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It's been almost a month since I've sat down to write anything of particular note. With the holiday season and inevitable stress that accompanies "the most wonderful time of the year," there just hasn't been time. That, and I have come down with the worst head cold I've had in a long time. Not only does my head feel like it has been stuffed with cotton, but I'm pretty sure that my brains have oozed out of my ears somewhere along the way. Most wonderful time of year indeed! Try most infectious time of the year, though I highly doubt Andy Williams would have sold many records had he sung that.
Rantings about holiday lyrics aside, I have been sick, and it was sometime this week in one of my fever riddled dreams that I suddenly became aware of a problem. I had left my characters in my second book in a rather uncomfortable situation. Though I hadn't thought of them in weeks, I became instantly worried about them, knowing that both of my main characters are impatient and dislike being idle for large stretches of time. I so wanted to write and conclude the scene that I had left them in, but was too exhausted to even move from bed, let alone write my characters into neutral ground. I wrestled with this dilemma until a NyQuil and Sudafed induced hallucination came to me and whispered, Think of them as actors.
Grasping onto that thought like a sick woman to the last box of Kleenex in the house, I floated into a hazy slumber, comforted by the thought that my characters were merely actors awaiting a new script in their dressing room while I, the writer, took a much needed rest. I imagine their conversation went something like this…
Evie huffs loudly in her impatience and pulls on her wrapper. Twirling her long hair, which has been dry for ages at this point, into an expert bun, she approaches the door that Alfred had stumbled through so very long ago.
"Alfred," she whispers pressing her cheek against the door. "Are you still there?"
Silence greets her whispered inquiry. Flinging the door open, she finds Alfred standing outside the door with a look of complete shock on his face, his arm slightly extended as if he were about to place his hand on the knob to reenter the room.
"What have you been doing?"
He remains motionless and silent.
Evie stomps her small foot. "Come on, Alfred!" she yells in exasperation. "It's been ages since anything has happened, and I'm bored!"
"Unlike you, I'm staying in character," he grits out through clenched teeth.
"What?" she asks incredulously. "You mean to tell me that you've been like that since She stopped writing?"
He nods his head slightly, but otherwise remains as he was.
"You have got to be exhausted, Alfred!" Closing the distance between them, Evie places a small hand on his extended arm, which, she notes, has begun to shake, and lowers it to his side.
"Damn it, Evie!" Alfred huffs, though he makes no move to resume his earlier position. Instead, he takes his other hand and massages his stiff arm. "I was ready to go for the next scene!"
"She's not going to be back for awhile, Alfred," Evie pats his shoulder sympathetically. "I received a text message from Her apologizing for the delay because apparently, She's been pretty sick."
He whips his head around and pins her with a fierce glare. "How do you have a phone on set? This is a period piece, Evie. That means no phones or devices of any kind."
"Look, Freddie," she explains. "I know you're this big shot method actor and have toured across the country doing Shakespearean theater, but I'm not. This is my first job, and I've been so bored this last month waiting for Her. You can be as authentic and disapproving as you want. I'm keeping my phone."
Alfred sinks wearily onto the floor, his back supported by the wall of the room Evie had just left. "Did She say when we'd have new lines?"
"I think a couple of weeks at the most."
"I could have been skiing in the Alps this holiday," Alfred mutters under his breath.
Evie snorts highly doubting that Alfred could be coordinated enough to make it anywhere but down on his bottom, but quickly hides her amused smile at Alfred's narrow-eyed gaze. Quickly changing the subject, Evie asks, "What do you think of the script?"
He shrugs. "Predictable at this point."
Evie bristles at his dismissive tone. "I like it. Besides, you shouldn't be so hard on Her. It's only Her second novel."
"I suppose, but you realize that we're probably going to end up together by the end, don't you?"
She rests her hand on his knee and squeezes lightly. Stifling a giggle at his startled jump, she asks innocently peering up at him from underneath her eyelashes, "Would that be so bad?"
Alfred coughs and flushes bright red. Drawing little circles on his leg above his knee, she can't help asking impishly, "What did you think of that last scene?"
If possible, Alfred flushes even redder. Pulling his tie away from his throat, he manages to strangle out, "I did not realize that there was going to be nudity."
His eyes skitter around, anywhere but to Evie's face. "Why Alfred," she laughs, "if I didn't know any better, I'd say I made you uncomfortable! Here I thought method actors were prepared for anything."
Gulping loudly, he pushes himself to his feet and strides stiffly away. "I'll be in my dressing room. Fetch me whenever She gets back to work."
Evie's delighted laughter follows him down the hallway and is the only response he receives.


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Van Gogh - Portrait of Camille Roulin
[Oil on Canvas, 40.5 X 32.5 cm]
In December 1888, Van Gogh conceived the plan of painting the whole family of Joseph Roulin, the postman, with whom he had become friends: 'husband, wife, baby, the little boy and the son of 16 -- each types in their own right, and really French, even if they look like Russians.' The portraits of the parents have become especially famous. The 'little boy,' Camille, was eleven years old when this portrait was painted.

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Animal Crossing: New Leaf releases on June 9th in North America, June 14th in Europe
Straight from the latest Nintendo Direct, Nintendo has announced Animal Crossing: New Leaf will be arriving in North America on June 9, 2013 and in Europe on June 14, 2013! Check out all of the videos from Nintendo Direct over here.
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I am happy and sad! Happy it is coming out. SAD it is so far off still! Thats not q1 or early 2013!
Early 2013 ranges from January-June, Mid is July & August, and late is September-December; you have to remember July-December exists too.
I'm SO EXCITED!!! June is far away but it'll be here BEFORE WE KNOW IT!!! WooooHoooo!!! I can't wait!!!
I don't even care that it's June. We've been waiting for almost a year for these official release dates, instead of that friggin release window.
It's awesome that NA and Europe got a release date! Can't wait for it in AUS! :D…man it's a 4 month wait but it's totally worth the wait! Be happy now that we have a Release date!…now i have to start that party… >3> XD
Couldn't have said it better myself!
After the postponement of GTA V's release I was really terrified they could respite Animal Crossing's release to autumn/winter 2013 in order to profit from the Christmas business.
June is quite close to Pokémon's release date…
Woohoooo so happy. Finally a date. Pity it's so far away i was hoping earlier but i kinda had a feeling we would get a date today
Damn this is going to be a long 4 months! Cant wait though, I'm so happy Nintendo gave us a date 🙂
Y'know I wasn't sure before, but after your 2nd and 3rd comments you sound like a mindless troll.
Oh sorry this was for Steph I musta clicked the wrong person '_';
I'm so angry! Really!
I'm waiting for almost three years now and they release it only a month before I will leave Europe for almost a year (which means I will only be able to play this stupid game for like a month and come back when nobody is interested in it anymore).
I really think about not getting it now. Half a year after they released it in Japan… that's unbelieveable and does absolutely not fit into the modern standards of video gaming.
Just be thankful that it finally got a release date, and that it's not cancelled.
