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Yahweh Yoga's comprehensive YYT/RYT-200 Teacher Training Program is designed to allow students to begin their journey ANYWHERE/ANYTIME! It consists of course work, personal practice, observations, and attendance of 14-days of on-site training in Arizona. These 14-days can be completed all at once or in two one-week sessions. Our 14-Day Onsite Program abundantly fulfills Yoga Alliance requirements. Graduates will earn Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200) credentials with Yoga Alliance and Yahweh Yoga Teacher Credentials (YYT-200). These are the credentials that are needed […]Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
RachelMarch 4, 2016
Rachel received her RYT 200 certification through Yahweh Yoga teacher training in 2015. She is an RN with both a Pediatric and Adult Oncology background, and currently serves as Clinical Adjunct Nursing Faculty with two local colleges. Since she started practicing yoga several years ago, she has noticed an increase in strength, flexibility, balance and focus. "Exercise has always been an important part of wellness and health for me. I enjoy hiking, biking, skiing, and being outdoors. But yoga offers […]Posted in studioteachers, ttpteachers | Leave a comment
AlexaMarch 4, 2016
Alexa started practicing yoga in 2011 and quickly fell in love because of all its amazing health benefits. A year ago she decided she wanted to become an instructor but never knew there was such thing as Christian yoga. After some research, she stumbled upon Yahweh Yoga and knew it was the perfect place for her. She recently graduated from Biola University in December of 2015 with a Bachelors in Biblical and Theological Studies. It wasn't until after she completed […]Posted in studioteachers | Leave a comment
HeatherMarch 4, 2016
Heather started her yoga journey at 22 years old and immediately fell in love with the stillness it gave her mind and body. Being a lifelong athlete she loved the flexibility and lengthening of her muscles that kept her coming back through two pregnancies and multiple injuries. She never knew she had the option to combine her love for God and her enjoyment for yoga until she came to Yahweh yoga and once she did, she knew the Lord was […]Posted in studioteachers | Leave a comment
NicoleMarch 4, 2016
Nicole has been practicing yoga for a few years and recently had the honor of completing my RYT with Yahweh. Faith and yoga go hand in hand for me. I feel most connected to His presence when in practice, whether that be in a class or in my home practice. I am have been married to my wonderful husband for 15yrs and we have 2 beautiful children. We enjoy serving at our church and participating in youth activities with our […]Posted in studioteachers | Leave a comment
AimeeMarch 4, 2016
Aimee discovered Pilates while living in the Bay Area in 2005. I love to dance growing up, Pilates was intuitive and in sync with my personal style of exercise. I loved the way it made my body feel and wanted to share that experience with others. I received my mat training from Pilates Core Integration, in Tempe AZ in 2015. Her first yoga mat experience was memorable, "I felt God's love, it was peaceful, everything was Christ-centered from beginning to […]Posted in studioteachers, ttpteachers | Leave a comment


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Hi everyone,
I've been considering deferring my grad school plans for 2 years to do the Teach for America thing, esp. with my mediocre GRE scores. I have thought a lot about it, and am still not sure - there are pros and cons. But I think teaching high school physics for 2 years might actually help strengthen the GRE score, since it will cement the basic principles that the PGRE tests. At the same time, I don't want to lose all my upper division specialized knowledge - I am sure that in 2 years I could forget how to solve PDEs, or forget about the band theory of solids, or relativistic electrodynamics (not to mention my research skills) etc. So I'm wondering - has anyone done Teach for America to teach high school physics, and then gone off to grad school in physics? Any thoughts on this topic?

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Dear Non Birding Bill, We've given this whole marriage thing one heck of a try. I'm a birder, you're not and hilarity ensues, we've put in a good eleven years and are closing in on 12--we've given it the old college try. However, after spending some time in Panama, I regret to inform you that I most likely will not be returning home.
First of all, the feeder birds are off the hook--here we have a green honeycreeper (creeping up on some bananas) that I got with the Wingscapes camera coming in to Canopy Lodge. What can I say, I'm in love with this crazy green fella. The temperatures at the lodge are surprisingly cool, although humid, but I think I can live with that for the sake of such colorful birds.
You might think that I'm bluffing since I love the brown birds so much, but never fear there are brown birds here too. Above we have a couple of broad-bill euphonia next to a very brown clay-colored robin (with blue-gray tanagers in the back). And look at the mashed banana stuck on the bottom mandible of the euphonia--such lovely bird shenanigans.
At the moment, I'm at Canopy Tower and this is the view from the top--look at those mountains covered in green. I love snow, but living in Minnesota, I've experienced my share. I think all this green will suit me.
And in the morning, there are toucans to serenade me. They have yet to use their noses to direct me to sugary rings of cereal or to any dark Irish stout, but they are pleasant to see lurking about the canopy. And life here is leisurely! We start with an early breakfast, do some birding, come back for lunch, have a siesta, do a tiny bit more of birding, have dinner, maybe a drink and then off to bed to begin the day anew. I love this birding with breaks--it's so relaxing, no more of this go and go and go and go all day for me--I'm all for this imposed afternoon napping system.
I'm typing this to you from the comfort and security of my hammock, where my digiscoping equipment is at the perfect angle to catch whatever may fly by the open window...
...or swing by as did this howler monkey who is working its way in the trees around the tower. So we are clear, it's not that I'm leaving you for Raúl Arias de Para ( the man who owns Canopy Tower and Canopy Lodge and turned them into a birder's version of Disney Land) he has a lovely wife. I'm not even leaving you for my guide Carlos (even though he did give me a great poptoo yesterday).
Think of this as me joining a birding order along the lines of a strange nunnery where all I do is go out into the rainforest, find birds and taking photos of them like this above linneated woodpecker (and in the case of the tinamou, take video). It's been fun and I appreciate all the times you tried to enjoy birds. Go out and find yourself a nice girl who isn't covered in chigger bites.
Love, Birdchick


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Sharing Church management best practices in the Catholic Church
Message of Pope Benedict XVI for Lent 2012. "Let us be concerned for each other, to stir a response in love and good works." (Heb 10:24)
"The Lenten season offers us once again an opportunity to reflect upon the very heart of Christian life: charity. This is a favourable time to renew our journey of faith, both as individuals and as a community, with the help of the word of God and the sacraments. This journey is one marked by prayer and sharing, silence and fasting, in…
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The largest diocese in Canada is in transition and at it's helm is new Cardinal, Thomas Collins. The Toronto Star explores the challenges:
Toronto Archbishop Thomas Collins doesn't like being called…
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It has been common to distinguish between "pastoral" and "parish" councils since the publication in 1983 of the Code of Canon Law, which recommended parish pastoral councils. Today we prefer the superior "pastoral" council to the old "parish" council, which …Continue
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An editorial in the February 27, 2012 issue of America magazine calls for transparency, accountability and national standards for financial stewardship at all levels of the Catholic Church:
"To be proper stewards of the financial resources they have been given, church officials must adopt transparent and fiscally responsible practices at all levels. A national…
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The Leadership Roundtable is proud to co-sponsor the National Symposium on Lay Ecclesial Ministry which has met at Saint John's University, Collegeville, MN in 2007 and 2011.
Over 40 Catholic organizations and institutions have invested in the National Symposium and three grants were recently awarded…Continue
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A great five-minute video from the St. Thomas More Newman Center at Ohio State University.
Will put a smile on your face and give you great hope for the future
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I have been invited to participate in a conversation on Monday about collaboration in ministry. I am usually not stuck for things to say (as some of you know!) and have some experience and opinions on collaboration which I will share with the group. One aspect I will bring to the discussion is that social networking technologies have made broader consultation and collaboration easier, so I thought I would test out that theory by putting out this Weekend Question topic to…Continue
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I came across this explanation of a little known tax credit that many parishes and dicoese' may find helpful. I have known the author, Harold Parsons, for many years and talked to him to make sure I understood the implications of what he was saying. It is a little known item in the PPACA that does not usually grab the attention of parish or diocesan administrators.
It points to the importance of accessing professionals who know the Catholic Church and her structures and how the Church…Continue
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Dale Roach provides us with 12 characteristics of effective leaders and also suggests that every successful team needs an effective leader:
Effective leadership has certain, basic, visionary, characteristics.…
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How Naturalista's Took Over #ChaleWote2015
#ChaleWote2015 was filled with many naturalista's and I caught up with the really eye-catching ones and had a chat with them on their natural hair journey and what name they had for their hairstyle as part of #MyKpenkpeshie series.
My name is Adzara. My hairstyle is called Teku Teku. I went natural because when I perm, I realised my hair didnt grow and it kept breaking. I got tired and started going natural. I also realised the natural hair looked better on me than the perm.
My name is Nancy Green. My hair has been called spiky by a lot of people. I have been natural all my life. I have never permed before. I love being freaky so my hair shows that side of me. I have used green a lot because its a favourite colour.
I am Ohenewaa. Its been 2 years and 3months now. I also went natural because I didnt want chemicals in my hair anymore. This style is called the 'fro-hawk.
I am Elizabeth Osei. I went natural because I don't like salons that much. I wanted to avoid the salon altogether. Perming is more work and I wasn't ready for that.


