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As you can see from the top picture this recipe is easy to make, which is great when your lifestyle is on the go and hectic. Who has time to endlessly cook food that is not only wonderfully delicious but healthy too. Meet the Blueberry Bliss Bars recipe you've been missing. Now there have been extensive studies on how blueberries are good for you. Blueberries repeatedly rank in the U.S. diet as having one of the highest antioxidant capacities among all fruits, vegetables, spices and seasonings. Blueberries are a whole body antioxidant, they help to improve your cognitive memory, regulate blood sugar levels, eye-health, and even cancer resistance. The blueberries alone are worth making these bars, the kicker is they are so easy to make and take with you. You can wrap a few of these up and take them to work, or add them to your children lunch so they have something healthy and tasty to eat while they're at school.
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Broccoli Cheese Patties is a simple and amazing spin on broccoli. Plain old broccoli gets old pretty fast, and these patties will spice up your broccoli life. Enter broccoli cheese patties, delicious patties of healthy healthy broccoli. These were made in puck shape so we could serve them as an appetizer, though they can be made into much much more. The egg in these patties brings everything together like glue, you can make them with out it but it will all fall apart unless you load them so chalk full of cheese that it renders the broccoli as a filler rather than a healthy meal. If you're a cheese fan you can also substitute other cheese's for cheddar, or add more to your liking this will also help to hold the patties together. The more you have the better, and larger the patties can be. Just think a broccoli burger could be in the future. These broccoli cheese patties are just that versatile, you can put them anywhere and you may be able to get your children to actually enjoy broccoli when its covered in cheese, or masked as a burger.
These broccoli cheese patties also reheat very well, they are ideal for making the night before and taking them to work. It's healthier than going out to lunch and buying yourself a bag full of fast food. It also takes less time to prepare at work (30 seconds in the microwave) compared to driving somewhere, or ordering it to the office. Can you say cheap? Broccoli is super cheap, and you should have eggs and cheese stocked for staple foods to make anyway. The real costs of taking these to lunch seems to have no downside!
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Want to eat some amazing chips? Chips are really tasty, but the grease that gets on your hands when you're done eating them just can't be good for you. You're right, the stuff you're buying at the store isn't exactly healthy. So why not try your hand at making your own chips? It can't be that hard so believe me or not you should try these. Can't find a good Coconut Oil then try that. Get the next day shipping so you can try these tomorrow.
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These may look like under cooked hockey pucks but don't worry they're good for you and they don't actually taste like hockey pucks. They're made with spaghetti squash, quinoa, and parmesan. They call them fritters, and frit not, they are good. Not to mention they are portable little guys. You can wrap these little pucks in foil and take them to work or better yet some fancy Cling Wrap and just toss them in the microwave when you get hungry at work.
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Healthy smoothies! I don't know about you but we still have frozen fruits laying around in the fridge, throw that together with some yogurt and orange juice and you have yourself a sweet smoothie. You don't have an amazing blender you say? Why not Ninja one? Ninja Professional Blender check out how ninja that blender is and tell me you don't want to make a smoothie tomorrow, we all know an Energy smoothie is required food when you're running late to begin with. Try the Breakfast Energy Smoothie with your professional blender tomorrow when you choose next day shipping.
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No sugar everybody, and you don't need any! This is a great spin on traditional coffee, and it's good for you. This does take a bit more time than pressing a button to brew a pot of coffee in the morning but it is worth it. Throw this in a work friendly and spill proof container like this and you're good to go! Try this recipe out tomorrow and let me know how it went!
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Have some Greek yogurt laying around from the last time you made a smoothie? Why not make muffins! Paired with blueberries and honey this recipe puts a healthy spin on muffins. Turns out they can be good for you too! I don't know about you but we have a local farmers market in town, and there's a vendor there that supplies local honey. If you're the allergic type then I highly suggest you check out your local market. The natural local honey will help with relieve your allergies by allowing your body to build the immunities specific to your area.
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Imagine never having to visit a crowded supermarket ever again. And yet this imagining remains something of a pipe dream for many readers. It is almost impossible to not find everything they need for their daily to monthly consumption anywhere else but in a supermarket. And once the supermarket has shut down for the day, there is always the twenty-four-hour neighborhood convenience store to turn to.
And there is always a good reason why the convenience store is labeled as such. The perceived emergency can be addressed without any delay and, of course, at your convenience. But paying for this convenience often comes at a price. Convenience store or supermarket, there is one growing consumer desire that they simply have not yet been able to do full justice to. Perhaps calling it a demand for organic wholesale produce would not be entirely accurate.
Because to be quite honest, the healthy recommendation to become fully organic has not yet quite caught on like a house on fire. Yes, it is true that supermarkets are stocking organic produce in their trays and on their shelves, but this is nothing more than the application of double standards. Because alongside of the 'organic' produce, is the non-organic mainstream produce. Laced with pesticides and chemicals, people still do not mind purchasing from these trays.
Because the fact remains that these mainstream selections remain a lot cheaper than the organic products. And you have to wonder about this surely. Perhaps it is time to leave the city for the weekend and just visit a country store for once. Find out what is really going on. And start learning why there are just so many more benefits of becoming wholly organic. Aside from the shopping, you can also plant your own organic stock.

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WISeKey launches the WISeID Cyber-Resilience Special Edition app during the Davos Swiss Night at the WEF 2013
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WISeKey will be launching the WISeID Cyber-Resilience edition for iOS at Davos to help Internet users strengthen the security and reliability of their mobile communications and transactions. The WISeID Cyber-Resilience edition can create an accountable identity from its personal data organizer, which securely stores personal data such as account username and passwords, credit card numbers and access PINs in a secure vault and cloud.
WISeID can enhance the legitimacy of what we do and say online by providing accountable identities and protection from identity theft by safely managing passwords and social credentials in its encrypted vault.
The vault can be unlocked only by using the user's Master Password and/or defined pattern, with additional face recognition authentication protection. WISeID conveniently keeps passwords in one place, generates hard-to-crack ones, and safely synchs data between computers and devices on multiple platforms using secure cloud storage. With simple one-click website access, WISeID is a great choice for extra personal security.
When it comes to the extra minute or two added security measures will take, WISeKey advises it's not a lot to spend when you consider the value of personal information. Complex passwords, encryption and using a password manager may seem like overkill, but in the world of data security, there is no such thing as too secure.
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Our approach at Marcus and Marcus is to be person-centred; enabling the people we support to live an ordinary life, regardless of the complexity of the individual's needs.
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Debbie & Paul, Michael and I send our sincerest condolences in the loss of your mom. You and your family are in our thoughts and prayers. God Bless. Love, Michael & Carol xo
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Theresa M. (Melanson) Morgan, 74, formerly of Lowell, died Thursday morning, July 2nd at the Oxford Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center in Haverhill.
Born in Waltham, Massachusetts, September 6, 1940, the daughter of the late Edward Elmer and the late Leah Mary (Livernoche) Melanson, she attended Newton, Massachusetts schools and was a graduate of Newton High School.
Among her many interests, Theresa enjoyed knitting and ceramics. But above all else, she cherished the time spent with her children and grandchildren.
Theresa is survived by three daughters Debra Giordano and her husband Paul of Haverhill, MA, Kim Masucci of North Dighton, MA and Brianna Angove of Lowell, MA; two sons Ralph Morgan of Lowell, MA and Daniel Morgan of Lebanon, OR; twelve grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
She was also mother of the late Michael Morgan and the late Paul Morgan and mother-in-law of the late Joseph Angove.
In accordance with her wishes, there will be no calling hours and all Funeral Services will be held privately. E-condolences at www.odonnellfuneralhome.com. Those wishing may make contributions in her memory to National Parkinson Foundation, Gift Processing Center, P.O. Box 5018, Hagerstown, MD 21741-5018. Arrangements by the O'DONNELL FUNERAL HOME, Lowell, MA (978 or 866) 458-8768.