No I'm not, why should I be thankful? I will be able to play it only for a month, and Animal Crossing is not a game that one should play only for a month. -.-
It would be better to not play it at all than only for a month before leaving my 3DS behind. 🙁
Well can't you take your 3DS with you?…i mean it's portable and also you really don't need internet connect on most things…unless where your going bans all Electronics from entering then i understand…
No, because the people there told me that European digital systems will probably get broken because of the heat and high humidity. I'm too afraid to break it because I won't be able to afford another 3DS. Moreover, I will work all day as a volunteer in a poor and rural area, therefore I think a 3DS is an unnecessary and weird thing to take with me there. 😉
That is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. Your 3ds definitely will not break from humidity. I take mine all over the world and it's still works perfectly.
Why would it be ridiculous? I've heard of a lot of broken handys over there, and I just am afraid of breaking my 3DS. However, I did not blame Nintendo, I just think that it's not how it should be today – releasing games with over half a year of delay. It's Nintendos stragedy I assume, therefore I feel a bit betrayed as a fan that plays the games since her early childhood.
I don't know why you react so much, it was just my personal opinion.
People react this way because you're throwing a tantrum over something you could change. Whoever told you your 3DS will break is an idiot and if you really wanted to you could make time to play at night and such. If you think it's an unnecessary thing to take don't take it, but don't complain about it.
It's hardly Nintendo's fault that you won't play it, if you won't bring it.
Besides that, it isn't the first time Nintendo has had delays between regional releases. The recent Fire Emblem game was only just released in North America, after an April 2012 Japanese release
Just take your 3DS to Europe?
It's great that it finally got a release date! And it's just before and after e3 depending on where you live. 😛
aaah, waiting 4 months now… but yea i need the game!
I would be lying if I said I wasn't a bit dissapointed. I was hoping for a closer date. However, I am very happy to have an actual date. I know it will be here before we know it.
I can now rest…
This is how I feel right now….
Welp, time to preorder.
i'm going to pre-order but i don't know where from… most people are saying that you shouldn't pre-order i don't know…. what site are you per-ordering yours from?
i live in europe so exactly 4 months… it's gonna come out like exactly after i have my final exams! that's perfect! i can survive these months! and then: WHOOOOOOP!!!!! Just imagine holding that game in your hands! i think i will explode.
wow this is bs
I can tell that you're not an AC fanatic. We are actually happy they have a release date and didn't not tell us anything
Finnaly… I got the game on my Japanese 3ds but I would like to have it so i can actually play with my friends!
Well at least we all get it before summer, right?
before my birthday:3 Birthday on new leaf :0!
GOD JUSTIN!! we want a release date! not this stupid crap post… thats all I want, the date
Huh? The release date is right there… JUNE 9th for the States and JUNE 14th for the UK. Are you located somewhere else?
Justin keep posting all these pointless articles about animal crossing, just stuff about the game, not the release! ugh it's like he doesn't even care anymore about it…
…umm this post is about the release date. I'm not sure I understand what your problem is.
Justin just wants to keep the release date to himself, so HE can get ac new leaf first before all of us do!!!!
Yep. He wants it all to himself. That's why the release date is in giant capital letters at the top of the page.
It was confirmed by Nintendo, these release dates are official.
Yeah.. Nintendo.. what do they know??? gamestop said may 1st, and the clun nintendo said frickin april.
I'm so confused. Stephanie, GameStop assigns fake release dates to games as 'place holder dates' as a way to get people to preorder an anticipated game that doesn't have an *official* release date yet. The May 2nd rumor from GameStop was a guess and 100% FALSE. I'm not sure what you're not understanding or what you have against Justin. Justin runs a blog that he doesn't HAVE TO run but, he does it anyway and keeps us all informed and entertained. The release dates for Animal Crossing New Leaf were announced BY NINTENDO (the creator of the game so they… Read more »
Haha!!! 'what do they know' urmmm…. they created it, i think they do know. I think you're dong this just to get attention seeing as the official date is at the top..
Are you…slow?
kinda speechless 😀 OVER THE EXCITMENT!!
wow tht really kool i hope people r happy now well im not im broke lol imma buy it when my bday comes up
For America, it comes out a few days before I graduate. So I might be in the midst of midterms. For Europe, I think it's a day before I graduate or the day off.
Finally! I get to experience this right before my trip to high school. It's too bad Pokemon doesn't come out before this. I grew up on that before I found out about Animal Crossing and I want to have some nostalgia moments.
Time to get working on my Japanese game then!
Come on people I think the date is perfect . It goes just in time for my birthday in June
So don't ruin this for me oh and GameStop you lie!!!!
Just after the last day of school Wooo!:-)!
My last day of school for yr 10 is July 🙁 half term in May. oh…
Ah! I'm sure time will fly, since we have about 9 weeks of school still. In my opinion, school makes most of my time fly by
omfg finally damn! i can't wait! been waiting since 2011 since the first trailer came out, i watched it and i was unbelievably excited. Of course, it took so long and what made it worse was all the false promises like "christmas 2011 release date!" or gamestop's March 2012. or summer 2012, christmas 2012, and even around new years 2013. Finally, and official release date!
When is it released in the middle east?
JUNE?!?!?!?!?!?! I want it NOW!!!!


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Birmingham County Court has today (Friday 26th June 2015) given a custodial sentence of 20 weeks to a city council housing tenant for continuously breaching his Anti-Social Behaviour Order, originally served for causing noise and nuisance to his neighbours.
Michael Thornton (51) of Groveley Lane, Northfield was handed an Anti-Social Behaviour Injunction in 2014. Since this time, Birmingham City Council has been made aware of a number of breaches which it has taken swift action to address; this has resulted in Thornton serving time in prison.
On the most recent breach on 8th June 2015, it is alleged he was causing excessive noise and nuisance behaviour whilst returning to his property in the early hours of the morning. He was arrested and appeared in court, with the case being adjourned until today. Mr Thornton had been bailed away from his home address and his injunction had been changed to enforce this. As a result of this and the historical incidents, Birmingham City Council will also be taken action against Michael Thornton's tenancy.
Thornton was known to regularly play loud music which was most often described as 'Irish rebel songs' and Matchstalk Men. He was often heard shouting, swearing and singing in his property. This occurred throughout the day but was more prevalent during the night, usually when under the influence of alcohol and when there were visitors to his property who also contributed to the noise nuisance.
Taking action against these breaches was only made possible by the information provided by brave local residents who came forward as witnesses coupled with information provided by the local police team. Police officers worked together closely with the local housing office through joint visits to the tenant's address, providing statements and attending court to give evidence.
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Centrifugal March, a Performance by Aki Sasamoto
Centrifugal March By Aki Sasamoto
at Lalit Kala Academy
On the 21st of January
According to ancient Egyptian burial practice, the dead were buried with certain goods that were thought to accompany them through their afterlife. These objects could range from everyday goods such as pottery and grain to luxury items such as furniture and even jewels. In certain Mongolian Buddhist traditions, after death the body is taken away from the village and laid out in the open with a stone outline placed around it. Once natural predators have consumed the body, the stone outline forms a referent to the dead person. In contemporary Buddhist traditions in Japan, the corpse is put on dry ice contained in a casket with a selection of items that the deceased was fond of such as candies or even cigarettes. Hence it feels almost universal that after a person's death certain objects become referents to the deceased one. The nature of this transference may be so complete that it begins to feel that in her afterlife she is the rocking chair she would sit on while she told us tales of her childhood adventures or that he somehow is the black umbrella that he never ventured out without even on clear days.
