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I had a heart attack and didn't realize: Obese grandmother who ate 3,850 calories a day in snacks alone, drops 178lbs after terrifying health scare
17:32 GMT, 20 November 2012
A grandmother, who was morbidly obese for 30 years, has told how she shed more than half her body weight after finding out that she had unknowingly suffered a heart attack.
Pam Holmes, 61, from Lincoln, Nebraska, used to weigh 328lb and everyday she would munch her way through 3,850 calories worth of snacks in between meals, including Oreo cookies, ice cream sundaes and bags of chips.
But when medical tests revealed the impact her weight was having on her health, she decided to radically change her diet and in 18 months she managed to lose 178lbs, dropping from a size XXXXX to a U.S. size 8.
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Life changing: Mrs Holmes previously weighed 328lb and wore size XXXXX clothes (left), but after ditching her snack food diet and taking up exercise she lost 178lb and today she had a U.S. size 4 wardrobe (right)
Today, Mrs Holmes enjoys walking and during the day she limits appetizers to 350 calories, reaching for fruit and vegetables instead of sugary treats.
Talking about her food addiction, she told the Today show: 'When it came to food I was not a gorger, my problem was constant grazing.
Transformation: Mrs Holmes says that she is proof 'that even in your sixties you are never too old to change'
'At work I'd munch on chips and candy
all day long so by lunch time I was never hungry, I thought I'd fooled
my coworkers that I had normal eating habits but all they had to do was look
at me to know the truth.
'Every night I would vow to start my diet the next day but by morning my resolve had evaporated.'
Before her weight loss, Pam Holmes, was gaining a pound a day thanks to her snack food diet. Here's a look at how she managed to consume 3,850 calories everyday in between meals:
A bag of chips
Six fun size candy bars
Vending machine Oreo cookies
A bowl of chips
Selection of creamy dipsPlate of crackersChocolate brownie sundae
Her weight problems started as a youngster, but it wasn't until she was married and had three children that she became morbidly obese.
For the next 30 years she gave up trying to lose weight and she revealed in an article for The Huffington Post: 'I moved very little. I had a kitchen chair that had rollers on it, and as much as possible I would remain seated while I cooked and cleaned up, rolling all over the kitchen.'
It was only when she found that she was constantly breathless, that she decided to consult doctors.
An EKG revealed that she had suffered a heart attack and she was sent for further tests.
While medics gave her the all-clear, Mrs Holmes said that their 'words scared me and made me turn my life around'.
She started by changing her snack food diet, stocking her kitchen cupboards with a range of healthy foods, such as fruit, salads and lean meats.
Realizing the importance of exercise, she also started walking short distances.
Describing her routine, she wrote in The Huffington Post: 'Every day I would go just a little further, after only making it to the end of my fairly-long driveway the first day.
Food addict: Mrs Holmes' weight problems started as a youngster, but it was until she was married and had three children that she became morbidly obese
Overindulgence During the evening, while preparing her dinner and after her meal Mrs Holmes would get through giant bowls of chips, crackers and ice cream sundaes
'I remember the day I made it one whole mile! I felt like Rocky and still call that spot at the end of my country road, my Rocky Moment.'
She describes that she had no goal weight in mind, but she remained determined to regain her health.
After 18 months she had slimmed down to 150lbs and today she regularly walks 5km.
'I won't say it's not a struggle and a challenge every day of my life, because I will always be a food addict'
'I love the feeling of getting breathless after exercise,' she exclaimed. 'After 30 years of being morbidly obese I am no longer a prisoner to my own obesity.
'I am proof that even in your sixties you are never too old to change your life.'
If she sees the scales inch upwards, she cuts back on her food, and increases her exercise routine.
With severe arthritis in almost every one of her joints Mrs Holmes cannot do much more than walking and she attributes most of her weight loss to calorie counting.
Commenting on her transformation. Mrs Holmes' husband of 43 years, Duane, said: 'It's awesome'
Discussing her current diet she continued on The Huffington Post: 'I never eat anything fried, or coated with breading. I don't eat my beloved potato chips, and I very rarely eat anything like cake, cookies or donuts.
'I have found some delicious low-fat dark chocolate candy, but try to keep my consumption of that to a minimum.'
Commenting on her new look, Mrs Holmes' husband of 43 years, Duane. said: 'It's a tremendous change, it's awesome.'
Mrs Holmes added: 'I won't say it's not a struggle and a challenge every day of my life, because I will always be a food addict, but when I consider all I have gained back in my life, it is well worth the effort.'
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Deep Comp- 2/25/16
Yoga at 12pm tomorrow.
Most people perform their best after a day of moderate exercise. Please do the following if this applies to you. On the other hand, if you feel like you need another rest day, take it.
I. Strength
A. Back Squat- work to 2 doubles at 70-75%
B. Every 90s for 10:30 (7 sets):
3 TnG Power Cleans 155/110#
6 Medicine ball Russian twists e/s
II. Conditioning
For 8 minutes:
Row at 65-70%
EMOM stop to perform 6 no push-up burpees
III. Mobility
Spend 30 minutes rolling out any lingering soreness.

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Say hello, or perhaps aye, to the month that is the end of Winter and the beginning of new life, new horizons, and such wonderful, wonderful green...
Month # 3.
Most importantly -- the Irish Month.
Oh, bless me soul, the amount, the depth of SPOOKY we owe our dear Ireland.
We'd have precious little Hallowe'en but for the Irish. And precious fewer public houses.
If not for Ireland, then, there'd certainly be no Skull & Pumpkin (and very likely no Humble Pubkeep for that matter).
And... we'd have no Elphaba.
That's right, the Wicked Witch is (at least partially) Irish. It's in the book. Deal with it.
As ever, a changed month means changed music on our li'l ol' S&P jukebox to the right.
We always begin with the official S&P theme song, The Great Pumpkin Waltz, but the second slot is usually a position of fun. In that vein, I offer a song that for me signifies something very early Spring, something very March-like.
From the now-classic 1977 animated TV movie The Hobbit, comes a lovely instrumental version of the memorable Roads Go Ever, Ever On, composed by Maury Laws. The soundtrack to this film has long been a family favorite and this song, for me, is such an integral element of the very idea of Spring.
In fact, all of Tolkien's incredible works are, in my mind and heart, wrapped up in Spring, renewal, family, music, celebration... all the things that make life so worthwhile. So sticking with this notion for one more song, I thought a bit of Howard Shore's breathtaking score for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) would be perfect. Concerning Hobbits is my favorite motif of the entire trilogy's worth of them. That pennywhistle...
Then, we have piece that I had on the player last March. Near Northern is the closing piece on the 1986 Live at Montreaux album from my favorite "new grass" group, the Anger-Higbie Quintet. You hear them a lot here at the S&P -- they write a lot of Autumn into their music.
And then, considering Ireland's many gifts of ghostliness to our culture, I thought I'd add a haunting little piece from 2001. From the piano of William Allaudin Mathieu and the inimitable pipes of Bobby McFerrin comes an improvisation called To The Well. One feels a sense of drawing, of quickening, in the repeated phrases and reel-like passages that fill this almost alien beauty.