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The Perfect Student Accommodation Experience
A recent study has shown that students' accommodation can directly affect their enjoyment and success at university. The study, based on a poll conducted throughout the UK, France, Spain and Italy, looks at student attitudes towards their accommodation and what they see as its most important features. Size matters for UK students, who rate a big bedroom and a double bed as 'must haves'. When looking for the perfect student accommodation, having furniture included topped the list at 93%, closely followed by the provision of WiFi at 83% and being close to the university at 81%.
For students in continental Europe, being a part of the student community and being close to lecture theatres also ranked highly.
These stats will come as no surprise to those within the student accommodation sector as it becomes increasingly professionalised and experience driven.
Read how ASK4 are contributing to the perfect student accommodation experience.


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We have an exciting set up this week. With the help of Honorary Co-host Brian @Kwongerific and first time Guest Accomplice Jeremiah Dohn @JMDohn, we walk the trail for the Process Automation Badge on Trailhead. If you plan on hitting this badge up soon or are stuck on a particular unit, you came to the right place. So check out how Brian and Jeremiah use process automation and what attire they wear to the movies.
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#1460 – Igniteon January 23, 2012 at 12:00 am
Biff and Maximumble had a baby and a 3rd comic strip was born! Check out my new comic at minimumble.com
I think that was the only downside to sledding. Yay! Wee! Fun! Oh dang, now I have to walk all the way back up this dang hill. Why cant we just go sledding where there are 10 hills right next to each other? The bottom of the first hill is the top of the second and so on. Let's do that next time.


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Using Flash'sMathobject, you can round to the nearest whole number using theMath.roundcommand. You may, however, prefer to round to different decimal places. This TechNote offers a technique for rounding to a specified decimal place.
Rounding to the hundredth decimal
Rounding to the nearest decimal simply involves inserting code in the Actions panel, as follows:
|Open your movie in Flash.
|Select a Frame or an Instance.
|Choose Windows > Panels > Actions.
|Add this ActionScript in your Actions Panel to round to the hundredth decimal place, replacing yourNumber with the value you would like to round:
value= int((yourNumber)*100)/100;
How the code works
The number used in the example below is 20 divided by 7, which equates to 2.857142857142857.
value= int((20/7)*100)/100;
|int(20/7)returns the value of 2 by removing the decimal places off the number created by the calculation in parentheses so that it appears as a whole number.
|Multiplying that result by 100 gives 285.
Note: This is due to the fact that theintfunction does not erase the decimals; it just does not show them.
|Dividing 285 by 100 gives 2.85. You have now rounded to the nearest hundredth.
Rounding to other decimal places
If you prefer to round to a decimal other than to the hundredth, you can easily modify the code. Below are examples of code that will round (20/7) to different decimals:
|Number of Decimal Places
|Example Results
|value= Math.round(20/7);
|value= int((20/7)*10)/10;
|value= int((20/7)*100)/100;
|value= int((20/7)*1000)/1000;
|value= int((20/7)*10000)/10000;
|2.85 71
Additional information
For more details on how to round to the nearest integer, please see the online ActionScript entry for Math.round.
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Catholic Social Service office opened 50 years ago in Great Bend
By Tim Wenzl
Southwest Kansas Catholic
Editor's Note: Catholic Social Service hosted a Chamber of Commerce Coffee on March 5 in Great Bend to mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of its office in that community. Coverage of the occasion will appear in the March 22 issue.
Catholic Social Service recognizes March 15, 1965 as its official founding date. It was on that day that the agency opened its doors at an office at 10th and Washington in Great Bend.
Father Walter Weiss was the founding executive director. He received his master's degree in social work at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. His master's dissertation was an investigation of the need for a Catholic Social Service agency in the Dodge City diocese.
The office for Catholic Social Service was located in Great Bend due to the fact that in 1965, one third of the Catholic population in the Diocese of Dodge City was within a 25-mile area around that city.
The Most Rev. Marion F. Forst, bishop of Dodge City at the time Catholic Social Service was founded, announced the opening of the agency in a circular letter to his priests dated Feb. 27, 1965:
"An expanded Catholic Charities venture by the Diocese of Dodge City will officially get underway on March 15, 1965. On that date the office will be opened.
"How this will work out only God knows. Seemingly the various County Welfare Offices have sought and welcome the diocese's going into this work. But give us a prayer that the work that's done is real charity, and truly reflects the Church's responsibility to 'love our neighbors.'
"As we launch this Social Service venture, may I add this personal note of thanks to the priests who in the past have carried on the diocese's charity program. Mostly it was a service to unwed mothers and adoptive parents. Yet Father Gilbert Herrman and Father Eugene van Sloun did a magnificent job in serving anyone at any time or place as best they were able."
Initially, the Board of Directors was composed of 23 members from the areas of Great Bend, St. John, Larned, Albert, Hoisington, Ellinwood, La Crosse, and Ness City.
The first board included: Bob Rychlec, Frank Schartz, Joseph Mermis, Jr, Clair Cavanaugh, M.D., Larry Keenan, Frances Esfeld, Dave O'Neill, Zenon Lopez, Alfonso Bricoe, Sister M. Constance, Sister M. Ancilla, Father Richard Konda, Msgr. George Husmann, all of Great Bend; Father Bernard Groome and Polly Taylor, St. John; W.R. Brenner, M.D., and Ron Scott, Larned; R.J. Pivonka, Albert; Cody Ochs, Hoisington; Ed Robl and Keith Rickert, Ellinwood; Paul Shramek, Ness City; and Ben Enslinger, La Crosse.
The agency offered service in the areas of "marriage and family counseling, homemaker services, adoptions and aid to unwed mothers." When the office opened, it was the only agency west of Wichita offering marriage and family counseling on a professional basis.
The agency now has offices located in each of the three deaneries in the diocese. Articles on the services developed and nurtured over the last 50 years have been featured in the diocesan newspaper since November of 2014 and will continue this year.
Throughout its history, Catholic Social Service has worked in the areas of adoption, child care, housing, troubled youth, alcoholism, parenting education, refugee services, children and spousal abuse and prevention, emergency assistance, pregnancy counseling, aging, foster and respite care for children with disabilities, search and reunion services for adult adoptees, birth parents and their families and family counseling.
The mission of Catholic Social Service has been to reach out to those most in need. The agency advocates social justice with the philosophy that people should have equal access to resources, services, and opportunities that are essential for the accomplishment of life-tasks.


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The May 2011 meeting of the Finger Lakes Flute Circle is Thursday, May 19, 6:30 pm.
For directions, please see the side bar to the right.
As always, beginners are welcome! There will also be instructional books and beginner flutes available for try out and purchase.
We request a $5 contribution to defray room rental costs.
We look forward to seeing you! Bring your flutes and hand percussion. Let's make and enjoy some great music!


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It is over 40 years since Jorn Utzon won the Sydney Opera House competition, and we still have no comprehensive book on his work. He supervised two extensive - and very beautiful - presentations in the Italian periodical Zodiac, and has recently broken his silence with occasional interviews for magazines and television programmes. But 'The Book' remains as elusive as ever.
Francoise Fromonot's account, originally published in Italian, is no exception to this pattern. It is, as she remarks in the introduction, 'a strange task to undertake an inquiry on a still living but absent figure, a contemporary already assigned to history'. Despite the obstacles, she has managed to present the fullest record to date: hitherto unpublished drawings and photographs from archives in Sydney and the reminiscences, views and private papers of several of Utzon's key associates supplement material drawn from magazines.
The book began as a study of the Opera House, and this remains the core around which its chronological narrative unfolds. The account of the architectural/constructional development of Utzon's magnum opus, from the elation of winning the competition from his forest hideaway in North Zealand to the fiasco surrounding his 'resignation' almost ten years later, is unlikely to be bettered, or more copiously illustrated. The magnificent construction photographs of the late Max Dupain carry the narrative almost as effectively as the text; they are complemented by fascinating images of the models which were central to Utzon's design process, and by a host of hitherto unpublished drawings for the glass walls and interior 'acoustic shells' - which Arup's infamously declared 'unrealistic'.
The cumulative effect is overwhelming: the most memorable exterior in twentieth-century architecture would clearly have been matched by an interior every bit as magisterial. The loss is irretrievable: whatever Utzon's re-engagement with Sydney may mean, it will not yield a 'historical reconstruction' based on these breathtaking studies.
The in-depth presentation and analysis of Sydney is interspersed with the other work. The treatment is necessarily brief: Bagsvaerd and Kuwait get little more than a page of text each, 'Additive Architecture' and the related furniture, a couple - plus drastic reductions of the original articles published in Arkitektur. These are useful, but like many pages in the book, rather busy: visual busy-ness jars with Utzon's calm, expansive forms, and had no place in the layouts he supervised (having worked briefly as a graphic designer, he was unusually fastidious about presentation).
Utzon's corpus is not large and, with the exception of a few private houses, including one or two of genuine interest, Fromonot presents almost all that matters - presents, but does not fully analyse. To anyone unfamiliar with the work, it must appear extraordinarily disparate, by turns 'organic' and 'rational', traditional and radical - and often all at the same time. Fromonot identifies these themes at the outset but, tied to an episodic, chronological structure, does not trace the threads which link, for example, the Melli Bank in Iran, the Bayview House projects in Sydney, and Bagsvaerd Church.
With the benefit of hindsight, it is possible to sense intimations of almost the entire Utzon oeuvre in the images which accompanied a 1947 manifesto - close-ups of plants and minerals; Fallingwater; Aalto vases and the inclined columns and mushroom capitals of the Turun Sanomat print- room; a Chinese pagoda and courtyard house; Italian and Spanish villages. The Langelinie Pavilion competition project - which melded pagoda and Johnson Wax laboratory tower with a plan evocative of a plant stem - is there; so, in the Aalto columns, is the expressive truth-to-forces structure which nearly drove Arup's to distraction in Sydney; so too are the Kingo housing clusters.
Fromonot concludes incisively and provocatively, describing Utzon as the 'guardian of fugitive ideals . . . too idiosyncratic to be exemplary, too radical to be followed'. Seen from this side of the fin de siecle, she is surely right: his stylistic influence has been all but negligible. But history has a way of surprising us, and I suspect Utzon's work is ripe for rediscovery by a new generation, just as Sydney is poised to be the representative building for the new Millennium.
Richard Weston teaches at De Montfort University, Leicester
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text: January 20, 2015 John Rice French Press January 20, 2015 John Rice Ingredients for one22g coffee coarsely ground340g water at 205 degrees Ingredients for two44g coffee680g water at 205 degrees 1. Grind coffee just before brewing. It should be a coarse, even grind. Add to bottom of the french press. 2. Weigh out your water. Slowly add just enough water to moisten the grounds. Let bloom 30 seconds. 3. Slowly pour in the rest of your water. Stir gently to create the slurry. 4. Place the lid gently on top of the grounds (this will keep the heat in). Do not plunge yet. Let the coffee continue steeping for a total of four minutes. 5. Press the plunger down. If it is difficult to plunge, your grind is too fine, if it requires no effort at all, your grind is too coarse and you'll need to adjust. 6. Immediately pour all of the coffee into a mug or a carafe. If you let it sit, it will continue brewing, releasing all the bitter tannins and that is just gross. John Rice