(Aki Sasamoto, Photo by Daisuke Yamashiro; Courtesy of Kaisuke Yamashiro and the artist.)
When you are in the midst of a chaotic arrangement of unrelated objects suspended from the ceiling, strewn on the floor, or jutting out of the wall, you hardly imagine what appears to be a physics experiment will turn out to be a deliberation on death and memory. Aki Sasamoto, in her performance, Centrifugal March, yokes Classical mechanics with the philosophy of death as she explains the phenomenon under whose influence "Humans become Objects with its Centrifugal Force."(1)
(Aki Sasamoto, Photo by Daisuke Yamashiro; Courtesy of Kaisuke Yamashiro and the artist.)
Lumps of ice tied from the ceiling with colourful shoe-laces melt, water droplets falling into steel bowls placed below the ice. With the background score of the dripping water, Sasamoto darts across the room with her marker, at one point assuming the role of a school-teacher-like character, explaining centrifugal and centripetal force by drawing a spiral diagram on the wall. At another moment in the performance, she gracefully steered a discomfortingly coffin-like cupboard with wheels around the room, breathlessly talking about death, funeral rituals and remembrance of the deceased through their possessions. Sasamoto engages her audience as she deliriously bores holes through a huge bar of ice and talks of the ritual of the body of the dead being preserved on ice. In her staccato movements around the room she threw a dart at the spiral diagram on the wall and almost hit an audience member. Watching her furiously stab ice blobs arranged in the room, one gets the sense that she is not aware of her audience. Sasamoto talks of her grandmother's pearl necklace as something that she prizes and treasures after the relative's demise. The object becomes more than a memorial, it somehow takes the place of the person altogether.
( Aki Sasamoto, Photo by Daisuke Yamashiro; Courtesy of Kaisuke Yamashiro and the artist.)
In her research of death rituals in India, the U.S.-based Japanese artist visited crematoriums, doctors and astrologers to note the matter-of-fact way in which death is dealt with in the country. In her spiral diagram she seemed to depict her perception of this attitude through its origin in the common Hindu and Buddhist belief that life and death are an unending cycle. The performance worked as a meta-critical piece as it pointed towards the very nature of performance art -- a life lived twice over. The characteristics of a live performance are akin to human life in Sasamoto's philosophy – lived through a mortal body and then embodied in a material object that becomes a referent to the deceased. A performance must be ephemeral, yet the second time around the performance is lived through memory. Thus performance is a kind of death. Aki Sasamoto's performance writes an epitaph for an art form that must perform its own death to be remembered ad infinitum.
(Image at top: Aki Sasamoto, Photo by Daisuke Yamashiro; Courtesy of Kaisuke Yamashiro and the artist.)
1. Aki Sasamoto in her artist's statement on the performance piece, Centrifugal March.
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Implementation of Unified Workflow in Improvement of Medication Reconciliation for Aurora St. Luke's Family Medicine Residency Outpatients
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medication reconciliation, errors, adverse drug events, quality improvement
Background: Medication errors are the most common errors occurring in hospitals. Preventable adverse drug events are linked with 1 in 5 injuries or deaths; 23% of medication errors in primary care occur due to inaccuracies in the medication list. Quality improvement projects designed to improve accuracy of outpatient medication reconciliations may decrease the number of medication errors and increase patient safety by preventing adverse drug events.
Purpose: To determine whether a unified workflow for medication reconciliation improves the accuracy of ambulatory, electronic medical record (EMR)-based patient medication records.
Methods: Retrospective study of random sample of patients from Aurora Family Medicine Residency Clinics before (prior to March 31, 2014) and after (December 10, 2014) improvements to the medication reconciliation process (n = 80 and n = 77, respectively). Aurora pharmacy medication lists were obtained and compared to that of the EMR. To preserve patient and caregiver confidentiality, charts were assigned arbitrary identifiers. Two-sample t-tests were used to compare pre- and post-medication reconciliation. An additional patient chart audit on pre- (n = 51) and post- (n = 45) workflow implementation to assess utilization of workflow was conducted; Fisher's exact tests were used to gauge changes (P < 0.05).
Results: When comparing pre- and post-medication reconciliation implementation, there was a significant decrease in the number of EMR medications not on the pharmacy list (mean 0.475 vs. 0.208; P = 0.022). Number of providers reviewing the EMR medication record improved significantly by 30.4% (P = 0.045). A downward trend in the number of unintentional medication duplicates also was observed by a 13.3% decrease (P = 0.07).
Conclusion: Implementation of systematic workflow and care team education led to overall improvement in accuracy of EMR medication reconciliation. This quality improvement project led to identification of multiple barriers to accuracy. Future areas of focus would include continued education around current workflow and additional attention to medication compliance via out-of-date prescriptions.
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Meyers K, Konarske J, Kram JJ, Baumgardner DJ. Assessing the effectiveness of implementation of unified workflow in improvement of medication reconciliation for Aurora St. Luke's Family Medicine Residency outpatients. J Patient Cent Res Rev. 2015;2:203. doi: 10.17294/2330-0698.1220
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Yes Im over 18!
It was a regular Saturday night and I was hanging out with my Georgia Tech friends at a pub in Mountain View. We were talking about getting carded every time we visited the place and how in this digital age there should be a secure way to verify a person's age without exposing any other data. After a while, the discussion turned to how the same thing happened on the web with some websites asking you to confirm that you are atleast 18 years old before entering. It was actually quite silly. All you had to do was just click 'Yes'. And once you are over 18, you have to click the same button every time. It could be annoying at times. I am of the opinion that anything that can be easily automated, should be automated.
So I spent the following Sunday night at home and built the first version of a new Chrome browser extension called "Yes im over 18!". And it does exactly what the name suggests. Whenever you encounter a page that asks you the question "Are you over 18?" It automatically clicks Yes and redirects to next page.
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Right now it works only for reddit.com. When you browse to any page on reddit that is age restricted, you can see the extension in action


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This is a new talk page for Antarctica. Because several people have at one time made pages entitled "Antarctica", but the articles have been about fictional countries on the continent rather than the continent itself, these articles have been moved to different locations, as have their talk pages. You may find these articles here:
The Empire of Antarctica, The Democratic Penguin's Republic of Antarctica
In the future, I'd like you all keep some ideas in mind when editing Antarctica: Please make edits about the continent and its history and geography. I'd like to see less stuff related to fictional countries located on the continent. There should be some stuff related to countries here, but it should take a back seat and not be the point of the article. Comments? YouFang 20:02, 14 February 2007 (UTC)


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1. The iBorderCtrl system is not used to perform border checks
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The Deception Detection system currently has an accuracy of 75%. However, iBorderCtrl is a research project, and not about product development. Therefore, the core task of the project is to research and improve technology, as well as to evaluate its benefit for society and its impact on privacy and fundamental rights of individuals.
