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Winner of the New Zealand executive assistant (EA) of the year award Nyia Strachan may come from one of New Zealand's smallest cities but she would still be the best EA if she worked in Auckland, her boss Alpine Energy chief executive Andrew Tombs says.
Strachan was named the best NZ executive assistant of the year award in Auckland last night – fittingly on the day celebrating 125 years on the Kiwi suffrage movement.
Tombs says Strachan has substantially amazing qualities that would see her be just as successful working for Air NZ, Xero of a Spark company in Auckland or Wellington.
"People don't have to live in our biggest cities to be appreciated and successful. That's the message from this award success last night. Our lives here are easier because of her.
"I already knew what the rest of New Zealand has woken up to today. Over the last decade South Canterbury has bucked the trend of most other regions in terms of growth and opportunity and Alpine Energy has been a big part of this success. Alpine has many super stars, Nyia's recognition confirms what we already know.
"Nyia was awarded the South Canterbury Employee of the year just last month at The Business Excellence awards. She goes above and beyond the call of duty and is an inspiration to staff, management and the board.
"She has even been able to get our board to switch from paper to digital agendas – which has been no mean feat."
Alpine Energy runs an electricity distribution network in South Canterbury to more than 30,000 customers from the Rangitata River in the north to the Waitaki River in the south and from the east coast to Mt Cook in the west.
Strachan joined Alpine Energy two and a half years ago and has been the executive assistant to two CEOs, three boards and four general managers. She leads a team of receptionists, administration staff and a communications advisor.
"Nyia's bubbly and fun-loving personality is infectious around the office and invigorates staff meetings. But she is an outstanding strategic contributor and valued member at executive management meetings," Tombs says.
"Her insight or perspective helps shape good decisions and outcomes for the company, its staff, and the community. She gets executives out of operational thinking to the bigger picture, bigger value, better results strategies.
"Just one example was when she collated our health and safety initiatives into a specific programme to write a Deloitte Energy Excellence Awards entry for which we were named a finalist. It is the first time Alpine Energy has been named a finalist in the nine years the awards and that's very much down to Nyia's efforts and commitment.
She gets people excited and passionate about the challenges at Alpine Energy. Her ability to cut through the jargon and get to the heart of the matter has earned her respect from staff across all sectors of the business.
"Nyia has also led the redevelopment of Alpine Energy's website, bringing it into the 21st century in style.
"She also coordinates three company group board meetings, bringing in seven directors from around the country, as well as one from overseas, plus organising the executive team. Nyia puts together agendas and takes the minutes at each meeting. We all feel we are so much more organised – thanks to her."
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This morning at breakfast we watched out the window as our neighbor's nine-year-old daughter Ava walked to school. She was bundled in a coat and scarf, which maybe was a touch warm for the weather, and carried her trumpet at her side.
We see Ava walk by most mornings and Jay often plays with her in the afternoons when she comes outside to kick a soccer ball. And this morning I was struck by how nice her childhood seems. She has a ten-minute walk to school. She plays an instrument, she plays soccer, she's a Girl Scout (who sold us those Thin Mints I'm always writing about), and her parents are around a lot. I don't know her family very well, but in broad strokes she's got the kind of childhood I'd want for Jay and Wally.
Which got me thinking about how money influences the kind of childhood a kid experiences.
There's still some uncertainty about what our adult standard of living will look like, but between Caroline's academic salary and my less predictable freelance income, we should be able to earn at least, say, $100,000 a year. And my sense is that that would be enough to give Jay and Wally a lifestyle that roughly resembles Ava's. We could afford to live in our neighborhood, where homes sell for under $275,000, and we'd send our kids to the Ann Arbor public schools, which are perfectly good.
But what if we found a way to earn more than $100,000? It's unlikely that we'll ever be rich by the standard President Obama was pilloried for using—families that make more than $250,000 a year—but if we made it a priority we could probably earn an additional $50,000 a year. What would that mean in terms of how Jay and Wally grew up?
To answer that question Caroline directed me to a report put out annually by the U.S. Department of Agriculture called Expenditures on Children By Families. The report analyzes the amount of money that families at different income levels spend on their children.
The analysis is based on husband-wife households with two kids. It breaks those households into three income groups:
- Families earning less than $57,600 a year (Average=$36,840)
- Families earning $57,600-$99,370 a year (Average=$77,500)
- Families earning more than $99,370 a year (Average=$174, 530)
The amounts of money families spend on their children increase as kids get older, though only by about 15% from age 2 to age 15. If you average over the course of a childhood (defined in the report as ages 0-17), this is how much money families at the three income levels spend on a child each year:
The most striking thing about the chart, to me, is the relative similarity between what low income and middle income families spend compared with what high income families spend. Put another way, high income families spend a lot more on their kids than other families do.
The following chart, recreated from page 18 of the report, breaks down expenditures on a child into seven categories. The chart is based on expenditure percentages in a middle income home, which are similar but not identical to the way expenditures break down in lower and high income homes.
One thing that leaps out at me from the chart is housing (which includes mortgage payments, property taxes, rent, maintenance, utilities, and home furnishings like furniture and appliances). Housing is the biggest contributor to the expense of raising a child. It also seems to me to be one of the easiest places to save money without impacting the quality of life a child enjoys.
In Ann Arbor, for example, we could buy a house in our current neighborhood for $275,000 a year or we could buy one a mile away in Burns Park for $450,000. Both neighborhoods are quiet, leafy, and filled largely with two-parent families. Burns Park has nicer housing stock and is closer to campus. Living there would put a big pinch on our household budget but it's hard for me to see how it would really improve Jay and Wally's childhoods.
This next chart is the one you've been waiting for. It shows where the additional spending on a child goes as families move up the income scale.
High income families spend a lot more on their children over the course of their childhoods—almost double ($377,000) what middle income families spend ($226,920).
When I consider what that extra money gets you, I think in two categories: stuff and non-stuff.
Stuff includes housing, food, transportation, and clothing, which comprise 67 percent of the cost of raising a child. Earning $150,000 a year versus earning $100,000 a year gets you more stuff, and better quality stuff, but I don't think it does much to improve the quality of a kid's childhood. What does it matter if your parents drive a Honda or a BMW, or whether your backpack costs $40 or $100? Once a certain minimum standard has been reached, each additional dollar spent on more or better stuff doesn't add a lot. And that minimum standard can be reached easily with a family income of $100,000 a year.
What about non-stuff? That includes health care and child care/education, which together comprise 25 percent of the cost of raising a child.
One interesting aspect of the data is that middle and high income families spend similar amounts on their children's health care ($18,420 and $21,150 respectively from age 0-17). To me this suggests two things: a) As families move from low to middle income one of the first places they divert their increased income is to health care; and b) There's only so much you can spend on health care, at least for children who tend to be pretty healthy.
The other non-stuff category is child care/education. Here's where you see the single biggest gap between low, middle, and high income families in terms of total dollars spent. Over the course of a childhood, low income families spend $22,710, middle income families spend $39,420, and high income families spend $84,870. That's a pretty staggering difference and it's pretty obvious what accounts for it: daycare v. nannies when kids are young, and public v. private school when kids are older.
So, when Caroline and I think about how earning an additional $50,000 a year would impact Jay and Wally what we're really thinking about is the value of private school. I don't have any data that tries to quantify the value of private school but I'll do some digging. Of course, the added value of private v. public school varies a lot depending on the quality of the public schools where you live. In Philadelphia, where we lived until last August, the gap between the private and public schools was huge; in Ann Arbor I imagine it's a lot smaller.
Before I wrap up, a few notes. First, this discussion only includes expenditures on children through age 17, so it doesn't include support for college, post-graduate education, and the transition to adulthood, which are obviously huge and consequential expenses. Second, the expenditure categories don't capture things like vacations and summer camp, which are both places where I'd expect to see big gaps between middle and high income families. Third, I framed this post in deliberately simplistic terms in order to highlight top-level differences by income groups. I'd encourage people to read the USDA report and to raise questions in the comments section.
Overall, I'm interested in writing more about the tradeoffs that parents should consider as they think about how to organize family life. What would we gain by earning an additional $50,000 a year? What, if anything, would we have to give up to earn that money? And how do the organization of time and the availability of money affect a family culture and children's outcomes?
I look forward to thinking about these questions in future posts.
