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Without question, lots of kids have recently made UT Austin their dream school. While they may not have understood Empowering Leadership Alliance's (ELA) Towers of Hanoi problem, or walked away with the ability to program UT's soccer-playing robots, they certainly got the message that computer science, and school itself, is fun.
Some of them were wearing matching shirts with pictures of Einstein that said "be smart, go to college," while others walked around with their alumni parents nervously chattering about how their three year olds might grow up to break their hearts by going to A&M.
Other attendees had already been accepted, and watched as their future professors guided robots through a hula hoop, or heard from current students about what it's like to major in computer science.
And current students like myself were reminded of how fortunate we are for our opportunities, and how many people are amazed at what we get to do—even if forty kids had seen me struggle with the washing machine earlier that morning while touring my dorm.
A wonderful thing about UT is that it basically stays like this all year. Sure there's typically fewer kids climbing on Gateshenge (thanks Rohan for finally explaining to me what the giant structure in front of GDC is), but almost every day you can fill in the sentence "Whoa, I didn't know we had a _____!" with something new and exciting.
There's lots of reasons that people say college is the best years of your life. You're given all of the knowledge and resources that you could possibly want, and you're encouraged to see the world with the same wide-eyed excitement as UT's tiny explorers. At the same time, you're responsible and smart enough to do the really cool stuff – and nobody's worried that you'll break something. And you're constantly surrounded by brilliant and inspiring people with lots of common interests.
It's really impossible to be unhappy here. Even when we're not trying to impress future Longhorns, I don't think I've met a single person at UT who wasn't passionate about something that the university supported them with. And even though whatever that passion is varies for all of us, the inclination to encourage others is something that we all possess.
I definitely feel like one of the Explore UT kids whose dream came true. We say that what starts here changes the world, and I am incredibly lucky to see it happen every day. Explore UT was a great way to give the rest of the world a small glimpse into our extraordinary university, and proved that it will continue to inspire people long into the future.

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Cell Phones & Distractions
Cell phones have been rising in popularity as we move into more technologically-advanced generations. Not only have cell phones become more popular, but the urge of making a presence on social media has been growing as well. The internet is now accessible on our mini computer devices, and it is becoming easier to be attached to them as we carry on our day-to-day routines. Admittedly, our cell phones are also great for communicating to the outside world and they can play an important role in all forms of communicating. Whether communicating with your friends and family, or your coworkers and supervisors, your cell phone enables you to connect to the outside world with a click or a tap. Cell phones obviously have their positive attributes, but they have also earned a reputation for being distracting.
Last semester, I conducted a research project to see just how distracting cell phones can be. Since it is difficult to measure distractibility of cell phones, I had two different tasks that participants were going to complete with two parts to each task (A and B). I had two groups for my independent variable. The first group had their cell phones present in the top right corner of their desk while they completed these tasks, and the second group had their cell phones put away where it was not visible while they did the tasks. The two tasks were the "Digit Cancellation" task and the "Trail Making" task. These two tasks had different directions for each and the first task was made to be easier than the second task. Because it is so difficult to measure distractibility, I chose these tasks because they focus specifically on sustained attention. My hypothesis was that the participants in the "phone present" group would perform worse on the second part of both tasks than those in the "phone absent" group. Since this was my first time conducting an in-depth study independently by going around into different college classes, there were many limitations and the results did not necessarily come out the way I had hoped, but the point of my study is to show that cell phones are distracting in environments that require an individual's full attention. There is literature that strongly suggests that cell phones can influence a person's performance on tasks that require complete focus. After learning what worked and what didn't work in my previous study, I plan to do another study on cell phone distraction for my Senior Thesis class this semester. I plan to look at eyewitness memory and cell phone distraction.
Bottom line — research and literature have shown that cell phones, Internet use, social media use, etc. can be distracting to an individual. Even if the distraction has an individual's attention for only a few seconds, the amount of time it takes someone to get back on task outweighs the amount of time someone was initially on task (Thornton, B., Faires, A., Robbins, M., & Rollins, E., 2014). This can hinder productivity in many different environments. The next time you decide to pick up your cell phone in the middle of class, work, an important meeting, etc., really take a second to think; is this worth my attention?
Thornton, B., Faires, A., Robbins, M., & Rollins, E. (2014). The Mere Presence of a Cell Phone May be Distracting. Social Psychology, 45(6), 479-488. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000216