Also, the technology is not applied for border checks, but only for testing purposes as explained above.
5. The EU might use the system at the border - if they decide to do so
As of now, iBorderCtrl is only a research project funded by the EU under the H2020 programme. If the system, or parts of it, will be used at the border in the future is unclear. It should be also noted that some technologies are not covered by the existing legal framework, meaning that they could not be implemented without a political decision establishing a legal basis (including proper safeguards) first.
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7. The Deception Detection system (Avatar and deception detection) is not tested at the border - it is a web application
The proposed iBorderCtrl system follows of a two-stage procedure, consisting of a pre-registration and the actual border crossing. The pre-registration, which can be done at home (it is a web-based or mobile application), shall help to reduce the time required for the checks at the border, making the border crossing as comfortable as possible for travellers.
The Deception Detection system is only used in the pre-registration phase (after travellers provided their informed consent, see no. 3) to verify traveller's identification information prior to their arrival at the border. While it would be theoretically possible, no questions are being asked on the traveller's suitcase, etc. The Deception Detection system as such is not used at the border, as there is no need to verify identity information through an avatar, as human border guards are available at the border. However, border guards will be provided with the risk score calculated based on all checks performed during the pre-registration and the border crossing phases including the one from the avatar interview. However, as explained above, the test pilots are only a simulation without any effect on the border crossing of participants.
8. The system is not used at various/all border crossing points of the EU
The test pilots are being done at one selected border crossing point in each Greece, Hungary and Latvia. As outlined above, the reason for this is to simulate real conditions in various scenarios, while the test pilots are fully encapsulated from actual border checks. Therefore, the iBorderCtrl test pilots should not be confused with large-scales test with millions of travellers. In fact, due to the limited scale of the test pilots, only very few people will actually be able to voluntarily participate.


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Taking The Measure of Stanley McChrystal
"We are not going to nation-build," he told them. "What we are going to do is allow a nation to build." There's no transcript. There was no written speech. He spoke to four groups of troops around the country for an hour-plus each, completely off the cuff. And they were rapt.
When they asked him what was going to be different, he told them that for the first time, they were going to get the manpower and the resources to do the job of protecting Afghans and training their security forces to do it for themselves. The strategy hadn't changed from when he took command - but now, he said, the president has given him what he needs to carry it out.
He'll answer that same question on Capitol Hill this week, sitting behind a long table for what will likely be endless hours of Congressional speechifying mixed with equal parts grilling.
But they speak a little less politely on Capitol Hill. I predict they'll put it this way: How can you succeed in Afghanistan where others failed?
So I've been asking that of a range of special operating forces and conventional forces commanders who've worked with him, for him, or sat in on the same video teleconferences from Iraq or Afghanistan over the past several years.
And c) to work for Stan McChrystal is part agony - keeping up with his Spartan four-hours-of-sleep-a-night-one-meal-a-day work style is no easy task - and part "best job you'll ever have," because his guys say he listens to them and demands tough questions of them. No "yes" men allowed. So he gets the best for his team. Every officer I've spoken to who has worked with him or for him before tells me they'd drop everything to work with McChrystal again.
Simply put, they believe him in - even those who tell me in the same breath, "but this time, he may have bitten off more than even he can chew." They still say they'd go with McChrystal because as three different senior Special Operations Forces officers told me, "If anyone can pull it off, it's Stan."
The example they give is 2006 in Iraq. McChrystal was then heading JSOC - the Joint Special Operations Command based at Ft. Bragg - which was spearheading the fight against Al Qaeda and a collection of other violent extremists in Iraq.
"We're killing them, but they keep coming back," McChrystal said over the video teleconference link from the states to Iraq, according to one officer who was taking part from Baghdad. McChrystal told them Al Qaeda was reconstituting its cells within weeks, even days, of JSOC teams taking them out. He needed two things: a force multiplier to take more targets out faster and a way to turn around his own leaderships' morale.
The force multiplier came first. The way the idea was described to me by a senior operator who'd been on the ground in Iraq at the time was that McChrystal decided he didn't have enough special operating teams to take out enough targets. So together with conventional commanders, they came up with a plan to share JSOC's technical capability and intel in order to aid the QRFs - the conventional quick reaction forces - at every battalion across Iraq. Conventional forces always had QRFs, and they'd had an uneasy relationship with the JSOC teams, to put it mildly - sometimes working at cross-purposes. The JSOC guys would blame the conventional teams for causing unnecessary civilian collateral damage, and vice versa.
Still, success took a while to take hold…and before it did, McChrystal saw his guys needed a morale boost. He'd come across a poem - Yeats' The Second Coming, best known for the lines "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." It's a poem about losing, not winning.
But he and some his officers had discussed the last two lines of that stanza, which read: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." McChrystal sent that out to his guys, with the admonition that the key to success lay in turning those lines around - the best, meaning the U.S. troops, had to keep their conviction and steal back that passionate intensity.
Something worked. By the end of 2006, a senior officer who was in Mosul at the time described it in action — the conventional and special operating teams working in concert. "Sometimes, they were taking out thirty bad guys a day," he said. "So finally, the Iraqis were learning to trust us. We could get reconstruction done." He insists this was being done in his battle space "without high civilian collateral damage." Better intel for all meant better accuracy.
"It's an ugly truth," another senior commander asserted to me. "But the success of the surge's winning-trust-and-confidence, nation-building aspects was fueled in large part by a pyre of burning bodies," courtesy Stan McChrystal's guys and their new conventional partners.
Now success has a thousand fathers, as they say, and some reading this may argue that this idea came from conventional commanders, not JSOC or the Special Operating Command. If that is the case, McChrystal embraced the idea with enough enthusiasm to convince his guys it had been his to begin with.
So fast-forward to the present, and how McChrystal applied those lessons to Afghanistan.
"Stan…is an astute student," a senior officer wrote to me today. He learned from "years of experience in Iraq mostly and Afghanistan some on what works in each environment and what doesn't." That's a polite way of saying he has gone through that humbling "I did what I was trained to do, but it's not winning" process once before.
He'll be taking the Senators and Congressmen through that arc, sitting behind that long table - convincing them that he has figured out how to do the counterinsurgency and counter-terrorism parts of this strategy in a different and better way than its been done before.
There will be more troops devoted to the initial training now. And McChrystal also borrowed from an example on the ground that was working - namely, the success the Army's Special Forces has had training and building up the Afghan commandos by fighting alongside them. Now every green Afghan army unit will be paired with battle-hardened US/NATO forces - to learn by example how to stand and fight.
He also has resources no previous commander has had - namely, people. "He has a team of trusted hand-picked associates…[who] understand his disciplined rhythm and decision making style, they all feed on each others ability to learn and offer in a synergistic command climate that promotes solutions rather than lamenting the scope of the challenges," the senior officer wrote me. "Who else had that luxury in Afghanistan?"
Lastly, he understands that in this new job, selling the mission means selling the man — hence his "60 Minutes" interview and all those speeches - putting his personal credibility on the line to convince his troops, NATO allies, the president and now Congress that he can pull this off.
