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Slow Cooker Meals, Bacon-Wrapped Potato Bites, Potluck Recipes, & Kitchen Tricks
In April our readers gravitated towards a discussion of "difficult" dinner guests, and embracing the pleasures and challenges of cooking for absolutely everyone (we gave some ideas for good meals that nearly anyone can eat, no matter what the dietary restrictions are). Other popular posts: The best and worst supermarkets, great potluck recipes, and awesome time-saving kitchen tricks!
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- Vision & Strategy
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- UCL Grand Challenges
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In the media
Selected public comment by Professor David Price
Beyond the Research Excellence Framework
"We submit, we submit!" With this teasingly ambiguous Tweet, the UCL Research Excellence Framework (REF) Team reported to the world the culmination of an endeavour that has detained more brilliant minds, for more time, than any of us would like to think.
This parting Tweet captures the unavoidable duality to our thinking about REF – it is both something we suffer, and something we promote.
Nobody actually does research for the pleasure of submitting it to a vast government bureaucratic assessment exercise. REF takes a relatively simple practical question – how should one element of government research funding be distributed? – and complicates it to an extraordinary degree. …
– UCL News, 5 December 2013
Bloomsbury blooms: UCL leads grant income table
UCL won £31 million more research funding than any other institution in the past financial year, figures indicate.
According to Times Higher Education's
annual analysis of research council grant data, UCL won grants worth
£135 million in 2012-13 at a success rate of 33 per cent by the number
of applications. …
UCL's total represents a 90 per cent rise on the previous year's figures at a time when the total value of research council grant allocations increased by about 50 per cent.David Price, vice-provost for research at UCL, said his institution had received a "tremendous boost" from its emphasis on building cross-disciplinary consortia around global challenges such as infectious diseases, energy demand and dementia."Those are areas in which we've put a lot of emphasis within our research strategy for many years, and people have been working long-term to build partnerships and exciting research programmes. This definitely isn't an overnight success," he said.
– Paul Jump, THE, 14 November 2013
Alarm bells ring over NERC centres
A proposal by the Natural Environment Research Council
to find new owners for four of its research centres has raised concerns
that the organisations could be fully or partly privatised. …
However, others see the
proposal as an opportunity. David Price, vice-provost for research at UCL, says he would like to see a greater
commercial role for centres. "Geological surveying could certainly be
market-driven," he says, adding that the BGS could potentially be run as
a consultancy.
– Adam Smith, Research Fortnight, 10 July 2013
Video: Sustaining Our Digital Future
Prof David Price discusses how the UCL participated as a case study in the latest Ithaka S+R/ SCA report: 'Sustaining our Digital Future: Institutional strategies for Digital Content'. David considers how UCL has continued to develop its digital content and services, even at a time of fiscal constraint and outlines the tactics and techniques that have been employed to foster innovative collaboration within UCL.
Research heavyweights deny 'ganging up'
Science and Engineering South Consortium, unveiled on 9 May, contains
the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Southampton, Imperial College
London and UCL. …
According to David Price, vice-provost for research at UCL, this "total dominance" in engineering and physical sciences made the alliance a "no-brainer" and he hoped it would permit successful bids for funds that its members would not be able to win individually. …
Professor Price agreed that there were "other institutions in the region and elsewhere that might benefit from being more closely associated" and emphasised SES-5 was "not closed". But no "formal requests for discussion" had been received and, in his view, it made sense first for the large founder members to formulate the consortium's strategy. …
Professor Price said the historical rivalries within SES-5 would not
inhibit its growth, noting that UCL academics had more partnerships with
colleagues from Imperial than from any other institution. He said SES-5
was part of a new "zeitgeist of collaboration".
– Paul Jump, Times Higher Education, 9 May 2013
Open Access funding insufficient
Ministers last week pledged an additional £10 million after vocal disquiet
from some Russell Group institutions about the potential cost to them of
author-pays open-access publishing. … David
Price, vice-provost for research at UCL, said that researchers should not be "deluded" into thinking that £10 million would resolve the "systemic weaknesses" in the original case made by the Finch report. "University
research budgets will have to fill the funding gap - meaning less
research," he said.
– Times Higher Education, 13 September 2012
'There's scope to grow humanities and social sciences'
Why is it so important to have a broad portfolio and what other particular areas do you want to grow?
think a multi-faculty comprehensive university is a place where you can
actually find solutions to the world's problems, which would require you to
tension technology development with social sciences. Our entire research
strategy is based on the importance of how you impact the research being done;
it can only be done through really social science and humanities filters. I
think there's scope to grow humanities and social sciences because we've got
excellent people but the numbers there aren't quite as large as they might be.
Also, engineering is growing very strongly and there's strong development in
biomedical engineering and high-performance computing. So those are all areas
in which the institution is strategically putting efforts."
– Research Fortnight Today, 14 September 2012
Gold or green: which is the best shade of open access?
Don't deal in a debased currency - go green
is a central irony of the Finch report that in seeking to maximise the
accessibility of scholarly knowledge and evidence - and thereby
encourage openness and transparency - its authors have failed either to
consider fully the facts before them or to substantiate some of their
assertions. …
I think that the more preferable approach is to
move to green open access, coupled with a national licensing
arrangement. This would achieve the objectives set out in the Finch
report of opening up access to the research literature while minimising
the costs and associated risks. …
My suggested next step in the development of open access is, therefore, to see green open access fully implemented in the UK. The Finch report has missed a trick by failing to model green versus gold. Extensive economic modelling in a forthcoming Jisc-funded report by the Open Access Implementation Group shows that green is the cheapest option for universities. The study will also show that the best way to move from a subscription model to open access is via green, not gold. Green open access is also the route propounded by the European Union in its current funding programmes as a standard route for open-access publication.At UCL, we have seen first-hand the value of green open access (our institutional repository, UCL Discovery, is the largest in the UK). With as yet only a small fraction of our output available, we are still recording more than 500,000 downloads a year, and the figure is growing.
The Finch report is right to conclude that the UK has an opportunity to demonstrate global leadership in the dissemination of research and in championing a knowledge-led economy. But it has surveyed the open-access landscape incompletely. Gold is not the answer: it is a so-called cure that is likely to be worse than the disease.
– Prof David Price, Times Higher Education, 5 July 2012
Detailed response to Open Access report
Implementation of the Finch Report on Open Access would "cripple university systems
with extra expense. … National licences are the preferred way forward in
the immediate future for many Russell Group Universities. They exist in other
European countries. For an agreed amount, publishers allow access to their
content by all sectors in society. UCL sees this as a transition step to full
Open Access. Initial discussions suggest that the cost of national licensing
would be cheaper than the Gold OA Finch is recommending."
– Richard Ponder blog, 19 June 2012
Calls to thin RCUK ranks point to coordinated benefits of slimline solutions
[Professor Price said] there was a danger that in times of scarcity, distinct
research councils would concentrate their funding on "what they perceive
to be their core business", leaving less for the "key areas" at the
– Times Higher Education, 19 April 2012
Renaissance man's word to the wise
Another key concept in the research strategy is "leadership", which Professor Price distinguished from excellence on
the grounds that it was active rather than passive. As well as being eminent researchers, their
leadership obligations would also require senior UCL academics to "be
putting back into their discipline by doing professional service, and into the
institution by managing and developing strategic areas in their own departments
and leading career development of younger colleagues.
