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The Sophienburg Museum and Archives in New Braunfels is a hidden gem of the Texas Hill Country. It's situated in a historic and picturesque neighborhood overlooking the first colony established by Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels in 1845 here in Texas – New Braunfels. The museum is considered one of the largest sources for the chronicled history of German immigration to the Lone Star State with an impressive collection of passenger manifests, images, immigration documents, and print media dating from 1852 to the present. Today, it's also known as a source for authentic and unique German-style gifts and collector's items as a result of Sophie's Shop – the museum store – and events such as Weihnachtsmarkt make a trip to New Braunfels an annual tradition for shoppers of great taste!
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Pronounced "Vy-noks-markt," this premier Christmas shopping event is an annual tradition in New Braunfels. It offers visitors the charm of the very same outdoor markets of Germany, in an indoor setting. Volunteers with the Sophienburg Museum and Archives coordinate this yearly event, with all sales proceeds from the café, Sophie's Shop (the museum's store), vendor fees, and admissions going toward the preservation work and history education services the museum offers. This unique market is a fun and vibrant three-day event featuring traditional German food fare, local vendors as well as imported merchandise, a variety of German artifacts for viewing, and a selection of curated, high-end giftware available at the booths. You won't find any reproductions or knock-offs among the quality jewelry, collection pieces, décor, or traditional food! It doesn't get more authentic than this, from the nutcrackers right down to the Stollen Christmas wreath bread.
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Happening November 16 through November 18 this year, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the New Braunfels Civic/Convention Center, Weihnachtsmarkt is the crown jewel of the museum's annual fundraising efforts. With more than 60 artisans and vendors displaying ornaments, apparel, and gift items of high-quality, this unique Hill Country event makes for a great family affair or girlfriends' weekend getaway. The parking is free, and the time you can spend with your friends is priceless! Featuring items you're unable to find elsewhere, this event gives its guests an experience in German culture and heritage unlike any other. The music, the gourmet soups and sandwiches, and the atmosphere also make for a charming venue at which to get a head-start on your Christmas shopping! Find more information on the Weihnachtsmarkt Facebook event page or contact the museum with any questions by calling 830-629-1572.

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Mundari is a Munda language with about two million speakers in eastern India, Bangladesh and Nepal. It is closely related to Santali, and has no official status.
Mundari is written with the Bengali alphabet in Bangladesh and in the India state of West Bengal. In the India states of Bihar and Jharkhand and in Nepal the Devanagari script is used. Christian speakers of Mundari in northeastern states of India write it with the Latin alphabet, and it is written with the Odia alphabet in the Indian state of Orissa.
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text: Chandigarh, Oct 5 (PTI) The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) has assured the Punjab government that it will start procurement of crop in the state for the year 2017-18 within a week.The assurance was given by CCI officials to the Additional Chief Secretary (Development) M P Singh during a joint meeting held here last evening between officials of CCI, Agriculture Department and Mandi Board, an official spokesperson said here today. The spokesperson said that the officials also discussed the issue of sale of cotton below the Minimum Support Price (MSP), in addition to the purchase to be made by CCI, at the meeting chaired by ACS (Development).The chief minister is personally monitoring the cotton procurement process and has directed the Deputy Commissioners of the cotton-producing districts to ensure that the farmers get remunerative prices of their produce, the spokesperson said.The chief minister has instructed senior officials of the concerned departments to regularly monitor the progress of ongoing procurement of the cotton crop, he said.The chief minister has also directed the Punjab Mandi Board officials to ensure that the farmers get price of cotton as per its quality and gradation, he said. The directives followed a review meeting chaired by the chief minister a few days ago to assess the progress with respect to cotton procurement, he said. The review meeting had been attended by senior officers of the state government, besides officials of the Agriculture Department as well as the Mandi Board.


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Tips on How To Create A Matte Painting
What is matte painting?
[su_heading size="20″ align="center"]Commonly, matte paintings were made by artists making use of paints or pastels on huge sheets of glass for incorporating with the live-action video footage in movies.[/su_heading]
As the ages passed, the innovation has developed as well as helped in creating some groundbreaking matte paintings for the movies like Avatar, Indiana Jones. The films environments were produced by artists such as Linwood G. Dunn and Norman Dawn.
By the mid-1980s, new modern technology enabled matte painters to work in the electronic world. The first-ever digital matte chance was developed by artist Chris Evans in 1985 for Youthful Sherlock Holmes in a scene including a CGI knight leaping from a stained-glass home window. Evans first created the window in polymers, after that checked the painting into LucasFilm's Pixar system for additional digital control. The computer animation blended with the electronic matte paintings.
Because the turn of the century, paint has been replaced by digital pictures developed making use of image references, 3D models, and also attracting tablet computers. Matte painters integrate their digitally matte paintings created appearances within computer-generated 3D settings, permitting 3D video camera motion.
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1. A vital factor to consider to take note prior to starting a new matte painting task or before beginning the matte painting scene is to make a draft of the globe that we are visiting produce. It does not have to be rather; it just offers us a fundamental photo of ways to outline our scene. It is important as a property development device for checking out the structure of the final painting. It is a method of communicating the look to the director; it's just when the concept image has been signed off that job should start out on the actual matte painting.
2. You can search fo graphics to utilize as inspiration and also a referral to your outcome. It's good to use some reference graphics that might assist us in our matte painting for color modification as well as for the depth of the area. These images may not be utilized in the scene, however instead, are just to work as your overview on exactly how points search in the real life.
3. After you already have the visual framework of your desired matte painting project outcome and has collected some photographs for your inspiration. You can have these images opened in Photoshop and another straightforward photo editing software that you can try to. It depends on which of these programs that you can work better and easier for you to work with.
Remember, spend your time wisely and also don't hurry your job. Many of matte painters make fine concept art electronically (with Photoshop or Painter); others operate in whichever medium is ideal. As the matte painter, you need to ensure that the shades, composition and also lights are signed off, which the viewpoint is exact before relocating to the following stage and also start working on the specifics.
4. Likewise, remember that also if you might have the most efficient expertise of Photoshop on the planet, you won't be a fantastic matte painter without a fair level of all-natural artistry. You'll comprehend viewpoint like a specialist. If you're still unclear concerning constructing numerous fading away issues, now's the moment to grab any one of the many e-books on the subject as well as learn those abilities.
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OSLO, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Norwegian energy firm Statoil has signed a deal to sell gas to Ukraine state gas firm Naftogaz, the Nordic firm said on Friday, providing another source of gas for Ukraine after Russia cut off supplies.
