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A career in space technology offers great scope for creativity and the chance to build something new. It can even make you relatively popular at parties, as Kevin Middleton describes
When someone at a party asks you what you do for a living, working in space science is always a plus – you are virtually guaranteed to get a few raised eyebrows and some interested questions. While the day-to-day reality of my job does not quite match up to the rocket scientist clichés, it is certainly never boring.
I joined the Space Science and Technology Department of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire, UK, in 2002. While many people working in space science have always wanted to be involved in the subject, my career path was less planned. I enjoyed physics at school because I liked knowing how the world fits together, so it was not a difficult decision to study the subject at Manchester University.
After graduation, however, I was not keen on settling down to a regular job right away, and a career in research seemed a little too specialized. Instead, I decided to do a Master's degree in applied optics at Imperial College London, which led to a job at a small firm designing commercial optical systems (such as specialist cameras for the electronics industry). After nine years there, I was looking for a change, and a job advert in Physics World for an optical physicist at RAL led me to work on space instruments.
Our department at RAL designs, develops and manufactures scientific instruments for both space-science missions and ground-based astronomy projects. A typical mission might have several scientific instruments on one satellite, each dedicated to making a particular measurement. Such projects are impossible to carry out in isolation, and we work with university groups, companies and national space agencies to make each project a reality. Our role in a project can range from defining the scientific requirements and designing the instrument right through to assembling and testing the flight hardware.
Of gravity and glue
When I first joined RAL, I worked on the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Pathfinder project. Its aim is to detect gravitational waves produced by massive objects like black holes, and I was part of the team that designed and constructed a prototype interferometer for the satellite, which is due to be launched at the end of 2009 (see Physics World September 2007 pp10–11).
One of the aims of LISA Pathfinder is to measure displacements of a pair of gold–platinum cubes that are free-falling in space. A passing gravitational wave will change the separation of the cubes but, because gravity is a relatively weak force, the effect is tiny and we need to be able to sense positions to an accuracy of picometres (10–12 m) to detect a gravitational-wave signal.
The project became especially entertaining when we started building the interferometer. The lenses and mirrors were stuck onto a glass baseplate using a technique that ensured the bond line would not flex under changes in temperature – essential for reducing displacement noise due to thermal expansion that might otherwise swamp the gravitational-wave signal. Although the experiment will be operated in a room-temperature environment stable to millikelvin, tiny movements of the optics can still be enough to ruin the measurement.
Unfortunately, the glue we had to use took only about 30 seconds to cure. Within that short time, each part had to be precisely aligned, with little possibility of repair if something became stuck in the wrong place. This required meticulous preparation and planning, and ultimately a steady hand and nerve. However, after several weeks of tense work in the lab, by June 2004 we had built an instrument with a unique measurement capability. I have always enjoyed having a job with a tangible end product, and it is particularly satisfying when you know that you have built the first example of something.
Room for creativity
One of the advantages of working on scientific instruments is that you get involved in a variety of projects spread over many areas of physics. In my current job I can move between topics like solar physics and environmental observation of the Earth as well as gravitational-wave detection. This often means being the person in the room who knows least about a subject, particularly when the project scientists have been working on a proposal for many years. Asking questions all the time can feel intimidating, but if you enjoy thinking on your feet, then it can also be a stimulating way to learn.
Having the chance to be creative is another attractive aspect of working in space science. My job is fundamentally about problem solving, and when you are trying to do new science, you often need to find solutions without a textbook to guide you. You always want the next experiment to do more than the last one, and this pushes the boundaries of your ingenuity as well as the limitations of current technology and materials.
One downside of working in space science is that projects can take a long time to come to fruition. Occasionally a project is cancelled and you may find that your hard work has been in vain. When this happens, you need a robust, long-term outlook and the ability to shrug off disappointments and start looking for the next challenge. Fortunately, there is always a new project around the corner and each comes with a unique set of problems to get your teeth into.
On a day-to-day basis, my job involves a mixture of project management, instrument design, and assembling and testing hardware. I find it refreshing to have a variety of roles, and sitting round a table with a team of people to figure out how to solve a problem can be a welcome break from hours spent in front of a computer screen. Physicists who are used to logical problems with deterministic outcomes, however, may find managing budgets, schedules and teams of people a bit of a culture shock.
People (and sometimes budgets) are much less predictable than experiments, and to get the most out of the opportunity to build an instrument, you need to balance a mission's science requirements against competing factors like finite budgets and timescales. This can be one of the most difficult aspects of the job, but it is also one of the most rewarding; when you get it right, you have the personal satisfaction of shaping the design of an instrument and an experiment.
For those interested in working in a similar field, my advice would be to keep your eyes open for opportunities and go in the direction that most interests you. There are opportunities to work in national laboratories like RAL, universities, commercial space companies and agencies such as the European Space Agency and NASA. A degree in physics and a willingness to have a go at things will get you a long way. I have found that there is no well-defined career path for a physicist; this can be a bit daunting at times, but it also means that you can find yourself doing things like building instruments for space missions and keeping people entertained at parties.
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Kevin Middleton is an optical-systems physicist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, UK


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Fun fact: Thorin Oakenshield is devastatingly handsome in both male and female form.
A gaggle of gorgeous women sporting gender swapped Hobbit cosplay were photographed by Alexander Turchanin, and the results are sensational. They really captured the essence of each dwarf. Plus they all look ridiculous adorable in dwarf attire, apart from Thorin — who is still just the most majestic fictional creature ever. And my request to braid Thorin's hair (either the Richard Armitage version or this lovely cosplaying lady) is still on the table.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth defeated MIT, 14-6, in a New England Football Conference (NEFC) Boyd Division contest on Saturday afternoon. The Engineers' ledger dipped to 1-3 on the year and 0-2 in conference play while the Corsairs improved to 2-3 overall and 1-1 in NEFC action.
Midway through the opening quarter, MIT's Patrick Jupe forced and recovered a fumble at the Engineers' 30. Two plays later, Ben Mitsmenn picked off John Wenzel and returned the ball 22 yards to the MIT 13. Brendan McNeish dashed nine yards before Eric Pacy registered back-to-back two-yard plunges that resulted in a touchdown. Edgar Osols's point after attempt was successful and gave UMD a 7-0 advantage at the 4:41 mark.
