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Announcing Sherlock 2.0by Kun Lin Jun 26 18
Beginning July 2, 2018, Sherlock 2.0 will become our default interface for library searching and discovery. This Orbis Cascade Alliance-wide effort strives to improve your experience in discovery and access of our library collections. You may already be familiar with this interface; it has been available for preview since January 2018. Sherlock 2.0 has some new and updated features, including:
- Pinning items you are interested in, then easily sending your pinned list to your email or citation manager.
- Seeing and exporting citations with one click from the record.
More functionality and easier browsing from your mobile device.
We welcome comments and suggestions on how we could improve your experience at Penrose Library. Please feel free to contact us at [email protected]. If you need help doing library research with Sherlock, please make an appointment with one of us through the "Contact a Librarian" link on the website. We are happy to meet with you and discuss your specific needs in accessing library resources.
Penrose Library Hoursby Julie Carter May 15 18
Please be aware that Penrose Library's hours have changed to reflect the end of the semester:
5/15: Closed at 10:00 pm
5/16-5/17: 9:00 am – 10:00 pm
5/18-5/20: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Beginning Monday, 5/21, the summer schedule will be in effect:
Mon-Fri: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Sat-Sun: closed
Please note: Thursday, 5/24, the library will be closed for Staff Recognition Day.
Submitting Your Honors Thesisby Emily Pearson May 7 18
As we reach the finishing line for honors theses, the library wants to remind you of a few tips and tricks to ensure an easy submission:
Forms: Both the ARMINDA Submission Agreement and the Certificate of Approval (2nd page of thesis template) need to be signed by your advisor. The Submission Agreement needs to be signed by any co-authors, even if they are not getting honors. The Certificate of Approval needs to be printed on the archival paper, and needs your information, advisors name, and correct date filled in.
Printer: The only printer you can use in the library is the one marked 2nd_theses, between the front two public access computers near the WCTS desk. Your thesis should be printed one-sided.
Paper: Paper will be in the 2nd_theses printer starting Tuesday (5/8).
PDF/A: The submission needs to be a PDF/A (archival PDF). Don't forget to verify your PDF is saved as a PDF/A, this can be done on the computers next to the Theses printer using Acrobat. Instructions here
Personal Bound Copies: Students desiring to have personal copies of theses bound at their expense can order copies for $18 each, including tax and shipping. There is no limit to the number of personal copies you may order. Provide one complete copy of your thesis for every personal bound copy ordered. Personal copies may be printed on any printer, without special paper requirement. To order bound copies, please fill out the online order form.
Feel free to stop by any librarian's office on the main floor for help. We will be around until about 5 every day, including Wednesday (meaning don't wait until 7:30 Wednesday night, it will be too late!).
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Choose Privacy Week 2018by Emily Pearson May 1 18
May 1-7 marks Choose Privacy Week annually, but this year it might feel more pressing than in years past, though the privacy issues are not new. The week was started by the American Library Association (ALA). As spaces devoted to providing access to information, libraries have been concerned with privacy since becoming a part of public life in the 19th century, committed to protecting what our patrons access and providing vetted information on privacy to our patrons.
This year the theme for the week is "Big Data is watching you." For a long time, most people saw Big Data as referring to government surveillance, but with Cambridge Analytica and Facebook, Equifax's leaks, and the proliferation of smart home technologies, there is a growing understanding of the corporate focus on and use of data. Today, personal information is one of the most valuable commodities, but it is largely being collected at no cost, potentially without users consent or knowledge, and sold at a high premium. One of the more complicated aspects of Big Data is that you often do not know what data is being collected about you, where it is going, and what options you have to opt out.
It can be easy to feel like it is impossible to control your privacy and information in the current landscape, but there's still a lot you can do to protect yourself and your information. One of the most important things you can do to protect yourself is to do a risk analysis. Understanding how information is used, what privacy you are willing to give up, and what you are willing to do to protect yourself will make it much easier for you to think critically and realistically about your own privacy needs and what you want to do moving forward.
Once you've decided where you stand on your privacy, there are a lot of great tools available to you. In particular, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Library Freedom Project have developed many extensions, tools, and guides for even the least tech-savvy users to use easily. ALA has also aggregated a list of tools for you to use to protect your privacy.
Whitman Undergraduate Conference 2018by Amy Blau Mar 30 18
The 20th Annual Whitman Undergraduate Conference will take place on April 10, 2018. Penrose Library and the Whitman College and Northwest Archives want to help students share their Undergraduate Conference research with the Whitman Community and beyond!
Sharing your research in ARMINDA, Whitman's institutional repository, means that you have a link to your work that you can potentially provide to employers or graduate schools. Prospective Whitman students and prospective students in your major can see the kind of research that they too might want to do. You can choose to share with the world, or just with the Whitman community. Our distribution license is non-exclusive, so you keep your copyright and the right to share your research elsewhere as well.
Here are some examples of Undergraduate Conference projects we have collected in the last two years:
Nina Finley — How to Spend an Alaskan Solstice: Sea Star Wasting Disease and Environmental Education in the North
Lin Luo — Culture, Family and Feelings of Closeness
Philip Stefani — Critique of Jacob Hashimoto's When Nothing Ends, Nothing Remains
Zoey Watts, Jamie Friedman, and Marianne Kellogg — #ImWithHer: Predictors of Support for Female Candidates
Andrea Berg — Care and Control in Civil Immigration Detention
Spencer Mueller — Games and Social Identity in Danish Cafes
Anneka Sonstroem, Mira Engel, and Trevor Press — Disgust Conditioning and Eye Tracking
Leda Zakarison — Mipsters, IllMuslims, and MAZA: Muslim Americans and Social Media
If you would like us to post your presentation slides, paper, or poster in ARMINDA, here is what to do:
- Tell your Faculty Sponsor that you'd like to share your research, and make sure that they also think that this is a good idea. Both you and your Faculty Sponsor will need to sign a permission and licensing form that tells us how you want us to share your research. Here is the form that you will both need to sign (the same form that we use for honors theses). Both of you will need to initial the form to either make the research available to everyone everywhere on the Internet, or to make the research available only to Whitman community members. If you or your Faculty Sponsor have other plans for publishing your research and would like to put a 2-year embargo on your files, you can indicate that on the form as well. We need signatures on the form from every student who contributed to the project, so if you have co-presenters, you will all need to agree on how to share your work.
- Fill out the online form here with information about yourself and your conference panel, and attach the file for your presentation, paper, or poster. (Click on the "Login with your Whitman account" link to sign in.) There is more information about how to format your materials here.
- Turn in the permission form signed and initialed by your Faculty Sponsor, yourself, and any other contributors to your project to Penrose Library 213 before Friday, April 20.
