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Feeling Lucky Leprechaun Finger Puppet…and giveaway!March 08, 2012, 10:01 am Posted by Lark
By the time St. Patrick's Day rolls around each year (especially after a rough winter), I am ready to bring on the green! Bring on the tulips, the first buds on the trees, the songbirds…. and this little leprechaun finger puppet, made by Cathy Gaubert and featured in Heart-Felt Holidays.
Download the project instructions here: Leprechaun Finger Puppet
Even better, enter for a chance to win a signed copy of Heart-Felt Holidays and a prize pack of felt – perfect for leprechaun crafting! – from our good friends at Felt on the Fly (thanks so much, Janet!).
To enter, please leave a comment on this post by 9 p.m. EST on Monday, March 12. Any comment is fine, though we'd love to hear why you like working with felt or about a favorite felt creation you've made. One winner will be selected at random from among all eligible entries and notified by Tuesday, March 13. Click here for the official rules.
This giveaway is now closed! Thanks to everyone who left a comment…. the winner will be announced shortly!


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Lucinda DEVLIN
Pleasure Ground
April - May 11, 2002
Following its presentation of 'The Omega Suites' by American photographer Lucinda Devlin, which inaugurated the gallery in September 2000 and went on to win international acclaim at last year's Venice Biennial, Paul Rodgers/9W is pleased to announce an exhibition of images from the artist's 'Pleasure Ground' series.
'Pleasure Ground' broadens and enlarges our understanding of Devlin's photography and reveals her as a mature artist of compelling interest. It was in 'Pleasure Ground', begun in the late 1970's and continued to the present, that the artist laid out the specifically American subject matter of her work and developed her unique point of view on contemporary architectural photography, which compares and contrasts in such interesting fashion with her international peers in the genre.
'Pleasure Ground' consists of interiors drawn from the American leisure industry, from indoor sports facilities, tanning salons, the sex trade, fantasy motels and nightclubs. With the earliest dating from 1977, they already bear historic witness to the social and aesthetic conceptions of an earlier day and generation. This may partly explain how they distinguish themselves from the more explicit and sensationalistic treatment of these themes in so much current photography. However, this anti-sensationalistic and anti-spectacular aesthetic is the hallmark of Devlin's work. What Devlin is really intent on doing is setting up a distance between the image and the viewer in order to allow a reflective dimension to enter our minds. As always with Devlin, the human subject is absent from these photographs and yet its pregnant presence is felt everywhere. These images land their punch as we realize that Devlin's true subject is the limits of a society's imagination, namely our own.
The exhibition will present 22 images of 'Pleasure Ground'. The photographs are chromogenic color prints and will be available in 19 1/2 inch by 19 1/2 inch format, with selected images available in a 29 1/2 inch by 29 1/2 inch format.
Lucinda Devlin's 'Omega Suites' are currently being exhibited in numerous international museum exhibitions and most recently closed at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona. Her 'Pleasure Ground' will first be presented to the international artworld at this year's São Paulo Biennial, opening this month of March.
For more information, please contact the gallery by phone at 212 414 9810 or by email at email@example.com

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Sangha Studio: Yoga, Ayurveda + Shoppe
215 W Commercial Street
The Long Time Gong Players present the 4th Annual Mega Gong Immersion. 15 gong masters playing very large gongs for an entire evening of healing sounds. 2 hours of non-stop gong playing. No exercises. Just relax and receive. Bring your family, your pillows, blankets, bolster and mats.
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Rixie will lead you through the 12 Steps of Recovery using body-mind-heart tools of exploration, including the chakras, meditations, journaling, and mindfulness exercises, all in a safe, quiet environment with like-minded folks like you. She has created an afternoon to explore parts of the self, for anyone in recovery and/or addicted to food, gambling, technology, work, or anything else that pulls you away from peaceful rest.
Rixie's 25 years of sobriety and 18 years of teaching yoga inform her compelling wisdom and teaching. "When I first attended a yoga class," she says, "I was not aware that I had become numb to many aspects of myself. Attending meetings was addressing the self examination that I needed, AND the yoga classes were also teaching me about the physical body, energy body, emotional body. We are holistic by nature. By combining my recovery with yoga, I healed from the inside out. A-mazing."
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Hi KICKSTARTER! Thanks for checking out LUMI. We hope you support our project and help this idea come to life!
LUMI is a sleep mask that simulates sunrise. The idea came from combining two familiar sleep products (sleep masks and sunrise clocks) that can't be used in tandem.
What is LUMI?
It started with a problem. I loved waking up with sunlight coming through my blinds. But at night, with my blinds open, light kept me from falling asleep. Using a sleep mask helped block the light, but eliminated being able to wake with sunlight. I got to thinking, "Wouldn't it be great to have a solution for blocking out light AND waking with sunlight?"
LUMI is my solution. LUMI, like traditional sleep masks, blocks out light. But, In the morning, a light unit inside the mask simulates a sunrise 30 minutes before you wake, leaving you feeling refreshed and energized.
How does LUMI work?
Our bodies are designed to sleep in darkness and wake with sunlight. Darkness triggers our brain to produce a sleep cue, melatonin, to help fall asleep. Tiny amounts of light disrupt this cue. LUMI blocks out light, helping you fall asleep with ease. Sunlight aligns our daily rhythms and activates our metabolism so we wake easily, with more attention and energy. LUMI's light stimulates the mind and prepares your body for the day.
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Before sleep, dial in your wake-up time on the alarm controller. Put LUMI on, and fall asleep. In the morning, 30 minutes before your wake-up time, LUMI's soft light gradually grows brighter. If your alarm is at 7 am, the light will gradually brighten beginning at 6:30. An audible alarm sounds at the end of the sunrise sequence, letting you know it's time to start the day.
So why LUMI?
Most of our sleep benefits come from optimizing our dark and light cues. LUMI is an effective way to finally sync the two. As the world's first dual function sleep mask, LUMI provides a solution to a problem. But it's more than just getting great sleep. LUMI provides you with more attention. And we believe when you have more attention, you can focus on doing more of the things that are important to you.
LUMI is molded from soft neoprene foam, forming an eye cavity to allow for normal blinking and circulation. An adjustable strap allows you to comfortably adjust the mask to fit your face. LUMI's lightweight design comfortably conforms to your face and the interior is made from soft satin fabric. LED substrate is affixed to the inside of the mask, providing a soft light source for the sunrise sequence.
An alarm controller allows you to set your wake-up time and the light intensity.
We are designing LUMI to be compatible with the iPhone and other mobile devices. The LUMI+ model has a receiver that will allow you to set your wake up time from your mobile device. We'll keep you updated on our progress.
So, here is where you come in.
Kickstarter is significantly improving the process for product development, allowing people like me to realize my dream. Designing products is a very involved process, especially with manufacturing and distributing. If you believe in the power of individuals bringing ideas to life, we want you to be part of LUMI's story.
We hope that you are inspired by LUMI and choose to support our project. Please help us share the word and tell your friends about what we're doing!
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A long wait will finally come to an end when athlete Mari Smith pulls on the Great Britain vest for the first time later this month.
Smith heads to the European Cross Country Championships with a high-calibre GB junior team after a brilliant performance in the British Cross Challenge.
With a top five finish guaranteeing selection, the Frisby runner finished fourth in the under 20s race at Liverpool, an event which doubled as the European trials.
The only girls to beat Smith to the line were current junior internationals Bobby Clay, Harriett Knowles-Jones and Amy Griffiths.
She said: "I'm really excited. I've been waiting for a long time to get my first GB vest so it's a big deal for me.
"I'm running really strongly at the minute; I don't think I've ever been fitter."
The 19-year-old puts her blistering form down to a change in scenery since leaving the Wreake Valley for student life at the University of Birmingham.
Just before the European trials, she finished an excellent third at the Birmingham Senior Women's League behind two senior internationals including Commonwealth Games finalist Jessica Judd.
"I really enjoy training here at uni and think I just needed a change from home," Smith added.
"I got too much into the same routine and since I came back from injury and illness I just needed a fresh start.
"The group is bigger here and there is always someone to train with whereas at home it could be one or two or on your own."
The Europeans, to be held in Toulon, will be a big step-up from Smith's previous national experience when she ran for England Schools three years ago.
She joins a British team strongly touted for medals. Clay pipped Griffiths to the European junior 1500m crown this year, while Knowles-Jones was fourth over the same distance at the World Youth Championships.
But having waited for so long for her chance, Smith is determined to approach race day in the south of France, on Sunday, December 13, with no targets in mind.
"I'm just going to enjoy it," she said. "I'm loving training and everything again and I'm really fit at the moment so I should feel strong in the race.
"I was put off cross country when I wasn't very well, but now I'm better and a lot more confident than last year."
But her coach Bill Winters is confident his student could earn more opportunities to wear the red, white and blue.
"The likelihood is our junior women are so powerful as a unit, the GB team will certainly get a medal, and probably win gold," he said.
"Hopefully she well compete well and should also be picked for the GB team for the Great Edinburgh Cross Country against the USA and Europe in January."