– Times Higher Education, 26 January 2012
Bright young things with time to shine
Fellowships should not be "a temporary life-boat in a sink-or-swim career structure", but "an integral component of a system that supports and nurtures exceptional research
– Times Higher Education, 3 November 2011
Research 'treadmill' under attack
a letter to Vince Cable, business secretary, UCL vice-provosts David Price and
Stephen Caddick propose that less money should be disbursed as competitive
grants and contracts for which universities are required to bid. Instead,
they say, more research should be funded by block grants – stable funds that
are awarded annually and without conditions on the basis of a five-yearly
assessment of each university's research output. The two professors call for an
end to the "treadmill so that leading researchers spend less time writing grant
applications ... and more time undertaking research".
– Financial Times, 23 September 2011
The secret to saving our universities
We at UCL have adopted what we call the
"Wisdom Agenda". This involves drawing on the breadth of our
collective expertise: bringing a
range of discipline-specific data, perspectives and methodologies to bear on
complex problems.
Exploiting our differences adds value to our insights; our collective
expertise can exceed the
sum of its parts. We define
the outcomes of this work as "impact", one word among a host of
terms that universities must
– Times Higher Education, 14 July 2011
Research funding should reward excellence
We need universities that are world-leading in research. It is these leading universities that underpin the UK's ability to continue to punch above its weight in a global research landscape, and to both compete and collaborate with global peers, as well as delivering considerable economic and social benefit to the UK.
– Guardian Higher Education Network, 24 May 2011
The case for research collaboration
Pursuing more collaboration between institutions, and in particular
between research-intensive 'hubs' and smaller 'islands of excellence' in other institutions, would mean that researchers from the
'islands' could work with larger research groups and access a high-quality research environment. Such collaboration would
allow funds to be invested in concentrations of excellence whilst making the most of all of the UK's research talent and
ensuring that new and emerging areas of research can be supported.
– UCL News, 25 March 2011
How to stay on top
One of the benefits of having a minister for
universities and science – and of having the same department responsible
for both higher education and research funding – should be that a
coherent strategy can be developed for the funding of the higher
education sector. …
The abiding principle should be to fund excellence. This is broadly agreed and has driven UK research funding policy for decades. We argue that two further maxims should guide policy:
• Fund research that is internationally competitive in institutions that are able to compete and leverage their UK funding by collaborating on the global stage
• Recognise the unique importance of research-intensive multi-faculty universities. They can stimulate the cross-disciplinary working that enables the dynamism of the research base as well as the capacity to tackle systemically complex global problems by applying knowledge and insights achieved from working across different disciplines.
– Prof David Price and Prof Stephen Caddick, UCL Vice-Provost (Enterprise), Times Higher Education, 5 August 2010
Video: Restructuring research funding
UK higher education is at a crossroads. Prof David Price, UCL Vice-Provost (Research), argues the case for a major restructuring of the sector to play to our diverse strengths.
– UCLTV, 5 August 2010
Wise approach to 'Grand Challenges' takes UCL up the chart
The secret
of [UCL's] success, according to David Price, UCL's vice-provost for research,
is its concerted drive to
"create wisdom out of the knowledge we're generating".
– Times Higher Education, 8 October 2009
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Love Has No Color, Sex, Or Reason...It's Just Love...
However, while sex in itself is not dirty, it becomes polluted when it is not valued and when it is not shared in settings other than what it is intended for. Do you not agree that something good (like medicine) can be harmful if not used for which it is intended?
Addicts have experienced enduring and long-standing deprivation of his needs in his childhood. Anxiety and fear about being closely connected to someone in adult life is the result of these early-life parental misattunements. The sex addict is uncertain getting what he needs from real people. Rather than going to the human community to be supported, nurtured and validated, he turns within himself and determines to seek need gratification in his sexual fantasy life and real-life enactments with sex objects or to internet cybersex and pornography where he feels soothed and comforted for a brief period.
Six months ago, you discovered that the "love of your life" was sleeping around with others, causing you to dump the jerk like yesterday's trash. Perhaps something else happened, such as the sudden realization that you were taking on massive debt due to your ex's financial irresponsibility. Or maybe you decided to kick the scoundrel to the curb because the person was abusive. After you "broke it off", you made a solemn promise to yourself that you wouldn't have anything to do again with the loser and removed any trace of the relationship from your home. Then one night it happens -- you are out at a bar and run into your former partner. You have a few drinks and reminisce about old times and find yourself strangely aroused. The next morning arrives and you awaken to find the idiot next to you in your bed, causing you to put a pillow over your head in regret. Your ex wakes up and says, "I had a great time with you. Do you want to do it again?"
Women with lots of sex appeal like and love themselves. They enjoy their own company. They're not waiting for the right man to come along to fill them and make them complete. They are already whole and complete, fully understanding what they bring to the relationship.
Remember that part of how to talk dirty is also considering your comfort level and confidence level with your loved one. If it's your first time having sex with someone, it may be best to postpone talking-dirty. Once you've established a 'strong bond' and are more comfortable with each other, you can start to spice up sex by bed-talking. By keeping in mind the talking dirty tips found in this article, you can expect a more enjoyable and more pleasing sex life.


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Posttraumatic Stress in Children After Injury: The Role of Acute Pain and Opioid Medication Use." Pediatr Emerg Care. 2018."
Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Novel Web-Based Intervention to Prevent Posttraumatic Stress in Children Following Medical Events." J Pediatr Psychol. 2016;41(1):138-48."
A New Method for Assessing Content Validity in Model-Based Creation and Iteration of eHealth Interventions." J. Med. Internet Res.. 2015;17(4):e95."
Systematic, theoretically-grounded development and feasibility testing of an innovative, preventive web-based game for children exposed to acute trauma." Clin Pract Pediatr Psychol. 2015;3(1):12-24."
Development and psychometric evaluation of child acute stress measures in spanish and english." J Trauma Stress. 2013;26(1):19-27."
Acute stress symptoms in children: results from an international data archive." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2012;51(8):812-20."
Child coping and parent coping assistance during the peritrauma period in injured children." Fam Syst Health. 2011;29(4):279-90."
A pilot randomized controlled trial assessing secondary prevention of traumatic stress integrated into pediatric trauma care." J Trauma Stress. 2011;24(3):252-9."


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In the vastness of all that white and blue, it seemed an impossible task.
And after spending hours doing it, I realized that finding two little tubes protruding from the silky sand at the bottom of the azure sea really isn't a job for beginners. Good thing my companions were experts at spotting clams hidden at the bottom of the Sea of Cortez or I might have gone hungry during my week in Baja.
No chance of that with locals fishing for sea bass and snapper, spearing lobsters by the bucketful and scooping up those elusive clams.
For a landlocked Albertan, a day on the water followed by a seafood feast grilled over a fire on the beach is about as close to heaven as you can get. And the entire Mexican peninsula offers opportunities for anyone adventurous enough to seek them.
My week began with a leisurely drive through desert landscapes from the airport at San Jose del Cabo, a quaint town 40 minutes north of party central, Cabo San Lucas. The highway runs through the middle of the state past Buena Vista and Los Barriles to La Paz, the capital city of Baja California Sur. Founded by Hernan Cortez in 1535, the town of about 215,000 has become an inter-national fishing port.
Sporting beautiful beaches, it's worth a few days stop to shop and stroll the romantic seaside malecon (boardwalk) that runs along the gorgeous bay, especially during the stunning sunsets. But don't dawdle too long, for more elusive bays and coves await on the trip north toward Loreto.
