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Read this tip to make your life smarter, better, faster and wiser. LifeTips is the place to go when you need to know about Investing in Individual Health Insurance and other Health Insurance topics.
If you are already covered by your own insurance or the insurance of your partner parents, chances are you already have all the coverage you need. Given the staggering premiums you would likely pay for additional health insurance coverage, you would be better off contributing to a flexible spending account (FSA) or if you do not have that option available to you, into a regular savings account. Larger employers offer FSAs. When you sign up, you will specify how much you wish to contribute over the course of the year. Your employer then deducts the full amount in equal installments based on how often you are paid. If you get paid once a month, one-twelfth of the total contribution is deducted from each paycheck. You need to save your receipts and submit them to the account administrator (not your employer), and you will receive a check for that amount back. The great thing about FSAs is that the total amount you intend to contribute is available to you as of January 1 of the calendar year, even though you will not have deposited the full amount until your final paycheck. The disadvantage of FSAs, is if you overestimate your out-of-pocket expenses and do not use the full amount you contribute, you will lose it. For more information on FSAs, visit the IRS's Web site.
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(New York) - Since their spectacular rise in the 19th century, railroads have been at the cutting edge of engineering and technology and that remains true, even today. IMPOSSIBLE ENGINEERING: EXTREME RAILROADS, premiering Thursday, May 17 at 10pm ET/PT, shines a light on the world's most extraordinary rail systems, including New York's Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge, Japan's Bullet Train and California's Central Pacific Railroad.
IMPOSSIBLE ENGINEERING: EXTREME RAILROADS highlights the historic and modern breakthroughs of railroad production by telling the stories of bold pioneers and the science behind their incredible engineering feats. High-tech graphic animation will detail each transportation marvel and will look at the engineering challenges that each railway faces.
IMPOSSIBLE ENGINEERING: EXTREME RAILROADS explores:
· Incredible mountain railways that conquer vertiginous heights and offer breathtaking views, including Britain's Snowdon Mountain Railway and California's Central Pacific Railroad.
· The need for speed and impossibly fast bullet trains, including Italy's Red Arrow, New Mexico's Holloman High Speed Test Track, Japan's Shinkansen Bullet Train, and more.
· Astonishing railroads that connect urban jungles such as New York New Jersey Rail Car Float and Germany's Wuppertaler Schwebebahn.
· The world's most revolutionary rail bridges that pose some of the most difficult design challenges, including Staten Island's Arthur Kill Bridge and Scotland's Forth Bridge.
· Railways that venture into the wild and cross frozen landscapes, dense jungles, and other challenging terrains such as California's Goat Canyon Trestle and Thailand's Kanchanaburi Death Railway.
· Stunning tracks along waterways, such as Poland's Elblag Canal and Indian's Pamban Bridge.
IMPOSSIBLE ENGINEERING: EXTREME RAILROADS is produced for Science Channel by TwoFour Broadcast. For TwoFour, the executive producer is Neil Edwards. For Science Channel, Lindsey Foster-Blumberg is supervising producer and Vicky Bernal is associate producer.
About Science Channel:
Science Channel, a multi-media business unit of Discovery, Inc. is the home of all things science around the clock, including series such as MYTHBUSTERS, OUTRAGEOUS ACTS OF SCIENCE, WHAT ON EARTH?, HOW THE UNIVERSE WORKS, UNEARTHED, and MYSTERIES OF THE ABANDONED. Science Channel's programming also included timely, expert-driven specials covering breaking science news and discoveries. Science Channel is the premiere TV, digital and social community for those with a passion for science, space, technology, archeology, and engineering, providing immersive, engaging, high-quality entertainment across all Science Channel assets including: Science Channel television network, available in more than 63 million homes in the U.S; complimentary Video On Demand offering; SCI Go app allowing viewers to catch up on full episodes of their favorite shows anytime; deep video, interactive storytelling and virtual reality at www.sciencechannel.com; and conversations on Science Channel's popular social platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat via @ScienceChannel.
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Discovery, Inc. (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) is a global leader in real life entertainment, serving a passionate audience of superfans around the world with content that inspires, informs and entertains. Discovery delivers over 8,000 hours of original programming each year and has category leadership across deeply loved content genres around the world. Available in 220 countries and territories and 50 languages, Discovery is a platform innovator, reaching viewers on all screens, including TV Everywhere products such as the GO portfolio of apps and Discovery Kids Play; direct-to-consumer streaming services such as Eurosport Player and Motor Trend OnDemand; and digital-first and social content from Group Nine Media. Discovery's portfolio of premium brands includes Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery, Travel Channel, Turbo/Velocity, Animal Planet, and Science Channel, as well as OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network in the U.S., Discovery Kids in Latin America, and Eurosport, the leading provider of locally relevant, premium sports and Home of the Olympic Games across Europe. For more information, please visit www.corporate.discovery.com and follow @DiscoveryIncTV across social platforms.

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This meditation focused on calming anxiety and nervous energy is not easy an easy one. It requires breath discipline and holding your arms out at an acute angle.
Most of us have low back pain because our low back's are not as STRONG as they need to be. Let's revisit Allison's low back strengthening class. These kind of exercises are SO needed! Especially for those of us that tend to overarch in our lumbar spine.
Hence the creation of this week's sequence which is all about surrendering to anxiety, and anger - because if you're angry, this will definitely calm you down.
We move ALL around the mat in this intermediate/advanced slow flow vinyasa class. Place your laptop or phone to the side so you can see it when facing both the front and back of the mat :)


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Omaha Fashion Week is kicking off another season August 20-25, and we are thrilled to share more about our amazing lineup of designers!
Alexis Amina found inspiration for her mens and women's wear collection on a recent trip to Africa to explore her roots. Vibrant prints, bold colors and varying silhouettes work to inspire all of us to learn a little more about where we come from.
How did you get into fashion? Share a little about your background.
I had a rough childhood, and fashion was my creative outlet from the world. I first got into fashion while in elementary school, when I bought a Designer's Drawing Book from my school's Scholastic Book Fair. Growing up, I submerged myself in the world of fashion! I would faithfully watch Americas Next Top Model, play designer video games, and create clothes for my Barbies. In middle school, I subscribed to Vogue/Teen Vogue Magazine and would read up on the latest fashion trends. In the sixth grade I created a book called "Coles Collection", which was a large binder full of drawings, inspiration, and artistic ideas related to fashion. My sophomore year of high school I bought my first sewing machine, even though I didn't know how to sew or know anyone that did. I created small DIY projects like wallets and circle skirts. I stopped sewing until my senior year of high school and picked it back up my freshman year of college.
Describe your brand and the point of view you wish to convey.
I go by the name Alexis Amina, but my brand name is LAME. LAME is an acronym for Love and Adore My Eccentricities. I was inspired to create LAME after years of being bullied in school for my physical features, the clothes that I wore, and the things that I was interested in. I was often called lame. My brand heavily uses African Print and Afrocentric Elements because I take pride in my African roots, dark skin, and nappy hair. I believe that everyone should be allowed to express him or herself without being criticized and bullied.
What are your personal goals, or goals for your brand?
My personal goals for my brand are to make colorful clothes with lots of texture and patterns. I'd love for LAME to become a well-known street brand in the Midwest and hopefully nation/worldwide. I would love to see my brand worn on the red carpet, in music videos/ television shows, and much more.
Describe your favorite project(s) that you have worked on.
My favorite project that I have worked on is a two-piece African Print Pant and Bell Sleeve Top (showcased on all of my social media sites) I made the outfit in two days, so that was a lot of fun.
To learn more about Alexis and her work, visit her website and follow along on Facebook and Instagram as she continues to prepare for the runway! And be sure to grab tickets to Omaha Fashion Week August 20th-25th!


