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Leaders of tenants' associations – already fuming over the management and maintenance blunders at Quincy Housing Authority uncovered by state housing inspections since last spring – were critical of the federal agency for not widening its investigation.
QUINCY – Federal housing officials have not yet committed to inspecting all 650 Quincy Housing Authority apartments funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
But the inspectors are about to enter their second week of investigating the common areas and interior homes of at least some of the federal public housing in Quincy.
"It's a sampling," said Rhonda Siciliano, a spokeswoman for the Department of Housing and Urban Development's regional office in Boston.
Leaders of tenants' associations – already fuming over the management and maintenance blunders at Quincy Housing Authority uncovered by state housing inspections since last spring – were critical of the federal agency for not widening its investigation.
"We expected that everyone would be inspected, and I would have like that after this fiasco," said Virginia McGee, who is an officer on the tenants' association board at O'Brien Towers in Germantown.
McGee said that before federal officials arrived, Quincy Housing Authority workers were busy sprucing up the grounds.
"They did the bushes and made everything superficially acceptable, but inside, there's still a lot of work to be done," added McGee, a retired trainer for a Boston school bus company.
She said many tenants have problems with water-damaged ceilings and loose floor tiles.
"The rugs throughout the whole building are despicable, all stained," McGee said.
Siciliano said she didn't know how many units federal inspectors will investigate and when they will conclude visits to O'Brien and other federally-funded housing in the Quincy.
A report will be issued to the Quincy Housing Authority, she said.
"If inspectors find any serious health or safety issues, those items will have to be corrected immediately by the housing authority," Siciliano said.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development decided to use its own inspectors to look at the Quincy properties. Typically, the agency contracts with an outside firm to do inspections.
The inspections were prompted by the widening crisis at Quincy Housing Authority, whose maintenance and financial oversight practices have both come under fire by auditors and state housing inspectors.
Since May, state inspectors have documented dozens of health and safety violations they uncovered in public housing apartments in Quincy, including heavy mold, exposed electrical wires and, in one case, a toilet from an upstairs unit leaking onto a stove top in a downstairs apartment.
State officials faulted the maintenance department at Quincy Housing Authority for signing off on repairs that were never done.
Inspectors from the State Department of Housing and Community Development promised a top-to-bottom probe of all 938 state-funded public housing apartments in Quincy and have found the worst problems in the Snug Harbor section of Germantown.
State housing officials – including engineers, construction supervisors and project managers – took over operations of the maintenance department at the Quincy Housing Authority last month.
James Lydon, the executive director of the Quincy Housing Authority, last month placed the housing authority's maintenance director, David Ferris, on paid administrative leave and announced plans to fire Ferris. He said Ferris mismanaged his department and improperly shredded housing authority documents.
An audit of Quincy Housing Authority finances found that lax accounting practices by the maintenance department led to nearly $500,000 in operating losses during the last fiscal year.
Auditors found that the maintenance department violated federal housing regulations by not reporting information about its labor force and hours to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in order to be eligible for reimbursement by HUD for work done.
"This failure resulted in a loss on maintenance billings of approximately $300,000 and contributed to … overall net operating loss of approximately $490,000," the audit by Quincy accountants Hurley, O'Neill & Company stated.
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The 12-credit Certificate in Finance, offered through the Business Administration department, includes three required courses: Money and Banking, Principles of Finance, and Investment Principle. It also includes one elective course from the following list: Investment Analysis, Personal Finance or Introduction to International Business.
The Certificate in Finance will take a practical approach to the subject matter, providing broad exposure to the stock and bond markets, money and capital markets, financial management, financial planning and financial analysis while improving financial decision making abilities. By gathering financial information and analyzing trends, students will experience a practical hands-on approach to learning about finances.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following comment regarding the Obama administration's release of its final environmental impact statement (EIS) on the land management plan for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
"I continue to be concerned that the management plan chosen by the administration greatly restricts access to our nation's oil and natural gas resources, especially in the eastern portion of the petroleum reserve.
"I recognize Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's effort in the memorandum to clarify that pipelines may be constructed across the petroleum reserve, I remain concerned, however, that the plan sets up roadblocks to an economically feasible project. It's incumbent on the secretary to be clear in the record of decision that any future NEPA review of potential pipeline routes and infrastructure not prohibit construction of an economic project. As written, the absence of clear direction in the EIS jeopardizes future oil and gas production development in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas.
"It's hard to have confidence in the plan given the discrepancies contained in the initial announcement. The administration's announcement indicates that it makes 72 percent of the oil in the reserve open to development, including allowing for recovery of an estimated 8.7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. What the announcement doesn't say is that the plan locks up 83.5 percent of the likely natural gas in the reserve. That is totally unacceptable to the nation and to future economy of Alaska."
Murkowski noted that just last year the Department of the Interior placed the mean estimate of natural gas available for recovery from the petroleum reserve at 52.8 trillion cubic feet.
Murkowski has held multiple meetings over the past two years with Secretary Salazar and other top administration officials on the petroleum reserve management plan. Murkowski most recently raised her concerns about the management plan with Secretary Salazar and Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Hayes last night.
Murkowski's position is that the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska's legal purpose is to provide petroleum to the United States to ensure the nation's energy security.
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I am looking for some means to have a hint about the targets of some unknown micro RNAs. Are there any bioinformatic tools that can predict the target of an unknown micro RNA? The micro RNA sequences in my hand are not related to known classes of miRNAs. My experimental organism is Drosophila. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated
Submit your paper to J Biol Methods today!
Bioinformatic tools for novel miRNA target prediction
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miRanda or targetscan
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You can use miRanda to predict targets for a unknown miRNA. It allows you to have two input files one containing miR sequences and the other mRNA sequences. miRanda can be downloaded here http://www.microrna....getDownloads.do
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NHS hospital visitors and staff paid out at least £18m in parking fees across the region last year.
New figures show that hospital trusts in England collectively raised more money than ever before - over £120m - from people using their car parks.
Patients in England spent five per cent more on parking last year compared to the year before.
Hospital parking remains largely free in Wales and Scotland and campaigners want the Government to either cap or scrap the fees in England too.
Almost half of all England's NHS hospitals even charge disabled visitors for parking in some or all of their disabled spaces.
Of 120 NHS trusts across England who were asked to give figures on parking charges and fines under the Freedom of Information Act, 89 responded. Across our region, 11 trusts revealed they had raised a total of more than £17.8m from routine parking charges last year.
Seven local trusts provided parking fine income which showed some £131,280 was paid in fines.
In England as a whole, 27 NHS trusts detailed their income from parking fines last year - adding up to £635,387.
The most money from fines was made by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - £78,595 last year and £424,585 over four years.
Added to parking charges, visitors paid parking fees of nearly £1.8m to the Trust last year.
The Leeds trust is one of the largest in England, treating around 1.5m patients per year and it offers free parking permits to cancer patients, people with critically ill family members and parents of children who stay overnight.
A Trust spokesperson said the number of hospital sites it operates and the proximity of Leeds General Infirmary to the city centre were partly why its parking income was so high.
The spokesperson said: "Overall the Trust has over 5,000 car parking spaces across six hospital sites, including two multi-storey car parks. We have over 1.6 million vehicles on site each year and these figures about the volume of parking charge notices we issue should be seen in that context.
"As a Trust we recognise that visiting hospital can be a stressful time. We strive to ensure the experience of each and every patient visiting our sites is as safe and positive as it possibly can be.
"It is important that we effectively monitor our car parks to ensure that spaces remain available for patients, visitors and staff, not those wishing to park for other reasons. People who misuse our car parks will be dealt with just as they would, for example, in a local authority-owned facility."
The spokesperson added: "Leeds General Infirmary in particular is in a city centre location where all parking space is at a premium. This makes the car parks very attractive to non-hospital users, and over half of our annual penalty charge notices are issued on this one site.
"The Trust does not believe that the funding we receive for patients' care should subsidise the cost of providing and maintaining car parks. As well as providing and maintaining the car parks, including paying rates and other charges on them, we also have to provide security patrols and cameras to keep them safe as well as traffic officers to keep cars moving and prevent people parking inappropriately."
