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Esmerelda 10.30.13
SPACES Disco Dada Dreamscape benefit is happening this Saturday from 7pm till 1 am. Clearly one of the best events of the year! This year, new local band, Esmerelda, will be playing during the V.I.P. hour.
If you love chilling or grooving Esmerelda is for you. The Esmerelda sound is a mix of hip hop jazz to funk, with lovely keyboard playing and some sweet beats from the drummer.
The Band:
Eli Hanley - keyboard
Hanley, studies at Tri-C and is the reincarnation of the 70s psychedelic movement.
Matt Davis bass
Davis is new to the Cleveland scene and studies at Tri-C.
Danny Fernandez - drums
Fernandez is a student at CSU who performs at a variety of different
music venues around Cleveland.
E.S. Glen vocals
The special addition to the group is an amazing freestyle rap artist, and an avid cartoonist.
Esmerelda will be putting the groove in disco dada and dreamscape at the SPACES benefit, come experience Esmerelda.
by Iris Rozman
Keywords: benefit, esmerelda, music, spaces
Author: Marilyn Ladd-Simmons, Gallery Manager
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This paper presents new results about Triton's atmospheric structure from the analysis of all ground-based stellar occultation data recorded to date, including one single-chord occultation recorded on 1993 July 10 and nine occultation lightcurves from the double-star event on 1995 August 14. These stellar occultation observations made both in the visible and in the infrared have good spatial coverage of Triton, including the first Triton central-flash observations, and are the first data to probe the altitude level 20-100 km on Triton. The small-planet lightcurve model of J. L. Elliot and L. A. Young (1992, Astron. J. 103, 991-1015) was generalized to include stellar flux refracted by the far limb, and then fitted to the data. Values of the pressure, derived from separate immersion and emersion chords, show no significant trends with latitude, indicating that Triton's atmosphere is spherically symmetric at ~50-km altitude to within the error of the measurements; however, asymmetry observed in the central flash indicates the atmosphere is not homogeneous at the lowest levels probed (~20-km altitude). From the average of the 1995 occultation data, the equivalent-isothermal temperature of the atmosphere is 47 +/- 1 K and the atmospheric pressure at 1400-km radius (~50-km altitude) is 1.4 +/- 0.1 bar. Both of these are not consistent with a model based on Voyager UVS and RSS observations in 1989 (D. F. Strobel, X. Zhu, M. E. Summers, and M. H. Stevens, 1996, Icarus 120, 266-289). The atmospheric temperature from the occultation is 5 K colder than that predicted by the model and the observed pressure is a factor of 1.8 greater than the model. In our opinion, the disagreement in temperature and pressure is probably due to modeling problems at the microbar level, since measurements at this level have not previously been made. Alternatively, the difference could be due to seasonal change in Triton's atmospheric structure.
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A Nicaraguan court sentenced 18 Mexicans to 30 years in prison for drug trafficking after they tried to enter the country in fake television news vans filled with $9.2 million in cash.
The group was given the maximum jail sentence a month after being found guilty of drug trafficking, money laundering and organized crime.
Nicaraguan authorities have hailed the arrest as a major coup against Mexican drug gangs that use Central America as a transit point for narcotics heading to the United States.
The Mexicans crossed the Honduras-Nicaragua border on August 20 in six vans with the logo of Mexican media giant Televisa. The world's biggest Spanish-language network denied any links to the group.
Authorities say the gang pretended to be Televisa journalists and technicians in order to bring money into Nicaragua and return north with drugs.
The only woman in the group, Raquel Alatorre, entered the courtroom in tears before the judge in Managua sentenced her to 35 years in prison. Her jail term was reduced to the maximum 30 years allowed under the law. Authorities say she was one of the group's two leaders.
A lawyer for the Mexicans, Ramon Rojas, told reporters they would appeal the sentence, saying it was "very disproportionate."
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In This Issue
In this issue of Psychological Services
Editor: Patrick H. DeLeon, PhD
2012 Volume 9, Issue 2 (May)
Table of contents
Backhaus, A., Agha, Z., Maglione, M.L., Repp, A., Ross, B., Zuest, D., Rice-Thorp, N.M., Lohr, J., & Thorp, S.R. (2012). Videoconferencing psychotherapy: A systematic review.
Jones, M.D., Etherage, J.R., Harmon, S.C., & Okiishi, J.C. (2012). Acceptability & cost-effectiveness of military telehealth mental health screening.
Forducey, P.G., Glueckauf, R.L., Bergquist, T.F., Maheu, M.M., & Yutsis, M. (2012). Telehealth for persons with severe functional disabilities & their caregivers: Facilitating self-care management in the home setting.
Barber, J.A., Frantsve, L.M., Capelli, S., & Sanders, K.A. (2012). Implementation & evaluation of an integrated care program in a VA medical center: Correction to Barber, et al. (2011).
Silberbogen, A.K., Ulloa, E., Mori, D.L., & Brown, K. (2012). A telehealth intervention for veterans on antiviral treatment for the hepatitis C virus.
Rose, G.L., Skelly, J.M., Badger, G.J., Naylor, M.R., & Helzer, J.E. (2012). Interactive voice response for relapse prevention following cognitive-behavioral therapy for alcohol use disorders: A pilot study.
Possemato, K., Kaier, E., Wade, M., Lantinga, L.J., Maisto, S.A., & Ouimette, P. (2012). Assessing daily fluctuations in posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and substance use with interactive voice response technology: Protocol compliance and reactions.