We pulled off the highway about a half-hour north of Cuidad Constitucion and onto a dirt road that will test your fillings before you're done. The road winds through the scrubby desert with its collection of pitaya and el Cardon cacti, the largest species in the world. As the road nears the coast, it climbs through mountains and narrows to barely a car-width with nothing between you and the desert floor, 150 metres below.
But the scene unfolding before you will keep you focused on arriving safely. The sun glints off the ocean, islands dot the coastline and hares and burros forage in the sparse vegetation.
This isn't Canada - there are no KOA or utility hook-ups.
It's bare-bones camping and you best have all the food and water you'll need or it's a long drive back up the canyon for supplies.
But you'll find quiet stretches of beach with either rocky or sandy shores and clear waters to explore.
Approximately one quarter of the Sea of Cortez was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
The tour companies operating kayak excursions here understand the treasure they have, and have gained a worthy reputation for ecotourism.
"The outfits now operating here are in it for the long term and are committed to preserving this precious commodity," says Nancy Mertz, co-owner of Sea Kayak Adventures, which operates out of Loreto.
"We're so humbled and grateful to do what we do and to be able to bring people to the world's aquarium."
Our group pitched camp a few kilometres down the road from Rancho San Cosme, which is populated by three generations of a family.
They raise horses, mules, chickens and anything else they can to survive in such an isolated place.
One daughter-in-law, Andrea, makes lovely shell jewelry she sells to wayward kayakers and campers like us.
Her husband Julio is the resident expert fisherman who keeps everyone fed.
For about $50, he will take tourists out on the water, trolling for fish and sharing his skills with a harpoon.
As a novice, I hung back out of the way of the spears but still close enough to see every detail of the underwater ballet.
Taking deep breaths, Julio and the other local men would tuck and dive three or four metres to probe the reefs.
Suspended upside down, they poked into crevasses and caves to find the elusive spiny lobsters hiding there.
It wasn't as easy as it sounds as lobsters are lightning fast and the divers have to surface every minute or two for air.
But they net enough of the crustaceans to feed the family, the beach campers and, occasionally, those on neighbouring ranches.
Finding clams is a little harder as they bury themselves in the sandy ocean floor, with only two tiny air tubes sticking out. Snorkelling metres above, the tubes are easily mistaken for bits of seashells, and vice versa.
But after awhile you can tell the difference and then it's a case of learning to dive deep enough and fast enough to scoop them up before they disappear into the sand.
I couldn't dive far enough to reach them but did a happy dance of sorts when I managed three metres to collect a fig shell. My haul was pretty pitiful compared to the lads in the boat but I was as proud of that one shell as they were of their bountiful catches.
Even if you're not interested in catching dinner, snorkelling here is extraordinary. This part of the Baja is famous for calm waters and there are about 900 species of brilliantly bejewelled fish. It's also easy to get to as both La Paz and Loreto have airports. Condo complexes have sprung up around both towns, including several built by Canadian developers.
But where La Paz is bustling, Loreto maintains a quaint charm, where you can eat fish tacos in shady alleyway restaurants, quaff a cool beer poolside or chat up fishermen cleaning their catch at the marina. And after a few days diving with the locals, you may even have a few fish tales of your own to share.
If you go:
- There are a number of both local and Canadian-based companies running adventure tours in Baja.
- Sea Kayak Adventures operates in both British Columbia and Baja. The owners, Terry Prichard and Nancy Mertz worked as guides in Baja before starting their company in 1993. They are one of the few companies with permits to operate out of Loreto Bay, National Marine Park. Their trips run the gamut from a one-day Loreto trip or multi-day, all-inclusive, kayaking excursions in Loreto Bay National Marine Park. Trips go from October to May. seakayakadventures.com
- Baja Kayak Adventure Tours is a family-run business based on Gabriola Island, B.C. It runs winter kayak tours and multi-day adventure tours in Baja, including one to Rancho San Cosme. email@example.com
- Paddling South is a small outfit that caters to do-it-yourselfers, as well as all-inclusive trips including one for all-women. www.tourbaja.com
-In La Paz, check out Mar & Aventuras (Sea & Adventures Inc.). Based in Montana, it offers day trips and others ranging from two to 11 days. www.kayakbaja.com
- Two others that have been guiding trips around La Paz for years include Baja Expedition (www.kayactivities.com), and Baja Outdoor Activities or BOA (www.kayactivities.com).
- Baja Outback runs excursions all over Baja, from Cabo to La Paz and in-between. They offer a number of day trips but will also custom design longer trips. www.bajaoutback.com


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• A daily summary of global reports on security issues.
A retaliatory Israeli airstrike killed a Palestinian militant today amid a gradual resurgence of fire across the Israel-Gaza border that has prompted discussions in Israel about an effort to reestablish "deterrence."
This week marks the third anniversary of the swift, devastating 2008-09 Israeli incursion into Gaza that was intended to cow Hamas into ending its rocket campaign in southern Israel. Although the ceasefire that ended Operation Cast Lead has largely held, there has been occasional fire, including this week.
On Dec. 28, Israel killed one Islamic Jihad operative and wounded 10 "global Jihad operatives" in two strikes, Haaretz reports. The following day, Gazan militants launched four rockets into southern Israel's Negev desert, causing no injuries.
The head of Israel's Southern Brigade said yesterday that preparations for another "large-scale" Israeli incursion into Gaza are underway "to renew our deterrence," Haaretz reports.
"We are preparing and in fact are ready for another campaign, which will be varied and different, to renew our deterrence, if we are called on to restore full quiet to the communities [in the south]," said the head of the division's Southern Brigade, Brig. Gen. Tal Hermoni.
"But I wouldn't eulogize Operation Cast Lead just yet," Hermoni added, in a briefing for military reporters. "On a daily basis, it's pretty quiet here. The mild response [to Tuesday's targeted killings] is evidence that they don't want to feel the IDF's fists."
The intention is a shorter operation that employs significantly more firepower than Cast Lead did. The IDF believes that Hamas and the many other terrorist groups operating in the Gaza Strip, some of them outside Hamas control, have more weapons than they did in 2008. Emboldened, they fired rockets at IDF troops for the first time this year, according to Haaretz.
Israel holds Hamas responsible for all fire coming out of the Gaza Strip, but many of the rockets are believed to come from other Palestinian factions. The man killed in today's Israel air strike, Muman Abu Daf, was leader of an Al Qaeda-inspired group known as the Army of Islam, BBC reports. The IDF believes the group planted explosives along the Israel-Gaza border and had a hand in planning an attempted attack along the Israel-Egypt border this week, according to The Associated Press.
Although Hamas continues to reject Israel's existence, it has attempted to keep a tense peace with Israel by trying to rein in rocket fire from more radical groups in the Gaza Strip, The New York Times reports. The efforts mean little to some Israeli military officials.
"We shoot when we're being shot at," one security official told Reuters Friday. "It's clear that Hamas does not have an interest in fanning the flames at this time, but it's not dousing them either."
According to a Haaretz report yesterday, in late November Hamas leader Khaled Meshal has ordered the group's military wing to cease attacks on Israeli targets. Israeli officials say they've detected no change in the group's behavior, nor have they received official word of Mr. Meshal's order. They attributed the decision to convenience, not a change of heart. Hamas in Gaza scoffed at Meshal's decision.
Hamas' leadership in Gaza said it was surprised by Meshal's statement and that "the only way to liberate the occupied lands is through the armed struggle." The Hamas interior minister in Gaza, Fathi Hamad, added that the group's "internal leadership" does not necessarily intend to abide by Meshal's policy.
