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The total value of the hospitality and tourism projects in the GCC region, numbering around 1,156, is more than US$147 billion in March, said a report released ahead of the Arabian Travel Market (ATM) 2018.The largest travel and tourism show in the Middle East, ATM kicks off tomorrow (April 22) and will run until April 26.As many as 492 hospitality projects worth US$39.4 billion are currently in progress – including tendering stage and under construction, stated BNC Network, a leading project intelligence provider in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region.BNC tracks more than 28,000 live construction projects with a value exceeding US$7.7 trillion.Among the 1,156 hospitality projects, 724 projects worth US$78 billion are hotel projects while 140 hospitality projects worth US$50 billion are resort hotels and 292 hospitality projects worth US$19.5 billion are hotel apartments.As many as 492 hospitality projects worth US$39.4 billion are currently on progress - including tender and under-construction stage.As many as 210 hospitality projects worth US$26.8 billion are in the pipeline – in planning, concept and design stage. However, in terms of value, US$80.9 billion worth of projects – or 55% of the projects – are currently on hold."Most of the hotel projects are being constructed in the UAE, especially in Dubai in order to prepare the city to welcome a record number of visitors during the World Expo 2020 mega event," remarked Avin Gidwani, the chief executive of BNC Network."Dubai is racing against time to deliver a large number of hotel rooms and service apartments to be able to handle 20 million hotel guests per year and 25 million visitors during the Expo 2020," stated Gidwani."Besides, with the opening of the Saudi economy, under the country's current leadership, one would expect a lot more tourism projects coming up in future, as part of the Saudi Vision 2030," he added.The Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) the emirate's tourism regulator, said the city of Dubai needs 40,000 additional hotel rooms in order to host such a mega event. Dubai's nearly 600 hotels and serviced apartments collective has an inventory of more than 100,000 hotel rooms.
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Somewhere in China: Reading Between the Lines and the 'Fiction of Compromise'
"Somewhere in…" is a monthly column from the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative that addresses international censorship issues.
"to call Eileen Chang a non-political writer would be markedly inaccurate."
I believe Eileen Chang is like Emily Dickinson. They had more 'political' sense of where to put out their own resistance to the unavoidable power of politics of the day ahead of even political writer or any politicians of their time... Emily published all together 7 poems when she was alive but wrote thousands of them and corresponded in private many leading influential poets. One would only wish that Eileen Chang could have more support in her own imposed exile...
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I'm always on the look-out for salvage windows and styles I could someday have fabricated by my cabinetmaker for a renovation. Well here's one for the files complements of AD…
I love round windows to begin with, but this back to back half circle is a winner of a design and a keeper. When you see a feature window from the outside, you can't help but wonder where it appears inside. Well we know where this one is – perfectly placed over the bath. LOVE…
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Miami, Philly, New York, London just some of the cities gearing up for the fourth annual Fashion's Night Out, a celebrity-studded night designed to draw shoppers into stores for a night of celebrity spotting, music, giveaways, food and drinks – and, of course, shopping.
If you have an appetite for only the best in fashion then you're probably already celebrating Fashion Night Out at one of its exquisite locations.
Over 500 cities in 19 countries will participate this year. In New York, major brands like Ralph Lauren and Gucci have scaled back their participation. Even so, more than 700 stores will stay open late. As before, there will be limited-edition merchandise, musical performances, free drinks, special deals, celebrity sightings and, oh, a few fashion designers.
Several cities across Florida will participate in this international shopping party, including Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Tampa and Jacksonville. More than 65 retailers in the Miami area are taking advantage of the event.
Dadeland Mall is inviting all Miami fashionistas to grab a goodie bag and take it floor by floor at Saks, with makeovers at the beauty bar and cupcakes on one, and an Alexander McQueen shoe trunk show on two. At Saks, 10 percent of sales benefitsWomen's Fund of Miami-Dade and Dress for Success Miami.
In Miami's Design District, shop boutiques in the up-and-coming fashion hub, including Maison Martin Margiela, Scotch & Soda, and Marni, while DJ Mike Sikes spins and dance duo Afrobeta moves at Oak Plaza Plummer Alley and 39th Street.
Village of Merrick Park shoppers will find makeup applications at Nordstrom, manis from Nailbar & Beauty Lounge, braids from Blo at Neiman Marcus, mini facials at Banana Republic, and a Tom Ford trunk show at Edward Beiner.
At the Bal Harbour Shops, Saks will transform into an after-hours party with a photo booth that posts to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram; drinks from The Broken Shaker, New Amsterdam, and Stella Artois; and burgers and frozen custard from Shake Shack.
At Aventura Mall, Macy's kicks the night off with a fashion show that includes model Niki Taylor; Empire Girls's Julissa Bermudez; and Luciana Scarabello, the local designer from Fashion Star. Get styling advice and giveaways from Miami fashion bloggers and samples and prizes from restaurants such as Morton's Steak House and Il Mulino. The rest of the mall features 50 in-store sales events, including the Michael Kors lounge.
If you weren't at a fashion party last night, well, you missed out on all the fun. With the kick off today, every stylish guy and gal in the city seemed to be toasting, speechifying, air-kissing and posing for pictures at a slew of fashion fetes last night to inaugurate the big week ahead.
Du Jour, the latest glossy magazine to hit newsstands, feted its debut issue with a party hosted by cover star Christy Turlington and photographer Bruce Weber. Held at Capitale, the party drew the likes of Russell Simmons, Amar'e Stoudemire, Hoda Kotb and model Hilary Rhoda.
New York's revamped The Cut, which officially debuted August 13, also threw itself a launch party on the rooftop of the NoMad Hotel, attended by Nigel Barker, Coco Rocha, Lindsay Ellingson and Yigal Azrouel.
Farther uptown, shoe designer Brian Atwood — recently reprimanded for his overly sexy shoe ads — threw a party celebrating the opening of his new Madison Avenue store, attended by pals Rachel Zoe, Michelle Trachtenberg, Heidi Klum, Ryan Lochte and Candice Swanepoel (star of the aforementioned ads).
There were also ceremonies honoring some of fashion's greatest: the Fashion Institute of Technology presented Oscar de la Renta with the 2012 Couture Council Award for Artistry at a luncheon earlier in the day (Sarah Jessica Parker and Anna Wintour were by his side) and the 9th Annual Style Awards crowned Carolina Herrera the Designer Of The Year that evening at Lincoln Center (Katie Holmes did the honors).
And that doesn't even include SPIN and Refinery29's party across the river in Brooklyn, the launch of the latest fashion tome, "Antonio Lopez: Fashion, Art, Sex and Disco" (Lopez was a friend of Karl Largerfeld) and the splashy red carpet premiere of "Boardwalk Empire" which drew the Hollywood crowd.
It was hard to be in multiple places at once, but the most seasoned partygoers managed to hit several events each: Iman and Rachel Roy, for example, showed their faces at both the Style Awards and Brian Atwood's fete and Kim Kardashian wowed in a dramatic cutout dress at both the Brian Atwood store and Du Jour's launch.
It's the best time of the year for fashion fiends: New York Fashion Week! And if a flight up to NYC isn't in the cards, Miami is your second best bet.
All throughout the county, from Miami Beach to the Design District to Coral Gables, malls, shopping strips and stores are celebrating Fashion's Night Out. Score free gifts, beauty make overs, and even entire wardrobes at popular shops.