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Tricia Lowe, an Acting Assessment Centre Manager with Angus Council, scooped the title of SQA Champion at the SQA Star Awards 2017.
Tricia was recognised for her dedication and commitment to learning and development while supporting staff. Tricia has a passion for championing qualifications and uses her own learning to assist others to gain qualifications, seeing SVQs as a real opportunity for people to achieve their aims.
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Yes, no matter how mild your climate, it seems that asparagus = springtime. In this past week, not only did I start to see California asparagus at the grocery store, but I also saw one post on asparagus recipes over at the Native Foods blog, and another one at Diet, Dessert, and Dogs.
This recipe is easy and tasty! The sun-dried tomatoes add sweetness and chewiness to balance out the lemon and the crispy asparagus. Chickpeas mean it's basically a one-dish meal.
Lemony Pasta with Roasted Asparagus and Sun-Dried Tomatoes
2 servings whole wheat rotelle pasta
1 bunch asparagus, woody ends snapped off
olive oil
2 cloves garlic, pressed
4 sun-dried tomatoes, drained and sliced in strips
1 c chickpeas
red pepper flakes
Ingredients1. Cook pasta. Drain and set aside.
2. Preheat oven to 450*. Place asparagus in a roasting pan; drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and garlic. Roast for about 10 minutes, stirring once, until vegetables are slightly tender. Remove from oven and allow to cool.
3. Cut asparagus into bite-sized pieces. Toss pasta, asparagus, sun-dried tomatoes, and chickpeas. Add salt and red pepper flakes, and serve with lemon wedges or sprinkle with lemon juice.
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My day always starts in the kitchen whether its a weekday or a weekend. I woke up early knowing that its Monday and I have a busy week ahead. I started by making a cup of tea for myself and steaming the millet idlis for breakfast. I was wondering what to serve as a side dish…Yum
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Adai is a staple diet in South India and usually served for breakfast. It is made by soaking lentil and rice, grinding it to make a batter and finally it is cooked on a griddle. I made Corn Rajma adai for breakfast and my family loved it. You will find many variations for adai. It…Yum


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In this workshop Robina applies her powerful community facilitation methods to enable the goal of community scale food security in the Byron Shire region. In this course you will be exposed to a plethora of inspiring global examples of local food initiatives, particularly in NZ, as you identify the strengths, weaknesses, gaps and opportunities of community food systems in your own area. You will leave with a viable 12-step community food strategy which begins in your own backyard and culminates in a resilient and abundant local food web. This includes how to motivate and engage others, as well as opportunities to gain confidence, skills and tools to support an enduring community through the enriching of local food culture whilst generating local economic prosperity.
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For the past 25 years, Robina has worked internationally and nationally as a community development facilitator, Permaculture educator/designer and gardening teacher, evolving her own methodology and accompanying educational resource materials. She worked with village-scale food security in Southern Africa, co-ordinated the Victory Community Gardens (Nelson, NZ), and consulted with Project Lyttelton's 'Food Resilience Project (Christchurch, NZ), post-earthquake. In mid 2012 Robina established The Localising Food Project, which toured NZ filming a plethora of inspiring local food initiatives, in parallel with teaching workshops on local food action planning, home garden design, public food forests and seed sovereignty. She is currently involved in the production of documentaries from the material filmed during the tour. To discover more about this work, visit www.localisingfood.com
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TRAVEL: Marvelous MALDIVES (Part I)
The idea of Maldives came to me one morning in November last year while I was checking my personal email and got an alert from Tiger Air announcing its maiden voyage to Maldives from Singapore beginning January 2014. Not too long before that, I remember asking the Emperor if he had already plotted his 2014 travel schedules, in case I would be able to join him in one of (possibly) many trips this year. As you know, the Emperor and I have been to a few international and local travels together and knowing how he can be very flexible with his schedule (if he wants to!), I thought I'd mention Maldives when I saw him go online on FB. Et voila, in less than an hour, I had already booked Chris and I on a flight and Eric had done the same!
Knowing that Maldives requires no visa application (it's VOA for a lot of countries, including Philippines!) made decision-making a no-brainer. Of course, the impossibly turquoise water surrounding the atolls and the promise of earthbound paradise go without saying. I mean, we would've gone still even if there was visa required. Maldives is just something you never say no to. What followed after that was a fun hotel hunting/booking. We had a reasonable budget to work with which, the three of us agreed, need not require us to smash our piggybanks open or you know, rob a bank.
After going through a long list of hotels and reading a lot of reviews on Trip Advisor, we opted to book our stay at Dream Inn Thulusdhoo for 3 nights and then spend our last night in Malé so we can explore the city and not be worried about missing our flight the following day (it takes an hour and a half from Thulusdhoo to Malé on the public ferry).
Finally, Maldives!
And so on the 12th of March, the three of us boarded Tiger Air bound for Malé, the urbanized capital city of Maldives. The flight was about 4 hours and 20 minutes long and by the way, Maldives is three hours behind Singapore. Soon as we exited the arrival hall, the first thing we saw was the exquisite turquoise waters dotted only by a few speed boats loading and unloading tourists. We had to physically restrain ourselves from jumping right into the water given the scorching heat outside. Gorgeous (easily three shades of) blue ocean water everywhere you look – and it's unlike anything we've seen before! It took a while for our airport pick-up to reach us and we were starving so Eric and my husband decided to get us some takeout meals from Burger King. An idea which we all would come to regret IMMEDIATELY as one meal costs a minimum of US $10! (The chicken sandwich meal Chris got me was $15!) Definitely one of the most expensive junk food we have ever ingested and I wouldn't recommend that you try it. Unless you're even more famished than we were at that time, or just plain addicted to junk. Ewww.
Welcome to Thulusdhoo
It takes an hour and a half to get to Thulusdhoo atoll from Malé. I will not give you the wikipedia description of this charming little atoll but instead, I will try to paint a picture of Thulusdhoo based on what we have seen, heard, and tasted of the island. First of all, Thulusdhoo is also known as the Coca Cola island because of the presence of a Coke plant which is supposedly the only one in the world that uses aerated water to manufacture the carbonated drink for Maldivian consumption (Please feel free to verify that as I am rather lazy to Google it up). It is no surprise then that there is a hostel called 'Cokes Surf' in the island that specifically caters to surfers and backpackers. And in case you're wondering why, it's because Thulusdhoo is said to have the best waves in all of Maldives during surf season. Tim, the-hot-Aussie-surfing-instructor-with-six-pack- abs-that-won't-quit at Cokes Surf, confirmed that when we all had dinner on our last night on the island.
The cozy little inn we called 'home' for three days, Dream Inn Thulusdhoo, is such a great find! At first, we were disappointed when Shaheem (awesome travel organiser!) told us two days before we were to depart SG for Maldives that he had to transfer the three of us to Askani Villa because they have about 20 youngsters from Denmark arriving the same day. But Askani proved to be just what we needed because it only had four very spacious rooms and we only had to share the whole place with a nice Russian couple. We had good wifi connection in our villa – at least for my iPhone but my Samsung phone totally crapped out on me during this trip so I was struggling a bit doing some work while traveling. 100 points for iPhone, negative 100 points for Samsung S4! – which made it quite convenient for the social media junkies in us to post occasional updates on FB and Instagram. The hotel staff were very amiable and always ready to help make arrangements for our island hopping adventures. And I love how their English is almost impeccable – and how beautifully they enunciate words!
Thulusdhoo residents take pride in their 'Sunrise Beach' and 'Sunset Beach' and by right, they should, because these two places certainly give you an awesome sunrise and sunset views. Look!