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Ed Kurtz is the author of A Wind of Knives, The Forty-Two, and Angel of the Abyss, among other novels and novellas. His fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies like Thuglit, Needle: A Magazine of Noir, Shotgun Honey, and Psychos: Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane, and he was selected to appear in The Best American Mystery Stories 2014. Kurtz lives in Texas where he is at work on his next project. Feel free to drop him a line at email@example.com.
Find Ed Kurtz on:
The Official Ed Kurtz Website
Interviews/Guest Posts
"The Rib From Which I Remake the World begins with the façade of a hard-boiled noir: a grizzled old ex-cop with a complicated past is sucked back into the world of crime when a travelling picture show comes to town. At a special midnight viewing, each member of the audience finds themselves watching a film of their deepest fears. From there, the book takes a sharp turn into a supernatural, rattling along at a breakneck pace until its shocking conclusion. Genre mash-ups like this one are difficult to execute, but Kurtz navigates it deftly, with writing so visceral and evocative it feels less like reading a book and more like watching a film in real time."
—Cassidy Faust, Literary Hub
"The Rib From Which I Remake the World isn't only the best book I've read this year, it is Ed Kurtz's best book yet. While it echoes with the shadowy threatening of Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes and the religious dread of Hjortsberg's Falling Angel, the clearest voice here is Kurtz's own cry into the existential abyss. This is a haunting story of seeing through illusion and the terrifying reality of what it means to meet your maker."
—Bracken MacLeod, author of Mountain Home and Stranded
"A Wind of Knives dusts off the classic western's most enduring motifs and gives them a shine. With no lack of gunplay and bloodshed, the book also has heart and intelligence. In short, Kurtz delivers an intense, gritty, and moving story that takes a new look at the Old West."
—Lee Thomas, Bram Stoker Award and Lambda Literary Award-winning author of The German and Ash Street
"[Nausea is] a gritty, hard-edged tale with just the right amount of feeling, making this one hell of a story. All of Ed's gifts are on display here: fast pacing, memorable characters and brutal action that aren't easy to forget, but make for great reading."
—Terrence McCauley, author of Sympathy for the Devil, Prohibition, and Slow Burn
"Ed Kurtz proved to me that not all horror novels have to be blood and guts and gore. Don't get me wrong, those elements are in The Rib From Which I Remake the World, but Kurtz balances them with engaging characters and a captivating story."
—Crimespree Magazine
"Ingenious and disorienting."
"The Rib From Which I Remake the World starts out as a smart and literate hardcore noir, before gradually descending into a bleak supernatural nightmare, which explodes in the final act into a maelstrom of violence and horror."
—Ginger Nuts of Horror
"Ed Kurtz writes with a strong voice and imagination befitting the calling. . . . Come one, come all, this show is vivid, textured, colorful and worth the price of admission. It's fun, strange and quick to engage."
—Unnerving Magazine
"The Rib From Which I Remake the World is a mix-up of noir and horror that works very, very well, thanks in part to Kurtz's smooth, easy writing style and some great characters and settings. . . . Kurtz has produced an excellent book, one that I believe will feature in a number of top read lists come the end of the year."
—The Grim Reader


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Church Tech Weekly Episode 255: Tip Your Cat To Him/
What do you do when disaster strikes? Your console's hard drive crashes, you lose a stage box, the lighting console won't boot, the video switcher won't switch? We talk about disaster recovery this week with someone who recently experienced it.


text: GENETICS AND GENOMICS FOR NURSING brings together the genetics and genomics knowledge nurses need to provide safe and effective care in today's "genomic era." It teaches through small, modular units, each with pretests, section quizzes, and post-tests. Answers are provided to help students check their knowledge, and Emerging Evidence and Critical Thinking checkpoints encourage them to apply it. The text first places modern genetics in context, introduces its essential principles, and outlines its deep ethical, legal, social, and public policy implications. Next, readers learn how to take family genetic histories and assess risks; utilize immunogenetics and cancer genetics in cancer prevention and treatment; apply genetics in public health promotion; recognize the role of genes in psychiatric illnesses and in aging; and much more.


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We've made a few additions to the website this week:
- We added our second episode of our podcast Combustible
- We added a site search in the main navigation bar so that you can "find what you can't find"
- We added the dates of the conference to the website logo
The last two on that list were things that we didn't really realize were a problem. Kind of like when you are standing too close to the TV.
Anyway check it out. And if you have a question, drop us a line using the form at the bottom of the FAQ page.


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As photographers, doing a first look is really a treat. It's great to have extra time with the bride and groom. So, we were over the moon to find out that Madison wanted to do her bridal portrait session, with Charles! We had such a fantastic time working with them, their moms, Heather, and of course Emma (Madi's dog). We hope you enjoy some of our favorites from their session with us. Be sure to like us on Facebook to see more photos of Madison and Charles where you can like, and leave comments for them. Enjoy! http://www.facebook.com/JoshuaAaronPhotography
MADISON + CHARLES - first look and "bridal" session at Hopeland Gardens
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Spartans and Vikings Unite in the Fight Against Muscle Disease; Dedicate Performance to Muscle Champions
WILMINGTON, DE - The Vikings of Saint Elizabeth High School and the Spartans of Saint Mark's High School have joined the Muscle Movement Foundation for the second consecutive season, playing with a purpose to "Sack Muscle Disease"! Both teams have welcomed local Muscle Champions - individuals living and refusing to lose to muscle disease, and have dedicated their game performances to their Muscle Champion's fight against muscle disease. Each season, the Spartans and the Vikings welcome their Muscle Champions as their honorary captains. Muscle Champions Mike Smith, Max French, and Mason Nellius have proudly walked, or rode, to the coin toss at every home game this season.
Friday, November 4th, 2016, both teams met at Saint Mark's High School during a regular season game, and competed to be awarded the very first 2016 Delaware "Sack Muscle Disease" Game Trophy! The Saint Mark's Spartans and Saint Elizabeth Vikings carry a strong Catholic Conference rivalry, which creates a competitive environment. Despite this rivalry, the Spartans and Vikings have taken initiative to add a purpose to their rivalry; to "Sack Muscle Disease"!
The Saint Mark's Spartans proudly excepted the trophy from Muscle Movement Foundation President and Spartan Alumnus, Rob DeMasi, after defeating Saint Elizabeth 35-20.
DeMasi presenting Saint Mark's with trophy:
Although the Spartans won the game, both teams were deemed Champions. They were crowned Champions by the over one million fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters in the United States, who are robbed of their muscular function. As the young men move their muscles to compete in a sport the love, win or lose, they leave it all on the field in honor of their Muscle Champions.
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Bipartisan Disgust for Rating Agencies
There are no juicy headlines yet out of the House Financial Services subcommittee hearing on the credit-rating agencies this morning, but the agencies are already feeling plenty of bipartisan ire for their threats to downgrade the US.
Mark this special day in your calendars: The WSJ's Holman Jenkins and liberal economist Robert Reich agree on something: Namely, who died and left the rating agencies in charge?
Mr. Jenkins writes:
The rating agencies, especially Standard & Poor's, have decided to join the politicians in turning an artificial crisis into a real one.