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As part of the Service Improvement Programme we are running for our HR department (http://processimprovementunit.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/programme-of-service-improvement.html) last week we ran a Process Improvement Event to look at the Candidate Engagement Process. This process is part of the recruitment process that starts from identifying the need for a role right through to approval, advertising and someone applying for the post.
The key deliverables for the project are:
- Streamlined ATJ process (the template we use for recruiting ie job/person spec)
- Streamlined post approval process
- Clarity and consistency of roles
- Clear and consistent process
- Improved guidance and training materials for staff involved in the process
- Prioritised list of minor system changes (to improve candidate experience) - configurable by HR
Over the five days we mapped the current state, confirmed that the problems identified at scoping phase were the root cause. Interestingly, the qualitative feedback had identified long periods of waiting as a frustration in the process. The long lead-time for the process was symptomatic of the defects in the authorisation stages and the errors in using the correct templates and lack of clarity about role in the process.
We also conducted a value and waste analysis on the current state process map and unsurprisingly for a service process it was approximately 90% waste.
In scope for the project were system configuration changes, we spent sometime reviewing the system, and identified a long wish list of changes. We had a conversation with the team responsible for making the changes and have started to map the enhancement requests on a prioritisation matrix to ensure that the changes we are approached in a systematic, productive way rather than making changes that might be quick but will have little impact on the improvement (we like to call that fools gold).
At the mid-point of the event we were able to create a vision for the perfect process and this really gave the team a boost and steered their thinking when creating the practical process.
Outputs for the event included a new process with 33.3% fewer process steps, an estimated improved lead time of 50%, this was achieved by removing unnecessary approval steps, a simple google spreadsheet sharing agreement that will allow HR to start work on the job template without waiting for financial approval, and using the lean concept of runners repeaters and strangers to ensure that standard work can be dealt with effectively and efficiently and more complex work is routed to the appropriate expert in a timely way. The new process is estimated to save four hours of staff time per post.
We will be piloting the new process with three academic departments over the next few months and will firm up the plan for roll out at the one month review meeting. It was a great event with motivated and expert staff who really embraced the concepts of improvement.


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Cooper bowls Chittagong to victory
Chittagong Kings 120 for 6 (Bravo 48*, Jahurul 40, Sunny 3-23) beat Dhaka Gladiators 107 for 9 (Cooper 3-13) by 13 runs
A parsimonious, wicket-taking spell by Kevon Cooper helped Chittagong Kings defend a modest 120 against Dhaka Gladiators. The Trinidadian seamer took 3 for 13 off four overs to keep Dhaka to 107, and the win helped Chittagong move to second place.
Put in to bat, Chittagong got off to a poor start, losing the in-form Nasir Jamshed in the first over. Jahurul Islam hit a 35-ball 40 to give Chittagong a base, but the batsmen found it difficult against the left-arm spin of Elias Sunny, who took 3 for 23. Dwayne Bravo remained unbeaten on 48 to take the score past 100.
The Dhaka top order made starts but could not carry on. Enamul Haque jnr, the left-arm spinner, chipped in with the wickets of Darren Stevens and the dangerous Kieron Pollard to help Chittagong push for the win. Cooper got Mohammad Ashraful at the top, then removed Mehrab Hossain jnr and Dhiman Ghosh to shut Dhaka out of the game. Only two players passed 20, with Anamul Haque's 22 being the highest.


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Residents of Dillon in Beaverhead County, Montana have only a single location from which they can get a passport application sealed at. The passport agent in Dillon can provide you with passport forms or witness your signature and seal your passport documents (if you don't need your passport application sealed then you do not need to visit an acceptance agent). Besides the 1 location there are 70 other locations in the state of Montana from which you can get a passport application sealed at. If you are not needing a passport in Dillon for a least (3) weeks, you can visit the sole passport acceptance agent listed below the map on this web page. If you need it faster than (3) weeks we have provided the closest regional passport offices to Dillon, Montana and Expedited Passport service options for Dillon.
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How to Get a Passport in Dillon, MontanaGetting a passport in Dillon MT depends on what type of passport application you are needing. The process in these guides assumes that you are applying at a local Dillon Passport Office in which case it will take you 4 to 6 weeks to get a passport in Dillon.
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I really like this one
Yeah. The earth is our alter.
Ha, I just read your alternative version over on the ukku blog! Both versions work well.
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Police commandeered a golf buggy to chase a man who took an angler hostage - holding a pair of scissors to his throat.
Officers chasing the 6ft 8ins man across Riverside Park, Chester-le-Street, called in traffic police Dave Oliver and Steve Heiniger to help.
Unable to reach the River Wear in their car, they stopped at a golf club and borrowed the buggy travelling half a mile along the river bank.
Today PC Heiniger said: "We needed instructions from the golf pro on how to drive the buggy."
The man had been seen in a store in Front Street, Chester-le-Street, buying razor blades.
As police approached him in a park he grabbed the 31-year-old angler.
Officer said today a 20-year-old man from Houghton-le-Spring had been arrested and transferred to Cherry Knowle Psychiatric Hospital, in Ryhope, Sunderland.


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Police hunt for Massachusetts man who allegedly filmed sexual assault
A manhunt is under way Thursday for a 19-year-old Massachusetts man who police say drugged and sexually assaulted a girl behind an elementary school and distributed a video of the attack on his cellphone.
Rashad Deihim is accused of drugging a 16-year-old girl and dragging her into the woods behind an elementary school in Saugus, where police say Deihim, his 18-year-old girlfriend and another 17-year-old man sexually assaulted the victim and filmed and distributed videos of the attack on their cellphones, Fox affiliate WFXT reported.
The victim was later found in the woods, impaired and unable to walk. She was transported to a nearby hospital, where she lost consciousness and had to be revived, according to the station.
Two of the three suspects, Deihim's 18-year-old girlfriend and the 17-year-old man, have been taken into custody, while Deihim remains at large.
Police say Deihim is considered dangerous and may try to flee the state.
Anyone with information on his whereabouts is urged to contact the Saugus Police Department at 781-941-1199.


