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By SB_FASD
This is for the parents, carers, guardians, extended families and friends out there who are faced with some very long days as they struggle to support a loved one with a neurodevelopmental disability. It's for those who bear the brunt of the very hardest realities of the way that underlying atypical brain-wiring in a child can affect daily life. Specifically, this is for those who love and care for people with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. In the UK as many as 6% or more may be on this spectrum and yet there is simply not (yet) awareness and support for those who are coping day by day with the social, emotional, sensory, cognitive and physical challenges that can come with this condition.
So very many families are in distress, misunderstood, sometimes judged unfairly, struggling in towns and cities for some sort of joy in a life that can be consuming with so many ups and downs and dangers and uncertainties, especially if the right diagnoses and support aren't in place.
There are limits to what parents and carers under intense pressure can endure. We are human. Helplines and support groups are full of pleas for help. Collectively, our families and homes are under siege. While there are signs things may be changing at a high policy level, on the ground there still is no visible way forward for far too many. The pain and the heartache in this community are palpable. It run deeps. I get it. I do. I have felt it. I have lived it.
But then I see something that bubbles up time and again and it really sucks the wind out of me. I see parents and carers directing this absolutely understandable angst back at their children. I see the cliff edge where compassion stops. Parents and carers react when their own fight/flight instincts kick in. Sometimes it goes to unhealthy places. In recent days I have seen parents call their children horrific terms I won't repeat here. I cringe knowing that adults with FASD will have seen those comments too.
I weep inside because those young people in those families will be absorbing all that negativity. It will make it harder for them to self-regulate. It will make it harder for them to learn coping strategies. It will in fact deepen the very behaviours that are fuelling frustrations, behaviours that are due to the underlying hidden disability, not because the person with FASD is being deliberately naughty. As the young person ages and enters adulthood the issues compound and sometimes the gap can widen at home.
So I say to a parent or carer who is at wit's end, if you're going to be angry…
…be angry at a system that refuses to see the organic brain damage caused by exposure to alcohol in pregnancy. Be angry that in most places in the UK it's nearly impossible or can take years to get diagnosed and assessed for a Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Be angry at professionals who ignore, belittle or patronise you for fighting for your child's needs. For professionals who deny this spectrum exists. For practitioners who in their arrogance insist on using therapies and behavioural approaches that do not work and can cause harm to someone with the cognitive processing issues of FASD. Be angry at national, regional and local policy makers who refuse to fund and support people with disabilities and who do not even have FASD on their radar because those definitions of disabilities too often exclude people with FASD. Be angry if someone knows a child was exposed to alcohol in the womb and doesn't bring that information forward. Be angry when this is minimised to avoid paying for support and services. Be angry when people deny the risks of drinking alcohol in pregnancy and try to confuse public messaging on this. Be angry because an adult with FASD is turned away from benefits. Be angry because a request for an Education, Health and Care Plan assessment is denied. Be angry because a student with FASD was excluded or off-rolled rather than the school trying to support their special educational needs. Be angry at the pub culture in this society and the pressures on pregnant women who are too often confused by inconsistent or conflicting information and who might drink for many reasons, but not to harm a developing child. Be angry when a birth mother is denied the help she is seeking. Or when stigma suffocates progress. Be angry when another young person with FASD ends up on the streets or in prison or dies too young.
Yes, be angry. I get it. I really do. Be so angry you force the system to change. Use that anger to fight for diagnosis, services, benefits, a place at the table.
But…please, please don't be angry at the person with FASD who is in your life. Don't be angry at a kid who can't do what you asked. Who is still not dressed and ready to go. Who threw something. Hard. And maybe even broke it. Don't be angry if you didn't get a birthday card. Or if that special treat was eaten. If you were ignored yet again. If the wall was drawn on or the paint spilled. Don't be angry if you can't go to a family birthday or if you have been sleepless for too long. Or if you just got hit by fists or maybe words that might even hurt more. If pants were soiled. If new shoes destroyed. If your holiday dreams didn't pan out because someone got overwhelmed in a new place. If you spend sleepless hours each night because a child can't settle. If you yet again bear the brunt of yet another impossible day at school. If your teen or adult lacks the ability to handle situations you think they should. Don't reduce all of that down to anger.
Learn the nuances of those feelings. Train yourself to control those surges. (That is after all what you are asking your child to do. If you can't, how will they? Where will they learn to do this?)
There's a whole dictionary of words that can better explain your emotions. You may be frustrated or exhausted or discouraged or afraid. You may be disillusioned or uncertain or overwhelmed or triggered. You might be fearing a never-ending repetition of moments such as these. Looking into that future can grip your guts and bring you to your knees. For all of the reasons above and more you have a right to be angry – but not at that vulnerable person who depends on you. It's not them against you. You are on the same side. The battle is you together against the system that must yield, that will yield. You have to form an unbreakable alliance, even if your loved one isn't always able to hold up their side of that due to whatever additional traumas and attachment issues they may have, even if addictions and secondary mental health challenges make this hard. Your commitment must be so strong that even in the midst of all that can happen, your loved one knows you are present and un-losable, even when you are a tired and worn out and agitated and upset. Even if outside help, involvement of authorities or alternative living arrangements are needed. Especially then.
Because they will know deep inside that love is solid. They won't internalise that you are angry at them. They will come to know you are instead angry at a system that doesn't bend for their needs, doesn't see how hard they try, puts up walls where there should be pathways and steps to help them get to where they have a right to go. And by helping them understand the nuances of your own feelings and by showing them that you understand some of their most confusing actions are due to how their brain works, you will be helping them gain emotional literacy. By redirecting and renaming that 'anger,' you will be opening doors for your child's future rather than forcing them further into themselves. These early lessons will either teach them that adults are always mad at them and there is no way to explain their needs to 'power', fuelling a negative spiral, or they will learn that they can trust and engage with authority figures, even when the words and connections are at first hard to find.
They will gain experience needed to become self-advocates.
There are known strategies that can help individuals with FASD learn and grow using their many strengths. People with FASD can and do have positive lives. They can and do acquire individualised coping mechanisms and strategies. They can and do contribute to society in many ways … if they get the right start and support. Just knowing and understanding they have FASD can improve their chances. A stable living environment is also among the most important protective factors as is positive self-esteem.
So, please, please don't be angry at your children. Be angry at the system but love and celebrate your kids in all their complexity.
If you don't, who will?
Every child deserves unconditional love. Every. Single. Child. And a person born with a lifelong and incurable neurodevelopmental disability surely has a right to compassion in their own home. Every. Single. Day. Every moment. Throughout their lives. Even when it's difficult. They need you.
It's not easy, but you can do this. Just start somewhere. Find a positive and hold onto it. No one is perfect. Don't beat yourself up over wobbles. We all have them.