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Muzaffarabad (1st October 2014) – Central Directorate of National Savings Government of Pakistan will hold Draw or Balloting of Prize bonds of Rs.15000 on 1/10/2014. Prize Bond Draw Result Rs 15000 Muzaffarabad 1st October 2014 Full List. Central Directorate of National Savings Government of Pakistan will organize balloting / Draw of National Prize Bond of Rs. 15000 on Wednesday, October ... Read More »
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Muzaffarabad (October 01, 2014):- Today 15000 Prize bond Full List 1st October 2014, National Savings of Pakistan held a Prize Bond draw of 15000 Rs. here in Muzaffarabad on 1st October 2014. You can download Full List Of Prize bond Rs 15000,1st October 2014 Prize Bond Draw,15000 will be the 52nd Draw of Prize Bond Muzaffarabad October 01, 2014 Rupees 15000 draw ... Read More »


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Wolf Simulator
Wolf Simulator - Вы превратились в волка. Вы управляете супер мощным зверем и ищете добычу.
You have transformed into a Wolf. You are now in control of a super powerful beast looking for prey.
Explore the huge interactive 3D world before you. Go on the hunt looking for your next innocent goat, sheep or horse. Race around the map - smashing and crashing into everything you see. Find the gas station and watch out for the exploding gas tanks. Listen for the sound of the arriving train. Find the airport and try and knock down the airplane. Run down the moving truck and knock it off the highway.
Choose to play in the Day or Night.
Explore the huge map to uncover all the secrets. Attack everything you see to earn points.
The MAP includes:
**Farm with Sheep, Goats, Chickens, and Horses, and Bears;
**Train station with a moving train;
**Airport with flying airplanes;
**Gas Station and traffic;
**Super Fun HUGE 3D Map;
**Day and Night Versions.
Realistic 3D wolf with loads of special effects. You've tried Goat Simulator, Shark Simulator, Dinosaur Simulator, and Bear Simulator - now give Wolf Simulator a try. Super fun 3D graphics. Happy hunting!
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Genevieve Kaplan is the author of In the ice house (Red Hen Press), winner of the A Room of Her Own Foundation's poetry publication prize, and three chapbooks: settings for these scenes (Convulsive Editions), In an aviary (Grey Book Press), and Travelogue (Dancing Girl Press). Her poems have recently appeared in or are forthcoming from H_NGM_N, Sugar House Review, and Denver Quarterly. She lives in southern California and edits the Toad Press International chapbook series, publishing contemporary translations of poetry and prose.
Genevieve Kaplan, ISSUES
January/February 2017 Issue, BOAAT


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Biting Cold Can't Stop Surfers From Hitching This Ride from NY CITY Lens on Vimeo.
Lauren Hard Master's Project – Troubled Waters NYC from Lauren on Vimeo.
Red Ribbon Pretzel Company from Lauren on Vimeo.
Hudson County TV: Dishcrawl held in Jersey City
Let's Talk Film: Review of 'Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners'
Hudson County TV: Interview with Jersey City Resident and Plumster Bunny Author


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Have you ever struggled with overcoming the fear to create something new? With finding the courage to start over? With having the courage to pursue your passion even if it's unconventional?
"Creative Living Beyond Fear" will feature three Fresno artists who will share their experiences of overcoming the negative voices both inside and outside their heads to creatively pursue their passions and leave their mark on the world. Join Ome Quetzal Lopez (co founder of Fres.co), Aideed Medina (poet and artist), and Lee Herrick (former Fresno Poet Laureate) as they share their stories and anecdotes of how creativity plays into our every day lives.
Register for the event here: https://memberplanet.com/events/flyp/flyptalkscreativelivingbeyondfear
5:30 - 6:00 pm - Registration
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What is Yoga for the Greater Good?
Yoga for the Greater Good is Studio Po's subsidized yoga program. It consists of a 20% discount off of regular prices.
Who does the program apply to?
The program applies to paid employees of non-for-profit and charitable organizations who are working for the greater good.
What does the 20% discount apply to?
The discounted rate applies to drop-in classes, the 5-class pass, and the 10-class pass. Discount does not apply to the higher volume class passes and cannot be combined with other Studio Po specials.
How can someone participate in the program?
Program participants are required to fill out a short registration form and may be asked to provide proof of employment. Proof of employment can be a business card, an email address that has the organization name in it, a letter of employment, etc.


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The motivation for this post is two fold.
- Share my latest iPhone/GoPro video creation.
- As proof that you'll NEVER see me race an Ironman.
Yes, NEVER is a strong word, but I mean it. I'm quite content with my office consisting of a Stand Up Desk my fitness consisting of dirty thirty workout hacks. No pain. No pain.


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Last month, our Morning Finds theme was ORGANIZATION. Below is our roundup for January!
2 January
We kicked off the month by sharing The Container's Store on Elfa Closet Systems
3 January
We loved this creative idea for turning lost socks into laundry room art
4 January
Our favorite organizing tip from Real Simple Magazine was using a desktop file for kitchen tray storage
7 January
Flea Market Rx, available on Etsy, upcycles plumbing pipes into handy (and great looking) storage for every room of your house
8 January
Serena & Lily rolled out a new collection of gorgeous storage baskets
9 January
This DIY Shabby Chic shelving, shared by Homesessive, is a cute idea for an entry
10 January
Buzz Feed shared "52 Totally Feasible ways to organize your Entire Home"
11 January
Our closet expert, April Hargrove, shared linen closet organization tips and tricks
14 January
Did you enter Ask Anna's Organizing Revolution Contest?
15 January
We feel in love with Martha Stewart Living's Craft Space Collection from Home Decorators Collection
16 January
We think this fruit basket toy storage solution from Babble should be in every kid's bathroom
17 January
Room & Board proves that under bed storage can be chic
18 January
We shared some DIY organizing ideas
22 January
We love the coolness factor of Y Living's desk organization products, like this toolbox from Vitra
23 January
This knife storage from Viva Terra is the chicest we've ever seen
24 January
Fun and creative storage solutions for kid's rooms from Merriment Style
25 January
The Kate bag from MZ Wallace is magical for lugging laptop & samples around town
28 January
We posted some Awesome Organizing Ideas
29 January
Our Room of the Month was a pantry with personality
30 January
Hipcycle shows you how to keep your shopping organized with this DIY T-Shirt Tote Bag
31 January
Fun new storage solutions from Land of Nod
This month? Romance, of course!
You can stay tuned on our finds via Twitter (@RBHomeDesign) or by liking our Facebook Page.
Happy Organizing.