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By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze
As vaccine nazis and the Big Pharma corporations repeatedly claim that there is no evidence to show that vaccines are harmful, the science doing just that continues to quietly be published and subsequently ignored by the fanatics determined to push vaccinations on the general public, individual choice be damned.
Many of the studies demonstrating the dangers of vaccines are predictably buried and ignored by the mainstream outlets and, while some are advertised in the alt media, many more simply appear in medical journals never to be seen again.
One such study, "Behavioral abnormalities in female mice following administration of...," published in Immunologic Research in 2016 has also received little attention.
However, this study is important because it demonstrates a potential link between the Gardasil vaccine and neuroinflammation and autoimmune reactions as well as subsequent behavioral changes.
The study was focused on investigating the link between adverse effects and vaccine adjuvants. The study acknowledges the deceptive practice undertaken by most human vaccine trials of using aluminum adjuvants as a placebo in an effort to mask the actual negative effects of the vaccine in the results of the trial. This study attempted to look at the adjuvants when measured by a true placebo.
The trial was conducted on mice using Gardasil, Garadasil + Pertussis toxin, al hydroxide, or "vehicle control" in amounts that would be equal to those given to humans.
The mice in the study who were given the adjuvanted vaccine performed their test activities at a lower level than the placebo subjects. However, the researchers stated that they believed this was due to depression, not locomotor dysfunction.
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I have joined the Girl Geek Winnipeg blog challenge! It will definitely be a challenge for me at times, considering I am late already with my first challenge! I am not late because I found it a difficult challenge, but I have been busy with an all weekend craft sale! And the day after it was over, I was wiped out! I don't know what it is about these sales, but they are so draining! And I was lucky at this one because one day, my lovely friend had my daughter over at her house all day, which kept her from having to hang out behind a craft table all day. Also making it easier, was that my husband was with me, helping both days! He is very dedicated to helping me, and yes I am insanely lucky he puts up with it!
His daughter once said how weird it was, because you are always told that often girls marry someone like their father, and he married someone who was just like his mother! She is a crafter as well! But I take it as a compliment, she is a fabulous lady!
Anyway, I digress.
My blog challenge was to write a post about WHY I blog. The reasons are plenty actually and they are always changing. I started my blog as a personal challenge to me. To see if I could do it. Yes it took me a week to figure out how to put the Girl Geek Winnipeg badge on my blog, but I did it! Mostly I started my blog to have a space, besides my journal, to write. I can write anything in my journal, deep, dark, feelings, or those that are uplifting. My hopes, my dreams, my failures. I feel as though I can do that on my blog as well, except there is a difference to the way I write on my blog. I want it to eventually be written in a way that I am telling a story....My Story.
Which brings me to one more reason I started a blog. To practice the art of sharing me and my life. I may only be 38 years old ( I think that is correct), but much has taken place within my 38 years on this earth. Many of those things, I know, that if I share, someone out there will be able to relate with their own life, or to perhaps understand a little bit of the anomaly that is me.
Some of what I share will be shocking, some heartbreaking and some funny. There is a quote by Maya Angelou I love to live every day by, and that quote is "when you get, give, when you learn, teach" In my blog, I will achieve all of that. One day.
I started my blog also to help myself through a journey I began over a year ago, when I decided to quit working full time, and try and make the biggest difference I could in my daughter's life. Every day academically is a challenge for her, and every once in a while my husband and I learn what other things are her personal challenge and we deal with them. This journey is just beginning, it is hard, it is rewarding and it is so very much in the early stages. That journey in itself changes every day, as I realize that a happy family is only complete when we are all happy. We will not all be happy at the same time, but we need to be strong enough to hold each other up when we are having a bad day, a bad week, or a bad year. Nothing worth it comes without much hard work, determination and loyalty. The four of us together, I believe have all of that, and as a family we will be happy and hold each other up when one of us is leaning, falling, or crashing to the floor. We have done it already many times!
So those are some of the reasons I began my blog. Thanks for reading!
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Blog Challenge - Why do I blog?
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I'm about to reveal some ignorance here. Please don't scoff.
But before I get to that, I want to share something I saw on Bernalillo County Commissioner Wayne Johnson's website while working on this story about the proposal for septic system inspections. In his bio, Johnson says he "came to New Mexico the unusual way… he was born here."
So let me preface what I'm about to say with the fact that I'm, apparently, a "usual" New Mexican. Which means there are likely many other "usual" New Mexicans hailing from the water-infested parts of the world who also have some learning to do (even the ones who took Earth Science– which I did! I swear!)
I shall also introduce the following evidence on behalf of the defense:
These are just a few of the first images that popped up when I Googled "aquifer." Notice anything similar about them? Blue. Great swaths of blue. Blue representing, what? An underground lake? River? Swimming pool for moles?
What I'm getting at here is that at no point has an aquifer ever been presented to me as what I now understand it to be: mud.
Mud through which water travels at exceedingly slow speeds (even in the permeable desert). This is a crucial point in understanding what's going on in any story having to do with contamination of the groundwater. Contamination does not hit the aquifer and instantly dilute like pee in a public pool. No, the contamination travels at the same speed as the liquid carrying it: slowly. Which is why, even though the Kirtland jet fuel spill is only 3,000 feet from the nearest drinking water well, it will take years for it to get there (not to make its clean up seem any less critical, because it will get there eventually).
Local water guy célèbre Bruce Thomson was recently kind enough to take his several decades of hydrology experience and, for my benefit, funnel it into the fine work of art and instruction you see here.
Should this leave all you other "usual" New Mexicans wanting more, here are a few sites offering good, basic tutorials. Things you'll need to know if you ever want to pass as an "unusual" New Mexican.
The funk beat alone makes this one from the USGS worth a listen.
This one from the Idaho Museum of Natural History is also helpful, but still with the blue! Come on people, how hard can it be to draw in a few pebbles?!
Ah, thank you Encyclopedia of the Earth.


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Food all around the world
LA provdides many many places for good food or a good dish. When I lived there I was eating all around the world: Kuba, Vietnam, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, Chinese, Mexico, USA (burger, burger, burger), and German. I probably missed something but those are the national food restaurants which I visited.You see there is a lot of asian food, because I love it so much more than anything else! For example I could eat sushi every single day. :)
My favorite restaurants
|View from a Cuban restaurant in Silverlake
During the weekends I explored the city with friends or colleagues. So we went out for dinner at different places in LA, like Hollywood, Silverlake, Santa Monica or Venice Beach. There are thousands of good restaurants and every Local has another tip where you can go best. I am asking myself very often why I did not grow fat in LA. But the reason is simple. The food was not just tasty, it was healthy. People in LA really take care about what they eat and where it comes from. Of course it is because of the huge amount of models, actors and wannabees, but anyway the branch adapted the behavior and in every fast food restaurant you see how much calories you are going to order with your dish.
German food in LA
In the beginning of the article, I told you I was also eating german food in LA. That was at Wirtshaus located at La Brea. Well they had sausages, meat, mashed potatoes and german beer. So the beer was delicious! The food actually had nothing to do with german food. :) People told me the chef is German, but I didn´t really taste it though. I think the way spices were used was adapted to the taste Americans like. And yes I totally understand it, because this guy wants to make money! The beer was amazing, because I haven´t had a nice Radler since months. If you want to know how german food tastes in the US, check this spot. American celebrities love it!
|Menu at Wirtshaus
So I hope I gave you some good advise where to go for lunch or dinner if you stay close to Beverly Hills during your visit in LA.
My land of milk and honey is the best place for people who like good and healthy food!
If you need more information about some nice restaurants, just let me know.


