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The strange combination of confection and beverage is no more. Cadbury
I have long wondered whether Cadbury and Schweppes were merged in 1969 to create a bunch of old British men who wanted to be known as "the world's coolest grandfathers." After all, if your grandfather owned a company that made candy, what could possibly make him any cooler? That's right, owning a soda pop company. It's a preteen's dream come true.
Sadly, that's about the best connection I can make between the two business units. I always had trouble finding a compelling common thread. The core of Cadbury has always remained confection, with the beverage unit separately managed and related only tangentially.
Managing both units seemed to distract top management from needed focus and might explain the comparatively lousy confection operating margins, as well as myriad restructuring programs that fell short of lofty goals. The distraction may have also contributed to problems that the company has experienced integrating confectionary acquisitions -- although the Adams acquisition, which brought the company Trident and Dentyne gums, was a notable exception and a glowing success.
In my opinion, management took a little too long to separate the beverage business. The company narrowly missed the window to sell the unit during the heyday of private equity and inflated multiples during late 2006 and early 2007, when speculation emerged that the drinks business might be merged with private label soda-pop maker Cott
I am not a big fan of the basic dynamics of Dr Pepper Snapple Group. With the company owning the rights to its brands solely in the United States, it will face a tough beverage market. Coca-Cola
This bizarre dynamic is due to the fact that both Coke and Pepsi tried to buy the rights to the Dr Pepper and 7-Up, respectively, within North America during the 1980s, but were denied because of antitrust concerns.
Besides international limitations, Dr Pepper Snapple is also a disadvantage to the Coke and Pepsi systems because a large portion of the company's volume in the U.S. is produced by Coke bottlers, most notably Coca Cola Enterprises and Pepsi bottlers, most notably Pepsi Bottling Group. To make matters worse, the company's core products -- carbonated soft drinks -- seem to be in a state of decline in the U.S.
In contrast, there's a lot to like in Cadbury's confection business. It is currently the largest in the world, at least until the Wrigley
A glaring exception is the U.S., where Hershey
Even without a Hershey deal, Cadbury has bright long-term growth prospects and profit margins with lots of room for improvement. With a little more managerial focus, this long-hoped-for potential may finally be recognized.
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SSH News: Canada tops higher education statistics, but tuition expected to increase
Canada leads in higher education spending, according to the latest study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Times Higher Education writes: "Canada overtook the US as the biggest spender on tertiary education, increasing its GDP spent from 2.6 per cent in 2009 to 2.8 per cent in 2010."
Examinant le même rapport, Le Devoir constate que Le Canada possède un des taux les plus élevés de jeunes diplômés d'université entre 25 et 34 ans (57%). Le Devoir ajoute que "[le] salaire des diplômés universitaires était, en moyenne, 59 % plus élevé dans les pays développés en 2012 que celui de travailleurs qui n'avaient qu'un diplôme d'études secondaires alors que cette différence était encore de seulement 51 % en 2000…," ce qui renforce l'importance de l'éducation postsecondaire.
The Toronto Star quotes Andreas Schleicher, OECD's director of education and skills, who praises colleges in Canada, saying that they strengthen the system by offering "many ways to get a post-secondary education and many bridges from the different pathways."
However, the Star also points out that, according to the report, "[i]n Canada, about 43 per cent of the cost of post-secondary education is picked up by privately, much of it from tuition, and this is higher than the OECD average of 31 per cent."
This is bad news for some, especially considering that tuition fees across Canada are set to increase by 13 per cent in the next four years, according to a different report.
In Embassy News, an opinion article by AUCC president Paul Davidson and Canadian Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Perrin Beatty underscores the importance of international experiences in Canadian postsecondary education. The writers mention the federal government's International Education Strategy, writing that "[far] from a luxury, industry needs students to have global experiences, to gain a cultural awareness that can't come from a textbook, and to equip themselves with languages driving commerce in growing overseas markets."


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"World of Warcraft" movie gets new writer, loses Sam Raimi
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"World of Warcraft" could finally, finally, finally get its film adaptation.
We've been hearing about this project for years, and for a long time Sam Raimi was attached to direct it. Now Variety is reporting that Raimi is off the project, but that it's getting a rewrite from "Blood Diamond" scribe Charles Leavitt.
That's good news for the franchise, because Leavitt has written some pretty great material in the past. In addition to "Blood Diamond," he also penned "K-Pax" and the upcoming film "The Seventh Son" which stars Jeff Bridges and "Game of Thrones's" Kit Harington. That blend of genres will be perfect for the "World of Warcraft" film if it sticks close to the game's source material.
The "Warcraft" series centers around the conflict between two opposing groups: the Horde and the Alliance. "World of Warcraft" has gone on to become one of the most successful online games of all time. It's done a good job of bridging the gap between casual consumers and avid gamers, so hopefully a movie would be able to do the same thing.
Variety reports that the hunt will soon be on for a new director to replace Raimi now that Leavitt is penning the script. Though there's no set release date, the film could be out as early as 2014.
Video game films have seen a recent surge in popularity ever since it was announced that Michael Fassbender would star in and produce an adaptation of "Assassin's Creed." Since, a "Deus Ex: Human Revolution" movie was greenlit and a rewrite was called for the "God of War" movie we've been hearing about for a while.
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This homemade costume for pets entered our 2015 Halloween Costume Contest.
A word from Lori, the 'Fort Pitt Bridge' costume creator:
I was looking for something very "Pittsburgh" to make Goblin into this year. Pittsburgh is known as "The City of Bridges," so of course she had to be one of the most famous bridges in Pittsburgh! Coming through the Fort Pitt Tunnel from the south, the Fort Pitt Bridge offers a spectacular view of the city. To make the tunnel, I sewed a white foundation garment (Goblin is white) to attach everything to. Next I sewed a strip of black fabric onto the foundation garment and painted the road stripes. For the bridge, I fed some air tubing through 2 strips of material and pinned it to a chair back to hold shape. With the arches pinned, I braided thread and looped them around to make the bridge cables. I stitched several thin pieces of material to make the lattice of the bridge top and sides. These pieces hold the shape of the bridge once it's on Goblin. After I sewed the bridge to the garment, I sewed on the little cars and printed/laminated the exit signs to hang from the top of the bridge. I will include a couple photos of the costume during different stages of creation.


