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We want to stay at the forefront of our nation's evolving health care system, and that means researching new and better ways to improve patients' lives.
Here are the latest news and stories about research projects and initiatives at the University.
Anastasia Armbruster, Pharm.D. '09, AACC, BCPS, BCCP, associate professor of pharmacy practice, was recently awarded an American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) Seed Grant for her study on medications used for atrial fibrillation.
St. Louis College of Pharmacy was ranked No. 8 on the St. Louis Business Journal's recently published list of the largest research universities in Missouri and southern Illinois.
St. Louis College of Pharmacy has been ranked No. 1 among all private pharmacy institutions in the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy's most recent Funded Research Grant Institutional Rankings Report.
The Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education recently featured an article written by Amy J. Reese, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology at St. Louis College of Pharmacy, highlighting the Science, Ethics and Society course that she developed for the College.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, antibiotic resistance is one of the most urgent public health challenges of our time. Kalyan Venkata, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicinal chemistry, is working to combat antibiotic resistance through his research on inhibitors of NDM-1, an enzyme that makes bacteria resistant to a broad range of antibiotics.
Bahaa Elgendy, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicinal chemistry at the College, has received more than $426,000 in grant funds from the National Institute on Aging to support research focused on the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
Tom Burris, Ph.D., FAAAS, FAHA, Alumni Chair in Pharmaceutical Education and vice president for research at St. Louis College of Pharmacy, conducts cutting-edge research in the fields of cardio metabolic diseases, muscle function, Alzheimer's disease, fatty liver disease and traumatic brain injury.
St. Louis College of Pharmacy was ranked No. 3 on the St. Louis Business Journal's recently released list of the region's largest National Institutes of Health (NIH) award recipients for 2019.
Ream Al-Hasani Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmaceutical science at St. Louis College of Pharmacy and assistant professor of anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is a neuroscientist and pharmacologist who studies the neurological conditions that lead to addiction as well as how the brain responds to negative experiences, such as pain or stress. She and her collaborators focus on the kappa opioid receptor system, a promising target for non-addictive pain management.
Giovanni Pauletti, M.Pharm., Ph.D., Gustavus & Henry Pfeiffer Professor of Pharmacy and chair of pharmaceutical and administrative sciences, specializes in working with interdisciplinary research teams on new and improved drug delivery systems, namely for women's health and global health populations.
Susruta Majumdar, Ph.D., associate professor of medicinal chemistry and pharmacology at St. Louis College of Pharmacy, researches the chemical biology of opioid receptors in order to create better pain management therapeutics that are effective and potentially non-addictive. He particularly focuses on the plant kratom and its potential therapeutic in treating pain, opioid dependence and alcoholism.
Kristine Griffett, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology at St. Louis College of Pharmacy, studies nuclear receptors to develop targeted therapeutics for cardio-metabolic diseases. By focusing on nuclear receptors, Griffett's work looks at the underlying causes of disease and examines how many diseases can share a single underlying cause.
Bahaa Elgendy, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicinal chemistry at St. Louis College of Pharmacy and adjunct assistant professor of anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is a medicinal chemist working to unravel the mysteries of nuclear receptors, which play a role in a number of physiological processes.
Ream Al-Hasani Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmaceutical science at St. Louis College of Pharmacy and assistant professor of anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, recently received a $70,000 Young Investigator Grant from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation.
Giovanni Pauletti, M.Pharm., Ph.D., Gustavus and Henry Pfeiffer Chair in Pharmacy and professor and chair of the College's Department of Pharmaceutical and Administrative Sciences, has been awarded nearly $730,000 in NIH grant funding to support the research and development of a non-hormonal birth control device.
Susruta Majumdar, Ph.D., associate professor of medicinal chemistry and pharmacology at St. Louis College of Pharmacy, recently co-authored a paper demonstrating that certain alkaloids from the plant kratom could potentially be developed into a treatment for alcohol use disorder.
The Center for Clinical Pharmacology was the recipient of the BMO Harris Bank Spirit of St. Louis Award during the 7th annual Arcus Awards, held Feb. 27 at the Hyatt St. Louis at the Arch.
Tom Burris, Ph.D., FAAAS, FAHA, Alumni Chair in Pharmaceutical Education and vice president for research at St. Louis College of Pharmacy, received grant funds totaling more than $740,000 from Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals.
St. Louis College of Pharmacy has been ranked 25th among all U.S. pharmacy schools for funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) during 2019. The ranking makes the College the top-ranked private college of pharmacy in the nation for NIH grants.
Jones Hall has recently been renovated to provide faculty researchers and undergraduate and graduate students with additional opportunities to explore new research as well as expand upon existing research.
With the right mentorship, curiosity and ambition, Irving Boime, B.S. '64, Ph.D., discovered a path grounded in pharmacy and guided by research, eventually establishing himself in endocrinology and biochemistry research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
The innovative work of P3 student Sai Dodda received grand prize accolades during the Infectious Diseases Society of America's (IDSA) second annual IDEA Incubator, a competition hosted by IDSA to showcase inventions, products and devices designed to improve patient care for infectious diseases during ID Week.
Tim Moylan, Ph.D., associate professor of English and director of the theater program, uses his theatrical background to enhance his scholarship focused on Queen Elizabeth I and bring a fresh perspective to the classroom.
Whether he is making rounds at the hospital, educating students, or analyzing datasets, Scott Micek, Pharm.D., FCCP, BCPS, professor of pharmacy practice at St. Louis College of Pharmacy, is always focused on positive patient outcomes.
Sarah Mooney, Pharm.D., PGY1 pharmacy resident and clinical instructor, is using her pharmacy residency experience at the College as a stepping stone toward a career in pediatric pharmacy.
Through the creation of the Summer Research Scholars program, the Center for Clinical Pharmacology is providing a place for students to advance their skills and drive research forward within the Washington University Medical Campus.
We recently sat down with Amy Reece, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology, to discuss her path to the College, her research and her passion for collaborating with students in her lab.
St. Louis College of Pharmacy is rapidly transforming into a major research institution. Faculty across the College pursue innovative research projects, and many faculty collaborate with students, introducing them to a variety of projects and methodologies.
The College takes top spots for return on investment in new Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce ranking of 4,500 colleges and universities.
The College is exposing local high school students to scientific enterprise and research opportunities through the Students and Teachers as Research Scientists program.
Brian Kobilka, M.D., professor of molecular and cellular physiology at Stanford University and winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry, recently visited St. Louis College of Pharmacy to present his current research.
The American Journal of Physiology recently selected an article co-authored by Alicia Pate, Ph.D., assistant professor of anatomy/physiology at St. Louis College of Pharmacy, for addition to its monthly collection of Best Research Articles.
St. Louis College of Pharmacy faculty conducting research in the Center for Clinical Pharmacology have been awarded more than $6.3 million in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Department of Defense.
Ream Al-Hasani, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmaceutical science at St. Louis College of Pharmacy and assistant professor of anesthesiology at the School of Medicine, worked with a team of scientists to discover how the emotional effects of pain make patients more susceptible to addiction.
The Journal of the American Pharmacists Association recently featured the work of three faculty members from St. Louis College of Pharmacy who conducted research to assess medication adherence in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Missouri.
From prescriptions at a pharmacy to online electronic medical records, health care informatics plays a key role in providing personalized care and improving patient outcomes.
Brian Walter, Ph.D., professor of English and director of convocations, recently completed a tour for his 2019 book "The Guestroom Novelist: A Donald Harington Miscellany," which included interviews aired on NPR.
St. Louis College of Pharmacy was ranked among the top 50 colleges of pharmacy in the nation for total federal research awards in the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy's (AACP) most recent Funded Research Grant Institutional Rankings Report.
Amy J. Reese, Ph.D, associate professor of microbiology at St. Louis College of Pharmacy, and her team of faculty-student researchers are celebrating the recent publication of their fungus-related research in mSphere, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).
As the College works to expand its research profile, many students had their first opportunity to gain research exposure this spring as part of the annual Student Research Symposium, a campus tradition that is known for igniting students' passion for research.
As research continues at the Center for Clinical Pharmacology to improve the treatment of pain, Susruta Majumdar, Ph.D., associate professor of medicinal chemistry and pharmacology at St. Louis College of Pharmacy, has been working collaboratively with scientists at the center and Columbia University to examine the biological effects of kratom and its potential to create safer alternatives to the use of opioid pain medications.