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Why having a December birthday is the absolute worst
I don't know how many of you plan to bring children into this world. I also don't know whether you plan to jump-start this process in the next year, or in the much more distant future. But regardless of your personal procreation strategy, I beg of you: do not conceive in March. In fact, just to be safe, avoid April, too. Because if you choose to get pregnant during those months, you're getting a December baby, and there's a good chance your kid will never forgive you for it.
Everyone knows Christmas kids are doomed from day one, but as any radio DJ or CVS manager could tell you, the holidays are in full swing the second Thanksgiving ends. So really, anyone celebrating a birthday in the last month of the year is in for a bad time. They can plan and accommodate and adjust all they like -- there's no way they're beating back the festivities for even one night. I know: I was born just four days shy of 12/25. And since I've already spent a good deal of my life griping about it, I thought it was time I offered a definitive, self-pitying essay for all my brothers and sisters with the world's worst due dates. I wish I could say it gets better, but we all know that's not true.
Getting screwed over by Santa: an origin story
Just how bitter you are about your December birthday depends a lot on your childhood. No matter what, it's gonna be at least a little ruined, but there's a world of difference between "got a few less cards" and "got old candy canes instead of a birthday cake".
I was lucky. My saintly Mother took pains to keep my big day separate from Christmas. She'd always manage to orchestrate a kickass shindig with my friends a few weeks earlier, and then hold any presents from her and my Dad until the actual day, when I also got to pick out whatever I wanted for dinner. I still had to learn to fake a smile, as certain family members gave me sweater sets that somehow counted as holiday and birthday gifts, but I sucked it up. Because I know other December babies who were far less fortunate. For a very real depiction of just how brutal it can get, I turn your attention to this episode of the dearly-departed Happy Endings, in which the gang finds out that Jane's a secret Christmas baby:
(Seriously, how have we not all jumped on this "name your own birthday" concept?)
You'd think teen birthdays would be the most dramatic, since teenagers are such naturally sulky creatures, but all your friends are still living at home, and bored, and usually unable to throw a conflicting, raucous Chrismukkah party. Plus, all anyone wants to do at that age is listen to Dashboard Confessional in their room and think about how only J.D. Salinger gets them anyway. If people actually do snub them in favor of the holidays, it just feeds their moody egos. No, in my experience, it's during adulthood when you abandon all hope.
The pain of party planning
The early years are when you get your first taste of disappointment, but if you hadn't learned to manage your expectations as a fifth-grader, you catch up fast once you're a grown-up. Because when you're a kid, the actual parties aren't really your problem. It's on your parents to organize those things, and your friends' parents to make sure the guests show up. But things get aggravating real fast once the responsibility shifts to you. While most people just make a Facebook event two weeks out and trust a crowd will show up at whatever bar they've chosen, that's not how it goes when your birthday falls in the most unfortunate month of the year. For us, planning a party is as stressful and labor-intensive as scheduling a wedding... when almost all your guests refuse to RSVP.
I usually have to give people soft notices starting in November -- just to remind them my birthday is a thing that exists and get a feel for when everyone's heading home. Actual invites go out around the first week of December. There's always a rambling, apologetic preamble about the super-early ask, and at least two weekend options. My best friends are well-versed with the song-and-dance at this point, and respond pretty promptly. (Brief break from the diatribe to say I appreciate each of you beautiful snow leopards.)
But all the other people I invited? "Gotta go to a cocoa party in the park!" "Bummer, I'll already be home for my 40-day holiday vacation!" "My boyfriend's third cousin is actually having an ugly sweater party!" Those excuses are even lazier than Garfield, yet I'm supposed to act like they're totally valid reasons and not take it personally. I'm also expected show up and buy those a-holes shots when their more convenient birthday rolls around. Which I do, because the alternative is to have a crappy birthday plus no friends.
Once I've managed to put together a motley crew of revelers, there's still a solid chance Christmas will overshadow the whole thing. Last year, all I wanted to do was grab dinner with a few friends and then head to a bar to drink and play board games. Do you know what happened when I showed up at the restaurant? It was overrun with inebriated dudes in Santa suits. Because even though the New York scourge known as SantaCon was taking place a solid 50 blocks away, those guys managed to stumble all the way up to my location, turn my wait time into an hour and 20 minutes, and then further taunt me at the adjacent bar I retreated to. By the time I actually got to eat, I was a miserable grump who just wanted to be alone with her angsty thoughts, and maybe a pile of Santa hats soaked in kerosene.
Due to all this drama, many December babies choose to just celebrate at home with their family during the holidays. And do you remember the last time you had a good night with your weird cousins from Muncie? Exactly.
Birthday blues
A lot of you smug jerks with summer birthdays are probably thinking, "Kristin, aren't you being a little dramatic? Who really cares about their birthday past the age of 21?" But do you actually realize why we December babies get so worked up about this? We aren't asking for a four-day booze cruise here. We just want a nice, normal acknowledgment of our birth -- and somehow even asking for that makes us feel like we're placing an insane burden on our friends and family. Those same people who, by the way, are kinda ignoring us. We get that you guys aren't being intentionally neglectful. It's just when you're all gallivanting around ice skating, wishing complete strangers happy holidays, and generally being jollier than Santa on Percocet, it comes off as especially callous when you forget to text us happy birthday. Or present us with a gift you obviously picked up at your White Elephant office party. Seriously, we can see right through that singing monkey tape dispenser, so don't even try it.
Never forget. (via @ImprovHistorian) #Christmas - http://t.co/fH9cGegFY2 pic.twitter.com/NcUNgG5PRS
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The most messed-up part about the whole thing is that we aren't even allowed to complain about being shunned. No matter how carefully you word your case, all anyone's going to hear is, "I hate the holidays", and people who hate the holidays are less popular than fruitcake. The only person you can actually grumble to is a fellow December child. And seeing as we're conditioned not to voice our grievances, it's hard to spot brothers-in-arms. Especially since they're usually in a corner, crying and raging against a Frosty the Snowman figurine.
Admitting defeat
I really wish my birthday could coexist with all this merriment, because I actually love Christmas. Even the corny, lame stuff I'm supposed to act like I'm above. I still freak out when I realize it's the day of the Rockefeller Center tree lighting. I have a $5 paper star lantern from the Berlin Christmas markets that I value more than my TV. And in fact, I'm even listening to Stevie Wonder holiday jams as I type this rant. But unlike those imaginary holiday jihadists Rush Limbaugh loves to rail against, I know any "War on Christmas" is unwinnable. The holidays will always creep in. So on second thought, I think I will take that new birthday declaration. It's now officially April 25th. Be there, or be dead to me.
Kristin Hunt is a Food/Drink staff writer for Thrillist, and will be spending her birthday in Philly this year, watching Syracuse beat 'Nova. And then probably singing "All I Want for Christmas Is You" at some karaoke bar. Follow her to cups of mulled wine at @kristin_hunt.


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Planning Board Votes Unanimously to Approve Remodeling of Arsenal Project
Town Hall – The Watertown Planning Board met for the first time in 2017 to vote on whether or not to approve the Arsenal Project remodeling master plan. After hearing from residents and town officials during public forum, Planning Board members voted unanimously to allow the Arsenal Project to become "Arsenal yards" and built hundreds of residential units, add new open green space and retail shops.
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The beginner level for recreational divers. This is the easiest and fastest way to get started in the world of recreational diving.
Your first step in recreational diving. The Open Water course allows you to dive without any supervision within the limits of your training and experience.
This course consolidates what you have learned and develops new capabilities by introducing you to new activities and new ways to have fun with diving.
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"Bright citrus and floral aromas introduce our Sauvignon Blanc. In the mouth, it is fresh and enduring, providing a good, but not heavy, volume. This Old World-style Sauvignon Blanc offers subtle minerality and notes of grapefruit and lime. The wine?¦+s acid is both balanced and integrated, giving it an elegant softness."
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Special Agent for the FBI
In May of 1965, after serving as a naval officer for several years, I arrived in Washington, D.C., to begin my training for the position of Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I was both naive and apolitical. I thought of myself as an intense idealist and was convinced that the FBI was an organization in which personal integrity was highly valued. To me the organization was above all a protector of the innocent public and only secondarily the relentless pursuer of wrongdoers. In short, I was an ideal candidate for the job. I would not question; I would simply learn to do as I was told, content to believe that the FBI would never direct me wrong.
This belief managed to survive my first two years in the bureau, during which I worked on criminal investigations and government job applications. It was when I was assigned to work in Internal Security in Washington, D. C., that I began to have my first serious doubts about the integrity of the organization, its motives, and its goals.
The Washington Field Office is the operating arm of the FBI in Washington, D.C. Like other field offices, we reported to the bureau's Washington headquarters, but our office was one of the largest. Assigned to the office were between five and six hundred agents, broken up into squads of from a handful to fifty or sixty. Two squads worked only on applications for government jobs and five or six handled criminal investigations. In addition, there were nine squads assigned to do "security" work. One of those nine was charged with investigating all of the various individuals and organizations that allegedly threatened the national security or that advocated the overthrow of the United States government by force or violence.
It was to this squad that I was assigned in May, 1967, shortly before my second anniversary as an agent. I looked forward to the assignment because anything would have looked good to me after a few months spent investigating applicants for government jobs. But I realized that all my FBI experience until then had in no way prepared me for work in security. During the training course for new agents which I had undergone in 1965, instruction on "security" meant listening to stories of the bureau's great accomplishments, e.g., the capture of the Nazi espionage teams that landed in Florida and New England during World War II, and, of course, the apprehension of Colonel Rudolph Abel. We learned also that the bureau had been able to break up the Ku Klux Klan and the Communist Party.
But nothing in this training was meant to define how the FBI views national security or threats to it. We were told instead that only a handful of experienced and carefully picked agents, the "cream of the crop," were selected to work in this most difficult and challenging field. Furthermore, information about the security work of the FBI was supplied on a "need to know"…
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Applying fundamentals of science to sport: threats, challenges, solutions
Distinguished Professor Coutts and Professor Impellizzeri discuss common biases / fallacies in sport and embracing uncertainty in decision-making.
Study High Performance Sport
Dist Prof Aaron Coutts: The Human Performance Research Centre brings together expertise across the university to focus on issues relating to human performance.
Our work improves health outcomes in providing the best available evidence to inform professional practice. We take a multidisciplinary approach to solving the problems that arise in our research.
A/Prof Mark Watsford: The real world of sport science and working with professional teams enables us to get access to high quality athletes, and if we're looking at performance enhancement, we really want to be working with the best of the best.
Building good industry partnerships really helps to get high quality research, and we bring a scientific rigor and a high-calibre research design to modify behaviours that can ultimately improve performance and potentially reduce that injury risk.
Dr Libby Pickering Rodriguez: If we've got athletes that are coming to us that want to know about how they're moving, how they might improve their technique or why they might be getting injured, we can help them out.
So we could look at particular movements such as vertical jumping or bounding or sprinting. And through the magic of motion capture cameras and software, we're able to create a computer model of that person, so we can look at the way the person is moving at particular points of interest.
Dist Prof Aaron Coutts: Embedded research is a large part of the work that we do. We get the expertise from coaches, we take into account the values of the athletes in designing our programs, and then we get the best available evidence to match those problems.
Mitch Henderson: UTS and Rugby Australia are both housed in this building at the Moore Park precinct, where we also share the area with a lot of other sports teams and organisations such as the Sydney Swans, Sydney Roosters, and Cricket New South Wales. For me personally it means I'm able to conduct my research on elite athletes which is the exact population that I'm trying to benefit.
Dist Prof Aaron Coutts: The students in our research centre are the heartbeat of the centre. They work with experts from a theoretical or framework perspective, but really they do the day-to-day work in the sporting organisations or in the lab.
And being based at Moore Park really provides us a massive advantage in that we're several hundred metres from some leading sport institutions and organisations, and we're hoping to collaborate and partner with them extensively to produce evidence-based solutions to the problems that occur in high performance sport.
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The official trophy of the event exhibited at the stand of the venetian company, partner of Giro since 2012. Everyone can pop by and be the protagonist of a Champion picture.
Tuesday 8th April at 12.00 the first bottle of Giro 2014 will be opened at the stand.
This year Astoria Vini, partner for the third year of the cycling competition Giro d'Italia, brings to Vinitaly a big surprise: the official trophy of the event. It is called "Trophy with no end", as it is made up of a spiral, which goes up from the base and widens in larger circles that increase in number, year by year, displaying the names of winners, all hand-carved on the external surface of the spiral.
From 6 to 9 April the trophy that since 2000 is given to the winner of the Giro will be at the stand, where all cycling lovers will have the opportunity to take a picture, to feel once like champion themselves. "Being able to host the emblem of the extraordinary strains that cyclists will face to conquer the Maglia Rosa – Paolo and Giorgio Polegato, Astoria Vini's owners, say – is a matter of great pride for us. The diligence and devotion which gather a lot of amateurs of this fantastic sport completely represent the philosophy that direct our company. During these years of partnership with RCS and most themed "pink events" we've noticed how cycling is able to arouse enthusiasm, and we're happy to take the trophy within everyone's reach for some days".
As usual, Sparkling 9.5 Cold Wine Astoria will be the protagonist of Giro d'Italia's podium (a low-alcohol wine, to launch a message of moderation in drinking) but during Vinitaly won't miss all the excellent wines of the company starting off with Prosecco Superiore DOCG. Paolo and Giorgio Polegato will display to Italian and stranger buyers, sommeliers, professionals and passion-driven people some new wines dedicated to the Repubblica Serenissima of Venice, in an exclusive carved bottle: Arzanà Cartizze Superiore DOCG, Corderie Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG, Galìe Prosecco Treviso DOC.