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By Emma Stokes, WCPT President
It's hard to believe it's all over. The WCPT Congress 2015 in Singapore was the culmination of four years' planning and consideration and what a success it was. Thank you to the 3,500 physical therapists from around the world who took part.
The last few weeks have left me with so much to think about. First, there was the WCPT General Meeting that preceded the congress. It brings together all WCPT's member organisations, and each time I attend I love it more. This year WCPT admitted new organisations from Albania, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Congo, Mongolia, Montenegro, Niger, Saint Lucia and Togo. There was also the small matter of an election for WCPT President and Vice President. Even though there was only one candidate for each position, I have to admit to being nervous as I left the room and awaited the outcome.
Then there were the WCPT Awards – and how wonderful it was to be able to celebrate such achievement in the profession at a special dinner.
As for the congress itself, I am always overwhelmed by the number of physical therapists who attend from all around the world and the sense of global professional unity that arises. One highlight for me was the opening ceremony, where the scale and joy of congress is at its most obvious. The colour, dancing, the excitement were super and I was so pleased to see the dragon at the end because I have loved the congress dragon motif.
Other personal highlights were my involvement in an excellent focused symposium on advocacy, meetings with WCPT Future – our new network for students and early career physical therapists – and the social media networking sessions where we encouraged the profession to be more active in social media. All of these are areas which I hope to develop further during my presidency.
A session that stood out for me was the WCPT Futures Forum where five motivational speakers shared their vision for the future of physical therapy. What I loved about the event, which was attended by 130 physical therapists, was the variety of ideas and thoughts that will inform our vision for the profession as we move forward.
But the session also gave me a very personal perspective. One of the speeches was made by Stefan Jutterdal, President of Fysioterapeuterna, the Swedish Physiotherapy Association. Stefan referred to the fictional Swedish book character Pippi Longstocking and how physical therapists should adopt some of her characteristics – responsibility, courage and imagination. Later, I received a special gift from the Swedish Association, a Pippi Longstocking doll, along with the wish that I too will be responsible, courageous and imaginative.
I can only say that I will. The gift, and all the warm wishes of support I received in Singapore, meant a great deal to me. It was great to have my partner, John, and my parents at the congress to see what the global physical therapy community is like when we are together. You did not disappoint me: you embraced my family into your warmth and sense of celebration. I am proud to be a physiotherapist and part of the global community.
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reflection from neutral material. XSpec convolution model *Experimental*.
Convolution model for reflection from neutrial material according to the method of Magdziarz & Zdziarski (1995, MNRAS, 273, 837). This is a generalization of the pexrav and bexrav models. The reflection component alone can be obtained for
|rel_refl| < 0
then the actual reflection normalization is |rel_refl|. Note that you need to change then the limits of |rel_refl| excluding zero (as then the direct component appears). If
E_c = 0
, there is no cutoff in the power law. The metal and iron abundance are variable with respect to those set by the command set_xsabund. The opacities are those set by the command set_xsxsect. As expected in AGNs, H and He are assumed to be fully ionized.
When using this model it is essential to extend the energy range over which the model is calculated because photons at higher energies are Compton down-scattered into the target energy range. Please contact the CXC HelpDesk if you need to do this. The upper limit on the energies should be set above that for which the input spectrum has significant flux. To speed up the model, calculation of the output spectrum can be limited to energies below a given value by using set-xset to define REFLECT_MAX_E (in units of keV). For instance, suppose that the original data extends up to 100 keV. To accurately determine the reflection it may be necessary to extend the energy range up to 500 keV. Now to avoid calculating the output spectrum between 100 and 500 keV use the command
sherpa> set_xsxset('REFLECT_MAX_E', 100.0)
The core of this model is a Greens' function integration with one numerical integral performed for each model energy. The numerical integration is done using an adaptive method which continues until a given estimated fractional precision is reached. The precision can be changed by setting REFLECT_PRECSION. The default precision is 0.01 (i.e. 1%).
xsreflect Parameters
|reflection scaling factor (1 for isotropic source above disk)
|abundance of elements heavier than He relative to the solar abundances
|iron abundance relative to the above
|cos i, the inclination angle
Loading the X-Spec convolution models
Please see ahelp xsconvolve for information on how to load the model.
- This is an experimental release of the convolution models; please take care when using this model.
- Sherpa does not have an equivalent of the extend command in X-Spec.
XSpec version
This information is taken from the XSpec User's Guide. Version 12.10.0e of the XSpec models is supplied with CIAO 4.11.
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This script is not an official part of the CIAO release but is made available as "contributed" software via the CIAO scripts page. Please see this page for installation instructions - such as how to ensure that the parameter file is available.
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Think you live on caffeine? Four species of bacteria that thrive solely on the substance have you beat.
But these microbes get their caffeine fix from regular dirt—not the coffee which so many of us depend on to function. For example, people in the U.S. buy more than 2.5 billion pounds of coffee every year, according to USAID.
About 60 species of plants naturally produce caffeine, which contains carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen. It's also, I was surprised to learn, similar in structure to some of the molecules that make up our DNA, University of Iowa Ph.D. student Ryan Summers told me. (Get a genetics overview.)
Coffee is one of several plants that produces caffeine.
Photograph courtesy John Pavelka
Cool as they are, these caffeine-eating critters are already known to science. What's new about Summers' work is finding out how the bacteria actually process the caffeine. To be more exact, he found four newly discovered digestive proteins that break caffeine down into xanthine and then to carbon dioxide and ammonia—producing formaldehyde in the process.
"It's like looking at a clock and finding the gears that are responsible for turning the hands," said Summers, who presented his findings at the American Society for Microbiology meeting in New Orleans in May.
Figuring this out may benefit pharmaceutical industries, since the bacteria produce natural byproducts that drug developers can use as building blocks to create medicines. It's expensive to synthesize these byproducts in the lab, so having a cheap bacterial workforce would be useful, Summers said.
Sadly (at least to me) he added the tiny critters don't seem to get a miniature version of a caffeine buzz.
"It really is just serving as a basic food source, as we use sugars."
Overall bacteria are sort of the "give it to Mikeys" of the natural world—they consume everything from petroleum to rocks to even the metal on the sunken Titanic.
(See "Rock-Eating Bacteria 'Mine' Valuable Metals.")
For instance, they've done wonders gobbling a lot of the oil from the Gulf spill. Energy-rich oil "is basically butter" to these organisms, marine chemist Chris Reddy told me in 2010. "Any self-respecting bacteria is going to want to eat it."
Bacteria can also thrive in the most extreme of places, from the coldest reaches of Antarctica to smoking lava vents of the deep sea.
As biological and chemical oceanographer Patricia Yager put it earlier this year, "microorganisms find a way."
Check out more weird coverage on National Geographic News.


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"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
-The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
"The only real question is whether you believe in the legend of Davy Crockett or not. If you do, then there should be no doubt in your mind that he died a hero's death. If you do not believe in the legend, then he was just a man, and it does not matter how he died."
-Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - "Once More Unto the Breach"
To print the legend or subvert the legend; that appears to be the question which concerns Hollywood's efforts to fashion biographical films. Usually, the legend wins out, even if the legend is not complimentary towards the subject. Certainly no one expects a biographical film about Adolf Hitler to render him fully sympathetic, but films such as Max and Downfall at least tried to unearth his human side. Films such as The Imitation Game, The Life of Emile Zola and Malcolm X are very laudatory towards their subject; I haven't seen Selma but I understand it attempts to render a nuanced portrait of Martin Luther King. Then, of course, there are times when Hollywood ignores the legend and invents their own thing (A Beautiful Mind, The Babe Ruth Story).
All of this is fine; I like to know that filmmakers are attempting to be truthful about their subjects, yet I understand it's impossible to fully render a real human being on the screen in all of their complexities. What I find interesting is how a single filmmaker can approach two different famous figures from quite different perspectives. Said filmmaker was one Richard Attenborough; the films, Chaplin (1992) and Gandhi (1982).
To an Englishman such as Attenborough, both Chaplin & Gandhi loom large in his culture - one, the expatriate who became the most famous man in the world by venturing into the US, only to be brought low by scandal; the other, a revolutionary whose actions steadily chipped away not only at Britain's dominion over India, but over all its empire - and thereby, all of Earth's imperialist nations.
The story of Chaplin is drawn mostly from Charlie Chaplin's My Autobiography and is sewn together by scenes of Chaplin discussing his life with a (fictional) biographer. It journeys from his first appearance on stage, to his troubled childhood, into his conquest of Hollywood, his scandals, exile and ends on his return to Hollywood in the 1970s. Gandhi, however, is told in a straight forward (mostly) chronological fashion, beginning with the protagonist already 24 years old as he began his struggle against racism in South Africa, then moves into his opposition of the British in India, then the formation of Pakistan, his famed hunger strike and his assassination.
The most telling difference between the two films is George, Chaplin's biographer, who frequently comments on the story, offering doubts to Chaplin's recollections of how his life unfolded. At one point he questions Chaplin about his father:
George: "Your father?"
Chaplin: "What about my father?"
George: "Well, he died during that period, didn't he? When you were 12. You don't write very much about him."
Chaplin: "I don't know very much about him. He left just after I was born, he sang on the stage, he died of drink. What else should I say?"
And we in the audience remark, "Aha! He's concealing something about his father! If only we had the pertinent Freudian details about Chaplin's life, that would be the Rosetta Stone to understanding his personality!" Yet, having read My Autobiography, I'm inclined to agree with Chaplin's response in the film - that there really isn't too much to be said (there's also more about his father in the book than this dialogue would have you believe). Chaplin's relationships with his mother and brother seem more meaningful to me simply because those bonds lasted for many decades of his life.
If you're looking for a similar amount of interrogative scrutiny into Gandhi's upbringing, then his eponymous film will leave you disappointed. There are no Freudian insights to had about Gandhi's father; as noted, the film begins with him already a grown man.
Much of Chaplin is concerned with Chaplin's scandals which - fair enough - cannot be overlooked. His many problematic marriages are brought in, along with the suspicions that he was a Communist sympathizer, all of this conspiring to his eventual exile from the USA.
By contrast, Gandhi is not terribly interested in any of Gandhi's scandals. Do such scandals even exist? I'm afraid Attenborough is my only source on his life. I know enough from 1930s radio comedies to comprehend how much disdain there was for Gandhi in the western world and a lot of that contempt is shown in the film - but always by the Bad Guys. While there's a moment where Gandhi quarrels with his wife over the Untouchables (not the Brian De Palma film) and he comes off as being very harsh in that instance, he's ultimately proved right. Gandhi is depicted as a candidate for sainthood, unlike the roguish scoundrel Chaplin.
Again, all of this is fine.
While I admire both films, there is something about Chaplin which unsettles me. If I could put it into a single thought it would be: what's so great about Charlie Chaplin? Why is he still considered a giant in cinema, not merely a figure of historical significance but one whose movies are still the subject of film studies, books and documentaries? What made him so great? Because that context is what, I think, Attenborough overlooked in his film. He didn't forget it in Gandhi - anyone who wondered why Mahatma Gandhi is spoken of with reverence would have this pondering answered by Attenborough's film. But if you wondered why we speak of Chaplin with reverence, I don't think Chaplin would settle your mind. The film leaves you thinking, "Ah, Charlie Chaplin was an irresponsible jackass who ruined his career by sleeping around." According to Attenborough, that was the legend of Charlie Chaplin. It feels rather like telling the story of Louis Pasteur but downplaying the invention of pasteurization in favour of his home life. The first film is a celebration of Great Men; the later film is about tearing down Great Men.
I still like the film Chaplin, but I feel it could have been so much more. And just as Gandhi has become the greatest influence on how we think of Gandhi, I fear the portrait of Chaplin found in Chaplin is what many people have based their understanding of Chaplin upon. His life was something more than a tabloid headline.