Thorp, S.R., Fidler, J., Moreno, L., Floto, E., & Agha, Z. (2012). Lessons learned from studies of psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder via video teleconferencing.
Palyo, S.A., Schopmeyer, K.A., & McQuaid, J.R. (2012). Tele-pain management: Use of videoconferencing technology in the delivery of an integrated cognitive–behavioral and physical therapy group intervention.
Koch, E.F. (2012). The VA Maryland Health Care System's telemental health program.
Davis, M., Guyker, W., & Persky, I. (2012). Uniting veterans across distance through a telephone-based reminiscence group therapy intervention.
Barnwell, S., Smucker, V., Juretic, M.A., Hoerster, K.D., Van de Plasch, R., & Felker, B.L. (2012). VA Puget Sound Telemental Health Service to rural veterans: A growing program.
Campbell, A.N.C., Miele, G.M., Nunes, E.V., McCrimmon, S., Ghitza, U.E. (2012). Web-based, psychosocial treatment for substance use disorders in community treatment settings.
Hayden, L.J., Glynn, S.M., Hahn, T.J., Randall, F., & Eugenia, R. (2012). The use of Internet technology for psychoeducation and support with dementia caregivers.
Brenes, G.A., Ingram, C.W., & Danhauer, S.C. (2012). Telephone-delivered psychotherapy for late-life anxiety.
Newnham, E.A., Doyle, E.L., Sng, A.A.H., Hooke, G.R., & Page, A.C. (2012). Improving clinical outcomes in psychiatric care with touch-screen technology.
Wilsie, C.C. & Brestan-Knight, E. (2012). Using an online viewing system for parent–child interaction therapy consulting with professionals.
Barnett, B., Corkum, P., & Elik, N. (2012). A web-based intervention for elementary school teachers of students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).


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A huge metamorphosis in Leonardo's approach to flying machines and flying occured as he went from the theory of flight to actually attempting flight.
In his early designs, if you scroll down to the six graphics below, the platform model for example, seen in the upper left hand corner and the close up of the cockpit detail in the graphic farther below, although
it looks as though it could possibly work, in reality it was way too heavy. The center graphic with the blue background, shows a later design and the one Leonardo used for his first flight attempt
as outlined in the "Did Leonardo Da Vinci Fly?" link found on the Da Vinci Glider page also linked below. He soon learned imitating the way birds glide rather than human powered wing motion was the way to go
if any substained flight for any extended period was expected. His next step would be not imitating nature at all but designing and building winged gliders exclusively by
and for human use in mind.
Glider with maneuverable tips
Thus, sensing the difficulties involved in accomplishing the great dream of flying with human-powered machines, Leonardo started to
study gliding flight more thoroughly. In the glider designed by him, the flier's position is conceived in such a way as to allow him to balance himself
by adequately moving the lower part of his body. The wings, an imitation of the wings of bats and of large birds, are fixed in their
innermost section (closest to the person) and mobile in their outer section. The latter in fact can be flexed by the flier by means of
a control cable maneuvered through handles. Leonardo had developed this solution after having studied the structure of birds' wings
and having observed that the inner part of their wings moved more slowly than the outer part and that, therefore, the function of this
part was to sustain rather than to push forward.
Codex Atlanticus, Folio 846 v.
Drawing in sanguine and pen. The folio contains three drawings of articulated wings, operated by means of belts strapped to the
legs and body of the flier. Leonardo streamlined the wing structure to its simplest form, with wings attached directly to the flier's
body (ornithopter). The note in the margin, added at a later stage, does not refer to the drawings described but contains remarks
on the motion of water flowing from the mountains. For a larger and clearer image of the same drawing click the center image of the second row below.
Codex on the Flight of Birds, Folio 11 v.
Modern day tester designed to test the articulated wing.
Codex Atlanticus, folio 1058
In his notes, Leonardo remarks that, with a linen curtain shaped into a pyramid having a base 12 yards (about 7 metres) across and equally deep, if it is stiffly held open, "ognuno si potrà gettare da qualsiasi altezza senza alcun rischio" (anyone can jump from no matter what height without any risk whatsoever).
Drawing from Il Codice Atlantico di Leonardo da Vinci nella biblioteca Ambrosiana di Milano, Editore Milano Hoepli 1894-1904. The original drawing is kept in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan. See: Da Vinci's Parachute Flies.
A Flying Machine. 1490
A Wing on a
Study of the Structure
Drawing of a Flying Machine
Study of the Construction
Drawing of a Flying
The Wanderling writes of his childhood attempt at flight following a Da Vinci design:
"My uncle drew a lifesize outline of the craft on the floor of the studio and from that the machine grew into an over fifteen-foot wingspan glider capable of supporting a man--OR a young boy like myself--in flight. I am not sure what his exact plan for the machine was, but one day without my uncle's knowledge a friend of mine and I hauled it out of the studio and up to the top of the second story apartments across the compound, and hanging on for dear life, launched it."
"Initially the flight played out fairly well, picking up wind under the wings and maintaining the same twostory height advantage for some distance. Halfway across busy Arlington Street though, the craft began slowing and losing forward momentum. It began dropping altitude rapidly, eventually crashing into the porch and partway through the front windows of the house across the way. Other than a few bruises and a wrecked machine, nothing was broken, although as it turned out, my dad wasn't nearly as proud of me as intended. I never forgot the thrill of that flight and carried that thrill and Leonardo's dreams into my adulthood."