But if you ask me, the real treasure Thulusdhoo has is its charming people. Easily among the friendliest, accommodating, and well-mannered people you will ever meet, the residents of Thulusdhoo will make you feel welcome at any time of the day. Always smiling and often ready to greet you 'good morning' or 'good afternoon', some will even inquire about your day/health. On our first night at Dream Inn, we were lucky to have been treated to a lively cultural song and dance production by the young men of Thulusdhoo and we were impressed by the passion and energy they put into their craft. The Danish group, as well as the young lady from Kosovo, had a great time jumping around and gyrating to the infectious beat of the drums. Being an old boring fart, I just sat and watched the revelry. Kidding! We had to turn in early that night because we were off to ClubMed Kani the following morning and didn't want to be sporting eyebags to go with our lovehandles. Not at all great for selfies, haha.
Oh, one more thing that we noticed in Thulusdhoo are the colorful doors and walls in every home which truly fascinated us. But apparently, this love for bold colors is typically Maldivian as we would see more and more of these colorful doors around Malé.
One great thing about living literally next to the ocean is that you get to enjoy fresh catch for your daily meals. Being just a tiny dot of an island (with only a little above 1,000++ inhabitants), Thulusdhoo does not have restaurants (though we saw one or two bars near the jetty) so we were only eating mostly at our resort and on our last night, at Cokes Surf Villas. There's not much of variety here but the grilled fish we were served a few times was truly divine! It's so fresh and tasty you don't even need condiments to enjoy it!
If you are looking for some sun, surf and sand adventure with a little splash of culture, you can't go wrong with a trip to this charming North Malé atoll called Thulusdhoo. And oh, good news to the ladies who might be wondering if swimsuit is allowed in the beaches of Thulusdhoo at all – the answer is yes, my sweetpea, you can wear your swimsuit on the beach! But please don't go around the village in those tiny stringy cloths as you are definitely bound to offend the residents' sensibilities and conservative ideals. Keep in mind that Maldives is an Islamic nation and all tourists must respect that.
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Based in Edinburgh and founded in 1991 the Consort of Voices specialises in performances of a cappella music and small-scale choral repertoire from the 15th century to the present day; it is one of the most versatile groups of its kind. The Consort performs regularly throughout Scotland, and made its English debut at the Ryedale Festival in Yorkshire in 1996. It has also been involved in several large projects over the past several years, including performances of the complete motets of J S Bach in Haddington and at Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, a performance of Handel's oratorio Theodora conducted by William Conway, with a cast including Lisa Milne, and a performance of Bach's Mass in B Minor, under the direction of Ben Parry, at the 2003 Lamp of Lothian Festival at St. Mary's Collegiate Church in Haddington. The Consort has been closely associated for many years with the music of John Bevan Baker, and participated in the first performances of his chamber opera The Seer. A recording of Bevan Baker's music featuring the Consort and members of the Hebrides Ensemble under the direction of William Conway was released in autumn 2006.
In the 'Homecoming' year of 2009, we featured the music of Scotland through the ages as an integral part of our programmes, which included our first appearance on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Later that year, the group took part in BBC Radio Scotland's Remembrance Day service, broadcast from Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh, and also accompanied Bryn Terfel in the Glasgow performance on his 'Bad Boys' tour.
Projects in 2010 included semi-staged performances of Edinburgh composer Julian Wagstaff's musical John Paul Jones with members of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh.
In 2016, the Consort took part in the Edinburgh International Festival's Songlines project, with performances at St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Haddington.
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Bosa has a beautiful beachside called Bosa Marina directly at his feet just 5 minutes from the city center. Here the water is calm and the sandy halfmoon beach is just what you need on a hot summer day to relax and get some fresh air. Ouside of Bosa there are also beaches worth a visit, especially in the high season when Bosa Marina gets a little crowded. Explore our little beach guide and find your private spot near the water.
North of Bosa:
S'abba druche – sweet water You can reach this sandy beach near Bosa by car following the road to Alghero (SP 49). You can drive down directly to the beach and park your car in the shade, restaurant, bar and washing facilities are available.
Cumpoltitu – Further ahead the road to Alghero you can find another even more private beach with white sand and turquoise water called "Cumpoltitu". Just look out for the next parking lot where there is written 'Cumpoltitu' under the P for Parking. Leave your car here and follow the small path down to the beach. (recommended for kids not younger than 8, the path is stony and very steep, you might need both hands free).
Stintino ' La Pelosa' – One of Sardinia's most beautiful beaches is Stintino with its white caribbean beaches and the cristall water.Stintino -La Pelosa is situated in the north of Sardinia, worth a day trip from Bosa.
South of Bosa:
Santa Maria del Mare – Porto Alabe
Like pearls they line up one to another, the famous sandy beaches of Santa Maria del Mare and Porto Alabe. Just a few minutes away from Bosa you can find these more natural shaped bays, perfect for snorkling and fishing.


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Can the IC become a POV Character within the same storyform, or must the IC become an MC within another storyform before the audience can "see through the character's eyes" ... or can one do both within the theory?
I just watched 'The Fugitive' last night, and Sam Gerard has some lengthy screen time, even though he's the IC to Dr. Richard Kimble. When we view his scenes, is he acting as the MC of his own storyform or just the IC perspective to the MC?
I always call this the "alien POV." When we're looking over Detective Gerard's shoulder, we don't "become" the genius, maverick hunter of men. We see him through the perspective of Dr. Kimble: he is hunting us, and that genius nature gets us ever closer to capture. When Gerard exhibits change at the end of the movie, we the viewers don't feel changed; we feel as though we've held out, and our better nature has softened him up. To put it another way, we see the IC's story through a keyhole, but we never enter his room.
As another example, take "Silence of the Lambs." In the book (and to a similar extent, the movie), there are several chapters which don't follow Clarice Starling's POV. Just in the book, there's one or two in Hannibal's (the IC), one in Jame Gumb's (the Antagonist), one in Jack Crawford's (the Mentor, kinda), one I believe in the senator's daughter's (the... MacGuffin? I don't recall offhand what her Archetype is), and even one in Dr. Chilton's (the Contagonist, kinda). So we're freely allowed to jump from mind to mind, just so long as the audience remembers who we came to the dance with.
The storyform does not describe our experience of watching a film or our "point-of-view". It sets the Author's point of view on the matters at hand.
Echoing Jim.
Dramatica sets functions for characters to explore a particular aspect of story BUT it does not set POV in anyway, at least not as I think you are talking about it. The kind of POV you are talking about is a function of storytelling.
@okcthunderx In case you're interested in a longer discussion on this I asked a related question last year:


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Court Square's judicial-themed name now seems more appropriate.
CUNY School of Law recently packed up its hefty legal books and mock gavels and left its home in Flushing, moving to a new campus at 2 Court Square in Long Island City. The school celebrated its grand re-opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on October 22, at which New York state Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman delivered the keynote address.
Now operating across two floors inside the LIC complex, the space adds an extra 70,000-square-feet of state-of-the-art classrooms, conference halls and faculty quarters. The new digs will also include an auditorium and a moot courtroom where soon-to-be lawyers can practice their "objection!"
Officials for the school said the move was mainly based on the area's access to public transportation and ease of access.
"The location and accessibility improve our ability to serve historically underrepresented communities throughout the metropolitan area, including here in Queens, and our students are able to travel between classes and public interest internships across the city more easily," said CUNY School of Law Dean Michelle J. Anderson.
According to a CUNY School of Law spokesperson, the new building – built using 90 percent post-consumer, recycled steel, is LEED Gold certified, meaning its construction had a reduced environmental impact and its design promotes occupants' health and wellbeing. The structure also recycles rainwater and runs on wind power, making it one of the greenest law schools in the nation.