Parking fines paid to other trusts last year included £13,000 to Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust and £12,780 to Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.
In Yorkshire, the most raised from parking charges was some £2.8m by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which is the second largest trust in the UK.


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Max Craps On About Writing: Originality
I mentioned earlier that I'm planning to talk a little about writing this year. Today I carry that threat through.
To those of you who couldn't care less about this topic: my God, can you put aside your own selfish interests for five seconds? No, wait, I mean: sorry. But there are people out there interested in this. I know because whenever I post about it, I get emails of weeping gratitude. That's hard to resist.
So to originality. I raise this because I think it's reasonably common for unpublished (and underpublished) writers to think: "Man, the only way to make it as an author is to churn out predictable, formulaic crap. Nobody's interested in publishing really original books." Well, when I say this is a common attitude, I mean I used to hold it, and I assume everybody is like me. There I was in 1998, collecting rejection letters for Syrup, and the underlying message seemed to be that it wasn't mainstream enough. And I couldn't describe my own book; I couldn't find the pithy couple of sentences that people seemed to want, that would make them say, "That sounds interesting," instead of their eyes glazing over with confusion. I needed something like: "Terrorists hijack a submarine and ex-Special Forces agent Jack Fyre is the only man who can stop it."
It's tempting to believe that formulaic crap sells because there seems to be so much of it. But I now think you can look at a shelf full of Grisham novels or whatever and assume they're all the same until you read them. Then you find some common elements, for sure, but much less than you thought. There is formula out there, but not much of it.
I reacted to my Syrup rejections by writing a standard, genre thriller. It was terrible. And I learned that you never improve anything by making it less original. It's the opposite: the worst thing writing can be is not new.
I'm convinced this isn't just me. I think everybody wants newness. Editors, agents, readers: we all want new plots, new ideas, new ways of looking at the world. Nobody wants to get twenty pages into a book and know where it's going, or even feel too much like they've seen all this before. Even within a genre's iron-clad conventions, we want twists, surprises, and reinventions.
Young writers in particular can sometimes try to crawl inside a pre-conceived box labeled "novel" or "screenplay," and end up with something far less interesting than if they'd forged their own path. I'm not saying you want to hit the other extreme, and pursue a lone, bizarre vision with no regard for how it reads. But you must nurture the things that make your story and your writing unique—that make you unique, since writing is letting people crawl around inside your head. Billions of people can write a sentence. Why should I bother reading yours, unless they're different?


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Le service relations analystes assiste les analystes marché à travers une information pertinente et adaptée sur BearingPoint et la façon dont nous aidons nos clients.
In its first decade since the MBO, BearingPoint has succeeded in putting in place a strong foundation of an integrated European consulting firm that can claim, through its strategic
partnerships, to have a more global reach. The next five years will be marked, not by global expansion, but by an evolution in positioning, with an increasing emphasis on services that
leverage its own and partners' IP to assist clients in their digital transformation, potentially also boosting margins.
Expect to see more partnership announcements around IP-based offerings; shortly after the event, for example, BearingPoint announced its RegTech product unit and IBM is partnering to offer a BPO service around regulatory reporting to smaller institutions in the DACH region.
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) provides information on the worldwide digital strategy and agency professional services market. Some form of this presentation was delivered to clients throughout various dates in 2018.
Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Digital Strategy and Agency Services, Douglas Hayward, Gard Little, Sep 2018, Doc # US43253718
The Management Consulting Benchmark provides key service line, regional, vertical and operational data and analysis for 13 leading management consulting firms. The research program also includes a deep dive into 11 vendors' business strategies as well as SWOT analysis.
Elitsa Bakalova, attended our Analyst Summit in Lisbon on 11th October and published a complimentary write-up afterwards. The key take-aways for TBR on BearingPoint's development are:
- BearingPoint is transforming from a traditional consulting company into one that is flexible in the way it works with clients and values innovation, collaboration and entrepreneurship.
- BearingPoint positions as an independent and partner-owned management and technology consulting company that has European roots and global reach and enables clients predominantly in its core European territory to become global leaders.
- Utilizing its European market reach and a new design and brand profile that emphasizes creativity, innovation, and a collaborative, agency-like approach, BearingPoint is set to attract the right clients.
You can use digital business transformation accelerators to develop transformation strategies, build and test digital prototypes, and integrate prototypes into your business model at scale. But to access these benefits, you'll first have to select from a diverse set of vendors — vendors that vary by size, capabilities, geography, and vertical market focus. CIOs and chief digital officers should use Forrester's Now Tech report to understand the value they can expect from a digital business transformation accelerator and select vendors based on reach, resources, and capabilities.
Now Tech: Digital Business Transformation Accelerators, Q4 2018 Forrester's Overview Of 31 Digital Business Transformation Services Providers, December 13, 2018, Nigel Fenwick, with
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Customer experience and CRM implementation services remain in high demand, fueled by demand for design, UX, commerce and analytics skills. Gartner positions major CX and CRM service providers to help application leaders of CRM and CX initiatives identify providers fitting their needs.
BearingPoint has been recognized as a "Niche player" in the Gartner "Magic Quadrant for CRM and Customer Experience Implementation Services, Worldwide" 2018
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Gartner evaluates solutions that provide billing, customer care, rating, charging, pricing, partner relationship management, policy management, mediation, self-service, analytics and other related functions. Target buyers are communications service provider CIOs.
BearingPoint has been recognized as a "Visionary" in this Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Integrated Revenue and Customer Management for CSPs" for third consecutive year
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TBR's principle analyst, Patrick Heffernan (@TBR_PatrickH), attended the BearingPoint Innovation Event where BearingPoint served as host to more than 70 people from across the globe to strengthen advocates for innovation and build towards workable solutions to real-world innovation challenges.
BearingPoint has been mentioned in Gartner Hype Cycle for the Future of CSP Network and Business Operations, 2018. In this Gartner Hype Cycle report, analyst Norbert J. Scholz mentions BearingPoint, with the Infonova software, as a sample vendor for "Supplier and Partner Relationship Management".
Gartner places this functionality on the Hype Cycle as "Climbing the Slope" and predict that it will be mainstream functionality for CSP Network and Business Operations within the next 2 years. This is significant for Infonova because our software pioneered this specific functionality in the CSP marketplace. It also underlines the trend that we have seen in the last 8-10 months that CSPs are increasingly understanding the significance and importance of multi-tenant Supplier and Partner Relationship Management (SPRM) in their business functionality landscape. (July 2018)


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Gary Wines first started producing knives that were designed for military and Special Forces use. Through this, he became well known in the field. His knives have been used in many theaters of conflict including Iraq and Afghanistan.
Gary served as an armorer with 21 Special Air Service Regiment at Duke of York's Chelsea HQ Squadron. He is a member of both the UK SAS association and the Australian SAS association. SAS stands for Special Air Service. The British SAS has served as a model for special forces around the world. The unit has many duties including counter-terrorism, covert reconnaissance, direct action, and human intelligence gathering. The selection process for the SAS is one of the toughest in any military worldwide and the vast majority of candidates fail it. Only the best of the best are accepted.
Gary gleaned inspiration from knives used by special operations executives and British commandos in World War II. He has worked with experts in the field to develop a range of tactical and general-purpose knives specifically for military use.
Recently, he has been working on a range of knives for civilian use, specifically bushcraft, survival, and hunting knives. Gary used all of his accumulated knowledge to create knives for the outdoors. That brings us here to LTWK. Gary has designed a knife that we will make here in the shop and that will be available in the U.S. We are very excited for this opportunity to bring his designs here and make them available in the United States.
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Complaints about certain parts of Mass Effect 3 may be more contemporary, but let's not forget the first game had a more serious problem: the Mako tank drove like shit on wheels.
Which presented me with a problem, because I loved to look at it, but hated to drive it. Yet I had to do both!
It's a problem LEGO Mako tanks easily get past, as aside from building it in the first place, I've then just got to look at it. Then, when nobody is around, I get to drive it how I think it should drive, not how BioWare thinks it should drive.