On Thursday a source in the Ukrainian energy sector told Reuters Ukraine had received its first supplies from Norway via Slovakia and that the price was much lower than for Russian gas.
"Statoil has signed an agreement with yet another new-to-Statoil gas customer in the European gas market. The agreement with Naftogaz is for deliveries of gas in Slovakia," Statoil spokesman Morten Eek said. "From there they are responsible for transportation."
Statoil is Europe's second-largest gas supplier after Gazprom.
He did not say the value of the deal. "In a Statoil context, this is a short-term and relatively low-volume agreement," he said.
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Superdelegates Were Designed To Stop a Candidate Like Bernie
Of course the establishment candidates approve of superdelegates—these unelected electors were created precisely to protect the party elite.
Those involved had deep doubts about the wisdom of opening up the nominating process to control by voters.
Many moments in Wednesday's Democratic debate have already deservedly made headlines: Elizabeth Warren's evisceration of Mike Bloomberg, the ongoing feud between Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, and Bernie Sanders' defense of socialism, to name a few. Perhaps the most important came at the very end.
Asked whether the candidate who ends the primary season having won the most delegates should also win the nomination, all the candidates bar Sanders—who now looks poised to win Nevada and the states beyond—demurred, insisting that the party follow the "rules" and "the process" set up.
Sanders was the sole outlier. "Well, the process includes 500 superdelegates on the second ballot," he responded. "So I think that the will of the people should prevail, yes." Sanders was referring to the current nominating rules, which stipulate that if no single candidate wins a majority of pledged delegates on the first ballot, the choice goes to a second ballot where all delegates are free to vote however they like—including those hundreds of party bigwigs known as the superdelegates.
What that means is that four years after inflaming progressive rage in 2016, and only two years after having their power weakened, superdelegates may well help decide another Democratic nomination. And if so, they will work exactly as designed: to allow the party establishment to kneecap an outsider candidate if the democratic process goes in a direction unfavorable to party elites.
"Peer review"
As outlined in my 2016 In These Times investigation, superdelegates were created in 1982 by the Hunt Commission over frustration with the nominating reforms of 1970, which party leaders blamed for allowing the nomination of an unruly outsider like Jimmy Carter, and thus his 1980 drubbing at the hands of Ronald Reagan. As Elaine Kamarck, a Hunt Commission member and superdelegate, explained to In These Times in 2016, the party came off that loss looking to protect itself from future "outlier candidates."
The transcripts of the commission's seven-month-long discussions from July 1981 to February 1982, obtained from the National Archives, make painfully clear how sharply the creation of the superdelegates was tied to anxiety over the loss of influence for party elites. As Xandra Kayden, a member of the Center for Democratic Policy (now Center for National Policy), explained in August 1981, the advent of the primary system was "the principal reason we lost control of the nomination at the presidential level," and Democratic officials and top-ranked party members had to "regain control of the nomination."
"There are those who feel on the one hand that the fate of the Party has been what it has been because of the reforms" of those years, said Walter Fauntroy, a civil rights activist and the District of Columbia's non-voting delegate to Congress. He added during the discussions that "had the party regulars and the party structure remained in control of nominations and in control of resources and the like, that our fate would have been much better."
Those involved had deep doubts about the wisdom of opening up the nominating process to control by voters.
"Whether you have 100,000 or 10,000 or 10 million people participate has no bearing whatsoever on the quality of the outcome," Minneapolis Mayor Don Fraser said at the time. This was after Fraser had opened the proceedings by joking that the party could simply decide to ignore the results of the primaries entirely, receiving "general laughter" from the room.
"We are the only democratic country in the world in which political parties pick their candidates in this manner," Austin Ranney, an election expert and alum of the 1968 Hubert Humphrey campaign, complained at the time. "In every other democratic country in the world, you name it, this is the case, the candidate is picked by a relatively small group of party people in which the party's elected public representatives, people who have faced the test of getting themselves elected to public office, play a prominent role."
Central to this was the idea of party elites' superior wisdom—the "certain political acumen, a certain political antenna" they brought to proceedings, as Connecticut State Sen. Dick Schneller put it at the time.
Ranney complained that the old system, one where party elites alone decided, meant there was a process of "peer review." Picking a winning candidate through such means wasn't guaranteed, he said, but the odds were much higher.
"There is nobody who can better tell a candidate how to win the state of California than a senator or a governor of California who has in fact won that state several times," said Kamarck. It echoed the view of future vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro, who told participants that party elites "can positively bring to the convention the views of the grassroots who are their constituents."
Combating "special interests"
At the heart of all this was the party's trauma from the 1980 landslide loss, which officials viewed as a product of choosing unrepresentative candidates who catered only to the party's base.
"We have fair reflection of those voters and caucus participants who vote or participate in the caucuses, but what about the majority of Democrats who vote in November but not in the primaries?" political scientist Thomas Mann asked at the time.
"Sometimes I think that the Democratic Party in its present version comes across to a great many people as not so much a single party working for a common goal as a bunch of its single interest groups, special interests groups itself," griped Ranney. "There is the Women's Lobby and there is the—I mean Caucus, and there is the Black Caucus, and there is the Right to Life Caucus, and there is this caucus and there is that caucus."
This kind of rhetoric was common for the era, perhaps best embodied by none other than former vice president and current Democratic contender Joe Biden. As outlined in my forthcoming political biography of Biden, the then-Delaware senator spent the 1980s touring with the corporate-backed Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) lecturing the Democratic Party to change.
Biden would later complain in 1993 about the "idiotic groups out there" like the "XYZ Group for American Values" and the "QSY Group to Save All the Women in the World." He made repeatedly clear throughout the decade that these "interest groups" or "special interests" he and other Democrats were complaining about weren't, as they used to be, big business and its lobbyists; they were the various minority and activist groups that formed the party's base.
In 1978, as he pivoted sharply rightward for a re-election campaign held in the shadow of that year's taxpayers rebellion, he blamed the growth of the federal budget on constituent interest groups' reluctance to cut programs that specifically benefited them. Or as he told the NAACP convention more bluntly in 1986 when taking aim at Jesse Jackson's campaign, "You can't try to pit the Rainbow Coalition, blacks, Hispanics, poor whites, gays, against the middle class."
This mindset was reflected in the Hunt Commission, whose namesake, North Carolina Gov. James Hunt—name-checked by Alvin From, then-head of the DLC, as a leader with an admirable record—suggested something similar in the commission's opening. "There are some people in this party that maybe still feel a little left out, and maybe some of them are the sort of middle-income Americans," he said. "I hope we can figure out some ways to get them more involved. I think we can do that."