In an analysis for Haaretz, military affairs reporter Avi Issacharoff writes that Meshal's decision is based on practicalities, not a true change in strategy or goals. He also notes that efforts to rein in rocket fire have earned Hamas in Gaza significant criticism, and prompted many defections to the more radical group Islamic Jihad, which continues to fire rockets.
The historical decision to modify the character of the Palestinian struggle – alongside Hamas' agreement to join the Palestine Liberation Organization (and in large measure to accept the written agreements with Israel ) – does not necessarily attest to a strategic shift in terms of goals. It's possible that Meshal and his aides realize that for now they need to forgo terrorist attacks in favor of new and more effective ways of achieving their goals: Indeed, Meshal and his colleagues admit that they have not completely abandoned the armed struggle and that they reserve the right to resist the Israeli occupation "using all means." Meshal also emphasized that Hamas does not intend to disarm or to stop the organization's huge arms buildup in Gaza.


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Dinner with Dave Thomas and a bunch of other Ruby users was good fun. The second meeting will be held next Sunday at Pizza Chicago in Palo Alto, where we'll hopefully decide on a name for our motley crew.
Dave also came in to give a Ruby talk at Google today. I'm not sure how many people will now go away and play with the language, but I'd like to believe that one or two will be intrigued enough to try it out.
It was a very enjoyable talk and I'm very grateful to Dave for taking the time to come in and present it.
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I am a Loner and happy this way. Read this insightful article that explains loners. Any other loners out there?
Loners are pitied in our up-with-people culture. But the introvert reaps secret joy from the solitary life.
By Elizabeth Svoboda, published on March 01, 2007 - last reviewed on December 28, 2011
Miina Matsuoka lives by herself in New York City. She owns two cats and routinely screens her calls. But before you jump to conclusions, note that she is comfortable hobnobbing in any of five languages for her job as business manager at an international lighting-design firm. She just strongly prefers not to socialize, opting instead for long baths, DVDs, and immersion in her art projects. She does have good, close friends, and goes dancing about once a month, but afterward feels a strong need to "hide and recoup." In our society, where extroverts make up three-quarters of the population, loners (except Henry David Thoreau) are pegged as creepy or pathetic. But soloists like Matsuoka can function just fine in the world—they simply prefer traveling through their own interior universe.
Loners often hear from well-meaning peers that they need to be more social, but the implication that they're merely black-and-white opposites of their bubbly peers misses the point. Introverts aren't just less sociable than extroverts; they also engage with the world in fundamentally different ways. While outgoing people savor the nuances of social interaction, loners tend to focus more on their own ideas—and on stimuli that don't register in the minds of others. Social engagement drains them, while quiet time gives them an energy boost.
Contrary to popular belief, not all loners have a pathological fear of social contact. "Some people simply have a low need for affiliation," says Jonathan Cheek, a psychologist at Wellesley College. "There's a big subdivision between the loner-by-preference and the enforced loner." Those who choose the living room over the ballroom may have inherited their temperament, Cheek says. Or a penchant for solitude could reflect a mix of innate tendencies and experiences such as not having many friends as a child or growing up in a family that values privacy.
James McGinty, for one, is a caseworker who opted out of a career as a lawyer because he didn't feel socially on-the-ball enough for the job's daily demands. He has a small circle of friends, but prefers to dine solo. "I had a bad cold over the Thanksgiving holiday, but that spared me from having to go to my brother-in-law's," he says. "I'm not a scrooge; it's the gatherings I dread." Matsuoka feels his pain: "I can't do large crowds with a lot of noise," she says. "It's stressful to maintain positive interactions and introduce yourself 20 times. I really have to turn on my motor to do that."
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"Contrary to popular belief, not all loners have a pathological fear of social contact. "Some people simply have a low need for affiliation," says Jonathan Cheek, a psychologist at Wellesley College. "There's a big subdivision between the loner-by-preference and the enforced loner." Those who choose the living room over the ballroom may have inherited their temperament, Cheek says. Or a penchant for solitude could reflect a mix of innate tendencies and experiences such as not having many friends as a child or growing up in a family that values privacy."
I find, too, that the more I keep to my self I can keep my emotions in check. I have not gotten angry, yelled at anyone, been upset or even cried (except for back pain and a good laughter overdose), well, since my last interaction with an 'outsider'. My partner and I live a very quiet life in every way. My moods are very stabilized and I do not suffer from stress. It is a very agreeable lifestyle and along with living as organically as much as I possibly can, my health and state of mind are at peace. I don't think that I have ever been this peacefully happy in a long time. Being able to share what I feel here, online and at AN gives me the companionship when I choose rather than having it 'forced' upon me.
Same here Sandi. However, I find even the AN can be very stressful for me. Especially when there is strife. And lately there has been a lot of contention on the site. I try as best I can to avoid it.
So true, but at least here, you can choose to opt out of a conversation or simply log off. You can't always do that with physical confrontation.
And yes, just because we have Atheism in common does not make us 'all the same'.
It's true that our society values extroverts, especially the bubbly optimistic types with the finely-honed Dale Carnegie social skills. Networking, for business or pleasure, is the expected means of establishing one's social identity. If you can't hobnob, there is something glaringly amiss.
But there's a flip side too, courtesy of our "family oriented" culture. It is considered to be uncouth and outright repugnant to delve beyond superficial social graces outside of the confines of our families. Coworkers are expected to be friendly and responsive, but not to divulge genuine frustrations or deep feelings. That's reserved for talking with one's spouse or parents. But what if you lack such a family? Then coworkers or friends become the next best thing for the person seeking such support. But society frowns upon such interaction. It is comparatively easy for people with established, fulfilling family structures to wear their "game face" at work or at cocktail parties. But what happens when say there's a disaster and workers are dismissed early to go home to their families, and you have no family to which to go home?
So the point is that our society values extroverts, but only to a point. We are expected to be warmly receptive to superficial interaction, while circumscribing the depth of that interaction to polite levels. So perhaps the least happy person would be the one who neither craves large crowds for self-actualization, nor is happy being completely alone.
As Michael points out, extroverts are 'valued' in our society and no one seems to understand us that choose not to socialize in a big way. As a loner, my family often asks why. I often choose not to go to parties etc, and no one seems to understand that I simply do not enjoy these 'events'.
I am quite happy to be at home gardening, reading, researching, spending time with my dogs. I can amuse myself in many ways without interacting with people.
It seems that the more people I have around me, the more trouble there is. Gossiping, back stabbing, drama. Frankly, I find people boring and repetitive and often a little crazy and choosing not to be a part of that seems to upset some people. Thankfully my partner feels the same way, so we enjoy each other's lonely company and it works well. We don't argue because we don't have the influence of others in our lives, there is no jealousy because our attention and affection is directed at each other.
I think it quite amusing that the only person I can handle talking to in my little neighborhood is a young man with a learning disability. I find his conversation a lot more enthralling than 'regular' people.
Loners should be respected for their ability to avoid bullshit.
Basically, a person who likes being alone. Unlike the social attitude that says people who are alone are really unhappy inside, many loners are actually the happiest when they're alone. Rather than finding solace in friends and family, they find solace in things such as video games, Internet, books, etc.
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – The New England Revolution announced today that MLS record holder and former club captain Steve Ralston has re-signed with Major League Soccer to play for the Revs. Per MLS and club policy, terms of the deal were not released. Ralston will officially join the squad at the team's training session at Gillette Stadium on Wednesday, June 9.