Finally, a piece of real, honest-to-goodness Irish reel from a group called The Bothy Bandy, titled The Green Groves of Erin. It's exactly what you want to hear. Go on, no one will be bothered if you play this one first. I just thought it would live best next to last month's British Isle beauties John Barleycorn and The Unquiet Grave, which shall, of course, remain for yet another month -- they are just as appropriate now as ever.
March, you make me happy to have lived through a dark, deep Winter without ruining myself.
You help me dream again, and dream new dreams.
And like the hobbitish songs above suggest, life is often full of new dreams, new opportunities, choices to pick a new road, to maybe see an old road as something new, and to know that for the journey undertaken, coming home again will always be the sweeter...
... and if sweet homecomings ain't Irish, I simply don't know what is.
Oh, wait -- that's right:
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Cynthia Ozick and I have long differed on the name of my grandfather. Every decade or so, we run into each other at some New York gathering, and after exchanging pleasantries, I say, again, that the first name of my paternal grandfather, an immigrant from Ukraine, was Kusel (pronounced k'SEEL.) She informs me, once more, that it was Yekutiel, a name I'd never heard before I met her. Our discussions have always been cordial. Considering the fact that she is someone who is celebrated for her erudite essays as well as for her novels, she has been admirably free of condescension. I would compare the tone of our disagreement to a respectful difference in interpretation by two scholars — or maybe between one scholar and another person.
Cynthia Ozick never met my grandfather. She grew up in the Bronx; he lived in St. Joseph, Mo. It's true, I'll admit, that I never met my grandfather, either — he died before I was born — but I was named after him. In America, Central and Eastern European Jewish immigrants, who traditionally named their children in memory of a departed relative, concocted a custom of rendering the name in English with a name that begins with the same sound. A name like Shlomo would be passed on as a "Hebrew name," but the birth certificate of Shlomo's grandson would identify him as Sherman or Sheldon. From Kusel I became Calvin. I can't remember which departed relative was responsible for my middle name, Marshall. When I'm asked where that name is from, I always say: "It's an old family name. Not our family, but an old family name."
Cynthia Ozick's argument, laid out in a closely reasoned letter she sent me a dozen years ago, included the fact that Yekutiel was a common name where my grandfather came from. At the time, the Hebrew letter taf was pronounced in Europe as an "S" — a pronunciation that lasted throughout my childhood. After the founding of Israel, Sephardic Hebrew, which pronounced the taf as a "T," took over — completely, by the way, without my consent. Kusel, she said, was a shortening of what would have sounded like Yekusiel. She even rounded up some distinguished Yekusiels, like Yekusiel ben Yehuda Ha-Cohen of Prague, a grammarian who lived in the 13th century.
My side of the argument would be summarized fairly, I think, as, "He was my grandfather."
I assume Cynthia Ozick mentioned people like Yekusiel ben Yehuda Ha-Cohen in a considerate effort to soften the blow a bit when her letter made it obvious that I was wrong. She had no way of knowing that what Yekusiel ben Yehuda Ha-Cohen was to grammar, my forebears were to stubbornness. It is not our custom to admit that we were wrong simply because an overwhelming and indisputable body of evidence has been marshaled to indicate as much.
Enter Cousin Keith — an English professor in North Carolina whose Hebrew name is, of course, Kusel. Not long ago, Cousin Keith emailed me a picture of our grandfather's gravestone. Most of the inscription was in Hebrew, but the first name was in large English block letters: Kusel. "Aha!" I said out loud.
Then I read the body of Cousin Keith's email. He said that he had the Hebrew writing translated by his sister, who's a rabbi — almost certainly the only female rabbi to come out of Salina, Kan. The Hebrew writing identified the deceased, "a humble and upright man," as Yekutiel, son of Gadaliyahu. The world knew him as Kusel, Cousin Keith wrote, but Kusel was just a nickname. Our grandfather's name was Yekutiel.
This left hanging the question of what I would do the next time I spotted Cynthia Ozick at some gathering. We are, after all, about due. "That's easy," I told Cousin Keith. "I'll avoid her."
"But I didn't mean that," I later told my daughters, in bringing them up-to-date on the status of their great-grandfather's name. "I'll have to tell her that she was right, even if that means being the first person in my family ever to admit having been wrong. Maybe she'll at least let me stick to the non-Sephardic pronunciation."
"Haven't you forgotten something?" my daughter Abigail asked.
"What's that?"
"You and Cousin Keith have the wrong names," she said. "If you were named in memory of someone named Yekutiel, your names begin with the wrong sound."
She was right. I informed Cousin Keith of Abigail's observation in my next email. It began, "Dear Cousin Yancey."


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PCA Qualified Technician (PCAQT) – Japanese knotweed
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Anguilla is a peaceful authentic island that has an embargo on cruise ships, casinos, and high-rise hotels. It has unmarked and unpaved roads, clear coral filled waters, and beachfront villas.
Meads Bay is known for its soft white sands, aqua colored waters, and breath taking views. It is located on the western end of Anguilla and is never crowded. There are chairs available for rent and great places to eat.
This beach has calm waters and is an ideal getaway for those who do not want to be in a crowded place. You will truly enjoy this 2- mile piece of paradise if you like to disconnect and relax.
Sandy Ground is a popular beach that is located in front of many restaurants. It is Anguilla's main harbor and usually has a lot of people. Sandy Ground especially receives a lot of traffic from foreign sailors and families.
Shoal Bay East is the most popular beach out of Anguilla's 33 beaches. There are plenty of bars and restaurants, plus rental equipment for snorkeling, parasailing and scuba diving.
Little Bay is a cove located in northwest Anguilla. People typically enjoy swimming and snorkeling in the beautiful aqua blue waters. It is recommended to stay around for the late afternoon to watch its breath taking sunsets.
This is one of the most tranquil and picturesque beaches of the Caribbean. The cays are two small islands located about 6 miles from the mainland. The islands have calm, shallow waters ideals for swimming. There is an onsite restaurant and plenty of beach chairs available for rent.
This house is located in the capital city of The Valley, and is one of the oldest buildings in Anguilla. If you like history you must visit this historical site. Wallblake is the only standing plantation home left on the island. This building dates back all the way back to 1787.
This luxurious hotel offers the ultimate relaxation as well as fun activities everyone can enjoy. There are scuba diving and snorkeling expeditions, a putting green, three tennis courts, and a rock-climbing wall. They have an 8,000 square foot spa that overlooks the ocean. They also have a 24-hour fitness center is equipped with Technogym cardiovascular, strength-training and Kinesis machines, as well as spin bikes, free weights and exercise accessories. It has 3 pools that are all ocean front and 5 restaurant onsite. There is also room service available 24 hours a day.
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This hotel overlooks Rendezvous Bay on the western end of Anguilla. All suites, penthouses and villas come with a patio, balcony or terrace with a partial or full ocean view. Penthouses offer two or three bedrooms, plus kitchens and dining rooms. And in the resort's villas, travelers will find up to five bedrooms, kitchens, dining rooms and private pools. There are 5 restaurants a room service that is available 24 hours a day. The hotel has an infinity edge pool that stretches from the resort's main building to the beach. They offer a 27,000 square foot spa that feature 16 treatment rooms. There is a fitness center that offers weekly complimentary fitness classes, personal trainers. Guests also have access to tennis and bocce ball courts or water sports equipment like kayaks and paddleboards for free.
