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It's one pound of regular sausage, a box of pasta, a 32 oz can of crushed tomatoes and a 2 cup size bag of cheese. I like buying the sausage "plain" as it were and adding my own spices to control both the flavor and the heat rather than buying the "Italian" sausage links. The pasta is whatever will hold the sauce so I will usually go for radiatore or something with ridges, and the cheese is just whatever grabs me. Mostly it's mozzarella or a mix of mozarella and parmesan, but I have made a Mexican version of this with sharp cheddar and sharp cheddar/queso fresco.
Brown the sausage in a pan and add whatever spices follow along with the theme. If I'm making an Italian version, I'll usually throw in some salt, pepper, oregano, and just a touch of cayenne for some added heat. I just season to taste and the heat level my family is comfortable with. If I'm making a Mexican version, I will usually throw in some cumin and some chili powder as well; again, tasting as I go to make sure that nobody will (as Lisa Simpson says) "see through time".
As the sausage is cooking, I also get my pasta water started and my pasta cooking. Once the sausage is all cooked and the spices have been added, open up the can of crushed tomatoes and pour them in. I will sometimes add a few teaspoons of sugar to this to cut the acidity of the tomatoes (the Spousal Unit doesn't do so well with that sometimes). Stir to combine and let heat through. Mmmmmm...
By this time, the pasta should be ready. Go ahead and drain it and either dump it into a bowl or into a 13x9x2 casserole dish already sprayed with Pam. Add the meat/sauce mixture and stir to combine. Now comes my favorite part. Break out the cheese!
Put it in the oven at 375 degrees for about 20 minutes or so - give or take on whether you like your cheese melty or more brown and crispy on the top with meltiness on the inside. And...voila! Dinner.
The SU instantly liked this and has requested it nearly weekly ever since. He prefers the Italian over the Mexican but I like both. I've also played with adding veggies to it such as crimini mushrooms or zucchini that I've cubed or cut into small matchsticks. I'll cook the sausage first and then saute the vegetables in the drippings left over before adding the sausage back and then the crushed tomatoes. It adds more "good" filler to the casserole and I can cut down on the pasta used. I've also used ground turkey, but if I do, I try to get at least the 85/15 version so it's not quite so dry as the 90/10 can be.
Plus, you know, there's cheese. You can never go wrong with cheese :).