Brian Doyle returned the ensuing kickoff 55 yards to the Corsairs' 25. Wenzel had runs of six and five yards, while Marcel Sanchez sprinted nine and two yards to set up first-and-goal from the UMD three-yard line. A false start pushed the Cardinal and Gray back to the eight. An incomplete pass was followed by a one-yard keeper by Wenzel. Davey Hunt had a two-yard reception which put MIT at the five yard-line. Matthew Peterson put the hosts on the board with an 18-yard field goal with 1:15 remaining in the quarter.
UMD's next drive was stopped courtesy of Rhys Borchert's interception which was returned 29 yards to the Corsairs' 11. This was as close as the Engineers would get as a penalty and rushes for a loss of six yards pushed them back to the 29 yard line. Kyle Johnson dropped in a punt which pinned UMD back at its six.
The Corsairs then mounted a 12-play, 94-yard drive that lasted 7:15 and resulted in a touchdown. Jaron Hargrove started the drive with a five-yard rush, but UMD lost a yard on its next rushing attempt. An offsides penalty by MIT resulted in a three-and-one from the Corsairs' 15. Patrick Jupe stopped Pacy at the line of scrimmage, but McNeish kept the ball for the fourth-down conversion and then scampered 12 yards for another first down. A delay of game penalty put UMD back at its 22 before Adam Houghton gained a yard on the ground. McNeish followed with a 16-yard run and then tossed a 33-yard pass to Joe Luiz, placing the ball at the MIT 28. Hargrove gained a yard as Luiz grabbed a 14-yard pass to put the Corsairs in the red zone. Pacy sprinted the final 13 yards for his second touchdown of the day and Osols's extra point increased the visitors' lead to 14-3 which would hold through halftime.
Sanchez and Wenzel combined for 10 rushes that generated 55 yards and put MIT at the UMD 10 early in the third quarter. A penalty moved the Engineers back to the 20 while the Corsairs' defense kept the hosts on the outskirts of the red zone. Peterson booted a 32-yard field goal to keep MIT within striking distance with 9:43 left in the frame.
The remainder of the game was a defensive battle as both squads were prevented from producing any scoring drives.
Wenzel and Johnson shared quarterbacking duties, combining for 16 completions on 28 attempts for 95 yards. Wenzel posted 53 rushes on nine carries as Sanchez notched 19 rushes for 48 yards. Mike Fitzgerald was MIT's top receiver with 50 yards on eight catches. Jupe led the defense with 13 tackles (10 solo), a two-yard sack, a forced fumble, and a fumble recovery. Peter Gilliland and Aaron Prindle collaborated for a five-yard sack while Gilliland added 6.5 tackles, one for a loss of six yards, and a fumble recovery. In addition to his 29-yard interception return, Borchert added a pass break-up.
McNeish paced UMD with 74 yards on the ground and threw for 89 yards, going 9-of-16 with one interception. Luiz registered a game-high 57 receiving yards on three catches. Jake Walsh totaled 8.5 tackles while Mitsmenn compiled eight tackles and a nine-yard sack to go along with his first quarter interception. Ross O'Toole and Mike Fraser both contributed six tackles as Trevor Richardson tacked on a seven-yard sack. Joe Teixera, Jack Brown, and Darrien Furr each added a pass break-up.
Both squads continue divisional play at home on Saturday, October 9. MIT will host Plymouth State University while UMass Dartmouth will take on Salve Regina University.


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At her place, Sami begs for a chance with EJ. He goes to her with a kiss. They grab at each other and the kiss deepens... just as Rafe pounds on the door. Eventually, they answer and Rafe warns Sami to stay away from his sister. Sami was defending her son's rights but agrees to be more respectful. EJ follows Rafe out and Rafe congratulates him on coming in second. EJ taunts Rafe but Rafe doesn't care. "You and Sami deserve each other." EJ heads in and Sami expresses worry for her son. EJ starts discussing Will's case and Sami worries he doesn't want her. He has for the last six years but is waiting for the other shoe to drop... someone to interrupt. They realize there's nothing in their way now and are petrified. They kiss. She's sorry she wasted so much time and calls him the man he was meant to be. Maybe he couldn't have done that if he had been with her? He counters that he may have done that "in hopes of you." She asks him to stay. They snuggle on the sofa and kiss.
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EJ and Sami get closer, Jenn and Daniel's romantic night is interrupted, and Will is devastated.
Hope goes to Jennifer's for sleeping bags for Ciara. She spots luggage and Jenn gushes that she and Daniel are going away together. Hope's glad to hear Chloe's tricks are not working. Jenn says she has learned not to take time for granted. Hope unzips her dress a little, thinking she needs to loosen up. Hope leaves, Jenn zips up and Daniel picks her up.
At Victor's, Chloe's not happy to hear that Daniel and Jenn are slipping away overnight. He hands her an emergency phone number. Chloe buys time by dredging up the prostitution and the suicide attempt. He tells her to leave it in the past. All that matters is Parker. Chloe tries to plant doubt in his mind about moving too fast with Jenn but he reassures Chloe that they've known each other a long time. He goes and bumps into Maggie on the way out and he hopes he's not such a stranger to Parker soon. He leaves and Chloe picks on Jenn until Maggie puts a stop to it.
Will arrives at the locked cafe just in time to see Brian making out with Sonny. Will hides but Brian sees him as he and Sonny set out for someplace more private.
Will wanders through the square glum and Justin spots him. He's off to see Sonny but Will says he's not there and he doesn't know where he is. Justin asks how he's holding up. Will reminisces about how great Christmas was and gets into keeping the secret about the baby. Justin thinks back to Nick wanting to prove Will unfit as a father and asks if he has a good custody lawyer. Will says EJ has someone on retainer for him, which makes Justin happy.
