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Job Title: Officer (Uniformed Division)
Department: Department Of Homeland Security
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Job Announcement Number: UD5-TK010-11
SALARY RANGE: $55,477.00 - $95,426.00 /year
OPEN PERIOD: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 to Monday, February 28, 2011
POSITION INFORMATION: Full-Time Permanent
WHO MAY BE CONSIDERED: All United States citizens
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To be considered, applicants must fully address all of the vacancy questions. Failure to provide responses, including using "N/A" when not an option, or cutting and pasting parts of your resume will eliminate your application from consideration.
If applying online poses a hardship, please contact the Personnel Division and an employment packet will be sent to you. The employment packet must be completed and received within the Personnel Division no later than the closing date (Eastern Standard Time) of this vacancy announcement.
The Secret Service provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities, on a case-by-case basis. Please contact us if you require this for any part of the application and hiring process.
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Click the "Apply Online" link at the bottom of the page. Your resume must be submitted with your application. You will be redirected to the Secret Service's CareerConnector website to complete the application process.
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Ever since my first publicly presented choreography, aged thirteen, it is safe to say that both my creative and learning processes have always involved a certain amount of so called borrowing. Dance repertoires were at least borrowed, if not stolen, from the work of others and discreetly incorporated into my own choreographic works.
Saving History reverses my past discretion and takes as its starting point the chronological charting of this 15 year engagement I have had with borrowing. Paying tribute to this well–honed methodology, Saving History is something of a recognition of borrowing as an inherent part of any creative and learning process.
Choreographer and performer: Katrín Gunnarsdóttir
Dramaturgical Advice: Alexander Roberts and Ásgerður G. Gunnarsdóttir
Supported by the City of Reykjavík and The Reykjavík Dance Atelier
Katrín Gunnarsdottir (IS 1986) studied dance at Iceland Academy of the Arts and choreography at ArtEZ institute of the Arts in the Netherlands. She received a DanceWEB Scholarship in 2007. As a performer Katrín has worked with Saga Sigurðardóttir, Erna Ómarsdóttir and Kris Verdonck among others. As well as making her own work and collaborations, Katrín has also choreographed for theatre productions (Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Theater Republique) and music videos (Olafur Arnalds, Asgeir). She is a member of Samsteypan, an Iceland-based performance group nominated for the Icelandic Performing Arts Awards in 2009 and 2010. Katrín won the award in 2013 together with dance artist Melkorka Sigríður for their duet Coming Up. Visit her website here
Time: Friday August 29th @ 19:30 (in a double bill with Is this it)
Place: Kassinn, The National Theater, Lindargata 3, 101 RVK
Duration: 75 minutes (total length withThis is it)

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Cheryl Mitchell
Board Member
Cheryl Mitchell grew up in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. She worked as a counselor and mentor for both Silicon Valley SCORE and Silicon Valley SBDC in San Jose California. Eventually, she landed as a business consultant for the Small Business Development Center at SCE where she had the opportunity to monitor milestones for a wide-range of starting businesses. From securing their fund to their job creation and retention, their sales growth and their returns of investment and essentially their growth as a business.
She also had the opportunity to share her expertise in marketing development and strategy when she worked for Asthmatx, Inc., Kyphon, Inc., and Perclose, all of which were acquired by Fortune 500.
Early on in her career, Cheryl too worked as a strategic planning analyst for Baxter Renal Division in the Greater Chicago Area and in Brussels, Belgium where her contract was initially intended to be six months. However, due to her success in building relationships despite having to work with people from different races, and her analytical skills needed by her company, she earned two one-year extensions. Expectedly, she got promoted to senior planning analyst in finance where she implemented new forecasting techniques and data analysis.
Initially equipped with a BBA, Business-Finance, Investments and Banking degree from UW-Madison, Cheryl returned to the U.S. from Brussels to complete an MBA, Strategy & General Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
While in grad school, she consulted with a start-up medical device company where she also served as the coach and adviser of the President and CEO.
For the past five years, Cheryl has been working as a business consultant for her very own firm, Your Biz Ninja that helps CEOs of small and medium sized companies with genius products and services to solidify their sales and make money. On top of this is she gets to empower women in the business sector to bring their businesses to greater heights.
As a member of the board of Enhance a Village, Inc., she provides her expertise to the team in strategic planning and analysis, marketing strategy and investments development.
Well, besides hiking, reading and mounting a bike as her diversions, she loves to cook and tries to make her way through a farmer's market, that is, "when the frig is almost empty", she quips.
Lastly, she is a proud owner of Romeo, her cat.


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This week - win tix for The XX & Jurrasic Quest
Everybody's favorite game show (with a couple of exceptions) is back...this week's prizes include tickets for The XX at The Mann (Skyline Stage) on May 17th and tickets for Jurrasic Quest - May 5th—7th at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center! ....After 65 million years they have returned. Walk among over 80 life-size animatronic dinosaurs! Also dinosaur rides, dino dig, inflatables, crafts, face painting, dino tour, science center and much more!
..You can win during Alternative Mornings with Johnny on Radio 104.5, via our new game is 'That's A Lie', also known as....'Alternative Facts!'.... but this is the truth...
Here's how it works...
Weekday mornings around 7:10, I will share 3 random facts about Radio 104.5 artists/music, with 2 of the tracks being true and 1 being false. We will ask you to Text us (91045 - standard text rates apply) or Tweet @Radio1045 which of the statements is false, and we will select random correct answers to win that day's prize. Plus, don't forget we will follow it up with one-hundred-four minutes commercial free, starting around 7:35as
Here's how it works:
If you listened on Marcus Mumford's birthday, we honored the Mumford & Sons' front man with the following statements...
- OPTION A: Marcus Mumford has dual British and US citizenship after being born in California, but his family moved back to the UK when he was six months old.Though he was raised in England, Mumford was born in Southern California while his parents were visiting missionaries for The Vineyard, an evangelical Christian movement with a strong emphasis on worship music.
- OPTION B: Marcus Mumford Met His Wife Carey Mulligan when they were childrenThe couple only dated for a few months before tying the knot, but they were childhood friends – pen pals, even! – who first met through their respective churches. Mulligan went on to become an acclaimed actress before meeting Mumford again as an adult.
- OPTION C: Marcus Mumford was born Marcus Gustafson, with his stage name inspired by a Muppet called The Amazing Mumford
Did you know which statement was False? I will tell you below
OPTION C: Marcus Mumford was born Marcus Gustafson, with his stage name inspired by a Muppet called The Amazing Mumford...THAT'S A LIE!!! Marcus's real name is Marcus Mumford!


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If you've ever been to Amish country, you've probably heard of or tried Meadow Tea.
I was raised in Amish country, and its probably my #1 favorite drink (well, other then water).
I had a plan to grow out my leg hair really long, quit using deodorant and get an Amish dress so I could infiltrate their community and get the super secret Meadow Tea recipe.
However, I quickly decided that was a ridiculous idea, and figured out their recipe on accident!
Meadow Tea
You will need:
1 packed cup of fresh cut spearmint (bruised and put in a glass container)
2 cups of water
1 cup of organic unbleached sugar (I like this brand)
Put the sugar and water together in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Whisk and boil until all the sugar is dissolved and it becomes syrupy. Pour the syrup (while still boiling) over top of the spearmint. Let it rest until its cooled down. Strain out the leaves and make sure to squeeze them a lot to be sure all of the syrup is out.
This is spearmint simple syrup. (Just like the honey suckle simple syrup I made a few weeks back).
Put approx. 8oz of simple syrup in the bottom of a half gallon container. Then fill it the rest of the way with filtered water and shake it to combine the two. Sip a little bit and make sure its a sweet/minty as you like it and then put it in the fridge overnight.
In the morning it will be cold and delicious!!
If your impatient (like me) and want some tea right away, you can mix 2 or 3 tablespoons of syrup into a glass of cold water.
Add a sprig of mint to garnish and enjoy!
You can also make extra mint syrup while its in season and freeze it to have tea in the off seasons!