In other words, at the same time that Biden and other neoliberal Democrats were castigating the party for listening to "special interests"—meaning its diverse voting base—over what they viewed as mainstream Democratic voters, this mindset found its way into the Hunt Commission deliberations. Participants worried about the party becoming viewed as merely a collection of "interest groups," and hoped that giving a bigger voice to party elites would ensure "middle income Americans" and other groups they viewed as alienated from the party thanks to its earlier rule changes were represented.
These rationales were put to the test in 1984. Contrary to the popular adage that superdelegates have never decided an election, by party members' own admission at the time, superdelegates were integral in giving establishment-favorite candidate Walter Mondale an early and sustained edge over his closest rivals that year: the young, charismatic and neoliberal Gary Hart, and the progressive populist Jesse Jackson. The superdelegates then helped defeat or weaken several platform planks put forward by both, including reining in the use of nuclear weapons and military force in general and watering down an affirmative action program.
The election result didn't bode well for the supposedly superior acumen of party elites: Mondale, who made cutting the deficit the center of his campaign, suffered an even worse defeat than Carter, winning only his home state of Minnesota and Washington, D.C. In some ways, it presaged the outcome of 2016, when superdelegates put their thumb on the scale for another establishment candidate who suffered another (albeit vastly narrower) electoral disaster at the hands of a radical right-wing Republican.
The Democrats might be hoping the superdelegates can still save them from Bernie Sanders. But there are grave reasons to question whether they'll save them from Donald Trump.
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text: During the past few years, a number of Iranian commercial banks have suggested that Automated Teller Machines (ATM) should be updated and adjusted to accept checks. Namely, CEO of Bank Mellat Mohammadreza Saroukhani has announced that the bank aims to introduce the service in the coming fiscal year (starting March 21), IRNA reported. "Although the Central Bank of Iran does not yet have a definite plan in this regard if commercial banks have the necessary potentials for implementing the update, the CBI won't hesitate to offer the needed support," said Nasser Hakimi, Central Bank of Iran's head of communication and information technology.


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The Challenge
Many of today's law enforcement and regulatory agencies face the challenge of maintaining capacity and capability within an environment of reducing resources and fiscal changes. The natural and logical reaction to diminished resources is to find a way to 'do more with less'. This search often finds that to do more with less requires an increase in the efficiency and effectiveness of operational activity (investigations) but at same time maintaining the quality of investigation outcomes.
For many agencies, reacting to treat operational efficiency and effectiveness sometimes turns out to be a timely and often misguided departure from 'business as usual' and at times yields limited results. This is because with the issue of improving efficiency, quality and effectiveness of investigations many agencies make the assumption that investment in a new "case management system (CMS)" will be the solution.
Convinced by the promise of modern technology and the array of task management, data capture, link charting, reporting, time tracking and accountability features on offer, agencies wedge recently acquired new CMS into the operational environment. However, after implementing these new systems (often with resistance from the actual end users) agencies find that their shiny new CMS, has not yielded the promised increased productivity. Although accountability, tracking and reporting of cases has been significantly increased through the CMS, the efficiency and effectiveness of investigations has remained unchanged or in some cases actually deteriorated.
The question is why?
The diagnosis (or perhaps excuse) of this failure will vary from agency to agency and will range from a mismatch of CMS to agency needs, resistance to cultural change, implementation difficulties and a variety of other explanations. But perhaps the true reason, is that the CMS was in fact doing the job it was designed to do, namely managing the case (case management) when to achieve increased productivity, what it should have been doing was managing the investigation (investigation management).
Consider these issues which are often found to be the cause of poor investigations.
A CMS is unlikely to be able to deal with any of these issues. In fact the introduction of a CMS may actually reduce efficiency even further as investigators now have to commit a great deal of time entering data into the CMS so that the case reporting features are maintained. Investigators frustrated with complex or time consuming data entry requirements will often start to take short cuts on evidence or information management to avoid having to actually use various components of the CMS. These shortcuts or resistance can often lead to further quality control issues.
Case Management Systems (CMS) exist in one form or another with agencies. Whether it's a simple database designed in-house or an elaborate system purchased from an external provider. Historically the primary purpose of case management systems is to record complaints , track investigation progress, report on outcomes. Some have evolved to allow upload of scanned documents and folders, relational link charting, time tracking and a myriad of other case reporting and accountability features. But do these features have anything to do with investigation management?
Case Management v Investigation Management
Some of the more recent discourse around distinguishing 'case management' characteristics from actual 'investigation management' has been framed by contrasting 'structured' and 'unstructured' work. While the CMS tools have delivered improved cycle times for many simple 'structured' investigations (e.g. insurance claim investigations, private investigations), automation of unstructured investigations – like those that have a higher standard of proof and depend on costly skilled human resources (i.e criminal, accident, regulatory, corruption investigations)– has remained often elusive.
Neil Dutton, one of Europe's most experienced and high profile IT industry analyst expands on this issue through defining two types of work processes as 'Transactional Work' v 'Exploratory Work'. Transactional work is work in which the inputs are well-understood, the outputs are well-understood, and there's a strong correlation between carrying out a very clear, particular set of actions and consistent transformation of those inputs into those outputs. Transactional work in the context of investigations are areas of complaint recording , task tracking, link analysis, exhibit management, business reporting and other structured activities (as often found in many CMS).
Exploratory work is very different in the way that it feels. Exploratory work is often what lurks underneath verbs like "investigate", "diagnose", "analyses", "co-ordinate", "solve", "determine", "arbitrate" and so on. The inputs to exploratory work may be broadly categorisable, but are probably not completely predictable. The outputs are likely to be well-understood in terms of high-level goals (see the verbs above), but probably but not in terms of tight specifications. And most importantly, the set and sequence of actions needing to be performed, and the people or roles needing to perform them, are very unlikely to be known ahead of time.
There may be some high-level waypoints or milestones that are common to a particular type of exploratory work (verify complaint, identify offender, prove the breach, secure prosecution) but they provide a very loose, rather than tight, structure. In exploratory work, as the label suggests, the overall experience for both the investigators and other stakeholders is that of a set of possibilities being explored rather than a recipe being followed.
Exploratory work is the natural and fluid work form in key parts of an investigation that touch its participants. Many CMS have tried to engineer out the variances, eradicate the exceptions and force-fit natural interactions into transactional boxes. In the age of increasing public expectations and as we witness a shift towards truly Digital Enterprises, we can't afford to ignore the potential upside of supporting exploratory work with specialised tools that make it more effective, more efficient, less error-prone and more improvable without reducing its nature.