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Training Recap: Jan. 22-28
|Alter G Treadmill
This week was a solid building week. I was able to run 143.5 miles, which included two solid workouts. It was also exciting because I was able to visit my friends at Aurora Bay Care Sports Medicine (don't miss their Twitter or Facebook pages) to take a look at team uniforms, get a Dartfish analysis, and try out their latest addition, the Alter G Treadmill! It was amazing to run on the Alter G. If you are not familiar with them, they reduce your bodyweight down to 20 percent while running! It is a product of NASA that got spun into a rehab tool for impact/stress reduction. I was amazed at the difference felt by simply moving from 90 percent to 80 percent bodyweight.
Adding to the week's excitement was finalizing some race scheduling. I get asked a lot what races I plan to do this year, and feel bad because I am a bit on the spontaneous side when it comes to my race scheduling. I like to focus on a couple major races, but I also like to plan based on race performance, and how I felt. Therefore, I often add races throughout the year in a somewhat last-minute fashion. Hey, it adds to the excitement, right?
First of all, I will be running in the John Dick Memorial 50k on Saturday, February 4th. It is a relatively small gathering, but a 50k trail run nonetheless. I plan to basically train right through this race, using it as a workout of sorts. Secondly, I have registered for this year's Ice Age 50 on May 12. I am really pumped for this race, because it has drawn some great athletes this year. It looks to be setting up to be quite competitive for the top few spots. I will definitely be adding some more races between these two in the coming weeks.
Anyway...back to the training. The two most notable workouts I did this week were a speed session and a hybrid tempo/pickup workout. The speed session was built inside a 12-mile run. I incorporated 10 x 65-75 second intervals, with 1 to 3 minutes of recovery between. I would start the intervals at about just under 5 minute/mile pace and end each of them with an all-out sprint. It really felt good to let my legs feel some speed again. I try to include these types of sessions into my training a couple of times a month. It helps keep my legs from getting too sluggish from the high volume of mileage. My second workout, the hybrid tempo/pickup, felt really good as well. I did a 30-minute tempo run at about 5:45 minutes/mile. I followed it with a 3-minute recovery jog and 4 x 75-second pickups. I ran the pickups similar to the intervals mentioned in the earlier workout. Please see below for the day-by-day specifics of this week.
|22.5 mile long run
|AM: 16 mile easy run (freezing rain)
PM: 10 mile easy run
|AM: 13 mile easy run
PM: 7 miles (treadmills at Aurora Sports Complex)
|12 mile interval workout
- 10x65-75sec pickups (all out at end) with 1-3min recovery jog between
|AM: 10 mile easy run
PM: 11 mile easy run
|AM: 10 mile hybrid tempo/pickup workout
- 30min tempo at 5:45/mi with 3min recovery
- 4x75sec pickups
PM: 12 mile easy run
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Actually Finished
I finished a 2018 Winter Olympics Hat for my stepdad
I finished re-knitting Ravello, and still don't like the way it fits, so I sent it to my niece for her birthday
Actually Working
I'm experimenting with socks that have after thought toes and heels
I ripped out the Marled Magic Sweater and I'm re-knitting it as the Marled Mania Sweater and I'm much happier with it, and I think I will wear it more
I'm working on a Big Wave tank in some Brown Sheep Synchrony I received to review:
Synchrony is a brand-new twist on Brown Sheep yarns, in a multicolored blend of 60% cotton and 40% wool. This playful blend is great to wear and perfect for accessories and kids' clothing in DK weight.
Actually Stashed
I attended the MJ Yarns moving sale and bought some of his American Worsted and some Tough Ram Fingering
I received some beautiful review yarn from Manos Del Uruguay / Fairmount Fibers,
This season-spanning blend of pima cotton and baby alpaca has fantastic drape for scarves, wraps, cardigans, and summer tops. The fiber blend and our kettle-dyeing process give the colors a heathered, stonewashed look. Although it's labelled as a sport- to dk-weight yarn, Serena's gauge is very versatile, from 4 1/2 sts per inch all the way to 7.
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I'll be attending Interweave Yarn Fest in Loveland, CO April 12-15


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Don't Miss Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice!
Ticket sales are now closed. We hope you enjoyed the show!
Friday, May 11th (Cast B) Saturday, May 12th (Cast B)
Friday, May 18th (Cast A) Saturday, May 19th (Cast A)
Join us for a delightful production of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice presented by the Seniors of Chesterton Academy! This is Shakespeare's most controversial comedy and misunderstood play, so misunderstood that some people forget that it is a comedy. Part love story, part courtroom drama, and part historical allegory, it is filled with surprises and unforgettable characters.
Come and enjoy this delightful comedy performed by the Seniors of Chesterton Academy and directed by Laura Ahlquist! All performances take place at the Chesterton Academy Theatre, in the lower level of Calvary Church (5300 France Ave. S., Edina, MN 55410).Click herefor directions.
Important Note:This play is part of the Senior curriculum and all students will be graded on their performance. We are also professionally recording the shows, and some scenes may not be suitable for children under 8 years of age. Please keep little ones at home.


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Daisy Barocio
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Daisy Barocio
Student Achievement & Public Relations Director
Years at EP
What attracted you to EP?
What attracted me to Escuela Popular was the culturally relevant pedagogy and how clear it was that everyone who works here is fully committed to making their experience part of their life's legacy rather than just a job.
What's the best part of your job?
The best part of being a part of the Escuela team is being able to contribute to something greater than myself where teaching is truly seen as an act of love that can transform not just the individual but entire families.
How does your passion align with EP's vision?
My passion is to create and be part of communities of buoyant leaders in order to develop schools and systems that foster the buoyancy of all children and the foundation of a new tomorrow. I absolutely believe that Escuela Popular is a school made of community members who are kind, passionate, buoyant, and actively building a school community that supports all their students.
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Introduction to Heavy Metals and Transitional Metals
The elements like Iron (Fe), Copper (Cu), Silver (Ag), Gold (Au), Zinc (Zn), Mercury (Hg), Tin (Sn) are generally considered as heavy metals. Metals having density more than 5 gram/cc are known as heavy metals.
Properties of heavy metals:
- Heavy metals are hard and has high melting point and boiling point.
- They have high specific gravity (relative density).
- Heavy metals combined with one another to form important alloys.
- These metals have more than one oxidation state (variable valency). For example: Fe++ and Fe+++, Cu2++ and Cu++ etc.
- These metals generally give colored compound. For example: Ferric salts are light green in color, Ferric salts are brownish in color while Copper salts are blue in color.
- They are good conductor of heat and electricity.
D-block or transition elements:
The elements which lies between S block and P block elements in Modern Periodic element are called D-block or transitional elements. These elements have partially filled sub-shells and has common oxidation state.
General characteristics of Transitional elements:
- They are hard, strong and has high boiling and melting points.
- They are good conductor of heat and electricity.
- They are ductile materials (can be transformed into thin sheets).
- They form alloy with one another and with other metallic elements.
- They form interstitial compound with the non metals like carbon, boron, nitrogen, hydrogen, etc.
- They are highly soluble in mineral acids.
- They exibit variable oxidation state
- Their ions and compounds are colored.
- The general electronic configuration of these metals is (n-1)d1-10ns1-2.
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SHREVEPORT, La., (March 19, 2019) -- Spring often ushers in an eagerness to head outside for DIY projects and fun activities.
Whether it's mending a fence, planting a garden or hosting a backyard barbecue, spring is the season many get out of the house to enjoy the sunshine.
Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO) reminds customers to take caution when working or playing outside near power lines.
Here are 14 outdoor safety tips to keep in mind this spring:
Outdoor projects
Flying kites & putting up balloons
On the lake
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The City of Plainfield Recreation Division will once again host the Central Jersey Fourth of July parade. This Plainfield tradition attracts thousands of people to the Downtown every year and is a must see event every year! Bands from all over NJ play as the sidewalks fill with spectators and businesses fill with people. The parade route is East Front Street between Johnston Avenue to Madison Avenue. Then later, join us in Cedarbrook Park for a live concert and fireworks at dusk. The concert will have food venders from Plainfield restaurants, and various merchant tables.
For more information, please call the Plainfield Recreation Division: 908-753-3097.