Sonny and Brian drink wine at Brian's. He finds it sexy that Sonny's always known who he is. Sonny compliments that Brian's always been confident. Brian puts on some music. He has waited a very long time for Sonny. They start to kiss and end up on the bed but Sonny can't follow through. It'd just be sex and he needs more time. They kiss and Brian walks Sonny out.
Jenn and Daniel arrive at their hotel and start making out.
Justin finds Sonny at the cafe. Sonny says everything in his life is perfect yet everything feels screwed up. "Because you don't have Will," Justin adds. He talks about the reasons people lie and talks up how Will was willing to give up rights for the child - does Sonny know the reason?
After watching Will inside the pub, Brian walks in. He knows Will saw him with Sonny and insinuates that he and Sonny had sex.
Rafe and Hope sit in her office discussing his visit with Sami. He tells her it's over. They're done. Hope doubts EJ and Sami can last but Rafe thinks they're perfect for each other. Hope muses that before the wedding, Sami said her heart belonged to Rafe. Rafe doesn't think she has one.
Back at the mansion, Chloe gets an idea on how to interrupt Daniel's evening.
In their hotel room, Daniel and Jenn are close to making love when Chloe calls in hysterics.
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Monday, June 24, 2013
What We Are Looking For Can Determine What We Find – Part One
In genealogy when we are looking for something specific, we can fail to notice interesting facts that aren't related to our current inquiry. I've learned this lesson before, but as with many lessons, apparently I needed to learn it again. So here's the story – or maybe more of a confession – of how I solved a "brick wall" starting with information that was in my own files. [It's in quotes specifically for James Tanner who has blog about this concept a number of times including here.]
This particular brick wall is named Herbert Amos Evans. He is my great-grandfather – the father of my mother's birth mother, Ruth Evans. I really didn't expect this branch to be so problematic. My mother's birth certificate shows her mother as Ruth Penrose Evans, who is listed as being born in Broomfield, Colorado. On top of that I have my mother's baby book with the section for "Baby's Ancestry" nicely filled out. So tracing this line should be a piece of cake, right? Nope, not even close.
The first dilemma was that while Ruth was born in Colorado I was unable to find an Evans family that looked right in the 1910 or 1920 census in the Denver area . The first time I searched I was immediately rewarded with a family that had a "Ruth" of exactly the correct age. Unfortunately the parents were all wrong as was the information on where everyone had been born. This was a nice Welsh family that I could trace forward and back – NOT my Evans family. I also searched for the Evans parents listed, Henry and Alma, thinking that possibly they also lived in Colorado – no such luck.
Years went by from the time I did that first search and then one day as I was searching on the Colorado State Archives site for my Colorado grandparents' divorce. I typed in "Evans, Anna" – Herbert's wife – on a lark and there was a divorce case listed! I felt fairly confident, in spite of the common name because the husband was listed as Hurbert A and Anna was listed as "Anna Gertrude" and finally the timing was so perfect. It was not going to be cheap – I actually called the Archives before I ordered to find out what I was signing up for – but I HAD to have this information so off went the check.
After waiting an eternity in genealogy time, which was about a week or two in calendar time, I received a thick packet in the mail. I tore into it and rapidly read through the contents with things jumping out at me like, "married in Shoshone, Idaho" and "deserted me in Portland, Oregon" and "gave me money to return to my father's home in Broomfield." My head was spinning to say the least. Because Gertrude was born in Colorado, as was her daughter, it never occurred to me to look anywhere else. Here she had been roaming around other states getting married and having children!
With this information I was able to find Gertrude in 1910 in the Oregon census with her husband and first child (who had been born in Oregon.) I also found a marriage record for the couple in Idaho although originally I found just an index. It wasn't until quite a number of years later that the image was on-line. It allowed me to see that this was not a first marriage for Herbert and that he listed his birthplace as Minnesota.
But I was happily on Gertrude's trail now and traced her through 3 more marriages right up to the 1940 census. Herbert was another case however – my "brick wall." Before I saw the image of the marriage record I was working with what would later prove to be a false hypothesis that he was the Herbert Evans in the Colorado census of 1900. I even blogged about it. The age was right and I figured that he and Gertrude ran off to Idaho to get married. Even with the Minnesota information, it wasn't clear. I did find a few possibly matched in early Minnesota censuses, but was pretty much resigned to him being my dead end.
Then I signed up for one of Michael John Neill's classes on "Organizing Genealogical Information" Mostly because of Susan Petersen's Organized Genealogist website and Facebook group the title just caught my eye. Tomorrow I'll thrill you with the tale of my actual discovery as a result of our first homework assignment.
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- AnonymousJune 25, 2013 at 6:57 AM
You better be posting the rest of the story :) and ps you always do your homework don't you...and look at the reward you get... Maybe I could learna lesson from you!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 26, 2013 at 9:23 PM
Wow our family is so crazy!! I wish I could play detective with you!ReplyDelete
Hi Diana,ReplyDelete
I want to let you know that your blog post is listed in my Fab Finds post this week at http://janasgenealogyandfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/2013/06/follow-friday-fab-finds-for-june-28-2013.html
Have a great weekend!Replies
Thanks Jana - It's been so long since I've written a blog post and it's exciting to know someone found it and read it!! :-)Delete
Diana, I followed the Fab Finds link to this post and I can't wait to read part 2. Fascinating! Thanks for sharing.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Marian - Part two is there now! :-) Thanks for stopping by.Delete


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AC Milan's Kevin-Prince Boateng and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay. (Photo: AP Photo/Keystone,Martial Trezzini)
GENEVA (AP) — The ugly side of the beautiful game emerged Thursday as the U.N.'s top human rights official joined soccer officials and players in calling for an end to the "crime" of racism in sport.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said racist insults and chants, Nazi salutes, petitions against players and denial of hiring based on color or ethnicity have no place in sports.
"Sport, at its best, is inclusive, generous-hearted, and fundamentally multicultural, based on values such as teamwork, loyalty, merit and self-control," Pillay told a forum at the U.N.'s European headquarters.
"There must be accountability for racist offenses," she said. "It is a crime and must be treated as such by sports authorities."
