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Roy Poses has written about conflicts of interest and other forms of ethical problems in academic medical centers in posts such as here, here and here.
Add Yale to the list. Further, add Yale to the list of organizations discovering the eDiscovery is no laughing matter. In this presentation (Powerpoint .pps file) by Yale's Information Technology Services entitled "What The New e-Discovery Rules Mean to Me", we discover that Yale has perhaps discovered the wages of professorial sin.
Those wages are June 26, 2006 subpoenas from HHS, NIH, DoD, NSF, and NASA regarding all information related to 47 grants from 13 departments. The FBI was involved, with FBI agents going at night to faculty and staff homes and to one vacation destination for questioning (that must have been worthy of scenes for a movie). The investigations are apparently still underway.
The issues include allocation of research expenses, reporting of faculty effort devoted to grants (i.e., claiming 25% of time is devoted to five grants), and numerous matters relating to grant administration including: cost transfers, allocation of expenses, effort, administrative charging and subaward monitoring, and conflict of interest.
Of note is a Feb. 2006 HHS audit of a Yale subcontract from UMass Medical School causing $194,000 of a $572K NIH award to be disallowed due to irregular cost transfers, effort % allocation, and cost allocation methodology. This may have been a trigger for further inquiry.
For starters, 600+ individuals were named as "people of interest", 400+ accounts were put on legal "hold" status, 100 individuals's disks were 'captured.'
In an example of the perils of eDiscovery and unethical people, an altered email was discovered. A reference to "spending down" a subgrant that was soon to expire had been deleted.
Yale president Levin wrote in the Yale Daily News that "the amount of documents that have been requested by the federal government amounts to ... hundreds of thousands, even millions of pages." An entire floor of class A office space was reserved for the auditors and lawyers reviewing documents.
The IT department actually ran out of tape and disk storage in backup system servers (probably due to legal hold requirements), people became afraid to delete anything, and of course there was "tension" between faculty and administration regarding mandatory faculty training in research administration and in actually obeying the directives for document preservation and retention in fulfilling the federal subpoenas ("Faculty Object to Searches, Yale Daily News, Feb. 2, 2007):
As a federal investigation into possible mismanagement of grant monies at Yale enters its eighth month, some professors are speaking out against what they say is an inappropriately invasive response from the University.
At a faculty meeting Thursday, some science professors said the University is impinging on privacy and academic freedom by copying documents from professors' hard drives and requiring faculty members to undergo mandatory training or supervision in the grant administration process. But administrators said they have already addressed one of the faculty's concerns about the training, and that they have simply taken steps required by government subpoenas.
Imagine that, tenured Ivy professors having to undergo mandatory training in how to administer federal money appropriately and turn over records. The horror! Must be a Karl Rove/Joe McCarthy/David Horowitz plot to destroy academic freedom!
The resources required for production are perhaps yet another cost of doing academic business "the old fashioned way."
It is amazing that this story has received precious little coverage nationally. The NYT had a brief article in 2006. I only heard about this recently, from a former colleague. Perhaps this is another example of the Anechoic Effect.
Yale's clinical operations have seen federal investigation once before. See "Insufficient IT Management Depth Results in Justice Dept. Investigation, Millions of Dollars in Fines."
That story was more about incompetence rather than malfeasance, however. Ironically, when I was Yale School of Medicine junior faculty in Yale Center for Medical Informatics, I was charged with teaching postdoctoral fellows about NIH ethics guidelines. The tenured senior faculty I was working for just didn't have the time. See "Anti-social informatics at Yale" for a flavor of Yale kultur:
At that link is a detailed case example from the late 1990's of impaired efforts to implement clinical information technology via wasted resources and opportunity, attempted misappropriation of intellectual property by prominent tenured faculty for private use, unauthorized practice of law in the Office of the General Counsel, blacklisting, extortion, and retaliation treated with a blind eye and silence by university officials at this prominent university.
I am not at all sorry to see this latest investigation. I believe Yale needs a house cleaning. I am going to attempt via the FOIA to find out who, if anyone, has been found to have been "naughty" via the federal investigations.
While I am perhaps experiencing a degree of Shadenfreude, the current situation is very unfortunate for society, of course. Time and effort that could have been spent improving society is being spent trying to uncover and correct behaviors of the privileged and protected involving taxpayer money -- at taxpayer expense, of course. Let's hope Yale can live up to its motto of "Lux et Veritas." My experiences showed that motto to ring just a bit hollow (or, perhaps a better metaphor would be that the motto was just a bit transparent).
Finally, by way of speculation, the DoD has also had its issues with Yale. Payback time, perhaps?