P.S. Mint is super easy to grow! I have a pot of it growing in my kitchen I use to make minty things. I dug a few of the runners from my moms mini mint forest she has growing and buried them in a container of organic potting soil. Its growing like crazy.
To anyone who's had Meadow Tea before, your welcome! This tastes just like Amish are cooking in your kitchen for you!
And to anyone who's never had authentic Amish Meadow Tea, I'm so sorry you've missed out thus far in your life. Make this now!
Happy sipping!
~Courtney, The Crunchy Delinquent
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The United States is on the threshold of greatness and Oregon may be leading the charge.
While attention is focused on one battleground state after another to see which political juggernauts will end up at the presidential ballot box, significant change is making its way through city and state legislatures — change that has an opportunity to bring environmental and economic freedom, curb environmental tragedies, and provide justice to marginalized communities. More than anything else, it can provide a working model for the rest of the country.


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As was revealed during today's Fantagraphics panel at San Diego, the Seattle-based company plans to publish The Complete Zap Comix. The book, which will collect every issue of the seminal underground comics series to date, is tentatively scheduled to be released in the fall of 2012. It will be a hardbound, two-volume slipcase, similar to their collections of Harvey Kurtzman's Humbug magazine and Bill Mauldin's Willie & Joe series.
One of the most influential comics ever published, the first two issues of Zap were created entirely by Robert Crumb, who then invited other artists to contribute, including Spain Rodriguez, the late Rick Griffin, S. Clay Wilson, Victor Moscoso, Gilbert Shelton and Robert Williams. The series quickly not only catapulted Crumb and the other artists to stardom (or a relative stardom at any rate), it quickly became seen as one of the more prominent symbols of the counterculture movement of the 1960s, along with LSD, rock music and head shops (where issues were usually sold). While it was not the first underground comic, it was viewed by many both inside and outside the counterculture movement as the lodestone for the underground comics scene, and its existence and influence directly led to the development of the alternative comics scene in the 1980s and 1990s.
Fantagraphics was kind enough to share today's revelation with Robot 6 prior to the start of the San Diego con, and we took the opportunity to talk to publisher Gary Groth about the project, its origins and the comic's significance.
Q: How did this come about? What was the impetus for this project?
A: I know all the Zap artists. I've interviewed most of them for The Comics Journal. And we've published a lot of them in their own individual books: Robert Crumb, Victor Moscoso, Spain. Victor is sort of the honcho at Zap. He's the one who keeps it organized and yells at all the other artists about their deadlines and keeps the Zap machine running.
We published a book of his a few years ago and at some point one of us mentioned the possibility of doing a Zap collection, I forget whom. It might have been me or it might have been him, I'm not sure. Anyway, we've been talking about it on and off for at least a few years now. Just talking about what format to use, when the best timing would be, etc. He was always receptive to the idea; he wanted to do it, it was just a matter of him corralling all of the artists and getting them all together to agree to do it, because all of the Zap artists have to sign off on everything. Which is the way it should be.
So that took awhile, as you might imagine. My impression is it was like herding cats. Finally we just hammered out the agreement and signed it recently. No big mystery about it.
Q: So it's going to be every issue of Zap Comix thus far, correct?
A: That is correct. It would be about 16 issues. It's approximately 515 pages. I haven't written any of this down yet, we haven't gotten to that stage of production. I think it's about 550 pages of material. Some of the issues were about 32 pages, most of the issues were 48 pages.
We're going to reproduce it in a facsimile form, the book will have the covers interspersed throughout, so it will be each issue of the comic chronologically published in the same format as the comic itself, but simply in book form. We're going to be printing it a little larger than the comic, I don't know the exact dimensions. It will be oversize, a little larger than the comic itself. The covers will be reproduced in full color, as they were in the original comics. There was a small jam comic that they published called Zam that was approximately 6 and a half by 5. It was published in 1974 and we'll be including that. And the book will include an oral history of Zap.
Q: You're going to be talking to all the surviving artists for that?
A: That's correct. We have a tremendous amount of conversations by the artists already on tape. All of the artists living are willing to talk some more so we'll put together an oral history of Zap from their individual points of view. That should be an amusing Rashomon-like feature.
What else can I tell you? It will be a hardcover, two volumes in a slipcase.
Q: Similar to the Humbug collection?
A: Yes, similar to Humbug, Willie and Joe or the Gahan Wilson collection. That kind of thing. We'll be designing it. The artists will be watching us closely.
Q: Are you spearheading this project? Are you going to be the main editor on this?
A: Yeah, I am.
Q: Are there any other undiscovered rarities or things that fans would be eager to see?
A: Well, the oral history. I think all the artists will be happy to give us whatever they may have in their archive, so I assume [the oral history] will be sprinkled in with photographs and whatever archival material they might have. I'm sure they have some great photos from as early as the late '60s. The book will probably have a little bit more Crumb material. Crumb will be featured a little bit more because he did the first two issues by himself. And we all know what a cultural landmark it was.
One additional fact is we're scanning everything from the original negatives. That's as close as you can get to the original art. Victor is an amazing archivist. He saved all of that stuff. [The negatives] were in his safekeeping. The reproduction should be better than it's ever been reproduced before. We'll reproduce it better than it was in the comic book.
Q: It's funny, you were saying how the Zap collective is an ongoing entity and I think for most people, even though I knew they were publishing into the '90s, a lot of people weren't aware they were still working together and still active.
A: Yeah, they've slowed down obviously, but they're working on the next issue. I think there will be another issue as long as Victor's alive and lashes the whip. They're devoted to it. I think they like the institutional nature of it, the fact that they started so long ago and have maintained a friendship and continue this artistic synergy.
Q: Obviously it's an important piece of comics history. Do you feel like the work is still vibrant? Does it still have the ability to draw in modern readers?
A: I think so. It's hard for me to say having read it since the early '70s. All the artists that are alive and still working are still doing vital work. We're publishing a new collection by Spain in four to five months. I think the work is not only historically significant but contains its vitality. Each of these artists was distinctively their own man. One of the strengths of the comic is that no one artist overrode another or overshadowed another. They all equally had their own vision and their own distinctive voice. I think it retains its relevance and vitality.
Q: I realize as we're having this conversation we're making the assumption that readers are going to know the importance of Zap Comix. Can you talk a little bit about the significance of the series?
A: Right. I suspect it's one of the most significant comic series ever published and for an unusual reason. Because not only is it a cultural landmark like Superman or Batman or Spider-Man but also based purely on its artistic merits it's a significant comic series. It's a comic series that is most identified with the beginning of the underground comics revolution, whose significance cannot be overstated relative to where we are today. And then just based on pure aesthetic merits, as I said earlier, each artist had his own vision and held his own. That was true of all the best underground stuff. It was a comic that spearheaded the underground comics movement. It wasn't the first underground comic but it was the one most identified with underground comics. And it has maintained its vitality and the artists have maintained their vision, which is a tough thing to do in this world. I think it's got to be one of the most significant comics titles ever published.
Q: The thing about Zap is that it defined a movement, which not even icons like Superman can say. It became as much a part of the counterculture '60s movement as love beads and rock and roll and LSD did. There were comics that were more popular or more prevalent in the cultural consciousness but not that were a symbol of a particular time and place in American society.
A: I think that's true and the artists inside really reflected the spectrum of underground work being done too. You had Victor Moscoso and Rick Griffin doing work that was more psychedelic, quintessentially '60s counter-culture, you had Crumb taking from funny animal comics from the '30s and '40s and re-imagining that in his own style. You had Spain with more politically aggressive comics. You had Wilson who was so out there that he inspired Crumb to be more out there. Wilson was probably doing the most audacious work of the entire group. And even visually they were all completely different from each other. They really represented the best of what underground comics were about.So I think that's true. I think the title symbolized underground comics in the best possible way. You look at other important comics like Superman or Batman or whatever and they're important for vague cultural or sociological reasons, but the work was mostly crap. But I think the important thing about Zap is the work itself was so inspiring. It inspired another generation of artists that came up in the '80s and '90s. Zap was a model – a business model as well in the sense that all the artists owned their own work. And the artists regarded themselves as artists, which was a break from how most comic book artists saw themselves. The underground comic artists asserted their artistic persona, which even great artists in the past like John Stanley tended to suppress.