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This sermon was delivered on November 13, 2016.
Luke 21:5-19
I begin today's homily with a riddle:
This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.
It comes from a famous riddle dual in English literature; more specifically, from the fifth chapter of J. R. R. Tolkien's beloved The Hobbit, where Bilbo Baggins and Gollum meet for the first time, and square off.
They pose riddles to each other, in turn, until one of them gets the wrong answer. If Bilbo wins, why, Gollum will show him the way out of the cave in which he is now lost. But if Gollum wins, he will eat Bilbo—or so he threatens.
Now it's Gollum's turn; and he poses this riddle. (Repeat.)
What is this thing?
Is it an army? I suppose an army slays kings, ruins towns, and even beats high mountains down. The Roman army, for sure, was a force to be reckoned with. Still, can you say that armies devour birds, beasts, trees, and flowers? What about gnawing iron, or grinding stones to sand?
Maybe it's a natural disaster. Yeah. Disasters have been known to turn stones to sand, especially tsunamis and hurricanes. And a hurricane certainly ruins towns and devours birds and beasts. But gnawing iron? Ruining kings?
Well, why don't we set that aside for the time being? We'll come back to it later, I promise. But for now I want to engage in a different kind of mental exercise. Now, let's imagine ourselves taking a tour of Washington, DC; and let's imagine that our tour guide is Bishop Mathes.
And there we are, taking it all in. The White House, the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument—all in its intimidating beauty. This is stability. This is security. Just looking at all this solid, changeless architecture is enough to tell us our country is solid and unchanging. It's built to endure, to stand the test of time. This visit is enough to say, "Our country and especially the freedom for which it stands is permanent."
But then the bishop says something like this: "Do you see all this beauty, all these magnificent buildings? What if I were to tell you that they would all be destroyed within a generation? I had a vision last night. Within a generation, leaders of our own army will come in, take over, and destroy everything you see right here before our eyes. All will be razed. Nothing will be left standing."
What would you think?
Now, admittedly, this isn't so hard to imagine. Prophets of doom stand on street corners all the time, holding or shouting out messages of death, doom, and destruction. In fact, I am willing to wager that this very morning just such prophets were standing on street corners preaching their doom and gloom in DC.
But the bishop? He's a little more sensible, isn't he?
So, to tax our brains a little more, now let's imagine that it's several years later and it actually happens. Just as the bishop said, our own army comes in, takes over, and destroys everything. All the buildings are razed. And we realize that it's just as the bishop said, down to the last, fine detail.
Would this be at all disconcerting?
When some people were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and gifts dedicated to God, [Jesus] said, "As for these things that you see, the days will come when not one stone will be left upon another; all will be thrown down."
The Temple Mount in Jesus' day was a lot like Washington, DC in our day.
It wasn't just a Jewish thing, you know, for them, those people, to worship as they do with all their animal sacrifices and other peculiarities. No! The temple, the Temple, Herod's Temple, was a building of incredible significance, sanctioned by the Emperor, an architectural wonder of the ancient world, a source of Roman pride, as well as Jewish.
Herod began its construction in 19 BCE. During his building campaign, he more than doubled the size of the Temple Mount.
The temple itself was wonderful, completed in about eighteen months, and, yes, was the principal place of worship for the Jews. But Herod's building plan included colonnades around the temple, a lot like an outdoor mall, where activities like buying, selling, teaching, and speech-making occurred daily.
In fact, so extensive was this project that it was not completed until the reign of Nero, some thirty years after Jesus' death, some eighty years after construction had begun.
The Temple Mount was solid, immovable, built to endure, to stand the test of time. It represented the Roman and Hellenistic ideology of solidarity in diversity.
And like a prophet of doom and gloom on a street corner, Jesus looks at it and says, "Not one stone will be left upon another; all will be thrown down."
Was this at all disconcerting?
How about a few years later? Was it disconcerting in 70 CE, less than a decade after Nero completed Herod's magnificent building project, when the Temple Mount was completely destroyed? Was it disconcerting that, in some serendipitous fit of cosmic irony, it was in fact destroyed by the Roman army, the army of the same empire that had just completed building it? Was it disconcerting that it happened just as Jesus had said?
Yes! Especially if your faith was in government.
So: I think now's a good time to return to Gollum's riddle.
The answer is time. Time is the thing that devours all other things, whether birds, beasts, trees, flowers, steel, iron, hard stones, kings, cities, high mountains, or even Temple Mounts and White Houses.
Look, we live in a tremendous country. We experience wonderful freedoms. We have a government that is vitally concerned about protecting these freedoms. We have a military that is unlike any other in the world. I for one am extremely grateful to be an American citizen.
But I don't have to remind you that every great civilization in the history of the world rises and falls. In our history books we read about the Medes and Persians; the Greeks; the Romans; the Ottomans; the Turks; the Plantagenets; the Tudors; the Huns; even the so-called Holy Roman Empire. Yet all of these are no more. Time has a way of putting an end to all things.
And, at the risk of stating the obvious, our great nation will one day cease to be great too, just like all the others.
Is this disconcerting?
Are you frightened as you look around? Do the changing world events terrify you? Do wars and rumors of wars; reports of ISIS; another headline of another senseless shooting; nuclear tests in North Korea—do these kinds of things send jolts of fear down your spine? Do you ever wonder if we might actually witness something as significant as the destruction of the Temple Mount in our own lifetimes?
We have good reason to fear. Just like the disciples in the time of Jesus, we have a lot to be afraid of. There will be wars, insurrections, natural disasters, and false leaders. Nation will rise up against nation—in other words, race against race. There will be earthquakes and other destructive natural disasters; and maybe even dreadful portents in the heavens. These things will happen. Jesus doesn't try to skirt around it. And this is scary stuff!
But there's another side to it.
It's all disconcerting, yes, if we place our faith in government. We know this. Luke knew it too.
And we can add to the picture a little bit: it's not just government. We can talk about any established system—the church, the company you work for, relationships. Regardless of how solid and stable any system appears, there's always the possibility of instability, erosion, and failure.
And this is disconcerting!
But here's maybe something we don't know, something maybe we can learn from Luke today.
Luke wrote his biography of the life of Jesus looking backwards. That is, when we hear today's account of Jesus foretelling the future—looking at all the parts of the Temple that will be destroyed—by the time Luke actually wrote it all down, the Temple already was destroyed—the future Jesus was foretelling was actually already in the past.
You know why he did this? He did this in order to tell his readers—in order to tell us—yes, it is all disconcerting; but there is something in which we can put our faith—someone—who is stable where everything else is not; someone who endures, who stands the test of time; who is the one thing Gollum's wicked riddle cannot destroy.
And that someone is Jesus.