With increasing numbers of students expressing a desire to take part in undergraduate research opportunities, St. Louis College of Pharmacy has established the Undergraduate Research Scholars Program.
In February, St. Louis College of Pharmacy P2 students Sai Dodda and Abbey Jin presented original research at the Society of Critical Care Medicine's 48th Critical Care Congress in San Diego.
In today's digital age, industries are embracing data analysis as a tool for success. This has become especially evident in health system pharmacy, where the integration of comprehensive pharmacy analytics is helping organizations improve patient outcomes and reduce costs.
Throughout the years, Ryan Moenster, B.S. '04, Pharm.D. '05, FIDSA, BCPS-AQ ID, associate professor of pharmacy practice, has played a critical role in educating St. Louis College of Pharmacy residents.
Too often, health care practitioners get only a snapshot of their patients' conditions and find themselves working in silos. Through an interdisciplinary approach, providers can share knowledge, form a more complete picture of a patient and achieve better outcomes.
Blanca Perez del Palomar, visiting scholar at St. Louis College of Pharmacy, has received the National End-of-Career University Education Award from the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training of Spain.
The College sets the pace for pharmacy residency program collaboration in the St. Louis area.
St. Louis College of Pharmacy has positioned itself as a leader in the fight against opioid abuse. From prescription medication collection to research into the addictive nature of opioids, our students, faculty, staff and research centers have passionately invested themselves in combating this epidemic.
In April, St. Louis College of Pharmacy hosted its ninth annual Student Research Symposium, where the work of nearly 100 students was showcased. The event featured both poster and podium sessions highlighting student findings on a wide range of topics.
On Feb. 1, Tom Burris, Ph.D., FAAAS, FAHA, joined St. Louis College of Pharmacy as the Alumni Endowed Professor in the Center for Clinical Pharmacology and President's Senior Research Advisor. Burris brings the center one step closer to becoming a national research leader in pain management and personalized approaches to medication therapy.
P2 student Marissa Chow hopes to pursue a career in pharmacy, academia and research, and she is putting her passion to work beyond the classroom.
As part of a memorandum agreement between St. Louis College of Pharmacy and Trinity College Dublin, Melanie VanDyke, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, was selected as the College's first visiting scholar to travel to Ireland.
In spring 2017, the Center for Clinical Pharmacology announced the appointment of its first two faculty researchers. Just over a year later, the center is flourishing with the addition of seven new faculty and more than 25 postdoctoral research associates, graduate and undergraduate researchers and technical staff members currently working in its labs.
A five-hour drive to Chicago, a 3,657-mile flight to Dublin and a four-week research project provided a once-in-a-lifetime rotation experience for Daniel "Bubba" Britt '17 and Mara Hofherr '17.
In August 2015, St. Louis College of Pharmacy and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis joined forces to find better, safer and more effective ways to use prescription medications to improve health. Researchers from the two institutions collaborated to create the Center for Clinical Pharmacology.
All year long, students pulled on their white coats, sharpened their pencils and strapped on their safety goggles to work on research projects ranging from antibiotic therapy efficacy and compliance to gathering Rhodotorula fungal samples. All of that hard work will be showcased during the Eighth Annual Student Research Symposium on Saturday, April 8.
As part of the Black History Month programming, Dennis Doyle, Ph.D., assistant professor of history, gave a book talk on his latest publication, "Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem, 1936-1968."
When presented with the opportunity to rethink St. Louis College of Pharmacy's chemistry curriculum to better prepare their students, Ehren Bucholtz, Ph.D., associate professor of organic chemistry, and Benjamin Barth, Ph.D., assistant professor of organic chemistry, were eager to accept the challenge.
Projected to save billions of dollars in U.S. health care costs, biosimilars are a highly anticipated alternative to some of the most expensive medications on the market. However, from ongoing patent litigation and legislation to complex development processes, pharmacists and the U.S. prescription drug industry are left to hang on the cusp of a revolution.
Alicia B. Forinash, Pharm.D., FCCP, BCPS, BCACP, professor of pharmacy practice, served as a co-author on the recently published Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation: A Reference Guide to Fetal and Neonatal Risk, 11th Edition.
Katie Tellor, Pharm.D., BCPS, associate professor of pharmacy practice, along with coauthors Abigail Yancey, B.S. '02, Pharm.D. '03, FCCP, BCPS, professor of pharmacy practice, Anastasia Armbruster, Pharm.D. '09, BCPS, associate professor of pharmacy practice, Steffany Nguygen, Pharm.D. '17, Amanda Bultas, Pharm.D. '17, and P4 student Nicholas Greenwald received the 2017 Virtual Poster Symposium Best Poster Award for their abstract and presentation "Evaluation of Warfarin Requirements in Hospitalized, Obese Patients Admitted with a Therapeutic INR."
P3 student Benjamin Jolley is one of 19 students selected from across the country for the Pharmacy Quality Alliance-CVS Health Foundation Scholars program.
Pharmacists at St. Louis College of Pharmacy research one of the deadliest diseases in America.
P3 students Joanna Huang and Dane Fickes were selected to participate in the TL1 Predoctoral Clinical Research Program over the summer through the Clinical Research Training Center (CRTC) at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
St. Louis College of Pharmacy plans extensive public health campaign to educate families about important health issue.
Yvonne Burnett, Pharm.D., receives a grant from the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists to analyze pharmacist-led dosing and monitoring of vancomycin in an OPAT program setting.
St. Louis College of Pharmacy researches effect of integrating audience response technology into the classroom.
St. Louis College of Pharmacy professor tackling two subjects at the AACP annual meeting.
St. Louis College of Pharmacy professor participates in the national discussion regarding Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs).
Scott Vouri becomes the first pharmacist to receive the Alene & Meyer Kopolow Award for Geriatrics, Psychiatry, and Neurology for work on medication interactions.
Vincristine and paclitaxel (taxol) are chemotherapies effective in stopping cell division, but not without damaging neurons. In her research on neuron degeneration, Martha Bhattacharya, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, and her collaborators have discovered a gene that is improving our understanding of chemo-related nerve damage.
P1 student Matthew Koebel lays out ambitious global plan to show unique research being done at St. Louis College of Pharmacy.
How two faculty members at St. Louis College of Pharmacy are helping reduce hospital readmission rates.
Residents, preceptors and friends gathered at Third Degree Glass Factory to celebrate the 23rd Annual Pharmacy Residency Banquet on Wednesday, June 15. Forty-two residents from St. Louis area pharmacy residency programs were recognized for the completion of their training.
Director of the Center for Clinical Pharmacology explains new guidelines to Fox 2 News.
Times have changed in terms of physics education. Instead of studying topics like how projectiles move, STLCOP students are programming computers and running software to study the physics of molecular dynamics.
Students and faculty have the opportunity to expand learning and scholarship at Trinity College in Dublin.
Melanie VanDyke, assistant professor of psychology, was published in Psychology online in September for her research of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and the impact it has on family members of those with the illness.
New partnership with Washington University School of Medicine seeks better, safer medicine.
In the first study of its kind, College faculty members looked to evaluate the faculty perception of team-based learning.
History was made at 9 a.m. this morning as classes met for the first time in the new Academic and Research Building on the campus of St. Louis College of Pharmacy. Both of the 250-seat classrooms were filled. By noon, nearly a dozen classes were complete.
How does the College continue to ensure our graduates are prepared to lead the profession of pharmacy? By having them work in real-world situations while still in school.
Alyssa Thompson, Pharm.D., recognized for her research into COPD treatment.
Associate Professor Jasna Marjanovic has been awarded an NIH grant—the first in STLCOP's history—to study an enzyme in blood platelets.
In what may be a first in the 150-year history of St. Louis College of Pharmacy, a faculty member is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The Journal is among the most prestigious and respected periodicals in the medical community.
A warm meal, some conversation, and access to health care may work just as well as antidepressant medications for older adults. That's the trend Scott Vouri, Pharm.D., BCPS, CGP, assistant professor of pharmacy practice at St. Louis College of Pharmacy found when he looked at a group of older adults enrolled in PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly).
At an historic conference, St. Louis College of Pharmacy students and faculty were repeatedly recognized as outstanding contributors to the profession.