Q: What is your hope with this book? Do you feel like Zap is due for a critical re-evaluation?
A: Well I think that will be a benefit of putting out the book. I'm not sure it's specifically a goal, but I think it will be a side benefit. I think all the work all in one place is going to be so impressive it's going to knock people out. I think it's going to get a tremendous reception. I'd like it to be reappraised in the public mind. Like you said, a lot of people probably aren't even aware that Zap is still being published because it's only coming out every four years.
Q: Yeah, I know what I'm anticipating is looking at the later issues, because I'm familiar with the first couple, especially those two all-Crumb issues that are so iconic.
A: It might open people's minds. There was that recent issue where they had that famous Rashomon-like jam where they were all talking about the next Zap and Victor Moscoso slugged Crumb.
Q: That's one where Crumb refused to do Zap anymore and then Paul Mavrides did the parody of the Death of Fritz the Cat.
A: Exactly. I don't know why that came to mind, but I guess there's a sense where they're all still in there slugging away, literally as well as figuratively.
I think a big collection like this will draw a lot more attention than the periodical which is as you know in a coma. I'm hoping that this book will reach a much wider audience -- those readers that grew up reading Zap as well as other who find it a pain in the ass to buy back copies, most of which are out of print at this point.
Q: I was going to say I wasn't sure how many are out of print. I know Last Gasp keeps them in stock.
A: Well I think a lot of Last Gasp's issues are out of print, which might have to do with financial considerations because it's harder and harder to keep a periodical in print.
Q: Do you know when the publication date is?
A: We're going to try for the end of next year but I can't guarantee that. We have eight different artists, all of whom have to be consulted along the way.
Q: I wonder if it will lead to a re-evaluation of artists like Griffin and Moscoco because – I don't want to say they've been ignored but certainly in the comics world they get overshadowed by people like Crumb and Spain.
A: I think it's going to get a tremendous amount of attention. It wouldn't surprise me if it led to more attention not only to Zap but to the underground comic artists in general, like Kim Deitch or Bill Griffith or Jack Jackson. Many of whose work will be available. We'll be publishing a 400-page collection of Bill Griffith's work in five months. And we're reprinting all of Jack Jackson's work. The first volume will combine Los Tejanos with Lost Cause. That is scheduled for spring of next year. We're publishing a complete collection of Diane Noomin's work. This [Zap] doesn't represent any change. We've printed these guys work for some time now.


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If you know me at all, you know that I'm not really a healthy eater. I don't diet, I bake cookies at least once a week, have a glass of wine with dinner more times than not, and love a good stack of blueberry pancakes. I'm not a big eater though overall, and I do cardio exercise so it's never been a problem with my weight or otherwise.
But earlier this week, my body basically told me (excuse my language) that I need to get my sh*t together. Cue: Driving down the 101 freeway in Los Angeles, in the middle of rush-hour traffic, puking while driving from food poisoning (I will not delve into the exact details of this, for the sake of the breakfast you're probably eating right now). That day, I had coffee for breakfast, German sausages for lunch, and a brownie. Pretty sure it was food poisoning from the sausage, but it was also that my body had basically no nutrients in it and was sending a cry for help. Since then, I've put myself on a vegetable-driven diet with no alcohol, sugar, or caffeine and my body feels great.
If you're looking to incorporate more nutrient-dense meals into your rotation this year, these are my recommendations:
Healthyish: Truth be told, I follow Lindsay on Instagram and just really love her feed. So, thanks to my pal Amazon Prime, it's now sitting on my coffee table. I'm really excited to dive into it because it has a lot of grain bowl recipes and approachable dinner meals.
The Forest Feast: I actually found this cookbook in an olive oil shop. Don't ask me why I was in an olive oil shop… (Side note: If you're ever in downtown Los Gatos, We Olive is a must visit.) The book itself is beautiful, and the recipes are so simple that you'll basically want to make everything and then move to a cottage in the woods like Erin.
Southern Girl Meets Vegetarian Boy: Going vegetarian isn't an overnight endeavor, especially if you're going to do it right and not just eat brocolli for dinner for the rest of your life. This book combines both vegetarian meals and non-vegetarian meals; it's a mix of both.
Clean Slate: I've been following a no-sugar, no-alcohol, no-caffeine diet for the past week and my body feels so good. What we eat can really transform our body, and that's precisely what this book is out to accomplish. There's so many good, nutritional recipes included. I personally can't wait to try the farro and roasted sweet potato salad. Y-U-M.
Love Real Food: My mom is a vegetarian and I got her this cookbook for Christmas this year! She and my brother have been trying recipes from it over the past few weeks and I've heard nothing but glowing reviews! What I love is that it makes cooking vegetarian SO easy – the recipes are approachable and don't require a lot of weird ingredients.
The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook: This is basically the bible for vegetarian recipes. It's massive and it has EVERYTHING. You can count on America's Test Kitchen to produce quality recipes that anyone can do. Highly recommend this if vegetarian dishes are a staple in your life.
The Laura Lea Balanced Cookbook: We're not perfect. Sometimes we need to sit on the couch, binge-watch The Crown on Netflix with a full plate of chocolate chip cookies at hand. I get it. You're only human. Laura's cookbook has so many great recipes, but they're not all carrots and squash.
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Divorce can be an emotionally and financially taxing ordeal. If you have accumulated a considerable amount of wealth, it can be even more so, particularly when there is a lucrative business at stake.
For the last 35 years, North Carolina has been an "equitable distribution" state, which means courts seek a fair division of property based on monetary and non-monetary contributions to the marriage. However, deciding what is "fair" when a business is involved can require negotiation and litigation skills as well as expert testimony.
Courts in North Carolina look at several factors when deciding whether a business or its assets belong to one or both spouses.
Is the business a marital asset?
Businesses owned prior to a marriage are often exempt from the division of property in a divorce. If business operations began while married, it generally falls under the marital asset umbrella. However, there are a few exceptions to that rule, such as the use of non-marital funds, gifts and inheritances.
These exemptions are not clear-cut. Even if a company appears separate on the surface, there are factors that may lend credence to it being marital property. Here are a few items to consider:
- How long before the marriage did the company start?
- What was the value of the company when married?
- What is the current value of the business?
- Were marital assets invested?
- Did marital support play a role?
Determining business values
Courts look at the net value of a business and subtract its debts and liens. This simple "book value" approach may make sense for a brick and mortar property, but not for a company with ongoing revenue. In this case, spouses may have very different perspectives on the business's portfolio, such as:
- Potential earnings: One side may argue for an economic downturn and the other for growth, depending on what's in their best interest. You will likely need to enlist industry professionals and experts to support your position.
- Practice-based businesses: There are certain types of companies that the person and not the assets generate revenue. Medical practices are good examples. A determining factor comes down to how much time and energy the practitioner invests and plans to invest going forward.
- Sudden income deficit syndrome: In businesses controlled by one spouse, the workflow, billing and income can take a sharp, "unexpected" decline during divorce.
It's important that both parties have separate appraisals conducted. If one spouse keeps the company and makes a quick, large profit by selling it soon after the divorce, this could open the door to a fraud lawsuit.
Seek professional help
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A collegue prepares a wall with creative ques to start the creatvie process.
400 speed film is great for indoors - it's perfect, combined with a f1.4 lens. I hardly use 100 ASA as I really like the flexibility 400 provides.