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Christmas Day 2015
A wintery twiglight scene from the end of John Huston's film The Dead (1987)
Although it should snow, it rains. Over the last year my thoughts have frequently returned to weather. Prompted by John Ruskin's lecture "The Storm-cloud of the 19th Century" (1884) clouds became one of my subjects. Filmmaker Peter Greenaway organised an exhibition in 1992 entitled "Le bruit des nuages [The Sound of Clouds]: Flying out of this World." Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas, translators of Derrida's Memoirs of the Blind draw the reader's attention to this coincidence:
Now it just so happens that Greenaway is the writer and director of the film The Draughtsman's Contract, a film about the differences between drawing, painting, and sculpture, about allegory and ruin, about masks and funeral monuments, about strategies and debts, optics and blinds, about living statues and sounds represented in drawing. But above all it is about witnessing and testimony, about legacies and inheritances. And these, is just so happens, are the very themes of Memoirs of the Blind. (Brault and Naas in Derrida 1993 pp viii-ix)
They further quote one of the characters in the film, Mrs Tallman: "I have grown to believe that a really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter, for painting requires a certain blindness - a partial refusal to be aware of all the options" (1993; p ix).
Why does one require blindness in order to be an artist? We talk about tunnel vision, needing shutters (horses in the time of advancing industrial revolution and mechanisation of road traffic). Being someone who draws or paints on paper in an era of mass communication, instant messaging and virtual vision invites thoughts of kinship with those horses, anachronistic in their being, needing partial vision to keep them on track. If Baudrillard's concept of simulacrum has prompted to question any sense of truth, then being blind, the old metaphor for not knowing or refusing truth, is perhaps more forgivable than anticipated. Blindness features as theme in numerous drawings in the history of art, depicting events in mythology (Plato's Cave; Oedipus, Narcissus) and biblical scripture (Tobit; Jesus healing the blind). The blind seer is also acting as visionary, or prophet who presents insight rather than appearance (the "phenomenal prison of the visible world"). Plato, scared that his soul would be blinded if he "looked at things with [his] eyes" (Plato in Derrida 1993; p 15) resorted to logos as his saving grace. Logoi - so Derrida expands - are "ideas, words, discourses, reasons, calculations" (1993; p 15). This old problem of truth and representation returns to haunt those who draw or paint or film, because art making is about revealing what one believes in. Even if agnostic, or mistrustful of truth, we still want to air our belief in disbelief.
Editing – the blotting out of superfluous marks, signs, words - is an act of constant re-vising (a form of altering the truth of the initial version). Such also involves a reflexive relationship to a sense of self (auto-bio-graphy) as presence and absence in the artwork. The great Irish writer and co-inventor of stream of consciousness narration technique, James Joyce, closes the short story "The Dead" (in his collection of stories Dubliners the ultimate story): "His own identity was fading out into a grey impalpable world: the solid world itself, which these dead had one time reared and lived in, was dissolving and dwindling." (Joyce, 1968 [1914] Dubliners Harmondsworth: Penguin, p 220).
John Huston's film The Dead (1987) is a matching masterpiece translating a scene of twilight in the closing scene, where grainy greying marks draw across the camera's eye, blinded yet freed to reveal another vision, a scene of draining colour, reduced to saturated blacks and nightblues, snow erasing the memory of shapes, the drawing (or writing) of the snow as editorial process with the amorph underpainting of clouds.
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Saturday, September 18, 2010
Ducks and Doe a deer
What a beautiful day it was today! Sunny Sydney at it's spring best. The first free Saturday in a while and we were drawn to the outdoors, spending lots of the day at Narrabeen - on the lake side with a few ducks - known as 'Duck Park' to our girls. Just gorgeous!
Lucy is well, although her temperature crept up to 37.3 this evening - we're hoping that it comes right on back down again as a trip to emergency for re-admission is not what we want. I missed a dose of her antibiotics today as we were out all day and I forgot to take the bottle with us (the first medicine dose I've missed!!) so am feeling a bit anxious about that. I spoke to a nurse on the ward who said not to worry about it, and not to worry about making it up. It's the last day on her course of antibiotics, so hopefully she will be fine...
The girls are currently obsessed with The Sound of Music. Madeline is particularly taken with it, asking to watch "Doe a deer" pretty much every day. We are constantly regaled with renditions of You are 16 going on 17, Doe a deer and Favourite Things and discussion about who is whose favourite of the Von Trap children. Lucy is babbling a lot - lots of 'da, da, da' and 'na, na, na' (I'm working on 'mama'). We're wondering whether her first intelligible words might end up being "Doe a deer"! It would not be surprising given the exposure she's had!
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text: A misty, wet day today 8th October 2011 made searching for birds at Loop Head so difficult. While in the harbour looking out the jeep window for some bird to pop out of the bushes, this juvenile Pomarine Skua came in off the sea and landed on the beach. It took a small rest, and then decided to fly out into the mouth of the harbour, where large gulls and Kittiwakes were sitting on the water. This young bird has a lot to learn as he decided to take on an adult Great Black-backed Gull to try and make it regurgitate some food. Why didn't he just pick on a smaller Kittiwake, it might have been more productive as he flew off with nothing to show for his efforts.


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Me and the Cat intended to fish over high at New Brighton, get some grub and then do The Bank but I had to go into work this morning and The Cat was nursing a category 5 hangover so that put paid to that plan.
The Bank it was then, arrived at the raised walkway at just the right time today, by the time we'd dressed appropriately and got the gear ready, the other lads on parade were making their way down to the waters edge, ready for the march... nice to meet Bri off the site.

Now for those of you who haven't taken it on yet, height plays quite an important roll in dictating when you "go for it"... the guys you can see already on the bank are 6 footers... The Cat isn't
After one false start we went for it... jelly fish city by the way
After and steady wade, we were through the gutter and on our way out to the red buoy

Usual rigs for us, pulley pennel at distance and a 2 hook flapper not so far out... I took a 16 footer out for a test run today (thanks Richie), wow , could I cast that puppy.
We were armed, bait wise with peeler, fresh lug, squid and sandeel edit should have been armed with if The (hungover) Cat hadn't left the squid and sandeel in the freezer
As we were setting up, Bri shouted across and pointed at a seal bobbing in the waves about 150 yards straight out in front of us... great, just what you want to see when you arrive at a mark , anyway, having never cast the 16 footer before, I wound it up with no bait on and , purely by fluke, almost knocked the seal out ... needless to say, that was the last we saw of him today.
On with the fishing, guess what, once again The Cat was in first, following on from yesterdays micro plaice, she managed to get a proper 'un today, 15oz

Now there is no suggestion that I'm the competitive sort...
but I was still waiting for my first plaice of the year
and SHE had had 2, it was starting to niggle me
...(well just a little )
10 minutes later, knock, knock, knock, my lug bait got snaffled and yours truly gets his first spotty of the year 1lb 6oz, rather chuffed to say the least...

As the tide dropped it was pretty quiet on the bite front, we'd only heard of one little whiting being caught further along and nobody else had had anything, I caught Bri praying for some divine intervention

As well as all the jellyfish about today, there was plenty of bird activity, terns diving just a few yards off the beach, must have been taking these chaps...

Whitebait (baby herring) I guess, the scales came off very easily when I put it on my hook
As we got down to low water, bang on cue, the dabs arrived along with 8" - 10" whiting, plenty of fish to keep us entertained.
Lost count in the end but I think it was a draw today
The tide turned, we gave it another half hour and then got off before we were cut off, when we got back to the car, the sunset was something else... seem to be getting a few sunset pics in my collection