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I was stationed with RVAH-12 when it was still located at NAS Albany, GA prior to its move to NAS Boca Chica in Key West. I moved with the squadron to Key West and Stayed with them until 1975 when I got transferred out to the USS Constellation ships company.
Are there any Photo-Mates from Heavy 12 still around or any squadron members that still live in the Key West area. Our skipper at the time was CDR Pirate Pirot. He went on and from what I understand has passed away not too long ago. He was a great skipper and when he did a ship's company inspection as a Rear Admiral he remembered me from all his previous shipmates. To me, that was amazing as he was probably the best skipper I ever had.
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Many aviators do not know when to file a N.A.S.A. Report. Some pilots do not know what a N.A.S.A. Report is! You should have a N.A.S.A. Report form in your back pocket (or close by) every time you exercise your license privileges because, by sending in a completed N.A.S.A. Report, it may save your from a certificate suspension or other F.A.A. sanction.
N.A.S.A. Reports, as commonly referenced, are forms used to implement the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Aviation Safety Reporting System. While the report form can be used by anyone to advise N.A.S.A. of an aviation safety issue (its primary purpose), it is mostly utilized by pilots, maintenance personnel and controllers to report problems that may result in an F.A.A. investigation and/or enforcement action. When used properly, it can be used as a "get out of jail" card.
Essentially, a N.A.S.A. Report must be sent in within 10 days of the safety-related incident. The form is sent to N.A.S.A. (acting as an independent agency) which then returns the "tear off" portion to the reporting person. This proves it was sent in and received in a timely manner. Importantly, 14 C.F.R. 91.25 prohibits N.A.S.A. Reports from being used for F.A.A. enforcement purposes. That is, N.A.S.A. does not (except for criminal offenses or accidents) notify the F.A.A. of the filing. Additionally, an F.A.A. violation must have been "inadvertent and not deliberate" and must not have involved a criminal offense. Also, there must not have been a prior violation within a period of five years. If an F.A.A. enforcement action arises, the airman can advise that a timely N.A.S.A. Report has been filed. In most cases, although a suspension may be found and placed on the record, no actual surrender of the certificate will be necessary.
A N.A.S.A. Report may be and, perhaps, should be filed after flight because you never know when you may have "inadvertently" and "not deliberately" violated one of the myriad F.A.A., T.F.R. or other rules and regulations. You will be able to say "yes" to: "Have you filed your N.A.S.A. Report?"
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2 lbs. beef stew meat
2 cubes beef bouillon
10 c. cold water (adding more as needed)
salt and pepper, to taste
4 whole garlic cloves
1 medium onion, chopped roughly
2 c. carrots, each cut into three equal pieces
5 quartered Roma tomatoes
2 c. large chopped calabacitas (Mexican squash, purchased mainly in Mexican stores), or large chunk of zucchini
2 large peeled potatoes, cut into large chunks
2 c. cabbage, roughly chopped
6 medium Anaheim chiles
½ c. roughly chopped cilantro, or more if you like
For the soup:
In large pot, boil beef with bouillon cubes until foam comes to top, then remove all foam. This takes about 20 minutes. After all foam is gone, add salt and pepper to taste. You will probably be adding salt and pepper later to taste, too, so go easy at first. Cover until tender.
When meat is just tender, add garlic cloves, onion, carrots and tomatoes, and almost completely cover the pot with a lid. When carrots are just tender, add calabacitas or squash, potatoes and cabbage, and heat them together until all are cooked through.
For the chiles:
Roast chiles in oven or under broiler, turning until nicely charred. Put in bowl and cover tightly with plastic wrap for a good 30 minutes or more, until skins are easy to remove. Then take out seeds and stems, and cut into large chunks.
Add roasted chiles to the soup. Serve alongside tortillas in large shallow bowls, and top with cilantro. Serves 6.
Note: This can also be done with chicken and chicken bouillon. Quarter the chicken and give each person a quarter of chicken in their bowl. Do not cut up or shred. Cooking chicken will take a little less time.
Growing up, we hardly had any meat. When there was a fiesta in our family, someone had a cow or chicken killed. We were thrilled to have some meat, and my mother did wonders with it.
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JFrame listener issues
Hello, and thank you for looking into my problem. I've been having an odd issue where all listeners in my JFrame(which uses its own thread) will stop working, including the "x" button, meaning I can't even close the program without task manager. Here is basically what I got going on:
I create my JFrame and add a mouselistener
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public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) { if (!Game.loaded && e.getX() > 200 && e.getX() < 400 && e.getY() > 237 && e.getY() < 312) { screen.removeMouseListener(this); loadGame(); } }
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Re: JFrame listener issuesI can't even close the programIf you don't understand my response, don't ignore it, ask a question.
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Do you mean infinite loops inside the listener methods? If so, no. Although I do have an infinite render loop inside the JFrame. Also the maximize and minimize buttons still work btw.
Edit:Hold on, I may have the infinite loop inside a method called from loadGame(), called from the listener, that may be it! I'll look into it.
Edit2:Fixed, thanks for the help!
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2016 is almost upon us and we would like to know what you would like to see on ISYN. Post a comment or send us an email, just let us know!
Let's hear from you....
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I just want to see more reader submissions :) My favorite part of this blog is to see people's questions answered and get advice for myself. Also, it would be nice if people would still post good/bad nanny sightings, the original purpose of this blog! I guess I could submit something myself though! I'll try and work on that :)
- Dec 31, 2015, 9:29:00 AM
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rebecca - you said it, you are very wise ! We have some ideas coming up based on your suggestions which are spot on. Stay tuned!
- Dec 31, 2015, 11:28:00 AM
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I would post sightings, but honestly nannys are rare in my area!
- Dec 31, 2015, 12:50:00 PM
Fewer copy/paste articles, please. More surveys of nannies - I love hearing what people earn, what they get as Christmas gifts, what vacations are like, etc...
- Dec 31, 2015, 11:49:00 PM
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In part two of Tessera Swallow's guest blog, she shares her advice on skiing with children. Tess is the Director of t4 Nanny and is also an instructor for Ski New Generation.
In my opinion the earliest a child should start skiing is five years old. This means the child is old enough to listen and take instruction. Because the child will have started school at home they understand the concept of listening to a teacher. The child will also be physically strong enough and have the co ordination to make the movements for skiing.
Another factor is vocabulary, I was once teaching a three year old and was telling her to open her heels to make a pizza shape. After a while of no success I asked her to point to her heel, she thought about it and then with conviction pointed to her head!
A winter ski resort is a very alien place for children and the little ones can easily get scared if you add in the fact that their parents have left them and they don't know when they are coming back. The last thing you want to do is put your child off skiing for life!
If you really want your child to start as young as possible then you will have to pay for private lessons as teaching your own children is a bad idea. You should never ski with your children in between your legs! If they cannot ski the slope they should not be there. I have seen too many children have broken bones from their parents falling on them. Leave the ski lessons to the experts.
I recommend a child under five years old should do not longer than a one hour lesson. It can be very cold, and a private lesson is pretty intense.
Obviously all children are different and it is personal choice when you start your child skiing but I would just like to leave you with one thing. Take two five year olds. Child 'A' has been skiing since aged 2.5 years old, every year for a week and can make therefore make snowplough turns. Child 'B' has never skied before. Within one to two mornings of group lessons they will almost certainly be exactly the same level.
Most ski schools will accept children in group lessons from five years old. You can get private lessons for younger children but this is obviously more expensive and a school will normally do a minimum of two hours for a private lesson.
Generally group lessons run either in the morning 9 – 12 or afternoons 2 – 5. Some ski schools offer a lunch club, which is a great service meaning you can drop the children off at 9am and have a good long morning skiing before collecting them at 2pm after they have eaten.
I would recommend you try to keep your children in ski school for as long as possible. Once they get older there are some great products for teenagers, which will teach them off piste, snow park tricks and racing all in a safe environment.
You get loads of fresh air, learn something new in an incredible environment and there's a range of activities to do in the village beyond skiing .
If your whole family are beginners book morning group lessons for everyone (with the same school, so the timings all work), then meet up again for lunch. Depending on how you all feel you could either carry on or you could spend the afternoons doing something else – ice skating, looking round the village, snow mobiling, husky sledging or bum boarding! Alternatively you could spend your afternoons in front of a roaring fire reading your book. You really can do as much or as little as you like.
If you are a housewife or househusband, a holiday can often feel like you are doing the same job just in a more challenging environment! To ensure this doesn't happen a catered chalet holiday will make sure everyone feels pampered. As standard you will have breakfast prepared for you, afternoon tea for when you come off the slopes and a 3-course meal including wine! Perfect.
If possible it is always more relaxing if you can book out the whole chalet, it can often be stressful sharing with people you don't know. Remember you have to eat dinner with these people every night of your holiday!
The recommended amount you should drink at sea level is two litres per day — at altitude (2000m) it is double at four litres per day. Make sure you and your children drink plenty of water.
The sun is extremely powerful — even when cloudy in January you must apply sun cream to the whole family.
Your heart works 30% harder at altitude than at sea level, this means everything is more effort and therefore more tiring, try and include some quiet time each day to avoid getting over tired.
Enjoy the environment, but remember, the weather can change extremely quickly; it is no fun being caught in the clouds not knowing where you are. Always stick to the pistes unless you are with a ski instructor or mountain guide.
Learn and teach your children the ski way code. This is printed on all piste maps in every resort so there is no excuse not knowing it.
Check out our ski schools guide or the ski school Tess taught at, Ski New Gen, to make sure you book the right lessons for your family ski holiday.
In part two of Tessera Swallow's guest blog, she shares her advice on skiing with children. Tess is the Director of t4 Nanny and is also an instructor for Ski New Generation.
In my opinion the earliest a child should start skiing is five years old. This means the child is old enough to listen and take instruction. Because the child will have started school at home they understand the concept ...
Two part guest blog from T$ Nannies and Ski Newgen's Tessera Swallow.
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The New Mexico Poison Center Warns of Food Poisoning Dangers during the Holiday Season
The New Mexico Poison Center Warns of Food Poisoning Dangers during the Holiday Season
During holiday feast, food often sits at room temperature longer than usual, providing opportunities for bacteria to grow. Salmonella is a bacterium that causes food poisoning. Salmonella can remain alive after butchering and can grow at temperatures between 40 and 140 degrees Fahrenheit. That means the bacteria may be active during thawing, storage or inadequate cooking.
"The symptoms of Salmonella resemble the flu and include nausea, vomiting and diarrhea," said Jess Benson, director of the New Mexico Poison Center. "Often, illness doesn't develop until 8-72 hours after the contaminated food was eaten and symptoms may last up to seven days. Many people who get Salmonella poisoning recover without treatment. However, Salmonella infections can be life threatening, especially for the very young, the elderly, and for persons with impaired immune systems."
Food Poisoning Prevention Tips:
Thaw frozen unstuffed turkeys in the refrigerator for 1-5 days, depending on the size of the bird. For faster thawing, turkeys can be put in watertight wrappers and submerged in cold water for four to 12 hours depending on the size of the bird. Add ice regularly to keep the water cold. Do not thaw the turkey on the kitchen counter.
Hands, utensils, and work surfaces touching raw poultry can pick up bacteria. To avoid spreading bacteria to other foods, wash hands thoroughly before and after dressing the turkey. All work surfaces and utensils should be washed promptly after use.
It is important to ensure complete cooking with a meat thermometer by pushing the point of the thermometer into the thickest part of the meet (usually the drumstick) without touching the bone. At 325 degrees, the turkey should be cooked until the thermometer register between 180-185 degrees. Stuffing temperature should reach at least 165 degrees.
The New Mexico Poison Center is available for poisoning emergencies, questions about poisons, or for information about poison prevention, 24 hours a day, toll free at 1-800-222-1222. The New Mexico Poison Center is a service of the New Mexico College of Pharmacy and the UNM Health Sciences Center.
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Topics in Literature: Into the Wild
This course will serve as an exploration, in literature and film, of the theme of individuals who either seek out or are thrown into wild, unknown, dangerous, supernatural, and post-human territories. In these territories (forests, secret islands, the Alaskan wilderness, enchanted castles, haunted caves, war zones, dark undergrounds, dangerous rivers, other planets, etc.), we will consider the ways in which the human comes up against and struggles with, but also forms alliances with, the non- and the inhuman. This course will also explore the tensions between what we believe are "civilized," "natural," and "unnatural" world. Texts will cover a wide historical range--for example, from the medieval *Gawain and the Green Knight* to Francis Ford Coppola's *Apocalypse Now*, from Shakespeare's *Macbeth* to Danny Boyle's *Sunshine*, from Jonathan Swift's *Gulliver's Travels* to Werner Herzog's *Grizzly Man*.