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Website: http://www.sanderum.co.uk/
In IE7/8 the right-hand column on every page shifts down to the bottom left of the page when the text is zoomed (CTRL+).
Can anything be done to fix the columns into the correct alignment for zooming?
Thanks in advance for any feedback,
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The issue is not with the zooming. If you were to resize the browser window to somewhere less than 1135px wide, the right content will be pushed down.
The difference is IE pushed it to the extreme left while FF pushed it to beneath the middle content. Reason being you floated both 3 elements to left and the left most navbar is 'taller' than the middle one in FF but not IE. The left-stacking caused the right-side content to go below left-side nav bar in IE.
Screenshot of IE8 - No Zoom
Screenshot of FF3.6 - No Zoom
(Note the position of the blue outline with respect to the left nav bar)
I'm not sure if it is your intention for such stacking behaviour/layout. If not, you will need to enforce a minimal width for the wrapper DIV (enclosing "content' and 'rightcontent' DIVs) to say
min-width: 1135px and the 3 will be stacked side by side regardless of zooming (except zooming by text only).
This is a common "problem" when using float based designs, and is commonly called "float-dropping". When the boxes/columns expand to fit the containing content sooner or later there won't be enough space for all the horizontally stacked columns.
You could consider using em-units for layout so that the columns are expandable. Combined with at max-width (so that the content doesn't get bigger than) it could be a nice solution. 456bereastreet use this solution.
Thanks for the fast response guys. The min-width of 1135 on the wrapper seemed to fix it.
- Be careful using min-width. Not supported by all browsers such as IE 6.


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I know what you're thinking, who uses clipboards anymore in this digital age? Well, I suppose I can be a little old school because I still like my to-do lists and schedules to be on paper. A few weeks ago I purchased a pretty and helpful organizational template from Brim Papery. I liked everything about it especially the "Today's Truth" section, but I didn't like that there wasn't a hard back for ease of writing. If you're anything like me you might be writing your to-do list in bed to plan out the next day or you're all around the house running in and out trying to check things off. Therefore I needed a clipboard. And a cute one (obviously). So I purchased just a regular old clipboard from Target for $1.50 and used some supplies I had around the house to spruce it up!
What you'll need: A clipboard, Washi Tape, Mod Podge, White spray paint.
1. First I covered the clip with painters tape & then sprayed the entire board, front and back, with the white spray paint.
2. After the board was dry, I wrapped the Washi tape around the board, also front and back, using various spacing and patterns.
3. I painted on the Mod Podge to seal the Washi tape on there for good.
And here's the finished product! It works perfectly for my to-do list print and matches some of my other supplies. What more could an organization-freak ask for? :)
If you're going to try this DIY let me know and I'd love to see your finished product!


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Hello and welcome to the Basement... and the RAW VIEW...
We got a few topics to talk about before going over this week's episode of RAW...
Adam Rose was granted his release, though I expected that he would've been let go in the near future anyway considering the melt down he had following his suspension and the domestic dispute he had recently. I don't see him returning to the WWE anytime soon, but he could go to TNA and reinvent himself there the way Derrick Batman did as Ethan Carter III... I don't see him landing in Ring of Honor... they don't treat guys who know what they are doing well, just ask Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin after Jim Cornette left...
There are reports that there may be a Women's Money in the Bank ladder match at the Money in the Bank event next month… and… I'm kind of for it. To the best of my knowledge there has never been a Women's ladder match in the WWE, and this would be a first. For those of you who may not know (which is probably a couple of folks), a Money in the Bank ladder match has about 6 competitors trying to climb a ladder to retrieve a briefcase which contains a contract allowing them to have a title match any time and any place they choose (most often when the reigning champion is at a disadvantage), they are proverbial car-wreck matches, with a lot of high risk spots or stunts done to wow the crowd. It would certainly raise the bar, and if Sasha Banks is healthy, she would seem like a logical person to win.
POP TV President Bradley Schwartz (why is it nearly every TV executive is named Schwartz?) ended speculation about TNA's future for the time being, saying the show will still be on their network come the fall. He is also quoted as saying that Dixie Carter knows wrestling, which is an out right lie. The real question is will TNA even be around come September with all its financial problems. And to top it off… more people watched a two-hour replay of last week's RAW last Friday on SyFy than watched Impact.
George the Animal Steele has apparently fallen ill, I had the pleasure of meeting the Hall of Famer several years back, and he's one of the kindest folks one could meet. Hopefully he gets well.
On this day in wrestling history, Owen Hart was victimized by Vince Russo who at the last minute put in a spot for him to descend from the rafters at the 1999 Over the Edge Pay-Per-View. Basically, it was this day that wrestling went to far with the hot-shoting, because it cost someone their life. That pay-per-view was actually the first I paid for (out of my own allowance) and that was something you don't forget. So to Vince Russo, screw you pal.
As far as Owen himself goes, I can't say that I was a fan of his, he was good, there's no question about it, but I never really bought him of being at the same level as his brother Bret. He did have several memorable spots with the WWE and while he was never the 'guy', he certainly could work with 'the guy' to have quality performances, regardless of who it maybe. He had a role and did his job well. Which is something that guys today need to realize. Amazing how it comes back to that.
And finally… tonight's episode of RAW, first the positives. I was disappointed they went with Seth Rollins being a heel considering the reactions he got, but we did get it confirm that he'll face Roman Reigns and we got a number of qualifying matches to set up things at the Money in the Bank event next month. Those involved with the match include Sami Zayn, Cesaro, Chris Jericho, Dean Ambrose, Kevin Owens, I just love that Bob Backlund just buries Darren Young week in week out with the Make Him Great segments. Also Enzo Amore was back with Big Cass this week, addressing his concussion and joining the revived feud with the Dudleys, with Big Cass getting a win over Bubba. And Charlotte's 'state of Women's Championship' segment was decent as it continued to get her over as a heel, establishing Dana as her 'Double A' an her FINALLY kicking Ric Flair to the curb. Plus the Baron Corbin / Dolph Ziggler story will continue thanks to the backstage segment, while on SmackDown Cesaro will get a shot at Miz's Intercontinental title thanks to his victory tonight over him.
Couple of things that that did tick me off was Apollo Crews no-selling an attack my Sheamus which was clearly to set up a story between the two. The now Adam Rose'less Social Outcasts ambushed the New Day while they were wasting time, but the attack was pointless as the New Day just ate them up in a six-man tag where the Social Outcasts got NO offense in. And then there was AJ Styles being forced to say Roman Reigns is 'The Man', and one of the better men he has been in the ring with… well that's a real indictment of guys like Jeff Jarrett, Kurt Angle and Christian… and the rather pointless dissolving of the Club… and the facy that Rusev, despite being the new US Champion wasn't on RAW tonight. But he will be defending the title
So that will do it for this week, tomorrow night... LET'S PLAY STAR TREK ONLINE!