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The Basics of Fat Burning
Energy in, energy out.
The body normally burns a mix of carbohydrate, as glucose, and fat for fuel. How much of either depends on your physical activity and if, or what you have eaten recently. When you use more energy than you take in from food and drink, the body burns stored fat and carbohydrates, and then even protein, to fuel your everyday activities even if you are not exercising
That's what happens when people starve of course; the body starts to eat itself. Depending on your family history -- your genetics -- and the way you eat and exercise to create this energy deficit, your body may decide to get conservative and drop your metabolic rate to try to hold onto body weight. Some of us seem to have inherited this tendency more than others, the origins of which may be in the early periods of human evolution where 'feast or famine' was more or less the norm.
Glucose, fat and protein.
Even so, starvation always works eventually and the body starts to break down its own tissue for fuel. Stored carbohydrate called glycogen is quickly used up, then goes the fat stored under the skin and around the internal organs. Protein in muscle is then broken down to create glucose to keep the brain working and you conscious.
Fat and glucose are the body's two main energy sources. Fat you know well, glucose comes mainly from carbohydrate foods like rice and bread and potatoes and protein is supplied mainly by meat and beans and dairy products. The amino acid building blocks of protein foods can be converted to glucose in emergencies. Your body always burns a mix of fat and glucose except at very high intensities, and the ratio of the fat and glucose in 'the burn' varies with
and time of exercise.
Fat burning zone.
You may have noticed that some bikes and treadmills at the gym have a setting that says 'fat burning zone', which implies a setting for intensity or speed. The reason for this is that the body burns a greater percentage of fat at a slow pace (or after about 90 minutes of exercise). The fat burning zone, a low intensity speed zone is mainly a gimmick, and here is the reason.
Even though you burn more fat
going slowly
, you still burn
fat at much faster speeds or intensity. It all boils down to how much energy you expend in totality. For example, if you compare exercising at a slow rate that burns 60 percent fat and 40 percent glucose and a higher intensity or duration that burns only 30 percent fat and 70 percent glucose, you may still burn more fat at the higher intensity.
A typical example.
Exercise (1) is the slower 60/40 mix and exercise (2) is the faster, 30/70 mix of fat and glucose fuel.
on a treadmill for 30 minutes -- 180 calories used -- 108 calories of fat burned
on a treadmill for 30 minutes -- 400 calories used -- 120 calories of fat burned
You can see from this example that the bottom line really is how much energy you expend -- and that is the ultimate fat burning measure. The theoretical fat burning zone is mostly a convenient
Weight Training Does it Better -- Or Does It?
Muscle burns more fat.
Weight training is increasingly recommended as a fat-busting tool because some experts say extra muscle burns more energy than
body fat
at rest, so if you develop more muscle and have a higher muscle to fat ratio than before, you must burn extra energy and more stored fat as a result. This is true and has been shown in metabolic studies. However, the differences are not that dramatic; perhaps less than a few tens of calories per day for each pound of muscle increased, for most people.
Does that mean you shouldn't worry about weight training? Certainly not, because weight training has many other benefits for health and performance, not the least of which is extra muscle. It's just that this advantage has been somewhat overstated and we need to get this fat burning thing right in order to develop the best weight loss and performance programs.
Getting the afterburn.
Okay, so extra muscle does not provide that much advantage, but what about the afterburn? The 'afterburn', or the amount of energy you use
after you stop
exercising, has been promoted as an important slimming idea. If you can get afterburn, which is really another way of saying your
increases for several hours or longer after a particular exercise, then that's a bonus because you burn fat during the exercise and after you cease as well. Will the fun ever stop!
However, this idea has recently been reconsidered as well. An article in the
Journal of Sports Science
reported that despite some promising early studies of this effect, the idea has not proven to be as useful as first thought.
Exercise scientists call this afterburn effect EPOC, which stands for Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption. The authors of that study say that the high intensities required -- greater than about 75 percent of maximum heart rate -- are probably beyond what most people wanting to lose weight can cope with in sustained exercise. So the afterburn advantage from lifting weights or running fast is there, but you need to be able to sustain that intensity, which means a lot of hard work. No secrets there, I'm sure.
We also need to consider how fuel is used preferentially according to how your body stores are maintained. After you do a vigorous or long workout, your blood and muscle glucose will be much lower than before you started. Low glucose stores signal the body to burn fat preferentially. So
hard exercise that uses a lot of glucose, the body switches to burning fat. That's why all energy expenditure is important, not just fat burning
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Both professionals and service users are singing high praises about the new therapeutic and light and airy mental health units springing up around the country. Are they really that good, asks Adam James?
Mental health care has moved on in the Norwich suburb of Hellesdon.
The Norwich Pauper Lunatic Asylum which "held" 350 patients was built there in 1880. The institution had 100 single rooms, the rest being dormitories each for between four and 16 patients. Patients worked on the 50 acres of land, which was surrounded by high perimeter railings. The asylum had been designed by architect Richard Phipson, then known more for his attention to detail than creativity. His asylum design used the then fashionable "block system" as a template i.e. detached buildings connected by corridors.
Roll forward to July last year – the month that Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health Trust finished its spanking new £9.4million mental health facility on the grounds of the asylum's cricket pitch. The trust's chair Maggie Wheeler proclaimed that the two-ward psychiatric intensive care unit, called Justin Gardner House, resembled more a health spa than a psychiatric facility. "When we first came up with the design we said, let's not think mental health ward, let's think spa," she said.
Indeed, since 1992 more than £2billion has been spent in England renewing what's called the "mental health estate". It has been – says the government – the most significant capital investment programme since the founding of the NHS in 1948. The Department of Health says there have been 25 major mental health builds costing more than £10m each. This totals £600m, with the other £1.4bn spent on smaller builds.
As almost every service user would testify, the design of a mental health unit is vital to facilitate a safe and therapeutic environment. "Indeed, there's a wealth of evidence of how building design aids recovery – a better environment brings about better behaviour," says Paul Rooneyjoint national acute care programme lead for the Care Services Improvement Partnership and the National Mental Health Development Unit.
NHS trusts have a large degree of autonomy when deciding on mental health unit design. But some aspects remain fundamental – rooms should be light and airy; a calm and therapeutic environment should be promoted while also ensuring patient safety; patients and carers should be widely consulted.
Justin Gardner House – consisting of a 10-bed intensive care ward, and a 12-bed low-secure unit – exemplifies this. Financed from the trust's own reserves and a loan it is the result of five years of planning and consultation. London-based MAAP architects, renowned for supporting progressive mental health environments, was the trust's design partner. "Plus, we are not a PFI build which I think gave us greater control" says Denise Zandbergen, project manager for Justin Gardner House. "And we ended up by being around £1m under-budget," she adds.
Another example of contemporary mental health design is Langley Green, a £16.2million 69-bed four-ward psychiatric intensive care hospital in Crawley which opened in September 2008.
Christine Bowman, associate director for projects at West Sussex Health and Social Care Trust, told Mental Health Today how Langley Green was built "so I would be happy if a member of my family was admitted." She said: "People walk in and think 'crikey, this has been built like a hotel!'"
Indeed, that new units be judged on whether the mentally well would be willing to be admitted is paramount. "What is a building that we would like to stay in? That is the vital question," says Mungo Smith of MAAP architects. "If it is not good enough for us why should it be good for anyone else. It should be about offering a bit of solitude – like a retreat or oasis"
Another priority is single ensuite rooms – all the more vital given that mixed-sex wards are universally accepted to be at best detrimental, at worst harmful. The government has promised that any wards not providing satisfactory single sex accommodation will from this year be fined.
Airy rooms and corridors with plenty of light are also all the rage for new-builds. In with light pastille colours, high ceilings, windows looking onto courtyard gardens. Out with long dark, windowless clinical corridors.
"We wanted our corridors to be not just about getting from A to B," explains Ms Zandbergen. "They are part of a therapeutic environment – if they are light, airy and wide people can sit there, instead of just in their bedrooms and day room."
In a further bid to cultivate a calming environment, wood has replaced external brick walls in many new-builds. Courtyard gardens are always accessible, instead of areas where patients need permission to go to. At Justin Gardner House, for example, window seats have been placed outside each patient room. "The idea of coming out of a bedroom can be a big thing for some people. So the window seat can help that transition," says Ms Zandbergen.
As for Langley Green Hospital, when entering visitors find a contemporary café and two faith rooms called "sacred spaces". There is a women-only lounge and a gym, plus a poets' corner where people can sit looking out into a water garden. The hospital also commissioned local artists and sculptors to design interior artworks and garden water features. "Every inch of the building and grounds benefits from art projects specially-commissioned through the trust which use ideas from people who use services. The result is an inspirational environment to work in and one which will support people's recovery," says Ms Bowman. Justin Gardner House also has a multi-faith room, including an area where Muslims can wash their feet. CCTV cameras are unobtrusive.
Safety, however, still remains a top concern. Ensuite rooms are designed, for example, to minimise risks of self-harm. Details include curtain rails not being able to take heavy weights; doors opening both ways to prevent patients from barricading themselves in; staff being able to turn off electrics and water in each bathroom which themselves have no ligature points.
Such is the importance of getting the design of new-build mental health units right that at Justin Gardner House and Langley Green the plan-to-completion process took five years.
Justin Gardner House used a 30-person design reference group of architects, quantity surveyors, representatives from the trust's estate department, service users, carers and clinical staff.
Ms Zandbergen, who felt NHS documentation was "too prescriptive", emphasises how important architect input is. "Our architect, Chris Shaw, helped create enthusiasm," she said.
Service user involvement and consultation is always crucial for new-builds. "It's unimaginable to think any new-build could avoid it. Service users – as well as staff – should feel a sense of ownership of the process," says Mr Rooney.
At Justin Gardner House, service users, supported by building designers, made a point of opposing any traditional glass-walled nursing station. It has come to be seen as representative as all that is oppressive of psychiatric units. Service user groups detest Nurse Ratched-style observation units which foster a "them versus us" environment. Justin Gardner House has no such nursing station.
"Because of their [patient] input we did not have that kind of nursing station which can create a feeling of them and us with patients knocking on the glass to attract attention. It was a point of tension. Instead we got a room where staff can do administrative work," said Ms Zandbergen. Staff take their breaks in a rest room.
Bob Murphy, chair of our Hellesdon's service user council, confirmed the positive impression given by Ms Zandbergen. He also agreed that the trust took on board patient concerns around positioning of the seclusion room and colours and artwork.
"For example, we wanted to try and avoid splashes of red and certain kinds of patterns in any artwork where people in psychosis might see faces. The project team listened to all of this," said Murphy.
But, come on, surely there must be some negatives to Justin Gardner House? Apparently not. "Everything has been thought of really. It's the sort of place I would not mind going on holiday," says Mr Murphy.
Nevertheless, it is only in 2008 that the Mental Health Act Commission reported that acute adult mental health wards in England and Wales are "tougher and scarier" places than they were 10 years ago. And professor Dinesh Bhugra, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said of mental health inpatient units: "I would not use them, and neither would I let any of my relatives do so."
So, while some patients may be reaping the benefits from highly-acclaimed design overhauls at units such as Justin Gardner House, such experiences are evidently not common place. It is something Mr Smith is happy to confirm. "I have found the whole experience of being on psychiatric units really quite miserable – even to this day it's not much better," he says. "However involved we are, we are only as good as our [mental health provider] clients."
* Ships of fools – in the Middle Ages madmen in Germany were expelled from towns and handed over to sailors. "Often the cities of Europe must have seen these ships of fools approaching their harbours," wrote Michel Foucault in Madness and Civilization.
* Confinement – in 1575 a law stated that one house of correction per county should be built for the mad. Chains and dungeons were standard.
* Asylums – these huge self-sufficient multi-acre Victorian institutions, complete with landscaped gardens, were designed to be elegant and beautiful and less like a jail. Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum in Barnet, north London, housed 3,500 patients. Patient work included cleaning, baking, carpentry, shoemaking, and farming.
* Light and airey – in 2008 the Department of Health published its 45-page Laying the Foundations workbook to assist in re-design of NHS adult acute mental health services. It emphasises a "generous provision" of circulation space to reduce a "pressure cooker" atmosphere. Sex separation is "fundamental" to achieving a safe and therapeutic environment. There should also be a dedicated space for visiting children, located adjacent to the ward, with sufficient play materials. The workbook states that service users have the right to receive care in a safe environment that is smoke-free and free from drug and alcohol misuse. The National Association of Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (NAPICU) is listed as a useful source of advice and information.
* This article originally appeared in Mental Health Today magazine