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LINDA WERTHEIMER, host:
This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News, I'm Linda Wertheimer.
STEVE INSKEEP, host:
And I'm Steve Inskeep.
We're in Washington. Renee Montagne is in Kabul again today, where she is tracking Afghanistan's upcoming presidential election. The candidates in that election tell you a lot about how Afghanistan is changing. So over the next few days Renee is going to introduce us to some of them. Hi, Renee.
RENEE MONTAGNE: Hi, Steve.
INSKEEP: And who do we start with?
MONTAGNE: We're starting today with the strongest challenger to President Hamid Karzai. His name is Abdullah Abdullah, and some Americans might remember him as the very visible foreign minister of Afghanistan after 2001. And Steve, to give some perspective: just as American candidates are often defined by their biographies - think John McCain's years in a North Vietnamese prison or Barack Obama born to a mother from Kansas and a father from Kenya - so too at the heart of Abdullah Abdullah's biography is one famous relationship here. As a young doctor in the 1980s, Abdullah became the closest friend and advisor to a legendary leader of the Mujahideen. That man, Ahmad Shah Massoud, fought the Soviets and then the Taliban until he was assassinated by al-Qaida two days before September 11th.
Dr. ABDULLAH ABDULLAH (Presidential Candidate, Afghanistan): He was a great human being, the most peaceful person being caught in the war. Yes, and given no choice but to fight.
MONTAGNE: Now Abdullah Abdullah has chosen to run on that association, with many campaign posters showing Massoud gazing down on the candidate.
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MONTAGNE: On this day those posters are plastered on the walls and storefronts of the bustling village of Charikar in a province neighboring Kabul. It's Massoud country - a place where thousands of frantic supporters poured into a small stadium and in the blistering midday sun cheered on the candidate who once touched their greatest hero.
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MONTAGNE: Women in burqas press together clutch children. Men in turbans crowd up to the very rim of the stadium. It's a new experience, a Western-style political rally.
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Unidentified Group: (Speaking in foreign language)
MONTAGNE: A couple of hours after this rally in a graceful garden near a pale green lake, I sat down with Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and asked him about his candidacy.
Just a couple of weeks ago there were those who would have said, and reasonably, that President Karzai was a shoe-in, that the incumbent could not be beat. What's changed?
Dr. ABDULLAH: I think that was a very superficial reading of the situation. The reason for that sort of a judgment was that President Karzai was very vigorous in making alliances with different political leaders. But what he had not calculated, that was the feeling of the people, the sense of the people, which was for change. So the leaders did join President Karzai and did support President Karzai, but the people didn't.
MONTAGNE: Let me ask you about a couple of other things that are important to Afghan voters and about what you would be promising. Corruption is high on everyone's list. It is very prevalent here at the moment at the highest levels and in the most common…
Dr. ABDULLAH: When it is in the highest levels, you don't expect that you will get result elsewhere. Yes, it has to be stopped from that level.
MONTAGNE: What would you do?
Dr. ABDULLAH: First, zero tolerance as far as the top level people are concerned. Corruption has become a law rather than an exception.
MONTAGNE: Although here it's complicated and made far worse by the drug trade -that is to say, there is so much money flowing and can be used to corrupt people from the policeman to a cabinet minister.
Dr. ABDULLAH: That also has been tolerated. And you know who are the people who are accused of dealing with drugs - these are people related to the highest level in our government.
MONTAGNE: Like whom?
Dr. ABDULLAH: I think these are not secrets. A few days ago, the drug dealers were freed from the prison in exchange for political favor during the campaign season by President Karzai, but the people will not be supportive.
MONTAGNE: Let's talk about the Taliban. You can't campaign for president, you can't have any chance of running this country without dealing with the Taliban. What would be your strategy? Would you talk to the Taliban or would you try and include the Taliban into the government? And if so, how?
Dr. ABDULLAH: The first step would be for the elected government to create circumstances that people are not - you're not losing the support from the people as a whole. By using support the insurgency is strengthened. The people don't see a prospect under the current circumstances.
That's why when there is a window of opportunity during the upcoming elections, they see a hope for change, okay? If we are losing the people, we are losing the war, yes? And then, of course, when it comes to the leadership of the Taliban, I think it might take much longer than we had anticipated, but the majority of the ranks and files, I think it will be quite possible.
MONTAGNE: The election is less than a month off. It'll have its problems. Logistically, it's a difficult thing to do, but do you think this will be fair enough of an election that the Afghan people will accept it?
Dr. ABDULLAH: I hope, I hope.
MONTAGNE: And just one last thing - have you been surprised in these last days at the level of support that you're getting, but not just you, other candidates, the level of excitement?
Dr. ABDULLAH: This level of excitement, to be honest, it is very exceptional. The one who is most surprised is the incumbent because he had thought being locked in the walls of the palace, that by making deals, making back deals, he will get it done. But now he realizes that it wasn't that simple. It wasn't that easy, and it wasn't that crazy.
MONTAGNE: Dr. Abdullah, thank you very much.
Dr. ABDULLAH: You're welcome.
MONTAGNE: That's Abdullah Abdullah, the man considered to be the most powerful challenger to President Karzai in next month's election. His emotional rallies give you a sense of what's beginning to catch on all over the country.
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MONTAGNE: These young students we're hearing are decked out in shirts and ribbons the color that the Abdullah campaign has adopted as its own - robin's egg blue. They are among the performers and speakers on stage rallying this big crowd of a couple thousand, hundreds of which are women, some wearing blue veils threaded in silver to show their support.
Dr. ABDULLAH: (Foreign language spoken)
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MONTAGNE: Here Abdullah's campaign speech is interrupted by a touch of old Afghanistan. A gray-bearded village elder stepped up to sing a song of praise.
Unidentified Man: (Singing in foreign language)
MONTAGNE: This rally went on for a couple of hours, and as excited supporters streamed out, I spoke to one, a teacher holding the hand of her six-year-old son.
Unidentified Woman: (Through translator) I was one of the most active campaigners for the President Karzai five years ago, but he never kept the promises he gave to the people. That's why I want to work this time around for Dr. Abdullah.
My son's name is Abdullah, and I want him to become a presidential candidate one day like Dr. Abdullah.
INSKEEP: One of the supporters of an Afghan presidential candidate speaking with NPR's Renee Montagne, who's in Kabul. And Renee, I suppose it's to be expected that at a campaign rally for a presidential challenger you'd hear some criticism of Afghanistan's president, but do you sense a wide-spread hunger for change when you're moving around?
MONTAGNE: Yes, you do get that feeling and people say that they want - literally they want change. All these candidates are running in one way or another on change. We'll hear from a very different candidate tomorrow. While Abdullah Abdullah, who we just heard, spent decades fighting the Soviets and the Taliban, this candidate spent his time outside the country and he absorbed ideas of governance from the West, and that's what he's going to be putting forth as a way to change the country.
INSKEEP: Okay, Renee, we'll be listening. Talk with you tomorrow.
MONTAGNE: Looking forward to it, Steve.
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This is the twelfth edition of our Q&A blog series titled "The Expired Eight". Our aim is to highlight instant film photographers using expired film in a variety of formats. Today's Q&A is with Braca Nadezdic. Nadezdic is a Belgrade/Serbia based commercial and editorial photographer who is regularly commissioned to work on a variety of fine art, advertising, corporate and editorial projects. Connect with Nadezdic on Behance and Flickr!
Tell us about when instant film came into your life and what inspired to you to keep using it:
Instant film appeared in my childhood, all the more important events of family, school, vacations, everything was immortalized by Polaroid film. I'm always with a great deal of delight watching the birth of photography in this small piece of plastic. Over time, Polaroid was replaced by color film and slowly went into oblivion. Most people never even felt when Polaroid completely disappeared from our lives. I think that is a huge loss for everybody who wants to catch the moment. This was followed by years in which I have dealt with professionally photograph, first on film, and digital. 2010. I felt saturation of digital technology andreturned to analogue technology, among them the Polaroid.
How would you describe your work?
My professional work does not have much in common with the work on analogue technology, which includes portraits. Nowadays requires speed, accuracy where unfortunately analogue photography excluded.
How did you decide what subjects to photograph? What sorts of things capture your attention?
It is enough to attract me some gestures on the face, that face has its own story and that's all.
What types of Instant Cameras do you own? Which one is your favorite and why?
I own Polaroid SX-70, Polaroid 350, Polaroid 180 modified with Xenar 135mm for close ups, Polaroid 195, Speed Graphic with Aero Ektar lens for Polaroid 55 and Sinar P8x10 with few very old lenses for Polaroid 8x10. I Don't have favorite camera, how the mood takes me, so I choose a camera.
What attracted you to the 8x10 polaroid format?
Unfortunately, I found Polaroid 8x10 late, but ceased production of the same. The first time I saw Invivo Polaroid 809 at my friend studio and it was love at first sight. I went to looking around the internet and started full refrigerator. Luckily I already got Calumet processor and the game began.
What are the main difficulties and hurdles obtaining and using expired film in this format?
I do not look at it as a difficulty, but as a fun experiment that can almost always pleasantly surprised me. Sometimes I'd like to have a fresh package of 803s or 809, but I am pleased with the sudden sense that I get.
Any tips for those interested in experimenting?
Always overexpose one stop expired 55 or 8x10 to get right exposure. Older film push two stops with no problem. Colors will be shifted because of aging. Don't afraid to lift emulsion on 809. If you want solarize effects on 55, develop for about 10-15 sec, peel apart and then put negative in front of powerful flash, re-flash, leave the negative for a couple of minutes before putting in the water. You will be surprised.
Do you have any instant photographers that inspire you?
Paolo Roversi and Sarah Moon.


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The celebrated American violin virtuoso Elizabeth Pitcairn returns to Glencairn Museum, this year with pianist Louise Thomas. Elizabeth will play the famous Stradivarius for this program and will be signing copies of The Red Violin DVD and various CD recordings, which will be available for purchase.
Their program will include:
Sonata No. 18 in G Major K. 301 (1778) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Allegro con spirito
Sonata in G Minor (1917) by Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Allegro vivo
Intermède: Fantasque et léger
Finale: Très animé
Sonata in F Major (1838) by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Allegro vivace
Assai vivace
La Capricieuse, Op. 17, (1891) by dward Elgar (857-1934)
Flight of the Bumblebe from the opera, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, (1899) by icolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Grand Adagi from the ballet, Raymonda, Op. 57, (1898) by Alexander Glazunov(1865-1936)
La Ronde des lutins, Scherzo fantastique, Op. 25, (185) by Antonio Bazzini (1818-1897)
Artist biographies
American violin soloist Elizabeth Pitcairn made her New York debut at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in 2000 and she has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra. She made debuts at Walt Disney Concert Hall and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. She is the President, CEO and Artistic Director of the Luzerne Music Center Festival, a summer camp for gifted young musicians ages 9 to 18 in the Adirondacks of New York. Originally from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, she resides in Los Angeles. Ms. Pitcairn received her degree from the University of Southern California where she studied with renowned professor Robert Lipsett. Ms. Pitcairn is on faculty at the Colburn School of Performing Arts. The 10th Anniversary edition DVD of The Red Violin film features Ms. Pitcairn and the Red Mendelssohn Stradivarius in a special feature called "The Auction Block".
Irish-born pianist Louise Thomas has concertized extensively throughout Europe, North America and Asia at such concert venues as the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow, the Franz Liszt Academy Museum in Budapest, the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and Weill Hall in New York City. She completed undergraduate musicology studies at Trinity College, Dublin, and later received her doctorate in piano performance in 1999 from USC where she studied with John Perry and director of Keyboard Collaborative Arts, Alan Smith. Dr. Thomas has be awarded various scholarships and prizes, and has been involved in multiple recording projects. Dr. Thomas joined Chapman University in 2001 as Director of Keyboard Collaborative Arts. In June 2014, she was named the Associate Dean for the College of Performing Arts at Chapman.