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Urban Sketchers Hong Kong USK Workshop 10 x 10 Workshop 10: Story-telling in Your Sketches
This is my second workshop and the last of the 10 x 10 USkHk workshop of this year. I'm delighted to share with you several things I have learnt through sketching on location. The following are the details of the workshop:
Sometimes one sketch is simply not enough to capture the essence of a vast place. Have you ever considered putting and arranging multiple sketches on one single sheet of paper? In this workshop, we will look at ways to document a site more effectively by juxtaposing different sketches together, such as macros and micros, colour and black and white sketches, sketches of different perspectives etc.
Date: 9 December
Time: 10:00 am - 1:00pm
Place: Wan Chai District
What to bring:
As the sketching location is on the street, please bring along the following: A small foldable stool Large sketchbook or large sheet of sketch paper (e.g. A3 sketch paper) that allows you to put in a number of sketches, sketching tools of your choice (pencils, pens, ink pens, watercolours etc.)
This workshop is limited to 15 people maximum. Please email firstname.lastname@example.com. Successful applicants will be notified by USkHK and given a PayPal link to proceed to payment. The workshop fee will be HKD 300 per person. Please note that all payments are final once made via PayPal. There will be no refunds.
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Out the Door, Let's Explore!Created: 3/14/2013 Updated: 8/10/2016
In the Public Programs Department we are eagerly awaiting the warmer spring weather to make use of our biggest exhibit- the outdoors! After a frosty winter, it's a relief to hear Red Winged Blackbirds and see sunning Painted Turtles. Program ideas start flowing!
While winter presents its own unique programming opportunities, it's hard not to get excited about the signs of spring and summer. Instead of; "The turtles are hibernating", or "The monarch butterflies are in Mexico," we can say, "See all of those turtles on that log," or "How many monarchs can you find in the prairie?" or "Out the door, let's explore!".
This spring and summer there will be so much for visitors to discover in our outdoor exhibits. Outdoor nature walks will touch on themes such as "Nature Noises", "Cloud Gazing" and "Ordinary or Extraordinary?". Other programs like Numbers Through Nature, Spanish Through Nature and Polish through Nature will be taking children outside as well. You can even join us this summer for an outdoor film screening of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, to celebrate our new exhibit The Birth of Chocolate, or have a drink outside during our program for adults, Nature on Tap.
So take off that winter parka and join me outside this spring and summer to discover bugs, listen to birds and to smell the flowers. Doesn't that sound delightful?
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I am sure glad this recipe is a little messy. Cleaning the blender with a mini spatula was a great idea until I delved into the depths of the Vita-mix with my fingers and then proceeded to lick them clean! Well, the title says it all! This pie is a dream come true! Loaded with omegas, a slice of this will have you dancing around singing in your living room, spatula as microphone (at least that's what happened to me). With a raw crust of walnuts and dates, you will taste perfect harmony with a little kick from the Cayenne. In ancient times, walnuts were considered the symbol of intellect. What do they look like? A brain! They are rich in omega 3 fatty acids which lower cholesterol and act as an anti-inflammatory. They are full of phytochemicals which provide us antioxidants to help eliminate free radicals (those pesky buggers who steal electrons from your healthy cells). And who doesn't just love avocados? They are such a treat when presented in a sweet concoction of whipped chocolate goodness. Let your inner child sing high and low to the mountains for this one!
the raw crust:
1 cup walnuts (previously soaked and dehydrated)
1/2 cup soaked dates
1/3 cup of shredded coconut
A tablespoon of coconut oil
a pinch of cayenne pepper
a dash of mineral rich sea salt
Blend the crust ingredients in a high speed blender or food processor. Press date and nut mixture into the pie plate with clean hands then cover and place in refrigerator while you prepare the filling.
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1 large ripe avocados
1/2 cup Raw Cacao Powder
1/2 tablespoon of Spirilina
2 tablesoons Coconut Butter
1/2 cup Agave Syrup
or Maple Syrup (not raw but used in raw food cooking)
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
a pinch of sea salt
1 tablespoon irish moss *
1 cup of water as needed
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sliced seasonal fruit
Seed and scoop out avocado into the food processor. Add the rest of the ingredients and blend until smooth, adding water as needed. Spoon avocado mixture onto the crust and spread it evenly. Pour into crust, then chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to an hour before serving. Garnish with seasonal fresh fruit.
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I will be unveiling a new paper mache sculpture in this group show at BOOKLYN. Also I will be releasing a brand new zine of toilet paper drawings through Booklyn so be sure to check it out!
MASTER OF REALITY includes drawings, paintings, sculpture and prints that alter our perceptions of commonplace scenery, find fodder in the mundane, and draw our attention to the handling rather than the objects themselves. The featured artists create an alternate dimension of familiar objects, carefully mimicking reality so that it is recognizable, yet altering it enough to uniquely capture their own way of seeing.
MASTER OF REALITY is the first in a series of group exhibitions dedicated to providing self-publishing artists, who generally share their work through zines and other printed matter, with a platform for exhibition, experimentation and exploration outside of the printed format. Curated by Aimee Lusty.
Each artist has mastered their own language of perception, in turn manipulating the viewers' aesthetic preconceptions of objects and environments. Familiar surroundings and everyday items become broken down into colors, values, shapes, lines, textures and forms. These artworks give the viewer the rare opportunity to explore the relationship between seeing and rendering reality.