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Day trip with own husky-team
Follow the footsteps of Jack London into the wild: With a team of 4 to 5 sled dogs through northern Sweden. You will be standing on the vats yourself and will be giving orders to your new, four-legged friends. In a group of 2-6 dogsleds you will be guided through snowy forests and over frozen lakes of Arvidsjaur by an experienced English- and German-speaking musher. Live to see the power, will and joy of the huskies very close. Sparks of enthusiasm will leap over to you and you will feel, how a pleasant state of Relaxation will spread out inside of you. Everyday life will be left behind and you will wish the journey would never end...
Every day from December to March on request
Storberg 23 km outside Arvidsjaur
- Loan thermal jacket, thermal pant, special musher-gloves and boots
- Dog sled team of 4-5 dogs
- Everyone drives their own dog sleds team
- Warm lunch in a sami kåta
- Coffee and cake after the tour
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Carol Watkins
Carol Watkins of Hinterland Ceramics was born in Cairns and took up pottery in 2003 towards the end of a busy career in Human Resource Management, which included running her own agency in Brisbane.
Carol's Story:
I work from my studio at home in the sunshine coast hinterland and do workshops with visiting tutors, something I particularly enjoy as I am able to learn new techniques and exchange ideas with other potters. I now make many of my own glazes and love the many challenges that pottery provides. 'You just keep learning' Surprisingly, pottery is quite technical'.
Alternative firing methods such as raku, smoke and saggar are probably my favourite mediums and processes. The origin of raku can be traced back to sixteenth century Japan and involves firing the glaze at a low temperature, removing pieces from the kiln while still glowing hot and introducing them into a reduction chamber containing combustible materials. Ignition produces a reducing (limited oxygen) atmosphere for the glaze with black carbon deposited on unglazed surfaces and in crackles in the glaze. Generally, one is never quite certain of the result, leading to a certain serendipity, which is part of the fascination I have with raku firings.
This serendipity is also part of the charm for me of saggar and smoke firings, as these results are glaze free and also quite unpredictable. Smoke firing is messy and the results can be quite joyous or disappointing. There is a lot of experimentation involved and the sense of anticipation can be immense.
There are a number of types of saggar firing where pots are usually burnished and fired within a variety of types of chamber. The results can be quite breathtaking. One thing can be guaranteed …….. no two pots will ever be exactly the same.'
My work has been exhibited at
'Ignition' 2010 and 2012, a national exhibition held on the Sunshine Coast every two years
'Tribe' an exhibition at Rosebed St Gallery, Eudlo in September 2012
'A Taste of Art' an exhibition of work by members of Friends of Noosa Regional Gallery
'FireWorks' at the Cooroy Butter Factory Arts Centre in September 2010 as a member of Claymates, a group of potters from the northern end of the Sunshine Coast
the Sunshine Coast University
Kenilworth Art Space
the annual Nambour Home Garden Expo
Main Street Gallery, Montville
at Mt Uncle Distillery, on the Wine and Food Trail on the Cairns Highlands
As part of Claymates, at the Pomona Carriage Gallery in November 2012
'A Taste of Art' at Noosa Regional Gallery in April 2013
'Coastal Collage' at the Cooroy Butter Factory Arts Centre in July 2013 as a member of Claymates
As part of the POP UP ART Exhibitions at the Cooroy Butter Factory Arts Centre, May to December 2015; and as POP UP Artist of the Month during October and November