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While only time will tell if the New England Patriots' performance against the New York Giants will result in a Super Bowl championship ring for the team, it looks as though a wedding ring is in wide receiver Wes Welker's future.
According to the Boston Herald, the sports star has slipped a sparkler on the ring finger of his love of the past two years– former Miss Hooters International 2005, Anna Burns.
Reports indicate that the bride-to-be, who had hinted that she had wanted a Cartier love bracelet for Christmas, received the rock over the holiday season.
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Our professional grade sealers are great for achieving a strong seal on a variety of natural stones, and are easy to use.
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CINCH is a movement. It's more than a belt company... it's a way of thinking.
CINCH was created to do one thing - empower women to feel confident.
Because we all know that when we feel confident, we hold our heads higher, we think bigger
and we truly impact communities.
And that's exactly how CINCH was created - with the divine thought that confident women
all over the world could share their "CINCH Moment" to fuel and exude confidence in the
next generation of leaders.
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Mission and Vision
Companies summarize their goals and objectives in Mission and Vision statements. Both these things serve different purposes for the company but are often confused with each other. A Mission statement talks about what the company is now. It concentrates on present; it defines the customers, critical processes and it informs you about the desired level of performance. A Vision statement outlines what a company wants to be. It concentrates on the future; it is a source of inspiration; it provides clear decision-making criteria.
1-Hewlett-Packard Mission
"To provide products, services and solutions of the highest quality and deliver more value to our customers that earns their respect and loyalty."
Hewlett-Packard Vision
"To view change in the market as an opportunity to grow; to use our profits and our ability to develop and produce innovative products, services and solutions that satisfy emerging customer needs."
2-Google Mission
To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Google Vision
To develop a perfect search engine
3-Coca Cola Mission
Our Roadmap starts with our mission, which is enduring. It declares our purpose as a company and serves as the standard against which we weigh our actions and decisions. * To refresh the world…
* To inspire moments of optimism and happiness…
* To create value and make a difference
Coca Cola Vision
Our vision serves as the framework for our Roadmap and guides every aspect of our business by describing what we need to accomplish in order to continue achieving sustainable, quality growth.
* People: Be a great place to work where people are inspired to be the best they can be. * Portfolio: Bring to the world a portfolio of quality beverage brands that anticipate and satisfy people's desires and needs. * Partners: Nurture a winning network of customers and suppliers, together we create mutual, enduring value. * Planet: Be a responsible citizen that makes a difference by helping build and support sustainable communities. * Profit: Maximize long-term return to shareowners while being mindful of our overall responsibilities. * Productivity: Be a highly effective, lean and fast-moving organization
4-Apple Mission
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad. Apple Vision
To make a contribution to the world by making tools for the mind that advance humankid
5-Microsoft Mission
Microsoft's mission is to enable people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential. Microsoft Vision
Diversity and inclusion are integral to Microsoft's vision .To recognize that leadership in today's global marketplace requires that we create a corporate culture and an inclusive business environment where the best and brightest diverse minds—employees with varied perspectives, skills, and experiences--work together to meet global consumer demands.
6-Ford Motor Company Mission
We are a global family with a proud heritage passionately committed to providing personal mobility for people around the world. We anticipate consumer need and deliver outstanding products and services that improve people's lives. Ford Motor Company Vision
To become the world's leading consumer company for automotive products and services.
7-Walt Disney Mission
The mission of The Walt Disney Company is to be one of the world's leading producers and providers of entertainment and information. Using our portfolio of brands to differentiate our content, services and consumer products, we seek to develop the most creative, innovative and profitable...
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& Tradition FlowerPot Table Lamp VP4 Polished Copper
Product Code: TR0274
Contemporary polished copper flowerpot table lamp.
Originally designed in the 1960s, the first version of this flowerpot table lamp was seen in trendy bars and restaurants and soon homes around Europe.
The flowerpot with its 2 semi circular spheres facing each other has proved its lasting design quality and is just as stylish today as it was then.
Requires 1 x E27 bulb max 40W or 7 Watt CFL low energy bulb.
2 metre black textile cord.
About The Brand
The epitome of Nordic style, Danish design house &Tradition was first founded in 2010. &Tradition products take inspiration from Nordic tradition and Scandinavian design heritage. Including designs by internationally renowned product designers, Houseology is proud to stock the iconic Flower Pot by Verner Panton.
Why shop with Houseology
Houseology is not only the UK's premier online interior design store - it is an emporium of design ideas, advice & inspiration and a platform of tools & technology designed to make your interior design decisions and calculations easy.
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One of the places in the home is bathroom interior design. Interior design has high function to increase the performance of the room, especially the bathroom. Bathroom is the place where you refresh your body. It is even in the bathroom you can refresh your mind through the appearance of the interior design. Some interior design give high inspiration for the owner when take a bath.
So, please be selective to design your bathroom in interior design. Here are some pictures of the interior design in the bathroom. As the statements above that appearance of the bathroom is truly important. So, we provide some interior design in the bathroom pictures to increase your bathroom.
These are bathroom interior design ideas pictures. In that bathroom, you can see the bathroom with unique interior design appearances. The bathroom interior design especially for man is matching with black ideas. The appearance of the black can be applied in the sink.