Ralston, 35, spent eight seasons with the Revolution (2002-09) before signing as a player/assistant coach with his hometown AC St. Louis of the second-division in January. The midfielder holds the all-time MLS records for assists (135), appearances (378), starts (372) and minutes (33,143). In eight seasons in New England, Ralston made 201 appearances and 196 starts. He is the club's all-time leader in assists (73) and second in goals scored (42).
"We're very pleased that Steve has decided to return to MLS and to New England," Revolution Vice President of Player Personnel Michael Burns said. "Steve has always been a consummate professional and we expect his leadership will benefit us both on and off the field. The bottom line is that we believe that Steve Ralston makes the Revolution a better club and we're looking forward to his return."
Earlier this season, Ralston made two appearances with AC St. Louis, making his season debut on May 22 against the Tampa Bay Rowdies, then starting the team's next match on May 29 against the NSC Minnesota Stars.
Ralston's appearance on May 22 came after off-season rehabilitation from surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee that he suffered on Sept. 26, 2009, in the Revolution's match against Seattle Sounders FC at Gillette Stadium.
The Revolution (3-7-2, 11 pts.) and the rest of Major League Soccer are in the midst of a two-week break from league competition during the group-play stage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The team will play an international friendly against Brazilian power Cruzeiro on Sunday, June 13, at Gillette Stadium, before returning to the MLS schedule on Sunday, June 27, when the team hosts its arch rival, the Chicago Fire, at 7 p.m.
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BS: Oil price rises as Saudis cut supplies to US, but global oversupply remains
London â Oil edged higher on Friday, boosted by hopes that an Opec output cut was beginning to balance a long-oversupplied market, but benchmark prices were on track for weekly losses as concerns persisted over an excess of crude.
Benchmark Brent crude futures were at $50.86 per barrel at 10.40am GMT, up 30 US cents from their last close.
US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were up 30 cents at $48 a barrel. Brent was heading for a weekly fall of roughly 1.7%, while WTI was off just over 1.5%. Analysts said the gains were a sign that the crude benchmarks, trading roughly 12% below the highs reached in January this year, had levelled out.
"The flat price is starting to bottom. A lot of the negativity has been priced in," said Olivier Jakob, MD of PetroMatrix.
Saudi Arabia said its crude exports to the US would fall by about 300,000 barrels per day between February and March, boosting price sentiment. It said the expected drop could help draw down US inventories that stood at a record 533-million barrels in the week to last week.
In the US, shale drilling has pushed up oil production by more than 8% since mid-2016 to just above 9.1-million barrels per day. But US shale producers have left a record number of wells unfinished in Permian, the largest oilfield in the country, a sign that output may not rise as swiftly as drilling activity would indicate.
Still, Saudi exports to other regions remain high despite an effort led by Opec and supported by other producers including Russia, to cut output by 1.8-million barrels per day during the first half of the year.
Thomson Reuters Eikon data shows Opec shipments to Asia, the worldâs biggest and fastest growing oil consuming region, were at 17.6-million barrels per day in March, up more than 5% since January, when the cuts officially started.
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"Opecâs goal of drawing down inventories to normal levels is not going to be reached before their agreement expires on June 30," said US investment bank Jefferies in a note to clients.
Dennis Gartman, founder and editor of the Gartman Letter said the longer-term outlook was for continuing low oil prices.
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Composer and musician Nick Laird-Clowes has, in recent years, been composing music for film and documentary, producing the score for the Adam Brooks film 'The Invisible Circus' and Griffin Dunne's 'Fierce People' amongst others.
For the last year he has been working as composer and music consultant with director Richard Curtis on his new film 'About Time' (Sept. 2013).
Nick has worked with director Nick Broomfield, providing the soundtracks for both the award winning film 'Battle for Haditha' and the Greenpeace documentary 'A Time Comes' which also included his song 'Mayday'.
Subsequently he worked on various political documentaries including 'Peace vs Justice' and 'The Enemy Within' for Channel 4 .
In 2003 he was music consultant to Bernardo Bertolucci on his film 'The Dreamers'.
As lead singer and principal songwriter with The Dream Academy, Nick enjoyed worldwide success in the mid 80′s with songs including 'Life in a Northern Town' and 'The Love Parade'. The band's music was also heavily featured in the John Hughes films 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' and 'Trains, Planes and Automobiles'. Diane Keaton's directorial debut 'Heaven' also featured music specially composed by the band.
Nick has collaborated on songs with both Brian Wilson and with David Gilmour on numerous projects, notably contributing lyrics to Pink Floyd's 'The Division Bell'.
In 2007, together with Joe Boyd, he organised 'The Madcap's Last Laugh' – the memorial concert for Syd Barrett.
In 1999 Nick released the critically acclaimed album 'Mona Lisa Overdrive' under the name Trashmonk for Alan McGee's Creation Records.
A 25 song 'Best of The Dream Academy' album is scheduled for worldwide release in 2014.
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Dr. Glenn Stone is a professor of sociocultural anthropology and environmental studies at Washington University, St. Louis. His research focuses on environmental anthropology and political ecology: studying the social and political aspects of agricultural systems, population increase, and agricultural biotechnology
His recent work has focused on questions of genetically modified agricultural crops in different sites. The arrival of crop genetic modification (GM) into the developing world in recent years has brought fierce controversy, especially on the question of how GM crops would affect local farmers. As a long-term student of the complexities of indigenous agricultural systems [including two Wenner-Gren funded projects on social aspects of indigenous agriculture in Africa], Glenn Stone noted with alarm how certain both the biotech corporations and the green activists were about the new technology's effects -- and oversimplified both positions were. He identified a particularly interesting situation in India, where genetically modified insecticidal "Bt cotton" was being considered for release, and with Wenner-Gren funding in 2000 he began a multi year study of cotton farmers in Andhra Pradesh, in the key cotton-growing area of Warangal. In 2002 the new cotton was approved for sale, and 3 years later when it took over most farmers' fields, biotech corporations announced that it had been validated by careful farmer experimentation.
However, Stone's multi-year data on decision-making by cotton farmers revealed a different story, which has important implications both for farmer welfare and for theoretical understandings of innovation adoption. Warangal farmers were not conducting careful experiments on cotton. In fact the reliance on hybrid cotton seeds, which had to be repurchased each year from an anarchic seed market characterized by rampant mislabelling and dizzying rate of change, had left farmer unable to build and update indigenous agricultural knowledge. Even before the arrival of Bt cotton, cotton farming decisions were generally made by emulating neighbors who were in turn emulating their neighbors. The result was what is termed "agricultural deskilling" and it is evidenced in a remarkable pattern of ephemeral, highly localized, cotton seed fads that had virtually no agroecological basis. Bt cotton was the latest fad; it was adopted in 2005 mostly by farmers who had never planted it before. (Agronomically, it has been neither the failure claimed by anti-globalization activists nor the resounding success claimed by the biotech industry; it has actually been highly variable from area to area and year to year.) The deskilling problem clearly preceded Bt cotton, but Bt cotton has become an important factor exacerbating this continuing problem.
You can read more about Dr. Stone's findings in Current Anthropology 2007 (48) p.67 - 103
This work has contributed to ongoing debates about Genetically Modified Crops in The Independent (London); Salon.Com ; The Economic Times (India National paper), and; The Times of India (India National paper) among other publications.