That's what the four-star in charge of a new campaign has to do - as General David Petraeus did for the surge in Iraq. I ran into General Petraeus in Washington, D.C. recently, and he spoke of the luxury of saying no to all interviews his first several months in his new job. "It's really nice not to have you media types around all the time…no offense," he said. "But I had to do it in Iraq. That's part of the job." (No offense taken. It's a symbiotic relationship.)
So General McChrystal, once camera shy because he thought that's what his previous job required, has learned to step into the spotlight and put his opinions on the line — sometimes in a way that gets him into trouble, like when he gave that speech in London saying he thought he needed more troops well before the president had decided to give him any.
But "that's Stan," says one officer. While General Petraeus' style could be described as more diplomatic or professorial, McChrystal is described as painfully direct. Or "no bull," as the senior commander told me in his email today. "His weekly messages to the SECDEF (Secretary of Defense Robert Gates) include a section titled 'what I need,' the officer said. "No negotiating, just plain fact."
That's a preview of what we'll hear from behind the long tables on Capitol Hill this week.
And as for that Yeats poem? I asked his staff to ask him if it was time to send that round again. They said he smiled, and said I'd made his day. But he didn't answer.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?


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Patel, L. (forthcoming, 2019). There is No Study Without Struggle. Beacon Press.
This book examines how study and struggle are intertwined and explores what this relationship reveals about the legacies and ongoing structure of settler colonialism in higher education.
Patel, L. (2016). Decolonizing educational research: From ownership to answerability. Routledge Press.
Decolonizing Educational Research examines the ways through which coloniality manifests in contexts of knowledge and meaning making, specifically within educational research and formal schooling. Purposefully situated beyond popular deconstructionist theory and anthropocentric perspectives, the book investigates the longstanding traditions of oppression, racism, and white supremacy that are systemically reseated and reinforced by societal structures and social interaction. Through meaningful explorations into the unfixed and often interrupted narratives of culture, history, place, and identity, a bold, timely, and transformative vision emerges to conceive of how research in higher education institutions might break free of colonial genealogies and their widespread complicities.
Patel, L. (2013). Youth held at the Border: Immigration, education, and America. TCPress.
American Education Studies Association's Critics Book Choice 2013
Nominee for Phillip Chinn Book Award 2013, National Association for Multicultural Education
Nominee Benjamin L. Hooks Book Award 2013
From Harvard Educational Review: "Patel is also the kind of writer and scholar that education requires, one who is unafraid to tackle the immense web of threads that comprise educational phenomena, even if that means weaving together different methods and media. It is no surprise that in Youth held at the Border Patel has written the kind of book that education needs: a book careful to mold overpoliticized debates--in this case immigration--to the shape of everyday lives, hearts and minds of young people. This is a book that sounds a moral call we must heed."
Stevens, L. P., & Bean, T. W. (2007). Critical literacy: Context, research and practice in the K-12 classroom. New York: Sage. Critical Literacy: Context, Research, and Practice explores the theorization and implementation of critical literacy practices. As a subset of literacy pedagogy, critical literacy is distinguished by its particular emphasis upon interacting critically with texts and situating texts within broader political, cultural, historical, and economic contexts. A key focus of this text is the praxis of critical literacy; that is, theory and practice informing each other.
Comprised of chapters that make use of clear explanations of the tenets of critical literacy, the context of literacy pedagogy in the United States, and classroom examples, this text focuses on what can be learned about the theory of critical literacy from implementation and what practice can learn from theory. This book is particularly useful for educators trying to take up Freire's ideas of praxis and conscientizao.
Vadeboncoeur, J., & Stevens, L. P. (Eds). (2005). Reconstructing the 'adolescent': Sign, symbol, and body. New York: Peter Lang. This edited volume brings together researchers across disciplines who all have studied, and sometimes, worked against the ways that youth and adolescence are discursively constructed. Contributors problematize dominant discourses about adolescence through a critique of the discourses that position youths and an examination of how youths enact, contest and sometimes transform those same discourses. These studies, combining empirical research and semiotic analyses, offer a fresh perspective on young people in western societies today, at the level of everyday discourse, embodied through gesture and symbolic action, with material effects.
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Patel, L. (2017). Walking the tightrope of visibility. Bank Street Occassional Papers Series, 38.
Patel, L. (2017). The ink of citizenship. Curriculum Inquiry, 47(1), 62-68.
Patel, L. (2016). Pedagogies of resistance and survivance: Learning as marronage. Equity & Excellence in Education. 49 (397-401).
Patel, L. & Price, A. (2016). The origins, potentials and limits of racial justice. Critical Ethnic Studies Journal
Patel, L. (2016). The irrationality of anti-racist empathy. The English Journal.
Patel, L. (2016). Deservingness: Challenging coloniality in education and migration scholarship. Journal of the Association of Mexican American Educators.
Patel, L. (2015). Desiring diversity and backlash: White property rights in higher education. The Urban Review, 47(4)
Patel, L. (2015). Reaching beyond democracy in educational policy analysis. Journal of Educational Policy.
Patel, L. (2014). Counting coloniality in educational research: From ownership to answerability. Educational Studies, 50(4), 357-377.
Patel, L. (2013). In loco emporium: Immigrant youth and educators in the social contracts of education. Children and Society, 27, 309-320.
Patel, L. (2013). Contact zones, problem posing and critical consciousness. Pedagogies: An International Journal, 7(4), 333-346.
Patel, L. (2012). Out of hostile takeovers sometimes comes awareness, always grief, and perhaps spaces for self determination. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 18(2), 191-192.
Stevens, L. P. (2011). Literacy, capital, and education: A view from immigrant youth. Theory into Practice.
Stevens, L. P., & Stovall, D. (2010). Literacy for xenophobia: A wake-up call. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 48.
Stevens, L. P. & lisahunter (2009). ReFraming phases in education: Science, reform and quality. Curriculum Perspectives, 24(1), 98-106.
Stevens, L. P. (2009). Maps to interrupt a pathology: Immigrant populations and education. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 6(1-2), 1-14.
Stevens, L. P., & Piazza, P. (2010). President Obama and Secretary Duncan: You are looking through the wrong window. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 47(1)
Stevens, L. P. (2008). The framing of policies: ideologies, issues, and implications. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 46(4)
Stevens, L.P. (2003). Reading First: A critical policy analysis. The Reading Teacher, 56, 662-668.
Book Chapters
Patel, L., & Saenz, L. S. (in press). Immigration and sexuality education in the United States: Collapsing borders. Handbook on Sexuality Education. Sage.
Patel, L. with S. Snickerberger, K. Coursey, & S. Smith (forthcoming). Undoing miseducation to be better teachers. In Y. Sealey-Ruiz, D. Hucks, & S. Caruthers (Eds.). Purposeful teaching and learning in diverse contexts: Implications for access, equity, and achievement.
Patel, L, & Ares, R. S. (2014). Framing youth resistance: The politics of coming out undocumented. In E. Tuck & K. W. Yang (Eds). Youth resistance research and theories of change. New York: Routledge.