In summary, agencies must ensure they truly understand the characteristics of the harms, risks or issues they are trying to solve and whether they are based within transactional work or exploratory work. Failing to understanding these characteristics may lead to the implementation of new processes which improve the transactional work and reporting component of investigations but fail to have any impact on the exploratory work where the true nature of the issues exist. Agency decision makers should have a clear understanding of the difference between investigation management tools and case management tools if there is a true desire to increase the productivity and quality of investigations.
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Only a place that has been free from a Covid-19 case for 28 days can be considered a safe zone, Dr Yong Poovorawan, expert virologist at Chulalongkorn University, said.
The doctor said through his social media account that the a safe zone is always a place which is free from a disease for two times the incubation period. The concept was used in the time of Sars, Mers and also Ebola.
For example in the case of Sars, a safe zone is an area where a Sars case is not found for 20 days, since the incubation period is 10 days.
For Covid-19, the safe area must be areas where Covid-19 is not found for 28 days, since its incubation period is 14 days.
Thai returnees switch border crossings after virus outbreak at Sadao
Thai nationals in Malaysia continued to flow through Songkhla's Padang Besar border checkpoint on Thursday (April 23), afterthe Sadao checkpoint was temporarily closed on Wednesday.
Thais seeking to return from Malaysia have been redirected to Padang Basar while the Sadao checkpoint is disinfected, following the discovery that two Immigration police officers there had been infected with Covid-19.
Thursday marked the sixth day since five Thai-Malaysian border checkpoints were opened to allow Thais stranded in Malaysia to return. Mandatory quarantine measures are in place for all returnees.


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Nothing beats a human translator, but Google Translate and other software-based solutions have become decent alternatives for helping with basic translations. Do you need an English word translated into German? No problem – but what if you need to talk to someone who does not speak your language? Is Google Translate capable of doing this? The answer is not really.
Although Google Translate has a conversation mode that translates both sides of a spoken conversation between two different languages, it is somewhat hollow and inefficient. You may also have a conversation with someone else on Google Translate. However, this must be done before it becomes the target group. There are also Google Pixel Buds that offer real-time translation in the ear, but they only work with Google Pixel and will cost you $ 1
If you're looking for a free option, you can use Voice Translator by Alive Mobile is an enhancement to Google Translate and other similar apps by effectively turning your iPhone into an interpreter.
Step 1: Download the Voice Translator
Voice Translator – Alive is available on iOS and will be available on Android soon. According to the developers, this is the first language translator app with five built-in translation engines, providing more accurate translations than other apps. More than 115 languages are supported for text translation, while 36 languages are supported for language translation.
Step 2: Select Languages
Unlike Google Translate, Voice Translator is specifically designed for bidirectional, real-time, real-time translation, but it can also be a normal one Perform text-to-text translation. Open the app and you can choose which two languages - including Arabic, English, Chinese, French, Korean, and Spanish – to talk to. Just tap the flag icons above to change the language. If you tap the icon at the top left, you can translate text into text.
Step 3: Start a conversation
When you start a conversation with another person you want, tap the button with your language and speak. The app recognizes when you're done with the talking, and instantly translates your words aloud. You can also tap the voice button to stop it immediately. Pass the phone to the next person to continue the conversation. Every time you stop talking, a speech bubble will appear with what you have said and the translation. If you want to repeat the translation at any time, tap the sound icon in each balloon.
Use the function Photos to insert any image of your phone into the translator. This is useful if you have a long list of things to discuss that you can not memorize. The translation bubbles appear under the photo. You can use the browser to surf the Web in the Translator. If you are looking for a restaurant or bar that you are looking for and you need help in a foreign country, for example, you can do it all with Voice Translator.
You can use the calculator to place a calculator in your translator. With Maps you can search for directions within the app.
Step 6: Manage settings
Finally, you have the settings in which you can manage various functions, such as Voice speed and voice end detection. If you find that the translator is turning off you while talking, turn off the Detect Voice End feature. You can also upgrade to Premium here, which includes unlimited translations, offline translations, and no ads.
The application is currently in beta phase, so be sure to post in the near future Look for improvements and other features.
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VA Secretary David Shulkin to keynote HIMSS18
David J. Shulkin, MD, the ninth Secretary of Veterans Affairs, will keynote the 2018 HIMSS Conference and Exhibition. During his keynote, Secretary Shulkin will discuss medical care for veterans, as well as the changes and innovations occurring at the VA.
Shulkin's address is entitled "It Takes a Community – Delivering 21st Century Coordinated Care for Those In and Out of Uniform." He has been overseeing the VA's high-profile health IT move from its VistA electronic health records system to the Cerner EHR.
Prior to serving as secretary, Shulkin was the VA's undersecretary for health for 18 months, leading the country's largest integrated healthcare system with more than 1,700 sites of care serving nearly nine million veterans.
Before he began his service with the VA, Shulkin held numerous chief executive roles at Morristown Medical Center and the Atlantic Health System Accountable Care Organization. He also served as president and CEO of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City.
Shulkin will be joined by Vice Admiral Raquel Bono, who leads a joint, integrated Combat Support Agency enabling the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps medical services to provide a medically ready force to combatant commands in both peacetime and wartime.
During her HIMSS18 keynote, Vice Admiral Bono will discuss advancements in military health to ensure seamless data delivery and care coordination.
Earvin "Magic" Johnson will deliver the closing keynote address. From his decades as charismatic face of the Los Angeles Lakers – first, as Hall of Fame point guard, now as president of basketball operations – to his current status as a billionaire investor and catalyst for positive change in the community, Johnson has always been a larger-than-life personality. At HIMSS18, Johnson will offer insights based not just on his legendary exploits on the court, but his experiences with the U.S. healthcare system as a longtime HIV patient.
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An inside look at the innovation, education, technology, networking and key events at the HIMSS18 global conference in Las Vegas.
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text: Orange Radicchio Salad Davida Kugelmass For a fresh spring salad recipe, whip up this Orange Radicchio Salad and get the ultimate mixture of sweet and savory. Topped with a maple vinaigrette, this easy and flavorful salad will become a salad staple. Well hello April! Seems like a natural time for you to transition into Spring, doesn't it? NOT. Thank you for this sick April Fools joke Mother Nature. You and I need to have a real conversation about your sense of humor… But my love-hate relationship with Mother Nature isn't stopping me from dreaming up some fresh Spring salads. After a winter of soups galore (souper sunday anyone?!), it's time to bring on the raw and seasonal fruits and veggies. And no, I'm not just talking about spinach and berries… This is an excerpt from the article Orange Radicchio Salad which originally appeared on http://www.thehealthymaven.com/.


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This mornings run was going to be a quicky.