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i'm actually and honestly excited about getting to sleep in until 8 am tomorrow morning. yo, it's a TUESDAY and i get to sleep past 6 am! so cool.
of course, the only reason i get to sleep in is so i can hand over a spare key to the man who is going to put in new floors.. which means i have to try and dismantle most of my furniture and move out of my room tomorrow before going in late for work. not so.. yey.
but hey - sleep in til 8 am = awesome!
i'm way too enamoured with sleep this time of year. i've started to take long afternoon naps on the weekends, ensuring i sleep approximately 14-15 hours per weekend-day, at least. love it.
my brain was trying to orchestrate a dirty dream the other night, but failed miserably. i ended up having a dream where i slept with somebody, and when i say slept, i mean literaly sleeping, and i believe full clothing was involved. it was a very nice dream, though, haha. no snoring involved. i don't recall any context for the dream, just.. sleeep.
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Indian pharma companies should enter into strategic alliances and partnership with local manufacturers and distributors in China for getting greater market access in that country, a commerce ministry sponsored study has recommended.
The research study on Enhancing Indian exports of pharmaceutical products to China' has suggested as many as 17 options to domestic firms for gaining market access in China. It was commissioned by the ministry.
"With the owing complexities of the Chinese market, it is advisable for Indian MNCs exploring local deals/ strategic alliances (in form of joint ventures) with domestic companies, leveraging their market knowledge, geographic access and R&D capabilities to ensure easier and sustainable market penetration," it said.
This step, it said, will take sizeable amount of investment for a longer period, which can only be strategically done by large cap pharmaceutical companies of India.
It said that joint ventures will allow Indian MNCs to avoid tariff and quota issues, to gain more focus and control of product distribution and service in China.
The study also suggested for setting up of a local Indian CDSCO (Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation) office in China having Indian representatives for all policy and regulatory recommendations; and increasing understanding on differences that exists in provincial procurement of hospital medicines.
The other recommendations include targeting high priority medicine segments, identified by China; securing short-term supply of essential drugs and advanced intermediates; strengthening India's API (bulk drugs) and intermediary market for it to be able to compete and enter market in China; and focus on setting up bioequivalence centres.
It said that currently, India levies an extremely low registration fee of USD 1,000 per product for Chinese pharmaceutical companies, whereas China imposes an exorbitant fee of USD 145,960 for registering a product.
Further, it said that marketing India should go hand in hand with Make in India and Indian missions have to be proactive in promoting the country's exports.
Industry and export chambers should be given some tasks and handholding with targets, besides creating an Ombudsman for resolving export related problems and disputes.
It added that China is one of the healthiest pharmaceutical markets in the world when viewed through the lens of growth.
"To survive, and thrive, in this market going forward means embracing the intricacies and proactively addressing those dynamics that make China truly unique," it said.
India wants greater market access in China for its pharma products with a view to bridge the widening trade deficit with the country, which has touched USD 63.12 billion in 2017-18.
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Specific Ketorolac Nasal Spray Precautions and WarningsSome warnings and precautions to be aware of with this medication include the following:
- Ketorolac nasal spray is meant for short-term pain relief. This medication should not be used for more than five days. Using ketorolac nasal spray for longer than five days increases your risk for serious side effects.
- Ketorolac nasal spray and other NSAIDs can cause serious and potentially life-threatening stomach and intestinal problems, including bleeding, ulcers, or holes (perforations). The chance of these problems occurring is higher in older adults and in people who smoke, drink alcohol, have poor health, or take certain other medications (see Drug Interactions With Ketorolac Nasal Spray). The risk is also greater when using any NSAID for a long period of time.
- People with a history of stomach or intestinal ulcers (peptic ulcer) or bleeding should not use ketorolac nasal spray. Bleeding problems can sometimes occur without warning or symptoms. Therefore, it is very important that you contact your healthcare provider immediately if you experience any signs or symptoms of ulcers or bleeding, such as:
- Black, sticky, tarry stools
- Blood in the urine or stools
- Abdominal (stomach) pain and indigestion
- Vomiting blood.
- Using ketorolac nasal spray or other NSAIDs may cause kidney damage. The chance of kidney damage is higher in older adults and people who have kidney disease, heart failure, or liver problems. It is also more common in people taking diuretics or ACE inhibitors.
Make sure to drink plenty of fluids while using ketorolac nasal spray, as staying well hydrated can help decrease your risk for this side effect. Contact your healthcare provider if you notice a significant decrease in the amount you urinate while using this medication.
- Ketorolac nasal spray and other NSAIDs increase the risk for serious and potentially life-threatening cardiovascular problems, including heart attacks and strokes. People who take NSAIDs for a long period of time or who already have heart disease are at an increased risk for these problems. It is very important that you stop using ketorolac nasal spray and seek immediate medical care if you experience any signs of a heart attack or stroke, including:
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- Shortness of breath
- Weakness
- Slurred speech.
- Ketorolac nasal spray and other NSAIDs may cause congestive heart failure or swelling (edema). Contact your healthcare provider if you notice unexplained weight gain or swelling. If you have heart failure, high blood pressure (hypertension), or other conditions that may cause edema, it's important that your healthcare provider knows so he or she can monitor you closely when you use ketorolac nasal spray.
- NSAIDs such as ketorolac nasal spray may cause liver problems, which can range from a mild increase in certain liver enzymes to life-threatening liver failure. Your healthcare provider may monitor your liver function with a blood test before you start using ketorolac nasal spray and during your treatment period. You should stop using this medicine and seek immediate medical treatment if you notice signs of liver problems, such as:
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- Fatigue
- Excessive tiredness
- Itching
- Upper stomach pain
- Flu-like symptoms
- Yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes (jaundice).
- NSAIDs such as ketorolac nasal spray have been reported to cause allergic reactions. Stop using this medicine and seek immediate medical attention if you notice hives, an unexplained rash, difficulty breathing, or swelling of the face and throat.
- In rare cases, people using ketorolac nasal spray may develop a very serious skin rash. If you notice an unexplained rash or blisters, fever, or itchy skin, stop using the medicine immediately and contact your healthcare provider.
- Ketorolac nasal spray is an NSAID and should not be used with other NSAIDs. Using more than one NSAID at the same time can increase your risk for serious side effects (see Drug Interactions With Ketorolac Nasal Spray for more information, including a list of other NSAIDs). You can also ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for a complete list of NSAIDs.
- Ketorolac nasal spray can interact with a number of other medications (see Drug Interactions With Ketorolac Nasal Spray).
- Ketorolac nasal spray is considered a pregnancy Category C medication in the beginning of pregnancy and a pregnancy Category D medication in the third trimester. Using this medication during pregnancy can potentially cause harm to your unborn child and complicate childbirth. Talk to your healthcare provider about the risks and benefits of using ketorolac nasal spray during pregnancy (see Sprix and Pregnancy).
- Ketorolac nasal spray passes through breast milk in small amounts. Therefore, if you are breastfeeding or plan to start breastfeeding, discuss this with your healthcare provider prior to using this medication (see Sprix and Breastfeeding).
Ketorolac Nasal Spray Drug Information
List of references (click here)
Sprix [package insert]. Menlo Park, CA: Roxro Pharma, Inc.;2009 October.
Briggs GG, Freeman RK, Yaffe SJ. Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation. 8th ed. Philadelphia (PA): Lippincott Williams & Wilkins;2008.
National Library of Medicine (US). Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMED). NLM Web site. Available at: http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?LACT. Accessed August 12, 2010.
Written by/reviewed by: Susan Lakey, PharmD, MPH
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How do you know it was a great year for Callaway Golf on Tour? Because we have SIX (!!) staffers on the Presidents Cup roster.
Here's the quick list of our guys in the field:
USA: Patrick Reed, Phil Mickelson, Chris Kirk. (Jim Furyk did make the team, though he's sitting out with an injury. We didn't want to leave him hanging.)
International: Danny Lee, Branden Grace, Sang-Moon Bae.
Now here's a look at some of the key equipment that they'll use in Korea:
Patrick Reed
Key Equipment In The Bag: Big BerthaAlpha 816 DBD Driver (9*)
What You Need To Know: This is P-Reed's 1st appearance in the Presidents Cup and second international team ('14 Ryder Cup). As you know, he lives for these team events.