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When the members of the New England Inns & Resorts Association turned to Redpoint for an idea to help sell rooms during their historically low period between the end of ski season and the start of warm weather, we decided to have a little fun with what the locals call "mud season." Leveraging the fact that much of New England turns into a muddy playground when winter recedes and the snow and ice starts to melt from the mountains, we worked with member properties to create mud-themed adventures and experiences that differed from property to property. From off-road driving in the mud and birding walks in the mud with the Audubon Society, to "muddy cuisine," mud wraps at spas, free car washes and more, members found creative ways to help travelers "get dirty" in New England. The media loved the distinctive story, with many newspapers even printing the press release word for word as a feature story.
Following the program's inception, coverage has appeared multiple times – year over year — in The New York Times, Sunday Boston Globe (Travel), Wednesday Boston Globe (Food), New York Daily News, and an Associated Press full page feature story that resulted in hundreds of stories throughout the US. The story subsequently ran over the AP Broadcast Wire, and was picked up by dozens of television stations in New England. Most importantly…members reported a dramatic surge in bookings from the moment the first story ran.


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Target was approached by the world's largest auction house to design foundations to support modern sculptures. Their requirements were simple; the site is a National Trust site, so any foundation solution would need to be concrete free.
Target designed Heli Pile® points as supports for the temporary exhibition without the need for concrete or digging. Once the exhibition is finished, the Heli Pile® lengths can be removed and recycled, or simply covered over in anticipation of future use.
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On CalderaWP.com we use Easy Digital Downloads to sell plugins. We also have a few free plugins listed as free products. We do this because, even though you can just install them through WordPress.org, we'd prefer that you create an account on our site and sign up for mailing list.
What I didn't want to have to do was manually update these files every time I made an update. It seemed better to pull form WordPress.org.
I had originally set the EDD file link to use a link like
https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/caldera-forms.zip. But for some reason, that I couldn't figure out, this was giving a year old version of Caldera Forms.
When I opened a issue about adding a filter in EDD so I could work around this, it was pointed out that I should be using
https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/caldera-forms.latest-stable.zip instead. This seems to have resolved the issue for me.
Anyway, small tip and I told Otto I'd document a way around it after he took some time to help me understand how those files work and told me their was no CDN in use that could have explained it. I will update if I find out more about this mystery.


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TORTOISE AND THE FAIR: During last year's Christmas shopping, you probably spotted these beautiful tortoise, horn and acrylic contemporary watches from Michael Kors and decided you'd wait until they went on sale to make them yours. With no sale in sight three months later, it's time for Plan B.
Fossil makes three very similar styles of watches as part of their Stella collection. Though the materials don't really compare (real versus faux horn, crystal versus cubic zirconia, etc.) they both have great style cues and the Fossil version will cost you about a third less.
The Carlsbad Fossil store is constantly selling out of these watches, so if you want to try them on before you buy, give them a call first.
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There are approximately 10,000 bird species on this beautiful planet. Here at 10,000 Birds we expect to not only see but eventually photograph or write about every single one! (We'll get there eventually…)
Anyway, we have a serious interest in photography to go with our interest in birds and bird identification. We've consequently amassed a rather large collection of photos, and rather than hide them away on our hard-drives we've decided that you may like to see them instead.
Almost all of the galleries linked to on this page are of a single species (mostly birds, but we also point our lenses at insects, mammals, herps, and plants) and contain between three and fifteen different images and (often) a short bio – just click on the species you'd like to see pictures of and you'll be whizzed to the gallery in moments.
Please note all photos are copyright Mike Bergin or Corey Finger (unless otherwise specified in the posts). Photographs are compressed to make pages load more quickly.
We add galleries to 10,000 Clicks on a regular basis, so please don't think that if you had a look last month, there'll be nothing new. Also note that we explore a wider variety of birds in greater depth throughout the site, so check out the blog and our Birds page.
CASUARIIDAE – Cassowaries and emu
CRACIDAE – Chachalacas, Curassows, Guans
PHASIANIDAE – Pheasant, Fowl, and Allies
ODONTOPHORIDAE – New World Quail
DIOMEDEIDAE – Albatrosses
PROCELLARIIDAE – Petrels, Shearwaters
HYDROBATIDAE – Storm Petrels
PODICEPIDEDAE – Grebes
ANATIDAE – Ducks, Geese and Swan
GAVIIDAE – Loons
SPHENISCIDAE – Penguins
PELECANIFORMESS – Ibises, Spoonbills
ARDEIDAE – Herons, Egrets
PELICANIDAE – Pelicans
FREGATIDAE – Frigatebirds
SULIDAE – Gannets, Boobies
Phalacrocoracidae – Cormorants
ANHINGIDAE – Anhingas, Darters
CATHARTIDAE – New World Vultures
SAGITTARIIDAE – Secretarybird
PANDIONIDAE – Ospreys
ACCIPITRIDAE – Kites, Hawks, Eagles
FALCONIDAE – Caracaras, Falcons
OTIDIDAE – Bustards
RALLIDAE – Rails, Crakes, Coots
GRUIDAE – Cranes
ARAMIDAE – Limpkin
BURNHINIDAE – Stone-curlews, Thick-knees
HAEMATOPODIDAE – Oystercatchers
RECURVIROSTRIDAE – Stilts, Avocets
CHARADRIIDAE – Plovers
JACANIDAE – Jacanas
SCOLOPAClDAE – Sandpipers and Allies
GLAREOLIDAE – Coursers, Pratincoles
LARIIDAE – Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
STERNCORARIIDAE – Skuas
ALCIDAE – Auks
COLUMBIDAE – Pigeons and Doves
STRIGOPIDAE – New Zealand Parrots
CACATUADIE – Cockatoos
PSITTICIDAE – Parrots
CUCULIDAE – Cuckoos
STRIGIDAE – Owls
STAETORNITHIDAE – Oilbird
NYCTIBIIDAE – Potoos
CAPRIMULGIDAE – Nightjars
AEGOTHELIDAE – Owlet-nightjars
HEMIPROCNIDAE – Treeswifts
APODIDAE – Swifts
TROCHOLIDAE – Hummingbirds
ALCEDINIDAE – Kingfishers
MEROPIDAE – Bee-eaters
BUCEROTIDAE – Hornbills
RAMPHISTIDAE – Toucans, Barbets
PICIDAE – Woodpeckers
EURYLAIMIDAE – Broadbills
FURNARIIDAE – Ovenbirds
GRALLARIIDAE – Antpittas
RHINOCRYPTIDAE – Tapaculos
TYRANNIDAE – Tyrant Flycatchers
COTINGIDAE – Cotingas
PTILONORHINCHIDAE – Bowerbirds
MALURIDAE – Australasian Wrens
MELIPHAGIDAE – Honeyeaters
POMATOSTOMIDAE – Australasian Babblers
ACANTHIZIDAE – Australasian Warblers
NOTIOMYSTIDAE – Stichbird
MALACONOTIDAE – Bushshrikes
ARTAMIDAE – Woodswallows, butcherbirds, Peltops
LANIIDAE – Shrikes
VIREONIDAE – Vireos
RHIPIDURIDAE – Fantails, Pygmy Drongo
CORVIDAE – Crows, Jays and Magpies
CORCORIDAE – Australian Mudnesters
PARADISAEIDAE – Birds-of-paradise
BOMBYCILLIDAE – Waxwings and Allies
PETROICIDAE – Australasian Robins
PARIDAE – Tits, Chickadees
ALAUDIDAE – Larks
HIRUNDIDIDAE – Swallows, Martins
PICATHARTIDAE – Rockfowl
AEGITHALIDAE – Bushtits
ACROCEPHALIDAE – Reed Warblers and Allies
CISTICOLIDAE – Cisticolas and Allies
LEIOTHRICHIDAE – Laughingthrushes
SYLVIIDAE – Sylviid Babblers, Parrotbills
REGULIDAE – Kinglets
TROGLODYTIDAE – Wrens
POLIOPTILIDAE – Gnatcatchers
SITTIDAE – Nuthatches
CERTHIIDAE – Treecreepers
MIMIDAE – Catbirds, Mockingbirds, Thrashers
STURNIDAE – Starlings
TURDIDAE – Thrushes
MUSCICAPIDAE – Chats, Old World Flycatchers
CINCLIDAE – Dippers
NECTERINIIDAE – Sunbirds
PLOCEIDAE – Weavers, Widowbirds
ESTRILIDIDAE – Waxbills, Munias and Allies
FRINGILLIDAE – Finches
PARULIDAE – New World Warblers
PASSERIDAE – Old World Sparrows, Snowfinches
MOTACILLIDAE – Wagtails, Pipits
ICTERIDAE – Oropendolas, Orioles & Blackbirds
EMBERIZIDAE – Buntings, New World Sparrows
CALCARIIDAE – Longspurs, snow buntings
CARDINALIDAE – Grosbeaks, Saltators & Allies
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text: I'm being forced into taking a break, as I can't seem to do so on my own. M and D leave at 8am tomorrow for a wedding in SC, and will be gone till Monday night. Fynn came home from the sitter w/a fever this afternoon, which climbed to 106 for a few hours. I was in an utter depression this afternoon about the race and lack of registrations, despite my gazillion flyers put up w/freezing hands and mangled tape, posts, articles, donations, etc ... it's been a ton of work so far and I've been looking at it as if the entire thing depends on my efforts. I seem to be ignoring the fact that God can choose to bless them or not. Time to lie low for a couple days and let go. It's not really up to me :). Newsletter this month was on vulnerability, and I seem to be feeling very much that way the last few days. M doesn't need to get a call while away that I've collapsed into a sobbing heap in the middle of the kitchen floor. I have some thinking to do this weekend, and am looking forward to the quiet.