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Tubelord – Our First American Friends
Long time followers of the blog will now that Tubelord are a band I'm rather fond of and have managed to catch live twice. You'd also know that I've been longing for them to release an album ever since I got wind of them and now they finally have!
'Friends' is exactly what we'd been waiting for from a Tubelord album; all their best songs off the various singles they'd released together as well as recordings of songs they've been playing live for ages and new material all at the same time. All the 'classic' tracks such as Night Of The Pencils and I Am Azerrad all feature on the album (although, curiously, not Feed Me A Box Of Words) and they sound as good as they ever did.
On the first few listens I didn't know what to make of the production of the album as it felt as though it may have been a bit overdone but now I appreciate the better quality of sound that the album gives but I still respect the raw sound of the older releases of theirs.
The album itself is well paced throughout with the opener Your Bed Is Kind Of Frightening setting the scene perfectly with it's slow, minimal intro before launching into a full on Tubelord assault; harmonies, singalong sections and furious little riffs. The older material is nicely dispersed through the album and provides a good backdrop to some of the different newer stuff with the more electronice Stacey's Left Arm and the wonderful acoustic track Cows To The East, Cities To The West providing a slight change of direction.
Overall, the album is what I'd hoped for but I can't help but think it's six months to a year overdue. That said, it was well worth the wait.
Highlights: Night Of Pencils, Propellor
Sounds Like: Tellison, Colour
Rating: 4/5 shocked monkeys
Johnny Foreigner – Grace And The Bigger Picture
First things first; I never owned the first Johnny Foreigner album but heard bits and pieces of it every now and again. I'm not sure why I never got it as I didn't dislike their sound, in fact it's one I quite like, but I didn't. As such, this album is written completely on it's own merits and not with the possible difficult-second-album tag attached to it for me.
As a whole, I quite like the album but there's something about it that stops me from really enjoying it. There are a couple of tracks on there that I absolutely adore, Feels Like Summer and Criminals being the main ones for me, but the rest of it seems to fall a bit short of their standard. The two songs I mention are brilliant indie-punk-pop tracks that build up and bounce along brilliantly. However, some of the other tracks just don't quite seem to manage the same thing; some meander along and repeat themselves without ever building up or climaxing.
The album also has quite a few little filler tracks linking parts of the album together and these work with varying success. I'llchoosemysideandshutup, Alright is a brilliant piece of music and it's a shame it only ended up as a 90 second piece rather than a full track.
The album as a whole is well worth a listen as there are some cracking tunes. But for me there are just too many average songs on the album and I can't help but feel that bands like Los Campesinos and Dananananaykroyd do this sort of thing better these days..
Highlights: Feels Like Summer, Criminals
Sounds Like: Los Campesinos, Dananananaykroyd
Rating: 3/5 scary monkeys
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Phanteks is back at it again, and this time they have literally "shifted" the case market on its head. The Shift series of cases were first teased at CES 2017 in Las Vegas. Phanteks wanted to create a nice looking HTPC solution that no one in the industry has offered yet. The Shift series is a perfect extension of the Evolv family of cases. Just like the rest of the Evolv's, the Shift series is crafted from high-quality aluminum and flanked by smoked tempered glass panels. The Shift series comes in 2 variants: The Evolv Shift and the Evolv Shift X. The Evolv Shift is primarily geared towards air cooled builds and does not have any support for any custom water-cooling loops. The Evolv Shift X, on the other hand, is the taller brother of the Evolv Shift. The Shift X has support for water cooling and allows for a decent custom loop setup in the case. Since this is the Mod Zoo we decided to review the Shift X and stick a full custom loop in the case.
Without wasting any more of your time, let's just dive straight into the review and see if the Shift X truly is a shift from the status quo.
MSRP (at time of review)
Evolv Shift $109.99
Evolv Shift X $159.99
For more information on the Shift X, please visit the official product page – http://www.phanteks.com/Enthoo-Evolv-Shift-X.html


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Totally lied about coming back. Well, I've actually been kinda busy. But I took a video of the Sun, for anyone left following, enjoy it!
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A ROYAL Navy officer who received an MBE from Prince Charles drunkenly slapped a fellow officer's bottom so hard he left her buttock 'sore', a court martial heard.
Commander Steven Heap had been drinking for several hours when he followed the woman, also a commander, onto the dance floor at a navy base party and slapped her as she danced.
When the shocked woman, who said he had left her right buttock 'sore' from the slap, allegedly fled and later returned to the dance floor, his right hand struck her backside a second time.
A court martial heard the 48-year-old accepts he slapped the senior officer's bottom, but claimed he was simply 'joking about'.
Heap, who was based at HMS Excellent in Portsmouth, at the time, joined the navy 30 years ago as a submariner and now works as a nuclear force inspector.
The commander received an MBE from the Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace in 2013.
The court martial heard Heap had been at a navy base Christmas party when he drunkenly slapped his victim's bottom.
Prosecutor Wing Commander Michael Saunders told the court Heap initially approached the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, at the bar earlier in the evening.
Despite her allegedly wanting nothing to do with him, he then followed her to the dance floor and twice sexually assaulted her, the court heard.
The prosecutor said: 'There was a function, which started at midday and lasted until late at night.
'Sometime after 6pm, after a band had started playing, the defendant slapped the buttock of the complainant on two occasions.
'The facts are not in dispute, the defendant accepts he did behave in that way. He says it was not sexual, he was simply joking about.
'In essence though, he came up to her, pointed at something behind her and slapped her backside.
'Then, 20 minutes later she went back onto the dance floor. He approached her again, slapped her bottom again in a similar fashion.'
Giving evidence today at the trial, the woman told the court a drunken Heap had left her backside 'sore' from the 'firm' slaps at the party.
She said she was having a 'private conversation' when a drunken Heap kept 'disturbing' them.
'He was clearly very drunk, staff had said they were not going to serve him any more, I found out, and based on my interaction with him at the bar, I wanted nothing more to do with him,' she said.
'I was in civilian clothing at the time and I was enjoying myself with friends. But I became aware of somebody on my right hand side.
'The defendant pointed to something and I went to turn to see what it was and felt a slap to my right butt cheek. It was a firm slap with his right hand.
'I was very taken aback by what happened. I did not confront him, I just removed myself from the situation.'
She added: 'I was trying to enjoy myself still and put what had happened behind me. I thought maybe it was just a mistake.
'I didn't want it to ruin my evening, so again I went back on to the dancefloor – the band were very good.
'But again, I was aware of him in close proximity to me and there was a second slap to the buttock.
'It was much the same as the first one, with his right hand to my right buttock, which was already sore from the first slap.
'Again I thought it was weird and inappropriate, but he was really drunk and I wanted to get the hell out of there.'
In mitigation Heap said he was sorry for his actions, which he likened to a 'childish prank'.
'I thought it would be amusing, it was childish showboating, a ridiculous moment,' he said.
When asked by prosecutor Wg Cdr Saunders what he found amusing in slapping a woman's bottom, Heap replied: 'Today, absolutely nothing. At the time, I thought it would be amusing.
'I was not trying it on with her, if I was I would not have gone about it in that manner.
'It was like a childhood prank where you say 'oh, what's that on your jumper' and then slap the person on the chin when they look down.
'It was a joke, that was my thought process at the time.'
Heap, of Poole, Dorset, denies two counts of sexual assault.
The trial at Bulford Military Court, Wiltshire, continues.