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Specialist valve manufacturer Koso Kent Introl is deploying a new enterprise resource planning system to support its lean management drive.
Koso, whose products include high-technology subsea and topside choke valves and high-performance rotary valves for the oil and gas, petrochemical and power industries, is deploying an ERP system from Infor at its Brighouse, Yorkshire operation.
The Infor LN deployment is part of Koso's business transformation programme which is based on lean management principles, with the ERP system expected to drive "significant growth" when it goes live in spring 2014, said Koso.
Koso says it has identified a range of manufacturing and supply chain business processes that will be "radically developed". The Infor deployment will focus on a reduction in defects, shortening lead times and improving on time delivery rates.
A key element of this strategy is the Modular Configured Product project which will enable Koso Kent Introl to improve its competitiveness in the engineer-to-order manufacturing market.
In addition, previously, various departments throughout Koso Kent Introl had made individual modifications to an existing ERP system.
This has made it difficult to transfer data and inhibited integration throughout the business. The upgrade to Infor LN will enable increased alignment between departments, leading to more comprehensive reporting and less risk of error caused by data re-entry, Koso said.
Koso Kent Introl has also invested in Infor PLM and will integrate the configuration capabilities of the product lifecycle management application into Infor LN as well into its CAD software.
Tim Capewell, improvements manager at Koso Kent Introl, said: "We are going through practically every business process across our manufacturing and supply chain operations, and driving out inefficiencies as we aim for aggressive growth using lean manufacturing principles."


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Society always throws up a lot of roadblocks for women who want to break from oppressive gender norms — but women in the 19th century who spoke up and pushed back against sexist oppression faced a distinctly awful possibility: being locked away in mental institutions, which at the time were generally known as "asylums."
The trend of locking women in asylums was so widespread that Nellie Bly, the pioneering journalist, made her name by getting herself committed to a women's asylum, and reporting on abuses and mistreatment from the inside in 1887. But the real horror isn't just the way many women in asylums were abused — it's how they ended up in there. To be thrown in an asylum for the crime of, say, protesting your husband's affair with your niece was a real thing that happened — and a thing that happened not all that long ago.
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London Mayor Boris Johnson has today announced that the UN's World Heritage Status is to be conferred on the last remaining sex shops and strip clubs in London's Soho.
During its heyday Soho was a byword for bad strippers, low quality porn and getting beaten up by bouncers with underworld connections if you complained about the price of the drink you were served while waiting to watch strippers who never actually turned up. However most of these establishments have now been replaced by pleasant cafes, bars and restaurants.
'It's a question of tying to preserve the heritage while moving on, like they have done in the old docks and in the coal mining areas of the North and in Wales,' explained the Mayor.
'Hopefully by preserving these last few precious vestiges of the Soho sex industry, future generations of school boys on trips to London will still be able to buy packs of mucky playing cards and aging strippers can entertain visiting provincial businessmen before charging them £50 for a glass of warm Asti Spumante, thus preserving Soho's unique cultural heritage.'


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In 1978, when I was 25, I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. I was slightly overweight, but I proceeded to lose 20 pounds in three months. I had no more diabetes until pregnant in 1988 to 1989 at 18 to 19 weeks. I was normal weight and only gained 7 kg (15 pounds) for the pregnancy and used insulin. Within a year, my type 2 was back. I treated it with tablets I couldn't tolerate (gastrointestinal problems), but they worked to bring down my blood sugars. I went on insulin in 2006 at which time my C-Peptide was 0.8 (falling). At that time, my BMI was around 27 and weight was almost impossible to lose. I gained 14 kg (almost 30 pounds) with insulin and my BMI is now 30. At my insistence, in January 2009, antibody testing was done, two tests, three months apart. I had highly positive GAD both times so I have LADA. My latest C-Peptide was 0.1, and likely, by now, could be zero. I have been on an insulin pump since June and never better. My A1c has dropped from 11 to 9 to 7 in early August (two months on a pump while still adjusting doses) and is still improving.
My late mother had been diagnosed with type while youngish. She was normal weight and never had any antibody testing. I also have another musculoskeletal autoimmune disease, diagnosed just after pregnancy. At the time, I also had positive anti-thyroid antibodies but nothing has come of it and they are now negative.
My TDD (total daily dose) of insulin on the pump is between 25 and 40 units, depending on what I eat. Does this indicate much insulin resistance for my BMI? Did I really have type 32 years ago? Was gestational diabetes early? What's the longest honeymoon for LADA? Can you have MODY and LADA together? Do I have type 2 and LADA? Or, did I have LADA all along (no way to go back and test)? If it were LADA all along, surely I should have been insulin dependent long before this. I would appreciate your opinion.
It could have been LADA all along. However, the only way to know would have been to have measured antibody levels. There are also patients with autoimmune diabetes who have type 2 diabetes in families where type 2 diabetes is quite frequent. I am not sure you could have done anything different. Pregnancy is a window into the future because the placenta makes human placenta lactogen and induces insulin resistance. However, this insulin resistance gets better with delivery of the baby and placenta. The total dose of insulin up to 40 units is not that great and suggests you are not overtly insulin resistant. This would suggest the insulin resistance is minimal and less likely to be type 2 diabetes.
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- 1 1/2 pounds pumpkin or butternut squash, cut into 1 1/2-inch dice
- Olive oil, for drizzling plus about 1/3 cup
- Salt and pepper
- Nutmeg, freshly grated
- 3 to 4 tablespoons almonds or pine nuts, toasted
- 1/4 cup toasted pepitas (pumpkin seeds)
- 1 small red chili (such as Thai chili or pepperoncino) or 1 teaspoon chili flakes
- 1 tablespoon orange zest
- 2 cups flat-leaf parsley tops
- 2 cloves garlic
- About 1/3 to 1/2 cup, a fat handful, grated Parmigiano-Reggiano
- 1 pound penne rigate or farro penne with lines
Serves: 4-6
Preheat oven to 425°F.
Place squash on a rimmed baking sheet, drizzle with olive oil and season with salt, pepper and nutmeg. Roast until tender and brown at edges, about 20-25 minutes, turning once.
Bring a large pot of water to a boil for pasta.
Place toasted nuts and seeds in a food processor with the chili pepper, orange zest, parsley, black pepper, salt, garlic and cheese, and pulse to finely chop. Stream in olive oil, about 1/3 cup, to form a pesto. Taste to adjust seasonings.
Salt boiling water and cook pasta to al dente. Reserve 1 cup starchy cooking water; drain pasta and return to hot pot. Toss pasta with pesto and enough starchy water to coat; add squash and toss. Adjust seasoning and serve.