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At Vienna Family Dentistry, we have a dedicated team of staff to provide you with the best care in dentistry. Our doctors and staff frequently travel the country to seek out the most renowned continuing education courses available to stay on the cutting edge of technology and provide the highest quality of care to our patients.
Meet Our Doctors
Dr. Paul Racine
Dr. Racine grew up in Flint and Grand Blanc, the 4th in a family of 6 children. He was a part of the first class to graduate from Powers Catholic High School. Dr. Racine didn't always know he wanted to be a dentist. In fact, at one point after high school, he thought about a life in the priesthood and studied at Thomas Aquinas University in Rome, Italy. He returned to America and attended the University of Michigan-Flint where he received a degree in Biology, and continued on to Ann Arbor to graduate from the University of Michigan Dental School in 1983. He practiced in Flint for 4 years before joining Dr. Gregory Peacock in Clio in 1987, and has loved it here ever since! He is caring, kind, and compassionate and his love for dentistry shows in the great practice and staff he has attained over the years.
Dr. Racine's passion for dentistry is reflected in his constant drive to further his education. He has completed over 2,500 hours of continuing education with particular emphasis on Prosthodontics, Sedation, Occlusion, Cosmetic and Implant Dentistry. He has also completed two mini-residencies in Implant Dentistry and has performed implant procedures since 1990. He is an active member of the American Dental Association, the Academy of General Dentistry, and the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology. Dr. Racine also attained a Mastership in the Academy of General Dentistry, a Fellowship from the International Congress of Oral Implantologists, and a Mastership in the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology. He has been a research associate with the University of Michigan and a member of the Peer Review Committee for the Genesee District Dental Society.
Dr. Racine has a full life outside of work as well! He and his wife Sandy have been married for 34 years and stay active keeping up with their five children in Austin, TX, Cleveland, OH, Grand Rapids, MI and East Lansing, MI. Dr. Racine and Sandy are excited for the arrival of their very first grandchild sometime in April 2019! Outside of work, Dr. Racine's hobbies include swimming, biking, kayaking, cross-country skiing, and a general interest in liberal arts. He loves spending time up north with his family and having a good time.
Dr. Kenneth Ackley
Dr. Ackley was born and raised in Owosso, Michigan and is the youngest of three children. After he graduated from Owosso High School, he studied at Michigan State University where he earned a B.S in Landscape Design. He worked for a short time in the landscape field before realizing he wanted to pursue a career in dentistry, so the University of Michigan School of Dentistry it was! While in dental school, he did some landscape design work on his breaks and did a design for Dr. Racine's office. Dr. Ackley graduated in 2005 and has been practicing with Dr. Racine for thirteen years. He splits his time between Vienna Family Dentistry and his practice in Lansing. Dr. Ackley loves dentistry and providing excellent care to his patients! He is a member of the American Dental Association, Michigan Dental Association, and the Genesee District Dental Society. Dr. Ackley attends many continuing education courses to further his dental skills and knowledge. He loves to learn new things, and is very interested in business. He even recently became a partner in a glass business in Owosso.
Dr. Ackley has been married for 19 years to his wife Patty. They have three children-Jake, Lily, and Eden. He is dedicated to his kids' activities and tries to attend each one of them. Currently, he is coaching his youngest son's youth baseball team. In his free time, he likes to read, kayak, cook, fish, and watch Tiger baseball & college football. Most of all, Dr. Ackley enjoys spending time with his family and vacationing in Northern Michigan!
Dr. Nermine Shehata
Dr. Nermine Shehata is from Grand Blanc, and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan. She continued her education at Midwestern University, receiving her D.M.D. After 4 wonderful years in Arizona, Dr. Shehata returned to her home state and completed her residency at the University of Detroit Mercy in Advanced Education in General Dentistry.
Dr. Shehata practices all aspects of general dentistry,with special interests in implant restoration, cosmetic, and pediatric dentistry. She has completed numerous hours of continuing education and is constantly expanding her knowledge and staying current with new technology and techniques.
Dr. Shehata and her husband have two young sons, Jacob and Andrew, and in May of 2018, they welcomed their daughter Alaina. During her spare time she enjoys time outdoors and traveling.
Dr. Richard J. Resler, Jr.
Dr. Resler is a Board Certified Orthodontist, and is licensed by the State of Michigan as a specialist in the dental practice of orthodontics. Dr. Resler is a graduate of Michigan State University, where he received a Bachelors of Science Degree. He then continued on to the Medical University of South Carolina and earned his Doctorate Degree in Dentistry. The final part of Dr. Resler's education was three years of intense training in the specialty of Orthodontics at Temple University. He was ultimately granted his Masters of Science Degree in Oral Biology and his Certificate in Orthodontics.
Dr. Resler has an established practice in Saginaw, Michigan where he works alongside of his father, Dr. Richard Resler Sr., and his wife, Dr. Tracie Resler. He joined the practice of Drs. Racine and Ackley in 2007. He currently resides in Saginaw, where he enjoys golf, biking, and spending quality time with his family.
Dr. Kelly Misch
Dr. Misch received her B.S. in Nutritional Sciences from Michigan State University and continued on to receive her D.D.S and M.S in Periodontics from the University of Michigan. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology, a Diplomate of the International Congress of Oral Implantology, a Fellow & Faculty of the Misch International Implant Institute, and a Recognized Kois Center Specialist. She is currently the President of the Russell Bunting Periodontal Society and an active member of many dental organizations. Dr. Misch is a Dean's Faculty in the Periodontal Department at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry. She has written publications in reputable periodontal and implant journals, as well as lectures on topics such as implants, surgical complications, bone grafting, etc. She has received numerous awards including Dr. & Mrs. Gerald Kramer Award for Excellence (2008 nominee), the Billy A. Smith Patient Rapport Award (2007), the Academy of Osseointegration Outstanding Dental Student Award in Implant Dentistry (2005) and the Russell Bunting Periodontal Study Club Award (2005). Dr. Misch is married and mom of three busy boys! In her spare time she enjoys running, reading and spending time with her family.
Meet Our Staff
Angela- Office Manager
Kecia - Business Manager
Melissa - Insurance Coordinator
Val-Scheduling Coordinator
Pam - Receptionist
Kim - Registered Dental Hygienist, Department Coordinator
Michele - Registered Dental Hygienist
Jenny - Registered Dental Hygienist
Ronda - Registered Dental Hygienist
Michelle - Registered/Certified Dental Assistant, Department Coordinator
Whitney-Certified Dental Assistant
Jody-Registered Dental Assistant
Michelle - Dental Assistant
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A Man In Uniform
By Logan Lee
Rev 1.0
Copyright Logan Lee 2011
Cover Image by Roland Darby – freedigitalphotos.net
Smashwords Edition License Notes:
This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.
This is a work of fiction, and all names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.