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"To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day."
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
Our homemade breakfasts are cooked fresh to order using locally sourced ingredients, wherever possible. We will aim to provide alternatives to our standard menu to support guests with special dietary requirements, food intolerances or allergies, but please do let us know in advance.
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Locally sourced award-winning traditional pork sausage, unsmoked rindless back bacon, free range eggs, vine tomatoes, mushrooms, Heinz baked beans.
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Linda McCartney vegetarian sausage, hash browns, free range eggs, vine tomatoes, mushrooms, Heinz baked beans.
Scrambled eggs with Smoked salmon
accompanied with chives, served on a Muffin or Toast
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An old friend and I always used to joke about starting our own religion because it would be so easy to do. I mean there are lots of followers out there, and this friend and I are leaders – demented leaders, but leaders. Well, earlier this week, another good friend of mine told me that I should start my own religion. Due to an excess of caffeine and a lack of sleep, my mind quickly started developing this religion. So, here are my plans for the High Church of the Painful Truth, a name I am plagiarizing from my Brother-In-Law, Mike:
- Don't be ignorant. If you just can't help yourself, please take a vow of silence.
- Cleanliness is next to, um, well it's important. So, clean up after yourself. There is no reason to be sloppy. It just means that you are lazy.
- Don't be lazy. Be grateful that you CAN walk and get up off of your behind and do something.
- Be nice to people just because that is what you are supposed to do. This goes double for animals, small children, and senile senior citizens. They love and trust you; be kind.
- No poor me allowed. You are not a victim. You have made a lifetime of crappy decisions that led you to exactly where you are. You will not improve your life until you start taking responsibility for it.
- Review your first grade language arts book. People cannot read your messed up unpunctuated shorthand.
- Keep all Sabbath days holy, no matter what religion they are from. This should take care of the entire week, or at least the weekend. So, put down your CrackBerry and enjoy your family.
- Do not push any religion on to others. No one KNOWS or UNDERSTANDS the mysteries of the universe.
Meeting Place: Skype. Seriously, why meet in person in one building. I hate people and travel. So, if you want to be a member of my church, get a web cam.
Attire: Business casual – no jeans. People wear jeans to everything now. As my step-dad used to say, "Dungarees are for farmers!" This applies to all things other than farming, exercising or sleeping.
Meeting Frequency: [Shrugs shoulders]. I don't know. When we need to. This will save us all the misery of forced meetings.
Offerings: PayPal. Again, why should I leave my couch to collect money? Just put it right into my account. What? Why do I need money if there is no actual building? UMMMM, well, being a spiritual leader requires lots of chocolate. I'm not talking about that cheap grocery store crap. I need the good stuff, from Europe, preferably dark. I will also need liquor, from Europe.
Well, that about covers it for now. The caffeine is wearing off and that 5:30 wake-up call is catching up with me. If anyone can draw out there, see if you can come up with a symbol for this new religion of mine. Extra points if it includes kittens. We will sell t-shirts and jewelry with said symbol. All proceeds will go to me. At least I'm honest.
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Update 2016-03-18: If you are on Windows 8 / Server 2012 or later, use the 'MediaType' attribute of the 'Get-PhysicalDisk' output. See the comments for more detail.
I was talking with some colleagues recently who were having trouble detecting if a disk was a Solid State Disk (SSD) or not in a lab environment. They wanted to run PowerShell scripts against the machines but found if the disk on the machine was a spindle disk it would cause an issue without a built-in delay. They wanted to detect if the disk was an SSD to remove the delay on machines that could handle it.
Easy I though. Just issue a Get-PhysicalDisk cmdlet and checkout the properties, no problem. Well that's what a PowerShell expert would think anyway. It turns out not to be the case.
After a lot of mucking about and searching I found there is no information reported from an ATA device to tell the operating system that it is an SSD. This makes sense I suppose seeing the concept of an SSD would have been unimaginable back when the interfaces were designed.
It turns out the best way to detect if an attached disk is an SSD or not is by reading two properties of the disk being, spindle speed (or rotation rate) and seek penalty. Neither of these properties are exposed by PowerShell or .NET.
Thanks to the Add-Type cmdlet and a guy from this blog (sorry, I can't find your name on the site), I created this PowerShell script to report if a disk is an SSD or not.
Simply copy the code to a script file and run it passing in a physical disk id number. It will return $true if the disk is an SSD, or $false if not. It will also return $false if exceptions occur in the Win32 DLL calls.


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This year's Big Read title is Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl and the companion novella Rosa. The title was selected in recognition of the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the time when the world became only too aware of Hitler's intentions toward the Jews.
Join us for a month-long discussion of hope, despair, and survival in a pivotal era in human history. More information, including a full calendar of events can be found in the latest issue of The Rotunda (see the link above).
Check-out these useful links concerning this year's Big Read:
- to find a copy of the book on local libraries, click here
- a PDF of the brochure with the entire program line-up can be found in the library starting in mid-September or by clicking here
- to register for any Big Read program, click here
- to enter the Young Writers contest, click here
- to enter the Dutchess County Historical Society writing contest, click here
- for a list of 2013 Little Read book recommendations, click here
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Helping your J recruit, train and retain the best of the best.
The comprehensive training that the Talent Management program provides has been invaluable for my JCC staff.
Having the right people in the right positions and performing at the highest level is a challenge for any employer. To assist JCCs in building a larger pool of talent to best steer them for the future, we established Talent Management as a pilot program in 2014. Our goal was to aid JCCs in developing a conscious, deliberate approach to attracting, developing and retaining people who have both the aptitude and ability to meet the current and future needs of JCCs.
Each of the nine JCCs in the pilot launched the initiative to engage their staff in growth and development focusing on 22 competency areas. Over 240 participants have embarked on this learning program. As well, each JCC identified individuals who excel at their jobs and have the potential to advance within the JCC or in the JCC field. They participated in the LEAP (Leadership Enrichment and Advancement Program), a 12-month learning group involving specific leadership activities, webinars, readings, small group work sessions and at in-person summits.
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text: In today's world, we have compromised our family values and righteous thinking in pursuit of a dream that was never meant to be a reality for us. Our once solid family structure has been obliterated by mass incarceration murder and mayhem and very few men in our community remember how to reach out to our youth. I have taken up that task and hope that these words may assist someone somewhere in our emancipation from the systemic atrocities we've had to endure. I pray that I inspire our future. Please share!!!ybm gude for success