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Maybe you've seen the television commercial with a clueless couple sending their household items up in a hot air balloon to be stored "in the cloud." It's funny, but also holds more than a grain of truth. Many of us don't fully understand the cloud. So we might not realize its promise or potential hazards.


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Palm Beach, FL---Uniqua Mitchell came within one point of a career-high in scoring, while Emma-Jean Ricketts finished with a double-double as the Express women's basketball team defeated Central Wyoming College 70-54 in the Palm Beach Classic today.
The Express started the game off strong as they took a 20-5 lead just a little over six minutes into the game. A mid-range corner jumper from Mitchell then ended the half as the Express led 35-24.
Central Wyoming cut the lead to 37-33 with just over 15 minutes remaining, but the Express bounced back and stretched the lead to as many as 22 late in the second half.
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Mitchell was one point of her career high of 24 points against Ashland last year.
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Central Wyoming was led by Stephanie Smith, who finished with 14 points and nine rebounds, while Marissa Hogan added 12 points. Elise Keller had a team-high 10 rebounds.
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Not only did Blake compose the poems, but he prepared his own illustrative engravings by a process he himself developed, inscribed the poems in his own handwriting instead of resorting to movable type, reproduced each engraved page by hand, and either himself tinted, or had his wife tint, each illustration. The result was something comparable to the illuminated manuscripts of medieval times.
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North American Juniors Game Night: 9-23-11
Blainville-Boisbriand Armada 2 @ Gatineau Olympiques 6
D Adam Janosik, GAT: 0-2-2, +1, 5 PIM (fighting vs. Xavier Ouellet), 2 SOG, 0 Hit
Last Season's Totals: 60 GP, 7-25-32, +17, 37 PIM
Playoff Totals: 24 GP, 5-4-9, -3, 12 PIM
Janosik made his 2011-2012 debut for the Olympiques, notching a multi-point night and a fight. Janosik has done well statistically for his native Slovakia in World Junior play, but his stats so far in league play have been mediocre. A breakout year is expected. The Armada is a new franchise in the Q this year. Last year they were the Montreal Junior and before that the St. John's Fog Devils.
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London put a snowman on the scoreboard to start their season, scoring five times in the second period and adding three more in the third. Namestnikov, who was sent back to juniors by the Lightning this week, had one assist in the game, but was one of only three players to fail to finish above even in plus/minus. He was hauled down from behind on a shorthanded breakaway, but no penalty was called. London was paced by Tie Domi's son, Max, who had a hat trick and an assist in his first OHL game. London first rounder Bo Horvat had a goal and an assist, and Seth Griffith, who participated in the Lightning's prospect camp early in the summer and again for the Bolts in the Coral Springs prospect tournament, had two goals and was named Third Star. London plays at Guelph Sunday.
Owen Sound Attack 6 @ Guelph Storm 4
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Season Totals: 2 GP, 0-0-0, +3, 2 PIM
Defending champion Owen Sound is off to a 2-0 start to the year after beating the Storm in Guelph Friday night 6-4. Schemitsch is scoreless through two games.
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There was a time when outdoor speakers were hardly worth the effort, providing about the same level of quality as a battery powered boom box - without the portability! Fortunately, those days are now officially over and, as the boom box slowly bites the dust, the time has come to have a fresh look at alternative ways of getting music out of the lounge room and into the back yard. This guide covers all the main features to look for in an outdoor speaker system.
There are a couple of different ways you can rig up outdoor audio setup. One of the biggest deciding factors is whether you want the sound system to be driven by the lounge room Hi-Fi, or whether you want an independent audio source. If you want to share the lounge room Hi-Fi for both indoor and outdoor use (that is, if you want an "integrated" system), you will need to make sure your amplifier supports an extra pair of speakers. Most amplifiers have A and B speaker outputs for exactly this reason, although if you are already running two sets inside, you may need to consider an alternative configuration. Another factor to consider when planning an integrated outdoor system is the distance and feasibility of running speaker cable. While it is possible to run cable for 50 metres or more - provided you use high quality shielded cable - it just may not be practical to do so. If you have underfloor access, then running cable is the best option. Otherwise, you may need to consider a pair of wireless speakers. This will significantly affect either the price or the quality of the system you choose.
If you are thinking of setting up an independent outdoor sound system, however, you have a few more options. This will mean the extra expense of purchasing a dedicated amplifier, but the added flexibility means that you probably won't have to worry about running cable in awkward places. Instead, you can think about whether you want an amplifier that is located indoors that drives the speakers, or whether you want speakers that have an amplifier built-in.Powered and un-powered systems
Powered or "active" speakers are those that incorporate a built-in amplifier. The advantage of using powered speakers is that you can control the volume and input source from outside - where you will be listening to them. The downside is that you need to plug an audio source directly into the speakers. This may be perfect if you only ever intend to use a portable media player, but it can be problematic if you want to plug in a CD player that runs on mains power. Not only will your amplifier controls be outside while the CD player controls are inside, but you'll need an audio cable connecting the two. Stereo RCA leads are considerably more expensive than speaker cables, so a powered system can be inconvenient if it is permanently installed. Alternatively, an FM transmitter can be used from inside the house to beam any audio source to a standard FM radio which is connected to the outdoor speakers. These transmitters range from $30 to $100 and you will need the best one you can get if you want to ensure reasonable quality, as they are subject to considerable hiss and noise. The real benefit of a powered system, however, is that it is portable and can be stored inside while not in use. Not only will this prolong its lifespan, but it means you can use it in other locations. Powered systems range greatly in power and quality, so definitely compare a few in advance. You will need at least 30 watts to get acceptable amplification, and look for something that is 2-way with equalisation controls (ie: bass, middle and treble knobs).
An un-powered pair of outdoor speakers will provide you with much better quality for the same price, as you won't be paying for compact amplifier technology. Un-powered speakers are suitable for both integrated and independent systems, both of which require you to run speaker cable into the house. The cheapest un-powered speakers you're likely to find start at about $70, although you're up for at least $300 if you want something that is remotely comparable to standard indoor speakers. Comparatively, powered outdoor speakers will set you back at least $200 with around $500 being more likely if you want something that sounds better - as well as louder - than your old boom box.Mounting options
Most outdoor systems are designed to be permanently or semi-permanently installed. The higher they are off the ground, the better the effective range will be. Consequently, wall-brackets are usually the best bet. This also keeps them out of reach of children, thieves and animals. If possible, mount them directly onto brick or wooden walls, avoiding aluminium and gyprock surfaces. Not only will these affect the sound, but they may not be strong enough to support the speakers for any length of time. If possible, mount them under an awning or other covering. The more protection you can provide them from the elements, the longer they will last. If you aren't going to be able to keep them covered, make sure the model you buy is rated for extreme conditions. If you're near the beach, you may also want to consider a pair that is rated for marine conditions, as the salt water can dramatically reduce their lifespan. If you can keep your speakers out of the rain and direct sunlight, you should get at least 10 years out of them. Speakers rated for use in marine and other extreme conditions should last even longer unless they are exposed to extreme conditions.


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As a teenager he worked on a peanut farm in DeLeon, Texas. He said it was the hardest work he had ever done. At age 17 Ted joined the U.S. Navy after World War II started. He was given a medical discharge when an examination showed he had a heart murmur. He also worked at many gas stations in his younger days where he soldered radiators and was a mechanic who repaired cars.