I had an hour.
As I started my run, the trail was super slick and very icy in spots. The parts of the trail that still had snow on it had packed down icy snow. This must be a popular snow play area at the bottom as its so close to the highway.
Icy trail meant I had to walk way more then I would have liked to. It was a real pain in the ass and and I decided that I would run the three miles up to the road and then run Keller's Peak Road back, hoping to avoid the icy trails.
So I started running and running and running, I mean where I could. I ran the parts that were not icy slippery falling down the ridge, death! I guess this walking slash running has a name. Its called fartlets. Giggle giggle. I knew I was meant to be a runner! I am awesome at fartlets!
I had a nice little laugh as I fartleted my way up the trail. That may or may not be a word.
The Exploration Trail turns out is nine miles round trip.
Of course I was unaware of this. For some reason I just had it in my head that it was around three miles to the top of the trail and the road. I had hiked about a mile of this trail before so I knew a little bit what to expect.
The Exploration trail has over a thousand feet of elevation gain as you run through an ever changing forest made up of pine and oak trees. This trail ascends the Northern part of Keller's Peak. Keller has to summits both at over 7,800, Keller's Peak and Slide Peak. Keller's Peak is well known for the B-62 bomber that crashed here during World War Two. I have heard you can still easily find the crash sight and debris near the summit of the North Slope. There is a asphalt road that runs through this area of the forest up to the fire look out tower at the top of Keller's Peak Road, and also Children's Forest, a cool little park area.
As I ran through the empty forest the forest began to change from a pine forest with Jeffrey pines, black pines and cedar trees to an oak forest. Instead of huge pine cones to vault over, I was running through fields of crisp dried leaves. And snow. Lots and lots of snow. At the lower elevation the snow was a packed down icy mess and I was annoyed as I slid up the icy trail. As I found myself miles down the trail the foot prints and signs of snow play thinned out and I found myself running through two feet of snow in places. In shorts. This was a sixty degree mountain day in January. You have got to love Southern California, right? So I had to wear shorts. It seemed like a good idea when I was walking out my front door into the warm winter sun light. Less of a good idea when you're jogging through two feet of snow and getting a rash all over your lower legs from the icy course snow. Yet I just kept running. I mean I had to be at the top soon, right? As I made my way to the top of one of the little mountains, I was met with one of the most gorgeous views I have ever seen in our mountains. I was high above the pine forest at this point and from this vantage point I could look all the way across the pine forest to the ridge across from me. Interesting that I did not see town, the highway, or Keller's Peak Road. Where the f was I? And If I was going to cross the road in a mile or so, where was the damn road? I leaned against some big ass boulders and contemplated this. Then I just started running up and up and up the trail again. The road had to be up here somewhere, right? Oh yeah, and my GPS on my phone was not exactly working. I've run at Keller's lots of time's and I know I have cell service here. I was getting frustrated as I kept trying to look at the map on my phone to see how close to the road I was and the road was no where to be seen on the grid. I felt like I had run my way into the mountain twilight zone!
Now I knew that where Exploration Trail met the road there was manzanita growing every where, so as I ran out of the oak area of the forest I was waiting and waiting for the manzanita to appear. Yet all I saw were fields of Buck's Brush, some more big ass boulders and more and more snow. Where was I? Alaska?I sneaked a peak at my GPS and realized I had been running for almost four mile's at this point. And my running shoes had been soaking wet for about two miles of that. I could feel my feet swishing wet with every step I took. At least there were no blisters yet. Yea. Especially as I was so many miles from the car. One last angry glance at the GPS and I gave up. It was 11:45 and I was suppose to be at my boy friend's house down the hill at one. I did not mean to run for hours and hours, but what an amazing workout! The only problem was as I made my way back down the mountain I found myself way more exhausted then I expected to be. Running down the mountain was suppose to be the easy part, right? I was so frustrated running back. I tried to enjoy this truly gorgeous day in the surprisingly warm winter forest but all I could think about was how badly I wanted to go home and look at a map! I started to wish I would run into another human being on this deserted trail so I could ask where I was. Well, there was one way to make a crowd of people show up.
I had to pee in the forest. You see, the second I take off my pants in the forest, whip out my white, white ass, and probably pee in either poison oak, stinging nettle, an ants nest or a combination of the three, a crowd of school children or possibly a bus full of Korean tourist will unload around the corner. I was running the trails by my house yesterday, trails where I have not run into a person in years. I decide to have a pee in the forest and just as I get my pants back on, I have a friendly black lab in my face and then a super hot fire fighter runs around the corner.
My system work's.
Well kind of.
I accomplished peeing in nature without any visible rashes or bug bites showing up right away. I had my pants resecurred and I was running quite slowly back down the trail. Oh yeah, did I mention I was exhausted, and starving at this point? I was so wishing I had thrown some Cliff Gu or glucose tabs in my pack I was fading fast. The run down the mountain should have been easy. I was thinking about all of this when I ran around the corner and almost smack into a pit bull puppy, owner a few steps behind. See, my peeing trick works! So I stopped to talk to this lady who was also out running the trail. I realized I actually knew her through a friend of a friend and we had a great talk about Exploration Trail and how it is eight miles to the top! Good thing I turned around! Or that's what I gathered from our conversation. Looking at a map now, I realize she must have been saying it was eight miles round trip and I was almost to the top! Grr.
So tomorrow before work, all I want to do is go back and make it to the top! Also, the nice blond lady told me that there is actually a short cut you can take through camp site seven, and I might try that in the spring, when the road is open to car traffic. It was so nice to finally complete the run at almost eight miles and go home to a big bowl of berries and granola!
Berries and Granola
0% fat greek yogurt
Raw honey
Homemade granola
2 cups oats
1 tab cinnamon
1 tab psyillum powder
1 cup cashews
1/4 cup raw honey
1/8 cup coconut oil
Mix all. Bake in a 325 oven for 15 minutes until browned. Stir constantly.


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Italian Herb Crusted Pork Chops
We have already enjoyed a few of the pork chops from our pastured hog. Cooked up, plain-Jane, they are pretty tasty. Last night I decided to try something a little different. I took a recipe for breaded pork chops and tweaked it a bit. These beauties ended up tender and juicy! I served them up with some seasoned couscous with bell peppers, frozen from the garden, and a green salad.