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Selling print today is a complex process that might start with a false assumption: Potential buyers could go into the transaction assuming they won't benefit from purchasing new printing services. In a world of digital data storage and online marketing, it's no secret that some of print's main use cases are no longer the slam dunks they used to be. That said, print service providers have all the tools they need to make a compelling case for their products' continued relevance, provided they do some research.
Selling print is a process based on creating solid business relationships rather than just convincing a buyer to make a one-off purchase. Despite the fact that quick, unique contracts are becoming a powerful source of income within the printing industry, it's clear that these jobs are at their best when the customers are eager to keep working with the service provider on their next few similar jobs.
Making these lasting connections is the main responsibility facing salespeople in the printing business today. If they use their internal resources intelligently, they could have a great deal of success convincing clients to get on board.
The importance of 'homework'
No two print service providers are exactly the same. Based on shop equipment, staff experience, region and more, each business will have its own ideal target audience. According to WhatTheyThink contributor Lisa Cross, there is value in zeroing in on the most fruitful market segment available and learning as much as possible about the needs, trends and interests in that sector. This deep knowledge could be more effective than gaining a surface-level expertise in a wide variety of unrelated industries' backgrounds.
Cross recommended that sales professionals delve into publications and research about the industry, and establish a presence on related LinkedIn discussion groups. This kind of submersion in the concerns of potential customers could seem too excessive or speculative, but it can pay off in negotiations. When buyers see they're dealing with individuals who know what they need, they may be more comfortable signing a contract.
Furthermore, a meaningful component of the sales challenge today may involve simply picking what to sell. When prospects open with the assumption that they don't need print, salespeople who are experts on relevant industry trends, demands and norms can counter with well-informed suggestions that point to a productive way forward for client and seller alike.
Once print shops become adept at serving a particular industry, their future offerings can be shaped by past performance. Even at the beginning of a sales campaign, however, there is plenty of value to be had from using specific messaging instead of a more general set of suggestions.
Convincing sales assets
Print service providers should also be well-stocked with materials that present the business as a great choice for prospective print buyers. Especially in today's internet-dominated business world, there is no need for a potential print buyer to speak with a sales representative in advance of a purchase. Self-guided buying is a common way for potential clients to pick from among the many service providers that could meet their needs, and print shops that cater to these independent-minded shoppers may take value from the strategy.
Printing Impressions contributor Matthew Parker recently opined that it's too common for print service providers today to offer up sales materials that are inwardly focused. The brochures and websites spend copious time describing and praising the shops that created them, explaining its equipment setup or history of the business. The assumption that goes into these assets is that buyers will compare the merits of many different print shops and pick one. They are missing one element, however – much like in-person sales conversations, materials should be focused on consumer needs.
Parker noted that when companies use testimonials from current customers and case studies on how they've gotten results in the past, these offerings provide more concrete guides for potential customers, describing real ways in which that print shop's offerings are targeted to solve relevant issues in the chosen markets.
The sales process today can benefit from specificity and good targeting of the audience. People shopping for print services today may be more willing to make a decision on a partner company when they don't have to flex their imaginations too hard to figure out how the shop will help them achieve business goals.


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Easy meze
Good quality ready-prepared items from the supermarket make this the easiest ever starter
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal606
- fat35g
- saturates10g
- carbs58g
- sugars6g
- fibre6g
- protein20g
- salt4.1g
- 6 flatbreads or 9 pittas
- tub of hummus
Hummushoom-iss, hum-iss
Hummus or houmous is a staple of Middle Eastern diets. It's a purée of cooked chickpeas,…
- 1 tbsp toasted sesame seeds
- little olive oil
Olive oilol-iv oyl
Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
- tub of olives
Widely grown all over the Mediterranean, where they've been cultivated since biblical times…
- 2-3 heads chicory
Also known as endive, chicory is a forced crop, grown in complete darkness, which accounts for…
- any Middle Eastern or Turkish-style nibbles you like (we used Spinach falafel from Waitrose and Butternut squash parcels and Koftas from Marks & Spencer)
For the feta dip
- 200g pack feta cheese
- 200g Greek yogurt
- few dill leaves
To make the dip, whizz the feta and yogurt in a food processor until smooth, then scrape into a serving bowl and chill.
To serve, warm flatbreads or pitta and cook any nibbles, following pack instructions. Scrape hummus into a serving dish, scatter with the seeds and drizzle with oil. Scatter feta dip with chopped dill and a little black pepper. Separate chicory leaves and serve everything in the middle of the table.