Just remember – kids with FASD are trying. And how you read that matters.
P.S. – You are not alone.
Help is available via online and local support groups. Google for help near you. Some links are available here. Many areas if they do not have FASD-specific groups have support for those with disabilities and their families. Reach out. Call your GP if you believe you might be depressed or in need of help for yourself.
In the UK, the FASD UK Facebook Support Group involves more than 2,200 families.


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The morning of the Novel Fair dawned, bright, cold and sunny. A blue sky stretched over Dublin. And I still wasn't ready.
I hadn't got the clips I needed to put my handouts and extracts together, and I didn't have a container for the 2 copies of my full manuscript. But I had scheduled time to get these last bits together over a coffee in town. So I left the school and creche runs to my husband, then jumped on the Luas and stopped at Jervis so I could walk over to Easons. Within a few metres I felt the truth of an old Irish proverb:
Is trom cearc i bhfad.(Even a hen becomes a burden on a long journey).
I knew I'd pay for walking with such a heavy bag on my still-injured back. But I also knew I'd enough painkillers to see me through the day – pain wasn't going to hold me back. I had just arrived at Easons when I heard someone say "Michelle Gallen". Dublin is such a small place that for local people, bumping into someone is an unremarkable event. But after years away from the city, this doesn't happen me much outside of my school run. Yet on the steps of Easons I met someone I've known from home since the age of 5. We hugged and she asked what I was doing. I explained I was on my way to the Irish Writers Centre to pitch my novel to a room full of agents and publishers. She asked me to pitch to her, and I did. And she laughed and said 'That doesn't sound like fiction.' She wished me luck, and I ducked into Easons, feeling there was some kind of magic swirling in the early Spring sunshine, that brought us, natives of a tiny border town, to meet steps away from O'Connell street on that particular morning.
I clipped my work together while necking a coffee, then walked up to the IWC. Outside was strung with rainbow bunting, my name was one of those written on the chalkboard announcing the Novel Fair outside. The granite glittered in the sunshine. Everything felt crystal clear and marvellous. I stepped into the building and went upstairs to find my place.
Going up the stairs I realised that perhaps I should've asked for a quiet place to sit. I have sensory issues, and struggle with noise and movement. I am easily overwhelmed in crowds, and get exhausted trying to filter the faces. I have had prosopagnosia since my brain injury at 23. This condition is more commonly known as 'face blindness'. I struggle to recognise faces, even those of friends and family. I find this is much worse in crowds, where I can only compute around 3 people at a time. Often, at family social events, I recognise people by zoning out on the visuals, and listening to voices. At professional networking events I have been known to spend half an hour speaking to a new person, only to reintroduce myself 5 minutes later, as if they have never met me. I have been accused of being aloof, or snobby, of not paying attention to people or caring enough to recognise them. It causes me huge anxiety and stress before any social event where I am expected to recognise faces. It's the reason I cofounded a tech start-up way back in 2010, when apps were in their infancy, designing Shhmooze – a mobile app that helped me and other people 'cheat' our way to recognising who was around us.
But when I arrived in the room I found the seat I'd been assigned once again it felt like a magic was at work behind the scenes – I had a seat tucked away at the back of the room, beside the window. I knew right away it was the 'best' seat for my brain – I had a blank wall beside me, and the Garden of Remembrance to one side, and fellow Northern Irish woman Sue Divins to my other side.
I was trying to conserve my energy so I sat in my seat and tried to arrange my reams of paper neatly, so I could grab what I needed with as little fuss as possible. The event started on time, and I launched into pitching my dream.
Let's start with the stuff I'd do differently next time around:
- I'd bring less paper. As pointed out in the previous post, you only need:
- 18 colour copies of your author bio (with photo).
- 18 black and white copies of your synopsis.
- Around 5 copies of the first 50 pages.
- I'd condense my research findings on the agents and publishers into a few bullet points.
- I'd bring business cards.
Let's talk about point 2 first. Shhmooze – the networking app I built – was designed to identify who was attending and event or conference. It created a 'cheatsheet' of information about your connections – and the strangers – around you. The vision behind the app was that anyone could use it to quickly identify the people they knew, and those they needed to know. The app provided everyone with information they could use to kickstart a conversation because we wanted everyone to make the best use of their most precious time – face-to-face interactions with other humans. We even built a prediction engine that pinpointed not just where your contacts were at a particular event, but where they were likely to be. Unfortunately we discovered that humans are a lot more interested in stalking than talking. Sales people and recruiters – those with a real business need to find and speak to new people – loved our app. They just didn't tell anyone they were using it. They preferred to use the app to put together a list of people they wanted to talk to, then used our cheatsheet to open compelling conversations, but never admitted that all this research had been done on the fly by our app.
In the weeks before the novel fair I had done a lot of research on the agents and publishers, had read books from their lists, or at least downloaded and read free Kindle chapters to get a 'feel' for their authors, and had trawled through social media profiles and posts in the hope of being as prepared as possible. I had amassed a lot of information, but I hadn't distilled it down, like our app would've done. So in the short transition between one agent/publisher leaving and another arriving, I had seconds to glance at a sheet of words to pick out the key facts. I would've done better to create something like this:
- Agent/Publisher name, organisation and where they grew up/live.
- 5 books/authors they have found success with.
- 1 recent news story/scandal associated with the publisher/agent or their authors.
- Something personal I connected with.
In the end, I found the 'something personal I could connect with' the most valuable piece of information from my research. For example, 1 of the agents noted that she was a Sweet Valley High super fan. I had first read Sweet Valley High books when I was 13, staying with my cousins in upstate New York. My mother had sent me and my 14 year old sister there for the summer, to people we'd never met, hoping we'd learn there was more to life than the Troubles and our small town. At 13 I was an avid book reader, but my cousins weren't. The only books in their house were the entire Sweet Valley High series, and Gone with the Wind. I remember thinking Gone with the Wind looked more promising than SVH, but the novel was snapped from my hands by an adult when they noticed what I was reading. And so I spent my summer reading Sweet Valley High from start to finish. Those novels were a world apart from the one I was growing up in – and I consumed the SVH series in much the same way I consumed the horror novels of Stephen King and James Herbert and the science fiction I found in the adult section of the library at home, and that long hot summer in the USA. They were sheer fantasy, a world I immersed myself in, before resuming life as I knew it. I had a strong impression that the agent who said she was a Sweet Vally High fan was not a strong fit for my novel. And rather than club her over the head with a relentless pitch, I opened the conversation talking about Sweet Valley High. And we spent 5 glorious minutes talking about those novels and what they meant for us as teenage girls – how she read the novels coming from where she did, how they read to me from my background. I did in the end pitch my novel, which she passed it to her assistant to read. The agency didn't take me on, as I'd anticipated, but their rejection email told me that they had really enjoyed the manuscript, and it had been a close thing. The whole interaction – from pitch to rejection – felt a lot more positive from having been rooted in our connection over SVH than if I'd simply banged on about why my novel was the 'right' thing for their list.