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There once was an old door. It was a faithful friend who stood guard over it's owners home for many, many years. But it was time. Time for it to go.
|Getting ready to paint the new door.
So a new door went up in it's place but it was very plain. And it did not like being very plain.
|Finished door and repainted room.
Then one day it's owner got out the paint brushes and the paint and the door was plain no more.
|Adding a little character with a stencil and silver metallic paint.
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Kate Rorick is...
Emmy Award-winning writer Kate Rorick is the author of The Baby Plan for William Morrow. She is also a television writer and producer, most recently for TNT's The Librarians. In 2014, Kate wrote for the You-Tube internet sensation, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, and co-authored two books based on the series, The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet, and The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet.
In her vast spare time, she moonlights as the bestselling author of several historical romance novels written under the pseudonym Kate Noble.
Kate lives in Los Angeles with her family.
And yes, her hair is naturally curly.


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We're often asked "which is the best glove for me?" so over the next few weeks, we'll give you a run down!!
Let's start with the eGlove EQUEST horse riding glove range:
So, we've got 2 styles - the EQUEST GripPro and the EQUEST Winter Elite.
The GripPro range comes in 3 traditional colours (with Navy Blue coming soon!). Like all of our gloves, we start off by making the best riding glove we can, then add the touchscreen bit! The feedback we get is that they are comfortable, hardwearing, and wash up well!! They are designed to be worn tight so that you retain "feel" on the reins. As they are a thin glove, they won't be the warmest - but that's the trade off for feel.
This time of year, the Winter Elite Riding Glove is particularly popular. It's really snug to wear, and has a nice feel from a riders perspective. The short cuff allows for freedom of movement for riding, and they aren't so thick that you lose the feel through the reins! Best of all these are a great all round winter glove - you can wear them to the yard, in the yard, and whilst riding. They wash up well and the all black features mean you can wear them as an all round glove, with casual or smart clothes! Oh and of course, they are touchscreen friendly!
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Our XTREME range have much in common with the Winter Elite, but are a little more hardcore, and a little less riding specific! They have more water resistance and a windstopper membrane to help keep the chill out! The thick tight cuff keeps the element on the outside, and the warmth in! Whilst these are not designed to ride in, many people do and love them when out hacking! We'd say these were more of a yard glove, and as you'd expect, they are fully machine washable! The XTREME range comes in Black, Back with Hi-Vis Green and Pink. Take a look here
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'The Outsider' from the Vicarage
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The Syrophoenician Woman's Faith
From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. He said to her, 'Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs.' But she answered him, 'Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs.' Then he said to her, 'For saying that, you may go—the demon has left your daughter.' So she went home, found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.
Jesus Cures a Deaf Man
Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. They brought to him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they begged him to lay his hand on him. He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue. Then looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, 'Ephphatha', that is, 'Be opened.' And immediately his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. Then Jesus ordered them to tell no one; but the more he ordered them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. They were astounded beyond measure, saying, 'He has done everything well; he even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.
Well you cannot escape the developments regarding migrants or asylum seekers or illegal immigrants?
When Migrants were crossing the Mediterranean Sea, Katie Hopkins (who believes she has a right to be offensive) referred to these people as Cockroaches. The words "Swarm" and illegal were being used, to try and incite fear and loathing.
The tragic photo of Aylan Kurdi on that Turkish beach, brought home the reality that we are talking about human beings. It was then that politicians suddenly found a voice in support of these migrants, that we were being shamed by the welcome that they received in Germany, where people opened their homes and footballers gave their wages away.
In the UK, references were being made to when the UK welcomed, Hugenouts, Jewish Children, Ugandan Asians, Vietnamese Boat People. A recollection that we have a heritage of welcoming the outsider.
At the time of Jesus, there were many groups of people considered as outsiders. And Jesus is in their turf. What we witness is the brutal reality of how these outsiders were considered and a change in heart. So let us take a closer look
First there is this woman whose daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit. This woman came from a group of people who were considered not just outsiders, but enemies and those who contaminated God's people. She was a Syrian! When Jesus makes the reference to dogs, I believe that he was using a common phrase to describe these people.
What Jesus encountered was a woman who would not give up for the sake of her child, she would not argue with Jesus calling her a dog! Instead using that description to show her faith
'Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs.'
Jesus was amazed and so her daughter was restored. In a place where he did not expect faith, he found faith.
The other account is of the deaf man who had a speech impediment. Again Jesus is in outsider territory. Mark is building on the encounter Jesus had with the Syrian woman.
This man is deaf and cannot speak properly. For the Jew the outsider is deaf to the word of God and is unable to respond to God, because they are not Jewish. They do not belong.
But Jesus takes this man aside and speaks
Ephphatha', that is, 'Be opened.'
Place your hand in front of your mouth and say that Aramaic word Ephphatha. Can you feel your breath saying that word. The man did not hear the word he felt it!
So often we assume that people understand what we are saying, but sometimes they don't. But they know how they feel when they meet you. The smile, the gesture, the welcome all make a difference to someone who does not understand
This man is healed he can hear and speak. The Outsider can now belong!
This is the point of these two encounters. The Outsider can now belong.
So what could God be saying to us today?
Be aware of how you prejudices can make people less than human. I do not know if Jesus was prejudiced against Syrians, but he spoke about them in a prejudiced way. It was listening to this woman, that Jesus encountered a surprising faith and the woman's daughter was restored.
Prejudice, fear, history dissolved and healing came. Be aware of how you prejudices can make people less than human.
The second thing is that people often feel before they understand.
"You'll never get a second chance to make a first impression!"
So what impression do you leave?
We started with migrants so let us end with them and two ways in which people have applied some of these principles.
In Germany, Football fans displayed banners with the words "Refugees Welcome!". They were telling the world, that these outsiders can belong. They went passed the usual arguments and extended welcome.
The second is the way that normal people in the UK are collecting tents, clothes, medicines, sanitary items for women and then travelling to Calais to give them to those migrants who are not welcomed. They have replaced the impression left, by fences, dogs and police with an impression of care and generosity.
Healing is not just about illness, it is about putting things right. Of taking a risk of including the outsider and enabling them to belong
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It was a controversial judgement that brought down the curtain on the tenure of the former Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir yesterday. The striking down of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) was one that had an impact on the lakhs of students and doubts are already being raised over it.
The NEET was welcomed by students as a single transparent solution to admissions instead of the various exams to be written to get admission for 31,000 seats in MBBS and 11,000 seats in MD courses.
However, while the verdict found favour among two judges on the three judge bench, Justice AR Dave who had dissented with the verdict and in a 35-page dissent hinted that he was rushed into the judgement by the imminent departure of Kabir.
"As the Chief Justice is to retire within a few days I have to be quick and also short," he wrote.
The judge also noted that prior to the preparation of the draft judgements the three judges had 'no discussion' due to the lack of time.
And while dissent by one judge in a three-judge bench isn't unusual, it is an allegation that the verdict on the case was known in advance that has cast a shadow on the judgement.
"For the better part of the last week, senior counsel and junior advocates alike have without compunction shared a story that the appeals by the private colleges will be allowed with a declaration that the MCI has no jurisdiction, and that Justice Dave will dissent from this view," Gopal Sankarnarayanan, an advocate in the Supreme Court wrote in an article on Bar and Bench.