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Track eBay Daily Deals Via IE8 Web Slice
Ebay have just published a new IE8 web slice that I really like. Why? Because it's a great example of what a web slice should be (if you need more info on web slices read here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/features/easier.aspx?tab=0).
Every day eBay publish a special price for an item called, appropriately, the "daily deal". Now, instead of having to visit the relevant eBay page every day to find out what it is you can now have IE8 notify you via a web slice. It's simple but is exactly the kind of thing web slices do really well.
There is a version of the web slice for both the US and UK eBay sites, get them here:


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This is a widely used Open source framework available to develop websites without requiring much technical knowledge. Its framework provides for developing custom modules that can integrate seamlessly with the main DNN website. DNN also takes care of security by providing website owners to provide access to different sets of users to different functionalities on the portal.
Self Service Portal:
Any self service portal (in our case Inogic has a product for Self Service portal/Customer Portal) to allow CRM users to allow their customers to register tickets through the Portal and monitor its progress online. These customers use the portal to register incidents that are directly created in CRM and any updates by the company on their case is reflected to them through the portal.
Linking the two:
We need to create a DNN module for our Self Service Portal that can be installed within DNN. DNN uses the concept of User Controls. We needed to convert each of the web forms that we had to user controls.
Once they were converted to User controls you can add these Controls to DNN and associate it with your module. Once the controls have been uploaded, user can use these controls to add on their pages as and where they wish. can include these in your DNN module. These controls can then be used by end users to add on the pages they wish.
The Self Service Portal had its inbuilt security that was integrated with CRM by adding custom attributes to store the login id and password of the customers. This was taken care of in DNN module by using the DNN security. So only users that are registered on the DNN site had access to the Portal. We could well do away with this security check from CRM as DNN already has a robust security architecture.
Advantages of linking:
A customer centric website can be designed using DNN by the users easily while also utilizing the entire features of CRM's customer service portal.
Integrating DOTNETNUKE with Self Service Portal for Dynamics CRM


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The top securities regulator in Massachusetts has fined Citigroup Inc. $2 million, charging that an analyst there leaked confidential information about Facebook's initial public offering.
Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin announced the charges Friday. Citi agreed to the settlement without admitting or denying wrongdoing.
Citi was part of the team of banks that helped underwrite the deal that made Facebook a public company in May. When a bank helps underwrite such a deal, it has information about a company that the broader investing public does not have. The bankers who underwrite the deal are not supposed to act on that information or share it with any favored clients, because it would give them an unfair advantage over the public.
The arrangements can also bring accusations of conflicts of interest; banks not only help companies go public or do other deals, they also have units that provide research on the companies. The research is supposed to be impartial, but the banks have a stake in how a company does if it is helping it with underwriting.
According to Mr. Galvin's office, a junior analyst in Citigroup's San Francisco office was assigned to help research Facebook. On May 2, the junior analyst sent an email to two employees at the technology website TechCrunch.com, with proprietary information about Citigroup's research on Facebook.
"I am ramping up coverage on FB and thought you guys might like to see how the street is thinking about it [and our estimates]," the junior analyst wrote.
A TechCrunch employee wrote back: "There's no way I can publish this doc from an anonymous source, right?"
A minute later, the junior analyst replied: "My boss would eat me alive."
The analyst and the TechCrunch employee were friends, according to Mr. Galvin's office, and had gone to Stanford together.
Citigroup fired the junior analyst in September. The bank told Mr. Galvin's office that the junior analyst acted alone. In addition to agreeing to the $2 million fine, Citi also agreed to review its policies for overseeing analysts' communications, and to strengthen compliance training for the analysts.


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L.A. County Unemployment Holds at 4.4 Percent
Friday, July 21, 2017
L.A. County's unemployment rate remained unchanged in June from May's record low 4.4 percent as a seasonal drop in education payrolls offset modest hiring in other sectors.
While a net 8,000 more L.A. County residents were working in June for a total of 4.9 million, that was offset by growth of 6,000 in the labor force to 5.12 million as more people looked for work. A year ago, the unemployment rate stood at 5.2 percent.
The June unemployment rate was below the 4.7 percent statewide rate, but even with the national percentage. The unemployment rates for the county's two largest cities – Los Angeles and Long Beach – were 4.8 percent and 4.9 percent, respectively.
Meanwhile, the number of payroll jobs in L.A. County was essentially unchanged between May and June at 4.45 million. There was a tiny drop of 1,500 jobs, led by a net loss of 12,000 in education payroll jobs as substitute teachers, classroom aides and other school personnel left at the end of the school year.
Adjusted for this seasonal effect, the number of payroll jobs rose by 3,000. That growth was led by net gains of 6,600 jobs in the leisure/hospitality sector, 4,700 jobs in professional/business services and 3,100 jobs in construction.
One local economist said the June jobs picture was a sign of an economy close to full employment.
"We're about as good as it's going to get in terms of full employment," said David Smith, associate professor of economics at the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University in Malibu. "We may be able to wrestle out a few more small drops in the unemployment rate in the months ahead, but the biggest improvement has already occurred."
Smith said the growth in jobs and the drop in the unemployment rate over the past few years in L.A. County has completely closed the gap with the national averages.
"Back in 2010, the spread between Los Angeles County and the national average for the unemployment rate was more than three full percentage points," Smith said. "Now they are dead even – no gap at all."
And even looking at the gains over the past year, the county has performed well. Between June of last year and this June, the county gained a net 83,600 jobs for a growth rate of 1.9 percent. That growth rate is a bit faster than the year-over-year job growth rates L.A. has experienced in recent months.
Among the biggest job gainers over the past 12 months: professional/business services (up 18,300 jobs); health care/social assistance (up 17,800 jobs); and government (up 14,300 jobs).
Smith said he was a bit surprised by the large gains in government payrolls and said that was a sign that local government budgets and the state government budget are sound, allowing for more hiring.