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Adaptive innovation focuses on building and releasing new products in high levels of uncertainty, and optimizing resources as you go. Not just up front at the planning stage.
The following observations are based on my experience in a B2B software context, but I think it can be generalized to other types of new product development.
1. In practice, the full cost of time is dictated by sales and external market conditions. This is because you are nearly 100% certain not to make a sales forecast, if the relevant and sufficient scope for a customer does not exist yet. This holds regardless of your confidence in your sales forecasts and estimates.
2. Any planned internal costs will always be lower than cost of lost sales. They have to be over the longer term, otherwise you wouldn't have a viable business.
3. You can use linear approximations as an adaptive method to quantitatively arrive at a current "cost of time" to help drive optimal decision making. This is done by comparing the effect on sales if the planned scope was available immediately vs if it exists on the estimated delivery date. Based on this you can derive a cost of time.You probably won't have the luxury of directly observable continuous functions. In effect, you're starting to think in terms of calculus and deltas, as opposed to solving for the absolute values in algebra.you move from "overall cost" to d (cost) / dt.
4. Costs and Revenues follow different probability distributions. and these distributions are skewed costs:
- inflexible especially in the case of legacy, large, or infrastructure
- relatively certain once agreed (near 100%)
- fixed in advance in accordance with high level strategy
- once agreed, they tend to stick around for a while due to the sunk cost fallacy
- Highly variable
- Depend on how well the immediately available scope matches to the customer problem
- Can make a big $ sale with a small incremental add of $ (in scope terms) — true even for a new product, there is a 20% of functionality that covers 80% of the value
5. The aggregate "work time" to build something large, e.g. infrastructure, will be unknowable up front, yet it is relatively fixed. The number of people you add is just a divisor. This fixed total will roughly correlate with the aggregate cash flows required to build something. Cash flow variation will come from who you hire, where you hire, and how desperate you are.
6. Elapsed time to build something large can vary enormously, based on how the work is chopped up and distributed. The business cost of this elapsed time is primarily by the business cost of time, not by the product development team's pace and cumulative salaries.
7. The way in which the work can be distributed is significantly affected by the nature and structure of the work itself. For example, adding a fourth developer to work on a specific chunk of code will provide less output than adding the first one. They will step on each others' toes and generally get frustrated. Best to have the developers self-organise based on the discovered architecture.
8. There is also natural organisational upper bound to adding people, as per the old software industry aphorism that "9 mothers are unable to deliver a baby in 1 month".9. Onboarding new team members will vary based on both the quality of the people and the ability of your organisation to do so. From soft factors like cultural fit, to harder factors like the existence of accurate and up to date documentation, to the raw curiosity the person has in your business and product.
10. As useful as they are, numerical optimizations are only part of the whole picture. You still need to create teams, delegate work properly, and set healthy boundaries for accountability. The numbers don't absolve you of good sense managerial practices.
There you have it. These form a baseline of the thought process required to truly optimize delivery of new products, particularly for established companies, using adaptive innovation.
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The Studio had actually changed its name last month following a tweet from the Studio's Creative Director Paul Barnett but now it's official and their new site is live.
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Many of you will remember Linda's story from previous Road Shows in the UK. Linda lost 3 family members in a shooting incident that turned out to be a case of mistaken identity. Of course, the family have been through agonies as they try to process this and continue with life as the days and months unfold.
Now today we have heard again that Linda's Uncle's son was shot dead in front of his mum!
Once again this family must deal with the shock and devastation of the incident whilst all the old memories are also being brought up.
Linda also tells us that a 17 year old boy was shot dead on Christmas morning just a few streets away from her. Folk in Macassar are becoming scared to walk out after dark. Please pray for Linda and her family and that there would be peace in the community. We ask Jesus to shine light into the darkness.
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I have always been what most people would consider an outgoing guy. I can go in and talk to people and joke and have fun. The truth is though that while I can do those things, it's not really me. Going into a group of people and having to mingle petrifies me with anxiety and then take it another step further an have to speak to everyone and I get even more anxious. The biggest anxiety of all though is when I am charged with sharing a devotion or preaching a sermon. The pressure of making sure that not only am I communicating well, but also handling the truth of God's Word properly very much overwhelms me.
Yet, I am in full time ministry where I have to do all those things that cause my anxiety. From 2005-middle of 2016 I was in a ministry where I may only have to speak in front of a group a handful of times a year. That all changed last year when I went full time with FCA. Since that time I have had to share in churches, civic organizations, schools, and lots of other places. In just a little over a year I have had more opportunities to speak than I have had in the 11 years prior.
All this is to say, I am so thankful that I have a God who encourages me and gives me strength to over come, or at least ignore the anxieties that attack me about speaking. Where once I had a sense of dread when someone asked me to speak, now I am open to it and sometime find myself excited for the opportunity. Don't get me wrong, I'm still scared and worried, but too many times has God showed himself faithful for me to be held back by those feelings.
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Meow. Had a great day with Ali-Kat today (we're 'ol nursing school buddies). Even Ali-Kat got behind the lens to take a few snap-ity-snaps of me too. :)
Muah, love you mommy Ali-Kat!
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
Fall colors.
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Business owners tend to be optimistic about their ability to get things done, but if you want to accomplish your goals you will need to learn how to say no without damaging your business relationships. There is simply not enough time in the day to fulfill every request or tackle every project. Here are some tips for how to say no diplomatically.
How to Say Now No Without Burning Bridges:
- Create boundaries beforehand: Rather than managing your time reactively, take a proactive approach to setting your priorities. Make it clear to everyone what kinds of requests you will and will not fulfill, then consistently honor these boundaries. This will let everyone know that when you deny or delay a request it is not personal.
- Explain your time limitations before deciding: Before giving an answer either way, let the person know the time restraints you currently face. Explain the reasons why you may not be able to do the task. If you end up saying no, they will know why. If you end up saying yes, they will still understand that your time is limited and valuable.
- Don't beat around the bush: There is a difference between being polite and being unclear. You must say no. You can't hint otherwise, or else you risk creating the wrong expectation. Nothing is worse than giving someone the impression that they have your time when in fact they do not. This will damage your reputation and your personal brand. Give a firm but polite no.
- Never say yes in the moment: One easy way to take on too many obligations is to rely on impulse and memory to make your scheduling decisions. You run the risk of committing to the wrong projects, or even double booking. Instead, always ask for time to check your calendar. This gives you both the time you need to decide if the task is worth the time and a chance to double check your availability. Even if you decide you don't have the time, checking your calendar shows that you made the effort.
As you continue to become more successful, one of the biggest challenges will be managing your limited time. Unlike money and other resources, you will never get more hours in your day. Learning how to create reasonable expectations and protect your time without coming off as rude is a crucial business lesson.
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Meet our Executive Chef, Tom Fecke who relocated here from the Dayton, Ohio area. We hope you will come meet him in person, and here is some information for you about him.
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Go Back To The Zoo is another reason to love the Netherlands — I have a whole list of reasons to love the Netherlands, btw :). These guys are a really nice wave from the Strokes pool and I've been listening to "Beam Me Up" nonstop for days now. Also, when I listen to this song, I get the oddest urge to buy Nike. Maybe this is why. No, but seriously, "Beam Me Up" is such a fun listen; you won't regret it.