This picture shows that the sink is designed like apple adheres on the wall. Those black apple sinks are so awesome to be your bathroom. The other furniture design in this bathroom is black chair with simple design. If you have already design your sink, you can design or change your faucet to the faucet with teapot model. That teapot faucet is unique and cute for your bathroom or kitchen.
The other design can be made in the wall decoration and bathtub. On the wall decoration, the best design is the green plants like fern around the wall. It makes natural atmosphere in the bathroom. Then, adding soft doormat with black color next to desk. Then, to decorate the bathroom with traditional atmosphere, it can be designed by bathtub with circle shape and pieces of red rose are floating on the water.
The appearances of the candles are also increasing the bathroom become more traditional and awesome. If you don't want traditional atmosphere in your bathroom, you can choose modern furniture design for your bathroom, such as square bathtub with blue water. The glossy red wardrobe and desk appears in the bathroom. Then, the mirror adheres on the wall with dragonfly's wing shape. And most wonderful lamp is hanged from the roof.
There are the interior designs in unique appearances. Those interior designs can be applied in the traditional bathroom and also modern bathroom interior design with their own characteristics.


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Oil chief killed as pipelines sabotaged
The assassination yesterday of the head of security for oilfields in northern Iraq has dealt another blow to the country's oil industry, as exports ground to a halt following sabotage attacks on southern pipelines earlier this week.
Exports from southern Iraq will not resume for at least two days after the attacks, an Iraqi oil ministry official said, and OPEC will ask large oil producers to boost output in an attempt to blunt rising fuel prices.
Iraqi police said gunmen shot and killed Ghazi Talabani, 54, the Northern Oil Company's security chief, as he drove to work.
Mr Talabani, a member of Kurdish political chieftain Jalal Talabani's family, took the senior post with the Northern Oil Company after Saddam Hussein was ousted from power.
Since the country's new interim government was introduced on June 1, insurgents have intensified their attacks on Iraqi infrastructure, carrying out five oil pipeline bombings.
An Iraqi oil official confirmed yesterday that oil exports, which had been running at more than 1.6 million barrels a day, were halted on Tuesday after saboteurs blew up two pipelines feeding crude terminals in the south.
World oil prices jumped following the attacks and the assassination, with light crude climbing 26 US cents to $US37.45 a barrel.
Mr Talabani's killing was the third top-level assassination since Saturday when Bassam Qubba, a Foreign Ministry official was killed, followed by the assassination on Sunday of Kamal al-Jarrah, who headed the Education Ministry's cultural relations department.
Nine people were also killed yesterday, including four foreigners, in the western city of Ramadi, when a car bomb destroyed an Iraqi police car and a four-wheel-drive. Ramadi, 110 kilometres west of Baghdad, has been the scene of several attacks against US forces.
A truce to end weeks of fighting between radical Iraqi preacher Moqtada al-Sadr and US forces in Najaf and Kerbala appeared to be taking effect on Tuesday, after he told members of his militia who are not from Najaf to leave the holy city - to go home to "do your duty".
But with less than two weeks remaining until the June 30 handover of sovereignty, the US and the new Iraqi government were at odds on Tuesday over the fate of Saddam.
The US President, George Bush, said in Washington that the former dictator would be transferred to the interim government but cast doubt on the Iraqis' ability to keep Saddam behind bars.
"It's a legitimate question to ask of the interim government, 'How are you going to make sure he stays in jail?' When we get the right answer . . . we'll all be satisfied," Mr Bush said.
The US administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, supported the comments, saying the US intended to transfer legal custody of Saddam but "legal custody and physical custody can be two separate things".
Following the announcements, Iraq's interim prime minister, Iyad Allawi, appeared to back-pedal from remarks he made on Monday, when he said the captured leader would be in Iraqi custody within a fortnight.
In a television interview with Al-Jazeera he had said that "the transfer of Saddam Hussein and the others will take place within two weeks . . . You can consider this as an official confirmation." A criminal trial was due to take place "as soon as possible" after that.
But on Tuesday he told CNN: "We definitely will be trying our best to get custody of Saddam and the other criminals."
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Hello! I'm a sophomore at Mount Holyoke College, and am a Studio Art and Computer Science double major.
I have proposed to work on a mesh editor over the summer.
I am extremely interested in graphics and animation, and would like to get more involved in game development. I've taken an intro to Computer Science course in Python, and am now currently enrolled in an Advanced Object Oriented class using Java. I've had about a years experience of working with Maya, and am interning at the BitFilms? studio at Hampshire College doing lighting. I don't have as much experience with programming as I do with art, but I am really interested in learning more and gaining more experience! If you want to know more about my programming/animation experience (or about anything else!) feel free to send me an email!


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What is matriculation?
What is matriculation?
Matriculation is the ceremony when students formally join the University and all students are required to do this when they are admitted to the University, unless they are Visiting or Exchange Students.
The main matriculation ceremony is on the Saturday of First Week of Michaelmas Term and instructions are sent to newcomers before they come to University, and again before the ceremony itself. Full academic dress is required at the ceremony.
There are small matriculation ceremonies at the end of each term to matriculate students who are admitted after the start of Michaelmas Term, or who may have been given special permission to matriculate later.


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Category Archives: Cartoon Logos
"Stuff Girls Like" Cute Yoga Girl Cartoon Logo
This cartoon logo featuring a cute yoga girl was created for retailer "Stuff Girls Like" as part of their company branding.