Finally – I didn't bring business cards as I wasn't sure that it was the right thing to do. But if I had to do over, I would. When handing over my bio, synopsis and sample to interested agents/publishers, I didn't expect anything in return. So quite a few times I forgot to get contact information from people I needed to follow up with. Running a start-up, I learned the hard way that 99% of the time, no matter how 'hot' you are, you will be the one doing the chasing. I advise you to get a head start by having the agent/publisher's direct contact details, rather than 'email@example.com'). If I'd had a little stack of business cards, with the name of my novel hand-written on the back, I would've done this methodically.
Now let's look at the stuff that worked well:
- Pitching the novel.
- Passing on my bio and synopsis.
- Taking breaks
- Hanging out with the writers afterwards
Pitching your novel effectively is not something you achieve on the day. All the work should have been done in advance. I found that between my own preparation, following the advice of the IWC and the advice of former novel fair finalists I knew, my pitch was strong. I still benefited from practicing out loud and the pitch got stronger as the day progressed. I've seen time and again in start-ups that a great pitch can sell a crappy product. But I've also seen a poor pitch sink a brilliant product. Preparation and practice are key to you making the most of the opportunities you will have on the day.
Having a 1 page bio and 1 page synopsis for the agents and publishers was practical. Tip: ensure your bio includes links to where the recipient can download your full MS (I also included a link to the opening chapters of my second novel, which is in progress). Very few people were interested in taking away the 40 page sample. Nobody took the full MS. This left me with a heavy rucksack full of paper that I had to haul to the pub, then home. So focus on having a sharp informative bio and synopsis that will help the agent or publisher remember you and your pitch when they come to the novel again – weeks – or even months later.
Taking breaks is something I needed to do to make it through the day. And instead of doing what I would've done in London, using my 'break' to connect with other writers and the agents/publishers, I nipped outside to the Garden of Remembrance, where I walked in the sunshine, focussed on breathing, and tried to contain my energy. I also ate chocolate peanuts because I crave sugar when doing high-intensity interactions. I highly recommend working with your natural energy – take quiet time outs if that's what recharges you, get a walk if you need to re-energise, speak to the people around you if that's your thing. Do whatever you can to pace yourself.
Finally, going to the pub and spending some time with the other novel fair finalists was a very valuable experience. Not only was it fun to hang out with everyone and learn more about their work and lives, we had the opportunity to do what is normally the privilege of agents and publishers – we compared notes. One of the problems I've encountered in publishing is that the power lies very firmly with the agents and publishers. You, as a single person, submit your manuscript (most likely the solitary work of years), to agents or publishers who will read and assess it on their terms. I know many agents and publishers do not accept what is called 'simultaneous submissions'. In part, I believe this rule helps them protect their very finite time – nobody wants to invest time reading a novel and making an offer, only to find the author has gone off with someone else. But in part the 'no simultaneous submissions' rule helps the publisher keep the power on their side. If you can only approach one publisher at a time, you have no leverage when it comes to making a deal. If that agent/publisher decides to offer you a deal, you can't return to another publisher to try and push the price higher. And it's here where agents can do a spectacular job in achieving the holy grail of publishing deals – a 3 or 4 or 5 way auction, where they have submitted a book to a range of publishers, some of whom express interest, and they are forced to bid for the book's rights. While professional agents can do this, authors are not encouraged to take this approach – indeed I have seen publishers state that they will 'know' you have made a simultaneous submission because they talk to each other, discussing what's popped up in their inbox. The novel fair provides the finalists with a very rare opportunity to do what publishers get paid to do – compare notes and take the temperature.
I was one of the last of the finalists to leave the pub. As I stood at the door saying goodbye to a fellow writer, I spotted a 20 euro note on the floor. I picked it up and the writer said to me that my luck was in. I agreed. I had woken up that morning with the ambition of having a 50% hit rate at the novel fair – I wanted half of the agents and publishers to want to read my manuscript. By the end of the day, every agent and publisher had asked for it. I had never had a better chance of publication. On my way to the Luas I dropped the 20 euros into a paper cup held by someone crouching on the street. It was a paltry way to share some of the luck of that day, but it was better than nothing. I hobbled down O'Connell street with my rucksack, and made it home just in time for the kids' bedtime. I bathed in the afterglow of a day spent with writers, talking about my writing, and connecting with people whose passion is books. I didn't allow myself to think of the weeks of waiting – and probably rejections – ahead.
Next in the Irish Novel Fair series: Phase 5 – Following up with Agents and Publishers


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How To Cook Corn on the Cob in the Microwave
Boiling has always been the easiest and most practical way to cook fresh corn on the cob. Cleaning the corn and rinsing it in cold water before dumping it in briskly-boiling water are surefire ways to guarantee great corn. But then, boiling corn can be very time-consuming. The amount of heat coming from the pot can also make it less appealing for some. The good news is that you don't have to resort to the traditional method of having corn on the cob in your hands. Cooking corn on the cob in the microwave is much faster and more convenient, too. Here's how.
Cooking With The Husk On
There are two ways you can cook corn on the cob in your microwave. One of them is by cooking fresh corn with its husk and silk on. It is pretty much putting everything in the microwave – husk and all. The reason why leaving the husk on works so well is that the husk can serve as thermal insulators. They will keep the heat in the corn while also trapping moisture. A more important effect is that the corn kernels will cook more evenly. That means there will be no kernels that are harder or tougher than others.
Once you have your corn ready, make sure to wipe them clean. Place up to 4 ears of corn at a time in the microwave. You can set them on a microwavable tray or dish. Arrange the corn side by side. No one should be on top of another. Hence, if you're looking to cook more than 4 ears of corn, it is best to do so in batches.
Pop the corn into your microwave. If you are cooking 1 to 2 ears of corn, then you can set your microwave on high. Set the timer to 3 minutes and you are done. If you are cooking 3 to 4 ears of corn, then you need to microwave them for 4 minutes on high.
Keep in mind that these settings are for your average-sized corn. If you happen to have a corn cob that is larger than usual, then you will have to put an additional minute in the cooking process. The same is true if you want softer corn. Adding a minute to the cooking duration should give you softer kernels.
Once you are done cooking corn on the cob in the microwave, make sure to let them cool first. Wait for the top leaves and the corn silks to be cool enough to the touch before you attempt to remove them. Be very careful as the outer corn may already be cool to the touch, yet the insides are as hot as live coal. As such, shuck the husks only when you are ready to eat them.