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Comic Sans is what Ms. Shelton calls "a fun-times font," manspreading across paper in strokes thicker than fair Cambria or no-nonsense Garamond. (Mr. Bierut said Helvetica, by contrast, is a "a call from H.R.") The spacing, or kerning, between its letters is uneven because it wasn't designed for print.
To type traditionalists, use of the font can signify frivolity or even disrespect. The website Comic Sans Criminal allows people to report its inappropriate uses (see: a sex offender registry, a doctor's diagnosis). In 2010, a Twitter employee shared that the site's two most reliable sources of traffic are complaints about airlines and Comic Sans.
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State Sen. M. Teresa Ruiz said Friday she is "disappointed" with Gov. Murphy's decision to change the way PARCC assessments are used in teachers' evaluations.
The governor announced Friday that his Department of Education reduced the PARCC assessment to count for only five percent of a teacher's evaluation — a move supported by the New Jersey Education Association, which endorsed Murphy during the election.
Ruiz, in a joint statement with Senate President Steve Sweeney, said the Murphy administration is "walking away" from New Jersey's students.
"We know teacher quality is the most impactful in-school factor affecting student achievement. That is why we were clear when developing TEACHNJ and working with all education stakeholders that student growth would have a meaningful place within evaluations," the lawmakers said in the statement.
Ruiz, who represents the 29th Legislative District, which includes portions of Newark and all of Belleville, is the chair of the Senate Education Committee.
"Reducing the use of Student Growth Percentile to five percent essentially eliminates its impact. It abandons the mission of TEACHNJ without replacing it with a substantive alternative. In fact, a 2018, a Rand study concluded that, 'Teaching is a complex activity that should be measured with multiple methods.' These include: student test scores, classroom observation, surveys and other methods," they said.
The PARCC test has been controversial since it was first introduced into New Jersey in 2014. Murphy has signaled his intention to move away from the PARCC tests and move to a "new generation" of standardized tests, though nothing has been proposed as of yet.
The New Jersey Education Association, which represents the state's teachers, called Murphy's decision a "win." The NJEA said there is no evidence standardized test scores serve a valid purpose in teacher evaluation.
"Today's announcement is another step by Gov. Murphy toward keeping a campaign promise to rid New Jersey's public schools of the scourge of high-stakes testing," the NJEA said in a statement. "While tens of thousands of families across the state have already refused to subject their children to PARCC, schools are still required to administer it and educators are still subject to its arbitrary effects on their evaluation. By dramatically lowering the stakes for the test, Murphy is making it possible for educators and students alike to focus more time and attention on real teaching and learning."
Sweeney and Ruiz said Murphy's announcement should not be viewed as a win. They pointed out that this is the second time Murphy has lowered standards for education professionals and students.
"This is a victory for special interests and a huge step backward towards a better public education in New Jersey," the lawmakers said.
"We look forward to the department providing data as to why these decisions are being made and how they will benefit our children," the lawmakers said. "Every child deserves a teacher who advances their academic progress and prepares them for college and career readiness. We must provide the data and resources for all our teachers to excel and ensure every student has the opportunity to realize their fullest potential."


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The following documents are available only in PDF format.
Australian prison trends Nos. 1 to 200
Australian prison trends Nos. 1 to 200 (pdf 2MB)
May 1976 to January 1993
This publication is based on data obtained from the first 200 issues of Australian Prison Trends, which has been published monthly by the Australian Institute of Criminology since May 1976. It includes an introduction by David Biles, Deputy Director of the Aastralian Institute of Criminology, which reviews the developments and improvements in the collection over this 17-year-period.
Sue Salloom, David Biles, John Walker
Australian prison trends Nos. 1 to 100
Australian prison trends Nos. 1 to 100 (pdf 3.8MB)
May 1976 to September 1984
This publication comprises copies of the first 100 statistical bulletins, Australian Prison Trends, which have been published by the Australian Institute of Criminology each month since May 1976. The consolidation of these bulletins is, to some extent, of historical interest, as it places in convenient form a large collection of otherwise scattered statistical information, but it also may be of interest in that it demonstrates how a statistical collection develops and extends over time. Thus this publication can be seen as a case study of an evolutionary approach to the improvement of criminal justice statistics.
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Scientists have discovered an active underwater volcano near the Samoan Island chain. But that's not the most interesting part.
Around the volcano are hundreds and perhaps thousands of eels, slithering through cracks and holes in the hardened lava. Scientists have dubbed the site "Eel City."
Credit: Scripps Institution
Okay, so the volcano is pretty interesting too. It wasn't there four years ago.
Named Nafanua after the ferocious Samoan goddess of war, the volcano now stands nearly 1,000 feet (300 meters) above the surrounding seafloor. It is rising about 8 inches a day.
Eventually, residents in the area may feel its fury.
"To actually have a documented case of an underwater volcano that has emerged within an accurate period of time is very rare -- this is one of those cases," said Hubert Staudigel, a geologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
The volcano creates a fog of gunk that reduces visibility to less than 10 feet in the vicinity. But from a submersible, scientists were able to document a unique biological community surrounding the newly formed volcanic cone. Much of Nafanua is covered with yellow fluff, collections of microbes that feed off the chemicals emitted by the volcano.
When the submarine landed near this area, scores of eels, each about a foot long, emerged from the rock caves and crevices.
"We were astounded,'' said Craig Young, director of the University of Oregon's Oregon Institute of Marine Biology. "Many of us had worked on hydrothermal vents in other parts of the ocean and had never seen or heard of anything like this before.''
Within decades, continued growth of Nafanua could bring the summit close enough to the sea surface that it could be hazardous to ships. Explosive reactions between red-hot lava and seawater, or tsunamis that may be caused by the collapse of the newly built volcano, could threaten nearby coastal communities.
"It is a good idea for us to keep our eyes on this area, but there is no real reason for concern about immediate danger," Staudigel said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Donald Shoup has extensively studied parking as a key link between transportation and land use, with important consequences for cities, the economy, and the environment. He is best known for his 2005 book The High Cost of Free Parking.
His research on employer-paid parking led to the passage of California's parking cash-out law, and to changes in the Internal Revenue Code to encourage parking cash out. His research on municipal parking policies has led cities to charge fair market prices for curb parking and to dedicate the resulting meter revenue to finance added public services in the metered districts.
Professor Shoup is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners. He has been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University and the World Bank, and has served as Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA.


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We constantly hear warnings about the ballooning US debt to other countries. The warnings go on to say that the US will eventually find itself unable to pay back the debts. Same warnings forget that the US debts to foreigners are always in US dollars.
The ballooning US debt is actually partially a consequence of the trade deficit. When other countries choose to sell more than they buy, they end up with surplus US dollars, while the US, because of the deficit, has a dollar deficit. Where do the other countries put the net US dollars they earn, since they have their own currencies at home? They won't convert it to their own currency if they want to avoid an appreciation of their own currency. They will want to recycle most of it back to the US, where it actually gets used. So the surplus trade countries end up buying the US debt, which the US can always pay back by issuing more US dollars. Now it's up to those other countries if they want to continue selling more to the US for money it just continually prints. For as long as the US trade deficit continues, incurring debt will have to continue. This is something that will continue going on unless we stop the global trade imbalance.
I had a post 14 months back that put on a thought experiment, to try and understand the mechanism better. I'm reposting it now word for word, except, now I name actual countries in the experiment. (Maybe doing the thought experiment in complete abstract is hard to follow for some).
Let's start the thought experiment with the country with the default global currency, which we know to be the USA. USA trades with another country, China. To simplify matters, for now let's only look at countries USA and China, but know that there are a multitude of other countries that also trade with them and each other, also using USA's currency.