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One of the biggest challenges—and, hence, the biggest opportunity for QSP—is drug attrition in Phase 2 clinical trials. Investigational medicines are usually tested for the first time in patients in Phase 2 clinical trials. This is the point when many drug programs fail. In fact, approximately 80 percent of new drugs that move into Phase 2 fail. The major reason for this failure is that the drug doesn't show efficacy or is not safe. This high failure rate wastes lots of money and time. Using QSP to augment current modeling and simulation technology could help tackle this issue.
What is QSP?
QSP is a relatively new discipline with enormous potential to improve pharma R&D productivity. Most major pharma organizations are investing in it. QSP may also be able to leverage the enormous amounts of information we now have access to, including genomics and proteomics data.
QSP combines computational modeling and experimental data to examine the relationships between a drug, the biological system, and the disease process. This emerging discipline integrates quantitative drug data with knowledge of its mechanism of action. QSP models predict how drugs modify cellular networks in space and time and how they impact and are impacted by human pathophysiology. Additionally, QSP facilitates evaluating complex, heterogeneous diseases such as cancer, immunological, metabolic and CNS diseases that probably will require combination therapies to fully control them.
Benefits of QSP
- Support precision medicine: In the past, we treated many diseases as monolithic. We used a "one size fits all" approach for everyone. We've now started to recognize that many diseases are actually a plethora of different diseases affecting distinct subpopulations of patients. By leveraging QSP, sponsors can rationally plan which patient subpopulation to target before running that make-or-break Phase 2 trial. That could make the difference between failure and success in Phase 2.
- Increase the likelihood of demonstrating drug efficacy: QSP builds on insights gained from PBPK. Once we know how much drug is at the site of action, how will it modulate cellular signaling to exert a pharmacological effect? What pharmacological action will it have at that particular organ? Answering these questions will provide insight into the mechanisms of drug efficacy.
- Provide insight into mechanisms of toxicity: QSP determines the exposure at various organs to predict potential side effects. This approach translates pharmacokinetics (drug exposure) to pharmacodynamics (pharmacological effects).
- Perform "what if" scenarios: QSP can be used from the early stages of discovery onwards, helping identify biological pathways and determinants of disease. You can ask questions such as: "Does drug A or drug B have a better pharmacological profile?" If you determine that drug A has a stronger impact on biological path Y than biological path Z, is that going to be more effective than drug B which has a stronger effect on biological path Z than Y? QSP modeling allows investigation of a wide range of "what if" scenarios to determine what the likely efficacy of the drug is going to be, without having to do clinical investigation and facilitating lead optimization very early on in the discovery process.
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Originally Posted by 5FootCarrot
thanks for the correction 5foot.better late than never. ;D
Originally Posted by 5FootCarrot
thanks for the correction 5foot.better late than never. ;D
Big Bird.
How often do you see a six foot pigeon walking the streets? Only in NY.
Revised dialogue: "Hi I'm Big Bird! Do you know why they call me Big Bird? (starts going through his feathers.....)"
Puwede ding si Count.
Sabi nga ni David Chapelle: "They don't call him a pimp. They call him the Count. But I know a pimp when I see one!"
^ bruiser, david robinson once guested on sesame street and big bird was significantly taller. big bird ought to be about 8 feet.
cookie monster
Verbatim: Howard's Blog on the Web
Help complete this NEW list! PM me or edit from there. Thanks!
Puwedeng puwedeng pang Rucker Park. Yun nga lang, beak ang pang supalpal.Originally Posted by yungha
Naka drugs ba si Snuffy? Parang palaging malamya kasi. An elephant on smack!
^ (somewhere there)
They actually made an orange monster who's HIV positive. I forgot her name.
Want a Gay Bert?
You guys should watch Avenue Q...
The ANIMO will prevail.
My favorites in Sesame Street (sorry if it's not only limited to characters):
Bob - specially when he sings "Who are the people in your neighborhood, in your neighborhood, in your neighborhood. O, who...the person that you meet each day."
"Mahna Mahna, too too toodoodoo, Mahna Mahna, tootoodootdoo"
"Take the Golden AN, in the tan van, give to Dan, who'll take it to Fran."
Guy Smiley's "Here Is Your Life" show, "Beat The Time" show
Cookie Monster singing "C is for cookie, that's good enough for me..."
it's got to be Biff and Sully!!!
the Geefle and the Gonk too.....
Eto totoong nangyari. I wached this episode. Yung may ari ng tindahan, yung Hooper Store, si Mr. Hooper, yung matanda ng lalaki na nagbebenta ng bird seed ke Big Bird ay talagang namatay in real life.
It was during the time na "imaginary friend" pa lang ni BB si Snuffleupagus. (tama ba spelling?)
Real people characters were
Luis and Maria (mexicans)
Everything's Eventual
^ totoo yan. i watched an episode where the dialogue went something like this-
big bird: hi maria! where's mr looper?
maria (slowly): big bird, mr hooper died.
big bird: ok! when's he coming back?
maria: big bird, when someone dies...
that was a heart-rending episode.


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PAINESVILLE, Ohio - The Lake Erie College baseball team will be under the direction of a new head coach for the 2017 season as Lake Erie alumnus Cameron Castro takes over the head coach. The Storm finished the 2016 season with an 18-29 record overall and a 14-18 GLIAC mark.
We feel good with the guys returning on offense, such as Williams and Rua, said Castro. We also have some depth returning from last year on the mound. This year, we will look for good leadership, solid defense and to create some scoring opportunities with our baserunning.
The Storm lost some of their offensive leaders to graduation last season and one to the MLB Draft in Luke Raley. Lake Erie will have two returners on offense that ranked in the team top five for average last year. Catcher Nigel Williams and outfielder Rees Rua, both sophomores, will return for the Storm in 2016. Last year, Rua batted .347 with 35 hits, six doubles, and 14 runs batted in. Williams was fifth on the team with a .344 batting average with 45 hits, seven doubles, and four homeruns. Williams was second on the team with 37 runs batted in. As a team, the Storm hit .305.
The Storm will have their top pitcher return to the Storm dugout in 2017. Junior David Lemasters led the Storm in starts (11), wins (5), innings pitched (66.1), strikeouts (75) and ERA (4.05). Lemasters will be joined by classmate Michael Stryffeler among other returners and newcomers for the Storm.


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text: PICNICFACE Sassy Jo August 22, 2010 Comedy Today at 1PM, PICNICFACE will be holding a 12 hour telethon in Halifax which you can watch from a live stream here. When I met Mark Little at the Comedy Nest During JFL, we were out with Paul Ash, the winner of our contest. You remember our contest that only Paul entered as a PROUD supporter of TuJoHaHA? Hmmm? What? I can't hear your excuses. By the way we'll be doing one very soon so keep an eye out for it! Mark Little is but one of the members of Picnicface. Andrew Bush, Kyle Dooley, Cheryl Hann, Brian MacQuarrie, Evany Rosen, Scott Vrooman and Bill Wood are the other seven parts of this sketch-comedy group from Halifax. Since 2006, the group has been making videos that keeps people coming back. Check out their YouTube channel. They have been notice by some of the best in the biz including Will Ferrell who loves their video's on his site funnyordie.com. The first video I've watched was the Powerthirst. They did so well that there actually is a Powerthirst bar. The more I watch them, the more I love them. Their humour is so wrong at times and just absurd but so unique and well written. My type of comedy. Here's another clip I enjoyed. Which goes hand in hand with this one!These guys are fucking awesome! Today they are holding a fundraiser for Roller Town the movie. Please donate. I will but I'll be honest not today. But my money is coming this week and I definitely want to make these guys do something! Check out their list and help them make you laugh. Ok! I got to go walk the dog and get cozy to start watching the marathon. I love work that I can do in my pyjamas! So read up more on these great talented people! I like them already! Jo http://TuJoHaHa.com Montreal's hot spot for Comedy!