This is how you microwave corn on the cob with its husk on.
Cooking Without The Husk
The second method of cooking corn in your microwave is similar to the traditional method of boiling. The only difference here is that you are not going to boil it; you will microwave corn on the cob.
To do this, start by shucking the husks and removing the silk from the ears of corn. Get a microwaveable dish and place about 2 tablespoons of water. Place a pair of corn cobs on the dish. If you are going to cook more, then add more water and use a bigger dish or plate. A good rule of thumb is to add a tablespoon of water for every 1 to 2 ears of corn you are going to cook. So, if you have 4 ears of corn to cook in the microwave, then you need to add 4 tablespoons of water in the dish.
Cover the corn with another microwaveable plate or dish. This should be the same size or slightly larger than the dish holding the corn. Now microwave corn on high for about 4 to 5 minutes or until tender. You may also notice the color of the corn kernels looking darker or deeper.
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You no longer have to wait tens of minutes to enjoy a fantastic corn on the cob. Your microwave can do it for you in less than half the time. It is a more convenient and faster way to have that corn on the cob you're craving for.
- How to Cook Corn – HowStuffWorks
- Every Corn Recipe You Need To Eat This Summer – HuffPost Life


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Hmmm … even though I've written that my relationship with my writing has changed, see here, I haven't actually done any writing since then to test it.
So how do I know it's changed, I hear you asking?
Because, just now, I returned from my writers' group (we meet monthly but we haven't met all summer for summer reasons) where they gave me feedback on the first third of the short story that was a novel. And, no, they didn't say it was the best first third of a short story that they'd ever read, they said things that were much more useful than that but, just now, as I was waiting for the kettle to boil, the usual feeling of dread, of oh no, now I've got to tackle it again, I've got to begin again and I don't know if I can washed over me, but it was, instantly and amazingly, replaced by but it's a puzzle, dream on it, write down the key things and mull them over, you don't have to find instant solutions. Heavens, can attitudes really change that quickly?
Apparently, they can. (Apparently the colours of this blog text can too … mysteriously.)
So here are the key things they suggested and we discussed:
*Begin when Sasha is old, when she has accepted that she will die soon. When she wants to die.
*Tell it from her point of view, not Gregory's. If he tells any part of the story at all, let him tell in short bursts between her narration. Let his telling be mysterious.
*Work out whether Sasha has decided that she wants to die, or whether Gregory is coming to claim her. It can only be one or the other. Not both.
*Gregory is not death, because death can be so cruel, so unexpected, so devastating, and he is none of those things. He is an angel, a messenger, of death – someone who can intercede on her behalf, someone who can ask for a reprieve for her because he loves her. Someone who has known her all her life – as I originally had it, but not as death himself – and so someone sympathetic with whom she can reminisce and prepare to die. (Sorry, if you were planning to read the story I have probably spoiled the mystery for you now. But this is my new relationship-with-my-writing blog, not my MATing-avoiding-writing-blog.)
So, some possible opening sentences occur to me:
I drift from place to place and from year to year with such ease, now. But, despite what they think, I know that I am drifting. It's just that I can't come back quickly, so when they put me on the commode or help me drink my tea, or get me ready for bed, I don't always make sense, at least not to their way of thinking.
Just now I said to the thin-lipped one, 'Isn't the cherry blossom beautiful?' Of course I meant the spindle whose leaves are heartbreakingly scarlet today, but I was still in the middle of a bright spring day; I was still sitting under my favourite cherry blossom, and so, when she asked me what I was looking at, I told her what was in my mind and not what was actually out there, what she could see, by the river.
But I know I heard someone playing the piano in the studio last night. I know that was real. But I shan't tell the thin-lipped one because she'll just say, 'Of course you did, dear.' I shall wait until Bridget gets here tonight. She listens. She understands. I think she knows what's happening to me.
So … I shall continue tomorrow.


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Tuesday, December 19, 2000
Doug had been not nearly as impressed with Arnbjörg's new power as she'd hoped he would be, but he'd said "Interesting. Work on that," which she took to mean that it was at least an acceptable power — if not as cool as some of the others she'd seen — and as tacit permission to tell everyone and everything no.
She tried telling a door no when it was trying to close in her face, but it only hesitated for a moment before swinging shut. She had told Rand no, which was very pleasing, if only to watch the look on his face.
She hadn't quite been brave enough to try telling Luke no, but when it came to Calc class, she was more than willing to look Professor Solomon in the eye and say "No, sir."
The look of surprise on the professor's face was wonderful. The way he coughed and took a step backwards. "Well, isn't that interesting. Arnbjörg, please stay after class, and -"
"No, sir," Arnbjörg repeated.
"Aah, ahem. Well, then. If we could take open to page seventy-two-"
"No, sir." This was surprisingly fun!
"Would you just shut up?"
She was not expecting that from Leofric, of all people, but all of a sudden he was glaring at her from across the classroom.
Arnbjörg smiled widely. "No. No, I'm not going to. I don't have to, for once, and I don't see why I should."
It looked for a moment like he was going to back down and apologize, when something in his expression hardened. That was the only warning she had before he lunged, a fist aiming for her face.
Arnbjörg broke loose and dodged backwards, shoving a desk at him to slow him down and give her a moment. It barely slowed him at all. She had just enough time to ready herself before he vaulted over the desk, spinning himself into a kick aimed for her head.
This time, she blocked it, then turned the block into a grab to pull him off balance and send him crashing back into the desks.
He was back on his feet almost impossibly fast, but she was ready for him this time and swung a punch at him, feeling it land with a solid thunk. Leofric staggered back, snarled, and darted forward under her second punch to elbow her in the gut.
The air rushed out of her lungs and she stumbled back again, trying not to double over. What the fuck was his problem, anyway? It's not like anyone liked Calculus.
Arnbjörg swung at him again, dodged a kick, kicked him, and heard Luke shout – but Leofric was trying to hit her again. She blocked, then aimed a punch at his nose, when someone grabbed her and yanked her backwards.
Doug had both her arms, and he had a surprisingly good grip. A few feet away – out of kicking range – Luke was holding Leofric much the same. "N-" she began.
"Shut up," Doug cut her off. "Not the time."
She fell silent, trying not to sulk too badly. He'd told her to practice. And it wasn't like—
"Come on. Sorry for the interruption, Professor." Doug glared down over Arnbjörg's shoulder, never mind that he was shorter than her. "You walk or I carry you."
"I'll walk, I'll walk." She stood up straight as he released her, keeping a good distance between her and Leofric. "Geeze, it was just a fist-fight."