Patel, L. & Gurn, A, et al. (2013). ReImaging structures of schooling: Immigrant youth, community partners and dynamic learning through partnerships. In K. Jocson, Ed. Cultural transformations: Youth and pedagogies of possibility. Harvard Education Press: Cambridge, MA.
Stevens, L. P. (2011). Locating the role of the critical discourse analyst. In R. Rogers, (Ed). Critical discourse analysis in educational settings, 2nd Ed. New York: Heinemann.
Stevens, L. P., & Dugan, M. (2009). Enabling constraints as educational design. In D. Rose (Ed.), Handbook of Multiliteracies and Education, New York: Sage.
Op-Eds and Essays
Patel, L. (December 27, 2016). Trump and settler colonialism. Critical Theory.Net
Patel, L. (December 23, 2015). The absolution of racism on college campuses. Beacon Broadside.
Patel, L. (September 17, 2015). Nationalist narratives, immigration, and coloniality. Decolonization, Indigeneity, Education & Society.
Patel, L. (May 13, 2014). Disentangling radical love from narcissism. The Feminist Wire
Patel, L. (April 24, 2013). The need to grieve. Racialicious.com
Stevens, L. P. (August 11, 2011). A field guide for White liberals who want to break up with Obama. Communitychangeinc.org.
Stevens, L. P. (March 12, 2011). Dispatch from the Global South (sort of). Communitychangeinc.org
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Stefan and I talked a little about a PNW herf around Olympia. I figured a thread to discuss the details would help with the visibility.
I'm thinking early January would be a good time, and while Cigar Daddies in Lacey has a pretty fantastic lounge, I'm pretty sure that it's members only, except during events.
Anyone have a preference for date or location?
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Brown and Sons is in Olympia but I think their lounge is also members only. Smokey Joe's is a great spot but further north in Tacoma.
Sounds fun. I can't do the first week and last weekend of Jan but am open the other weekends.
Why does this state need to make it so hard to smoke?
Options? All I did is Google so I don't know if they are what they appear.
January 14th or 21st would also work well for me.
14th works for me. I'll be out of town on the 21st
I want to go to there
Are we on for the 14th then? If so when? I need to put it in my calendar or it ain't gonna happen for me.
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LaserMapA Software Package Designed to Enable the Wide Application of Coastal Topographic Lidar Data
During the last several years, the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP) has collected, in cooperation with NASA and NOAA, dense topographic lidar surveys over much of the "lower 48" U.S. coastline and Puerto Rico. Although the immensity of the data set presents challenges, it is actively being used in ongoing studies of coastal change caused by both catastrophic storms and processes that operate over historical time scales. Other applications focused on mapping land cover and wildlife habitat are being developed for National Seashores. Additionally, this rich data set has the potential to aid a variety of other coastal scientific investigations and management applications. Studies of geomorphic change driven by wind, water, waves, or landslides, and investigations of land ecosystems and wildlife habitat may all benefit from highly resolved lidar terrain surveys. Generally, any project that needs fine-scale coastal digital elevation models that can serve as georectified basemaps may find the existing CMGP lidar data holdings to be of benefit.
In practice, the broad usefulness of topographic lidar surveys can be inhibited by difficulties in directly tapping the raw NASA lidar data sets. In their native form, the NASA Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) data are not readily compatible with common GIS packages. The NASA lidar data are delivered in binary files in a unique format that evolves periodically due to instrument upgrades. In one typical 4-hr survey flight, the ATM collects about 72 million separate elevation points, easily enough to quickly "choke" a GIS. Also, the geometry of the raw data is inconvenient for direct transfer to most GIS or mapping programs. This is a result of the inclusion of separate data chunks from multiple flight lines, the spiraling data ground geometry caused by the instrument's conical scan, and referencing to an ellipsoid datum. Typically, each separate elevation point requires conversion to commonly used map datums. It is also difficult to isolate the data for a specific study area because those data may be embedded within numerous raw data files that cover coastal reaches exceeding 200 km in length.
One of our goals in developing LaserMap is to overcome these practical limitations and thereby make the extensive USGS CMGP coastal U.S. lidar data set widely available to a diverse group of coastal scientists. LaserMap spans the processing gap described above to convert dense lidar data sets into fully documented standard data products that are readily ingested by common surface modeling and GIS software packages such as Erdas Imagine, ArcInfo, or ArcView. We have designed the LaserMap package to run through a menu system to enable scientists to prepare their own data sets with minimal instruction. Data products may be created at several levels to allow for flexibility in further analysis using other software. LaserMap supports reference system conversion, the merging of multiple flight line swaths, the sorting of the surveyed elevations by either latitude or longitude, automatic creation of data documentation at each level, and the creation of ready-to-use binary or ascii point files, full precision grids, and scaled digital elevation images. Once a processing job has been initiated through the menu, all operations are transparent to the user.
We are now using a "beta" version of LaserMap to generate suites of data products for U.S. National Seashores and the coast of Puerto Rico. An enhanced version of LaserMap under construction will incorporate faster processing through the porting of several key programs from IDL to C, and will support the creation of quality control data products, and an expanded variety of processing options. Scientists interested in finding out more about the capabilities of LaserMap are encouraged to contact John Brock in the St. Petersburg office (email@example.com; 727-803-8747, ext. 3088).
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Thanks for checking out my work. My name is Raj Shah, I'm an immigrant from India, a citizen of Chicago and a student of some games.
Finance, marketing, social entrepreneurship and a variety of part-time gigs sum up my professional background, which unofficially started at the age of 14. While I always had fun learning and dabbling in the work hands-on in these positions, I never loved them, unconditionally.
Basketball, though, was and still is, a different story. Meaning that even if I didn't get paid a salary dabbling in it and learning from it, I can never feel it makes me go broke.
Basketball is a story that transcends winning and losing rings and trophies. It's a story that reveals character(s) at every level: from playground to recreational to professional to retirement. An internationally-developing story more important than the sum of all its' headlines and superstars. A story that that sports the most common and universal themes and motifs which endlessly cross over on the court and off the court. A story about thousands of ordinary characters playing lead roles in modern life today, connected by the internet web.
For the 15+ years I've lived in the Chicago land, basketball has been the one thing I've held onto most and longest. Grade school, high school and college days have come and gone. Partying, traveling and other social activities come and go in phases. I've never spent more than 3 years on a job or business project. It's fun to get decent grades and graduate with degrees; it's fun to blow money at bars and clubs with friends; it's fun to date different people with an open mind; and, it's fun to make decent money at a good job with good colleagues.
Still. If you have a short attention span like I do, you get bored quickly with things you don't whole-heartedly love. Cheesy, I know, but hey, I'm an American and an Indian: cheese and butter run deep in my blood.
Basketball is a thing I can't put down, no matter how hard I try, so I might as well jump in to it with everything I have.