p.s. I heard that a couple of small boats out today did pretty well, our target species are in the area now, wont be long before they come a wee bit closer into casting range
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I admit, I am ever so slightly rubbish when I have a hangover.............I shouldn't be allowed to drink Still at least there's enough bait for the next time.
I think the Prawn might have forgotten to mention he had a muzzy head when he woke up too and as a result didn't manage to take his rods so that we could execute Plan A (fishing over high blah blah blah)
My plan (although I shouldn't tell him) is to get in first every time and catch all of the species that he requires for the species hunt. Me competitive? Not at all It's just lucky I don't play golf
I think the Prawn might have forgotten to mention he had a muzzy head when he woke up too and as a result didn't manage to take his rods so that we could execute Plan A (fishing over high blah blah blah)
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Jem and the Holograms
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Kids TV really isn't what it used to be! 80s and 90s children's television programmes were immense. Dungeons and Dragons, Heman, Thunder Cats, Transformers, Brave Star ... I could go on for hours. However, news that Jem and the Holograms is going to be made into a film made my inner child very happy. It'll be awful of course, but I'll go watch it regardless.
Reported on Mashable, makers are using the method of crowdsourcing to find creative talent to help with the process. With Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity), Scooter Braun (Justin Beiber's manager) and Jon M. Chu (G.I. Joe Retaliation) on the case, Chu says "we want to invite you into our process and help us make our next movie... From writing music, to designing costumes, even casting – whatever it is, we want you to be part of our creative team. Kind of like Kickstarter, but instead of asking for money, we're asking for your creativity."
I can't sing, dance or in fact act for toffee, and I'm most definitely WAY too old, however could you imagine being a Hologram! Big blue 80s layered hair, a star on your cheek and a pink and gold lamé mini dress. Yes oh yes. Am humming "It's truly, truly outrageous" as we speak.
Quite possibly the best news I've had all week (it's been a long week okay!), it did get me thinking how the idea came into conversation with the three makers in the first place? Like, "so guys, you know what we need? Jem, Jem and the Holograms, that's what?"
No doubt a cross between High School Musical and Step-up it'll be a teen treat, but what's most exciting is the method the film makers are using to get creative talent on board. With Veronica Mars created via crowdfundning on Kickstarter by fans, what else will we see in the future?
My only hope it that I'll have a reason to get my 80s make-up on! Get my Reflex 80s gear out and go party on the opening night! Hah.
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It looks beautiful Cathy, I love the colors! I'm actually pressing some striped binding right now!ReplyDelete
Wow -- I love the quilting. You did that freehand? Are you kidding me?
Love the stripe...that makes for such a nice polished look. IMO
Hi Lucy....yes I did do it freehand. I can't do pantographs on my frame because of the way it is set up. I always do freehand, but I have maybe quilted 30 quilts, so I have gotten lots of practice. And, I didn't show you the whole quilt....the size of my flowers is all over the place. But, thank you so much for the post...it made my day!


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TPC Tampa Bay is currently in great shape. Below is a link to a slideshow of pictures taken of the back 9 June 2010.
TPC Tampa Bay | Slideshow at imageloop.com.
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TPC Tampa Bay – Top Tampa Golf Courses
August 22, 2009
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August 13, 2009
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You can now play for $37.50 after 1pm.
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Just got word from Royal St Cloud Golf Links in Orlando Florida about their great special that they are running from now through Aug 23rd.
Royal St Cloud is offering $16+tx green fees. This is a great price for a really fun Orlando Golf Course
Offer is valid anytime Mon thru Fri and Sat-Sun after 10am.
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July 15, 2009
I just received an email from the Golf Club at Bridgewater announcing some extremely low pricing from now through the weekend (July 15th – July 19th, 2009).
Bridgewater is a "linksy" style course in Lakeland FL. Easy access right off of I-4, pretty much halfway between Tampa and Orlando.
Opened in 2007, Bridgewater is a nice change of pace from what you may consider a "typical Florida course". If you have been looking for a new course to check out, Bridgewater is well worth the 30 minute drive from Tampa or Orlando. Especially at the prices that they are currently offering.
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Yes I am still running super busy now-a-days but I couldn't control myself.
Shahid Afridi suggests that "Ball tampering should be made legal."
Yes, I think he has a point. Few other things that should be legalized along with that are:
1) Cheating in exams, copying from others sheet or even straight from books, all do cheat sometime.
2) Stealing as every one needs/wants few things that they can't afford.
3) Killing the other person in argument as everybody gets angry while arguing.
Sir, there is only difference between human's society and other species society, and it is that we have some rules that we all must abide so that things run smoothly for everyone, so that things are fair for everyone. Is this really not so obvious to you?
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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Sizzling sixteen / Janet Evanovich.
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Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has inherited a "lucky" bottle from her Uncle Pip. Problem is, Uncle Pip didn't specify if the bottle brought good luck or bad luck. . . . Bad Luck: Vinnie, of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds, has run up a gambling debt of $786,000 with mobster Bobby Sunflower and is being held until the cash can be produced. Nobody else will pay to get Vinnie back, leaving it up to Stephanie, office manager Connie, and file clerk Lula to raise the money if they want to save their jobs. Good Luck: Being in the business of tracking down people, Stephanie, Lula, and Connie have an advantage in finding Vinnie. If they can rescue him, it will buy them some time to raise the cash. Bad Luck: Finding a safe place to hide Vinnie turns out to be harder than raising $786,000. Vinnie's messing up Mooner's vibe, running up pay-per-view porn charges in Ranger's apartment, and making Stephanie question genetics. Good Luck: Between a bonds office yard sale that has the entire Burg turning out, Mooner's Hobbit-Con charity event, and Uncle Pip's lucky bottle, they just might raise enough money to save the business, and Vinnie, from ruin. Bad Luck: Saving Vincent Plum Bail Bonds means Stephanie can keep being a bounty hunter. In Trenton, this involves hunting down a man wanted for polygamy, a turnpike toilet paper bandit, and a drug dealer with a pet alligator named Mr. Jingles. Good Luck: The job of bounty hunter comes with perks in the guise of Trenton's hottest cop, Joe Morelli, and the dark and dangerous security expert, Ranger. With any luck at all, Uncle Pip's lucky bottle will have Stephanie getting lucky---the only question is . . . with whom? Janet Evanovich's Sizzling Sixteen . . . so hot, the screen might spontaneously combust!
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Fairy CD
ISBN Dutch Book: 9789079048083 - ISBN Dutch CD: 9789081501002 - ISBN English CD: 9789081501019
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The Flower Fairy and the Butterfly: A fairytale with fairy songs
English Songs:
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Angel lullaby
The water fairy and the sun
The flower fairy and the butterfly The magic fairy spell
Water in my belly
Song of elves
Fairytale 'the flower fairy and the butterfly'
Angel song
Dutch Songs:
Het bloemenelfje en de vlinder
Het waterelfje en de zon
Het grote elfenlied
De magische elfenspreuk
Water in mijn buik
Intro elfensprookje
De zeemeermin
The Story
Mira, the flower fairy, lives in a white water lily in the midst of the fairy lake Tainala.
Throughout her adventures, Mira makes several new friends: the cloud fairy, Lana the water fairy, Honu the giant turtle, the mermaids and the dolphins.
At full moon she takes part in a mermaid's party where the sea king gives her a very special present: a magic pearl. This pearl develops into an egg producing a rainbow butterfly. The butterfly is gifted with the power to transform anything dark into something light and bright. This is the main task for the flower fairy and the butterfly in the books to follow.
In this story, songs set a dialogue going between the flower elf and a variety of characters she encounters. In a playful way she discovers hidden talents that enable her to communicate with small beings inviting her to a joyful party where the natural elements – earth, water, air and fire – and in this story, mermaids too prevail.
Diane Guelinckx masters the art of transforming the exclusive puppets into near living creatures. Apart of this she has illustrated the different songs in a wonderful way. Briony Vanden Bussche is mastering the art of transforming an unfamiliar subject into a divine fairytale – a real gimmick.
Briony Vanden Bussche is the author – singer and designer of the book and cd. She also is the spirit after the project "Fairy Theatre'. Fairy Theatre is a dance as well as a musical production bringing the stunning world of fairy's to life in schools, cultural centers and other organizations.
The story on the CD is the same story you can read in the fairy book or enjoy during our Fairy Theatre.