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|Mix together in a bowl to thick cream consistency. Cover for half hour while 8 sausages bake (don't brown the sausages too much).
Heat oven to ridiculously high temperature. Put sunflower oil in cooking dish and place back in oven, and wait until the oven is back at max temperature and oil is smoking.
Mix in another 150ml milk/water mix with original mix, and add sausages. Carefully remove smoking dish from oven and pour the lot in. Close oven as quickly as possible to retain heat.
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Frequently asked questions on our French courses in Annecy in France
Which text books do the teachers use in class?
The teachers work with several different text books and authentic documents
Are registration fees, manuals, and transfers included in the price?
There is a 40€ registration fee and a non-refundable course deposit.
The school provides the activity sheets (there are no textbooks). Transfers and insurance are optional and not included in the price.
Is health/accident insurance proposed?
Yes, subscriptions possible in the IFALPES office on arrival.
Is the student picked up on arrival at the train station or the airport?
The accommodation service can arrange this service if requested. Please contact email@example.com for more information and booking.
Do the students have access to a room to study, free use of internet?
Yes, the computer room allows free access to internet during the institute's opening hours.
There is also a free WIFI connection in the school.
A small room is available for independent or small group study. The city also has a large library where the students can study and check out material.
Is IFALPES situated in the town centre, on the outskirts or on a campus?
IFALPES is very near the centre of town and central station, an easy 15 minute walk. Bicycles can be rented, and buses also run from the town centre to the school.
Who organizes the cultural activities?
All the activities are organized by IFALPES. The Institute keeps the students informed of other activities and local happenings of interest.
If classes fall on a bank holiday, are they made up?
No, they are not made up, but most often an optional day-trip is offered instead.
How long is a class?
One lesson = 45 minutes of teaching and 5 minutes break.
One lesson lasts 3h20 and takes place either in the morning or in the afternoon (depending on the monthly timetable).
How big are the groups?
An average of 10 for the complete beginners and between 12 and a maximum of 15 for the other levels.
Is it possible to prepare and pass certifications?
Yes, you can prepare for the DELF and DALF exams (a minimum of 5 students is required to open the course). You can also prepare and sit the TCF exam directly in our school.
When do beginner courses take place?
Beginners must start at the beginning of a programmed session, for the intensive 20-lesson course. If there are fewer than 6 students enrolled, IFALPES may cancel the course or reduce the number of classroom hours.
How many levels of classes are offered at any one time?
There is normally a group of complete beginners, plus the 5 groups of the European framework: A1 Breakthrough, A2 Waystage, B1 Threshold, B2 Vantage, C1 Effectif Operational Proficiency.
Is there a minimum age?
Except for high school groups with group leaders, the minimum age is 18. IFALPES French classes are geared to adults.


text: A Particular Place Mary Hocking ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 3.69 based on 13 ratings & 1 reviews on Goodreads.com Paperback EbookHardback Buy Amazon Blackwell's Book Depository Hive Waterstones WH Smith Wordery Foyles See more book details 14 July 2016 9781509819775 224 pages Synopsis The parishioners of a small West Country market town are uncertain what to make of their new Anglican vicar with his candlelit processions. And, though Michael Hoath embraces challenge, his enthusiasm is sapped by their dogged traditionalism. Moreover, Valentine's imperial temperament is more suited to the amateur dramatics she excels at than the role of vicar's wife. Their separate claims to insecurity are, for the most part, concealed and so both are surprised when Michael falls in love with a member of his congregation: a married woman, neither young nor beautiful. In tracing the effects of this unlikely attraction, Mary Hocking offers humour, sympathy and an overwhelming sense of the poignancy of human expectations. Mary Hocking's wry straightness makes posher novels about marital unfaithfulness seem arch, pretentious and overdone by comparison Observer Books by Mary Hocking Look, Stranger Mary Hocking Paperback The Meeting Place Mary Hocking Paperback An Irrelevant Woman Mary Hocking Paperback Letters from Constance Mary Hocking Paperback The Mind Has Mountains Mary Hocking Paperback Daniel Come to Judgement Mary Hocking Paperback The Bright Day Mary Hocking Paperback He Who Plays the King Mary Hocking Paperback Family Circle Mary Hocking Paperback March House Mary Hocking Paperback The Very Dead of Winter Mary Hocking Paperback Welcome Strangers Mary Hocking Hardback Checkmate Mary Hocking Paperback Ask No Question Mary Hocking Paperback


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|Roxy (now renamed Joy) with her new family and her megawatt smile!
The dog with the big smile on her face now is a far cry from the sad-looking dog who hid in the corner and did not know how to eat and drink from a bowl. It was a long and slow process to get her to where she is today. Her 180-degree transformation is all thanks to our ever patient and dedicated volunteers and fosters. It's their love and patience that have turned turned Roxy's frown upside down.
|Rescued in November 2015 and happily adopted 1 year later. How blessed she is!
|That million dollar smile that makes everything worthwhile!!
Read her story here.
|Best pals!
Roxy has also been adopted by Peter and family. We always knew that Roxy would do well in a big family as she loves children. Now, she not only has her own human mommy and daddy to love her, she also has a human brother and sister to always get into mischief with together, and an "ah kong" to spoil her as all grandparents do! It is no wonder she can hardly wipe that big grin off her face. That million dollar smile is what makes all our efforts worthwhile.
|Forever home
Roxy is now called Joy. Her new name reflects the newfound joy in her heart. Thank you Peter and family for adopting Joy. May your hearts and home always be full of joy (pun intended)!


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Seahawks All-Pro KR, Leon Washington Interview
Leon Washington played college football for Florida State University. He then entered the 2006 NFL Draft, and was selected in the fourth round, 116th overall by the New York Jets. He played for the Jets for four years primarily as a kick returner, punt returner, and a scatback to share the load with the other running backs on the team. During the 2010 NFL Draft, LW was traded to the Seattle Seahawks. He continued his All-Pro play performance and was their primary kick returner. This interview was conducted as the 2010 NFL season was coming to an end. Read more
Redskins Special Teams and DE, currently Director of Player Development, Phillip Daniels Interview
Phillip Daniels played college football at the University of Georgia. He entered the 1996 NFL Draft, and was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the fourth round. He played for the Seahawks for four years, and then, for the Chicago Bears for four years. He signed with the Washington Redskins after that though, and was known for his pass rush ability and his special teams play. This interview was conducted as the 2010 NFL season was coming to an end. [UPDATE: PD is now the Washington Redskins' Director of Player Development.] Read more
Retired Ravens TE, Daniel Wilcox Interview (#50)
Daniel Wilcox was undrafted after the 2001 NFL Draft, but signed a contract with the New York Jets. In 2002, he became a Super Bowl Champion with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He remained on their roster in 2003. However, in 2004, he signed a contract with the Baltimore Ravens. He played tight end for the Ravens until the 2008 NFL season. He was known for his red-zone production. DW caught Joe Flacco's first ever NFL touchdown pass. Check out our interview that was done in 2010, looking back on his career. Read more
Eagles fullback, Leonard Weaver Interview
Leonard Weaver played collegiately at Carson-Newman. He entered the 2005 NFL Draft, but went undrafted. He earned a spot from the Seattle Seahawks and was a member of their team and learned from all-time great fullback, Mack Strong. He was hurt during the 2006 NFL season, but played great in both the 2007 and 2008 seasons. He signed a contract in 2009 making him the highest paid fullback in NFL history. In 2009, he earned both All-Pro and Pro Bowl honors. Check out our interview as the 2010 NFL season was almost over. Read more
Lions Special Teams Ace, Isaiah Ekejiuba Interview
Isaiah Ekejiuba never played high school football, and only tried college football for the University of Virginia when he was first approached to try out for the team during his sophomore year. He had an immediate impact for the Cavaliers on Special Teams. He entered the 2005 NFL Draft, and signed as a UDFA with the Cardinals, but was cut. He then signed with the Oakland Raiders, and after a few weeks on the practice squad, he was promoted to the active roster. He played on Special Teams and in 2009, he was nominated to become a Pro Bowl alternate. [UPDATE: He was cut by the Raiders in the 2010 NFL offseason. He signed with the Detroit Lions.] Read more