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Harold Lloyd was one of the most and successful silent film comedians. And yet, for today's audiences, he remains mostly unknown. In his day, however, Lloyd rivaled Chaplin and Keaton at the box office, making films for over 20 years.
Harold Lloyd was one of the most and successful silent film comedians. And yet, for today's audiences, he remains mostly unknown. In his day, however, Lloyd rivaled Chaplin and Keaton at the box office, making films for over 20 years. He established a durable persona: the fearless Everyman who surmounts all obstacles, wins the girl, and makes his mark on a recalcitrant environment.
The Lloyd estate has recently struck new prints of his major works, commissioning new scores and screening the results at New York's prestigious revival house, Film Forum, for a month, 20 April through 17 May. The series included the original silent version of The Kid Brother (1927) for the first time in over 75 years, as well as Welcome Danger (1929), screened in a new 35mm restoration. And in the fall of this year, the body of Lloyd's work will be issued on DVD.
Lloyd came to Hollywood in the early teens, where he met producer Hal Roach, the administrative intelligence behind Laurel and Handy as well as the many permutations of Our Gang and the Little Rascals. The two men began to collaborate in 1915, when Lloyd conjured up the "Lonesome Luke" persona, one of the era's many Chaplin knock-offs. Luke won over audiences, though, as Lloyd made up for a lack of innovation by packing the one- and two-reelers with gag after gag at a breakneck pace.
Around 1919, when most other comedians were playing oddballs, Lloyd took on a character more average than outlandish. Audiences identified with this alternately shy and hyperactive young man, whose round-framed glasses gave him an air of apparent fragility that collided with his impetuosity. This type resonated with the hyperkinetic social atmosphere of the so-called Jazz Age. In his willingness to do just about anything to succeed, Lloyd captured the zeitgeist in a way that Chaplin's tramp or Keaton's great stone face never did.
Lloyd's genius was perhaps most visible in his treatment of gags. He did not think of them as comedic window dressing, bits of business to sprinkle through a haphazard narrative. In the best sense of the phrase, Lloyd's films are well-oiled comedic machines, elaborated engineered mechanisms to generate laughs. He connected individual pieces of behavior through incremental elaboration, building from chortle to chuckle to flat-out belly laugh. Combining the absurd and the realistic, Lloyd conjured up a recognizable universe that succumbed regularly to chaos and calamity, only to resume normalcy in the final reel.
Take his series of so-called "thrill comedies." Lloyd favored the unease brought about through the sensation of height and a body's loss of security once detached from the ground beneath it. He figured out how to film stunts on actual structures so camera angles made him look at extreme risk, and so he rarely employed stuntmen. (One can see how Lloyd, as well as Keaton, influenced later stars like Jackie Chan, who similarly strive for authenticity of performance by routinely putting their body in peril.)
The most famous of these films, and the source of the clock image mentioned above, is Safety Last (1923). Drawing on the period phenomenon of the "human fly" -- who climbed up and down urban edifices without the aid of rope or safety net -- Lloyd employed a daredevil, Bill Strother, as his co-star. Harold's protagonist is a menial clerk in an upscale urban department store, who wishes to impress his fiancée by winning the store owner's offer of $1,000 for anyone who can advertise the company to a wider constituency. When Strother's character can't perform, Lloyd replaces him in the ascent. One obstacle after another -- pigeons, dangling ropes, the clock, a dog -- almost knock him off his path. Through the artful camera set-ups, the sequence possesses a verisimilitude that leads one to gasp at each impediment. The steady build-up of fumble after fumble epitomizes Lloyd's attention to detail and narrative structure.
At the same time, Lloyd had a keen sense of the absurd, demonstrated in the 1923 feature Why Worry?, where he plays an absent-minded tourist who fails to realize that the South American state he visits has succumbed to revolution. Even more outrageous is his oversized costar, an eight-and-a-half foot giant, whose rotten tooth Lloyd attempts to extract before he transforms the behemoth into a mobile piece of artillery by lashing a cannon barrel to his back and tying a basket of armaments around his chin. Even in such a delightful domestic fare as the uproarious Hot Water (1924), Lloyd concocts a cockeyed sequence out of a mother-in-law who sleepwalks and the presumption that he has overmedicated her with chloroform.
Lloyd had entered acting with the aim of being a serious performer, and when he succeeded in the knockabout vein, he sought to solicit audience sympathy. But while his hapless efforts to be one of the boys in The Freshmen (1925), he was unable to sustain this underdog effect. However much Lloyd's characters met with hardships, they never come across as disillusioned or depressed.
Perhaps the closest he came to playing a rounded character was in the unsung masterpiece, The Kid Brother. Set in a rural landscape, the film features Lloyd as the youngest and least demonstrative of the local sheriff's three sons. A traveling medicine show comes to town, but when the upright citizens reject its performers, they abscond with the money held by Lloyd's father to pay for a new dam. The temporarily out-maneuvered protagonist eventually recovers not only the cash but his errant reputation by virtually clobbering into submission an opponent near the size of his brothers. The plot, which resembles one of the most influential rural melodramas of the day, Henry King's Tol'able David (1921), has Lloyd using established archetypes without dispensing with the belly laughs.
Lloyd's career lasted past silent features, and he never fought the coming of sound as did some of his peers. He willingly re-shot a transitional feature, Welcome Danger, for sound when the technology proved irresistible. This film and its successor, Feet First (1930), retained his audience, yet Movie Crazy (1932) evidenced a precipitous drop off in public affection for the comedian. This even though it is one of the best plotted of his sound releases, featuring adroit use of both moving camera and deep-focus photography, showing that changes in technology liberated sight as much as sound.
After three more erratic and unsuccessful releases -- The Cat's Paw (1934), The Milky Way (1936), and Professor Beware (1938) -- Lloyd walked away from stardom without any apparent regret. One of the titans of 1940s comedy, Preston Sturges, enticed him back, yet their collaboration, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1946), proved a debacle. Sturges thought to update the figure in Lloyd's The Freshman as well as resurrect the high-jinks of the thrill comedies, but the star seemed oppressed by the material, and his dissatisfaction showed. Producer Howard Hughes re-edited the film, and re-issued it as Mad Wednesday, but to no avail. Lloyd's happy-go-lucky character was affiliated with a bygone era.
Despite transformations of comic taste, Lloyd's character nowadays retains much of its energy and virtually all of its wit. Lloyd insures that we respect the commitment to entertainment as something of a calling. Few answered for so long and so successfully as he did.