Now when USA imports more than it exports, it incurs a deficit vis-à-vis China. Because the trade was settled in USA's currency, China acquires foreign reserves (The reserves will be of course be in USA's currency). USA, meanwhile, being the issuer of default currency, doesn't have to do anything more than 'print' more currency.
Now what happens when it's the other way, and China is the one that incurs the deficit? Because its currency is not the default, China has to buy USA's currency to settle the trade. It therefore borrows in USA's currency. The more deficits it incurs, the more borrowings it has to make in a foreign currency.
Now over the longer term, if China continually incurs a trade deficit, the net borrowings of China should depreciate its currency vis-à-vis USA's, which should make its exports cheaper in terms of USA's currency. Therefore, in the longer term, the balance should tilt back towards China exporting more to USA than USA exporting more to it.
But when China is the surplus country, it ends up holding more of USA's currency as reserves, and its currency should go up vis-à-vis USA's currency. Therefore, longer term, USA's exports should become cheaper when converted to China's currency. Longer term, in a normal scenario, USA's imports from China should go down and its exports to China should go up.
Now China has pegged its currency to USA, largely because doing so makes its exports to USA, as well as to the other countries, cheaper. Its continuous surpluses enables it to accumulate more reserves of USA's currency. But to keep its currency from rising, it will lend its reserves back to USA rather than allowing it to disseminate in it local economy. USA then gets more money to finance even more deficits. China does not lend to USA because USA needs the money (Why would it need more of what it can just print?). China lends to USA because the act of lending enables China to maintain its peg to USA. It is therefore not in China's interest to stop lending, even when USA's constant deficits results in USA's currency depreciating. For one, China needs to keep lending if it wants to keep the peg. Two, precisely because of the peg, China's currency also goes down vis-à-vis other countries' currencies.
Now, let's suppose a 3rd country, think of any third world country. For this experiment, let's use a country with substantial USA dollar borrowing vs its GDP, the Philippines. PHL has had a history of deficits with other countries, and therefore, has a sizeable borrowing in USA's currency (the currency which settles the trades). PHL, therefore, cannot afford a significant depreciation of its currency in terms of USA's, because that would make its debt servicing more expensive. Then again, a depreciation in PHL's currency makes its exports cheaper in terms of USA's currency, and therefore enables PHL to export more, and to acquire more of USA's currency to pay down its debt. The best risk mitigating strategy for PHL is therefore to accumulate more and more reserves of USA , by incurring a trade surplus vi-a-vis the USA. Thus, to make sure it always has the ability to manage potential fluctuations in its currency's conversion to the USA's, and therefore always have the ability to pay down its debts, PHL will want to accumulate ever rising reserves of USA. Thus, PHL 's demand for USA's currency provides even more opportunities for USA to finance even more deficits.
Now, USA, even if it eventually acquires significant borrowings from China and PHL, again need not worry much. As far as it's concerned, either of two things can occur: 1) China and PHL could suddenly stop financing more debts, in which case, USA will just stop incurring deficits. But then USA's currency will correspondingly fall, which will enable it to export more, and things balance out again, or 2) China and PHL will stick to their original objectives, China continues the peg and they both try to accumulate more USA's reserves, which means USA will be able to continue financing deficits. Also, whether scenario 1 or 2 happens, USA will always be able to meet its objectives just by printing more money.
USA never has to borrow in anyone else's currency, or even if it wanted to, can never borrow in most other countries' currencies because 1) other countries' currencies are never in sufficient enough supply, and 2) there is not much use for anybody else's currency when all trades are priced and settled in USA's currency.
GETTING TO THE GDR (Global Depositary Receipts)
Now, how would a move to a global currency change things? Let's go back to the thought experiment.
When USA incurs a deficit with China, it has to buy the GDR to finance the deficit. China has to sell GDR currency to get paid the net surplus in its own currency. Over time, USA's currency goes down in terms of the GDR, while China's goes up vs. the GDR. Longer term, this should balance things, because the new currency values would eventually lead to China importing more from USA than USA from China.
Because all trades are already in GDR, there is no longer an incentive for China to peg its currency to USA. Even more so, China cannot peg its currency to the GDR because it's actually a basket of everybody's currencies. Pegging to GDR causes China to have an endless loop with its own currency. So no more successful pegs.
Because all trades are already in GDR, PHL, which has significant borrowing USA's currency, will still have an interest in exporting more, so that it has the USA reserves necessary to keep its currency from depreciating. However, because USA will also need to buy the GDR to settles its trades, USA will now no longer have an incentive, or the infinite capability, to continue incurring deficits. This means less opportunities for PHL to accumulate USA reserves. If PHL already had a sizable reserve to begin with, then maybe it will already be safe. But if PHL had accumulated a very sizable borrowing in USA's currency, then the prevalent use of the GDR will probably cause PHL to have trouble sourcing USA currency, and keeping up with its debt servicing. The only way that PHL can continue to pay is to continue incurring surplus with USA. Thus, maybe USA and PHL will continue settling in USA's currency, and PHL will continue to finance USA's deficits, until it feels it has enough reserves to maintain a stable currency.
So net, the GDR will constrain USA's ability to, in Tom Hickey's words, "foster the development of emerging nations, by making capital and technology available where it is needed". It will also stop USA's population from continuing to enjoy spending more than they produce, out of everybody else's need to acquire its currency. It will also entail a (probably temporary) difficulty for countries that have sizable foreign debts. But over-all, it will probably result in less global imbalances.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
The relationship between trade imbalance and the ballooning debt to other countries
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(by Gabriel Barnes) When looking to pinpoint an audience based on geography, the terms geo-fencing or geo-targeting are often used. These terms are often incorrectly used interchangeably, creating confusion, so let's clarify what they mean.
Geo-targeting is a broad term for the method of pinpointing an audience based on their location — ranging from as wide as the state to as granular as an address. Any and all advertising types can use geo-targeting to define a location applicable to each campaign.
Geo-fencing refers to a more specific application of geo-targeting, where a virtual barrier is created around a defined area, usually determined by a geo-targeting strategy. A geo-fence can be as broad as a state or as hyperlocal as a city block, and the smaller the geo-fence, the more granular the targeting. Geo-fencing is almost always used alongside other targeting elements, including demographics, search history, etc.
Both of these tools are finding their way into the hands of radio groups across the country, and with much success. Picture the following scenario:
Station X and Station Y are both pitching the same local Mercedes dealership on running a digital marketing campaign with their stations.
Station X educates the dealership on the value of advertising on the station website. The AE provides the dealership with the usual information about the station, including demographics, and analytics for its website. To the dealership it sounds very intriguing, because the average household income of the station's visitors makes for a perfect prospect. However, in the back of his mind, the dealer feels like much of the site traffic wouldn't be great prospects, and he is weary of having to "pay" for non-qualified traffic.
On the other hand, Station Y educates the dealer on the value of location-based advertising. The dealer is unaware of the concept, so the AE explains that the dealer can create virtual fences around all of his dealership's competitors and show its Mercedes ads to anyone within range of those competitors.
Also, the dealer can draw a fence around his own dealership, add an additional targeting layer — household income — and show ads only to individuals who are inside that "fence" and meet the income criteria. The AE informs the dealer that there is a potentially smaller "prospect pool" than Station X's website, but the smaller pool consists of highly qualified prospects, because ads are only shown to those who meet the requirements — resulting in a higher ROI.
Although this is a hypothetical scenario, who would you choose to do business with?
As "big data" continues to be dissected and businesses begin to have a very clear understanding of the who, what, when, and where of their revenue, the ability to strategically target areas that will drive traffic to stores or to websites will be invaluable. If you are still thinking you can pitch your "digital marketing" products — i.e., your website and some Facebook posts by your on-air personalities — you will continue to lose out to those who have the means to deliver geographically targeted ads.