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The IPL spot-fixing scam has again brought the disparate worlds of gangsters and reporters together
Akshay Sawai | 10 Jun, 2013
The IPL spot-fixing scam has again brought the disparate worlds of gangsters and reporters together
Some media reports on the IPL scandal have hinted that not everyone in the mob involved in cricket gambling sports a tika on his forehead or plays for an IPL team. These reports suggest that the ringleader of the operation is none other than India's most wanted gangster, Dawood Ibrahim, himself. To verify this, a reporter of The Times of India sent a text message to Chhota Shakeel, the gangster's second-in-command. Shakeel rang the reporter back and denied their gang's involvement.
"We have grown now; we have left those days far behind," Shakeel is quoted as saying in the paper. "We are into real estate and other white businesses. Bhai does not want this haraam (ill-gotten) money coming out of betting." Shakeel goes on to complain about media reports that have linked Dawood to the scandal. "There are some channels that are putting our gang's name into police officers' mouths. It's easy for news channels to do that as we do not get a chance to deny it. And news channels want our name so that their TRPs go up and they can… make a big impact."
TRPs. Stories. Impact. It's newsroom jargon rolling off the tongue of a criminal. No surprise, given how media-savvy gangsters have become lately. But it does arouse curiosity about the gangster-media relationship. What is it like to interview a don? What kind of interactions do a gangster and reporter have?
On a Friday evening in Mumbai, a man in his fifties with a grey stubble and oval dark glasses leans against his car outside Shreejee's restaurant near Oshiwara Police Station in Andheri. He is Baljeet Parmar, a veteran crime reporter who has dined with underworld dons and even faced their fury. Parmar claims to have had meals with Dawood Ibrahim. He was also shot at once from close range by Chhota Rajan's men. After we shake hands, Parmar leans on me for support during the short walk from the car to the restaurant. It is not the damage caused by the attack that makes him do this. "I twisted my foot," he says.
Shreejee's is a typical Udupi restaurant, complete with the clatter of spatulas and sizzle of dosas on hot pans as background noise. Parmar doesn't take off his glasses even after we take our seats. He says he rarely does. He orders tea and begins to tell his story in Punjabi-accented English. "I interviewed Dawood, Vardarajan Mudaliar, Haji Mastan [among others]," he says, "I have travelled with these people, had meals with them…"
Parmar is originally from Chandigarh. He came to Mumbai in 1976 to try his luck with films, which didn't work out, and became a journalist at the start of the 1980s. But it was his interim job, as chief of security at Holiday Inn hotel in Juhu, that gave him the exposure that would help him as a crime reporter. "Holiday Inn and Sun n' Sand were the two hotels where many film and underworld parties would be held. I got to meet and observe people there. Film personalities, underworld dons, cops…" Parmar says he quit for reasons beyond his control, and became a reporter for The Free Press Journal.
Back then, Parmar lived in Mumbai's Antop Hill area, where Vardarajan Mudaliar (aka Vardabhai) was active as a gangster. Mudaliar was Mumbai's most feared don in the 70s and early 80s, and Parmar saw the way he dotted the area with illicit liquor joints, brothels and hutments; he even had illegal roads laid. Parmar started writing about all this, and that's how the don asked to see him. One of their exchanges during the meeting went something like this.
Parmar: "Aren't you worried the cops will get you?"
Mudaliar: "Do you read Hindu granths (texts)?"
Parmar: "Not much."
Mudaliar: "The books say each of us has come to this life with a return ticket. When the time comes, we all have to go. I'm not scared."
Parmar: "If you say you do good work, why is everyone scared of you?"
Mudaliar: "Are you scared of me?"
Parmar: "No."
Mudaliar: "Why?"
Parmar: "Like you, I also have a return ticket."
The above exchange—as Parmar recalls it—broke the ice between Parmar and Mudaliar. Parmar got a defining story, his first interview with a don.
The conversation shifts to Dawood Ibrahim, who Parmar claims to have met almost 20 times (but not even once after 1992). He speaks of a 1988 meeting in Dubai that was set up by a rival-turned-friend of Dawood. Parmar was staying at Hotel Astoria, from where Dawood's driver Sajid picked him up in a maroon Mercedes. "It was a huge car with a satellite phone," says Parmar. "After picking me up, his driver called him and said he would reach the office in seven-and-a-half minutes. That's exactly how long it took. I remember that."
Asked if he felt apprehensive about meeting such a dangerous man, Parmar says, "No. By that time, I had met many underworld people." The Dawood he remembers is a man dressed in white who was a slave to Cartier: Cartier cigarettes, Cartier lighter, Cartier pen. Parmar says Dawood served lemon tea in small cups. "He apologised for the cups, saying they had to be small as he had to drink about 80 a day with the various people who came to see him."
Dawood wanted to discuss the allegedly negative media coverage he was getting for something that another gangster, Sharad Shetty, was responsible for. As they spoke, a hefty man arrived and sat beside Parmar. No introductions were made and the conversation continued. Dawood asked Parmar what he thought of Sharad Shetty. "Haraamzaade log hain," Parmar said, and delivered a 15-minute rant against his gang. After he was done, Dawood told him that the man sitting next to him was Sharad Shetty. Dawood then reprimanded Shetty.
Parmar seems to sense that some parts of his stories may seem too wild to be true. "What I'm telling you," he says, "is something I have also written in my columns over the years." Also, he says he never shrank from telling off mobsters when he had to. Nor did he take favours from them. "To have contacts is an asset. But contacts can't change to links. That's dangerous."
S Balakrishnan is a plump man with a cheerful disposition and passion for music. But his geniality belies the almost 35 years he has spent tracking some of Mumbai's most sinister elements as a reporter for The Times of India. "Crime was considered an entry-level beat, but organised crime is an integral part of Mumbai, its economy and its society. If you report on Mumbai, you cannot ignore its underworld," says Balakrishnan one Saturday morning in his office in Chembur.
Bala, as he is known, has had his share of controversy and defamation cases against him. He says that organised crime grew in Mumbai in the 1960s with gold smuggling, which boomed after the Government of the time clamped official gold imports to save foreign exchange, giving smugglers an opportunity to meet demand. Maharashtra's prohibition policy resulted in a market for illicit liquor too. Then, in the late 70s and early 80s, gangsters turned their attention to real estate in Bombay.
Mudaliar was a key player then. "I grew up in Matunga. Vardabhai was from there too," says Bala, "He was virtually the king of Bombay." But Mudaliar led a modest life. "He sat on the floor, although his guards would be hovering around. Criminals, cops, ordinary people looking for help would go to him. I have seen DIG-level cops touch his feet," says Bala, who first met Mudaliar as a curious youngster and later gained access as a journalist. "What I got to see was a nexus between the underworld and the police and politicians," he says, "Also, the charitable side of the underworld as well as its dangerous side."