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Meet Norman Lamm
Dr. Norman Lamm—distinguished rabbi, philosopher, teacher and author—was elected president of Yeshiva University in August 1976, succeeding Dr. Samuel Belkin and Dr. Bernard Revel. He was the University's third president and the first native-born American to head the nation's oldest and most comprehensive Jewish institution of higher learning. He served as chancellor of the University and rosh ha-Yeshiva of its affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary from 2003 until his retirement on June 30, 2013.
Born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1927, Dr. Lamm received his elementary and high school education at Yeshiva and Mesivta Torah Vodaath. In 1945, he entered Yeshiva College, where he continued his Jewish learning and undertook a liberal arts program with a major in chemistry. He graduated summa cum laude in 1949 and was class valedictorian.
Upon graduation, Dr. Lamm pursued advanced scientific studies at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn while continuing his Judaic studies and rabbinic scholarship. He was ordained as a rabbi by YU's affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1951 and earned a PhD in Jewish philosophy from the University's Bernard Revel Graduate School in 1966.
During the 17 years preceding his election as president, Dr. Lamm served on the Yeshiva University faculty, culminating in his appointment as the Erna and Jakob Michael Professor of Jewish Philosophy in 1966. A pulpit rabbi for 25 years, he served as spiritual leader of the Jewish Center in Manhattan. Prior to that, he served as assistant rabbi of New York City's Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun and then as rabbi of Congregation Kodimoh in Springfield, MA.
Dr. Lamm has gained wide recognition for his writings and discourses on interpretation of Jewish philosophy and law, especially in relation to problems involving science, law, technology and philosophy in the modern world. He has authored 10 books, including The Religious Thought of Hasidism: Text and Commentary, which won the coveted 1999 Jewish Book Award in Jewish Thought.
Rabbi Lamm has edited or co-edited more than 20 volumes, including The Library of Jewish Law and Ethics. He was the founder and first editor of Tradition and associate editor of Hadarom, a journal of Jewish law; founder of the Torah U-Madda Journal; and founder of the Orthodox Forum.


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The typical speakers bureau can get a celebrity, a politician or a media pundit to address your group for a few thousand, or maybe tens of thousands of dollars. But one speakers bureau made up of men and women who have been homeless will provide someone for only $40.
And the speech could be just as compelling as one given by high-priced talent.
John Harrison is one of those speakers. With his ruddy good looks, salt-and-pepper hair, khakis and white button-down shirt, he looks like someone who might spend a lot of time relaxing on a sailboat. Instead, he's still struggling to get back on his feet after years of homelessness.
He's addressing a Jewish youth group, part of a program organized by the PANIM Institute in Washington, D.C. The teens came into the room laughing and joking, but are soon mesmerized.
Harrison's message is clear: Almost anyone can become homeless, and people should be nice to those who are homeless.
"Seemed like all of a sudden, people walked by me like I wasn't even there," Harrison tells the group.
"I remember going into a restaurant to get what I called a 'two for one.' And the 'two for one' for the person experiencing homelessness is the warmth and the food for the price of the food. And so, I was optimistic. They took my order. But when they brought me my food, it was to go. Because that was the message. Go," he says.
Harrison, now in his mid-50s, says homelessness snuck up on him. He came from a good family and had a good job. But then came a series of unfortunate events, and some bad decisions, that set off his downward spiral.
He lost his job in a merger. He didn't have a college degree, so he had trouble finding another job. Then, his house burned down. He didn't have insurance, so he lived in a shed behind a friend's house for awhile. Then he lived in his car, until that broke down. Suddenly, he found himself without a home.
Harrison says it was the kindness of others that helped him survive.
"People ... reached out to me with genuine concern and said, 'Hey, how are you doing?' and meant it," he says. "You know, we don't have to empty our pockets every time we see a homeless person. But to offer a word of cheerful encouragement, instead of a hurtful comment — how hard is that?"
Harrison is one of 350 members of a speakers bureau run by the National Coalition for the Homeless. The coalition is an advocacy group, but the speakers' agenda is mostly educational. They address religious groups, universities, government agencies, and even medical schools to help new doctors learn how to treat the homeless, who frequent emergency rooms.
George Siletti is another speaker. He's one of three formerly homeless people who recently addressed a group of human rights fellows from Europe, who were in Washington, D.C., to work on Capitol Hill.
"I grew up in foster care. You know what foster care is?" he asks the group.
Siletti, 54, tells them he became homeless at age 16, when he was allowed to leave the boys' home where he lived. He had no money or food. Two weeks later, he was still sleeping in the woods behind the home.
"I had literally nothing. No life skills, no job skills, no nothing. So my life was just to survive on the streets," he says. "Well, this happened for 30 years of my life."
Siletti spent the time hitchhiking from job to job and state to state. He says he's been homeless in every state except Alaska. He eventually got help from a nonprofit, which gave him medicine to treat his mental illness and epilepsy, and finally a place to live.
Today, Siletti says, his name is in the phone book. He even gets junk mail. And he feels like part of the community.
"I am no longer [an] isolated homeless person. I am no longer called weird names--'crazy,' 'psycho' and all that. I'm called 'George,' and I feel well accepted," he says.
"This was fantastic," says Natalie Chwalisz, from Germany. She had tears in her eyes as she listened to the speakers tell their stories. "You're not used to seeing it in Europe," she says. "So it's hard to learn this and see how people just walk by."
The teenagers listening to Harrison also have questions about what life on the street is like.
"What were you thinking about as you were trying to fall asleep on the concrete?" asks one young man.
"Boy, that's easy," replies Harrison. "Nothing. Because I was so exhausted just getting through whatever day it was."
Harrison now has a place to live and two part-time jobs. He says his homelessness is in "remission."
He'll get $40 for this talk, but says what he really wants is for people to change how they see the homeless.
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Nepal Airlines Corporation Selects V2500® SelectOne™ Engines for A320ceos
Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) has signed its first order with IAE International Aero Engines AG to supply V2500-A5 SelectOne engines to power two new firm A320ceo aircraft plus options for two additional aircraft. Aircraft deliveries are scheduled for 2015.
"Given Nepal's mountainous terrain, we chose V2500 SelectOne engines because of their long-standing reputation as both reliable and fuel-efficient powerplants," said Madan Kharel, managing director of Nepal Airlines Corporation. "These engines will help us to continue providing reliable air transport to our customers."
"We are proud that Nepal Airlines Corporation selected V2500 engines for their A320ceo aircraft," said Dave Brantner, president, Pratt & Whitney Commercial Engines. "This is their first order for V2500 engines, and we look forward to establishing a long relationship with them."
NAC operates six international destinations, namely Delhi in India, Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Kuala Lumpur in South East /Far East Asia and Dubai and Doha in Middle East. It connects more than 25 destinations inside Nepal. More than 90 percent of Nepal's area is covered by mountains. Moreover, Nepal is also landlocked. Without the use of air transport, remote places are cut off from point of view of tourism, food supply and other essential requirement.
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|When the dog/alien attacks Geordi, the Engineer does an excellent job of dodging about and then grabs a phaser from one of his draws and vapourises it. I find it interesting that Geordi keeps a phaser in his quarters, but more importantly - why does he never once call for help from security?
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Balananda's Initiation
The day of his initiation, Balananda said to his Master, "Today you are going to initiate me. On the one hand, I am so happy and delighted that out of your infinite kindness you are going to initiate me. On the other hand, I feel extremely sorry that I don't have anything to offer you in return. I am so poor."
The Master, Brahmananda, said to his dearest disciple, "My son, you should not think of that. I do not need any material wealth or earthly possessions. I need only one thing from you and that is your God-realisation. One day you will definitely realise God, and your God-realisation itself will be my best reward. I am initiating you with my heart's infinite love and concern. I shall guide you at every moment in your spiritual journey.
"God-realisation for you is destined in this incarnation and today's initiation is going to expedite your journey. I am extremely glad to have found in you a true disciple, a perfect disciple. Today I want to tell you not to worry about anything. You do not have to give anything to me now. Your God-realisation at God's choice Hour in this incarnation will be the supreme reward which I shall receive from you."