"Not now," Doug warned her again. This time, she fell silent and let Doug escort her to his office. Since that was right next to Luke's office, that lead to an uncomfortable walk while she and Leofric were guided to their Mentor's spaces.
She'd never actually seen the inside of Doug's office, since their cy'ree meetings took place in the smaller training room. From the looks of things, he barely saw it, either — there was a shelf with some photos she couldn't quite see from her angle, a desk with a planner from two years ago, and a mug that declared World's Best Dad in childish handwriting.
She sat. The chair creaked under her.
He sat down behind the desk and glared at her. Arnbjörg squirmed. "I-"
"Not yet."
She fell silent. What was she supposed to do? Sit here and squirm? It wasn't like she'd done anything wrong!
Well, she had been goading Leofric on a little bit. And she supposed she had being a brat to Professor Solomon.
It was just so nice to be able to tell someone no and have them listen!
…Like being Kept and then Keeping someone might feel like, she thought. Maybe? All of that "no don't do this" sort of thing and suddenly you go from having to listen to everyone to everyone listening to you!
She might like that. She might like everyone listening, for once.
She'd certainly liked Sheba having to shut up.
The look on her face. It'd been like…
…Like when Jaya had told Arnbjörg to be quiet, and she couldn't say a thing.
That had felt pretty horrible.
But… what was the use in having a power if –
-could she spar with it? She sat up straighter. If she could use it in combat, that wasn't like telling someone to shut up.
That was just fighting things.
Doug studied her.
"Feels shitty?" he asked. Guessed, it sounded like.
In turn, Arnbjörg guessed what he'd meant. "Being told to shut up? Yeah. Like nobody's listening."
He nodded. "Feels pretty good?"
This was like having a logic puzzle for a Mentor. "Telling other people to shut up? Like the first time I swung a punch and it landed. Awesome."
"But you're not a bully." He made it a question – maybe a request.
Arnbjörg took a couple shaky breaths. "I'm not a bully." She had never wanted to be a bully – never except that one time when Jack Bonacci was being ridiculous back in seventh grade and she thought, maybe, it might be nice to be on top for once. "I'm not a bully," she repeated. "I'm not going to be a bully."
Doug nodded. "Good. Good; I'm glad." He leaned back and looked at her. "Three evenings helping me and Luke with clean-up. Don't start fights in class. And we'll work on using that thing in sparring – not in math class."
She hung her head. "Yes, sir." It had felt really good, sparring against Leofric. "Maybe we can spar with cy'Luca?"


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Dictionaries and encyclopedias open wide the doors to the world, to diversity, to knowledge without borders, to this child in enforced confinement within the house at Roquebillières because of the war, and to the adolescent stifled by the narrow confines of the city of Nice.
Le Clézio is distinguished by this capacity to use the magical power of words
Freed from the limits and constraints imposed by the syntax and the demanding nature of the Signified, the words in their neutral state, in a "pure state", the words of the dictionary stand in all their wealth and their destitution. Rich with their heritage that includes their etymology, the history of the language, and their graphic evolution, they also look to future richness: they will be employed in new ways, literally and figuratively, there will be derivations and
A Dictionary dedicated to Le Clézio's work seems to be an effort in perfect congruence with the writer's own creative approach. As long as we avoid freezing a work while it is still evolving, and we don't impoverish the polysemy through excessive rationalism, such a work can respond to three needs.
The objective is to take stock of knowledge about a rich literary production of some fifty books - novels, short stories, essays, not to mention articles and prefaces - which has given rise to a large body of research from around the world, to contribute to the elaboration of the lexicon that Jean Onimus wished for, and to provide information on certain realia that inspire the author who is always researching, exploring archives.
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Marina Salles (october 2013)
1 This round table on the theme of travel, in the presence of J.-M.G. The Clézio, Issa Asgarally and Martha Van Der Drift, was held in the gardens of the Hotel La Pirogue in Flic en Flac, Mauritius.


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This level is rather difficult. It can challenge veteran players and most beginners cannot finish this level. Most players consider it to be a hard level. Even elite players may have trouble beating this in one attempt. Good luck in beating this level!
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This is Level 39 of the Main Tunnel in Run 3.
Gameplay[edit | edit source]
This level may trouble beginners, and using the Runner helps you to plan ahead for the next jump. Beating this requires a good amount of looking ahead. The abundance of crumbling tiles makes this level hard, and try to avoid them at all costs (except of dying, of course). Tips: Jump high with the Runner and look for a landing place. Repeat and repeat. Try to finish the level in midair. If the situation is not good, try landing on a wall. This may come well.
Experiment with the level a little, and avoid crumbling tiles at all costs. Since the Runner is agile, take advantage of her ability to move around. Get as close as you can to another part of the normal tiles, and jump. If you lose the chain at first, it won't affect you immediately but it will catch up. It may be a better idea to use it as an emergency platform towards the end.
If you have the Child, USE HIM FOR THIS LEVEL! He makes trying to avoid the crumbling tiles much easier because as long as you don't try to jump while on a crumbling tile, you can use them without giving yourself a disadvantage. Use this to try and travel between platforms, jumping as little as possible!
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Notably, operating expenses (which represent selling, general and administrative expenses (SG&A), and other management costs) are expected to be $5 billion in FY 2019, making up one-third of Gap's $15.5 billion in expected total costs for the year. Gap's operating costs are half of the company's largest expense driver – it's manufacturing costs or the cost of sales (COGS).
- Gap's total expenses have increased by 4.7% since 2015, going up from $14.9 billion to $15.6 billion in 2018 and are expected to remain flat in 2019. Operating expenses have been the largest contributor to this increase, with the operating expenses increasing from $4.2 billion in 2015 to nearly $5 billion in 2018.
- The company's total expenses in absolute terms are expected to remain stable in 2019 as an increase in operating expenses is likely to be offset by an expected decrease in the cost of sales likely to be driven by a 2.2% decrease in Gap's revenues for 2019.
- Additionally, the company's total expenses as % revenue are projected to increase by 200 basis points, from 94% in 2018 to 96% in 2019.
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Linda Gage (Co-Chair) retired in July 2012 as senior demographer in the State of California's Demographic Research Unit in the Department of Finance. In that capacity, her primary objective was to improve the currency, completeness, and accuracy of official state and federal demographic data that portray the people of California. She was actively involved in producing and evaluating intercensal population estimates for California and assessing data from the American Community Survey, and represented the state's demographic program and interests in federal and professional forums and evaluation of the effect of various demographic and statistical programs on the state. Previously chair of the steering committee of the Census Bureau's Federal-State Cooperative Program for Population Estimates, she remains active in professional associations. She serves on the Population Association of America (PAA) Public Affairs Committee and Committee on Population Statistics, and represents PAA on the Census Advisory Committee of Professional Associations. She served as the Governor's Liaison for Census 2000 and represented the State Data Center network and the Population Association of America on the U.S. Secretary of Commerce's Decennial Census Advisory Committee. At the National Research Council, she served on the Panel on the Design of the 2010 Census Program of Evaluations and Experiments. She has B.A. and M.A. degrees in
sociology, with emphasis in demography, from the University of California, Davis.