There are now more medications available to help patients prevent a stroke. For the past 60 years, warfarin has been the go-to medication. This new breed of medications offers promise and a different set of challenges.
Whether a person is moving from operating to recovery room, hospital to home, or home to skilled-care facility, each transition of care can become a complicated, intricate process.
Professor, Student, and Alumna, team up to research one of the most challenging health care questions.
Philip Wenger, Pharm.D., BCPS, spends a significant amount of time behind bars. When the associate professor of pharmacy practice at St. Louis College of Pharmacy is not teaching in class, he's working at the Buzz Westfall Justice Center in Clayton, Mo. There, he helps manage medication for more than 1,200 inmates inside the St. Louis County jail.
Professor John Beale's discovery of four drug compounds—for which he has acquired the first international patent in STLCOP's history—may treat and even prevent Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
Over the next two years, the College will be undergoing an exciting physical transformation to better meet the needs of our students, faculty, and staff.
Neurological diseases like Alzheimer's and dementia are devastating, and there is currently no cure for either one. But thanks to researchers like John Beale, Ph.D., a great deal of progress is being made in finding drugs that could treat and even prevent these diseases.


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The funny ending we read of "Little Red Riding Hood" was a bit too violent for our taste, so I urged you to change it, and once again you really lulled me with your sparkling imaginations. So share the funny endings with whoever visists and reads this blog.
This is the ending we read out in class:
Then Little Red Riding Hood said, "But Grandma, what a lovely great big furry coat you have on". "That's wrong!"cried the Wolf. "Have you forgotten to tell me what BIG TEETH I've got? Ah well, no matter what you say, I'm going to eat you anyway". The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers. She whips a pistol from her knickers. She aims it at the creature's head and bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.


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BREAKING: Giant Lake of Liquid Water Found Hiding Under Mars' South Pole
We at length know where all that Martian water has been covering up! This most recent epic revelation was accomplished utilizing a radar instrument on a Mars orbiter, with Italian researchers finding a gigantic liquid reservoir covered up 1.5 kilometers (0.93 miles) under the southern polar ice cap, expanding 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) over.
The scientists say it's a great deal like the subglacial lakes caught underneath the ice of the Arctic and Antarctica here on Earth. Furthermore, similar to our terrestrial subglacial lakes, it may be the place we find astounding life.
A subglacial lake has for some time been conjectured as a conceivable place to have water on the Red Planet, however testing underneath glacial regions isn't a simple assignment even here on Earth. It's just been as of late that researchers have utilized satellites equipped with radar to uncover the mysteries of the covering up waters of our own planet.
For the Mars mission, the research group, from various organizations in Italy, utilized comparative technology to study Mars' polar ice tops. An instrument structured exactly for subsurface reviews is on board the European Space Agency's Mars Express enquiry - in orbit around Mars since 2003.
The Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) utilizes radar to search for characteristics under the surface of Mars, and has been searching for indications of subsurface liquid water for more than 12 years.
It was between May 2012 and December 2015 that the research group really explored a 200-kilometre-wide section of the southern ice cap, in an area called the Planum Australe. They took 29 radar profiles of the district, bobbing radio waves far below the surface of Mars, and gathering the arrival motion on a receiver.
It's by measuring changes between the transmitted indicator and what restores that researchers study subsurface characteristics. Radar returning through water is returned all the more powerfully or 'brightly', than radar returning through rock or sediment. This is the thing that the research group found in their radar results: an anomalously bright area in the Planum Australe.
Different clarifications, for example, exceptionally cold and unadulterated water ice, or carbon dioxide ice, could likewise clarify a brilliantly reflective subsurface irregularity like this, yet the research group ran simulations and found that the reflectivity profile did not coordinate their outcomes as well as liquid water.
In any case, there's one other enormous problem: the temperature of the body is evaluated to sit at around 205 Kelvin (- 68.15 Celsius, or - 90.67 Fahrenheit). That is far beneath the purpose of freezing, notwithstanding for hypersaline Antarctic lakes, which stay liquid over 260 Kelvin (- 13 Celsius, or 8.6 Fahrenheit) on account of their salt content.
Be that as it may, in spite of this, the water could in any case speculatively stay in liquid state. We realize that salts of sodium, magnesium, and calcium are abundant on Mars - they've been found on the surface.
Whenever dissolved into the water, and joined with the weight of the ice cap on top, they could drop the freezing point to underneath 200 Kelvin (- 74 celsius and - 101 Fahrenheit). Life has been found in subglacial Earth lakes. It's been recently recommended that a subglacial Martian lake may in this manner additionally harbor life. This revelation revives that probability more prominently than ever before.
"There is proof on Earth of significant microbial life in the waters beneath the poles - and even microbes that can get by inside ice veins," said astrobiologist Brendan Burns of the University of New South Wales, who was not involved with this research. "Regardless of whether comparative situations are happening on Mars stay to be experimentally established, yet this finding of potential liquid water underneath the surface of Mars opens up fascinating areas of space exploration."
It is still vital to keep our cool on this one. It's greatly conceivable that the sheer concentration of salt required to keep the water liquid is completely threatening to life.
We likewise have definitely no methods for sampling the water now, or any point soon. Be that as it may, it's significantly more open than Europa and Enceladus, the other Solar System hopefuls in the search for life; and the water itself could yield sign of information about the atmosphere history of Mars, its hydrosphere, and what may have happened to its long-disappeared ocean.
What's more, now that the group has exhibited its strategy, different analysts realize what to look like for all the more such reservoirs on the Red Planet. But at the same time we will pause for a minute to squee about the possibility of Martian microbes.
"This is a stunning discovery from the Mars Express," said astrophysicist Brad Tucker of the Australian National University, who was not engaged with the exploration. "For quite a long time, we've been discovering proof of either ice or past flows. Presently, we realize that liquid water as of now exists on Mars, and similarly as subsurface lakes exist in Antarctica here on Earth, we now have that on Mars."
"Consistently, new revelations are being made that is motivating us closer to answering the fundamental question - does life exist some place past Earth." The group's research has been published in the journal Science.


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July 7, 2006
A former Haitian paramilitary leader accused of mass murder has been charged with being part of a mortgage fraud ring in New York, according to an indictment unsealed yesterday.
The man, Emmanuel Constant, was arrested on Wednesday and is expected to be arraigned today in state court in Riverhead, in Suffolk County. Mr. Constant, who is also known as Toto, was one of six people charged with grand larceny, forgery and falsifying records for fraud that the authorities said occurred between 2004 and this year.
The indictment said Mr. Constant helped defraud SunTrust Bank of more than $1 million last year.
In the 1990's, Mr. Constant was head of a right-wing paramilitary group known as Fraph and translated variously as the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti.
In 2000, a Haitian court convicted him and sentenced him to life in prison in a massacre of slum-dwellers during a brutal period of military rule in the early 1990's. He had fled Haiti for the United States in the mid-1990's, however, and has not served any of the sentence. He was detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service for about a year but was released in 1996.
Last year, Mr. Constant was sued in federal court in Manhattan by a coalition of advocacy groups on behalf of Haitian women who say they were systematically gang-raped under his direction.
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Horse Barn Maintenance Tips
Kashmira Lad
Mar 9, 2020
Horse barn maintenance is as important as the grooming of any horse. Here are some tips that can help you maintain your barns on a regular basis.
Who can forget 'Seabiscuit' where a gifted race horse along with three men restores hope amongst people with some thrilling antics. 'Seabiscuit' is a very moving story that can truly be a source of inspiration. This is also one of the most popular films amongst most horse lovers.
Well, not everybody is lucky enough to own stables, and live the dream of riding horses, caring, and loving for them at one's own farmhouse.
For those fortunate enough, the experience of owning horses and personally witnessing the beauty of the majestic animals is something that cannot be described.
Stables form an important part, when it comes to caring and tending for your horses. The beautiful and majestic animals need to be groomed well. The barns where the horses are kept need to be cleaned and maintained well.
Cleanliness and hygiene are necessary for both you and the animal.
Barn maintenance tips presented here would help you to clean the barn with more ease on a regular basis, and the barn can become more inhabitable for the horses.
Tips for Horse Barn Maintenance
Regularly check the drainage system of the barn. This would help prevent any flooding or clogging. Choose a nice and bright sunny day to clean the floor, so that the natural sunlight enters the barn, and helps it to dry easily. You must also consult a professional, if any drainage problem persists.