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Literally hundreds of thousands of people have shared what they thought were Steve Jobs' Last Words. But guess what – they have all shared a FAKE STORY. When told the truth, many either refused to accept it, or say that the message is more important than the truth.
Well, the truth is when we share a fake story about a famous person, it teaches other people that it's okay to lie about people, as long as it's for a good reason. Do we really want to teach our children that? Do we really believe that it's legal or even moral to tell lies about other people, even if it's for a good reason?
We refuse to apologise for tearing off this veil of lies. We will tell you the truth about Steve Jobs, and demand that you tell the unvarnished truth. If the sentiments in this story is so "amazing", do you really need to embellish it with fake references to famous people to "sell the message"?
Read this article, and SHARE IT, so that other people won't be fooled by it. SHARE IT so that clickbait websites cannot make use of it to gain likes, shares and clicks. Don't be part of a lie. Stop helping people benefit from such lies.
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Originally posted @ 2015-11-11
Updated @ 2016-02-18 : Added two new sections on Steve Jobs being on artificial respiration, and his stay in the hospital.
Updated @ 2017-01-14 : Added a new preface, and updated several parts of the article.
The Steve Jobs' Last Words Hoax
This is the infamous Steve Jobs' Last Words that have been shared by hundreds of thousands of people on social media and email chain letters.
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Steve Jobs' Last Words
I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others' eyes, my life is an epitome of success.
However, aside from work, I have little joy. In the end, wealth is only a fact of life that I am accustomed to.
At this moment, lying on the sick bed and recalling my whole life, I realize that all the recognition and wealth that I took so much pride in, have paled and become meaningless in the face of impending death.
In the darkness, I look at the green lights from the life supporting machines and hear the humming mechanical sounds, I can feel the breath of god of death drawing closer…
Now I know, when we have accumulated sufficient wealth to last our lifetime, we should pursue other matters that are unrelated to wealth…
Should be something that is more important:
Perhaps relationships, perhaps art, perhaps a dream from younger days
Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me.
God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone's heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth.
The wealth I have won in my life I cannot bring with me. What I can bring is only the memories precipitated by love.
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That's the true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on.
Love can travel a thousand miles. Life has no limit. Go where you want to go. Reach the height you want to reach. It is all in your heart and in your hands.
What is the most expensive bed in the world? Sick bed…
You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear the sickness for you.
Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life.
When a person goes into the operating room, he will realize that there is one book that he has yet to finish reading – Book of Healthy Life.
Whichever stage in life we are at right now, with time, we will face the day when the curtain comes down.
Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends.
Treat yourself well. Cherish others.
Were Those Really Steve Jobs' Last Words?
Short answer – NO.
How do we know this? Let's take a look…
We know what his last words really were
On the 30th of October 2011, the New York Times printed an eulogy by his sister, Mona Simpson. In that eulogy, she described his last moment :
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Steve's final words, hours earlier, were monosyllables, repeated three times.
Before embarking, he'd looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at his children, then at his life's partner, Laurene, and then over their shoulders past them.
Steve's final words were:
Steve Jobs Was Not On Artificial Respiration
The fake speech claims that Steve Jobs was on artificial respiration. That's not true. Although his family has been very private about his final days, we do know that he was not being kept alive by a mechanical ventilator.
The intubation required would have prevented him from saying anything. If he was being kept alive by a mechanical ventilator, he wouldn't be able to say "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow." as his sister revealed were his true last words.
In fact, on August 11, 2011 – less than two months before he died, Steve Jobs asked Tim Cook to visit him. As recounted in Tim Cook's book – Becoming Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs was more than capable of talking lucidly even then :
He told me he had decided that I should be CEO. I thought then that he thought he was going to live a lot longer when he said this, because we got into a whole level of discussion about what would it mean for me to be CEO with him as a chairman. I asked him, 'What do you really not want to do that you're doing?'
"It was an interesting conversation," Cook says, with a wistful laugh. "He says, 'You make all the decisions.' I go, 'Wait. Let me ask you a question.' I tried to pick something that would incite him. So I said, 'You mean that if I review an ad and I like it, it should just run without your okay?' And he laughed and said, 'Well, I hope you'd at least ask me!'
I asked him two or three times, 'Are you sure you want to do this?' because I saw him getting better at that point in time. I went over there often during the week, and sometimes on the weekends. Every time I saw him he seemed to be getting better. He felt that way as well. Unfortunately, it didn't work out that way."
Finally, if he was really kept alive by a mechanical ventilator, it would have kept him alive. He wouldn't have died of respiratory arrest, which was the immediate cause of death. The fact that he did indeed die of respiratory arrest is evidence that he was not on artificial respiration
Steve Jobs Did Not Die In A Hospital
Alternate versions of this fake speech refers to him being in a hospital bed. Steve Jobs died at home, not in a hospital. The New York Times noted :
In his final months, Mr. Jobs's home — a large and comfortable but relatively modest brick house in a residential neighborhood — was surrounded by security guards. His driveway's gate was flanked by two black S.U.V.'s.
We don't have an exact date for when he was confined to his home for his last days, but we do know that by August 11, 2011, he was permanently at home :
"He said, 'I want to talk to you about something,' " remembers Cook. "This was when he was home all the time, and I asked when, and he said, 'Now.'"
None of the books written about him refers to these fake Last Words
He had an official biography written by Walter Isaacson (Steve Jobs, ISBN 978-1501127625). Walter Isaacson was given unprecedented access to his personal life, including over 40 interviews with Steve Jobs himself.
If Steve Jobs wanted to pass along such a message, he would have done it in that book. There is no mention of such a message in that biography.
He also had many books written about him – Steve Jobs : The Man In The Machine, Steve Jobs : The Man Who Thought Different, Becoming Steve Jobs : The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader, Steve Jobs : His Story, etc. None of them mentions this fake message.
Steve Jobs did not believe in God
The fake quote refers to God twice, which Steve would never do because he did not believe in God. He was a Zen Buddhist, not the Lutheran Christian he was brought up to be. Buddhism is a religion but their adherents do not believe in God or gods.
Unbelievably bad grammar
The fake quote is replete with bad grammar. That is something Steve Jobs would never condone, being the perfectionist that he was. Needless to say, the writing style was not his either.
Steve Jobs was not afraid of death, he made use of it
The fake quote framed Steve Jobs as regretting that he spent his life in the pursuit of success at the expense of his family. This cannot be further from the truth. Steve Jobs not only embraced his impending demise, he used it to spur him to make the most of his time left.
During his famous commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005, he said that "Death is very likely the single best invention of life". He then expounded on using that knowledge that our impending deaths to spur ourselves to greater heights, and to do what we really want to do in life :
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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Steve Jobs did not pursue wealth, only his vision for Apple
The fake Steve Jobs' Last Words allude to a mindless pursuit of wealth. However, this cannot be further from the truth, because Steve Jobs earned a cool annual salary of $1 since he returned to a struggling Apple in 1997.
He was not the only corporate executive to do this, of course, as they can be compensated through alternate means like bonuses, stock options, etc. Steve Jobs was notable, though, for not taking any alternative form of compensation since 2003.
He took virtually nothing in compensation for his time and effort at Apple because he was not pursuing wealth, but his vision. His wealth, and his position at Apple, were the means to the end, not the goal itself.
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Willis the dog, taken by Tom (aged 4)
Gosh photographers can be a funny bunch. A little while ago I stumbled onto a forum thread where someone had asked if he weren't the only person to refuse to lend kit to friends if they asked. The vast majority of the answers were in the 'Hell no! I never I lend my kit to anyone!' camp.
The responses were generally point-blank refusals, not even conditional considerations. One guy even went so far as to say that his wife is banned from so much as touching his cameras, let alone using them. I sat there goggle-eyed with disbelief and quickly went to find myself some photos of puppies or kittens to remind me that the world isn't really such a dismal and mean-spirited place.
The puppies and kittens obviously did the job, because I didn't think about this peculiarly possessive discussion until this week, when two events reminded me of it.
First, on Thursday I was editing some photos when my four year old nephew, Tom, sidled up to me and asked if he could have a go at taking some photos, too. I was so thrilled that he was interested in picking up a camera that I nearly knocked him over as I leapt from my seat to fetch my gear.
I flicked my dSLR in auto-mode (he is only four, after all), told him he had to walk and wasn't allowed anywhere without me, showed him to look through the viewfinder and which button to press, then hung it around his neck and we went off to explore. Twenty minutes later he'd photographed mum, dad, big sister, me, and the dog. He was thoroughly proud of himself.
Meanwhile his older sister had lost interest in her bead-threading activity and was clamouring for a go, too.
The same rules applied to her, and she took off to photograph pretty much the same things, less the photos of herself and plus some of plants in the garden.
Within half an hour I had two young'uns interested in photography. If I'd have been preciously fanatical about my kit, what were the chances that I'd have let two sticky-fingered kids loose with it? How would they have had the opportunity to experience the excitement that's taking a photo and letting everyone else see the world the way that you do? Yes, I laid down some ground-rules with them and I might have thought twice about it if I didn't think that they would treat my camera appropriately, but I can promise you that the warm and fuzzy feeling I got from watching them enjoy themselves far, far outweighed any jitters I might have had from letting them use my camera. This was their opportunity to learn and I didn't think that I could be selfish enough to deny it them.
(I could sit in my psychologist's armchair now and suggest that it is only by allowing children access to valuable and fragile objects that they learn to appreciate them properly; but I'll leave you to ponder that one in your own time.)
Then on Saturday evening I received a Twitter message from someone who's looking to buy her first dSLR. She wanted a bit of advice. I left the technical side of things to Haje–he's already written about that, and covered it extensively. Instead, I go for slightly more practical hints, for example to hold in your hands every camera that you're considering buying. It needs to feel comfortable; you need to be able to imagine yourself going out and using it and enjoying it. Photography is meant to be fun, after all, and it's a bit late when you've been shooting with your 60D for a few weeks and you realise that it makes your wrists ache.
If you know someone who owns a camera that you're considering buying, ask them pretty-please if you could have a go with it to see if it suits you. In fact, I would go as far as to actively consider investing in the same system as that which your friends and family might use. If you are a trusting and respectful group of people, you have the opportunity to borrow from and lend to each other all sorts of interesting bits and pieces as your equipment stashes grow.
When you're just starting out and your resources–both financial and physical–are limited, that can be heaven-sent. But years later, it still comes in useful. Last summer, my bacon was well and truly saved by a fellow photographer who leant me his camera when mine decided that it just wasn't going to play nicely with some studio lights. Without his trust and his generosity, I would never have been able to complete a scheduled shoot and it would have left me in a very difficult situation with some deadlines. I'm still grateful to him now, and should he ever need a similar favour from me, I'll help him out.
If for one moment you think that I'm bats enough to lend my camera to just anyone without any thought as to how they'd treat it, I promise you I'm not that nutty. My equipment might be insured, but I'm not in the habit of tempting a claim. (Your gear should be insured, too. If it isn't, go sort it, right now.) And if I were in need of it myself when she or he wanted to borrow it, I'd have to decline. But there has to be some give-and-take in life; if I think that they'll respect my gear and it isn't going to end up in pawn shop in Moss Side or at the bottom of the Thames, then I'm happy to lend. For no other reason, I don't know when I might need the favour returned.
Cameras are incredible things. Expensive things, too. But they're just that: things. There's a key element in the light+camera=photograph equation, and it's the photographer using the camera. We can't replace our creativity and we can't replace ourselves, but we can replace our cameras. So why not be a little more giving? It can't hurt that much, can it?