Sherby's Playground – Cat Cartoon Logo
This cartoon logo featuring a cute cat was created for an indoor playground business, "Sherby's Playground". The cat and the name of the business were both inspired by the owner's pet cat.
"Klean Kong" Cartoon Logo
This cartoon logo featuring a muscular gorilla was created for cleaning service provider "Klean Kong", and was also my first project from Mexico. This project actually came about after the client found out that another designer had used my artwork … Continue reading
Toolatron Cartoon Logo
This cartoon logo featuring a contraction worker cartoon character surrounded by his toolbox and tools was created for tool supplier company Toolatron.
"Token Gaming" Soldier Cartoon Logo
This cartoon logo featuring a soldier in military gear (machine gun and cigar firmly in teeth, of course) was created for a military gamer who wanted a custom logo for his online identity. The client approached me with simple, candid … Continue reading
Cloud Cap Cycle & Board Cartoon Sasquatch on Bicycle Logo
Cartoon logo featuring Sasquatch on a bicycle for Portland, Oregon bike and outdoor recreation retailer Cloud Cap Cycle & Board Shop.
Bob's Premier Automotive Retro Cartoon Logo Design
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Gorilla cartoon character logo design for dumpster bag company Gorilla Dumpster Bags.
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Welcome to Oakbrook
Oakbrook Church in De Pere invites you to visit us this Sunday morning at 10 am. Through multi-media, contemporary music and real life messages, we present the timeless truths of the Bible in a practical easy-to-understand way. Childcare and Children's Church services are available.
Check out the video on what to expect when you visit Oakbrook Church.


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|Carly Rullman
I beg to differ: A sales job could be just the stepping stone they need to a promising future in account services.
In my senior year of college, I had a little extra time on my hands, so I decided to get a part-time job. I was walking through my college when a flier caught my eye for a position as an account executive at the school's popular newspaper. I didn't quite know what it entailed, but the idea of working on campus and earning steady income each month piqued my interest.
After I interviewed, I was fortunate enough to land what I'd soon realize is an awesome job for a student -- or for anyone else, for that matter. It wasn't even the money but rather the experience. Each day I sold advertising space to local businesses that were aiming to reach the college market. It took a lot of footwork, literally, going to each business and selling what The Crimson White had to offer. I learned to put together proposals, pitch those proposals, keep up with a daily call sheet, build and establish a client base, execute good customer service, and handle the hustle of real work experience. I also learned what it meant to make and exceed goals and how to work not only for yourself but for the betterment of the company.
By the time graduation came, I had already added my work experience as account executive to my resume. Prospective employers never overlooked it. Sales experience communicated the following:
I am a self-starter. Sales are something you have to work for and are mostly 100% commission. Those who have done sales have to take the initiative to get out there and do well.
I am driven and can prove to you my success. Sales are a lot about the numbers, and this is something you can display on your resume. For example, I regularly exceeded my monthly goal by 125%. I sold as much as $32,000 in ad space each month.
I have experience dealing with people on a regular basis. This is a quality highly valued in today's economy. Customer satisfaction is key to keeping companies afloat.
I'm not too good for any job. I've been rejected, felt discouraged, been rejected again, wasted gas, broken a heel, been yelled at, lost a client, gained a client.
When I first embarked on the job search, I knew I wanted to be on the account-services side of an agency. What I now realize is that while sales experience can be helpful in landing any job, it is especially helpful in understanding account services.
I recently started working at a small agency where I'm learning the ropes of being an account coordinator. And I'm learning that, to be successful, you've got to understand the client/company very well; establish a relationship with them -- both on a professional level and a personal level; be super-organized; and care about what you're doing -- all things learned while in my sales job.
So don't overlook a job in sales, if that opportunity presents itself. If account services is really where you'd like to make your career and can't seem to break into it just yet, then start off with at least one sales job. You will be glad to say you've had that experience, and it will speak volumes to your employer, show in your work and ultimately give you the necessary preparation for work as an agency account executive.
Carly Rullman is from Charlottesville, Va., and recently graduated from the University of Alabama. She majored in public relations and Spanish and served on the award-winning advertising team, as well as the forensics speech team. She worked as an account executive selling advertising space and marketing for UAB athletics before becoming an account coordinator at Scout Branding in Birmingham, Ala. She also helped build the communications department at Walnut Hill School in Natick, Mass., through a summer internship. She also enjoys practicing public relations, blogging, and researching and using social media. She is a member of the Red Mountain Theater Co., Birmingham Rotaract and Young Professionals of Birmingham.


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Facebook has acquired Face.com, an Israeli start-up that specializes in facial-recognition software.
The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. But the acquisition had been speculated in recent weeks, and some reports said Facebook could have spent anywhere from $80 million to $100 million for the start-up.
Among Face.com's products are Face Tagger, a Facebook app, and KLIK, an iOS app. The start-up also has a public API that it hosts on its site.
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In a world where devices transmit huge amounts of personal information, it's hard to ignore the potential economic and privacy implications, according to speakers at the Wired for Wonder conference this morning in Sydney.
Speakers pointed to an imminent explosion of "quantified-self" devices, including wearable computers, which collect a range of personal data about the user including information about their health.
"Using this stuff, we become big data," said Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly, who spoke yesterday about growing fears of a dystopian future. "We generate big data ourselves about ourselves."
According to Telstra CTO Hugh Bradlow, "Everything that can be measured will be measured."