Asked if knowing a don personally ever compromised his objectivity, Bala says, "Not at all. [The underworld] also respects it. But never carry tales. Never pass on information to cops, unless it is about anti-national activities. My phone has been tapped many times by the police. But the police are sometimes so dumb that they would ask me, whose very phone they were tapping, for the meaning of some words or code names used in the conversation. But yes, I'd inform the cops if I hear of something that threatens national security. I'm an Indian first, then a journalist." Is mob recrimination a worry? "If you are discreet and tactful, you'll [be okay]."
Bala says that Mudaliar's empire began to crumble because a Maharashtra politician wanted control of crime and aided the emergence of a monster called Dawood Ibrahim. "The Dawood phenomenon didn't just happen," says Bala. "He had police and political backing. Subsequently, the fortunes of this particular politician came down. And another politician co-opted Dawood. This politician is the real don of India," he claims.
Journalists are sometimes accused of glorifying criminals. And it is true that they experience a rush of blood in their interactions with the underworld. Making contact with the forbidden has a thrill to it, Bala admits: "Not everyone had access. You did. They gave you information. They tried to get information out of you. They tried to plant stories. But overall, I found more honesty in the underworld than in politics or business. If they gave their 'zubaan' (word), they kept it."
Tarakant Dwivedi alias Akela is a sturdy man with close-cropped hair who works for Mumbai's Mid-Day. In 2011, he had a harrowing experience when he was arrested for a story he had written the year earlier for his previous employer, Mumbai Mirror. It was about water leakage ruining weapons acquired post-26/11 for the Railway Police Force at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus. Arrested under the Official Secrets Act on charges of trespassing, Dwivedi spent five days in jail. It is perhaps experiences like these that have shaped his approach to work. "For me, it is a source of livelihood, nothing more. The only person I'm answerable to is my editor," he says when we meet in a conference room at his tabloid's office.
Differences with his family made Dwivedi leave home in Uttar Pradesh for Mumbai. Journalism came his way by chance: a Hindi publication in Mumbai's suburb of Ulhasnagar named Ulhas Vikas had a vacancy, and he took it. He later worked for Do Baje Dopahar and Navbharat before making his way to Mumbai's top tabloids.
When Dwivedi speaks, he often rocks in his chair, tilts his head back, and shuts his eyes. He is acutely aware of the voice recorder on the table, and asks me to switch it off from time to time. He says he has had plenty of direct interaction with underworld dons. The first don he met was Arun Gawli. It was in the late 1990s. Dwivedi was with Navbharat. Having heard that Gawli was going to contest elections, he went to Dagdi Chawl, Gawli's residence, to confirm this news. Anyone was allowed entry to Dagdi Chawl, he says, as long as there was a legitimate reason to see Gawli.
The hard part was the wait. "They watch you as you wait. And they make you wait because they'd rather you go away. The wait is also designed to make you drop your plan in case you have any." What struck Dwivedi about the meeting with Gawli was the terrace of Dagdi Chawl. "The terrace has a garden, with dummy animals and a small waterfall. It's like being in a jungle." A jungle with a snooker table.
When Dwivedi finally met Gawli, he was somewhat disappointed. "He is a slight man, weighing 50 kg or thereabouts," he says, "I thought if I hit him, he'd fall." This surprises me: for, in pictures, Gawli looks small but sinewy, a man whose slap could turn you into an instant astronaut. I ask Dwivedi if he is sure of what he's saying. "Yes," he says. "When I met Gawli, I thought, 'Don aise bhi hote hain' (a don could be like this too). But he had a huge TV in his room. These are common now, but were not back then. Now, that was don-worthy."
Dwivedi says he has met or spoken with other gangsters too. He feels little fear, he says, because he is originally from UP, a state where if you didn't carry a knife or gun to college, you didn't matter. But he says interactions with the likes of Dawood have become rare since the Mumbai bomb blasts of 1993. Till then, the underworld was mostly involved in making money and fighting among themselves. But with those serial bombings, Dawood turned into a terrorist. "You can't talk to him directly anymore. You have to go through a mediator," Dwivedi says. "Also, when MN Singh became police commissioner of Mumbai, he frowned upon reporters directly contacting gangsters."
In the rare event that Dawood now has to speak to someone, he might call on a third person's phone in an area like Nagpada or Pydhonie to conduct the conversation—indirectly. And what are the kind of things he says? "Bhai, kyaa haal hai? Zara iske baaare mein kam likho…" (Brother, how are you? Write less about this). Asked for a little-known detail about Dawood, Dwivedi says, "He used to love Girgaum Chowpatty and wanted to replicate it in Karachi."
Some crime reporters avoid all contact with gang leaders, preferring to get their information from the police instead. They see the notion of the underworld allowing you journalistic space or respecting unspoken ground rules as naïve and romantic. They believe the underworld is plain ruthless and cite the murder of Mid-Day crime reporter J Dey as its most recent evidence. "You should not get too close, you should not be perceived as being sympathetic to a certain gang. Even perception is enough [for a rival gang to turn vindictive]," says Lekha Dhar Rattnani, one of the first women crime reporters in India. She covered the beat for The Free Press Journal a few years in the early 80s. She never met Vardarajan Mudaliar, for example. But she says she got veiled threats from him. "Someone or the other would say to me, 'Look, they know you are writing this or that'," remembers Rattnani. "I told my editor, Virendra Kapoor, about the threats. He said that the paper was behind me and encouraged me to keep working, as few women were doing what I was. Also, my sister was in the police. That made me feel safe."
Prabhakar Pawar, crime reporter of Saamna, the Shiv Sena mouthpiece, is also clear about taking a safety-first approach. Sitting in his air-conditioned and wood-panelled cabin under the sleepy gaze of an oversized close-up of Bal Thackeray, Pawar says, "You meet underworld people and they soon ask you for favours… 'Tell the police to go easy on this guy', 'Give us information.' When you refuse, problems begin."
Pawar lists out names of journalists who paid a price for their interactions with the underworld. "Suresh Khanolkar, who ran a publication called Khatarnak, was murdered. The editor of a publication called Raazdaar was murdered. J Dey was murdered. Baljeet Parmar was attacked. Jigna Vora went to jail. A few others went to jail as well. So there is a history—and I was very clear: I got my stories [by] talking to the police."
Pawar cites a Marathi proverb to make his case: "Sheli jaate jiva nishi, khaanaara mhanto vaattad." Roughly translated, it means the lamb lays down its life, but the person eating it grumbles the meat is rubbery. The proverb could be interpreted in several ways. What Pawar means, perhaps, is that such a sacrifice is not worth it. For all your courage and efforts to get the truth, all you get are complaints.
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Convertible Supercars: Why Do We Pretend To Hate Them?
Whenever a convertible supercar emerges, it's slower, heavier and - on paper - measurably less good than its coupe sibling... but do we really think they're worse?
Convertible supercars: possibly the source of our greatest hypocrisy. On paper we prefer to shun them, to turn our noses up while mumbling words like 'posers,' 'weight penalty' and 'handling.' If the coupe is a stylish luxury hotel in Paris, the convertible is a neon-lit beachfront bar in Magaluf.
Earlier this week we brought you news that Porsche is cooking up something that, while it's called the Speedster, seems a lot like a convertible GT3. Think 493bhp flat-six, rear-wheel drive, even a manual gearbox – plus unlimited headroom. But, as we always end up saying whenever this sort of thing happens, it inevitably won't drive quite as well as the hard-top.
The extra weight involved in bracing the chassis after removing the roof is the arch-enemy of performance and handling. Scuttle shake is nowhere near what it used to be in the days of Saab 900 convertibles and Citroen C3 Pluriels (shudder) but it's usually noticeable in anything that wasn't designed to live without a roof in the first place, like a McLaren.
That extra flab can show itself on track, bringing the limits down a fraction, or making the steering feel a tad more dim-witted. Even on the road the convertible version often just feels a little… flat compared to the hard-top.
Porsche's 911 is a perfect example. I once drove a current-era S Cabriolet from the south coast of Wales to the north coast in a day. It left me completely cold. I didn't engage with it at all, but the weather was crap (obviously) and the roof spent 90 per cent of the time keeping rain off my head. There was loads of grip, but it just didn't feel very engaging.