Phil Mickelson
Key Equipment In The Bag: Big Bertha Alpha 816 Double Black Diamond Driver, Mack Daddy PM-Grind Wedges, a Chrome Soft Golf Ball
What You Need To Know: He's the only player to compete in every Presidents Cup. (Check out his full setup here)
Jim Furyk
Key Equipment In The Bag: Great Big Bertha Driver (9*)
What You Need To Know: This would've been Furyk's 8th Presidents Cup appearance, though an injury will force him on the sidelines this year.
Chris Kirk
VIDEO: How does Chris Kirk kill time during a Callaway ad shoot? By pulling off this ???????????? backwards shot over a bunker and on the green. @mrchriskirk #GoProGolf A video posted by Callaway Golf (@callawaygolf) on
Key Equipment In The Bag: Great Big Bertha Driver (9*)
What You Need To Know: He's a Presidents Cup rookie after making the team on points.
Danny Lee
Key Equipment: Odyssey Works Versa #9 Putter, A Chrome Soft Golf Ball
What You Need To Know: Danny finished as the 10th and final automatic qualifier. He's been playing a lot of practice rounds with fellow Callaway staffer and Presidents Cup teammate Sang-Moon Bae, which could make a formidable team. (Click here for an interactive look at Danny's driver.)
Sang-Moon Bae
Key Equipment: Big Bertha Alpha 815 Hybrid (20*), Odyssey Milled #1 Putter
What You Need To Know: He's playing in front of his home crowd in Korea this week! He made the team on points with another solid year on Tour and the galleries will be behind him in a big way.
Branden Grace
Key Equipment: XR Pro Fairway Wood (14*), Versa V-Line Putter
What You Need To Know: He's been on a tear this season with two European Tour victories and two top-5 finishes in the majors (U.S. Open and PGA Championship).


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Just last week, the friends at Edmunds had the opportunity to test drive the 2009 BMW 3 Series , and they gave the 3er facelift two thumbs up. This week, the fellows at Channel4 got their hands on a 330d.
Definitely a good review, lots of details and useful information.
As class benchmarks go, few are as enduring as the BMW 3-Series. Now in its 33rd year and fifth incarnation, it still remains the default choice for those seeking out the best, most capable compact exec.
Make no mistake, it's not perfect, but its blend of top-drawer handling, fine quality and the best engines in the business mean, even after three years into this current fifth generation, it still has what it takes to top its class against stiff new competition.
Now the Munich brand has put its best-selling, but middle-aged, number under the knife to prepare it for the final few years before an all-new sixth generation car arrives.
As BMW facelifts go, it's a big one, involving sheet metal changes with a new twin-ribbed bonnet, front and rear bumpers and, perhaps more predictable new front and rear lamps.
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He is the author of an article in the February issue of Opera News titled "Discomfort Zone," which deals with opera and political correctness. That is where I first read anything written by him, to my knowledge – admittedly, I don't always notice the byline. It is the first time in a long time, outside of a few books, that I have been blown away by someone's writing. It's not that he just has good content in the article, and he does have good content, but this guy can write! After reading the article, I had to look him up. According to Wikipedia, he has been recognized for his work by a 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and has received nominations for criticism in 2012 and one for editorial writing in 2000. He is the chief Art and Architecture Critic of the Washington Post. He has studied piano and graduated summa cum laude from Yale in 1988 with a degree in philosophy. His knowledge of his subject matter is impressive. I am just starting to pay attention to his work, but glancing at his list of articles there appears to be a theme of the relationship of trends in society and trends in the arts, covering the arts and society broadly and sometimes opera specifically.
I will be discussing the "Discomfort Zone" and its theme in a follow up post. I have added Mr. Kennicott to the Opera Info tab – Critics page. To see other articles by Mr. Kennicott, visit https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/philip-kennicott, and to see his blog go to http://philipkennicott.com. Keep an eye out for him as you are reading your morning Post. I think he may fall in the category of a treasure.


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Saladax Biomedical, Inc. Expands Distribution of MyCare™ Products in Israel
Partners With Ilex Medical Ltd.
Distribution Agreement Increases Availability for My5-FU™, MyPaclitaxel™ and MyDocetaxel™
Sep 05, 2012, 10:17 ET
BETHLEHEM, Pa., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Saladax Biomedical, Inc., a privately held company developing and commercializing novel diagnostic assays to achieve the promise of personalized medicine for new and existing therapeutics, announced today that Ilex Medical Ltd. will serve as exclusive distributor of Saladax's My5-FU™, MyPaclitaxel™ and MyDocetaxel™ diagnostic reagent kits throughout the Israeli market. The MyCare™ tests are designed to measure levels of these common chemotherapy drugs in the blood of cancer patients to overcome the limitations associated with dosing based on body surface area (BSA).
"It is our goal to provide oncologists around the world with a new tool to offer their patients more effective chemotherapy treatment. Our new MyCare technology optimizes chemotherapy drug doses to patients' individual needs, which is not achieved with BSA-based dosing," said Adrienne Choma, Esq., Sr. VP and chief marketing officer of Saladax. "Over the course of the past 12 months, we've successfully expanded our offering of MyCare products to patients in multiple markets worldwide and we're excited to partner with Ilex to provide patients in Israel enhanced therapeutic outcomes, reduced toxic side effects and higher quality of life during treatment."
My5-FU, MyPaclitaxel and MyDocetaxel, all of which are part of Saladax's MyCare technology platform, offer automated, rapid, robust and cost-effective in vitro diagnostic tests for patient-specific chemotherapy dose optimization. These new tests enable a physician to determine the optimal treatment effectiveness/toxicity balance for each unique patient.
Tamar Galili, VP, Sales & Marketing of Ilex, stated, "Given the strong science behind Saladax's MyCare products, we're confident we will be able to provide patients within the Israeli market optimized cancer treatment. As we are leaders in the Israeli in vitro diagnostic market, we believe we are an ideal partner for Saladax."
Ilex Medical is a part of Ilex group, which has been publicly traded on the Tel Aviv stock exchange since 1995 (TASE:ILX). Ilex Medical's main focus is in the in vitro diagnostics equipment, reagents, laboratory management software, blood bank diagnostic kits and diagnostic support services for the healthcare establishment in Israel. With more than 110 employees worldwide, the Ilex Group is closely affiliated with leading multinational medical conglomerates like Novartis, Gen-Probe, bioMerieux, CH-Werfen Instrumentation Laboratory and others.
About Saladax Biomedical, Inc.
Saladax Biomedical develops novel diagnostic assays for the practical delivery of personalized medicine. Our proprietary line of MyCare™ assays improves the efficacy of existing drugs by optimizing the dose administered for each individual patient. Saladax's initial focus is oncology, with a portfolio of 13 chemotherapy drug assays in various stages of development. Three MyCare assays, My5-FU™, MyPaclitaxel™ and MyDocetaxel™, are currently offered to the oncology community in markets around the world.
The company's MyCare technology platform is broad and flexible, enabling wide application in many therapeutic categories. This technology capability also enables Saladax to serve as a valuable partner to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in the development of companion diagnostics (CDx), addressing multiple risks and challenges encountered in drug development.
The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Saladax is ISO 13485:2003 certified.
Saladax Biomedical, Inc.
Adrienne Choma, Esq.
Sr. VP & Chief Marketing Office
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People of color accounted for more than nine out of 10 arrests made on suspicion of marijuana possession and sale in New York City from January to March, according to statistics from the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services obtained by the Police Reform Organizing Project.
PROP also found that 86.5% of New York Police Department misdemeanor arrests involved people of color, up 2% from 2015.
Arrests for "small amounts" of marijuana were up a whopping 33.7% from last year.
Robert Gangi, PROP's director, said in a press release that the statistics showed that NYPD arrest practices are marked by "waste and racial bias" and that, despite the rhetoric in City Hall, marijuana infractions remain a major focus of the police.
"While Mayor de Blasio, NYPD Commissioner Bratton, and other city officials have made widely publicized pronouncements about reducing punitive sanctions for marijuana infractions, the data present a different story," Gangi said. "Arrests for these activities are actually on the rise."