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Check out Best Thing That I Found , the latest from Saigon which features a guest appearance from Lecrae & Corbett on the assist. The track was released on Monday, October 29th, 2012. Saigon's chances in this game are improving with each new release, and Best Thing That I Found is no exception - quite the opposite, in fact. It's a nice addition to the impressive catalogue Saigon has been building over the years. We're definitely anticipating the next move.
Hear more of Saigon on Keep Pushing, featuring Chamillionaire. If you're down, make sure to visit Saigon's profile page for the newest info, news, songs, and mixtapes.
How's the chemistry here? Can you dig it?


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The British deploy:
After moving out they look far more stretched:
After 10 turns the light infantry have taken huge losses on the beach and the grenadiers aren't faring much better:
The grenadiers falling back to regroup:
Stark's New Hampshire regiments look on:
Skirmishers in Charlestown keep the British left flank tied-down.
Pigot moved three battalions up towards the redoubt and breastwork:
A "miniaturised" view of the defenders:
That's all of the action for now.
Having done more research into this battle and created the scenery with as much care as I can, the end result is a much more interesting scenario than my previous experiences with "Bunker Hill" on the tabletop.


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Ecuador achieves living wage goal
In 8 years the Ecuadorian government has reached a goal that no other government in the world has even attempted. In Ecuador the legal minimum wage has been raised to ensure that all waged workers earn a living wage. The minimum wage level reached in 2015 now permits the average household to purchase a basket of household goods and services. This basket, the cost of which is published monthly, is divided by the average number of earners per household (1.6) and is used as a proxy for a living wage.
In 2007, when the current government came to power, the legal minimum wage covered just two thirds of a living wage. After a series of increases above consumer price inflation, this gap has been closed. Within Latin America, Ecuador is now second only to Panama when it comes to the purchasing power of its minimum wage.
Contrary to the belief of some economists, this relatively rapid rise in minimum wage levels does not appear to have carried a heavy economic cost.
Ecuador has one of the lowest levels of unemployment on the continent and major employers like the big banana producing and exporting companies have welcomed a levelling-up of wages and other labour standards in the industry.
In the transition phase, the government had powers to ensure that companies did not pay dividends until they had paid their employees the difference between actual earnings and the living wage level for the year in question. Officials also stress the importance of seeing this significant achievement in the wider context of policies to favour social protection, employment contract security, labour inspection, health & safety and environmental legislation, and the employment of disabled people.
The banana industry certainly cannot argue that rising wage bills have seriously handicapped growth of the country's second source of export income. Banana exports have hit record levels in 2013 and 2014 and look set to break new records this year. Major buyers too can now reassure consumers that Ecuadorian bananas are no longer the fruit of poverty wages, as was undeniably the case at the turn of the century.
There is still a long way to go to achieving Decent Work across the sector, but the government has led the way with a wage policy which other countries would do well to emulate.
Sources: Ministry of Labour, Quito; World Banana Forum.


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ISO9001 - Quality management standard A certified quality management system (QMS) which proves the ability to consistently provide products and services that meet the needs of customers. Our certified quality management and operational excellence means we can deliver the best to our customers, on time and on budget.
ISO14001 - Environmental management standard An international Standard for Environmental Management Systems. Managing and minimising our impact on the environment is at the heart of our business as a manufacturer. That is why we have sought ISO14001 accreditation.
SCS global Services This trusted neutral third-party organisation works to identify practices and policies that advance the goals of sustainable development. The SCS Kingfisher Certification Mark certifies that our organisation's products meet the highest social, quality and environmental standards. The certificates can be viewed here:
FISP - Furniture Industry Sustainability ProgrammeFISP certification confirms our company's commitment to achieve the principles of sustainable development in the furniture industry. Focusing on not just environmental issues, but also purchasing, end of product life, social and community issues.
FSC® - Forest Stewardship Council® FSC certification ensure that products come from well-managed certified forests, recycled and other responsible sources. KI Europe works with a supply chain that is FSC certified. Please ask us about our FSC certified options.
SKA RatingOperated and owned by Royal institution of Chartered Surveyors, SKA rating is an environmental assessment tool for sustainable for-outs. SKA ratings are split out for each of the main furniture types. To meet SKA criteria the product must meet one of the six requirements. One of these is that the product comes from a FISP member. As KI Europe is a FISP member, our products meets SKA criteria. Find out more about SKA rating.
levelA multi-attribute, sustainability standard and third-party certification program for the furniture industry. KI's level certification by product can be found here.
KI Europe is also a member of a number of organisation and holds certificates for various quality and environment standards, including:
Also known as The Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers, this is one of the City of London's historical Livery Companies. Founded in 1963, it provides support and assistance to those in need in the UK furnishing industry, specifically to students, the retired, and those of working age. Working to ensure the right skills are available to the industry for years to come, the Company focuses on encouraging students to pursue a career in furniture making. For those currently working in the industry, or those who have retired after enjoying lengthy careers assistance is available in times of hardship due to circumstances such as illness or bereavement. It also creates opportunities for training and career development for those already actively involved in the furniture making industry.Jonathan Hindle, KI's Group Managing Director for EMEA was Master of the Furniture Makers' Company between May 2013 and May 2014.
Club Green - Guide to environmental legislation, distributed by FIRAClub Green assists companies across the furniture industry supply chain with guidance and support to keep abreast of environmental developments. KI joined Club Green to demonstrate our commitment to maintaining robust environmental management systems now, and in the future.
CFAS – Commercial Furniture Advisory ServiceCFAS is recognised throughout the UK and Europe as the hub of the furniture, educational and hospitality sector, offering information on all aspects of office and contract furniture.


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It was a little more than a year ago that I wrote about an innovative transportation safety awareness campaign, the Driving Dead Series, that was being launched by the Illinois Department of Transportation.
It seemed strange to feature zombies in a safety campaign, but with literally millions of views in the last year, the people behind the campaign must have known what they were doing.
Continue reading "Using the Un-Dead to Save the Living: Driving Dead Series Hits Its Target"


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USAV Academy Error 101 occurs when your computer loses Internet connection while running a course.
Our software saves your course progress to the best of our ability (every 30 seconds).
Corrective Action
1. Exit the course immediately.
2. Launch the course again, when your Internet connection has been re-established
Possible causes of the issue
• Momentary loss of Internet connection
• Complete loss of Internet connection


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Minestrone soup
A beautiful minestrone soup, warming, nutritious and filling.
Based on vegetable stock, with onion, zucchini, beans, celery, tomatoes, carrot, spinach, garlic, parsley, oregano, basil, thyme and pasta, my minestrone soup packs a powerful nutritious punch as well as being vegetarian, easy to make and delicious.
Serve piping hot, refrigerate to take to work for lunch the next day, or freeze to heat up for a quick, easy and healthy mid-week dinner.
Minestrone soup
Prep time: 15 mins | Cook time: 45 mins | Serves: 6
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 cup minced white onion (about 1 small onion)
- 1⁄2 cup sliced zucchini
- 1⁄2 cup frozen green beans
- 1⁄4 cup minced celery
- 4 teaspoons minced garlic
- 1 litre vegetable stock
- 1 420g can red kidney beans, drained
- 1 420g can cannellini beans, drained
- 1 400g can diced tomatoes in juice
- 1⁄2 cup julienned carrot
- 2 tablespoons parsley stir-in paste
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1⁄2 teaspoon basil stir-in paste
- 1⁄4 teaspoon dried thyme
- 250g frozen spinach portions
- 1⁄2 cup dry pasta of your choice
To serve:
- Grated parmesan cheese
- Heat oil over medium heat in a large saucepan.
- Add onion, zucchini, green beans and celery and cook gently for 5 minutes or until vegetables soften.
- Add stock, tomatoes, kidney beans, cannellini beans, carrot, herbs, salt and pepper, stir through and bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes.
- Add spinach portions and pasta, stir and simmer for 20 minutes longer.
- Serve topped with grated parmesan cheese.


