, as well as the fate of the carbon associated with them, are at the heart of a National Science Foundation-supported project led by Craig Aumack, a post-doctorate researcher at Columbia University's Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory. Aumack's research focuses on Arctic algal communities and communal ecology within the sea ice.
Aumack recently arrived in Barrow, Alaska to prepare for the second season of data collection associated with the project. His findings will shed light on the roles sea ice algae play in the Arctic ecosystem. This month, he chats with Field Notes about the questions he hopes to answer with this two-year project, as well as the upcoming field season.
Field Notes (FN): What are they key questions you hope to answer by studying Arctic ice algae and the organisms that feed off of it?
Craig Aumack (CA): We are interested in finding out more about the ultimate fate of sea ice carbon, specifically the algal material that builds up within the sea ice. We know there's an algal bloom event each spring, and that it [the algae] actively exports out of the sea ice into the water well before complete sea ice melt in open water. That's a huge flush of material that reaches these marine systems, but what happens to that material? Does it get consumed in the water column? Does it reach the benthos where it's eaten by bottom-dwelling animals? There aren't too many studies that look into this and ascertain the importance of this sea ice algae to the ecosystem. We're interested in tracking that material in the biological food webs, both in the water column and on the bottom.
FN: What roles do sea ice algae play in the Arctic ecosystem?
CA: We know this algal community builds up a huge amount of carbon—not just within the cells, but in materials, like carbohydrates, that exude out the cells. All of this is very nutritious to animals that live in the water column and on the bottom. It's a great food source that is generally unattainable while it's in the ice.
FN: What happens to that food source once it leaves the ice?
CA: Before it's exported from the ice, there is not very much activity in the water column or on the benthos. Once it's exported, the benthos is teeming with life. And all this is happening during an ice-covered state. Our ice work is showing that not only is it an important food source, but it's a food source that's being made available before everything thaws. Animals are coming out of their hibernetic state and feeding on these algae well before the sea ice or rivers have thawed.
FN: How do you make these observations?
CA: We have cameras that we can lower through the ice.
FN: What types of animals do you typically find feeding off the sea ice algae?
CA: In the ice we primarily see polychaete larvae and various species of copepods. In the water column, it's primarily copepods, amphipods, gelatinous grazers, such as jellies and comb jellies. Then along the bottom we see benthic-dwelling crustaceans, amphipods and isopods. There are also a lot of different worms—from flatworms to polychaetes, annelids and nematodes. We see fish too, but we've never actually caught one!
FN: You are currently in Barrow, Alaska to prepare for data collection this summer. Please tell us what you'll be doing during the 2014 field season.
CA: Primarily we'll be drilling holes in the ice, collecting ice cores, capturing the algal material within the ice and measuring it isotopically, as well as looking for specific lipids. We'll also capture animals in the water column and those that live along the benthos using grabs to look at their lipid content, their DNA, isotopic ratios and even the material within their guts to see if I can trace the ice algae signal in the grazers. If I can find the DNA of ice algae within the guts of certain organisms, then that's just proof they are actively grazing on it.
FN: Tell me more about capturing the organisms…
CA: When we capture these organisms, we do plan on doing feeding assays where we allow them to only graze on ice algae to measure feeding rates. We'll also do choice assays where we present the organisms with other food to see what they prefer to eat. Nutritionally, ice algae are a good food source. We want to see if the organisms have adapted to prefer to eat this material versus other material if offered it.
FN: What can this study help us understand about the Arctic ecosystem?
CA: It's difficult to say how important the sea ice algae are in terms of production. But in terms of the food web, the higher orders of megafauna—the seals, bears, fish—all of those higher order predators rely on a certain amount of material being available in the trophic levels below them. So that's where the grazers are important. Andif the grazers aren't getting enough food, or the nutritional value of that food is decreased, we want to know how that impacts the food chain. Year after year, we are recording record lows of sea ice in the Arctic. We are trying to understand how important this material within the ice is to these food webs under the assumption that with each year there may be less available.
To learn more about Craig Aumack's research and to see more photos and videos, visit: http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/tag/arctic-sea-ice-ecology/ and http://lifeintheice.wordpress.com/. –Alicia Clarke


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Gold surged nearly 4% on Thursday to its highest in a year as fears about financial instability, a lower dollar and U.S. Treasury yields persuaded investors to seek refuge in the precious metal.
Traders said financial instability fears were fueled by European bank shares slumping to multi-year lows, with concerns mounting over banks' profitability in a low-growth and low-interest rate environment.
Spot gold jumped as much as 3.6% to $1,240.90 an ounce, its highest since February 2015, and was up 3% at $1,233.70 at 1254 GMT. It is on track for its biggest daily rise since Dec. 1, 2014.