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UC Riverside Entomology Department No. 2 in the World
Center for World University Rankings places department second in the world based on research articles on top journals
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — The Department of Entomology at the University of California, Riverside has been ranked No. 2 worldwide by the Center for World University Rankings, which were released today (April 3).
"This is a great honor and reflects the incredible work done by our faculty, staff, and students – graduate and undergraduate" said Rick Redak, chairman of the entomology department. "It really says a lot about our faculty and students and the incredible research they do."
The top 10 entomology departments are as follows: University of Florida (1), Cornell University (3), Kansas State University (4), North Carolina State University (5), Michigan State University (6), University of California, Davis (7), University of Georgia (8), Nanjing Agricultural University in China (9), and University of São Paulo in Brazil (9).
The study of entomology in Riverside coincides with the development of the Citrus Experiment Station in the city in the early 1900s. In 1954, UC Riverside was born. Seven years later, undergraduate and graduate programs in Entomology were started.
Over the years, the department has become particularly well known for research in biological control, insect behavior and chemical ecology, integrated pest management, and the biology of insect disease vectors.
Biological control is an environmentally sound and effective means of reducing or mitigating pests and pest effects through the use of an insect's own predators and parasites. Integrated pest management refers to a host of management and control approaches designed to minimize risks to the environment and human health while minimizing the cost and maximizing the benefit of such approaches.
UC Riverside is also known for pioneering the use of approaches that monitor and disrupt pest populations by altering an insect's behavior and communication. The department also has world-renown strength in insect vector biology with cutting edge research designed to disrupt animals such as mosquitoes from transmitting deadly diseases.
The entomology department has more than 35 faculty members whose research specializations include: arthropod vectors of plant pathogens, biological control, insect behavior, chemical ecology, ecology, morphology, pathology, pest management, physiology, insect-plant interactions, systematics, toxicology, insecticide resistance, medical/veterinary entomology, molecular entomology, neuroscience, and urban entomology.
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Peter Andre has admitted he is struggling with self-isolation as his doctor wife Emily MacDonagh can't be in the same room as him.
The singer and TV star is in lockdown with his children Junior, 14, Princess, 12, Millie, six and Theo, three, but wife MacDonagh is going out to work on the frontline amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Andre, 47, told Good Morning Britain: "Emily, along with all the NHS staff and carers are now exposed to something... when they come home, their exposure means that we've got to be careful, they've got to be careful, obviously, so we have to have some sort of distance, because we don't want the kids to catch it, so it's a little bit difficult times.
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He added: "Because she's exposed to the virus quite a lot at the moment in the last few days, it means now at home .. we're having to… it's weird to say, but we're having to be in separate rooms and the reason for that is because I'm the one who has to have the kids now and so if I'm exposed to it as well… I'm just scared the kids are going to get it."
The Mysterious Girl singer also confessed he was struggling to keep structure in the day while homeschooling his older children Junior and Princess - from his first marriage to Katie Price - while also caring for his younger kids.
He said: "My appreciation for teachers has gone way, way high. It's nothing compared to what Emily's doing and NHS staff and carers up and down the country. What I'm doing is absolutely nothing to that, but it's got its own challenges because I'm not used to it. I'm used to having the kids around, but I'm not used to the homework side of it. The kids are starting to realise that I'm not as smart as I thought I was!"
Andre added that MacDonagh his "my absolute hero" for her work as a doctor, but he does worry about her safety.
Read more: Coronavirus: Piers Morgan pledges to pay NHS workers' parking tickets
He said: "Yeah, honestly I do [worry for her]. Maybe they just weren't prepared for this... it's obvious because you can see the protective gear they're wearing is just a paper mask which is not going to be that protective."
Andre and MacDonagh began dating in 2012 when she was a medical student. They married in 2015.


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TEENAGE tap dancer Matthew Flinders is celebrating a triple success.
The Cowcliffe 16-year-old has won a place in the final of the Dance Master UK contest, which takes place in June.
The achievement comes after the Rastrick High School pupil won two competitions last month.
Matthew took the International Dance Teachers Association's Ken Dodd Award and the South and West Yorkshire Senior Tap Championship.
Mum Georgia Parkinson, 43, said yesterday: "We're very proud of him and he's worked extremely hard to get where he is.
"Getting through to the Dance Master UK final is the pinnacle."
Matthew has been tap dancing for eight years and practises four or five times a week.
Georgia said: "When he finishes his A-levels, he wants to go to a dance college in London and then on to the West End or Broadway".


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No, I didn't go crazy. Just take a look at Eva and tell me she doesn't look like Snow White! Of course she does. That pretty face, little mouth with bloody red lips and dark hair… If I saw her sleeping I'd try to kiss her. Well, I'd do that anyway… Eva is a young model from Prague and she decided to move her career a notch. She came to us and… Well, I guess you know the rest of this fairy-tale. There are no dwarves involved though, but I'm sure you will like it anyway.


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"Let's do the Time Warp again!"
The legendary Rocky Horror Show returned to the West End for a short season at the Playhouse Theatre which ends today, ahead of a UK Tour. Creator Richard O'Brien also returned, this time as the Narrator. A firm favourite with theatre-goers, the Christopher Luscombe directed production was extended by an extra week due to demand. Included in the run was a one-off charity performance with special guests, including Stephen Fry and Emma Brunton in aid of Amnesty International,broadcast live throughout the UK and Europe. Olivier Award winner David Bedella also returned as the lead Frank'n' Furter after performing in various Rocky productions between 2006 to 2010. He is joined by Ben Forster as Brad, who played the role in the 40th Anniversary UK Tour and Haley Flaherty completes the many happy returns as Janet, after playing her in Singapore, NZ and the UK Tours. All three will not be part of the upcoming British tour.
The show does attract a loyal and dedicated fan-base, who usually gather at the stage door in a variety of cross-dressing guises and nominal drapery in homage to the production. I spent a little bit of time amongst them over the fortnight, securing graphs on my sketches. At times, more conservative attire made me the oddball and the only one with drawings to sign, even odder. But that's what the show's all about-accepting people's differences and it certainly makes a difference to your day when you harvest a full set of signed sketches.


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There were 46 culture positive cases of enteric fever admitted at the Davao Medical Center from July 1991 to June 1992. Salmonella typhi species was isolated in 40 cases while Salmonella paratyphi was seen in the remaining 6 cases.
The clinical features and laboratory findings in both S. typhi and S. paratyphi were almost similar. Fever was seen in all cases and majority presented with headache and anorexia. In general, however many of the findings vary from the classic picture of enteric fever. Diarrhea was more common than constipation. Hepatosplenomegaly was becoming uncommon. In 50% of cases pulse rate was normal. Rose spots were never observed in the series. More than one-half of cases had normal WBC and differential count. Anemia of less than 10 mg % hemoglobin was seen in 16 cases.
Intestinal bleeding, intestinal perforation and severe toxemia were among the common complications. Two died of intestinal perforation and three died of sepsis. (Author)
The prospective study was undertaken to describe the clinical profile of confirmed cases of enteric fever locally. The study presents the clinical profile of enteric fever from 46 cases seen among adult patients.
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Tapping to Unlock Your Full Potential
Written by Carina Rubin
Have you ever felt that there's something stopping you from reaching your full potential, your highest success or your maximum happiness? It could be that the closer you are to your goal, the sicker you get. It could be that something unexpectedly bad happens to you every time you are about to take your big leap. It could be that you self-sabotage yourself in any way, shape or form.
According to author Gay Hendricks, you reach your Zone of Genius when you shine in your full potential. According to me, you are in your Comfort Zone when in a conscious or unconscious way, you chose to live your life as it is, no matter how low, bad or stuck you are.
One day I realized I was self-sabotaging myself every time I tried to step into my Zone of Genius, and my weapon of choice was procrastination. I was working as a Tarot reader for an online site but I knew my way to fulfill my full potential was by helping others manifest their most impossible dreams. My way to that was going to be by having my own coaching business, writing a book and becoming a public speaker, but every time I started working on it, I ended up finding excuses to stay in my Comfort Zone which was one where I didn't even make enough money to afford my basic monthly expenses. For example, I created a brand and website for my new business but once it was all done, instead of moving forward I decided that the name was not good and the website was not attractive so I started all over again. This is how I ended up creating 5 websites that I never used and that only served me as excuses to stay where I already was.
What was going on? Was this really a marketing problem or was it a mental one? What was stopping me from reaching my full potential? How come every time I took one step forward I ended up taking another one backwards? Why did I keep procrastinating my success, my abundance, my happiness and my fulfillment?
The only way to break my pattern had to be by finding out why I was procrastinating the life of my dreams. In the past I had already used EFT to uncover hidden limiting beliefs with great results, so I started tapping once again:
Karate chop point: Even though I'm afraid of moving out of my comfort zone into my Zone of Genius, I totally and completely love and accept myself… (Repeat 3 times)
Eyebrow: This procrastination
Side of the eyes: I don't know why I'm doing it
Under the eye: I'm holding myself back from success
Under the Nose: I don't know why
Chin: I don't allow myself to shine
Collarbone: I hold myself back
Under the arm: I keep myself safe from being exposed
Head: I don't know what it feels to be successful
Eyebrow: I don't know what it feels to be recognized by others
Side of the eye: Because my parents never acknowledged my achievements
Under the eye: and they always ignored my successes
Under the nose: They never showed any pride in me
Chin: They always pretended my accomplishments were worthless
Collarbone: So I can't imagine other people finding value in what I do
Under the arm: and I'm afraid they will ignore me
Head: I'm afraid I'll never succeed
What came out to the light was the fact that my parents always ignored and underestimated my achievements, so if my own mother and father think I'm worthless, then how could others find any value in me?
I was procrastinating because I was afraid of having the same reaction from the public. I was afraid of being ignored or rejected. On the other hand, nobody can underestimate me if they don't know me or if I'm not offering anything to them and that's why I was self-sabotaging myself. Changing my brand and website over and over and over again was my perfect excuse not to face a possible lack of appreciation in a massive way.
Thanks to my tapping session I was able to find the root of my procrastination. I finally liberated myself from my fear of being undervalued and was able to easily move from my Comfort Zone to my Zone of Genius.
Now it's your turn: what is holding you back from reaching your own full potential?