AC Milan player Kevin-Prince Boateng, former France captain Patrick Viera and several FIFA and European soccer officials attended the event. Several officials said they were taking action through a FIFA anti-racism task force.
Boateng recalled how he felt "angry and offended" when he kicked the ball into the stands and led teammates off the field to protest being abused by fans of Italian fourth-tier team Pro Patria during an exhibition match in January. He credited the backing of his teammates with sparking broader international outrage.
"Racism can be found on the streets, at work and even in football stadiums. There were times in my life when I didn't want to deal with this subject. I tried to ignore racism, similar to a headache that you know will go away if you just wait long enough," he said. "But that was (a) misconception. Racism does not go away. If we don't confront it, it will spread."
Vieira said racist abuse is common in stadiums.
"Racism is unacceptable. It's a crime which has no place on the football field or in any sporting event," he said. "Racist insults are frequent, very frequent, in fact more frequent than people think. ... No part of the world is spared."
But what to do about it? UEFA adviser William Gaillard said sport mirrors society and racism requires collective action, but he did not lay out specifics. Federico Addiechi, FIFA's head of social responsibility programs, said strong words are not enough.
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She called the acts "particularly damaging" because of the importance of athletes and sporting events to young people.
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Water is an increasingly precious resource that needs to be used more wisely, and there are energy penalties associated with heating and distributing water inefficiently (see "Are You Getting into Hot Water?"HE Sept/Oct '03, p. 33). Using less water in the home and for landscaping outside the home lessens the energy burden on water treatment and pumping plants.The 818-acre, mixed-use Community of Civano, in the hot-dry climate of Tucson,Arizona,was built with both energy and water saving in mind (see "Civano:Green Development at Work," HE Sept/Oct '98, p. 21). But a recent meeting of Civano residents revealed some challenges associated with one water-saving measure—using reclaimed water for landscaping purposes. Civano was built according to the Tucson Metropolitan Energy Commission's Sustainable Energy Standards (SES), which require in new homes a reduction of 50% in energy used for heating and cooling compared to homes built according to the 1995 Model Engineering Code (MEC). Civano has so far met the energy efficiency challenge. Civano was built to be a sustainable community in other ways as well, by taking advantage of ...
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Verizon users must 'opt in' for privacy
You are the product, even if you're paying for the service
US operator Verizon Wireless is to log, and sell, customers' browsing and location history, unless the customers specifically opt out of being tracked at every turn.
Only anonymised data will be sold, according to an email sent out to customers and an update of the telco's privacy policy, but internally Verizon will use profiles of its customers based on the URLs visited, the handset and features they use, as well as their physical location. Personal data will be used for accurate delivery of advertisements, while anonymous statistics will be sold to analysts and other interested parties.
That means a website that discovers it is receiving significant traffic from Verizon customers (based on the originating IP address) could ask the operator for a breakdown by age, or gender, for a fee. Meanwhile an advertiser could ask Verizon to target customers of a specific demographic, using a specific model of phone, within a specific location, unless the customers have manually opted out of the system.
Profiling customers is something many operators do, but generally with the permission of those customers and in exchange for a bribe of some sort. In the UK, O2 More and Orange Shots both promise exclusive offers and tokens, and the popularity of both services proves customers will exchange privacy for cheap stuff, but Verizon is taking that stage further by assuming consent and failing to offer a bribe.
Customers may decide to opt out, but the operator warns that "You will receive mobile ads whether you participate or not, but under the advertising program, ads may be more relevant to you".
All mobile operators are sitting on mountains of information, in fact the pure volume of data often intimidates operators into shying away from making use of it. Five years ago Malaysian operators were mining call records to identify popular teenagers, to discover who's worth advertising to, in one example of just how far operators could go.
In Europe the operators have moved very cautiously, with opt-in schemes such as O2 More and Orange Shots, as legislators stand ready to knock them back at the first sign of customer backlash.
In the USA privacy hasn't been such a big deal, and Verizon is taking a significant step forwards in assuming consent for targeted advertising and reselling of demographic data, it will be up to the customers to decide if they're prepared to let that happen. ®
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4 oz bottles verses 6 oz bottles??
My son is 5 1/2 months old. He is fed solids breakfast, lunch, and dinner. He only drinks 4 oz. bottles of breast milk. Is this normal for this age or should he be drinking 6...
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I've just watched the season 6 premiere of House:
what can I say?!? The episode was absolutely fantastic!
Hugh Laurie's performance blew me away.
(And I find him so sexy, but this is just an add! :D )
Than I watched the second episode of Gossip Girl and the premiere of The Beautiful Life as I promised you: Gossip Girl rules!!!
I think I'll not see TBL again because I found it boring, full of clichés ( the good-hearted farmer turned into a model who wants to change the rules of the system and his innocent friend model, that pukes sugar?!? Please...) and there isn't a single character that I'm interested in discover more.
Elbow - Grounds for divorce


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Energy Star Changes Approach to Programmable Thermostats
A version of this article appears in the March/April 2007 issue of Home Energy Magazine.
March 10, 2007
Energy Star has promoted programmable thermostats since 1995, estimating that consumers will save 10%–30% on their heating and cooling energy bills. With sales of programmable thermostats doubling in the last ten years, and with more than 25 million programmable thermostats installed in homes, the potential energy savings are enormous. But it appears that those savings have remained largely unrealized.
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I forgot my blog anniversary. It was last month. My first post was in February, 2007, meaning I've just started my seventh year of blogging:~) To celebrate, I'm putting up one of my older posts, written in 2008.
I met a woman at a conference years ago. We got to talking and she shyly told me she had written a book that had been recently published. I was impressed and told her so.
Instead of being proud of what she'd done, she downplayed it by making excuses for what she had accomplished. She didn't seem to believe she deserved success.
I asked her about this.
She said it made her nervous and fearful to acknowledge that she was a success, especially since she had not sold any books yet.
Before we could talk more about this, the workshop moved on and I didn't have a chance to talk with her again.
I wished I had.
I would have said to her, "Wait a minute! What's wrong with feeling powerful and strong about what you did accomplish? You wrote a book and it was published! What's wrong with believing you deserve every piece of that success?"