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Short recap: in 2011, President Obama offered to cut Social Security and Medicare in return for tax hikes. The GOP said no. As a result, the tax hikes happened anyway and social insurance was not cut. This was, a Matt Yglesias writes, a disaster for anyone who honestly believes that the American state should redistribute no more income that necessary to prevent absolute penury among the elderly.
But it is even worse than that. The GOP would have eventually won an election; cutting taxes when that happens will be easy with a Congressional majority. Cutting entitlements, however, may be off the table forever.
I think Paul Ryan knows that. (Click the link. It's big news, even if not quite an endorsement.)


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August 2017
- Leading thoughts
Geoff Barton reflects on his journey meeting hundreds of school and college leaders since taking up the role of ASCL General Secretary three months ago. More
- School heroes
Character and resilience education helps pupils to develop important life skills says former Headteacher Ben Slade. Here he highlights a new programme being delivered by ex-service personnel in schools. More
- Be prepared
Recent incidents in Manchester and London affected everyone, including many of our own pupils and staff, says Headteacher Richard Sheriff. Here he highlights what leaders can do to prepare for such instances. More
- Sense and accountability
ASCLs Primary and Governance Specialist Julie McCulloch on the current problems with primary assessment and the launch of a new ASCL-led independent review of primary accountability. More
- Keeping your head
Reassuringly, new research from the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) has found that retention of headteachers in the education system is about 90%. However, there is still work to be done, as this figure does appear to be declining over time says NFERs Karen Wespieser. More
- Education post-brexit
What should education look like in a post-Brexit Britain? Here ASCL Director of Policy Leora Cruddas explores the future of our education system. More
What should education look like in a post-Brexit Britain? Here ASCL Director of Policy Leora Cruddas explores the future of our education system.
Education post-brexit
When ASCL consulted with you, our members, about the fifth of our education manifesto priorities for the 2017 General Election, you voted overwhelmingly to ask all political parties to pledge to develop a long-term, shared vision for education. (See the manifesto online: www.ascl.org.uk/manifesto2017)
Whatever we believe personally about leaving the European Union (EU), the time is right for our leaders educators, politicians, business men and women and other leaders across the spectrum to come together to do just that.
Of course, this in part relies on our wider vision for the kind of country we wish to become once we have left the European Union.
World-class education system
However, our aspiration must surely be to build the best education system in the world. And we should define educational success not in the narrow sense of exam outcomes (although this is important) our aspiration must be to develop young people who are prepared for life, career and citizenship.
In the words of the far-sighted panel that led the National Curriculum Review, education should develop knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes to satisfy economic, cultural, social, personal and environmental goals. Our vision for the role that education should play must surely include that it should:
- satisfy future economic needs for individuals and for the workforce as a whole, including the development of secure knowledge and skills in communication, literacy and mathematics and confidence in acquiring new knowledge and skills
- appreciate the national cultures, traditions and values of all the nations within the UK, while Brexit recognising diversity and encouraging responsible citizenship
- provide opportunities for participation in a broad range of educational experiences and the acquisition of knowledge and appreciation in the arts, sciences and humanities, and of high academic and vocational qualification at the end of compulsory schooling
- support personal development and empowerment so that each pupil is able to develop as a healthy, balanced and self-confident individual, and fulfil their education potential
- promote understanding of sustainability in the stewardship of resources locally, nationally and globally (https://tinyurl.com/qcldqbb)
The Massachusetts Story
Drawing inspiration from the work done by the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (https://tinyurl.com/ya4xfl49), we should bring together educators, politicians, business people and other leaders in a broad-based alliance to begin this work now. There is, as Massachusetts said, a new opportunity to lead.
This will involve moving beyond the tedious debates of today: autonomy or accountability, teachers or technology, English Baccalaureate (EBacc) or a broad curriculum, planning or choice, to name a few. We must embrace and rise above contraries and dichotomies. As poet William Blake said: Without contraries, is no progression.
We must be more ambitious in our scope and wider in our horizons and we must gaze further into the future. We must paint on a bigger, global canvas in order to solve the challenges we face as a nation and, more importantly, anticipate those our young people will face tomorrow.
Massachusetts started with a survey of employers about how the education system needed to change. From this and other data, the Alliance identified six gaps the challenges facing the education system. These will be no surprise and strongly resonate with the challenges facing the UK:
- The Employability Gap the gap between what the economy demands and what the school system produces.
- The Knowledge Gap the gap between what a 21st-century citizen needs to know and what graduates of the school system actually know.
- The Achievement Gap the gap in achievement between students as a whole and those from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
- The Opportunity Gap the gap in opportunity to succeed between the children of the well-off and the children of low-income families.
- The Global Gap the gap between the performance of the education system and those in the top-performing education systems in the world.
- The Top Talent Gap the gap between top-performing students and top-performing students in the best-performing education systems in the world.
Finally, they identified a plateau: it could be argued perhaps that these six gaps would not be quite such a major problem if the education system in Massachusetts was continuing to make rapid progress in improving overall performance and narrowing gaps. But it was not. And neither is ours.
Their solution was to build a shared vision of whole-system reform, systemic innovation and effective implementation.
Whole-system vision and whole-system reform
We already have a compelling vision of a school-led, self-improving system in ASCLs Blueprint for a Self-Improving System (www.ascl.org.uk/blueprint). Published before the General Election in 2015, it was publicly endorsed by all three (then) major political parties.
But in 2017, we find ourselves in a half-reformed system without a clear political direction. The threats to the system are significant in terms of fiscal restraint, real-terms funding cuts and teacher shortages. Then there are our big strategic gaps, probably very similar to those in Massachusetts. And finally, Brexit.
As we said in the blueprint, we want a system in which all children and young people achieve regardless of economic background or perceived intelligence. This is now an economic imperative.
We need to make the self-improving, school-led system real by securing the conditions for the new landscape of groups of schools to drive their own destiny and set in motion a virtuous circle of innovation, performance enhancement and further innovation that over time will solve problems we dont even know we face.
ASCL believes that the only way to address the many challenges and threats in our education system is to establish a powerful alliance educators, politicians from across the spectrum, community and other leaders to develop a whole-system vision and take forward whole-system reform over the next ten or twenty years. We must describe the end-state of our half-reformed education system and then move confidently in this direction.
Lets move away from government determined White Papers towards policy making that is shared and co-constructed. Deep and sustained reform of our education system must come from a broad-based alliance and a long-term shared vision. We must move away from central prescription to a profession-led system that is evidence-informed, innovative and ethical.
Leora Cruddas is ASCL Director of Policy and Public Relations
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Cambridge's premier pub and venue
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After our 2 month break our monthly Comedy night resumes this Friday, 17th Feb with a great line-up of top acts.