So what can your station do now to get involved in geotargeting and geo-fencing for your advertisers? Here are three things I recommend:
- Do your own research. There are numerous businesses that offer geo-fencing or geo-targeting services, so be sure to compare. You can start by searching for "best geotargeting companies" or "geo-fencing solutions." Be sure to be clear on whether you are looking to help an advertiser with being found on search engines or help them with branding through targeted display advertising.
- Categorize your advertiser database. Identify business categories that have many competitors in close proximity to each other. Car dealerships, for example, are everywhere, but the average person couldn't list half of the dealerships within 10 miles of them. We know that most people do their shopping close to their home base and that the businesses they frequent tend to be located on streets or in areas that they drive most often. Helping advertisers target people who are nearby and who might be unaware of the business will increase site and foot traffic.
- Offer location-based advertising as part of a radio buy. Inform your advertisers that you can deliver custom online ads or messages based on their location — something a radio commercial can't do. Due to demographics and other factors, a display for one location might need to be completely different from that designed for another area.
As always, it's important to have a strategy in place before beginning something new. The beauty of this particular concept is that it doesn't require any kind of upfront technology investment on the part of a broadcast station. It's a matter of incorporating it into the rate card and then making an infrastructure investment.
So take some time to research the benefits of geotargeting and geo-fencing to increase your revenues. Who knows, you might be able to target competitor stations "steal" away listeners!


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By Liz Millikin
Having skied my entire life, I sort of assumed I was done learning. Certainly, I have a bad habit or two that need working on, but surely I'm done with the actual process of learning. Boy, I was I wrong.
Last week, I hit the slopes with the amazing ladies of the Women On SnoW camp. My official job was to film, capturing footage for a promotional video that will come out later this season. Luckily, my group's instructor, Lucia, wasn't about to let me off the hook when it came to perfecting my turns.
As Lucia moved through the process of addressing each one of our particular strengths and weaknesses, it turns out that I have more than a few bad habits. The big one is, of course, my tendency to ride too far back on my skis. While it sometimes feels easier to just let my skis go, it definitely makes controlling my speed much more difficult. My instinct to straight line particularly technical pitches? Also not good on-slope behavior.
Even with six women in the group, Lucia was careful to spend time with each of us. She took the time to put each of us in a strong, stable position that was balanced over our skis with our knees, hips, and spine in proper alignment. She addressed each one of our turns – no small feat considering she had six incredibly different skiing styles to work with. From the aggressive to the careful, long turns to tight slalom turns.
It was incredible. Within just a few runs, each woman was riding a little more smoothly and much more comfortably. By the end of the camp, it was obvious that each woman was skiing more confidently and stronger than they had just two days prior.
For myself, I learned a bit of control. Lucia helped me find balance over my skis, and by forcing me to slow down and pay attention to my turns, I definitely felt the difference a little stability makes.
Even after almost 25 years on skis, I still have a lot to learn. Thankfully, there are still two more WoW camps this winter. The next session runs from February 11 through the 14. Hope to see you there!


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As you already know from my post on Facebook our BlackBerry product was promoted on RIM's App World as a featured application last Friday. We are now getting thousands of downloads and activations, about 400 per hour. That is good.
We get quite good exposure not only trough App World but also from other mobile portals. Although, we need to develop our business and move the company to the next stage.
It's been couple of months already since we started looking for new funding sources. Our company Interlecta has been privately held for almost 3 years, self funded as well, but it seems it is time for a change.
Right now we are talking to several potential investors (Corp, AI's & VC's) that are current or potential customers of our products, but not all opportunities look that promising or suitable for us.
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I have always looked at comic books as not only literature but also as art. The biggest problem I have always had with collecting this art form is how we store them.
White long or short boxes have always been rather dull and boring. There just plain white, BLAH
So I decided to take a day and create a custom short box, starting small, to house some of my Flash collection. I decided to make it a Wally West box.
Here is my quick step by step guide.
Step 1: get a comic box.
Step2: pick some comics that you don't feel bad about cutting up. (This was the hardest part, luckily I had some doubles.)
Step 3 : Buy some Mod Podge, there are so many cool craft related uses for Mod Podge.
Step 4: Cover one side of the box with Mod Podge and start putting the comic cut outs down. Then move to the next side and repeat.
Step 5: once all the comic cut outs are firmly in place go over the entire box again with Mod Podge, let it dry and you are done.
I also spray painted the lid gold just to add more color.
You now have your own hand made comic box it beats the boring white one.
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Attack the Block begins with a bunch of teenage miscreants mugging a young woman named Sam (Jodie Whittaker) at knifepoint in the a London street. During the altercations, an alien shoots from the sky, whereupon the kids beat the thing to death then parade it around on a stick. At this point, you're pretty much thinking, great, I hope this alien's friends fly down and kick the shit out of all these kids and claim the tall flats they live in as their base. I, for one, welcomed our new alien overlords.
But then you end up following these kids through their incompetent attempts to defeat the sudden influx of aliens and, dammit, after a while you don't want them to die after all. Led by moodily attractive teenager Moses (John Boyega), the gang come across as quite threatening to begin with until you realise that actually they are all pretty incompetent because they are, well, yoof. It's Guy Fawkes Night, and they were out to create havoc and striving to be part of the gang led by the block's main criminal mastermind, Hi-Hatz (Jumayn Hunter). Just as they finally strike it lucky enough to actually be on their path to, well, jail, more aliens rain down on them and everything changes, seeing the gang on the wrong side of everyone, from the police to Hi-Hatz to an irate Sam.
Having kids be the protagonists for a horror/sci-fi movie is pretty interesting, especially when director Joe Cornish chooses to be open about the facts that not all accidental alien-hunters are going to be as skilled as the team from Predators. These are kids who don't have guns or fighting skills, but instead heed the call to arms with baseball bats, firecrackers, kitchen knives and false bravado. When shit gets real and they finally twig that they're out of their depth, they can't call for help because they've all run out of mobile phone credit; when they speed down staircases on their pushbikes they inevitably crash into the ground because they are not bicycle parkour enthusiasts. Despite the fact that the majority live quite standard home lives, getting told off by their mothers or told to keep out of trouble by their nannas, they're all too desperately rough to turn to the grown-ups when being chased by deadly critters. And that's the other thing, with them being kids: even though the movie is kind of funny, it's not a balls-out comedy which makes it all the more surprising when you realise that not all of the teenagers are going to live out the film.
The film briefly touches on the state of British youth, when Moses speculates that the aliens have been sent by the Feds to kill the African-British because "we're not killing each other fast enough". It's a nice try, but the fact that the kids, apart from Moses himself, seem to have fairly happy upbringings and some kind of self-awareness of what they're getting into, means the movie doesn't go far enough down that path, and you're not even sure if any of the gang have learned a lesson by the end of it.
Nice touches are the aliens themselves: neon-fanged black holes of colour with no depth, like an orang-utan shagged a yeti in a dark cupboard using a glow-in-the-dark condom with a hole in it. The idea that colour shading would be different on a different hadn't occurred to me and I thought it was really interesting, to be honest; it makes them shadowy and creepy even when they're in a brightly-lit flat. It isn't laugh-a-minute funny (which, as it's from the writer of Hot Fuzz and stars Nick Frost, I was expecting), but it's pretty amusing and the dialogue between the kids (who are also great actors) can be pretty hilarious at times. The two nine-year-old boys looking up to the gang are probably the comedy relief, flinging around tough phrases in high-pitched voices. It passes the Bechdel Test and the women in it—Sam, an elderly neighbour, and the girls the gang are all interested in—are pretty kick-ass, either physically or verbally.