4 pork chops (ours are bone-in, 1 inch thick)
1 1/2 cups breadcrumbs (we use Panko)
1 egg, lightly beaten with 1 teaspoon of water
1 Tablespoon dried parsley
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper (approximate)
1/4 teaspoon dried tarragon
Olive oil, for pan
Oven proof skillet
If you are using fresh herbs, you can use less than this recipe calls for, maybe about half the amount. I use my trusty 12″cast iron skillet for this (and almost all) recipes. The chops fit in just right.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
After thawing in the refrigerator, allow pork chops to come to room temperature before cooking. This allows them to cook a little quicker and more evenly. Warm skillet to medium. This preheat is mostly necessary if using cast iron, so that the heat will be even once the chops are added. Add about 2 Tablespoons of olive oil to the pan, or enough to coat the bottom, and then some.
Combine the breadcrumbs, herbs and spices and toss lightly to mix. Dip each chop in the beaten egg mixture, then into the breadcrumbs, pressing lightly to give a good coat of crumbs. Place the chops into the heated skillet and brown, about 4-5 minutes per side.
Place the skillet with chops into your preheated oven and bake for approximately 15-20 minutes (depending on thickness of chops) until the internal temperature reaches 145 degrees.
For the couscous:
2 cups of uncooked couscous
1 cup of chopped bell pepper
1/4 cup finely chopped green onion
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon tarragon
freshly ground black pepper to taste
boiling water
Add all herbs and spices, pepper and onion to a medium bowl. Put the uncooked couscous on top of these ingredients. Pour boiling water over the couscous until it is covered by about 3/4 to 1 inch of water. Let stand for 10 minutes, until water is absorbed. Fluff, and mix together with a fork. Serve hot, topping with parmesan cheese, if desired.
Pastured Pork
I would venture to say that our first attempt at raising pastured hogs was a success over-all. Like any of our new projects, there were some definite learning moments and we have plenty of ideas to implement in the coming season. Regardless, we picked up 4 piglets in April and brought 4 hogs to slaughter before the end of the year and the contents of the packages that came back from the butcher are delicious. So, yes, I'd call it a win!
We've had a lot of interest in pork, so we thought it would be informative and helpful to get information on the blog to give an idea of what you can expect when ordering pork from the farm.
First, a quick note on how our pork was raised. Like all the animals on the farm, our hogs are moved periodically to fresh ground. This summer, they moved about once every week and a half. The schedule is determined by the effect they have on a specific piece of ground and the weather. Pigs are omnivores, so in addition to rooting for treats at ground level, eating brush and grasses, they are also fed a prepared ration and grain, free choice. A multi-strand electric fence keeps the pigs safe from predators and allows us to coordinate their behavior to the benefit of the farm. The hogs helped to clear brush ahead of Dave, so that he could get into these areas to clean deadfall and debris left by previous owners of the property. This will allow us to open up the wooded area to create a savannah-like environment with ample shade, but enough sun to get a good pasture established so that we can bring other animals through the area to graze.
We accidentally had the opportunity to try two different slaughterhouses in the area. While we were preparing for our first appointment in Langdon, two of the four pigs refused to load into the trailer. We ended up having to wait until the day before Thanksgiving to take the remaining hogs to slaughter in Aneta. This was actually a good experience as each establishment has their own way of doing things, including different recipes for curing cuts like ham, bacon and sausage. This also gave us some insight into pricing for processing and what you get for those prices.
These hogs were sold to the customer based on liveweight, either as a 1/2 hog or a whole hog at $2.10/pound. At slaughter, they ranged from 270 to 320 pounds, with the later slaughtered hogs coming in over the 300# mark. An average to plan for would be between 250 to 300 pounds.
When we bring the animals to the butcher, the customer owns the whole animal. You pay the butcher based on the hanging weight of your animal. This is the weight after slaughter, minus the blood and innards. You get the best value for your dollar by asking for and planning to use, every part of the animal available. Some of the cuts that most of us would not be used to using are the hocks, heart, liver, fat and bones. Other oddments may be available, but we didn't think to ask. There are a multitude of ways to use these parts of the animal like making lard for cooking, stews and soups. Sugar Mountain Farm has some useful information on cuts of pork.
The customer calls into the butcher to let them know what they want from their portion and what kind of curing should be done with hams, bacon and sausage. There are many either-or choices and both of the shops we worked with gave a choice and can quote current prices on the curing. We did find that per-pound, Langdon was a bit cheaper for processing costs. It seemed that Aneta gave a few more choices on the either-or cuts like shoulder steaks vs. roasts. I did like the way Aneta packaged the cured items: hams and bacon were vacuum sealed and the sausage was unstuffed. All the cuts from Langdon were in butcher paper, save the sausage which was stuffed in casings then vaccum sealed. Aneta uses less salt when curing hams, which we prefer. We also enjoyed the seasoning in their sausage recipe, though we haven't tried the sausage from Langdon yet. We did trade a customer for a pound of bacon from Langdon, but we haven't done a side by side comparison on that yet.
Here are some examples of what you can expect to get from a pastured hog. Note: this has been edited to reflect the prices paid by our customers to give a clearer picture of how it breaks down. The weights of cut and wrapped packages is approximate. The butcher facilities didn't mark the packages, so we weighed them on our home scale which is not certified.
Half a 291# hog (101 # hanging weight)
7.25 # of bacon
14.8 # cured sausage
18.4# cured ham
14.1 # chops
3# spare ribs
15.8# roasts
Price paid to the farm: $274.05
Processing fee in Langdon: $98.15
Other half (103# hanging)
6.4# bacon
11.8# ground pork (no curing)
18.9 # cured ham
15.3# chops
3.7# spare ribs
17.7# roasts
3.63# smoked hocks
14 # fat
4.3# liver
Price to Square Peg: $337.05
Processing Langdon: $88.05
270# hog (196# hanging)
15# bacon
23.8# sausage
16.6# cured ham
16.7# fresh ham
26.7# chops
5.4# spare ribs
29.6# roasts
Square Peg Price: $567.00
Langdon processing: $172.45
310# hog (260# hanging)
23# bacon
23.3# sausage
45.5# cured ham
31.1# chops
9# spare ribs
7# country style ribs
20.6# roasts
8.5# shoulder steaks
Square Peg price: $651.00
Aneta processing: $325.25
320# hog (250# hanging)
12.9# bacon
11.4# side pork (uncured pork belly)
17.8# ground pork
24.1# cured ham
27.3# chops
8.1# spare ribs
5# country style ribs
37.56# roasts (includes fresh hams)
9# shoulder steaks
7.5# smoked hocks
23.6# fat
8.6# liver
Farm price: $672.00
Aneta processing:$303.65
Please note that the last two pigs, over 300 #, are larger than we intended, due to our inexperience in loading such large, smart and stubborn animals. We don't expect to have such large animals at slaughter in the future.