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One of the main uses for browser extensions is to put useful information at your fingertips without the bother of having to visit a website for the information you require. The best extensions are able to pull data from reputable websites and present them in an easy-to-access pop-up window that can be reviewed quickly without disrupting the rest of your browsing, and Aniweather falls into this category.
It takes its data from the weather.com/weather.gov websites, which enables it to provide four-day forecasts for multiple locations worldwide, which are delivered in an attractive – and animated – pop-up menu. After installing the add-in, you'll be whisked away to a web page to select your locations and choose basic settings such as whether to view temperatures in Centigrade or Fahrenheit, plus add which locations to include in your forecasts. This is a little disengenious as only your default location is displayed in the pop-up window – if you want to view the other locations you'll need to click the "More locations" link, which whisks you off to a separate web page from which you can view the cities you require, plus access the settings page to make more changes.
The other links – such as hourly or 10-day extended forecast – simply point to the relevant page on www.weather.com too, but as a basic at-a-glance guide to your location's short-range weather, Aniweather does a good job.
Aniweather is also available for iPad, iPhone and as a Chrome extension – visit the main website for details.
Competent, attractive-looking weather extension – the only downside is that so many of the links lead elsewhere rather than work inside the extension itself.


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Baruch's 48th Commencement - May 30, 2013
Baruch College hosted its 48th commencement exercises for the first time in Citi Field on May 30, 2013. Baruch College President Mitchel B. Wallerstein conferred the degrees of the 5,732 undergraduates and graduates, of which 2,828 participated in the ceremony. Award-winning Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett was the keynote speaker and received the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters. Retired U.S. Army General and Entrepreneur Wesley K. Clark was presented the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. Fanta Conde, from The Bronx, was Valedictorian and earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and Investments. Linda Haviv, from Brooklyn, was Salutatorian and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy.


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GodsDaughter necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 51 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
Looking for a logo that calls to mind sleek strength, focused upward with purpose and calling.
GPS Fitness
I would like a logo that is simple and sleek, yet futuristic and forward. With the name and concept playing off the idea of a GPS device in a car (which provides you a map to your chosen destination, no matter where you are) the GPS Fitness program will provide a personalized exercise, diet, and emotional and spiritual growth plan to users based on their current real and perceived "location" in life.
- A title of "GPS Fitness" (with a superscript "TM" to the upper right of "Fitness")
- Subtitle - "Your Personalized Guide to Physical and Spiritual Fitness"
- Deep reds and shiny metallic and dark undertones and outlines in an elegant, sleek, minimalist, high-value, and reader-friendly design are features of the current site and program plan and should be cohesive with this logo as well
- Anything that can visually incorporate the ideas of pointing the way upward or allowing a way or path to be followed - while also incorporating a feeling of stability and ease of use will be noted and appreciated.
- Something too intricate to be reproduced easily
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Druid Glyphs
EDIT: Not yet updated for Warlords of Draenor. On my to-do list.
Here's a quick list of glyphs for Druids in Mists of Pandaria. Remember, prime glyphs are gone as of patch 5.0, so you now only pick three majors and three minors, at levels 25, 50, and 75. Glyphs are much less important than they used to be; for the most part, they're pretty situational and you can pick and choose what you want. Below, I've got a list of major glyphs (sorted by what spec they're most appropriate for) and than minors.
All Druid Specializations
|Glyph of Barkskin
|Reduces the chance you'll be critically hit by 25% while Barkskin is active.
|A decent glyph for PvP; makes barkskin a good bit more protective.
|Glyph of Cyclone
|Increases the range of Cyclone by 4 yards.
|Somewhat helpful for PvP, but the increase is pretty small.
|Glyph of Entangling Roots
|Reduces the cast time of your Entangling Roots by 0.2 sec.
|This USED to make roots instant-cast, which was amazing. 0.2s? Meh. There's better PvP glyphs. 0.5s would make me pay more attention.
|Glyph of Faerie Fire
|Increases the range of your Faerie Fire by 10 yards.
|Mostly a PvP glyph, though helpful in a few PvE situations.
|Glyph of Master Shapeshifter
|Reduces the cost of all shapeshifts by 90%.
|With the cost reductions in 5.2 of Revive/MOTW, this is even less necessary.
|Glyph of Nature's Grasp
|Reduces the cooldown of Nature's Grasp by 30 sec.
|Nice glyph for Balance and Resto PvP.
|Glyph of Prowl
|Reduces the movement speed penalty of Prowl by 100%.
|A neat glyph for Feral, especially if you do a lot of solo stuff. You won't spend a lot of time in Prowl normally, though.
|Glyph of Rebirth
|Players resurrected by Rebirth return to life with 100% health.
|This used to be mandatory; now that Rebirth returns a player to 60% health instead of 20%, it's not needed anymore, but it's still helpful.
|Glyph of Skull Bash
|Increases the duration of your Skull Bash interrupt by 4 sec, but increases the cooldown by 10 sec.
|I generally wouldn't recommend this, except for very specific situations.
|Glyph of Stampede
|You can now cast Stampeding Roar without being in Bear or Cat Form.
|If you need Stampeding Roar for a certain fight and are Balance/Resto, you'll want this (and the next glyph)
|Glyph of Stampeding Roar
|Increases the radius of Stampeding Roar by 30 yards.
|Situational, but very powerful in those situations.
|Glyph of Hurricane
|Your Hurricane and Astral Storm abilities now also slow the movement speed of their victims by 50%.
|Meh. Only Balance (or the other specs during HOTW) has the mana to keep Hurricane up; not a very reliable AoE slow.
|Glyph of the Moonbeast
|You can now cast Healing Touch, Rejuvenation, Rebirth, and Tranquility without cancelling Moonkin Form.
|Highly recommended for Balance. Useful while leveling and at endgame.
|Glyph of Solar Beam
|Increases the radius of your Solar Beam silence effect by 100%.
|Very nice for arenas, especially if you can apply a snare beforehand.
|Glyph of Cat Form
|Increases healing done to you by 20% while in Cat Form.
|Absolutely essential. If you're in Cat for any significant length of time, you need this glyph. No exceptions.
|Glyph of Dash
|Reduces the cooldown of your Dash ability by 60 sec.
|Nice for leveling; take this or Prowl.
|Glyph of Ferocious Bite
|Your Ferocious Bite ability heals you for 1% of your maximum health for each 10 Energy used.
|Nice for passive healing when leveling, but you don't FB enough in groups to make it worthwhile there.
|Glyph of Pounce
|Increases the range of your Pounce by 3 yards.
|This is really handy for getting Pounces off on mounted foes, but I'm not a real big fan of Pounce to begin with.
|Glyph of Savagery
|Savage Roar can now be used with 0 combo points, resulting in a 12 sec duration.
|The second absolutely essential glyph. This lets you get SR up prior to a pull, etc.
|Glyph of Shred
|While Berserk or Tiger's Fury is active, Shred has no positional requirement.
|Two schools of thought on this glyph. One side says it's good, because Berserk/TF is when you want to use Shred to dump energy, and you don't want to energy-cap accidentally. One side says it's bad, because not having it forces you to be more conscious of your positioning. I'm neutral, but I don't use it.
|Glyph of Fae Silence
|Faerie Fire used in Bear Form also silences the target for 3 sec, but triggers a 15 sec cooldown.
|Bears finally get the ranged silence they've been asking for since, oh, Burning Crusade days. Very nice for a bear tank, especially because they finally normalized Faerie Fire to use the same hit as your other abilities.
|Glyph of Frenzied Regeneration
|For 6 sec after activating Frenzied Regeneration, healing effects on you are 40% more powerful. However, your Frenzied Regeneration now always costs 60 Rage and no longer converts Rage into health.
|Not recommended; FR scales with Vengeance, so I'd rather be able to self-heal if I need to.
|Glyph of Maul
|Your Maul ability now hits 1 additional target for 50% damage.
|Good for trash that you overgear.
|Glyph of Might of Ursoc
|Increases the health gain from Might of Ursoc by 20%, but increases the cooldown by 2 min.
|Situational, but nice. If you need to survive one BIG spike, take this.