"We have a good explanation for gold's rally; it is to do with worries about the U.S. economy and the rest of the world," Macquarie analyst Matthew Turner said.
"Investors are concerned that central banks' solution [is] negative interest rates or at least not raising rates—and that is gold friendly. The key risk to gold is that the U.S. economy manages to put in a good performance, like it did last year."
Cautious comments from the head of the U.S. Federal Reserve were taken to mean no near-term interest rate hikes. A slower pace of rate rises keeps down the opportunity cost of holding gold.
Longer-term U.S. debt rallied as investors wagered that the Fed would either be unable to tighten at even a gradual pace, or that if it does increase rates that would only hasten the arrival of recession and deflation.
The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yield fell to lows last seen at the end of 2012 when the Fed was busily printing money. Because gold does not pay interest, the fall in returns from U.S. bonds is seen as positive for the metal.
Gold option volatility surged to the highest in more than a year as investors have placed new bullish bets that prices will extend their recent rally.
Gold-backed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have recorded net inflows since the start of the year, signaling renewed investor interest.
"Investors are returning to gold as a core diversifier and safe haven investment," James Butterfill, head of research at ETF Securities, said in a note. "Given the increasingly challenging investment and economic environment, we expect this trend to continue."
Silver rose 1.9% to $15.60 an ounce, its highest since November 2015.
Spot platinum climbed 1.2% to $938.49 while palladium rose 0.1% to $522.50.


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According to the forecast the Estonian economy shrinks by 14,5% on 2009 and by 2% on 2010.
Source: Estonian Ministry of Finance
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According to the forecast the Estonian economy shrinks by 14,5% on 2009 and by 2% on 2010.
Source: Estonian Ministry of Finance
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According to Statistics Estonia, in August 2009 compared to August of the previous year, the production of industrial enterprises decreased 28%. Since February the decrease in production has been within the limits of 30% compared to the same month of the previous year.
The production decreased in all branches of manufacturing except the manufacture of beverages and the manufacture of pharmaceutical products. The decrease in the manufacturing of food products (3%) was the smallest. The decline in the production of food was retarded by the decrease of producer prices. Since the beginning of the year, the producer prices of milk, flour and oil have decreased significantly. The growth in production of distilled spirits and beer compared to the same month of the previous year was caused by low comparison basis due to the growth of excise tax in July 2008. Compared to August of the previous year, the manufacture of electronic products, motor vehicles and machinery and equipment fell more than 40%. The manufacture of metal and chemical products and building materials decreased more than 30%.
In August compared to August of the previous year, the production of electricity decreased 39%, the production of heat decreased 17%. The decrease in electricity production was caused by partly replacement of own production with imports from Lithuania.
In August compared to July, industrial production total as well as manufacturing fell 1% according to the seasonally adjusted data. From January to April, the decrease in industrial production remained within 4% compared to the previous month, in May the production increased 2%, in June decreased 1%, in July increased 2% again.
The volume index and trend of production in manufacturing, January 2000 – August 2009
(2005 = 100)
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According to Statistics Estonia, tax benefits turned the year 2008 an unprecedented profitable tax year for the residents of Estonia, enabling substantially to reduce the tax burden of the employed persons.
For example an employed married couple with two children, who earned gross wages and salaries in total 20,000 kroons per month (240,000 kroons per year), whose income was reduced by unemployment insurance by 1,440 kroons, who had 1 million mortgage loan for 15 years and who paid 52,000 kroons loan interests, who had 1,600 kroons education expenditure and who took into account the tax-free part of their two children (54,000 kroons as total), got from the state approximately 22,600 kroons of income tax returns. Hereby the tax rate for this family was only 7% instead of 21%, which is three times less than they paid to the state from their income per annum.
In 2008, the revenues from the taxes and social security contributions increased by 2.6%, the state's income being 80 billion kroons. The growth rate of income slowed down, as a year earlier the growth was 23%. In 2008, an equal share of the government sector revenue came from taxes on production and imports (37.9%) and social security contributions (37.2%). The income tax revenue accounted for a quarter of the total income.
Personal income tax by recipient, 2004–2008
Source: Statistics Estonia
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According to adjusted data of Statistics Estonia, the Estonian general government sector deficit in 2008 was 2.7% and gross debt level was 4.6% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). General government budget's deficit remained within the limits set out in the Maastricht Treaty.
The general government gross debt level increased in 2008 up to 11.6 billion kroons, growing by a quarter compared to the previous year. The central government's debt level increased last year 35% compared to 2007, however, accounting for only one third of the general government sector's total debt. In 2008, the total borrowing of the local governments sector increased to 8 billion kroons.