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By Yasmin Boakye
It took me almost twenty years to realize that nearly everything my mother had ever said to me was in translation. (Translation: English is my mother's second language, but it is the first and only language she ever speaks with me. Until I was in college, I didn't bother to understand what this meant.)
I had always known this, in some respect; I'd just never thought about it before. When I thought about translation, my mind generally skipped past my own immigrant family to my friend Darlene's household. (Translation: Darlene's family is from El Salvador, and her mother only speaks Spanish, and so through most of high school she dutifully accompanied her to doctor's visits, tax filing appointments, and parent-teacher conferences. She is, as my own mother often reminds me, a very good daughter.) I thought about the subtitled independent films that my dad liked taking us to watch during the holidays. I thought about Spanish class and Latin class and the Bill Murray movie Lost in Translation and games my sister and I played where one of us would pretend to be a martian and the other would be a cosmonaut.
But I never needed courses in foreign languages and imaginary transnational exploits to understand translation; my mother and I have always had translation stories of our own. It wasn't until I left her to find myself in college that I realized how unique the communication between us was; how hard we worked to understand each other, how distinctively painful it was when we couldn't bridge the gaps.
Both of my parents appear to be picture-perfect American assimilation stories. They each came, a decade apart, to the U.S. in their early twenties from the West African nation of Ghana, a former English colony. They had been learning what my father calls the "Queen's English" since they were in grade school. Both obtained post-secondary degrees in the U.S., and both decided to stay in America indefinitely. They met in New York. (Translation: The American city, the one that never sleeps.) They were naturalized. (Translation: They revoked all allegiances to Ghana so they could become American.) They fell in love, and got married in a white dress/black tux ceremony. They said their vows in perfect, tear-stained English. They moved to D.C., the seat of their new nation's capital. They had children in the suburbs, my younger sister and I. They taught us to speak English. Perfect English. (Translation: We were not allowed to use the slang of our peers.)
But there are fissures between them that are subtle and difficult to notice. When I listen carefully, I realize that my father doesn't seem to reach for English the way my mother has to; the words are always already on his tongue. He is almost a decade older than my mother, and so he has a decade more of Americanization than she does. He hasn't had a perfect experience in the U.S., by any means. (Translation: When I am old enough, he tells me about his experience about joining Toastmasters, a speech making club, so that he can improve his English, and taking lessons with a speech therapist to lose his accent because no one could understand him.) But everything related to these struggles is in past tense with him.
By contrast, my mother is still always caught looking for the right words, and the right responses. Even over the phone I can hear her silently searching for the right thing to say.
I'm several thousand miles away from America, in my parent's home country, in a small village, in a bare bedroom, blindly searching for the light switch when I am electrocuted by a live wire. The entire thing happens outside of my body, and so for a while I'm not sure whether the scream I hear came from me or from someone else. After a minute or so, I realize that I might be dead. I call my parents, who are asleep, in America, and leave a message on the answering machine asking them to confirm that I am still alive.
My mother calls back while I am crying, and when I answer, I cannot stop sobbing. She tells me to calm down, and when I finally do, she asks me what happened. I tell her, and make the mistake of mentioning that my hands may have been wet. (Translation: I was drinking water right beforehand.)
"I should have told you that in Ghana," she says, "you need to dry your hands carefully before you touch the light switch."
This is the wrong thing to say to someone who is still convinced that they might be dead. But instead of complaining, I say, "Okay mom." (Translation: This is the closest she can come to saying "I'm sorry that happened." I say it to myself instead, in my head. "I'm sorry this happened, to you.")
My mother is so proud that I'm a writer, or so she says, to other people. When it is just us, in person or on the phone, she complains about how I should have been an English major instead of a Women's Studies major, that she's confused about what I'm doing at school and about how I will get a job. (Translation: She doesn't realize that being an English major isn't the same as being a creative writer, and doesn't understand that neither major is likely to get me a job in this economy.)
She also doesn't realize the obsession that goes along with the skill; how afraid I am of misusing words that I've only read in dictionaries and magazines or wasting words or accidentally mutilating clichés. She trusts my English wholeheartedly, far beyond the level that I trust it myself.
One weekend I am flipping through the Sunday circulars at the dining room table (Translation: I'm looking for things I can't afford to buy) across from my mother, who is working on her computer. She's newly employed as a kidney transplantation coordinator, and has been on and off the phone all morning managing the future of a newly available kidney. (Translation: My mother is trying to shift life from one dying body to another.)
She hangs up the phone for the tenth time and sighs.
"This job is for the pets," she tells me.
"What?" (Translation: I'm genuinely confused)
"I said, this job is for the pets." (Translation: She thinks I didn't hear her.)
"What does that even mean, Mom?"
"I don't know."
I didn't know either, but, knowing my mother, I suspected that it wasn't an actual cliché. I searched my own annals of idiomatic knowledge and suspected that the phrase was 'this job is for the birds.' But I wasn't sure. A few minutes later my mother asks me what the right phrase is. I'm forced to admit that I don't know. (Translation: I'm unsure, again. As always.)
"Do you realize that mom is confused, like, all the time?" I ask my younger sister during one of the few evenings we spend together after I come back from my sophomore fall in college. She looks at me quizzically, for just a half-second before returning the majority of her attention back to her iPhone. (Translation: She's not ignoring me, she's seventeen, there's boy drama to be had in cyberspace and through text message. Existential analyses of our family issues are, at least for now, passé.)
"I'm serious," I say to her, hoping to regain her attention. "Think about how many times one of us has to explain something to Mom, at the grocery store, at the bank, about computers…"
"Yasmin," she says, interrupting my train of thought. "Duh."
(Translation: I'm stating the obvious. But Cozette, who is three years my junior, has always managed to be about ten times more perceptive than me in less than half as many words. It's a skill I envy.)
One day during my first week being home in nearly a year, I take my mother to a film after an argument. (Translation: The movies are like make-up sex for my family. We take each other out when we are still angry and by the credits we are least okay.) I explain how it's a Woody Allen film about love and meaning with a splash of humor and that my anthropology professor had found it stunningly beautiful. She nods her head quietly and leans back awkwardly in the passenger seat of her SUV as I speed around the curves of the Capital Beltway. We park in a garage, which is free because it's late and my mother happily puts away the quarters she brought, newly reserved for another evening's use. I ask the attendant for two tickets to Midnight in Paris, and notice my mother looking at me quizzically through the corner of my eye. (Translation: I know something's wrong.)
"What?" I ask her as the woman behind the glass hands me two pre-ripped tickets and directs us towards the escalator to the theaters.
"No, it's okay." (Translation: She's afraid to say.)
"Your dad and I already saw it."
"A few weekends ago."
"I told you we were seeing a Woody Allen movie. Why didn't you say anything?"
"I thought you meant something else. Like another Woody film."
In retrospect, I'm not sure she realized that Midnight in Paris was a Woody Allen film. I'm not sure she knows who Woody Allen is at all.
I am chatting casually with a friend about writing when he asks if I knew that the English language has twice as many words as French. I didn't, but I am not surprised. No wonder there are so many places to get lost and confused in, so many ways to rearrange things, both correctly and incorrectly.
I am reminded of another random conversation I had, with a stranger at a coffee shop, a seasoned woman who had traveled the world and was in St. Louis to trace her family's ancestry in an archive she'd discovered. After regaling me with stories about her volunteer work abroad and museum adventures around the country, she asked about my family, my life. I shrugged. My parents were from the same place that every single one of our ancestors had lived. We didn't have exciting transnational tales, beyond their flights to the U.S. (Translation: We were boring, compared to her.)
This woman who I'd never met before was disappointed in me. She looked into my eyes and told me sternly that our family history was unique, and special, and that I needed to tell my mother how proud of her I was for being so brave, to come to this country at such a young age. In the moment, I was confused, but I agreed, that I did need to tell her this. It was something I'd never expressed. (Translation: I never told my mom how brave she was, for coming to this country at such a young age, even though I should have.)
Another winter break, another household argument, another make-up film. This one is part of a fancy European film festival, and we get to the theater a little early because there is a reception beforehand. My mother is tickled because there is free valet. At the reception she heads straight towards the refreshments, and reaches for a Styrofoam cup of Austrian wine. I'm twenty years old, and they aren't carding, so without actually wanting any, I do too.
"What are you doing with that?" she asks me loudly, and immediately, I duck my eyes and walk quickly away from the t-shirted pair of volunteers behind the table. (Translation: I'm embarrassed by how embarrassed I am.)
"You're acting like Ama," I hiss to my mother, who is saying What? What? repeatedly as she follows me to our theater.
"You're acting like Ama," I say again as my face begins to cool down. I tell her about how fourteen-year old Ama, her niece, my cousin, had complained loudly in front of a cashier at the movies that she was too old for the kid's ticket that my sister had tried to buy her. The situation feels just like that, in reverse. My mother laughs and I laugh too and then she tries to take my wine. (Translation: She cannot resist an excuse for a two-for-one special.)
The plot of the film is complicated, and my mother keeps asking me if I know what is going on until I admit that I, too, am lost. She isn't bothered. The film is set in the highlands of Spain, and she marvels at everything.
"That looks just like the Grand Canyon," she whispers to me every time the camera pans out to show a sparse-looking Spanish valley. "This reminds me so much of the bus we took to get there. We rode, on a bus there." I nod silently. She says, "I can't believe those houses are empty," when the film shows the two protagonists squatting in a European enclave for the wealthy. I nod silently, again.
People are looking back at us, staring, because she's never been good at whispering. I try to ignore them, and resist the urge to shush her. I am proud that she is with me. I am happy she is enjoying both cups of wine. I revel in her happiness, her voice, her smiles, and the beauty of the few things that need no translation.
Yasmin Boakye is an essayist and fiction writer raised in the Maryland suburbs of DC. A 2014 Callaloo Fellow at Cave Hill, she is also a recipient of NYU Abu Dhabi's Global Academic Fellowship in Writing and a 2017 VONA/Voices participant at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in mater mea, Refinery29, Escapism Literary Magazine and Bird's Thumb. She is currently based in St. Louis.