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Larry Mayer
LARRY MAYER is a Professor and the Director of the School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering and The Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire. He graduated magna cum laude with an Honors degree in Geology from the University of Rhode Island in 1973 and received a Ph.D. from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in Marine Geophysics in 1979. At Scripps, he worked with the Marine Physical Laboratory's Deep-Tow Geophysical package, applying this sophisticated acoustic sensor to problems of deep-sea mapping and the history of climate. After being selected as an astronaut candidate finalist for NASA's first class of mission specialists, Larry went on to a Post-Doc at the School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island where he worked on the early development of the Chirp Sonar and problems of deep-sea sediment transport and paleoceanography. In 1982, he became an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Oceanography at Dalhousie University and in 1991 moved to the University of New Brunswick to take up the NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Ocean Mapping. In 2000 Larry became the founding director of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire and the co-director of the NOAA/UNH Joint Hydrographic Center.
Larry has participated in more than 90 cruises (over 70 months at sea!) during the last 35 years, and has been chief or co-chief scientist of numerous expeditions, including two legs of the Ocean Drilling Program and eight mapping expeditions in the ice covered regions of the high Arctic. He has served on, or chaired, far too many international panels and committees and has the requisite large number of publications on a variety of topics in marine geology and geophysics. He is the recipient of the Keen Medal for Marine Geology and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Stockholm. He was a member of the President's Panel on Ocean Exploration, National Science Foundation's Advisory Committee for the Geosciences, and chaired a National Academy of Science Committee on national needs for coastal mapping and charting as well as the recently completed National Academies report on the impact of the Deepwater Horizon Spill on ecosystem services in the Gulf of Mexico. He was the co-chair of the NOAA's Ocean Exploration Advisory Working Group, and the Vice-Chair of the Consortium of Ocean Leadership's Board of Trustees, and is currently the Chair of the National Academies of Science's Oceans Studies Board, a member of the State Dept.'s Extended Continental Shelf Task Force and the Navy's SCICEX Advisory Committee. In 2016 Larry was appointed by President Obama to the Arctic Research Commission.
Larry's current research deals with sonar imaging and remote characterization of the seafloor as well as advanced applications of 3-D visualization to ocean mapping problems and applications of mapping to Law of the Sea issues, particularly in the Arctic.
Courses Taught
- ESCI 875: Ocean Mapping II
- ESCI 973: Seafloor Characterization
- OE 990: Ocean Seminars I
- OE 991: Ocean Seminars II
- OE 999: Doctoral Research
Selected Publications
Weidner, E., Weber, T. C., Mayer, L., Jakobsson, M., Chernykh, D., & Semiletov, I. (2019). A wideband acoustic method for direct assessment of bubble-mediated methane flux. Continental Shelf Research, 173, 104-115. doi:10.1016/j.csr.2018.12.005
Jakobsson, M., Hogan, K. A., Mayer, L. A., Mix, A., Jennings, A., Stoner, J., . . . Stranne, C. (2018). The Holocene retreat dynamics and stability of Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland. Nature Communications, 9(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04573-2
Malik, M., Lurton, X., & Mayer, L. (2018). A framework to quantify uncertainties of seafloor backscatter from swath mapping echosounders. Marine Geophysical Research, 39(1-2), 151-168. doi:10.1007/s11001-018-9346-7
Ballard, R. D., Raineault, N. A., Fahy, J., Mayer, L., Heffron, E., Broad, K., . . . Krasnosky, K. (2018). Submerged Sea Caves of Southern California's Continental Borderland. OCEANOGRAPHY, 31(1), 30-31. Retrieved from http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/
Stranne, C., Mayer, L., Weber, T. C., Ruddick, B. R., Jakobsson, M., Jerram, K., . . . Gårdfeldt, K. (2017). Acoustic Mapping of Thermohaline Staircases in the Arctic Ocean. Scientific Reports, 7(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-017-15486-3
Jakobsson, M., Mayer, L., Coakley, B., Dowdeswell, J. A., Forbes, S., Fridman, B., . . . Weatherall, P. (2012). The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO) Version 3.0. Geophysical Research Letters, 39(12), n/a. doi:10.1029/2012gl052219
Jakobsson, M., Macnab, R., Mayer, L., Anderson, R., Edwards, M., Hatzky, J., . . . Johnson, P. (2008). An improved bathymetric portrayal of the Arctic Ocean: Implications for ocean modeling and geological, geophysical and oceanographic analyses. Geophysical Research Letters, 35(7), n/a. doi:10.1029/2008gl033520
Jakobsson, M., Backman, J., Rudels, B., Nycander, J., Frank, M., Mayer, L., . . . Moran, K. (2007). The early Miocene onset of a ventilated circulation regime in the Arctic Ocean. Nature, 447(7147), 986-990. doi:10.1038/nature05924
Kong, L. S. L., Detrick, R. S., Fox, P. J., Mayer, L. A., & Ryan, W. B. F. (1988). The morphology and tectonics of the Mark area from Sea Beam and Sea MARC I observations (Mid-Atlantic Ridge 23° N). Marine Geophysical Researches, 10(1-2), 59-90. doi:10.1007/bf02424661
Berger, W. H., Adelseck, C. G., & Mayer, L. A. (1976). Distribution of carbonate in surface sediments of the Pacific Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research, 81(15), 2617-2627. doi:10.1029/jc081i015p02617
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When I got a chance to take a listen to Bose's Soundlink Mini Bluetooth Speaker in New York City this past June, it was under controlled conditions. Bose gathered a handful of tech nerds, herded us into a specially build sound proof room in the middle of Grand Central Terminal, and let the music fly. All I could think about was that some engineer had likely spent no small amount of time doing math to figure out the optimum room size, best place to place the speaker and what music should be pumped through it in order to wow us. So, I took some notes that day, asked the project engineers for the hardware a few questions and decided that I'd leave passing judgement on the thing until I was able to spend some time with one in environments where nothing's controlled, playing music that I know well and love.
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It's a great piece of gear, which I'm sad to say, easily beats down the best speakers I have in my home. This kind of irritates me for a few reasons. First, I've been trying to downsize the number of possessions in my life (ask my family and the wait staff at my favorite restaurant: both have been given a lot of hardware over the past few months,) so anything that I'm tempted to buy (which I then go ahead and pull the trigger on,) makes me feel like a weak consumerist failure. Second, for a portable speaker, at $220 Canadian, it's plenty expensive, and there's plenty of other things I could be spending my money on, or saving it for, instead of forking over for another conduit to blast my music through.
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DPP withdraws case against two musicians accused of disturbing the President's peace
The Director of Public Prosecution Mike Chibita has withdrawn charges of offensive communication against two local Musicians; David Mugema and Jonathan Muwanguzi, who had been accused of disturbing the peace of the President.
Mugema and Muwanguzi are alleged to have sang and produced a song titled " Mzee Wumula" in which they attacked the person and age of the president of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.
They had been accused of committing the offence between 2015 and 2017 at Salama road in Makindye Division-Kampala district.
However since their arrest in September last year, they have been reporting at Buganda Road Court for trial of their case, but no progress was being shown by Prosecutions's Abdul Salaam Waiswa, prompting presiding Grade one Magistrate Gladys Kamasanyu to give him the last adjournment on 13th/March/2018 to produce witnesses today, failure of which she was to dismiss it.
It's against this background that Prosecution's Waiswa presented a withdrawal letter to court dated and signed by the DPP on 10th this month, indicating that he had discontinued proceedings against the two musicians, although no reasons were given.
Magistrate Kamasanyu then closed the case, discharged the accused persons and ordered that the State should return the confiscated equipment to Mugema and Muwanguzi, without any conditions.
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Carol Burnett Talks About Her Daughter's Tragic Death in Heartbreaking Interview
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"I think of her every day," Burnett told PEOPLE. "She never leaves me … I just feel her." Hamilton was Burnett's oldest of three daughters from her second marriage to Joe Hamilton, a producer on The Carol Burnett Show. "You don't get over it, but you cope. What else can you do?" she says.
Burnett describes her daughter's personality as similar to her own: "She was very interested in people," Burnett told PEOPLE. "She never met a stranger. I think it's in our genes … [knowing] you can make somebody's day by being kind."
And they looked alike too.
Burnett (left) and Hamilton (right) at the 6th Annual Kennedy Center Honors Gala in 1983.
But that doesn't mean they didn't go through some rough times. When Hamilton was a teenager, she struggled with drug addiction. "She got sober when she was 17," Burnett told PEOPLE. "I put her in a third rehab place, and oh my God, she hated me. I came to the conclusion that I had to love her enough to let her hate me. She got sober and we started bonding. We wound up working together, writing a play together. We worked together in three shows."
Hamilton (left) and Burnett (right) in 1987.
Hamilton starred with her mother in Fame and had guest roles on Murder She Wrote and Beverly Hills 90210 during her career. She also helped Burnett create a stage version of her best-selling memoir One More Time. After Hamilton's passing, Burnett went on to honor her daughter in her own work.
"When Carrie died, I didn't want to get out of bed for a while, but I had a play to finish that we started that Hal Prince was going to direct. I owed it to Carrie, and I owed it to Hal," Burnett told PEOPLE. To calm her worries, the comedian asked her daughter to give her a sign that it was the right thing to do.
"I got on a plane and said a little prayer to Carrie, and said, 'I've got to do this alone,'" she told PEOPLE. "'Don't leave me alone. Give me a sign that you're with me.'" When Burnett got off the plane, she saw a bouquet of birds of paradise flowers — which Hamilton had a tattoo of on her right shoulder. Then at
Now, Burnett is starring in the Netflix series A Little Help With Carol Burnett, in which she'll work with a panel of children to give advice to adults. Burnett says Hamilton was constantly on her mind while filming.
We can't wait to watch.
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This story originally appeared on Townandcountrymag.com.
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Glór Tíre - Rogha agus Togha begins this week, with the best selection of songs from the 12th instalment of the popular country music series.
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The country music talent show 'Glór Tíre returns to the Quays in Galway as the hunt for Ireland's best country talent continues. With help from Ireland's biggest country music stars six contestants battle it out. Presented by Aoife Ni Thuairisg and Seamús Ó Scanláin, with help from the judges John Creedon, Caitríona Ní Shúilleabháin and Jó Ní Chéide who ably guide the contestants. Star guests include Jimmy Buckley, Michael English, Mike Denver, Ciarán Rosney, Johnny Brady and Gerry Guthrie.