The NYPD was not immediately available for comment.
Steve Zeidman, a law professor at City University of New York and a longtime police-reform advocate, said in an email to Business Insider that the fact that marijuana-related arrests had risen in New York despite changing public opinion — and the fact people of color are overrepresented in the arrest statistics — "should sound very loudly all kinds of alarm bells."
In 2010, the white arrest rate for marijuana possession nationwide was 192 per 100,000, while the black arrest rate was 716 per 100,000, according to a 2013 ACLU report.
The racial disparity in the arrest rate has increased over the past decade too. While the white arrest rate has stayed constant at 192 per 100,000, the black arrest rate has risen from 537 per 100,000 in 2001 to 716 per 100,000 in 2010.
Rate of marijuana use are more or less identical between whites and blacks, according to data from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse and Health.
Zeidman offered some insight into what is behind the disparity.
"Think of it this way," Zeidman said. "Let's say 50 cops are patrolling a Black neighborhood (designated by the NYPD as "high-crime") and 5 cops are patrolling a white neighborhood. In which neighborhood is a teenager smoking a joint more likely to be seen and arrested?"


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Vintage Fire Truck Party Complete Collection
If you love our Vintage Fire Truck goodies, our complete printable Vintage Fire Truck Party Collection is our best deal!
You'll not only receive ALL of our Vintage Fire Truck Party accessories for 45% off the retail cost of purchasing the items individually, but you'll also receive a discount on the addition of our customized invitations and customized 8" x 10" party sign.
Here's what's included in this collection:
~Thank you notes
~Party toppers in 3 designs (fire truck, fire hydrant, and happy birthday)
~Favor tags
~Tent labels
~Customizable birthday banner
~Lifesaver wrappers
~Party flags
~Water bottle labels
~T-shirt graphic
~3 Coordinating patterned papers (brick, yellow/white check, yellow/yellow check)
~Paper food tray template
ALL of the above items are available for instant download upon purchase.
You'll also receive these personalized items:
~Customized, printable 5" x 7" invitations and envelope template
~Customized, printable 8" x 10" party sign
See below for details on processing times for personalized items.
Full printing instructions and usage recommendations are included with purchase.
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Simply download the files and save them to your computer, and they will be yours to access anytime you'd like.
As always, if you have any questions along the way, please don't hesitate to contact me.
About your customized items:
A digital proof of your order will be e-mailed to you within 24 to 48 hours of purchase.
Orders received on weekends and holidays will be processed the next business day.
All finalized items will be delivered electronically in high-resolution PDF and JPEG formats, along with full printing instructions.
No physical items will be delivered.
As always, if you have any questions along the way, please don't hesitate to contact me.
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Guys. I can almost not really believe I'm typing these words. But as of September 1, 2017, I'm a 100%, full-fledged, no more freelancing, business owner!
Okay yes (real life), I have a few loose ends I'm working on tying up, but yea!
But what does this mean for ya'll? Probably nothing! A few months ago, I had someone tell me they thought I had been running my business full time for ages and didn't realize I had only been working on my business part time, so on the whole, not a lot should change. Hopefully thinks actually can ramp up (like blogging more than once in a blue moon). But for me, the shift is happening in my mindset and my brain. I can't describe to you what it's going to be like to only have to think about ONE business (not that running Chic Stripes as a one boss show is an easy task), but for as long as I can remember I've always had some sort of combo of: school, work, babysitting, full-time job, blog, hobby, passion project, part-time job, freelancing, etc. Usually 2-4 of those at any given time.
It's almost a little scary thinking about what my brain may come up with when unleashed to it's full potential (so dramatic!) and only needing to think about pushing Chic Stripes forward.
I will keep doing my #freelancelife posts under the #EntrepreneurLife hashtag because I love sharing the business side of owning a business. I think it's important for people to know and see that YES it can be be done. You can go from having a day job and passion project to turning that passion into a job (insert all the cliches!).
So how did I make this happen? A lot of hard work that I started back in 2009. If we look at it this way, it took nearly 8 years for me to turn a hobby into a business (a real business that provides real, monthly income). I think the most burning question is though, how are you making enough money to pay the bills?? Aha! A great question and for another blog post! But suffice it to say, I have been earning steady income, meeting my (kinda small) goals, and am making space in my universe by leaving my grant writing jobs for new clients in the coming months.
Basically, this post was just to let ya'll know I'm ALL IN and I couldn't be more excited. Oh, and dreams do come true!
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{Knock, knock, knock} I stood patiently on the door step. I glanced nervously up and down the street.
I heard a muffled voice coming from inside the house.
"Come in!" The voice was low and harsh. Croaking. It was the voice of an old man. He sounded angry, annoyed, impatient.
The two bags of groceries were heavy. It was hot outside. I glanced nervously up and down the street again. Sweat was dripping down my forehead and behind my neck. A truck full of groceries was driving away into the distance. The faint noise of several other members of our group were making there way door to door in the distance, slowly filtering into the houses on the next street.
I glanced in the opposite direction to meet the sound of the soft steps of a dog meandering down the street. He glanced at me, his interest piqued, before continuing to hobble off towards an empty field past the houses. His coat was matted and the nipples of an empty and malnourished stomach from a recent litter hung low, his ribs jutted out harshly through his coat of fur.
I knocked again.
"COME IN". The man was angry now. I was on my own. Standing at 5'3" and weighing 120 pounds I didn't feel overly comfortable opening the door and walking into the house by myself.
Most of the windows were boarded up and the few that weren't were covered in tin foil. Garbage littered the front lawn and was lost in weeds that had grown, over time, to reach the height of my waist. An old and rusting vehicle stood in the driveway, windows were smashed in, litter and empty cans were strewn across the seats.
I knocked one last time. I would leave the groceries on the door step if no one came to the door. As I bent down, I heard the soft pitter patter of light footsteps approaching the door. The sound didn't match the harsh, impatient voice of the man inside.
The footsteps reach the other side of the door before pausing. There was a moment of silence, of hesitancy, and slowly the door creaked slightly open. I looked up, expecting to see a man towering over me, but no one was there. Instead, my eyes dropped and fell into the soft, frail and distrustful expression of a small girl. She couldn't have been older than three or four years old.
She had beautiful skin, jet-black hair strewn across her face and loosely tied into a braid. Her eyes were brown, deep, honest, vulnerable, yet guarded at the same time.
"Hi there!" I tried to smile. "My name is Sarah. I'm with Love Has No Color." I did my best to sound upbeat. But the sad, lost and wary expression on her face left my heart feeling heavy and my voice got caught in my throat. I stammered. "I... I have a few bags of groceries here for you and your family, as well as a backpack of goodies for you if you'd like!" I looked down at the groceries, and then back into her sullen, sunken face. I was filled with an immediate sense of sadness and longing to do more, to give her everything I had. The two bags of groceries would provide food for her family for what, maybe two, three days tops?
I felt an immediate wave of embarrassment and regret flood through me as a memory flashed through my mind of only three hours earlier when I was sitting comfortably in an air-conditioned vehicle, (complete with leather seats) complaining with my friend about having to fill up on our third straight cliff bar because we hadn't had a chance to stop for real food.
Another memory; this time seven hours earlier when I grimaced while sipping the motel coffee, thinking to myself it would sure be nice to have an almond milk latte from the coffee shop down the street back home.
How ignorant was I?
How ignorant are we all to complain about lengthy traffic lights, a baby crying in a seat behind us on a flight or when our order at our favourite restaurant takes too long?
The little girl opened the door slightly more, still hesitant. My heart sank even deeper. My eyes had just fallen to the floor where I noticed her tiny bare feet were stepping in various piles of what I assumed were dog feces that covered the floor of the home's front entrance and trailed up the steps to the kitchen behind her. She didn't appear to even notice.
She reached out a delicate hand and took the bags of groceries and the backpack. Her frail arms could barely hold them, but a quick flash of excitement moved swiftly across her face when she recognized the character's from the Disney movie Frozen on the her new pink and purple school bag.