Most of all, I wished I had asked her what made her afraid of success.
But I didn't.
Today, as I was clearing out files on my computer, I came across a passage entitled, Our Deepest Fear, written by Marianne Williamson. I've had it for a long time, but read it again. It reminded me of the woman at the workshop.
Since I have no way to contact her, I'm doing the next best thing. I'm posting this passage on my blog and trusting that it will get to her if she still needs it.
If not, maybe someone like her will read it and fully celebrate who they are and what they've accomplished.
Maybe even you.
If you haven't read it yet, now is your chance. If you've read it before, read it again. It's worth it!
Our Deepest Fear
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?
Actually, who are you NOT to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel unsure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
As we let our own Light shine,
We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.
Author ~ Marianne Williamson
The last verse of this poem says exactly how I feel about blogging.
The posts I visit inspire me to let "my light shine" and I hope my posts do the same for those who visit my site.
Creativity, in all its forms, is like a good meal; it's best appreciated when shared. Blogging opens the door and welcomes us in to share our word and picture meals.
Bon Appétit, my friends:~)


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ONETIME- Hot hands: Handle strippers with care
One time, I was sixteen and apprenticing, and we used a very strong chemical stripper. I was warned about it, but I didn't wear any gloves– now if I use it, I always do because it gives you chemical burns. It makes your fingers feel like they're in acid.
But after you've been using it for a bit, it sort of calluses up your hands and makes them tough. You don't realize it, but quickly, you become fairly adapted to it, and you can work with it for long periods and it doesn't really affect you.
Anyway, one of my colleagues had been working away, and it came time to answer the call of nature. So he finished what he was doing and popped into the restroom. But his desensitized hands still must have had chemical stripper on them. And to the surprise of the chap at the sink, he came running around the room with his trousers around his ankles, screaming in pain, pushed him out of the way and threw handfuls of water across his crotch to try and relieve the agony.
Always wear chemical gloves and if you don't, make sure that you really neutralize your hands prior to using the commode.
You really shouldn't mess around with chemical strippers. You should either get someone professional who has a professional tank that has a way of sucking out the vapor to do them. The vapor is so strong that it pickles the old finish and peels it off.
You should always be in a well-ventilated place, because it attacks your nervous system. And it can give you an experience of being a little bit hung-over and can also give you the munchies.
Another time, we were hand-stripping a bookcase. And the boss called an early tea break. So we turned the two fires off, and opened the windows to vent out the stripper fumes and the heavy London fog-like mist filling the room from the heaters.
We went outside and I was definitely feeling a bit drunk and hung-over. I was ravenous. My dad still packed my lunch— I was about sixteen. I opened my lunchbox, and there was this pork pie. With great enthusiasm, I attacked it.
As I began regaining my senses, it dawned on me that the pork pie had the wrong texture. It was kind of crunchy. I was using my teeth to rasp bits off, which didn't seem right. With sudden clarity, I realized that my dad had taken a pork pie out of the freezer, figuring that by lunchtime it would have defrosted. But it was only early tea break.
So I had managed to chomp my way through half a frozen pork pie.
The moral of this story: always work with potent chemicals in well-ventilated areas and wear a carbon filter respirator.


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The owner began cooking at an early age. His family has owned and operated their own restaurants for many years. With his experience and family's support, Sen Dai Teriyaki first opened in Danville, Ca. twenty years ago. Sen Dai Sushi was Established in 2005 after the success of the Danville location, .
Currently, Sen Dai Sushi is one of Milpitas' most popular Japanese restaurants and has been for over 14 years. Our restaurant is located in the heart of Milpitas and is one of the top choices for visitors seeking the best sushi in town. Our goal is to bring the perfect combination of: fast comfort food, gracious service, a cozy setting, and excellent value.
We use only the finest ingredients in all of our dishes to ensure that every meal we serve is delicious and nutritious.
We encourage you to visit our restaurant and experience our cuisine.
We look forward to your visit.
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I'm taking another class at Online Card Classes - I'm totally hooked - and this time around it's His & Hers. The whole goal this time around is to create a masculine & feminine version of your cards... fun!
Day 1's "theme" was "Thinking of You", which I loosely translated to "Sending a smile across the miles", and then combined it with PTI's MIM Challenge (blown ink).
|Hers & His
Oh, I added Sakura Clear Glaze pen over the bike images, as well...just gives it a little sheen & helps it to pop a little more (not that you can see that in the photo...).
I'm off to see what Day 2 has in store... catch ya on the flip side, yo!*
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It's easy to look at cities full of buildings from different eras, with old districts and even some exposed ruins, and in one glance peer back centuries and glimpse the origin of a place.
It's easy to overlook the fact that you can get the same thrill just digging through words. And this time of year brings together three of my favorite artifacts of linguistic archaeology: "February," "Lent," and by association, "Easter."
The English names of the months famously come to us mostly from Latin, and some are pretty intuitive: June is for the goddess Juno, July and August for Julius and Augustus Caesar. Others are less obvious: January for Janus, the god of doorways and passages, March for Mars, the god of war. And some are confusing, the ninth through twelfth months being named for the numbers seven through ten, since the Roman new year began in March.
But among all this, "February" still sticks out as particularly strange.
First off, there's the problem of the spelling: many simply pronounce it "Febuary" and so the first "r" seems to come out of nowhere. This though, is a common unconscious adaptation that the human brain and tongue are prone to make, much like saying "nucular" instead of "nuclear," or children saying "aminal" for "animal." Language is liquid and always changing, but you could argue that to be accurate, we should all actually pronounce "Feb-ru-ary."
The reason for this spelling is the interesting part. February too, it turns out, is named for a Roman god, Februus, the god of "februa" or purification. Around the ides (the 15th day) of his month, ancient Romans and Etruscans would celebrate him with a festival of sacrifices and sin offerings. How strange and pagan and ancient! Except of course that to this day February also often marks the beginning of Lent, the Christian season of repentance and "giving things up."