"The judgment, it is confidently touted, runs into more than 190 pages and in excess of 300 paragraphs. It is my fervent hope that this tale is false – a figment of some perverse and destructive mind. In a few hours, we will know the truth," he wrote, a good two hours before the verdict was delivered.
As a column pointed in the Times of India, the uncanny accuracy of the prediction, given the secrecy with which matters are usually handled in the Supreme Court, raised many an eyebrow.
Apart from this judgement, Sankarnarayanan raised other questions about the manner in which Kabir had functioned during his tenure which lasted around a year including poor administration of the courts and stepping into cases, notably in Sahara and Sunil Mittal.
In addition to this criticism, a report that Kabir attempted to push for a high court judge to be elevated to the Supreme Court, only to flare up and accuse the collegium of judges of 'ganging up' against him when they rejected it, doesn't portray him in the best light.
According to a Times of India report, Kabir had held a meeting of the collegium of judges on 2 July which included Justices P Sathasivam, GS Singhvi, RM Lodha and HL Dattu, where he told them of the proposal.
However, he was told that since the warrant of appointment of the next Chief Justice had already come it wasn't right for Kabir to push for the appointment of a judge to the apex court. They reinforced their opinions individually as well, forcing Kabir to drop the proposal.
Neither Sankarnarayanan nor any other authority has raised questions about the honesty of Kabir during his tenure, however, the final judgement by the former Chief Justice of India will also remained tainted by controversy for multiple reasons.
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Rental property is an incredible asset, both to owner and resident if it's cared for by knowledgeable professionals. Delta Property Management is proud to offer high-quality property management services in the Fresno county area, ensuring that every home is a happy home from both perspectives.
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CARENET is based at Kingston General Hospital in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and led by Dr. Daren K. Heyland, a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Queen's University in Kingston.
CARENET is a group of health care professionals from across the country who collaborate with each other to understand and improve palliative and end-of-life care through research, healthcare/patient tools and communication and decision making between patients, their families and health professionals.
As a group, we believe that we can make significant improvements to end of life care in Canada by optimizing communication and decision-making between seriously ill patients, their families and health professionals.
CARENET Goals
- To foster clinically-relevant, collaborative multi-centre research related to Palliative/End of Life (P/EOL care) with a focus on communication and decision-making.
- To recruit, provide mentorship, and training of junior investigators in the field of P/EOL care.
- To create a forum for interdisciplinary members of the NET to exchange expertise about diverse research methodologies, measurement techniques, and designs in this field.
- To build research capacity through networking of experienced P/EOL investigators that collectively are more productive (value added) than working individually with their own grants.
- To develop knowledge translation strategies to disseminate best practice and policies derived by the group.
- To improve P/EOL communication and DM through medical trainee education and professional development.
Director- Dr. Daren K. Heyland
Dr. Heyland is a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario Canada and is trained in Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Clinical Epidemiology. He currently as the Director of the Clinical Evaluation Research Unit at the Kingston General Hospital. Over the past several years, he has organized and chaired a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research team to guide the conceptualization, implementation, and interpretation of research in end of life decision making and quality care assessments. As the Director of CARENET, Dr. Heyland is responsible for the overall operations and scientific leadership of CARENET. Under Dr. Heyland's leadership, CARENET has successfully obtained peer-reviewed funding for EOL research and has published extensively in this area.


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|Juanma Barranquero
|Re: How modify numbers in a region by a multiplier?
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On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:49, Seweryn Kokot <address@hidden> wrote: > Can we say that the second > version is more elispy (more elegant and safer) than the first one? That is hard to say; different tastes, etc. I personally would write it like this: (defun my-multiply-numbers-in-region-or-buffer (&optional multiplier float-points) (interactive (list (read-number "Specify a multiplier: " 0.001) (read-number "Specify the number of significant figures: " 3))) (let ((region (use-region-p))) (save-restriction (widen) (narrow-to-region (if region (region-beginning) (point-min)) (if region (region-end) (point-max))) (goto-char (point-min)) (while (re-search-forward "\\([0-9.]+\\)" nil t) (replace-match (format (concat "%." (number-to-string float-points) "f" ) (* (string-to-number (match-string 1)) multiplier)))) (message "Numbers in %s modified by multiplier %s." (if region "region" "buffer") multiplier)))) but that does *not* mean that it is more elegant or lispy; just more to my tastes :-) > (save-restriction you should use here (widen) > (narrow-to-region beg end) Juanma
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Leadership London
Leadership London
Where better to discover your inner leader than in one of the world's leading cities? FIE's Spring Leadership London Semester is designed to engage students with various facets of leadership in the global city of London and the greater globalized world we live in today. This experience provides the opportunity to examine models of leadership both within and outside the classroom. Throughout the semester, students will view leadership through a variety of lenses, both theoretical and practical, and reflect upon what leadership means in their own personal and professional development. Combining rigorous academic coursework, an internship at a British organization, and international leadership conference participation, students will return home with a robust experience to fuel their future leadership endeavors. This concentration aims to:
- Dive deep into Ethical Leadership through FIE's signature course that serves as the centerpiece which ties the Leadership London experience together
- Participate in FIE's weekend-long Student Global Leadership Conference as a delegate and with involvement in delivering a conference presentation, with options to serve on the planning committee and/or assist in the on-site running of the conference
- Gain exposure to leaders across a variety of contexts, including students, faculty members, consultants, and professionals
- Develop an individual, personal leadership plan
- Participate in an internship with a small-to-midsize British organization with an opportunity to develop leadership skills
- FIE Leadership Certificate
Suggested electives to complement leadership studies include:
- Ethical Dilemmas: Business and the World
- International Diplomacy
- Political Communication: Framing and Re-framing Self-Interests in the UK and Abroad
Students can also choose from among FIE's wide course offerings in the areas of
- Arts, Literature & Theater
- Contemporary Britain
- Global Business
- Global Studies
- History & Politics
- Humanities & Social Sciences
- Media & Communications
- Peace, Conflict & Social Justice
Internships are a hallmark of the FIE experience; opportunities to develop leadership skills abound in virtually every area of placement we offer. During the Leadership London experience, students will intern with a small-to-midsize British organization in one of the following Internship Industry Areas:
- Business & Entrepreneurship
- Communications & Journalism
- Education
- Environment & Sustainability
- Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Fashion, Beauty & Lifestyle
- Finance & Accountancy
- Historical & Cultural Organizations
- Technology & Design
- Legal & Justice Organizations
- Politics
- Public Health and Wellbeing
- Social Welfare & Non-Profit Organizations
Learn more about these areas, including specific sub-areas in each discipline and the entire placement process, on our Internship section of the website.
In the Ethical Leadership course, students will explore the interconnectedness of leadership and ethics. They will examine the ethical background of what leaders are, what they do, and how they do it. Students will further assess the public and private morality of leaders, the moral obligations of leaders and followers, the ways in which leaders shape the morality of their environments, and the dynamics of power.
FIE's Ethical Leadership course is central to the Leadership London initiative, combining classroom study with both attendance and presentation involvement at the annual FIE Student Global Leadership Conference (SGLC). The weekend-long conference is held at FIE's Kensington Campus in central London in early April. It empowers emerging student leaders to engage in inclusive leadership, value diverse contributions, challenge bias, and build stronger local and global teams. Events include keynote speakers and breakout sessions, and may also feature film screenings, special performances, receptions, icebreaker activities, and more.