|Glyph of Survival Instincts
|Reduces the cooldown of Survival Instincts by 60 sec, but reduces its duration by 50%.
|Of course, this glyph will be encounter-dependent, but for fights where you don't have a preplanned use for SI, I prefer this version of the ability.
|Glyph of Blooming
|Increases the bloom heal of your Lifebloom when it expires by 50%, but its duration is reduced by 5 sec and your Healing Touch, Nourish, and Regrowth abilities no longer refresh the duration.
|Pretty much a pure PvP glyph, but very useful there. Has situational PvE effectiveness.
|Glyph of Healing Touch
|When you cast Healing Touch, the cooldown on your Swiftmend is reduced by 1 sec.
|You probably will be using more Nourish than Healing Touch for the first tier of content, but this isn't a terrible choice.
|Glyph of Innervate
|When Innervate is cast on a friendly target other than the caster, the caster will gain 10% of maximum mana over 10 sec.
|Innervate is normally 20% for you or 10% for someone else; with the glyph, it makes it 10%/10%. If you're a friendly/helpful type, try it out.
|Glyph of Lifebloom
|Casting Lifebloom on a new target grants that target as many applications as the old target had. This effect will not occur while in Tree of Life Form, or when Lifebloom has less than 2 sec remaining.
|YES YES this glyph is amazing for tank swaps YOU NEED THIS (ahem.)
|Glyph of Regrowth
|Increases the critical strike chance of your Regrowth by 40%, but removes the periodic component of the spell.
|Some druids use Regrowth, some don't. If you use it, you want this glyph. (For a quick emergency heal, you want a crit bomb, not a HoT.)
|Glyph of Rejuvenation
|When you have Rejuvenation active on three or more targets, the cast time of your Nourish spell is reduced by 30%.
|You likely won't have enough mana to keep Rejuv rolling on three targets consistently anymore.
|Glyph of Wild Growth
|Wild Growth can affect 1 additional target, but its cooldown is increased by 2 sec.
|Yes for 25's, otherwise no.
Minor Glyphs
|Glyph of Aquatic Form
|Increases your swim speed by 50% while in Aquatic Form.
|Swimming sucks, this makes it suck less.
|Glyph of the Chameleon
|Each time you shapeshift into Cat Form or Bear Form, your shapeshifted form will have a random hair color.
|Meh. I like my hair the way it is. No Rainbow Brite for me. :)
|Glyph of Charm Woodland Creature
|Teaches you the ability Charm Woodland Creature. Allows the Druid to befriend an ambient creature, which will follow the Druid for 1 hour.
|Ambient creature means critter, FYI. Tame all the things, pretend to be a hunter, etc.
|Glyph of the Cheetah
|Your Travel Form appears as a Cheetah. This glyph will prevent Glyph of the Stag from functioning.
|If you liked the old cheetah travel form, here you go.
|Glyph of Grace
|Feline Grace reduces falling damage even while not in Cat Form.
|Actually has some significant gameplay benefits for non-Feral players; fall damage has played a role in quite a few boss encounters. Worth picking up for everyone.
|Glyph of the Orca
|Your Aquatic Form now appears as an Orca.
|I wish they'd made this new form baseline as well and let us glyph for the seal…thing.
|Glyph of the Predator
|Your Track Humanoids ability now also tracks beasts.
|Somewhat useful.
|Glyph of Stars
|Your Moonkin Form now appears as Astral Form, conferring all the same benefits, but appearing as an astrally enhanced version of your normal humanoid form.
|If you play a Balance druid and envied Resto's ability to see their gear all the time, here you go. No more moonkin for you.
|Glyph of the Stag
|Your Travel Form can now be used as a mount by party members. This glyph is disabled while Glyph of the Cheetah is active.
|Yes, I want to hear lots of bad jokes about being mounted by party members!
|Glyph of the Treant
|Teaches you the ability Treant Form.
|Any spec can use this. I might pick this up as Feral, just to confuse the hell out of people in PuG's. "Where's the healer? He's…DPSing in cat?"


text: dixiedrifter Posted June 14, 2008 (edited) Q: What is a judgment? A: judgment is in its simplest terms a decision by the court between a legal dispute between two or more parties. Q: Can a collection agency garnish my wages or put a lien on my house? A: Not without a judgment. Q: What is a summons? A: A summons is a notification that a case has been commenced and that the defending party must appear before the court to defend the case. Q: What is a default judgment? A: A default judgment is simply that... when a party has been served with a summons and they fail to respond to defend the case, the court automatically rules in favor of the party who filed the complaint. Q: How long is a judgment good for? A: Sometimes a very very long time depending on the state. 5 years is about the shortest, with some states over 20+ years. Q: What is a complaint? A: A complaint is what the plaintiff files with the court. It is an overview of the legal case. A complaint explains the background of the case for the court and what damages have been suffered. Q: What steps must a plaintiff go thru before getting a judgment? A: The first step is that the plaintiff files a complaint with the court clerk. (Note: in some jurisdictions such as New York City the plaintiff sends the complaint to the defendant first, then files with the court). The clerk then issues a summons to the plaintiff. The plaintiff hires a process server, sometimes the sheriff's department, to deliver the summons to the defendant. This process is known as getting served. After the defendant has been served, the sheriff or plaintiff completes a certificate of service swearing that the complaint has been served upon the defendant and returns both to the court. The defendant must then file a written document called an answer within 10-30 days after being served with a summons. If the defenant files an answer, then the next step is usually a pre-trial conference. This is where both the plaintiff and defendant sit down and write out an outline of how they intend the case to be played out. After the pre-trial, then discovery is initiated. This is an exchange of information between the parties. Discovery consists of three components. The first is admissions. This is where one party requests that the other party admit to something. The next is request for production of documents which is pretty much self explanatory. Finally there are interrogatories which is a long term for questions. After the discovery period has been completed comes motions for summary judgments and evidentiary objections. A common tactic is to file a motion for summary judmgent and hope the other party does not respond, or responds improperly, resulting in a summary judgment. Evidentiary hearings are where one party seeks to suppress evidence based upon things such as hearsay. The last step is the trial itself which results in a judgment. Again, all steps are governed by the rules of the court known as rules of civil procedure and may vary depending on your location. Q: Will sending a Debt Validation letter stop a lawsuit? A: The answer is no but it can't hurt. Nothing in the FDCPA is meant to prevent the filing of a lawsuit against a debtor. The FDCPA even states that. At best a DV could possibly be used to get a FDCPA violation. Generally, the best bet is to use Discovery against the JDB or whoever and force them to prove their case. Discovery is a court ordered process and if a party fails to respond sanctions can be granted. This goes for both way for the plaintiff and the defendant. Simply put, Discovery is infinitely more powerful than a Debt Validation letter. Q: I've been served with a debt that is mine, do I have any defenses? A: Yes, there are a plethora of defenses. Most common is the statute of limitations (SOL). Even if the statute of limitations does not apply the burdon for proving a case lies with the plaintiff. Q: Help, I'm being sued by an original creditor, what do I do? A: Unfortunately there is not much you can do. Unlike JDB's OCs have access to just about ever single shred of evidence that could be produced, and will produce it in a heartbeat if needed. In fact, the best I can recall is that only two creditboard'ers have beaten OC's, the first was when the OC screwed up on Uniform Commercial Code, and the second was with Crap1 by successfully "importing" the statute of limitations from another state using a choice of law provision in the credit card agreement. Best adivise is to just try and become judgment proof or file bankruptcy if one cannot live with a garnishment. Q: Help, I've just found out I have a default judmgent and I was never served a summons, what do I do? A: You will have to petition the court with a motion to vacate. This is a court formatted document that explains why the judgment should be set aside. If successful, the judgment will be set aside and you will have to start the litigation process from back to square one by filing an answer. Q: Should I hire a lawyer? A: The answer is yes! Generally you will be able to accomplish much more with an attorney than without. But, there is a downside and that is finding one and paying for one. Finding an attorney willing to fight a debt collection case can be very very difficult. Most phone book lawyers will either attempt to settle the debt or provide little help. They simply do not want to put in the work required. One option is to look up NACA and get them to refer a consumer attorney. The other issue is cost. It can cost more to defend the average lawsuit that than the amount of the lawsuit itself. One alternative is to try and get the attorney to provide services on an as needed basis for such things as procedural