Apart from the dirt, manure, and dust, the chaff (chopped straw commonly fed to horses) also tends to hold a lot of moisture, and this can turn dirty during the wet weather. Therefore, barns that have dirt floors need to have the top layer removed. You may need to add new soil to it. If maintained, you can keep the area clean and free from dirt and stench.
When you clean out all the feedbags and other materials, use a handcart to carry them out, so that nothing spills again on the floor. You won't have to mop the floor again!
Get some rubber mats from the market, as these will prove to be a wise buy. Rubber mats are easy to clean and maintain, and can be used as a base for the horses to stand upon, while you go about cleaning the ground.
Try to keep the barns clean with the help of a power blower, so that you can clean up the place more efficiently.
Buy right tools that are required for barn maintenance. Try to invest in lightweight wheelbarrows or muck buckets, and other such tools, that will help you finish your tasks with great ease. Use bucket hooks on your buckets.
Check out the various types of feed tubs, and pick those that are detachable, and very easy to clean.
Add some panels in easy-to-reach areas. These panels on the walls can help you hang the required materials. This may assist you in the cleaning process, and save frequent trips to the other side of the barn.
Maintain one cleaning routine for the barn. Start from a specific area to maintain uniformity in the maintenance process. Try to maintain a particular pattern, that will help you simplify the way you manage the waste removal process. With this method, you can decide how you can place the tools needed for the maintenance of the barn.
Ensure you clean the loft on a regular basis.
Use a toilet brush to clean buckets and stock tanks.
Use a hose reel to fill the water buckets.
Keep a regular check on the stable walls, windows etc. for any need of replacement or repair. This would save a lot of time when it comes to maintenance.
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So, we're fully stuck into exam season now. First of all good luck to anyone who is powering through their exams!
Now, while some of you have probably got your study techniques down and are making your way through your revision efficiently, the majority of people will struggle at some point with coping with their revision. Everyone learns differently so I would definitely recommend trying out some different revision techniques to find which fits you best.
So, once you've figured out how exactly you revise best, it's time to organise your time and get on with it!
One of the things I have found most useful in efficient revision is blocking out chunks of time to focus on specific subjects. If you try to study without any kind of aim or direction then it is easy to get sidetracked and get less work done.
On the other side of things, planning your time too intricately e.g. 30 mins or hour by hour can be counterproductive, like a strict diet, as soon as you get out of sync it's easy to throw everything out the window. The key to successful revision is to set yourself reasonable goals so you don't burn out.
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"Schools are still not being provided with adequate funding and resource to deliver the level of provision and support that is expected and that our families and children deserve."
This is a quote from Ms Beth Honnor, Headteacher at Marriotts School in Stevenage.
Ms Honnor outlined the concerns of Headteachers in relation to school funding that was put to the Secretary of State for Education three times since September 2018. Headteachers have requested to meet with him but were told on 13th December 2018 by a junior civil servant that the Secretary of State and the Minister of State must decline their offer to meet. He advised that their time was heavily pressurised and that their diaries need to be prioritised according to ministerial, parliamentary and constituency business. Further correspondence was sent on 14th January 2019 and they received a further knock back from the department.
Ms Honnor advised "given the seriousness of the current school funding crisis and the impact upon schools, children and families, head teacher colleagues and I, believe that this approach is entirely ill-judged."
We are inclined to agree.
If we do not act now, the serious lack of funding for schools WILL affect the lives of our next generation. These are the people that actually matter to take our country forward in the years ahead. They will only be as good as the quality of education they receive.
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Back at Altitude
The sun is out for the second day in a row, the thermometer out back says 0 degrees, and it's so dry that five miles to the west I can see the snow-frozen Rockies as clear as if they were a Bob Ross painting. The semester is done. I am home in Colorado.
I want you to understand how fantastic it feels to be here. I can go on forever about homey sorts of things, so I'm going to try compressing to a list format to keep from going overboard. Alright, consider:
1. School--I'll just do a quick run-down of major assignments and performances I've done since...let's say...Thursday the 11th:
a. Student Composers' Concert (I need to stop agreeing to do these at busy times of the year)
b. Collegium Musicum concerts (this is Oberlin's early music a capella choir. Think Renaissance polyphony. I adore this group and its director Steven Plank and will talk about it in depth in a later post)
c. 20-page piece for my nonfiction workshop (mine ended up more like 15, including a page-long section listing what different people in my life do with their non-dominant hand while brushing their teeth. I'm still collecting information, if you'd care to tell me about your habits)
d. Oberlin Chamber Orchestra concert (Beethoven 4, what what!)
e. playing in horn studio (nothing like being judged by your peers when you're playing atonal etudes in a state of severe sleep-deprivation)
f. Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble playing Messiaen's Des Canyons aux Etoiles (a two-night extravaganza. If you haven't heard this piece, it's an hour and a half long, 12-movement musical depiction of the American Western landscape, mostly parts of Utah, and includes as many bird calls as you could possibly ask for. It's good music for those epic moods we all get from time to time)
g. a performance by my woodwind quintet Is that a yam? (for the size turnout we got, you'd have thought we were a quasi-legitimate band and not a five-person twittering machine)
(I was just reminded of this, my dad's favorite painting called "The Twittering Machine" by Paul Klee. Kinda weird, I know. Those are birds, and you'll notice the crank attached to the thing they're standing on.)
h. 12-15 pager for my seminar on Salman Rushdie (sorry it didn't turn out better, Anu. I tried, I really did...)
i. 25-page portfolio of revised/polished work for my nonfiction workshop. (The "tooth-brushing sequence," as Bernard called it, unfortunately did not make the final cut.)
j. 17 pages of "my best writing" for applications to creative writing workshops for next semester. This mostly involves digging through stuff I've already written, but it's a bit of a stressful process, nonetheless.
k. As you can imagine, all of this does not fit...gracefully...into a week and a half, much less the last week and a half of the semester. By the end of it my brain was a bunch of overcooked noodles and I had no time or energy to do any practicing. It's times like these when the double degree becomes a hilarious proposition, and to put it lightly I was quite ready to be done with everything and sleep for at least nine uninterrupted hours.
2. The Family:
a. I was away at a music festival this past summer and have not been home or seen my parents and two siblings since June. This is my fourth year at Oberlin, which is to say I've been officially "out of the house" for a while now, but six months without my family still makes me feel...ungrounded? Being back here reminds me that I have roots, that I'm not just a history-less personality receiving academic and musical training in an unlikely state. Does that make sense? Like I forget sometimes that there's a Nicolee outside of what college demands of her.
b. I turned 21 in July, and since then my older brother Dan has been making plans for the two of us to go out to local bars together. Who'd have thought that I'd be having drinks with the kid who once kicked me when I wouldn't give up the TV remote?
c. I get to practice long tones in the living room while Dad makes lunch and listens to Car Talk in the next room. He tells me that according to ads on TV, I can buy a quarter with Obama's face on it for the low, low price of $19.95. Also, it is not a real quarter and cannot be circulated. Which I guess explains why it's worth more than regular quarters?
d. My sister Lisi has been freaking herself out by reading American Psycho, and from what's she's told me about it, I'm probably better off without 400 odd pages of graphically-depicted torture and murder at the hands of a sociopathic businessman. I'll just stick with straight-up depressing novels, like Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, which I finished this afternoon. It's good, it's really good, but hooo...
e. Mom keeps trying to unload her old clothes on me, and I have to keep gently reminding her that I have a low tolerance for certain quantities of lace. And high waistlines. And the color pink. And shoulder pads. But she goes out of her way to buy me soy ice cream and tofu and miso soup from the grocery store, so in this light, I'm very willing to continue politely rejecting offerings from her wardrobe.
So in sum: I'm very happy to be home (don't get me started on my airport adventures that got me here) where I can eat, sleep, practice, and read whatever the hell I want until January 2 when I head back for Winter Term. Which is a story for another day.
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What's the VERY FIRST thing you do when you get home?