A month or two later I drove a Poundland-basic Carrera coupe and absolutely fell in love with it. It felt lithe, alert and so much more enjoyable. It's that spark of life that nothing but low weight can really bring.
On the other hand, I've also driven both the hard top and Roadster versions of the Lamborghini Aventador. The Roadster, for all our mutterings about posing pouches and new money, is absolutely 100 per cent the one I'd have. The same goes for the McLaren 650S, of which I drove both styles, and the Ferrari 458. I'll have the Spiders, thanks. Audi R8? Yep, driven both, and mine's a Spyder.
What we're sometimes guilty of when writing about these things is forgetting the real value of the extra theatre afforded by an open roof. Sure, you have to pay £10,000-£15,000 more for the roof delete option, but it's that louder, more visceral experience that grabs you by the nerve endings and shakes you like an industrial paint mixer. It's the reason we always come away from open-top supercar drives knowing that we'd have that one.
At the end of the day, neon-lit beachfront bars in Magaluf aren't really our thing at all, but as much as we hate to admit it, that doesn't mean they aren't often very good fun.


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Of course it can be a beautiful way to travel, but for the most part long-distance trains are for people trying to get their lives together, to find work, or to reunite with people they love whom they hope will love them back. This project explores that search for something just out of reach and a bit intangible. It is about the desire for change and the possibility of hope fulfilled.
Traveling by 15-day rail passes; the train interior provides a stage consistent in color and design for portraits exploring a passenger?s true journey. Passengers write why they are traveling, where they are coming from, and where they hope to go. A veteran from Chicago describes decades of heroin addiction, ?It?s reality facing reality?but that fantasy, it?s a real motherfucker.? Individually their stories are about a desire for something to happen, or a situation they are trying to rectify. Collectively, they sketch our nations identity. A single mother commuting to the oil fields of North Dakota. A teenage son hoping to reunite with his father.
In Search of Great Men combines original photography with first person, passenger-written accounts to explore contemporary American culture through the status of our passenger rail system and those currently traveling by train. Ultimately this on-going project will be disseminated in book format combining content from all routes.


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Old Words, New Words
Old words, new words, like black birds and white birds whirling in the gray of a cloudy muted sky.
Black birds, assaulted by rain, tremble and struggle while the white birds whirl, unperturbed by wind and water.
They are from the sea and are turbulent in their own nature, these elements cannot surprise them. They are beyond surprise and awe, twirling in a wind swept horde above the glistening dripping world, elegant white birds, storm frenzied white birds, sky slicing white birds.
The black bird has found sanctuary somewhere in the eves of a house. Usually such a big strong bird, it has frightened me to see him wobble across the sky. Even knowing that he is now safe, I feel pained imagining the moment when the storm first caught him.
What was he doing when wind and water decided to throw birds across clouds? I feel frightened, even though he is now safe, even though I was today safe.
I feel fear knowing that chance will leave me to a storm one day, that everyday that I breath cannot be a safe day. And what will I be doing when forces greater than my self grab me up?
Surely no one is immune. No beast that walks, flies, swims, wriggles, or crawls can count itself safe forever.
Old words, new words, neither come quickly enough.
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It's bra try-out time for Cami Cooper. She leads us into a bedroom and to try out a bunch that are laid out and ready to hoist onto her 38G sucklers. Cami's big tits are very pliable. She can suck and kiss them easily and leaves lipstick smears on her nipples.
It must be a lot of fun to go bra shopping with Cami and help her choose. She just won't masturbate in the dressing room after she decides what bras she wants to buy. Or maybe she would if she felt like giving a friend a show.
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How faith turned my life around (hint: It didn't)
Don't be a born again wanker.
I long time ago, I wasn't struggling with a gambling addiction, I didn't have a coke habit which was morphing into a heroin addiction and I wasn't doing anything shameful. One day while I wasn't being a piece of shit, I didn't go to the top of a tall building intent on jumping off. While I wasn't there I didn't suddenly feel the urge to pray. Consequently I never had an epiphany of faith and never turned my life around. So here we are now, years later and I haven't changed, I am still normal, still good (or at least I hope so).
Too often I hear stories about how horrible people find God and what a good person that has made them and how they we able to turn their life around because of it. Most religions even allow their followers huge transgressions as long as you ask God for forgiveness, then, everything is ok again.
It is not o.k.
You will get a smidgen of my respect for cleaning yourself up (regardless if faith had anything to do with it), but I tend to respect more people who were never wankers to begin with.


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Ever get that feeling that you're the only one holding yourself back?
I do. More so in the last couple of weeks due to what I've been told are "limiting beliefs." Luckily, in recognizing that I have these, I can change them!
For example, my complaint that my studio is too small. Well, guess what? I decided that I'm lucky to have a studio at all, so I brought in a shelf, rearranged, and ta-da! My space is much more functional now, and as a result, I am now working on 4 paintings simultaneously! Changing my attitude, and the space, have allowed my creative juices to get flowing again.
Even more unexpected - this allowed me to finally do something about this painting I've been secretly loathing for months. I've been stashing it away in the corner and using it as a reminder of my failures when I'm feeling particularly vindictive towards myself. The other day I decided that this monster in the corner is doing me no good, so I went ahead and painted over it! Now I'm starting something new on this lovely yellow background. Phew! So liberating!
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the African Development Bank will present the Africa Investment Forum (AIF), the largest investment market in Africa, in North Africa. The Bank is championing the continent's premier investment market to help Africa find the path to long-needed prosperity.
This regional road show precedes the first ever Africa Investment Forum, to be held in Johannesburg, 7- 9 November 2018.
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It is in this perspective that an African Development Bank delegation will visit Tunis on 23rd July; Cairo on 25th, Rabat on 27th and Algiers on 29th, to inform stakeholders about the AIF and to draw the attention of private operators on the need to prepare projects for potential investors at the AIF forum in November in Johannesburg.
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Consumer prices increased in September at the fastest pace since the spring as gasoline costs jumped after declining for two straight months, the Labor Department said Tuesday.
The consumer price index, a closely watched barometer of inflation, rose 0.3% last month after a 0.2% gain in August. The last time the measure increased by more was in April.
Prices increased 1.5% for the 12 months that ended Sept. 30, the fastest inflation rate in nearly two years.
A year ago, the annual rate was just below zero.
Tuesday's report likely boosts the chances that Federal Reserve policymakers will nudge up their benchmark short-term interest rate again before the end of the year. Fed officials have been waiting for inflation to pick up after years of slow price growth following the Great Recession.
Gasoline prices increased 5.8% in September and accounted for more than half of the overall rise in the consumer price index, the Labor Department said. Gas prices had declined 0.9% in August and 4.7% in July.
Rent and housing costs also contributed to the consumer price index increase last month, rising 0.4% for its biggest gain since May.
The higher prices in those key sectors came as food costs in September were unchanged for the third consecutive month.
Core prices, which exclude often-volatile food and energy costs, increased 0.1% last month. The pace was slower than the 0.3% growth in August because it does not factor in the declining gas prices.
For the 12 months that ended Sept. 30, core prices increased 2.2%, down from a 2.3% annual rate through the end of August.
Fed monetary policymakers want to see prices rising 2% annually. The Fed uses a different inflation barometer based on personal consumption expenditures that runs lower than the consumer price index.
Through the end of August, that measure showed prices had increased 1% and core prices were up 1.7%.
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Who Uses The Most Energy In New York City? [Infographic]
Modi Research Group's infographic represents the annual energy consumption of buildings across the city.
This interactive infographic from the Modi Research Group maps out urban energy consumption and allows people to analyze the highly detailed data. It was created for the group's New York City Energy Mapping Project and represents the total annual building energy consumption at block level and taxlot level, expressed in kilowatt hours (kWh) per square meter of land area.
Data for the infographic was acquired from a mathematical model based on statistics, which estimates the energy consumption values of buildings across the city. If you hover over a block or lot you can view the total use, a breakdown of the type of energy used, what it is used for (space-heating, electricity, space-cooling, hot water, etc) and in what quantity. The infographic shows that blocks in Manhattan have the highest total energy use, while Staten Island seems to have the lowest figures.