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Had Freedom Communications, owner of the Colorado Springs Gazette, filed for bankruptcy during better economic times, journalism-business observers would have immediately begun speculating about the odds that it might be purchased by MediaNews Group, headed by Denver Post publisher Dean Singleton. After all, Singleton had taken a run at Freedom back in 2003, and after being rejected, the Orange County Business Journal says he dismissed members of the Hoiles family, which owned Freedom, as "naive beach boys who have invited the sharks over to swim with them." Now, however, Singleton isn't in nearly as good a position to sink his teeth into the obviously vulnerable firm. Late last month, the Post announced that it had completed a new financing agreement with its lenders, and that's a good thing from Singleton's perspective. But in comments to the OCBJ, he conceded that MediaNews remains "stressed," and he came close to expressing relief that he hadn't actually taken over Freedom six years back. Sometimes a guy gets lucky....
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Review: Born a Witch, Drafted by the FBI! and Conjuring Quantico by T.S. Paul
The first two offerings in the Federal Witch series by T.S. Paul will likely be the only ones I buy. Despite an admittedly great story with an intriguing, vaguely alternate-history, plot-gimmick, I can't force myself to wade any further through the extremely poor editing.
I might have been warned by the cover composition, and the fact that these books are only available in e-format.
The concept is a good one: magic users (Paranormals) are a sizeable group in every country, and have been at the center of each historic conflict since the Great War (WWI in our history), which they call the Great Purge. Because the Allied victory in this war involved killing off the vampire clans in Europe (including neutrals, and those allied to Britain), the paranormal community is extremely leary of cooperating with government agencies like the FBI.
Born a WitchAgatha Blackmore is not only a witch, she is the most powerful witch of her generation. She is also a loose cannon with a tendency to commit wild magic with unintended consequences. Who better, then, to finally step up to work for the FBI? If her magic goes awry, as expected, at least she'll not be anywhere near the witch community.
This prequel tells Agatha's back-story: the "incident" when she was six that terrified her widowed mother and her aunt, and brought into her life the familiar Fergus, a My-Little-Pony-sized unicorn that talks—and cusses. The story reveals her strong bent toward law enforcement, and provides some reason to why she would comply with her family's desire to have her out of the community.
It also establishes the bias and bigotry of the FBI Academy's director and staff, not only toward Agatha, but toward other paranormals like her Were roommate Cat. The characters each have their own voice and set of quirks, including the politically-incorrect Fergus.
The novella would have been an enjoyably quick read if I hadn't spent so much time documenting the dauntingly numerous instances of apostrophe-abuse and number disagreement. What writer old enough to have a wife, as T.S. Paul's bio indicates, does not know that plurals do not have apostrophes, and possessive nouns (except pronouns) do? I reported dozens of such errors from this short 55-page novella.
Paul is lucky I ignored the apparent inability of the author to use commas; I would have still been reporting them if I had not. Leaving them out makes the reader work so much harder to figure out who is speaking to whom.
Conjuring QuanticoAgatha Blackmore and her roommate Cat are both accepted to study at Quantico. I didn't expect to find a close match with actual FBI Academy practices in a novel about witches and were-cats, so I wasn't disappointed when I didn't. It felt more like the movie Feds: cute girl roommates and a dweeby guy form a pact (or in this case, a Pack), and triumph as student-agents by using teamwork.
In this iteration, however, they're pitted against a team of powerful demons instead of clueless fellow students.
Here again, the story and character development rates a 10, but the apostrophe-abuse continues. And Paul adds a new issue: rampant capitalization. Random nouns are "properized" by capitalizing them. "Were" (a shape-shifter Paranormal) is proper in one sentence, and uncapitalized "were" in the next, and "were-cat" is just as likely to be rendered "Were-Cat" or "Were-cat." (It doesn't help that the Were Cat is a were-cat.)
I finally blew my stack when "Dike" and "Sill" (the igneous geologic structures) were properized.
I was sensitized by the time I came across two instances of blatant number disagreement. "There was two..." and "There was several..." made me see red. And don't get me started on the author's blatant disregard for the proper use of commas. "See Cat being a natural leader..." is just not the same thing as "See, Cat, being a natural leader..."
I wanted to love these books. I really did. I'm angry that the abyssmal editing prevented me from doing so, and even more incensed that I spent my own money to experience such a disappointment.
I can't recommend them to anyone else.


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I want to share a complete set of photo tutorials for all the special stitches used In a Slipstream of Colour, so here is the final one…ironically for the first part of the pattern, but in time for the Ravelry pattern launch tomorrow!
I originally abbreviated this mock cable to 1/1 RC – 1/1 Right Cross, in the free version of the pattern. But the "C" in this stitch probably should have stood for Confusion, not Cross. This is NOT cabling without a cable needle.
Therefore, I've renamed the stitch 1/1 RX – 1/1 Right Crossover, to differentiate it in the Ravelry pattern. I expect it's really an unvention, but I've yet to find it described elsewhere online.
I use this stitch because it best follows the other textures I chose for this design. It's like a warm-up for the second part of the pattern, which itself is designed to flow nicely into the third section.
1. With right side facing and yarn at the back of your work, insert right-hand needle into 2nd stitch on left-hand needle as if to knit it in the normal way (again, forget anything you know about cabling without a cable needle!):
2. Wrap yarn around needle to make knit stitch, but leave old stitch on left-hand needle:
3. Pull the new stitch through to the right side of the work:
4. You don't need to stretch the stitch like the following photo – I've only done this so you can see the new stitch more clearly here:
5. With yarn still in the back, knit the first stitch on the left hand-needle as normal:
6. Continue making the stitch by dropping the old stitch off the left-hand needle and let the new stitch sit on the right-hand needle, as normal. When you have done this, on the right-hand needle you can see the 2 new stitches.:
7. The next stitch on the left-hand needle is the one you already worked at the start; DON'T knit it again! Simply drop that already-worked stitch off the left-hand needle – you can just see the open loop when it is dropped off. This will close up automatically when you continue knitting:
8. Your 1/1 RX is complete. They're not much to look at individually, but when repeated you can play with colour and texture:
If you are making a project from In a Slipstream of Colour, the next photo tutorial for this pattern is 1/3 RX.
Happy Knitting! If you happen to spot a youtube video for this stitch, do let me know.