Posted by: Lillie on December 22, 2008 10:05 AM
I don't have any homecoming habits, if that's what you're asking. I had to think for a while before I could remember what I did when I got home this year. My dad likes to save money by booking me flights with funky connections, but this time around, delays/cancelations/snow/etc. made for a 14-hour airport horror-show that I had to endure before getting home, so I was pretty out of it by the time I walked through the front door. I'm pretty sure the first thing I did (after clearing my mom's 30-year old beige trousers off my bed) was make toast. I REALLY wanted some toast. With peanut butter. I felt a bit protein-starved after a day of trying to find vegan food in airports. Also I said hello to my sister. While eating toast.
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It's the Monday morning fantasy of every working stiff on the planet. Instead of crawling out of bed at an ungodly hour, showering and getting dressed in your office best, you get paid to stay in your sweet holiday-themed Hoodie-Footie jammies all day!
Since the glorious birth of the Internet, websites have been selling us on the idea of shopping in our underwear, banking in our underwear, renting videos in our underwear and even working in our underwear. Frankly, that's just gross. The civilized slob knows that nothing says "trust me, I'm a professional" like a classy pair of PJs.
Sure, there are plenty of normal jobs that you can do from home in various stages of undress — Web developing, medical transcription, freelance writing — but we set out to find jobs that actually allow you to step out in public wearing nothing more than your pajamas.
Keep reading for our list of 10 unbelievable — literally, you won't believe us — jobs that you can really do in your jammies.
Hotel Mystery Shopper
This has to be one of the sweetest gigs for folks who love to travel and hang out all day in fluffy hotel robes. Major U.S. hotel chains, including high-end luxury resorts, hire legions of undercover agents to stay at their hotels and rate everything from front desk service to the thread count of bed linens.
To get hired as a hotel mystery shopper, it helps to have several years of management experience in the hospitality industry, impeccable taste and a flair for the dramatic — mystery shoppers are often asked to impersonate a troublesome guest, like the lady who manages to break her TV, toilet and smoke alarm within 20 minutes of arrival.
Hotel mystery shoppers are expected to travel 42 weeks out of the year and are paid by the gig. The client provides a checklist of dozens of items for the secret guest to rate and provide detailed feedback [source: O'Shea-Evans].
Learn more about this unusual career at Coyle Hospitality Group where you can apply to become a mystery shopper for hotels, cruises, restaurants and spas.
Catalog Model
That lady in the back of the J. Crew catalog look so comfortable curled up on the suede couch with a mug of hot chocolate, lounging away a winter morning reading the Sunday paper in her $95 pale blue pajama set. Catalog models earn an average of $70,000 to make the latest fashions look great, even frumpy old flannel jammies [source: SimplyHired].
Not everyone is cut out for the Victoria's Secret catalog — frankly, we think genetic engineering is involved — but you might have what it takes to be a catalog model for major national department stores or local clothing chains. For clothing to look its best, catalog models are usually tall and fit, and it certainly helps to have good looks and a great smile. Catalogs also like to feature models of diverse ethnicities and distinctive looks.
The best way to break into the catalog modeling business is to sign up with a modeling agency. You can visit local agencies in person or apply online with reputable national firms. Another option is to be a fit model for a clothing store (like Kohl's). Fit models act as human mannequins, helping pajama designers see how the clothes hang and move on real people. Even better, all sizes are welcome!
Professional Cuddler
Hugging, science tells us, is good for your health. A loving squeeze lowers your blood pressure and heart rate, and even decreases levels of cortisol, the notorious stress hormone [source: Polard]. But what if you're living alone, far from huggable friends and loved ones? Who can you call to cuddle?
A professional cuddler, of course! In major cities across America, touchy-feely entrepreneurs are selling therapeutic snuggle sessions to cure everything from seasonal affective disorder to a broken heart.
Samantha Hess of Cuddle Up to Me in Portland, Oregon, charges $1 per minute for a hug; you can book sessions from 15 minutes to five hours. Yes, she is extremely careful about screening her clients, meeting them first in a neutral location and requiring them to sign a strict "no sexual contact" pledge. Everyone keeps their clothes on, but pajamas are OK [source: Wells].
Cuddling clients are mostly male, but represent every age range. A lot of cuddlers like to talk about their problems, so professional snugglers should also be good listeners. Crying, apparently, is a common side effect of a good snuggle, professional cuddler Ali C. of New York City told the New York Daily News.
If you're interested in joining the growing ranks of therapeutic huggers, apply for a spot at The Snuggle Buddies, now hiring both female and male cuddlers.
NASA Bed-rest Study Participant
One small nap for a man, one giant sleep for mankind! In what has to be one of the strangest scientific studies subsidized by the American taxpayer, NASA will pay you up to $18,000 to lay in bed for 70 to 90 straight days [source: Ziegler].
Test subjects in NASA's bed-rest studies help scientists measure the effects of microgravity on the human body and develop "countermeasures" to maintain the health and fitness of future astronauts who may one day make the roughly 250-day trip to Mars [source: Smith].
If lying around all day for three months sounds like a dream job, think again. Subjects must lay in beds that recline at a six-degree angle toward the head to mimic blood flow in low gravity. Sinus headaches are one thing, but then there are the, uh, logistics of using the bathroom and eating without sitting up. Participant Beth Ann Shriber, who completed a marathon 90-day bed rest study called it a matter of endurance [source: Dean].
If long-haul studies aren't your thing, check with local universities and research hospitals about participating in a sleep study. In 2015 Harvard Medical School was offering to pay healthy young participants $7,500 for a 32-day sleep study or an easy $600 for two nights of interrupted sleep to test the effects of sleep apnea on learning [source: Harvard Medical School].
Hugh Hefner Impersonator
Hugh Hefner, the 80-something millionaire magnate of Playboy Enterprises, maintains a strict uniform — black silk pajamas during the day, and colored pajamas in the evening along with his signature smoking jacket and S-curve pipe [source: Playboy Enterprises]. His trademark fashion choice embodies the laid-back, sophisticated lifestyle Playboy has promoted since the 1950s.
Since 2011, a Florida man named George Kane has been cashing in on his uncanny resemblance to the octogenarian celebrity publisher. A retired high school principal, Kane decided to take a hint from the dozens of strangers who had approached him for autographs at restaurants. He bought the silk pajamas, memorized Hef's bio and began selling himself as a professional Hugh Hefner impersonator.
On Kane's website, he boasts that 90 percent of people who meet him believe he's the real Hugh Hefner. Kane works car shows, fantasy conventions, corporate events and private parties, always staying in character and happy to pose for pictures. His wife Monnie hopes it's a fad, like his brief stints as a charter boat captain and racecar driver [source: First Coast News].
True, it's hard to pull off a good Hugh Hefner impersonation if you're not a white male over 70, but don't let that get in the way of your dream to work in your pajamas.
Mock Juror
Have you ever participated in a focus group? It's a market research technique that uses feedback from "regular folks" to improve new products before they are released to market. Food companies rely heavily on focus group testing, as do TV and movie studios.
A company called Online Verdict offers a new twist on the focus group model. In a jury trial, lawyers for both sides try to present arguments that will convince 12 random members of the public to side with their client. With Online Verdict, a lawyer can test the strength of his or her case with a mock jury before setting foot in real court.
Mock jurors work from home and earn between $20 and $60 per case to listen or read through trial materials and answer a short questionnaire supplied by the lawyer. To become a mock juror, you must be over 18 and complete an application on the Online Verdict website. If accepted, you will receive emails when cases are being tried in your county or federal district.
Apple Customer Support
You don't have to be a "genius" to provide friendly customer service to frazzled iPhone and iPad users. As part of its AppleCare warrantee system, California-based tech giant Apple is hiring At-Home Advisors to answer customer service calls from home using a complimentary iMac!
The hugely popular tech company is looking for folks with at least two years of professional troubleshooting experience, but not exclusively with Apple products. After a five-week online training course, you'll be ready to set up your home office and start fielding customer service calls using VOIP [source: Apple].
At-Home Advisors are considered Apple corporate employees and qualify for "competitive pay" and benefits. Job search site Glassdoor lists the starting hourly wage at $15 an hour or slightly less than $30,000 a year. The ideal applicant must be able to work around a flexible schedule starting as early as 7 a.m. CST to as late as 10:30 p.m. CST [source: Apple]. (And the lady in the company's website ad looks like she's wearing her jammies – or at least, some "loungewear").
For more customer service from home jobs, check out sites like VIPdesk Connect, West at Home and Convergys.