The presentation assignment of the Ethical Leadership course will be incorporated into the conference presentation delivered in a breakout session of the SGLC. The group presentation for this course will examine the future leadership challenges in the area of sustainability. In particular, students will be asked to consider the ethics of sustainability in a leadership context. Students will receive an e-certificate from FIE for participating in the conference breakout session.
- Spring Semester — 15.5 weeks
- Interested students should fill out an FIE application as normal on MyStudy@FIE as outlined on our Admissions & Application webpage. Within the application, under the Academic Program Options questionnaire, applicants will be asked if they would like to select Leadership London @ FIE concentration.
- There is Lab Fee of £60 for the Ethical Leadership course. Students will be reminded of the lab fee upon course registration, again during pre-departure, and then upon arrival in London. The lab fee is payable (cash or card) during Orientation week as part of the arrivals process.


text: 12 Baby Shower 'Mini Menu' Food Ideas. By MyInvites, 01 Feb 2016 Feeding a gaggle of friends for your own or your friend's pre-baby celebration? What a great opportunity to serve up a decadent spread! If the gender of the baby is known, go crazy with pink or blue (or do a mix of the two). And make the most of mini morsels – 'baby-sized' bites that are easy to eat while you gossip and play silly games.Tip: don't forget to avoid those foods that are a no-no for pregnant women – seeing it's her special day, don't serve up dishes that contain soft cheeses, deli meats, smoked salmon, raw egg, oysters, sushi, soft-serve ice-cream or pate.Here's a fab baby shower menu that'll satisfy your pregnant friend's cravings as well as fill her guests' tummies nicely!Some of our favourite baby shower mini treats…Mini cupcakes.These are always a treat. Served on a cake stand or tiered treats display they make a fabulous centerpiece.Mini meringues.Guests will love these light and fluffy sugary puffs in soft pastels. Easy to pre-make the day before, which is a planning bonus.Mini fruit sticks.Pregnant women should eat plenty of fresh, healthy food, so create bite-size fruit 'kebab' sticks. Thread toothpicks with balls of watermelon or rockmelon, halved strawberries, whole blueberries and other colourful mini pieces of fruit. Use baby-themed fancy toothpicks for fun.Mini personalised chocolate bars.Here's an easy one – just grab a stack of your favourite chocolate bars, then cover each in a cute, personalised wrapper. Create your own with parchment or brown paper or use baby themed wrapping paper. Add a special little tag with the names of your guests.Mini cookie favours.Get hold of some baby-themed cookie cutters (think rocking horse, teddy bear, baby's bottle) and punch out yummy favours for guests to take home. Bag in cellophane tied with pink and blue ribbon.Mini sandwiches.Everyone loves classic chicken and mayo sandwich. Cut them in ribbon fingers with crusts off so they can be enjoyed fuss-free.Mini puff pasty pinwheels.These are tasty and look a bit fancy, even though they are very simple to make!… and if you're still feeling hungry, remember some old-fashioned mini favourites.Mini favourites.Mini-QuichesMini-PizzasMini HamburgersMini MeatballsWe have a gorgeous range of baby shower invitations that you can send online to your guests in minutes. Take a peek here. - Browse our range of fabulous online party invitations.


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Breasts shape and size are transformed not only with hormonal changes but also with the pass of time, it is important to point out that the skin of breasts ages as fast as the skin of face and neck because it has the heavy labor of supporting the mammary glands.
Breasts require special cares at any age, but past the age of forty is probably the stage on which breasts will require more attention. Many changes have taken place since adolescence, especially if a woman has had kids, for each pregnancy sudden changes of size have been suffered by breasts. The appearance of breasts at this age usually is flaccid and it starts loosing shape and volume.
Most women consider this age appropriate to have a surgery to recover the beauty of their breasts, but many risks and complications should be considered along with this decision. Surgery is not precisely the best option for enhancing the beauty of breasts, starting with the high costs that these involve, and because of the risks they imply.
As it happens with many surgical procedures, breast Implants are a potential source of postoperative complications such as redness, swelling, infections, pain and bleeding. One of the conditions generated by breasts implants is known as "Capsular contracture" on which the scar tissue or "capsule" formed around the implant tightens and applies pressure on the breast implant. This condition is very common when implant is placed between the mammary gland and the pectoral muscle, symptoms related to this condition can include from mild discomfort to severe pain, distortion of the shape becomes visible and sometimes is easy to see how the implant is moving inside the breast.
When the condition worsens an additional surgery will be required in order to replace or remove definitely the implant, depending on the health of the patient. Also, there are no guaranties for the patient of not suffering this condition after the additional surgery. There is no much the patient can do in order to prevent this complication since there is always the possibility of contamination during the insertion of the implant, also another cause for this condition is the development of fluids around the implant (phenomenon known with the name of seroma) and also there is the possibility of internal bleeding (hematoma). Also some lifestyle factors like smoking could trigger this condition.
Considering the complications carried by a surgery, new solutions have been developed in order to restore the self confidence of woman. Many women are looking for to improve their physical appearance, and there are studies which show that a breast size augment has increased the self confidence level in many women.
Among the natural solutions available on the market, there is an especial product which has been especially formulated with natural ingredients and which counts with the approval of the FDA. This product has the name of Breast Actives; it has been clinically tested corroborating the effectiveness and safety of this treatment.


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Found this clip yesterday and I cant just stop thinking about and wonder who might have lived there and why stay so hidden. I have so many questions and thoughts about this so if anyone know anything about this please share.
2 tankar kring "Cabin in the woods"
Johannes Glännman
Things like that makes your brain going..
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A Boy Scout group leader and his partner have been charged with sexual abuse. Police say the crimes happened over the span of a 20-year period.
Former leader arrested on allegations of sexual misconduct with minors more than 30 years after the original complaint was filed
The original complaint was filed with the Boy Scouts of America nearly 30 years ago, but it took a comprehensive review from national Scout leaders in October 2013 to rediscover the allegations against William Challberg, and less than a year later, the 65-year-old Phoenix man was in custody on suspicion of molesting boys decades earlier, according to court records.
Phoenix investigators believe there could be more victims who have not come forward.
Challberg was arrested Thursday on more than two dozen sex-crime allegations some of which took place in his Phoenix home during a 20-year period, according to police.
But court documents released Friday morning detail the drug-and-alcohol fueled encounters Challberg had with his victims, and Challberg's abuse of his position as a trusted scout leader, according to court documents.
Challberg's 51-year-old roommate, Julian Mendoza, was also arrested on more than a dozen allegations involving crimes against children.
Challberg was 35 years when he began committing the alleged offenses, many of which occurred at his home near 32nd Street and Campbell Avenue, and Mendoza was 20 years old, police records show.
Phoenix police were contacted in October 2013 by the new risk-assessment supervisor of the Boy Scouts of America, who reported an incident of sexual abuse involving Challberg and one victim, according to court records.
The victim and his father filed a written complaint with Boy Scouts of America in 1986, according to a police statement. They did not file a separate complaint with Phoenix police.
The victim, who is now 45, told police he met Challberg at a Boy Scouts conference in New Jersey in 1983.