questions and reviewing pleadings. Most lawyers do not want to go this route due to malpractice liability, but it may be possible to get them to agree if a release of liability form is signed. Q: When does the SOL apply? A: The SOL varies by location. Each state has its own SOL varying between 3 and 15 years and the statute of limitations varies depending on the type of debt. Generally most states have an oral statute and a written statute. Q: Where can I find a list of SOL's? A: WhyChat has a very exhaustive list of SOLs which can be found at whychat.5u.com Q: How do I know which the written or oral the statute of limitations applies? A: There is no good answer. Unless the statute is clearly spelled out, many times a debt collector will argue that a credit card agreement is considered a written agreement. Some on the consumer side say that because the federal Truth in Lending Act defines a credit card agreement as open ended, the shorter oral statute should apply. Of course, local judges are basing their rulings on state law and are biased towards JDB's. To make matters even more complicated it is theoretically possible to have an open ended agreement in writing provided all the components to satisfy the statute of frauds are in place. The only sure fire way to get the shorter SOL to apply is to take the agreement out of play using a combination of discovery and motions to strike. Q: What is this affidavit thing and how can someone just swear that I owe a debt? A: Affidavits are JDB's number one form of evidence. By simply swearing that a debt belongs to someone, its more than enough to get a default judgment in most cases since most defendants do not ever contest the allegations. Affidavits are also dirt cheap and easy to get since they are manufactured evidence. Q: How do I defeat an affidavit? A: One counters an affidavit by filing their own affidavit denying the debt. This affidavit is set up in a graduated matter so if one denial is proven by the JDB, then the next denial in the affidavit will hopefully stop them. This layered approach is highly effective. An example is "I deny that this is my debt, and should the plaintiff establish that the debt is mine, I deny that the Plaintiff lacks standing to sue, and should the plaintiff establish that the debt is mine and that they have the standing to sue, I deny that the amount being demanded is correct". An affidavit of denial also serves one other very important purpose, it prevents a majority of motion for summary judgments from being granted if the defendant has not screwed up in answering discovery requests. To completely destroy an affidavit, one must file a motion to strike. A motion to strike is simply where one requests that the court take something out of evidence because it is inadmissable due to a technicality. In the case of an affidavit, they are clearly hearsay evidence made by some hourly employee and a rubber stamp notary public. The have no idea what they are testifying to other than what numbers are showing up on their computer screens. Unfortunately, most judges do not know that and take the affidavits for face value. Generally the standard used by judges is that all motions are considered most favorably in light of the non-moving party. To counter this, one must lay a foundation using discovery. An example of this is to get the JDB to admit that the affidavit writer does not have personal knowledge of the debt. Of course, the JDB will deny the request for admission. But, if one is smart they can corner the JDB by using interrogatories and requests for production of documents. An example would be to ask "If Plaintiff denies Defendant's request for admission #1 please identify all documents and records used by the AFFIDAVIT WRITER NAME when createing the affidavit" and "Please provide all documents and records used by AFFIDAVIT WRITER NAME when creating the affidavit". JDB's generally don't have any evidence, so this may effectively force them into providing an admission. If they admit that the affidavit writer does not have personal knowledge of the debt the motion to strike will go thru like a knife thru hot butter. Q: Can I strike a credit card agreement? A: Yes you can. The first step is to look at the agreeemtent itself. Double check the copyright date. If the copyright date occurred AFTER the account was charged off, you can motion to strike it fairly easily as irrelevent. Most of the time again it helps to use discovery to lay a foundation as to why the agreement should be stricken. A simple interrogatory asking "Please identify when they account was charged off by the original creditor" will give you the answer you need. Another way to attack a credit card agreement is to use lack of foundation. Credit card agreements are generic by nature. Usually there is nothing in the agreement that ties a specific agreement with a specific debtor, ie the debtors name and account numbers are not mentioned. The JDB will swear up and down that the OC sent the agreement, but since they are a third party that testimony is also hearsay and can be stricken if the defendant speaks up at the hearing. A counter for this is to send an admission asking "Admit that plaintiff aquired the alleged debt was charged off." This establishes that the Plaintiff is indeed a third party and lacks personal knowledge to testity that the agreement was sent. To be continuted at a later time because it is time for Dixie to go to the bar, put on his beer goggles. Please note that this is incomplete and that the next update will cover settlements and other topics. In the mean time, if anyone has a question that is not covered, please ask it and I will answer it as soon as I sober up, provided of course I have not chewed off my arm in the morning to keep from waking said whore up while I escaped. Edited June 14, 2008 by breeze bad stuff Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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When I was studying at the Jesuit theological seminary in Woodstock, Md., in 1964, Vatican II was under way; and I had been invited to a "different" Mass in a tiny chapel on the grounds. Suddenly at Communion, the recently ordained celebrant, Jake Empereur, placed the host not on our tongues but in our hands! I still had three years to go before my ordination and the official introduction of changes in the Mass, but this celebrant was taking the initiative.
Most articles on the 50th anniversary of Vatican II have overlooked the creativity before and after the council's liturgical reforms, which brought new intimacy to the Mass. This essay is not meant to be a 1960s-style protest but to serve as a time capsule, capturing a moment in history that should not be lost. The challenge in that new era was to bring the Eucharist to the greatest number of persons. With the support of five Jesuit universities where I worked and the local diocese of New Orleans, this included students and prisoners. All experiments, particularly in those years, are vulnerable to excesses. But I rejoice that the young priest put the host in my hands when he did.
At Woodstock each morning, in small chapels on the fourth floor, the Mass took different shapes. At one of these the celebrant distributed the roles of the Mass: one seminarian was to improvise the opening prayer, another a preface or the closing prayer, another was to preach extemporaneously. In another chapel the eucharistic prayer was a text from the Gospel of Luke or one of the letters to the Corinthians. Many wrote their own canons. John Mossi, S.J., editor of a collection of original canons from that era as well as ancient fraction rites (Bread Blessed and Broken, Paulist Press, 1974), told me recently, "We wanted a liturgy not translated from the Latin but in our own cadence, poetry and experience."
When experimental canons were widely published (100 in Holland alone), America printed two (May 27, 1967): one by the then-Jesuit poet John L'Heureux, which begins, "Blessed are you, Father, in all the things you have made: in plants and in animals and in men, the wonders of your hands. Blessed are you, Father, for the food we eat; for bread and for wine and for laughter in your presence."
At Fordham in the 1970s, three Jesuits often concelebrated a Mass for students on weekdays at midnight, where we sat in a circle on the floor to discuss the word of Scripture, then gathered around the altar for the eucharistic meal. For 10 years, students came to these—sometimes one, sometimes 20.
Liturgy must adapt to its context. In the 1990s I said Mass frequently in a New Orleans prison. A blind, black guitarist, an elderly nun who had once been held hostage in a prison riot and I had a maximum of 30 minutes to do our thing: wipe the breakfast slop off the steel table in the cellblock recreation space, with the sound of toilets flushing in the background; sing "Jesus on the main line, call him up and tell him what you want"; a Gospel reading and short homily; the Our Father, greeting of peace and Communion; a final prayer, hymn and blessing. In a moment I will never forget, a woman prisoner asked me to find and speak to her son. "Of course," I replied. "Where does he live?" The boy was in this very prison, some cell blocks away. Jesus said, "When I was in prison you visited me." Because there were so many prisoners and so few priests, it would be months before those men or women could be visited by Jesus in the Eucharist again.
Recently, on a visit to an old army friend at his lakeside home, we sat across the table from one another and I improvised some prayers. My thoughts shot back to Emmaus and to Jesus, recognized in the breaking of the bread.