At the end of the 2014 year, I unofficially gave up my middle manager job title in corporate America, and at the start of the 2015 year, I officially took a chance on Chicago Basketball. I took a full-time chance on a bunch of basketball-focused business ideas I had been trying to do "on the side" and falling short on since 2010. I took a chance on this modern basketball economy, hoping I'd find a way to make a living doing basketball work even though I've had no professional playing or teaching experience on my resume. Because I've played recreationally for over 15 years, and won a few fantasy basketball leagues and because I spend hours and hours reading basketball stuff on the web, I felt like a know-it-all and this gave me the confidence to think I could just go out there and succeed.
I don't write this to talk about how cool my story is, or to package and offer success advice on why you too should jump in and take risk, or to preach the importance of following your passions.
I write this to tell you where I come from, and how my experience so far has humbled me in ways I couldn't have predicted right before I took this leap. To share with you a real-life experience of starting a business full-time from the eyes of a basketball lover.
It's been a blessing, i.e., a combination of both fun and difficult times, which combined altogether makes life more meaningful and more educational. If blessings are things that give you a chance to be grateful, this one's afforded me many chances. A chance to see my family overseas.
A chance to see both the left coast and the right coast, including a trip to the basketball hall of fame, where I learned about Dr. James Naismith's true purpose for masterminding this game.
A chance to build a few websites, to market them, and to snooze the ones that aren't priority.
A chance to create my own structure and schedule and hold myself accountable to make every hour, every day, count. A chance to play near a dozen roles (writing, editing, designing, practicing, reading, networking, project managing, etc.) as a one-person company, while understanding there's no such thing as a one-man team and that ideas and inspiration comes from all around.
A chance to read almost 3 dozen books on basketball, business and other subjects in-between on audio, electronic and hard copy formats. A chance to invest (blow) a ton of money into a business that up until now has had no real business model.
A chance to test my abilities, independently, and to improve the ones that are most crucial to my definition of success.
A chance to learn, to teach, to share, to inspire. A chance to take a stab at making art.
I've finally gained momentum and confidence as to exactly what I want to do with Chicago basketball. In doing so, I'd love to get your help.
Over the next month, the next 3 months, and the 6 to round out the year of 2015,


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From Linda's junior high school notebook, which consists solely of notes to her friends about guys. The cover should totally be made into a poster.
A poster of the cover and a t-shirt of the "Hunk Page".
Or Hunk Page wallpaper, including the notebook lines.
related: John's junior high school notebook
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Consulted Dr. Vandana Gupta (Gynecologist) for Pregnancy Check Up
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Consulted Dr. Nymphaea Walecha (Infertility Specialist) for Pre and Post Delivery Care
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Had a wonderful experience overall . Really recommend her . Positive response . Relax and calm behaviour .
Consulted Dr. Sanjivini Khanna (Gynecologist) for Gynae Problems
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Dr. Sanjivini Khanna has an enviable standard of proficiency in her field. During my examination she was very affectionate and courteous. I wish all Senior doctors emulate her.
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Consulted Dr. Sunita Verma (Obstetrician) for Gynae Problems
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Consulted Dr. Mamta Mittal (Gynecologist) for Pregnancy Check Up
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Consulted Dr. Sanjivini Khanna (Gynecologist) for Ultrasound Guided Cyst Aspiration
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Consulted Dr. Arpana Jain (Gynecologist) for Pregnancy care and management
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The Fortis group has been striving to achieve excellence from way back in 1996 since the inauguration of the first hospital, in Mohali, Chandigarh in 2001. Established in the year 2010 in Central New Delhi, with a goal to maximise reach to the society and provide exceptional care to every single patient, the Fortis La Femme is easily accessible for the North and West Delhi population. In the eight years since the establishment of the hospital, the hospital has undergone several notable developments and has received accreditations and certifications that make it on of a kind. The Fortis La Femme Shalimar Bagh holds an NABH accreditation. The hospital has been awarded the FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry) HEAL award in 2014.
The hospital has received recognition for being environmentally friendly and being an energy conservative unit and the hospital building is the first in the country to register for the green building rating system. The La Femme Hospitals of Fortis is currently functional in Bengaluru, Jaipur and Greater Kailash regions.
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The Fortis La Femme has 262 beds available to the patients, along with state of the art diagnostic and treatment equipment. Besides this, an ambulance facility is available around the clock, and there is a blood bank on the premises. Parking facilities, a hygienic and healthy hospital cafeteria, accommodation for family members, Internet services, etc are the other facilities available.
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Societe Brewing Company
8262 Clairemont Mesa Boulevard, Kearny Mesa
"So, when are you going to release your sours?"
It's been the most uttered question (thank in part to yours truly) since Societe Brewing Company (8262 Clairemont Mesa Boulevard, Kearny Mesa) opened last year. Even with plenty of high quality IPAs as well as various stouts and Belgian-inspired ales, fans of this young and thriving business won't be fully sated until Societe releases tart blends of the beer aging away in a stock of over 100 wine barrels.
The sours have yet to be unleashed, however, last week at an intimate dinner in Societe's barrel room, headmen Travis Smith and Douglas Constantiner shared the first offerings of what they refer to as their "feral" beers. It was perhaps the hottest ticket of any San Diego Beer Week event. I attended and took fastidious notes in an effort to help out the droves of local beer enthusiasts biding their time over these beers get an idea of what they can expect.
The first of the beers was a blonde sour called The Swindler. According to Smith and Constantiner, once extracted from the barrel, the base beer was so intense in its oakiness that they needed to cut down on the wood presence while adding acidity. That required blending, to the point where just over fifty percent of the original beer made it in. The result is a rather mild, 6% ABV sour with soft scents and flavors of Granny Smith apple and added viscosity that's almost milky in its feel. As it warmed, the beer showed added complexity, giving off nuances that reminded me of straw and red berries. A knowledgeable beer fan seated next to me described it as "more Belgian than American," meaning not as in-your-face and abrupt in its tartness as sours hailing from lambic's birthplace. I couldn't agree more.
Next up was The Highwayman, a 7% ABV ale dosed with Saaz and Styrian Golding hops as well as Brettanomyces. The latter is wild yeast that adds spiciness and dryness to a beer that's light but by no means thin, and almost creamy on the front end. Barnyardy funk shows up in the finish; all from the Brett, as this beer is unoaked.
Last but not least was my favorite of the evening, The Savage, which was nowhere near as rangy and untamed as its name might suggest. The same base beer as The Swindler rested on cherries, it brought on the fruity flavors as well as the tight, drop-off finish often seen in a Flemish-style red ale. One of my fellow diners said it "cut off like a Champagne."
So, for those who wondered if Societe would be able to replicate the quality of their other beers via this much more labor intensive, niche, artisanal undertaking, wonder no more. In their first night taking patrons to the tart side of their operation, they came up three-for-three. In truth, I'm even more excited than I already was about the sour ales that will rise from all that former Stag's Leap Winery wood.
So, when will that happen? So far, the only answer provided is, "at a future date." So, expect more sour-related interrogation at Societe's tasting room for awhile, but know that any waiting that's required should be well worth it.