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Many times in today's self-focused culture, gatherings of people (even in shared ministry) are little more than a room full of franchises trying to sustain their own local agendas in the midst of significant internal and external hardship. But by God's grace at our annual gathering, InterVarsity's Graduate and Faculty Ministries (GFM) once again returned to the roots of our shared mission, i.e., the call of God discerned through worship, prayer, digging into the Word of God, mutual encouragement/conversation (in the hallway, prayer room, small groups, over meals, during walks), and intentionally using the gifts we have been given. Yes, that includes an amazing strategic plan working out our four ministry commitments of spiritual formation, community, evangelism & service, integration of faith, learning, & practice. To God be the glory!
Personally I found significant blessing in the sharing of our stories in mission (framed by Acts 11 – 15 and the larger lens of being part of God's story/mission): from GFM's founding 25 years ago in a conversation between Randy Bare and Cam Anderson at Urbana . . . to present day witnessing communities on campuses across the nation (Graduate Ministry, Faculty Ministry) . . . to our sense of God's leading in the future.
Celebrating 25 years of ministry is not about the numbers, but the Word, work, Spirit, power, and Presence of God demonstrated in Students and Faculty Transformed. Campuses Renewed. World Changers Developed. A few glimpses in the mosaic of ministry with more to come in future posts . . .
- Francis was highlighted by InterVarsity's Faculty Ministry. In particular the joy of seeing an Emerging Scholar who was blessed by InterVarsity's campus ministry throughout the academic journey — his Graduate Ministry staff was in the room and shared his joy in Francis' work with many — and the fruit such as his presentation The Lesson of Grace in Teaching as a response to receiving the MAA Haimo Teaching Award. What is next for Francis and other faculty connected with our labors on their campuses, in their disciplines/fields of study . . .
- Students, such as the many involved in InterVarsity's growing Graduate Ministry, who are being mentored in and supported by communities which speak to and contextualize Jeremiah 29 for their campus. More coming . . .
- Staff, such as Carrie Bare (GFM South Central Region Assoc Regional Dir., GFM Meeting Prayer Coord), who continue to bless with their joy and enthusiasm for the work of God. . . . Not letting us lose the passion which laid the foundation for GFM.
- The joy of collecting an offering for our IFES sister movement in the Caribbean, where grad ministry is just starting. It is our prayer that this offering will be the first step in a meaningful partnership with these fellow believers. Please join us in this prayer.
Your prayers for our time together were "sensed" and continue to be a blessing. Good connections were made and relationships were deepened during a rich time of encouragement and refreshment.
On Holy Saturday I shared on the Facebook wall:
"I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?
But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something."
— Comment: The other evening I found Sam's words near the end of LOTR: The Two Towers film a great encouragement. May you likewise press on with the people of God, holding onto the hope of resurrection and the new day when even darkness must pass. Please let me know how the Emerging Scholars Network can continue to grow in support and encouragement of you in this journey, http://www.intervarsity.org/contact/emerging-scholars-network. Please join me in praying for one-another today.
Yes, this is only a glimpse of our GFM staff team's gatherings, there is more to come. What a joy to have you as part of this movement of God in higher education which embraces the vision of Students and Faculty Transformed. Campuses Renewed. World Changers Developed. To God be the glory!


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if when you're rejected for a job that you spent an hour and half interviewing for...that they spell your name right in the email.
But I have an interview this afternoon and then one on Wednesday so maybe they will get my name right when they reject me! *crosses fingers*


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Payment Plans, Water Bill Extensions, & Leak Adjustments
January 03, 2018
We will no longer accept payment plans, water bill adjustments, payment extensions and water leak adjustments if the bill has become delinquent. You must also be the owner of the property (not a renter), and must be a member for at least 6 months with no delinquencies for the past six months.
Sorry for the inconvenience.


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|Pancreatic Cell News 9.07 February 20, 2018
A Gene that Increases the Risk of Pancreatic Cancer Controls Inflammation in Normal Tissue
Inflammation is a defensive response of the body to aggression, but when it persists it can be harmful and can even predispose the subject to cancer. Hence, it is crucial to understand fully the relationship between inflammation and cancer. A group of researchers have discovered an unexpected link between the two processes: in the pancreas, one of the genes that increases the risk of developing pancreatic cancer also controls inflammation. [Press release from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) discussing online prepublication in Nature] Press Release | Abstract
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Role of Protein Phosphatase 1 and Inhibitor of Protein Phosphatase-1 in Nitric Oxide-Dependent Inhibition of the DNA Damage Response in Pancreatic β-Cells
The authors explored potential mechanisms by which nitric oxide inhibits DNA damage response (DDR) signaling. They showed that inhibition of DDR signaling (measured by γH2AX formation and the phosphorylation of KAP1) is selective for nitric oxide, as other forms of reactive oxygen/nitrogen species do not impair DDR signaling. [Diabetes] Abstract
β Cell-Specific Deletion of the IL-1 Receptor Antagonist Impairs β Cell Proliferation and Insulin Secretion
The protective role of local interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra) was investigated in pancreatic islet β cell-specific versus myeloid-cell-specific IL-1Ra knockout mice. Deletion of IL-1Ra in β cells, but not in myeloid cells, resulted in diminished islet IL-1Ra expression. [Cell Rep] Full Article | Graphical Abstract
Beta Cell Extracellular Vesicle miR-21-5p Cargo Is Increased in Response to Inflammatory Cytokines and Serves as a Biomarker of Type 1 Diabetes
Cytokine treatment in beta cell lines and human islets resulted in a 1.5- to threefold increase in miR-21-5p. However, corresponding extracellular vesicles (EVs) were further enriched for this miRNA, with a three- to sixfold EV miR-21-5p increase in response to cytokine treatment. [Diabetologia] Abstract
The Type 2 Diabetes-Associated HMG20A Gene Is Mandatory for Islet Beta Cell Functional Maturity
The authors demonstrated that HMG20A is expressed in both human and mouse islets and that levels are decreased in islets of type 2 diabetes mellitus donors as compared to islets from non-diabetic donors. In vitro studies in mouse and human islets demonstrated that glucose transiently increased HMG20A transcript levels, a result also observed in islets of gestating mice. [Cell Death Dis] Full Article
Modeling Human Pancreatic Beta Cell Dedifferentiation
Investigators modeled human β-cell dedifferentiation using growth factor stimulation in the human β-cell line, EndoC-βH1, and human pancreatic islets. Fibroblast growth factor 2 treatment reduced expression of β-cell markers and activated ectopic expression of MYC, HES1, SOX9, and NEUROG3. [Mol Metab] Full Article
CQ Sensitizes Human Pancreatic Cancer Cells to Gemcitabine through the Lysosomal Apoptotic Pathway via Reactive Oxygen Species
Scientists found that exposure to gemcitabine (GEM) induced a significant increase in autophagy in a dose-dependent manner in PANC-1 and BxPC-3 cells. Inhibition of autophagy by chloroquine (CQ) and ATG7 siRNA increased GEM-induced cytotoxicity, and CQ was more effective than ATG7 siRNA. [Mol Oncol] Abstract | Full Article
MicroRNA-193a Stimulates Pancreatic Cancer Cell Repopulation and Metastasis through Modulating TGF-β2/TGF-βRIII Signalings
miR-193a was highly expressed in the irradiated pancreatic cancer dying cells, accordingly elevated the level of miR-193a in surviving cells, and further promoted pancreatic cancer repopulation and metastasis in vitro and in vivo. [J Exp Clin Cancer Res] Full Article
Artemin Regulates CXCR4 Expression to Induce Migration and Invasion in Pancreatic Cancer Cells through Activation of NF-κB Signaling
Investigators performed an analysis to determine the effects of artemin on modulating tumor cell metastatic potential and invasion activity and explored its mechanisms in pancreatic cancer. They indicated that artemin and CXCR4 were overexpressed in cancer tissues and widely expressed in pancreatic cancer cell lines. [Exp Cell Res] Abstract
Adenovirus-Mediated Delivery of Decoy Hyper Binding Sites Targeting Oncogenic HMGA1 Reduces Pancreatic and Liver Cancer Cell Viability
A 70%–80% reduction in cell viability and increased sensitivity to gemcitabine was observed in five different pancreatic and liver cancer cell lines 72 hours after infection with replication defective engineered adenovirus serotype 5 virus containing the high mobility group AT-hook (HMGA)-6 decoy hyper binding sites. [Mol Ther Oncolytics] Full Article | Graphical Abstract
Engineering a Clinically Translatable Bioartificial Pancreas to Treat Type I Diabetes
Encapsulating insulin-secreting cells within implantable, semipermeable capsules is a potential approach for the treatment for type 1 diabetes that avoids or reduces the need for immunosuppressive drugs. The authors highlight the status of the most advanced and widely explored implementations of cell encapsulation with an eye toward translating the potential of this technological approach to medical reality. [Trends Biotechnol] Abstract
Visit our reviews page to see a complete list of reviews in the pancreatic cell research field.
Cancer Research UK to Invest £45 Million in Clinical Trials
Cancer Research UK has announced that £45 million will be invested into its network of clinical trials units across the UK, one of the charity's largest investments in clinical research to date. [Cancer Research UK] Press Release
Propanc Biopharma Receives Allowance of Key Patent Application in the EU
Propanc Biopharma Inc. announced allowance of a key patent application from the European Patent Office covering a pharmaceutical composition for treating cancer comprising trypsinogen and chymotrypsinogen within the European Union (EU). [Propanc Biopharma Inc.] Press Release
Indonesian Scientists Hamstrung by Year-Long Funding Delay
Indonesian scientists expecting to receive hundreds of thousands of dollars for research are stuck in limbo because the country's first dedicated science-funding agency is struggling to raise enough money. [Nature News] Editorial
Italian Election Leaves Science Out in the Cold
As campaigning ahead of Italy's national election enters its final weeks, researchers in the country fear that budget cuts and declining interest in science will only continue — whatever the outcome of the vote. [Nature News] Editorial
Biden Blasts Science Denialists, Calls to Dramatically Speed Up Fight against Cancer
Fresh off a plane from the NATO meeting in Munich, where he'd conferred with world leaders on global defense, former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden issued a forceful call here last night to build on the "Cancer Moonshot" he started while in the White House and transform the way the world fights cancer. [ScienceInsider] Editorial
NEW Aegean Conferences: 2nd International Conference on Tissue Repair, Regeneration, and Fibrosis
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NEW Postdoctoral Positions – Pancreatic Cancer Cells (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
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WELCOME to the Great Basin National Heritage Area
In the Great Basin National Heritage Area, history, culture, and the natural world combine to create a distinct landscape that offers unique opportunities for recreation and reflection. Trade in traffic and tension for wide open spaces, uncrowded trails, and star-filled night skies. Here in the Great Basin, traditions endure and a pioneering spirit prevails.
Your Great Basin Adventure Awaits!
Camp Under the Stars
Go Back in Time
Visit Earth's Oldest Trees
Ride the Ghost Train