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Table 1
. Risk factors (RFs) used in this study, their derivation, and the motivation for including them.
Risk RF
Any bird arriving in the ecosystem can potentially carry a strain of influenza from another ecosystem. We quantified immigration conservatively, as the difference between the number of birds observed in a count at time
and a count in the same location at time
. Negative changes (emigration) were entered as zeros. No value for this
exists for the first count session by definition.
Related AIV Risk
Birds can introduce different pathogens from different areas. The local risk (notably for farmers) is therefore related to the type of strains that are likely to be introduced. We defined four movement patterns and ranked them according to the associated risk of introducing different strains of AIV in Chivero-Manyame ecosystem: a) resident species, associated with risk value of 0; b) species nomadic in Southern Africa, associated with a risk value of 1 (HPAI H5N1 has not been recorded in African South of the equator -OIE 2009- but other HP strains have been recorded) or 0 for H5N1 risk; c) Trans-equatorial migrants, with a risk value of 2 as HPAI H5N1 is now endemic in some African countries and outbreaks occurred in 11 countries (OIE 2009); and d) paleartic migrants, associated with a risk value of 3 because of the high number of HPAI H5N1 outbreaks and reported prevalence of LPAI is higher than in Africa(Olsen et al. 2006). For species that evidence several different strategies, as with the wood sandpiper
Tringa glareola
which has both migratory and resident populations (Underhill et al. 1999, Hockey et al. 2005), a mean between the two relevant coefficients was taken.
Total number of bird observed per species, obtained by summing numbers seen during the 60 counts. Note that since only 56 counts were done during the first count session (May 2007), we multiplied the numbers of birds recorded during this session by 60/56 for full comparability.
The degree of intra-species aggregation. Aggregation facilitates pathogen transmission and maintenance in the species. For each species we calculated the average group size observed across all study sites.
The degree of inter-specific aggregation, which facilitates pathogen transmission from one species to another. We estimated the degree of mixing for each species and for each count session as the ratio of the number of species observed on the same sites and at the same time, divided by the total number of species counted during the 60 counts of the count session (total species diversity measured during a count session).
Percentage of juveniles in the population
Juveniles are considered to play a role in the epidemiology of AIV once they have joined the adult population (i.e., after fledging). Juveniles are also thought to remain epidemiologically naïve in the population for about 2 months (Stallknecht et al. 1990b). To capture this risk, we used Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa (Hockey et al. 2005) to provide data on: a) clutch size; b) breeding success; and c) laying dates for the 254 species in the data set. Using a simple population model assuming constant mortality in adults (4,5% per month) and a decreasing mortality in juveniles (starting at 40% in month 1 and reaching 4,5% at 6 months), and integrating the reproductive information, the percentage of juveniles in the population was estimated by month. Incubation and fledging periods were added to determine the delay between egg laying and the entry of juveniles into the population. We considered juveniles for each species to be susceptible to AIV infection based on their naïve immunological status but despite lack of information on susceptibility for most African species.
Feeding habits
Transmission of AIV strains in surface water is possible (Stallknecht et al. 1990a, Brown et al. 2007b), and we identified four feeding behaviors that were ranked according to the risk of birds being infected with AI during their feeding activities. They include: (0) feeding on insects on flight, seeds, nectar or fruits; (1) feeding on birds, small vertebrates, or insects close to water; (2) diving or feeding on insects gleaned from open water; and (3) dabbling, gleaning on or near surface and subsurface vegetation, or probing.


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It's Over!
Glory Glory Hallelujah. And even better, there is virtually no way to contest this win. A clear, solid victory.
I am watching the coverage eager to hear Obama speak, it is sure to be a landmark speech. My God. I really can't believe it. What a long journey this election has been. He has many huge challenges ahead of him; I just hope he can live up to the great expectations we have placed on his shoulders.
We got you the job, President-Elect Obama, now go and do something great.


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2019 Ford Transit Connect From €55 Per Week
Transit Connect
A commercial vehicle needs to be practical and functional. But it doesn't have to look like a 'box on wheels'. That's why the all-new Transit Connect is designed to look and feel good, whether you're inside the cab or standing outside it. With bold, contemporary styling that creates a striking and professional image, this is a van you can also feel proud to park outside your home at the end of every working day
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Dialog Box
The northern phase of the project, which was to connect the Awa Reserve with the Cotacachi Cayapas Ecological Reserve was completed in 2002. This was a significant achievement in international conservation with 30,000 acres bought back and protected.Since 2004 Rainforest Rescue has been supporting the southern phase of the project; to connect the Choco-Darien Rainforest with the Andean Cloud Forests. This phase covers the widest range of habitats with altitudes stretching from 1000m to 3500m.
To date 1761 hectares have been protected.
The Cloud Forests are in grave danger from the constant threat of logging, mining and farming. As a habitat, they are home to an incredible range of animals including jaguars, spectacled bears and many rare birds, but the relentless pace and scale of destruction is edging these animals towards extinction.
Biological corridors are essential to maintain migration of animal and plant species from one area to another and to ensure healthy population levels.