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"How I Met Your Mother" lead Josh Radnor is set to team with "Martha Marcy May Marlene" star Elizabeth Olsen in the indie love story "Liberal Arts" for Tom Sawyer Entertainment and BCDF Pictures says The Hollywood Reporter.
Radnor penned the script, is directing and will play a 35 year-old man, still yearning for the life of a college student, who must come to terms with his age and responsibilities.
Olsen plays a 19-year-old college student who falls for Radnor's character over a shared love of music and literature. She wants to make it work with him, but her immaturity makes it impossible for her to see the obvious obstacles.
Radnor made his directorial debut last year on the 2010 Sundance entry "HappyThankYouMorePlease". Shooting on 'Arts' kicks off this Spring while Radnor is on break from shooting 'Mother'.


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IntelligentHQ Business Schools Directory is a digital and social media database of worldwide business schools. It is developed and continuously maintained by IntelligentHQ team in association and partnership with various worlwide organisations, consultancy companies and associated experts in the area.
Graduate School of International Management, International University of Japan - Minami Uonuma-shi, Japan
Boston University School of Management - Boston, Massachusetts
MIP Politecnico di Milano School of Management - Milano, Italy
University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business - Cape Town, South Africa
London Business School - London, UK
National University of Singapore Business School - Singapore
Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences - Aarhus, Denmark
Sun Yat-sen Business School - Guangzhou, China
The George Washington University School of Business - Washington, D.C.
Regenesys Business School - Sandton, South Africa
IESE Business School - Barcelona, Spain
Stockholm School of Economics - Stockholm, Sweden
Rady School of Management, University of California - San Diego, California
Imperial College Business School - London, UK
USC Marshall School of Business - Los Angeles, California
Stanford University Graduate School of Business, University of Stanford - Stanford, California
McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University - Washington, D.C.
ESCP Europe - Paris, France
ESADE Business School - Barcelona, Spain
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University - Chicago, Illinois
University of St. Gallen - St. Gallen, Switzerland
Darden School of Business, University of Virginia - Charlottesville, Virginia
Florida International University, Graduate School of Business - Miami, Florida
S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University - Ithaca, New York
Alba Graduate Business School - Athens, Greece
Featured Business Schools
INSEEC Graduate School of Business – Paris, France and London, UK
Worldwide opportunities.INSEEC Graduate School of Business is one of the top business schools in French Higher Education. The business school is located in the three French cities of Paris, Lyon and Bordeaux, and they also have locations in Monaco, London, Chicago, New York and Beijing. INSEEC combines the experience higher learning in a metropolis environment and offers five international tracks for students in International Management. All of the programs are taught in English and are based around the three fundamental pillars of the INSEEC educational curriculum: Core classes in international management, specialized courses, and two mandatory internships.
Harvard Business School – Allston, Massachusetts
Harvard Business School: Educating leaders who make a difference in the worldHarvard Business School is located in Boston, MA, and is one of the most prestigious business schools in the world, according to Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2013. The business school's goal is to drive students towards excellence and encourage personal involvement with the university, team interaction, group integration and new life experiences.
Haas School of Business – Berkeley, California
Business School Motto: Leading through innovation.As the second-oldest business school in the United States, the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley is one of the world's top educators in innovative business ideas; this includes the distinction of having two of its faculty members receive the Nobel Prize in Economics over the past 20 years.
Columbia Business School – Manhattan, New York
You are part of a community.Located in Manhattan, New York, Columbia Business School (CBS) was established in 1916 to provide professional training for undergraduate and graduate Columbia University students. It is one of six Ivy League Business Schools and was placed in the top five business schools in the world by The Economist and Financial Times.
IESE Business School – Barcelona, Spain
Business School Motto: Promoting Excellence GloballyIESE Graduate School of Business of the University of Navarra delivers management based education to students all over the world. They have a humanistic approach to business and leadership to achieve sustainable, long-term global prosperity. The global scope of IESE's programs ranges across the world with a very strong cross-cultural perspective. IESE also has locations in five different continents with participants from over 100 different countries.
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HEC Paris – Jouy en Josas, France
Business School Motto: The more you know, the more you dare.HEC Paris was founded in 1881 by the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry and specialises in education and research of management sciences. The business school offers a complete range of education programmes for students and leaders and hosts 115 professors, 4,000 students and over 8,500 managers each year.
London School of Economics and Political Science – London, United Kingdom
Business School Motto: To understand the causes of things.London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a specialist school that focuses on making a global impact and encouraging students from all over the world to part-take in their educational experience. The business school performs research in the areas of sociology, anthropology, accounting and finance and was founded in 1895 by Beatrice and Sydney Webb. LSE has produced 16 Nobel prize winners and has become one of the foremost social science universities in the world.
Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business – Beijing, China
Generating insights in Chinese business through research and excellence.Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) was established in Beijing in November of 2002. It is a private, non-profit, independent educational institution that has campuses in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen and offices in Hong Kong, London, and New York. Their faculty is research-driven and constantly generating insights in important areas of Chinese business, such as globalization strategies and competition and collaboration among state-owned enterprises. Programs are offered in MBA, Executive MBA, Finance MBA, and Executive Education.
Aventis School of Management – Le Meridien, Singapore
Recognising human capital development while delivering high-quality education.Aventis School of Management is a leading graduate school affiliated with the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) and European Council for Business Education (ECBE). Aventis has a rich industrial heritage and delivers a practical academic curriculum instead of relying on faculty-based research. The business school has developed and maintained close ties with professional institutes including the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM UK) and American Association for Financial Management (AAFM).
Cambridge Judge Business School – Cambridge, UK
Providing management education in the UK since 1990.Formerly known as the Judge Institute of Management Studies until 2005, Cambridge Judge Business School has been providing management education to students since 1990. The faculty of 80 members perform global research on a regular basis, and many of them are leaders in their field who perform research for top businesses and advise governments. The business school also provides a network of 190,000 alumni in 74 different countries and a number of different industry connections within and outside of the school.