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Date Posted:17/03/2016
Gill Prince, a Mitlon Keynes-based freelance urban, landscape and travel photographer has announced a photography book initiative as part of Milton Keynes Council's 50th anniversary celebrations.
'Vision to Reality' will be a high quality art book which features 50 urban, landscape and architectural images of Milton Keynes as it is today. The purpose of this book will be to demonstrate to readers how beautiful and unique Milton Keynes is at 50 - to raise awareness and to help promote the town as a vibrant and exciting place to live and work.
To cover production costs for the initial 1,000 print run, support from Milton Keynes business in the form of sponsorship will be vital, and this is currently being sought. Lead sponsors will receive an agreed number of books for use as corporate gifts for Christmas 2016 and throughout 2017, and will have the opportunity to include an introduction message and branding in the front of the book. Additional supporting brand sponsorship opportunities will also be offered for smaller sponsors, whose logos will be included on the sponsors page and in supporting publicity.
Gill explains more about how the idea for this book came about, and why it is so important to her:
"The idea for a book of Milton Keynes images came about over lunch with Charlie Waite - an industry colleague and mentor, who is renowned as one of the leading landscape photographers in the UK and Worldwide. I was looking for a new project and happened to mention that Milton Keynes would be 50 in 2017, and that I would also be 50 in the same year. Not only that, but I first moved here in 1992 at 25, which was of course during the 25th anniversary celebrations.
Since then I have brought up a family here, and also run a successful freelance business in the town for well over a decade. I am a passionate supporter of Milton Keynes and take every opportunity to tell those who are less 'informed' never to judge based on perception or hearsay, but instead to come and see for themselves. My aim is that this selection of images will go some way to helping people understand what a beautiful and often surprising town we live in."
Milton Keynes Council's MK50 Project Manager, Lallie Davis also commented: "We're delighted that MK's 50th birthday is proving so inspiring to local artists, organisations and businesses and we wish Gill all the best as she develops this inspiring book."
Subject to copyright, the book will also feature a number of extracts from the iconic Milton Keynes street maps which have been produced over the years, as well as from the original plans which were drawn up by the Milton Keynes Development Corporation in the run-up to 1967. Each extract will show an element of the map which indicates a 'future development' - for example a dotted line where a lake would be created, or a designated location for an iconic building - alongside an image that structure as it is today.
As part of the project we also plan to run a competition for schools and colleges within Milton Keynes to submit images of the city. The competition will be judged by a leading UK landscape photographer - and the winning entries, in two age categories, will also feature in the book. A full announcement on this, and on how to enter, will follow.
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I received a package in the mail today from Eileen (no blog), my Blackbird Designs Halloween Exchange partner. She stitched Whooo's Knockin' at My Door for me. It is so cute! I just love it! Thanks, Eileen!
She also included a JBW Designs pattern, Over the River, which I envision as a little pinkeep with red-headed pins. I'll have to rummage through my leftover pieces of linen for a remnant to use for it. And if you look closely, you'll see the little finger pincushion (bottom center) that she also sent. I've always wanted one of those. Isn't it darling? I am so pleased with all the little gifties.