A world away, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac, some Native American tribes called this time of the year the "Hunger Moon." With winter stores running low, and spring's bounty still weeks away, one can see why they'd choose that name. That lights a spark for me though, which makes me wonder if the voluntary sacrifices of our own time, or of urbanized Rome, were not in some way a deliberate preservation of the ancestral and natural forced austerity of late winter.
And that brings us back to Lent. At Christmas it's easy to come by someone who will tell you that the season of Advent gets its name from Latin for "approaching" or "coming towards." But at Lent, such facts are harder to come by.
The English word "Lent" traces back to Old Germanic words for "long" or "length." Anyone who's given up chocolate or snacks for the 40 days of the season might think this refers to the painful duration of 6 weeks of sacrifices, but the truth seems to be even more natural, basic, and ancient than that.
"Lenz" is the modern German word for the entire season of Spring, the period of the year in the Northern Hemisphere where the sun rises earlier and sets later, lengthening day and diminishing night. English seems to have taken this word for the whole season and applied it specifically to the religious season at the same time, much like it took the French word for cow, "boef," and used it specifically in a culinary sense. So for all of its modern connotations of ashes and penitence, the linguistic heritage of "Lent" itself is simply a description of the effects of Earth's tilt relative to the sun. Which brings us to Easter.Sunrise lights up the Great Smoky Mountains, in the leafy splendor of the already lengthened says of Spring. (Photo by David Alan Harvey)
"Easter" is of course the English word for the Christian feast of the resurrection of Jesus. It falls generally near the Jewish feast of "Pesach" or Passover, because Jesus' famous "Last Supper" as described in the Gospels was a Passover meal.
Most other languages record this connection by deriving their name for the Christian feast from the Jewish: French "Pâques," Spanish "Pascua," Turkish "Paskalya."
English however sticks with its Germanic roots and goes with "Easter," referring simply to the direction of east, or perhaps an ancient deification and celebration of it. The eighth-century English monk Bede identified this deity as the goddess Oestre celebrated by pagan Anglo-Saxons at the Spring equinox. This is certainly the time of year to celebrate a goddess of east-ness, when no matter where you stand on the Earth, when the sun rises, it does so precisely due east. [Updated 2/13/2013]
Holy Wednesday!
So there you have it. Roughly two-thirds of the time, Ash Wednesday falls in February, marking the start of Lent and the approach of Easter. In that sentence, without getting on a plane, picking up a trowel, or pushing through any jungle underbrush, you can dig through history from English speakers of today, to ancient Rome, to prehistoric celebrations of the changing seasons, and to the very structure of the solar system.
And I almost forgot: Wednesday itself is of course named for Woden/Wotan/Odin the one-eyed, raven-toting, wolf-accompanied, berzerker leader of the Norse and German gods.
Linguistic archaeology! Tell your friends.
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This is a pure curiosity question and may turn out completely devoid of substance.
Let $G$ be a finite group and $H$ a subgroup, and let $V$ and $W$ be two representations of $H$ (representations are finite-dimensional per definitionem, at least per my definitions). With $\otimes$ denoting inner tensor product, how are the two representations $\mathrm{Ind}^G_H\left(V\otimes W\right)$ and $\mathrm{Ind}^G_HV\otimes \mathrm{Ind}^G_HW$ are related to each other? There is a fairly obvious map of representations from the latter to the former, but it is neither injective nor surjective in general. I am wondering whether we can say anything about the decompositions of the two representations into irreducibles.


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As Principal of Selby High School, I'm delighted to welcome you to our website. In these pages I hope you will get a flavour of what a great place Selby High is to work and learn. We are an inclusive secondary school for boys and girls aged 11 to 16, committed to providing an outstanding education to all.
A talented and committed team of teachers and support staff work exceptionally well with parents, carers and governors to provide a high quality education for students which secures outstanding outcomes, year in year out.
At Selby High School we ensure that every individual reaches their academic and personal potential, no matter what their starting point. We combine a strong focus on the core areas of literacy, numeracy and science, with a rich and engaging curriculum which offers a broad variety of exciting courses, including the full range of art, technology, sport-related and performing arts based subjects. Learning is carefully structured around the knowledge, skills and understanding required both for success in examinations, and preparation for life in the modern world.
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Hello everyone,
Im new to java programming and especially new to this forum. Im taking my first college computer science course. I did very well on my first exam (loops, methods, keyboard input, types, etc). However, this question seriously has me stumped. How do I make the quarter circle/square? I attached a picture of the question.
Heres what I know:
- I know I will need a loop
- Need to declare Random integer- how do I do this?
- I have no idea where to start
Code for program:
import java.util.Random; class Dogs { public static void main (String[] args) { Random integer r = new Random // Completely wrong probably.
Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.


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Welcome to Lewiston Pistol Club's Boomershoot. This is a long range, high-power, precision rifle shooting event with high explosive, reactive targets up to 700 yards away. Boomershoot is located in North Central Idaho near Orofino. Shooters and spectators have shown up to Boomershoot from faraway locations including India, England, Alaska, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Montana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Washington.
Our next event will be in the spring of 2020. Sign up and pricing is found here.
Boomershoot merchandise is available here. This particular event is the 'baby' of Joe Huffman. His Boomershoot blog is here. Scroll below this photo for more:
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Weekend Cooking - Chicken Dum Biryani & Muhallabia
this flavourful Biryani Masala
i thought of trying it
and i am so glad i did
paired it with onion tomato raita
this is how i did
Recipe Name Chicken Dum Biryani
Chicken half kg
onion three chopped
tomato one chopped
garlic clove three chopped
ginger half inch chopped
green chili two chopped
curd one cup
shan biryani masala half packet
rice one a half cup
fried onion to garnish one tbsp
edible yellow colour pinch
cook rice till its half done ,keep aside
heat oil in non stick wok
add chopped ginger,garlic and green chili
after a minute add choopped onions
keep frying till the onions are done
add chopped tomatoes followed
by biryani masala ,keep frying
till oil isseen along the sides
add chicken pieces and keep frying
add few drops of water and cover and cook
once the chicken is done ,keep aside.