In 1945, Ted met the love of his life, Martha Terry. Ted worked seasonally for the Forest Service at various fire Lookout stations in Arizona. Ted's first permanent job with the federal government was working at the Navajo Army Depot at Belmont, Ariz., (where ammunition and explosives were stored), as a general maintenance worker. He was transferred to Grand Canyon National Park as a truck driver. He and Martha made their home in Grand Canyon National Park with their four children, Harvey, Linda, Debbie and Mike.
Ted built his first pick-up truck with his own hands using scraps and other parts he acquired. Working on vehicles was a life-long hobby, and he became a proficient machinist using his personal lathe. Ted worked for the National Park Service as a truck driver, maintenance worker, maintenance foreman II, and eventually, as an equipment specialist.
Ted moved his family to Moab, Utah, in 1966, and was the maintenance foreman for Arches National Park, Natural Bridges National Monument, and Canyonlands National Park. In 1968, National Park Service headquarters requested that Ted return to Grand Canyon, where he engineered the Trans-Canyon water system that serves over 3 million people a year. He remained in that position until he retired in 1980 at the age of 55.
Ted and Martha made their home in Castle Valley, Utah, after Ted worked for the National Park Service for 32 years. Ted said he wanted to work for 30 years and be retired for 30 years; he surpassed that goal. He built his home in Castle Valley in the ground as a modern way to conserve energy and be comfortable year-round. He also spent much of his retirement working on his seven acres in Castle Valley. After Martha passed away he lived in Emery, Utah, to live close to his daughter Linda and her family. In 2010, Ted returned to Arizona to live with his youngest son, Mike.
Ted was preceded in death by his wife of 54 years, Martha Compton Terry; daughter, Linda Barnes; and siblings, Harvey and Gerald Terry.
He is survived by his son, Harvey (Debra), his daughter, Debbie (Ed Nelson), and his son, Mike (Cherie); 17 grandchildren; 34 great-grandchildren; and two great-great grandchildren.
There will be a memorial service at Grand Canyon National Park at a later date, where he will be laid to rest next to his loving wife, Martha Terry.


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At times, I am a slow learner, cruising through life thinking everyone is happy and everything turns up roses. While I may have my own disagreements with people here and there, I sometimes forget that others have those same types of interactions with others that don't include or involve me. This can especially apply to family.
Family matters take these "disagreements" up a notch. While I can't imagine that my great aunt on my dad's side would have a conflict with my grandmother, her very own sister, it could have existed. Heck, it could have divided the family fairly easily and quickly because of the words people say, their actions, and the assumptions they make. Even a minor "slight" can send some families running in the opposite direction to never meet again, except at a funeral. Mind you, I am pulling from about a dozen different situations on either side of my family tree - Father or Mother, Irish or German (you can take your pick).
In completing my family tree research, I have often been asked by others why the families went their separate ways. Why did the Flanagan's stop getting together? What was the rift between those Hickey's? Why did my grandfather not fully realize who his own cousins were on his Maxwell side of the family in the same town (Napa), at the same time?
Well, my answer is complicated. To my dismay, the simplified version is that it is just too hard. It's too hard, for example, to drive from Sacramento to the Bay Area. There's so much traffic on the freeway. There's no good date and time where everyone can make it. It takes so much planning. Then, there is the food and where to actually accommodate each and everyone. Oh, and the final nail, we don't necessarily have an ongoing relationship with those family members.
My own rosy philosophy is that if you want something, you can make it happen. I guess my slow learning curve on this is the daunting resistance of it all. I am open but find that my immediate family members, sans my husband, are not. "Oh sweetie, we are just too busy, busy, busy."
I must admit to the frustration. Maybe my own ulterior motive to get together is to find out more about my ancestors. That would actually mean that I'd like to know more about my family. Can you blame me? While I do know a lot, I love hearing about the past including anecdotal stories. I like to meet and see who I am related to. I enjoy a connection to those that I am biologically related to even if we don't see each other very often or maintain a full true relationship. There is value in knowing where you came from and who you are related to even if you don't have much in common. Some of us might have more in common than you think.
So, without letting any cats out of the bag on why families went their separate ways, I'd like to express myself here. My own family basically finds inconvenience in getting together. It's stressful to plan a flawless visit. That is the goal, after all, to make it flawless, right?
I am clearly related to several perfectionists who want an event to be pulled off and perceived as flawless. As with any event, you want the location to be nice and at its best. You want delicious food to impress and heaven forbid, you would ever run out of food or drink during the event. Additionally, convenience is paramount. You don't want people to hit standstill traffic on Interstate 80 through Northern California. Okay, that last one is completely beyond anyone's control.
During my life experience with food and drink, I have had the most elaborate, exquisite, exotic, mouthwatering, fancy, expensive food and then there is pizza. Ironically, pizza and salad can be the most pleasing meal ever. Accompanied by beer or wine, the crowd overall is generally happy. Why can't a family reunion have pizza and salad. It's quick and easy.
I have to add another point here. I do understand where others are coming from. Until I was married, I did not quite understand how people could choose to spend the holidays away from their family and basically not really see them any longer. Well, there's always those people who you are related to by marriage that make you turn and go the other way. Then, there is the inconvenience of hosting and planning an event. Even still, it does not have to be an absolute situation. You can get together with family even if you don't have a true relationship with them but are related to them. Sometimes the benefit is not to yourself but to your spouse or your own children.
Summing up this post is challenging. I would love to see all of my relatives from my various lines. I have a great desire to go back East to Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut. My husband and I would like to visit all of our family members on both sides sans the relative that unfriended me on Facebook. Okay, that's just petty and silly, I know. That's how it starts though.
Our family in Ireland is also on our list. Cost and time are our big hurdles right now and that is just being honest.
While others are focusing on the inconvenience of a family reunion, at least I've planted a seed. The thought of trying to plan a reunion in the coming year is daunting even for me. I can offer up my home. It's not anything wonderful but we have had 40 people here all at once with plenty of seating including the outside patio. We did not run out food either. And.....The roses were blooming in the garden at time.
Our family in Ireland is also on our list. Cost and time are our big hurdles right now and that is just being honest.
While others are focusing on the inconvenience of a family reunion, at least I've planted a seed. The thought of trying to plan a reunion in the coming year is daunting even for me. I can offer up my home. It's not anything wonderful but we have had 40 people here all at once with plenty of seating including the outside patio. We did not run out food either. And.....The roses were blooming in the garden at time.


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From July 10-22, 2005, OSC Summer Institute participants experienced firsthand the dynamic fields of high performance computing (HPC) and networking. Working with kids their own age and with similar interests, they contemplated everything from computational chemistry to mechanical engineering, all while applying newly learned programming and visualization skills.
To make the experience well-rounded, OSC invited experts from the science, engineering, HPC and networking communities to speak with the students about relevant topics and careers in science and engineering.
SI is not just about spending time in the classroom. Students enjoyed a day of learning about team building while navigating obstacle and rope courses at the Adventure Education Center. Other fun field trips with a science spin included some of OSU's premier research facilities such as the Nuclear Reactor Lab, Museum of Biological Diversity and The Center for Automotive Research. Students will also got a taste of campus life by living and dining in the OSU dorms.
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The students worked together in small teams on diverse and challenging projects. Teams were comprised of a project leader (staff member who conceived and designed the project), students in the project group, a high school teacher and a student leader (in charge of dividing project tasks).
Each year the projects offered change. This year's projects included: Parallel Processing, Cryptography, and the Comet Project.