Using two separate shops was unintentional this year, we have not decided yet if we will give an option of slaughterhouses or choose just one. It may depend on the number of hogs we have orders for. Feel free to contact us with questions if you'd like more detail on the breakdown of prices, though they may change from year to year.
We will be sending out order forms to plan for how many hogs and other livestock we'll have on the farm this summer. Please contact us if you'd like to be on the mailing list.


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Last Night: Triumph Over Adversity (And a Great Show!)
Ten-Foot Rat Cabaret triumphant last night! That barrel-over-Niagara Falls feeling when you sell out online and have Standbys – BUT have a medical emergency take out a key performer from your lineup last-minute. Thankfully the very talented Killy Dwyer stepped in… Just one of many thanks due:
The aforementioned Killy, in amazing musical performance-artiste form. Nataly Aukar, your work was tight and you were hysterical! (Book that gal!) Lola Selsky, what a serpentine sizzling dance performance — work together soon! Bill Chambers … my gods, you hit a new level with your Neil Diamond-channeling-Jello Biafra comedy-art-comedy (that angry tambourining!). Hot Todd Lincoln was very entertaining with his Circus Sideshow Strongman Storytelling (safe travels!)
Rat Crew/Venue Staff:
Jennifer Malbuisson, as always the Stage Manager theater pro par excellence — Merci beaucoup! Carter O'brien Ford in the tech booth and on the floor, keeping everyone hooked up, looking and sounding great, and getting set up in record time! Tess Henry working the door and juggling the tix logistics. And new friend Dana working the Bar and keeping the zillions of back-of-house details smooth and clean.
Host Jillian Thomas was on top of her game, very funny and energetic and got the show up and zooming!
My co-producer Rob Dub: you're right, is IS usually the Scots. (With so few actual complaints, we'll have to get back to work flaw-seeking at 9pm tonight.)
Special mention to Erez Ziv and the whole scrappy ragtag batallion at Frigid New York (nee Horse Trade Theater Group): thank you for all the countless things you do to maintain and nurture great independent art, theater and entertainment like our show.
But Mostly, THANKS, AUDIENCE! Thanks for coming out yet again and taking a chance on a real live East Village basement-theater show.
See you at the next Rat, on the next Second Saturday, June 8, 10:30pm! Ten-Foot Rat Cabaret: NYC's Dance Music Comedy Art Show
- And to the Standbys we had to turn away: Reserve June Tickets now!*
Read the Reviews:
"Great example of what a variety show can be!" – Opplaud.com
"Very fun stuff. That's what you can expect from Ten Foot Rat Cabaret. " – ApplauseApplause
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Twitter: @TenFootRat
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Special Thanks to Under St. Marks Theater managment: Frigid NY/Horse Trade Theater Group
*All sales final. In event of sellout, ticketholders given priority; ticketed seats become available to Standby line fifteen minutes after showtime.


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Denim shorts are a difficult one, with so many different shapes and styles it can be tricky to even know where to look. In the past I have always stuck to wearing more expensive pairs because I thought they would fit better.
However recently I popped into Topshop Personal Shop for an appointment as part of my #TopshopGirl ambassadorship and was so pleasantly surprised with the styles on offer. There were a number of different styles left on the rail and if i'm honest I just picked them up to put on with this denim jacket, not intending for it to be the outfit that I choose, but I was so shocked how much I loved the shape and fit and how flattering they were for the price! I came out of the dressing room and looked in the long mirror and knew straight away that they were coming home with me. I mean, even just the way they kick out at the back, it gives the nicest shape, doesn't it? I suppose it's safe to say I have found my new favourite style of summer short?
Then this got me thinking that why wouldn't they have great fit shorts, I already loved and wear Topshop denims consistently and same with my Topshop skirts! So, I tried on another few pairs of the different styles and again I loved them all.
I've pulled together my favourites below so you can see just how cute they are, since it's pretty much summer now and what is a summer wardrobe without the perfect pair …
Click on the item to shop it!
Everyone will be different when it comes to finding their perfect fit, but for me, if a short is going to be short (like the ones i'm wearing above "The Kiri Shorts") then I prefer it to be high waisted and if my shorts are low waisted, I want them to be slightly longer & slouchier so I don't look out of proportion. This pair i'm wearing are of course the pair I fell in love with, the perfect waist to match the length making them so flattering on my legs and bum, especially with the fraying.
They really do have all bases covered in terms of style and fit. They have Mom shorts, ripped loose denim shorts, longer shorts and good old high rise, all ranging between £26-£32. They also come in blue denim, bleach denim, white and black, so naturally I have already bought the blue denim pair of these because is there anything better than finding a pair of shorts you love and fit perfectly for £28?
Of course I wasn't going to sign off without mentioning this jacket, because seriously isn't it insane! I'm loving the slight 80s vibe from this look and that is all thanks to this cropped denim. The arms puff out in the most perfect way and that raw hem – just perfect! Another hero summer piece! I am sure you will agree if you have been following my instagram and seen all the insane pieces from Topshop like the striped Blazer, the fringed white blouse and more recently the Polka dot open back dress, that Topshop have been killing it this season. So many hero pieces that I have fallen in love with and these shorts are no exception!
What's your favourite type of summer short and have you tried any of the Topshop Styles? Leave me a comment and let me know!
Thanks for reading as always and have a wonderful new week!
L xx
This post was created in collaboration with Topshop & RewardStyle – all words and opinions are my own.


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100% Linen,Elastic waist pant, falls above ankle bone, Lower side pockets and contrast tape trim detailing. (top n/a)
1507 Mata Hari L/S
Lt. wt. Rayon/Lycra Knit
Splash Print, Longer Length
1812 Butterfly Kimono Jacket
Crinkle Jacquard - Linen/Cotton
Textured Black with contrast stitching, shown with 1510A Mesh Print Top
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1401 Ritva Tuck Hem Pant
01 Charcoal Solid Linen
100% Linen, more colors available
Tuck Hem Detail
1805 Floating Tunic
Lt-wt. Wool/Lycra Ash Gray
Wide Boat-Neck, longer length
1401 Ritva Tuck Hem
16 Charcoal Cross-Dye Stripe
Lt Wt Stripe Linen
Very Full Leg Elastic waist pant
with Tuck Detail at hem. (top n/a)
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The new BlueSmith retail location also has handwoven accessory scarves and shawls, scroll down for the display image.