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Saturday August 3rd, 2019
Winding Ridge Golf Club
Shotgun Start at 12:30pm
*Opening Remarks 12:15pm
Entry fee includes: 18 Hole scramble format (w/ cart), prizes for the closest to pin, longest drive, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, outing T-shirt, goody bag, silent auction, dinner, awards ceremony and a great time with friends and family!
Schedule of Events:
11:30a Registration Starts
12:30p Shotgun Start (Opening Remarks 12:15pm)
5:30p Cocktail Hour & Silent Auction
6:30p Dinner
We look forward to a fun-filled day....all in the name of PWS research. Your sponsorship and participation support cutting-edge research funded by the Foundation for Prader-Willi Research.
A Message From Our Event Hosts:
Jhett is remarkable and inspiring child with PWS, and as his parents, we decided to be as proactive as possible in helping to fund research for this challenging disorder.
We know that through medical research, we can help to eliminate the many hurdles that our child, and so many others, face on a daily basis. Your participation is critical to our success.
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2019 Sponsorship Opportunities
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Plans for the 2019 National YFM Training Week are underway.
Date: Sunday, July 21, 6:00 pm through Friday, July 26, 12:00 pm, 2019
It will be held at Unity Worldwide Ministries' central office at Unity Village, Mo.
Announcements will be made in The Path e-newsletter. (Sign up at www.unity.org/enews.)
- Rev Diane Venzera, MEd, CSE, LUT; Youth & Family Ministry Coordinator, Unity Worldwide Ministries
- Rev Bruce Verkruyse, LUT; Chief Operating and Financial Officer, Unity Worldwide Ministries
- Rev Carrie Kenyon, LUT; Member Services Coordinator, Unity Worldwide Ministries
Lodging is available at Unity Village Hotel and Conference Center, Unity Village, Mo.
Scheduled Topics
The National Youth & Family Ministry Training week is a national training for Unity youth ministry teachers, leaders, sponsors, and directors. It is a 40-hour integrated study that explores who are young people are today and how their spiritual journeys can be empowered by Unity teachings and our Unity communities. How is the power of story able to unlock the potential within each child? What questions live within the learner? How do we use our facility, staffing, and programming to create dynamic ministry for young people? For more details, download the brochure.
Topics include:
- Creating a Vision
- Unity Teachings
- Sacred Safety
- Ages/Stages of Development
- Faith Development
- Building Community
- Prayer & Meditation
- Living Curriculum
- HeartMath
- Conscious Discipline
- Brain-Based Learning
- Teen Empowerment
- Multigenerational Ministry
- Connecting with Families
Register here through June 15th. For more information please contact Diane Venzera or 816-434-6837.


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That's because Stand & Deliver is pretty much universally accepted as the most powerful communications consulting firm in the business. They take normal people like you and me and turn them into communication superstars by teaching them how to have difficult conversations, how to step into authentic leadership and how to shift from delivering brain dumps of information to inspiring people to take action.
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Recommended Reads: The Highwaymen
Tony picked me up a copy of friend and colleague Marc Bernardin's new book from Wildstorm The Highwaymen. It's an action packed thrill ride, in the most non-cliched meaning of the words. It's a complete and utter fucking blast, and it's highly recommended. It should be at your local comic book store. You can read more about Marc and other reviews of the book here: http://rhinoplastique.blogspot.com/


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Steve Turner holds a BSc from the University Of London and an M.Sc. from the University of Manchester. He has held senior research posts at the Universities of Newcastle, Northumbria, Kent, Manchester and Stirling, covering the fields of learning disability, dementia, the voluntary sector, the benefit system and the administrative justice system. He is married and lives in Edinburgh.
Since 2002 he has worked to develop and undertake research in dental primary care through a joint appointment across the Universities of Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh. This research activity has included two large scale RCTs in translational research and in preventive treatment for children, UK-wide surveys of sections of the dental workforce, and an evaluation of an oral health improvement programme in a Scottish prison. He contributes to the programme of work of the Scottish Practice Based Research Network under the direction of Professor Jan Clarkson, and to the evaluation of the Childsmile Oral Health Improvement Programme.
At Edinburgh Postgraduate Dental Institute he has collaborated with Dr Ario Santini on a number of experimental and observational studies in material science, and supported post graduate students in their projects, both population based and with a material science focus. In 2012 he led a team from Dundee University which was commissioned by the GDC to undertake a literature review on the risks and benefits of the possible introduction of direct patient access to DCPs in the UK.
He teaches statistics and research methodology on the newly established Oral Health Sciences honours degree course in Edinburgh. He also provides ad-hoc sessions on research methodology and dementia and oral health in EPDI and Glasgow Dental School.
Brokos I, Turner S and Santini A. Effect of disposable infection control covers on power density from dental light curing units. Prim Dent J (in press).
Santini A, Turner S (2011) General dental practitioners' knowledge of polymerisation of resin-based composite restorations and light curing unit technology. Br Dent J. 2011 Sep 23;211(6):E13. doi: 10.1038/sj.bdj.2011.768.
Ross, MK, Turner S and Ibbetson, R The impact of General Dental Council registration and Continuing Professional Development on UK Dental Care Professionals: (2) dental technicians. Br Dent J; (in press)
Turner S, Ross, MK and Ibbetson, R (2012) The impact of General Dental Council registration and Continuing Professional Development on UK Dental Care Professionals: (1) dental nurses. Br Dent J; 213, 2, 70-71. doi: 10.1038/sj.bdj.2012.664.
Akbar T, Turner S, Themessl-Huber M, Richards D and Freeman R. The health promoting prison can it improve oral health? An evaluation of an oral health improvement project for high security prisoners. Int J Health Prom and Educ, 50, 169-177.
Turner S, Chambers SA, and Freeman R (2012) Measuring dental anxiety in children with complex and additional support needs using the Modified Child Dental Anxiety Scale (faces) (MCDASf). J Disability and Oral Health (2012) 13/1.
Turner S, Ross, MK and Ibbetson, R (2011) Job satisfaction among dually qualified dental hygienist-therapists in UK primary care: a structural model. Br Dent J; Feb 26;210(4):E5.
Turner S, Ross, MK and Ibbetson, R (2011) Dental hygienists and therapists: how much professional autonomy do they have? How much do they want? Results from a UK survey. Br Dent J; May 28;210(10):E16.
Turner, S., Brewster, L., Kidd, J., Gnich, W., Ball, G. E., Milburn, K., Pitts, N. B., Goold, S., Conway, D. I. & Macpherson, L. M. D. (2010) Childsmile: the national child oral health improvement programme in Scotland. Part 2: monitoring and delivery. British Dental Journal. 209, 2, p. 79-83, 5 p.
Macpherson, L.M.D., Ball G.E., Brewster L., Duane B., Hodges C.L., Wright W., Gnich W., Rodgers J., McCall D.R., Turner S. and Conway D.I. (2010) Childsmile: the national child oral health improvement programme in Scotland. Part 1: establishment and development . British Dental Journal, 209 (2). pp. 73-78
Bonetti, D., Johnston, M., Clarkson, J. & Turner, S (2009) Applying multiple models to predict clinicians' behavioural intention and objective behaviour when managing children's teeth. Psychology and Health. 24, 7, p. 843-860, 18 p.
Ross, MK, Ibbetson, R, and Turner, S (2009). The impact of teamworking on the knowledge and attitudes of final year dental students. Br Dent J; 206, 163-7
Turner, S., Alborz, A. & Gayle, V (2008) Predictors of academic attainments of young people with Down's syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. 52, p. 380-392, 13 p.
Sweeney MP., Manton, S., Kennedy, C, (2007) Macpherson L.M. and Turner S. Provision of domiciliary dental care by Scottish dentists: a national survey. Br Dent J; Feb 2:E11
Ross, MK, Ibbetson, R, and Turner, S (2007). The acceptability of dually-qualified dental hygienist-therapists by General Dental Practitioners in South East Scotland. Br Dent J; 202, 146-7
Clarkson JE, Turner S et al (2008) Changing clinicians' behaviour: a randomized controlled trial of fees and education. J Dent Res, 87, 640-644.
Turner S, Alborz A and Gayle V. (2008) Predictors of academic attainments of young people with Down's syndrome. May; 52(Pt 5):380-92. Epub 2008 Jan 14
Turner S and Alborz A. (2003) Academic attainments of children with Down's syndrome: A longitudinal study Br J Educ Psych, 73, 563-583.