Talking about Eucharistic intimacy here's a story. Once having positioned myself as close to the tabernacle that I could get, sleep, rather than prayer, became the norm, collapsing my intention of prayerful "quiet time" with the Lord. Try as I might, slumber kept interrupting my good intention to the point where I decided to focus on the tabernacle door in a kind of disciplinary way imagining in my mind that I was prying open the tabernacle door, hoping through that concentration to keep sleep at bay. Still, despite the placement of disciplinary "toothpicks" of determination holding open my eye lids, sleepiness refused to evaporate!In that "comatose" state suddenly imaginatively I "heard" the words, "Come on in!" I must have thought it was the Lord, so my sleepy response was, "Where, Lord?" The imagined reply was immediate, "In the tabernacle with Me!" Now at last I was wide awake and quickly understood the message – it was all about "intimacy." It was about Jesus inviting me to come chat with him , sipping coffee, or a glass of wine, or some beer! And best of all in a flash I knew it wasn't just about me – it included everybody. I understood that Jesus was everybody's "Best Friend" and he wants everybody to be his "best friend" too!
Application: In my unsophisticated opinion, I believe attending Liturgy (Mass) should be just as intimate. At the Fist Eucharist on the night before he died, at the table there was a lot of intimacy between Jesus and those at table, more than likely not only the Apostles, chopping away at roasted lamb and all the trimmings, dipping bread into the gravy and drinking wine. And most interestingly the Gospel says those around the table were reclining. To "recline" means "to lay back or down," meaning that the First Eucharist happened in laid-back, or laying down position! When I was very young SITTING during Mass was enough to get wacked by the teacher!Of course, I understand there must be structure in Liturgy and it cannot be done in a kind of helter-skelter way. But does it have to be so rigidly ritualistic? The Mass besides being the Un-bloody continuation of the Sacrifice of the Cross, is also a family get-together, a Communal Family Meal that by intrinsic structure should be intimate. If it is a family meal, shouldn't there be something "laid-back" (not rowdy, just like a friendly family-gathering) when we gather for Liturgy (Mass?)
This being said I must also add that, I agree with St. Augustine who said, "We must always FEEL with the Church." And I do and can "fall in line" like a good soldier if I must. Yet, more inclusively and respectfully may I also point out that by this blog, the Church has also just expressed how it feels!
If nothing else, I learned never to mistake UNIFORMITY for UNITY.
Now, our young priest "dives into the chalice" when he consecrates and never even looks at the congregation. It's just between him and God. Each time I experience that, my throat tightens. I'm not important. But I know better, thank God.


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"FlyWalker" Measures Fruit Fly's Strut—Could Aid Parkinson's Research
The fruit fly (Drosophila) is a valuable genetic model for many diseases, including neurodegenerative ones such as Parkinson's. But until now, its small size has made it difficult to measure physical motion and motor defects.
Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have developed hardware, along with a software program called FlyWalker, that can measure a wide range of parameters such as the insect's walking speed, distance walked, and gait pattern. The ability to quantify the fly's walking behavior should add to scientists' basic understanding of animal locomotion. It should also help them to discover subtle changes as Parkinson's and other diseases progress over time.
César Mendes PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Richard Mann, PhD, the Higgins Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, collaborated with Imre Bartos, PhD, and Szabolcs Márka, PhD, of Columbia's Physics Department, to develop an optical touch sensor in which bursts of light are emitted when an object—here, a fly's foot—touches a surface. These bursts of light are captured in real time with high-speed video imaging, to monitor the fly's body and each of its six feet as it walks across the surface. They then use FlyWalker to analyze the data.
The researchers found that unlike a horse going from a walk to a trot at defined speeds, the fly doesn't abruptly switch from one gait to another. It does, however, appear to modify its neural circuits depending on its speed. The research team also found that although the footprints of sensory-deprived flies, which had genetically lost their sense of proprioception, were less precisely aligned, the flies were still able to walk using a relatively normal gait. (Proprioception is one's sense of the position and location of one's bodily parts.) This suggests that proprioception is not essential for walking but does facilitate coordination.
The next step (no pun intended) is to combine this new method for analyzing locomotion with genetic tools available for studying the fruit fly, to further explore the role of motor neuron circuitry in walking.
"Quantification of gait parameters in freely walking wild type and sensory deprived Drosophila melanogaster" was published in eLife on January 8, 2013. It was also featured on Nature Medicine's spoonful of medicine blog.


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The Incredible Caulk
For years the North East was described as a football hotbed. Given the recent lack of major success for our football clubs many fans from outside the region would suggest a sickbed would be a more befitting comparison. But football is still thriving on Tyneside, Wearside and Teesside - and at the forefront of that is our football reporting.
One of the top football writers is the North East correspondent for The Times. For fans on both sides of the rivers Tyne and Wear he's the first port of call for their club related questions. It isn't often that Newcastle and Sunderland fans openly agree on local football matters but there's agreement for many on one thing: if you want North East football coverage then you read George Caulkin. And now George is on European Football Weekends speaking to Andy Hudson...
George, thanks for taking the time to speak with EFW. Let's get the unpleasant stuff out of the way first. You've covered Newcastle United through many lows for years. Are they really getting worse off the pitch? Firstly; pleasure, treasure. Secondly, I suppose it depends on your definition of worse - things have been consistently bad since Mike Ashley's takeover. I don't subscribe to the notion that Newcastle's owner is the devil incarnate, but he's had the opposite effect of King Midas and even when a decision is taken that has some logic behind it, he'll follow it with another one which is baffling. Chris Hughton's dismissal is a case in point. Why do it? Chris was universally liked and respected (including by the media, for what it's worth), results had gone pretty well and by getting rid of him, it invited pressure at a time they should have been focussing all their energies on stability.
The pleasing thing - and probably Chris's greatest legacy - is that the spirit in the dressing-room has been strong enough to survive some of the hierarchy's more questionable moments; I'd argue that last season's promotion and what's happened since came about largely in spite of the people upstairs rather than because of them.
Having said all that, it shouldn't be forgotten that Freddy Shepherd was a dismal steward of the club, too.
Niall Quinn is adored at Sunderland. Apart from the obvious (being an ex-player) why would you say he's so well loved and what one thing could Mike Ashley take from him to improve his relationship with Newcastle fans? In terms of PR, I think Ashley has left it a bit late. But there is an interesting comparison with what's happened at Sunderland. Ellis Short, their owner, is a very rich businessman who shuns publicity, who says very little and who has bought a football club for reasons which are not immediately apparent. Sound familiar? What Short has done is invest his trust in a true football person - Quinn - who has Sunderland in his heart and who is able to articulate the hopes and dreams of supporters. In turn, they can feel secure about their club. From day one, Ashley has rejected the opportunity to tell his story, to explain, to express gratitude or sorrow. It's a source of constant frustration.
Plenty of your journalist colleagues get it in the neck from fans of different clubs they report on, especially when the rivalry is as antagonistic as Newcastle and Sunderland. You seem to avoid this most of the time. Why do you think fans of both clubs have taken to you so well? Well, very kind of you to say so, although I'm not sure what you say is strictly true. When you praise one club or their players, there will always be an element who interpret that as implied criticism of another (particularly in derby week), and I've had my share of that. But at the heart of what I do is a love for the North East, its people, its history and its football and I hope that is evident in what I write. I grew up in Durham, in the middle of Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesbrough and I've never had the hate gene. It was a political time; the miners' strike, the closure of the shipyards, a sense that our region had been abandoned and left to rot. Communities had to fight to remain intact and I think that's the philosophy I've always carried with me. Whether supporters like to admit it not, there's far more to unite than divide, including a deep passion for football in the face of very little tangible reward.
In the final analysis, this is where I want to live and work. I probably shouldn't admit this, but I don't think I'd feel the same about my job if I was based anywhere else. Hmm, this is all sounding a bit po-faced, isn't it?
It's always a source of humour overhearing Newcastle and Sunderland fans arguing about which club you grew up supporting. You regularly get outed on certain forums over which colour stripe you have alongside the white one. How hard is it to remain impartial when reporting on the 'other' North East team? It's not hard at all. It's my job - just like it's the job of Steve Bruce, who was brought up a Newcastle supporter, to manage Sunderland. And I've been attending matches as a journalist for far longer than I did as a fan. But my impartiality is also genuine - I've made real and lasting friendships with people who have played for and managed all North East clubs, I grew up amongst people with split loyalties and what's left at the end of all that is love for the region and its footballing tradition ahead of 'support' for a particular club. It's simply not an issue. If I was sacked tomorrow (always a possibility), I would pay to watch them all.