The victim told police Challberg molested him when he was 14 years old at a Boy Scouts activity in Phoenix, according to court documents. The same day, Challberg allegedly took the victim to his home and showed him pornographic movies and engaged in sexual activity in front of the teen, according to court records.
The victim also told police that Challberg engaged in sexual conduct with him inside of a bus in downtown Phoenix. Challberg was a bus driver for Veolia Transportation at the time.
Challberg also asked the victim to bring other boys to his house, according to court records. The victim brought one friend to Challberg's home and upon learning that the friend died of AIDS as an adult, Challberg allegedly sent the victim a letter asking him to get checked for AIDS, court documents show.
The victim said the last time Challberg sexually abused him was when he was about 16, when Challberg forcefully engaged in sexual activity with him, according to police documents.
Upon interviewing the victim, police identified several other victims.
A second man told police that when he was between 13 and 14 years old, he was at Challberg's home drinking beer and smoking marijuana when Challberg molested him, police records show.
The boy and Challberg allegedly engaged in sexual conduct on multiple occasions, including during a trip to a lake in Peoria, according to court documents.
The second victim also alleged Challberg recorded him engaging in sexual activity and allowed him to watch the recording.
A third boy, who was friends with the second victim, told police Challberg would offer him beer or money for beer in exchange for sexual conduct, but he would always decline, according to police records. He also told investigators Challberg would invite him and the second victim to watch pornographic material and asked to videotape them.
A fourth boy told police he lived in the same neighborhood as Challberg, and that Challberg would give him and his younger brother pornographic material, according to court documents. Challberg also showed the fourth victim a home video of him engaging in sexual conduct with a young male, according to court documents.
Challberg is being held without bond because of the nature of the charges.


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Thanks for a great job – again. Every year I have Blue Sky wash the windows of our two storey house, plus the glass cover for the deck, inside and out. The job is done with remarkable care and requires no effort from me. This year, I was thankful that the screens were cleaned as well. This is one of those jobs that would take me forever to do and now, within a couple of hours – they are done.
I did hire another company, SS, 3 years ago when Blue Sky wasn't available for some time and the window cleaning was so substandard, it wasn't worth the time I had to put into setting them up. I've returned to only using Blue Sky and my windows are always perfectly cleaned.
Thanks again for a great job." Cheers K.M
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|Photos can be found on my Pinterest Beauty Board.
Although I know that lipstick can be a bit of trouble - you have to make sure you don't smear it anywhere, drinking, eating and kissing becomes tricky and your skin should be as flawless as possible - a bright or statement lip colour can be very empowering. Personally, I think I look better, healthier and more fun if I wear either my bright pink, bright red or dark red lipstick. I often restrict it to special occasions, but every once in a while I put some on for just a normal day at work, a day in the park or just while shopping in town. You should try it too, it does really have an impact on your mood - and mainly in a good way! I quite like the Rimmel Moitsure Renew Lipsticks; try Diva Red, Berry Queen or Rose Passion for the perfect pout!


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The Queensbury Hotel Becomes Major Sponsor of Hospital's Annual Golf Tourney
The Queensbury Hotel has signed on as a major sponsor of the 8th annual Cindy & Skeets Glens Falls Hospital Cancer Day Golf Tournament, to be held Friday, July 8, at the Glens Falls Country Club.
The tournament is the largest annual fundraiser for the hospital's C.R. Wood Cancer Center, and has raised a total of nearly $700,000 to fund support programs for cancer patients and their families over the past seven years.
Additional sponsorship opportunities are available by contacting Cristina Britton of the Glens Falls Hospital Foundation at (518) 926-5969 or email@example.com.
"We are extremely grateful to The Queensbury for stepping up in support of area cancer patients and the hospital, and we encourage other businesses and organizations to join them," said Glens Falls Hospital Vice President of Development Cindy Sherwood.
Queensbury businessman and philanthropist Ed Moore, who purchased the iconic Downtown Glens Falls hotel earlier this year, said, "What a great opportunity to reconnect The Queensbury with our community in a truly meaningful way. In one day, this tournament raises money that will make a difference in people's lives for years to come."
Morning tee times can still be reserved at www.bireasepro.com/cindyandskeets. Registration includes a barbecue lunch. An awards reception and live auction will take place following the afternoon round of play.
The tournament honors the memories of the late Cindy Ginsburg and Ralph "Skeets" Woodbbury, two longtime and beloved members of the regional community who lived with cancer for many years and supported the Cancer Center in many ways. The hospital's first Cancer Day Golf Tournament was held in 1974 and was later named in honor of Mr. Woodbury, one of its founding organizers. In 2009, that tournament was merged with Cindy's Summer Classic, which was founded in honor of Ms. Ginsburg.
The C.R. Wood Cancer Center is a nationally accredited comprehensive community cancer center, offering advanced medical and radiation oncology; cancer prevention and early detection programs; and a wide variety of innovative education and support programs.


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Gillen,, A. M. C.,, Kirby, Karen, McAteer, D, Tracey,, A and Rushe,, T (2017) Understanding self-harm: Young people's perspectives. (2017). In: Hidden Harms Conference, University of Suffolk, Ipswich. https://www.uos.ac.uk/events/hidden-harms-conference-0. 1 pp. [Conference contribution]
Long, Maggie, Manktelow, Roger and Tracey, Anne (2016) "Knowing that I'm not alone": client perspectives on counselling for self-injury. Journal of Mental Health, 25 (1). pp. 41-46. [Journal article]
Corry, Dagmar, Tracey, Anne and Lewis, Christopher (2015) Spirituality and Creativity in Coping, Their Association and Transformative Effect: A Qualitative Enquiry. Religions, 6 (2). p. 499. [Journal article]
Long, M., Manktelow, R. and Tracey, Anne (2014) The Healing Journey: Help Seeking for Self-Injury Among a Community Population. Qualitative Health Research . [Journal article]
Long, Maggie, Manktelow, Roger and Tracey, Anne (2014) The Healing Journey: Help Seeking for Self-Injury Among a Community Population. Qualitative Health Research, Online . pp. 1-13. [Journal article]
Long, Maggie, Manktelow, Roger and Tracey, Anne (2013) We are all in this together: Working towards a holistic understanding of self-harm. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 20 (2). pp. 105-113. [Journal article]
LONG, M., MANKTELOW, R. and Tracey, Anne (2012) We are all in this together: working towards a holistic understanding of self-harm. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 20 (2). p. 105. [Journal article]
Shevlin, Mark, Murphy, Siobhan, McElearney, Aisling, O'Kane, Damian, Tracey, Anne and Adamson, Gary (2012) Confirmatory factor analysis of adolescent self- and informant ratings of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. The Irish Journal of Psychology, 33 (1). p. 17. [Journal article]
McElearney, Aisling, Scott, Joanne, Stephenson, Phyllis, Tracey, Anne and Corry, Dagmar (2011) Keeping Safe: The views of principals, teachers and other school staff in relation to teaching "keeping safe" messages in primary schools in Northern Ireland. NSPCC. 72 pp. [Research report (external)]
Russell-Carroll, J and Tracey, Anne (2011) Intergenerational Transmission of Reciprocal Role Procedures, Personality Integrity and Self-Esteem in Fathers and Sons. Irish Journal of Psychology, 32 (3-4). pp. 1-14. [Journal article]
Stephenson, P, Tracey, Anne and McElearney, A (2011) The views of cross-sector stakeholders in relation to teaching "keeping safe" messages in primary schools in Northern Ireland. NSPCC. 36 pp. [Research report (external)]