Turner S, Iliffe S, Downs M , Wilcock J, Bryans M, Levin, E, Keady J, and O'Carroll R (2004) Practitioners' Knowledge, Confidence and Attitudes in Diagnosis and Management of Dementia Age and Ageing 2004 Sep;33
Turner S, Iliffe S, Downs M , Bryans M, Wilcock J, Austin T (2003) Decision Support Software for Dementia Diagnosis and Management in Primary Care: Relevance and Potential Age and Mental Health, 7(1):28-33
Downs M, Turner, S, Iliffe, S, Bryans, M, Wilcock, J, Keady, J, Levin, E, O'Carroll, R and Howie, K (2006) Effectiveness of educational interventions in improving detection and management of dementia in primary care: A cluster randomized controlled study. British Medical Journal, Mar 25;332(7543):692-6.


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If first impressions count, the Samsung PX2370 is a winner. Out of the box it's remarkably vibrant and serves up rich, saturated colours. At a glance, it's far from obvious this is a TN-powered monitor. Instead, you notice the clean, bright whites and the tight pixel pitch that results from packing 1,920 x 1,080 pixels into a relatively compact 23-inch diagonal.
In fact, you could be forgiven for initially thinking the PX2370 is packing an IPS panel. But not, sadly, after closer inspection. The game is up as soon as the Lagom test images are loaded. Nearly every metric betrays the panel's origins. The viewing angles, for instance, would be judged extremely poor by IPS standards. As would the amount of compression visible in the white saturation screen.
Adding insult to image quality injury, the Samsung PX2370 also suffers from a little edge bleed and unimpressive overall black levels. These are the sort of flaws that make a monitor look a little low rent. They're absolutely normal on a TN monitor, but you simply wouldn't stand for them on an IPS or VA screen.
Of course, the Samsung PX2370 actually performs well for a TN panel. But with a price pushing £250 and at least one competing monitor offering clearly superior panel technology, it's simply not good enough. That's a shame, because in many ways, this is an excellent screen and one of the best TN panels we've ever seen. If it were £100 cheaper, it would be a winner.
We liked
When it comes to producing computer kit with a quality consumer electronics vibe, Samsung is the daddy. The PX2370's uber-slim chassis and translucent purple plastics certainly look the part. The image quality is also remarkable for a TN panel. The rich and vibrant colours are a particular highlight.
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At this price point, we were expecting something seriously special. Unfortunately, the Samsung PX2370 is merely very good, with the perennial caveat of being good for a TN panel. It might have the latest Samsung LCD technology and an LED backlight, but it's still beaten by the much cheaper BenQ EW2420.


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Not everyone gets to go home this holiday
We're honoured to be an ongoing key production partner for Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation. They work hard in our community to support the medical services throughout the massive hospital organization. We produce and edit documentaries and commercials for their fundraising campaigns throughout the year, but this holiday campaign is particularly special and we're delighted to be able to share it with you here. It features Christena Hampson as a patient who can't make it home this holiday.


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P.F. Candle Co is an LA-based company created in 2014 by Kristen Pumphrey & Thomas Neuberger, a couple passionate about the power of scents and candles and their relaxing effects. Using only locally grown soy wax and cotton, P.F. Candle Co offers a wide range of apothecary-like scented candles, diffusers and room sprays. Discover their beautiful products.


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ATL became Abbey Road for a night when Peachtree Tents & Events and Collection Event Furnishings hosted the 11th annual Pink Party at The Fairmont in West Midtown. This year's British Invasion theme came to life via "Yellow Submarine" cocktails, bright-red telephone booths (a bloody brilliant selfie backdrop) and a greenery wall with the words "Come Together"—which the stylish crowd of more than 600 industry VIPs certainly did. –Kelsie Allen Barton
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2018 Suzuki Hayabusa
Pearl Mira Red / Pearl Glacier White
The Suzuki Hayabusa is quite simply the Ultimate Sportbike. Twist the throttle on this iconic motorcycle and it reacts with awesome acceleration and crisp throttle response in every gear with an unbelievable top-end charge. Thanks to a lightweight and rigid twin-spar aluminum frame and state-of-the-art suspension, that performance is matched by equally impressive handling, providing exceptional control in tight corners, reassuring stability in sweeping turns and a smooth ride on the highway. The sleek, aerodynamic body work functions as it appears so the Hayabusa slips through the wind like a Peregrine Falcon.
Key Features
- Powerful 1340cc, 4-cylinder, DOHC engine employs EFI with dual ram-air intakes.
- Suzuki Drive Mode Selector (S-DMS) lets the rider tailor the power delivery.
- Superbike caliber aluminum frame and suspension delivers superlative handling.
- Twin Brembo Monobloc front brake calipers with ABS deliver reliable stopping power.
- Wind-cheating body was truly inspired by a Peregrine Falcon.
Engine Features
- Powerful 1340cc in-line 4-cylinder fuel-injected, liquid-cooled DOHC engine delivers a broad wave of torque for effortless acceleration.
- Forged three-ring aluminum-alloy slipper pistons provide superior strength, while PVD-coated rings reduce friction and improve cylinder sealing.
- The chrome nitride Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) piston ring coating is harder and smoother than conventional chrome plating, reducing friction while improving sealing to the cylinder.
- Suzuki Composite Electrochemical Material (SCEM) cylinder plating improves heat dissipation, durability and ring seal.
- U-shaped cutouts in the cylinder-bore sides allow air pressure created by descending pistons to escape to adjacent cylinders to reduce internal pumping pressure and mechanical power losses.
- Lightweight titanium valves allow the use of light valve springs and high lift camshafts while maintaining accurate valve control.
- Iridium spark plugs produce more complete combustion and last longer than conventional plugs.
- Curved radiator with a compact, dense-core design and two ECM-controlled electric fans keep the engine temperature stable.
- Suzuki Clutch Assist System (SCAS) serves as back-torque-limiting system for smooth downshifts and also contributes to a light clutch pull.
- Close ratio, constant-mesh 6-speed transmission uses dedicated oil spray to the 4th, 5th and 6th gears to reduce friction, wear and mechanical noise during high-speed operation.
- Suzuki's advanced fuel-injection system with tapered, 44mm double-barrel Suzuki Dual Throttle Valve (SDTV) induction to improve combustion e?ciency and smooth throttle response.
- Two 12-hole fine-spray injectors on each throttle body improve fuel atomization for better combustion efficiency while reducing fuel consumption.
- Idle Speed Control (ISC) system improves cold starting and helps maintain a stable engine idle under a variety of conditions.
- Suzuki Pulsed-secondary AIR-injection (PAIR) system ignites unburned hydrocarbons (HC) and reduces carbon monoxide (CO) emissions.
- Large-volume catalyzer in the twin-silencer exhaust permits high flow while further reducing HC, CO and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions.
- Suzuki Drive Mode Selector (S-DMS) lets riders select engine power output to match preferences or riding conditions.
Chassis Features
- Twin-spar aluminum-alloy frame is constructed with castings and extrusions to produce a balance of light weight and strength.
- Rear sub-frame made of rectangular steel tubing for ample weight carrying capacity.
- KYB inverted cartridge forks feature Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) coating on the 43mm stanchion tubes to reduce friction and improve reaction to small road surface irregularities.
- The front forks and the single rear shock absorber both have fully adjustable spring preload, plus compression and rebound damping.
- Standard-equipment steering damper quells unwanted vibration and steering forces.
- Three-spoke cast-aluminum-alloy wheels shod with 120/70ZR17M/C (58W) front and 190/50ZR17M/C (73W) rear radial tires.
- Dual 310mm (12.2 inch) floating-brake rotors are mated with radial-mount Brembo monobloc front brake calipers. The calipers are lighter and more rigid than conventional bolt-together calipers, delivering better feedback, and are ?tted with larger pistons that increase initial bite for greater controllability. The hollow-type mounting bolts further reduce weight.
- The solo rear 260mm (10.2 inch) brake rotor is grabbed by a single-piston brake caliper.
- The standard equipment Antilock Brake System (ABS)* unit features a lightweight, compact design. The ABS enhances brake performance by helping prevent, to a certain extent, wheel locking due to changes in road conditions or excessive braking, by matching stopping power to available traction.