Nick Frost's high billing probably has to do with his star power more than his subdued role as a stoner in the only "safe house" in the building, though he and befringed try-hard Brewis (Luke Treadaway) smoke their way through some fairly funny moments. It was a fun movie that somehow missed a vital point with me, though I can't think exactly what; I'd recommend it happily, even though it wasn't quite cranked up all the way on either the funny, poignant, sci-fi or horror dials.
I give Attack the Block seven out of ten rows of glowing teeth. Because rows of teeth are SCARY.
Monday, December 5, 2011
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I love it here in Florida but one thing I miss about moving from Kansas is the Outdoor Communicators of Kansas twice a year. It's always fun to get together with old friends. Especially when they're people whose work you admire and respect.
El Dorado, KS hosted this year's conference May 3 – 5th. A hardy welcoming dinner kicked off the festivities Friday night followed by a business meeting. Saturday and Sunday were devoted to the important things: fishing and turkey hunting.
A crappie tournament was being held simultaneously with the OCK conference. I've never attended a crappie tournament, but if they're like the three Bassmasters Classics I attended where the contestants had to release their catch, it's a travesty of justice. Crappie are DELICIOUS and should be filleted, rolled in cornmeal , fried and EATEN!
Fishing was difficult due to recent rains and high water, but the winning team in the Kansas Crappie Club Big Fish tournament had one 2 lb. fish.
Doesn't sound too good to me.
I've attended many Outdoor Communicators of Kansas conferences in the past. In May of 2008 photographer Blumb and I boated an obscene number of crappie on Clinton Lake near Lawrence with the help of a local fisherman. One crisp November morning in '09 I lay on my back in a frozen field near Larned and listened to thousands of snow geese squawking overhead and never fired a shot. You can't shoot what you can't see and the fog was so thick I could hardly see a nearby treeline. So as you can see, being guided by local "experts" doesn't guarantee success.
But it's always fun.
I've asked some of the current attendees to send photos about this year's conference to my blog. Let's see what happens.
Blumb writes .."Fishing was difficult due to recent rains and high water, but the winning team in the Kansas Crappie Club Big Fish tournament had one 2 lb. fish.
Sunday Josh Peck and I went turkey hunting, guided by Jason Barnes of Whitewater, KS. We were near a flock, but the gobbler and jakes ignored our calls, and drifted away with numerous hens, out of sight. We moved to another farm, located a distant solo gobbler, and proceeded to try to sneak closer and call him in. He drifted away, and we had a 1 mile hike back to our vehicle.
To finish the morning, we returned to the area where we started, and Josh attempted a sneak with a fan blind. Still no luck, so we called it a hunt and unloaded our shotguns. The temperature had risen to 72 degrees by noon, and we had walked a total of 4 miles, so I was ready for a break."
Many thanks to Jon Blumb and Dave Zumbaugh for the photos.


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Case 37: Adventure Comics #489
Dial Holders: Chris and Vicki
Dial Type: Watch and Pendant Dials
Dialing: It is unclear whether certain heroic identities' proclivity for bad puns stems from some Dialed up personality trait, or if Chris and Vicki are to blame.
Created by: Richard Konkle, Age 18, of Las Vegas, NV
Costume: Gemstone's bright crystalline skin is well offset by sleek black clothes, including high boots, bracelets that go up to the thumb joint - each with inset crystals - and a studded metal belt. The only spot of color is a vest that either refers to painted glass or Crazy Quilt's costume.
Powers: Gemstone is made of super-hard diamond and so is invulnerable and immovable. He also packs quite a punch, and can shoot a seemingly unlimited number of sharp crystal "spearheads" from his hands, created from air molecules.
Sighted: In Fairfax, defended the high school from an attack by Marionette.
Possibilities: The array of powers and the DCU's previously forged link between gemstones and magic (via Amethyst) makes me think this character would have mystical origins. Perhaps he's a man who gained the properties of an artifact. Or he could really be from Gemworld, their ambassador to this plane like Amethyst is ours over there. The vest has me imagining him as a hero from another time though, like the early 70s, his powers tying into the New Age movement.
Integration Quotient: 75% (unusual enough to warrant a place in some small niche of the DCU)
Created by: Nancy Mayberry, Age 16, of New Orleans, LA
Costume: A green unitard with orange-yellow lines weaving around it and resolving into boots and gloves. They create an odd two-mountain pattern on her chest, a missed opportunity for a stylized "W". Her mask has a high forehead, going right up to her hairline.
Powers: The Weaver emits solid energy from her hands which she can sculpt into any shape, from cage bars to knives and shears on the end of her finger's tendrils. It appears the shapes must remain connected to her body in this way. She can also fly.
Sighted: In Fairfax, defended the high school from an attack by Marionette.
Possibilities: Her powers are basically derived from Green Lanterns, but the name evokes something a bit more mystical. I'd use the previously mentioned Atlantis connection to make her a descendent of that villain, using her magical powers for good.
Integration Quotient: 50% (could work, but bit of an obscure genesis I've come up with for her)
Created by: Ann-Marie Leslie, Age 16, of Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
Costume: For someone with cold powers, Frosty sure does have a lot of warm colors on her costumes, not to mention the Athenian cut of her short skirt and bare shoulder, and that sunburst on her chest. I'll buy the cut (which includes armguards that also evoke an ancient time), if only because it shows the cold doesn't bother her. But the rest...
Powers: Frosty freezes things until the shatter from the cold by simply looking at them. Gives new meaning to a "chilly look", but thankfully, she doesn't use it on people.
Sighted: In Fairfax, destroyed the Marionette's "Controller", freeing the alien.
Possibilities: Can't quite resolve the inconsistencies. Her look could make her an Amazon (but they don't have such powers), or a heroine from a more mythical time (but her name doesn't work). To even begin to approach her, "Frosty" would have to be short for something, like maybe she's a Frost goddess or something, but even that seems silly. Perhaps she could work as Hasty Pudding's partner if the two of them are British heroes. She might be modeled on some London statue, wearing that short skirt even in cold winter.
Integration Quotient: 10% (difficult to get even there)
Created by: Dale M. Houstman, Age 30, of Minneapolis, MN (though he's lived in Minnesota since the early 70s, Houstman is originally from England, which explains the pudding reference)
Costume: A green suit with green stick-on domino mask and a red cape, Pudding's belt has a small red lightning bolt on it, a visual connection to the Flash?
Powers: Hasty Pudding has super-speed, but is incapable of normal speed. He can only stand still, or move faster than the eye can see. He can even run up buildings, defying gravity.
Sighted: In Fairfax, fighting the Marionette.
Possibilities: Another Speed Force junkie, this one from England. Knight & Squire has recently taught us that the country is full of dubiously-named heroes and villains, and Hasty Pudding certainly fits that bill.
Integration Quotient: 80% (yes, despite the name, because the DCU has provided the perfect nationality for him)
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Created by: David Wile, Age 19, of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Costume: The heavy-set Marionette has a hinged, puppet-like look in white and green, with a large M on his chest and a smaller one on his forehead (he's an alien but studied our language). His most distinctive feature, however, is a set of puppet strings attached to his limbs and rising up into the air where they are attached to a giant floating "X".
Powers: The Marionette is a life-sized puppet, super-strong and invulnerable. He is actually controlled by the big "X" above him, which floats above him and is able to make him rise into the air, jump, etc. The strings are part-invulnerable, part-intangible, and phase through (for example) the roofs of structures Marionette might step into. The "Controller" isn't as indestructible. When destroyed and the strings effectively cut, Marionette's power ebbs away and he dies.
Sighted: In Fairfax, causing mayhem until killed by the destruction of his Controller. He is really an alien who invented an artificial intelligence who was "too human" and became insane, taking control of its creator and for no reason at all, decided to terrorize Earth.