Please contact Amy Blau with any questions about submitting your WUC project to share in ARMINDA.
Whitman staff access @ Penroseby Emily Pearson Mar 14 18
All Whitman College staff have access to Penrose Library and the Whitman College and Northwest Archives throughout the year. Use Sherlock, our interface to Penrose Library collections, as well as items held in Summit libraries and many online articles in our subscription databases, to discover interesting and exciting materials!
o The Whitman scope lets you search in the half a million or so items in Penrose Library – mainly books, DVDs, and a few print journals.
o The Summit scope includes another 30 million items held by 39 member libraries in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Books ordered from Summit libraries normally arrive within a week.
o The Articles scope provides information about individual journal articles. Many of these articles are immediately accessible in full text; if we do not have full text access to an article you need, you can order it through Interlibrary Loan (which we call ILLiad).
With your Whitman ID, you can borrow up to 15 items at a time. You can borrow books for six weeks and DVDs and videos for six days. Some exceptions apply, including items on course reserves and non-circulating items. The "Quick Check" box on right side of the library home page links to your account, where you can keep track of materials you have on loan and their due dates. Immediate family members of Whitman employees may find information on obtaining a Whitman ID card here, which can then be used as a Penrose library card.
Your Whitman log-in allows access to our e-books and other digital collections (including academic journals and databases) remotely or on-campus. Make sure you are logged in on the library website to gain access (you will be prompted when it is required). You can find our list of databases here.
Staff can be in the library 24/7, with posted exceptions. The library is open from 9AM-9PM to the community. Outside those hours you will need to swipe in with your ID card to enter the library.
If you have any questions about resources, librarians have office hours from 9-5 Monday through Friday (look for the Research Help Here sign), and are available via phone and email as well.
The Office of LGBTQIA+ and PRISM's Media Guideby Emily Pearson Feb 8 18
The Office of LGBTQIA+ and the student group P.R.I.S.M. have put together a list of digital media with LGBTQIA+ characters, actors, or creators. If you're looking for something to watch or listen to, this can be a great way to find media with positive LGBTQIA+ representation. If you have suggestions to add to the list, you can submit them here for the Office's consideration.
At Whitman, the library subscribes to Kanopy, where you can stream movies featured on this list as well as other films with LGBTQIA+ characters or creators.
If you are looking for more academic work relating to the LGBTQIA+ community, we subscribe to the database LGBT Thought and Culture, which contains both primary sources (including letters, periodicals, interviews, memoirs and ephemera) concerning the the political history of LGBTQIA+ rights as well as poetry and works of fiction by LGBTQIA+ writers.
You can also search our catalog for books, articles, and other resources. Because of the often-changing language within the LGBTQIA+ community, one way to make sure you are capturing the most resources appropriate to your research and potentially covering a wider time period is to add (homosexual* OR lgbt* OR queer) to your searches, such as: representation AND (homosexual* OR lgbt* OR queer). The asterisk captures anything that starts with the word it's attached to, so in this case it captures homosexual, homosexuality, homosexuals, or lgbt, lgbtq, lgbtqia+, etc.
If you have any questions about the office of LGBTQIA+ or would like to be added to their mailing list, you can email Program Coordinator Vari Robinson at [email protected]. PRISM, a group for students that are LGBTQIA+ can be contacted at [email protected]. If you have any questions about library resources or want help with research, you can contact librarians here.
Introducing Sherlock 2.0by Emily Pearson Jan 12 18
Through Spring 2018, Penrose will be doing a soft launch of a new interface for Sherlock. You can choose this new interface by using the slider under the search box on the library home page, switching between Sherlock and the new interface, Sherlock 2.0. This new interface will be the default option in Fall 2018.
This interface offers a lot of new functionality and we hope you will find that it adds to your searching experience. The biggest change is your search will now be more intuitive with a more streamlined display. Whereas before you had to choose between seeing more details and requesting the resource or finding its location, now that is all in one central screen once you've clicked on the title, highlighted with the #1 in figures 1 and 3 and depicted in figure 2 (click to enlarge). Deciding between what you want to search (Whitman only, articles, Summit, etc.), course reserves, and Special Collections options are still available but have slightly moved (marked with the #2 in figures 1 and 3). You will still be prompted to sign-in, but can also do it in the top right corner (marked with the #3 in figures 1 and 3). This is also where you will find any items you pin.
Sherlock 2.0 has some new or updated features, including:
- Pinning items you are interested in, then easily sending your pinned list to your email or citation manager. (Marked with the #4 in figures 1 and 3)
- Seeing and exporting citations with one click from the record.
- More functionality and easier browsing from your mobile device.
To note, if you switch between the two interfaces in the same session, you will need to log back in to see everything and to get to your account.
If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact us at [email protected], or you can click on the feedback tab on the right of the screen, circled in the first screenshot.
Library Hours during Winter Breakby Amy Blau Dec 15 17
Penrose Library hours between Fall semester 2017 and Spring semester 2018 will be as follows:
Friday Dec. 15: close at 5 pm
Saturday Dec. 16 – Thursday Dec. 21: 9 am to 5 pm
Friday Dec. 22 – Monday Jan. 1: CLOSED
Tuesday Jan. 2 – Friday Jan. 5: 9 am to 5 pm
Saturday Jan. 6 – Sunday Jan. 7: CLOSED
Monday Jan. 8 – Tuesday Jan. 9: 9 am to 5 pm
Wednesday Jan. 10: 3 pm to 5 pm; otherwise CLOSED for Academic Affairs Staff Retreat
Thursday Jan. 11 – Sunday Jan. 14: 9 am to 5 pm
Monday Jan. 15: 9 am to 10 pm
Tuesday Jan. 16: 9 am; 24/7 schedule begins for Spring 2018
Read a local newspaper!by Kun Lin Dec 6 17
Access World News is a current Penrose Library database subscription that provides newspaper articles from 6,365 different sources and from 135 different countries. It is a great tool to research local issues across the country and the world. Recently, Access World News began producing full-page images of The Oregonian (Portland, OR) shown in its original arrangement. This view allows for browsing content and displays the print layout of the paper complete with articles, sections, and advertisements. Back issues will continue to be available in a text-only version.
Local newspapers are an important element of the journalism ecosystem. Original reporting on local issues can provide an important check on local governments and informs local communities. Their content frequently feeds into national media outlets for discussions about issues on a bigger scale. Other local newspapers available through Access World News includes Tri-City Herald, Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, and Seattle Times.


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On this page, find white papers, case studies, videos and other helpful content. Be sure to check back frequently for updates.