Headlining is comedian, writer and actor TIM CLARK, one of the brightest lights on the national comedy scene and a familiar face on television.
He's joined by Phil Cooper, Dan Offen, William Lee and MC: Lenny Sherman
Door price is still just £7.50 but as always you can save by getting your tickets in advance, only £5.50 from the bar or online from our store: http://theportlandarms.co.uk/wp/product/portland-comedy-club-ticket-feb17/
Independent Venue Week is a 7 day celebration of small music venues, like us, around the UK and a nod to the people that own, run and work and play in them.
Our venues give artists their first experience of playing live in front of an audience and for fans, somewhere to get up close to artists that one day, may well be playing stadiums and festival main stages.
We have several IVW shows this week including electronica from NECRO DEATHMORT and CAM DEAS on Wednesday, Indie Folk-Rock from HOPE AND SOCIAL on Friday and Pop-punk from SUPERGLU on Saturday.
We have a packed programme of live music and entertainment stretching into the summer already booked, keep an eye on our listings as we add more: http://theportlandarms.co.uk/wp/upcoming-events/
Our annual themed New Years Eve celebration is about all things space.
Let us take you out of this world as we blast off for the Milky Way with a night of interstellar entertainment!
With live music, themed entertainment and games, cocktails, buffet and some surprises.
Tickets are available now from the bar or from our online box office
More info on our Facebook event page or Portland website
We have lots of treats for you this Halloween kicking off this Friday with our scarcely good Comedy Club with headline Dave Thompson.
Straight after the comedy we will be having a free showing of cult classic Beetlejuice in the main bar with cocktails and games galore. A free cocktail for anyone in fancy dress!
Also starting on Friday is our Whiskey festival that runs through to October 6th and features 35+ whiskeys from all over the globe.
Collaborating Cambridge will be running a Halloween themed fundraiser for local good causes and Monday country stars Sarah Beth and Glen Mitchell call spirits of the past with classic hits and new material.
It's an excellent time to be a sports fan. The Olympics are in full swing and Great Britain are currently riding high, fourth in the medal tables as I write. To top it off this weekend sees the return of The Premiership with highlights Man City v Sunderland today and Arsenal v Liverpool on Sunday.
Our popular 2-4-1 on Budweiser also returns, it's available via the Matchpint app for every Premiership game this season. Download the app now to get these exclusive offers and all the sporting fixtures in your pocket.
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Maya, Louis and the CSO (and Artie Shaw)
Last night I went to the first of four Cincinnati Symphony concerts for which I have tickets this season. It is the inaugural weekend for the new director of the symphony, Louis Langrée. When I bought the tickets several weeks ago, I called the ticket office directly and had someone lead me through the purchase and help me select seats. I could have paid more and sat lower or closer, but by choosing the gallery, I had a good combination of view and value, and it sounds great once people stop whispering and start letting the music take hold. So I'll be in the 3rd or 4th row of section Q this season, and that suits me just fine.
Don't you like knowing there are still a few places you can call without fear of tedium, long hold times, and short-tempered or nonsensical people at the other end? It always seems like such a toss of the dice, and I'm not much of a gambler.
If you haven't attended a performance at the Music Hall, or not recently, you should know that it is a thing well worth doing. It's safe and well-lit, and there are people everywhere who seem happy to help you enjoy the experience. As I recall from last season, the coat check situation could be improved, but I'll see how that goes later this month.
I had the GPS on my phone lead me right to the parking garage entrance, because I don't spend enough time in that area to remember one way navigation, especially after dark. When I got in, Dr. Maya Angelou was already on stage speaking, and I was immediately captivated by her voice, cadence of speech, and personality. She was wearing a lovely long white dress and sat in a wheelchair discussing her life and what she believes people can and ought to do for themselves. She's had a remarkable life; broad and rich and worthy of honor and emulation.
Oh, and then the orchestra began to filter in, taking their seats and warming up. This always thrills me, and makes me wish to be a part of it, because there is nothing like orchestral music that is surrounding you as you contribute to it. It isn't just the sound; there's energy and a sort of electricity that infuses you. At the same time, the auditorium seats were filling rapidly. Naturally, I was in front of a man who did not know how to keep still or tuck his feet beneath him, and his wife was a whisperer. Well, this happens. To me, a lot. Anyway.
After the concertmaster arrived, the brass section stood up and played a fanfare for the new director! It was very cool. And when he walked on stage, all stood and applauded his arrival. I felt it was odd at first, yet somehow fitting, that the first piece of music began with the amazing talent of eighth blackbird, an unusual and impressive group of musicians who played Jennifer Higdon's On A Wire. The orchestra joined in after a few minutes, and at one point, nearly every musician on stage was making a percussive sound with their instruments. It was fantastic.
The first time I heard a Jennifer Higdon piece, I wasn't sure I'd like it, because I'm never able to be pulled into what has been a too-long atonal trend in contemporary orchestral compositions. However, she uses a great deal of inventive technique that builds into what feels like an astonishing cohesiveness. Really, I'm hardly anything like an expert, but I think she's got real genius. I'm always leaning forward to take in more. She's going to be looked back on as an influence, and how great is it to be a tiny part of that? I mean, I think we haven't yet heard the best of what she can do; we're just building up to it.
Next up was Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait. (Read lots about it here.) I love Copland. I'll write about why sometime. Three screens were lowered to show old photographs while the music played; images of battlefields, slaves, Abraham Lincoln, slave trade announcements, and civil rights demonstrations. Dr. Angelou was brought on stage and helped into a seat which allowed her to speak from a semi-standing position. She had changed into a gorgeous black evening gown. The music plays for quite awhile before the recitation of quotes from Lincoln, and about Lincoln and his life are spoken. She made it thrilling. One thing Copland did that I always admire when it's used well is to repeat the opening lines poetically. And it suits her particular oratory style perfectly. When the piece was finished, there was thunderous applause. I have been to some great symphonic concerts and some truly memorable rock concerts, but never have I wanted to stand with a crowd and applaud like it would somehow become some solid and lasting thing to give and to carry away. You know, manifesting it into being.
After the intermission, Langrée set Beethoven's Fifth Symphony off like a rocket. At first I thought it was going to gallop too frenetically for me, even in Beethoven terms, but then I realized that it wasn't galloping, it was rolling. I hadn't heard it played quite like this before, and I began to enjoy it. The Fifth is by no means a favorite of mine, but we played the final movement in high school (I've been trying to figure that out for awhile, I don't know,) and I do love that. It still marches through my head frequently. What I liked about last night's performance was that near the end of the scherzo, the third movement, there was this sense of almost running out of breath, and then the fourth took off again like the first. It was palpable. It's…well, it's sensual. There could be a metaphor in it. It wasn't a deep performance, but it was pleasurable.
The final ovations were enthusiastic and sincere, and I liked that. It was a great night and it's going to be a great season.
Okay, I wanted to share that on the trip to the Music Hall, which is 18 miles for me, I was listening to this goofy 90s playlist I made recently. Just as I hit downtown, Kid Rock's "Bawitaba" began. I found this hilarious for some reason. On the way home, I thought Beethoven in my head would be enough, but it took a billion minutes to get past the casino and back to 471-south, and by then I wanted external sound. Classical isn't really good in my car, and who knows what would turn up next on that playlist? The Spice Girls? So I turned on Artie Shaw, and that was a good decision. He was a gigantically egotistical ass, but he was a real musician.