Possibilities: The premise is completely crazy, but it's something you might see in a Grant Morrison comic or something. Seems like once the punch is out, the character has a short shelf life though. Not one to bring back again and again. Maybe they could buff up the Controller so that he shows up with different puppets though.
Integration Quotient: 35% (I'm up for some wild, weird alien threats)
Wow, only one issue of Adventure Comics left! Stay tuned!
5 comments:
- d said...
Hasty Pudding! Strange that I remember that hero out of all the Dial H's I read read when I was (much) younger. Or maybe not. Shows what a memorable name can do.
- September 26, 2012 at 4:54 PM
- Martin Gray said...
I don't remember HP at all - I've never even heard of the things! What was pudding-y about him?
- October 1, 2012 at 10:14 AM
- Siskoid said...
Nothing Puddingy except that he might have been British. I got all my information on English puddings from Wikipedia, but Hasty ones are described. (They're probably quick to make?)
- October 1, 2012 at 11:59 AM
- Jude Deluca said...
I think with Frosty, the warm colors are supposed to be a contrast to the icy eyes. I know you mentioned it but I want to expand on it, she's basically the personification of the concept of a beautiful, enticing woman who can destroy someone simply by giving them a simple look. She's gorgeous and the warm colors make you think she's sweet, but you look in her eyes and she's ice cold. Of course, you won't live long enough to pity yourself when you shatter like glass.
- March 3, 2014 at 7:06 PM
- Siskoid said...
- March 3, 2014 at 7:18 PM


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Sam Trosow is keeping a running list of institutions who have not signed the AC agreement, see below and current site: http://samtrosow.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/compilation-of-annoucements-for-institutions-opting-out-of-model-license/
Here is a list of the latest:
"…(Jun 29) Here is a (partial) compilation of available statements from institutions that are not signing the agreement:
University of Guelph:
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Queens University:
Trent University:
Carleton University:
University of Waterloo:
University of Windsor: http://web4.uwindsor.ca/units/leddy/leddy.nsf/CopyrightUpdateMay2012!OpenForm
York University:
University of Winnipeg: (press account) http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/u-of-w-rejects–copyright-deal-as-money-grab-152135325.html
Athabasca University: http://president.athabascau.ca/messages/index.php?id=109
UBC: http://www.broadcastemail.ubc.ca/2012/05/15/ubc-is-not-signing-a-license-agreement-with-access-copyright/
If anyone can point me to linkable public statements from UNB, UNBC, Royal Roads, Mount Royal, U Sask (or others) I will add to the listing and post on my blog.
I believe that the cumulative effect of all of these statement is having an important impact. The longer an institution stays undecided, the more comfort they will find in this growing list, so there is some urgency in broadly distributing these statements asap. …"
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Numerous cities — Stockholm, Moscow, Naples, Munich, just to name a few — boast subway systems lined with individual stations that are awe-inspiring, architecturally significant and adorned with transcendent art.
Five Points, the hub of Atlanta's MARTA metro system, isn't one of them.
Five Points station — a major transfer point where the north-south and east-west lines of the MARTA rapid transit network intersect — is a sprawling Brutalist expanse of concrete and marble that's very much indicative of the era in which it was erected: the late 1970s. It wouldn't be fair to call Atlanta's busiest metro station straight-up hideous, but it isn't exactly the most pleasing-on-the-eyes place either. And Five Points' dreary, bunker-esque appearance isn't helped by the fact that it's the most crime-rife MARTA station.
As part of a wider effort to spiff-up South Downtown Atlanta's two unsightly stations (Garnett being the other one) and render them more appealing, Five Points is getting a soccer field. Yes, a soccer field.
Although the concept for a community soccer pitch at Five Points was officially unveiled this past July (the idea itself has been kicking around for a couple of years now), recent news that the project will be funded via a grant provided by pro soccer franchise Atlanta United signals that it will indeed be moving forward. When completed, the project — "Station Soccer: Five Points MARTA Station" — will be the word's first soccer field located within a major urban transit station. It's an unusual first, yes, but Atlanta will soon be able to claim bragging rights to it.
Obviously, the addition of a synthetic turf pitch on Five Point's forever-disused upper-level plaza won't magically cure the station of its aesthetic woes — only a wrecking ball could wipe away the station's humdrum ugliness. What the project does, however, is take full advantage of Five Point's central, high-traffic location.
As the Atlanta Business Chronicle notes, accessibility is key here. Many community sports fields in Atlanta are far-flung and/or lack public transportation options available to those who benefit from a community soccer field the most: underserved youth. This isn't the case with the project at Five Points, which aims to attract soccer-playing — and soccer-interested — kids from all across greater Atlanta.
"Kids will now be able to take MARTA to the Five Points field to compete and play with peers from diverse communities across the city," Atlanta United president Darren Eales explained in a statement.
Intended as a public plaza, the upper level of Atlanta's Five Points metro station has never served a practical purpose. A new community soccer field will change that. (Rendering: MARTA)
The Atlanta Business Chronicle reports that the new, subway station-bound facility — at 66-by-99 feet, it will be smaller than a regulation-sized soccer field — will feature a range of programming including after-school mentoring, training and character-development programs as well as competitive adults leagues. Atlanta-based youth organization Soccer in the Streets — motto: "Soccer for Social Change" — will head up programming at the new field as well as maintain the space.
"The field will allow our organization to expand through a totally new concept in urban soccer, designed specifically for kids who live in underserved neighborhoods," says Phil Hill, executive director of Soccer in the Streets.
As mentioned, the raw space that will host the field isn't exactly a new addition. The station's upper-level plaza area, complete with terraced seating, has existed since the structure opened in 1979 but for various reasons has never been taken advantage of until now.
"These spaces were incorporated into the station to provide for a community use there, but they never really have been used as they were originally intended," Amanda Rhein of MARTA explained this past summer to local public radio station, WABE.
There are also plans to build out a community garden adjacent to the soccer field. As the Downtown Atlanta Improvement District notes, the goal of the garden is to "sustain community programming around the station" as well as "increase ridership for the MARTA system by facilitating positive experiences at the station, further encouraging a favorable rapport for the station and the surrounding environment."
Both the community garden and Station Soccer: Five Points MARTA Station will initially operate as pilot programs, the latter for 5 years.
The in-progress project at Five Points certainly isn't the first soccer field as of late to make good use out of neglected urban space. In a densely populated district of Bangkok, a series of vacant, garbage-strewn lots have been transformed into non-rectangular soccer fields (another world's first) as part of the community-revitalizing Unusual Football Field Project. This video has more info:


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Humoral immunity facts for kids
The body's immune system defends against invading organisms and other outside material that can infect the body. One part of the immune system is called the humoral immune system, which is specifically for defending against infectious invaders that are in the blood or other body fluids. The main cells that make it work are the B cells, which create and secrete antibodies that seek out the invaders and attach to them. Once the invader is coated in antibodies, this targets the invader for destruction by other parts of the immune system.
Before the B cell can create antibodies, it first needs T helper cells to 'teach' the B cell about details of the incoming invader. That way the B cell can then create antibodies that specifically target only that invading organism and do not accidentally target parts of your own body for destruction as well. Of course this whole process takes time, about a day or two, so the humoral immune system does not create a quick defense against new invaders you have never encountered before. However, if your B cells have dealt with this specific invader before in the past, then the antibodies against that invader is already present in your blood, or the B cells that have fought this invader in the past can quickly create new antibodies against it again. So if your B cells have fought this invader in the past, then it can often fight off that invader again but quickly this time, so that the re-invader is killed quickly before it can start setting up house in your body again. This is why, in some cases, after a human has been sick with a specific illness and then fought it off, they can not get sick with it again. Your B cells and the antibodies they produce make you immune to that specific invader infection.