Even if you don't know the difference between a tarot card and fortune cookie, you can launch a pajama-clad career as an online psychic. If you read the fine print on websites like the Psychic Friends Network, you'll see that online readings are performed in the name of "psychic entertainment," not real-deal voodoo.
What skills should you have to be a successful online psychic? Mostly, you need to be a good listener who can tease out a client's anxieties and dole out "tough love" advice that fits the particular situation [source: Newton]. The longer you keep the client on the line, the more money you make, although don't expect to get rich. Even Miss Cleo herself, the psychic whose "Call me now!" commercials ran incessantly during late-night TV in the 1990s, only made 24 cents a minute [source: Sowunmi].
To get started, register as an "Expert" with a service like Oranum. Using a home webcam — make sure to wear your nice pajamas — you will meet with potential clients in a free chat area, then charge them for in-depth personal consultations. If you want to invest in a set of tarot cards and a turban, that's up to you.
Online Counselor
If you're a licensed therapist, you are missing out on an excellent opportunity to work in your sleepy pants. There is a growing demand — particularly from women in their 20s and 30s — for online therapy sessions. Some studies have shown that online therapy is as effective as the in-person kind [source: Singh]. Even if your therapist license doesn't permit you to practice out of state, you can join an online therapy website as a "counselor" or a "life coach."
Some popular online therapy sites are Talkspace, Virtual Therapy Connect and Pretty Padded Room. Contact them to learn more about joining their ranks of licensed therapists.
If you aren't a licensed therapist, but want to try out online counseling as a potential career option, you can join a growing number of free therapy sites as an "active listener." 7 Cups of Tea is a hugely popular online community where people can talk over their problems with attentive and compassionate strangers. You can become a listener by creating a profile and completing an active listening online course. Another popular free site is BlahTherapy.
Voice-over Artist
"In a world of constricting cubicles and noncasual Fridays, one man dared to work from home in his flannel PJs ... " If you have the charcoal smooth voice of a movie trailer guy, or a talent for funny accents and characters, you could earn real money recording voice-overs in your own home studio.
Sure, you could spend thousands of dollars building a high-end recording studio in your basement, but you can also get surprisingly good sound with some cheap tricks. To cut out background noise and echo, for example, record inside a closet full of clothes. The clothes absorb reverb and deaden background noise [source: Schooler].
Quality USB microphones can be found for less than $100 online and free audio programs like Audacity and Apple's Garageband make recording clean and clear voiceover audio a snap.
But how do you find work as a voice-over artist? If you're just getting started, try websites like Voice Bunny and Voices.com, where you can post samples of your work and bid on projects. It's a great way to build up professional experience before seeking out an agent.
For lots more list of unexpectedly awesome jobs, check out the related HowStuffWorks articles on the next page.
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Author's Note: 10 Jobs You Can Do in Your Jammies
An admission — I am in my pajamas right now. Yes, I am one of those lucky suckers who works from home, often in clothes unsuitable for public consumption. When I first started working as a freelance writer, the lure of working in my jammies wasn't as powerful as the urge to never commute into an office again, and have the kind of flexible schedule where I can actually see my kids during daylight hours and be somewhat helpful to my wife. The pajamas are just a perk. As comfortable as it is to remain in loungewear all day, there are some downsides, notably when the UPS guy or a neighbor unexpectedly pays a visit and I answer the door looking like a semi-homeless man with four-day stubble and a 27-year-old sweatshirt. Do you think a tie would dress things up?
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- Apple. "At-Home Advisor." Jobs at Apple (Jan. 8, 2015) https://jobs.apple.com/us/search?#location&ss=AHA&t=0&sb=location.location
- Dean, Brandi. "One Man's Rest is Another Man's Research." NASA. Aug. 2, 2006 (Jan. 8, 2015) http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/behindscenes/bed_rest_study.html
- DeJohn, Irving. "Meet New York City's First Professional Cuddler." New York Daily News. Jan. 30, 2014 (Jan. 8, 2015) http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/snuggle-time-meet-nyc-professional-cuddler-article-1.1595329
- First Coast News. "Fort Myers Man George Kane Finds Second Career as Playboy Hugh Hefner Look Alike." Aug. 26, 2011 (Jan. 8, 2015) http://archive.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/article/216447/19/Fort-Myers-Man-Finds-Second-Career-as-Hugh-Hefner-Look-Alike
- Glassdoor. "Apple At-Home Advisor Hourly Pay." (Jan. 8, 2015) http://www.glassdoor.com/Hourly-Pay/Apple-Apple-At-Home-Advisor-Hourly-Pay-E1138_D_KO6,27.htm
- Harvard Medical School, Division of Sleep Medicine. "Research Study Subject Recruitment." (Jan. 8, 2015) https://sleep.med.harvard.edu/research/recruitment
- Kohl's. "Fit Models." (Jan. 8, 2015) http://www.kohlscorporation.com/careers/fit_models/fitmodel.html
- Newton, Randi. "It Happened to Me: I Was a Bogus Phone Psychic." XO Jane. Dec. 30, 2011 (Jan. 8, 2015) http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/ihtm-i-was-bogus-phone-psychic
- Online Verdict. "FAQs." (Jan. 8, 2015) https://www.onlineverdict.com/jurors/juror-faqs/
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Title: Young William of the royal waggon train
First Line: One lovely morning I was walking
Title: Come dwell with me
First Line: Come dwell with me, come dwell with me
Title: The poor little fisherman's girl
First Line: It was down in the country a poor girl was weeping
Themes: Orphans
Title: A pretty little dear
First Line: One morning very early a strange thought came in my head
Tune: Oh cruel
Title: The fate of young Henry. In answer to Caroline of Edinburgh town'
First Line: Young Henry a sailor bold as ever ploughed the main
Title: Listen dear Fanny
First Line: Listen dear Fanny, oh, listen to me
Title: I saw her at the fancy fair
First Line: I saw her at the fancy fair
Title: Fare thee well, my love good morrow
First Line: In full pursuit of love and wine
Themes: Seduction and abandonment
Title: Cup of nectar. (Duet)
First Line: Cup of nectar -- rosy nectar
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25F32: Song-birds
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42D111: Man kneeling before his beloved (proposing)
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41D3: Folk costume, regional costume
43C912: Woman dancing alone
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Garage Floor CoatWritten by Jen Nichol
A garage floor coat allows your garage to look as great as the rest of your home. We see it all too often, a truly unsightly garage floor. Stains, spots, and scratches mean that we don't want to spend much time in our workspace.
This can change with a quality garage floor coat. You will be happy to work in your bright, clean space. It will seem as if you gained a whole new workshop.
A Garage Floor Coat Will Change a Dark, Dingy Space into a Gleaming Workshop
Don't let this part of your house go uncared-for. It's easy to transform this "forgotten space" into something handsome and usable. Projects will leap to mind when you know that you have a place to make them happen.
A good garage floor coat is an easy way to reclaim your work space. This is a big part of your home; you paid for it, and you may as well use it to full capacity. See how much you can enjoy being in your garage, when it looks safe, clean, and terrific.


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Tata Trusts has announced that it will be supporting US-based non-profit Khan Academy to provide free online education to Indians through one of the biggest open-access online platforms.
Tata Trusts chairman and Tata Group chairman emeritus Ratan Tata did not specify the aggregate value of resources which will be granted to Khan Academy during the five year partnership by Tata Trusts, which controls 66% of the shares of Tata Sons, the holding company of the over $100 billion (nearly Rs 6.69 lakh) group.
Tata said the promise of free access to quality education is a "new era" and a "compelling opportunity" with a potential to multiply literacy rates which attracted the Trusts towards making the commitment.


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Nonsense about Unemployment: Create and/or Save Voodoo
As yours truly noted a month after the presidential election (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), Barack Obama's handlers and his teleprompter began telling the president-elect to begin using variations on the term "create and/or save" in speeches about jobs and the economy within days of his electoral victory. During the campaign, I found no example of where Obama used any variation on that phrase; it was always "we will create X number of jobs."
Until now, no one in the press of note has paid any attention to this "clever" abandonment of logic and accountability. After all, by the new "create and/or save" non-logic, Dear Leader has "saved" over 130 million jobs since his inauguration — even though, on a seasonally adjusted basis, almost 2.2 million Americans lost theirs from February through May:
Finally, someone in the establishment media has done a serious call-out of Team Obama's risible ruse. Here are excerpts from William McGurn's hard-hitting column in today's Wall Street Journal:


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Freehold education administrators go back to school … sort of
The New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) has found that three Freehold Regional High School District administrators who attained advanced degrees from a purported "diploma mill" did not intend to deceive the district.