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I added a little jazz and pop with a shaker pocket add on.
I am using Design D
I remembered to use the return key to start some phrases on the next line.
This gave my journaling after printing easier to cut.
I printed on Heavy Weight White card stock.
I used Tombow Mono Liquid Glue to adhere the strips, putting a clear block on top to help them dry flat and not curl up.
The downside was there was no #1 so I just used an I for the 1.
Upside was they were easier to keep straight.
I taped the edges so the filling would stay inside and it would give me a guide for my filling.
I also added some strong double sided adhesive towards the top.
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My Our December Story supplies mostly consist of Simple Stories products and Stampin UP Project life supplies. The Simple Stories products I purchased from Simon Says Stamp, various supplies from their different collections include project life cards, stickers, and alphas. I have put all my Christmas supplies in one big box and have not kept the packageing. I also get alot on Cleareance or Sale from Micheal's, Hobby Lobby, Target, or the $1 store. If you have any questions please ask and I will answer the best I can.
Some basic supplies I use I purchase from Hobby Lobby or Micheal's with coupons or on sale
Hobby Lobby brand is called The Paper Studio
their website is http://www.hobbylobby.com/home.cfm
Micheal's brand is called Recollections
their website is http://www.michaels.com/
Dollar Store site http://www.dollartree.com/home.jsp
Target Store site http://www.target.com/
Find me on Face Book, click here https://www.facebook.com/Craftyjennifer
Find me on Pinterest, click here http://www.pinterest.com/craftyjeffiners/
I am on Instagram too, craftjeffiner
These ARE NOT affliate links, no way involved with these company's, I just love their products. These are links to their stores.
My big shot, paper trimmer, bone folder, and other adhesives can be purchased at your local or online craft supply places.
My Stampin UP demo is Jenny Rast, You can purchase from her and support her by searching for her under the demonstrator section here http://www.stampinup.com/home/en-US/
- Daffodil Delight and So Saffron ink
To purchase from Becky Higgins the Project Life stuff click here http://www.shopbeckyhiggins.com/
- Design D page protector
Stamps of Life found here http://www.stephaniebarnardstamps.com/index.htm
- popcorn2stamp stamp and dies
- doodlebug designs bublebee sequins


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|Members Inspect New Rescue
|By Fire Chief Jason Brooks
|November 14, 2018
The past few days, several TVFD officers and engineers traveled to the Pierce Manufacturing plant in Appleton, Wisconsin to inspect our newest piece of apparatus. A year ago, a committee was formed and multiple meetings were held to work on specifications for a new heavy rescue truck that will best fit the department's needs. A design was finalized and submitted for production to Pierce through local dealer Glick Fire Equipment. Members spent 2 days carefully reviewing the completed spec list and inspecting the entire truck from top to bottom, front to back, and inside out. In between inspections, the members had an opportunity to tour the large manufacturing plant to see every step taken to build Pierce apparatus from raw materials to the final product. The officers of TVFD would like to thank the support of all our municipalities we serve in order for us to have the most state of the art equipment to protect the Twin Valley community. We would also like to thank our entire membership for their tremendous help with this project as well as Pierce Manufacturing and salesman Curt Woerth for their continued hospitality, quality product and good times they provide.
The new unit, designated "Rescue 69", is a 2018 Pierce Arrow XT non walk-in heavy rescue and replacing a 2006 Pierce Enforcer. After final delivery and equipment mounting, the new Rescue 69 should be in service early 2019.


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I talk on the future of AR as a panelist for Zugara's ARLA meetup
I was asked to sit in as part of the discussion panel for Zugara's Augmented Reality LA meetup group.
There was a presenter from google to talk about google google's AR application and then a panel afterwards.
I don't speak until about 1:07 into the presentation, in case you want to see.
WordPress won't let me embed the talk, but click the link below to see.


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Mass events are the source of potential danger to some extend. "Alfa – Legion" SEG provides reliable protection during both open and closed events.
During public order securing in the mass-event locations, the security personnel performs the following functions:
- Analysis of the event schedule and the plan of territory (space) of the event. Estimation of potential risks and functions of security personnel during the event.
- Preliminary cleaning of the premises prior to the event. Getting rid of potentially harmful facilities. Attention is paid to availability of emergency exits. Staff, food and beverage inspection. All unauthorized vehicles and items are removed and prevented from entering the area.
- Coordination of the visitor flow upon their entry, security against strangers and forbidden items. Restraint of violations and attempts to disrupt an event. Prevention of crowding. Advanced protection of VIP guests.
- Final cleaning of the territory of the event is carried out after its completion. The premise is inspected to confirm that there are no unauthorized persons or items left.


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High Court grants bail to Basil and three others
Posted on June 15th, 2015
The Colombo High Court on Monday (15) granted bail to former Minister Basil Rajapaksa. The Judge also granted bail to former Economic Development Ministry Secretary Dr. Nihal Jayatilaka, former Director General of the Divineguma Department, R.R.K. Ranawaka and Divi Neguma Regional Director Bandula Thilakasiri, Ada Derana reporter said.
The suspects were enlarged on a cash bail of Rs. 100,000 and four personal bails of Rs. 1 million each. The Former Minister and the three other officials, who were arrested on charges of misappropriation of Divi Neguma funds, have been remanded until June 18 by the Kaduwala Magistrate's Court.
Basil Rajapaksa and three other senior ministry officials were arrested by the police on April 22. They were arrested on charges of alleged misappropriation of funds in the Divi Neguma Department, which came under the purview of the Economic Development Minister.
Basil Rajapaksa, who left the country for the US on 11 January following the defeat of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the January Presidential Election, arrived here on April 21.


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The Business Intelligence and Planning business unit primary output is to improve the GGDA and the province's ability to conceptualise and implement targeted initiatives that will grow the key sectors and sub-sectors of the economy and accelerate inclusive economic growth. The unit develop information and products that drive the GGDA strategy and projects. It plays a key role in positioning GGDA as a market thought leader, and focus on influencing and informing the broader economic development strategy across the province.
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Dirty Diet Secrets
I'm on a diet. OK, I'm trying to be on a diet. OK God dammit, I am NOT on a diet, I just pretend that I am on one so that every time I get on the friggin' scale and see that I've gained another pound I convince myself that I WILL diet that day and for the rest of the week and lose that pound plus four more by the end of the week. And, sometimes I do. But in the meantime, along my soul searching trek to lose the weight and never gain it back I've found some guilty treats that taste guilty, but aren't.
The first one:
OK, you don't eat this, and that's why it's lowest on calories, fat and fiber. But doesn't really solve the chocolate craving. (Other cravings, yes, for sure!)
But Vitatops do. Like chocolate (My Fav). And they don't have preservatives, my pet FDA approval peeve. Plus, the last time I mentioned product on my blog I got some FREE samples from the company (Hellllllo, TRIDENT SPLASH). OK, I'm a product whore, I'll admit it. But anyway, I found this link where you can get 10% off your order of Vitatops. Click here to order. (I'm hoping for the free product, but hell, you might as well take advantage.) Vita folks?
I HATE MYSELF. Because I can't just eat one bag of Kettle Baked which otherwise would be only 100 calories. And once again, NO PRESERVATIVES. Run to your store and buy them. They are baked. And Salty. And delish.
Ok, I know last week I posted about that whole popcorn lung shit, but you know what? I still can't resist. I LOVE popcorn. Microwave popcorn. (Besides, I can't remember the last time I spent 24 hours with my nose in the popcorn bag.) And, it has to be Jollytime. I don't know if there is crap in it, but frankly my dear, I don't give a damn, because, guess what? I can eat a bag for dinner and be done. And pretend I am going to lose weight. And then maybe, I do.
Lastly, Quaker Lite Snacks. They come in all flavors (except in Duane Reade where they don't have chocolate, but that's my fav cause like I mentioned, I am a chocoholic. Or did I mention? ) Yes, I am. A chocoholic. If you are a chocoholic, or don't know if you are one, and want to figure that out, go to TOP TEN SIGNS YOU ARE A CHOCOHOLIC.
So eat, live, love, enjoy. And for god sakes, STOP DIETING! Hey Weightwatchers, FREE MEMBERSHIP FOR MENTIONING????? (I just can't help myself.)