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Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris was another one of those books that you just can't put down. In the same vein as The Couple Next Door, another domestic thriller I read earlier this summer (review here), Behind Closed Doors reveals the reality that those "perfect couples" we all know are not always as perfect as they seem.
To the outsider, Jack and Grace are the perfect couple. He's an attorney who defends battered women, she's a stay-at-home wife who loves gardening and cooking. She's elegant, he's handsome, and they're madly in love. In fact, they're never apart. And soon, Grace's sister, who has down syndrome, will come to live with them, seemingly adding to Jack's charm and generosity.
The tension builds page-by-page as the reader uncovers layers of the relationship between Jack and Grace. Why is she planning on canceling plans a week before they've arrived? Why does she never answer the phone? And WHY the heck are there bars on the windows??
This was such a fast-paced and unputdownable read. I've been hitting the jackpot with thrillers this year. This book really stood out to me because the plot is so unique from any other that I've read. Unlike a lot of thrillers that will shock you with gore and stark acts of cruelty, Paris paints a carefully drawn picture of subtlety and tension.
As you turn each page, the image of the perfect marriage Jack and Grace have carefully built is chipped away at piece by piece. The reveals are shocking, but don't come all at once, giving the reader time to try to uncover the ending for herself. In fact, I wondered if the ending would do justice to the story, but I was completely satisfied with how we were left.
For how quick this novel reads, I thought Paris did a great job of creating the characters. The reader really gets to sit inside Grace's head, feeling the panic build as you realize how desperate her situation is. I would have loved further insight into Jack's past and the steps he took in executing his perfect plan, but I don't think the book is lacking because of it.
If you love psychological or domestic thrillers, you will absolutely love this. I think "unputdownable" is sometimes overused in book reviewing (guilty), but this one truly was for me. If I wasn't reading it, I was thinking about it or talking about it to my friends.
The only reason I gave this book less than a 5 star review, is because of some very minor animal cruelty. Truthfully, I just skipped over those two pages, and it was fine. But, I'm a firm believer that you need to be prepared for these things if you are the type of animal/dog lover that I am. (See this article from Book Riot)
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Environmental Sculpture
Large scale environmental sculpture is my favorite artistic medium. Christo, Noguchi and others are among my childhood heroes.
The Roof Project
Axe thru Roof
A visit to the Berlin Wall around 1985 sparked the inspiration for "Axe thru Roof" the first in my series of environmental sculptures. Then for the next few years I erected a series of sculptures on and around my house in Costa Mesa, California (Coastal Orange County).
Bomb thru Roof
The bomb thru the roof was my next and perhaps my best project. It was made of a wooden framework covered with thin sheet aluminum. This one made the front page of the local Orange County newspaper, but why wouldn't it?
Power Lines and Tower thru Roof
I don't remember why I put the power-lines up. But I like them.
Carl's Jr.
A neighbor who worked for a sign company asked me if I wanted an old Carl's Junior Happy Star sign, how could I say no? I planted him in my front yard, wrapped him in canvas (a la Christo) and planted some flower seeds.
As they bloomed I gave Happy a pair of shorts and sunglasses. As the holiday season came around Happy glowed with a set of decorative lights.
Downpour- Cut in Half Pianos
Most people probably haven't much experience in cutting two pianos in half and planting them in their yard but I have. This was inspired by the adage "It's raining cats and dogs". Well at my house it was raining pianos.
These two pianos I got as klunkers who's lives as musical instruments had seen better days. With the idea of planting them in the backyard to make them appear as if they dropped out of the sky I had two options. Either dig huge holes to drop them into or cut them in half. Deciding to take the less menial approach I proceeded to disassemble the instruments and cut each piece where it was needed to be cut and reassemble the instruments. It was quite a monumental task, but rewarding. After completing the second instrument I felt as I was getting pretty good at it but realized that there wasn't much future in pursuing that skill any further so I stopped at the second one and haven't found the need to do any piano cutting since.
Piano from Ceiling
After the pianos falling from the sky and into the backyard art piece I felt as though it would be marvelous if a piano had also fallen from the sky, gone thru my roof and protruded thru the living room ceiling. This piano was made from foam core board cut and assembled into a half of a grand piano shape and covered with wood grain contact paper. The keyboard I made from painted wood pieces.
Happy Couple Bed Board
There's love, then marriage, then death. Or something to that effect.


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Sharks appear to have a sixth sense that helps them locate prey in murky ocean waters. These fish rely on special electricity-sensing pores on their heads and snouts. The pores were first described in 1678. Even now, however, scientists aren't quite sure how they work. But new data have just brought them a step closer.
These pores are known as ampullae (AM-puh-lay) of Lorenzini. They connect to cells that sense electric fields. And that can be useful as the movement of nearby prey emit such fields.
Those pores are filled with what might best be thought of as shark jelly. It's a mysterious goo that is thick but clear. Scientists had suspected the jelly might play some role in detecting prey, but they weren't sure just how.
So Marco Rolandi of the University of California, Santa Cruz and his engineering colleagues have just analyzed this goo. They squeezed some of it from the pores of a bonnethead shark and two skates (the "big" and longnose species).
Protons are a type of positively charged subatomic particle. Their movement can create an electric current. Many good proton conductors occur in nature. (One, for instance, exists in squid skin.) Rolandi's team investigated whether the shark jelly, too, could transmit protons.
And indeed it can, the scientists now report. Protons move well through the jelly and transmit an electric current. They shared their findings May 13 in Science Advances.
Shark jelly is, in fact, the living world's best proton conductor. Engineers have come up with a synthetic compound that is 40-times better. But other than that material, known as Nafion, nothing comes close to the stuff sharks make. So it appears that shark jelly may allow these fish to sense very weak electric fields — picking up on teensy hints that lunch may be swimming nearby.
Power Words
(for more about Power Words, click here)
electric current A flow of charge, called electricity, usually from the movement of negatively charged particles, called electrons.
electric field A region around a charged particle or object within which a force would be exerted on other charged particles or objects.
engineer A person who uses science to solve problems. As a verb, to engineer means to design a device, material or process that will solve some problem or unmet need.
gel A gooey or viscous material that can flow like a thick liquid.
prey (n.) Animal species eaten by others. (v.) To attack and eat another species.
proton A subatomic particle that is one of the basic building blocks of the atoms that make up matter. Protons belong to the family of particles known as hadrons.
rays (in biology) Members of the shark family, these kite-shaped fish species resemble a flattened shark with wide fins that resemble wings.
shark A type of predatory fish that has survived in one form or another for hundreds of millions of years. Cartilage, not bone, gives its body structure.
subatomic Anything smaller than an atom, which is the smallest bit of matter that has all the properties of whatever chemical element it is (like hydrogen, iron or calcium).
synthetic An adjective that describes something that did not arise naturally, but was instead created by people. Many have been developed to stand in for natural materials, such as synthetic rubber, synthetic diamond or a synthetic hormone. Some may even have a chemical makeup and structure identical to the original.
E.E. Josberger et al. Proton conductivity in ampullae of Lorenzini jelly. Science Advances. Published online May 13, 2016. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1600112.
Further Reading
S. Oosthoek. "Cool Jobs: Moved by life." Science News for Students. June 19, 2013.
J. Cutraro. "Speedy sharkskin." Science News for Students. March 7, 2012.
E. Sohn. "Island of hope." Science News for Students. February 3, 2010.
M. Schrope. "Giving sharks safe homes." Science News for Students. November 25, 2009.
D.F. Maron. "Parenthood: Male sharks need not apply." Science News. November 8, 2008.
J. Raloff. "New estimates of the shark-fin trade." Science News blog. November 1, 2006.


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It's been a really busy week for me but a happy one! Sorry that I'll have to skip my illustration class recap this week as I need more time to complete the assignment.
If you're free this Friday, 10 Oct, I'd hope to see you at MAAD, Red Dot Design Museum! We'll be there from 5pm till midnight. Admission is FREE.
All our products will be on SPECIAL price that day. Plus, 10% of our sale proceeds go to a local dog shelter when you shop with us.
More details can be found on our Facebook Event page, https://www.facebook.com/events/473525849454269/
Hope to see you there! :D
❤ Blessings, Rheea


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After several years of serial budget crises, Minnesota now enjoys an enviable budget position. The budget forecast released last week projected a surplus for the end of the current biennium (June 30, 2015) of $1.2 billion — even better than the preliminary forecast released in early December.
The good news extends well beyond the current biennium. The planning estimates show a huge surplus of $2.6 billion at the end of the next biennium (June 30, 2017).
In substantial part, the improvement in Minnesota's fiscal fortunes reflects ongoing growth of the U.S. economy. The national economy remains far below potential, but its steady, if unspectacular, growth has been very good news for the states, including Minnesota.
In addition, Gov. Mark Dayton and the Legislature deserve credit for helping to make this turnaround possible.
One should also acknowledge the contribution of Minnesota's budget forecasting process — which hardly any Minnesotans are aware of. Minnesota Management and Budget's staff has a well-deserved reputation for careful, nonpartisan analysis of expenditures and revenues. This staff is assisted by an advisory group of private-sector economists — grandiloquently called the Minnesota Council of Economic Advisors. (Full disclosure: I have been a member of the council for many years.) The council has a key responsibility: It must approve the assumptions about the U.S. economy that are input into the Minnesota budget forecast. If the U.S. forecast is deemed reasonable or too pessimistic, it will serve as input for the budget forecast. If the council considers it too optimistic, a more cautious forecast will be used instead. This builds an element of caution into the budget forecasts. The council's deliberations are open to the legislative leadership of both parties and their staffs — which enhances the transparency of the budget forecasting process.
Thus, Minnesota can be proud, not only of its predicted budget surplus, but of the careful, nonpartisan analysis that puts the numbers together.
However, all is not well.
The $2.6 billion number cited above for the surplus in the planning estimates for the next biennium is far too optimistic — and the distortion is probably going to get worse in the future.
The reason is that the official numbers for the planning estimates incorporate expected inflation in the revenue projections but not in the expenditure projections. This results in a large underestimate of expenditures in the next biennium and a corresponding overestimate of the surplus.
The bias is deliberate. In 2002, the Legislature passed a law requiring the official planning estimates to exclude inflation from expenditure projections.
Current inflation is extremely low by historical standards, but nevertheless the impact of the bias is huge. According to the most recent forecast report, proper adjustment for inflation would reduce the projected surplus in the next biennium by over a billion dollars, to $1.5 billion.
Inflation probably will accelerate sometime in the future, and when it does, the inflation bias in the planning estimates will balloon.
Every year since the introduction of the inflation bias into the planning estimates, the council has criticized the practice. The reason is simple. Deliberately inflating surpluses (or understating deficits) is inconsistent with sound business and governmental practices. Publishing a biased number potentially encourages legislators and the public to regard the state's financial position more optimistically than the facts warrant. Sound budgeting is hard enough with high-quality numbers; it is vastly harder with distorted numbers.
Dayton has suggested that this year's legislative session should be an "un-session" — in which obsolete and ineffective laws and regulations are eliminated. Dumping the inflation bias should be right at the top of the list.
William C. Melton formerly was chief economist of American Express Financial Services. The views expressed here are his own and should not be attributed to the Minnesota Council of Economic Advisors or to any other organization.