Ken Hodges (Co-Chair) is chief demographer at Nielsen. His responsibilities include methodology and evaluation for domestic small-area demographic estimates, the incorporation of U.S. census (including American Community Survey) data in the company's information products, and universe estimates standards for the company's global operations. He is active in the field of applied demography, having served on the 2010 Census Advisory Committee, the Population Association of America's Committee on Population Statistics, and the boards of the Association of Public Data Users and Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics. Prior to joining Claritas (now Nielsen) in 1993, he was director of demography at Donnelley Marketing Information Services. He has a Ph.D. in sociology/demography from Cornell University.
Linda Jacobsen is vice president of domestic programs at the Population Reference Bureau (PRB). She directs research projects, develops strategy and tools for disseminating population data and research, and writes PRB reports and web articles. She has extensive research experience with the American Community Survey and decennial census, and served for 6 years on the Census Advisory Committee of Professional Associations. Before joining PRB, she was a senior executive and chief demographer for two leading marketing information companies; research director for American Demographics magazine; and faculty member at Cornell University and the University of Iowa. She is chair of the Government and Public Affairs Committee of the Population Association of America, and a member of the board of directors of the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics. For the Census Bureau, she coauthored two handbooks (targeted at general data users and high school teachers, respectively) in the Bureau's "Compass" series. She holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Patrick Jankowski is vice president of research in the Support Services Division of the Greater Houston Partnership (formerly the Houston Chamber of Commerce), a metropolitan planning organization that works to enhance business activity, economic development, and quality of life in the Houston region. He oversees the Partnership's research department, which supports information gathering, data analysis, economic forecasting, and mapping for the Partnership's operating divisions. Prior to joining the Partnership in 1981, he was a business writer, editor, researcher, and economic analyst. He is a member of the Texas Economic and Demographic Association, the Council for Community and Economic Research, the National Association for Business Economics, and the Commercial Real Estate Research Forum. He has a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Texas at Austin.
Joan Naymark retired in March 2012 as director of market analytics and planning at Target Corporation. Prior to joining Target Corporation in 1982, she held research positions at the Minnesota State Demographer's Office and the Upper Midwest Council. She has testified before Congress on business uses of census and American Community Survey data and represented the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on the Census Bureau's Census Advisory Committee. She is currently a member of the board of directors of the Association of Public Data Users and chair of the North American Research Task Force of the International Council of Shopping Centers. She coauthored (with Ken Hodges) articles on the use of census data in the private sector in the first and second editions of the Encyclopedia of the U.S. Census. She holds B.S. and M.A. degrees in sociology and demography from Western Washington University.
Richard Rathge is professor of sociology in the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology and Agribusiness and Applied Economics at North Dakota State University (NDSU). For 30 years, from 1981 through 2011, he served as director of the North Dakota State Data Center; in 2012, the State Data Center functions will transition from NDSU to a new North Dakota Census Office within the state commerce department. As director of the State Data Center and state demographer, he served as North Dakota's representative to the Federal-State Cooperative Programs for Population Estimates and Population Projections. He has also served as policy analyst for the North Dakota Kids Count program, a research center that monitors the health and well-being of children. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from New Mexico State University and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University.
Andrew Beveridge is president and CEO of Social Explorer, Inc., in Bronxville, New York, and professor of sociology at Queens College and the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. Since 1993, he has been a consultant on census data to The New York Times, and specializes in using geographic information systems techniques to analyze demographic data. He has previously taught in the sociology department at Columbia University. He holds a B.A. in economics and M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology, all from Yale University.
Susan Brower became Minnesota's State Demographer in February 2012. Prior to that, she worked as a demographic researcher in nonprofit and academic settings. She has a master's degree in public policy from the University
of Minnesota and is completing a Ph.D. in sociology-demography at the University of Michigan.
Warren Brown is senior research associate at the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research at Cornell University. He returned to Cornell (where he previously directed the Program on Applied Demographics) after serving as public service associate and director of the applied demography program at the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia. Accordingly, he has been responsible for producing population estimates and projections for both New York and Georgia. A member of the Population Association of America's Committee on Population Statistics and Committee on Applied Demography, he currently serves on the National Research Council's Panel to Review the 2010 Census. He received a B.A. in religious studies from the University of Virginia, an M.A. in sociology from the New School for Social Research, and a Ph.D. in development sociology from Cornell University.
Jacqueline Byers retired in fall 2012 as director of research and outreach at the National Association of Counties (NACo), a post she held since October 1996. Prior to joining NACo, she directed the research center at the Georgia Department of Community Affairs. She has been a member of the Decennial Census Advisory Committee since 1996 and is a member of the District of Columbia Bar. She has a B.A. from Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, New Jersey, and a J.D. from Catholic University, Columbus School of Law.
Kathleen Thiede Call is a professor in the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health, Division of Health Policy and Management. She is an investigator at the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC), funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which assists other states in monitoring rates of coverage and using data to inform policy and improve access. She created a survey of health insurance coverage for use by states and has developed a stream of research concerning the complexities of measuring and estimating rates of insurance coverage. Her research interests include disparities in access to health care and health insurance as well as developing community-driven solutions to health care barriers.
Ronald Campbell is a staff writer at The Orange County Register in Southern California. His multipart series on immigrants and the California economy—which he describes in a case study in this agenda book—was recognized in April 2011 with a "Best in Business" award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
Matthew Christenson is a senior research analyst at Acxiom Corporation in Little Rock, Arkansas. As Acxiom's resident expert on census data, he is
responsible for building and supporting U.S. and international census data products and services. He also consults with clients and internal stakeholders on appropriate use of geospatial data. Prior to joining Acxiom in 2006, he was a statistician-demographer in the Population Division of the U.S. Census Bureau for more than 8 years. He holds his M.A./Ph.D. in sociology from the Ohio State University and a B.A. in communications from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota.
Andrew Conrad is senior program manager for the Institute for Decision Making and the special projects manager for the Business and Community Services Division at The University of Northern Iowa. His responsibilities include the design, delivery, and follow-up of community and economic development services to communities and regions. A Certified Economic Developer, Drew currently serves on the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) Board of Directors and the Iowa Workforce Development Board. He is a graduate of the Economic Development Institute (EDI) at the University of Oklahoma, and holds a B.A. in American history/pre-law and a master's in public policy.