Superintendent James Wasser, Assistant Superintendent Donna Evangelista and recently retired Assistant Superintendent Frank Tanzini earned degrees from Breyer State University, an unaccredited school. The degrees made the three eligible for raises of $2,500 per year.
The NJDOE stopped short of requiring state school systems to toughen their standards for staff professional development. "It is wrong for people to use diploma mill degrees to increase their salaries," Education Commissioner Lucille Davy told the Associated Press. "But I don't have the authority to stop them."


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She reciprocated by getting him a hobby kit for grinding a lens and making a camera.
"I learned more from her than any other teacher, and if it hadn't been for her I'm sure I would have gone to jail."
It reinforced, once again, the idea that he was special.
"In my class, it was just me she cared about. She saw something in me."
It was not merely intelligence that she saw. Years later she liked to show off a picture of that year's class on Hawaii Day.
Jobs had shown up without the suggested Hawaiian shirt, but in the picture he is front and center wearing one.
He had, literally, been able to talk the shirt off another kid's back. Near the end of fourth grade, Mrs. Hill had Jobs tested.
"I scored at the high school sophomore level," he recalled.
Now that it was clear, not only to himself and his parents but also to his teachers, that he was intellectually special,
the school made the remarkable proposal that he skip two grades and go right into seventh; it would be the easiest way to keep him challenged and stimulated.
His parents decided, more sensibly, to have him skip only one grade.
The transition was wrenching. He was a socially awkward loner who found himself with kids a year older.
Worse yet, the sixth grade was in a different school, Crittenden Middle.
It was only eight blocks from Monta Loma Elementary, but in many ways it was a world apart, located in a neighborhood filled with ethnic gangs.
"Fights were a daily occurrence; as were shakedowns in bathrooms," wrote the Silicon Valley journalist Michael S. Malone.
"打架几乎天天发生,厕所里的敲诈也是如此,"硅谷记者迈克尔·S·马隆(Michael S.Malone)这样写道,
"Knives were regularly brought to school as a show of macho."
Around the time that Jobs arrived, a group of students were jailed for a gang rape,
and the bus of a neighboring school was destroyed after its team beat Crittenden's in a wrestling match.
Jobs was often bullied, and in the middle of seventh grade he gave his parents an ultimatum.
"I insisted they put me in a different school," he recalled. Financially this was a tough demand.
His parents were barely making ends meet, but by this point there was little doubt that they would eventually bend to his will.
"When they resisted, I told them I would just quit going to school if I had to go back to Crittenden.
So they researched where the best schools were and scraped together every dime and bought a house for $21,000 in a nicer district."
所以他们就调查了一下最好的学校在哪里,然后倾尽所有,在一个更好的地区,花21 000美元买下了一座房子。"
The move was only three miles to the south, to a former apricot orchard in Los Altos that had been turned into a subdivision of cookie-cutter tract homes.
这趟搬家仅仅是向南移了3英里,来到了南洛斯阿尔托斯(South Los Altos)一处由杏树果园改造成的毫无特色的居民区。
Their house, at 2066 Crist Drive, was one story with three bedrooms and an all-important attached garage with a roll-down door facing the street.


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AIRBUS at Broughton will be the venue for a meeting today of the General Council of the Wales TUC.
The TUC said Airbus was acknowledged as an exemplar employer in Wales, taking a strategic approach to working in partnership with its work-force, championing better skills, innovation and supporting many smaller businesses.
Wales TUC general secretary David Jenkins said the company, in the wake of the September 11 attacks, had worked in partnership with its staff.
"That commitment has seen jobs return, the commencement of wing manufacturing for the brand new A380 super jumbo and, now, reports that Airbus has overtaken Boeing in terms of aircraft sales," he said.
Amicus North Wales regional officer Alwyn Rowlands said: "The Airbus success story has been a tale of what can happen when unions and employers work together, leading to a better skilled, more productive and loyal workforce.
"This partnership is also sustaining quality employment amongst a hub of innovative small companies and will ensure that North Wales will continue to be a centre of manufacturing and aerospace excellence into the future."


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It is not so clear to me why this should be a crime:
So by extension , what if someone bought a fukkable toy pig ? Etc
The Mod Mercurial is also heavily connected with the den of depravity
(yes, the other things mentioned are a different matter)Border Force officers, acting under the direction of the fast parcel joint border intelligence unit, identified a parcel labelled as a mannequin, but which was found to contain an obscene childlike doll.
This was addressed to Dobson and had been purchased from Hong Kong...DC Andy Kent, of Cheshire constabulary's paedophile and cyber-investigation unit, said: "Knowing child sex dolls exist and are available for sex offenders to buy is sickening.
"This conviction is the first of its kind for Cheshire. Cases like these are also very rare across the country. However, I want to make it clear that importing a child sex doll is a criminal offence.
So by extension , what if someone bought a fukkable toy pig ? Etc
NYCky Mod is connected with the Mod(conor) who has family in Iveagh House (smiffy), the same Mod who frustrated operations against actual Al Qaudea members hereIt should be noted that Moderator NYCky who presents here as a Liberal Republican from NYC is nothing of the sort
They are an extreme right wing professional troll, assigned to infiltrate Irish libertarian circles by Russian paid taskmasters
On other social media profiles they present as an attractive Latina lady (Fatima/fadas)
That they have Moderator status here, lets you know all you need to know about p.ie
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Iraqi female activist shot dead during protests in Basra
More and more people are being deliberately killed during the protests in Iraq. In the southern Iraqi city of Basra, an activist who was shot from a vehicle by armed men has been buried.
An activist critical of the government has been killed in the southern Iraqi port city of Basra. According to eyewitnesses, 49-year-old Janat Mahdi Hussein was shot dead from a vehicle by armed men late Tuesday evening, according to police sources. Five other people, including at least one other local activist, were injured. A source at the Forensic Institute in Basra, the centre of the country's oil industry, has confirmed that Hussein had suffered gunshot wounds. The activist, who is also said to have been a paramedic, was buried today.
Iraq has been shaken once again in recent days by mass protests and their violent repression. The protests against the political elite, mismanagement, corruption and high unemployment have been continuing since October, but subsided briefly at the beginning of the month after the targeted killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani by a US drone attack at Baghdad international airport. Now the protests have flared up again.
At least five demonstrators were killed during protests in Iraq on Monday when security forces fired live ammunition into the crowd. In Baghdad, three people died from injuries sustained during the protests: two from bullet wounds, the third was hit by a tear gas cartridge which, according to eyewitnesses, was fired directly at his head. A fourth demonstrator was shot dead by police in the central Iraqi town of Karbala, south-west of Baghdad, and the fifth died in the north-eastern Iraqi town of Baquba.
Earlier, the protest movement had issued an ultimatum to the government on Sunday and announced that the riots would intensify if its demands were not met by Monday. Demonstrators are calling for the appointment of an independent person to form a new government of technocrats, as well as snap elections and trial of those responsible for the deaths during the demonstrations.
The discredited government has so far not met any of the demands of the protest movement. Although Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi resigned two months ago, he is still in office provisionally because the Iraqi parliament cannot agree on a successor. His government takes a tough stance on the renewed protests. Adel Karim Khalaf, spokesman for the Iraqi armed forces, has already stated that the security forces are "absolutely justified" in suppressing the protests.
Hundreds of thousands of people have so far taken part in the wave of protests that broke out in Iraq on October 1. More than 500 people have lost their lives since then, and more than thirty people who were accused of leading roles in the uprisings have been assassinated. 56 protesters have disappeared and their fate is unknown.


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A couple of more smart ways to use LinkedIn from the blogosphere:
Using LinkedIn for Market Research
Weblogs, Inc. co-founder Jason Calacanis is using LinkedIn Answers as a great source for market research for his new human-edited search project, Mahalo. Jason posed the following question(s) on LinkedIn Answers:
What would you do next if you were the CEO of Mahalo.com?
1. We've got a great team: tech, admin, research, and editorial.
2. We've got an amazing server setup and can handle massive traffic.
3. We've got 4,000 pages done and can do 500 per week.
4. The public is suggesting links already (do a search apple, iphone, a car or a tv show and you'll fine some suggested links).