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It's natural to feel very nervous before your child's surgery. Doctors are required to fill you in on worst-case scenarios and in the face of that, it can be difficult to keep a brave face on. Try to divert your own nerves by focusing on soothing your child's fears and preparing her for surgery.
Be straightforward
While children should be sheltered from some of the harsher realities of the medical world, there's no need to completely sugarcoat everything. Instead of telling your child tall tales about how surgery works, be straightforward and honest. You know your child best. If she has a high level of anxiety, explain only the bare minimum. If your child is very inquisitive and difficult to ruffle, feel free to get more detailed about the surgery and how the doctor will perform it. Answer your child's questions as best you can. If you don't know the answer, tell her you don't know and that you'll ask the doctors or nurses together.
Don't say it won't hurt
Maintain your child's trust by being honest about what might be uncomfortable or painful about surgery. In most cases, kids will only feel discomfort when having an IV put in and potentially during recovery. Let your child know that the needle prick is fast and that an IV doesn't hurt once it's in. Explain to your child that the doctors and nurses are there to make everything as painless as possible. Be clear that your child will feel nothing while under anesthesia. In an age-appropriate way, talk about methods of pain management that will be used after surgery. Explain that waking up might involve feeling confused or dizzy for a little while.
Be positive about the hospital
Ask your child's hospital about the opportunity to come in for a tour before surgery. Most children's facilities have outreach materials to help prepare kids. If a tour isn't available, go to the hospital's website to read about the hospital together. Look at pictures and talk about fun aspects of the hospital, like free food and getting to wear pajamas all day. Instead of talking about the hospital as a place for sick people, describe it as a place where people get better. Let your child know that the doctors and nurses have trained to work with children and that they've performed this surgery on hundreds of children before. On the day of your child's surgery, let her bring a special item from home to distract her during registration and pre-op.
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Yasiin Bey (Mos Def): Stand Up Comedian? Right on./
Looks like Yasiin Bey f.k.a. Mos Def is making himself right at home here in Montreal. After making an appearance at Dave Chappelle's Juke Joint Party during the Just For Laughs Festival, joining Kendrick Lamar on stage last weekend at Osheaga making things 'Alright', Tuesday night, the rapper, actor, and activist added comedian to his resume, debuting an hour and a half of stand-up comedy to a sold out crowd at the Phi Centre.
Special guest, Kaytranada did a stellar job hyping up the crowd with a DJ set before the main event.
45 minutes after the scheduled start time, Bey sauntered on stage to roaring applause and proceeded to take a seat at a drum kit and drum along to the beat of the track that Kaytranada was spinning.
Announcing that he's "always wanted to do [stand up]" and that he was "fulfilling his dreams", Bey began his set riffing on today's rap game and his addiction to Worldstar.
At one point during his set he took a seat and began to read excerpts from a couple of philosophy books, asking the audience to think on those words… before tying those themes into his next joke.
It certainly wasn't the tightest stand up set we've seen, but it sure was fun and the crowd was on board from start to finish.
He closed on a true story involving him, his brother and a midget boxing match in Manila. What more could you ask for?
It was an evening people will be talking about for years to come. A 'you had to be there' kind of experience. It's hard to think that fans would come out expecting the hip hop star to destroy comedically on stage, but it's safe to say that people showed up not knowing what to expect... and they didn't leave disappointed.
AND GUESS WHAT? We got word this morning that Bey had so much fun making people laugh that he's doing it all over again TONIGHT at the Phi Centre. Tickets on sale here.
We hope he sticks around Montreal for a little while longer—who knows where he'll pop up next.


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Dear friends and families,
This Friday, September 27th 6-9pm Sunflower Kids Art Studio is hosting a party for our wonderful art community! If you are our students, parents, future or past students, just people who like and appreciate art - YOU ARE INVITED!!!
Adult's and kid's snacks and drinks will be served in great amounts, so bring everybody for a Friday night out at the studio.
We hope to see you all there!


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Dolores Laverne Grant
Dolores Laverne Grant, 84, Nevada, Mo. passed from this life on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015, at Nevada Nursing and Rehab in Nevada. Dolores was born on June 7, 1931, in Chicago, Ill. She was united in marriage to Albert R. Grant and he preceded her in death on Dec. 16, 1981.
Dolores grew up in Chicago and for a time was a member of the Chicago Thunderbird Roller Derby Team. In 1977, she came to Nevada and has resided here since that time. Dolores began working for the Nevada R-5 schools as a bus driver and continued to drive for 20 years until her retirement. She enjoyed spending time with her dog and watching birds.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 7, at Ferry Funeral Home, in Nevada. Interment will follow in Olive Branch Cemetery, Milo, Mo. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, at the funeral home.
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There is an unsubstantiated claim that women are worse drivers than men. However, insurers seem to believe the opposite.
Car insurance for women are, surprisingly for some, usually less costly than the regular ones. This is because most insurers believe that women drivers are less reckless, more compliant to traffic rules, and are therefore less prone to car accidents.
Insurance firms determine the amount premium to be charged based on risk. Because women drivers are considered to be less prone to risk, car insurance for women are often cheaper.
Still, there are ways on how women car owners can get an even less costly policy. By studying quotations from various surety firms, one may determine which among them offer the best deals.
In the earlier days, getting quotations from different sellers could be very tedious. This would often require visiting their offices and personally requesting for quotes. But following the birth of the internet era, information can be accessed much easier. Most insurers have websites where they post quotations for various policies. One must simply log on to those sites and begin their online search.
Like the rest, car insurance for women provides the basic coverage including cost of possible damage to properties of other persons or hospitalization of victims of car accidents involving the insured car.
But some companies offer car insurance for women with additional benefits deemed suitable for lady drivers. These include coverage of shopped goods placed inside the vehicle and counseling for those who had been in a car accident. There are times counseling is necessary for someone once involved in an accident to regain the courage to drive again.
These additional benefits naturally result in higher costs of premiums. If a woman driver wants to save on premium, she should look for a basic policy that does not contain unusual benefits.
Women drivers should also be careful not to taint their record with car accidents and road-safety violations if they want to save on their insurance. Providers normally conduct a background check on one's record to determine risk and the appropriate premium.
Keeping one's record clean will not only help avoid penalties imposed by law but will also reduce insurance expenses. If each woman driver would be able to maintain a clean record, then this would then benefit all women drivers. Insurers will continue to consider them as less risky and will keep premiums lower.