Tracey, Anne (2011) Perpetual loss and pervasive gief: daughters speak about the death of their mother in childhood. Bereavement Care, 30 (3). pp. 17-24. [Journal article]
McGovern, Mary and Tracey, Anne (2010) A comparative examination of schools' responses to bereavement and the associated needs of the school community in Galway, West of Ireland and Derry, Northern Ireland. Pastoral Care in Education, 28 (3). pp. 235-252. [Journal article]
Millar, Robert and Tracey, Anne (2009) The Interview Approach. In: Auditing Organisational Communication: A handbook of research, theory and practice. Routledge, London, pp. 78-102. ISBN 978-0-415-41446-3 [Book section]
Tracey, Anne, McElearney, Aisling, Adamson, Gary and Shevlin, Mark (2009) Practitioners' views and experiences of participating in a school counselling evaluation study. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 9 (3). pp. 193-203. [Journal article]
Tracey, Anne and Holland, J (2008) A comparative study of the child bereavement and loss responses and needs of schools in Hull, Yorkshire and Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Pastoral Care in Education, 26 (4). pp. 253-266. [Journal article]
Esters, Irvin G., Tracey, Anne and Millar, Robert (2007) The application of the things I worry about scale to a sample of at-risk American adolescents: An examination of psychometric properties. Adolescence -San Diego, 42 (168). pp. 699-721. [Journal article]
McElearney, Aisling, Adamson, Gary, Shevlin, Mark, Tracey, Anne, Muldoon, Bronagh and Roosmale-Cocq, Selina (2007) Independent Schools Counselling: Profiling the NSPCC Service Experience. Child Care in Practice, 13 (2). pp. 95-115. [Journal article]
Adamson, Gary, McElearney, A, Bunting, Brendan, Shevlin, Mark, Tracey, Anne and Williams, S (2006) Summary Report - Independent schools counselling: does it work? The effectiveness of the NSPCC's independent schools counselling in promoting positive change in the emotional health and wellbeing of children and young people at school in Northern Ireland. NSPCC. 20 pp. [Research report (external)]
Millar, Robert and Tracey, Anne (2006) The Selection Interview. In: The Handbook of Communication Skills - 7th Edition. Routledge, London, pp. 453-479. ISBN 978-0-415-41446-3 [Book section]
Gallagher, M, Tracey, Anne and Millar, Robert (2005) Ex-clients' evaluation of bereavement counselling in a voluntary sector agency. PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY-THEORY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE, 78 (Part 1). pp. 59-76. [Journal article]
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Last night I took part in one of the greatest traditions in the Stanford art community: carving a pumpkin for display at the house of the legendary professor Matt Kahn. This is an annual event he has been holding for decades. Dozens of pumpkins carved by my fellow Art 60 students and alumni of the class line Matt's driveway, with his pumpkins nestled by the entrance to his Eichler-style home, a museum crammed full of beautiful pieces he has collected throughout his lifetime. Much of this artwork is from indigenous artists around the world and serves as inspiration in his artwork, especially those of the pumpkin variety.
The three pumpkins show above are Matt's. He guest lectured for one of our Art 60 classes, teaching us the importance of repetition, patterns and negative and positive spaces in design. He also emphasized the importance of knowing one's materials; you must design for a curved surface and leave air holes, unless you plan to use LED lighting as was the case in the spectacular pumpkin shown below (I'm not sure whose carved this piece).
For my pumpkin I chose to go with a sea creature theme, settling on a tentacle-wrapped pumpkin. It's been years since I've carved a pumpkin. I don't think I'll approach this activity in the same way ever again.


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|Cost Issues Prevent a Quarter of Patients From Taking Insulin
|Written by Becky McCall | Medscape
|Tuesday, 26 June 2018 17:08
6.23.18 - Orlando - Cost issues related to insulin use prevent a full quarter of patients with diabetes taking insulin as prescribed, and this is associated with poorer glycemic control, shows a new study. Low to middle income patients were worse off, the data indicate. Patients in the $25,000 to $99,000 income bracket were significantly more likely to underuse insulin because of cost barriers, Darby Herkert, BS, from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, reported here today at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) 2018 Scientific Sessions.
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The Short Version
Paul Mooney is an American freelance journalist who has reported on Burma, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong since 1985. He has been on staff at Reuters, Newsweek, the Far Eastern Economic Review, Eastern Express, the South China Morning Post, and Knight-Ridder Financial News. His articles have appeared in leading publications and web sites around the world. Paul, the recipient of a 11 journalist awards for his reporting on China, was based in Beijing from 1994-2012. In 2013, the Chinese government refused to re-new his journalist visa, ending his 18 consecutive years as a journalist in China. Paul has been roving around Burma, Thailand and Vietnam since 2014.
The Long Version
I first became interested in journalism as a teenager serving in the US Army in Vietnam in 1968. I'd gone to Vietnam feeling quite gung ho about the war, so much so that I dropped out of high school to enlist, afraid the war would end before I got there. But my support for the war began to fade soon after I arrived when I realized how the fighting was being waged and its effect on the Vietnamese people.
My unit, the 199th Light Infantry Brigade, had a small trailer library in the base camp, with hundreds of books on a wide variety of topics. Noteworthy, and surprising, was its collection of books on Vietnam's history and the war. I began to read my way through the library on Vietnam and found that these journalistic accounts provided a more accurate picture of the situation in Vietnam than I'd gotten from my during my military training. The first book I read was David Halberstam's The Making of a Quagmire, a scathing look at the failure of American policy in Vietnam based on Halberstam's own experiences in reporting the war. Halberstam's description struck a chord with me as many of the things he pointed to for the American quagmire in Vietnam were things that I was seeing on the ground in Vietnam myself. The Making of a Quagmire and other similar books had a huge impact on me.
I also read the works of Bernard Fall, a French scholar cum commentator who did his primary research more like a journalist, trekking through the jungles of Vietnam with US Marine infantry platoons. Fall's military classic Street Without Joy, a portrayal of the French failure in Vietnam, had obvious parallels for American military analysts. Ironically, Fall was killed the year before I arrived in Vietnam along Highway 1, which the French troops had earlier dubbed la rue sans joie, hence the name of his earlier book.
I made a list of books in the library that I wanted to read and I asked friends going back to the rear base camp to bring them back out to my fire support base, where I read them by candlelight at night in my small bunker. I was so obsessed with the poor strategy used by the United States that after I completed my first tour, I volunteered for a second one, anxious to serve as a military advisor to a Vietnamese unit, in the naive hope of a 19-year-old that one young man could somehow have an impact over US policy.
By the time I left Vietnam two years later, I'd read dozens of books on Vietnam's history and the war and I had also taught myself Vietnamese, using my time as an occasional advisor to Vietnamese army units to hone my language skills and to gain a new perspective on the country.
I returned to the Bronx in September 1970 with an intense interest in Asian history and politics and a desire to be a journalist. I received my general equivalency diploma while in the Army and within a week of leaving Vietnam, I enrolled in Fordham University under a special program for Vietnam veterans. I later transferred to Manhattanville College because they had an Asian studies program and Chinese classes there. I received my B.A. Degree in East Asian Studies from Manhattanville College in 1974. After graduation, I went to Taiwan to continue my studies in Chinese.