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This bean-bag-toss game leads to toys for needy kids at Christmas
A cornhole tournament Sunday benefiting Toys for Tots had players not just aiming for a hole on a board, but for a goal of raising money for toys for kids.
Just over a dozen people were gathered at Full Circle Brewing in downtown Fresno to compete in the tournament, which had an entrance fee of $10 or a new toy.
Jessica Montano, the Fresno County Toys for Tots coordinator with the Marine Corps League, said the tournament was a way to help out the annual toy drive that goes toward providing Christmas toys for Fresno County kids.
A Marine Corps League booth was on hand to collect the donations, whether it was money or toys.
"We'll pull (approximately) $100,000 a year, which we turn around and buy toys with," Montano said.
Last year, just under 50,000 Fresno County children were in need of a toy.
"We were able to give the toys to all of them, so hopefully we will be able to make our goals this year, too," Montano said.
Montano said already there are about 40,000 children in need this year; an exact number won't be known until all the applications have been processed. "We have only collected 9,000 toys so far this year," she said.
The drive began the first weekend of November at an event with the Pontiac of Central California car club and runs until Christmas Day, she said.
About 58 toy-drive events are held every year in a span of 45 days, according to Montano. Toys for Tots works with other organizations to deliver the toys.
"As soon as we get toys in, we send them out to the organizations and then we will have our event just before Christmas," Montano said.
This year, PR Farms in Clovis is donating a warehouse for the big giveaway.
Bobby Tovar, president of the Dogg Pound League, whose main focus is cornhole competitions, said he wanted to be part of this year's drive.
"We knew we wanted to work with Toys for Tots this year and give some toys to the less fortunate," Tovar said.
The Dogg Pound League normally hosts tournaments for fundraisers and charity events. Tovar said cornhole is a growing recreational game. He didn't say why it's called cornhole, but said it originated in Cincinnati and has spread throughout the nation.
"We're just a bunch of cornhole players that like to play cornhole," Tovar said. "That's all we do, is just straight cornhole."
The game is simple: throw a bean bag, and if it goes into a hole on the board, the player earns three points. If the bean bag lands only on the board, one point is awarded.
Regina Garcia of Selma says she is learning the game and how to aim just right. She came out to play, but also to donate $27 for Toys for Tots.
"It's definitely going to bring some kids happiness," Garcia said. "It will give them a nice Christmas."
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On Wednesday the 15th of July long term British ex-pat Nolan Pickering was having a nap in his garden in Koh Samui when another British man jumped out from beind his bushes and attacked him. Mr. Pickering was punched in the face by a man wearing a knuckleduster. After the attack Mr. Pickering was rushed to Thai International hospital by friends where he received seven stitches under his eye.
Mr. Pickering told the Samui Times the attacker was a man he had previously rented a house to. There had been some dispute over rent payments and several months ago he was forced to evict him. Since then he has had several altercations with the man who Mr. Pickering believes is using drugs. "He used a mop head to prize open the barbed wire fence surrounding my garden" Mr. Pickering told our reporter, "he must have been creeping around in the bushes, I was just sleeping in my hammock with my hands behind my head, it was a totally unprovoked attack". He went on to say "I could have lost my eye, and to make matters even worse my three children, one aged 8 and two aged 5, witnessed the attack, they were completely traumatized by it".
The police were called to the scene of the crime, a house on the Ghost Road in Bangrak, and are now looking for British man Mr. Peter Stirling, the owner of Jezebels Bar in Bangrak in connection with the attack.
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A - Type:
Creatures can be one of several basic types of things. Typically, it doesn't matter what type of creature a monster is, but it may matter for magical or scientific reasons in highly developed campaigns.
The basic types of creatures in Hyrule are:
1 - Animals:
An animal is a basically mindless creature, such as a dog or cow. They have no civilization as such, no technologies, and no abstract language.
As in the real world, animals in Hyrule can be malicious, benign, or timid. Some will attack relentlessly, while others simply wish to be left alone, and some will flee if they see any life-form other than their own.
2 - Plants:
Although generally rooted and harmless in reality, plants in Hyrule are often mobile, and just as often predatory. Some of the fiercest monsters in Hyrule are actually plants, which attack other living creatures in order to obtain nutrients which are not accessible to them because of a lack of roots, or else for magical reasons.
3 - Spirits:
"Spirit" is a broad category, which perhaps could stand further subdivision. A spirit is any living creature that does not have a physical body, per se. Even without a body, some spirits can be quite dangerous, and they comprise some of the most feared monsters in existence.
Although they do not have a physical body, they are composed of a type of quasi-physical substance called "ecto-plasm." This ghostly substance can be solid, liquid, gaseous, or ethereal, and some spirits can change state at will. By changing to an ethereal state, most spirits are able to pass through physical matter.
4 - Automata:
An automaton is not truly a life form. It is a thing animated by either natural principles (robots) or magical forces. Automata are made as guardians, so generally they are an indication that some type of important treasure or secret place is nearby; however, since some automata can last for decades, or even centuries, there is no guarantee that the place or thing they once guarded is still extant.
5 - People:
A person is an intelligent creature with a language, and generally a society of other beings like itself.
B - Terrain:
Some creatures only inhabit certain areas. The most common types of terrain in Hyrule are:
1 - Plains:
Plains are also sometimes called "fields" or, less commonly, "prairies." They are places where the ground is relatively flat for a large area, and are usually grassy and sparsely populated.
2 - Forests:
Forests are areas of dense, large foliage, primarily trees. They are generally difficult to navigate, and replete with plant and animal life. Often, forests grow dense enough to block out most sunlight.
3 - Deserts:
Deserts are dry, sandy areas with little annual rainfall. The terrain tends to be fairly even, with a few jagged rocks. Since it is very difficult to live in these arid places, there tends to be very little animal or plant life.
4 - Mountains:
High altitude climates that tend to be dry and rocky, but generally have a fair amount of plant and animal life, as well as small villages of people.
5 - Swamps:
Swamps are areas flooded by slow-moving, and often stagnant, water. They are difficult to move through, since the water is often deep, and the swamp's floor is seldom as solid as rock or clay - usually it is mud with a thick layer of slime.
Swamps always contain all kinds of life; plants from pond scum to massive trees, and animals from parasitic bugs to octoroks.
6 - Caves:
Cave dwelling creatures are often found in ruins and catacombs as well as natural caves.
7 - Water:
Some creatures are aquatic by nature, but can still trouble land-dwelling creatures. These include Zola and Bago-Bagos.
8 - Sentry:
Some creatures, particularly automata and spirits are primarily guardians of important places, and so do not have a "natural" terrain, but are only found in strongholds. Stalfos, for example.
In addition, some creatures may be peculiar to very specific areas, such as Gheenies, who only appear in graveyards.
C - Life:
A creature's Life represents the amount of damage it can survive. When a creature is damaged (as in combat), its Life goes down by the amount of damage done to it. If a creature's Life reaches zero, it dies, or at least loses consciousness.
The Life Meter occupies most of the right side of a character sheet. Most Hyrulians naturally have 4 points of Life, although some outstanding characters (like those in the line of Links) have had as many as 6. To represent this, a player places the appropriate number of Life tokens (usually 4) on the Heart Containers in the LIFE column. Each time a character is hit, the player removes the appropriate number of tokens. For example, a character with 4 points of Life who is hit by a sword which inflicts 2 points of Damage, would be left with 2 points of Life, and the player would take away 2 tokens to represent this.
A creature's Life can be augmented by various types of physical or magical armor. This armor causes a character to take less damage when hit. On a character sheet, armor is listed to the right of the character's Heart Containers. When a character gets red armor, for instance, the player uses four columns (up to the end of "ARMOR, Red"), instead of just one. A character that has armor and takes damage has the tokens removed from the armor next to his Heart Container before removing the token from the Heart Container, itself.
For example, a when character with four hearts, wearing red armor, takes 6 points of damage, you remove six hit tokens, first all the tokens in the fourth row, and then 2 tokens in the armor slots of the third row. You would not simply remove all 6 tokens from the character's armor columns. The reason that this matters is that the character is no longer in perfect health, which you need in order to preform certain operations. If a character wearing yellow armor takes 6 points of damage, the character is still in perfect health, because the heart in the last row is still full. If the character takes 8 points of damage, it is no longer in perfect health, because one of the hearts has been taken away.
D - Buffet:
A Buffet is a blow from a blunt instrument such as a boomerang, club, or fist. It has different effects on different creatures, but typically it stuns them for 5 turns.
E - Damage:
Damage represents the damage a creature can deal unarmed. If the character is armed, the weapon causes its usual amount of damage.
F - Damage Reaction:
G - Speed:
A creature's Speed number is the number of feet a character can move in one turn. It also affects the character's combat skill. (See VI - Combat.)
H - Attack:
Represents the skill with which a creature attacks.
I - Attack Type:
Represents whether a creature inflicts damage automatically simply by touching or being touched, or deliberately deals a blow. For example, a jellyfish attacks automatically, meaning that it hurts to touch one; whereas, a dog attacks deliberately, meaning that it has to try to hurt you in order to do so.
J - Special Ability:
A special ability is a skill that a creature inherently possesses, such as the ability to fly, shoot fireballs, or pass through walls.
K - Magic:
The Magic statistic represents how much magical power a creature has at maximum charge. On the character sheet, the Magic Meter is just to the left of the Life Meter, and is marked from 0 to 16, which is generally the maximum a player can reach. Most characters have little or no magic power, but with the right training, wizards can store up a great deal.
L - Treasure:
Some creatures only leave certain types of treasure behind. This category shows what types of treasure that creature carries. B=bombs, A=arrows, M=Magic Decanter, S=Magical Stopwatch. "Standard" treasures are hearts, rubies, and Stopwatches.
1 - Types:
a. Rubies:
Rubies are gems cut to a uniform size (about an inch long, half an inch wide, and hexagonal), which are used as currency in Hyrule and the surrounding kingdoms. There are three types, green, blue, and red. The green gems are worth one rubie, blue ones are worth five, and red ones are worth twenty.
b. Hearts:
Hearts are vital energy left behind by defeated monsters. Picking one up will heal 2 (or 4) points of damage.
c. Bombs:
Bombs are round bundles of explosives which blow up 3 seconds after they are activated, causing 4 points of Damage at Penetration 4 to anything within 3 feet of the blast, and destroying fragile walls, rocks, etc.
d. Arrows:
Arrows are wooden rods tipped with sharp heads, and designed to fly straight for a long distance when fired with a bow. They are practically useless as anything else.
e. Magic Decanters:
These are small vials of magical potion which restore 2 points of Magic power.
f. Magical Stopwatches:
Magical Stopwatches are extremely powerful magical items. It is considered activated as soon as a character touches it, at which point it instantly takes effect, and disappears. When someone activates a Stopwatch, all creatures within a 20-foot radius stop dead in their tracks, and remain frozen in time until the character leaves the affected area. During this time, no other creatures may enter the 20-foot radius, and the character who used the stopwatch is impervious to all attacks from anything outside of it.
However, the effect only lasts for as long as the character stays within that radius. Once it leaves, all the spell is broken.
If two characters manage to activate stopwatches simultaneously, within 20 feet around them, both stopwatches take effect, and neither character is frozen, but both are able to move through the entire affected area. But, as soon as either one leaves, the spell is broken.
2 - Chart:
When you defeat a monster, roll 2 dice to determine what type of treasure you received. If you roll a type of treasure which the monster in question doesn't carry (i.e., you kill a bot and roll 5, but bots don't carry bombs), re-roll the dice. If you still get an invalid roll, the creature was carrying no treasure.
2 Red Gem (20r)
3 Heart (4 Life)
4 Blue Gem (5r)
5 Bomb (roll a die for the number of bombs received)
6 Green Gem (1r)
7 Heart (2 Life)
8 nothing
9 Arrow (roll a die for the number of arrows received)
10 Magical Stopwatch
11 Magic Decanter
12 Full Decanter
M - Special Treasure:
A special treasure is a treasure that is usually essential to the completion of a quest, and which is predetermined. These can include maps, weapons, special documents, keys, armor, or other important items. Special Treasures do not affect normal treasures. For example, in a certain quest, a certain Stalfos has a Special Treasure; a map, let's say. When a character defeats the Stalfo, he rolls for treasure, as he would normally. Let's say he rolls a 4 and a 3 (7). When the Stalfos collapses, the map and the heart both appear.
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"Vast," a photography exhibit of the landscapes that are so much a part of New Mexico and beyond, will be featured at the Mimbres Region Arts Council Gallery for the month of February.
The exhibit will open with a welcoming reception from 2 till 4 p.m. on Thursday, February 1.
The public is cordially invited to stop in for the reception and check out the show. Enjoy some refreshments, and enter your name for a door prize drawing. It is February, so chocolates will be featured!
This exhibit is the work of FeVa Fotos Sandy Feutz and Tom Vaughan. Their popular photo cards will also be available at the reception. Sandy and Tom are members of the Silver City Art Association, Mimbres Region Arts Council and the Grant County Art Guild. They show their work at Mariah's Copper Quail Gallery, seasonably at Pinos Altos Art Gallery and also at other locations around Silver City.
Following the opening reception, "Vast" will be available for viewing during regular MRAC office hours, 9 a.m. till 4 p.m., on Tuesdays through Fridays. The show will close on February 28.