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Flying Microlight Javelin
The Javelin features a dacron covered, single surface, strut braced high wing. Like its predecessor, the Mustang, the Javelin pilot sits below the mainplane in an openframe cockpit. The rugged tail dragger undercarriage features steel spring main gears and tailwheel which assists with those flights off unprepared strips. The machine can be assembled and broken down for trailering or storage in about 10 minutes. The airframe is coated in baked enamel for a very fine finish.
Engine: Rotax 277.
Prop: 127cm.
Wingspan: 8.5m
Wingarea: 12.8sqm.
Length: 5m.
Weight: 91 kgs.
Fuel capacity: 9 ltr.
Cruise speed: 50 kts.
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Mapping Relationships Do Not Predict Impact of ICD-10-CM on Patient Safety Indicator Reporting
In a new research study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association ("Challenges and remediation for Patient Safety Indicators in the transition to ICD-10-CM"), the researchers claim to have found that the transition to ICD-10-CM will lead to underreporting or overreporting of some Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs). However, no conclusions regarding the impact of ICD-10-CM on PSIs should be made as a result of this study, as the approach used in this study does not accurately predict the impact of ICD-10-CM on patient safety indicator data.
The researchers' sweeping claim about the future is based on a mapping of a mapping. The study takes the General Equivalence Mappings (GEMs) and maps them to one of three "complexity types" ("convoluted" is one) defined by the researchers using criteria of their own creation. These complexity types are then used as indicators of whether a PSI will be accurately reported or not. Interpretations that pile a mapping on top of a mapping get us farther from the real world business of coding medical records and recording patient safety issues using PSIs, not closer.
The researchers fail to acknowledge that code assignment for PSI reporting is not accomplished by mapping ICD-9-CM codes to ICD-10-CM codes. Rather, ICD-10-CM codes will be assigned directly by human review of medical record documentation and determination of the most appropriate code(s) based on coding rules/guidelines and knowledge of the ICD-10-CM coding system gained through comprehensive coding education. A medical record for an encounter after the ICD-10-CM transition will not be coded from the GEMs any more than coders today code records in ICD-9-CM by looking at a mapping from ICD-8.
Here is how a record is coded in the real world, regardless whether the codes used are ICD-9-CM or ICD-10-CM:
- The coder reviews the medical record for a specific encounter (hospital stay, doctor visit), looking for evidence that a condition or procedure should be coded according to the guidelines for that sector of the healthcare delivery system (e.g., hospital inpatient, outpatient radiology, physician office).
- The coder looks up the key terminology in a book, electronic version of ICD-9-CM/ICD-10-CM, or specialized coding software and follows the instructional notes or guidelines for that type of disease (diabetes) or type of procedure (biopsy) to find the code that most closely matches the information in the medical record.
- The coder records the code, and it is saved as part of the patient's permanent medical record for that encounter.
- Once the record has been completely coded it is submitted by the healthcare provider to the payer and also stored in the provider's data warehouse. The process is exactly the same for ICD-9-CM as it is for ICD-10-CM. There are no mappings involved.
The developers of the AHRQ PSIs did not rely solely on the GEMs for the conversion of the PSIs to ICD-10-CM. They appropriately used the GEMs as a starting point for identifying potential candidate codes for inclusion in the PSIs and then refined the codes to meet the intent of the respective PSI. The PSI developers' goal was to identify those codes in the applicable code set (whether ICD-9-CM or ICD-10-CM) that will best capture the patients that should be included in a given PSI—patients who have a pressure ulcer, for example. The PSI developers don't want to know whether the relationship between the ICD-9 pressure ulcer code and the ICD-10 pressure ulcer code is 'convoluted' or not. They want to know if a patient has a pressure ulcer. As it happens, there are excellent ICD-10 codes for capturing patients with pressure ulcers, and also excellent (though slightly less detailed) ICD-9 codes for specifying pressure ulcers. Does this mean that because there are more detailed ICD-10 codes, more pressure ulcer patients will show up in the ICD-10 data? Of course not. If one patient has a pressure ulcer of the left heel and another patient has a pressure ulcer of the right heel, both medical records are coded using the same, less specific, code in ICD-9 –CM, whereas, in ICD-10-CM, there are separate codes to identify left and right. Thus, in ICD-10-CM, there is more detail about the pressure ulcer than in ICD-9-CM, but regardless of whether the encounter is coded in ICD-9-CM or ICD-10-CM, both of these patients would be classified as having a pressure ulcer of the heel.
Because not all ICD-10-CM codes included in a mapping from an ICD-9-CM code necessarily meet the intent of a PSI, not all mapped codes are included in the ICD-10 PSIs, despite the researchers' suggestion to the contrary. For example, the article states that postoperative respiratory failure (PSI-11) could be underreported with the transition to ICD-10-CM because of forward GEMs mapping to both procedure and non-procedure ICD-10-CM codes. However, AHRQ only included the procedure-related ICD-10-CM codes in PSI 11, so this is not a valid issue (see the proposed changes with the ICD–10–CM/PCS conversion of AHRQ Quality Indicators™ at http://www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/icd10/).
Some of the researchers' conclusions clearly reflect a lack of understanding of the ICD-10-CM code set. For example, it is stated that the failure to include ICD-10-CM codes for "subsequent encounter" in the PSIs will result in underreporting. However, this is not a valid conclusion, as the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting state that "initial encounter" should continue to be coded as long as the patient is receiving active treatment for the condition, which is comparable to how the related ICD-9-CM codes are used today.
As CMS has often stated, in public meetings and in documents posted on their web site, the GEMs are not to be used for coding medical records. The GEMs were created as a tool for the conversion of data from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS and vice versa. They serve as a temporary transition tool and are essentially "ICD-10 training wheels." As organizations begin to dual code medical records (in both ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS) and thus have access to substantial amounts of real ICD-10-CM/PCS coded data, they are relying less on the GEMs. Actual coded data is a much better source of information than mapped data. So any results that use a highly abstracted superstructure built on top of the GEMs in order to make predictions about coding behavior should be taken with a very large grain of salt. This study may be an interesting informatics study, but the approach used in this study does not accurately predict the impact of ICD-10-CM on patient safety indicator data.
Finally, the authors of this research study miss the primary point of why it is essential the US move to ICD-10. Healthcare data continues to deteriorate as long as we continue to use a completely antiquated coding system. Numerous benefits of the transition to ICD-10 have been cited, including the provision of better information for:
- Measurement of quality of care, outcomes, patient safety, disease management
- Support for new healthcare delivery innovations — medical homes, value-based purchasing, etc.
- Improved public health through real-time monitoring and identification of potential health threats.


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Cooper Tire & Rubber Company (NYSE: CTB) today announced it has extended, for a brief period, the option commencement deadline within the agreement that Cooper, Chengshan Group Company Ltd. and the CCT labor union reached in January of this year, which set forth a process to determine the future ownership of Cooper Chengshan (Shandong) Tire Company Ltd (CCT). "The process to arrive at the long-term ownership of CCT is ongoing," said Cooper Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President Roy Armes. "Today was the deadline for the independent valuation firm to deliver its fair market valuation of CCT, which would have put in motion the put and call options specified by the January agreement. Cooper has briefly extended that deadline to allow for some additional work to take place related to the process. We will continue to communicate with investors and others at key points in this process as appropriate," Armes concluded. Forward Looking StatementsThis release contains what Cooper believes are "forward-looking statements," as that term is defined under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, regarding expectations or matters that the Company anticipates may happen with respect to the ultimate outcome of the transactions contemplated by the January agreement, which involve uncertainty and risk. Such "forward-looking statements" are generally, though not always, preceded by words such as "expects," "will," "intends" and similar terms that connote a view to the future and are not merely recitations of historical fact. Such statements are made solely on the basis of Cooper's current views and perceptions of future events, and there can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be true. It is possible that actual events may differ materially from those expectations due to a variety of factors, including but not limited to: the ability of the independent fair market valuation firm to complete its valuation; and changes in the Company's relationship with Chengshan, including changes resulting from the January agreement. It is not possible to foresee or identify all such factors. Any forward-looking statements in this release are based on certain assumptions and analyses made by Cooper in light of its experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions, expected future developments and other factors it believes are appropriate in the circumstances. Investors are cautioned that any such statements are not a guarantee of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected. Cooper makes no commitment to update any forward-looking statement included herein or to disclose any facts, events or circumstances that may affect the accuracy of any forward-looking statement. Further information covering issues that could materially affect financial performance is contained in Cooper's periodic filings with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission. About Cooper Tire & Rubber CompanyCooper Tire & Rubber Company (NYSE: CTB) is the parent company of a global family of companies that specialize in the design, manufacture, marketing, and sales of passenger car and light truck tires. Cooper has joint ventures, affiliates and subsidiaries that also specialize in medium truck, motorcycle and racing tires. Cooper's headquarters is in Findlay, Ohio, with manufacturing, sales, distribution, technical and design facilities within its family of companies located in 11 countries around the world. For more information on Cooper, visit www.coopertire.com, www.facebook.com/coopertire or www.twitter.com/coopertire.
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