In a broad vessel place the cooked chicken
followed by layer of rice, sprinkle orange colour,
dash of lemon juice and fried onion
repeat the same procedure.
seal the pot with dough and cook on low flame for 10 - 15 mins
serve warm with raita ;-)
For Muhallabia/Rice & Almond Pudding
grounded rice half cup
milk two and a half cup
sugar half cup
cardamom three crushed
almond and pistachio chopped two tbsp
rose water one tbsp
mix rice flour in half cup of milk keep aside
boil two cup of milk ,once the milk starts boiling
reduce heat to low medium
add rice paste,crushed cardamom and sugar
keep stirring to prevent lump formation
once the mixture starts boiling add chopped nuts
followed by rose water ,let it simmer for 10 - 15 mins
once done remove from flame .
spoon into individual bowls and refrigerate
serve chilled .
Linking this post to
The Weekly Story -62 hosted by Colours Dekor\
Royal Feast Biryani Food Event hosted by Kaarasaaram
thats all friends,take care
and happy Blogging...
13 comments:
- Finla said...
I love biriyani and this looks so so good.
- January 10, 2012 at 11:42 PM
- Aarthi said...
I love this..Thanks for the recipe..This looks mouthwatering
- January 11, 2012 at 12:33 AM
- Unknown said...
Wow... Biryani looks yummy..:))
Thanks for linking it to the event dear..
It is a must try recipe..
- January 11, 2012 at 3:03 AM
wow!! wow!! that sure looks yumm...
- January 11, 2012 at 12:24 PM
- Priya Suresh said...
Droolworthy and super tempting dishes..
- January 11, 2012 at 8:06 PM
- divya said...
Woww.. .mouth watering here.. looks absolutely delicious and perfect.. thanks for the wonderful recipe dear..
- January 11, 2012 at 10:27 PM
- Bong Mom said...
Happy New Year. Biryani sure looks yumm
- January 12, 2012 at 2:19 AM
- Hamaree Rasoi said...
Biryani looks yummy...
Hamaree Rasoi
- January 12, 2012 at 8:09 PM
- pallavi said...
woww looks yum babes :) btw an i use rie flour for te pudding?
- January 13, 2012 at 12:08 AM
- Cham said...
I too love shan masala, love the dum biryani!
- January 13, 2012 at 4:29 AM
Can anything be better than biryani! This looks so yummy :)
- January 13, 2012 at 6:37 AM
- Jaya M said...
Shan masala ..they have varied ranges of spices..someday try the shammi kabab masala..really great..love your preparation with dum and desert looks delicious..hugs and smiles
- January 13, 2012 at 6:30 PM
- Priyanka said...
Yummy and tempting
- January 17, 2012 at 5:56 AM


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Thread: Car seats in an ambulance
Car seats in an ambulance
***Disclaimer- because there is NO "approved" way to secure a car seat in the back of an ambulance, this is what I do. After 8 years of trial and error this is what we have found to be the most secure.***
If the child is uninjured and NOT the patient (i.e. if you are transporting a child because the parent or caregiver has no alternative choice) then make sure you bring the child's car seat along for the ride back home, and we put them in the built in seat. Our built in seat is VERY specific that it is to be used REAR FACING only. (Our captain's chair pivots forward facing, though not all captain's chairs offer this feature).
For the sake of pictures I used a Sunshine Kids Radian. I will be editing this post later to also include a Britax Boulevard, a Graco Snugride, and either a Cosco Scenera or Evenflo Titan when those seats become available to me.
For the Radian I found it best to keep the recline boot attached. The stretcher will not sit at a complete 90 degree upright angle, and you can see from the pics that even with the boot attached the seat is VERY upright. I have simply adjusted the back of the stretcher to meet the angle of the seat (securely, not just touching).
Start by unbuclking the top two straps on the stretcher. If yours is equipped with shoulder straps, remove and secure those.
Don't ya just love the mauve sheets the hospital gives out for EMS use? (They match the seat well, lol).
I have found for whatever reason, it is easier to install the top strap first. I route this one through the forward facing belt path. Depending on the length of your straps, it may be easier to send the male end completely through the belt path, bucle it, then pull the slack back through. (opposed to sending the female end into the back of the car seat and attempting to buckle them blindly).
Repeat with the middle stretcher strap in the rear facing belt path:
Then secure both of them, removing the slack.
If your female end is long enough, it will clear the back of the car seat, like so:
If it is too short, it will be inside the belt path of the car seat somewhere, like so:
IF THIS HAPPENS, KEEP IN MIND THAT IT IS GOING TO BE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO UNDO. I suggest making your female end longer, especially if you have small beltpath routes as the radian does.
Personal preference here, but I carry D-ring anchors to secure here for top tether attachment (not pictured):
This is the most secure way I have found to transport an infant/toddler/small child. If a child is in their own seat they have less room to squirm around (and it's a little "familiar" to them), allowing you to apply oxygen, pulse oximetry, monitor leads, establish IV's, suction, or do other necessary interventions safely.
I am certainly open to other ideas or suggestions. Thanks.
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This is pretty much exactly the way we were taught to do it in CPST class.
The only thing I have to add is for situations when the child is not the patient and is riding in the captain's chair (if you don't have integrated seats), use the child's seat, set up in forward facing mode. No, it's not approved to be used that way, but it's better than nothing and there aren't really alternatives in certain situations. It would be preferable to find alternate transportation whenever possible.Melissa, CPST and Mom to three
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My daughter got sick after Christmas and on New Years Eve had to be transferred via ambulance from the ER closest to our house to the childrens hospital (a 15 mile trip) - I was so glad when the medics installed her seat on the stretcher (not that I wouldn't have made them myself) - their stretcher only had the straps that go over your legs and the set that goes near your chest, so they installed her Boulevard with the top set of straps through the ff belt path - they did have to recline the back of the stretcher on the way to maintain some of the lines they had attached to her - but the BV was on the stretcher rock solid.....
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This is so brilliant. The many times I've taken Shiny to the hospital by ambulance, no one ever suggested this, I just strapped her on me with a baby carrier on the front, and then they strapped me to the stretcher (far safer than the same arrangement would be in a car, but still awfully precarious compared to these setups. Then again, can you do this fast enough when there is a breathing emergency?