5. Folks are not chatting on message board yet.
6. We have a very stable and robust technology platform (MediaWiki).
So, given what we've got… what would you do next?!?!?
There are 88 answers and growing, ranging from the simple "Good luck!!" (cheap way to get answer credits – ugh!) to some very in-depth, insightful responses. And all for a lot less money than a focus group or market research study!
Hat tip to Eric Eggertson
Breaking the Ice at a Meeting with LinkedIn
Pete Johnson writes:
When you have a meeting with people you've never met before, those first couple of minutes when everyone is getting settled in can be extremely awkward. You want to be friendly and potentially build your network by engaging the people who are new to you, but gripping questions like "So, how's the weather where you're from?" or "How long have you been with Black Sun? Do you like that company?" don't exactly spark interesting conversation.
He suggests using LinkedIn to get some background on the people you're meeting – their school, their accomplishments, their professional interests, etc.:
You can come up with a lot more interesting questions based on that information than the normal pre-meeting chit-chat…and by extension be more memorable.
I've added these to the Smart Ways to Use LinkedIn page, where you can explore dozens more practical applications for LinkedIn.


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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a form of therapy which helps people change their thoughts and/or behaviors in order to change how they feel. There is a tremendous amount of research showing that clients who complete CBT treatment experience positive results.
We also use Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy to help our younger clients learn these skills in a developmentally appropriate way.


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There are objects universally recognized as icons. Costes easy chair that, in 1984, marked the beginning of the partnership between Philippe Starck and Driade such as the consecration of the designer, formerly unknown in Italy, is one of these objects. Designed for the homonymous, now disappeared, Parisian café, owes its timeless success to the absoluteness of forms: a dark wooden embracing structure with three highly tilted legs.
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I felt pretty good warming up and headed out 2nd in the running order. I got myself pretty psyched listening to my ipod with my friend Charlie Andrews in the chair, then fired off the first qualifier quickly so I could have more time to rest. From the preview period, I saw that the 2nd qualifier was a tricky slab route with the crux in the roof section at the end. I tried to focus on resting and drinking water, but the stereo aimed at my head 4 feet away kinda distracted me a little. Still, I managed to stay in the moment and climbed the bottom half of the climb without too much trouble. The second half had a tricky move to a SoIll feature, then a huge move out right onto a good right hand (picture above). I then had to bring my feet up and finish the rest of the roof with some cool foot beta and crazy undercling moves. It was a pretty cool route overall.
After a quick lunch at Panera Bread (I got a turkey sandwich), Charlie and I headed back into isolation to start finals. We played a couple rounds of Jungle Speed (best game EVER) and walked out for preview. The final route stretched up the right side of the roof, with what looked like the crux coming off of a huge volume and having to make a big move to double underclings. I previewed the whole thing with Charlie, my friend Eric Sanchez (who is in the next age category up), and the two other kids in my category, Will Roderick and Rick Gentry.
The first part of the climb looked like it had some pretty tough sequency sections, followed by either a big move straight up or down to an undercling to get the right hand on a crimp, following that, there were a couple pinches leading up into the roof, where the climb went to some roof jugs and a big move to a good hold on a volume beefore heading up. As I flashed both climbs in qualifiers, I was last to head out of isolation. I heard Will and Charlie get pretty high, so I knew the bar was set. I set up on the starting holds and cruised the bottom section without much of a problem. The crux ended up being transitioning off of the upper volume in the roof to the underclings above. After that, the last move to the finish hold wasn't too bad.
right before the crux
Photo: Eric Wang
After difficulty was finished, we headed over to the speed wall while some of the kids in the other categories were getting ready for superfinals. Charlie and I ended up racing each other, which we usually end up doing anyways. It was really close again, with both of us pretty much tying on the first wall, but I hit 4.75 seconds on wall 2, putting me ahead by about a second. Probably the greatest speed sets I saw today came from one of my friends on my team, Sam Steuart. He climbed the left wall in about 10 seconds, but he was really pissed at himself for slipping at a couple spots, so he went as fast as he could and hit 6 seconds on the second wall and won! Way to go dude!
Back in the superfinal, Cicada Jenerik, Hannah Le, and Ana Stirniman had all flashed their final route in Female A, so they were put on my final route as the seperator. All three of them flashed it! Pretty impressive stuff from all those guys. Eric Sanchez and Gregor Pierce tied on the Male Junior final route, so they were put on the ridiculously hard superfinal route that hadn't been used yet. Neither of them ended up getting up into the roof and fell on the cruxy slab, but Eric won by controlling a pinch out right. Second regionals win in a row for him. Way to go man!
After the comp was over, Eric belayed me on the superfinal route, and I surprised myself by not only pulling through the crux on the roof, but sending the whole thing! Eric tried it again after the comp as well, sending it casually this time. I'd say we're ready for divisionals.
In the end, I got first in speed, first in difficulty, and we won our 4th team championship with Zero Gravity. Pretty successful day overall I'd say. While getting our awards for difficulty, Charlie and I tried to do a chest bump after getting off the podium, which kinda failed, but was worth it all the way. By the way, a big happy birthday to Charlie for turning 16. Have a great day dude!
on the podium with Charlie (left) and Will (right)
Zero Gravity: regional champs '10


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With this 8-night tour, you will enjoy a a perfect trip to three unique destinations.
Your trip start in Buenos Aires, the capital city of Argentina. Our city tour starts the next day after you arrival. Then, you also have a dinner and tango show in one of the best places in the city.
After your visit to Buenos Aires, it´s time to go to Iguazu Falls. A guide will be waiting for you to transfer to the hotel, where you will stay for 2 nights. During your trip you will visit both sides of incredible Iguazu Falls. Remember to bring your camera here! Iguazu Falls have beautiful and unique landscapes.
Finally, fly to Rio de Janeiro, were you will be staying for three nights and visiting the best of this destination: Sugar Loaf, the beaches, and Corcovado Mount with Christ the Redeemer.
Interested in this tour to Iguazu? Send us a message to start planning your trip.
Arrival to Buenos Aires Airport, and transfer to your selected hotel. 3 nights of accomodation with breakfast.
Optional Excursion: Tigre Premiun (Half Day Excursion)
After breakfast, tradicional City Tour visiting the best of Buenos Aires: La Boca, San Telmo, 9 de Julio Avenue and the Obelisk, Puerto Madero, Corrientes Avenue, Colón Theatre, Recoleta.
Optional: Private Guide, just for you.
Free day for shopping and enjoy the city.
Optional Excursion: Guided Tour to Teatro Colon
In the evening, Dinner Tango Show in La Ventana, a typical restaurant-show in Buenos Aires.
Optional: Upgrade to Gala Tango.
After breakfast, transfer to Jorge Newbery Airport to take your next flight to Puerto Iguazu. Arrival, and transfer to your selected hotel in Puerto Iguazu. 2 nights of accommodation with breakfast.
Optional Excursion: Visit to the Brazilian Side (Half Day)
After breakfast, excursion to Iguazu Falls (Argentinean Side) in a small-group with english speaking guide. The National Park offers up to 8 km of trails to enjoy the best of the falls: the Upper Circuit, the Lower Circuit, and the Trail to the Devil's Throat.
Optional Excursion: Nautical Adventure.
After excursion, transfer back to your hotel.
After breakfast, regular excursion to brazilian Iguazu Falls (check VISA requirements to enter to Brazil). There you will enjoy a beautiful panoramic landscape of the falls, in a 1.5 km circuit.
Optional Excursion: Parque Das Aves or Helicopter Ride.
After excursion, transfer back to your hotel. And then, transfer to airport to take your next flight to Rio de Janeiro, and once there, transfer to your new hotel. 3 nights of acommodation with breakfast.
Optional Excursion: If you did the visit to the brazilian side in Day 4, we recommend Jesuit Ruins of San Ignacio and Wanda Mines instead.
After breakfast, traditional city tour to visit the best of Rio. We visit the Sugar Loaf.
After breakfast, we start excursion to the Corcovado and Tijuca Forest.
Optional Excursion: Parque Das Aves or Helicopter Ride.
After excursion, transfer back to your hotel.
After breakfast, transfer to airport to take your next flight.