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The Inner Game of Speaking
There's an erroneous belief firmly entrenched in the minds of many folks who hate to give a speech. They're convinced the audience is there to judge them and find them wanting. They're sure they'll forget something important or say something bass-ackwards, garble a sentence, turn red from embarrassment, speak too fast or too slow, and generally show that they're totally lacking in confidence or competence. They endure hot flashes, cold sweats, upset stomachs, the shakes, and can't wait to get it over with.
Flash! It's not true. The audience is not waiting for you to make a mistake, or licking its lips gleefully to see you make fool of yourself. On the contrary, the audience is rooting for you.
If you're a skeptic who thinks, 'Well, that's easy for her to say, but I know better," give yourself a break and stop torturing yourself. Take it on faith. The audience is on your side. They want you to succeed.
Think about it. Why is the audience there? The truth is they came to learn. You have the knowledge and the information they came to get. They want to know more when they walk out of the room than then did when they came in.
You can make that happen. All you have to do is get control of your inner game of speaking.
What is the inner game? It's thinking about them, not yourself, while you're standing in front of the group. It's understanding that what you have to say is your gift to them and you want to be sure they get it. They're like a bunch of baby birds in a nest, saying "Feed me! Feed me!", and you're the mama or papa bird ready to give them the food they need to survive.
When you're thinking about giving your gift, when you're focusing on your message and making it land, you can't possibly be thinking at the same moment about how perfectly you're doing it. Your brain is wired to focus on only one thought at a time. When you're giving all your attention to the audience to make sure they're getting it, when you're passionate about letting them know your information, you'll forget to think about yourself entirely because you'll be looking outward at them, not inward at your navel. It'll never occur to you to think about whether you're saying it right or to wonder if someone else could say it better because you won't be thinking about yourself at all.
Your job, when you're in front of the audience, is to give them your gift. You will say it right, no one else could possibly do it better, because you're unique. They won't be able to take their eyes off you because your way of expressing yourself is special to you.
If they're doing any judging, it'll be to approve and appreciate you. They'll carry your energy and enthusiasm with them when they leave, and their memory of your presentation will be totally positive. Their only judgment will be that you're a winner!