David Crowe is chief economist and senior vice president at the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). He is responsible for NAHB's forecast of housing and economic trends, survey research, and analysis of the home building industry and consumer preferences, as well as microeconomic analysis of government policies that affect housing.
Kenneth Darga has served as state demographer for Michigan since 2000. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Federal-State Cooperative for Population Estimates and is the author of two books on the census.
Haya El Nasser has been with USA TODAY for 28 years, first as a business reporter and later as the newspaper's Los Angeles news correspondent. She began covering demographics and the census in 1996 and has reported on the lead-up to the 2000 census and the 2010 census and data findings from both. She has also covered the introduction of the American Community Survey and has mined the data for stories. She is responsible for wading through all Census data and identifying national trends, both on deadline and for enterprise stories. She tries to incorporate demographic data in everything she covers, including planning and development issues which have become part of her beat.
Ronald Fecso retired as chief statistician at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) shortly after the workshop, having held that position since 2006. Prior to GAO, he served as chief statistician in the Division of Science Resources Statistics at the National Science Foundation (now the National
Center for Science and Engineering Statistics) and the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He has a B.A. in mathematics from Rider College and an M.A. in mathematical statistics from the University of Rochester.
Ford Fessenden is a graphics editor at The New York Times. He has been a reporter on the metropolitan desk and the investigations desk, specializing in exploiting databases and computer tools for news stories, including a study of rampage killers, and the re-creation of the last 102 minutes of the World Trade Center. He ran the Florida ballot project for a consortium of the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal in 2001, cataloguing the ballots that went uncounted after the Supreme Court stopped the recount. He has worked for Newsday and other newspapers.
Katie Genadek is a research assistant on the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) user support core at the Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota. She has been an IPUMS user since 2003 and has worked on the IPUMS projects since 2007. She currently directs IPUMS outreach and dissemination efforts and she gives IPUMS trainings at conferences, universities, and policy institutes. She is finishing a Ph.D. in applied economics at the University of Minnesota; she holds an M.S. in applied economics and a B.S. in economics from Montana State University.
Linda Giannarelli is a senior fellow in the Income and Benefits Policy Center of the Urban Institute. She serves as project director for the maintenance and development of the TRIM3 microsimulation model, and conducts research in the areas of poverty, child care, and low-income benefit programs. In recent years, she has co-led efforts applying the TRIM3 model to ACS data to estimate the impact of state policy choices on poverty.
Jeanne Gobalet has been an applied demographer for many years. Since 1992, she has been a principal of Lapkoff & Gobalet Demographic Research, Inc., located in California. Much of her recent work utilizes geographic information systems techniques and ACS data. She has served as an expert witness in cases involving political redistricting, racially polarized voting, environmental justice, jury selection, and discrimination in housing, employment, and mortgage lending. Her consulting practice includes helping clients meet federal and California Voting Rights Act requirements. She earned four degrees from Stanford University, including a Ph.D. in sociology, and was a postdoctoral fellow in demography at the University of California, Berkeley.
Cheryl Hayes is the senior manager of the Exposures team in the Research and Modeling Group at AIR Worldwide. She is responsible for leading the
team in the development of comprehensive, high-resolution industry exposure databases for more than 90 countries worldwide.
Beth Jarosz is senior demographer at the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) and has more than a decade of experience in demographic estimation, forecasting, and analysis. At SANDAG, she manages the annual population estimates and long-range forecast programs, and she has worked on a variety of topics ranging from transportation planning to public health. She also teaches sociology at Pensacola State College. She holds a B.S. in applied economics from the University of Rhode Island and an M.A. in demographic and social analysis from the University of California, Irvine.
Gad Levanon is director of macroeconomic research at The Conference Board, where he also leads the labor markets program. He created The Conference Board Employment Trends Index™, a widely used measure that fills the need for a leading index of employment. His research focuses on compensation growth, retirement trends, labor shortages, labor productivity, and future trends in employment and unemployment. Levanon received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University, and he holds undergraduate and master's degrees from Tel Aviv University in Israel.
Terri Ann Lowenthal, a former staff director of the House Subcommittee on Census and Population, advises nonprofits, foundations, and the business sector on issues related to the census and federal statistics generally. She is a co-director of The Census Project, a non-partisan coalition of census and ACS stakeholders; consultant to the Funders Census Initiative, a collaborative of foundations interested in an accurate and comprehensive census and ACS, and writes The Census Project Blog.
Steve H. Murdock is the Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Professor of Sociology and director of the Hobby Center for the Study of Texas at Rice University. He served as director of the U.S. Census Bureau from December 2007 until the change of administrations in January 2009. The first official state demographer of Texas, he previously held faculty appointments at the University of Texas at San Antonio and Texas A&M University.
Kathleen Miller joined the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) at the University of Missouri in January 2000 as program director. Miller is responsible for the coordination of the RUPRI program of work, which encompasses researchers and practitioners across the country analyzing the rural impacts of public policies and programs in health care, human services, entrepreneurship, and regional and community development. Her research interests include understanding how the definitions of rural geographies impact policy outcomes,
and she has published several RUPRI policy briefs on this topic. She received an M.S. in agricultural economics from Penn State University, where she also received her B.S. in agricultural economics and rural sociology.
Russ Paulsen is executive director for community preparedness and resilience at the national headquarters of the American Red Cross in Washington, in which capacity he leads Red Cross efforts to build public preparedness for disasters at the neighborhood level. Prior to his current position, he directed the Red Cross hurricane recovery unit and led the organization's long-term recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina.
Allison Plyer is deputy director of the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center. She is co-author of The New Orleans Index series, developed in collaboration with the Brookings Institution to analyze the state of the New Orleans recovery. She is recognized as an international expert in post-Katrina demographics and New Orleans recovery trends.
Steven Romalewski directs the CUNY Mapping Service at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. For the past 20 years he has leveraged geographic information system (GIS) tools and concepts to help organizations in diverse fields understand and act on the spatial dimensions of their work. Since 2006 he has also taught GIS to graduate planning students at Pratt Institute.
Joseph Salvo is director of the Population Division at the New York City Department of City Planning. He is the former president of the Association of Public Data Users and a member of the Population Association of America's Committee on Population Statistics, and is active in research on the evaluation and use of American Community Survey data and on the demography of immigration in the New York area. He has served on several National Research Council panels related to the census and the ACS, including a recently completed Panel on Statistical Methods for Measuring the Group Quarters Population in the ACS. A fellow of the American Statistical Association, he holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from Fordham University.