Amware Videos
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Amware eBooks and White Papers on Fulfillment
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Fulfillment for Dummies -- a crash course for entrepreneurs and business leaders.
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Amware eBooks and White Papers on Marketing Fulfillment
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Visit our fulfillment case studies page to learn how Amware helps fast-growing brands to scale operations.
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Process Improvement Strategies
by Kevin McManus, Chief Excellence Officer and Systems Guy, Great Systems
Over the past thirty-seven years of my work career, I have had the opportunity to practice using many different process improvement strategies. In fact, I have never worked for a company that did not have some form of formal process improvement system in place. I have been able to witness additional process improvement strategies in use as an eighteen year Examiner for the national Baldrige Performance Excellence Award process.
A Brief History of Process Improvement Strategies
This page summarizes the variety of process improvement strategies I have seen come into use since the early 1980s. I think you can benefit from learning about, and experimenting with, all of them. I know that I have gained something from exploring each of them.
In general, it all began with Shewhart back in the 1920s. W. Edwards Deming picked up on his statistical process control work and taught it to the Japanese following World War II (no executives would listen to him in the United States). The success of the Toyota Production System (real lean process improvement) begat the Total Quality Movement in the United States in the early 1980s. TQM transitioned into re-engineering to lead off the nineties. Six sigma improvements systems were being refined by General Electric, Allied Signal, and Motorola, but certifications had yet to become mainstream.
At the start of the 21st century, consultants from the successful six sigma companies drove the creation and offering of a public six sigma certification. At the same time, lean process improvement strategies were emerging as options for use. By 2010, use of the two process improvement strategies had morphed into lean six sigma in many cases. I keep them separate here simply because one (six sigma) is really a measure of process quality. The other is a set of process improvement strategies.
Team-Based Process Improvement Strategies
Teams are at the heart of what we do here at Great Systems. I was raised on employee involvement, you might say. It was becoming a popular business improvement strategy when I entered the work world in 1981. During the next 15 years, participative management came to flourish in multiple forms such as quality circles and self-directed work teams. I learned tons during this time, setting up and experimenting with different team infrastructures. I was also fortunate to serve as a national leader for the Association for Quality and Participation during much of this time. This involvement connected me even more closely with best practice team-based process improvement strategies.
Six Sigma Process Improvement Strategies
I will never forget sitting at the table at an Association for Quality and Participation leadership meeting back in 2000 or so. The discussion centered around a rumor that consultants from within the Big Six Sigma Three – Allied Signal, Motorola, and General Electric – were going to take their proven certifications public. We were trying to decide if we should jump on the bandwagon or not. We didn't, but that did not stop the Six Sigma wave that started the 21st century in the world of process improvement.
Before then, six sigma was a measure of quality to me. I had learned about the concept by studying Bob Galvin's work at Motorola. Six sigma became more than a measure a variation after that – it became '3.4 defects per million opportunities.' The six sigma process improvement strategy worked at the Big Three because it include a very supportive infrastructure – something quality circles did not have in the 1980s and 1990s. Their approach also required teams to use a structured approach to project selection. This is not what six sigma-based improvement has evolved into, but that is where the roots of today's programs lie.
Lean Process Improvement Strategies
I was a lean thinker before I learned about the Toyota Production System. Learning about the work of Toyoda, Shingo, Ishikawa, and Ohno however only further stoked the process improvement fire that my industrial engineering degree had started inside of me. Industrial engineering, sound ergonomics, and human engineering are all a part of the lean process improvement strategy set. There are other great tools in the tool box as well.
More Process Improvement Strategies
Here are some additional process improvement strategies that no high performance organization should be without.
If you would like more information about the process improvement strategies and tools I have to offer, please send me an e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Well knowledge about your own body and its requirements is what is most important to make the dream come true. The gym sessions tend to become lethargic and less active majorly due to lack of testosterone level which is very common with the kind of sedentary lifestyle we are getting into. The decreased level is the main reason that ruins the muscle progress and decreases the sexual stamina. Testosterone is the sex hormone that plays important role in the body. It tends to regulate the sex drive, bone mass, fat distribution, muscle mass and strength of the body. So an appealing body and an effective performance requires the right amount of testosterone level.
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We are a 100% volunteer organization. 100% of the support we receive through sponsorships and the festival are used to produce the festival and support our causes. For more information email us at email@example.com. , and be sure to Like and Follow us on Facebook!


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Seto no Hanayome OVA
The OVAs are new stand alone shorts with characters from the series and introduces two new ones. It is now the third year of school, San and Luna's dads are still being over protective. All the while Nagasumi has his hands full trying to keep everyone around him under control and rescuing damsels in distress. (Source: ANN)


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Donbas, Pandora's Box: Shortcomings of the Proxy War Approach
On Friday, November 24, Igor Plotnitsky, leader of the so-called "Luhansk People's Republic" (LPR), resigned "due to health issues," and Leonid Pasechnik, the "state security minister," took over. This change in leadership resulted from a conflict between Igor Plotnitsky and the "siloviki" bloc, in particular "Minister of Interior" Igor Kornet and Pasechnik (they are former senior officers of the Ukrainian Police and Ukrainian Security Service, respectively). In opposing Igor Plotnitsky, Kornet and Pasechnik received military support from Donetsk, which was decisive for the success of the coup.
Such a rapid and effective coup d'état in the self-declared LPR was unexpected even for its main stakeholders, first and foremost the Kremlin. The events confirm the vulnerability of proxy war technologies in contemporary conflicts and foreign policy. Neither funding, nor supplying arms, nor providing military advisers can guarantee the Kremlin full control over the self-proclaimed regimes in eastern Donbas.
The Ukrainian narrative about the Donbas characterizes the actors on the other side as "terrorists," "separatists," and "collaborators."
Proxy agents have their own interests in conflicts. On realizing them, proxies may abandon the patron's agenda, thus changing the dynamics of the conflict entirely. Moreover, it became evident that Moscow's and Kyiv's understanding of the socioeconomic and political processes playing out in the so-called "Donetsk People's Republic" (DPR) and the LPR is often faulty and potentially misleading. The main explanations for Moscow's mistaken perceptions lie in the lower priority of the DPR and LPR for Russian foreign policy and Moscow's illusion of having full control over them. For Kyiv, the main reasons are a paucity of objective information from the rebel-controlled territories and the dominance of the propagandist approach in Ukrainian public discussions and media concerning eastern Donbas. The Ukrainian narrative about the Donbas characterizes the actors on the other side as "terrorists," "separatists," and "collaborators."