Bradlow sees that as a positive development leading to a new "optimisation age" in which businesses can analyse the data to build useful services that enhance people's lives, he said. "We'll be able to use technology to reduce frictions."
Kelly also pointed to some positive potential applications. For example, using health readings to personalise medicine.
However, virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier pointed to a potentially more sinister application of medical data by American healthcare insurance providers. Those insurance providers may use data to predict who the company will more likely need to cover, "and then only insure the people who don't need it", he said.
Lanier said he has become a skeptic about the economic implications of big data. Access to powerful computers is helping a small group of people and companies make large amounts of money off others' information, raising income inequality in developed economies, he said.
"We made a very simple miscalculation," he said. "If you create a world where everybody's sharing information openly, it is not the case that everybody benefits equally from that.
"Computers are not created equal, and whoever has the biggest computer crunching all that data will be able to do things with the data that other people with lesser computers cannot do."
Where there's more data being generated in people's everyday life, there is more chance to misuse it, the speakers said. As Australia's largest telco, Telstra is one company with access to a great amount of customer data.
Bradlow said Telstra and other businesses take seriously their responsibility to respect people's privacy. "You have to trust us, not only not to steal your data, but not to let it into the wild and not to misuse it."
He added that the government should keep out of the way of business. "Legislation and regulation simply does not keep pace with technology."
The government must be equally transparent about their own collection and use of data, he said. Bradlow said the recent revelations that US intelligence is spying on its citizens under the PRISM surveillance program has been a "fiasco".
"Trying to have security by obscurity is just plain stupidity."
Lanier said he does not doubt the good intentions of many businesses that control large amounts of data, but said there remains a danger that the next person who inherits power at the companies won't share the same ideals.
"It doesn't matter how nice we are," he said.
Insisting he is not all doom and gloom, Lanier proposed a solution whereby people get paid every time a company or other entity benefits from their personal information.
"By monetising information, we have potential to create a stable economy, a strong middle class and a social safety net without socialist committees."
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A boy's superhero birthday party promises to be a great time! This theme is chock-full of potential ideas and Jessica, at OhSoPrintable, has honed in on The Avengers this time. With her unique take on decorations, Jessica has put together a special dessert table that not only features a great cake, but I like how she uses a party-time craft and take-home favors as part of the decorations too.
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The chalkboard New York City skyline calls all little Avenger superhero-wannabes to the newsstand dessert table. Jessica cleverly uses stacks of newspaper and bottles of lemonade on a bookshelf for an alternate idea dessert table.
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Ozone Park, NY (Sports Network) - Jerome Stakes winner Vyjack returns Saturday to Aqueduct versus 11 other 3-year-olds in the $400,000 Gotham Stakes. The 1 1/16-mile stakes is the last local prep for the $1 million Wood Memorial on April 6.
Winning the Gotham will be worth 50 points as part of the Kentucky Derby points system to determine the field for the 139th Run for the Roses at Churchill Downs on Saturday, May 4.
Owned by Pick Six Racing, Vyjack is undefeated in three starts for $202,200. The gelding will start from post 8 on Saturday with Joel Rosario getting the mount for the first time.
Vyjack, trained by Rudy Rodriguez, captured the Jerome on Jan. 5 as the even- money favorite versus seven. He won his debut race on Nov. 10 and took the Traskwood Stakes at Aqueduct as the 1-2 favorite.
"I'm very lucky to have him. The competition is going to get tougher, so he'll have to keep stepping up," said Rodriguez about Vyjack. "It looks like he's coming into the race in good shape."
Mike Repole's Overanalyze makes his 2013 debut in the Gotham. Another of trainer Todd Pletcher's 3-year-olds, the colt will be ridden by John Velazquez from the far outside post.
After winning his career opener, Overanalyze was fourth in the Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga but came back to win the Futurity at Belmont Park on Sept. 30. After finishing third in the Iroquois at Churchill Downs on Oct. 28, he rebounded to win the Remsen at Aqueduct to complete his 2012 season.
Overanalyze has earned $344,381 with three wins in five starts.
Here is the field for the Gotham in post position order: Champion Boy, Eddie Castro; Escapefromreality, David Cohen; Ore Pass, Julian Pimentel; Amerigo Vespucci, Erick Rodriguez; Transparent, Irad Ortiz Jr.; Now and Then, Junior. Alvarado; Siete De Oros, Angel Arroyo; Vyjack, Joel Rosario; Elnaawi, Channing Hill; Sky Captain, Miguel Mena; West Hills Giant, Jose Espinoza and Overanalyze, John Velazquez.
Transparent and Now and Then will be coupled as an entry.
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The Significance of Defensin Alpha 4 in the Pathophysiology of the Adrenal Insufficiency in Inflammatory Lung Diseases
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The pathophysiology of the adrenal insufficiency of patients with critical diseases remains unclear. In a prior exploratory study investigating patients with exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the investigators demonstrated a highly significant correlation between the expression level of Defensin-alpha 4 (DEFA4) mRNA in blood and the adrenal function assessed via low-dose ACTH tests. The aim of this prospective study is to demonstrate that DEFA4 measured both at the mRNA level (RT-PCR) and at the protein level (Western blot/Elisa) is a reliable biomarker for the prediction of adrenal insufficiency in inflammatory lung diseases (patients with COPD and pneumonia).