I returned to the US in 1978 keen to find work in journalism, but I had no experience and couldn't find an opportunity. Two years later, however, with the help of Peter Murray, a childhood friend who always looked out for me, I found a part-time job at Newsweek magazine in New York working as a photo filer. Over the next five years I slowly worked my way up the ladder, moving on to photo researcher, news clipper, editorial researcher and occasional reporter.
With the support of Newsweek, which provided me with a partial tuition reimbursement program and a flexible work schedule, I returned to school in 1982 and obtained a Master's Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and a Certificate in East Asian Studies from the university's East Asian Institute. Upon graduation in 1985, I moved my family to Taiwan to begin my career as a freelance journalist, starting off as the stringer for Newsweek in Taiwan. During the next five years on the island I wrote for Newsweek, Asiaweek, the Washington Post, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, International Herald Tribune, Far Eastern Economic Review, the Hong Kong Standard and other international publications.
My reporting initially focused on politics, primarily the struggle between the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) and the fledgling opposition movement known as the dangwai, or outside the party, a reference to the fact that Taiwan was ruled by one party. I was fascinated by the courage and determination of the opposition in the face of the iron-fisted rule of the KMT, which used harsh measures to keep it's opponents from gaining strength. Many of the senior opposition leaders were in prison while others were under constant surveillance by the notorious Taiwan Garrison Command. Some were hurt, and a few were even killed, under mysterious circumstances. Being a part of the opposition movement was not without serious risks.
I soon learned the KMT's autocratic rule affected many other areas of society and I was drawn to write about social issues in Taiwan. I wrote about child prostitution among aborigine girls, some of whom were only 11 or 12 years old, the suppression of Christian groups, the struggle of activist groups to push back the destruction of the environment, and the plight of elderly Nationalist soldiers who had fought for the KMT on the mainland, only to be abandoned in poverty in Taiwan.
My focus on these issues in Taiwan and China has a lot to do with my background. I grew up in a working class neighborhood of the Bronx, the youngest of five children, and the fifth to quit high school and the fourth to enlist in the military. My father was a building janitor and I spent my first 17 years living in basement apartments in different parts of the Bronx. My mother cleaned offices during the day and sometimes worked as a waitress in the evenings. In the mid-1960s, buildings around us were abandoned and the neighborhood entered a steep decline. Drug addiction spread through the area resulting in a dramatic and dangerous increase in crime. Around this time, some neighbors were murdered during muggings, several of my friends went to jail, and at least two died from drug overdoses.
Although I was a voracious reader, I didn't like school. I played hooky 60-90 days each year of junior high school, ending up in the worst classes in some of the worst schools in New York City. I barely showed up for my first year of high school, just waiting to turn 16, when I could legally leave school and find a job. After doing odd jobs for a year, I enlisted in the Army after turning 17.
These early experiences gave me a keen sense of sympathy for the underdog that has influenced the types of stories that I do.
A turning point in my career came in late May 1989 when Asiaweek magazine asked me to go to Beijing to help cover the rapidly expanding student protests around China. This was the biggest story I'd ever covered and it had a huge impact on me. I spent about 18 hours a day mingling with student protesters in Tiananmen Square, getting to know many of the leaders. I was there in the early morning hours when the first People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops made their unsuccessful march to the square on June 3, turned away by citizens keen to protect the student protesters. I was back out on the streets that afternoon when the first soldiers emerged from their underground hiding places and the first clashes occurred. In the evening armed PLA units and tanks entered the city and opened fire on innocent civilians and I watched with horror as people fell around me. The wounded (some obviously dead already) were rushed to nearby hospitals propped up on bicycles, carried between two friends, or on public buses commandeered by Chinese citizens. I'll never forget how brave these people were nor the plea that I heard over and over again that night from outraged Chinese: "Please tell the world the truth about what's happening here."
Over the next few days I barely slept, working almost around the clock to accommodate news organizations around the world with their rolling deadlines. The day after June 4, I snuck around the tightly controlled universities as students hurriedly packed their belongings to escape just before security police searching for student leaders raided the campuses. For a week or so after the bloody crackdown, I received the odd phone call from time to time from students, teachers, dissidents and workers I had met earlier, all on the run from place to place, their voices full of fear. The phone calls suddenly came to a stop. I can't remember their names, but their faces are still clear in my mind and I often wonder what happened to them.
I left Beijing at the end of June determined to return to China to work as a journalist. Exactly one year later, my wife, two daughters and I moved to Hong Kong, where I began to make monthly reporting forays into provinces all over China. During this period, I worked for Japan's Kyodo News Service and later the Far Eastern Economic Review.
In 1994 I moved to Beijing to open a bureau for Knight-RIdder Financial News, reporting on financial and economic news. In 1997, I returned to freelancing. In the years since, I've written about frightened North Korean teenage refugees hiding out in Beijing, the plight of street kids in Beijing, the fate of young farm girls who've turned to prostitution to improve their lives, young rural boys kidnapped and forced to work as slaves in illegal brick kilns, known as Black Kilns, the plight of children with AIDS, the abuse and torture of rights lawyers and activists, the sad lives of the handicapped, threats people face from exposure to asbestos and heavy metals, two hidden killers, and brutal government abuses in Tibet and Xinjiang. I've also written about the progress China has made during this period, the new faces of China's top cities, growing personal wealth, improved living standards and grudgingly slow improvements of basic political rights, such as freedom of expression.
In 2013, the Chinese government declined my application for a journalist visa to work for Reuters in Beijing. No reason was given, but it is clear this was related to my almost two decades of reporting on sensitive politics and human rights issues in China. In March 2014, I returned to Asia to take up a posting as Reuters bureau chief in Rangoon, Burma. A year later I resigned from that position so that I could have more freedom to report things that interested me and to be able to cover a wider area of Southeast Asia.
My 31 years reporting from Asia have been a bittersweet experience. I worked most of these years on my own as a freelance journalist in areas where the craft of journalism can be very trying, especially without institutional support. Focusingfor so many years on China's down and out often had a deep impact on me. One can't cover such issues year in and out without feeling immense sadness. I owe a great debt of gratitude to my wife and daughters, who suffered as a result of my passion for journalism, but who always supported me.
At the same time, being a freelancer has given me the freedom to report on a wide variety of issues and to travel throughout China and Asia. I've been fortunate to meet and write about incredibly courageous people and to witness first hand the great changes that have taken place in Asia during the past three decades. I wouldn't change a single thing.


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To hear that Marina Vello was a member of Bonde de Rolê and Adriano Cintra a founder of CSS might give you the wrong idea about their new project, Madrid. Unlike the funk Carioca of the former or the frenetic electro of the latter, Madrid leans toward piano-driven lounge with nary a synth in sight.
"Let Go of Me," the new single from its self-titled album, has a vaudevillian theatricality, bolstered by arpeggiated piano and marching snare ta-ta-taps. As Vello and Cintra trade romantic barbs, the track evokes an alternate history where sepia-toned pop was performed to smoky rooms of dandies and flappers. It's a world we wish we could visit more often. The deluxe version of their self-titled album is out December 4.
"Let Go of Me"
"Let Go of Me"
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