BlueSmith Retail Store
Handloomed Scarves and Shawls
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Cotton/Lycra Knit -Pepper/Ash Colorway
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1802 Stripe Linen Big Shirt
Lt Wt White Linen with woven Tan Stripe. Abalone Shell Buttons, longer in back, side slits and hidden pockets
1519 Tuesday Topper
Tawny-15 (shown)
Charcoal-16 (swatch)
Easy Wear Linen duster, oversized fit
1502 Laverne Two-Tone Shirt
As Shown - Ivory/Greige
100% Linen / One Size - Large/XL
Oversized shirt with Shell Buttons. Elbow length sleeves. Double Topstitch detail.
1811 Mesh Print Muscle Tank
Sheer Mesh shown in Teal/Brown Multi Dot.
1505-03 Mata Hari L/S
Mid-wt. Cotton/Lycra - col. 03
(not sheer) Cammo Print
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1510 A-Line Mesh Top
Sheer Mesh Top shown in Mondrian Print
1806 Yin Pant
Black Modal/Spandex Soft Jersey Knit
with seaming detail at sides
1807-02 LuLu Tunic
Cotton/Lycra Knit -Split hem Detail
02-Pepper Body Colorway
BlueSmith Studio
1602 Flare Tank Dress
1601 Flare Tank Top
Sheer Mesh shown in Tropical Print
1508-01 Lorenzo Trapeze Tunic
Cotton/Lycra Knit - Ash/Pepper Colorway
Mid- Weight cotton/lycra Tunic length
1504 Jane Tunic
Large/XL Oversize Tunic with wide boatneck and side slits
Red Linen, Navy Topstitch
1405 Melissa Floating Back Shirt
As Shown - Mist
100% Linen / One Size - Large/XL
Oversized shirt with shell buttons . Linen Front & Sleeve with contrast Linen Gauze back.
1513 Long Tank
Sheer Mesh shown in Dark Cammo Print Longer Length
1804 Kimono Jacket & 1806 Pant
Black Modal/Spandex Soft Jersey Knit
shown with 1513 Dark Cammo Mesh Tank
1801 Large Floral Big Shirt
Lt. Wt. Linen in a gorgeous Large Floral Print. MOP Shell Buttons, longer in back, side slits and hidden pockets
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1804 Butterfly Kimono Jacket
Antiqued Linen in Brass/Tan color
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We are looking for transcriptions of cemeteries, deeds, federal census (free, slave, mortality, agriculture, veterans...schedules), state census, vital records (marriage, birth, death), court records (county, federal, civil, circuit, probate....), church records (membership lists, baptisms...), prison records, military records (rosters, muster rolls, service records, pension applications...), land records (deeds, land transfers, federal land grants, surveyor's records..), tax records (land, property, state, federal, local....), newspaper articles (obits, marriage & birth announcements, local events...), family histories, biographies, obituaries, photos and etc. that pertains to Cimarron County, Oklahoma, please send them to us for inclusion here. This information needs to be in plain text.
Gene Phillips - Cimarron County Archivist
Gene Phillips - Oklahoma State Archivist
Garrett Cemetery Tombstone Pictures
We owe Nareen Lake a big thank you for all the hard work she has done to bring these pictures to all of us.
Schneider, Herman A. & Mary D.
Shultz, Harriet A. Cozby
Simmons, Tom (Military Plaque)
Sinclair, Robert O.
Sloan, Dudley C. & Neva
Sparkman, Ethel J. & Dorsey R.
Sparkman, Wesley A. & Mary Lou (Shultz)
Strong, Bertha M.
Strong, C. E. (Cy) & Lou Ellen
Strong, Howard & Camella
Strong, John R. (Military Stone)
Strong, Virginia May & John Riley
Strong, William A.
Suddarth, Bertha E.
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Much of the lethargy and casual scepticism towards intercultural communication stems from many fundamental misunderstandings of what it is actually about. The commercial demand is huge for lists and tips that nutshell the secrets to intercultural interactions. We aim to show that acquiring intercultural communication skills and competence does not require knowing every detail about every culture inside out. It would be an unrealistic goal, and no one can claim to teach it. A more solid basis for intercultural communication competence derives from recognising and understanding the "why" of a few very distinct patterns of behaviour, not just cataloguing the "what". In other words, rather concentrate first on understanding the different values system behind a behaviour or communication style than on memorising exhaustive lists detailing one culture.
While this series of articles are in a way country-specific, in that
we highlight behaviour and communication patterns typical of one
country, our approach is to highlight first the core concepts of
intercultural communication. In this way, not only do the "checklists"
that follow derive credibility from a solid framework, but reveal a
wider, general applicability to other countries or cultural regions
that share the same "root" of a behaviour. Intercultural communication
competency takes you beyond merely identifying cultural
differences. For one thing, it recognises that a common geographic
region does not automatically share cultural values, and is ultimately
measured by an ability to bridge communication gaps especially where
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Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh. This has been one of my favourite paintings for a long time now, although I couldn't explain for the life of me why. I think because it just embodies everything - it is so dark yet so bright at the same time, so forboding yet also peaceful, hopeful ... almost all of humanity. I'm stretching a point here in my art analysis I know - don't think for a second that all this is going through my head consciously when I look at this painting, only now when I look at it. It just appeals to me, and these seem as good and art-critick-y reasons to give as any. :) BTW, any conspiracy/history buffs will also understand why the following painting appeals to me:
Conspiracy, religion, history, very early feminism (!?) all in one seemingly straightforward, uncontroversial, even reverant work of art. Don't get it? Read the da Vinci Code. :) XO


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"Mind blowing stuff"
Giles Peterson
"If ever proof was needed that the London jazz scene is on fire right now - here it is!"
Evening Standard
- Tenderlonious led jazz quartet Ruby Rushton and their 22a imprint have been at the forefront of the UK jazz scene since the release of their debut album 'Two For Joy' back in 2015. They followed that up in in 2017, with two albums – 'Trudi's Songbook: Volume One' & 'Trudi's Songbook: Volume Two.' Both albums were met with mass acclaim receiving award nominations and regular airtime from Gilles Peterson, Jazz FM, BBC Radio 6 and many more.
- 2019 see's the band continuing to push boundaries, and lead the way, with their new genre-defying album "Ironside". The music is rooted in the spiritual concepts of jazz heroes such as John Coltrane and Yusef Lateef, whilst adopting influences from hip hop, Afrobeat and the UK underground culture.
- Ruby Rushton have garnered support from a range of key figures in the scene: Gilles Peterson (BBC 6 Music), Jon Hillcock, Jamie Cullum, Bradley Zero, Jamz Supernova (BBC 1extra, Tom Ravenscroft (BBC 6 Music.
- Recently followed up be 'Sun Khosi' coming out on 22nd may 2020, with more music set for late 2020.
"UK jazz renaissance's leading light"