State and Local Governments' debt levels, 2005–2008
This year Statistics Estonia recalculated the general government accounts data for the period 2004–2008 based on the accrual accounting methods and revised time-series of GDP aggregates starting from 1995, where additionally to the regular revision of the national accounts data, the calculations of actual and imputed rents were also revised. Therefore the adjusted data for general government debt and budget's surplus/deficit published in this news release are not entirely comparable with the preliminary data published by Statistics Estonia at the end of March.
Source: Statistics Estonia
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According to Statistics Estonia, by 15 September, 81% of the sown area of cereals, 21% of the sown area of rape and turnip rape, and 42% of the area under potatoes had been harvested.
According to preliminary data, in 2009 cereals were grown on 328,800 hectares, of which 81% has been harvested for grain, of which 91% of rye, 73% of wheat, 90% of barley and 68% of oats. One hectare of the harvested area gave on an average 2,936 kilograms of cereals, of which 2,767 kilograms of rye, 3,214 kilograms of wheat, 2,776 kilograms of barley and 2,869 kilograms of oats. Part of cereals is not harvested yet and part of cereals sown for grain will be harvested for green fodder.
Rape and turnip rape were grown on 78,200 hectares, of which 21% has been harvested. One hectare of the harvested area gave on an average 1,749 kilograms of rape and turnip rape seeds.
Potatoes were grown on 9,200 hectares, of which 42% has been gathered. One hectare gave on an average 24,142 kilograms of potatoes.
Source: Statistics Estonia
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According to Statistics Estonia, the Immigrant Population Survey reveals that in case of immigrant occupational career the skill of the Estonian language is more important than the immigrant background.
The comparison of native Estonians and Estonian-speaking immigrants indicates that there are some differences between the distribution of occupations in the groups, but they do not amount to a confirmation of occupational division. However, signs of division can be detected in the distribution of occupations among immigrants with the skill of the Estonian language and immigrants without the skill of the Estonian language. More than a half of immigrants without the skill of the Estonian language were employed as skilled workers or operators. The share of unskilled workers was also rather high in this group (13%). The share of persons employed as managers, specialists of different levels or officials was 21%.
The group of employed native Estonians and immigrants with the skill of the Estonian language included the highest number of top specialists, mid-level specialists and officials. These occupation categories were also dominant among the immigrants with the skill of the Estonian language — top specialists, mid-level specialists and officials even accounted for more than a half of the employed persons in this group (54%), this indicator was even larger than that among the native Estonians (37%). The percentage of managers, senior officials or legislators was the highest among the native population of the Estonian nationality — 17%. Among immigrants with the skill of the Estonian language there were 11% of managers, senior officials or legislators. Another characteristic in the distribution of occupations among native Estonians and immigrants with the skill of the Estonian language was the relatively small percentage of unskilled workers (less than 5%).
The Immigrant Population Survey was conducted by Statistics Estonia for the first time in 2008. Immigrant population has been defined as the people living in Estonia whose parents were born in a foreign state. In addition, if only one non-Estonian-born parent is known, the respondent is considered as a part of immigrant population. In 2008, the share of immigrant population among the permanent residents of Estonia was 24%. Native Estonians are the residents of the Estonian ethnic nationality whose both or one parent was born in Estonia.
Occupations of native and immigrant population aged 25–49 by the background and the skill of the Estonian language, 2008
A more detailed analysis was published today, on 28 September in the publication "Immigrantrahvastik Eestis. 2009. Immigrant Population in Estonia" http://www.stat.ee/31389
The analytical publication provides an overview of immigrant population in Estonia and compares it with the native population. The major part of the analysis includes immigrants on the labour market — employment, income, wages and salaries, occupational structure and its relation to the educational level. Job changes and the description of the job searching as well as the indicators characterising the integration process have also been discussed. Integration and immigrants' connections to the country where immigrants' parents were born have been analysed as well.
Source: Statistics Estonia
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Norwegian industry group Glamox will close one of four offices in its home country and will move production to Keila, Äripäev reports.
Lighting producer Glamox HE will create 15 new jobs.
The move will help Glamox to save money and increase productivity.
"The production volume will increase by about 1/3. We've done earlier preparations since we lacked room before. So we already have building's extension and machinery, which is why moving production from Norway to Estonia needs no additional investments," Meelis Peterson, the CEO of Glamox HE said.
He didn't say how much the company will save.
Source: BBN
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text: Always beneficial having people from industry talking to students about real world sustainability solutions and the costs involved. Simon Spratling and Daniel Ball were really engaging and then good enough to stick around to answer questions about specific projects. Kudos to Simon presenting to a student group for the first time.