With the Minsk agreements seemingly stalled, populations living in the rebel-controlled territories, including individuals, the local community, and the business community, are adapting to the current reality. A similar process is taking place in post-Maidan Ukraine. Ukrainian society and communities in the noncontrolled territories live in two profoundly different and fast-changing worlds. The changes are occurring in politics, the economy, and society. And there is an obvious lack of horizontal communication between Ukrainian society and eastern Donbas communities after war, blockade, and the flight of entire social strata from the war-affected territories.
If the changes in government-controlled Ukraine are well monitored and debated, the situation in the DPR and LPR is not that well known. What has actually changed in eastern Donbas?
- According to my data, there has been a structural shift in the economy of the self-declared republics. Agriculture, a nontraditional sector for the Donbas, is playing an ever more important role. Nonprofitable enterprises, especially coal mines, which for decades survived on subsidies from Kyiv, have now been closed. Further, some industrial forces have been converted for machine building. Local businesses have retrained their focus from Ukrainian to Russian supplies and markets. The Russia-oriented companies (mainly those engaged in cattle breeding and the food industry) and the publicly funded construction sector are showing progress.
However, the DPR-LPR economies suffer from international and Ukrainian sanctions and limitations, as well as from labor migration to the EU and Russia.
Undoubtedly, the current eastern Donbas economic model cannot provide innovation-based growth and development, but there are clear signals of recovery from the economic collapse of 2014–2015. With the growth of their economies, the DPR and LPR are loosening the Kremlin's economic control.
- The DPR has seen the full concentration of political and military power in the hands of its leader. This concentration follows from annihilation of the norms and even the trappings of democracy. Along with establishing the armed forces, police, border guards, and other armed services, the DPR warlord created his own guards, the newly formed Cossacks of Aleksander Zakharchenko. They were enrolled based on the criterion of personal loyalty to the warlords and direct subordination to them. The quick deployment of Zakharchenko's guards to Luhansk in support of Igor Kornet, the rebellious LPR minister of internal affairs, demonstrates that the DPR leader has strengthened his own political and military weight, which is not entirely dependent on Moscow.
Igor Plotnitsky, the former LPR ruler, had been going down the same path, but less efficiently. Plotnitsky lost his position to Igor Kornet. Now, after the coup, the same model will most likely be applied with greater efficiency, if the LPR intends not be absorbed by the DPR.
In any event, the creation of personally loyal military guards makes the DPR leader somewhat less controllable by Kremlin.
- There is a deepening process of militarization of society in the DPR and LPR. It is particularly visible in the compulsory military education in secondary schools and universities, as well as in the mandatory conscription and training for all groups of the population. Also, internal propaganda and the spread of a culture of war through the media are becoming stronger and stronger. All these processes contribute to the education of "ideal warriors and citizens."
Simultaneously, the educational system and the media promote personal loyalty to Aleksander Zakharchenko as the "national and beloved leader." His picture hang in schoolrooms, on the walls of public institutions, and on city billboards. Students must study his biography. And Zakhar Prilepin, the Russian writer and DPR activist, made a series of TV shows about Zakharchenko. That, together with the local cult, inspired Zakharchenko to rule with greater independence from the Kremlin.
Finally, there have been attempts to create a "new" Donetsk identity that would substitute for the "old" one. Before 2014, the identity-building efforts in the Donbas focused on consolidating the local electorate during the Ukrainian elections behind political parties controlled by local elites. Moreover, the Donetsk identity was heavily connected to Ukrainian civic identity, much as other regional identities in Ukraine are.
In the rebel-controlled territories, the vacuum created a space for the construction of new identities.
After 2014, the military conflict in eastern Ukraine triggered the consolidation of Ukrainian identity in the government-controlled territories. In the rebel-controlled territories, the vacuum created a space for the construction of new identities. These identities were shaped with reference to the wartime experience of the eastern Donbas populations and establishment of the political entities of the DPR and LPR. Currently, information policies and educational programs in the noncontrolled territories emphasize "irreconcilable differences" between communities in Donetsk and Luhansk and those in the rest of Ukraine.
Altogether, the above processes have led to a situation in eastern Donbas in which both Moscow and Kyiv have limited, and shrinking, influence. The Kremlin cannot rely on its client regimes as well-controlled proxies in its conflict with Ukraine and the West. Official Kyiv has very little communication with communities in the noncontrolled territories. Today eastern Donbas is a gray zone, with unpredictable effects for people living there and for their neighbors in Ukraine and Russia. Warlordism and emerging local leaders promote secessionist ideas and anti-European and anti-Western attitudes throughout Eastern Europe. And all these processes and attitudes will have a significant impact on future conflict settlement.
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Chumbut, a local dance troupe consisting of enthusiastic zealots who are into all kinds of dances puts a creative and ingenious performance, "Soar," on stage at CJ AZIT to meet with the audience. The inspiring performance features a new number, "Way," as well as an award winning piece, "Monster." In "Way," dancers act out stories about young people who feel lost and stuck in life using chairs and clothing as objects. 'MONSTER' is a modern choreography piece. It deals with school violence, war as well as social issues, accidents and the evil nature of mankind through a wide variety of objets. Let us now hear their stories through dance.


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Why Choose a Licensed Money Lender
There are a lot of financial institutions rendering money lending services during these tough financial times. More and more people have turned to such financial institutions for quick solutions to their money problems. Indeed, a point would come in a person's life wherein he may feel suffocated with the financial obligations that he faces, and borrowing money from a money lender can provide the needed breathing room. However, it is important that a borrower only transact with a licensed money lender. Why so? Consider a few points when applying for a Singapore loan.
Obviously, a licensed money lender will seek accreditation from the government or the organization of money lenders. And before a license is issued, the money lender is checked for its compliance to the rules and regulations imposed by the government or organization that aims to protect the interest of the borrower. This, alone, can provide peace of mind to a borrower that he is transacting with a legal business and that he is not getting a run for his money. This can ensure a borrower that his interest are protected by the government, and he can file a complaint at any time should he feel that his best interest was not prioritized. On the other hand, a money lender without the appropriate accreditation or licensing cannot be assured to comply with any regulations imposed by the government. These money lenders may offer appealing packages and offering quick cash loans with very little documentation needed. Indeed, this is very enticing especially to a person who needs cash fast and doesn't have a very good credit rating. But one should be wary that these money lenders may resort to other ways of getting a borrower to pay his loan. Some money lenders may impose very high interest rates which buries the borrower deeper into debt.Some "illegal" money lenders harass their borrowers through incessant calls or mail, or even resort to violence once the borrower has missed payments on his loan.
Getting a personal Singapore loan from a money lender can certainly help a person in times of financial trouble. But this should cause a person to become mentally or physically harassed. Indeed, getting a loan from a licensed money lender is still the best option to go, even if the process appears to be more tedious. One can be ensured that his interest and welfare is prioritized once he transacts with a money lender that is licensed and recognized by the government.