I was at a loss for words but tried to muster up the warmest smile I could. She glanced back up at me and the corners of her mouth slipped into a slight smile. She silently popped her head outside the house, long enough to glance nervously back and forth down the street before stepping back inside and closing the door before me.
I backed away slowly, lost in a train of thought. Her lost, sad and hopeless expression I knew, would be etched in my memory forever.
What is Love Has No Color?
Started in 2005 by my own coach and mentor Dr. Kevin Pallis, LHNC has been bringing love, joy, and hope to the kids living in poverty and instability at the Fort Peck reservation in Poplar, Montana.
Twice a year, a group of health and wellness practitioners travel from all across North America to dedicate a few days of service to the people of Fort Peck; once during the summer for "Boot Camp" and once in December for "Christmas on the Rez". During this particular trip last August, a team of chiropractors adjusted over 1,000 children, adults and even inmates. An office with one of the finest Naturopaths in all of Canada was on site providing treatments. An office with one of the finest Naturopaths in all of Canada was on site providing treatments and I had the extreme honour and privilege to work with various students and inmates in a coaching capacity. 1,200 backpacks filled with school supplies and 1,300 bags filled with high-quality, non-perishable groceries were delivered to the children and their families,
It may come as a surprise to some, but kids live in third world conditions right here in our country. Hideous living statistics on the Fort Peck Native American Reservation include crime, drugs, alcohol, child abuse, teen pregnancy, domestic violence, poverty, disease, unemployment, and undernourishment that we would expect in turbulent places around the globe like Zimbabwe, Somalia, Gambia, etc.
As North-Americans, we don't have to look very far to find third world conditions; poverty is alive and well in our country, and nowhere is it more obvious than on Native American Reservations. Here are just a few statistics of life on the Res that very few people are even aware of:
- Highest suicide rate in US (10x national average)
- Life expectancy, disease, poverty of a third world country
- Disease rates unrivaled in the US (diabetes is 4x national average)
- 40% high school dropout rate
- Crime, drugs and alcohol abuse that starts in middle school
- 75% unemployment
- Through programs like Boot Camp and Christmas on the Reservation, LHNC is ultimately about ending the hopelessness that the people on Reservations through health. Using chiropractic and holistic care, the supporters of LHNC want to change the paradigm to transform hopelessness to hopefulness.
In the 11 years of service, Love Has No Color has raised over $285,000, filled over 6,200 backpacks with school supplies and donated over 250,000 gifts to the Fort Peck reservation.
At its core is a common thread that unites all of us – do the right thing, especially for people who are oppressed. It has a feeling of 'rightfulness', of honour, and people's usual response is 'how can I get involved'? (See below!)
Get Involved:
This summer at our annual Boot Camp & Fun Day events we are adding a very special Day Camp for these kids. We will be having professional athletes, tribal elders, doctors, teachers, an Auschwitz survivor and many more coming together for one common cause: to awaken a sense of possibility and hope in the lives of these children. They will be immersed all day in activities ranging from basketball, street hockey, traditional tribal values, customs and language, fitness initiatives, and mindfulness training. Upon graduating at the end of the Day Camp, each child will be presented with a backpack full of school supplies. Also, each will receive a supply of high-quality, non-perishable food to take home to share with their families.
Many of these children rarely receive three meals a day and without high quality food, the ever present danger of extreme hopelessness tightens its grip. Having a summer camp experience like this will be a defining moment and swing the tide for many of these youths to make better life choices and decisions. Native Americans have been often referred to as America's Forgotten People. This camp will celebrate, recognize and honour all those in attendance. There has never been a summer camp like this and with your help, you will be a part of making history.
If you'd like to help make a difference please consider donating today. All year long Love Has No Color, along with the help of many health and wellness practitioners, brings hope and health to the kids living in poverty and instability on the Fort Peck reservation. Use the donate button below to make a donation. We appreciate your support!
*** LHNC is a fully federal tax recognized 501(c)(3) movement that has no paid staff, no consultants, only volunteers.


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Shibori - A Definition
Shibori is the Japanese word for a variety of ways of embellishing textiles by shaping cloth and securing it before dyeing. The word comes from the verb root shiboru, "to wring, squeeze, press." Although shibori is used to designatc a particular group of resist-dyed textiles, the verb root of the word emphasizes the action performed on cloth, the process of manipulating fabric. Rather than treating cloth as a two-dimensional surface, with shibori it is given a three-dimensional form by folding, crumpling, stitching, plaiting, or plucking and twisting. Cloth shaped by these methods is secured in a number of ways, such as binding and knotting. It is the pliancy of a textile and its potential for creating a multitude of shape-resisted designs that the Japanese concept of shibori recognizes and explores. The shibori family of techniques includes numerous resist processes practiced throughout the world.
Shibori is used as an English word throughout this site because there is no English equivalent. In fact, most languages have no term that encompasses all the various shibori techniques, nor is there English terminology for individual methods, which often have been incorrectly lumped together as "tie-and-dye." Three terms for separate shibori methods have come into international usage: plangi, a Malay-lndonesian word for the process of gathering and binding cloth; bandy an Indian term for the same Process; and tritik, a Malay-lndonesian word for stitch-resist. However, these three terms represent only two ofthe major shibori techniques. In this context, the word shibori seems the most useful term for the entire group of shaped resist textiles. It is the hope of the authors that "shibori" will win acceptance in the international textile vocabulary.
The special characteristic of shibori resist is a soft- or blurry-edged pattern. The effect is quite different from the sharp-edged resist obtained with stencil, paste, and wax. With shibori the dyer works in concert with the materials, not in an effort to overcome their limitations but to allow them full expression. And, an element of the unexpected is always present.
All the variables attendant on shaping the cloth and all the influences that control the events in the dye vat or pot conspire to remove some of the shibori process from human control. An analogy is that of a potter firing a wood-burning kiln. All the technical conditions have been met, but what happens in the kiln may be a miracle or a disaster. Chance and accident also give life to the shibori process, and this is its special magic and strongest appeal.


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|Load my Air Travel page
I travel quite a bit, mainly on business (c.f. my C.V. on top of this page). See where I've been to the past few years.
|Load my World Weather page
World weather maps (world climate maps) by month based on climate data for 2233 global locations.
Read the abstract on the PNAS Web Site
The worldwide air transportation network: Anomalous centrality, community structure, and cities' global roles (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 31/2005, vol. 102, no. 22, pp 7794-7799) is a research article I co-authored.
From the abstract: We analyze the global structure of the worldwide air transportation network, a critical infrastructure with an enormous impact on local, national, and international economies. We find that the worldwide air transportation network is a scale-free small-world network. In contrast to the prediction of scale-free network models, however, we find that the most connected cities are not necessarily the most central, resulting in anomalous values of the centrality. We demonstrate that these anomalies arise because of the multicommunity structure of the network. We identify the communities in the air transportation network and show that the community structure cannot be explained solely based on geographical constraints and that geopolitical considerations have to be taken into account. We identify each city's global role based on its pattern of intercommunity and intracommunity connections, which enables us to obtain scale-specific representations of the network.
This interactive Web application is a visualization of the international
passenger air traffic network. You can select one or more cities from a list of
approx. 3800 cities in the world, and the application will then show you
all flights originating from those cities on a zoomable world map. [More...]
Requirements: This application uses technology proprietary to Microsoft, and it is heavy on resources on your machine. In particular, you will need
Note: Clicking on the link on the left will open a new window, 800 by 600 Pixels in size. The source file is 1.5MB large and may take a while to download. Also, once the file is loaded, depending on the speed of your CPU and the amount of free memory you have, you may notice a delay of a few seconds up to a few minutes depending on the selection criteria entered until the Web page gets rendered.
|Load my Primitive Roots of Unity page
I have been working for quite a while on finding closed, simple expressions for primitive roots of unity, that is finding solutions of cyclotomic polynomials by radical expressions in the case of constructible regular polygons. The goal is to find solutions for the 5th, 17th, 257th, and 65537th root of unity. This is an onging project.