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THURSDAY, May 17, 2007 (HealthDay News) -- Severely obese woman are more likely than other women to skip cancer screenings, even though being severely obese increases their risk of developing and dying of cancer.
U.S. researchers analyzed data from about 8,300 women, aged 40 to 74, who took part in the 2000 National Health Interview survey.
They found that severely obese women were up to 10 percent less likely than normal-weight women to be up-to-date on clinical breast exams, mammograms and Pap smears.
The study also found that severely obese women were 51 percent less likely to adhere to doctors' recommendations for mammography and 83 percent less likely to adhere to Pap recommendations. The study did find that doctors are equally likely to recommend mammography and Pap smears to obese and non-obese women.
The study is published in the June issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. It was also presented at a meeting of the American Society of Preventive Oncology in March.
It's important to learn why severely obese women (those with a body-mass index of 40 or higher) are less likely to go for cancer screenings, said lead author Jeanne Ferrante, who practices in the family medicine department at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey/New Jersey Medical School in Newark.
Ferrante plans to survey doctors to find out whether there are barriers that prevent severely obese women from being screened for cancer, such as a lack of proper equipment to examine severely obese patients.
She is also gathering information from patient focus groups, and has found that severely obese women feel embarrassed because of their weight.
"They don't like to be examined. They don't like to wear two gowns or have a scale inadequate to weigh them," Ferrante said in a prepared statement.
More information
The U.S. National Cancer Institute has more about cancer screening.


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The Parker J. Cole Show
September 26, 2017
I'll be live with Parker J. Cole of PJC Media and WLUV Detroi to discuss my latest novel Through the Storm. The program will air from 7 to 8 pm eastern time. After the program has aired you can listen to it here.
Southwest Washington Writers Conference
September 9, 2017
The Southwest Washington Writers conference is held at Centralia College, less than thirty minutes from my home. Because of that, and because I help organize and often speak at the event, I always attend. This year I'll be teaching two or three classes.
About 100 people attend this one day conference. If you're there be sure to attend one of my classes and introduce yourself.
Oregon Christian Writers Conference
August 15 – 18, 2017
Every year I try to attend the Oregon Christian Writers Conference in Portland, Oregon. This year in addition to attending I may be speaking. If that is confirmed I'll update this entry. The conference is from August 15th through the 18th of this year.
Whether I'm speaking or not, if you'll be attending be sure and introduce yourself. I'd enjoy meeting you.
Lewis County Writers Guild
March 17, 2017
I'll be speaking at the Lewis County Writers Guild today, March 17th at The Station Coffee Bar & Bistro, in Centralia, Washington State. The topic is Indie Writing and Publishing and specifically how to work with distributors such as Amazon, Nook, Kobo and others to create books, ebooks and audiobooks.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Police in the Washington area are cracking down on cheaters in the high-occupancy vehicle lanes.
Six law enforcement agencies are participating in Thursday's "Capitol Region HOV Awareness Day."
It's focused on Interstates 66, 95, 270, 395 and the Dulles Toll Road.
HOV lanes are reserved during rush hours for vehicles carrying two or more people. They are meant to encourage ride-sharing to reduce traffic congestion and fuel consumption.
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Katrina Brayshaw
For the last eight years I have been passionate about landscape photography. It fits with my life-long love of wild and remote places, the places with ever changing weather patterns and presenting formidable challenges to photographers.
Northwest Scotland and the Isle of Harris in the winter months are my favourite locations. And Norway.
My photos are minimalist in their style and I often seek out the abstract patterns and textures of nature.
Now and again I venture to a city for some fun with architecture!


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Margaret Sartor, whose own photographic work is represented by Ann Stewart Fine Art, has recently returned from the exhibition opening of the Willian Gedney retrospective in France connected to the book she contributed to. The show, William Gedney: Only the Lonely, 1955–1984, opened June 28 and is on view through September 17, 2017 at the Pavillon Populaire in Montpellier.
Mysterious, introspective, fiercely private, and self-taught, street photographer William Gedney (1932–1989) produced impressive series of images focused on people whose lives were overlooked, hidden, or reduced to stereotypes. He was convinced that photography was a means of expression as efficient as literature, and his images were accompanied by writings, essays, excerpts from books, and aphorisms. Gedney avoided self-promotion, and his underrepresented work was largely unknown during his short lifetime. He died at the age of fifty-six from AIDS.
William Gedney: Only the Lonely, 1955–1984 is the first comprehensive retrospective of his photography. It presents images from all of his major series, including eastern Kentucky, where Gedney lived with and photographed the family of laid-off coal miner Willie Cornett; San Francisco and Haight-Ashbury, where he attached himself to a group of disaffected youth, photographing them as they drifted from one vacant apartment to the next during the "Summer of Love"; early photo-reportage of gay pride parades in the eighties; Benares, India, Gedney's first trip abroad, during which he obsessively chronicled the concurrent difficulty and beauty of daily life; and night scenes that, in the absence of people and movement, evoke a profound universal loneliness. The most complete overview of Gedney's work to date, this volume reveals the undeniable beauty of a major American photographer.
The publication associated with the exhibition is written by Gilles Mora with Margaret Sartor and Lisa McCarty. The exhibition is curated by Gilles Mora.
Margaret Sartor is a writer, photographer, and curator. She teaches documentary photography at Duke University and is the coeditor with Geoff Dyer of What Was True: The Photographs and Notes of William Gedney.
Gilles Mora has been the editor in chief of the magazine Les Cahiers de la Photographie, an editor with Éditions du Seuil in Paris, and the artistic director of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles. Currently he is the director of the city of Montpellier's Pavillon Populaire. He was awarded the Nadar Prize for the Last Photographic Heroes: American Photographers of the Sixties and Seventies.
Lisa McCarty is curator of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University and is in charge of the William Gedney archives there.
"De New York au Kentucky, William Gedney a immortalisé les États-Unis avec sensibilité." Cheese. By Lise Lanot. July 13, 2017.
"William Gedney « Only the Lonely » à Montpellier." En Revenant de l'Expo. July 12, 2017.


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Originally from Istanbul, Basaran was most recently head of booking and festivals at Dusseldorf-based SSC Music Group. He previously worked in a talent buyer/booker capacity at Romania's ARTmania festival and Turkish promoters Pozitif and Charmenko, among others. During his career as a promoter and talent booker, Basaran has confirmed more than 1,000 shows, ranging from 500-capacity clubs to stadium-level shows with Rihanna, Metallica, Lady Gaga, Iron Maiden and more. In addition to SSC's New Fall Festival, he has also worked as the main-stage booker and talent buyer of more than 20 European festivals, including Sziget in Hungary, Exit in Serbia, Pohoda in Slovakia), Rock'n Coke in Turkey and InMusic in Croatia.
Baris has recently joined UK promoter MJR Group as head of eastern and central Europe.