What to Look for in a Money Lender
The global financial crisis has certainly changed the way people go about their financial businesses. As a result of the financial turnaround, most banks and financial institutions have made their loan approval process more stringent and rigorous. This makes it harder for people to get financial assistance during these tough times. Thus, some people turn to a hard money lender in order to get cash fast. For those who are considering the same, here are a few things to look for in a hard money lender.
First of all, check to see if the money lender has the appropriate licenses and accreditation to operate as a money lender for a Singapore loan. The last thing one would want to do is to transact with a fly-by-night company who is only out to charge huge interest rates and get a person buried further in debt. It is also an advantage if the business in part of an organization of money lenders. This is because these organizations aim to protect the interest of borrowers and avoid them getting a run for their money. Next, a borrower should check their interest rate and payment terms being offered. Some money lenders may advertise to release fast cash loans, only to charge the borrower very high interest rates. One should be wary of such scams of money lenders who only aim to make as much money in the expense of the borrower.It is best to check several money lenders and compare their interest rates and payment terms side by side in order to see which one will be the best option. Lastly, if the money lender will be requiring any form of collateral for the loan, it is important to check the agreement if in case the loan will not be paid resulting to the repossession of the property. It is important to iron out these details before signing any agreement to make sure borrowing money from money lenders will not further worsen your current financial situation.
Sometimes, there are just occasions wherein one needs a little extra financial help. Applying and getting approved for a Singapore loan from money lenders is a great option that would ensure a person to get a substantial amount of cash in a very short amount of time. But just like with any investment, it is important to think things through before making any final decision so as to ensure that borrowing money will not result to a huge debt.
What to Know About Payday Loans
At least once in a lifetime, a person will feel suffocated and overwhelmed with the financial problems that he faces. Because of the recent global economic crisis, no matter how much a person tries to budget his finances wisely, there would come a time that it is almost impossible to make ends meet. And during these tough financial times, one can lean on Singaporean money lenders who offer flexible payday loans which can certainly help a person get by until the next pay check. Here are a few benefits that these payday loans offer.
First and foremost, these moneylenders who provide quick payday Singapore loan offer instant cash without requiring a lot of documents to be submitted.This is veryadvantageous for people who have just started working and have not established a very good credit rating yet. The requirements to get approved for such loans are not that extensive and the approval process is not as tedious as compared to applying for other types of loans. Additionally, applying for a payday loan can release a substantial amount to a borrower at a very short amount of time. Some moneylenders can release a payday loan within hours of the submission of the application. This can be very beneficial especially for people who need cash instantly because of an unexpected event such as an emergency. This can provide a person a quick solution for a financial problem without any hassles. Lastly, most moneylenders who offer payday loans offer flexible terms which can be paid off when the payday comes, hence the name. Depending on the moneylender, the interest rate can vary between ten percent to twenty percent. Some offer payments in an instalment basis that is to be paid off in several payments. These types of loans can offer a lot of flexibility that would especially fit the borrower's capacity to pay.
Indeed, a payday Singapore loan can be an answer to one's prayer in times of need. But as with any type of loan, it is still best to perform a little research before applying for such loans to ensure that a person is getting the best deal possible. It is recommended to shop around and compare the rates and terms of different moneylenders before settling into one. By doing so, one could make sure that he gets his finances in order and back on track instead of getting further buried in a payday loan.
Applying for a personal loan for foreigners in Singapore
Singapore is known as a melting pot of culture. A lot of foreigners from different countries travel to Singapore for work, tours or even shopping with numerous shops and boutiques. But during these travels, a lot of foreigners find themselves in the thicket of a financial crisis. Good thing, foreigners can turn to foreigner loans offered by Singaporean money lending companies.
Most banks or financial institutions that offer Singapore loan will require several requirements before a person can apply for a loan. A person must be able to present a good credit score as well as his capability of paying back the loan. And any bank or financial institution will perform extensive credit check on the individual to make sure that he does not have a background of bad credit. Thus, if applying and getting approved for a personal loan for a native-born inhabitant is hard, it is understandable that applying for personal loan for foreignersis twice as hard.Since a foreigner will not have extensive background that can be checked, most banks or financial institutions will require additional requirements and documents from foreigners in order to present their credibility in paying back the loan. Depending on the bank, a foreigner must present documents such as proof of permanent employment or residence. Thus, foreigners who need cash right away will have great difficulty getting extra cash immediately. Fortunately, there are Singaporean money lenders who offer customized packages that fit every foreigner's needs. Whether it is just for emergency funds or additional funds for relocation expenses, a foreigner can apply for a personal loan quickly and without hassle. Foreigners can apply for a personal loan and get approved within hours of presenting the necessary documents.But one should be wary that some of these customized packages for foreigners can include high interest rates. Thus, it is still best for a foreigner to shop around and check different money lenders who offer personal loans to foreigners and see which ones offer the lowest interest rates.
This personal loan for foreigners can be very beneficial for someone who has just moved in to the city waiting for his first pay on his first job or perhaps a foreigner who had just shopped way too much. Money lenders that offer a personal Singapore loan, whether to a native-born individual or a foreigner, truly provide a quick and easy way of getting instant cash right away just when you need it.


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What is Anamchara
Anamchara is a Gaelic word for "soul friend". It was the style of formation given to a new monk or nun in a Celtic monastery, whereby the new member would be paired up with an older, more experienced monk. In this way the new Religious would have a more personal mentoring in the monastic tradition. (The Roman or Continental style of formation is more like students, together in a class, sitting with one teacher for all.) The Anamchara is the model we seek to draw back into our Religious training.


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If the exact model is not available for replacement, a watch of equal value and similar style will be provided. A service fee in the amount of $25.00 may be required for warranty and repair services. The fee is subject to change.


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Excerpted from a letter sent to clients on October 15, 2018
As we've emphasized over the years, our global, value-based investment approach demands a multi-year timeframe. We often cite 7-10 years as the appropriate period to think about when planning or assessing returns. Such a strategy requires patience, and there are a couple of main risks that can challenge one's ability to stay the course.
1 - Volatility Risk
This describes how much an account's value changes over shorter periods. If volatility is too high for comfort, one might abandon the long-term approach due to a short-term market decline. We know that there will be inevitable and sizable swings in the markets. But by placing our clients into portfolios designed to experience a personally acceptable range of volatility risk, we've done our best to minimize the chance that our clients will experience an intolerable swing. This is something that we've been careful to address and are happy to re-address with you anytime.