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Polish war-time hero Karski promoted to the rank of general
President Andrzej Duda has posthumously promoted Jan Karski to the rank of Brigadier General.
Karski, who died in 2000 at the age of 86, was a diplomat, army officer and emissary of the Polish underground organizations during the Nazi German occupation of Poland.
Addressing a ceremony at the Presidential Palace on Wednesday, Duda described Karski as "a great man and a great Pole, who was unwavering in his pursuit of the truth and moral integrity, and who wanted human rights and dignity to be respected worldwide".
He stressed that as a soldier of the Republic of Poland Karski was a man of incredible military courage.
The ceremony was attended by members of Jan Karski's family, the ambassadors of the United States and Israel and Polish politicians.
During World War Two, as a member of anti-Nazi resistance, Jan Karski took part in courier missions with dispatches from the Polish underground to the Polish Government-in-Exile, then based in France.
During one such mission, in July 1940, he was arrested by the Gestapo in Slovakia, tortured and transported to a hospital in Nowy Sącz, southern Poland, from where he was rescued by Polish resistance.
He soon resumed active service in the Information and Propaganda Bureau of the Home Army's High Command, and in the summer of 1942 he was assigned to perform a secret mission to London on behalf of the Polish Government's Delegate in Poland and several political parties.
In order to gather evidence on the plight of Polish Jews, he was twice smuggled by Jewish underground leaders into the Warsaw Ghetto. He met several Allied leaders, including Anthony Eden, Britain's foreign secretary, and US president Franklin Roosevelt, but failed to secure support for Polish Jews.
After the war, Karski settled in the United States and became a professor at Georgetown University in Washington. He remained an advocate of Holocaust memory until his death.
In 2012, Karski was posthumously awarded the US Medal of Freedom, America's top civilian honour, by President Barack Obama.
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Before I really get into this review, let me introduce a new title modifier, the "(t)"! After talking to someone in person who reads my blog, I was told it was extremely difficult to tell when something on here is true. I can understand that. I'm a massively sarcastic asshole, so it can be difficult to tell when something is both true and serious. So, the "(t)" modifier tells you it's true. The "(s)" still means it's serious, which I figured covered true as well, but I guess it doesn't have to include it.
Yes, this entry is both serious and true. I'm not writing satire. How I feel about these wings is true.
A quick history:
Growing up in Southern California allowed me to exposed to a lot of good cuisine. I was also able to sample a lot of different spices. I'm not shitting you when I say I've eaten some moronically hot stuff. When I would go into the garment district of L.A, my family and I would buy chorizo breakfast burritos so hot they would burn your eyes just walking up to the roach coach. Sure the Mexicans would laugh at us as we'd sweat and snot, but damn they were good! I eat both raw and cooked jalapenos like candy. I once had a teaspoon of hot sauce put directly into my mouth which was so hot you had to sign a waiver to buy it and it was required to be in glass to keep it from eating through the plastic. Yes, really. It literally ate a hole through the paper plate. It hurt and I will probably never eat it again. I regularly eat habanero hot wings, though I don't shovel them into my mouth. Several of my friends can testify to watching me eating wasabi straight off of chop sticks with no problem. One friend can even testify to seeing me do that with the REAL wasabi you get in Japan which costs 100$ a pound.
I don't seek out and devour hot stuff, but I like to be tested. I was hoping to be tested this day. I was not. My list goes from "no heat" (for example Del Taco's Inferno sauce) to "fucking hot" (like a habanero). Before anyone says it, I'm not claiming to be a chili head nor someone who has a tough mouth.
In the same vain, it's interesting to note CS gas doesn't affect me, but pepper spray does. If it gets in my eyes anyway.
TGI Friday's has brought back the changeable all you can eat appetizer awesomeness. It's fucking amazing. Those pot stickers, baby…those pot stickers. Eat more than two plates and its paid for itself. The whole thing is one of the best deals they've ever done.
I was excited to see they added new items, even if most of them I'm not interested in. It's good stuff, don't get me wrong, as the bites I took from my wife's plate were delicious, just not something I'd get for myself. While trying to decided what we'd order next for ourselves, I picked up the table topper and noticed the flavors of wings listed. My eyes lit up, my soul began to sing, and I pointed out they had ghost pepper wings!
My wife also got excited. Not because she was going to have any since anything hotter than a few splashes of red pepper makes her cry, but because she knew I could eat pretty hot food and wanted to see me do it. Yes, we're strange, and that's one of the reasons the marriage works. Sorry fan-girls. Please don't commit suicide over this.
When the waitress asked what we wanted to put in for the next round of appetizers, I excitedly told her I wanted those ghost pepper wings. Now, in my mind I was expecting something mouth hurting. You know, somewhere between the Blazin flavor at BWW and a habanero sauce. Because, well, ghost peppers are very much hotter than a habenero and I consider those to be fucking hot at 100,000 to 350,000 Scoville.
When the ghost pepper wings arrived on the table, the smell stung my nose and my eyes a little. On top of these blood red wings covered in sauce were some jalapenos. As a joke I told my wife they were there to seem like they weren't hot and were palette cleansers. Picking one up on a fork, I was excited. Taking a deep wiff my nose cleared and my eyes actually burned a very little bit.
Smiling, I took a bite and…meh. Now, don't get me wrong, the flavor of these things is AMAZING. They are DELICIOUS. They are not, however, hot. I'd put them around my medium. I was very disappointed with the heat level.
Honestly, these need to be hotter. My wife believes they were toned down due to legal reasons, but I believe they aren't really ghost pepper infused. See, the reason for this is because of the jalapenos on it. I think these are definitely hotter than their traditional wings, and they aren't vinegary in the least, which I loved.
So, yes, they are very delicious and I would order them again any time, but if you're looking for something hot, don't look here. I know I'm in the minority with how hot I can eat (I've also eaten Thai chilis straight and claimed they were in my hot range for sure), but these just made me sad. Don't get me wrong, I'm going to be crapping fire later…just not the blood I was expecting.
Should you get them? If you want to say you ate ghost chili wings and pretend you're awesome to those who haven't had them, do it. If you like hot food and want something with flavor, go for it without hesitation. My wife thought they were hot and coughed on them, but she sweats eating a chili rellano (poblano chilis are what they use) sometimes and those are only rated at 2000 Scoville.
Good food. Disappointing heat.


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Monday, April 6, 2009
Yay! I'm a winner!
I want to send a big THANK YOU out to Nancy Johnston at Read Street. It's a great book blog with all kinds of book news - I stop in regularly and I found out today that I won a book! I am really looking forward to reading Christopher Moore's Fool and I am thrilled to be a winner.
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Congratulations! I have Read Street in my reader and read it daily too.
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