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5-10-5 Stephen Crisp at Winfield House
Hello and can you introduce yourself?
Hello my name is Stephen Crisp, and I am the Head Gardener at Winfield House in Regent's Park, London.
The Arts or Horticulture, which do you feel most associated with?
Probably horticulture, though with an artistic acknowledgement because I see horticulture and gardening as being an art form, but I guess if I had to tick one box it would probably be horticulture.
For those that might not know you, can you please tell us a bit about yourself and your background?
I have been at Winfield House since 1987, in the role of Head Gardener. Prior to that I was at Leeds Castle, as horticulturist for the Leeds Castle Foundation, establishing some new gardens there and working with Russell Page, who was the landscape consultant there in the 1980's. Training and scholarships to Tresco Abbey and Longwood Gardens in the U.S. Also, The Royal Horticultural Society which was a two-year program back at Wisley in 1979 through 1981 and was the first formal education I had in horticulture.
Gardening usually gets into our system at an early age, do you remember your first gardening memory?
My first gardening memory was my grandparents' garden. I grew up living next door to them and my grandfather used to grow chrysanthemums in part of the garden, those big funny lollipop things. They looked like big balls on sticks, which I was intrigued by but couldn't understand what the attraction was. They seemed strange to me because chrysanthemums don't naturally grow like that but he never exhibited them at flower shows though I don't know why. That was my first conscious awareness of gardening as some sort of recreation or vocation rather than people just growing green stuff growing in an open space. The other memory that registered with me as a child was one of my Aunts, who had a tiny garden at the rear of her house, in Winchester, that she lived in. She was always very proud of it with her pocket-handkerchief lawn and a little pool made of concrete with a gnome cemented to the edge of it. There were some geraniums and roses there as well, it was very proper and somehow that always resonated with me too.
Do you remember the first piece of art or a color you were captivated by?
The color is BLUE, always blues! Art was probably William Morris as his museum collection was half a mile away from my child hood home and I spent a lot of time with my face pressed to the glass of cabinets or stroking pieces of furniture when the custodian was not looking!
Who, if anyone, would you consider your mentor?
I was asked this question recently and while there wasn't a specific person, different people have and continue to pass within my orbit and me within theirs. In effect, they become mentors in a passive way, in an inspirational way rather than someone who every time I have a question about horticulture I think I must ask 'so and so'. It's more about influences and people making you aware in thinking something you haven't thought before. There have been certain people who have been generous and pivotal in where I have ended up; probably most significant is Peter Coats. He introduced me to Winfield, as a result of doing an interview with him about a garden that I made at Leeds Castle and he put forward my name to work here (Winfield House). Rosemary Verey was always very generous, as well, and we would often meet or correspond and when I wanted to go to America, she wrote some letters of introduction for me.
Christopher Lloyd partly through looking to him for inspiration rather than entering into frequent dialogue with him because when I was a student I found him an inspirational writer. Visiting Great Dixter was a revelation for me, not so much the first few times I went there, but once Fergus came on board, there was a whole new energy that entered the place, that to me made it, and continues to make it, an inspirational place. Even though Christopher Lloyd is not there now, his spirit is still part of the mentoring process; so, I think its people rather than a person.
How did you come to be the Head Gardener at Winfield House?
It was through Peter Coats, then acting editor at House and Garden Magazine, and I met him about 3 years before I came here, in the mid 80's. He came to write a story about a garden that I had made at Leeds Castle in partnership with Russell Page. Russell was responsible for the ground plan, the path system and the way the space was subdivided, and I did the planting design. Russell used to come along, waving his arms around, not being very specific which led me to just get on with it. Peter Coats came and wrote a story for House and Garden Magazine and we stayed in touch. Occasionally I had lunch with him and he used to live in the Albany, a complex of apartments in Piccadilly, and it was always a bit of a trial because although I would enjoy having lunch with him, the food reminded me of school dinners. These meals were served in a freezing cold dining room, because he was too mean to put the heating on, served by Briggs, his manservant. I think they disliked each other but both relied on the other for their existence, so it was a surreal experience. Peter wrote a book called 'Gardens Around the World' and one of the chapters was about Giverny. He didn't have any images of the water lilies, which I did, and I lent them to him to publish in the book. Consequentially, it seemed to take our friendship onto another level.
When I was thinking about moving on from Leed's Castle, I wrote to Peter, amongst one or two other people, saying, "If you hear of any interesting jobs, I'm in the market." He responded that my predecessor was retiring here at Winfield and they were looking for someone and that I really ought to go and have a look and meet the then Ambassador and his wife, Carol and Charlie Price. That's how it came about and why I think a mentor is important but so are contacts because the best jobs are not often advertised and it's all about that network. A telephone number or an email can completely change the direction of your life, so it is important to make the right impression and get information, so Peter was responsible, ultimately, for me being at Winfield House.
How would you describe a typical at Winfield?
There is no typical day, but it normally starts out with speaking to my assistants and discussing what had been achieved the previous day and what needed to be accomplished for that day or even later in the week. It's quite informal and I rely on them, as much as they on me, to prioritize what needs doing. I water the glasshouses or attend to things that need doing in the house by way of cut flowers. If there is an event on, we get floral decorations ready and the day spins off from there. It's dictated by the weather, the time of year and what other priorities need my attention but no two days, two weeks, or two years seem to ever be the same. There is no typical day really, just consistently busy.
Often, sculpture is used throughout the grounds here at Winfield Place, so what approach do you take to its placement in the garden?
It's the Ambassador and his wife's prerogative of what sculptures appear here and, largely, where it is positioned. Normally, it would be in consultation with the artist and me. Collectively, we decide if something is appropriate and where the most appropriate position might be for it. We have things in the garden by Alexander Calder and Anish Kapoor. There are other pieces here as part of the permanent collection but sculpture must be in context and also that there not be too much of it. Sculpture has to have space to be appreciated, both physically and psychologically. It's a dialogue between those people who are acting as the patron and the artist, with me pointing out things like having to mow around them, vehicles needing to pass by, so practical considerations as well as an aesthetic point of view.
What qualities do you deem most important when looking for a gardener?
Passion, empathy, training, experience, creativity, sensitivity, generosity, and other qualities besides those listed, in varying proportions. There are good gardeners who are practical horticulturists who practice the craft with knowing how high to cut a lawn, when to cut a hedge, what action is needed to keep a plant alive, healthy and thriving and sometimes that is combined with an aesthetic appreciation and sensibility but not always and you don't necessarily need that with everybody. If you have a team of people, it is superb if different team members bring different qualities to the collective good. If you hate cutting grass and someone else loves it, then clearly the person who loves it is a valuable team member for dealing with that aspect of the responsibility, or if someone hates planting, staking or deadheading, they will do the job but not as well as someone who enjoys those more fiddly dexterous tasks. I think you have to try and guide the individual towards the task that best suits their skill characters and a combination of those things you sometimes find in an individual. You have to identify those qualities, using them best within the operation that you're looking after.
How does the collecting of art and objects intertwine and influence the way you garden?
I am not sure if there's a direct connection but a reflection of ones psychology or psychiatry that you feel the desire to surround yourself with objects reflecting different periods and styles, from the 19th through to the 21st Century. I collect contemporary art, 19th century things, and many other objects between but, for me, they are touchstones with the past. It affects the way I garden because you can't take things forward unless you learn the lessons by looking backwards. If you make a new garden, it's important to understand what came before.
You can take inspiration for design from what has happened in the past, depending on your interpretation of it but these things, through osmosis, have an effect on the way that you see the world. Good gardening is about seeing the world through a particular lens, it's not purely about the culture of plants, and it's about the context within which they are growing. Beth Chatto once wrote something along the lines of 'People that just think about gardens, who live, eat and breathe plants are boring. I am interested in meeting people that are interested in art and literature as well as horticulture…" She felt, and I have to agree with her, that it makes for a more rounded individual, who has a more rounded view of the world and I believe this to be absolutely true, being aware of all of these different things.
Over the course of the next few years, in what direction do you see horticulture heading?
Gardening with fewer resources and more in tune with the natural environment with sustainability being the keystone that is driving the design or the conception of new gardens, achieving more with less and with a lesser impact on the environment. Maybe the Sheffield School of Horticulture using pictorial or sustainable meadows, not necessarily native meadows, there is a way of creating big, bold, colorful statements without any need to raise plant materials in nurseries or under glass, which takes energy to achieve. The general public's perception of open spaces and gardens and what's expected from them is also changing, with us not necessarily needing to see beds full of roses, carpet bedding or even short mown grass. People are happy, comfortable and just enjoy being in green spaces. This is probably the direction that I think things will go because it all helps when you are trying to run an open space with fewer resources whether it is people, money, or even physical materials.
Who or what is inspiring you in horticulture these days?
I think people, individuals and I'm inspired by good design. If visiting a country or city, I would visit the botanical gardens but it would be the last place I would choose to see because it's a collection of plant material, which is important, but the design is not always particularly inspiring. I could be inspired by the plantings on a municipal roundabout or a median strip down the middle of the road, if it was done creatively and originally. What's recognized as being a traditional garden in a traditional context, the way the paving materials or lighting, or water, all used in original ways, are things I find exciting. There are some interesting things going on in the re-design of public spaces. Often gardeners think they can only draw something that is relevant to them in a traditional setting when there are so many different things that you pass through or pass by in everyday life, or in public spaces, that can still teach us lessons about the way a space or situation can be handled.
Do you have a favorite art period or artist that you tend to gravitate towards?
Increasingly, I'm drawn to contemporary art, I don't really consider an unmade bed or a pile of bricks to be a work of art, but there are a lot of really cool contemporary artists around that do interesting work on paper or with sculpture. I like being in a broad church of art, artists and mediums. Sometimes I like something that one artist does, who does one sort of genre and then there are other works they will do that I just don't get. It has been interesting working at Winfield with the changing art collection in the house, from one administration to another, and how working around contemporary art has changed my appreciation of and has broadened my mind to what constitutes art, a privilege but also part of ones personal development. 20 years ago the majority of the population was into figurative art forms and anything a bit 'off the wall' was considered nuts but there are many amazingly dynamic artists around.
Grayson Perry, to me, is one of the most amazing artists in the way that he sees the world. He makes these ceramics and tapestries that somehow encapsulate the 'Now', which will be important in art history because people will look at what he made at the beginning of the 21st Century and see that as being representative of these times. Brigitte Riley's work too, she is an amazing woman in her early 80's, still dynamic and interested in exploring art forms and new ideas that she was at the forefront of inventing back in the 1960's. Here she is 50 years later with the same enthusiasm and energy for exploring color, the way it makes you feel, the mood it can create and the relationships with one color to another. Being around people like that energizes me. Seeing what people like Gilbert and George do, who also confront issues and events that are happening, and who then incorporate them into the work that they do. I can appreciate a Rembrandt, a Van Gogh or anything else, but you have this choice to feast on all of these different things and that is the luxury of living in a civilized culture, isn't it really?
What organizations do you find are a great source for helping and educating people interested in pursuing horticulture?
You need to try all the nationally recognized organizations, the RHS, the National Trust, the English Heritage, and the botanical gardens. Perhaps after getting a general education in horticulture, you need to try and figure out which part of the field that you are passionate about and want to work in, whether it's the nursery industry, maintenance, design, or retail. Once you establish which you think your niche is going to be, and then target individuals or organizations that might offer advice, mentor you or offer an employment opportunity. It's important to not be too general and to start focusing in a direction otherwise you bounce around all these opportunities and the Internet has transformed the possibilities of gaining information in a way that never previously existed. If you are passionate, do a bit of research, find out who's doing what, who might offer employment, and how to train to do it, that's the reality of it.
What garden public or private inspires you?
This is cliché, but I always enjoy going back to Great Dixter and seeing what is being done there. I said to Fergus recently that coming to Dixter is like having a dose of horticultural adrenaline. Dixter works for me, but that's more about plants and vignettes. On a bigger palette, it's the sort of things that Kim Wilkie, Tom Stuart Smith, Piet Oudolf and Dan Pearson are doing. It's exciting to see, to learn, to read, and to discuss what those people are doing, to learn from their experience and know what their inspiration was during that project. I try to find the opportunity to visit other gardens often, they don't have to be grand gardens, they can be open for The National Gardens scheme, or modest private gardens and unfortunately a lot of working gardeners don't this. Sadly, I meet colleagues and ask if they have been to any interesting gardens recently and usually they say they haven't had the time.
It's important to make time because it's part of one's continuing education to do that, to see what other people are doing, to see what they are up to, to learn the lessons both good or bad. I see a couple of gardens a month and they might not be the scale of Blenheim Palace or Sissinghurst but even a casual observation of a garden wall is an education. I make a deliberate target of trying to visit one or two spaces every month, gardens that I might already know and seeing them at different times of year. So much can be learned through constructive observation; it might be the way someone stakes something, strikes a cutting, or deals with weeds, the public, or deals with interpretation. All of these things you can learn at all different levels of horticulture. Also, going to a couple of lectures or conferences a year helps. I go to a lot of the lectures at the Garden Museum, more than one a month on average. I am signed up for Society of Garden Designers conference this autumn and though I am not a full time garden designer, it's important to know what other people are doing, drawing lessons from them. There are things going on in London all the time so find the time, make the time, and organize the time so you can get to these functions and continue to educate yourself.
If you had to choose one plant and one piece of art to accompany you on a deserted island, what would you choose?
Odd question….. Probably the plant would be Rosa glauca because you are able to have flowers, fruit, autumn color and it never seems to be affected by pests or disease. As for a piece of art, it would be an Alexander Calder mobile because you would have the different light of the day, or the breeze to turn it and it would always be changing, moving. Always familiar but different depending on the providing conditions.
What would your idea of a dream project be?
A new garden, and in the past I would have said a private house but that almost seems too exclusive now, so to be democratic, a landscape around a public building, with either a gallery or a museum, as its focus. I would make a garden around that and have it be a reflection of the architecture; if it were a modernist building I'd take a modernist approach to the scheme, because it is important that the landscape has some reference to the building that it's adjacent to or surrounding.
What creative outlets do you often turn to for sparking ideas?
Books and people are my creative outlets. If I'm working on a design I'll invariably browse books, flicking through pages, with a notepad or post-it notes to back reference. Sometimes when you are trying to flesh out the details you get to this point where your brain is not coming up with any new ideas or lacking inspiration, so by browsing books I find that helps. If I have no idea then I browse books anyway, depending on the challenge. If it's a border then I might approach certain books or if it's a contemporary challenge, there are certain designers or books that I will gravitate towards. Sometimes it's things; I have come up with ideas for organization of space through patterns. I remember I did a huge herb garden in the Ashdown forest, on a hillside and the inspiration for the design was from seeing an image of lavender in Provence. There were contour lines because of the landscape, the way it was striping down, and then I found a piece of fabric with a design that was doing a similar thing, and those two images became the catalyst for the approach to the design of the herb garden. The rows of planting were almost like contour lines on the hillside that had an organic feeling but that was the germ of the idea. Another time, an art deco ashtray inspired the design of an ornamental pool. If you get stuck, speak to people, and say, 'I'm up against a brick wall here, what do you think of this?' Critical analysis is important with what you're doing because otherwise your vision can become a bit myopic in what is or isn't right. That's why or how a studio practice has great strength because when the lead designer surrounds themselves with other colleagues who they respect, they can bounce ideas off of each other resulting in a richer end product.
Any last words of wisdom that you care to share with others?
Always look , listen and learn
Thank you Stephen, it was a pleasure to interview you and have a chance to let us see into your world.