This year's projects were as diverse as they were challenging. Two groups chose to do Parallel Programming projects. Led by group leader, Dave Ennis, Team SimCell simulated the fundamental capabilities of a human cell. Each component of the cell was controlled by a separate processor with the nucleus sending out signals to control cell actions. Troy Baer's parallel group, Team Matrix, modeled population growth using parallel computing techniques. The model simulated the interaction between population, food supply, and natural resources. The simulation ran in parallel so that multiple territories can be modeled simultaneously.
Click here for the Team SimCell animation 1.
Click here for the Team Matrix animation 1.
One of two new projects, the Comet Project, focused on trying to find new comets. The project, created and led by Alan Chalker, was so popular with the students, that two groups elected to search for comets. Team Komet Hunterz produced an animation showing the step by step process of starting with a raw image, filtering it, identifying possible comets, and comparing them to subsequent images. Identified comets were shown with a short movie with rings drawn around them.
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Team Oort, the second Comet group, calculated the trajectories of the comets and overlaid them on the images / movies one after another to show patterns in which the comets are traveling.
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Another new project, Cryptography, was devised and led by STS student, Jon Mudronja. The project was an overview of the topic of encryption and its integration in today's technology. The group examined the RSA cypher and evaluated its foundations using parallel processing supercomputers.
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Students were required to do their own work from code implementation to final results. Excellent programming skills and an understanding of the project's science/engineering were prerequisites for facilitating code writing. Finally, the students made a video animation displaying their simulation data -- which was the ultimate goal of each project. Groups presented and explained their animations to parents, OSC staff, and guests who attended the SI Closing Ceremonies.
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Analysts to H-P: 'Meh'
Hewlett-Packard's earnings were better than expected and could be interpreted as a glimmer of hope for a turnaround. But several analysts still remain unconvinced, Steven Russolillo reports on digits. Photo: Hewlett Packard.
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... I ... the fact that each these results were not a complete disaster ... as the stock up sharply on Friday ... nevertheless analysts had a pretty mad reactions that that the numbers are there are still a lot of concerns about this company that is stuck in the middle of a multi year turnaround ... by analysts cautioned that the fact that the company is not splitting off its PC business is actually the moment that could weigh on the stock in the short as well as the long term ... nevertheless though shares are up big and continuing the big rally that has been going on for much of twenty thirteen ... HP is the best performing Dow component this year ... are they picking my nose when those gains have to be taken with a grain of salt ... HP was down sharply for the last two or three years before this old still has a long way to go and have also cautioned that while the company's stock in its turnaround ... upside gains from this level could be limited ... a lot of analysts on the Street have price targets in the low to mid teens so great now that's still well below where we are now ... of one other thing to keep in mind there was one analyst upgrade by UBS upgraded the shares to neutral from sell still though UBS to nineteen dollars price target on the stock so ... still those the so the most people don't expect that there's much upside from current levels ... I'm steamers alone with MarketBeat ...


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Starbucks, Gattis School Road, Round Rock, TX, United States
Location: Starbucks, Gattis School Road, Round Rock, TX, United States
Report Type : Food Poisoning
Symptoms: Diarrhea Fever
Details: Pink drink, I waited to order my drink for about 10-15 minutes because there was only one lady working. I've been to this Starbucks every Friday and had no problems until today. I ordered a small pink drink at around 5:20 and woke up at 4am to feeling severe stomach pain, increasing temperatures, and diarrhea. I was in so much pain that I wanted to call 911 but my phone was downstairs and I couldn't walk nor talk.
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Jan 21 2019 3:16am
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Symptoms: Diarrhea Vomiting
Report Type: Food Poisoning
Ordered hot caramel macchiato and caramel frappuccino no caffeine. My husband started feeling sick one hour after drinking half the venti sized cup. Thirty minutes afterward, he had diarrhea. He was sweating and had the chills. My younger daughter had the frappuccino and didn't get sick till a few hours after. She threw up all over the living room floor and complained of a stomach ache. Read More
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Jan 13 2019 1:00pm
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Jan 3 2019 6:26am
Starbucks, 2521 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN, USA
Symptoms: Diarrhea Nausea Vomiting
Report Type: Food Poisoning
It was 12/31/2018 and Starbucks was opening later than usual. I love the staff there and I can tell they love their customers. It was an overwhelming rush because they were on holiday hours. I received my food around 6:35. It was a double smoked bacon, egg and cheddar breakfast sandwich. I also bought a venti lemonade. I was going out of town so that was the only thing I could eat before I got on the bus at 10:55. My stomach started to hurt at around 2:15 and I started to feel like vomiting but I didn't. Then it came up and would not go back down. I grabbed Tylenol and rolaids at a service station during a stop and tried to take that. Not soon after that came up as well. So I sat on the bus with somewhat severe stomach pain. I arrived at my destination at 6:43. I thought maybe I needed something more specific for my symptoms like pepto bismol. I was throwing up uncontrollably by then. I took the pepto bismol but within 2-5 minutes that came up as well. I tried drinking tea and water but that came up as well. By 9 pm I decided to go to the hospital. They did bloodwork, a CT scan, and a urine sample. I was not pregnant, I had nothing wrong in my blood, and the CT scan also did not show anything. My nurse told me that food poisoning and/or stomach virus (which by another nurse said are very similar cases) wouldn't be detected in these tests and would most likely only show up in a sample of my first vomit. I had not had a bowel movement since the day before but towards around 2 AM on 1/1/2019 I had a small amount of diarrhea. I was finally discharged after replenishing my electrolytes through IV and also pain reliever and nausea reducer. They also tried to give me oral medication but I could not keep any pills down. From the time I was admitted to my discharge I was throwing up everything and when I didn't have anything left only bile would come out. I felt fine after discharge but I did not drink or eat anything the rest of the day. On 1/2/2019 I thought because I felt fine with no appetite that I would be able to eat again and that it was just a really small case of something. I tried to eat a bowl of ramen soup but I was not able to finish it and after 10 minutes of eating I also vomited that up as well. The same symptoms reappeared such as hot flashes during vomiting, pain in my abdominal region, weakness and slight light-headedness. All of these symptoms lasted from 12 pm to 4 AM 1/3/2019. I was able to receive another IV of saline, and generic zofran. I also tried other remedies but most of everything taken orally was vomited back up. I have no history of allergies, diabetes, no surgeries, no sickness, I do not drink, smoke, take recreational drugs, antibiotics, prescriptions, etc. Read More
Dec 29 2018 7:10pm
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Symptoms: Diarrhea Nausea
Report Type: Food Poisoning
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Dec 24 2018 12:41am
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Report Type: Food Poisoning
The ONLY thing I consumed today (in the past 24 hours), was a Chestnut Praline Latte and shared a Turkey Pesto Panini from Starbucks. We both felt queasy shortly after, and I started to feel like I was going to throw up, which followed me all day. I didn't eat anything else. After about 5 hours I started violently vomiting and spiked a high fever. My partner just got stomach ache. It resolved within 15-18 hours. Read More
Dec 19 2018 2:47pm
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Symptoms: Diarrhea Nausea
Report Type: Food Poisoning
Dec 14 2018 9:36am
Starbucks, 1731 Dunlawton Ave, Port Orange, FL 32127, USA
Symptoms: Diarrhea Vomiting
Report Type: Food Poisoning
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Dec 2 2018 1:47pm
Starbucks, 38019 47th Street East, Palmdale, CA, USA
Symptoms: Nausea Vomiting
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