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|The Significance of Defensin Alpha 4 in the Pathophysiology of the Adrenal Insufficiency in Inflammatory Lung Diseases
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Pneumonia patients (n=30) COPD patients (n=30) Healthy controls (n=15)
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- Patients 18-80 yo
- Patients diagnosed with pneumonia or exacerbated COPD
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- Pregnant or lactating females
- Life threatening severe disease
- Known primary or secondary adrenal insufficiency
- Systemic steroid therapy in the last 8 weeks
- Systemic therapy with opioid
- Systemic therapy with Ketoconazol, Mitotane, Metopyron, Etomidat, Rifampicin
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Demonstrate that DEFA4 is a reliable biomarker for the prediction of adrenal insufficiency
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Lexus has recalled a trio RX SUVs in Australia this week, due to a potential problem with the passenger airbag.
The carmaker has identified a weakness with the airbag inflator unit, which may be susceptible to a gas leak.
Lexus says that gas used to inflate the airbag during a collision may escape into the inflator unit, causing the airbag to partly inflate - or, fully inflate when not required.
Should this occur while driving, the resulting shock may cause a collision or the inflating airbag may injure a passenger. No incidents have been reported in Australia at this stage.
The recall targets the Lexus RX 200t, RX 350 and RX 450h, built between November 2015 and February of this year. Around 113 vehicles are on the recall list in Australia.
This recall is not associated in any way with the ongoing Takata airbag recall program.
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Monday, 6 April, 1998, 07:03 GMT 08:03 UK
India's ruling dynasty
Motilal Nehru: founder of a dynasty
Born in 1861, Motilal Nehru joined the Indian National Congress, which spearheaded the campaign for independence from British rule.
Jawaharlal Nehru: first post-independence Prime Minister
Known as Pandit Nehru, he led India after the upheaval of the partition of the sub-continent at the end of the British Raj in 1947. The Nehru-Gandhi family is not related to the revered Mahatma Gandhi, who led the struggle against the British.
Indira Gandhi: autocratic tendencies
Nehru's daughter, Indira, became a Gandhi through marriage. As Prime Minister, she introduced emergency laws restricting the opposition and ordered the storming of the Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar. She was gunned down by one of her Sikh bodyguards in 1984.
Sanjay Gandhi: the heir apparent
Sanjay, Indira's younger son, was being groomed for a political role in the Congress Party when he was killed while performing flying stunts over New Delhi in 1980.
Rajiv Gandhi: thrust into the limelight
Rajiv, the oldest son of Indira and an unassuming airline pilot, inherited the Gandhi mantle after his brother's death. He was killed by a suicide bomber in 1991.
Sonia Gandhi: a reclusive figure
Sonia, Rajiv's wife, never really took to politics, preferring to stay out of the limelight. But in a surprising move, she campaigned on behalf of the Congress party during the elections of February and March 1998.
After the elections were lost, she agreed to become head of the Congress Party and was confirmed in the role April 6th.
Priyanka Gandhi: the future hope
Priyanka, Sonia's striking 26-year old daughter, has so far shunned an official role in Congress. But she pointedly retained the Gandhi family name after her marriage to Robert Vadra, a jewellery designer and exporter. Her appearances alongside her mother at a number of Congress party rallies in 1998 point to an active interest in politics.
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Wikileaks: Iranian Regime Knew About Prison Rapes of Freedom Protesters – Did Nothing
The evil regime in Tehran not only shot down at freedom protesters from rooftops after the election last year, they knew that the democracy activists were being raped in prison and did nothing.
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ATLANTA (AP) — McKenzie Milton wanted to throw a blanket of 13 wins and no losses over the College Football Playoff.
After Milton and Central Florida capped a perfect season, he suggested it was time to respect the Knights, even if they weren't invited to the playoff.
Milton threw two touchdown passes and ran for 116 yards with another touchdown, leading No. 10 UCF to a 34-27 Peach Bowl win over No. 7 Auburn on Monday.
Then it was time to boast.
"I said on the podium you can go ahead and cancel the playoffs," Milton said. "I'm not changing my mind."
UCF (13-0) led 34-20 before having to stop a late Auburn comeback. Antwan Collier's interception in the end zone with 24 seconds remaining clinched the win.
The UCF players launched a joyous postgame celebration, rolling around in confetti on the field while wearing T-shirts that read "Champions."
The Knights won in their final game with coach Scott Frost, who stayed with the team through the bowl game after accepting an offer to become the new coach at Nebraska , his alma mater. Frost will bring most of his UCF assistants to Nebraska.
"It was the right thing to do to come coach these guys," Frost said, holding the game ball. "I'm not happy for me. I'm so happy for these guys."
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Dear The Kithcen,
Has anyone ever made risotto with brown rice? I have some brown short-grain rice that might be starchy enough. If anyone has any hints/ideas, they'd be much appreciated!
You can certainly try. When I make risotto, I don't usually follow a recipe, rather I cook the rice with alternating applications of warm stock and white wine until the consistency is right. Try this method with brown rice and see what happens. Do not expect to get the same creamy texture as regular white arborio rice, but you are right in that a short grain brown rice is fairly starchy and might hold together nicely, like in a risotto.
Good luck!
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- Amanda said...
The animation in your film is so good! :D
- August 12, 2010 at 8:27 PM
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clayton that was insanely good. how long did that take? all AFX?