See the book on Amazon.com
C#.NET Web Developer's Guide (Syngress Publishing) is a book I co-authored.
From the back cover: C#.NET Web Developer's Guide C# will teach Web developers to quickly and easily build solutions for the Microsoft .NET platform. Web developers will learn to use C# components to build Web services and applications that are available across the Internet, from any application running on any platform.
|Go to the AIL download page
AILInstant Logger is an application that conveniently records all your Instant Messenger conversations. Works with AOL and Netscape Instant Messengers. Runs on all Windows systems.
6/2004: This project is now obsolete due to changed IM versions.
Load Birgit Vanderbeke: Missing Pieces (English translation; excerpt)
Load Birgit Vanderbeke: Fehlende Teile (German original; excerpt)
I "discovered" Birgit Vanderbeke in late summer 2000 while traveling in Europe. She is a member of a younger generation of German writers; born 1956 in Dahme, she lives in Frankfurt/Main and in the "south of France" (whatever that means).
|Load List of Class A and Class B Networks (1KB)
A look at a large part of the IPv4 address space, this application offers a view of all class A (18.104.22.168 through 127.0.0.0) and class B (220.127.116.11 through 18.104.22.168) networks in the form of both a set of static HTML tables, and a downloadable complete list.
|Load Cool Java Puzzle (20KB)
A single player Java puzzle applet with source code.
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This Destination Management Plan sets the framework for managing the tourism vision to 2017. It is supported by the Destination Action Plan (DAP) that details specific activities.
Aim and priorities
Develop a thriving visitor economy in Bridgend which celebrates the unique strengths of the place, supports jobs, generates business opportunities and improves the range of amenities available for visitors and local people.
The Destination Management Plan will focus on the following priorities:
- Support the development of the tourism product - support better accommodation and support better attractions.
- Support the development of tourism infrastructure - enhance the coastal resource, invest in the settlements, enhance the countryside resource, improve transport and related infrastructure for tourism and develop tourism human resources.
- Raise the profile and attract more visitors to Bridgend County Borough - promote Bridgend County Borough and develop a diverse portfolio of events.
Project example
Measure volume and value of tourism.
The current economic impact model used locally is STEAM. In support of this Bridgend will develop local indicators that will provide further evidence of the scale and growth of business in their area, including:
- accommodation occupancy figures by sector and month
- monthly attraction and activity visitor numbers
- users of the Coast Path and Celtic Trail
- beach and related car park surveys and harbour usage figures


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Computer Programmers/
Labor Law Attorneys Concentrating on Computer Industry Workers
Although information and technology systems at first galvanized California's workforce by creating many more jobs, it soon became apparent that the state's computer revolution not only led to many more employment opportunities, but also to many more opportunities for employers to violate the state's labor laws. Nowadays, it has become a standard business practice in California for computer companies to commit illegal labor practices against computer systems analysts, computer programmers, software engineers and other similarly skilled workers in the computer field.
The employment law lawyers of Blumenthal, Nordrehaug & Bhowmik are known throughout the state of California- from Los Angeles to San Jose, Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area - for obtaining large settlements and judgments on behalf of computer employees. We primarily concentrate on helping employees in the computer industry collect:
- Unpaid overtime wages and salaries
- Wages and penalties for misclassifying skilled workers as exempt from overtime pay
- Unpaid vacation time
- Out-of-pocket work expenses such as equipment, tools, software, hardware, seminars, computer classes, licenses, training and other certifications
- Compensation for time spent "on-call" or standby time
- Compensation for time spent working off-the-clock booting up and shutting down computers or working from home
Our employment law attorneys also focus on helping employees in actions to recover penalties for illegal employer activity. Employees working in computer and technology position can rely on us in cases of wrongful termination, harassment, discrimination and retaliation.
Call 800-568-8020 to Collect Your Unpaid Overtime Wages
In order to pay computer employees a fixed salary and no overtime wages, it is the technology company's burden to prove that the worker is exempt based on his or her job duties. To satisfy the computer exemption test, you must be a computer systems analyst, computer programmer, software engineer or other highly skilled employee. In addition, you must be a paid a guaranteed, high minimum salary each week. Computer workers that manufacture, install, repair, maintain, troubleshoot or perform other repetitive tasks are entitled to premium overtime wages. Whether or not the employee is capable of high-skilled work, has a fancy job title or makes a salary is irrelevant. All that matters is what he or she is actually doing.
Contact an employment law lawyer at Blumenthal, Nordrehaug & Bhowmik to get free legal advice about whether you have a valid claim to collect back pay, overtime wages and penalties for violations of the labor code and FLSA.


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A self-striping aran weight yarn that is soft and squishy. Mochi Plus is a versatile yarn that can be used for sweaters, hats, scarves, accessories & more. Please see Crystal Palace's website for free pattern support for this yarn line.
Fiber Content: 80% Merino Wool & 20% Nylon
Gauge: 4-4.5 Stitches to an inch on U.S. size 9-10 (5.5-6.5 mm) needles
Yardage: 95 yards for each 50 gram skein
Care: Hand or Machine Washable
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401 E. Montgomery Street, Sparta, WI 54656 US La Crosse Home
401 E. Montgomery Street, Sparta, Wisconsin
SOLD! 4 bedroom foreclosure in Sparta
Property Details
Listing Information
- Bedrooms: 4
- Baths: 1
- Partial Baths: 1
- Lot Size: .19 acres
- Style: 2 Story
- Garage: 2 car deta
- Heat Source: Natural Gas
- Schools: Sparta
- Taxes: $2,357
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SOLD! Spacious rooms with huge master bedroom. Main floor laundry. Updated bathroom with double sinks. Laminate wood floors. Half bath on 2nd floor. Being sold as is. Office on main floor could be 4th bedroom. Certified funds for earnest money and preapproval letter required with offer. $500 toward home warranty of buyers choice if owner occupied.
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Paul Martinez, Jr.
Paul Martinez, Jr. was born in Galveston, Texas on November 4, 1945. He passed away on Sunday, October 26, 2014 at the age of 68 at Michael E. Debakey VA Medical Center with his family at his side.
He was preceded in death by his father, Paul Martinez, Sr., his mother Jovita Mendoza Martinez, sisters, Anna Soria, Mary Tavares, and Jovita Martinez, and brother, Rudy Martinez.
Paul is survived by his loving wife of 47 years, Frances, daughters, Carrie Castro and husband Eddie of Texas City, TX, Senaida Tuck and husband Morris of Hitchcock, TX, and Esther Martinez and partner Donette Line of Galveston, TX. Grandchildren, Morris III and wife Noelia, Tyler, Taylor, Murphy, Kylie, Rainy, and Kade. Great Grandchildren, Tiger and Adelyn. Brothers, Daniel Martinez of Santa Fe, TX, Enemencio Martinez and wife Mary of Hitchcock, TX, Sister-in-law Mona Garcia and husband, Vincent of Santa Fe, TX, brothers-in-law, Erick Villarreal and wife Cynthia of Texas City, TX, and Eddie Ochoa and wife Stephanie of Fort Worth, TX. .
Paul is a long time resident of Hitchcock/Santa Fe, TX. He was drafted into the United States Army in 1966, where he served in the Vietnam War from 1967-1968. He was honorably discharged in 1972. Paul was very proud to have served his country.
Paul had a love of nature and animals; two members of his immediate family are Penny, his 7 year old Australian Shepherd, and Marley, his 2 year old dachshund.
Honorary Pallbearers are: Ruben Saray, Fernando Macias, Roland Martinez, Vincent E. Garcia, III, Rudy Martinez, and Jimmy Soria.
Paul was a man of great strength and character. His faith in Christ has brought peace to his entire family. He was a true matriarch in every way to the Martinez family.
A Celebration of Life Visitation will be held Thursday, October 30th, 2014 from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. at Carnes Funeral Home, 3100 Gulf Freeway, Texas City. Funeral Services will follow at 3:00 p.m. Military Honors will be provided by The United States Honor Guard. Pastor Robert Lee will officiate.