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I went through this in December with DD2, who was then five weeks old. She had to be transported to the naval medical center from the emergency room at another hospital, and the EMTs strapped her infant seat right onto the stretcher. I took a picture of it with my cell phone (don't know how to get it uploaded at this point) because it was just so pitiful. (I knew that, if everything turned out all right, it would be funny someday.)DD1: 4yo/42"/36lbs--Soon to be Frontier 85 (GN in DH's car)
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Wow, thats awesome. You should see some of the medics try to install car seats on their stretchers...they act like they've never touched a car seat before!
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Thanks for sharing. I am always amused at drills when people with out kids are trying to figure out what do with the seat and install it. I am going to have to share the pictures at the next drill with the ambulances and bring my seat so that can try it out.Mom to K who 6 and in a Sunshine Radian and J who is 10.
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I'm really frustrated reading this seeing that the car-seats can be installed RF on the stretcher. My son's carseat was installed on the stretcher so that he was FF even though he was 8.5 months old. They said they HAVE to for accesibility reasons for treating the patient. It was a stressful ride for many reasons including that and the car-seat nearly toppling over every time we went around a corner. Ugh. Hope to never repeat that again!Three cool kiddos:
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This is exactly what they did with my daughter, also riding in a blvd. I was very grateful to not have to worry about it!
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Just a few days after my son was born he had to be transferred to a better hospital. I was so grateful to see the EMT's buckling him into an infant seat, then strapping it to the stretcher. I later found out the one EMT was a car seat tech and she was studying to become a nurse in the PICU.
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One of my CPST recertification courses was a SafeKids webinar "transporting children in vehicles other than vehicles" (a large part of it was about amulance transport). While there are not formally approved methods for this type of transport, Riley Children's Hospital (experts in special needs tranportation) has tested various methods - and they made these recommendations that apply to this thread:
1. Use a car bed that can be secured with two cot/stretcher belts - or -
2. Use a convertible car seat for children 5-40 pounds with head control.
*Infant seats should NOT be used on a cot, as they only have one belt path
**The cot should be rear-facing, but the seat itself should be installed FF (again due to using both cot belts).
3. NEVER place a child restraint on the captian's chair, sqad bench or side-facing attendant seat.
Obviously all emergency situations are different, and I would wager that many paramedics are not familiar with the correct methods.
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Why not transport the child on the cot alone? I would have thought that ambulances would be akin to buses in safety. Also, in the first picture the car seat is installed on the cot. What if the adult is on the cot, where does the child go? Lastly what about when you are transporting the adult from home, and the child has no option but to go with and there is no car seat? For that matter, what happens to that poor child once you get to the hospital?
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The straps are not properly sized to fit a small child. The child would slide right out. They are only made to fit larger children (maybe over age 6-8). Small children would have a strap across their head or neck, and one somewhere over their legs. So it doesn't work for newbies.
Ambulances are not akin to buses. They don't have the aspect of compartmentilization (where you hit the seat in front of you to protect you). If you fly around in an ambulance you hit sharp metal cabinet corners, windows, or the back metal door, other people, or heavy equipment like EKG monitors.
If the adult is on the cot, our protocol is that the child seat gets secured to the rear facing "jump" seat .In Mommy medic's picture, they have a built in seat in that spot. For those that don't a car seat, set up for rear facing is belted in that position. But that takes away the safest place for the medic so it's done often in our service.
If it's a parent being transported and no where for the child to go, most times we will have a police officer stay with the child until someone can come. If there is no one, the child would get secured with the ambulances child seat (most services have some type of child restraint). It would go in the jump seat like the previous scenerio. We avoided transporting non patients most of the time. If the kid doesn't need to be there, he doesn't go with us. He follows some other way or stays back with a cop.
As for the ER, I work there too We have a secretary or ER tech "sit" with the child until someone can come and stay with the child. It's very rare that you never ever have *someone* who can stay with the child.
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Somehow my Nana showed up at the hospital. I guess my mom came to enough to give them Nana's phone # because my Dad was out of town.
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ROCKFORD — An Illinois Prisoner Review Board vote narrowly kept Calvin Madison in prison another year for the vicious Jan. 22, 1970 murder of 19-year-old gas station attendant John Hogan, Winnebago County State's Attorney Joe Bruscato confirmed today.
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ROCKFORD — An Illinois Prisoner Review Board vote narrowly kept Calvin Madison in prison another year for the vicious Jan. 22, 1970 murder of 19-year-old gas station attendant John Hogan, Winnebago County State's Attorney Joe Bruscato confirmed today.
Madison's parole request failed for a 32nd time, but on a 5-6 vote. Bruscato said 8 board members must vote yes for parole to be granted and Madison remains in prison.
Madison is eligible for parole again next year. Bruscato said he intends to do everything he can to send a stronger message to the parole board next time given the close vote.
"I intend to make sure that every effort is made a year from now to communicate all pertinent information to the prisoner review board to ensure that Calvin Madison is not released on parole," Bruscato said.
Hogan was working at the Gas-for-Less, 2201 W. State St., a business owned by his father. Madison, then 22, ordered Hogan, 19, into a rest room and onto his knees before shooting him four times in the back of the head. Hogan's parents, Richard and May, lived next door to the service station. They found their son in a pool of blood.
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Last year my boyfriend finally agreed to do a couple's costume. :)
He went as the house from Up, and additionally as Carl Fredricksen inside the house. The house was made from a large cardboard box, which was cut and painted with arcrylics in order to resemble the movie. Hot glue and wide elastic were used to create straps to hold up the house, and balloons were tied to the top of the straps. All of the clothing he is wearing is from his own closet, with the exception of his glasses - which were 3D glasses with the lenses taken out. Similar Carl-esque clothing could easily be located at a local Goodwill.
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Funny as this is, it's also disturbing in the sense that Senator Kyl may actually have believed the lie fed to him by his staff because this is the kind of patently false crap ceaselessly propagated by conservative media, then amplified and further distorted as it circulates within the right-wing echo-chamber like a demented game of 'telephone'…
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