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thanks Amanda! all I see is a lot of errors and things that can improve but I'm glad you enjoyed it ^^ cant wait to put up some of the animations I'm working on at Mercury but not until next year :P
thanks Andrew! yea its all AFX and with the tutorials and plugins found here http://www.videocopilot.net/ you can get these things done in a couple of hours! its loads of fun definitely check it out!
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Cool stuff!
We're missing you back in Oakville! 8(
We should meet up during the Ottawa Anim Festival 8]
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I'll miss those long father and daughter chats we had. He was the only one who understood .
Yeah I always talked back and am as stubborn as he was. He once said I should have been a lawyer as I loved those debates and had to always get the last word. He got the last word in out final conversation due to his very strong insistence and I was planning to continue our conversation when we next meet. Never did get the chance. Not on this lifetime anyway. I look forward to seeing him again in the after life where we can continue our chats.
Daddy was the eldest of 8 siblings. As a child,growing up in Katong, he already went out to work selling epok epok and taking on jobs to support his siblings. He hardly talked much about himself but shared with me our family history, the achievements of his dad , how amazing my mom is and positive things about everyone else .
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He told me never to forget that I have a great God. To turn to God whenever I am I trouble as God will always come through. All this he shared with me so urgently and insistently as if he knew his time here was almost up.
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UCAN: Former East Timorese refugees still face difficulties
JAKARTA, Indonesia (UCAN) Long barracks with roofs of palm leaves or tarpaulin and walls of palm stalks house former East Timor refugees in Haliwen village.
The 3,500 people are among 80,000 people living in West Timor who left East Timor in 1999 and have become Indonesian citizens, according to East Nusa Tenggara (NTT, Indonesian acronym) provincial data.
Most of them have relocated from refugee camps to other places in West Timor, but 14,443 refused resettlement. Approximately 250,000 people came across the border from East Timor, then also part of Indonesia, amid violence following an August 1999 vote for independence. Those that did not return by the end of 2002 automatically became Indonesian citizens and were no longer considered refugees.
UCA News visited Haliwen camp, 20 kilometers from the border with now independent Timor Leste (East Timor), on Sept. 1. Haliwen is two kilometers north of the main town of Atambua, 2,000 kilometers (about 1,240 miles) east of Jakarta.
Barracks, each 15 or 18 meters long and divided into five or six rooms, cover the two-hectare campsite. One family, usually with five or six members, occupies each nine-square-meter room, separated from adjoining rooms by partitions of palm leaf stalks or tarpaulin. Thin mattresses and plaited mats cover bare ground in the rooms, which have neither beds nor flooring.
The families cook their meals in front of their room using firewood, because there are no kitchens. Water for cooking, drinking and bathing is supplied by daily visits of government trucks.
Garbage is strewn everywhere. Mothers sit on the ground chatting or combing each other's hair looking for lice. Barefoot, half-naked children play around their mothers, or chase each other around.
Few adult men could be seen, except for some who appeared sick, and Yoao Bau Belis, 42, who told UCA News the other men were "out looking for work." Asked why he and the others did not enter the government relocation program, he said the location prepared by the government is too remote.
"Here I can earn a living by selling vegetables," said Belis, pointing to vegetables he had just bought at the market in town for resale to villagers.
He admitted, however, that the profit he earns is not enough to buy food for his family or pay his children's school fees. He said his children have dropped out of primary school and now sell ice in Haliwen.
Father Yohanes Seran, head of Atambua Diocese's Commission for Pastoral Ministry to Migrants and Itinerants, told UCA News Sept. 8, "The former East Timor refugees put us in a difficult situation."
He said he has repeatedly encouraged them to relocate but they refuse, so government-built houses in the resettlement area stay unoccupied.
The Timorese priest admitted that the relocation would not instantly improve the life of the camp dwellers, pointing out that many who have relocated from other camps are encountering difficulties as farmers. During his visits to the former refugee families, he listens to their problems and then reports their situation to the government, Father Seran said.
The government offers aid to every registered poor family nationwide, including the former refugees. The aid consists of 100,000 rupiah (US$11) cash and 20 kilograms of rice at a 70-percent discount from the normal price.
The diocesan social commission offers loans of up to 2 million rupiah to Catholic farmers and small retailers, including the former East Timor refugees in the diocese.
According to Father Seran, 63,000 former East Timor refugees now live in Belu and neighboring North Central Timor, the two districts covered by Atambua diocese. Among them about 20,000 children under 12 years old are in danger of not getting an adequate basic education.
"Having no skills, the East Timorese youngsters often become a problem for society. Many children become beggars, and many delinquent youths get involved in brawls in Atambua and Kefamenanu," the priest explained. Atambua is the capital of Belu district and Kefamenanu the capital of North Central Timor.
For the Catholic Church in West Timor, Father Seran said, the situation is a major problem because almost 90 percent of the former refugees are Catholics.
"We must do something concrete. For example, we must keep urging the government and international agencies to help the former East Timor refugees. If we the Church just talk and don't concern ourselves, we are making a big mistake," he warned.
The violence following East Timor's 1999 independence referendum was widely attributed to militias there that favored Indonesian rule and who were supported by some element of the Indonesian military. Among the former refugees are members or leaders of the militias blamed for killing independence supporters, looting and burning buildings, and causing hundreds of thousands to flee their homes.
Besides the camp in Haliwen, other camps that still house former refugees are in Belu's Kada village, Kefamenanu and Noelbaki village, near Kupang, at the western end of Timor Island, capital of NTT province.
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