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Being adventurous people, Jon and Sarah decided they wanted a wedding without all the fuss and grandeur- one just for themselves. They whisked themselves away to Bali, where they spent the first few days travelling around, relaxing and having a good time. From Canggu beach to Tamblingan lake, we were with them every step of the way- and we were having as much fun as they were! Their wedding day was a serene affair, and everyone waited with baited breath for Sarah to walk down the aisle. It was a simple gathering in the heart of Bali, where friends and family dined by the cliffside overlooking some of the most gorgeous views. The night sky was then lighted up by sparklers and fireworks- a fitting reflection of their love for each other.
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Protect History and Water by Protecting Blair Mountain
October 23, 2017
If we want to shift our energy future and protect our water and climate, then we will need to go head-to-head with the fossil fuel industry. History reveals this is possible.
It's not my fault
February 14, 2017
Usually I don't mind taking credit for a blossoming romance – especially a high profile one with unprecedented acts of devotion – but this time I have to clear the air.


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You may have noticed that I've been using a few more screenshots from the Xbox 360 versions of NBA Live in some of my recent articles. That's because I picked up an Elgato capture card not too long ago, and I've been keen to put it to use to grab some media for both written articles and video features.
The thought occurred that I could take screenshots of the title screens from the Xbox 360 releases, and create some custom title screens for their PC equivalents. It's taken some careful and creative cropping, and in the case of NBA Live 07, I've had to use the pre-boot screen as the main title screen didn't really suit the 512×512 file that the PC version uses. In any case, I've come up with some "next gen" title screens – well, next generation for the time the games came out, anyway – for NBA Live 06-08. Download them here:
A few previews:
As I've said before, I don't have as much time to mod these days, especially when it comes to committing to creating any current roster updates. However, I do still like to dabble here and there when an idea comes to mind, so whenever I can set aside the time, I'll be sure to upload the occasional release every now and again.


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We drove hard to get across South Dakota. Summer skies above and green hills rippling with grass waves of wind, stretching out as far as the eye could strain to see. For the six of us… our hunger to explore and discover grew steadily by the hour.
We crashed at Wall SD, and quickly found the entire town was built as a throwback western nick-nack haven bulging with tourists off a two block main street drag. Neon cowboy signs dominated by the mother of all trinket stores called "Wall Drug". Inside, everything from curiosities and leather goods to candy, antiques, Elvis blankets, and native american pottery from China, yikes!
The food was worse than my college cafeteria, the trinkets for sale were Velveeta cheesy… but after twelve hours of straight driving, we were thrilled to be out and about. The gang hit the hotel pool as evening temps hovered in the low 90's, it was only another 70 miles to Mt. Rushmore and they were 'stoked"!
Morning dawned crimson and we hit the highway bright and early, phones charged and every eye looking across the Dakota plains… focused further west, ready for adventure! These guys had all heard about Mt. Rushmore, seen it on TV and lots of movies, but this would be our first National Park to visit and we were ready.
It did not disappoint.
For those traveling westward, it's worth the effort to re-direct your route to see the sight. An American symbol of leadership and a tangible testament to ingenuity. They loved it… and so did I.
Pictures, video… selfies and gift shops filled almost two hours in a flash. Trinkets, keep-sakes and treasures stowed away, we climbed back in our SUV and set our GPS to Grand Teton National Park. With some luck and decent weather, we would be checking into our Dubois WY hotel at sunset.
Time to keep moving, time to dig deeper into the adventure of our American west.
The kids were starting to sense the enormous size and distances of our vast county, we drove until the cities stopped and sky grew to fill the view. We were no longer in familiar lands, the world was changing and we were enjoying the ride.
The adventure of living in the unknown was starting to sink in. Nervous laughter and silliness broke the tension as we six left everything behind to risk discovery. A metaphor for the tween-teen years if there ever was one 🙂
So we sang, and laughed our way across high mountain plains, snow capped peaks and rolling valleys… always looking for more, no one wanting to miss a thing. Edge of the seat road-trippin, and all of us were becoming more aware…this would be an epic pilgrimage, a coming of age moment we would always share.
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11 May Science Museum pays Ambler pupils a visit with spectacular show
Ambler Primary School was very fortunate to have the Science Museum visit us recently, putting on a variety of spectacular shows for our pupils.
The workshops took place during 'Science and Sustainability Week' and focused on understanding the world around us through scientific inquiry.
The children from Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 thoroughly enjoyed themselves during the sessions, which complemented our curriculum.
Pupils from Year 1 and 2 took part in an interactive storytelling of The Three Little Pigs, helping to choose the best material to build a strong house that will keep them safe from the big bad wolf.
The storytellers incorporated scientific vocabulary linked to the topic into the show, including ways of describing the properties of the materials.
Children from Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 took a closer look at the forces that shape our world, with some of them even being invited up to the front of the hall to take part in exciting experiments.
Mr McGahern and Mr Fitzgerald also make a special appearance in some of the photos below – can you spot them?!