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Honey has been used by countless cultures all around the world over the past 2,500 years and no wonder! Over its history as a food, the main uses of honey are in cooking, baking, desserts, such as mel i mat, as a spread on bread, and as an addition to various beverages, such as tea, and as a sweetener in some commercial beverages. Honey barbecue and honey mustard are other common flavors used in sauces. Honey is truly a remarkable substance, made even more extraordinary by the process with which it is made. This blend of sugar, trace enzymes, minerals, vitamins, and amino acids is quite unlike any other sweetener on the planet. Also, many honey's health benefits have made it an important element of traditional medicines and scientists also are convinced of honey medicinal value.
Honey has been valued as a natural sweetener long before sugar became widely available in the 16th century. Honey production flourished in ancient Greece and Sicily. Nowadays it's China, Turkey, and Argentina that are the top producers of honey, followed by Ukraine and the United States. Mexico is also an important producer of honey, providing more than 4% of the world's supply. Most of Mexico's Yucatn producers are small, family operations who use original traditional techniques, moving hives to take advantage of the various tropical and subtropical flowers. At Export Portal are presented all the types of honey from all the quality honey producers of the world. We have suppliers of honey from all the countries.
Buying honey can be a tricky process if you don't know what signs of a good hony quality to look fo. We will help you understand what are the indicators of quality of honey.
- High-quality honey can be distinguished by fragrance, taste, and consistency. Ripe, freshly collected, high-quality honey should flow from a knife in a straight stream, without breaking into separate drops. After falling down, the honey should form a bead. The honey, when poured, should form small, temporary layers that disappear fairly quickly, indicating high viscosity. If not, it indicates excessive water content (over 20%) of the product. Honey with excessive water content is not suitable for long-term preservation.
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- Usually, honey is classified by the honey's floral source of the nectar from which it was made. Honey is traceable to floral source and therefore region of origin.
- Blended honey means that it is a mixture of two or more honeys differing in floral source, color, flavor, density or geographic origin.
- Polyfloral honey, also known as wildflower honey, derives from the nectar of many types of flowers. The taste may vary from year to year, and the aroma and the flavor can be more or less intense, depending on which bloomings are prevalent.
- Monofloral honey is made primarily from the nectar of one type of flower. Different monofloral honeys have a distinctive flavor and color.
- Honeydew honey is made when instead of taking nectar, bees take honeydew, the sweet secretions of aphids or other plant sap-sucking insects. Honeydew honey is very dark brown in color, with a rich fragrance of stewed fruit or fig jam, and is not as sweet as nectar honeys.
There is also a classification of honey by packaging and processing you should be aware of when buying honey. Generally, honey is bottled in its familiar liquid form, but can be sold in other forms, as well it can be subjected to a variety of processing methods.
- Raw honey is honey as it exists in the beehive or as obtained by extraction, settling or straining, without adding heat - although some honey that has been "minimally processed" is often labeled as raw honey. Raw honey contains some pollen and may contain small particles of wax.
- Filtered honey is very clear and will not crystallize as quickly, making it preferred by the supermarket trade.
- Ultrasonicated honey has been processed by ultrasonication, a non-thermal processing alternative for honey. When honey is exposed to ultrasonication, most of the yeast cells are destroyed.
- Creamed honey, also called whipped honey, spun honey, churned honey, has been processed to control crystallization. Creamed honey contains a large number of small crystals, which prevent the formation of larger crystals that can occur in unprocessed honey. The processing also produces a honey with a smooth, spreadable consistency.
- Dried honey has the moisture extracted from liquid honey to create completely solid, nonsticky granules. This process may or may not include the use of drying and anticaking agents. Dried honey is used in baked goods, and to garnish desserts.
- Comb honey is honey still in the honeybees' wax comb. It traditionally is collected by using standard wooden frames in honey supers. The frames are collected and the comb is cut out in chunks before packaging. As an alternative to this labor-intensive method, plastic rings or cartridges can be used that do not require manual cutting of the comb, and speed packaging. Comb honey harvested in the traditional manner is also referred to as "cut-comb honey".
- Chunk honey is packed in widemouth containers consisting of one or more pieces of comb honey immersed in extracted liquid honey.
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This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
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The National Research Council 2011 report lists quantifying the extent of de facto (or unplanned) potable reuse in the U.S. as the top research need associated with assessing the potential for expanding the nations water supply through reuse of municipal wastewater. Efforts to identify the significance and potential health impacts of de facto water reuse are impeded by out dated information regarding the contribution of municipal wastewater effluent to potable water supplies. This project aims to answer this research need. The overall goal of the this project is to quantify the extent of de facto reuse by developing a model …
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The Eagles had the youngest team in the country last season, and Byington guided them to a second-straight double-digit win total in Sun Belt play. Tookie Brown was named the Sun Belt Freshman of the Year and first-team all-league, while sophomore Mike Hughes was named third-team all-conference. Now in his fourth campaign at Georgia Southern, Byington owns a 58-49 career record, and his 51 wins in the first three seasons is the best of any Eagle coach in the Division I era.
Despite its youth in 2015-16, Georgia Southern ranked 13th in the country in turnover margin (+3.4), and the Eagles recorded less than 10 turnovers in 10 games and averaged 11.6 per contest. The Eagles averaged 75.9 points a game and scored 80-plus points in 10 games and 100-plus in three contests. Brown (4th), Hughes (9th) and freshman Ike Smith (20th) all ranked in the top-20 in the Sun Belt in scoring, and Georgia Southern set new school records with 3-pointers made (282) and attempted (834) in a season. Georgia Southern averaged 26.9 (21st nationally) attempts and 9.1 makes (27th nationally) a game. The 2014-15 Eagles went 22-9 overall, the program's first 20-win season in a decade, and 14-6 in their debut season in the Sun Belt to place second in the final regular-season standings. Georgia Southern topped ULM in the Sun Belt Tournament semifinals to reach the program's first championship game since 1992, and two missed 3-pointers in the final four seconds was the only barrier for the Eagles from a spot in the NCAA Tournament as Georgia Southern fell 38-36 to Georgia State in one of the most memorable Sun Belt Championship games in league history.
In Sun Belt play, the Eagles won nine of their first 11 games, including home wins over UL Lafayette and Georgia State in front of the first sellout crowds since 2009. Georgia Southern went 13-2 in Hanner Fieldhouse, and home attendance increased by more than 600 fans per game.
Jelani Hewitt's stellar career in the Blue and White concluded in 2015 with 17.6 points per game as he garnered All-Sun Belt first team honors, while Trent Wiedeman was named third-team all-league. Hewitt was invited to the prestigious Portsmouth Invitational Tournament pre-draft camp where he showed his talent to NBA scouts.
Byington earned some awards of his own by claiming NABC District 24 Coach of the Year and the Atlanta Tipoff Club's Whack Hyder Georgia College Coach of the Year Award. The Eagles' success was quantified by a 191-place jump in the final NCAA RPI standings, the third-highest ascent in 2014-15.
Byington's first season (2013-14) brought a new brand of basketball to Statesboro in the programs' final season in the Southern Conference. The Eagles made their first SoCon Semifinal appearance since 2005 and matched the program's deepest SoCon Tournament run.
The Eagles averaged 70.8 points per game, scoring more than eight more points per contest than the previous season, as the squad posted its highest scoring output in six years. Along with the increase in scoring, the Eagles cut down on the turnovers, giving the ball away just 403 times, the lowest total since the 1984-85 season.
Hewitt had a major hand in the Eagles' high-scoring output by posting 19.4 points per game to lead the league in scoring. Senior Tre Bussey had an outstanding season as well, adding 16.2 points per game as both players joined the 1,000 point club and earned all-league honors.
A point of emphasis for Byington has been excellence in the classroom as well as on the hardwood. Since being named the program's 13th head coach in 2013, Georgia Southern has broken semester GPA records and graduated every senior student-athlete.
No stranger to Georgia Southern, Byington spent nine seasons as an assistant coach at Southern Conference rival College of Charleston, including seven as Bobby Cremins' top assistant. He was named interim head coach for the final month of the 2011-12 campaign after Cremins took a leave of absence and guided the Cougars to a 7-4 mark in their final 11 contests.
College of Charleston posted an overall record of 194-100 and a 108-51 mark in the SoCon during Byington's time there. The Cougars recorded six 20-win seasons, logged three SoCon South Division regular-season titles, advanced to the league's tournament championship game three times and made an appearance in the 2011 NIT. Byington spent the 2012-13 campaign as an assistant under James Johnson at Virginia Tech, where he mentored ACC Player of the Year and future NBA draft second-round pick Erick Green.
A 1998 graduate of UNC Wilmington, Byington earned his bachelor's degree in physical education and was a three-year starter on the men's basketball team, earning second-team All-Colonial Athletic Association and All-CAA Defensive Team honors his senior year. A two-time CAA All-Academic selection, he scored more than 1,000 points during his career.
Byington began his coaching career as an assistant at Hargrave Military Academy in 2001-02. He served as the director of basketball operations at the University of Virginia during the 2004-05 season and was a graduate student manager at UVA for two seasons before that. He earned a master's degree in sports psychology from UVA in December of 2003.
Byington was a basketball standout at Salem High School and was named Player of the Year in the state of Virginia as a senior, leading Salem to the state championship. He also earned honorable mention All-America recognition and was a two-time first-team all-state selection. Following his senior season, he was chosen Most Valuable Player of the Virginia High School League All-Star Game.
Mark and his wife, Christy, have a son, Chase. The family resides in Statesboro.