More from SDReader
- More stories by Brandon Hernández
- Societe Brewing's seven year switch — July 19, 2019
- Council rolls out the barrel(-aged beer) — Sept. 8, 2014
- Societe's celebratory dumpster-diver — June 21, 2014
- Beer of the Week: Societe The Publican — July 12, 2013
- Happy New Beer: 2012's Best Breweries — Dec. 26, 2012


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My Sunday's are pretty ordinary. I have fairly active Saturdays, UFIT Bootcamp early then most of the afternoon playing and refereeing Touch Football (whilst the season is on which is half the year).
So Sunday is a day I can lie in, get up about 8am and go and get some breakfast and read the paper. And man, do I read some rubbish about my business in the Sunday paper! The guy who writes a fitness column a guy called Frankie, always structures his work on what people tell him. This could also be described as heresay….
Ok so if he was writing about a traffic accident, say a taxi does a U-Turn on a busy street and doesn't look before doing it (I'm trying to make this as real-life as possible) and another taxi slams into it and a bunch of people see it, Frankie could turn up and get eye-witness accounts and pretty much get the story straight. Well lets say he gets it 50-50…..
But if Frankie is writing about fitness and he asks a bunch of people about a component of fitness and what they think to be the facts, he has to apply some fraction of journalistic expertise. He must find a reputable resource for a starting point and state a standpoint and then offer "professional" opinions from those he interviews. If Frankie has some kind of professional qualification in fitness that would also be a bonus.
Instead what Frankie does is tell a whole lot of rubbish described to him by a whole lot of people who clearly don't know much about the given topic. And usually if they do, they are are peddling an agenda which Frankie either doesn't bother editing or is too ignorant to realise.
It's so sad it becomes comical. So Sunday breakfast can be entertaining reading about fitness but also tinged with a little sadness with how bad things are in our industry in Singapore with so few true pro's working on the scene here.
BUT!! Sunday's get a whole lot better after that, why? Cos Sunday is FUN Training Day! And it's movie day, I watched Kick Ass today and it Kick's Ass!!
Fun Training Day means I go out and do something different. Some days I ride, some days I run, some days I gym but I always try and do something different. It gives me fresh ideas for UFIT Bootcamps, it shakes things up for my own training and mentally it's refreshing.
Training can be dull sometimes. It can be a grind and sometimes it has to be. I mean life can be a grind but we always have things going on that give us some respite from that grind. Training's the same! Ruts are not good so bust out of that rut with something different! Getting into different stuff with your training can mean a big refresher for life in general. If you need some ideas on different training come talk toUFIT! We are full of them whether in the gym doing PT or out in the park doing UFIT.
Plus we also help out with lifestyle coaching, helping you guys and girls to look at your patterns (daily/weekly/monthly/yearly) and how to vary the things you DO have control over for ultimately enhancing your lives in general.It really is amazing when someone sits down and addresses your lifestyle in a macro perspective how many interesting things eventuate. I've done this several times now with different folks and outcomes are very interesting and valuable for individuals!
Maybe give it a go?! And certainly don't believe everything you read in the newspaper, fitness or otherwise! We here at UFIT are different. We seriously don't want to be regarded as just everyday Trainers due to the basic fact that we aren't. We are EXTRAordinary and revel in that. Come revel with us!!


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A combative, fashion-conscious mobster already serving a life prison term dodged a death sentence on Wednesday for ordering a gangland hit while taking control of a once-fearsome crime family.
An anonymous jury deliberated less than two hours in federal court in Brooklyn before reaching the decision in the penalty phase at the trial of Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano. The jury, which gave him a life sentence, had found the former acting boss of the Bonanno crime family guilty last month of murder, racketeering, conspiracy and other charges.
Basciano, 51, cracked a slight smile and nodded at the jurors as they exited the courtroom.
Prosecutors used the unprecedented testimony of former Bonanno boss Joseph Massino to try to portray Basciano as a stone-cold killer who deserved death. Massino — the highest-ranking member of the city's five Italian organized crime families to ever take the witness stand for the government — recounted a conversation about the possibility of knocking off an assistant U.S. attorney while the prosecutor dined at his favorite Manhattan eatery to avenge an onslaught of criminal cases brought against the family leadership.
"Let me kill this guy when he comes out of the restaurant," Basciano said, according to Massino, who by mob rules had to sign off on the killing.
The prosecutor, Greg Andres, had "pretty much destroyed the Bonanno family," Massino testified.
The government also sought to convince jurors that life behind bars wouldn't prevent Basciano from trying to use visitors to sneak orders to his underworld crew — a tactic he'd used in the past.
"Even with a life sentence, he will not be stopped," Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicole Argentieri said in closing arguments. "His mind will always be in the street. ... The defendant has earned the ultimate punishment."
Defense attorney Richard Jasper argued the former owner of the Hello Gorgeous hair salon would pose no threat if imprisoned with other notorious gangsters and terrorists in the fortress-like lockup in Florence, Colo., "the biggest, baddest house in the federal system," where "everybody is in lockdown."
He urged jurors to follow their consciences and "suspend the work of death until Vincent Basciano dies in a federal prison by himself — in God's time, not man's."
Throughout the capital case, Basciano was a colorful presence in the courtroom. He had won U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis' approval to wear a wardrobe of five different suits — one for each day of the week — and always kept his full hair of gray hair carefully coiffed.
He also gave regular pointers to his lawyers and even sparred with the judge at length over whether he could introduce new evidence while testifying on his own behalf.
"I can't properly defend myself," he complained in one rant before deciding not to take the stand.
Last year, the judge asked the Department of Justice to reconsider bringing a death penalty case — which at the time had already cost taxpayers more than $3 million — against a defendant who was already serving life without parole for a 2007 conviction. But prosecutors decided to press ahead anyway and showcase the straight-talking Massino at the guilt and penalty phases of the trial.
Massino, 68, broke his family's sacred vow of silence and began talking with investigators after his 2004 conviction for orchestrating a quarter-century's worth of murder, racketeering and other crimes as he rose through the ranks of the Bonannos. The bloodshed included the shotgun slayings of three rival captains and the execution of a mobster who vouched for FBI undercover agent Donnie Brasco in the 1980s. Brasco's story became a movie starring Johnny Depp and Al Pacino.
While imprisoned together in 2005, the former Bonanno boss agreed to wear a wire and betray Basciano by recording their jailhouse banter.
Jurors heard one recording of Basciano boasting, "I'm a hoodlum. I'm a tough guy. Whatever happens happens. Let's go." In another, a wistful Massino mused about the demise of the family.
"We was OK until I got pinched," he said. "We was on top of the world."


text: Mr. Keilin was elected as an outside Director to The Segal Group's Board of Directors on February 1, 2000. He has extensive experience in public service, investment banking and financial services. Before founding Keilin & Co. LLC (an investment banking firm) and KPS Special Situations Funds (a family of private equity funds), he was a general partner of Lazard Freres & Co. where he provided financial advice to major cities and the State of Illinois as well as a number of corporate and union clients. Mr. Keilin also served as Executive Director and later as Chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corporation for the City of New York. He has advised both the United Steelworkers of America and the AirLine Pilots Association on a variety of issues, including the acquisition of United Airlines by its employees and the creation of Weirton Steel Corporation by a joint labor management committee. Mr. Keilin is a graduate of Rice University and Harvard Law School.