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Director Jonas Akerlund has worked with Madonna on some of her most iconic music videos, bringing "Ray of Light," "American Life" and "Music" to life. After he shared behind-the-scenes stories from her most recent video, "Bitch I'm Madonna," Akerlund gave EW the inside scoop on what it was like to put together the rest of their greatest collaborations.
"Ray of Light"
This was the first music video Madonna and Akerlund worked on together nearly 20 years ago, and he says at that time, he still didn't know how to behave around artists of her stature. "I decided to be myself and talk about the job as I see it and hopefully we hit it off," he says. "It was a different attitude and we started to shoot it in Sweden. We shot a few days before I met her and that idea was so spread out. Both of us felt we had something special. We just worked together and I thought that was it. I went back to Sweden with a VHS tape showing them, 'That's cool!' and then we moved on."
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Hungry for Change
When I was a child, sitting around the breakfast table with my family, my grandmother posed a seemingly simple question. "What kind of world do you want to live in, Katie?" In between bites, I rambled on about my hope to live in a world free of hardship, loneliness, and heartache - my youthful optimism emboldening me to think big. My grandmother listened intently, and made a comment that has stuck with me to this day. "Good. I would expect that you will work hard so that not only you, but others around you are able to enjoy a life like that as well."
My grandmother was fiercely outspoken in her advocacy for inequality, injustice and hardship. I was always curious about how we could fix the problems in our world that seemed to have no easy solution, and under her guidance, my own passion for community engagement was born.
It is universally understood that civic engagement is a key component of a thriving community.
While it is easy to bury our heads in the sand and assume that involvement is the responsibility of others, collective action is powerful, and through unity we can be a part of creating change and building community. My question to you is, what are you doing with your hands? Is apathy hindering you from taking action? My intention is not to shame you, but rather to encourage you. To borrow the sentiments of Nelson Mandela:
I hope that your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
We all want to live in a vibrant Waikato, where individuals from all walks of life have the chance to thrive, succeed, and grow. Whatever your hope is for our community, I hope that it fuels you to step more deeply into the things you are passionate about and address the needs that you think are important.
I've been working in a number of organisations within the Waikato over the last few years - StarJam, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Hamilton, and The Serve, to name a few. Being able to be a part of something which directly empowers others and builds community is such a wonderful gift. Not only am I provided with the opportunity to build community and advocate for others, but involvement in these organisations has enabled me to build relationships, network, and socialise with people who wouldn't otherwise cross my path. There is something out there to suit everyone's interests, calendar and lifestyle.
The best way to figure out how you can be involved is by asking yourself three questions:
1. What do you love to do?
What makes you happy? Is there any particular area you have a real heart for? (i.e. children, the mentally ill, refugees, animals etc) There are so many organisations in the Waikato that run based on community involvement. Serving others doesn't have to be a chore, but can instead be a way to channel your own interests and passions into service.
2. What do you wish you could change?
It is so easy to become overwhelmed by the weight of the world's problems - I'll be the first to admit it. It seems like there is hardship everywhere you look, and the problems which face our community and wider world are multifaceted and complex. Instead of allowing yourself to become overwhelmed or frustrated, I would encourage you to think of love as a verb. By intentionally actioning this principle and using the problems in our community to motivate us, we can be part of creating change.
3. What can you give?
What can you offer to the community? Your time? Finances? Do you have any particular skill which would be useful to a community group? Aim to be self-evaluative and understand your own limitations and expectations, so that you don't spread yourself too thin. It is better to commit conservatively, give it your all, and go from there if you want to do more.
It is our small actions that add up to create big changes in our own lives and wider communities. If you're still not sure what you could do and what it would look like, get in touch with me! It would be my absolute pleasure to answer any questions you may have and help you find something that works for you.


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Tania de Rozario
The Walk Back
Sitting at the airport, half past one
in the morning; people sleeping away
stopovers, bodies strewn across chairs
like forgotten luggage: I am alone,
a terminal one at Terminal One,
my bad puns lost on the empty seat
beside me. You were tossing and turning
the night you stayed, insomnia drenching
sheets bought together seven years
before, too big then, for mattress and frame
because a single bed was all we could
afford: No longer lovers, nor persuaded
by spatial restraints into each other's arms,
we sleep intertwined anyway; the body
remembering what the mind forgets
about love: What the heart cannot help
but put away, put off, put to sleep
to move on: I will only go home
once your plane has flown off; cry
only once the distance between us
expands into miles, brave the walk
back past the hall that spells departure
in four different languages, none of which
I can articulate, nor will ever understand.
by Tania de Rozario
from Tender Delirium (2013)


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Lots of people liked my Times article on Switzerland's canton system as the model for localism in the UK, and many have been asking me if other parts of the Swiss system would be good for other countries to follow too. I can think of one right away: Switzerland's healthcare system.
It's many years since I looked at this in detail, but Switzerland's healthcare system is fundamentally a compulsory insurance system – like the compulsory insurance system we have in the UK for our car insurance. You have to insure yourself or your family for a basic package of healthcare services. The premiums are the genuine price for that insurance, and are not related to income. You can shave off some of the cost of those premiums by taking a higher excess – meaning that if you do need treatment, you will pay more out of your own pocket. A typical policy might cost a family £2,000-£3,000 a year, but if you can't afford that, the state steps in by paying the premium for you. There is also a state-funded disability benefits programme.
The insurers are competitive, but they are not allowed to make profits on these basic healthcare package policies. However, most people also buy voluntary top-up policies, on which the insurers can make a profit. These provide services that are not covered in the basic package – things like dentistry, the use of a private room in hospital, eyeglasses, newer medicines, or alternative medicines. There is a mixture of publicly run and privately run hospitals to choose from, but you can also join an HMO-style managed care system, which actually provides your care, rather than having insurance that enables you to shop around between different providers.
Many commentators think that the Swiss system is the world's best. The care is as good as any in America but because there is much more competition and much less regulation, the cost is significantly less – though, like everywhere, premiums have increased considerably over the past decade or two. But the bottom line is that the system is very popular with the Swiss population, who consider it both good and fair, and seem to have no desire to change it very much.
A health system that the public are happy with? Now that would indeed be a good model for us all.
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The Orphanage
The Orphanage is a VFX studio that was founded 10 years ago by Stu Maschwitz, Jonathan Rothbart, and Scott Stewart.
They worked on a ton of movies, most recently "The Spirit" and "Ironman."
The employees of the Orphanage are called Orphans, and I think it's a fitting title. A bunch of unrelated people come together to create one cohesive thing, spending untold amounts of time with one another, bonding while working, fighting, playing, drinking, and crying.
The Orphanage closed this week for an indefinite hiatus, and I mourn the loss. Yes, they were a competing company, but I know a few Orphans, and I know how heart-breaking it is to disband after so many hours together.
Good luck, Orphans and Orphanage-founders! I hope the suspension lasts only a short while and you come back soon, raring to go.


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Administrative law is a highly specialized area of law that deals with legal codes, government regulations, agency rules and precedents. Students obtaining an LLM degree may expect to earn more than a criminal or civil attorney due to the amount of complex information with which the lawyer is expected to be familiar.
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One of the most striking features of the Law of Social Democratic State is the supremacy of the Constitution. As a result, the theory of creation teaches that the so-called constitutional block is formed by the rules of fundamental rights and guarantees and state organization and powers, which are called as materially constitutional requirements. In this scenario, the branches of Constitutional Law and Administrative Law are of indisputable centrality in the realization of the constitutional principles and put them rules arising. It is therefore essential that the legal actors to understand the theory and practice that support the judicial and administrative decisions in the Brazilian State. Inserted in this reality, the specialization course in Constitutional and Administrative Law of the University Center Tiradentes (UNIT-AL) in partnership with Superior Law School (ESA - OAB / AL) proposes a multidisciplinary graduate, theoretical and practical, aimed at updating and the formation of a professional able to act in the areas various areas of law, in particular the Public law. This is an innovative project as it covers issues and practices inherent to the various legal professions. This is why it was necessary to partnership the University Center Tiradentes (UNIT-AL) and the Higher School of Law (ESA- OAB / AL) in order to facilitate this specialization. The approach used in the course goes on to consider the professional needs of lawyers and new challenges in the training of a law degree....


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Our tours have become very popular in the last few years and requests come in everyday from girl scouts, boy scouts and small school groups. JSAC tours are booked on a first come first served basis.
Tours are held on Sundays from 12:15pm – 1:00pm
Tours must be booked in advance and the number of children and adults attending is limited. If your group exceeds our capacity, you may be asked to split up or book two separate dates.


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Depending on your marketing needs, I will help you partner with 3rd party suppliers who are experts in their fields, and manage the relationship on your behalf. I will source the best supplier, brief them and manage and monitor the results for you to ensure your marketing goals are being met.
Commonly this would be for:
- SEM & online banner ads
- Complex website builds & database integration
- Design
- Advertising campaigns