- Radical aerodynamic styling and smooth bodywork provides the Hayabusa its distinctive look, protects the rider from the wind, and improves fuel e?ciency.
- Advanced aerodynamics offering superb wind protection both for normal and completely tucked-in seating positions.
- Integrated front turn signals form the outer edges of the functional ram-air-intake scoop.
- Vertically stacked headlight featuring a projector high beam and a halogen-bulb multi-reflector low beam.
- Unique tail section featuring streamlined bulges that integrate the rear turn signals.
- Bright, durable LED taillight, with clear inner lens and red outer lens.
- Four analog gauges including step-motor-driven tachometer and speedometer. Round LCD panel includes clock, gear position indicator, S-DMS map indicator, odometer and dual trip meters. Engine-rpm indicator is programmable to blink or stay on between 4,000 and 11,500 rpm.
- Silver metallic trim around the analog gauges and LCD panel match the styling of race-specification meters.
Additional Features
- Stylized Suzuki "S" 3-D emblems on the fuel tank and the fork upper bracket denotes the quality, sophistication and performance legacy of the brand.
- Quality details abound with passenger foot-peg brackets, muffler hangers, rider foot-peg and control brackets that evoking the fine art of feudal Japanese armor, Yoroi-Kabuto.
- A variety of Genuine Suzuki Accessories for Hayabusa owners are available including a large selection of Suzuki logo apparel.
- 12-month limited warranty.
- Engine: 1340cc, 4-stroke, liquid-cooled, 4-cylinder, DOHC
- Bore x Stroke: 81.0 mm x 65.0 mm (3.19 in. x 2.56 in.)
- Compression Ratio: 12.5 : 1
- Fuel System: Suzuki Fuel Injection
- Starter: Electronic
- Lubrication: Wet sump
Drive Train
- Transmission: 6-speed constant mesh
- Final Drive: Chain, RK GB50GSV Z4, 114 links
- Suspension Front: Inverted telescopic, coil spring, oil damped
- Suspension Rear: Link type, single shock, coil spring, oil damped
- Brakes Front: Brembo 4-piston, Disc, twin
- Brakes Rear: Nissin, 1-piston, Disc single
- Tires Front: 120/70ZR17M/C (58W), tubeless
- Tires Rear: 190/50ZR17M/C (73W), tubeless
- Fuel Tank Capacity: 21.0 L (5.5 US gal.), 20.0 L (5.3 US gal.) CA model
- Color: Pearl Mira Red / Pearl Glacier White, Glass Sparkle Black
- Ignition: Electronic ignition (Transistorized)
- Spark Plugs: NGK CR9EIA-9 or DENSO IU27D
- Headlight: 12V 65W (H9 high-beam) & 12V 55W (H7 low-beam)
- Tail Light: LED
- Overall Length: 2190 mm (86.2 in.)
- Overall Width: 735 mm (28.9 in.)
- Wheelbase: 1480 mm (58.3 in.)
- Ground Clearance: 120 mm (4.7 in.)
- Seat Height: 805 mm (31.7 in.)
- Curb Weight: 266 kg (586 lb.)
- Warranty: 12 month unlimited mileage limited warranty.
NOTES:* Depending on road surface conditions, such as wet, loose, or uneven roads, braking distance for an ABS-equipped vehicle may be longer than for a vehicle not equipped with ABS. ABS cannot prevent wheel skidding caused by braking while cornering. Please ride carefully and do not overly rely on ABS. For your safety, always wear a helmet, eye protection, and protective clothing when riding any motorcycle or ATV. Never ride under the influence of alcohol or other drugs. Study your owner's manual and always inspect your Suzuki before riding. Take a riding skills course. For the MSF street course nearest you, call 1-800-446-9227. Off-road riders can enroll in the DirtBike SchoolSM by calling 1-877-288-7093. ATV riders can call the SVIA at 1-800-852-5344 and we'll even pay for the training. Suzuki engineered the GSX-Rs™, Hayabusa, and the QuadSport Z400 for experienced riders. Specifications, appearances, equipment, color, features, materials and other items of "SUZUKI" products shown are subject to change by manufacturer at any time without notice.
- Engine Type
- 4-stroke, 4-cylinder, DOHC
- Displacement
- 1340cc
- Bore and Stroke
- 3.19 in. x 2.56 in. (81.0 mm x 65.0 mm)
- Cooling
- Liquid
- Compression Ratio
- 12.5 : 1
- Fuel System
- Suzuki Fuel Injection
- Ignition
- Electronic ignition (Transistorized)
- Transmission
- 6-speed constant mesh
- Final Drive
- Chain, RK GB50GSV Z4, 114 links
- Front Suspension
- Inverted telescopic, coil spring, oil damped
- Rear Suspension
- Link type, single shock, coil spring, oil damped
- Front Brakes
- Brembo 4-piston, Disc, twin
- Rear Brakes
- Nissin, 1-piston, Disc single
- Front Tire
- 120/70ZR17M/C (58W), tubeless
- Rear Tire
- 190/50ZR17M/C (73W), tubeless
- Wheelbase
- 58.3 in. (1480 mm)
- Seat Height
- 31.7 in. (805 mm)
- Fuel Capacity
- 5.5 US gal. (21.0 L); CA model: 5.3 US gal. ( 20.0 L)
- Dry Weight
- Curb Weight: 586 lb. (266 kg)
- Speedometer
- Analog
- Tachometer
- Analog
- Odometer
- Digital
- Colors
- Pearl Mira Red / Pearl Glacier White, Glass Sparkle Black
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Loyola biology professor addresses Argentinean conference
October 24, 2008
Patricia Dorn, Ph.D., associate professor of biology, has been invited to give a major address at the Eighth Argentinean Congress of Protozoology and Parasitic Disease, to be held Nov. 2-5, in Rosario, Argentina.
Dorn's presentation, "Globalization of Chagas Disease: An update on Trypanosoma cruzi infection in the United States," will address her finding of the first locally-acquired human case of infection with the Chagas parasite in Louisiana, and the sixth ever in the United States.
She will also discuss her collaborative work on Chagas in animals, such as dogs and kissing bug insects, which help spread the parasite, and she will meet with other Chagas researchers from throughout South America.
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Testimonial 177
Posted December 09, 2014 in Uncategorized
I truly thank you for helping me regain my youthful body and spirit again.Dear Dr. Berger:I am writing this letter to express my appreciation for the invaluable service that you have provided to me in the last three years, and the incredible change your knowledge and experience has made in my life.I came to you late in 2007, because I was experiencing health problems that I had not ever experienced before in my life. I in the few months immediately preceding my visit, I had started to experience a great imbalance and disturbance in my physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. In additions to a feeling of unrelenting anxiety, depression, inability to focus, and total lack of energy, I was experiencing physical symptoms that I had never suffered from in my life. I had altogether lost my appetite, my digestion was running amuck, and my sexual desire and function had suddenly taken a downturn. I was on a constant emotional roller coaster ride. It had become impossible to function at optimal level at work, to enjoy social activities, and to maintain my emotional connection to the people I loved. My situation could best be described as a nightmare. When you first met with me, you discussed the possibility that my problems may be related to andropause—a condition caused by a decline in the level of androgenic hormones in males because of age. My initial blood tests confirmed that my androgenic hormones had slid down to marginal levels, and my stress hormones had spun out of control. Follow-up testing confirmed your suspicions of andropause. As a solution, you recommended a program of Hormone replacement therapy, complimented by a regimen of supplementation, diet and exercise program, and basic lifestyle changes. What happened in the months following my initial treatment was nothing short of magical. Gradually, I began to feel as if I was being "filled" from inside. By and by, I started to feel happier, stronger, healthier, and more vibrant. My sexual function was restored and to this day continues to improve, reaching and exceeding the levels I was accustomed to in my youth. Because of my newly gained energy and vitality, I have been able to resolve some of my life-long lingering emotional issues, and I now live a much happier, more satisfying life—certainly more than I ever did in my youth. I have been healthy, strong, and active all my life. I wasn't ready at the age of 49 to settle down into a life of depression, sickness, and anxiety. I truly thank you for helping me regain my youthful body and spirit again. I am now a wise and mature 53-year old in the body of a 23-year old athlete. It is truly a dream come true.
Thank you Dr. Berger.