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In the latest episode of The Good Wife, the war between private investigators Kalinda and Blake at Lockhart, Gardner & Bond (LGB) rages on in full force, and this time the gloves are coming off. Along the way, we have the honor and privilege of looking into Kalinda's past, which includes none other than Lili Taylor as Donna. Yeah, that Donna, who, last season, set off our Kalinda-is-queer radar when she answered the phone at Kalinda's house. Watch out, folks, because the law just got a million times hotter.
Blake drops in on Kalinda as she's analyzing the contraband she "procured" from his car, and by "procured" I mean she took a Louisville Slugger to both of his headlights, slashed a hole in all four tires, and sent a clear message to her arch nemesis at LGB that maybe next time he'll think before he snoops into her past, because she's got a lot of dirt on him. Little does she know, though, Blake has some exposing of his own to do.
Has Kalinda ever heard of the Illinois Lesbian & Gay Law Association? They just put out a ranking system on firms' hiring of LGBT people, and their very own LGB did terribly, even though Blake knows for a fact that there are gay associates at the firm. But why, Blake wonders, in this day and age, would someone not be upfront about his or her sexual orientation?
Kalinda snidely responds, "Are you coming out?" Blake chuckles it off and warns Kalinda that "people" shouldn't keep secrets — because it only encourages others to go looking for information. Once Blake is out of Kalinda's office, she quickly phones a friend and says that they need to talk.
What up, Donna? Kalinda pays a visit to the Public Defender's office and immediately interrogates her: Are you talking to somebody? An investigator named Blake? Do you know what this could do to my reputation? Donna, accustomed to Kalinda's cruel ways retorts, "Four months, and this is what you come to talk to me about?" Kalinda feels dumb and gently asks, "How are you?" Way to go, Sharma, the regular Humanitarian of the Year.
Donna can't be bothered right now because she has an incredibly important case to attend to — Mr. Bay, charged with indecent exposure and public masturbation. She reasons with the judge that it was cold and he was merely warming his shivering and, therefore, shaking hands. Ha! Judge Judy (or whomever) releases Mr. Bay, who then happily traipses off with his hands back in his pockets to — er — warm them up. Gee, you're welcome.
Kalinda, who has been watching, tells Donna that she could make a lot of money if she went over to the private sector, but why would Donna leave when she meets interesting people like Mr. Bay?
Getting down to business, Donna assures Kalinda that she's not been talking to anybody, and if that Blake character comes around, she won't reveal her secrets — you know, that she can be heartless and insensitive, that self-preservation is her #1 concern, and how after four months, she can barely say "hello." No way, she won't tell him any of that. Burn.


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Norton Core, the new Symantec router, was announced on Tuesday (3), and is designed to provide greater security and keep Wi-Fi away from viruses and threats. This is because the device scans all incoming and outgoing data for vulnerabilities.
The process is automated and offers quarantine on a separate network so you do not run the risk of contaminating connected devices. Internet speed is also one of the highlights, with two simultaneous 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands, plus the use of the Wi-Fi Wave 2 turbulent standard. And everything can be controlled in the palm of your hand with the application for mobile.
Talking about the design, the router brings a well differentiated and modern, spherical polygon shape, in the colors of gold and silver. The proposal is that the signal be sent in several directions at the same time, offering greater coverage. Inside there is still 1GB of RAM and 4GB of Flash eMMC storage. Two USB 3.0 ports and four Gigabit Ethernet network ports are available. The measurements stand at 152.4 x 154.4 x 127 mm. One of the advantages of Norton Core is that it is equipped with a dual 1.7 GHz processor, which promises to offer faster and smoother operation.
The router also supports up to 2.5 Gbps of speed and has 4 × 4 MU-MIMO technology (802.11ac standard) for maximum bandwidth. This makes it ideal for day-to-day home networking, for those who enjoy watching streaming movies in 4K high resolution or even running online games with heavy graphics. The manufacturer promises faster configurations and management directly on mobile devices through the Android and iOS (iPhone) compatible application.
According to Norton, popular for its anti-virus service, about 62% of users keep factory settings of the routers, which may be too simple and even vulnerable to malware attacks. For maximum security it is possible to create in Norton Core a special network for guests, with specific duration of time to stay connected. After that time the person no longer has access to your personal network. Firewall protection, secure personal data and parental control are also available to manage access to certain sites.
Norton Core is in pre-sales in the North American site of Symantec for the price of $ 199 (about US $ 647 in direct conversion), with delivery in the United States. Shipping is planned for 2017 and there is a future manufacturer forecast for product expansion.


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Reflective practice can be a magic formula for better teaching, but the trick is that you are the only one who possesses the knowledge to make it work. Luckily, this formula – based on the Experiential Learning Cycle (see Dewey, Kolb, and Rodgers) – is not out of reach. During the workshop, attendees will reflect on a classroom experience by taking it through each step of the cycle: description, interpretation/analysis, and action planning. With the guidance of the facilitator, attendees will gain clarity into each step, as well as insight into the value of pausing and taking a good look at each of these points. Attendees can expect to leave the workshop with a solid understanding of how to use the Experiential Learning Cycle to deepen their reflective practice and their awareness of what goes on in their classroom. With this awareness, it is the facilitator's hope that attendees will realize how the Experiential Learning Cycle can make a positive difference in their teaching and learning.
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Beautiful quality home by Polygon in the heart of Langley's Willoughby neighbourhood. This bright and spacious plan offers an open concept and expansive windows looking at Kids playground from living room. 2 spacious bedrooms upstairs including a master suite with ensuite closet & cozy bath. Resort-like amenities including outdoor pool, hot tub, clubhouse, billiard room, floor hockey room, exercise room, movie room, and outdoor playgrounds. Walkable neighbourhood. Close to new elementary schools & middle school, park, shopping mall, golf courses, easy access to HWY #1. Perfect location for family living and You'll Absolutely Love this home. Open House May 06, 2-4pm.
Check out all of the details of this Townhouse for sale, 116 20875 80 AVENUE, Langley, BC


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"Superbugs" Require Super High Health Literacy
Last week I read the always informative NYT article on antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" through the lens of – how does a low health literate person make meaning from this. I call this doing a Health Literacy Load Analysis – Identify the underlying concepts that the text/message assumes the reader has some working knowledge of. And then I work on what a good rewrite for low health literacy readers should look like.
Here are the First 3 Paragraphs: [12th grade Flesch Kincaid performed on a Mac]
¶ 1 Government officials, drug companies and medical experts, faced with outbreaks of antibiotic-resistant "superbugs," are pushing to speed up the approval of new antibiotics, a move that is raising safety concerns among some critics.
¶ 2 The need for new antibiotics is so urgent, supporters of an overhaul say, that lengthy studies involving hundreds or thousands of patients should be waived in favor of directly testing such drugs in very sick patients. Influential lawmakers have said they are prepared to support legislation that allows for faster testing.
¶ 3 The Health and Human Services Department last month announced an agreement under which it will pay $40 million to a major drug maker, GlaxoSmithKline, to help it develop medications to combat antibiotic resistance and biological agents that terrorists might use. Under the plan, the federal government could give the drug company as much as $200 million over the next five years.
Health Literacy Load Analysis of paragraph 1.
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1. Function of antibiotics: Antibiotics are medicines that treat infections ( not viral infections)
2. Antibiotic Resistance: Some antibiotics don't work any more because there are new, different, strong infections.
3. Superbugs: Some of the new infections that don't go away anymore with regular antibiotics are called "superbugs". They are not real bugs. We call them super bugs because they are stronger than the antibiotics. This means it is very hard or sometimes impossible to cure these infections.
4. Governmental Oversight/Public Safety: The government has to approve new drugs. It must make sure that all new drugs are safe for people and work the way they are supposed to. It can take a very long time for companies to develop new drugs and a long time for the government to approve new drugs.
Now what?
How do we revise this information for low health literate readers without losing all the substance?