You've covered a number of World Cups and regularly step outside of the North East to cover European football. What's been your favourite part of covering football away from your normal patch? It's all a privilege, to be honest, and as much as I love the North East it's healthy and restorative to step outside the comfort zone every now and again. The tournaments are the biggest thrill and the biggest challenge. I was in South Africa last summer and I can't explain both how peculiar and brilliant the whole thing was; being in an alien country but somehow not being there at all, scratching the surface and seeing all those amazing teams. I stayed to the end in Germany four years earlier and that was amazing. Well, once England went out. Covering the national team is both the pinnacle and utterly depressing.
Following many appearances on the likes of The Game podcast, BBC Five Live and BBC Newcastle, how different is that medium of media compared to print journalism and is it something you enjoy doing? Any excuse to chat about football, really. It's not something I particularly relish doing - erm, er, y'know, er, erm, y'know, well, feature prominently - but I recognise the importance of it.
Your content is now behind The Times paywall. Do you see this as necessary action to protect the role of the newspaper football journalist? It's a difficult one. In some ways, it's an obvious argument - why should papers give away their content for free? You can't walk into a newsagent and leave with a newspaper without paying. And serious, investigate, informative journalism comes at a price, particularly when the industry is being squeezed like never before. At the same time, people have become used to getting content for free and when The Times website was available to all it offered a path to our content which people might not otherwise walk down.
Is it a source of frustration when your work can't be as easily read as many of your colleagues working for other newspapers due to the paywall? Of course. Particularly the internet-only stuff like blogs and columns etc.
Iain Macintosh said recently that there's a strong chance that the larger blogging communities will become something of a talent pool for traditional media. Is this a view that you share? There's too much talent out there for it not to be - it's a constant source of information, amusement and inspiration. But there's so much competition now, not only in the number of people simply applying for jobs, but trainee journalists on university courses and so on - elements that simply weren't there when I was trying to get into the industry.
You produced a couple of cracking articles on Birtley Town as part of Non League Day back in September 2010. Have you had a chance to visit any more non-league grounds since then? Not since then, no. But it's something I try to do a couple of times a season at least. Good for the soul. I'm very fortunate to be covering Premier League football for a living, but it can be a soulless experience. Getting to Birtley at 2.50pm on a Saturday, having a pie and a cuppa and then watching two sets of committed, honest players was a real highlight. Football; you might remember it.
Your bromance with Daniel Taylor during the World Cup last summer, both on Twitter and in your diary, caused much hilarity. In fact he even went so far as to say on this very site that we won't be hearing from you any more. So how did he end up swinging that bromantic trip in Salzburg for you both covering Man City and following in the footsteps of Julie Andrews? I would trust Daniel with my life, albeit in the certain knowledge that he would slit my throat, sell my still-twitching organs and then pick my pocket. In many ways, he's a completely reprehensible, hateful and vindictive character and the bedrock of our relationship is the fact that we bring the very worst out of each other ... but in a good way. Does that make sense?
You once admitted to swimming across the River Wear after a particularly lethal evening of footballer-style boozing. Ho'way....what happened there? I went out drinking with a (Newcastle) footballer. I'd just separated from my partner and went on a bit of a tear-up that included a boozy meal, drinking, more drinking, some drinking and ended up with me sitting by the river underneath Durham Cathedral with a handful of whiskey miniatures. And then falling in. Apparently. And then apparently swimming across it (all I remember is swallowing water). That night, I had the most vivid dream of my life; I could smell coffee brewing, hear a cat purring, feel sunlight on my face through a gap in the curtains. I woke up lying on the floor in my mate's hotel room, naked aside from a handtowel across my lap, with one of his trainers for a pillow. Not my finest hour. And yet arguably my finest hour.
You're from County Durham, the home of many a fine real ale. Any pint recommendations for the EFW readers? In the light of my previous answer, I can only recommend water.
How did you get involved in football journalism? Journalism is in my family, so writing was something I was always immersed in. After university, I took a one-year National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) course in Darlington and then looked for some work experience. I found it on the sports desk of the Sunday Sun in Newcastle. After a couple of years there, I left to go freelance - I did matches for the Guardian and Observer, amongst others - and was picked up by The Times in 1998. I was very lucky; I fell into it.
Any advice for aspiring football journalists? Be aware that the fairly vague route I took is unlikely to be available. Get experience, get published. Understand that the job is about more than going to games and talking bollocks on Twitter (that rules Danny out then - Ed); it's often about churning out words to ridiculously tight deadlines (filing match reports before those matches have actually finished), it's about making and building contacts, it's about hanging around, talking on the telephone. And it's also the best job in the world. Good luck!
What has been your proudest professional moment? Working as a ghost-writer for Sir Bobby Robson, firstly on his column for The Times and then later for a book. I spent a lot of time with him towards the end of his life, in his home and office, and even when he was grievously ill, you'd leave his company feeling better about yourself. It was an amazing quality. Being asked by Lady Elsie to be a patron of the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation was very humbling.
You've watched some great footballers over the years. Who's the best one you've seen live? Wow. That's a toughie. I've seen players like Zidane and Messi live, but I'm not sure that would be an answer in keeping with the spirit of the question. I'd probably have to say Paul Gascoigne. Irrepressible, unstoppable, ridiculously gifted, the best performance by plastic tits in a supporting role, wholly flawed. He could have been anything. He was ours.
What has been your favourite European Football Weekend (or European Football Midweek) trip? An obvious one, but Barcelona. I went there on holiday a couple of years ago, paid for tickets, sat in the stands, forgot what I did for a living and loved every second of it. The game they play is something way beyond football, but it's the best city in Europe.
Can you settle an age-old South Tyneside pub argument? Who was the better player.....Steve Howey or Lee Howey? Steve Howey played for England. He was also my best man. Where's the argument?
What's your prediction for the Tyne & Wear derby on Sunday? Carnage.
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Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis joins Firing Line eight months after resigning from the Trump administration to discuss leadership, the importance of allies, and America's role in conflicts in the Middle East. Mattis also explains why we should never label political opponents 'enemies of the people', and addresses his criticism of then-Vice President Joe Biden in his new book.
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While the update may not add a wealth of new features, the company did give us some interesting news. The company has been working hard to bring its VoIP calling feature to BlackBerry users, however this has proven to be a difficult task. According to Viber no third party app has ever provided VoIP calling on BlackBerry. As you can see in the above video VoIP calling through Viber may be a close reality. The company plans on unveiling this feature sometime in April.


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Wow, there is a lot if requests coming through and the more folks that join Dragoart, the more new, fresh ideas come my way. Up next is a simple tutorial that is going to show you "how to draw a motorcycle for kids", step by step. I figured that another transportation vessel that kids love drawing is the motorcycle. These two, sometime four wheeled bikes have been transformed over the years to become just right to ride for a person who is a fan of bikes. The concept for this motorcycle was pretty simple. I knew that I wanted something that didn't have a lot of complexity to getting it drawn right. I also knew that since it is a 'for kids' based lesson, the motorcycle should be easy enough for even the newest artist. I think I did a good job with the body design. Another great factor about this tutorial is how the parts are big enough to color in when you are done drawing. I think that's about it, let me get out of here so I can submit the other three tutorials I have in store for you all. Peace out people and enjoy!
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Hi guys,
I like a lot the CMOS inverters distortions, but there is more noise at high-gain than in other circuits, at least for me.
What do you think can be done to fight the noise?
One of the more used methods seems to be limiting the bandwidth by filtering the highs pre- or/and post- clipping. My problem with this is that the lower gain sound now lacks the highs. Seems like the gain control should also control the filtering.
Another one is highs pre-boost/post-cut, either statically (like in Boss GE-7) or dynamically (I saw here one circuit using NE570/571). I'm not sure if this would work with high-gain circuits, as the boosted highs would be clipped before post-cut stage. Then again, I didn't try it yet.
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