2 - Risk of "Tracking Difference"
Another and much less discussed risk that has been noticeable lately is what we're going to call "Tracking Difference" — the potential difference in returns between your portfolio and the US stock market.
The US media mainly focuses on the domestic stock market, so that's what most US investors tend to be most aware of. The returns of the bond markets and international stock markets are often just an afterthought, if that. This is kind of strange, as the GDP of the rest of the world is twice the size of the US, and the international stock and global bond markets together are many times the size of the US stock market. But that's the way it is.
The result is that if a US-based investor's portfolio returns track too differently from the US markets, it can come as a surprise. That can lead to a lack of confidence and even the abandonment of a long-term approach.
Why put up with Tracking Difference?We know that our strategy of focusing on the most reasonably priced areas of world markets can lead to divergences with the US markets. This can be uncomfortable, but we also think it's worth it because we believe it's the most prudent approach, and that it gives us the highest probability of better returns over time.
There's a highly regarded institutional investment firm called Research Affiliates that forecasts future returns for many investments, using starting valuation as a major input. This methodology has historically been very predictive of future returns (more on that below). Here's a chart showing their forecasts for several major asset classes over the next 10 years:
These forecasts suggest that the international stock markets are priced for much better returns than the US stock market from these levels. In fact, US stocks — the thing the media is always talking about — have the worst prospective returns of the bunch. This shows why we think it makes sense to branch out from these investments, even if it results in the discomfort of Tracking Difference.
We put a lot of weight in this forecasting approach because it makes sense and because it's had historically strong predictive results. This is shown in the chart below, which matches multiple decades' worth of forecasted returns to actual returns:
To explain: every 10-year forecast generated by this methodology was put into one of the categories listed along the bottom, which show a range of expected returns. For example, if the forecasted return for a given investment was 7% per year, that forecast would go into the "6% to 8%" expected return category. The numbers in the blue bars show what the median 10 year return actually ended up being for all the investments in that forecast range. So, for instance, out of all the investments that had a forecasted annual return of between 6% and 8%, the median actual return was 7.4% over the following 10 years.
It's clear that this forecasting approach has been very predictive of typical outcomes. Looking at those blue bars, investments with higher forecasted returns tended strongly to go on to generate higher actual returns over the following decade, and vice-versa. There was an especially good relationship with the worst-case outcomes, shown by the gray circles, which were a lot worse for low-forecast investments than for high-forecast ones. (We have often written that overpriced investments are riskier over the long run than underpriced ones — the gray circles seem to strongly support that idea).
Interestingly, there was almost no relationship between the forecasts and the best-case outcome, shown by the orange diamonds. This goes to show that sometimes, buying expensive investments with poor forecasts has worked out very well. But it's been far more typical for returns to be mediocre or worse.
We can't know what exactly lies ahead for today's investments, but its reasonable to assume that it it's more likely to be the historically common outcome. The investment world is one of probabilities, and by using value-based forecasts like this, we are doing our best to put the odds in our favor.
When tracking difference hurtsThe long-term projected returns for international markets may look relatively compelling, but they will go through periods of underperformance along the way. And it isn't easy in real life to stick with a plan when things aren't going one's way.
We've been experiencing that recently. For most of the last few years, we saw most world markets move in the same direction, with international (particularly emerging) markets being the best performers. So, that all seemed just fine. But since May of this year, we've experienced an extreme divergence between the US and the rest of the world. To illustrate the point, here's a chart of the markets since the beginning of 2017 through today. International stocks are in green, US stocks are in blue, and the other two lines are the bond markets (which are shown because they have contributed to the divergence with the US stock market for those with more moderate or conservative growth goals).
Up through early May of this year, international stocks looked like the place to be, but zooming in on the last 5 months, you can see why they say that past performance isn't a predictor of future returns. Since then, the international markets have declined while the US has risen. Here's how it looks just for this year:
This kind of divergence with the often talked about US market — the Tracking Difference — can be frustrating and uncomfortable for many investors.
The dilemmaJust as clients have different tolerances for volatility, we have found that they have different tolerances for Tracking Difference. Our goal is for our clients to be in a position to benefit from our global value approach if they would like to, but at the same time, to minimize the odds of diverging from the US markets by more than they can tolerate.
Knowing that the value-based projected future returns are lower for portfolios that will track more closely with US stock markets, and knowing that, on average, the value-based projections have been very predictive over time, the dilemma is in determining how much Tracking Difference to take on.
We want to help our clients take on the amount of Tracking Difference that is right for them, but this is not something that is a common practice to measure. We've found very little writing on this issue, and even after extensive research, we have not found a single quiz designed to measure investors' tolerance for divergence from a typical US based portfolio or a particular market like the US. Every risk quiz we've seen relates to the other previously mentioned risk – that of volatility/loss. But we view Tracking Difference tolerance as an important issue, and it's something we want to review during our next meeting or call.


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The twelfth 2000 meeting of the Baldwin Hills Amateur Radio Club was called to order at 1941 on December 6, 2000, by the Vice-President, Juan, KB6KMU. Also present were Hugh, NV6H, the Secretary, and David, N6HGJ, our awesome Membership Chairman and Treasurer, and the Chairman of the Board, Ed, N6MDJ.
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- A recent study by SmallBusinessPrices.co.uk finds the true cost of employment for businesses
- Nearly 40% of graduates first year put into training up to standard
- Employees with 3 years experience demand a £11K increase in salary compared to grads
When searching for new employees, business owners face the dilemma of investing in the future with a graduate or playing it safe with an experienced candidate. In terms of salary, the difference is an obvious factor, but what other considerations should an employer take when upping their headcount.
SmallBusinessPrices.co.uk have researched 5 key job sectors including accountancy, technology, retail, advertising and legal to look at the often overlooked aspects of recruitment.
Getting Up to Speed
An employee with less experience means inevitably more time and resource devoted to training, but which sectors reach optimum productivity quickest?
- Retail – Graduates in this sector take an average of 15.6 weeks to become efficient in their role, with their experienced colleagues only taking 6.4 weeks.
- Media/Advertising – Like retail, this industry has a tendency to be somewhat more creative, with only 18.6 weeks of the first year devoted to training up to standard.
- IT, Accountancy and Legal – IT and Accountancy sit slightly above the Legal sector with a settling in period of just over 21 weeks, while Law graduates take nearly half of their first year with 24 weeks.
Job Expectancy
The length of time someone is expected to stay in the job is a crucial factor. But how does it compare across different sectors and experience levels?
- With an average salary of £38K, it's unsurprising that Legal graduates stay put for longer than any other industry with 4.15 years on average.