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NORTH ARLINGTON, N.J. -- Maria Zoé Cruz, of North Arlington, died on Tuesday, Jan. 24. She was 70.
Born in Puerto Rico, Cruz "loved cooking, dancing, listening to music, traveling and taking care of her family," information from the funeral home noted.
She is survived by her husband of 53 years, Juan Cruz; children, Jean Cruz-Rivera, Melissa Cruz-Nagelbush, Emely Cruz and Jason Cruz; and sons- and daughter-in-law Eddie Rivera Jr., Richard Nagelbush and Wanda Cruz.
Cruz is also survived by her grandchildren, Justin and Jonathan Santiago, Cristylee Nagelbush, Jacob Rivera, Jasmine Zoé and Joshua Poventud, and Jillian, Jordan Cruz and Jackson Cruz; 10 siblings; and many nieces, nephews, other relatives and close friends.
She was predeceased by her parents, Ramon Octavio and Maria Maximina Collazo, and her grandson, Christopher Rivera.
Visitation will be from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. on both Thursday and Friday, Jan. 26-27, at the Ippolito-Stellato Funeral Home, 425 Ridge Rd., in Lyndhurst. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. on Saturday, from the funeral home, with an 11 a.m. funeral mass at the Queen of Peace Church, 10 Franklin Place, in North Arlington. Entombment will be in Holy Cross Chapel Mausoleum.Memorial donations can be made to
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The Janssen Human Microbiome Institute (JHMI) has the goal to accelerate the translation of the exciting science of the microbiome into innovative products in multiple therapeutic areas and is seeking an accomplished leader to join the JHMI team as the Head of Product Development. Janssen Pharmaceuticals is the only pharmaceutical company that has strategically dedicated an autonomous team like the JHMI towards delivering microbiome healthcare solutions to the market.
Reporting to the Global Head of the Janssen Human Microbiome Institute, this person will be responsible for developing and executing the JHMIs product development strategy. This person must be forward-thinking, able to build a strategic vision for an innovative product and generate buy-in from both internal and external partners at varying levels of seniority. In addition, this person must be able to drive results through his or her team – able to lead multi-stakeholder, inter-disciplinary working groups to think and act creatively.
The ideal candidate will have an established record in early- and/or late- stage clinical development – especially in circumstances where the target product was first of its kind. The role will require supporting diligence on new candidate assets; building development roadmaps for microbiome products in a range of sectors (consumer, diagnostic, pharmaceutical); and leading development teams responsible for driving assets from discovery through the clinic to market.
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– Evaluate product opportunities that could create further patient/consumer, business or scientific value and propose strategies to bring these opportunities to market. Conduct scenario planning exercises to proactively identify the most advantageous pathways
Lead product development
- Provide strategic direction to Compound Development Teams (CDTs) acting as the primary spokesperson and champion for JHMI driven initiatives. Provide input and review to key regulatory documents
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– Invest strategically in early-stage development programs and develop creative approaches to accelerate assets to later stages of development
Challenge established models, methods and tools
– Work with research and development partners to design 'killer experiments' to proactively identify risks that could impact successful development of microbiome products
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– Support the management of external alliances; Lead co-development or licensing partnerships
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– Actively connect microbiome-related product development and functional teams throughout the other J&J sectors to facilitate exchange of information and organizational learning
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At least 5 years of prior experience in Biotech or Pharmaceutical industry strongly preferred
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The political and social tension is so palpable in America these days, it almost feels like one could cut it with a knife. The Obama Administration has been plagued by a number of crises and scandals, some self-inflicted, some not. According to Gallup poll, President Obama's approval rating for Feb.3 through Feb.9 was about 41 percent. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate for January was at about 6.6 percent. That is certainly not the highest unemployment has ever been and, to be fair, it has decreased a significant amount since the recession. However, the unemployment rate does not take into consideration people who are not actively searching for jobs, so the real number is likely higher. Then there are issues such as the national debt, seemingly unchecked domestic surveillance, and more. It would seem that America is in need of a breath of fresh air. The Republican Party might not be able to prevent some major problems in the near future, but it does have a great opportunity to make up lost ground if it plays its cards right.
First of all, the Republicans need to establish what the identity of the party is actually going to be. This seems painfully obvious, but it is actually a major issue. Between the Tea Party and people such as Rand Paul, there are quite a few under the Republican umbrella who do not seem at all satisfied with the status quo. Very roughly, the party lines are divided between Libertarian leaning Republicans and those who are more mainstream. It would seem that a divided Republican Party has a major disadvantage, but the opportunity is there to put the spot-light on issues that need to be addressed.
If the Republicans want to have success in the next election cycle, they need to pick their battles as far as what issues to focus on. Social issues like gay marriage and the role of religion in public will always be divisive, hot-button topics. Perhaps Republicans would do well to avoid such things and focus instead on key long-term problems.
For example, total outstanding national debt currently sits at over $17 trillion. This is a problem that is not going to simply go away on its own. While the government cannot erase this number, it can take steps to address the spending issue. Of course, this requires making hard decisions that might be rather unpopular.
However, it is not enough to simply point out problems. If the Republican Party wants to have success then its candidates need to offer solutions. This starts by pointing out why problems exist in the first place. For example, the housing crisis of 2008 is old news, but what causes things like this in the first place? Some have indicated that artificially low interest rates were part of the problem, along with banks becoming insulated from their risks. Perhaps actually analysing the causes of economic issues like this can lead to practical solutions. Simply opposing the party in power doesn't do much good in itself.
The Republican Party has a major opportunity to address key issues and help move America forward. Whether the Republicans can truly take advantage of this issue remains to be seen. It will require a lot of work and perhaps a little soul-searching.
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The name George is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "farmer". George is ranked #124 on our popularity charts and is often added to lists like Middle Names for Boys and discussed in our forums with posts like "Pick 5 (BOYS)".
From the experts:
Iconoclasts though we may be, we like Fred, we like Frank, and we like George, which was among the Top 10 from 1830 to 1950, when the number of little Georges started to decline. Solid, strong, royal and saintly, yet friendly and unpretentious, we think that George is in prime position for a comeback, especially since it was chosen by Britain's royal couple.
George was the name of the king of Britain for 116 straight years, as well as the patron saint of England (Saint George), who slayed the dragon and became a symbol of good conquering evil. America's most famous George is, of course, Washington, the Father of Our Country.
Just a few of the many many possible namesakes are George Handel, Shaw, Bush, Gershwin, Burns, Clooney, Shearing, Steinbrenner, Stephanopoulos, Harrison, Orwell, McGovern, Lucas and Clooney.
Celebrities who have chosen George for their sons include Kristin Scott Thomas, Jane Kaczmarek and Eva Herzigova. George Forman named all five of his sons George.
Not surprisingly, there are Georges scattered through English and American literature, including in two Jane Austen novels, and in Vanity Fair, Uncle Tom's Cabin and An American Tragedy, not to mention Curious George, "George of the Jungle," George Jetson, George Jefferson, George Bailey and George Costanza.
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If you have a few hours to spare this is a great project to tackle.
I curled lots of pieces of patterned paper and attached them to a foam
wreath with pins. I suspended the sentiment in the middle of the wreath
using Whisper White Baker's Twine and hot glued the Cherry Cobbler
Tulle to the back so I could use it to hang my wreath.
For a few hours of your time you have made a beautiful Christmas
keepsake for your family or a beautiful Christmas gift.
You could omit the sentiment and place a candle or flowers in the center
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TELETRADER News
5/18/2018, 12:41 AM (Source: TeleTrader.com)
United Airline's CFO Andrew Levy resigns
After serving as the Chief Financial Officer of United Airlines for less than two years, Andrew Levy decided to leave the company. His post is temporarily filled with Gerry Laderman, who is the airline's treasurer, until a permanent replacement is found.
"My decision to resign was reached after a great deal of thought during the past few months...I have some interesting opportunities and now is the right time for me to move forward," Levy said in an email sent to some employees, which CNBC was privy to.
Levy previously worked as an executive for Allegiant Air, a low-cost airline based in Las Vegas, before getting hired by United in August 2016.