Vincent L. Sanders is a lead transportation systems planner for the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas (METRO). He joined METRO's Service Design & Development/Travel Demand Forecasting & Analysis Division in 1998. He is primarily responsible for managing patronage forecasts, and also manages the socioeconomic and travel databases that generate reports on trip patterns, demographic profiles, and ridership estimates for proposed transit service and regional options and facilities. He has worked with other agencies to help coordinate joint development and commerce studies relative to
employment concentrations and worker travel patterns, and serves on several interagency committees. Prior to joining METRO, he worked as a transportation consultant with RSM Services. Sanders earned a B.S. in business administration from Wayne State University and an M.S. in transportation planning and management from Texas Southern University.
James Stark is an epidemiologist for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. He works in the Bureau of Epidemiology Services and provides methodological consultation to programs throughout the agency. In addition, he collaborates with the Built Environment and Health group at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
Barry Steinhardt is founder of Friends of Privacy USA and a senior advisor and trustee of Privacy International. He founded Friends of Privacy USA after retiring in 2009 following nearly 30 years with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), including service as associate director of the ACLU and director of ACLU's Program on Technology and Liberty. He has also served as president of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. During his time with the ACLU, he was a member of the Decennial Census Advisory Committee. He is currently a member of the Data Privacy and Integrity Committee of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Amy Terpstra is the associate director of the Social IMPACT Research Center at Heartland Alliance. Her work focuses on researching and disseminating knowledge on poverty and income-related issues. She holds a master's degree in social work from the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Richard K. Thomas is a Memphis-based health care consultant with more than 40 years experience in health services research, planning, and development. He provides consultation to hospitals, health systems, clinics and other health care organizations. He is on the faculties of the University of Mississippi and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and has authored numerous publications on health care and demographics.
Stephen Tordella, president of Decision Demographics, Inc., in Arlington, Virginia, is an applied demographer with more than 35 years of public- and private-sector consulting experience. He was a state-level demographer for 10 years, and then worked in the commercial demographics industry for 3 years. Since 1987 he has run a small consulting business. He holds an M.A. in demography from Brown University.


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Although you can generally find kiwi fruit in the markets year-round, their peak season is from autumn to winter.Native to China and originally called Chinese gooseberries, kiwi fruit were so-named by New Zealand growers and marketers, as it was there that the fruit was first commercially grown. Kiwi fruit is a great healthy snack, used to decorate pavlovas or other desserts. Mix with ice-cream and fruit salad. Slice on top of cereal, with yogurt. To Prepare: Kiwi fruit is usually peeled before eating or scooped from the skin with a teaspoon as the thin brown skin is hairy, but the entire fruit can be eaten if the hairs are rubbed off with a paper towel and rinsed away. To Store: If you don't intend to use immediately , store in the fridge for 4-5 weeks. Bring out of fridge when needed, to ripen out at room temperature.
Over the years we have built up solid relations with market vendors and can negotiate great prices for our customers taking care not to sacrifice on quality. As part of our handpicking procedure, we check for bruising, ripeness and general quality and are happy to exchange or refund your purchase within 24 hours. Our produce arrives off the trucks and is packed and delivered to you on the same day.
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One dollar plants one tree
Family and Friends,
My Bar Mitzvah will take place in December. As part of my mitzvah project I have chosen to raise money for One Tree Planted. Trees are getting destroyed and I want to help replenish the forests.
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Help plant trees across North America, Latin America, Africa and Asia, in areas that have been devastated by natural disasters, damaged by insects and diseases, or over-exploited for commercial gain.
Every dollar donated plants one tree!
Thank you so much for your support and for helping me make my mitzvah project a success!


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Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.
This is a collection of highlights from shows seven to twelve, featuring Lisa Parker and Andrew Trowbridge on the Jaws board game, Ben Baker on Mysteries Of Old Peking, Martin Ruddock on Doomlord, Steve O'Brien on High Time and Ice Cold Cube by The Stone Roses, Jem Roberts on an advert reuniting Neil and Vyvyan from The Young Ones, and Mark Griffiths on The Bloke Who Pulled His Pants Down On Kilroy. Along the way we'll be finding out why nothing is scarier than a playing field in Slough, how to spot Simon Bates in disguise via a series of cryptic clues, and what musical genres 'The Youngs Ones' were followers of. Plus there's also something you may not have heard before – Tim on the radio talking to Mark Thompson about the revival of The Prisoner, which – perhaps unsurprisingly – everyone seems to have forgotten about already.
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Every year our associates actively work toward achieving one goal – to be the premier quality food retailer in the world. Now that another year has passed, it's time to take a look at how we did in 2012 to achieve that goal.
I could share with you what a great employer Publix is, how much opportunity there is to grow and develop, and the wonderful people you will meet, but instead I thought I would list a number of developments that occurred last year and let you evaluate if this is a place you would like to work.
- What did the number 23 mean to Publix in 2012? No, I'm not talking about the number Michael Jordan wore on his jersey but rather the number of stores we opened across five states. Considering we employ about 135 associates per store, that means we added more than 3,000 retail positions last year.
- Also, in 2012, we announced plans to expand into North Carolina, our sixth state. We will open two stores in the Charlotte area in 2014.
- We extended our customer service beyond our stores and our website by creating a Social Media department. The team operates our Publix Facebook page and two Twitter accounts for the company.
- Publix is keenly interested in helping our associates and our customers live healthier lifestyles. To that end, we created the company's first In-Store Dietician position and our first Manager of Associate Wellness position.
- In two Florida areas, we rolled out our Aprons Event Planning Catering services, which will cover everything from customized menus to on-site meal preparation, venue organization, and serving staff.
Last but not least, here are a few awards we received in 2012:
- FORTUNE magazine's 100 Best Companies To Work For (16th consecutive year)
- IDG Computerworld 100 Best Places to Work in IT (8th consecutive year)
- Highest-ranking supermarket for customer satisfaction according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (18th consecutive year)
- Number one on J.D. Power and Associates' Customer Satisfaction Index Rating for retail pharmacies
- Inc. magazine's list of the Fastest Growing Private Companies
So what do you think? Do you want to join our ranks? If so, check out our website for more information: www.publix.jobs.
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Beau Bokan's Blessthefall has had their van broken into while in Montreal partying at Les Foufounes Électriques following their tour stop as part of the Fire & Ice Tour with We Came As Romans and Emmure. The band has issued the following statement through their Facebook page:
"So, last night in Montreal our van was broken into and 3 bags were stolen. Matt's plaid black and white Hurley backpack, Elliott's plain blac backpack and Dreds black Under Armor backpack. Contents were brand new MacBooks, iPods, a passport and the flipcam. So unfortunately there will be no tour video from this tour.
If anyone has information about our stuff, please let us know. We were parked behind Foufs bar/club in Montreal last night."
The band is appealing to fans for any information about their stolen belongings.