- Retail graduates boast the lowest 'job expectancy' with 2.9 years, with more experienced employees staying for an average of 5.2 years
- Keeping graduates on board appears to be an industry-wide problem with experienced employees staying in the job for 3 years longer than graduates
With an average starting salary of £24k, the graduate option seems obvious from a financial perspective. But with these candidates likely to spend nearly 2.5 years less in the job, experienced employees may offer a business better long-term prospects.
Ian Wright from SmallBusinessPrices.co.uk has stated that
'Employees can offer so much to companies of any size, but it's always important to consider the financial impact they have as well. Some business owners would rather train someone from scratch, almost like an investment, but the value of an experienced employee is that they can hit the ground running. While these are fairly obvious assumptions, it's interesting to see the hard figures and how it varies across different industries.'
So if you're struggling to decide on a suitable candidate for your business, you can view the full breakdown and see how different key industries contrast here


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The primary goal of HBV treatment is to convert active replicative infection to the inactive nonreplicative state. If this state is achieved and sustained, the risk of liver-related morbidity and mortality is significantly reduced. The following three treatments are currently FDA-approved therapies for HBV: (1) interferon-a, (2) lamivudine, and (3) adefovir dip-ivoxil. Several other agents are in late-stage clinical study.
Interferons are both antiviral and immunostimulatory. It is believed that the dominant beneficial effect of interferon-a in chronic HBV infection is due to immunostimulation. In fact, when interferon is effective in HBV infection it induces a heightened immune response against infected hepatocytes resulting in more marked liver inflammation and increased serum aminotransferases. If the inflammatory reaction is sufficiently vigorous, it may result in conversion from an active replicative infection to an inactive infection.
Interferon-a is given by subcutaneous injection and most patients can be taught to self-administer the drug. The usual dose in chronic HBV infection is 5 MU daily or 10 MU thrice weekly for a duration of 16 weeks. I find that the daily dosing schedule is usually better tolerated by patients. Interferon almost always causes flu-like symptoms, which may vary from mild to debilitating. Usually these symptoms improve after the first few weeks of treatment despite continued therapy. Interferon is myelosup-pressive and patients must be monitored for neutropenia and thrombocytopenia. Autoimmune disorders can be exacerbated or unmasked by interferon and the treatment is generally contraindicated in patients with autoimmune diseases with the exception of stable hypothyroidism. Depression may occur, especially in patients with a prior history. This treatment should not be used in patients with a history of major depression, suicidal attempts or ideation, or major affective disorders. As effective treatment triggers an exacerbation of hepatitis, interferon should not be used in patients with decompensated liver disease (Child's class B or C) since they may not have the hepatic reserve required to survive the disease flare.
A widely quoted meta-analysis of 15 HBV interferon-a studies has shown that approximately one-third of patients who begin treatment HBeAg and HBV DNA positive will lose these markers, (Wong et al, 1993) although the response may be delayed until up to 6 months after completing therapy. When HBeAg clearance is induced by inter-feron-a, liver histology improves and it is rare for viral replication to reactivate. Patients most likely to respond to interferon therapy have increased serum aminotransferases, relatively low HBV DNA levels, and a history of acute hepatitis (as opposed to subclinical or perinatal infection).
With HBeAg negative, HBV DNA positive infection, HBV DNA loss may occur during or following interferon-a therapy. Unfortunately, in most of these cases viral replication reactivates some time after treatment is stopped. There is data to suggest that patients with presumed pre-core mutant virus HBV infection may have a better sustained viral response rate when treated for 12 or more months with interferon-a.
Two PEGylated formulations of interferon-a have recently been approved for the treatment of chronic HCV infection. These agents have the advantage of a prolonged duration of action and once weekly administration. Studies are ongoing to determine the efficacy of these agents in chronic HBV infection. It is not yet known what the appropriate dose and treatment duration will be with these PEGylated interferons.
Lamivudine is an orally administered nucleoside, which integrates into the elongating DNA chains of replicating HBV, thus terminating viral replication. This agent has been shown to be highly efficacious in reducing HBV DNA when given at a dose of 100 mg/d. After 3 years of continuous treatment with lamivudine, approximately one-third of patients who were originally HBeAg positive will have converted to HBeAb. It appears that seroconversions induced by lamivudine are less durable than those induced by interferon, as a significant proportion of patients will reactivate replication if and when lamivudine is stopped. Patients with presumed precore mutant HBeAg-negative chronic HBV infection respond to lamivudine therapy but in the vast majority of cases, viral replication resumes after drug is withdrawn. As with interferon-a, high pretreatment aminotransferases are predictive of a good response to lamivudine treatment. Although lamivudine is extremely well tolerated, the major problem in its use is its propensity to select for resistant escape mutants. The most common mutant affects the YMDD motif of the DNA polymerase and allows the virus to replicate despite continued exposure to lamivudine. Although some studies suggest that this mutated virus is less harmful than the wild-type virus, this finding has not been consistent. About 15% of chronic HB patients develop resistance to lamivudine after 1 year of treatment and this increases to approximately 50% at 3 years.
The most recent therapy approved for the treatment of chronic HB is adefovir dipivoxil. This nucleotide analog has been shown to be effective in both HBeAg positive and negative chronic HBV infection. Adefovir dipivoxil is effective against HBV infections that have acquired resistance to lamivudine. The usual dose is 10 mg/d but it must be adjusted for renal impairment. The major adverse effect of adefovir dipivoxil is nephrotoxicity. To date, resistance to adefovir dipivoxil has been exceedingly rare although there are few patients who have been treated with this agent beyond 2 years.
A number of other agents are in development for chronic HBV infection including entecavir and emtric-itabine (FTC).
With several different treatments available, there are options when it comes to the management of patients with chronic HBV infection. Treatment should only be considered in patients with actively replicating infection as indicated by significant serum levels of HBV DNA. Because none of the available therapies is likely to be effective in the immunotolerant phase of infection, patients with persistently normal aminotransferases should generally be followed conservatively and considered for treatment only when and if their liver enzymes become abnormal. However, patients with normal enzymes may be considered for therapy if their liver biopsies demonstrate moderate to severe hepatitis.
once the decision is made to treat chronic HBV, an appropriate therapy must be chosen. Although not tested head-to-head, the efficacy of interferon-a and the oral nucleoside/nucleotide agents appears to be similar. Interferon-a must be administered by injection and may be associated with significant side effects. It does, however, have the advantage of a finite course of therapy, whereas the oral agents must be given long term and possibly indefinitely. Although safe and generally well tolerated, the major downside of the oral agents is the induction of resistant escape mutants. This appears to be a larger problem with lamivudine than adefovir dipivoxal, although longer term data is awaited.