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San Francisco
La Mar Cebicheria Peruana 328 The Embarcadero/Washington St., at Pier 1½, (415) 397-8880. L-D daily; $$-$$$. Reservations advised. Here, authentic Peruvian cuisine is the focus and small plates-sharing is the format. You'll do well to order a selection of plates from the cebiches (Peru's national dish of marinated seafood), causas (assorted kinds of potatoes, whipped and topped with something tasty), ensaladas (Peruvian-inspired salads), empanadas (delectable little pie turnovers with various fillings and dipping sauces), and anticuchos (traditional grilled skewers of fish or meat). Larger main courses and vegetarian and glutton-free items are also available. My favorites are the complimentary "bread" course of fried plantain, sweet potato, and regular potato chips served with two dipping sauces, and anything with the big kernels of chewy Peruvian corn in it (the crispy-crusted crescent empanadas filled with a mashed sweet corn-cilantro mix are to-die for). A dessert trio is perfect if you can't make up your mind, but the word is the traditional picarones consisting of warm pumpkin and sweet potato fritters with spiced honey is a winner. A full bar serves an impressive selection of pisco cocktails (it is Peru's national drink), and I can vouch for the punch packed by both the Pisco Sour and the tasty and beautiful passion fruit-based Maracuya Sour. A few Peruvian vintages are among the wine offerings, and beer and sake are also options. The best water view is available on the tent-enclosed dockside patio, but the vast interior room with its high ceiling, banquettes, attractive minimalist décor, and exhibition kitchen (you might get to see Executive Chef cutie Diego Oka in action) has its own charms.
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It is a quiet night and appropriately so. Trooper is working, home soon enough, though. I cannot help but think of those who will still have to work. Those whose duty knows no hour, no holiday.
I take a moment to think of them…
It's late and I know I ought to be in bed. An early rising, a dish to prepare and then a drive to see family…It was difficult to get in the spirit of things this year – starting too late to be much good. I rely on the hope that friends know I love them even if the wrapping is late.
I love that new header – a delightful drawing by Sulamith Wulfing. It is precisely what I feel about the holiday. Perhaps a bit too Scandihoovian for some, and a bit arcane. But I love it all the same. That kind of peace – that acceptance that the child you feel yourself to be will still be present in the crone that you will become. I believe that will be true. I hope so.
I wish, sometimes, that it was like this – still…innocent of so much. Simpler. And I think that shall have to be my motto in the days to come. Pare back, downsize, be glad for the simpler things and surround myself with them. Perhaps that innocence will wend its way to me.
Now, this is a bit of fun and lighter fare – I have to say I love how he shakes that tail like a stripper at 2:45a, eeking out that last dollar bill. Wait – that wasn't terribly holy, was it? Sigh…well, so it goes. This one courtesy of those guys.
It takes one hell of a pilot to fly that "badly". I know my taildragger friends will give it a special glowering eye.
Oh, Merry Christmas to all of you, you delightful few – my dear friends.


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Completed July 26, 2015
They say adolescence is the best time of our lives. "Enjoy it while it lasts," they say.
They are lying through their teeth. Adolescence is hell on Earth.
Beatrice Prior knows this all too well. Ripped from her home and her support system at 16, that most vulnerable of ages, she must make a choice for which she is ill-equipped and entirely unprepared. Like many, she picks the option she perceives as the most "fun" and "daring"...and ends up plunged into a political crisis at which she inadvertently is the centre, subjected to unspeakable brutality, and boldly forging a new path which will lead her to the last thing she ever expected - the sweet blush of first love.
This book is so much more than mere YA pseudo-fiction. It is insightful and, at times, brilliant. It should be taught in high school classrooms because of author Veronica Roth's blunt assessment of human nature, because of its powerful message that one should never stop fighting for truth and justice, and because the romance (usually my least favourite part of any book) is allowed to develop slowly and sweetly, without pretense or contrivance.
Please read this book. It's infinitely better than the movie.


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Yay! Color again!
Okay, it's been a year. I'm sure we all would like to know the likelihood of this story resuming. If it's real life issues getting in the way, financial issues, lack of inspiration with respect to this story, that's fine, but one would like to know…basically, should I keep my bookmark or not?


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Grow a small amount, only a couple plants of each, of any herb you wish to use. Mix herbs in with a current garden or prepare a small herb garden area. It only takes a couple plants of each herb to provide enough for a family for a year. The West Virginia University Extension service recommends growing winter savory, rosemary, sage, basil, dill, mint, sweet marjoram, tarragon, thyme, chives, parsley and summer savory in a beginner's herb garden. Keep in mind some herbs will come back every year (perennials) or may require replanting every year (annuals).
Select a sunny, well-drained spot in the yard for your herb garden.
Till the soil to prepare it for planting. Use a rototiller or rake to break up the soil. Work to a depth of 8 inches, working until the soil is loose. Remove any rocks or weeds by hand and dispose of in an outdoor trash container.
Shovel 1 to 2 inches of compost on top of the soil. Till to a depth of 8 inches again to thoroughly mix the soil and compost together.
Select herb plants or seeds. Plants are easier to grow than seeds, and more likely to thrive, as seeds may not germinate. Pay special attention to the growth habits and requirements printed on the back of seed packets or seed tags.
Plot your garden on a piece of paper. Place taller herbs in the back of the garden. The shortest herbs go in the front and everything in between goes in the middle. Space the herbs on the piece of paper according to each herb's spacing requirements. Give herbs plenty of space to spread out, as many of them will.
Plant your herbs. Dig a hole for each plant or group of seeds. For plants, dig a hole deep and wide enough to fit the roots of each plant. Pack the soil firmly over the roots and base of the plant. For seeds, poke a small hole in the dirt with your finger, place two to three seeds in the hole and place soil back over the hole.
Water the soil around each plant daily until moist. Skip watering on days it rains or when the soil already appears moist.
Harvest the leaves of herbs throughout the growing season. Use in culinary dishes or allow to dry for longer storage.