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Oscar to stay behind bars
Johannesburg - Oscar Pistorius will no longer be released on correctional supervision on Friday because of a technicality, Correctional Services Minister Michael Masutha announced on Reeva Steenkamp's birthday.
This was because the decision to release him on correctional supervision was taken before he had served one sixth of his sentence.
Here is the full statement from ministry spokesperson advocate Mthunzi Mhaga:
Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Adv. Michael Masutha, has decided to refer the decision to place Mr. Oscar Pistorius under correctional supervision to the Correctional Supervision and Parole Review Board. The Correctional Supervision and Parole Board (CSPB) of Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Centre had taken a decision to place Mr. Pistorius under correctional supervision.
On the 17th August 2015 the Minister received a petition from the Progressive Women's' Movement of South Africa (PWMSA), wherein they expressed their opposition to the imminent release of Mr. Pistorius. In their submission, they request Minister, in his capacity as the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, not to approve his release citing the Parole Boards' insensitivity to the release of the offender during Women's' Month.
In considering the petition, it became desirable that he peruses the offenders' profile as well as the decision of the CSPB. In as much as the grounds for the petition cannot be legally sustained, he had to satisfy himself that the CSPB decision and the process followed was in compliance with the law. The Minister further sought legal opinion on whether he is legally empowered to do anything if necessary.
In so doing, it became desirable that he considers the applicable legislation pertaining to the length of sentence for offenders incarcerated under section 276(1)(i) of the Criminal Procedure Act (CPA).
Upon perusal of the offenders profile, he established that Mr. Pistorius was sentenced to five years imprisonment in terms of section 276(1)(i) of the CPA. It is also evident that on the 5th June 2015 the CSPB considered him and took a decision to place him under correctional supervision on the 21st August 2015. We deem it prudent that we refer to the relevant section that deals with the process of placing an offender sentenced in terms of section 276 of the CPA.
Section 73(7)(a) of the Correctional Services Act, Act 111 of 1998, states the following: 'A person sentenced to incarceration under section 276(1)(i) of the Criminal Procedure Act, must serve at least one sixth of his or her sentence before being considered for placement under correctional supervisor, unless the court directs otherwise.
It is apparent therefore that the decision to release him on 21 August 2015 was made prematurely on 5 June 2015 when the offender was not eligible to be considered at all.
It is therefore clear that there is no legal basis upon which such a decision was made and is in contravention of Section 73 (7) (a) which requires him to have served one sixth of his five years sentence. One sixth of a five years sentence is 10 months and at the time the decision was made Mr. Pistorius had served only over six months of his sentence. It is important to state that the Minister cannot make a decision to approve or disapprove the CSPBs' decision, except for offenders serving life sentences, as proposed by the said petition. However section 77(1) of the Correctional Services Act enables him to refer matters to the Correctional Supervision and Parole Review Board (CSPRB) for a review of the decision of the CSPB.
In the circumstances, the CSPRB has been requested to review the decision of the Parole Board.


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On one day in 2008 July, when I went to eat at a nearby food court (now demolished for the properties development), I ran across a high school classmate who I didn't meet up for 12 years the second day he stayed in the hotel. He was then on a business trip from China.
Everyday I can see the B-Suite hotel across the window of the house I currently rented but never took a picture for it. Several days ago, after a dinner with some friends who was going back to China, I brought my digital camera Nikon D90 to test the standard Nikkor AF 50mm/F1.8D lens. The night was rainy, an accidental opportunity made me picture a photograph of B-Suite Hotel as if it was struck by a lightbolt during a long (8') exposure. This was the first time ever I caputred a lightning in a shot. So surprised! Now I share it here.
The picture below was the original version which was directly converted from RAW to JPEG. And the top one was cropped, retouched and then converted a JPG using Nikon's Capture NX 2 software. Any kind comment are welcomed!
Larger version: Picture 1, Picture 2. All Images released under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 License.


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Ghazni is a strategically important center straddling the main highway linking Kabul with the south of the country. The attack on Ghazni is the most serious blow struck by the Taliban since they came close to overrunning the western city of Farah in May.
What objectives Taliban pursues in Ghazni Attack
Taliban intends its terrorist activities to have an emotional impact on the target audience, causing it to act in a manner that furthers the group's objectives. Military experts hold that terrorist operations generally are categorized in terms of their associated goals. These goals traditionally are divided into five categories: recognition, coercion, intimidation, provocation, and insurgency support. The objective that Taliban pursue from Ghazni attack is mainly focused on provocation aiming to force government security forces to take repressive action against the general populace. Taliban targeted the critical infrastructures, popular or high-profile individuals, or important facilities for further provocations. And the terrorist group wants to demonstrate the weakness of the Afghan government at the verge of the peace talks.
What Terrorist Tactics Uses Taliban
Taliban, as a terrorist group has used different tactics in the past including: hijackings, kidnappings, bombings, assassinations, armed assaults, and barricade-hostage incidents. According to the current situation they use bombings, assassinations, and armed assaults which are less risky and generally require less organizational capabilities. Taliban by employing these tactics tends to accomplish the following goals: Create a climate of fear in among the civilians through a sustained campaign of violence; it also wants to negatively affect Peace process that sees as against its interests or its sponsors interests; and eliminate specific individuals or groups in the province that pose threats to them due to public influence they have among the people.
Security analysts argue that attaining the terrorist organization's goals depends on receiving adequate information for planning and executing an operation. They emphasis that the Eidul Fitr ceasefire, has been miscued by the terrorist group of Taliban; first, many of the armed Taliban came to the cities including, Kabul, Ghazni, Heart , Mazar e Sharif and they stayed in the cities to carry out terrorist attacks; As such, this opportunity served them to access to the detailed information for planning and executing its attacks on Ghazni and other major cities of Afghanistan. Also, the Taliban could access to the information on the movements of key personnel, or the identity and vulnerabilities of critical facilities. Security analysts insist that Afghan ANSF and especially the NDS shall take the necessary measures to deny terrorists the critical information that they require planning an attack, and shall implement security countermeasures that are commensurate with the assessed level of risk.
Terrorist operations require detailed information for planning and executing an attack. The terrorist groups spend a lot of time and money to have access to intelligence to produce intelligence required for an attack. Though, the Eidul-Fitr short term ceasefire was an strategic breakthrough in the Afghan long standing conflict, it provided the Taliban a unique opportunity to have access to the information they require for an attack in different parts of Afghanistan. In addition, Afghan ANSF and especially the NDS failed to take the necessary measures to track the armed Taliban who entered into the cities during the ceasefire and remained for planning and carrying out terrorist attacks. This is one of the causes of mounting attacks by the Taliban after the ceasefire, causing huge human and material casualties to the Afghan people and government. The main lesson of the short terms ceasefires to Afghanistan is that, we shall pursue reaching a sustainable peace through different chillness and at the same time shall not create conducive conditions to the terrorist groups to misuse our good will and base their military offensives on such initiatives. To do this, the NDS plays the key role to deny information to the terrorist groups.
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Ghazni Attack: A fatal Intelligence Failure
Ghazni is a strategically important center straddling the main highway linking Kabul with the south of the country. The attack on Ghazni is the most serious blow struck by the Taliban since they came close to overrunning the western city of Farah in May.


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A CEO client of mine is struggling to grow his business revenue and market share. The good news is that he is getting new clients and contracts. The bad news is that he is frustrated with his leadership team's inability to deliver the quality and service levels that are key to the company's reputation. When we met last week, he was bemoaning a recent gaff – a client deliverable was sent out late due to last minute errors showing up in the work. This incident sharply illustrated that the desired business growth will be stymied by his leadership team's inability to build operational infrastructure fast enough to support the new client expectations.
The CEO had a blunt request for me when we met: Would I train and coach his leader team to be more innovative? I asked him to describe for me what he needed. What is he seeing or not seeing that makes him believe that his team is not innovative? He responded: "My Directors and VP's are totally focused on running the business day by day. They continuously execute existing processes and procedures without looking for new and better ways to do things. I need new leadership who will challenge the status quo and think out of the box."
My gut reaction to his request was first to cringe at the old box aphorism. Next I asked him my bonus question: How are mistakes and errors handled in your organization? What happened last wek when the client work was found to have errors? As I expected, he told me that his company had a long history of blame and negative repercussions for mistakes. People would rather stay with the tried and true than risk damaging their reputation and further success by going out on a limb with a new idea. I proceeded to tell him not to waste any money or time on coaching and promoting innovation until he changed leadership behaviors towards mistakes.
Here is my personal rant on innovation: everybody has the capacity to be innovative and creative to some degree. Many people have the ability to be highly creative in how they perform their job. It is the organization's responsibility, specifically the senior leadership's responsibility to recognize, nurture and grow creative acts. Build it or kill it. The most fatal action a leader can take which will rid his or her organization of new thoughts and ideas is to not tolerate mistakes. You cannot build innovation by constantly hiring people with a track record of innovation. You build an innovate culture by recognizing and rewarding innovative acts, even if they result in failure. Use failure as a means of learning and development, not as a way to blame. If a person fails and does not know how to do the job right, that calls for training. If they fail and know how to correct the system next time, that's learning. Neither mistake should be punished, the effort at trying something new needs to be rewarded and the learning promoted throughout the organization. In that organizational climate innovation will flourish.