I believe that it is acceptable to use any of these three agents as first line therapy in chronic HBV infection, depending on physician and patient preference. In the patient with HBeAg positive HBV infection, especially if serum aminotransferases are more than twice normal, I prefer to use a standard 16-week course of interferon-a initially. However, many patients have contraindications to the use of inter-feron-a related to psychiatric conditions and autoimmu-nity. Furthermore, many patients are unwilling or unable to tolerate the side effects of interferon-a injections. Because of the potential for life threatening liver failure, patients with decompensated liver disease should not be treated with interferon-a. Patients who fail to clear HBV DNA and seroconvert HBeAg to HBeAb within 6 months of completing interferon-a therapy can be considered for alternate therapy.
The oral nucleoside/nucleotide drugs, lamivudine and adefovir dipivoxil are easily administered, well tolerated, and can be safely used in patients with hepatic decompensation. Their major limitation relates to the requirement for long term treatment, without clear cut parameters to stop the medications. In those patients who experience an HBeAg to HBeAb seroconversion on therapy, one can consider stopping treatment after a minimum of 3 months of "consolidation therapy." However, even after this extension of therapy, there is potential for reactivation of viral replication after medication is withdrawn. The longer treatment is continued, the greater the potential for emergence of resistant escape mutants. For these reasons, I prefer to limit the use of these agents to those patients at significant risk of progressive liver disease, so I generally advise a staging liver biopsy before initiating these drugs.
Although lamivudine is less expensive than adefovir dip-ivoxil, it appears to be associated with a higher rate of emergence of resistant mutants—at least in the short to medium term. I am concerned that resistance to adefovir dipivoxil may become more significant as we accrue more experience with the long term use of this agent. Because the resistant strains selected by each of the two drugs retain sensitivity to the other agent, it may be rational to use combination therapy in a manner analogous to the strategy used to treat HIV infection. It is anticipated that additional antiviral drugs will become available over the next few years. An initial study of combination therapy using inter-feron-a and lamivudine failed to show significant benefit. However, this strategy is being revisited in ongoing studies using PEGylated interferon and oral antivirals. Sequential use of nucleoside/nucleotide drugs following the emergence of resistance may be expected to generate multiply resistant strains. This is of particular consequence in the patient who will ultimately require a liver transplant, as recurrent HBV infection is frequently fatal when effective antiviral strategies are not available. Those patients with decompensated liver disease are best treated in concert with a liver transplant program.
The patient with HBeAg negative, HBV DNA positive infection poses particular issues. If interferon-a is used, treatment should be prolonged for at least 12 months, although many patients will have difficulty tolerating interferon for such long periods of time. If oral antivirals are used, there are no parameters to guide us in stopping therapy. I only treat patients with presumed precore mutant virus infection if they have significant hepatic fibrosis, and explain to patients that treatment will be open-ended and likely lifelong.
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The Baby Writes
(I don't usually get personal but I wanted to write this and what's the point of having a blog if you don't get to indulge yourself once in a while?)
My family moved house about six months ago and we've only just recently gotten all the furniture and shelves needed to store things, so we've been bringing boxes out of storage. Naturally, this means we're finding random things that noone even knew we had, such as a letter written by me and my brothers that was probably written when I was eleven or so apologizing for being bad (doesn't say what our crime was though) to our parents. It's a terrible thing to read, because all I see is my spelling and grammar mistakes ("were sorry we shuldnt have been bad") What was I thinking!?
I've found some awesome stuff too, mostly in the form of old photo albums. I love looking at old photos, a glimpse into the past, seeing how people were before you were there to know them. I've found and scanned what is now my favorite picture ever. I'd never seen it before last shabbos. It's my dad and I on a train, with my dad pointing my attention to the camera my mother (I assume) was holding. It's very weird to look at, because it's a picture of my dad at around my age, he was a few years older then than I am now. I've never really seen pics of my parents early married life. And my dad had some funky sunglasses, but I can forgive that. It was the eighties after all. But still it's a snapshot at two people, one at the start of his life and one near the start of his adult life. It just makes me ponder all the things that have happened since then and the things neither of us could have known or expected, in this fleeting moment of innocence. To me it's a picture of a world where nothing exists but the love of a father for his son. And they're on a train, which ties into my idea of both being caught in a moment not knowing where life will take them from here.
As you can see, my hairstyle hasn't changed a great deal, though those of you who've met me know that my hair is considerably darker now. True story: when we had to give in our baby pictures for my high school yearbook, noone believed my picture was me.
By the way, the title for this is both the obvious and also a tie in to the fact that The Babysitter had a very similar post where she found some letters she'd written to her mother years before. I don't think hers were apologies for misbehaving though… (I'd link it, but I've looked through both her blogs and I can't find the post.)
Edit: The Babysitters post is here.
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so cute!
yea, mine had tons of spelling and grammar mistakes too.
Very cool picture and connection. It's great to look back at childhood pics. I was actually just thinking about it this morning. How happy and thankful I am that I had such a good memorable childhood.
What part of your father was in that book? I forgot, the eyes? I remember it was some facial feature…
and I hadn't expected you to have had blond hair as a kid, when did it change colors? and you looked really cute as a kid, adorable!
That's cool that you thought of my post… it was this one
I hope Shlomik's hair not gonna change…
Frum Punk: o cool. yea, it was memory by association.
Interesting. By me too, that happened, I used to have blond hair, then it changed.
Moshe: not to worry, I think his will stay blond
Wow this picture is amazing, you and your dad look so genuinely happy I can see why it's your favorite.
My mother has a box somewhere of all the letters me and my siblings used to write to her most were apologies and promises to be better, but there are a few that ask for more toys and things. Idk why I always thought the letter writing thing was only something my family did.
And this reminded me of 4th grade when we were learning how to write a personal letter, the assignment was to write a letter to ourselves about where we think we'd be in 4 years and our teacher said she'd mail it to us when we were in 8th grade. She only taught for one year then moved so everyone forgot about it of course but she actually remembered and did it, it's the weirdest thing to actually read back all the expectations I had for myself.
Stacy: I came upon a site at bored.com that allows you to write a thing to yourself, like a time capsule, and they'll e-mail it to you. I filled one out 3 years ago, but I forgot when I set it to come. But its an interesting feeling to see how much you have changed.
Great pick. Wow were you blond. Your dad would probably love the post.
I have some old pictures of me with an afro, high puffed up curly hair, I was 2 at the time.
Very poignant, something to treasure and show to the next generation.
How CUTE!
PS I totally just freaked out about being the Yay! in one of your other blogs. I was so not expecting that. I guess that's what happens when you go online. So much for my libertarian ideals, I'll never be able to get off the grid!


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A positive mental attitude is one of the most important skills for learners and professionals to cultivate.
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