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NOW comes the time to close the show on 2016. Our last show of this lovely (for us – and hideous for our nation and civility in general) year makes for our first show after the great Secret Acres schism. Barry Matthews serves as your soul proprietor at this year's Comic Arts Brooklyn. We picked a good one for him, as CAB is now, and has always been, a breeze for us. Allow us to shower Desert Island's Gabe Fowler with our praise for keeping the comic book ball rolling in Brooklyn and for keeping us on the CAB floor. Thanks, Gabe!
The other, husky half of Secret Acres relocated to the best coast, Los Angeles, a scant few days ago. Please enjoy his LA report:
Sunny. 72°.
In lieu of Leon, we offer you the return of the previously relocated to Louisville, Brooklyn's own Sean Ford. He of Only Skin fame returns to his former hometown with a fresh ish of his new series, Shadow Hills. Trust us, Sean will be just as happy to see you as you will be to see him. You can take the boy out of Brooklyn, etc. Seeing as we haven't even read Shadow Hills 9 yet, you surely need that one, too.
Local hero Brendan Leach, maker of Iron Bound, cabs it over to CAB early. He brings his latest, if not greatest: the brand new, hardcover, over-sized edition of Pterodactyl Hunters in the Gilded City. We know you like to sleep in, Brooklyn, but get there circa brunch time for Brendan because he's got to teach the children of Montclair, New Jersey or something, a thing or two about comics in the afternoon.
We saved the best for last. Robert Sergel, the man from SPACE: An Eschew Collection rolls in from Beantown (okay, Cambridge) for CAB. We love Rob, obvi, and we have loved Eschew for the longest, and it fits that our first book of the year, SPACE, and Rob are showing up for our last shindig. SPACE showed up on more than a few Best of 2016 lists, so ICYMI, come get yours from Rob himself.
Also from the ICYMI files, the other Rob, meaning the nicest guy in comics, Rob Clough (who had some kind words for Rob Sergel's SPACE) can now call first with his reviews of our last books of the year, namely the aforementioned Pterodactyl Hunters in the Gilded City and the Order of Things, from Reid Psaltis. Alas, Reid is back in Portland, Oregon, but read all about his debut on High-Low. Congrats on your first review, Reid! It's a winner. Thanks again, Rob!
We'll see you, Brooklyn, at the CAB show, and we'll be back here in a week with a peak at 2017…
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CMC releases evaluation of Taser use in Queensland — 28.04.2011
A Crime and Misconduct Commission evaluation of Taser use by the Queensland Police Service has found there is no evidence of widespread misuse, but further improvements are still required.
Deputy Director, Research, Dr Rebecca Denning, says the CMC was required to evaluate the implementation and effects of 27 recommendations arising from a joint QPS-CMC review in 2009 following the death of a man in north Queensland who was tasered.
'So far, 24 of the 27 recommendations surrounding Taser policy and practices have been implemented and we are seeing signs of some improvement,' Dr Denning said.
'The frequency of Taser uses decreased considerably when the revised policy was introduced in September 2009, and we saw some reduction in the proportion of people who were the target of multiple or prolonged Taser discharges.
'There was also a noticeable decrease in Taser deployments against handcuffed people and the Taser usage data indicated there was no mission creep in terms of officers using Tasers in less serious situations.'
However, according to Dr Denning there is still need for improvement.
'Taser deployments since the introduction of the revised policy were generally more likely than before to involve a person suspected of having an underlying mental or physical health condition,' Dr Denning said.
'This is despite the revised policy highlighting the possible risks of Taser use against people in potentially 'at-risk' groups.
'Additionally, we would like to see a further reduction in the number of people who are the targets of multiple or prolonged Taser discharges.
The CMC report also raises concerns that over 20 per cent of Taser uses were targeted at Indigenous people. They are more likely to suffer from illnesses such as heart and lung disease placing them at greater risk of harm from Taser deployments.
Dr Denning said that public interest in the use of Tasers remained high.
'The community as well as the CMC wants to see high standards in how Queensland police use Tasers,' Dr Denning said.
'This evaluation, based primarily on QPS data, will provide a baseline against which we will continue to monitor the use of Tasers.
'Our next review, which will focus on the key issues identified in our report, will gather information from a wider range of stakeholders and commence by the end of 2011. We also await the outcomes of the inquest into the death of Antonio Carmelo Galeano.'
The CMC has made 21 recommendations which focus on further changes to policy and practices, including improved monitoring of Taser use by the QPS.
Read more about the CMC evaluation of Tasers reforms.
For further information contact:
Shelley Thomas, Communications Officer
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Leanne Hardyman, Media Adviser
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We are a team of creatives who live and work around the Ocean.
The Ocean is our source of inspiration.
Who We Are
We are a team of creatives who live and work around the Ocean.
We are a team of creatives who live and work around the Ocean.
The Ocean is our source of inspiration.
Dani Marti is a creative designer originally from Barcelona who currently lives in between Malibu and Maui.
He started designing as a hobby when he was teenager. His Dad after working as Art Director for a couple of decades in one of the largest Advertising Agencies in Barcelona, changed his Professional career to become a Freelancer.
It was a that moment when Dani Marti started to learn and work from his father, meanwhile was finishing his studies in High School and started studying Business Management in College. Years later he decided to focus on his creative career and took several courses on Computer Design and Development. Until his teacher hired him to work in a Digital Advertising Company.
He started off working in advertising agencies and design studios in Barcelona in 2002. Some years later he took advantage of all that experience, and set up on his own studio in 2007, until creating with Guillem their small business called Bajo El Cocotero in 2010. In 2014 Dani Marti moved to the beautiful island of Maui and stablished a new company under the name of Creative by the Sea. Two years later Creative by the Sea is headquartered in Malibu with a second location in Maui.
In 1998 Guillem started working at a software development company with a web-based platform after having completed high-level programming and systems analysis. Netscape fought with Internet Explorer, featuring DHTML and the creation of dynamic web pages became popular thanks to JSP, ASP and PHP3. After several years working freelance and gaining experience from the various companies he worked for specializing in web programming, he decided to work go out on his own. Collaborating with Dani Marti during this time, they decided to create Bajo el Cocotero. Nowadays Bajo el Cocotero is the Spanish branch of Creative by the Sea.